Mini-Vacation Cafe
—Ace
Hohenzollern Castle, Germany
Built in the 11th century but rebuilt in the 1850s
I'll be taking most of tomorrow off and then Labor Day too. I have some actual newsy posts for tomorrow for the first part of the day, then it'll be silly stuff.
It will probably be a slow news day as it usually is on a Friday before a weekend.
If there's big news, I'll pop in just to link it.
The Lindsay Clancy jury will probably announce it is deadlocked, or that they've made child-murder legal for women. I'll post that link the news breaks, unless it breaks so early that JJ covers it.
Otherwise, I'll be relaxing, though I'll be in the comments. So make me laugh.
Sylvester Stallone runs lines with a young actor.
A man put GPS trackers on his dog and cat.
Saving a fawn that got trapped in an aqueduct or something. And he's a feisty one so it takes some effort.
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How Is This Even a Question? Texas Establishment RINOs Debate Whether They Will Support Ken Paxton Over James "Jesus Has Six Gender" Talarico
—Disinformation Expert Ace
"Lousy loser" John Cornyn refuses to campaign with Ken Paxton.
He's a real conservative you guys, he really wants to beat the Democrats.
Sen. John Cornyn slammed Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton as a "lazy" and "poor campaigner" Friday as he explained why he won't help the Republican Senate nominee in his race against Democrat James Talarico.Cornyn, who lost to Paxton in the bitter Texas GOP Senate primary runoff election earlier this summer, explained in an interview with the Texas Tribune that while he wants to see Republicans hold their majority in the upper chamber after the midterms, he isn't going to fundraise for Paxton because he hasn't made a compelling case to Lone Star State voters.
"Paxton's a poor campaigner," Cornyn told the outlet. "He's lazy and doesn't raise money. And he basically is not offering a very compelling case for his election."He's making this harder than it needs to be."
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"This is unfortunately shaping up to be a close and I hope not disastrous election," Cornyn said. "But it ain't looking good right now."
Byron York: What is the GOPe doing?
AS TALARICO GOES FROM BAD TO WORSE, GOP DEBATES SUPPORT FOR PAXTON. There's been a lot of commentary lately about the faults of Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton, the Republican candidate for Senate. There are many such faults, and the impeached and scandal-ridden Paxton is widely recognized among GOP strategists as a poor candidate.But take a moment to remember the utter terribleness of Paxton's opponent, Democratic nominee James Talarico. You've heard his greatest hits. His belief that there are six genders. That God is nonbinary. His "non-meat" campaign. His claim to be "a Christian who hates Christianity." And more.
Now, there's something else to consider. It comes from September 2020, when Talarico was running for the Texas legislature and took part in a Zoom forum run by the Sierra Club. He was asked what he would do to "fight for climate justice" for "communities of color" that "receive the most harm from the impacts of climate change."
"I'm so thankful that you asked this question, and also thankful that young activists have really drawn the link between climate change and white supremacy and capitalism in our country," Talarico answered. "And I think only understanding the ways that all three of those oppressive systems work together are we going to be able to begin the process of dismantling them."
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Meanwhile, some Republican and conservative commentators have spent a good bit of time dumping on Paxton. National Review published a piece headlined, "Everyone is Edging Away from Ken Paxton," which said a "horrid smell" was "filling the room" in Texas -- the "stench of potential electoral doom" brought about by the Paxton campaign.
Conservative radio host Erick Erickson is on an anti-Paxton crusade, writing, "The only thing for which Paxton has ever shown prodigious energy is philandery and possibly corruption. He is a lazy candidate in a heated race, and laziness is not a flaw you can fundraise your way around."
Oh, he's repeating the lines from the GOPe op. What a surprise from this brain surgeon.
...[Conservative radio host Steve] Deace argued that "uniparty" Republicans are the ones bashing Paxton right now, and they would be perfectly happy for him to lose and Talarico to win. (Deace called Sen. John Cornyn (R-TX), defeated by Paxton in the GOP primary, a "uniparty stooge.") If true conservatives don't vote for Paxton, Deace said, they would give the "uniparty" Republicans "exactly what they want" while at the same time would "permit Democrats to inflict absolutely all their demoniac madness upon you without reservation." The bottom line, Deace argued, is that true conservatives should vote for Paxton to stop Democratic awfulness.
That was the message Cruz sent in his Tuesday appearance with Fox News's Laura Ingraham. "Some of the Republicans that are throwing rocks at Ken Paxton, my message to them is: Enough! Stop your b****ing," Cruz said. Citing previous years in which centrist Republicans urged conservative voters to support centrist nominees, Cruz continued, "My answer to everyone whining: Shut up and support the nominee, and don't hand Texas over to a communist lunatic."
No. There are more important issues, like Erick Erickson's capacity for grifting.
Byron York
@ByronYork
This was written the day of the Dobbs decision. One can understand opposing Dobbs. One can understand wanting to overturn it. But advocating for what would, in effect, be a Federal Abortion Service, staffed by a Federal Abortion Corps, seems...out there. But classic Talarico.
I'm sure his communist staff will tell you, if you ask for comment, that this "cringey language" "misses the mark" and that he believes in capitalism and Jesus.
So I wouldn't bother asking his communist staff.
Chris Loesch 𝕏 @ChrisLoesch
The NRSC and GOP telling Texas voters that they are stupid for choosing Paxton over Cornyn (we like our gun rights - go figure) and withholding any funding they would have normally put into the race is the establishment trying to rule over the plebes. Cornyn wasn't a "safe choice" for our rights. So if the rest of the nation wants to turn Texas blue then good luck ever getting another republican majority or president. Nice Texas is gone, so is the nation.Thanks coastal elites!
Here's Steve Deace's take:
Steve Deace @SteveDeaceShowHere's some tough love. But it's why I make the better than average bucks.
Ken Paxton is one of the finest public servants in this country. His work as Texas AG would rank among the most impactful of any statewide elected official in this nation (DeSantis is in his own GOAT tier). He would be a tremendous upgrade at Senator not just for Texas, but the country. But he's also made a mess of his personal life, and the residual impact of that is costing him some support (including financially). So, again, anyone that tells you sexual ethics are strictly a private matter is dead wrong. An entire state/country may suffer consequences. Paxton's personal failing is giving people an objection they otherwise wouldn't have to an exemplary AG. The Biblical model always requires us to first accept responsibility for our own actions, and the role we played in our own situation.
However, given how little we know much of Washington DC's uniparty cares about marriage, family, and sexual ethics that alone doesn't come close to explain him (and thus the country) being hung out to dry in this crucial Texas Senate race. There's no moral high ground within the uniparty. Only vested interests. And uniparty Republicans would much prefer to be in the minority. Because in that case they can raise all kinds of money to ensure their positions off how bad the Democrats are, with no expectations to do anything about it.
Thus, you will not be punishing these Republicans by staying home but just yourself. You will be giving them exactly what they want, prestige with no responsibility, while you will permit Democrats to inflict absolutely all their demoniac madness upon you without reservation. Nothing new is coming. There is no alternative to the GOP possible within any time frame what's left of our way of life would survive. You won't teach anyone any lessons. Most of these Republicans would rather lose to Democrats than lose control of the party to you, anyway.
And yes, this is a poopy position to be in. But it's the position we are in generationally, and our job is to do the best we can with the times that we have. The best we can do is slow down as much of this Democrat madness as possible, while also keeping Republicans in power to expose themselves in the hopes that creates more primaries where a Paxton can beat an exposed uniparty stooge like Cornyn.
Again, not a great spot. But it is the spot. Short of revival, it's all we have left. And it's still by far the best country in the world. So suck it up and occupy until He comes. This is the best we can do.
Fat shabby one-pair-o'-pants grifter Jonah Goldberg, who swiped the research for "his" book Liberal Fascism from writers at the Claremont Institute, accuses Steve Deace of being paid to say this.
