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Trump Indicted For Taking More Chick-fil-A Sauces Than He Actually Needed For His Order
ATLANTA, GA — What began as a seemingly harmless visit to a local Chick-fil-A turned into a new legal quagmire for former President Donald Trump, as he was indicted today for taking more sauces than he actually needed for his order.
The news broke as Trump made headlines for his positive reception at the popular eatery, with customers and employees fawning over him as he ordered his food. A spokesperson for the Department of Justice held a press briefing to announce the indictment.
"We've got him this time," the spokesperson said. "What we saw at Chick-fil-A yesterday was yet another example of Donald Trump flouting authority, the rule of law, and democracy itself by taking an exorbitant number of sauce packets with his order. As part of society, there are certain rules regarding courtesy and human decency. Taking handful after handful of Chick-fil-A sauce is something we cannot allow. He's gone too far this time."
When asked about the latest indictment, Trump was as defiant as usual. "MORE PHONY CHARGES!" he said in a post to his Truth Social account. "SLEEPY JOE BIDEN AND HIS CORRUPT JUSTICE DEPARTMENT ARE NOW CHARGING ME WITH TAKING TOO MANY CHICK-FIL-A SAUCES. I TOOK THE CORRECT AMOUNT. THE PERFECT AMOUNT, SOME WOULD SAY. THE DEMOCRATS DON'T WANT ME TO HAVE ENOUGH SAUCE OR AMERICA TO BE GREAT AGAIN! WITCH HUNT!"
At publishing time, a source within the DOJ also reported that the government is looking into allegations that Trump double-dipped his chicken strip in a sauce cup.
https://babylonbee.com/news/trump-indicted-for-taking-more-chick-fil-a-sauces-than-he-actually-needed-for-his-order
Trump Indicted For Taking More Chick-fil-A Sauces Than He Actually Needed For His Order
ATLANTA, GA — What began as a seemingly harmless visit to a local Chick-fil-A turned into a new legal quagmire for former President Donald Trump, as he was indicted today for taking more sauces than he actually needed for his order.
The news broke as Trump made headlines for his positive reception at the popular eatery, with customers and employees fawning over him as he ordered his food. A spokesperson for the Department of Justice held a press briefing to announce the indictment.
"We've got him this time," the spokesperson said. "What we saw at Chick-fil-A yesterday was yet another example of Donald Trump flouting authority, the rule of law, and democracy itself by taking an exorbitant number of sauce packets with his order. As part of society, there are certain rules regarding courtesy and human decency. Taking handful after handful of Chick-fil-A sauce is something we cannot allow. He's gone too far this time."
When asked about the latest indictment, Trump was as defiant as usual. "MORE PHONY CHARGES!" he said in a post to his Truth Social account. "SLEEPY JOE BIDEN AND HIS CORRUPT JUSTICE DEPARTMENT ARE NOW CHARGING ME WITH TAKING TOO MANY CHICK-FIL-A SAUCES. I TOOK THE CORRECT AMOUNT. THE PERFECT AMOUNT, SOME WOULD SAY. THE DEMOCRATS DON'T WANT ME TO HAVE ENOUGH SAUCE OR AMERICA TO BE GREAT AGAIN! WITCH HUNT!"
At publishing time, a source within the DOJ also reported that the government is looking into allegations that Trump double-dipped his chicken strip in a sauce cup.
https://babylonbee.com/news/trump-indicted-for-taking-more-chick-fil-a-sauces-than-he-actually-needed-for-his-order
TX’s Jasmine Crockett floats idea of ‘no taxes’ for blacks as form of ‘reparations’
By Olivia Murray
TX’s Jasmine Crockett floats idea of ‘no taxes’ for blacks as form of ‘reparations’
By Olivia Murray
Hi Al. Unfortunately when the pussified liberals take control of government agencies those agencies turn into flaming piles of crap!!
Biden Harris 2024 pic.twitter.com/4JmSBhNqrj
— C3PMeme (@C3PMeme) April 11, 2024
Biden Harris 2024 pic.twitter.com/4JmSBhNqrj
— C3PMeme (@C3PMeme) April 11, 2024
Fifth-grade girl speaks out after Washington school denied request to start interfaith prayer club
School allegedly accepted a request for a Pride group one week earlier
Nikolas Lanum
Published April 11, 2024 9:00pm EDT
A fifth-grade girl in Washington state was denied a request to start an interfaith prayer group at her elementary school after educators granted permission for an LGBTQ Pride club one week earlier.
Eleven-year-old Laura, a Creekside Elementary student, told "Fox News @ Night" she had felt alone in her classroom and the larger school. After speaking with friends who felt the same way, Laura pitched the idea of bringing people together and doing good in the community.
Laura claimed the interfaith prayer group welcomed all students, regardless of religion.
"I think that this is something that I am very passionate about. I wouldn’t be here if I didn’t really want to make this happen, if I didn’t think that it would be a great opportunity for everyone," Laura said.
First Liberty Institute, a nonprofit Christian legal organization representing Laura, another unidentified student and their parents, sent a letter to Issaquah School District officials about the incident.
"Denying the formation of a religious student club while allowing other clubs violates the Constitution," said Kayla Toney, associate counsel at First Liberty Institute. "School officials at Creekside Elementary are engaged in religious discrimination against an eleven-year-old girl who simply wants to pray, feel support from other religious friends, and do community service."
Laura and her mother allegedly met with the Creekside principal in February. The principal claimed that all funding for school clubs had already been allocated back in October. However, a Pride club had allegedly launched just a week before the meetings.
Creekside is approximately an hour away from Bremerton High School in Washington, where Coach Joe Kennedy was fired for praying on the football field after each game. The Supreme Court ruled in favor of Kennedy and stressed that the First Amendment protects students and employees who express faith in public schools. He was later reinstated.
"The Court in Kennedy explained that… the First Amendment ‘doubly protects religious speech.’ These First Amendment protections extend to elementary school students expressing their sincere religious beliefs through voluntary club. Yet the school district flouted its First Amendment obligations when they refused to allow a student-led interfaith prayer club. Its unlawful action violates both the Free Exercise Clause and the Free Speech Clause," the letter from First Liberty states.
