Wisconsin Socialist Candidate for Governor Francesca Hong Wants to Cancel Thanksgiving, Defund the Police as a Modest Step Towards Abolishing Them Entirely
—Disinformation Expert Ace
She declared that Thanksgiving should be cancelled during the covid lockdowns, but went further: She said it should have been cancelled since its founding in 1621, because it's "painful" to hysterical identity-politics-drenched racists.
"Cancel Thanksgiving. Should have done this in 1621," Hong posted. "If it takes a worldwide pandemic for us to realize we should stop celebrating colonialism and the original superspreader event that killed Indegenous [sic] folx [sic] and women so be it."
CNN's top tranny Kaitlin Collins asked her if she still wanted to cancel Thankgiving.
She danced around the question -- but did not say "no."
I'm a chef, and one of the first meals that I made that was for the community when i was 16 was a Thanksgiving meal. I always think my hospitality background and owning a restaurant for 7-8 years, that bringing folks around the table to share conversation and build community is always a good thing.But Thanksgiving is also a time that's incredibly painful for many people in our communities. So I think there I wanted to make sure people understood there are multiple views, but views can evolve.
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Democrat Congressional Candidate and Soyboy Threatens Man With Knife, Then Gets Knocked the F*** Out
—Disinformation Expert Ace
It's so good you guys.
It's so good.
Update: A news article.
A Democratic congressional candidate running against incumbent U.S. Rep. Jill Tokuda was arrested Saturday after a violent altercation at Keawakapu Beach in South Kihei.Kirill Basin, 40, was charged with two counts of first-degree terroristic threatening, and his bail was set at $1 million.
According to Maui Police Department, the incident began when a 61-year-old man asked Basin to lower the volume of his music. Basin allegedly threatened the man by implying he had a firearm and would shoot the victim's wife.
A bystander intervened, leading to a physical altercation during which Basin allegedly armed himself with a knife and threatened multiple people before throwing it into the ocean. The knife was later recovered by police.
Video of the incident was widely shared on social media, including by the accounts HHHNewz and MaileMalia369.
Prior Arrests And Restraining Orders
Police say Basin has been arrested for other incidents of assault and property damage since May.
Several people have taken out temporary restraining orders against him, including Maui County Council member Thomas Cook, who said he was worried about his personal safety and for his staff after Basin disrupted a meeting in May.
Cook said Basin "became aggressive and confrontational" and "threatened violence against the police" and a council ambassador.
Two days later, on May 29, reports circulated that Basin "brandished a weapon in a county office building in a confrontation with county employees."
He thinks he's badass because he got an ugly tribal tattoo.
Here's the end of the exchange.
Below, the longer video, showing the build-up to the knockout.
By the way, this punch is... so-so. This guy is a complete pussy for going down like a sack of lube over such a love-tap.
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Man Who Murdered Father and Attempted to Murder Mother But Let Out of Jail by Democrats Charged With Setting Three Huge Fires in Washington
—Disinformation Expert Ace
Endless sympathy for the devil, because they see themselves in the devil.
A Spokane, Washington, man was arrested and charged with setting the largest of three wildfires that crews have been battling in the region this week.Aaron F. Farinacci, 37, was arrested Monday and charged with suspicion of first-degree arson in connection with the Old Trails Fire, according to the Spokane County Sheriff's Office, the Associated Press reported. Farinacci was previously convicted of felony manslaughter in Arizona.
He shot his father to death because his father told this lunatic man-child to do the dishes. He also shot his mother.
Democrats allowed him to plead down to manslaughter.
...Farinacci was again identified when major crimes detectives began investigating reports and footage from body cameras, which indicated the fire started near where the witness had seen a man by the side of the road. Farinacci had matches and a butane lighter when he was arrested, Nowles said. He is scheduled to appear in court on Tuesday.
Matt Van Swol @mattvanswol🚨#BREAKING: A man who m*rdered his own FATHER because he was asked to WASH DISHES... is now accused of setting a fire that burned roughly 700 homes to the ground and forced 65,000 people to flee.
Yes, he k*lled his dad over DISHES and he wasn't in prison.
His name is Aaron Farinacci. He's 37.
Back in 2010, in Mesa, Arizona, Farinacci got into an argument with his father, because his father asked him to do the dishes.
So he shot him de*d.
Then he pointed the gun at his own mother.
Then he shot himself and survived.
He was charged with first-degree M*RDER... but that got knocked down, and he pleaded guilty to mansl*ughter.
Now fast forward to this week in Spokane, Washington.
The Old Trails Fire tore through neighborhoods north of the city. It destroyed around 700 structures, most of them homes.
As many as 65,000 people were forced to evacuate. Investigators say it was intentionally set.
And they've arrested Aaron Farinacci.
Police say he had waterproof matches and a butane lighter on him and found him kneeling in the grass right where the fire started.
The sheriff says he's been contacted before for "arson-related behavior."
Here's the part that will make you sick.
On the DAY the fire started, a witness reported a nervous man in the trees.
Police actually stopped Farinacci a mile away, questioned him... and let him GO.
Now 700 families may be staring at the ashes of everything they built.
But here's who got him: ordinary citizens.
Neighbors who saw something wrong and refused to stay quiet.
The prosecutor said that this case was cracked by "vigilant citizens" who spoke up.
THANK GOD for people who pay attention.
He's charged with first-degree arson, held on a $1 million bond.
GOOD.
How does a man plead guilty to k*lling his own father... and end up free, with a lighter, next to 65,000 people's homes?
Somebody needs to answer for that.
WE DO NOT HAVE TO LIVE LIKE THIS.
