Knockin' Off Early Cafe
—Disinformation Expert Ace
a gull is unbothered by the weather
Mark Dobson/@wildseascapes
Jumping off a cliff in a wingsuit is so 2022. Now we all jump off cliffs in wingsuits with a flare burning on our foot.
Oof -- race starts out with a big pile-up.
Radio-controlled plane battle.
Coming in a little low and a little hot.
A river that empties into the sky.
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Facebook and Instagram Have Decided That Olympic Shooting Sports Are Dangerous and Glorify Violence
—Disinformation Expert Ace
So no Olympic shooter can be shown with their guns.
Imagine Instagram blocking non-followers from seeing a post by Steph Curry because it featured a basketball, or a post from U.S. Olympic track star Noah Lyles that highlighted his running shoes. Absurd, right?
Yet that's exactly what happened to U.S. Paralympic athlete McKenna Geer, who was shadow banned by Meta after a post sharing her love of the shooting sports.Earlier this month, Ms. Geer shared a photo on Instagram of the air rifle she used to qualify for the Paralympic Games. The company flagged the photo as out of line with its guidelines and informed her that nonfollowers wouldn't be able to view her account or content in Instagram's search, explore suggested users or similar features. "Our Recommendations Guidelines help to promote content that fosters a safe community on Instagram," Meta wrote in its explanation of why it wouldn't promote her account.
"I have always feared the day the media would censor my sport and speech just because I use firearms," Ms. Geer posted on Instagram on July 17. "That day has finally come." Meta initially blocked Ms. Geer's ability to appeal the decision, and her account remains shadow-banned while her appeal is under review with only a month to go before the competition. Meantime, the tech company is shielded from civil lawsuits under Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act.
As USA Shooting board member Tim Rupli shares at the Wall St. Journal, Geer isn't the only competitive shooter to run afoul of Meta's ridiculous "community standards." U.S. Olympic shotgunner Conner Prince has been subjected to the same treatment, according to Rubli, who also shared that Facebook (another Meta property) "unpublished" the page belonging to the West Point Rifle Team "because Army West Point Rifle goes against our Community Standards."
Fuck your leftwing thought-controlling Groomer Community, Facebook.
The DHS Refuses to Administer DNA Tests to Illegal Aliens, to Check to See If They're Wanted Criminals
—Disinformation Expert Ace
Luke Rosiak:
The Department of Homeland Security has refused to follow a law mandating it take DNA samples from illegal immigrants taken into custody, which would identify violent criminals and child traffickers, employees told the U.S. Senate this week.Speaking to senators on Tuesday, three former WMD officials presented evidence that DHS and U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) had blocked their efforts to comply with a 2005 law, then retaliated against them when they sounded the alarm about the lawbreaking.
"Given the enormous potential of DNA collection to facility solving crimes, we took our job seriously," Fred Wynn said.
Law enforcement experts from CBP's Weapons of Mass Destruction (WMD) unit were tasked with implementing a mandatory program to DNA-test illegals. But higher-ups at DHS were so opposed to the law that they continuously thwarted it, eventually disbanding the entire WMD division, the whistleblowers say. Disbanding the division may have opened the United States to a WMD attack, in addition to criminals crossing the border.
The disbanding also allowed hundreds of thousands of children to stay with people who claimed to be relatives, but who may have been child labor or sex traffickers. DNA testing is the only reliable way to ensure that children aren't coming across the border with traffickers, or being taken to live with them by U.S. officials as "sponsors."
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Jones said the WMD team had its responsibilities stripped, and were told to come to work and simply sit and do nothing. In one case, one team member was told to report to a new desk that had no internet, phone, or power."Certain senior officials were hell-bent on slow-rolling any process or pilot program that enabled DNA collection," he said.
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Mike Taylor, the third WMD whistleblower, said the men have repeatedly reached out to Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas, but have received no corrective action. Meanwhile, those who retaliated against the men have been promoted.
Janet Napolitano, then the DHS, asked that the law be suspended for a while, then phased in gradually. Eric Holder allowed this.
And the "phase-in gradually" became what it was always intended to be -- a "never phase-in at all" order.
...The report points to an illegal immigrant who committed multiple sexual assaults in Arizona in 1997. Though the individual had the DNA of the perpetrator, they could not find a match, since the suspect was not in the system. The crime was only solved in 2019 because the suspect went on to go to prison for another crime, at which point he had his DNA taken.
