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College anti-Israel agitators would be sent to Gaza under new House GOP bill
By Elizabeth Elkind, Fox News Published May 8, 2024, 4:59 p.m. ET
ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED BY: Fox News
(I freakin' love it. Send the Somali Slut and Fugli Tlaib over there with them. I know... in my dreams.)
Bet this does not appear in the LSM.
LAPD uses January 6 techniques to identify Jewish students who fought back at a UCLA pro-Hamas protest
By Monica Showalter
They're studying Facebook posts. They're using frame-by-frame video screenshots of faces to match with gargantuan databases of named faces. They're seeking and taking tips from "friends" and relatives and ex-boyfriends.
For the UCLA Jewish students who got into a scrap with pro-Hamas illegal campout protestors, no doubt after hearing a slew of antisemitic statements and being blocked from attending class, they're doing exactly what they did to identify and hunt down January 6 protestors.
According to the Los Angeles Times, which reports this like it was a good thing:
It is shaping up to be perhaps the biggest case in the history of the UCLA Police Department: how to identify dozens of people who attacked a pro-Palestinian camp at the center of campus last week.
The mob violence was captured on live television, but it took three hours for police to bring it to an end. Those involved left, and no arrests were made.
But the trail is not cold.
UCLA detectives are now scanning hundreds of images in an attempt to identify the attackers. They intend to use technology that captures facial images and compares them to other photos on the internet and social media to put names to faces, according to law enforcement sources.
The same technology has allowed police to identify suspects in smash-and-grab retail burglaries. It also was the heart of the Jan. 6 investigation, in which videos of those storming the U.S. Capitol helped the FBI identify many of the assailants and led federal prosecutors to charge more than 1,300 people. In those cases, investigators often were able to find social media images of the assailant wearing the same clothing as during the attack.
So now they're spending big bucks to target UCLA Jewish students again, with the same use of intensive investigative techniques as they used on January 6 protestors.
They're taking years to do it, calling it their biggest operation, even as Los Angeles is awash with real crime, but this is more important to them, getting their man, or woman, as the case may be, championing a protest the establishment didn't like, same as they did with the January 6 protestors. Jews tussling with pro-Hamas protestors whose cause probably killed some of their relatives back on October 7 are their top priority, and this is their January 6.
How they will hunt. In the case of the January 6 protestors, they managed to bag people like these, a protestor known as "pink beret," Jennifer Inzunza Vargas Geller. The politicized law enforcers worked like beavers to swoop down on her several years after the fracas, though it's pretty obvious she wasn't doing anything more than just being there, spending millions in order to get her thrown into prison.
Now they'll do it to the Jewish students who fought back against the haters. Never mind catching the dirtbags who left the campus a steaming mess, graffiting its walls, junking its furniture, leaving a lot of smell and mess as well as landfill-sized amounts of litter. Those guys get off scot-free. As do the graffitiers of menacing messages on synagogues these days around the West Side of Los Angeles, the antisemitic assailants against visably Jewish people walking on the streets of Beverly Hills, and the freaks throwing smoke bombs and screaming against Jewish people in their homes in Brentwood. All of those things happened. But we hear not a word about catching the monsters who committed those crimes, or for that matter, the pro-Hamas lowlife who blocked Jewish students from their own classrooms at UCLA and injured some Jewish students, too.
Double standards anyone? The antisemitic bad guys walk. The Jewish students get the book thrown at them for fighting back after provocations.
It sure looks like a double-standard of justice to me.
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2024/05/lapd_uses_january_6_techniques_to_identify_jewish_students_who_fought_back_at_a_ucla_pro_hamas_protest.html
Bombshell: A Wisconsin election official has been fired for allegedly copying over 64,000
https://rumble.com/v4tw7b8-bombshell-a-wisconsin-election-official-has-been-fired-for-allegedly-copyin.html
RFK Jr. said doctors found a dead worm in his head after it ate part of his brain
By Isabel Keane Published May 8, 2024, 10:26 a.m. ET
(Oh, dear God. To think I actually considered voting for this guy. omg All I can say is... Trump 2024. Waaaa.)
Independent presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. claimed in a deposition taken more than a decade ago that a worm ate part of his brain before dying inside his head.
RFK Jr., now 70, made the bizarre admission during his 2012 divorce proceeding, detailing “cognitive problems” he initially feared were a brain tumor — only for a second doctor to tell him the dark spot on his scans were a dead parasite, according to the New York Times.
Before getting a second opinion, Kennedy had been set to undergo surgery at Duke University Medical Center in North Carolina by the same doctor who operated on his uncle, Sen. Edward Kennedy (D-Mass.), who died of brain cancer in 2009.
However, a doctor at New York-Presbyterian Hospital called Kennedy while he was packing for the trip and said he believed the abnormality “was caused by a worm that got into my brain and ate a portion of it and then died,” the candidate recalled in the transcribed interview.
Kennedy said he did not know when he may have contracted the parasite, but suggested it might have been during an earlier trip to South Asia. Doctors interviewed by the Times suggested it was likely a pork tapeworm larva, which have been known to cause seizures, headaches, and dizziness when they start to die.
A micrograph of the head of a pork tapeworm The Royal Photographic Society
(Chomp, chomp, chomp...)
RFK Jr. also said during the 2012 deposition that he suffered from mercury poisoning after eating too many tuna fish sandwiches, which one doctor told the Times was probably the actual cause of Kennedy’s neurological issues.
“I have cognitive problems, clearly,” the son of the late attorney general and senator from New York said at the time. “I have short-term memory loss, and I have longer-term memory loss that affects me.”
Kennedy said he suffered from “severe brain fog” and had trouble retrieving words around the same time that his mercury levels were 10 times what the Environmental Protection Agency considers safe.
The vaccine-skeptic politician said he was certain his diet was causing the issue.
“I loved tuna fish sandwiches. I ate them all the time,” he said.
At the time he disclosed his health issues, Kennedy was in the process of divorcing his second wife, Mary Richardson Kennedy, and was arguing that his earning power had been reduced by his medical issues.
The longtime environmental lawyer added that he made several changes following the two health scares, including getting more sleep, traveling less and consuming less fish.
The septuagenarian has used his relative youth to make the case for his insurgent candidacy against former President Donald Trump, 77, and President Biden, 81.
When asked if his health issues would impact his ability to serve as president, a spokesperson for the Kennedy campaign told the Times, “That is a hilarious suggestion, given the competition.”
The longshot candidate has suffered from a variety of health issues over the years, including atrial fibrillation, a common heartbeat abnormality that increases the risk of stroke or heart failure.
Kennedy also said in the deposition that he had been treated for hepatitis C caused by heroin use in his youth.
https://nypost.com/2024/05/08/us-news/rfk-jr-says-doctors-found-a-dead-worm-in-his-head-after-it-ate-part-of-his-brain/
Great musical selection! Also being cranked here!
This would be considered excellent testimony per the so-called judges railroading him!
AstraZeneca Begins Worldwide Withdrawal of COVID-19 Vaccine
By Caden Pearson
May 8, 2024
AstraZeneca has commenced a global withdrawal of its COVID-19 vaccine on Tuesday, citing a “surplus” of updated jabs for new variants, months after acknowledging its rare risk of serious side effects.
The pharmaceutical giant’s jab, Vaxzevria, is no longer authorized in the European Union as of May 7, after AstraZeneca requested the withdrawal of its “marketing authorization” on March 5.
The removal of its authorization comes just weeks after the company admitted in a UK court document that its shot “can, in very rare cases, cause” blood clots and low platelets, a rare but serious condition known as thrombosis with thrombocytopenia syndrome (TSS). The company had originally denied a causal link.
However, AstraZeneca did not cite the admission as contributing to its decision. Instead, it stated that there was now an “oversupply of updated vaccines” that target new variants of the virus that causes COVID-19.
UK Class Action
Vaxzevria, a viral vector-based vaccine, was initially authorized for use in the European Union in January 2021.
The European withdrawal follows a similar removal of AstraZeneca’s vaccine from the Australian Register of Therapeutic Goods weeks ago, on April 23.
The removal in Australia was attributed to a “business decision of the company, due to no current or anticipated future demand of the vaccine, and follows similar business decisions made overseas.”
Australia changed its official COVID-19 immunization recommendation for certain age groups from AstraZeneca’s vaccine to an alternative jab in 2021 based on evidence of linked cases of TSS.
AstraZeneca’s admission, which was revealed in a UK high court document from February that was made public in late April, came to light through a lengthy class action legal battle in the United Kingdom.