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DOJ Charges 19 Defendants in Philadelphia Medicare/Medicaid Fraud Scheme
—Disinformation Expert Ace
Our government budget is 90% fraud.
The specific fraud type is yet again a Democrat creation. The Democrats wanted to pay people for "home health care" -- basically a non-medical-professional person dropping by someone's house and getting paid for it.
It turns out that in 96% of the cases being charged here for fraud, the exact illness the "patients" were supposedly being treated for is "illness unspecified."
Yeah I'll bet it's unspecified.
Why? Because if you're defrauding the government, it's easier to say "I don't know why I'm sick" then get an actual diagnosis from a doctor.
Not that you can't pay a corrupt doctor to submit phony diagnoses. That's a cornerstone of this industry the left has created to steal money from actual workers.
But an actual illness could be expected to heal at some point, or kill the "patient," and it's just easier to claim you have some unknown, unidentifiable malady, who knows what it could be. All you know for sure is that you need the government to pay your husband $50,000 to "care" for you.
DOJ charges 19 defendants in alleged $4 million Philadelphia Medicare and Medicaid fraud schemeIn one case, a Medicaid recipient filed claims for extensive home health assistance while also working as a carpenter, prosecutors said.
Federal and Pennsylvania authorities charged 19 defendants who are accused of participating in a $4 million scheme involving Medicare and Medicaid claims.Among the defendants are home health care company owners, their employees and Medicaid recipients, Fox News reported.
Pennsylvania Attorney General Dave on Sunday announced a plea agreement involving a defendant in a separate case in which 21 people were charged with fraud involving more than $1.7 million in claims.
The defendants are alleged to have billed Medicaid for home health services while they were incarcerated, hospitalized, working other jobs or traveling overseas. In one case, a Medicaid recipient filed claims for extensive home health assistance while also working as a carpenter, prosecutors said.
Other defendants are alleged to have submitted overlapping or impossible work hours, such as care that exceeded 24 hours in a single day.
Eric Daugherty @EricLDaugh1h
🚨 HOLY SMOKES. In a massive revelation of fraud in Pennsylvania, Dr. Oz just confirmed that over 96% PERCENT of personal care claims are "illness unspecified..."
...which makes them UNTRACKABLE
The average payments per beneficiary: "More than $50,000. Think about that. PER PERSON. FAR above what's expected."
"Over 96% of personal care claims here are 'illness unspecified.' That's how they're titled, so we can't track them....can't possibly find the fraud because people aren't telling us what they're doing!"
"All of this points to FRAUD."
QThestorm
@17QStorm
🚨96% OF PENNSYLVANIA'S PERSONAL CARE CLAIMS ARE LITERALLY UNTRACKABLEDr. Oz just dropped the hammer live.
Over 96% of the claims are coded "illness unspecified." No diagnosis. No details. Nothing the system can audit.
Average payout per beneficiary: more than $50,000. Far above anything that makes sense.
He said it straight: "That's how they're titled, so we can't track them... can't possibly find the fraud because people aren't telling us what they're doing."
"All of this points to FRAUD."
This is how the machine loots taxpayers in broad daylight -- hide the illness, cash the check, repeat.
Trump's CMS is finally shining the light. The swamp hates it.
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Stop Me If You Heard This One Before, Redux: "Deal" to Open the Strait of Hormuz "Imminent"?
—Disinformation Expert Ace
Supposedly. Scott Bessent and Marco Rubio say a deal is imminent-adjacent.
This doesn't sound like a bona fide deal to me. This sounds like more duplicitous Iranian bullshit, still insisting they get to control the Strait and charges "tariffs" on oil ships, which they then use to buy missiles to shoot at Americans:
Although Bessent insisted a future deal would include "freedom of movement," a Reuters report published on Tuesday morning said Iran was expecting to maintain control of inbound traffic in the Strait of Hormuz in a deal being negotiated with Oman, citing an Iranian source. Outbound traffic would take a route between the two countries, and Iran would maintain oversight on those traffic lanes as well.Despite Iran's past insistence they were not directly negotiating with the U.S., Trump said on Monday the talks were "going on right now." The president said he called off strikes over the weekend, which he claimed would have been "harder than any attack... since World War II." Trump said the talks were "backed" by other countries, including Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates and Qatar. "I want to give them every last chance before decapitation," he said later.
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The Morning Rant 8/4/2026 [Doof]
—Open Blogger
CBD looked deep down on the bench for a fill-in for this morning's rant and found me. OK then - I'll give it a go!
I've been noticing a growing number of articles and X posts lately about the increasing amount of "safety" cameras (officially known as "license plate readers" or LPRs) being deployed around the country. CBD brought up this topic in his Morning Rant on 7/9/26 (remember - don't comment on old threads). This is another huge part of the surveillance state in which we currently live.
The Fourth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution says "The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized."
Does the current surveillance state constitute "unreasonable searches and seizures"? Sure seems like it to me.
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Mid-Morning Art Thread [From the archives]
—CBD
Rolla
Henri Gervex
This was sold by Sotheby's in 1984 for far more than expected, no doubt because of the marvelous brushwork on the lamp and the dress.
Their description is interesting, and worth a read. Here is a bit of it....
Taking as his inspiration the eponymous poem of 1833 by Alfred de Musset, Gervex transposes the narrative into fashionable contemporary Paris, signalled by the wrought iron railings and view of the Haussmannised cityscape beyond, the grand boulevard backdrop recognized by some viewers as the fashionable Boulevard des Italiens. Jacques Rolla, a well-born bourgeois, has decided to spend his final night with the prostitute Marion, having squandered his fortune on a life of debauchery. The scene depicts the morning after: while Marion lies asleep, Rolla broods on his fate and contemplates suicide by jumping from the window. The model for Marion is based on several women - the actress Ellen Andrée, a favorite of Renoir, Manet and Degas (she is the sitter in Degas' L'Absinthe of 1876) posed for the body, but demanded that a different model be used for the face.