Creekside Elementary and Issaquah School District did not return Fox News Digital’s request for comment.
https://www.foxnews.com/media/fifth-grade-girl-speaks-out-washington-school-denied-request-start-interfaith-prayer-club
Paraphrasing one of Biden's puppet masters. Looks like he's going to try it again..........
Food costs soar as Biden hands out massive $7.4B for student loans
The total cost of Biden's student loan handouts is over $153B
Biden approves $7.4 billion student loan debt cancelations
The 'Fox & Friends' co-hosts discussed the fallout from the student loan handout plan, which will cost a whopping $84 billion as Americans battle the sky-high cost of living.
Months after the United States Supreme Court ruled President Biden’s sweeping student loan handout was illegal, he is forging ahead with another partial loan forgiveness.
"Today, my Administration is canceling student debt for 277,000 more people, bringing the total number of Americans who have been approved for debt relief so far under my Administration to 4.3 million borrowers through various actions," the White House said on Friday.
It comes at a whopping price tag of $7.4 billion for taxpayers, who are already dealing with crushing inflation.
"I will never stop working to cancel student debt – no matter how many times Republican elected officials try to stop us," Biden said.
Friday's announcement comes as shoppers across the United States are seeing their food costs soaring.
Since Biden took office in Jan. 2021, the price of eggs is up 104% — from just $1.47 per dozen to a whopping $3.00, on average.
Other items have seen colossal increases, including bread, which is up 29%; the price of chicken per pound is up 25%; flour per pound is up 24%; and, a stick of butter per pound is up 23% since 2021.
eggs grocery
In Friday's statement, President Biden reminded that he intends to continue his election-year forgiveness, effectively lifting financial burdens for millions of borrowers just months ahead of seeking their vote in his 2020 rematch with presumptive Republican nominee, former President Trump.
"And, earlier this week, I laid out my Administration’s new plans that would cancel student debt for more than 30 million Americans when combined with everything we’ve done so far," Biden said, per the White House.
Sen. Roger Marshall, R-Kan., argues Biden is skirting the Supreme Court to push through his student loan handout plan on 'The Big Money Show.'
He added, "From day one of my Administration, I promised to fight to ensure higher education is a ticket to the middle class, not a barrier to opportunity."
The announcement comes amid an effort by Biden to forgive up to $20,000 for all borrowers, regardless of income — prompting concerns from Republicans.
"The Senate should block Biden’s socialist student debt relief program," Sen. Marsha Blackburn, R-Tenn., told Fox News Digital. "Hardworking Tennesseans should not be paying for wealthy coastal elites to get PhDs in gender studies. The Supreme Court already struck down Biden’s previous student loan scam as unconstitutional, but once again, he is attempting to defy the rule of law."
Republican critics of the plan have accused him of trying to buy votes at a time when progressive youth are becoming disenchanted with Biden over his stance on Israel’s war in Gaza.
student loan forgiveness rally
House GOP Conference Chairwoman Elise Stefanik, R-N.Y., told Fox News Digital, "Joe Biden is forcing the American people to foot the bill for his illegal student loan bailout in a desperate attempt to save his failing campaign."
According to the White House, the 277,000 borrowers are enrolled in the Biden administration’s new SAVE Plan — which automatically forgives outstanding balances after a certain number of payments are met or if borrowers make less than $15 per hour — or were approved for relief under the Income-Driven Repayment Plans and Public Service Loan Forgiveness programs.
college fund in a jar
"Today’s announcement comes on top of the significant progress we’ve made for students and borrowers over the past three years. That includes: providing the largest increases to the maximum Pell Grant in over a decade; fixing Public Service Loan Forgiveness so teachers, nurses, police officers, and other public service workers get the relief they are entitled to under the law, and holding colleges accountable for taking advantage of students and families," the statement continued.
The Supreme Court ruled on June 30, 2023, that the Biden administration lacked constitutional authority for such student loan handouts.
The total cost of Biden's student loan handouts is over $153,000,000,000.
https://www.foxbusiness.com/politics/food-costs-soar-biden-hands-massive-7-4b-student-loan-handout
Bragg’s absurd case against Trump finally gets its undeserved day in court
Trump case relies on activist prosecutor Bragg, a liberal judge and a politically motivated jury
Gregg Jarrett
Published April 12, 2024 5:00am EDT
Absent an eleventh-hour reprieve from a higher court, Donald Trump will become the first U.S. president to face a criminal trial when it commences on Monday in New York.
Let the circus begin.
The ringmaster of the Big Top clown show is Alvin Bragg, the progressive Manhattan district attorney who campaigned — unethically — on the promise to bring down Trump. Once in office, Bragg inflated a time-barred and nominal misdemeanor into a multitude of dubious felonies by mangling evidence and contorting the law.
With a wave of his showman’s cane, Bragg transformed a singular transaction into 34 separate charges in what’s known as "count stacking" that no good prosecutor would ever do. It’s a transparent window into an otherwise opaque case.
The gravamen of the indictment is that in 2016 Trump used his lawyer to pay money to Stephanie Clifford (a.k.a. Stormy Daniels) in exchange for her silence about a purported affair that occurred a decade earlier, that he incorrectly recorded the payments in business records, and that all of it violated election laws, even though it did not.
Bragg surely knows his case is specious, at best. But it doesn’t matter. He’s counting on the sympathies of a liberal trial judge, Juan Merchan, and the venom of a jury pool destined to be dominated by Trump-hating New Yorkers. The once-respected standard of an "impartial jury" is being treated as a mere inconvenience instead of a constitutional right.
It is self-evident to many that the charges against the former president would be brought against no one else not named Trump. The fact that he is the leading candidate for president in the upcoming election is the only reason he is being persecuted under the guise of prosecution.
Even the left-leaning New York Times "could "identify only two other felony cases in Manhattan over the past decade in which defendants were indicted on charges of falsifying business records but no other crime." This makes the DA’s legal theory not just untested, but absurd.
It is also an archetype of unequal justice. In the same 2016 election, Hillary Clinton secretly paid for the phony Steele dossier by using a lawyer to funnel the money while misreporting it as "legal expenses." She was fined by the Federal Election Commission (FEC), but never prosecuted. Trump, however, is a disfavored Republican, so he is treated differently.