Jonah Goldberg @JonahDispatchThis is the kind of opinion that makes me assume someone is being compensated to offer it. Not saying that's the case. But I find it difficult to understand how a person could come by it honestly.
Who's signing your checks, Jonah? I know it's not Republicans.
Is it Pierre Omidyar?
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Tuq'r's Correlegionist Abdulrahman Mohamed El-Sayed Struggles, For Some Reason, to Win Over Jewish Voters;
Michigan's Jewish Demcrat AG Says Jews Must Put Aside Worries About Antisemitic Violence to Support Muslims Who Want to Kill Them
—Disinformation Expert Ace
The Democrat Party is really hitting on all cylinders now.
The New York Times is sad to admit this:
El-Sayed Wants to Mend Ties With Jewish Democrats, but Some Are Not ImpressedLingering concerns about the Senate nominee in Michigan could make it harder for him to assemble a winning coalition.
What concerns specifically, NYT? Why are you being vague?
This is why Bari Weiss had to step in and change a headline to specifically say that Abdulrahman Mohamed El-Sayed was deleting tweets about 9/11. The "Journalist" herself (I'm assuming a Karen) didn't want to alert the reader to what the tweets were about so Bari Weiss took the unethical step of informing the readers.
Dr. Abdul El-Sayed, the Democratic Senate nominee in Michigan, recently spent two days trying to mend fences with Jewish Democrats after an acrimonious primary against a pro-Israel opponent.For some of them, it wasn't enough.
Specifically, Dr. El-Sayed sought to address remarks he had made shortly after an attack on a synagogue in the Detroit area in March that some interpreted as too sympathetic to the assailant.
WHAT WAS THE COMMENT?
If you told us, we could judge. But you're hiding it from us.
Why is that?
Oh, the comment was, of course, an excuse for the child-slayer: "Hurt people do hurt people." The Muslim was "hurt" -- his feelings, he meant -- so he shot a bunch of Jewish kids.
There's hurt on one side, there's hurt on the other. Let's not bicker and argue about 'oo killed 'oo.
But his apologies last weekend fell short with some Jewish Democrats in part because he seemed to be seeking forgiveness for the timing of his remark rather than its substance.Dr. El-Sayed's criticism of Israel has concerned many Jewish Democrats. And some are angered by his association with Hasan Piker, a provocative streamer whose comments about Israel have drawn blowback from Democrats and Republicans.
What were those provocative comments, NYT?
The ones about America deserving 9/11? The framed photo of the burning towers behind him in his podcast office? The claim that Jews might have been involved in 9/11? The statement that Hamas' murder of babies was justified because murdering "settlers" is justified and "there are baby settlers" who therefore are justifiable targets for Muslim murder?
WHAT ARE THE COMMENTS?!
It's weird how every salient detail keeps not appearing in this article, which is supposedly about why Jews are rejecting Abdulrahman Mohamed El-Sayed.
It's almost as if the media exists not to report the truth but to hide it.
The frictions revealed the still-fresh wounds from a bitter primary struggle between Dr. El-Sayed and his pro-Israel opponent, Representative Haley Stevens.
Haley Stevens has now been identified twice as "pro-Israel" but Abdulrahman Mohamed El-Sayed has not been identified as "anti-Israel" or "pro-Islam" or "pro-Hamas" or "pro-Muslim Brotherhood."
Their race became a proxy war over the Democratic Party's divisions on Israel, which propelled numerous progressive candidates, including Dr. El-Sayed, to victory.
What divisions? Haley Stevens seems to have a position you identify, but Abdulrahman Mohamed El-Sayed has no position you can identity. How can there be "divisions" when only one side has an opinion and the other side is, we assume, just neutral on the matter?
The lingering tension is a hurdle for Dr. El-Sayed as he seeks to turn to his general-election opponent, former Representative Mike Rogers, a Republican. Uniting Democrats is proving difficult for Dr. El-Sayed, who won his primary by fewer than 18,000 votes. And he is battling on two fronts, as Mr. Rogers and other Republicans, including Vice President JD Vance, have begun to assail him over his position on Israel in an effort to peel off Jewish support.
We still have not heard about Abdulrahman Mohamed El-Sayed's "position" on Israel, but it is nice that we finally know he has one.
Meanwhile, even Van Jones is blasting Abdulrahman Mohamed El-Sayed's anti-Israel extremism, pointing out that the Muslim Brotherhood Manchurian Candidate wants to ban Israel from buying, with its own money, purely defensive arms like the Patriot missile.
Almost as if he wants Israeli civilians to be killed by Hamas and Iranian missiles.
But I know that from a Van Jones clip-- not from the NYT.
With just over two months left before the general election, the dissonance could threaten Dr. El-Sayed's efforts to assemble a winning coalition in a key Senate battleground race that will help determine control of the upper chamber.
What is the reason for the "dissonance"? Why are you so deliberately vague?
And now, after that deliberately falsified article, they admit they made some very minor technical errors in the first published version.
They do this so you believe, wrongly, that what remains is true and complete:
An earlier version of this article misspelled the given name of a Democrat who plans to vote for Republican Mike Rogers. She is Stacy Gittleman, not Stacey Gittleman.
We acknowledge mistakes in our reporting with corrections. If you spot an error, please let us know at corrections@nytimes.com.Learn more.
I spotted a bunch of errors but I don't think you're serious about correcting them.
Meanwhile, Michigan's female Democrat Jewish AG Dana Nessel tells Jews to put concerns about their safety aside and just vote for the guy who wants them all dead.
Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel's remarks on Sunday constitute a new low in contemporary political discourse.Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel, who is Jewish, was being honored at a gathering of the Michigan Democratic Jewish Caucus on Sunday when Mv
"We have a moral imperative to place the needs of the world above even our own self-interest and, yes, even our own survival," she also reportedly said.
Did you just say that Jews must put aside their own survival to support the Democrats and Hamas' plans to exterminate all Jews in Israel??!!?
Say what?
Nessel's remarks were made in the context of the controversy over the vocally anti-Israel Democratic nominee for Senate in Michigan, Abdul El-Sayed, whom many Jewish Democrats oppose -- and whom Nessel has not endorsed, at least not yet.
Oh, someone finally told me what Abdulrahman Mohamed El-Sayed's position on Israel is.
This is a Democrat who is still open to voting for Abdulrahman Mohamed El-Sayed. Of course.
...And now, a Jewish Democratic politician -- a state attorney general, no less -- is telling her Jewish constituents that they should be prepared to sacrifice their safety and their survival for some sort of "common good"?
In her speech, again according to the Jewish Insider report, Nessel suggested emulating the biblical Queen Esther to "sacrifice the comfort, safety and security and even the very future of our own people in exchange for the opportunity to save the rest of humanity." Except, of course, it would appear that Nessel did not pay attention in her religious school classes at West Bloomfield's Temple Kol Ami, since Esther did no such thing. What Esther did was risk the displeasure of her husband King Ahasuerus (the Persian king Xerxes I) and possibly her own life in order to ensure the survival of her people -- that is, the Jewish People. Nessel's analogy is, to be kind, entirely off base.
So is her curious attempt to link support for Israel with environmental causes. "What good is defending the historic homeland of our ancestors and demanding that candidates acknowledge its right to exist," she asked, "if the planet upon which it rests is no longer inhabitable?" This is a non-sequitur to end all non sequiturs, and it makes no sense in the present-day political climate.
Is Nessel suggesting that we should ever turn a blind eye to any threats to Jewish safety?
Yes she is. How are you not getting this? Are you stupid?
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Lindsay Clancy Trial: 11 to One In Favor of ... Full Acquittal, With a Single Juror Hanging on For a Conviction?
—Disinformation Expert Ace
I don't understand what's going on.
It's the defense attorney who says he wants the juror excluded for refusing to follow the judge's orders about what "reasonable doubt" means.