That case involved claims of dozens of injuries and deaths in the United Kingdom allegedly caused by AstraZeneca’s vaccine. More than 50 people have sued the company, along with the vaccine manufacturer, the Serum Institute of India, for compensation over claims of vaccine injuries.
AstraZeneca has denied the claims but conceded the risk of TTS.
Should the pharmaceutical giant be found liable, UK taxpayers would need to foot the bill for any settlement in the case due to an agreement with the UK government.
The AstraZeneca vaccine had previously been temporarily suspended in European countries following reports of a death attributed to the vaccine in the Netherlands and adverse effects elsewhere.
Cases have been confirmed in Australia as well, including one involving an actress who sued AstraZeneca after being diagnosed with vaccine-induced TTS, which led to a life-threatening stroke, leaving her unable to work within weeks of receiving the company’s vaccine.
According to the European Medicines Agency, Vaxzevria does not contain the COVID-19 virus itself but is made up of another virus of the adenovirus family modified to contain the gene for making a protein from SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19.
Though generally deemed safe and effective, TTS was reported to affect about two to three people per 100,000 people vaccinated with the Vaxzevria vaccine.
Some research has linked COVID-19 viral vector-based vaccines, such as Vaxzevria, to an increased risk of Guillain-Barré syndrome by three to four times compared to mRNA-based vaccines.
AstraZeneca did not immediately respond to a request for comment when contacted via phone and email by The Epoch Times.
https://www.ntd.com/astrazeneca-begins-worldwide-withdrawal-of-covid-19-vaccine_991358.html?src_src=ntddailynoe&src_cmp=ntd-2024-05-08
Wednesday's Energy Absurdity: About that Giant Wind Blade Graveyard in Sweetwater...
David Blackmon
May 08, 2024
Old windfarm blades causing problems in Nolan County
Many readers here will remember the stories that broke last September about the enormous wind blade graveyard occupying acres of land on the periphery of Sweetwater, Texas. Russell Gold wrote an excellent expose’ in Texas Monthly about the junkyard, one of many that have popped up across West Texas and the Texas Panhandle in recent years as the wind developers avoid investing any real money in properly disposing of their massive amount of waste.
The story was picked up by other outlets across the country. Robert Bryce travelled to Sweetwater and recorded some social media videos featuring the junkyard. Gold himself quoted the head of the Global Fiberglass Solutions, which has the contract from the wind developer to collect and “recycle” the blades, as promising, “If you come back nine months from now, you will not see the material.”
So, Gold waited nine months, and recently travelled back to Sweetwater to view what he had been promised would be an empty wind blade graveyard.
Guess what? The graveyard isn’t empty, not at all. All the same blades that were in place there nine months ago remain, with still more piled atop them. In his follow-up story at Texas Monthly, Gold reports no activity taking place at the junkyard, which has all the appearances of having been abandoned.
Indeed, Gold writes in the excerpt below that GFS may well be out of money now, having apparently squandered the $16.9 million in funds paid to it by developer General Electric:
GFS may be out of the funds it would need to begin grinding up the blades. Last September, General Electric filed a lawsuit claiming it had paid GFS $16.9 million to recycle about five thousand blades, which the company instead stockpiled in Sweetwater and Iowa. GFS took the money and the blades and then “all but shut down,” according to the complaint. GFS has asked for an extension because it can’t hire a lawyer. “GFS has not been able to raise sufficient funds to convince counsel that they will get paid for their work,” company cofounder Ron Albrecht said in a court filing in January. General Electric expects to file for a default judgment later in May.
…
There can’t be any new products fashioned from the material in Sweetwater until someone takes ownership of the problem that GFS has apparently abandoned. The State of Texas could take charge, but its wheels of justice are turning much more slowly than Iowa’s. In late 2022, the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality fined GFS $10,255 and gave it a year to obtain a permit to store industrial solid waste. That year lapsed in November, and the company never finished paying the fine.
[End]
There’s a lot more to this story, and I highly recommend you reading it in full.
The bottom line here, of course, is this: These big industrial wind developments are a menace, and Texas has not bothered to implement strong laws and regulations needed to mandate the proper retirement and disposal of the massive amount of industrial junk they create.
Is this growing problem a product of irresponsible, grifting developers? Of course, it is. But it is also a problem of irresponsible policymakers who are happy to take money from wind developers to fund their campaigns and look the other way as they fail, session after session, to enact proper laws and regulations to force the cleaning up of these scars on the landscape.
Until the Texas government forces the issue, Mr. Gold will be able to keep writing follow-ups to this story. That’s reality.
That is all.
https://blackmon.substack.com/p/wednesdays-energy-absurdity-about?publication_id=712558&post_id=144431139&isFreemail=false&r=rd9j8&triedRedirect=true
12 Women Come Forward Alleging They Were Sexually Assaulted By Whoever Trump’s VP Pick Is
May 7, 2024 · BabylonBee.com
U.S. — A new wave of controversy erupted as 12 women came forward alleging they had been sexually assaulted by whoever Trump's vice presidential pick would end up being.
The damning allegations began to come in despite the fact that Trump has yet to officially name a running mate or even disclose whether the pick is a man or a woman. Sources confirmed at least a dozen highly credible accusers emerged to demand justice against whoever the VP candidate might be.
"Whoever the VP pick is, I am here to tell my story of how I was inappropriately touched by them," claimed one accuser. "As soon as Trump sees fit to announce who his running mate is, I'm going to positively identify him… or her. Whatever. No matter who he picks, they aren't going to get away with what they did. They must be held accountable!"
Other women quickly joined the ranks of accusers, suggesting Trump's eventual VP selection — no matter who it may end up being — has a long history of serious misconduct. "The person Trump picks as his running mate will not get away with the things we all know they did. Once he announces who it is, we'll know who to blame for what happened to all of us."
At publishing time, the DOJ had announced they would be charging Trump's VP pick with serious federal crimes, once they find out who it is.
https://babylonbee.com/news/12-women-come-forward-alleging-they-were-sexually-assaulted-by-whoever-trumps-vp-pick-is?utm_source=The%20Babylon%20Bee%20Newsletter&utm_medium=email
Presently BLASTING this tune in the coffee shop! :)
LOL, Outstanding reply, ks!!
True and Accurate!
This is interesting:
Certain Teas May Inactivate COVID-19 Virus, Lab Study Finds
https://www.theepochtimes.com/health/certain-teas-may-inactivate-covid-19-virus-lab-study-finds-5627845?utm_source=morningbriefnoe&src_src=morningbriefnoe&utm_campaign=mb-2024-05-08&src_cmp=mb-2024-05-08&utm_medium=email&est=AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAZeMgIkRb6dvH5LxAvWpUFB4ARlJpfEWq9FYrFR9g5Q%3D%3D
A cup of tea could be a powerful weapon in the fight against COVID-19, according to a new study that found that several common varieties can effectively inactivate the SARS-CoV-2 virus in saliva.
The research offers a glimmer of hope that something as simple as your morning brew could help curb the spread of the pandemic virus.
Popular Teas Found to Drastically Reduce SARS-CoV-2 Levels in Just Seconds
Researchers studied 24 commercially available teas and identified five that significantly reduced SARS-CoV-2 levels in saliva. These were raspberry zinger, eucalyptus mint, mint medley, green tea, and black tea.
The team prepared a drinkable tea infusion using one tea bag steeped in a cup of water for 10 minutes, without any additions such as milk or sugar. They then tested each tea either as a beverage or as a gargle.
The findings, published in Food and Environmental Virology, showed that all five tea varieties reduced the amount of the virus by at least 96 percent within just 10 seconds when used in the mouth and throat. When gargled, the teas were even more effective, eliminating 99.9 percent of the virus in the same timeframe.
Black tea proved the most potent. This matters because COVID-19 primarily infects and replicates in the oral cavity before spreading to the lungs, according to the study authors.
“Inactivating SARS-CoV-2 in the mouth and throat potentially reduces the introduction of the virus to the lower respiratory system,” Malak Esseili, a virologist with the University of Georgia Center for Food Safety in the College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences, said in a statement.
Tea is not a replacement for medical care, and clinical trials are still needed to fully assess its effect on COVID-19 patients, Ms. Esseili said. The study was conducted using cell cultures, not human participants.
Study Adds to Growing Body of Research on COVID-Killing Potential of Oral Rinses
In a 2021 study, published in Pathogens, researchers found that two types of mouthwash could disrupt the COVID-19 virus under laboratory conditions, preventing it from replicating in human cells.