DHS then began punishing whistleblowers who called attention to this deliberate negligence to enforce a law. Read the article for that.
Meanwhile: The Regime also refuses to prosecute the Hamas "protesters" who burned the American flag. Not their own flag -- they took down the flag that flew at Columbus Circle's memorial and burned that.
Julio Rosas @Julio_Rosas11From a DC law enforcement source: The charges against four people, including a 15-year-old, who were arrested for assaulting police officers during yesterday's riot were dropped.
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Matt Walsh Releases Follow-Up to "What Is a Woman?:" "Am I Racist?"
Plus: The Week That Was Woke
—Disinformation Expert Ace
A trailer for the new movie is below. It looks hilarious.
Apparently he hired the "Race2Dinner" scamsters to give one of their White People Are Evil and Racism Is Bad speeches, so he was able to have cameras and microphones on the event. And he posed as waiter serving everyone. (Or maybe he hired actresses to pretend to be those women, to judge the reaction of the Liberal White Women attending the dinner.)
Make sure you see the end, when he sits down to interview... "White Fragility" scam author Robin DeAngelo. She notes that you have to be careful of who you grant interviews to.
LibsofTikTok publicized a failed Democrat office-seeker for having called her "a domestic terrorist." The leftwing ninny is claiming that LibsofTikTok got her "swatted." Apparently it's okay to call LibsofTikTok a domestic terrorist, but it's a dangerous provocation for her to publicize that slur. It turns out -- the woman lied. She was never "swatted." A single cop knocked on her door to conduct a social welfare check/wellness check.
They always lie. They are always claiming they're getting "death threats" or "rape threats," but they never post these threats. That's because they're lying. If someone tells them "go f*** yourself" they claim that's a "rape threat" because the person is threatening to force them to f*** themselves. This is obviously absurd.
RuPaul's Drag Show celebrates drag and sexualized behavior for children. And Kamala Harris just appeared on the groomer show.
If you're in Ohio Education District 6-- make sure you vote against this groomish individual.
You now have to worry about furries when you take your kids to the beach.
Another leftwing judge allows another illegal alien to skate on criminal charges. The usual senseless murder ensues.
Another parent grieving a child killed by an illegal alien.
Paris gives the honor of being the last person to take the Olympic torch to, what else, a drag queen.
What gender ideology did to one formerly attractive, formerly healthy young woman.
I linked Childless Cat-Lesbian Randi Weingartner railing about fighting "fascism" and taking over parental responsibilities from (checks notes) parents, but she said so much more than that.
American Federation of Teachers boss Randi Weingarten has been ripped as an "unhinged lunatic" after she delivered a wild, political rally-style speech suggesting that former President Donald Trump was an "existential threat" to democracy.The teachers' union president screamed and shouted at her members as she warned of looming violence and fascism if Trump wins the 2024 election when she took the stage during the AFT's annual convention in Houston, Texas, on Monday.
"The November elections will determine which path we take as a nation. Progress is indeed possible, but so is the eradication of the rights and freedoms we hold dear," the union boss declared in her lengthy speech.
"Historians ... who study threats to democracy and how fascists come to power conclude that it is seldom a dramatic event or attack that lets fascism in the door. The violence comes later after they are voted in," she continued.
"Voting is still our best defense against tyranny and fascism."
At one point, a fired-up Weingarten appeared to jump up and down on stage as she continued to rant into the microphone.
AFT to vote on controversial proposals -- including ending US military aid to Israel, protecting pro-Palestinian protesters
"When the history books are written about this moment, let them record that we the people united, mobilized and voted down this existential threat to democracy and freedom," she shouted.
"That we continued the march for progress, that we laid the foundation for a better future and that we sought to create a more perfect union. Progress is possible. Keep marching."
Flailing her arms, Weingarten continued: "Imagine a country where hate has no harbor and freedom rings. The freedom to vote. To live, to breathe. The freedom to marry. The freedom for families to make reproductive choices. The freedom to read. The freedom to teach and the freedom to join a union."
Which books are you opposed to "banning," Randi?
You never want to say. Why is that?
Is it because the only books being banned are gay pornography?
And they're not banned. You can still buy them. Parents, if they hate their children, could buy them for their children to groom them.
All that's happening is that people are saying that gay porno blowjob books are not appropriate for a elementary or middle school library, and this nation's degenerate pervert librarians need to stop buying these books with taxpayer dollars.