So... does this mean that 11 jurors are voting to acquit and one lone juror is insisting on a conviction? And the other jurors are claiming that the juror is inserting a "more likely than not" standard over the more stringent "beyond a reasonable doubt" standard?
And how could you even say that this is just a matter of feeling that the prosecution is slightly more persuasive than the defense? Were they all absent the day they presented evidence?
The defense lawyer claims this juror keeps "ignoring the law" and will not accept the judge's rules as to the threshold of evidence required to convict.
This is 11 to one for acquittal, and women are officially allowed to commit murder if they have the grumpies.
Eric Daugherty
@EricLDaugh🚨 BREAKING: The Lindsay Clancy m*rder defense attorney just DEMANDED that ONE HOLDOUT JUROR be REMOVED from the jury, accusing that juror of not listening to "reasonable doubt" instructions
HOLD THE LINE!!
The attorney worries there will be a mistrial, meaning it would GO AGAIN to try and convict her
"There's one juror who refuses to listen to the law that you've given him or her on reasonable doubt...if we come back here in a half an hour with a mistrial because of a juror that has just spurned the instructions of this court, it's a shame, it's a real shame!"
Let me know if you think I'm right.
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Harvard/Harris Schmoll: Republicans Take the Lead in the Midterms with Likely Voters, +2%
—Disinformation Expert Ace
Democrats have a "thin" 2 point advantage with all voters, but the common wisdom is that Democrats must win by 3-4 to win the House.
Among likely voters, it's Republicans with that thin two-point edge.
InteractivePolls @IAPolls2022📊 2026 Generic Congressional Ballot among LIKELY Voters
🟥 Republicans: 51% [+2]
🟦 Democrats: 49% [-2]Harvard/Harris | 8/28-30
Mitt Romney5 minutes ago
This new poll is redolent of Hitler's Reich
In other poll findings: 65% of Americans say Iran is just playing for time, not negotiating in good faith, and 69% say they must not be allowed to control the Strait of Hormuz.
The Tucker Carlson Network (TCN)5 minutes ago
Ben Shapiro is hypnotizing America with his Hebe-Peepers.
More:
InteractivePolls @IAPolls202221h
Should Democrats embrace or reject people like Hasan Piker, who said America "deserved 9/11"?
❌ Reject: 77%
✅ Embrace: 23%Reject/Embrace
GOP: 79-21
Dem: 72-28
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Should Republicans embrace reject people like Candace Owens, who said "the Jews are behind everything"?❌ Reject: 75%
✅ Embrace: 22%Reject/Embrace
GOP: 73-27
Dem: 76-24Harvard/Harris | 8/28-30
Fantastic news: Kamala Harris leads all Democrat contenders with all racial groups. The numbers given below represent her net lead on the next-highest polling Democrat presidential contender.
InteractivePolls @IAPolls202221h
Harris tops the Democratic field among White, Black, Hispanic, and Asian voters in Harvard-Harris poll
Black Dems: Harris +46
Hispanic Dems: Harris +20
White Dems: Harris +19
Asian Dems: Harris +2
Didn't she sell herself as an Asian?
As Alex Thompson reported on Twitter/X, Harris easily leads the field with 42% among Democrat respondents, having picked up five points since last month. Gavin Newsom trails badly in second place with only 18%, dropping six points from July. Everyone else is in single digits; Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Pete Buttigieg, Jon Ossoff, and Josh Shapiro are in a virtual tie for third, scoring between seven and nine percent each. Harris also has commanding leads among black and Hispanic Democrats.
Morrissey also notes the politician with the highest favorable ratings, and it's a surprise:
Harris comes in third, Trump edges her out for second, and the politician with the highest favorables is... RFKJr.
So the media's ability to drive hate at people they don't like is now, basically, gone.
Putin comes in last? Quick, Tuq'r, do another sit-down ball-washing.
I have a quick thought about RFKJr. Give this as much consideration as I gave it, which is none.
The parties have flipped as far as trust in institutions. I know that part is obvious. Leftists used to be the ones always screaming that America was a rigged game for the oligarchs and Big Corporations are crushing the common man.
But now, of course, conservatives have woken up to how absolutely foul -- and subverted by Marxists -- our institutions are. Meanwhile, thanks to Barack Obama, the CIA and FBI have been purged of most conservatives, who were replaced, of course, with Boomer Marxists.
Here's the slightly interesting part about this: This is why the media absolutely lost their minds over Trump and the Unbearable Threat of the New Right. The media had always coddled and supported leftwing revoiutionaries, of course, supporting Bill Ayers' "rehabilitation" and telling us that left-wing rioting was "the voice of the unheard." They feel that any violence committed by the left may be regrettable but is Useful in the Greater Scheme of Things.
But the possibility of the right becoming revolutionary? That's just a Threat to the Very Foundations of Our Republic. Were the right to become violent, that violence would just be a complete negative. There would be no useful "lessons" for the ruling class to learn. Riots would not be the voice of the unheard, but the voice of the deplorables.
Conservatives aren't allowed to talk about a rigged system and being oppressed! That's our grift! Conservatives are supposed to eat their slop and say thank-you!
It's the job of conservatives to shore up the pillars upholding civilization! It's our job to undermine those pillars and bring them down! If conservatives stop propping civilization up, it will crash from all of our endless subversions and treachery, and then we'll have to learn how to hunt!
Now, as to RFKJr.'s particular ambit: As a conservative, I used to roll my eyes and laugh off the hippies who would talk about Big Pharma and Big Ag and Big Processed Food putting out products that made us sicker, not healthier.
You probably did too. (And you might still roll your eyes.)
But for many on the right, our skepticism of our corporate overlords and governmental institutions is now at its highest point in American history, and that includes intense skepticism, if not outright hostility, towards Big Pharma and the bullshit "health" experts.
And the corrupt corporations whose C-suites are now dominated by woke civilization-razing leftists.
Anyway, RFKJr.'s brand of health-nannyism would have been a non-starter on the right ten years ago but now many of us are at least curious about it, or even supportive.
And even on the left, many of the Health Nuts have not abandoned their skepticism about Big Phrama and Big Ag just because the Democrat Party now tells them that's Traitor-Talk and they must worship Anthony Fauci and Wear the Fucking Face-Mask forever.
And anyway, RFKJr's form of health-nannying doesn't feel scoldy or even like nannying. He has Some Questions. I do too.
And this feels fun, not dour and woke like Michelle Obama's bullshit:
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As Predicted: Tuq'r Qarlson Essentially Endorses Abdulrahman Mohamed El-Sayed By Saying He Wouldn't Vote for His Opponent Mike Rogers "Even At Gunpoint" Because He's a "Tool of Israel"
—Disinformation Expert Ace
OUT: GOPe NeverTrump
IN: Nazi NeverTrump
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DHS: An Ignored 1996 Clinton-Era Law Says That States Have to Report the Number of Illegals Receiving Federal Benefits Like SNAP. We're Going to Start Enforcing It Now.
—Disinformation Expert Ace
The law was passed insincerely, I imagine, with both Clinton and corporate-owned fake "conservatives" pretending they didn't want to take American's tax payments and deliver them to foreign criminals.
But insincerely or not, political ploy or not, they passed it. There is no "We only passed this to con the rubes" exception to federal legislation. Look it up. I didn't, but I assume there's not one.
Finally, someone is going to actually enforce it.
States now must report undocumented immigrants to DHS or risk federal funding, DOJ says
* All states going forward must report undocumented immigrants known to be in a state to the U.S. Department of Homeland Security or risk losing federal funding for programs meant to aid low-income individuals, the Department of Justice said in a new legal opinion.* The DOJ, in issuing the opinion, revised the Office of Legal Counsel's prior opinion from 1998, which found that only specific state agencies that administered the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families and the Supplemental Security Income programs needed to provide information to federal immigration authorities.