The most curious — and corrupt — aspect of Bragg’s case is that he still has not identified what underlying crime Trump supposedly committed. This, of course, is required under the Sixth Amendment. But no one, least of all Merchan, seems the least bit bothered by it. His honor ruled that Bragg had presented "legally sufficient evidence" to proceed. Okay, but under what law exactly?
In his malign indictment, the DA vaguely accuses Trump of "violating election laws" without specifying which ones were transgressed. No applicable statutes are set forth. The reason for the masquerade is obvious — in a state case, a local prosecutor has no authority to charge federal crimes allegedly committed during the course of a federal election. Period.
None of that is stopping Bragg or his sycophant judge. The DA asserts that any payments to Daniels were illegal campaign donations. Forget the fact that the FEC investigated Trump and concluded that said payments do not constitute unlawful donations. Never mind that the Department of Justice also studied the same expenditures and decided that no crimes were committed. Even Bragg’s predecessor, Cyrus Vance, chose not to charge Trump at the end of his years-long investigation.
It is well established that money paid in exchange for non-disclosure agreements (or NDAs, as they’re known) is perfectly legal and quite common. Corporations and individuals do it every day. You can assign the pejorative term of "hush money" if you want. But it is often a normal conclusion to settlement agreements and even encouraged by judges who are motivated to resolve lawsuits that clog their courts.
However, Bragg is insistent that since Trump’s then-attorney, Michael Cohen, pled guilty to a federal charge of making an illegal campaign contribution, then that somehow makes Trump guilty, too. It does not. There are two reasons for this. First, the plea of one person does not determine the guilt of another. Second, Cohen willingly pled guilty to a non-crime offered up by federal prosecutors to gain leniency in his sentencing for other crimes he committed, including fraud.
In the end, Cohen was shipped off to the hoosegow for telling so many whoppers that you’d need a calculator to keep track. Yet, Bragg has no reservations in featuring an inveterate and confessed perjurer as his star witness against Trump. The same has been said of Daniels, who peddled inconsistent stories about her putative relationship while preening for cameras in numerous interviews.
The only credible case that Bragg could bring against Trump is falsely representing an NDA reimbursement as a payment for legal services to Cohen. But even that improbable legal theory (which requires evidence of an "intent to defraud" that is difficult to prove) constitutes a mere misdemeanor.
Moreover, it is barred by the statute of limitations that expired four years before the indictment. So, to circumvent the extinct statute, Bragg is cleverly twisting the law by attaching the misdemeanor to a felony that has not lapsed, but over which he has no jurisdiction.
A conscientious and able judge would have long ago halted Bragg’s abusive machinations. But Merchan is neither. Instead, he is blithely enabling the district attorney’s illicit scheme to "get Trump" by ignoring fundamental rules of law, as well as his own duty to see that justice is fairly administered.
The charges against Trump are a prime example of selective prosecution driven by political animus. It is a patently partisan attempt to interfere in a presidential election. Manipulating the legal system by bringing a slew of spurious criminal charges against an opponent to delegitimize his candidacy is reprehensible "lawfare."
It is self-evident to many that the charges against the former president would be brought against no one else not named Trump. The fact that he is the leading candidate for president in the upcoming election is the only reason he is being persecuted under the guise of prosecution.
It has gained in popularity, especially among media handmaidens who have happily embraced the righteous cause by declaring Trump guilty in the court of public opinion before any trial has ever begun.
Will their chicanery work? I doubt it.
What Biden Democrats and the liberal press underestimate is the intelligence of American voters. They see the dirty tricks of Alvin Bragg, Georgia DA Fani Willis, special counsel Jack Smith, and Attorney General Merrick Garland for exactly what they are — a pernicious attempt to steal an election through an abuse of our legal system.
Instead of ruining Trump, their antics have fortified his popular support. A growing number of people see the former president not as a villain, but as a victim of unscrupulous political enemies who weaponized the law to destroy him.
https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/braggs-absurd-case-against-trump-finally-gets-undeserved-court
The Beauty Parlor’s Full of Sailors and the Circus is in Town
“They have tried to solve a wide range of insoluble problems, from the weather to poverty to viruses, and now they will attempt to solve us.” —Eugyppius
James Howard Kunstler
Apr 12, 2024
This is that part of the movie where the hero — you — tumbles off the cliff on Kong Island in a lightning storm with a canyon full of tarantulas down below where you’ll soon be landing. I know, not a pretty picture. The cliff is our country’s financial quandary; the lightning is us getting sucked directly into war; and the tarantula pit below is the emerging peril of Covid vaccine injury and death coming on hard, like your landing.
Gold and silver are vaulting up suddenly like nobody’s business (literally). This may be fun to see if you are sitting on a pile, even a small pile of the stuff. But to everybody else it’s a signal that something is messed up in the complex engine of the economy. You know, of course, that our money is debt. So, debt is the fuel that drives that engine. Debt is a promise to pay back money with interest to take advantage of the time-value of money. The time-value of money means it’s better to have the money now (to keep the engine running) than to wait until your work produces money (if it even can).
The trouble is, debt loses its credibility if there is no plausible way of paying it back, or even just to keep paying the interest. That’s exactly what is happening now. Everybody can see that the US government can’t pay the interest on its debt, which is Treasury bonds, notes, and bills (from long duration to short). That debt is running at well over $1-trillion a year. That’s a thousand billion, which is a thousand million, altogether a million million. See, it’s impossible to grok how more than a trillion dollars gets produced in an economy based on selling fried chicken nuggets and streamed movies to people with no jobs.
When the Treasury holds an auction on a new issue of bonds (needed to pay off the interest on old bonds) and nobody shows up to buy because they doubt its ability to pay interest on the new paper, our country’s debt becomes worthless. As a last resort, the Federal Reserve swoops in and buys that worthless paper by creating “money” on its computer. That “money” goes out into the economy. The Fed pretends to get paid interest. It’s all fakery, a swindle. It’s like putting water in the gas tank of your engine. You know that the engine is going to throw a rod. When it does, it’ll be such a shock that the vehicle it’s running in is liable to hit a bridge abutment or something else hard. That’s what tumbling off the cliff is like.