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Polls Are Made for Strippers But Then Again Who Doesn't Like Strippers?
—Disinformation Expert Ace
In her Honeymoon period, when most people don't know much about her leftwing extremist politics, and have never heard her Idiot Cackling, Kamala has slightly improved on Biden's performance against Trump.
The likely 2024 presidential election campaign between Vice President Kamala Harris and former President Donald Trump begins with no clear leader, according to a new CNN poll conducted by SSRS after President Joe Biden ended his bid for reelection.
Trump holds 49% support among registered voters nationwide to Harris' 46%, a finding within the poll's margin of sampling error. That's a closer contest than earlier CNN polling this year had found on the matchup between Biden and Trump.
Trump led Biden 49-45 in the same poll.
So is she doing better? Well.... I mean, it's statistical noise.
If Trump really is at 49%, that's game over. In a crowded field, you don't need 50%. Hell, Trump doesn't even need to be ahead in the national vote to win the electoral college by a bunch of votes.
And this is a poll of registered voters, not likely voters. (Though the likely voter screen doesn't favor Democrats much any longer.)
The survey finds voters widely supportive of both Biden's decision to step aside and his choice to remain in office through the end of his term. Democratic and Democratic-leaning voters are broadly enthusiastic about Harris and willing to coalesce around her as the new presumptive nominee, even as they remain deeply divided on whether Biden's Democratic successor should seek to continue his policies or chart a new course.
Whoops! Well that's a big problem the Democrats have, huh? It's 100 days until the election and they haven't figured out if they want to abandon and Repudiate Biden's policies, or double down on them.
And the new poll finds some critical movement in these early days of a Harris-Trump race.
Harris hangs on to 95% of those who earlier said they supported Biden, while Trump retains the support of a slightly smaller 92% of his previous backers. Those who previously said they would support neither Biden nor Trump in a two-way matchup now split 30% for Harris and 27% for Trump, with the rest saying they'd vote for someone else or opt out of this year's election.
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About three-quarters of Trump's supporters (74%) say their vote is to express support for him rather than opposition to Harris. That's an increase in affirmative support for him compared with the June CNN poll (66%), which came before an assassination attempt on Trump's life and the Republican National Convention at which the former president formally accepted his party's nomination. The poll finds Trump's favorability rating ticking up to 43%, higher than it's been since 2020 in CNN polling.
CNN's poll analyst Henry Enten says that the storyline about Harris doing better than Biden with young voters -- because young voters consider 59 to be the new 29, or something -- is just wishcasting, without support in the actual polling.
CNN senior data reporter Harry Enten said Wednesday that support for presumptive Democratic nominee Kamala Harris is 'just not there' among young voters.CNN senior data reporter Harry Enten revealed on Wednesday that presumptive Democratic nominee Kamala Harris is struggling to gain traction among young voters despite a recent influx of internet memes.
Referencing CNN exit polls, Enten noted that President Biden won voters under the age of 35 by 21 points in 2020, but Harris is leading former President Trump by "significantly less" as of Sunday (9 points).
He said that Harris may be doing better than Biden among young voters before announcing he would not run for re-election. However, her numbers are still "way down" from many other Democrats in the 21st century.
"If this is unique support among young voters, I would like to know what her non-unique support is. Is it even worse than this?" Enten said.
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"This idea, again, that the vice president has unique potential to dig in and get young voters to turn out--John, it's just not there in the numbers despite all the internet memes that are going around," Enten told anchor John Berman.
He noted that support for Trump is higher than it's ever been:
"Yes, Democrats can make this switcheroo, but they're still going to have to beat Donald Trump, a Donald Trump who is stronger, Sara, than he has ever been before," he told anchor Sara Sidner....
The network's data guru pointed to two recent national polls Tuesday morning, one from ABC/Ipsos and one from Quinnipiac University, showing the former president's popularity as it stands following the Republican National Convention last week.
"We know that Donald Trump has historically been unpopular, but take a look now," he began. "After the Republican National Convention, in the ABC News/Ipsos poll, he recorded his highest ever favorable rating at 40%. That's not a one-off."
Enten continued to underline the fact that Trump is at his most popular.
"We know that Donald Trump has historically been unpopular, but take a look now," he began. "After the Republican National Convention, in the ABC News/Ipsos poll, he recorded his highest ever favorable rating at 40%. That's not a one-off."