* "When a state chooses to participate in TANF, it accepts the obligation to report illegal aliens in the United States," Assistant Attorney General T. Elliot Gaiser said. "Tax dollars intended to help vulnerable Americans should not perversely encourage illegal entry into the United States, but rather should reinforce our laws and our borders."
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The DOJ, in issuing the opinion, revised the Office of Legal Counsel's prior opinion from 1998, which found that only specific state agencies that administered the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families and the Supplemental Security Income programs needed to provide information to federal immigration authorities.
"Congress wrote this requirement plainly," Assistant Attorney General T. Elliot Gaiser of the DOJ's Office of Legal Counsel, said in a statement.
"When a state chooses to participate in TANF, it accepts the obligation to report illegal aliens in the United States," Gaiser said. "Tax dollars intended to help vulnerable Americans should not perversely encourage illegal entry into the United States, but rather should reinforce our laws and our borders."
The DOJ in a statement Wednesday said the Office of Legal Counsel's Sept. 1 opinion "explains that Congress defined 'State' broadly in the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act of 1996."
"As a result, when a state accepts federal TANF or SSI funds, the entire state government -- including all component agencies -- is bound by federal law to share information with DHS about individuals the state knows to be not lawfully present," the DOJ said.
The new opinion only applies proactively, not to past enrollments in TANF and SSI.
All 50 states, the District of Columbia and several U.S. territories participate in both programs. Federal TANF funding grants top $16.4 billion annually, according to the DOJ.
California AG Rob Bonta says he will not comply with the law because Trump is changing the law by following the wording of the law.
Gigantic mutant slothbeast "Big Tish" James says she's "reviewing" the DOJ's demand, in between fabricating new rape charges against Trump.
Breccan F. Thies of The Federalist:
As The Federalist reported, the Clinton administration took numerous actions to pave the way for illegal aliens to come into the country, especially those who offer nothing to American society and were virtually guaranteed to leech off the welfare system.That included trashing the "public charge" rule that had governed American immigration law for at least 100 years, which said that an immigrant should not be admitted into the country if he was unlikely to be able to take care of himself without government assistance.
Now it is estimated that 59 percent of illegal immigrant households are on at least one welfare program, and 52 percent of legal immigrant households are in the same position. Meanwhile, 39 percent of native-born Americans use at least one welfare program, which is still an enormous amount, but the fact remains that the programs are for Americans, not foreigners.
Related: Mexifornia received 80% of federal aid for illegals because they wrote their own rules to make illegals eligible.
California accounted for more than 80% of all federal welfare cash assistance provided to households headed by illegal immigrants in 2024, according to a new report from the Department of Health and Human Services.The report found that $759 million in Temporary Assistance for Needy Families cash assistance was provided to 85,277 households nationwide in which a child qualified for benefits while a parent was living in the United States illegally.
No state came close to California's share of spending, with $617.5 million. The second-place recipient, New York, received just $47.5 million--less than one-tenth of California's total.
Temporary Assistance for Needy Families, or TANF, was created to provide temporary assistance to low-income families. TANF recipients are generally required to work and are limited to 60 months of benefits over a lifetime.
Because parents living in the country illegally are generally ineligible for TANF benefits, assistance in these cases is provided on behalf of eligible children living in the household.
Unlike traditional TANF recipients, these child-only cases are not subject to federal work requirements or the program's five-year lifetime limit, allowing benefits to continue until a child turns 18.
The report's authors noted that the arrangement creates a disparity between American families receiving TANF and immigrant households receiving child-only benefits.
"The result is a striking disparity: needy American families are held to TANF's central work and time-limit rules, while households headed by immigration-status-ineligible parents can receive child-only cash assistance under a structure that bypasses those rules and can allow support to continue from birth through age 18."
freestarThe report estimated that affected households received an average of roughly $742 per month, or about $8,900 annually.
Between 2001 and 2024, approximately $18.3 billion in TANF assistance was distributed through these child-only cases, while their share of the total TANF caseload increased from 5.8% to 10%.
American AF 🇺🇸 @iAnonPatriotSNAP and Section 8 cost U.S. taxpayers $138 billion last year, and that is before Medicaid, SSI, and the rest. Food is expensive in part because 42 million people are buying groceries with a card someone else funded.
The damage is not only the bill. When tens of millions of people organize their month around a government check, they stop voting on the country and start voting on the benefit. Borders, crime, and debt become background noise next to the one question that matters to them: who will keep the groceries and the rent voucher flowing.
Milton Friedman put it plainly: you cannot simultaneously have free immigration and a welfare state.
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The Thursday Morning Rant
—Doof
We are nearly 60 days away from mid-term general election day. How much turnover will there be in Congress? Not Enough! Until we have term limits for members of Congress, there will continue to be way too many incumbents occupying space in the US Capitol for countless terms.
We The People strongly support term limits for members of Congress. Ballot measures in the 90s were very popular with voters. Voters in 14 states approved ballot initiatives in 1992, and 1994 saw at least 6 of 8 additional states' voters approve ballot measures. So approximately 20 states impose term limits on their members of Congress, right? Wrong!
In 1995, the US Supreme Court ruled Congressional term limit measures and amendments passed at individual state levels to be unconstitutional. The case was U.S. Term Limits, Inc. v. Thornton. As in Ray Thornton, Democrat member of Congress from Arkansas. He and his allies sued the state after passage of Amendment 73 to the Arkansas Constitution - which limited US House members to 3 terms and US Senate members to 2 terms.
The organization US Terms Limits was founded in 1992, and it still exists today. According to their website
U.S. Term Limits is the nation’s largest nonpartisan, nonprofit organization dedicated exclusively to advocating for term limits. We believe that a government of the people, by the people, and for the people—not a ruling class focused on self-serving deals—is essential.Our mission is to foster a higher quality of government by establishing a citizen legislature. This legislature would more accurately reflect its constituents and be genuinely responsive to their needs. We work tirelessly with citizens across the nation, helping them understand why term limits are a necessary government reform and how to implement this vision from their local town councils all the way to Congress.
It’s important to note that U.S. Term Limits does not require individuals to self-limit their terms. Our aim is to limit the terms for all members of Congress as an institution, ensuring a more dynamic and accountable representative body.
US Term Limits is trying to get support from enough states to force Congress to call for an Article V convention
The Congress, whenever two thirds of both Houses shall deem it necessary, shall propose Amendments to this Constitution, or, on the Application of the Legislatures of two thirds of the several States, shall call a Convention for proposing Amendments, which, in either Case, shall be valid to all Intents and Purposes, as Part of this Constitution, when ratified by the Legislatures of three fourths of the several States, or by Conventions in three fourths thereof, as the one or the other Mode of Ratification may be proposed by the Congress...
How much progress have they made?
The U.S. Constitution provides the state legislatures authority to propose amendments without the approval of Congress. To make it happen, 34 state legislatures must pass resolutions to call a convention for the states to propose a congressional term limits amendment.Now, here is where it gets a bit complicated. The states don’t always pass the exact same application. So, today there are fourteen state legislatures that have passed the U.S. Term Limits (USTL) single-subject application for congressional term limits. However, there are 9 additional states that have passed applications that include congressional term limits and, therefore, are states we are prioritizing.
34 states have to pass the same application for the convention to be called. Then, any amendments proposed at the convention require ratification by 38 state legislatures.
27 amendments to the Constitution have been ratified. 6 others were proposed but not ratified. Do you know how many of the 33 proposed amendments came about through an Article V convention? ZERO! All 33 proposed amendments were the result of Congress - approved by 2/3 of EACH house of Congress.
On January 6, 2025 a resolution was introduced in the House - H. J. RES. 12
It's purpose - "Proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the United States to limit the number of terms that a Member of Congress may serve."
It would impose a 3-term limit on the House and a 2-term limit on the Senate.
What has happened to this amendment since then? It was referred to the House Judiciary Committee on the day it was introduced. That's it. No action at all. Big surprise, right? What are the chances ANY Congress will vote - by a 2/3 majority, no less - to impose term limits upon its members? As the saying goes - "between slim and none -- and Slim just left town!"