The dopes running US foreign policy are so foolishly obsessed with taunting Russia (“poking the bear”), that they can’t give up their sponsorship of the war in Ukraine, which Ukraine is losing because they never had the mojo for the fight. That should have been obvious, but for some reason our “best-and-brightest” overlooked that. No amount of free weaponry and ammo can make up for the fact that Ukraine has run out of young men to pointlessly get shredded by Russian artillery. Russia is unwilling to get rolled by NATO and the US in a part of the world Russia has controlled for centuries. Yet, “Joe Biden” keeps hinting about sending America’s tranny army there, and even gearing up the military draft for the nose-ring and blue hair generation. Good luck with that.
Nor does “JB” exercise any control over what Israel does over in the Bible Lands. Bibi gonna do what Bibi gonna do. Israel can’t be persuaded that the current war is not a struggle for its existence. As Scott Adams points out, Israel has decided to pawn off its Holocaust cred in order to treat its enemies as harshly as possible, so as not to get wiped off the map. Israel has treated the Palestinians very harshly. (The October 7 Hamas raid was pretty darn harsh, too.) In any case, world opinion went all rancid on Israel. That hasn’t stopped them. Now Israel faces its ultimate foe, Persia, a.k.a. Iran, these days. Persia has a big army and a lot of weapons, and all sorts of wing-men in the neighborhood. . . as a practical matter, most of Islam right now. This week, Persia made noises about an imminent attack on Israel. Didn’t happen so far.
Let’s get real on Islam. Its core principle is to exterminate the humans on this planet who are not of Islam. Islam has been pissed-off at Western Civ since the Crusades, its animus renewed in 1683, when Islam’s advance into Europe was halted at the gates of Vienna, and then again in modern times when Islam got pushed around because Western Civ wanted its oil. Islam is overrunning Europe again and penetrating the USA through our southern border. Islam means business. It wants to wreck us, kill us, and take our stuff. And it dearly, sorely, wants to deep-six Israel, which Islam contemptuously refer to as “the Zionist entity,” as if it were some crypto-insectile space alien.
America (and Europe, too) wants to play this both ways: to grudgingly help Israel survive while at the same time pretending not to notice Islam’s true aims. Looks like Israel has decided to go for broke on this one whether we ride to rescue or not. Israel may have to go “Mad Dog” in its neighborhood. They may lose this thing anyway. The rest of the world will affect to hate them for it no matter how it ends. Meanwhile, all over Europe the Islamic birth-rate way outpaces the Euro peoples’ birth rate. And how many angry, determined “sleepers” has Islam snuck into the USA the past several years across “Joe Biden’s” open border. It’s a bit disturbing to contemplate. Also, never under-estimate the damage that can be wreaked with small arms against “a pitiful, helpless, giant,” as Dick Nixon once described our country in an earlier time of distress. There’s your lightning storm.
At the bottom of the cliff is the vaxxed-up population of the world waiting for their spike protein infested bodies and dysregulated immune systems to enter fatal break down. Many already have injured organs, hearts, brains, blood, ovaries, etc. Many others will get in trouble when a more efficient Covid-19 mutation goes lethal on them. The public health authorities are desperately trying to conceal the damage. Some organized groups of people are clamoring for the data on vaccine injury and death from places like the CDC, only to discover that the public health agencies not only won’t disclose it but probably avoided even collecting it over fear of what it would show. Horror creeps on little tarantula feet.
This is how the movie is going as of April. Spring is hardly fledged. Portent looms at every compass point. You’re in a tight spot. (We all are.) In modern times — and I mean going back to the first twinges of the Enlightenment — faith in the people running things has never been lower. It’s still an election year, har har! It makes you wonder if this movie is actually a comedy.
https://jameshowardkunstler.substack.com/p/the-beauty-parlors-full-of-sailors?publication_id=2076970&post_id=143519611&isFreemail=true&r=rd9j8&triedRedirect=true
The Beauty Parlor’s Full of Sailors and the Circus is in Town
“They have tried to solve a wide range of insoluble problems, from the weather to poverty to viruses, and now they will attempt to solve us.” —Eugyppius
James Howard Kunstler
Apr 12, 2024
This is that part of the movie where the hero — you — tumbles off the cliff on Kong Island in a lightning storm with a canyon full of tarantulas down below where you’ll soon be landing. I know, not a pretty picture. The cliff is our country’s financial quandary; the lightning is us getting sucked directly into war; and the tarantula pit below is the emerging peril of Covid vaccine injury and death coming on hard, like your landing.
Gold and silver are vaulting up suddenly like nobody’s business (literally). This may be fun to see if you are sitting on a pile, even a small pile of the stuff. But to everybody else it’s a signal that something is messed up in the complex engine of the economy. You know, of course, that our money is debt. So, debt is the fuel that drives that engine. Debt is a promise to pay back money with interest to take advantage of the time-value of money. The time-value of money means it’s better to have the money now (to keep the engine running) than to wait until your work produces money (if it even can).
The trouble is, debt loses its credibility if there is no plausible way of paying it back, or even just to keep paying the interest. That’s exactly what is happening now. Everybody can see that the US government can’t pay the interest on its debt, which is Treasury bonds, notes, and bills (from long duration to short). That debt is running at well over $1-trillion a year. That’s a thousand billion, which is a thousand million, altogether a million million. See, it’s impossible to grok how more than a trillion dollars gets produced in an economy based on selling fried chicken nuggets and streamed movies to people with no jobs.
When the Treasury holds an auction on a new issue of bonds (needed to pay off the interest on old bonds) and nobody shows up to buy because they doubt its ability to pay interest on the new paper, our country’s debt becomes worthless. As a last resort, the Federal Reserve swoops in and buys that worthless paper by creating “money” on its computer. That “money” goes out into the economy. The Fed pretends to get paid interest. It’s all fakery, a swindle. It’s like putting water in the gas tank of your engine. You know that the engine is going to throw a rod. When it does, it’ll be such a shock that the vehicle it’s running in is liable to hit a bridge abutment or something else hard. That’s what tumbling off the cliff is like.
The dopes running US foreign policy are so foolishly obsessed with taunting Russia (“poking the bear”), that they can’t give up their sponsorship of the war in Ukraine, which Ukraine is losing because they never had the mojo for the fight. That should have been obvious, but for some reason our “best-and-brightest” overlooked that. No amount of free weaponry and ammo can make up for the fact that Ukraine has run out of young men to pointlessly get shredded by Russian artillery. Russia is unwilling to get rolled by NATO and the US in a part of the world Russia has controlled for centuries. Yet, “Joe Biden” keeps hinting about sending America’s tranny army there, and even gearing up the military draft for the nose-ring and blue hair generation. Good luck with that.