Mentioning the other poll, he continued, "Take a look at the Quinnipiac University poll: 46%. That's the highest ever in that pollster."
"The fact is, Donald Trump is more popular now than he ever has been before," Enten declared, summing up the new polls.
Sidner then invited Enten to demonstrate how Trump would stack up against Harris compared to how he would match up against Biden in a presidential race. According to the reporter's aggregate numbers, Trump currently has the edge over Kamala in national popular vote polling, whereas he was polling below Biden during the 2020 Election, which he lost.
Starting with Trump against Harris, he said, "If we take a look at the national average, what do we see? We see Donald Trump up by one. That's a within-the-margin race. That's a close race."
He then turned to the Biden/Trump numbers from last election cycle.
"So last time around, when Joe Biden barely won in the electoral college, he actually won the national popular vote by four points."
"So at this point, Donald Trump is running five points better -- five points better -- than he was four years ago against Joe Biden," he said, adding, "... Whether you look at the favorable ratings, whether you look at the horse race polling, we see that Donald Trump is doing significantly better than he was doing four years ago at this point."
Enten then provided a warning for Harris, who became the presumptive Democratic Party nominee following Biden suspending his campaign over the weekend.
"Kamala Harris is going to have to do better than this of course if she wants to win the popular vote, but more than that if she wants to win the electoral college where she'll likely have to outperform how she's done nationally," the reporter added, though he did acknowledge that there hasn't been national polling on Harris since Biden ditched his bid over the weekend.
(((Harry Enten)))
@ForecasterEnten
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Here's what we have for voters under the age of 30 so far...CNN/SSRS: Harris +4
Reuters/Ipsos: Harris +14
NYT/Siena: Harris +21Average so far: Harris +13 (I'll note Marist, not included here, had an under 35 & looked most like CNN)... Better than Biden 2024. Worse than 2020
Despite not showing she's able to beat Trump, 76% of Democrats want her
to be the nominee.
"About three-quarters of Democratic and Democratic-leaning voters (76%) say the Democratic Party should nominate Harris as its candidate for president, with only about 6% expressing support for any other specific person as the nominee," CNN revealed.
One pollster, Reuters-Ipsos, puts Harris up over Trump by two points, 44 to 42. But a guest on Megyn Kelly said that Reuters polls have consistently showed Biden doing better than any other pollster. The guest said the Reuters poll had Biden down by only one slender point, while other pollsters had it at 4 or 5 points.
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Obama's Benghazi Czar Susan Rice: It's Racist and Sexist to Call DEI Vice President Kamala Harris a DEI Hire
—Disinformation Expert Ace
She very literally is. To secure James Clyburn's support in South Carolina, where Biden had one last chance to win a primary in 2020 after losing in the first three, he had to promise to make a DEI pick. Specifically, he vowed he would nominate a black woman for the slot.
This is DEI -- picking people based on gender and race. Obviously.
Susan Rice, who lied about a "video" being the cause of Benghazi and then set the whole "intelligence" community to the task of falsifying the facts to justify her lie, says it's "dehumanizing" to criticize an unqualified candidate.
Former White House adviser Susan Rice said Tuesday on CNN's "Situation Room" that it was "extremely offensive and dehumanizing" to say Vice President Harris is a DEI (diversity, equity and inclusion) hire.Host Wolf Blitzer said, "Donald Trump is already slamming her, Kamala Harris, in his words as being 'dumb as a rock,' his words. He says she's dumb as rock, other Republicans are saying she was at diversity hire. What's your reaction when you hear that?"
Rice said, "That is extremely offensive and dehumanizing. Let me tell you what it means when somebody calls a person like me or anybody else a DEI hire. What that means is, if you are a woman of any background, if you are a person of color, if you are an immigrant, if you are LGBTQ, if you are disabled, if you're religious minority, if you're a veteran and you achieved success rose to a position of leadership you didn't deserve it, you didn't get there on merit you got there because you got some unfair advantage. That is incredibly insulting to the vast majority of Americans who fall into all of those categories."
