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MAGA RALLY *LIVE* ~ Donald J. Trump, 45th President of the United States of America,
will deliver remarks at a Rally in Wildwood, New Jersey,
on Saturday, May 11, 2024, at 5:00 p.m. EDT.
Watch LIVE on RSBN starting at 1:00 p.m. ET.
https://www.rsbnetwork.com/video/live-trump-holds-a-rally-in-wildwood-new-jersey-5-11-24/
Cuomo Vax Injury, Trump Trials Fail, Failing Banks Coming
By Greg Hunter On May 10, 2024 In Weekly News Wrap-Ups 14 Comments
https://usawatchdog.com/cuomo-vax-injury-trump-trials-fail-failing-banks-coming/
https://rumble.com/v4ub6n9-cuomo-vax-injury-trump-trials-fail-bank-failures-coming.html
Obama is determined to destroy America... The Battle is not over
https://jesus-comes.com/index.php/2016/11/23/donald-trump-truth-wahrheit/
MAGA NEWS Bombshell: A Wisconsin election official has been fired for allegedly copying over 64,000
Qanon76
10.3K followers
13 hours ago
3.22K
Bombshell: A Wisconsin election official has been fired for allegedly copying over 64,000 ballots
at City Hall during the 2020 election, all in favor of Joe Biden, in an effort to secure his win.
HOW MANY DEMS DID THE SAME FOR BIDEN TO WIN?
https://rumble.com/v4tw7b8-bombshell-a-wisconsin-election-official-has-been-fired-for-allegedly-copyin.html
Biden regime faces first-ever U.S. lawsuit over covid “vaccine” injuries, deaths
05/26/2023 // Ethan Huff // 16.4K Views
https://www.naturalnews.com/2023-05-26-biden-first-lawsuit-covid-vaccine-injuries-deaths.html
700 Million Worldwide Will Die from CV19 Vax by 2028 – Dr. David Martin
By Greg Hunter On June 28, 2022 In Political Analysis 418 Comments
https://usawatchdog.com/up-to-700-million-worldwide-will-die-from-cv19-vax-by-2028-dr-david-martin/
First World Leader Facing Murder Charges For Pushing mRNA Vaccines on Public
Fact checked by The People's Voice Community
December 15, 2023 Baxter Dmitry News, World 9 Comments
https://thepeoplesvoice.tv/first-world-leader-facing-murder-charges-for-pushing-mrna-vaccines-on-public/
Medicare death data proves the COVID vaccines are killing people. No more doubts.
The debate is over.
https://www.theburningplatform.com/2023/12/12/medicare-death-data-proves-the-covid-vaccines-are-killing-people-no-more-doubts-the-debate-is-over/
A Critique of the “17 Million Deaths Caused by the Vaccines” Claim
BY DR TRACY BETH HØEG
https://dailysceptic.org/2024/01/22/a-critique-of-the-17-million-deaths-caused-by-the-vaccines-claim/
10,000 people A DAY being killed by covid vaccines; worldwide fatalities likely larger than the HOLOCAUST
https://www.naturalnews.com/2022-08-18-10000-people-a-day-being-killed-by-covid-vaccines-worldwide-holocaust.html
Just some of the toxic ingredients in vaccines.......
(1) Formaldehyde ....causes cancer
(2) Aluminum....a potent NEUROTOXIN
(3) Mercury .....neurological damage including autism
https://www.facebook.com/WalksWithEagles774/posts/2166612873683071/?vh=e&extid=MSG-UNK-UNK-UNK-COM_GK0T-GK1C
COVID KILLER VACCINES NEED TO BE BANNED AND A RECKONING DONE!!
https://www.bitchute.com/video/LI9Sc85C02U8/
ALERT! AstraZeneca Covid BOMBSHELL, Boy Scouts go Woke, Zelensky bans Christians | Redacted Live
Redacted News
499K followers
https://rumble.com/v4tzbqb-alert-astrazeneca-covid-bombshell-boy-scouts-go-woke-zelensky-bans-christia.html
REVEALED: Why U.S. Senators Prioritize Israel Over American Interests? | Redacted News
Redacted News
499K followers
https://rumble.com/v4tu3dw-revealed-why-u.s.-senators-prioritize-israel-over-american-interests-redact.html
RESTORED REPUBLIC VIA A GCR UPDATE AS OF MAY 8, 2024
https://rumble.com/v4ty63x-restored-republic-via-a-gcr-update-as-of-may-8-2024.html
Child Sexual Abuse and the Shadow World of Freemasonry, Satanism, Illuminati, and Jesuits!
13 BLOODLINES OF THE ILLUMINATI
https://www.jesus-is-savior.com/False%20Religions/Illuminati/child_sexual_abuse.htm
MAHA NEWS TIA - Freemasons and the Illuminati NEW WORLD ORDER
Freemasons and the Illuminati are the same.
Who controls the world? You may have heard of “the Illuminati”,
which is associated with conspiracy theorists.
Secret societies are real and very dangerous; they want you to believe they don’t exist and will do anything to protect their secrets.
Freemasons have been around for generations and will have you believe they are about love and helping humanity, but the the opposite is true.
Read this post until the end; it has a lot of info.
https://steverotter.com/freemasons-and-the-illuminati-control-the-world/
$500 TRILLION LAWSUIT AGAINST THE FEDERAL GOVT AND OVER 140 MONOPOLISTS
(REMOVED BY YOUTUBE IN 5HRS)
https://www.bitchute.com/video/QFcfDjifRl6u/
MAHA ALERT PRAYERS - BILL GATES ADMITS THE SHOTS CONTAIN NANOTECH!!
https://www.bitchute.com/video/EBPGXPAWPwPn/
Everything CHANGES for the US Dollar in 7 Days, and Putin knows it
Morris Invest
235K subscribers
2024 World's Most Unique Airbnb! Cave House Full Tour! (amazing interior)
https://www.ganjingworld.com/video/1gnc18p0roq4XQIcqZdhcbOoz1i91c?r=1gnc18p0roq4XQIcqZdhcbOoz1i91c
Cuomo Vax Injury, Trump Trials Fail, Failing Banks Coming
By Greg Hunter On May 10, 2024 In Weekly News Wrap-Ups 14 Comments
https://usawatchdog.com/cuomo-vax-injury-trump-trials-fail-failing-banks-coming/
https://rumble.com/v4ub6n9-cuomo-vax-injury-trump-trials-fail-bank-failures-coming.html
PRAYERS ALERTS TIA - Obama is determined to destroy America... The Battle is not over
https://jesus-comes.com/index.php/2016/11/23/donald-trump-truth-wahrheit/
MAGA NEWS Bombshell: A Wisconsin election official has been fired for allegedly copying over 64,000
Qanon76
10.3K followers
13 hours ago
3.22K
Bombshell: A Wisconsin election official has been fired for allegedly copying over 64,000 ballots
at City Hall during the 2020 election, all in favor of Joe Biden, in an effort to secure his win.
HOW MANY DEMS DID THE SAME FOR BIDEN TO WIN?
https://rumble.com/v4tw7b8-bombshell-a-wisconsin-election-official-has-been-fired-for-allegedly-copyin.html
Biden regime faces first-ever U.S. lawsuit over covid “vaccine” injuries, deaths
05/26/2023 // Ethan Huff // 16.4K Views
https://www.naturalnews.com/2023-05-26-biden-first-lawsuit-covid-vaccine-injuries-deaths.html
700 Million Worldwide Will Die from CV19 Vax by 2028 – Dr. David Martin
By Greg Hunter On June 28, 2022 In Political Analysis 418 Comments
https://usawatchdog.com/up-to-700-million-worldwide-will-die-from-cv19-vax-by-2028-dr-david-martin/
First World Leader Facing Murder Charges For Pushing mRNA Vaccines on Public
Fact checked by The People's Voice Community
December 15, 2023 Baxter Dmitry News, World 9 Comments
https://thepeoplesvoice.tv/first-world-leader-facing-murder-charges-for-pushing-mrna-vaccines-on-public/
Medicare death data proves the COVID vaccines are killing people. No more doubts.