Specifically, the researchers determined that Listerine and a prescription mouthwash containing chlorhexidine could disrupt the virus within seconds when diluted to concentrations mimicking actual usage.
Two other types of mouthwashes—Betadine, which contains povidone-iodine, and Colgate Peroxyl, which contains hydrogen peroxide—were also found to potentially be effective at preventing viral transmission.
However, only Listerine and chlorhexidine were able to effectively disrupt SARS-CoV-2 while having minimal effects on the delicate skin cells inside the mouth that form a protective barrier against infection.
“Both Povidone-iodine and Peroxal caused significant skin cell death in our studies, while both Listerine and Chlorhexidine had minimal skin-cell killing at concentrations that simulated what would be found in daily use,” Daniel H. Fine, chair of the school’s Department of Oral Biology and the study’s senior author, said in a press release at the time.
Building on these findings, a recent double-blind, controlled trial, published in 2023 in Annals of Allergy, Asthma & Immunology, found that COVID-positive patients who gargled and performed nasal rinsing with a simple warm saltwater solution four times daily for 14 days experienced significantly lower hospitalization rates than a control group.
Lab Results Don’t Always Translate Into Real-World Benefits: Expert
Laboratory findings don’t always translate to real-world benefits.
“There are lots of times that we will test something in the petri dish and it looks fantastic,” Dr. Sharon Nachman, chief of the Division of Pediatric Infectious Diseases at Stony Brook Children’s Hospital, told The Epoch Times
The fact that something kills a microbe in the lab doesn’t mean it will be effective in a patient, she said. While test results may show a substance killing bacteria, viruses, or fungi, sometimes an equivalent dose in a human is toxic, it doesn’t stay in the right space long enough, or other problems arise, she said.
An issue with the tea study is that it didn’t replicate how quickly tea passes through the mouth, Dr. Nachman noted. “It’s in your mouth for nanoseconds,” she said. “In the lab, they put the tea in with the virus and it sat there and it could continue to act for more than microseconds, which is quite different than your mouth.”
COVID-19 infects the nose and lungs, not just the mouth. “Even a single cough is going to throw out much more virus than would be killed in the mouth by gargling for 20 minutes,” Dr. Nachman said.
So although a hot drink such as tea may provide some benefits, “whether it will actually get you healthier faster or cut down on how much virus you’re transmitting, that’s a little bit on the iffy side,” she said.
I confess... I stole the line from that song. < g >
Morning, PW.
Good to see you up and moving.
I'm doing a quick drive by.
Got to be on the road soon.
Catch you later.
No hugging'. No kissin'. 'Til you make her your wife.
Your words reminded me of this song.
I had forgotten how funny this video was to watch. It's also a reminder of the life's joys we've lost these last few years.
Relax, MG. As a devout Catholic, you have nothing to worry about.
No hugging'. No kissin'. 'Til you make her your wife.
By the time you pop the question, you'll have your answer.
Red Skelton - this comes from the heart. So perfect and should be shown to all grades K-12 every year.
— Sue (@SueJ2024) May 8, 2024
🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸
👏👏👏👏👏
❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️ pic.twitter.com/ZMz10qMJPD
Here' a a 2024 dating dilemma.
You meet a lovely woman at church, manifestly wholesome and chaste.
So, you've got the STDs danger pretty much negated.
Well, there another concern.
What if she got the slab jab?
If she did, she's going to be a shedder!
Gives new meaning to the expression, "I just love her to death (yours)"
Great song, Mr. G. I just became 14 again.
Saw them in concert with a church group.
Bare bones venue. I think it was a gym.
Long, long time ago.
Thanks for the sweet memory.
Chicago ... one of my favorites. The Luvin' Spoonful are another!!
Climate lockdowns next?
By Brian Sussman
the first individuals to contend the environment was in peril due to human behavior were direct disciples of Karl Marx. Their contempt for capitalism and private property motivated them to conjure up a fallacious argument: the earth’s ecosystem was being mutilated by the industrial revolution.
Since the COVID scare worked so well for the left, could a climate lockdown be next?
We all vividly recall the absurd COVID lockdowns. While they had no effect on the spread of illness, the imposed restrictions certainly proved that a large segment of the population was easily compelled to come to heel and submit to the government’s outrageous demands.
Given the facts I provide in my new book, Climate Cult: Exposing and Defeating Their War on Life, Liberty, and Property, such a scheme should come as no surprise, especially given that the Biden administration and Congressional Democrats are priming the pump with talk of executive action to declare a “climate emergency.”
As I reveal in the book, the first individuals to contend the environment was in peril due to human behavior were direct disciples of Karl Marx. Their contempt for capitalism and private property motivated them to conjure up a fallacious argument: the earth’s ecosystem was being mutilated by the industrial revolution. In fact, Edwin Ray Lankester, a zoologist at University College, London and close friend of Marx, referred to humanity as “the insurgent sons of nature.” Even Vladimir Lenin—a radical environmental preservationist—wrote lengthy regulations placing Russia’s natural resources off limits to his subjects. Millions died of starvation and hypothermia as a result.
In more recent decades, the climate agenda has been crafted by the United Nations with the United States and many European nations rushing to comply. It was a 1987 UN document entitled, Our Common Future, that officially introduced CO2 as not only the cause of global warming but a threat to world peace and an agent of economic inequality. Since then, the elites at the World Economic Forum have provided muscle for the United Nation’s plans. In fact, a man the WEF describes as an agenda contributor, Yuval Noah Harari, pompously declared, “You can stop all flights, you can lockdown entire countries,” to combat climate change.
Climate lockdowns have been discussed by Democrats for several years. Rep. Earl Blumenauer (D-OR) introduced the Climate Emergency Act of 2021, co-sponsored by 62 congressional Democrats. The bill would “require the President to declare a national climate emergency under the National Emergencies Act, and for other purposes.” Allowing President Biden to declare a climate emergency would provide the him with statutory powers that could be renewed should he gain a second term. The proposed Act reads like a communist takeover, demanding a “radically and socially just” plan to increase union membership, guarantee wages and benefits, promote social and environmental justice, expand the rainbow flag, and transition America to a carbon-free economy.
Last July, White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre, told reporters, “He [the president] is going to do everything he can to take action. This climate emergency [decision] is not going to happen tomorrow but we still have it on the table.”
Eco-zealot Sen. Ed Markey (D-Mass.), told Politico that he urged Biden to use emergency authority to enact radical climate change measures. “In the absence of congressional action it is critically important he use all of his powers.”
And, of course, working in tandem with the Democrats on Capitol Hill, the UN has its own Climate Emergency webpage which states, “The science is clear. The world is in a state of climate emergency, and we need to shift into emergency gear.”
Yes, the science is clear. Carbon dioxide (CO2) is a requirement for life on Earth, and more is better. As for global warming, the geological record indicates past periods have been significantly warmer than today.
Given that CO2 represents .04 percent of all atmospheric gases and of that amount only four percent are derived from fossil fuels, we should all be reminded that the tail doesn’t wag the dog.
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2024/05/climate_lockdowns_next.html
Rumble censorship demands:
https://www.yahoo.com/news/rumble-reveals-censorship-demands-surprising-181233719.html
Good morning. "Chicago" no longer evokes good vibes, that's for sure!
Jackie Lacey, 1st Black L.A. D.A., Backs Nathan Hochman over George Gascón
JOEL B. POLLAK 7 May 2024 3:58
(God bless, Jackie Lacey.)
Jackie Lacey, the first black and first female Los Angeles County District Attorney (DA), who was defeated by George Soros-backed George Gascón in 2020, has endorsed challenger Nathan Hochman in the 2024 race for D.A.
The Hochman campaign released a statement Monday:
Jackie Lacey, a lifelong Democrat and the first woman and first African-American to serve as District Attorney of Los Angeles County, announced today that she is endorsing Nathan Hochman for District Attorney.
She said D.A. George Gascon has emboldened criminals and caused an increase in crime by failing to properly enforce the law.
“We must have leadership at the District Attorney’s Office that understands its mission is to seek justice by, among other things, sending a message that criminal behavior is unacceptable in our county. We don’t have that with the current District Attorney,” Lacey said. “Criminals are more brazen because they know they have allies embedded in that office. They know the office policies better than we do. It is time to elect someone who will be proactive at making us safer.”
Lacey, who served as Los Angeles County District Attorney from 2012 to 2020, said she supports Hochman because of his decades of criminal justice experience, as both a prosecutor and defense attorney, and the fact that he will strive every day to improve public safety.