Nor does “JB” exercise any control over what Israel does over in the Bible Lands. Bibi gonna do what Bibi gonna do. Israel can’t be persuaded that the current war is not a struggle for its existence. As Scott Adams points out, Israel has decided to pawn off its Holocaust cred in order to treat its enemies as harshly as possible, so as not to get wiped off the map. Israel has treated the Palestinians very harshly. (The October 7 Hamas raid was pretty darn harsh, too.) In any case, world opinion went all rancid on Israel. That hasn’t stopped them. Now Israel faces its ultimate foe, Persia, a.k.a. Iran, these days. Persia has a big army and a lot of weapons, and all sorts of wing-men in the neighborhood. . . as a practical matter, most of Islam right now. This week, Persia made noises about an imminent attack on Israel. Didn’t happen so far.
Let’s get real on Islam. Its core principle is to exterminate the humans on this planet who are not of Islam. Islam has been pissed-off at Western Civ since the Crusades, its animus renewed in 1683, when Islam’s advance into Europe was halted at the gates of Vienna, and then again in modern times when Islam got pushed around because Western Civ wanted its oil. Islam is overrunning Europe again and penetrating the USA through our southern border. Islam means business. It wants to wreck us, kill us, and take our stuff. And it dearly, sorely, wants to deep-six Israel, which Islam contemptuously refer to as “the Zionist entity,” as if it were some crypto-insectile space alien.
America (and Europe, too) wants to play this both ways: to grudgingly help Israel survive while at the same time pretending not to notice Islam’s true aims. Looks like Israel has decided to go for broke on this one whether we ride to rescue or not. Israel may have to go “Mad Dog” in its neighborhood. They may lose this thing anyway. The rest of the world will affect to hate them for it no matter how it ends. Meanwhile, all over Europe the Islamic birth-rate way outpaces the Euro peoples’ birth rate. And how many angry, determined “sleepers” has Islam snuck into the USA the past several years across “Joe Biden’s” open border. It’s a bit disturbing to contemplate. Also, never under-estimate the damage that can be wreaked with small arms against “a pitiful, helpless, giant,” as Dick Nixon once described our country in an earlier time of distress. There’s your lightning storm.
At the bottom of the cliff is the vaxxed-up population of the world waiting for their spike protein infested bodies and dysregulated immune systems to enter fatal break down. Many already have injured organs, hearts, brains, blood, ovaries, etc. Many others will get in trouble when a more efficient Covid-19 mutation goes lethal on them. The public health authorities are desperately trying to conceal the damage. Some organized groups of people are clamoring for the data on vaccine injury and death from places like the CDC, only to discover that the public health agencies not only won’t disclose it but probably avoided even collecting it over fear of what it would show. Horror creeps on little tarantula feet.
This is how the movie is going as of April. Spring is hardly fledged. Portent looms at every compass point. You’re in a tight spot. (We all are.) In modern times — and I mean going back to the first twinges of the Enlightenment — faith in the people running things has never been lower. It’s still an election year, har har! It makes you wonder if this movie is actually a comedy.
https://jameshowardkunstler.substack.com/p/the-beauty-parlors-full-of-sailors?publication_id=2076970&post_id=143519611&isFreemail=true&r=rd9j8&triedRedirect=true
I guess when you control all branches of government you can ignore Supreme Court rulings with impunity!!!
But if Trump or his admin had done the same thing............................
Anyone ... anyone????
Manscaped anyone?
LMAO ....
Joe Biden is coming for your Medicare Advantage
By Monica Showalter
Joe Biden's re-election campaign is repeating the naked lie, over and over again, that President Trump wants to cut elderly people's Social Security and Medicare.
Some of those elderly voters believe him, as recent polling has shown.
But he's already played Mr. Slasher on Medicare Advantage, the immensely popular supplemental health insurance program favored by more than half of seniors, and he plans to cut it more. Democrats hate this program because it allows its buyers choice in what kind of coverage they would like to have on their policies.
According to an important op-ed on RedState from the Heartland Institute:
In fact, Biden didn’t merely propose Medicare Advantage (MA) reforms a dozen years in the future. He cut rates from a projected 2.44 percent to 2.33 percent, despite industry predictions of a 4 to 6 percent growth rate. Medicare Advantage is often targeted by single-payer advocates because it offers choices to consumers. Rather than the one-size-fits-all Soviet model of health care favored by liberals, MA allows seniors to choose what they want included in their health care coverage. So, for Biden’s single-payer base, this cut is a good thing. But what about the seniors in Arizona, Florida, Nevada, and Wisconsin?
That raises the rates seniors shell out by nearly $400 a year, and that's seniors on fixed incomes. And he's already done it, which puts paid to the lie that Trump wants to cut Medicare and Social Security. He's already doing it himself, not for illegals, but for those who have paid taxes all their lives.
Of all the things to cut in his monster bloated budgets, he chose to cut this, sneaking it into his budget and publicizing it.
It's like the Democrats' 2012 ad targeting Rep. Paul Ryan, back when he was a vice presidential candidate, throwing granny off the cliff.
Had enough? One hopes the Trump campaign and all good conservatives publicize this targeting of seniors by Democrats to ensure they don't vote for this nasty, mendacious, old fraud.
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2024/04/joe_biden_is_coming_for_your_medicare_advantage.html
Joe Biden is coming for your Medicare Advantage
By Monica Showalter
Joe Biden's re-election campaign is repeating the naked lie, over and over again, that President Trump wants to cut elderly people's Social Security and Medicare.
Some of those elderly voters believe him, as recent polling has shown.
But he's already played Mr. Slasher on Medicare Advantage, the immensely popular supplemental health insurance program favored by more than half of seniors, and he plans to cut it more. Democrats hate this program because it allows its buyers choice in what kind of coverage they would like to have on their policies.