The debate is over.
https://www.theburningplatform.com/2023/12/12/medicare-death-data-proves-the-covid-vaccines-are-killing-people-no-more-doubts-the-debate-is-over/
A Critique of the “17 Million Deaths Caused by the Vaccines” Claim
BY DR TRACY BETH HØEG
https://dailysceptic.org/2024/01/22/a-critique-of-the-17-million-deaths-caused-by-the-vaccines-claim/
10,000 people A DAY being killed by covid vaccines; worldwide fatalities likely larger than the HOLOCAUST
https://www.naturalnews.com/2022-08-18-10000-people-a-day-being-killed-by-covid-vaccines-worldwide-holocaust.html
Just some of the toxic ingredients in vaccines.......
(1) Formaldehyde ....causes cancer
(2) Aluminum....a potent NEUROTOXIN
(3) Mercury .....neurological damage including autism
https://www.facebook.com/WalksWithEagles774/posts/2166612873683071/?vh=e&extid=MSG-UNK-UNK-UNK-COM_GK0T-GK1C
COVID KILLER VACCINES NEED TO BE BANNED AND A RECKONING DONE!!
https://www.bitchute.com/video/LI9Sc85C02U8/
ALERT! AstraZeneca Covid BOMBSHELL, Boy Scouts go Woke, Zelensky bans Christians | Redacted Live
Redacted News
499K followers
https://rumble.com/v4tzbqb-alert-astrazeneca-covid-bombshell-boy-scouts-go-woke-zelensky-bans-christia.html
REVEALED: Why U.S. Senators Prioritize Israel Over American Interests? | Redacted News
Redacted News
499K followers
https://rumble.com/v4tu3dw-revealed-why-u.s.-senators-prioritize-israel-over-american-interests-redact.html
RESTORED REPUBLIC VIA A GCR UPDATE AS OF MAY 8, 2024
https://rumble.com/v4ty63x-restored-republic-via-a-gcr-update-as-of-may-8-2024.html
Child Sexual Abuse and the Shadow World of Freemasonry, Satanism, Illuminati, and Jesuits!
13 BLOODLINES OF THE ILLUMINATI
https://www.jesus-is-savior.com/False%20Religions/Illuminati/child_sexual_abuse.htm
MAHA NEWS TIA - Freemasons and the Illuminati NEW WORLD ORDER
Freemasons and the Illuminati are the same.
Who controls the world? You may have heard of “the Illuminati”,
which is associated with conspiracy theorists.
Secret societies are real and very dangerous; they want you to believe they don’t exist and will do anything to protect their secrets.
Freemasons have been around for generations and will have you believe they are about love and helping humanity, but the the opposite is true.
Read this post until the end; it has a lot of info.
https://steverotter.com/freemasons-and-the-illuminati-control-the-world/
$500 TRILLION LAWSUIT AGAINST THE FEDERAL GOVT AND OVER 140 MONOPOLISTS
(REMOVED BY YOUTUBE IN 5HRS)
https://www.bitchute.com/video/QFcfDjifRl6u/
MAHA ALERT PRAYERS - BILL GATES ADMITS THE SHOTS CONTAIN NANOTECH!!
https://www.bitchute.com/video/EBPGXPAWPwPn/
Everything CHANGES for the US Dollar in 7 Days, and Putin knows it
Morris Invest
235K subscribers
Carnival Rides
“These agencies are not trusted because they are not trustworthy.” — El Gato Malo on “X”
James Howard Kunstler
May 10, 2024
The miasma of anxiety befogging so many brains in our troubled land begins to lift as every narrative served up by the US fascist intel blob goes annoyingly stale and impotent. The worst media meme — that a vicious officialdom is “defending our democracy” — gets laughed out of the room now when repeated incessantly by such shills as Jen Psaki and Lawrence O’Donnell of MSNBC. Everybody understands they want to “defend our democracy” by cancelling your freedom of speech, pounding you into bankruptcy, and stealing whatever remains of your stuff.
Likewise, everything else: that our doings in Ukraine are a “fight for freedom,” that “white supremacy” lurks just out of sight getting ready to pounce on the “marginized” (who are actually running things, and doing it very badly), that “Joe Biden” turned around the economy, that “voting rights” equals non-citizens getting to vote, that election fraud is a “big lie” (and that the J-6 riot over it was an “insurrection”), and that the Covid vaccines were “safe and effective.”
None of these dishonest persuasions work anymore, and all of the persuasion machinery stands in plain sight like so many nauseating carnival rides. One by one, the rides are flying apart, scattering debris and body parts of the poor slobs who were on the rides all over the fairgrounds. And so, the fear rises in the ones running the carnival. The county sheriff stands by looking to round up the sleazeball carnies with their missing teeth and needle tracks inside their elbows. Before long, they will find themselves in the courtroom. . . .
The vicious officialdom put up the carnival and all of its rides to distract the public from the crimes they committed during and after the 2016 election. Donald Trump’s idle talk about putting Hillary Clinton in jail struck nerves throughout the federal bureaucracy, the halls of Congress, and the strongholds of the Clintons and the Obamas.
The Clintons had literally bought the Democratic Party apparatus under the DNC, using the money they grifted into the Clinton foundation from such operations as the Uranium One deal, the Skolkovo war-tech transfer deal, and the Haiti earthquake relief effort. They were sure that ownership of the DNC guaranteed the election for Hillary. It did guarantee that she would overcome Bernie Sanders’ primary election victories and the delegates that came with them, even after Julian Assange’s Wikileaks release informed the world just how the Clintons bought and paid for the DNC and the whole Philadelphia convention. Call this the birth of the “misinformation” cult, in which everything true was converted into a “big lie.”
The problem was, Hillary lost that election. What a surprise! Buying the convention was not enough, it turned out. Those “deplorables” did the unthinkable: cast enough of their stinky votes in just the right rust belt precincts to elect the Golden Golem of Greatness, who was as surprised as anybody, and really unprepared to cobble together an actual governing administration — in the process of which, Donald J. Trump was completely buffaloed by the outgoing Obama gang. They plotted by the lights of the White House Christmas tree to go after the interloper with all they had, starting with the surgical removal of a most dangerous appointee, National Security Advisor Mike Flynn, who knew all the secrets. . . and from there onto four years of Russia, Russia, Russia. . . .
It’s hardly a mystery anymore how “Joe Biden” got elected. It’s perfectly obvious despite the “big lie” narrative that the 2020 election was stoked with a veritable orgy of ballot fraud and direct election interference by agency rogues, especially the ones leaning hard on Facebook, Twitter, and Google to manipulate what the public actually saw. Don’t believe your lying eyes they told the nation. What is a mystery is why they chose “Joe Biden” to front for the cabal around Barack Obama actually running the show. Never before in US history was there a president who left such a slime trail of bribery and corruption. Just as they had spent all their energy the previous four years in undermining Mr. Trump, they had to spend the next four years propping up and defending “Joe Biden,” and then desperately trying to save their own asses from a Trump return. Meanwhile, they set out on their mission to wreck the country sufficient to clear the way for establishing a transhuman public-private utopia of crypto-Marxian “equity” (theft of property).
All of this political legerdemain summoned up the miasma of anxiety that beclouded the people of this sore-beset republic, and the nearly final blow to them was the Covid-19 operation, set in motion with the phony PCR test, that has now left a substantial number of citizens, vaccine-injured, disabled, and on-course for an early death — a pretty grotesque affront to our democracy. The victims are beginning to realize it.