That little comment about Paris being "Haussmannised" is a pomposity, signalling that the writer is one of the elite who knows who Baron Haussmann was. Except...every Parisian knows who he was, and it's not that big a deal. It's like a New Yorker knowing who Robert Moses was. So? He was an urban planner who changed some of NYC, some for the good and some definitely not. But it's a hometown detail, and not a signal of one's intelligence.
And in the "bourgeois" I get a whiff of Marxist dialectic, which deserves a whiff of grapeshot.
But I digress.
Manet, Degas, Stevens, the young, the old, everyone trooped in front of the canvas which was already famous before it entered the Salon…However, hardly had it been hung on the wall when the surintendant des Beaux- Arts, Turquet, gave the brutal order that it be removed on grounds of immorality, with the complicity of the Salon jury…that’s how an art dealer offered to exhibit Rolla at his shop on the Chaussée-d’Antin… I accepted, as you can imagine, with gratitude, and for three months there was indeed an uninterrupted procession of visitors with a queue of carriages backed up to the Opera.
-- Henri Gervex
The Morning Report — 8/ 4 /26
—J.J. Sefton
Good morning kids. Early post this morning as I have a medical appointment and a long drive ahead...
As I, CBD and others have discussed on these pages and elsewhere while depriving or at the very least delaying Iran from obtaining nuclear weapons will preserve civilization and save countless millions of lives at least in the short term. However long that period of time may be, because Islam was is and always will be on the march to conquer the world and quite likely bring about armageddon to do so, as has always been the case with the Shi'ite part of that blood thirsty creed since it is a central tenet of its philosophy.
And so with that in mind, my support for President Trump's efforts thus far in getting us to at least the point of buying us some time is unwavering and remains so. And yet here we are today with the Mullahs still in power, albeit their military might severely degraded. But the question for President Trump is what is the endgame, or more to the point how are we to go about actually achieving that endgame, which I have to assume is permanently denying Iran the ability to threaten its neighbors with nuclear weapons or garden variety terrorism that it has unleashed on the world since Jimmy Carter helped birth the cancer emanating from Tehran in 1979, pig-piss be upon him for all eternity for that alone.
. . .“the call-off comes, as President Trump said Saturday, the framework for a new deal featuring a reopening of the Strait of Hormuz and denuclearization for Iran has been reached. The president did not rule out further military action if talks fall through.” Of course. As he has so many times before.Trump said: “You see, you see how it is. We’re ready to go anytime we want. Would I rather make a deal? I’m not looking to kill people. Because people die, a lot of people die, and we don’t want that.” Of course. No one does. But all this means is that more people are going to die at the hands of the Islamic Republic of Iran.
Meanwhile, just as predictably, “Iran’s foreign minister said today direct talks with the U.S. are not underway.” Of course. They never are, if the Islamic Republic is to be believed, even as Trump insists that Iran’s shadowy leaders are begging and pleading to make a deal. . . I’m old enough to remember, especially since it was just a few weeks ago, when Trump was excoriating the leaders of the Islamic Republic of Iran as “scum,” and saying that it was useless to try to negotiate with them. What did the Saudis and Qataris and Emiratis tell him to convince him otherwise? Or maybe he needed no convincing, since it wasn’t long before he was dismissing them that Trump himself was praising Iran’s leaders, and suggesting that since they were so calm and reasonable, as opposed to those whom they had replaced, that regime change had been effectively accomplished, even if the regime still bore the same.
So what is this really all about? Is it merely headline-grabbing in an attempt to mollify the electorate in the run-up to the midterms which really are just around the corner, or what the hell else is it? Honestly, I have no idea what our famed deal-maker-in-chief is thinking. For sure, Donald Trump has a hell of a huge ego and cannot abide the thought of being seen on the losing end of anything. And I have no doubt that he is a patriot and has our nation's best interests at heart so that gives me some measure of comfort. But of course the situation is fluid and has all too often been the case, those who have his ear do not. So, as he himself is wont to say we'll just have to wait and see, but I'm awfully tired of that. The mullahs have got to go, forever. And that's been the situation since long before President Trump. For almost 1,500 years but who's counting, right?
And on a lighter note, I'll leave you with this amusing link for breakfast.
Well when I saw this I immediately thought what a a perfect metaphor for Socialism. You get up at the crack of dawn, plant your ass in a cold river use your skills and wiles to reel in a big fish only to have a huge dangerous beast of a smelly Commie bear grab it from you as you wet yourself in fear that if you don't hand it over and beat a hasty retreat you'll be mauled to death.
Yup, there are your Democrats and Socialists since they are now one and the same as you can see from the links and from history.
Yup, there are your Democrats and Socialists since they are now one and the same as you can see from the links and from history.
What's more of an existential threat, a potential Muslim nuke (hell Pakistan already has them) or the Guerrillas in our midst known as the Left.
Damn calling them Commie is now like blowing kisses at the bastards!