Somehow pushing aside the elected president in a coup, and then anointing a plainly-unqualified DEI incompetent to take over for him, is "preserving democracy:"
She added, "It is emblematic of what this race is really all about. It's a race about whether we are going to move into the future as a democracy, where every American has the opportunity to vote to have their voice heard, to have a chance to make themselves a success or whether we're going backward to Donald Trump and JD Vance and their Project 2025 vision of an America were women don't control their own bodies, they can't get contraception or in vitro fertilization. To an America where we don't educate our children in public schools that are sufficiently funded because we don't want them to have opportunity. That's 19th Century, where the only people who mattered were frankly white Christian men. That's what they're saying with this DEI thing that if you're somebody who is not a white Christian man, then you didn't get where you got because you deserved it. That's not the America who we are."
Last time I checked, we also criticized the white (nominal) Christian Joe Biden as incompetent, too.
But that doesn't matter -- you're allowed to find fault with White Men. (Spit.)
And only white men.
Meanwhile, there's another controversy -- whether or not it's fair to point out that Kamala Harris owes her success, such as it is, to sucking the very blue off a Bombpop.
Vice President Kamala Harris' past relationship with ex-San Francisco Mayor Willie Brown is "fair game" for media scrutiny now that the former is the overwhelming favorite to be the Democratic Party's nominee for president, according to Megyn Kelly."I'm going there," Kelly said on her SiriusXM podcast "The Megyn Kelly Show" on Monday, noting that there was a "debate on Twitter ... on whether Willie Brown" boosted her career during their brief romance decades ago.
"First she slept with this guy Willie Brown who was this extremely popular, powerful Congressman out in California ... and he put her in two different positions that she did not deserve when she was only 29 or 30 [and] he was 60," according to Kelly."Already that affair is sus."
Brown, who at the time was speaker of the California Assembly, and Harris dated when she was a prosecutor in the Alameda County District Attorney's Office. The relationship began in 1994 and ended sometime the next year.
According to reports, Brown was separated from his wife at the time he and Harris dated.
"Dated." How chivalrous to put it that way.
..."She was making the equivalent of 130 grand a year by today's money for meeting twice a month for these medical boards and another position for what she had zero qualifications," Kelly noted on her SiriusXM show on Monday.
"He was trying to lay the road for her political career."
Kelly noted that Brown "admitted that he's the one who helped her win the role as DA and she was sleeping with him."
"I'm sorry. It's fair game ... It takes some talent," Kelly said.
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She succeeded Barbara Boxer as US senator before she was picked as former Vice President Joe Biden's running mate in 2020.
And Willie Brown called Harris' most likely opponent for that Senate race and told him to stand down. A kneel-down deserves a stand-down in turn.
I read an argument about this. One woman said that this kind of attack on Kamala will further alienate the "suburban female voters" we need. I don't know about that -- that kind of voter is already Voting Blue No Matter Who.
Another woman replied that women who s*** their bosses' dick for promotions are hated by the women who don't rent out their mouths for perks and promotions.
Not sure. What do you think?
Bzzt, you're wrong. The correct answer is, "You're never allowed to criticize a black woman for anything."
Say ten Black Lives Matters and ten Trans Women are Womens to repent.
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The Secret Service's Performance Was Worse Than We Suspected
—Disinformation Expert Ace
Happy Preekend!
Susan Crabtree at RealClearPolitics:
Inflexible Secret Service protocols, overworked special agents, and a decision against deploying more counter snipers to President Trump's rally in Pennsylvania all contributed to creating the opening for a gunman to wound Trump, kill a bystander, and seriously injure two others, according to several sources in the Secret Service community.
...Secret Service spokesman Anthony Guglielmi denied that Secret Services resources were diverted to the first lady's event from Trump's but declined to provide answers to several emailed questions about that charge and several other questions being raised about potential security lapses on Saturday.
"[T]his is very wrong," Guglielmi tweeted. "We did not divert resources from FPOTUS Trump, & protection models don't work that way."
Another factor, according to these sources within the Secret Service community, was that the agency was relying heavily on supplemental special agents (not Trump's regular team of special agents) and local law enforcement because many special agents in Trump's regular protective detail were overburdened and needed to take time off after working several consecutive seven-day weeks.
The site agent, who is in charge of putting all security measures for a particular event in place, was a relatively new agent from the Pittsburgh field office with limited experience, a Secret Service source told RCP.
"Trump has a permanent detail, however, it's much smaller in the number of bodies than the president's," the source explained. "His detail has been worked so hard with all the travel that they're working seven days a week with shift changes, so headquarters sends in temporary agents to supplement. Not a good scenario."