The battery of Trump trials and lawsuits meant to put him totally out of business are now all simultaneously collapsing. Special Counsel Jack Smith is left doing Chinese fire drills around his office Keurig coffee machine. When the prank-fest in Judge Juan Merchan’s courtroom concludes, whether the jury sees the show for the farce that it is, or not, the Golden Golem of Greatness will be at large again among the voters. If he is clever enough to pick a capable veep that represents something like “assassination insurance” — say, Vivek, Tulsi Gabbard, or JD Vance — then the Obama cabal and the blob that has been protecting it will be swept out of power and into a dragnet of a kind of law actually associated with the word justice.
They are running out of ways to avoid it. All they’ve got left are the direst resorts: war, crashing the economy, another bio-weapon op against their own people, or an outright coup d'état. And even those probably won’t work.
https://jameshowardkunstler.substack.com/p/carnival-rides?publication_id=2076970&post_id=144504123&isFreemail=true&r=rd9j8&triedRedirect=true
Bonta, a Democrat who is mulling a run for governor
California AG Bonta Prepares Lawsuits Ahead of Possible Trump 2024 Win
California Attorney General Rob Bonta (D) is preparing a barrage of lawsuits in the event that former President Donald Trump wins the 2024 election, studying his agenda and planning to stop it in advance in a repeat of 2017-21.
Bonta is planning to repeat the work of his predecessor, Xavier Becerra, who returned from Congress and revived a dormant law license to sue the Trump administration in liberal federal jurisdictions to tie down his presidency.
The Los Angeles Times reported Thursday:
California Atty. Gen. Rob Bonta said he and his staff have been reviewing former President Trump’s second-term agenda in detail to prepare a potential onslaught of environmental, immigration and civil rights lawsuits in the event Trump defeats President Biden.
…
Bonta, a Democrat who is mulling a run for governor, said he has been reviewing the work of his predecessor, Xavier Becerra, who filed more than 100 suits against Trump policies before leaving the office to become Biden’s secretary of Health and Human Services. Bonta and his deputies are also looking closely at a document drafted by the Heritage Foundation, a Trump-aligned think tank, known as “Project 2025,” that offers a blueprint for Trump’s second-term policy goals.
…
Asked for comment on Bonta’s plans, Anna Kelly, a spokesperson for the Republican National Committee, said, “California liberals will try anything to spread their failed, fringe-left agenda far and wide, but they won’t stop President Trump from making America great again.”
Bonta’s office failed to respond this week to a query from Breitbart News about what the California Attorney General was doing to uphold the civil rights of Jews on campus, after antisemitic “encampments” spread across the state.
Gmenfan: Speaking of crawlers, if you can believe the bottom of the screen on Newsmax, RFK, Jr. has no problem with late-term abortions.
Country life is much different than urban life.
Thousands and thousands of farmers have weighed in on Kristi's animal killing spree they're all horrified at her reaction to murdering a puppy for not being the right dog for the job. You sound like you agree Kristi was right to kill Cricket instead of putting her up for adoption. Good to know you also think so little for an animal's life. You're a MAGA so it's not really surprising.
Are you a vegetarian
I haven't eaten meat since I was 30 years old.
That's true, but there's an unusual number of them that claim to be "family value" religious pastors. Why do you think that is?
LMAO ..... Cult God = Biden! You're grasping at straws here. Are you a vegetarian or vegan? Country life is much different than urban life.
Sexual deviants come in all shapes, forms, religions, countries, sexes, ages, backgrounds, ect. In my opinion there's no place in society for that perversion.
That's all you have for a reply? You're retaliating because you know that the dog having fun puts your cult God to shame on stairs.
12 New Badges You Can Get In The More Inclusive Boy Scouts
Much has been made about the Boy Scouts of America changing its name to "Scouting America" to promote greater inclusivity, but few people have heard about all the cool new merit badges scouts can now earn!
The Babylon Bee has obtained the following list of new badges kids can get as part of "Scouting America":
Pride Badge: Earned for sewing your own rainbow pride badge and declaring it "fabulous". Yay, scouting.
Flag Badge: Obtained by starting a fire using nothing but lighter fluid, a match, and an American flag.
Crime Badge: Use those knot-tying skills to make a noose, then use it to fake a hate crime. It's never too early to learn.
Camping Badge: Earn this badge with an overnight field trip to a real Ivy League campus. Don't forget your Rubbermaid shield!
Decolonize The West Badge: Obtain this merit by explaining to an old Army veteran why democracy is evil and math is racist. Good luck.
Pronoun Guessing Badge: Earned by guessing your scout leader's gender on the first try. Not so easy these days.
Molotov Badge: Credit for firebombing a building, extra credit if the young scout makes the firebomb himself (or herself, or theyself, or whatever).
Transition Badge: Earned for performing your own gender transition in the wild using nothing but what you find in nature.
First AIDS Badge: Be the first in your scout troop to... well, you know.
Pfizer Badge: Won by reaching double digit COVID vaccinations. Just a few more blood clots, Timmy!
Marks-person-ship Badge: Get out of here with that outdated "marksmanship" and its patriarchal origins.
Self-Defense Badge: Obtained by identifying as a woman and then beating the crap out of women in MMA. Victory!
Just think of all the amazing skills your child can develop while filling up their uniform with so many amazing badges. The best part? All scouts will receive every badge whether they've actually accomplished the task or not. Inclusivity!
https://babylonbee.com/news/12-new-badges-you-can-get-in-the-more-inclusive-boy-scouts?utm_source=The%20Babylon%20Bee%20Newsletter&utm_medium=email
Dead Worm Found In RFK Jr.’s Brain Already Polling Higher Than Biden In 11 States
May 8, 2024 · BabylonBee.com
U.S. — Following the revelation that a deadly parasite was once removed from his skull, political experts were shocked to learn that the dead worm found in Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.'s brain was already polling higher than Joe Biden in 11 states.
The latest poll results indicated a large portion of the electorate had abandoned Biden in favor of the deceased parasite that had previously been lodged in RFK Jr.'s brain, leaving the White House scrambling to formulate a strategy to combat the dead worm.
"We weren't expecting to see numbers like these," said one high-ranking Biden campaign strategist under the condition of anonymity. "We considered the fact that Joe would struggle up against living competition, but seeing him fall behind a worm that isn't even alive is a huge red flag. We're really fighting an uphill battle here. And, from what I've heard, you never want to fight uphill."
A campaign team had already begun to coalesce around the dead brain worm, believing it to be the most viable candidate on the left to provide an alternative to Biden. "Brain Worm 2024!" shouted one excited campaign staffer. "Why risk another four years under a failed Biden administration when you can take a stand for a brighter, more prosperous future with a dead brain worm at the helm?"
At publishing time, rumors had begun swirling that the dead worm from RFK Jr.'s brain was in discussions to name the fly that landed on Mike Pence during a debate as its running mate.
https://babylonbee.com/news/dead-worm-found-in-rfk-jrs-brain-already-polling-higher-than-biden-in-11-states?utm_source=The%20Babylon%20Bee%20Newsletter&utm_medium=email
Don't tell Kristi Noem or she'll shoot it.
Does Kristi Noem understand that just shutting the fuck up is still a thing? pic.twitter.com/hMNqRs88QM
— Jo (@JoJoFromJerz) May 9, 2024
Small dog having a great time.
Note that the slide rider does much better on stairs than the MMP (mummified meat puppet).
This made my day!! 😄 pic.twitter.com/eGtSvA2g2c
— Nature is Amazing ☘️ (@AMAZlNGNATURE) May 9, 2024
Why no outrage from the GQP family value perverts? MAGAts are sexual deviants.