Like all good Marxists, these “ends-justify-the-means” leftists show an utter lack of principle: if two new red states wished to join the U.S., they would lecture us on the sanctity of a 50-state union. If they were a permanent Senate minority, they would, as in the past, honor the filibuster. If they had lost the popular vote in two recent elections but won the Electoral College, they would praise the wisdom of the Founders. If they had their Earl Warren-era majority again, they would laud the continuity of the 157-year-old nine-justice Supreme Court. . . Recently, on cable news, the national co-chair of the Democratic Socialists of America, Megan Romer, was asked a series of questions about her group’s published agenda. Far from denying its communist radicalism, she gleefully confirmed it all—from destroying the border to ending prisons, the military, and the police. . . Recently, on cable news, the national co-chair of the Democratic Socialists of America, Megan Romer, was asked a series of questions about her group’s published agenda. Far from denying its communist radicalism, she gleefully confirmed it all—from destroying the border to ending prisons, the military, and the police. . . In sum, to make a new socialist America, you must first destroy everything that made Americans and all that they hold dear.
If we do not stop them we will be facing mass graves. The only question is will they be ours or theirs? Either way not something I ever anticipated I'd have to contemplate. Oh well.
Have a good day,
- ABOVE THE FOLD, BREAKING, NOTEWORTHY
- Victor Davis Hanson: The farther today's Democratic Socialists advance, the less they resemble reformers—and the more they embrace policies long associated with communism.
Is ‘Communist’ No Longer a Slur?
- Glenn Reynolds: But while I’d be happy to see Fauci in the dock, his reputational downfall can’t be the end of the COVID reckoning. . . we should never again allow a single bureaucrat or a small group to exercise the sweeping and largely unchecked institutional power that Fauci wielded for decades.
Fauci’s follies — time to toss the ‘science is settled’ groupthink
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Daily Tech News 4 August 2026
—Pixy Misa
Top Story- Who is legally liable for Anthropic and OpenAI accidentally murdering eleven trillion people? It's complicated. (Tech Crunch)
Oops, sorry, that was next week's question. Though the answer is the same as this week.
Because corpses can't sue.
- Meanwhile Apple finally fixed Siri, only to find nobody cares. (Tech Crunch)
Sudo make me a sandwich.
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Monday Overnight Open Thread (8/3/26)
—Misanthropic Humanitarian
Quote I"We're not meeting the moment!" James Carville
Quote II“One of the new, soon-to-be Democratic congresspeople, Darlesia Chavalier, supports seizing all properties from landlords and said, ‘Seize the means of production.’ Mamdani has said ‘The end goal is seizing the means of production.’ I think they want to seize the means of production.”
“Now, maybe you missed that in school or missed school altogether, but THAT'S COMMUNISM.” Bill Maher
Quote III“Important announcement: I am upping my offer, $10 million dollars for a head-to-head basketball game between the defending WNBA champion Las Vegas Aces and a boy’s high school state title team of my choice.If the Aces beat my team, I will give them $10 million.” Clay Travis
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Monday Cafe
—Disinformation Expert Ace
Saxer Lucke ridge, Appenzellerland, Switzerland
@marc.hennige
Ducklings enjoy an improvised waterslide.
Rescuing cats from a flood.
Cat enjoys belly rubs.
Puppies growl a warning but they don't mean it.
Strike an even more provocative pose.
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Quick Hits
—Disinformation Expert Ace
Dr. Ashish Jha on COVID-19: 'It probably was a lab leak'Former Biden White House COVID-19 Response Coordinator, Dr. Ashish Jha, tells Dana Bash, "When I went into the White House, my view was this was almost surely a natural outbreak, maybe a lab leak. Based on information I learned and based on information I've seen, I have come to conclude that it is more likely to have been a lab leak."
Also CNN, who got everything wrong on covid: RFKJr. targets Fauci and pushes medical misinformation in fiery CNN interview
The concept of "Maybe you should just sit this one out" never occurs to a narcissist deluded with a self-conception as an Expert Genius.
Do you hate Ken Jennings, the leftwing lunatic and former Jeopardy champ who the show made their host for some reason, making viewers like me permanently stop watching the show?
Well, you and transgenders have something in common. For some reason, trannies have decided that no one is allowed to read the New York Times any more. I guess maybe the NYT wrote one or two articles that suggested their mental illness wasn't the greatest so now you're not allowed to read it.
Anyway, Ken Jennings bragged about playing some NYT word-game and the trannies have been dragging him for days on BlueSky.
DHS has deported almost 1.5 million illegals in just the past year.
Andrew Kolvet, spokesman for Turning Point USA, spoke with DHS and confirmed that more than 1.4 million illegal aliens have been deported within the last 12 months. When it comes to the housing crisis, the bad job market, the crime wave in urban areas, and other economic and social problems, we find that illegal immigration has exacerbated or caused them all. AdvertisementKolvet posted on X on Sunday, "Just spoke to a source at DHS. A new report on deportations for the last 12 months just dropped which includes all deportation flights (commercial + government planes): Total alien forced departures of 1,461,529. The last 7 day average of forced removals: 4,291/day (believed to be a new all-time high)". He clarified, "This does not include self deportations."
There are up to 30 million illegal aliens in the United States, but it is difficult to get an exact number precisely because they didn't go through vetting to enter our country, and Democrats are not interested in being honest with statistics on the subject. Indeed, since somewhere between nine million and 20 million illegal aliens entered just under Joe Biden, it is possible that more than 30 million illegal aliens have entered the United States within the last half a century. The point is, we don't know for certain what the numbers are, but we do know they are massive. That is why mass deportations are so important.
Gunther Eagleman @GuntherEagleman🚨 1,645 Arrests. Every. Single. Day.
July just became the biggest month in ICE history, nearly 51,000 illegal aliens taken off the streets.
June set the record.
July shattered it.
Thousands of brand-new agents are now flooding American cities because President Trump actually funded the fight.