Apparently Trump is assigned no more Secret Service agents than ex-presidents like Clinton and Obama are -- despite the fact that he is the leading candidate to become president again, and has more threats against him than anyone else in the world.
This is not unusual for a former president to experience, but the threats against Trump, the only former president in modern political history to run again and one who has faced prosecutions and comparisons to Hitler from Democrats, are obviously greater than most ex-commanders in chief whose profiles have tended to decline after leaving public office....
Trump allies, including his former acting DHS Director Chad Wolf, are also questioning whether the Secret Service is using similar resources that it would use for past presidents Obama or Bill Clinton, instead of a more robust protective detail.
"At the end of the day, this is a complete security failure," Wolf told Fox News Sunday afternoon. "Is it because of a lack of resources? They are using what they normally would for a former president, but President Trump is not a normal former president."
Secret Service officials in charge of the event provided only two counter-sniper officers when such an exposed outside rally would normally call for the use of two to three two-man teams, the source continued.
The Secret Service won't say if their sniper was greenlighted to take out the assassin, or who made that decision.
Which tells me that they did not greenlight the sniper, and they want to hide who was responsible for this. As usual.
"Did any member of the Secret Service or any other law enforcement member request permission to engage the shooter?" Ricketts asked in a letter obtained by RCP. "Were any such requests denied?"...
A source within the Secret Service community told RCP that the agency's rules of engagement in this situation are for a counter sniper who suspects an armed threat to radio the lead agent in charge and wait for a green light or wait until the president is fired upon to return fire.
Does that sound like BS to you? Well good, because it is:
But others suggested that that policy may apply only to the White House, and that counter snipers are allowed to fire upon armed targets threatening the president. Ricketts also demanded to know whether anyone within the Secret Service raised concerns prior to the rally about the building used by the shooter.
This rule may make sense at the White House. The White House is well-protected, and if someone is hanging out by the fence with a weapon, you can just tell the president to remain in interior rooms without windows. Or, if it's a serious threat, go to the bunker.
Point is, you don't have to kill someone who's at the White House fence. The chances they could hurt the president are very low.
But when the president is outdoors and the shooter is a Pass, Punt, and Kick away from the president? Then you do have to kill him.
But the Secret Service won't say what orders they gave. Because they were lethally-incompetent orders.
...One of the Secret Service sources told RCP that a paper trail likely exists about how many counter snipers and special agents the agency advance team, which plots out detailed security plans for events ahead of time, requested. The lead advance agent usually submits a manpower request to headquarters, which includes the number of counter snipers, post-standers, and magnetometers needed for a particular event.
"We always make sure that our requests are in writing so we would have a paper trail in case of the present scenario we have in Butler," the source said. But the same source complained that there was always "a do-more-with-less mentality."
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Warning signs about the Secret Service emerged months before the attempted assassination attempt against Trump. Earlier this year, the agency came under scrutiny for its diversity, equity, and inclusion policies after a female agent's apparent mental breakdown and physical attack on her superiors at Joint Base Andrews in April.
Crabtree also relays this: The Secret Service agents are fighting back against the claim that they were assigned to guard the roof, but abandoned their posts, because it was "too hot."
They say no one was ever assigned to guard the roof, period.
Susan Crabtree @susancrabtreeLOCAL LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICIALS SAY THEY DID NOT LEAVE THEIR POSTS BC IT WAS "HOT."
Local law enforcement sources dispute Sen. Hawley's charge that local police left their post at the building where shooter Thomas Crooks perched to fire off his shot. A Hawley-sourced report posted yesterday accused the local law enforcement officers of leaving their post at the AGR building because it was hot.
But local law enforcement officers say that's ridiculous -- that USSS never assigned them to the rooftop."The assignments received by the local Emergency Service Units (ESUs) were to be inside of the building at windows to begin with," said one officer. "The purpose of being in the building was to have a vantage point to scan for suspicious persons in the crowd. When a suspicious person was identified command was notified. That suspicious person ended up shooting Trump. No one was told they were supposed to be on the roof."
They also say their assignments are memorialized in writing so they have proof.
The House voted unanimously to impanel a task force to investigate the Secret Service's criminal incompetence.
This isn't over just because Cheatle was forced out, say Republicans.