Holy hell. Police raided the business he owns, "Lizzy B's" and -- drum roll please -- Lizzy B's is a children's used clothing store.
— Politics Trumps All (@TrumpsPolitics) May 9, 2024
Hope they looked for hidden cameras in the dressing rooms/bathroom. pic.twitter.com/tEOBETAOsl
The Energy Absurdity of the Week: Media Suddenly Discovers Politicians Make Promises for Campaign Donations
But only when Trump does it.
David Blackmon
May 09, 2024
The news today is filled with reports by the legacy media outlets that form the propaganda wing of the Democrat party expressing shock and surprise that a presidential contender made some promises to business executives as he asked them for big contributions to his campaign.
Why, the nerve! That’s never happened, has it? Apparently, media outlets ranging from the Washington Post to Politico to Reuters to the New York Times to the Guardian to the Atlantic had never heard of such a thing happening until it involved a dinner for oil and gas executives hosted by - you guessed it - Donald J. Trump.
You don’t have to believe me: Just go out to Google and do a search on “Trump and oil executives,” and see what comes up.
Here’s what I found:
I especially love the headline from Politico: “A little bold and gross: Oil industry writes executive orders for Trump to sign.”
Hey, you never saw that publication complaining about the NRDC, Sierra Club or PETA writing executive orders for Joe Biden to sign. You sure as hell don’t see any of those propaganda outlets bitching when the Center For Biological Diversity dictates endangered species listings to the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service, or when EV makers and wind and solar developers literally wrote entire sections in the Inflation Reduction Act that now plow billions of dollars of subsidies back into their own pockets.
Truly, the sort of rampant crony capitalism running out-of-control in Washington right now is fantastic to the media so long as Democrats are in charge.
But let Trump promise to take action to reverse some of Biden’s climate alarm policy madness while soliciting donations, and you’d think the damn world has come to an end.
One of my favorite excerpts from the WaPo story comes in the first 2 paragraphs:
Former president Donald Trump repeatedly ranted about wind power during a fundraising dinner with oil and gas industry executives last week, claiming that the renewable-energy source is unreliable, unattractive and bad for the environment.
“I hate wind,” Trump told the executives over a meal of chopped steak at his Mar-a-Lago Club and resort in Florida, according to a person with knowledge of the meeting, who spoke on the condition of anonymity to describe a private conversation.
[End]
Wooo-hooo! Who do I send the check to? I’m happy to pay for truth-telling like this, and so should every one of those present at that Mar-a-Lago event.
Meanwhile, the writers at the far-left Guardian seem to be having a case of the vapors here:
In front of more than 20 executives, including from Chevron, Exxon and Occidental Petroleum, he promised to increase oil drilling in the Gulf of Mexico, remove hurdles to drilling in the Alaskan Arctic, and reverse new rules designed to cut car pollution. He would also overturn the Biden administration’s decision in January to pause new natural gas export permits which have been denounced as “climate bombs”.
[End]
I mean, this is just the same kind of stuff Trump did in his first term. Were these clowns just not paying attention?
And that last sentence about Biden’s ‘pause’ in LNG export permits: Are we really to believe these fake journalists aren’t aware that order was made purely as a sop to Biden’s own campaign funders in the climate alarm lobby?
Like it or not, this is how American politics work: Individuals, NGOs, unions, companies and entire industries tend to donate money to politicians who promise to take policy actions that are best for their own interests.
One of the big media complaints about Trump is that he tends to be so direct and blunt about it, or as multiple stories complain, he takes a “transactional approach” to politics. Well hell, all that means is he’s being unusually honest about what everyone knows is going on here.
What these propagandists still don’t get after all these years of covering Trump is that his direct and blunt approach to politics is one of the main reasons why he won in 2016, probably won in 2020, and is increasingly likely to win again this year. The fact that his behavior is “unusual” for a political figure is actually one of his main assets.
Back in 2016, an unusually high percentage of oil executives supported Hillary Clinton instead of Trump. If they make that same mistake in judgment again this time around, well, they will richly deserve what they get from a second Biden term.
That is all.
https://blackmon.substack.com/p/the-energy-absurdity-of-the-week-a36?publication_id=712558&post_id=144477152&isFreemail=false&r=rd9j8&triedRedirect=true
Biden Doubles Down on Incorrect Inflation Claims
By Sandy Fitzgerald | Thursday, 09 May 2024 10:22 AM EDT
President Joe Biden, still insisting that he is turning the economy around, repeated claims Wednesday that inflation "was 9% when I came to office," but federal reports show otherwise.
"No president has had the run we've had in terms of creating jobs and bringing down inflation," Biden told CNN's Erin Burnett. "It was 9% when I came to office."
But The New York Post noted that inflation was at 1.4% when Biden took office in January 2021.
According to Bureau of Labor Statistics records, overall inflation was at 1.4% in January 2021. It climbed to 4.2% in just a few months in April 2021, then reached 9.1%, a 40-year high, by June 2022.
Meanwhile, inflation as of March was at 3.5%, 2.1 percentage points higher than it was when Biden was sworn in.
The president made similar claims in April after the BLS March reports were released, blaming former President Donald Trump for the rapid climb in prices and claiming that his administration "dramatically reduced inflation from 9% down to close to 3%."
"We're better situated than where we were when we took office, where inflation was skyrocketing," Biden said then.
Biden also defended his policies after Burnett pressed him on polls showing that voters trust Trump more on the economy.
He responded that he has already "turned around" the economy, even though interest rates and inflation remain high.
Biden's critics say massive spending bills passed in his first year of office fueled inflation.
According to BLS data, the average prices of goods and services have increased 19% in the past four years. Prices increased by 8% during Trump's four years in office.
Burnett reminded Biden that home prices have doubled from before the pandemic and consumer confidence is near a two-year low. But Biden insisted that polling data has been "wrong all along."
"Look at the [University of] Michigan survey — 65% of the American people think they're in good shape economically," he said. "They think the nation is not in good shape. They're personally [in] good shape."
Biden also blamed high inflation on "shrinkflation" and "corporate greed," where before he blamed it on COVID-19 supply chains and Russia's invasion of Ukraine.
"The fact is that if you take a look at what the people have, they have the money to spend; it angers them and angers me that you have to spend more," Biden said. "For example, the whole idea of this notion Sen. [Bob] Casey [of Pennsylvania] talked about, shrink inflation. For example, Snickers bars, they did a thing, and it's like 20% less for the same price. That's corporate greed. And we've got to deal with it."
https://www.newsmax.com/newsfront/joe-biden-inflation-economy/2024/05/09/id/1164063/?ns_mail_uid=110c4f27-b39e-4490-8c9e-becd156886f8&ns_mail_job=DM620157_05092024&s=acs&dkt_nbr=010102u0akor
Society’s Gordian Knots
By Robert Arvay
Pampered, entitled young adults have been indoctrinated all their lives with socialist propaganda until they now believe it so thoroughly that they are beyond persuasion. Not only are they immune to facts, but they refuse even to hear them. They shout down anyone who attempts to present those facts. “Facts are racist,” they declare.
DEI, which stinks to the public, morphs into creative new acronyms
By Jack Hellner
Most of the compliant media will go along because they don't mind misleading the public as long as the policies go into effect and Democrats win.
Gov. Kathy Hochul and the Democrat party’s hard bigotry of no expectations
By Andrea Widburg
If blacks are willing to accept minimal living conditions, welfare relieves them from the burden of work—aided by leftists earnestly explaining that because slavery was work, all work is slavery. Destroying school standards relieves blacks from the burden of learning. Easy abortions, the LGBTQ+ agenda, and the attack on faith promise the cheap thrills of sex without the burdens of family, a premise that ignores the extraordinary benefits of family. And when it comes to honest respect for being honestly respectable, Democrats have substituted crime without consequences and applause for an utterly debased culture that, with Democrat encouragement, focuses on sex, drugs, and crime.