This is what real enforcement looks like.
No amnesty.
No catch-and-release.
No excuses.Mass deportations are no longer a campaign promise.
They're happening. Keep going. Full throttle!
Cornyn and Tills have finally agreed to vote in favor of Todd Blanche as AG -- but they demanded Trump end his weaponization reimbursement fund for their vote.
Sens. John Cornyn, R-Texas, and Thom Tillis, R-N.C., issued a joint statement on Monday, confirming their plans to support acting Attorney General Todd Blanche for confirmation to the post.
The senators had sought written confirmation from the Department of Justice that it would abandon an "anti-weaponization" fund that it had briefly established as part of a settlement with the IRS over the leak of President Donald Trump's tax returns. Blanche obliged.
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22 of the 27 EU Member States Demand an Emergency Summit to Deal With the Spanish Government's Attempt to Hack the Population of the Continent
—Disinformation Expert Ace
The left's playbook is to engage in outrageous abuse of the populations they dominate but then demand people "be nice" and respectful about the massive and alien Cultural Enrichment they impose on society.
It works... until it doesn't work. Until they show their ass too much.
Until they get a little too brazen and a little too clear about their agenda to destroy civilization itself:
Visegrád 24
@visegrad24
BREAKING:The prime ministers of 22 out of 27 EU member states have written a joint letter to the EU, demanding an emergency summit over the invasion of illegal migrants in Ceuta.
They are outraged by the recent ruling of the Spanish Supreme Court:
🇮🇹 Italy
🇩🇪 Germany
🇩🇰 Denmark
🇫🇮 Finland
🇸🇪 Sweden
🇦🇹 Austria
🇧🇪 Belgium
🇳🇱 Netherlands
🇧🇬 Bulgaria
🇨🇾 Cyprus
🇸🇮 Slovenia
🇭🇷 Croatia
🇨🇿 Czechia
🇸🇰 Slovakia
🇪🇪 Estonia
🇱🇻 Latvia
🇱🇹 Lithuania
🇫🇮 Finland
🇬🇷 Greece
🇭🇺 Hungary
🇵🇱 Poland
🇷🇴 Romania
France, Ireland and Portugal were the only larger EU states that didn't sign the letter.
From David Strom: Spain's socialist president is pretending to do something to forestall all of Europe putting up borders around Spain and effectively ejecting it from the Union.
It's all a lie, though. He will do nothing serious.
This is the plan.
Like Iran, he's just playing for time while he works on his nukes.
Pedro Sánchez is a socialist, so none of us should be surprised that he is lying when he tells everybody that the situation in Ceuta is back under control.It is anything but.
Now it's true that most of the people who stormed the border have filtered back into Morocco, but about 20-25 percent are sticking it out and making clear that they have no interest in going back home.
It's also true that the border is not secure. If people decide to cross it, they can. It's just a bit harder.
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CNN's Dana Bash: How Dare You Say That CNN Attacked Anyone Who Dissented With Fauci and Deliberately Spread Fear for Ratings (and Access)
—Disinformation Expert Ace
She says this while pushing fear about measles outbreaks.
BTW, she's highly selective about which outbreaks she chooses to freak out over. When monkeypox was spreading like wildfire, Biden's health advisor refused to even tell gay men not to go to anonymous gangbang/urination parties, and Dana Bash thought that was Sound Science.
But measles? That must be Trump's fault.
RFK Jr torches CNN anchor Dana Bash for 'press malpractice' over COVID coverage in explosive clash Kennedy told Bash she was 'scaring people' and accused her of punishing people who distrusted Fauci during the pandemic
HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. told Dana Bash she was "part of the problem" and accused CNN of frightening viewers during the COVID-19 pandemic. Bash pushed back and defended the network's coverage of federal health guidance.Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. accused CNN anchor Dana Bash of COVID-era media malpractice Sunday, saying she failed to challenge public health authorities and helped marginalize dissenters during the pandemic.
"You were part of the problem. There was absolute press malpractice. Your job -- your job -- is a fierce skepticism toward authority, and you weren't doing that," Kennedy said on "State of the Union."
"You were beating up on people who were dissenting," the HHS secretary added.
Kennedy leveled the attack after Bash asked how HHS would prepare for another pandemic and tried to move him away from re-litigating the prior federal response.
Bash pushed back, saying she was trying to ask how Kennedy would prevent another public health crisis.
"I also don't want to use this interview to allow you to say things that aren't entirely true," Bash said. "You're talking about therapeutics. Fine. It is also factually true that the COVID vaccine worked. The COVID vaccine prevented deaths. There is data, upon data, upon data."
CDC and Harvard researchers estimated in 2023 that primary vaccination could have prevented at least 232,000 deaths among unvaccinated U.S. adults.
After Bash acknowledged the frightening nature of the pandemic and said officials made mistakes, Kennedy accused CNN of contributing to public fear.
"You were scaring people," Kennedy said.
Bash asked why he believed CNN had frightened viewers, prompting Kennedy to point to its pandemic chyrons.
"Because that was the job of CNN," Kennedy said.
Bash said the network had been covering government officials, including President Donald Trump's daily White House briefings.
"We were listening to the leaders in this country, including the president, who had a daily press conference explaining what was going on," Bash said.
...
Kennedy later accused Bash of punishing people who distrusted Fauci, claiming he lied about masks, social distancing, natural immunity, vaccine transmission and COVID-19's origins.
"We know that Anthony Fauci, who was the expert, was lying about everything," Kennedy said. "He was lying. And you were punishing people for not trusting the experts."