According to an important op-ed on RedState from the Heartland Institute:
In fact, Biden didn’t merely propose Medicare Advantage (MA) reforms a dozen years in the future. He cut rates from a projected 2.44 percent to 2.33 percent, despite industry predictions of a 4 to 6 percent growth rate. Medicare Advantage is often targeted by single-payer advocates because it offers choices to consumers. Rather than the one-size-fits-all Soviet model of health care favored by liberals, MA allows seniors to choose what they want included in their health care coverage. So, for Biden’s single-payer base, this cut is a good thing. But what about the seniors in Arizona, Florida, Nevada, and Wisconsin?
That raises the rates seniors shell out by nearly $400 a year, and that's seniors on fixed incomes. And he's already done it, which puts paid to the lie that Trump wants to cut Medicare and Social Security. He's already doing it himself, not for illegals, but for those who have paid taxes all their lives.
Of all the things to cut in his monster bloated budgets, he chose to cut this, sneaking it into his budget and publicizing it.
It's like the Democrats' 2012 ad targeting Rep. Paul Ryan, back when he was a vice presidential candidate, throwing granny off the cliff.
Had enough? One hopes the Trump campaign and all good conservatives publicize this targeting of seniors by Democrats to ensure they don't vote for this nasty, mendacious, old fraud.
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2024/04/joe_biden_is_coming_for_your_medicare_advantage.html
7 More States Sue to Block ‘Most Generous Ever’ Student Loan Program
By Bill Pan
April 10, 2024
President Joe Biden faces a fresh lawsuit from a seven-state coalition challenging his “most generous ever” federal student loan repayment plan, under which millions of borrowers would have a monthly bill of $0.
In their complaint, filed on April 8 at a federal court in Missouri, the states argued that what the Biden administration calls the SAVE plan is another unlawful attempt to force Americans who incurred no college debt to shoulder the bill for those who did.
“Just last year, the [U.S.] Supreme Court struck down an attempt by the President to force teachers, truckers, and farmers to pay for the student loan debt of other Americans—to the enormous tune of $430 billion,” the complaint stated, noting that the high court’s 6-3 majority explicitly ruled that the president should not bypass Congress to implement a decision with such profound impact on the country’s economy.
“Undeterred, the President is at it again, even bragging that ‘the Supreme Court blocked it. They blocked it. But that didn’t stop me,’” it added.
The lawsuit was spearheaded by Missouri, along with Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, North Dakota, Ohio, and Oklahoma. It comes just weeks after Kansas and 10 other Republican-led states filed a separate challenge to the same plan.
“With the stroke of his pen, Joe Biden is attempting to saddle working Missourians with a half trillion dollars in college debt,” Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey, a Republican, said in a statement on April 9.
“The United States Constitution makes clear that the President lacks the authority to unilaterally ‘cancel’ student loan debt for millions of Americans without express permission from Congress.”
Citing an estimate by the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania, Mr. Bailey said the SAVE plan would cost Americans $475 billion over 10 years—$45 billion more than the initial student loan cancellation plan the Supreme Court shot down last June.
Specifically, according to the elite business school, about $200 billion of that cost will come from payment reduction for the $1.64 trillion in loans already outstanding in 2023. The remaining $275 billion comes from reduced payments for about $1.03 trillion in new loans that will be extended over the next 10 years.
“We estimate a take-up rate for future loans of 70 percent, implying that about $645 billion in future loans will be subsidized,” Wharton researchers said. “About 6.57 percent of future borrowers, or 4.98 percent of total predicted loan volume, will never have to make any payments under SAVE.”
According to the latest update from the U.S. Department of Education, SAVE has enrolled over 7.7 million people since it launched last August.
Like the existing income-driven repayment (IDR) option it replaces, SAVE can provide an affordable monthly payment based on income and family size before the eventual discharge of the remaining balance. Its current enrollees include 4.5 million people whose monthly bill was lowered to zero dollars, in addition to about 150,000 borrowers who had their entire debt wiped out.
Under SAVE, those who borrowed $12,000 or less only need to make payments for 10 years before becoming eligible for the final forgiveness, or an additional year for every $1,000 borrowed above $12,000.
In other words, anyone who took out $21,000 or less in undergraduate loans can have their debt erased on a shorter timeline than the standard 20 years.
With the end of his first term now in sight, President Biden has not fulfilled the 2020 campaign promise to cancel up to $20,000 in student loan debt for every borrower.
In his April 8 trip to Wisconsin, one of the battleground states that could play a pivotal role in his likely November rematch with former President Donald Trump, President Biden touted his effort so far to deliver that promise, which he said would be “life-changing” for more than 30 million borrowers.
“Too many Americans, especially young people, are saddled with unsustainable debts in exchange for a college degree,” he said. “The ability for working and middle-class folks to repay their student loans has become so burdensome [that] a lot can’t repay for even decades after being in school.”
Republicans, meanwhile, denounced the Biden administration’s actions as a scheme to save dwindling support among young voters.
“Biden wants to use your tax dollars to buy votes because more and more young people are supporting President Trump,” Michael Whatley, chair of the Republican National Committee, said.
https://www.ntd.com/7-more-states-sue-to-block-most-generous-ever-student-loan-program_985208.html?src_src=ntddailynoe&src_cmp=ntd-2024-04-11
7 More States Sue to Block ‘Most Generous Ever’ Student Loan Program
By Bill Pan
April 10, 2024
President Joe Biden faces a fresh lawsuit from a seven-state coalition challenging his “most generous ever” federal student loan repayment plan, under which millions of borrowers would have a monthly bill of $0.
In their complaint, filed on April 8 at a federal court in Missouri, the states argued that what the Biden administration calls the SAVE plan is another unlawful attempt to force Americans who incurred no college debt to shoulder the bill for those who did.
“Just last year, the [U.S.] Supreme Court struck down an attempt by the President to force teachers, truckers, and farmers to pay for the student loan debt of other Americans—to the enormous tune of $430 billion,” the complaint stated, noting that the high court’s 6-3 majority explicitly ruled that the president should not bypass Congress to implement a decision with such profound impact on the country’s economy.
“Undeterred, the President is at it again, even bragging that ‘the Supreme Court blocked it. They blocked it. But that didn’t stop me,’” it added.
The lawsuit was spearheaded by Missouri, along with Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, North Dakota, Ohio, and Oklahoma. It comes just weeks after Kansas and 10 other Republican-led states filed a separate challenge to the same plan.
“With the stroke of his pen, Joe Biden is attempting to saddle working Missourians with a half trillion dollars in college debt,” Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey, a Republican, said in a statement on April 9.