“I am endorsing Nathan Hochman for District Attorney because I feel a lot less safe than I did four years ago,” Lacey said. “It’s time to thank and excuse the current district attorney and elect someone with a conscience. Please join me and vote for Nathan Hochman for District Attorney.”
Hochman, who has served as a federal prosecutor, U.S. Assistant Attorney General overseeing the DOJ’s Tax Division, President of the L.A. City Ethics Commission and as a defense attorney, said he is extremely grateful for Lacey’s support. He previously was endorsed by Steve Cooley, who served three terms as District Attorney, and the Association of Deputy District Attorneys, the union that represents L.A. County prosecutors.
“Jackie’s endorsement is extremely meaningful to me and I am so thankful that she supports my campaign for District Attorney,” Hochman said. “She was an exceptional District Attorney who served 34 years with the office, striving every day to pursue justice on behalf of the people of Los Angeles County, where she was born and raised.”
Lacey was targeted by the Black Lives Matter movement. Her husband was charged with a misdemeanor firearms violation when he brought a gun to the door of the family home as he urged Black Lives Matter protesters to leave.
The charges were later dismissed. However, Gascón won the 2020 election, thanks to millions of dollars in spending by Soros and a rush of endorsements by California Democrats — including a reversal by then-L.A. Mayor Eric Garcetti, who had originally endorsed Lacey but then reversed himself once the Black Lives Matter riots, and the Soros millions, appeared to change his mind.
Gascón has faced two recall attempts, the last of which fell just short after county workers claimed to have found invalid signatures on the recall petition. He is blamed for a crime wave, as he has prioritized criminal justice “reform.”
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2024/05/07/jackie-lacey-1st-black-l-a-d-a-backs-nathan-hochman-over-george-gascon/
Yep. They got the music right.
Morning, possh.
Wonder how many "kids" know that's Chicago.
Morning, Mr. G. That ad makes my skin crawl.
Total roll reversal. The end annoys me the most.
Sleek, professional wifey comes home, gives her beleaguered lap dog the come-on look, and
he trots off to service her.
Kunstler:
CLUSTERFUCK NATION – BLOGMay 6, 2024
Prisoners of Themselves
“Ok, let’s be clear. If the intelligence community led by the CIA is not the “deep state,” what is?” — Jeffrey Tucker
You realize, don’t you, that the gross misconduct of government officials from RussiaGate on down to the courtroom of Judge Juan Merchan has amounted to one continuous operation against the American people? If it were ever honestly adjudicated, many hundreds of them might go to prison, or worse. Each successive seditious and treasonous action they attempt against their arch-nemesis, Mr. Trump, only compounds their criminal liability — the Steele Dossier, CIA agent Eric Ciaramella’s 2019 impeachment prank, the Covid-19 caper, the George Floyd-BLM hustle, the 2020 election hijinks, the J-6 op and the House J-6 Committee conjured up to spin it, the present battery of farcical court cases — and yet the Golden Golem of Greatness not only remains defiantly at large, but seems to amass ever more electoral mojo.
The epic failure of these mighty efforts, and the humiliation entailed, has lately driven this vast bureaucratic cabal — collectively styled as “the blob” — to a stage of abject desperation that looks a lot like insanity. They fear for their lives, their fortunes, their chattels, and their families, and they seem ready to wreck the republic to save themselves. They have so far pretty much wrecked American justice with their lawfare tactics — a degenerate campaign to use the vested authority of prosecutors and judges to twist and cheat the law at the cost of the law’s legitimacy. Merrick Garland, Norm Eisen, Andrew Weissmann, Mary McCord, Lisa Monaco, Marc Elias, Christopher Wray, Letitia James, Fani Willis, Alvin Bragg have made law the enemy of the people.
All this becomes more obvious each day, for instance events of the past week in Judge Aileen Cannon’s federal courtroom in Florida where the Mar-a-Lago documents case proceeds. Turns out that Special Counsel Jack Smith has deliberately messed with the evidence, which is patently felonious. Also, turns out that sometime between the “Joe Biden” inauguration and the FBI raid on Mar-a-Lago in August, 2022, boxes of presidential documents stored by the US General Services Administration were “delivered” to Mr. Trump’s mansion without any proper accounting for what might have been in them. A set-up you suppose? Why not? After everything else the FBI and the DOJ have attempted since 2015?
Christopher Wray in particular might have wanted some surefire probable cause to get his agents into Mar-a-Lago where, rumor has it, Mr. Trump kept his own dossier of evidence against the FBI and DOJ officials who concocted the “Crossfire Hurricane” chapter of RussiaGate. Even if you assume that Mr. Trump had multiple copies of the thing, FBI Director Wray — in position since 2017 throughout most of RussiaGate — surely wanted to see what Mr. Trump was holding if it would become necessary for current and former FBI / DOJ officials to defend themselves in court against very serious charges.
You see the desperation, don’t you? And how stupendously amateurish these machinations have been? Planting evidence and then fiddling around with it? I’m waiting for the moment when Judge Cannon summons Jack Smith and announces to his face that she is tossing the case for prosecutorial misconduct. Will she add a criminal referral to that? How will that affect the other case (attempting to overturn the 2020 election) brought against Mr. Trump in Judge Tanya Chutkan’s DC federal district court? Who will prosecute it if Jack Smith can no longer function as Special Counsel? And since the case was contrived in his name — even if Eisen, McCord, Weissmann, and others are really the authors — does that case blow up, too?
Letitia James’s real estate case under Judge Arthur Engoron was so idiotic it can’t possibly survive an ultimate appeal, and the Alvin Bragg confection under Judge Merchan is playing out like something that usually only happens in places like Honduras or Liberia. Yet the American Left, the “progressive” Democratic Party, is staking everything on it. It’s all they have left Lawfare-wise, at least for now. Which brings us to the question: Why do the non-governmental elites of this land, the managerial and thinking classes, the college presidents, the cable news producers, the corporate execs, the movie directors, the whole arts establishment. . . why do they feel compelled, for nearly a decade now, to hitch their identity and their self-respect to this fantastic train of Kafka-esque corruption, tyranny, and abuse? How did they get owned by the blob?
We may never find out, and they may never know either, even after they snap out of the mass formation they’ve been in thrall to. But they have made themselves ridiculous — figures like Sam Harris, Stephen Colbert, and Rob Reiner — yelling about “saving our democracy” while the blob they worship systematically disassembles the US Constitution, and makes American law a global laughingstock.
Most of my old ex-friends are riding the same ideological bus. You have to wonder: how did the likes of “Joe Biden,” Merrick Garland, Liz Cheney, Adam Schiff, Christopher Wray, Fani Willis, Anthony Fauci, Klaus Schwab, and Bill Gates become their heroes? Did the Covid vaccines destroy their minds? Are they really avid for central bank digital money and surveillance of their every move? Do they want to be told how to live by the WHO? Things are going south fast now in our country. If these people ever cherished the idea of being free to think their own thoughts and live their own lives, it’s getting late in the game. They will end up prisoners of themselves.
https://kunstler.com/clusterfuck-nation/prisoners-of-themselves/
Most secure election in GA's history:
https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1784985829594546302.html
Mighty sad display. Woke to the max.
Good song though.
Hi K². We order a lot of stuff from Amazon and the wife also orders most of her crafts stuff from ETSY and some from Temu. Sadly. there's not many places these days that complete with their selection, pricing, shipping and return policies.
That said, the ad you posted makes me ill because of the emasculating which is a symbol of today's males! Those type of "guys", back in my high school days, would be of the extreme minority that would be picked on and maybe physically accosted.
Thanks, Bull. It makes me glad I've never ordered anything from Amazon.
Absolutely! I'm with you on this, kk!
Re: The frat boys...
I hate this Amazon ad. Talk about whipped...
Does anyone else find it as disgustingly emasculating as I do?
Frat Boy Summer is this year’s backlash against an epidemic of arrogant, entitled women
By Miranda Devine Published May 5, 2024, 10:19 p.m. ET
(I'm on the "frat boys" side.)
Behold the “frat boys” unapologetically saving Old Glory, singing the national anthem, chanting “USA, USA, USA,” and rudely ridiculing the campus freaks who parade around in Hamas colors and barricade themselves in university buildings.
God forbid! They look like Trump voters.
This display of irrepressible masculinity erupting in Gen Z is an affront to the grand societal feminization project of the left, which has only itself to blame.
Frat Boy Summer is this year’s backlash against an epidemic of arrogant, entitled women who have been coddled all their lives and think they’re smarter and more important than they really are.