Saw this graphic recently. Absolutely ridiculous!
Good for US Term Limits and the work they are doing. However, they are not even halfway to their goal of 34 states passing the same application.
They also have to overcome this kind of stupidity. Stopping a Dangerous Article V Convention
Wealthy donors, corporations, and radical far-right actors are pushing calls for an Article V Convention in states across the country to reshape our Constitution for their own benefit.Frighteningly, they are just a few states away from succeeding.
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Under Article V of the U.S. Constitution, Congress is required to hold a constitutional convention if two-thirds of state legislatures (34 states) call for one.
But here’s the catch: there are absolutely no rules for an Article V Convention outlined in the Constitution.
That means the group of people convening to rewrite our Constitution could be totally unelected and unaccountable. There is nothing that could limit the convention to a single issue, so the delegates could write amendments that revoke any of our most cherished rights – like our right to peaceful protest, our freedom of religion, or our right to privacy. There are also no rules preventing corporations from pouring money into the convention to ensure they get their way.
I guess they missed the text in Article V that says the convention's purpose is amendments, not rewriting the Constitution. And also the part about 3/4 of the states needing to ratify any amendments that may arise at a Convention of the States.
So we have Congress refusing to act and clueless people spouting nonsense about a convention being dangerous.
We really aren't going to be able to vote our way out of this, are we?
The Morning Report — 9/ 3 /26
—J.J. Sefton
Good morning kids. Well to start things off we have this bit of breaking news
Gloria Steinem, the pioneering feminist, writer and activist who helped define the modern women’s movement, has died at 92.
If I want to be kind, and given the utter societal rot that she and others of her ilk precipitated over the past 60 years or so, I find it extremely difficult, so whatever legitimate grievances that women had which begat the women's movement, Steinem certainly played a pivotal role in bringing them to the fore. But at least from my perspective, like the civil rights movement, and our society's natural movement away from segregation and the evils of racism, women ultimately would have gained equal status thanks to the Judeo-Christian and American ethic that undergird society in the first place. Of course the anti-American Democrat/Left have been doing their damndest to tear that all down in their unslakeable lust for absolute power and so especially over the past 60 years they have corrupted every legitimate political movement in order not to build a more perfect union but to tear down the closest that humanity has ever come to it, the American experiment. And yet we're still here, but only just.
At least six people, including two police officers, were shot in downtown Minneapolis Wednesday around 4:50 p.m. local time.
No doubt P3DO adjacent/suspected governor Walz and Minneapolis mayor Jacob Frey will do their best to obfuscate and cover up the identity and background of the shooter, who is in custody per the reports, and lead the call for the destruction of the Second Amendment, despite Minnesota already being one of the strictest anti-2A states in the nation as it is. Having zero information about the perp, but in every case like this that I can recall, the shooter was not a member of the NRA or GOA, but it's the guns, and white people and toxic masculinity (that's for you Gloria Steinem).
Meanwhile in another part of the forest...
‘I Like To Kill Jews’: Columbia Protester Upheld by Media as Gentle Peace Activist Is Accused of Supporting Terrorists, Boasting He Can Use a Machine Gun, in Scathing New Report. . . The Palestinian Columbia student, Mohsen Mahdawi, is currently fighting deportation
Oh no, the infamy! We can't have that can we?!
But addressing an event for Michigan Jewish Democrats, Nessel made her best case in a speech that will last long past this cycle because of the nakedness of its horrifying argument.“We have a moral imperative to place the needs of the world above even our own self-interest and, yes, even our own survival,” Nessel told Jewish Democrats. Those “needs of the world” required Jews to vote for Democrats, including presumably El-Sayed, who had made excuses for a Muslim terrorist attack against Jewish children in the preschool of a Michigan Temple.
With Jews like Dana Nessel we don't need the Einsatzgruppen. Yes sir that's my Yasser!!!! Evil filthy drunken slag shitwhore needs to have dinner with Gloria Steinem, soon!
. . . Like, the DSA, they’re deeply anti-American,” Fetterman said. “They’re deeply anti-capitalism. They’re deeply anti-the American way of life.”Fetterman continued to point out that “when you look at the kind of individuals that are actually in the DSA,” they live in homes that their parents bought for millions of dollars.
“They want to impoverish middle class whites, and seize all the production,” Fetterman continued. “I would think every single Democrat should condemn the DSA. This is not like a big tent situation, they should have their own entire party, and run alone as the kinds of communists, and socialists, and anti-American party that they are.”
Regardless of why he is publicly destroying the DSA while no doubt still embracing core Democrat/Liberal beliefs and shibboleths, his overt broadsides are needed, loudly, frequently and repeatedly. That they are coming most effectively from him and not from anyone in the GOP is frustrating and telling. So give 'em hell Lumpy!
Have a good day.
- ABOVE THE FOLD, BREAKING, NOTEWORTHY
- The order seeks to deny automatic citizenship to additional categories of children born in the United States, including children of “alien enemies of the United States,” members of foreign terrorist organizations and certain people who lobby or act on behalf of foreign governments.
Federal Judge Blocks Trump’s Latest Attempt to Restrict Birthright Citizenship
- The establishment media will use the anniversary to step up its propaganda.
The 25th Anniversary of 9/11 is Approaching, So Get Ready to Hear About ‘Islamophobia’
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Daily Tech News 3 September 2026
—Pixy Misa
Top Story- A group called Nexus is advertising 153 million US drivers licenses for sale on Russian exploit site Exploit. (Krebs On Security)
They advertised this with a photo of the drivers license of a certain... Brian Krebs.
Uh.
And he followed up by asking 10 friends to see if their redacted data was in the list. Nine times out of ten, it was.
How did this happen? We may never know. Oh.Here's where it gets interesting: I was able to find my mother's drivers license in this service as well, and the timestamps for her images are just a few seconds apart from mine. That's notable because we both handed our licenses to the Hertz rental car representative at the same time.
Oops.
So Hertz got hacked?
Nothing so pleasant.Edwards told KrebsOnSecurity that although he did not rent a car in Vegas, he did hand over his license at the TSA checkpoint, at a marijuana dispensary in Vegas, and at his hotel (the Aria). But he said the only one of those three that for sure scanned his ID in some kind of device was the dispensary.
Not Hertz it would appear, but, the company that Hertz uses to verify IDs.Contacted by KrebsOnSecurity, idscan.net said it was investigating the matter, but the company has not yet shared an official statement or a substantive reply to specific questions sent via email.
The birdbath is on fire.
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Wednesday Night ONT - September 2, 2026 [TRex]
—Open Blogger
Good evening Horde! The time has come for mid-week shenanigans of the overnight variety. The bar is open and (mostly) re-stocked. Step up and place your order.
Welcome to the Wednesday night ONT which means another edition of random overnight fun and games. Pull up a chair and join the fun. Good will offerings of amusing puns are encouraged. Pants are optional. Be nice to your fellow commenters and AoS contributors. If you're a troll, go away.
This is a Tucker, Candace, Megyn, and Bill Kristol free zone. Please.
[Top photo: Seymour, Tennessee]
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Wednesday Cafe
—Disinformation Expert Ace
@photo_scarlet
Supposedly a real shot, not a composite,
taken at Hyogo Prefecture, Japan
An alligator attacks its handler so a spectator jumps in and wrestles the alligator to submission.
Fun with forced perspective.
Old but cute: Giant seal poses with family.
Alpaca has my fifth-grade haircut. So stylish!
Town builds statue to commemorate day that citizens formed human chain to pull a dog out of a dangerously-fast canal.
This seems like it would be pretty distracting.
Programmers designed the worst-possible volume controls for a computer or phone. I will implement these into the site ASAP
I think we have a dog hoarding situation here.
Kittens practice pouncing on each other.