Crew cleaning campus protest graffiti spray paint over pro-Hamas protestors blocking them
By Monica Showalter
Let's hear it for the working man in this month of honoring international labor, having a job to do and doing it -- and making complete fools of these shiftless, self-important idiots at so many college protests, again and again, and again.
Stormy Daniels courtroom just gets worse and worse
By Monica Showalter
the justice had his double standards intact -- irrelevant testimony is fine when it helps the prosecution, and bad when it helps Trump, except that Smith's testimony would have been far from irrelevant. Merchan just declares irrelevancy when it helps Trump, when it doesn't, he tunes in and lets Daniels keep on spewing.
Stormy bring back that sunny day
By Silvio Canto, Jr.
How is this happening in a courthouse? Well, ask DA Bragg, who is still concealing what the crime is. He looks like a fool, but that’s the way it goes when your goal is to humiliate Trump rather than arrest people breaking into the bodegas or making life miserable for women in the subway, or investigate who’s paying non-students rioting at the university. Talk about priorities Mr. DA.
Democrats may be the dog that caught the car
By Timothy Jankowski
If you have been following Conservative media recently on the subject of the Donald Trump/Stormy Daniels trial in New York City, you have probably heard numerous commentators express the opinion that, even though Alvin Bragg’s case against President Donald Trump is largely falling apart, the fact that he is being tried by a highly biased jury, he will be convicted nonetheless. I can only say that if you are a Democrat you should be crossing your fingers that this does not happen. Let me explain why….
It’s very clear that the initial Democrat strategy to take down Trump was to engage in a shock and awe lawfare campaign by utilizing Democrat state and federal prosecutors to file so many criminal charges against the former president that the GOP would have no choice but to abandon him. Their miscalculation however, was confusing the weak-kneed Republican ruling class with the hardcore conservative base that had long ago realized that the deep state would do anything to maintain power—the voters consequently embraced Trump, despite the multiple charges, and handed him the party’s nomination.
Now, if Alvin Bragg had charged Trump with a single felony count of [blah, blah, blah] and a jury had convicted him, the judge in the case could have sentenced Trump to probation and a substantial fine, perhaps even requiring him not to leave the state or at least having him check-in in-person with his probation officer on a regular basis, which would have allowed Democrats to significantly impede the Trump campaign. Additionally, it would allow the Democrats to run advertisements claiming that Donald Trump was a “convicted felon.”
But because TDS is real and the concept of “nuance” is completely lost on liberals, they instead charged ahead like a bull in a china shop with 34 felony indictments against the former president. This means if Trump is convicted, the judge will have no choice but to impose an incredibly harsh sentence.
Consider, if Trump is convicted of 34 felonies, offering a lenient sentence such as probation would be prima facie evidence that the case were overcharged, especially if the judge postponed sentencing pending appeal. Find me another person convicted of 34 felonies in a single trial anywhere in the U.S. who wasn’t immediately remanded to prison and…well, find that person first and we’ll discuss it further.
So if Trump is convicted, and keep in mind that the 34 indictments are carbon copies of the original charge meaning that if he is found guilty of one he will be found guilty of all of them, there would be no reason as to why he would not immediately be sent to prison. Even if he were to be given only six months per felony conviction, it would result in a sentence of 17 years, not a term that could be put off under normal court guidelines.
If Democrats think that imprisoning their primary presidential rival for two decades or more right before the election based on an eight-year-old case about how payments to an attorney were labeled is a winning strategy, they are living in an alternate reality. It’s certainly likely that the average American is tuned out to the current court proceedings, but if the leader of the Republican party were to be jailed just a few months before the election you can bet they’d start paying attention and asking questions.
The reality is that charging Trump with 34 felonies leaves the court with no wiggle room whatsoever. If he is convicted, the court will have no choice but to impose a draconian sentence on him or be exposed as a totally fraudulent entity. Either Trump engaged in an activity that was so serious it required being charged with 34 felonies eight years after the events occurred, or the “crime” of which he will be convicted of is so unthreatening to the citizenry that he can continue to be allowed to walk the streets free to potentially “re-offend.”
The reality is that the Democrats are like a dog chasing a car. They won’t know what to do if they catch it. There is literally no way the already pathetic media could spin a conviction as anything other than a massive overreach of the law. The MSM is already struggling to explain the crime that is being charged. If Trump were to be convicted and given a lengthy prison sentence right before the election there’s no plausible way they could justify his incarceration.
At this point the best outcome that Democrats could hope for would be a hung jury where they could blame some juror as a Trump supporter, whether or not that claim had any basis in reality; but if Donald Trump is convicted, they are opening a Pandora’s Box that may swallow them whole.
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2024/05/democrats_may_be_the_dog_that_caught_the_car.html
For Trump to win, we must defeat the left’s last gasp of Nazi slurs
By D. Parker
The problem is they keep on repeating the same lie over and over while using the same tired tactics of gaslighting articles with titles that push the big lie in one line and are always long on “expert” opinions and short on facts.
The Deep State Exposed Itself
By J.B. Shurk
For eight years now, the Deep State’s two-tiered “justice,” overt propaganda, and malicious political targeting have been too conspicuous for rational people to ignore. In its unbridled obsession with “getting Trump,” it now stands in bright sunlight for all to see. This is a good and healthy thing for the American Republic. If freedom and self-government are to survive, tyranny must die.
An Honest Judge Exposes The Dishonesty Around The Mar-A-Lago Case
By Ron Wright
The raid on Mar-a-Lago is only the tip of the iceberg of Deep State criminality. A cadre of domestic and foreign enemies engaged in, aided, and abetted this coup. The Biden and Clinton crime families have for decades conspired with both foreign and domestic enemies to gain wealth and power at the expense of America’s national security interests and the American people’s well-being and democratic rights.
Defund the Universities That Create the Hate
By P.F. Kelly, Jr.
Thanks to the Hamas-sponsored anti-Jewish and anti-Israel rallies happening on college campuses right now, what were once monolithically progressive and Biden-supporting Democrat enclaves in our country are quickly morphing into energetic Trump 2024 rallies. We are witnessing a nationwide tutorial on how to turn disinterested, pleasure-seeking youths into rabid Trump supporters.
What had seemed like an indestructible progressive monolith on campus has revealed some cracks, emboldening (finally) the sane commonsense students in their midst. They have learned that their progressive opponents aren’t very smart or well-informed, and their campus hegemony is not inevitable. Talk about unintended consequences. President Trump must be an evil genius after all.
Trump couldn’t have planned this any better. Could anything have inspired the graduating seniors at the University of Michigan, hardly a bastion of conservatism, to break out in chants of “USA, USA”? Probably nothing, except an interruption of their graduation ceremony by protesters from Black Lives Matters and Hamas. If those two groups join forces on America’s college campuses and take their show on the road for a tour of America’s cities this summer, get ready for a Trump landslide in November. Meanwhile, down at Louisiana State University and other southern schools, where one would expect such a reaction, a large crowd of students drowned out a Hamas protest with the same loud chants of “USA, USA.”
Republicans and conservatives generally have been unable to pull the masks off the rabid Marxists who run America’s universities to reveal their hateful ideology. Colleges have fought off attacks on their indoctrination of America’s youth by hiding behind credentialism and an aura of invincibility. It had started to seem like they were truly untouchable. But left-wing rallies are being overwhelmed by a tide of counterprotesters who believe in this country, who believe in truth and decency, and who are disgusted with the actions and hateful ideas of the radical rabble in the Hamas villages on our campuses.