It is a manifestation of the growing political divide between men and women that has been evident in opinion polls for some time. There is a 10-point gap on most issues between men and women.
Young unmarried women, in particular, skew very left, while young men are becoming markedly more conservative.
Growing gap
The latest ABC-Ipsos poll over the weekend showed Donald Trump winning the under-30s by five points over Joe Biden, 48% to 43%. That was entirely down to Trump’s huge advantage with young men, 54% to 43%.
Young women favored Biden by three points, 44% to 41%, still a rather anemic vote of confidence considering all the “Handmaid’s Tale”-style propaganda being thrown at them about abortion and Trump’s beastly ways.
It’s a nightmare scenario for Biden, who has been counting on the youth vote to win him the election like it did in 2020. Hence his desperate pandering to Gen Z.
The president is splashing around billions of taxpayer dollars on student debt relief, relaxing cannabis legislation, championing “trans kids” as the greatest heroes of their generation and inviting gender-fluid young TikTok influencers to VIP events at the White House. This is not your granddad’s Joe Biden.
But none of it can close the growing ideological gulf between the sexes, which has its roots in the unjust treatment of boys and young men in recent decades.
The college gender gap was a crisis when men outnumbered women up until the 1980s, but now that there are three women for every two men in college, we must rejoice. You go, girl!
Now there are 1 million fewer men in college than in 2011, according to Pew Research, with one-quarter of male Ivy Leaguers identifying as LGBT. It’s sexual reparations in which nobody had a say.
There is a cohort of women who are giving the fairer sex a bad name. These toxic femmes gobbled up the unjust privileges of affirmative action and the punitive fakery that the #MeToo movement became and then found they were more miserable than ever.
So they doubled down, offloading blame onto the patriarchy or toxic masculinity or whatever excuse they could find to avoid looking in the mirror.
During the pandemic, they were given the name “Karen” as they marched around in masks enforcing petty rules or flew into aggressive rages during minor parking lot encounters.
When accountability occasionally finds them, they are flabbergasted beyond belief, while the rest of the world quietly revels in their comeuppance.
Karine Jean-Pierre is the avatar of the entitled female.
The White House press secretary is simply horrible at her job. She’s not on top of her material and never provides a coherent answer to reporters’ questions.
But instead of showing a little humility and upping her game, she does interviews boasting about how awesome she is at “the hardest job in the White House … I’m an historic figure and I walk in history every day.”
Women’s colleges
The current campus protests have showcased the narcissism of these delusional damsels on social media for all to see:
• The females at the University of Virginia whining, “It’s raining!” when finally told to pack up their tents.
• The campus radical who held a press conference to demand that Columbia University supply food and water to her comrades who had barricaded themselves inside a building. “This is like basic humanitarian aid,” said Johannah King-Slutzky, a PhD student who sported the latest in terrorist chic, a keffiyeh around her neck.
• The academic at Emory University who screamed, “I am a professor!” when she was arrested for assaulting a cop. “I hit him on the head very lightly to get his attention and they grabbed me, threw me to the ground and arrested me,” Caroline Fohlin whined as she was carted away.
• The activist in California who stood up at a city council meeting and threatened to kill councilors who opposed a Gaza cease-fire resolution: “We’ll see you at your house. We’ll murder you,” she fiercely vowed. Next time we saw Riddhi Patel, she was bawling her eyes out in court after being arrested and charged with threatening state officials.
These are not people anyone can admire. They believe they are entitled to privileges and protections they did not earn and do not deserve.
The losers in the equation have been young men, especially if they are white and heterosexual and wish to remain male with their genitalia intact.
They are the new forgotten people, derided for who they are.
Since they have nothing to lose and nobody has earned their respect, the frat boys will be as rude and obnoxious as they like. If their very intrinsic maleness is offensive, why bother trying to be polite or chivalrous? Instead, they lean into their power in a rather Trumpian way.
Talking like Trump
Whatever else can be said about Donald Trump, he is undeniably, irredeemably masculine. The way he walks, the way he talks, the way he dresses, his lusty appreciation for attractive women, all of it is anachronistic in a world that abhors masculinity, and that probably is half his appeal — to men, and to the women who still love men.
Regardless of Trump, Gallup polls show that the percentage of young men, ages 18 to 29, who identify as Republican has increased 11 points in a decade, from 38% in 2013 to 49% in 2023, with a big jump from 42% after the pandemic.
This is the cohort whose school and college years were affected by COVID-19. Perhaps school-age boys resented the strictures of lockdowns more than girls and rejected the safety obsessions of females in authority.
Whatever the cause, 18- to 29-year-old men are now 30% more conservative than their ultra-liberal female counterparts.
Women ages 18 to 34 became increasingly liberal and Democratic in the past decade, according to polling data reported by the New York Times last week.
Women went from 55% to 60% identifying as Democratic and from 29% to 22% Republican between 2012 and 2023. They went from 32% to 51% liberal and from 29% to 17% conservative.
“You stand no chance, old lady!” one frat boy type told a woman trying to wrestle him for a barricade at a protest at UCLA last week. Nature always finds a way to assert itself, and it isn’t always pretty.
https://nypost.com/2024/05/05/opinion/frat-boy-summer-is-this-years-backlash-against-an-epidemic-of-arrogant-entitled-women/
Is it a crime for politicians to pay off people to hide the truth from the public because an election is coming up?
By Jack Hellner
The threats to our democracy (Republic) are power-hungry Democrats, corrupt Justice officials throughout the country, election workers who go around the law, and a complicit media who spend their time campaigning for Democrats and seeking to destroy Trump and other Republicans.
What if Congress spends $17 million to hide sexual harassment and other claims from the public by members and their staff?
That is 130 more times than the $130,000 President Trump paid of his own money for a nuisance lawsuit.
Congress paid out $17 million in settlements. Here’s why we know so little about that money.
Two things have become painfully clear on Capitol Hill this week: Lawmakers and staffers say sexual harassment is “rampant” – but even members of Congress have no idea just how widespread the problem is.
The controversial and sensitive issue has taken center stage in Congress this week, with female lawmakers making fresh allegations of sexual harassment against unnamed members who are currently in office, and the unveiling of a new bill on Wednesday to change how sexual harassment complaints are reported and resolved. On Thursday, a woman shared her story of being groped and kissed without her consent by Sen. Al Franken in 2006.
So far, there’s been little specific data to help illuminate just how pervasive sexual harassment is on Capitol Hill, but one figure has emerged: the total that the Office of Compliance, the office that handles harassment complaints, has paid to victims.
On Thursday, the Office of Compliance released additional information indicating that it has paid victims more than $17 million since its creation in the 1990s. That includes all settlements, not just related to sexual harassment, but also discrimination and other cases.
Congress essentially stole $17 million in taxpayer money that we know of, to hide stuff from the public. Which politicians and staff members were sued? We don't know. Most of the media clearly let this theft and coverup slide because they didn't harass Nancy Pelosi, Chuck Schumer, and other career politicians to tell them the amounts that were paid and for whose benefit. How many of these politicians and staffers are still on the payroll? How serious were the charges? We don't know.
Isn't it great that these powerful politicians who supposedly work for us, think it is none of our business what they do or how many laws they ignore? How would they treat a private company if they hid so much derogatory information?
Here are some other things that most of the media somehow had little curiosity about:
All the women the Clintons whom mentally and physically abused.
The media did not want to see that President Obama was associated with domestic terrorist Bill Ayers, had special deals with convicted felon and political fixer Tony Rezko and attended church with radical preacher Reverend Wright. Vetting Obama was unnecessary.
In 2008, they did not care about Joe Biden's record or why he was chased away from previous presidential races. They were too busy destroying Sarah Palin. I thought the media and other Democrats respected and supported all women.
The media didn't care about all the Clinton family kickbacks for access because Hillary Clinton had a powerful government position.
Nor have they cared about the Biden family kickbacks for access because Joe had a powerful government position.
They don't care that Hillary and Joe illegally had classified documents for years and mishandled them, and somehow were not prosecuted.
The media had little interest in who or why Seth Rich, who was a DNC campaign worker, was killed on his way home from work. For some reason, the FBI didn't think the laptop was of any interest and has kept it secret for seven years. Sort of like intentionally hiding the Hunter laptop from the public before the 2020 election.
Can anyone imagine the wall-to-wall coverage if a Trump staffer with a laptop was killed?
Seth Rich's Laptop to Be Turned Over by FBI, Judge Rules
Rich, who worked for the Democratic National Committee (DNC), was killed on July 10, 2016, while making his way home from a night out in Washington, D.C. The 27-year-old was speaking to his girlfriend on the phone when shots were heard.