Via Mark1971, a woman was attacked by a river otter, who turns out to be, as nurse ratched always says, evil. Caution for video showing a woman's face bloodied by the evil river otter.
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Hundreds of Thousands of Spanish Citizens Pour Into the Streets to Protest the Socialist Quisling Pedro Sanchez and Show Support for the Besieged Town of Ceuta;
Sanchez Sics the Riot Police On Them
—Disinformation Expert Ace
Europa.com @europa3h
🇪🇸 A crowd of thousands has taken to the streets in Madrid to display the widespread anger over the Ceuta crisis caused by migrants from Morocco and the handling of the situation by Spanish Prime Minister Sanchez.
And in other cities and towns, too, like Valencia and Zaragoza.
Nationwide migrant protests prompt appeals for calm in Ceuta, Spain's North African territoryDemonstrations are due to be held across Spain on Wednesday evening "in solidarity" with Ceuta, the Spanish city in North Africa, which faced an influx of about 72,000 migrants from Morocco in late July.
...Nearly five weeks ago, around 72,000 migrants crossed into Ceuta from Morocco, with scores dying in the process. While most have since returned home, around 10,000 remain stranded in makeshift camps or on the streets.
"Stranded." Definition: When you illegally cross into a foreign country and refuse to leave.
"Stranded" in context: Illegal aliens rushed past Ceuta's fences and squatted in the city. They refused to leave. They were stranded by the Ceuta authorities who did not provide them with permission to remain.
Another example: I tried to hold up a Wa-Wa by gunpoint. When I tried to enter the store with my gun drawn, they dropped the security gates, stranding me outside. But I wanted them to give me money and cartons of cigarettes. I was stranded by evil-doers!
Their presence has triggered near-daily protests by locals against the Spanish government's handling of the issue, with demonstrators calling for the migrants to be sent back to their countries of origin or redistributed across Spain.
"The government has failed to act in a critical situation. It's spiralling out of control. We're tired, just like those who came are getting tired, and tensions are rising. There's a point where this will become a powder keg," said a resident called Lola.
Let's hope.
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Surprise! Communist Theater-Kid Jihadi Zohran Mamdani Has an Army of 200 Left-Wing Influencers Paid by Taxpayers Who Praise Him to Their Followers
—Disinformation Expert Ace
Here's the scam: He has these 200 influencers. City taxpayers pay them, it is claimed, to post about non-partisan things, like "Oh Central Park is lovely in the late summer, you should go."
And then, supposedly "on the side," they post loving tributes to the gay jihadi.
See, the payments only cover the promotion of Broadway and Central Park. The constant propaganda for Zohran Mamdani they do for free, as a side-gig.
Can I be paid to post nice things about New York City? I'd keep doing my anti-Mamdani posts, but for free, as my side-gig. I like Central Park. I can promote the ice rink.
Something tells me my application would not be seriously considered.
Mayor Zohran Mamdani assembled an army of nearly 200 "influencers," giving the social media stars VIP access to push the lefty administration's talking points, a new bombshell report revealed.The web of online personalities are being fed talking points by City Hall through an encrypted Signal group text, potentially running afoul of local record-keeping laws, according to the study by the Columbia Journalism Review.
Some influencers are even pocketing taxpayer funds "for work on particular messaging campaigns," though not for their coverage, the report states.
The official Mamdani cheerleaders chat spawned from Creators4Zohran, a motley crew of influencers convened during his social media-savvy mayoral campaign last year, according to the report.
"A group of content creators and influencers, the Creators4Zohran group that supported his election campaign was reconfigured to promote coverage and talking points from the Mayor's office," the report reads.
"The group is run by the Director of New Media and Cultural Communications at the NYC Office of the Mayor, Emilia Rowland, and her staff, and members of the group receive daily updates, talking points and clips that they can use in their posts."
How much influencers were paid, or if at all, was unclear.
Political insiders who have worked with their ilk have told The Post that influencers don't work for free if involved in specific campaigns, like pushes for vaccinations or public service announcements.
Influencers would eventually look for some sort of compensation for carrying the mayor's water, insiders said.
One influencer highlighted by Creators4Zohran, Allie O'Brien, recently said Mamdani was the "mayor of uncontrollable joy" in a worshipping social post.
O'Brien, though, appears to live in Connecticut from online records.
Another out-of-NYC influencer, who goes by the handle bananadotgov on Instagram, is from Columbus, Ohio, and has posted a number of lionizing videos about Mamdani.
"Strange things are happening, because I have literally not felt this way about a politician since Bernie Sanders," she said, responding to the mayor saying he wouldn't take a pay raise in July.
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City Hall officials are required by law to keep records, including messages, related to government business to give the public and watchdogs a necessary window into how decisions are made.
When asked about concerns the encrypted Signal chat violates the city's record retention laws, Mamdani first deflected by arguing that tapping influencers is no different than engaging with radio, TV and other media to spread information.
...City Hall officials directed The Post toward Mamdani's comments and refused to answer specific questions.
Grok says they're being paid between $5,000 and $20,000 per contract, which may not sound like a lot, but remember, they're being paid for just shitting out posts on TikTok and Twitter.
And also, a contract might just cover a couple of months of "work." That's not their yearly compensation.
Grok @grok
Yes, per a Columbia Journalism Review report, Emilia Rowland (a paid NYC Mayor's Office director) runs a Signal group of over 200 influencers who get daily City Hall talking points and clips. The group grew from his campaign's Creators4Zohran network. Group participation is unpaid, but some influencers separately get $5k--$20k in taxpayer funds via city contracts for specific messaging campaigns.
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192 House Democrats Vote "No" on Resolution to Condemn Socialism; Hakeem Jeffries Fumes at Democrats Who Voted With the Republicans
—Disinformation Expert Ace
I missed this yesterday.
Two "moderate" Democrats joined the Republicans in getting the vote to the floor -- without those two Democrats, the resolution would have stalled in committee.
Hakeem Jeffries is spitting mad at these anti-socialist Democrats, calling them traitors.
The House of Representatives passed a resolution condemning socialism on Tuesday evening, with all but eight House Democrats voting against it.In a stunning twist of fate, however, the vote would not have occurred if two House Democrats hadn't stepped in hours earlier to help the GOP through a procedural hurdle -- blindsiding House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, D-N.Y., in the process.
Jeffries later threatened consequences for the pair in a dramatic statement late on Tuesday night, calling their move a "breach of trust."
The resolution passed 220 to 192 with all "no" votes coming from the left, including Democrats' senior leaders: House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, D-N.Y., House Minority Whip Katherine Clark, D-Mass., and House Democratic Caucus Chair Pete Aguilar, D-Calif.
The legislation also affirmed support for election integrity and called for passage of the Safeguarding American Voter Eligibility (SAVE) Act, which nearly all Democrats oppose.
House conservatives had threatened to tank a procedural vote, called a "rule vote," meant to unlock debate on several bills GOP leaders wanted lawmakers to vote on this week. That included the resolution condemning socialism and several other unrelated bills.
Five Republicans voted against the rule, which was poised to fail until Reps. Jared Golden, D-Maine, and Marie Gluesenkamp Perez, D-Wash., provided two critical votes to get the GOP over the finish line in a narrow 209 to 208 vote.
The five Republicans were protesting a past vote on the continuing resolution. I'm so tired of this look-at-me, quien-es-mas-macho-conservative bullshit.
Jeffries and other senior House Democratic leaders warned in a statement the day after, ""The decision by two of our colleagues to blindside the entire House Democratic Caucus and join with the Republican majority to pass a procedural rule on the brink of failing represents a significant breach of trust."
"It is an action that necessitates a serious response, and we have asked the Committee on Caucus Rules to take this up in short order," the leaders said.All Republicans wound up voting in favor of the resolution condemning socialism and affirming election integrity on Tuesday evening, however.
...It's almost unheard of for the minority party to help their political rivals pass a rule, and Jeffries told reporters he was not notified beforehand.