What is being revealed in these Hamas villages? A university pedagogy based on “othering,” a pedagogy of grievance, of blame. In modern academic scholarship, soaked in racist paradigms and theories of oppression, someone is always getting screwed. Nothing is ever anyone’s fault. If you are in an oppressed group, you never have to take responsibility for your actions. If you’re oppressed, you have every right to be angry at your so-called oppressors, an anger which, continually stoked by ivory-tower academics and oppression-industry “sages,” quickly morphs into hate for the other party, the perceived oppressor.
Today it’s the Jews. The same people protesting, different target. But it’s all generated by the university grievance mill, which keeps the hate at a fever pitch. Fortunately, the Hamas protesters are revealing to everyone just how dangerous our university campuses have become and how poorly our young people are being formed intellectually. Are American Jews, threatened with murder now by their logic, responsible for the actions of the state of Israel? Military actions undertaken in self-defense? Actions to defend themselves from a brutal and inhumane attack by Hamas terrorists on innocent Israeli citizens, raping and murdering men, women, and children?
That logic seems beyond the intelligence of the average Hamas protester, who is short on facts and critical-thinking skills. While indoctrinating our youth, our universities cannot teach them to think logically. How refreshing to see some students push back on the hate. Usually overwhelmed by the general atmosphere on campus, they are now joining the fight and being heard. Likewise, in the public universities in red states, state legislators must fight back against what is happening at their taxpayer-funded universities.
All the protests by the “best and brightest,” our future ruling elite, are paid for by taxpayer dollars. Even a private university like Columbia received $1.2 billion in federal funding last year alone. Why do federal tax dollars support a private university with an almost $14 billion endowment that charges close to $80,000 per year in tuition? Some GOP senators, including Sen. Bill Hagerty (R-TN) are advocating to cut federal funding for colleges hosting anti-Semitic protests. Even talk show host Bill Maher recently criticized Biden’s latest student loan bailout by saying that Maher’s “tax dollars” are funding “Jew hating.”
We cannot let this moment pass. Things must change on campus. The academic curriculum that creates a culture of hate, fueled by DEI mandarins and woke administrators, must be dismantled along with the Hamas villages. Hate must give way to intellectual inquiry, real inquiry founded on respect for others and the search for truth. We cannot let these protests die while the system that created them remains.
The biggest enemy of freedom is a manufactured groupthink. Anyone paying attention to our college campuses knows that progressive groupthink has been metastasizing there for decades, but we finally have a cause that demonstrates the extent of the rot. An illiberal band of murderers, who declare their desire to kill Jewish American citizens, a terrorist organization that committed unspeakable atrocities in their October 7 attack, has the full support of many American college students for a cause they don’t understand. “From the river to the sea!” What river? What sea? Many student protesters can’t even answer that.
Some protesters can’t even spell Palestine, as we saw in recent graffiti on campus. The students display little intellectual curiosity, and their educators have no interest in teaching the kids how to think. Only what to think. Protesters claim that Jews -- even American Jews -- are “pro-genocide,” a typical Hamas talking point, without any evidence of the mass, targeted killing of civilians by Israeli forces. In reality, the military response of Israel to the barbarous attack on them on October 7 has shown remarkable precision and restraint. But facts don’t matter anymore.
I saw a glimmer of hope in an interview at Semafor this week by Ben Smith, one of journalism’s well-connected palace guards, of New York Times executive editor Joe Kahn, in which Smith asked him why he doesn’t see it as his job to help elect Joe Biden. Kahn replied that the Times was not an “instrument” for the Biden campaign. He said that there are people in the country who might elect Trump in November, and they have the democratic right to do so. And he noted that the coverage of Trump in 2020 went “too far,” was too determined to actively undermine Trump. Choosing reality over indoctrination in the news is a breath of fresh air in today’s stifling leftist intellectual environment.
We must hold our students and universities to a higher standard. We as a nation cannot fund the intellectual beggaring of our children. The first impulse of a proper education should be understanding, not prejudice; it should be sympathy, not destruction. Break up the Hamas villages and defund the universities that spawned them. We must rediscover dialogue and disagreement, point and counterpoint. If we simply play the blame game, the only currency any of us will trade in is hate.
https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2024/05/defund_the_universities_that_create_the_hate.html
Sums it up pretty well. Still no outrage from the women's rights movements!!
Dems’ kangaroo court against Donald Trump is only backfiring
By Miranda Devine Published May 8, 2024, 10:25 p.m. ET
The message Democrats are inadvertently sending to the voting public is that this guy is so strong that we have to cheat to beat him and, oops, it’s not working.
The more they throw at Trump without knocking him down, the less credible they look and the stronger he appears.
Then you look at the polls and you see the lawfare is not hurting Trump.
Even people who don’t like him can recognize that a justice system so rigged that it can be weaponized against your political opponent is a threat to all of us.
For Donald Trump haters, the Stormy Daniels trial is a fantasy come true.
An orgasmic treat of Donald in his boxers, being spanked on the bottom by a porn actress.
The former president trapped in court like a caged lion, forced to listen to all the humiliating detail instead of being out on the campaign trail entertaining the orcs.
Their matinee-idol judge, Juan Merchan, with his fetching gray cowlick, threatening to throw Trump in jail if he doesn’t stop shaking his head.
Swoon.
And, somewhere, they hope, Melania shedding a tear under her Gucci sunglasses.
Whoopi Goldberg looked as if she was having an out-of-body rapture on ABC’s “The View” this week, when the conversation turned to whether Merchan should throw Trump in jail for contempt.
“To prove a point, put him in the clink!” co-host Sunny Hostin chortled.
“Why not? Put him in the clink!”
Whoopi fairly levitated in her chair with excitement: “Ooh, ooh, ooh! I don’t want this to sound like I’m doing wishful thinking. But which prison would be best?”
Cue uproarious laughter around the table. “Rikers!” cried Sunny.
“I’m OK if he goes to Alcatraz,” said Whoopi. “What about Guantanamo Bay?”
Sinister laughter
The ladies were rocking with laughter by this stage: “Oh, that would be close to Mar-a-Lago. Melania can come and visit,” whooped Ana Navarro.
There is something quite sick and sad about this level of obsession with Trump and a sort of lascivious desire for him to be brought low.
It seems more like the passion of a spurned lover than a normal reaction to a political figure in court.
The impression is compounded by their spitefulness toward Melania Trump, who you would think deserves some sisterly consideration.
It’s the same with Joy Reid and Rachel Maddow and Lawrence O’Donnell and “Morning Joe,” who anchored endless prudish coverage of the minutiae of Stormy’s testimony that could have been ripped from the opening scene of one of her low-rent porn flicks.
Maybe this is the closest some media figures get to sex.
But out in the real world, the courtroom soap opera is an aggravation.
Banal titillation barely worthy of a “Real Housewives” episode that has somehow been elevated to the gravitas of a felony trial in Manhattan Supreme Court.
We have heard it all before.
It happened eight years ago.
Dems already wheeled out the scandal in 2016 and it didn’t work then.
Why would it work eight years later, and why now, six months before the election?
Nobody in their right mind thinks that this is what New York’s scarce prosecutorial resources should be spent on when there are people languishing in jail for lack of court time.
DA Alvin Bragg should be spending his time prosecuting cop-bashers and Jew-hating agitators.
On pure optics, the trial looks crooked, and Trump looks strong.
He comes across as serious and angry but in control.
What’s more, he takes the opportunity each morning, between railing against the “Corrupt and Highly Conflicted Judge” on social media, to deliver his take on the political issue of the day to the enormous press pack hanging on his every word.
For instance, on Wednesday, he weighed in on anti-Jewish agitators: “Our government ought to find out who they are, where they’re from and treat them the same way as they do the J-6 hostages.”
Don turns the tables
Acting Justice Merchan doesn’t have a hope in the game of contempt chicken he’s playing with Trump.