The media certainly didn't care that the only person killed in the capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, was an unarmed white woman, a veteran. She was killed by a black Capital Police officer.
Think of what the coverage would have been if the killing had happened to a black unarmed person at a violent protest by leftists after Trump won in 2016 or in the violent protests in 2020.
Or what would the coverage be if an officer killed an unarmed pro-Palestine person?
But an unarmed person who supported Trump is killed, and there is no sympathy, little coverage, and no empathy. Some lives are clearly more valuable to the media and other Democrats, especially if it promotes their agenda.
And there will be little to no coverage of Jack Smith's squad tampering with evidence and misleading the courts, just like few cared when FBI agents lied to the FISA courts to illegally spy on people surrounding Trump
After all, the goal for the last eight years is to destroy Trump, and they don't care about his rights.
Special Counsel Jack Smith's Team Confirms It Tampered With Evidence, Admits to Misleading Court
The threats to our democracy (Republic) are power-hungry Democrats, corrupt Justice officials throughout the country, election workers who go around the law, and a complicit media who spend their time campaigning for Democrats and seeking to destroy Trump and other Republicans.
It is certainly not Trump, who wants to give the power, money, and freedom back to the people.
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2024/05/is_it_a_crime_for_politicians_to_pay_off_people_to_hide_the_truth_from_the_public_because_an_election_is_coming_up.html
Biden administration continues its attack on energy
By Eric Utter
Our power plants may soon blow no smoke, but the same cannot be said of the Biden administration.
No, I’m not speaking of the president “calling a lid” at 3:00 p.m. or appearing nearly comatose during certain speeches.
As part of its sweeping climate change agenda, the Bite me Biden administration recently finalized regulations that will make things much harder on existing -- and future -- fossil fuel-fired power plants.
Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and White House officials, via a joint announcement, noted that the rules and regulations would apply to all coal-fired power generation and future natural gas power plants, which will be required to control/capture 90% of their carbon emissions. This will force numerous older plants to simply shut down, or, to use the softer sounding euphemism, be “sunsetted.”
It's certainly reassuring that the administration has its priorities in order! Forget the open Southern border across which millions of unvetted foreigners are streaming, mostly military-aged men! Forget 100,000 fentanyl deaths a year and the rampant sex trafficking! Dismiss raging inflation and violent crime! Who cares about unsustainable debt, wars breaking out across the planet, and the ongoing violent anti-Semitism spreading across our college campuses?! Ditto for the continued collapse of the family and the impending collapse of Western nations’ populations! The Biden administration is properly laser-focused on limiting Americans’ choices in appliances, vehicles -- and elections -- and in trying to significantly drive up the cost of their food and energy.
Our power plants may soon blow no smoke, but the same cannot be said of the Biden administration.
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2024/05/biden_administration_continues_its_attack_on_energy.html
Government mandates that your car 'monitor' your behavior
By Eric Utter
New technologies that will make monitoring drivers' behavior easy and comprehensive … will soon also be mandatory.
H.R. 3684, an “infrastructure” bill signed by Joe Biden in 2021 included a provision mandating expanded monitoring of folks as they drive an automobile. And henceforth the intrusive technologies will be required in all new vehicles being manufactured and sold in the U.S.
New vehicles will be required to have passive monitoring systems to assess each driver’s behavior. An algorithm will determine if the driver is too impaired to operate the vehicle. If so, the vehicle will either be disabled, or some as yet unexplained system or entity will take control of it.
Several obvious questions arise.
What will constitute “impairment?” Who or what might take control of the vehicle, and in what specific circumstances? And how? How long will data detailing driver behavior be stored? Where? Who will have access to it? In what other situations might the government take control of a driver’s vehicle? Is this unconstitutional, contra to protections under the Bill of Rights?
And what about hackers?!
We have seen how other government mandates, programs, and policies, almost all supposedly “for our own good,” have worked out. Think of the “Patriot Act,” the Department of Homeland Security, the TSA, or the lockdown response to the recent coronavirus pandemic, to name but a few. If you wanted to work out at a gym, attend a family member’s wedding — or funeral— well, sorry.
Is it really far-fetched to imagine that you won’t be allowed to drive if you have exceeded your monthly greenhouse gas emission limit? Or that your car might be disabled if you are on your way to purchase a firearm or attend a Trump rally, or the future equivalent thereof?
In places like California, there is already legislation in the works to mandate that car manufacturers equip your vehicle so as to make it literally impossible for a driver to go more than 10 miles-an-hour over the speed limit, regardless of reason or situation. Perhaps the software monitoring program will similarly decide that it doesn’t care for the way you brake or change lanes. Or for the talk shows you listen to on the vehicle’s radio/sound system.
No one defends drunk driving, nor should they. But this is existentially dangerous. Automobiles granted Americans unprecedented freedom and independence. Now Big Brother will use them to spy on citizens and modify their behavior … removing their freedom and independence altogether, along with their privacy.
The relationship between Americans and their cars is long and deep. That those cars will now be used as witnesses against them is chilling, dystopian.
Sadly, in a sense, all of our vehicles going forward will be “1984” models.
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2024/05/government_mandates_that_your_car_monitor_your_behavior.html
House GOP schedules Tuesday vote on Hands Off Our Home Appliances Act
https://justthenews.com/government/congress/house-gop-schedules-tuesday-vote-hands-our-home-appliances-act
The GOP-led House is scheduled to vote on the Hands Off Our Home Appliances Act on Tuesday.
According to an official summary of the legislation, the bill "modifies the process by which the Department of Energy (DOE) amends, revokes, or implements energy conservation standards for certain consumer products (other than automobiles), such as household appliances."
The bill would allow DOE to "grant a petition to revoke or amend energy conservation standards" under certain circumstances. The agency could revoke standards if it finds that they "result in additional costs to consumers," do not lead to "significant conservation of energy or water," are not "technologically feasible," or lead to an appliance "not being commercially available in the United States to all consumers."
Under the legislation, "new energy conservation standards must be technologically feasible and economically justified."
If the bill gets passed and signed into law, it would eliminate the "requirement under the Energy Policy and Conservation Act for DOE, within six years of issuing a final rule establishing or amending such standard, to issue a new proposed rule or publish a notice that the standard does not need to be amended." The agency instead would be able to "publish a notice of proposed rulemaking for prescribing a new or amended energy conservation standard for a consumer product at any time."
The legislation was proposed after the Biden Administration's Energy Department proposed a rule that would have led to a ban on the sale of about half of the gas stoves currently on the market.
Real leadership, would of stopped this in tracks a long time ago, but when your
courting the terrorist vote, this is what you get...
Barack Obama, 21st-Century Schizoid Man
By Pete McArdle
Although not a psychologist, I nevertheless convinced thousands of trusting souls to open their mouths (and wallets) for needles, drills, forceps, foul tastes, strange smells, not-good vibrations, and bills beyond imagination for more than forty years.
And after the obligatory formalities and a couple jabs of the ol’ Novocain had been dispensed with, I’d sit, patiently waiting for profound anesthesia, and provide free psychoanalysis to my patients.
I’d listen carefully — most times — and then, no matter what the patient’s problem was, I’d say, “You have a problem with congruity.”
“Congruity” is having the things you think and deeply believe match up with your actual words and actions. Most people fall short of absolute congruity, but the smaller the gap, or “schism,” between your talk and your walk, the happier and more fulfilled you are.
And the bigger the schism, the more troubled, angry, and unhappy you are.
With that in mind, who could possibly be more conflicted, disturbed, or downright resentful than the man currently sailing our ship of state into a stone jetty at about ninety knots?
Joe Biden, you say?
No, silly! He’s not running anything, except maybe his mouth when he’s occasionally allowed to.
Watch the recent video of Crusty Joe trying to eat his dinner at the execrable White House Correspondents’ Dinner. He’s zoning out on the person talking to him. He struggles to move salad from the salad plate to his dinner plate. He then loses interest in the salad and strains mightily to rip a small dinner roll in two, finally transferring half the roll to his dinner plate.
He then loses interest in both the roll and the person animatedly yapping at him, and attempts, ever so slowly, to bring a forkful of greens up to his quivering mouth — a meeting so perilous that it recalls one of the perilous outer space hookups needed for the successful Apollo 11 mission.
No, poor old Joe isn’t running things now, nor was he back when he was “elected” and still had two neurons to rub together.
It’s always been Barack Obama.