SilentPatriot47 @ShadowPatriotUS🚨 THE CLIP THAT BROKE THE INTERNET
Dana Bash: "You're the HHS Secretary and you're leading to vaccine hesitancy."
RFK Jr.: "Do you see your job as ending vaccine hesitancy... or telling the truth?"
Bash: "The truth is that there is study after study..."
RFK Jr.: "You're repeating it like a parrot. I've actually read the science. Let's debate the science."
Bash: "I'm not debating this with you."
RFK Jr.: "Of course you won't. Because all you know how to do is repeat what you're told and say 'trust the experts.'
That's what you did during COVID.
Now we know Fauci was lying about everything -- about masks, social distancing, natural immunity, vaccine transmission. He was lying... and you were punishing people for not trusting the expert."
Kennedy also asserted that the government took away our right to free speech during this period, which permitted Fauci's mismanagement and lies to take even more lives.
During an appearance on "State of the Union" that Bash herself described as "contentious," Kennedy argued that Fauci, who served as the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases during the Covid-19 pandemic, was to blame for the millions of Americans who were sickened or killed by the respiratory virus.Bash challenged Kennedy's assertions -- pointing out that public health experts say it was a combination of factors that led to such high death rates, including gaps in health care and misinformation -- and noted that Fauci served under President Donald Trump in the first Trump administration. Still, Kennedy held firm that it was Fauci who set the Covid response.
"Experts say the experts were right and even when they were wrong they were just great guys doing the best job anyone could."
What would we do without experts?
"Anthony Fauci was mismanaging the Covid pandemic and was doing it under the Biden administration. President Trump wanted to end the lockdowns," Kennedy said.
The exchange grew tense as Bash pressed Kennedy on how the nation should prepare for a future pandemic.
"I mean, I think we did virtually everything wrong the last time," Kennedy said, adding that the "primary obligation" in any future health crisis must be to "protect our constitutional rights."
"You're talking about rights, and I'm asking about a potential public health crisis that is coming," Bash replied.
Dana Bash can't wait for total government lockdowns again. Her cooter is vibrating over the possibility.
"One of the mistakes we made in the last time was suppressing those rights," Kennedy said. "So people weren't being heard. Doctors who are saying you're doing it wrong were being marginalized and vilified."As Bash attempted to pivot, Kennedy accused her and CNN of being "part of the problem."
"Your job is a fierce skepticism toward authority," he said before accusing Bash of attacking him.
"I'm not attacking you. I'm asking questions about how to prevent the next pandemic," Bash replied. "But I also don't want to use this interview to allow you to say things that aren't entirely true. You're talking about therapeutics -- fine. It is also factually true that the Covid vaccine worked. The Covid vaccine prevented deaths. There is data upon data upon data."
Kennedy, however, dismissed those studies.
"You are saying nonsense. You are saying something that you cannot show me a single study that says that," Kennedy said, accusing Bash of "scaring people" about Covid "because that was the job of CNN."
"We were listening to the leaders in this country, including the president, who had a daily press conference explaining what was going on and trying to listen," Bash said before shifting over to the current measles outbreak.
Bash asked Kennedy if he accepted some responsibility for the current measles outbreak, labeling him as "one of the leading voices questioning vaccine efficacy."
"Absolutely not," Kennedy responded before again laying the blame at Fauci's feet. "The reason we're having a measles outbreak is because of the Covid lockdowns, because people didn't -- children during that period did not get vaccinated."
Bash then challenged Kennedy to stare into the camera and vouch for measles vaccines -- he did vouch for the vaccines -- before asking about researching a link between vaccines and autism.
Kennedy responded by discussing concerns around consuming Tylenol while pregnant, appearing to echo Trump's unsubstantiated claims of an unproven link between acetaminophen and autism. At that, Bash appeared visibly annoyed.
"You're rolling your eyes, Dana," Kennedy said.
"I am because I don't want to have you use our air to say this," she replied.
"Our air."
"Yeah you know, you probably don't understand this because you're not a scientist," Kennedy said.
"Neither are you," Bash shot back.
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Tuq'r Qarlson, Marjorie Trailer-Queen, Thomas Massie, and Joe Kent Meet and Announce New Party for Nazis and Lunatic Conspiracy Theorists
—Disinformation Expert Ace
I wonder if there's any chance J.D. Vance will stop courting Tuq'r Qarlson and his audience now that he's announced he's running against him.
Probably not.
MTG, Massie get onboard with Tucker Carlson plan to launch third party, 'movement has come'Greene's photo featured the Republicans who have been sidelined over their opposition to Trump's agenda and suggests discussions on a third party are continuing.
Former Republican Majorie Taylor Greene posted a photo this weekend of herself, Tucker Carlson and Rep. Thomas Massie, R-Ky., along with the statement that "the movement has come."Last month, Carlson said he was planning to create a new political party, the Columbia Journalism Review reported.
Greene's photo, posted on X on Saturday, featured the three, who have been sidelined over their opposition to President Trump's agenda and suggests discussions on a third party are continuing.
Plus Joe Kunt.
"We said no more foreign wars and we meant it and supported Donald Trump because he made that promise. But he's betrayed us all. Our commitment is America First for all Americans, right, left, and center," Greene stated in the post.
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Ultrapartisan Conspiracy Theorist Rosie O'Donnell Confirms She Will Return to The View As ABC's Lawyers Insist the Show Is a "Bona Fide News Product"
—Disinformation Expert Ace
The FCC is investigating ABC's violation of the rules of equal time. The law requires broadcast networks to offer equal time to all candidates and all political sides if they use their taxpayer-granted airwaves to agitate for any candidate or party.