Barely minutes elapsed between the breaking news that Secret Service Director Kim Cheatle had resigned in the aftermath of the assassination attempt on Donald Trump and a leading lawmaker promising that her departure would have no impact on investigating the incident."There will be more accountability to come," House Oversight and Accountability Committee Chairman James Comer, a Republican from Kentucky, vowed in a statement. "While Director Cheatle's resignation is a step toward accountability, we need a full review of how these security failures happened so that we can prevent them going forward."
Politically, Cheatle was a uniter, not a divider -- at least in Congress, which has thrown itself behind investigating Trump's near-murder with unusual bipartisan fervor.
...Republican House Speaker Mike Johnson and Democratic House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries on Tuesday jointly announced the creation of a task force to investigate the "shocking" security failures, comprising seven Republicans and six Democrats.
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Johnson told reporters Cheatle's resignation was "overdue -- she should have done this at least a week ago." And, like Comer, he suggested she might not be the last Secret Service official to be held accountable.
"There may be others in the line of authority who were also culpable in what happened and the errors and mistakes there," Johnson said. "I think our task force's work just got even more important."
Crabtree makes still more news: The "site agent" responsible for spotting likely sniper's nests and lines of fire?
An "inexperienced woman."
Susan Crabtree @susancrabtreeON THE TOPIC OF DRONES AT TRUMP RALLIES: Sen. Josh Hawley now saying that a local law enforcement entity offered drones to Secret Service before the really, but the SECRET SERVICE declined.
As I reported in the 48 hours after the assassination attempt, the. use of drones has been controversial within the Secret Service dating back to at least 2016.
From a source within the Secret Service community: "If we need an overhead [i.e. a drone], we call GEO SPATIAL, and they send it to us," the source said. "If the location is important enough to have active drone flyovers, it's important enough to have the location posted."
Meaning, that there should have been someone assigned to the roof, and that building should have been included inside the official perimeter -- meaning it should have been manned by Secret Service counter-sniper teams, not local law enforcement.
The person making those decisions would have been the site lead, but there would have been other superiors signing off on it.
We know from my sources/reporting, the "site lead" inexperienced woman special agent from the Pittsburgh field office, but someone from the Pittsburgh field office would have had to sign off on all the security plan, including that key perimeter/AGR building decision -- Tim Burke is the SAIC in charge of the Pittsburgh field office -- but it was likely his deputy that walked the site and signed off on the plan that day, I'm told that deputy position likely would be an assistant special agent in charge of the Pittsburgh field office.
Instead of an "inexperienced woman" checking lines of fire, how about hiring a man? Not just any man -- how about a man who spent years in the military as a sniper and counter-sniper, who would therefore be able to look at a field and say, "If I were going to shoot someone, I'd hide myself right on that roof"?
Women do not serve as snipers in the military, ergo, it would be discrimination to require actual experience as a sniper or counter-sniper to serve as site agent.
So instead Buffy was tasked with giving the site a once-over and making her decisions based on "vibes."
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Judge Refuses to Dismiss Trump's Lawsuit Against George Stephanopolous and ABC "News," For Repeatedly Falsely Claming He Was Convicted of "Rape"
—Disinformation Expert Ace
They're doing everything they can to bankrupt us.
A Florida judge rejected ABC's motion to dismiss a defamation lawsuit filed against the Disney-owned network and its anchor George Stephanopolous by former President Trump, allowing it to move forward.
Florida Judges, the Mirror Universe Good Versions of evil Hawaiian Judges.
The lawsuit stems from comments Stephanopoulos made in March when he falsely asserted that Trump was found "liable for rape" in a civil case against the Republican White House hopeful."A jury may, upon viewing the segment, find there was sufficient context. But a reasonable jury could conclude Plaintiff was defamed and, as a result, dismissal is inappropriate," Judge Cecilia Altonaga of United States District Court in Miami ruled Wednesday.
ABC News declined to comment.
Trump bequeathed Stephanopolous with a super-dopey nickname.
Owen Gregorian @OwenGregorianTrump touted the ruling on Truth Social, writing, "A BIG WIN TODAY IN HIGH FLORIDA COURT AGAINST ABC FAKE NEWS, AND LIDDLE' GEORGE SLOPADOPOLUS. A POWERFUL CASE! BEFORE YOU KNOW IT, THE FAKE NEWS MEDIA WILL BE FORCED BY THE COURTS TO START TELLING THE TRUTH. THIS IS A GREAT DAY FOR OUR COUNTRY. MAGA2024!"