“The United States Constitution makes clear that the President lacks the authority to unilaterally ‘cancel’ student loan debt for millions of Americans without express permission from Congress.”
Citing an estimate by the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania, Mr. Bailey said the SAVE plan would cost Americans $475 billion over 10 years—$45 billion more than the initial student loan cancellation plan the Supreme Court shot down last June.
Specifically, according to the elite business school, about $200 billion of that cost will come from payment reduction for the $1.64 trillion in loans already outstanding in 2023. The remaining $275 billion comes from reduced payments for about $1.03 trillion in new loans that will be extended over the next 10 years.
“We estimate a take-up rate for future loans of 70 percent, implying that about $645 billion in future loans will be subsidized,” Wharton researchers said. “About 6.57 percent of future borrowers, or 4.98 percent of total predicted loan volume, will never have to make any payments under SAVE.”
According to the latest update from the U.S. Department of Education, SAVE has enrolled over 7.7 million people since it launched last August.
Like the existing income-driven repayment (IDR) option it replaces, SAVE can provide an affordable monthly payment based on income and family size before the eventual discharge of the remaining balance. Its current enrollees include 4.5 million people whose monthly bill was lowered to zero dollars, in addition to about 150,000 borrowers who had their entire debt wiped out.
Under SAVE, those who borrowed $12,000 or less only need to make payments for 10 years before becoming eligible for the final forgiveness, or an additional year for every $1,000 borrowed above $12,000.
In other words, anyone who took out $21,000 or less in undergraduate loans can have their debt erased on a shorter timeline than the standard 20 years.
With the end of his first term now in sight, President Biden has not fulfilled the 2020 campaign promise to cancel up to $20,000 in student loan debt for every borrower.
In his April 8 trip to Wisconsin, one of the battleground states that could play a pivotal role in his likely November rematch with former President Donald Trump, President Biden touted his effort so far to deliver that promise, which he said would be “life-changing” for more than 30 million borrowers.
“Too many Americans, especially young people, are saddled with unsustainable debts in exchange for a college degree,” he said. “The ability for working and middle-class folks to repay their student loans has become so burdensome [that] a lot can’t repay for even decades after being in school.”
Republicans, meanwhile, denounced the Biden administration’s actions as a scheme to save dwindling support among young voters.
“Biden wants to use your tax dollars to buy votes because more and more young people are supporting President Trump,” Michael Whatley, chair of the Republican National Committee, said.
https://www.ntd.com/7-more-states-sue-to-block-most-generous-ever-student-loan-program_985208.html?src_src=ntddailynoe&src_cmp=ntd-2024-04-11
A ray of sunshine in our overcast day!!!
Hi Al. This is so very true:
Good one K² and good morning!
Must be firing at the invisible man!!!
Still another libtard that allowed to speak!!
Hi Al.... Unlike Joe, a septic tank does provide a useful service and provide positive results. The only useful service Biden provides is aiding his puppet master's anti America agenda!!
LMAO!!!
That's an understatement!!!
Wouldn't this p_ss you off:
https://www.oann.com/newsroom/mother-diagnosed-with-cancer-undergoes-chemo-finds-out-she-never-had-cancer-after-all/
Scrabble anyone?
Sure don't want to hurt any of the candy ass snowflake's feelings!!!
Mattel Creates Scrabble Without Scoring for Gen Z
https://www.newsmax.com/us/scrabble-mattel-gen-z/2024/04/09/id/1160350/
After 75 years on the market, Mattel is set to launch a new version of its iconic game Scrabble meant to be better designed for those faint of heart word finders, CNN reported Tuesday.
Scrabble Together, the new iteration, will allow people to play in teams and thereby provide quicker playing time. It will include helper cards and use an easier scoring system, which boils down to simply finishing certain goals. Designed to appeal to new Gen Z players, overall it will be less competitive for game players.
The new version is part of what's now a double-sided model of the longtime board game that will still include the original game for traditional Scrabble players.
"Scrabble has truly stood the test of time as one of the most popular board games in history, and we want to ensure the game continues to be inclusive for all players," Ray Adler, vice president and global head of games for Mattel, said in a statement. "For anyone who's ever thought, Word games aren't for me, or felt a little intimidated by the classic game, Scrabble Together mode is an ideal option."
Features of the newly minted version will also include prompts and clues that can be selected to match a player's chosen challenge level. The winner will be the player who completes 20 challenges, while the losing player will have unsuccessfully used all their helper cards. It differs from Scrabble Junior, which is likened to a crossword puzzle, with letters already provided on the board.
CNN reported Tuesday that Scrabble Together will be available only across Europe, according to a Mattel spokesperson. The new version won't be available in the U.S. due to licensing issues.
Newsmax reached out to Mattel for comment.
Scrabble, which has been around since 1938, has added hundreds of new eligible words to its dictionary over the years. The game's new rendition comes ahead of National Scrabble Day on Saturday, April 13.
"The game speaks to a trend in younger people who want to avoid competitive games, instead, favoring teamwork and collaboration working towards a fun goal together," current U.K. No. 1 player and 2016 World Scrabble Champion Brett Smitheram told BBC Radio 4 Tuesday, BBC reported.
Meanwhile, some Scrabble skeptics weren't as positive, labeling the new version "Woke Scrabble" and "Scrabble for Snowflakes" on X.
Sure don't want to hurt any of the candy ass snowflake's feelings!!!
Mattel Creates Scrabble Without Scoring for Gen Z
https://www.newsmax.com/us/scrabble-mattel-gen-z/2024/04/09/id/1160350/
After 75 years on the market, Mattel is set to launch a new version of its iconic game Scrabble meant to be better designed for those faint of heart word finders, CNN reported Tuesday.
Scrabble Together, the new iteration, will allow people to play in teams and thereby provide quicker playing time. It will include helper cards and use an easier scoring system, which boils down to simply finishing certain goals. Designed to appeal to new Gen Z players, overall it will be less competitive for game players.
The new version is part of what's now a double-sided model of the longtime board game that will still include the original game for traditional Scrabble players.
"Scrabble has truly stood the test of time as one of the most popular board games in history, and we want to ensure the game continues to be inclusive for all players," Ray Adler, vice president and global head of games for Mattel, said in a statement. "For anyone who's ever thought, Word games aren't for me, or felt a little intimidated by the classic game, Scrabble Together mode is an ideal option."