The five House Republicans who voted against it were Reps. Pete Sessions, R-Texas; Chip Roy, R-Texas; Ralph Norman, R-S.C., Clay Higgins, R-La.; and Andy Harris, R-Md.
The rebels' issue was not with the measure itself, nor the bills it would have allowed the House to pass. Their votes were a protest against how their leaders handled a plan to avert a government shutdown just before the midterm elections, a short-term funding bill called a continuing resolution (CR). That measure passed just before the rule vote began.
Meanwhile, Abdulrahman Mohamad El-Sayed will join Islamists and conspiracy theorists to Just Ask Questions about 9/11, days before the 9/11 twenty-five year anniversary.
Abdulrahman Mohamed El-Sayed has questions, just as Tuq'r Qarlson wants to know who really blew up WTC 7.
Democratic Michigan Senate nominee Abdul El-Sayed is scheduled to speak at an Islamic convention this weekend--six days before the 25th anniversary of 9/11--on a panel alongside a "9/11 truther" and a Muslim cleric conspiracy theorist who has called for an "examination" of the official narrative surrounding the terrorist attacks.El-Sayed is headlining the Islamic Society of North America's annual convention in Detroit on Saturday. There, El-Sayed will speak on a panel to examine a "turmoiled America" alongside left-wing pundit Cenk Uygur and Zaid Shakir, an outspoken New Jersey-based cleric, according to a convention itinerary.
Both men have promoted conspiracy theories surrounding 9/11, in which al Qaeda operatives killed 2,977 Americans.
"I no longer believe [sic] official 9/11 story," Uygur declared in a social media rant in February. Uygur, who hosts the Young Turks YouTube show, is now pushing debunked claims about Israeli involvement in the attacks, including the "dancing Israelis" myth, an antisemitic conspiracy theory that posits that five Israeli spies filmed and celebrated the terrorist attack. "I didn't know we arrested Israeli spies who were here to 'document the event,'" wrote Uygur, who is the uncle of Hasan Piker, a close El-Sayed ally who has said that "America deserved 9/11."
Uygur was widely mocked for, as one outlet described it, "going full 9/11 truther."
Shakir has similarly called for an "examination" of what he described as "glaring weaknesses and inconsistencies" in the official 9/11 narrative. He has argued that the U.S. government used the attacks to "launch a war on Islam," and he directed followers to the writings of David Ray Griffin, a leading 9/11 conspiracy theorist who has argued that the United States orchestrated the attacks.
El-Sayed's appearance alongside the conspiracy theorists comes as his own record of seeking to minimize the horror of 9/11, and to draw equivalence between 9/11 victims and casualties of the war on terror, is under scrutiny.
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El-Sayed has also faced withering scrutiny over his close ties to Piker, a popular left-wing influencer who has campaigned with El-Sayed. El-Sayed has repeatedly refused to fully disavow Piker's remarks about 9/11, saying that they have been "taken out of context" and that Piker is a victim of "cancel culture."
And El-Sayed has sought to link "Islamophobia" after 9/11 to health problems for Muslims and Arabs.
In a Sept. 11, 2012, essay for CNN that called Muslims "another victim of 9/11," El-Sayed cited a study conducted in California that found a dramatic increase in premature births for Muslim women after 9/11 compared with before the attacks. El-Sayed attributed the spike to "discrimination and marginalization" that Muslim women experienced after the attacks.
El-Sayed omitted from his essay the findings of his own study comparing birth outcomes for Muslim women before and after 9/11, however. El-Sayed's study, conducted in Michigan, found no difference in premature births for Muslim women after 9/11 and found overall that Arab and Muslim women were at "significantly" lower risk for premature births compared to white, black, and Asian mothers, the Free Beacon reported.
Shakir, in addition to propagating 9/11 conspiracy theories, has blamed Israel for other terrorist attacks and called for Muslims to use "guerrilla warfare" to achieve their desired political outcomes.
In related news: The media is attacking Bari Weiss for rewriting a "journalists'" headline about Abdulrahman Mohamed El-Sayed deleting old tweets in which he suggested a moral equivalency between 9/11 and US war against Al Qaeda.
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Lindsay Clancy Jury Still Deadlocked
Plus: AWFUL Film-Maker Praises the Murder of the Bank of America VP and Celebrates Luigi Mangione
—Disinformation Expert Ace
This is going to be a mistrial, and, instead of retrying the case, the prosecutors will realize the AWFUL "Mommyslueths" are about 60% of all women so no conviction will be possible. They'll offer a plea deal, something like ten years suspended sentence under psychiatric supervision.
By the way: I think there is a weak, but understandable, case for not guilty by reason of insanity here. I can understand the case for mercy.
What I don't understand is the "Mommysleuths" turning this psychotic child-murderer into an actual hero.
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Prosecutor Who Blew the Whistle on "Tish" James' Unethical Demand to "Dig Up Dirt" on Trump and His Friends Sits Down for Several-Hour Interview with Federal Prosecutors
—Disinformation Expert Ace
This gigantic mutant hag might finally get some justice.
Or at least she'll get prosecutorial process-- which the left has used for decades as a punishment in itself.
Fed investigators met with Tish James whistleblower who claimed he was pushed to dig up dirt on Trump: sources
The whistleblower in Attorney General Letitia James' office who said he was ordered to dig up dirt on President Trump met with federal prosecutors for "several hours" Tuesday, sources said.Daniel Wiesenfeld, a former Brooklyn prosecutor and a lawyer in James' office, had a lengthy sit-down with both criminal and civil attorneys from the FBI and the US Department of Justice over his bombshell claims, the sources told The Post.
The extent of the feds' interest in the case is unclear.
I bet I can name one top-ranking fed who is very interested in this, and his opinion carries more weight than most others'.
Wiesenfeld, who has been placed on paid administrative leave, claimed in a since-deleted Friday email to colleagues that was leaked to the Times-Union that his boss, Investor Protection Bureau Chief Shamiso Maswoswe, instructed him "to find and pursue crimes" by Trump allies."If you believe Trump is using the [Department of Justice] attorneys to prosecute his enemies to further his political interests, you should find it equally troubling that Tish [James] is doing exactly the same thing," the email allegedly said.
In a statement this week, James' office called the scandal "a personnel matter."
LOL. What I illegally order my prosecutors to do is just an personnel matter. We just have an internal disagreement about whether I broke the law.
Did I murder my wife and children? It's none of your business. It's a family matter. Please respect my privacy and give me space to grieve.
...However, the Trump administration this week fired back at James in a scathing statement.
"This is more proof of the weaponization of the justice system by Letitia James to target President Trump and her political opponents," White House spokeswoman Lauren Bis said. "The far-left Democrats' lawfare against President Trump, his family must stop."
Unrelated, except it involves the corrupt shithole state of New York:
Yesterday, a crazed woman butchered another woman with a kitchen knife and wounded two others. Cops shot tasers at her, but she pulled out the darts and they had no effect, because she's a landwhale and probably up to her gills in drugs.
Cops shot her as she rushed one cop with her kitchen knife extended before her.
Obviously, you knew this was coming: the knife-attacker is an Oppressed Minority (TM) so you just knew the racist left would begin pushing the "Why didn't they just shoot the knife out of her hand?" bullshit they pull whenever an Oppressed Minority is shot attacking cops.
In this case, the crazed assailant's mom is demanding to know why the cops didn't just take their stabbings like men and just tackle the knife-crazed maniac.
The mother of the crazed Queens woman who killed a new mom and seriously wounded an elderly dad in a terrifying Times Square stabbing spree is questioning why cops didn't just "grab" her daughter rather than fatally shoot her when she charged at them with knives.
NYPD officers attempted to deploy tasers, but they were ineffective. She then rushed at them while waving the knives, prompting two officers to open fire, the dramatic footage shows."There were so many police... why didn't they grab her by the arm?" Cisneros' mother, who did not give her name, asked Fox 5 News in Spanish.