If he makes good on his promise to throw the former president in jail for shaking his head or muttering “Bulls–t” under his breath, he’ll be handing Trump an electoral gift.
“GIVE ME LIBERTY OR GIVE ME DEATH!” thundered Trump on social media, after the 10th contempt finding.
Only Trump could turn the adversity of 88 felony charges playing out simultaneously across two state courts and two federal districts in the middle of an election campaign into a rolled-gold opportunity for free wall-to-wall media coverage.
Regardless of the details, the dirty lawfare campaign against Trump is backfiring spectacularly.
The message Democrats are inadvertently sending to the voting public is that this guy is so strong that we have to cheat to beat him and, oops, it’s not working.
The more they throw at Trump without knocking him down, the less credible they look and the stronger he appears.
Then you look at the polls and you see the lawfare is not hurting Trump.
Even people who don’t like him can recognize that a justice system so rigged that it can be weaponized against your political opponent is a threat to all of us.
On a visceral level, it stinks.
In contrast to Trump, President Biden looks weaker now than at any point in his presidency.
It’s not just his physical frailty and cognitive deficits, although those are terrible.
The fact he now needs a phalanx of staffers to walk between him and the cameras to hide the feeble way he shuffles across the grass to Marine One is telling.
The fact he can no longer use the big-boy steps of Air Force One because he keeps tripping.
Operation Hidin’ Biden is a bit trickier without a pandemic to use as an excuse.
When he heads to his Delaware beach house this weekend, will he have staff holding towels around him to hide an old man conked out on a beach chair?
Joe’s aura of weakness
Even worse than his age-related deficiencies in creating an aura of weakness around Biden is his indecisiveness.
There was his vacillation on Israel, his delay in addressing the student protests and condemning antisemitism, his hypocritical “very fine people on both sides”-style rhetoric.
He projects weakness when he hides away from serious questions at a serious time and does softball interviews with fawning has-beens like Howard Stern.
His campaign may be waking up to the peril of a president as coward, since he agreed to a rare interview with CNN Wednesday night.
The Biden campaign’s attempt to bully friendly media outlets behind the scenes has backfired, too, judging by an interview with Semafor last weekend in which the executive editor of the New York Times sent a couple of kamikaze drones into the Biden camp.
Joe Kahn said he is ignoring pressure to “become an instrument of the Biden campaign” and “turn ourselves into Xinhua News Agency or Pravda.”
It’s weak of a campaign to expect the media to do the heavy lifting for its candidate.
If you are so incompetent that you spend a year pushing a rancid slogan, “Bidenomics,” which serves only to equate your candidate with inflation and lower living standards, you can’t expect the Fourth Estate to get you out of the hole.
The election will be about a lot of things, but at a gut level, it will be about weak vs. strong.
Biden can shout and shake his fist all he likes. It doesn’t make him look strong. It makes him look like Grampa Simpson.
https://nypost.com/2024/05/08/opinion/dems-kangaroo-court-against-donald-trump-is-only-backfiring/
Woke Jesus. From The Bee.
The Cruelty of Woke Compassion
By Doug MacGregor
BLM? It’s just a made-up phrase. A virtue-signaling phrase so that activists can feel better about themselves and fundraise $90 million so that Patrisse Cullors, the black lesbian Marxist who advocates against the nuclear family and school choice, can live in a $1.4-million-dollar home in Topanga Canyon. Black population: 1.4%
Mistrial Bait – Stormy Daniels Testifies Again Thursday
The big question that no one is asking.
by Liberty Nation Authors | May 9, 2024
Adult film actress turned TV host Stormy Daniels will take the stand today, May 9, to once again testify against former President Donald Trump. It’s her second day on the stand as the star witness for Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg’s case against Mr. Trump. Bragg adopted a novel legal theory and prosecuted the former president for improperly misclassifying a payment to Ms. Daniels. The actress’s first day on the stand was a series of hints and allegations that dropped like bolts from the blue.
But what is the legal purpose of bringing forward a witness who does not know about the subsequent paperwork filings? And is her appearance a symptom of a greater malaise in the case against Donald Trump? We spoke with Liberty Nation Legal Affairs Editor Scott D. Cosenza, Esq., to find out just what games are being played in the most high-profile case of the year.
The Stormy Daniels Surprise
Mark Angelides: Scott, let’s start with the question everyone seems to ignore. Why is Stormy Daniels even testifying? What possible knowledge could she have of how her “hush money” payment – which no one denies she was paid – was processed and recorded?
Scott D. Cosenza: There is no dispute that they (Trump and Daniels) entered a confidentiality agreement. Typical big-box reporting notwithstanding, the so-called “hush-money” agreement broke no laws and is not disputed. I’m reminded of the breathless stories about Kyle Rittenhouse crossing state lines as if that were illegal. Why bring Daniels to court, indeed? It depends on the goal.
Mark: Ms. Daniels’ testimony was inflammatory, to say the least, dropping hints about Trump drugging her. These accusations have never been made before; was this even admissible?
Scott: Well, it wasn’t a direct accusation. Still, it’s a textbook case of testimony that would generally be regarded as inadmissible as prejudicial. Because cameras and audio recordings are not allowed in the courtroom, we are relying on press members present who quoted her saying she “felt drugged.” Later, she said she “blacked out” after sex with Trump and “was staring at the ceiling and didn’t know how I got there.” The clear implication is that Mr. Trump somehow acted upon Daniels without consent. Reports say judge Merchan allowed the testimony.
Mark: Wasn’t Harvey Weinstein’s conviction just overturned for this exact thing?
Scott: Weinstein was granted a new trial because several women were allowed to testify that he sexually assaulted them, even though he was never charged with those crimes. So, the testimony here is not directly analogous – but that doesn’t mean there isn’t a lesson for Merchan from the Weinstein ruling. Alan Dershowitz, the famed lawyer and law professor, called what happened in Merchan’s courtroom a “clear reversible error” based on the opinion in the Weinstein case. He said Bragg followed a roadmap of what you cannot do in court.
Damage Done?
Mark: Is there any recourse for Donald Trump to fight back against the allegations? Or is the damage already done?
Scott: The political damage may be difficult or impossible to fight against. On the legal side, our system generally provides appeals only after a conviction.
Mark: This seems to me – as a layman – to be a highly unorthodox way of prosecuting a case. Rather than bringing in witnesses and evidence to support the crimes you are charging, instead, bring in witnesses to assassinate the defendant’s character. Or have I misdiagnosed Mr. Bragg’s intent?
Scott: Mr. Bragg’s novel charges and the prosecutorial pathways he’s pursuing seem less like a search for truth or an attempt to deliver justice with each passing day. Instead, they appear more to be a political attack against Trump. Seen through this lens, bringing Daniels to court to talk about her alleged liaison with Donald Trump is a no-brainer. It puts an unflattering story about Donald Trump on the front page of the nation’s papers.
Mark: What can we expect from Ms. Daniels as her testimony continues?
Scott: Today, she will be facing Donald Trump’s lawyers in a cross-examination. They will do their best to impeach her testimony on direct examination, including by attacking her veracity and character. After her previous day of testimony, when the defense team requested a mistrial, although he denied it, Judge Mechan conceded that “there were some things that should have been left unsaid.” Perhaps today, her testimony will convince the judge that he should grant the mistrial motion after all.
https://www.libertynation.com/mistrial-bait-stormy-daniels-testifies-again-thursday/
Joe Biden and His Jell-O-Clad Commitment to Israel
The White House is trying to bend Israel’s strategic warfighting to save Biden’s 2024 campaign.
by Dave Patterson | May 9, 2024
Let some Hamas-supporting college students protest and disrupt life on university campuses, and the Biden administration caves like a cheap suit.