Barry O’s the puppet master who’s been running the show for fifteen years now, eight overtly and seven covertly, leading the Deep State efforts against sitting President Trump and later telling senile Joe exactly what to say on notecards and teleprompters.
And who could be more schizoid than the Lightbringer?
He tells the world, as the self-proclaimed first black president, that Whitey is inherently and systemically racist, whether he knows it or not. And meanwhile, Barry’s half–white supremacist himself!
Imagine hating half of yourself for the sins your distant forefathers may or may have not committed against distant relatives of your other half. Terribly confusing, no?
And in a love letter, young Obama tells a girlfriend that he feels androgynous and that he “makes love to men daily, in [his] imagination,” a sentence no heterosexual man has ever written, at least in recorded history. This certainly explains Barry’s love for the LBGTetc. movement, but not his attempt to sell the American electorate on a presidential candidate ostensibly deeply in love with a woman.
And imagine pretending to the American public that you’re a devout Christian, and then saying that the adhan, the Islamic call to prayer, is “one of the prettiest sounds on Earth.”
It’s certainly all right to love Islam and feel that way about the adhan, but why pretend you follow Christ? And what is it with Obama sending pallets of hard currency under cover of darkness to Iran, the leading sponsor of terror in the world and the people ultimately responsible for October 7?
Christians certainly don’t hate Jews, with whom they share beliefs written down in the Old Testament. Why does Obama?
The schism between what Barack Obama says he is and what he really is is enormous. He must be miserable.
He carries on incessantly about the environment and global warming and then buys three mansions with an enormous carbon footprint, one a Hawaiian oceanfront property. Obama either thinks he personally did stop the rise of the oceans, in which case he’s delusional, or he never worried about it in the first place, in which case he’s a liar. Which is it, Barry: delusional or liar?
“The One” also claimed that he was president for all people, both in blue states and red. And then he promptly sicced his CIA, FBI, IRS, and State Dept. — and our vile, supine mainstream media — on President Trump and his followers. He demonized Christians, whites, males, heterosexuals, the pro-life movement, and above all MAGA-supporters. No uniter, he.
Obama has habitually harangued the wealthy, pushing them to pay more taxes and asking them, when is enough enough? But his socialist veneer has worn thin, now that he and Michelle are multi-multi-millionaires. Barry must lie awake at night, in one of his mansions, wondering when exactly enough is enough.
Poor Obama — so narcissistic, neurotic, and incongruent. Such a nowhere man, making all his nowhere plans, desperately hoping DJT won’t be re-elected. He’s black, he’s white, he’s gay, he’s straight, he’s Christian yet loves Iran and the adhan, he was president of the USA for eight years and yet he hates and has often apologized for his country.
He alone makes the sad dried up turnip in the Oval Office’s mouth move and spew socialist venom, even as he, B.O., pretends to care about democracy. After fifteen years of King Barack’s either overt or covert rule, America has been brought to her knees.
It appears Obama’s psychotic, self-hating persona has permeated the U.S. public’s consciousness (see For Palestine, Jews or Gays). After this November, either hardworking, God-fearing, patriotic Americans will be running this country, or it will be a deeply conflicted Barack Obama, 21st-century schizoid man.
https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2024/05/barack_obama_21st_century_schizoid_man.html
False-flag Nation
By David Prentice
the Left wants – no, demands -- its power, no matter how dishonest, destructive, and ruinous to others they become, they want to define their opponents as worse. They live by the Alinsky rule to keep the pressure on, they want desperately to show anyone who will listen just how bad we are.
The definition of a false flag is a hostile or harmful action (such as an attack) that is designed to look like it was perpetrated by someone other than the person or group responsible for it.
It was first done by pirates who would fly flags of friendly nations to allow themselves to get close enough to attack merchant ships. The historical use of a flag isn’t the key -- it’s the deception.
This kind of tactic has been used often: in 1939, Hitler faked an attack by Poland on a German outpost so that he would have an excuse to invade Poland. A few years earlier Japanese forces set off a bomb next to a Japanese-owned rail line in Mukden as a pretext for the invasion of Manchuria.
Similarly, false flags have been taken to discredit many a politician or a political movement. One of the crassest charges ever levelled was by James Carville after Paula Jones accused Bill Clinton of pulling his pants down in front of her. He was quoted as saying, “Drag a hundred-dollar bill through a trailer park, you never know what you'll find.” This to put the blame on Jones for Clinton’s indiscretion. Carville claims that she was not the target. You decide.
The intensity of the Left’s obsession to take down Donald Trump has been breathtaking. The Left’s many accusations using the false-flag tactic have turned us into false-flag nation. Never has one person been so consistently harassed, pressured, and accused using one tactic.
Recall when Trump started his rallies back in 2016. Many of them involved some kind of violent fight or violent demonstration, with the media dutifully reporting that these proved the violence inherent in Trump and his backers. The only problem was these were leftist agitprop actors, and that was clear to most non-Democrat observers even then. Violence at an Illinois rally prior to that primary had Ted Cruz accusing Donald Trump supporters (likely cementing his loss).
To this day one of the consistent charges against Trump has been his intention to bring violence to our country. Jussie Smollett tried to add to this farce. It ended badly. The Whitmer kidnapping hoax showed the FBI goading and entrapping a few suckers to get involved in this charade. FBI plants invented the idea and pushed it to happen. This to once again prove Trump supporters were violent lawbreakers.
The RussiaGate scam was a false flag set up by the Deep State. These silly charges against Trump were manufactured by his opponents to make him appear guilty. The Trump Ukraine phone call impeachment came straight from Biden-supporting Democrats. Blaming Trump for Biden’s Ukraine corruption was pathetic, but our media pressed to convince Americans that Trump was the corrupt one -- not the Biden family that was neck deep in payments from Burisma.
Laughable attempts at demonstrations of white supremacy, clearly staged by Feds dressing up the way that leftists like to believe we would, would be comical if the duplicity was not so serious.
My brother went to the J6 rally to hear Trump speak. His wife was sick, so rather than go to the Capitol, they returned to their hotel room. They would likely be in prison had they gone. I mention this because he told me at the time that this crowd was entirely peaceful. He says there was no intent for anyone to incite an insurrection. No weapons, no plan, zero intent to become worse than Pearl Harbor and 9/11 combined.
Watching the videos of the peaceful crowd in front of the Capitol being bombarded with flash grenades and rubber bullets by the authorities is shocking. Clearly provoked, clearly being pushed to outrage over their treatment. There are unmistakable indications of FBI plants in the crowd, along with some seedy characters likely aligned with Antifa (the masked ones) trying to foment violence. Somebody opened doors from the inside.
The J6 insurrection has all the signs of being the worst false flag in recent memory.
The J6 myth was promulgated by a corrupt congressional committee set up by Nancy Pelosi, Adam Schiff, Liz Cheney, and Adam Kinzinger. All liars, all with the intention of smearing Trump and his supporters with accusations of violence.
There are still some diehard leftists who still believe this, but much of the so-called “plot to violently overthrow the government” can be shown as a laughable farce, made up by leftists who want power forever for themselves.
Unwittingly, the Left has broken one of the Alinsky commandments. “A tactic that drags on too long becomes a drag.” Meaning the jig is up for most false flags. They are now recognizable as such, more clearly with each one, and that is good news for us.
Because we are about to be hit by this leftist government with a lot of them. Designed to help re-elect Joe and keep the Deep State in power. We need to prepare for what is coming. Because it’s coming, and it’s their last hope.
These ruses may come from multiple sources. Some may be deadly. They could be race-based attempts to pretend the MAGA movement is racist. Gender-based, to show that the MAGA movement violently opposes gays and transgenders. They could be feminist-based, pretending MAGA people are misogynists out to enslave women. Or abortion based. They could be gun-based, to show that we violently want to seize power. They could be environmentally based, to showcase our defiance of Gaia. I have no doubt their new pro-Hamas wing could prompt false flags to use at their mostly peaceful protests.
We’re likely to see a lot of these events in series, or a few all at once. Because the Left wants – no, demands -- its power, no matter how dishonest, destructive, and ruinous to others they become, they want to define their opponents as worse. They live by the Alinsky rule to keep the pressure on, they want desperately to show anyone who will listen just how bad we are.
It’s a fatal flaw. This method has worked well in the past, they have become addicted to it and are using it too much.
The upshot: When a violent or dreadful event is reported, don’t trust the story. It will likely be a lie. Wait at least 48 hours after the breathless reporting by our oh-so-honest media about how bad Trump is. Because that is what they have wanted to prove since 2016. Orange man bad. MAGA bad.