Features of the newly minted version will also include prompts and clues that can be selected to match a player's chosen challenge level. The winner will be the player who completes 20 challenges, while the losing player will have unsuccessfully used all their helper cards. It differs from Scrabble Junior, which is likened to a crossword puzzle, with letters already provided on the board.
CNN reported Tuesday that Scrabble Together will be available only across Europe, according to a Mattel spokesperson. The new version won't be available in the U.S. due to licensing issues.
Newsmax reached out to Mattel for comment.
Scrabble, which has been around since 1938, has added hundreds of new eligible words to its dictionary over the years. The game's new rendition comes ahead of National Scrabble Day on Saturday, April 13.
"The game speaks to a trend in younger people who want to avoid competitive games, instead, favoring teamwork and collaboration working towards a fun goal together," current U.K. No. 1 player and 2016 World Scrabble Champion Brett Smitheram told BBC Radio 4 Tuesday, BBC reported.
Meanwhile, some Scrabble skeptics weren't as positive, labeling the new version "Woke Scrabble" and "Scrabble for Snowflakes" on X.
Sure don't want to hurt any of the candy ass snowflake's feelings!!!
Mattel Creates Scrabble Without Scoring for Gen Z
https://www.newsmax.com/us/scrabble-mattel-gen-z/2024/04/09/id/1160350/
After 75 years on the market, Mattel is set to launch a new version of its iconic game Scrabble meant to be better designed for those faint of heart word finders, CNN reported Tuesday.
Scrabble Together, the new iteration, will allow people to play in teams and thereby provide quicker playing time. It will include helper cards and use an easier scoring system, which boils down to simply finishing certain goals. Designed to appeal to new Gen Z players, overall it will be less competitive for game players.
The new version is part of what's now a double-sided model of the longtime board game that will still include the original game for traditional Scrabble players.
"Scrabble has truly stood the test of time as one of the most popular board games in history, and we want to ensure the game continues to be inclusive for all players," Ray Adler, vice president and global head of games for Mattel, said in a statement. "For anyone who's ever thought, Word games aren't for me, or felt a little intimidated by the classic game, Scrabble Together mode is an ideal option."
Features of the newly minted version will also include prompts and clues that can be selected to match a player's chosen challenge level. The winner will be the player who completes 20 challenges, while the losing player will have unsuccessfully used all their helper cards. It differs from Scrabble Junior, which is likened to a crossword puzzle, with letters already provided on the board.
CNN reported Tuesday that Scrabble Together will be available only across Europe, according to a Mattel spokesperson. The new version won't be available in the U.S. due to licensing issues.
Newsmax reached out to Mattel for comment.
Scrabble, which has been around since 1938, has added hundreds of new eligible words to its dictionary over the years. The game's new rendition comes ahead of National Scrabble Day on Saturday, April 13.
"The game speaks to a trend in younger people who want to avoid competitive games, instead, favoring teamwork and collaboration working towards a fun goal together," current U.K. No. 1 player and 2016 World Scrabble Champion Brett Smitheram told BBC Radio 4 Tuesday, BBC reported.
Meanwhile, some Scrabble skeptics weren't as positive, labeling the new version "Woke Scrabble" and "Scrabble for Snowflakes" on X.
7 More States Sue Biden Over Student Loan Relief Plan
Biden still attempting to make all Americans pay for college dead beat's debts. AKA, buying votes on the backs of those that reject this idiot's and his puppet master's attempts to side step the law!!!
https://www.newsmax.com/newsfront/biden-student-loan-education/2024/04/09/id/1160327/
Seven states filed suit on Tuesday against President Joe Biden, Education Secretary Miguel Cardona, and the U.S. Department of Education over Biden’s SAVE income-driven repayment student loan initiative.
Led by Missouri Republican Attorney General Andrew Bailey, the lawsuit is joined by Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, North Dakota, Ohio, and Oklahoma.
"With the stroke of his pen, Joe Biden is attempting to saddle working Missourians with a half trillion dollars in college debt," Bailey said. "The United States Constitution makes clear that the president lacks the authority to unilaterally ‘cancel’ student loan debt for millions of Americans without express permission from Congress."
In a visit to Wisconsin on Monday, Biden detailed a proposal that would cancel at least some debt for more than 30 million Americans. It’s been in the works for months after the Supreme Court rejected Biden’s first try at mass cancellation.
Biden’s first attempt at widespread student loan cancellation would have erased $10,000 for borrowers with yearly incomes of up to $125,000, plus an additional $10,000 if they received federal Pell grants for low-income students. It was estimated to cost $400 billion and cancel at least some student debt for more than 40 million people.
The Supreme Court rejected that plan last year, saying Biden overstepped his authority.
The new plan uses a different legal justification — the Higher Education Act, which allows the secretary of education to waive student loan debt in certain cases. The Education Department has been going through a federal rulemaking process to clarify how the secretary can invoke that authority.
"President Biden from Day One has worked to fix the student loan system and make sure higher education is a ticket to the middle class — not a barrier to opportunity — because he knows that debt cancellation not only benefits borrowers, it benefits the entire economy," read the official statement from the White House.
Bailey said Biden is attempting to thwart the Constitution to suit his political agenda.
"I’m filing suit to halt his brazen attempt to curry favor with some citizens by forcing others to shoulder their debts," Bailey said. "The Constitution will continue to mean something as long as I’m attorney general."
"Just last year, the Supreme Court struck down an attempt by the President to force teachers, truckers, and farmers to pay for the student loan debt of other Americans — to the enormous tune of $430 billion," the lawsuit read. "In striking down that attempt, the Court declared that the President cannot 'unilaterally alter large sections of the American economy.'"
"Undeterred, the President is at it again, even bragging that 'the Supreme Court blocked it. They blocked it. But that didn’t stop me,'" the states added.
In March, 11 states, led by Kansas Attorney General Kris Kobach, filed a lawsuit arguing the new plan is no different than Biden's first effort in loan cancellation which the Supreme Court rejected in June of 2023. Alabama, Alaska, Idaho, Iowa, Louisiana, Montana, Nebraska, South Carolina, Texas, and Utah, joined Kansas in the previous suit.