Mike Johnson Survives Ousting – But What Did It Cost?
Strategic implications of removing the speaker.
by Mark Angelides | May 9, 2024
Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) brought her efforts to oust Speaker of the House Mike Johnson (R-LA) to the floor late yesterday, May 8. Rather than facing a full vote, however, the motion was tabled with overwhelming support from both the GOP and Democrats. In a 359 to 43 vote, Green’s efforts were quashed, with just 32 Republicans voting against.
Mr. Johnson breathed a sigh of relief, saying, “Hopefully, this is the end of the personality politics and the frivolous character assassination that has defined the 118th Congress. It’s regrettable, it’s not who we are as Americans, and we’re better than this. We need to get beyond it.”
But while it may appear this was a simple case of the House working in unison, other factors and machinations were almost certainly at play.
Dismissed With Trump Backing
It appears that former President Donald Trump saw potential disunity in the House as detrimental to his re-election hopes this November. Despite his past support for Greene, he made his thoughts and feelings known in advance of the bill’s introduction:
“I absolutely love Marjorie Taylor Greene. She’s got Spirit, she’s got Fight, and I believe she’ll be around, and on our side, for a long time to come.
“However, right now, Republicans have to be fighting the Radical Left Democrats, and all the Damage they have done to our Country. With a Majority of One, shortly growing to three or four, we’re not in a position of voting on a Motion to Vacate. At some point, we may very well be, but this is not the time.”
“But if we show DISUNITY, which will be portrayed as CHAOS, it will negatively affect everything,” he continued in his Truth Social thread. “Mike Johnson is a good man who is trying very hard. I also wish certain things were done over the last period of two months, but we will get them done, together… It is my request that Republicans vote for THE MOTION TO TABLE… We WILL WIN BIG – AND IT WILL BE SOON!”
New Banner Political Power PlaysAnd the former president may well have a point from a tactical strategy perspective.
As he leads in the polling, Mr. Trump will be wary of anything that upsets that trajectory or risks handing a significant victory to DC Democrats in Congress. After all, if – as polls indicate – he is on track to win the November election, his tenure in office could be born into the chaos of gaining the presidency but losing the legislature; effectively making him a lame-duck president on his first day back in office.
Trump seems all too aware that if he is to create a lasting legacy, he needs more than just a pen and a phone.
Democrat Narrative on Johnson and the GOP House
While House Democrats will no doubt claim a minor victory in ensuring the current speaker serves at their pleasure, a successful ousting would have perhaps provided a bevy of more damaging political ammunition.
The narrative from the Democrat leadership – and, indeed, the Biden-friendly Fourth Estate – has been that the “adults are back in charge.” The party can now rightly claim that they put country before partisan politics – although political optics were almost certainly the unspoken goal. Backing the move to oust Johnson would have created a whirlwind of chaos that had the potential to become a double-edged danger.
House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) demurred on whether his caucus would support Johnson if another motion came to the floor. Instead, he opted for a bipartisan stance, saying he and his party would “continue to solve problems for everyday Americans to put people over politics, as we once again did today.” But his response may be only the thin veneer to an otherwise calculated risk.
On one hand, voting not to table the motion would have caused chaos within the GOP, allowing a slew of negative articles and soundbites over Republican dysfunction. On the other, however, Biden is sinking badly in the polls and a solid legislative win could turn around the precipitous decline.
If President Joe Biden had been in a stronger position politically, it seems likely that the slim GOP majority would today be hunting for a compromise candidate.
https://www.libertynation.com/mike-johnson-survives-ousting-but-what-did-it-cost/
More insanity and wasted resources to "fight" the natural warming and cooling of the planet.
How Politics And Litigation Impede Innovation In Plastics Recycling
David Blackmon
May 09, 2024
Plastics are an indispensable, ubiquitous part of modern society. Due to their unique qualities, incredibly light weight, and ability to be formed into any shape or size, plastics provide essential components in hundreds of products we use every day of our lives. Unfortunately, the processes of making, recycling, and disposing of plastics are not well understood by policymakers or the public and are often subject to demonization and litigation by the industry’s opponents.
Makers of plastics could face another high-profile court case on a new front in the coming weeks deploying a novel theory of climate-related damages. California Attorney General Rob Bonta, whose ambitions for higher office are not a closely held secret, told Reuters in late April his office is close to wrapping up an investigation based on a legal theory that would seek damages related to the impacts of plastics waste from manufacturers, targeting ExxonMobil?ExxonMobil? as the first test case.
"We are soon going to be ready to get to a decision based on all of our investigations in the coming weeks," Reuters quotes Bonta saying. "The lies and deceit Exxon used to cover up the truth about the non-recyclability of plastic is well documented."
Bonta launched his investigation in 2022 at about the time the California legislature was enacting SB 54, a law that places a set of new demands on manufacturers related to plastics recycling and disposal. At that time, ExxonMobil called the claims “meritless,” but has remained silent on the matter since. Even if merit does exist, wouldn’t Bonta also be obligated to pursue similar claims against the large numbers of counties, cities, and towns whose local governments have overstated the percentage of plastics in programs they’ve implemented over the last quarter century?
Both industry and governments everywhere have long struggled with the best means of either recycling or disposal of used plastics. Some governments, like the state government in California led by Gov. Gavin Newsom, have attempted to attack the problem by invoking a seemingly endless stream of laws and regulations, always assuring the public the costs will be borne by manufacturing and other corporations who make and use the products. But such costs will inevitably be passed on to consumers in the form of higher prices for those products.
SB 54 is a good example of what has been happening in the Golden State in recent decades. Passed in 2022, SB 54 places a series of demands on manufacturers that many in the industry believe will be impossible to fill. Among other requirements, the law requires companies to meet the following targets by 2032:
Sell 25% less single-use plastic packaging and food ware in the state.
Make all single-use packaging and plastic food ware recyclable or compostable.
Recycle 65% of single-use plastic packaging and food ware.
Because of concerns that fit-for-purpose alternatives to plastic packaging and food ware do not currently exist in any scalable way, and that only about 9% of plastics are currently recycled, manufacturers in the state opposed the bill and are concerned about their ability to comply with its demands.
“The challenge is that the legislature keeps adding on to things in the spirit of increasing recycling, and SB 54 is a great example of that,” Lance Hastings, President & CEO at the California Manufacturers & Technology Association (CMTA) told me on a recent interview. “Unfortunately, we were in opposition to the legislation. Some of our opposition was related to the mechanics of the legislative process, but also because our members are making significant investments in recycling infrastructure and SB 54 tilted at that landscape.”
Hastings says a big part of the problem with legislation like this is that it attempts to force all the state’s urban, suburban, and rural areas into a one-size-fits-all approach. “There is no universal solution, and the public is being left out of the discussion,” Hastings says. “Because they [policymakers] always look at a macro solution when they're passing a state law, it affects everybody.” He adds that the key is working cooperatively to change individual behaviors by implementing solutions tailored to the needs of local communities.
The Bottom Line
ExxonMobil is one of the country’s leading makers of plastics and is investing billions in development and implementation of an advanced recycling process that would dramatically increase the percentage of plastics that can be recycled and reused by manufacturers and consumers. The company is already finishing out an advanced recycling unit at its Baytown Refinery plant that can then be expanded to a number of locations across the country and internationally.
Mounting yet another lawfare-style campaign of litigation targeting a segment of the industry that is already investing billions in new solutions to what everyone acknowledges is a significant problem will only serve to rob companies of legal certainty, stall innovation, and make it harder to reach major future investment decisions. It all seems so counterproductive, yet here we are.
https://blackmon.substack.com/p/how-politics-and-litigation-impede?publication_id=712558&post_id=144467868&isFreemail=false&r=rd9j8&triedRedirect=true
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