The good news: Since the Elon Musk acquisition of Twitter, this leftist tactic has become more clearly exposed more each day. Since the exposure of the Twitter Files by Matt Taibbi, we know how powerful government agencies have been at censoring truth and promulgating lies. These are no longer believed by even half of the country. Only hard-core leftists are effective targets now. The better news: So many trusted media sources are now available. Tucker Carlson, Russell Brand, Julie Kelly, the Federalist group, Larry Schweikart, Charlie Kirk, Truth Social, Instapundit. And many more.
Watch these leaders of the new conservative media, the ones who you trust to find the real story. They won’t all agree, because the media organs of the Left can be very convincing. Be patient, the story will come out. Because the real story will be the story of the false flag. The new Jussie Smollett incidents of the Left.
They’re coming to a town near you. Be prepared.
https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2024/05/false_flag_nation.html
Parents Seek Tuition Refund Amidst College Protests
No safe spaces, but plenty of expensive ones.
by Kelli Ballard | May 6, 2024
The pro-Palestine college protests across the nation have caused disruption and unease. Jewish students have been told to stay home and do their work online, and protesters have taken over buildings and engaged in disturbing and often violent behavior. With graduation coming up soon, some schools have even elected to cancel the once-in-a-lifetime event. It seems that resentment over these institutions’ capitulation to a mob of demonstrators has reached a boiling point. Parents have certainly had it – and now many are demanding colleges refund their children’s tuition fees.
College Protests Angering Parents
Education doesn’t come cheap, especially when attending elite universities that cost upwards of $90,000 per year. The college protests, however, are disrupting the pricey classes, and parents are beginning to speak out. “They are not getting the education they expected and paid for,” Zev Gewurz, a Boston real estate lawyer whose daughter is a senior at Barnard College in New York City, told The Wall Street Journal. He said his daughter was supposed to deliver her final thesis last week and attend a luncheon, but the public presentation and guest lunch were canceled, along with in-person classes.
Lana Shami has a daughter attending the University of Southern California where the average annual tuition is nearly $70,000. Since there won’t be a graduation ceremony, she and other family members will be flying to California and going out to dinner to celebrate. “There will be no celebration at the university where we paid an exorbitant amount of tuition for the past four years,” she told The Journal. “It’s a huge letdown.”
Christopher Rim, founder and CEO of Command Education, told The WSJ he had received around 25 similar calls in a week from parents of students who attend the University of California, Los Angeles and Columbia University who wanted full or partial refunds from the institutions. “Physically blocking their child from attending class or a lecture hall is 100% not what they signed up for,” he said. “They are beyond upset at what’s going on.”
It Isn’t Just Parents
The Columbia Daily Spectator and New York magazine conducted a poll of 719 students, professors, and other active members of Columbia University between April 26 and May 2. Of the participants, 5% were conservative, 18% identified as moderate, 35% were leftist, and 40% were liberal. When asked if anti-Semitism is a problem at the university, 33% strongly agreed. But, when questioned on whether they felt they could express their political views on campus freely, only 8% strongly agreed. The participants were asked if the college protests had affected their academic work. Here are a few of the responses:
Professors are worried about speaking about the conflict due to fears of getting fired.
Students are policing one another and recording classes without consent.
As a person of color, I am scared to go to libraries knowing there are dozens of cops outside.
I lost my internship because I went crazy.
Since April 18, when 108 Columbia University students were arrested, the protests have only escalated. As of May 3, more than 2,200 people have been arrested on campuses in at least 22 states. The University of Southern California not only canceled the speech of its pro-Palestinian valedictorian, but it has also canceled the main commencement ceremony, claiming safety concerns.
“These antisemitic, anti-American radicals will seize on any opportunity to hijack the spotlight to harass and intimidate Jewish and pro-Israel students, so we expect to see disruptions at public functions, including graduations,” Liora Rez, founder and executive director of StopAntisemitism, told The Hill.
House Education Committee Chair Virginia Foxx (R-NC) said, “Instead of canceling graduation ceremonies out of fear of antisemitic disruptions, institutional leaders should grow a backbone and fight back against antisemitism on their campuses with decisive action and moral clarity.”
When parents and students fork out more money than many Americans make in one year, there are expectations. It seems that the rhetoric of tolerance espoused by elite educational institutions has morphed into cowardice from leadership and capitulation to the mob. With these supposed centers of excellence now failing to deliver even on providing in-person classes, parents have got to be asking themselves whether higher education is an investment worth making.
https://www.libertynation.com/parents-seek-tuition-refund-amidst-college-protests/
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Pointing to the Looming EV Market Crash Suddenly Goes Mainstream
David Blackmon
May 06, 2024
Well, that didn’t take long, did it? I mean, I only started actively predicting a crash in the western world’s EV market late last year, and I’ve been skeptical about the tech’s potential all along, based on the fact that the industry still hasn’t solved the very same shortcomings and consumer concerns that caused it to crash 120 years ago. In 1901, electric cars outnumbered internal combustion cars by a wide margin. Within the next 5 years, the equation had reversed.
This isn’t anything new, and now, some legacy media outlets that have served as loyal boosters of this failing energy transition are starting to catch on.
The Times of London, one of the most shameless EV booster outlets, ran a story on Sunday headlined “The electric car crash will rival the dotcom bubble.”
That prediction could prove to be hyperbolic. Then again, maybe not.
Here’s an excerpt from that story:
What we are witnessing is an imminent business catastrophe impelled by a global corporate stampede: the herd was galvanised by governments, which have yet to recognise, let alone admit, their own responsibility.
In terms of global misallocation of capital, there has been nothing like it since the dotcom bubble. As far as the UK is concerned, the obvious thing for the government to do is to live up to Claire Coutinho’s words and abandon the attempt to force consumers to buy products they don’t entirely trust, which can only end terribly for the businesses involved.
Wow. That’s pretty damn blunt.
But the London Times isn’t the only legacy outlet commenting on the problem. Helen Thomas, a senior editor at the Financial Times, weighed in on the same day with a piece carrying this ominous headline: “The EV car crash is a warning for Europe’s industrial transition.”
But even in commenting on Europe’s approaching EV bloodbath, Thomas cannot bring herself to admit to reality.
In the piece, Thomas details how Chinese EV makers are already making big inroads into the European auto market and bemoans the fact that Europe’s own carmakers have been slow to adapt. She also pooh-poohs “complaints” by Europe’s carmakers that China has all sorts of advantages in the markets, controlling as it does supply chains for pretty much all of the minerals and parts that go into making of EVs, referring to them as “both true and slightly academic at this stage.”
Check out this excerpt:
But the sector itself continues to hedge its bets. It is still demanding “technological neutrality” from policymakers. That arguably gives policymakers an out from, say, building the dense charging network needed for widespread adoption and for reducing battery size and costs. Europe’s exemption for cars run on so-called e-fuels to Europe’s 2035 sales ban is a classic example — a political sop that spreads industry hopes across another technology that isn’t commercially viable, isn’t available at scale and will be needed in other sectors, such as aviation.
“This discussion of ‘what is the best technology’ is not helpful,” says Fabian Brandt, head of automotive at Oliver Wyman. “From an efficiency standpoint, there is no doubt that battery electric vehicles are the preferred technology. The industry needs to be decisive and go all in.”
[End]
You have to love the part about how the industry “needs to go all in” on EVs.
Think about it: What if Ford had decided to go all-in on EVs in 2021? It would be out of business now, since it would not have been able to rely on its hugely profitable ICE models to offset the well more than $10 billion it has lost on EV investments. The same is likely true of GM and Stellantis, and is very probably true of European carmakers like BMW, Mercedes and Volvo.
In reality, a “go all in” strategic approach would become a “go broke and leave the market to China” strategy.
Thomas derides the Euro-car industry for continuing to “hedge its bets.” But what we see here is that, while the Times of London seems to understand the disaster this mad government-driven rush to EVs is going to create in Europe’s auto industry, it is the Financial Times that is still hedging its own bets.
Thomas ends her piece by quoting Harry Benham of Carbon Factor as accusing the Euro-car industry of “whistling as the darkness crept in.” In truth, the same could be said of the FT.
Thomas’s piece is, at the end of the day, a continuation of the leftist climate alarmist hubris that government policy can simply override market forces, an eternal misperception that inevitably ends in economic and financial ruin. The Times of London, amazingly, seems to no longer be laboring under such illusion.
That is all.
https://blackmon.substack.com/p/pointing-to-the-looming-ev-market?publication_id=712558&post_id=144358918&isFreemail=false&r=rd9j8&triedRedirect=true
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