An exception is made for "bona fide news programs," whose political agitations aren't subject to equal time provisions. (But they should be!)
ABC does not want to give Trump 30-120 minutes per week equal time to offset the daily attacks made on him by The View, so they continue arguing, absurdly, that it's a "bona fide news program."
And just to prove how bona fide this news program is, they've rehired disgusting hag Rosie O'Donnell.
Rosie O'Donnell will be back on "The View" for Season 30.The former co-host confirmed her return on Monday's episode of the "Tangle With Kyle Ridley" podcast, saying she will take part in the show's 30th-anniversary special.
The 64-year-old plans to take part "in whatever way they want" her "just as a guest."
She added, "They're bringing back all the hosts, I think. And, you know, I'm pretty proud of that show, what it's become and how it really speaks to the people and to politics."
O'Donnell, notably, co-hosted the ABC talk show for Seasons 10 and 18.
In addition to an infamous on-air spat with colleague Elisabeth Hasselbeck that led to her initial 2007 exit, the comedian had a "tense" dynamic with Whoopi Goldberg before her 2015 departure.
"I admired Whoopi, wanted to be on her team, had respect for her and I expected we would be like Scottie Pippen and Michael Jordan passing the ball back and forth, shooting and leading the team to victory," she recalled on Monday. "And that's not exactly what happened."
She speculated that Goldberg, 70, "felt encroached upon in some way," which may have been why their time together "didn't go so well."
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"It also was a show at the time that was run by a man. A show created by a woman, for women, about women, and the man was deciding what we should talk about," the Daytime Emmy winner pointed out, which didn't "sit right with her.
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O'Donnell has opened up about her short time on "The View" before, including a 2023 chat with Brooke Shields about why co-hosting is something she would not "ever do again."
At the time, she said, "It's not the best use of my talent to get in a show where I have to argue and defend basic principles of humanity and kindness."
Oh Lord. I know you're all looking at the part about "defending humanity and kindness" but the really absurd part to my mind is "my talent."
Here are just a few of the many, many uncountably many times the "bona fide news program" called The View openly and absurdly electioneered for the far left:
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Update: Trump Blasts "Duplicitous" Iran Leadership
—Disinformation Expert Ace
Trump was ready, he says, to unleash a bombing campaign on Iran that would be the most destructive since World War II, but Iran and some Gulf States told him that Iran had accepted the basic framework of a "deal" and so Trump cancelled the attack.
And Iran says "We never agreed to any framework."
It's like the sun coming up and going down every day.
President Donald Trump has called off a major strike against Iran, claiming to have reached a framework for a deal with the regime."The U.S.A. is locked and loaded and ready to go against the Islamic Republic of Iran, at levels of Military Terror, Strength, and Power not seen since World War II. Despite this, we have just been asked by Iran, and other Middle Eastern Countries, to hold off any attack in that the perimeters of a deal has been agreed to," President Trump announced in a Saturday evening post on Truth Social.
The tentative deal includes "Immediate, Complete, and Total OPENING OF THE HORMUZ STRAIT," the president continued.
The pause in the military operation was "subject to being able to rapidly make a DEAL," he warned.
It's the Groundhog's Day War:
Tehran talks tough, denies agreement reachedTehran rejected President Trump's latest peace overture, renewing its threats against the U.S.
"Iran has reached no agreement regarding the reopening of the Strait of Hormuz, the semi-official Fars news agency reports, quoting a member of Tehran's negotiating team," Sky News (UK) reported.
Update: Trump blasts "duplicitous" Iranian leadership.
An irate President Donald Trump on Monday fumed over "duplicitous" Iranian leadership, after he called off planned strikes on Iran to resume peace talks, only for Iran to deny plans to meet."Iranian Leadership is unbelievably duplicitous! They ask for a meeting, some would say 'beg,' talks begin, with more scheduled in the immediate future, and they say, openly and proudly, that they're not having any discussions, that nothing is being talked about, and they're only dealing with 'Oman,'" he posted on Truth Social.
"They then go on to give their usual blather in saying, the Strait of Hormuz will be operated powerfully by them, when it is already completely controlled by the United States Navy and our 'Blockade' or, as some say, 'The United States Wall of Steel!" he wen ton. "Nothing gets through to Iran, unless we want it to, and nothing will get through, unless a Deal, or Total Surrender, is accomplished."
Trump's remarks follow Iran denying plans to meet with American negotiators on Monday. The president had anticipated a formal resumption of peace talks.
I heard someone say "Iran has never won a war, but never lost a negotiation."
Trump needs to hear that.
Politico: NJ Democrat Officials Anonymously Admit Far More Illegals Are Registered to Vote Than the Governor "Mikie" Is Admitting; Some Think the Real Number Exceeds Trump's Estimate of 35,000
—Disinformation Expert Ace
The cleanest elections in the world, at least when Democrats win.
When they lose, Russia hacked the election.
In May, a bipartisan duo of New Jersey state senators introduced a simple piece of legislation that got little public attention.It would add one sentence to the state's automatic voter registration law to make sure someone who indicates they aren't a U.S. citizen won't be prompted to register to vote.
The bill turned out to be extremely prescient.
That's because Democratic Gov. Mikie Sherrill disclosed last week that a "software error" at the Motor Vehicles Commission led to roughly 6,600 noncitizens getting added to the state's voter rolls. About 400 of them voted, she said.
Her disclosure set off a political uproar that's resonated well beyond New Jersey, feeding into the Trump administration's push for voter restrictions and setting up a legal battle with the Department of Justice.