In Spanish, huh? I've been wondering about her immigration status. As no one is reporting on it, I imagine the reasons for the non-reportage of it are the usual reasons.
...Cisneros suffers from what her brother described to The Post Tuesday as bipolar disorder, but said she'd been receiving treatment in recent years and "never showed any aggressiveness."
"I don't know what happened," Patrick Peralta, 59, said, adding his sister had found some stability through medication in recent years and reported feeling "fine" as recently as Saturday.
Cisneros, of Queens, had a documented mental health history with police, including a suicide attempt.
Cisneros drew the attention from NYPD cops in December 2018 when she was belligerent, intoxicated and screaming along Lexington Avenue, sources said. She then tried to kill herself in March 2019 by jumping in front of an E train in Queens, sources said.
Court records show that Cisneros' marriage fell apart around this time, with her husband filing for divorce in Hillsborough County, Florida, during 2020. The divorce was finalized last year.
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Cisneros had whipped out two knives from a red Target bag and stabbed the first victim, Tak Kam, a 68-year-old dad from Rhode Island, in the abdomen as he exited the subway on West 41st Street and was waiting to cross the street, police said.
She then continued up to 42nd Street and seconds later fatally stabbed Piacenti -- a vice president at Bank of America who had just returned from maternity leave.
I don't blame the mom for this stupid objection. When your child is killed, you're going to spin out reasons why this was unfair and why cops should have just let your innocent baby stab as many people as she could before she got all tuckered out and took a nap.
I mean, it's a tough thing to process. I get that. A child is the most important thing in the world to a parent, and many would trade other people's lives for their child's.
Fine.
But society, of course, can definitely not trade innocent people's lives, including those of cops, for the lives of crazed violent killers.
So while I can excuse the mother's stupid babblings, I do not excuse the ambulance-chasing racists of the tribal left, who take cases like this and blow them up into national crises, with the eager assistance of the traitor media.
We'll see if the corrupt Soros Manhattan DA, Alvin Bragg, prosecutes the cops like he prosecuted Daniel Perry.
Hunter Biden: I Used Burisma Money To Buy Drugs and Whores and My Daddy Used to Visit Me in My Crackdens With His Vice Presidential Motorcade
Update: Hunter Says He's "48% Gay" Which Seems Low to Me
—Disinformation Expert Ace
Israel did a great job framing a guy who is so clearly guilty.
Very crafty, Israelis.
Hunter Biden reveals he used Burisma cash to buy drugs, Joe Biden 'showed up' to his drug den flanked by Secret Service"Well, I still had the residual. Like for instance, I still was on the board of Burisma."
Hunter Biden reveals he used Burisma cash to buy drugs, Joe Biden 'showed up' to his drug den flanked by Secret Service
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Speaking to host Dave Manheim, who asked him how could afford the long stay at the ritzy hotel [Chateau Marmont, where various celebrities have overdosed in pricey squalor] in California, Biden replied, "Well, I still had the residual. Like for instance, I still was on the board of Burisma."...
Although he had no experience in the energy industry, the younger Biden argued that he was qualified for the role and that he wasn't "running some kind of international crime syndicate."
"What people don't understand about Burisma is that I went on the board of Burisma because I had been on the board of about 14 other major national and international organizations," he added. "I was chairman of the board of the UN World Food Program, which is the largest humanitarian organization in the world -- we increased the budget when I was chairman from $1.8 billion to $2.6 billion when I was there."
"I can't be guilty of using my father's office to influence-peddle to Burisma because I was simultaneously influence-peddling with 14 other organizations! I'm smart! Hire me as your lawyer and lobbyist!"
He also talked about how his father, while vice president under Barack Obama, "showed up" at his home flanked by Secret Service agents while Hunter was using drugs....
During the course of the interview, Biden said that "true addicts" are some of the most "resourceful, resilient, intelligent, and mission oriented" people around, and that without the crack, addicts are "bada** f*cking warriors."
Oh, he's praising degenerate drug addicts now, great. He and Tuq'r Qarlson can bond over what bada** f***ing warriors they are.
Update: Hunter was probably also a bad*** f***ing warrior when he was blowing his crack dealer, too.
Hunter Biden identified as a "little bit gay" in a recent podcast interview dominated by talk about his sexuality.The former first son, 56, who's married to Melissa Cohen, made the revealing remarks on an Aug. 16 episode of the Luke Beasley Show podcast.
Beasley asked Biden, "Are you gay?" early on in the interview.
Former President Joe Biden's son replied: "Only a little bit."
Beasley then asked if Hunter was "more or less than 50 percent" gay -- and the ex-first son said, "48.6 percent."
The podcaster then wanted to know if he'd be Hunter's "type."
"A little bit more masculine would be my type, if I was gay," Hunter responded.
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Later in the episode, Biden went back to "the gay question," as he put it and said "maybe I take back 48.5" percent.
"More like 47 [percent] after that conversation. My gaydom went down a percentage point," the former president's son quipped.
Toward the end of the nearly 90-minute interview, Hunter retracted and said "I just wanted to let you know that I am back up to 48.5 percent gay."
Is this real? I don't know. The left has a new rule to show you're an "ally:" If a gay man flirts with you, and you're straight, you're supposed to flirt back and entertain the possibility that you might have sex with him.
Women are not required to pretend they are sexually interested in men they're not attracted to, but men are now required by the left to pretend they're sexually interested in other men. And sometimes more than just pretend.
Hey, you're an ally, right?
Thanks to TJM and JackStraw.
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DHS Announces It Arrested 2,200 Illegal Aliens in NYC In One Month
—Disinformation Expert Ace
From late July to late August.
The Department of Homeland Security on Tuesday announced the results of its "Operation Rotten Apple" which they undertook in New York between late July and late August, with over 2,000 illegal immigrants being apprehended by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE).The operation saw agents arrest 2,197 illegal immigrants across the state. DHS Secretary Markwayne Mullin said in a press conference Tuesday morning, "We focused on them all across the state of New York. These arrests included gang members, rapists, murderers, and child predators, which I believe there's a special place in hell for those individuals."
Mullin said in a statement, "Operation Rotten Apple did what sanctuary politicians in New York City and the state of New York refuse to do: made the Empire State safer. We won't let sanctuary politicians stand in our way. If you're a state or local politician, your best bet is to cooperate with us so we can all make America safe again." He said that the operation was conducted with "no help" from New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani or Governor Kathy Hochul.
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Mullin told reporters on Tuesday that the decision to launch the operation was made because Mayor Zohran Mamdani, "instead of working with law enforcement, tried to cut NYPD's budget by $22 million and refuses to work with federal law enforcement. You have a governor that refuses to work with us."
He said that the operation targeted 13,000 illegal immigrants who have been released by "New York sanctuary politicians" that DHS and ICE had placed detainers on. "These are your rapists, your murderers, your child predators, these are gangbangers, these are terrorists."
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Wednesday Morning Rant
—Joe Mannix
On Monday, the federal Department of Transportation announced that it, along with DHS and DOJ, has launched a major investigative and response operation targeted at rubber-stamp CDL training organizations that put non-English-speaking, illegal alien or other unqualified drivers on American highways. The first salvo has already been fired at the first layer in the CDL stack: introductory skills training. Federal DOT has, effective immediately, decertified and forced to shut down 110 entry-level CDL training programs.
That sounds like a lot, and it is - but it is also somehow apparently just a nibble at the edges. The press release on the operation is shocking. It starts with what has already been done, and some of it is stuff the agencies have been talking about for a while. Over the past 18 months, federal DOT has forced states to revoke around 30,000 fraudulent CDLs and purged in excess of 8,000 phony, incompetent, corrupt, fraudulent or derelict training organizations from its registry. That is before the 110 it purged in Monday's emergency action, and those that will come next. That sounds like a lot, and it is.
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