But it also exposed an open secret about New Jersey's so-called motor voter law that officials and political operatives have known for years: There's little to stop noncitizens from registering to vote if they want to, or even by mistake. And election officials and campaign consultants from both parties believe that the number of noncitizens being added to the voter rolls is significantly higher than the 6,600 Sherrill cited -- because the state has been automatically registering drivers since 2018, and her figure covers only June 2023 to June 2024.
"It's the honor system," said Hunterdon County Board of Elections Administrator Beth Thompson, who also leads the New Jersey Association of Election Officials.
It's unclear how many noncitizens have registered to vote in New Jersey beyond the one-year period Sherrill cited. The Trump administration gave a preliminary estimate of around 35,000. While New Jersey political insiders don't know if that's true, they're almost certain it's more than 6,600. Some speculated it could be slightly more. Others said it could be even above the Trump administration's estimates.
But Democrats and Republicans alike agreed that the statewide voter database is a mess, and that noncitizen registrants are just one category of people who shouldn't be on it, like people who left New Jersey without notifying election officials and whose names linger until periodic clean ups of the voter rolls.
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Thompson, the elections administrator, said county elections officials check each registration against a state database using Social Security numbers or driver's license numbers to confirm their identity, and that the information doesn't belong to people who have died. But noncitizens can obtain both forms of identification. "It does not validate any kind of citizenship," Thompson said.
So they have literally no checking of citizenship at all. At best, they check to see if you have a social security number, but illegals can apply for and get those, too.
...But the existence of the bill, which has yet to advance in the full Senate or Assembly, suggests lawmakers were at least somewhat aware of the system's flaws. (A new law passed during the lame duck legislative session did something similar to Beach and Corrado's bill, but only for those applying for REAL IDs).
Officials admit they have no idea how many illegals are enrolled to vote -- but they're totally sure it's not a problem and never effects any elections, not a single bingle one.
Hello! Here we go again, as a gay robot once said.
THE MORNING RANT: “Church Ladies of the Left” – AWFLs Are the Fallen Angels of Puritan Christianity
—Buck Throckmorton
I have periodically started to write a piece discussing how woke, white women (AWFLs) are the “Church Ladies of the Left.” More specifically, my thesis was going to be that when this type of judgmental harridan was involved in a local church and imposing her righteousness on just one congregation, it might have been rough on the pastor and her co-parishioners, but at least society as a whole wasn’t being tormented by this class of person.
From my own childhood circle of church friends, there are several real-life examples of girls who were prissy “Junior Church Ladies” back then, but who left the church and grew up to be anti-Christian woke-scolds for whom politics is now their religion. Their driving purpose in life is to excoriate the rest of us for our sins, which range from the “bigotry” of disallowed opinions, to “Christian hypocrisy,” to the use of leaf blowers. They live in a perpetual state of outrage because some people are leading a life with different values and priorities.
But I would always abort on this piece, because I couldn’t develop it much beyond an assertion that “a certain percentage of white women are just natural-born church ladies, be they Christians or AWFLs” without expanding on possible reasons why.
Before going further, this is also probably a good place to make the disclaimer that there is not a more conservative sub-demographic of women than white women, and at times it gets a little tiresome hearing very online people snarking about white women in general, just because the subset of AWFLs are so annoying. My wife is a mirthful, conservative, white, Christian woman who has patience for neither “church ladies” nor AWFLs, and pretty much the same can be said about all of the women in our circle of friends.
Returning back to the question of why “church ladies” have transitioned into AWFLs, Christian Heiens has offered a partial explanation in a recent series of tweets, as part of a discussion as to why New England is so liberal despite being very white, a demographic that is otherwise very conservative.
Mr. Heiens notes that there is a super-concentration of AWFLs in New England because these women are culturally still puritan church ladies. They traded their forebears’ Christianity for woke secularism, but they never forsook their puritanical intolerance and righteousness.
It’s so liberal precisely because it’s so white. Whites, and specifically Anglo-Saxons, were the world’s first liberals. When we consider that New England is one of the most ancestrally Anglo part of the country and remains very heterogeneous compared to the rest of America, it’s no surprise that places like Vermont or Massachusetts would be so liberal. Things like Progressivism and Wokeism are what happens when Anglo Puritans secularize their theology and universalize their unique cultural way of life. New England did both of these things long ago, which is a huge reason why it’s one of the largest left-wing bastions in America.
I am going to repeat this line outside of the blockquote because it brilliantly and concisely explains one reason why there are Church Ladies of the Left: ”Things like Progressivism and Wokeism are what happens when Anglo Puritans secularize their theology.”
Mr. Heiens went on to speculate as to why Appalachian whites, who are also descended from Anglo protestants, did not become such woke evangelists.
This got me thinking about why Appalachia didn’t follow suit as it was also settled by Anglo Protestants. I think a big reason why is because while New England went down the puritanical/reformist communitarian/institutional oriented route that eventually ended in Wokeism as a sort of secular theology, the Anglo settlers who moved into Appalachia went down the “rugged individualist” path of Liberalism.
While it’s true that Appalachia is more “rugged individualist” than New England, I think this difference is rooted in the provenance of the settlers. Puritans settling in New England tended to be from East Anglia, whereas Appalachia was settled in large part by Scots-Irish. The Scots-Irish were the rednecks of Great Britain, and although they may have been protestant, they certainly weren’t puritan. This difference in protestant lineages actually supports the hypothesis that today’s woke AWFLs are linear descendants of 17th Century puritans.
Overwhelmingly, the accusers in the Salem witch trials were puritan women. Today’s AWFL woke-scolds are heirs to their legacy.
This got me thinking about why Appalachia didn’t follow suit as it was also settled by Anglo Protestants.
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