Stephanopolous committed serial slander as he repeatedly badgered Nancy Mace -- a rape victim herself -- with claims that Trump "raped" ugly crone and fabulist E. Jean Carroll. This happened in March.
"You've endorsed Donald Trump for president. Judges and two separate juries have found him liable for rape and for defaming the victim of that rape," Stephanopoulos said, alluding to the legal victory by Trump accuser E. Jean Carroll.
Stephanopoulos repeated that claim a whopping ten times during his ugly spat with Mace, despite the fact that a jury actually determined Trump was liable for "sexual abuse," which has a distinct definition under New York law.
Trump now says he won't agree to a debate hosted on this leftwing propaganda outlet (which is owned by Groomer Corporation Disney, of course).
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Days before Wednesday's ruling, Trump suggested he was scrapping ABC's scheduled presidential debate he agreed to participate in with President Biden, who dramatically exited the presidential race and endorsed Vice President Kamala Harris on Sunday, and floated that Fox News should host a debate instead.
"My debate with Crooked Joe Biden, the Worst President in the history of the United States, was slated to be broadcast on Fake News ABC, the home of George Slopadopolus, sometime in September. Now that Joe has, not surprisingly, has quit the race, I think the Debate, with whomever the Radical Left Democrats choose, should be held on FoxNews, rather than very biased ABC. Thank you!," Trump posted on Sunday.
Thanks to andycanuck.
THE MORNING RANT – Periodic Roundup of the EV Follies (7/26/2024)
—Buck Throckmorton
Some great news on the EV front – consumer rejection of EVs built by legacy automakers is so thorough that Ford and GM are being forced to adjust their capacity away from unwanted electric novelty cars and back toward heavy-duty trucks for which there is strong demand.
“GM Delays EV Projects in Latest Industry Pullback” [WSJ – 7/24/2024]
General Motors said it would delay plans for a new Buick electric vehicle and push back the opening of an EV truck factory, the latest retrenchment by automakers that had been pushing hard into battery-powered cars.
That must be greatly disappointing to CEO Mary Barra’s handlers in the Biden administration. Perhaps she is preparing for a change in the occupant of the White House next January.
“Ford pivots from EVs to Super Duty truck production at Canada plant” [Yahoo – 7/17/2024]
Prior to Thursday’s announcement, Ford had planned to build its next-generation three-row EV SUV at Oakville, with an initial rollout for 2025, which was pushed back to 2027 in April of this year. The EV pushback at Oakville came as Ford delayed EV production at its massive BlueOval City EV campus in Tennessee to 2026 from its initial 2025 start date.It seems [CEO Jim] Farley, who bet heavily on EVs with the automaker’s Ford+ plan revealed in early 2023, is continuing to adjust the rollout of the company’s future EVs as demand has weakened in the US.
Unfortunately for Ford, its left-wing CEO, Jim Farley, is lamenting the popularity of Ford’s most successful product. Mr. Farley is quite open about his disgust with Ford’s loyal customers for wanting to purchase products that his eco-communist buddies in Davos do not approve of.
“Ford execs send mixed signals about EV commitment” [The Street – 7/21/2024]
However, Ford's move to prioritize a gas guzzler over an EV does not mean that the company is not fully committed to electric cars; it simply reflects current conditions.“We have to start to get back in love with smaller vehicles. It’s super important for our society and for EV adoption. We are just in love with these monster vehicles, and I love them too, but it’s a major issue with weight," Farley said.
No, Comrade Farley. It is not important to get back in love with smaller vehicles. It is not important for our society, nor is there any need for EV adoption.
In a few short months, President Trump will kill off the Biden mandates that provided cover for destructors like Farley who are obedient to Klaus Schwab rather than to shareholders. Ford’s board would be wise to get someone in place in the CEO office who will seize the great profit opportunity awaiting Ford, rather than keeping a CEO who is striving to kill off Ford’s most profitable vehicles.
The EV transition is collapsing in Europe too.
Fiat will reintroduce a petrol-engineered 500 city car in the next two years due to a lack of demand for electric vehicles, particularly among older drivers, its CEO has said. Olivier Francois confirmed the new petrol 500 Ibrida will arrive in early 2026 due to a slower than anticipated uptake of EVs across Europe, according to Autocar.
There are a great many reasons why consumers make the wise choice to reject EVs, but in Europe this might also weigh on their minds…
“The message is clear: the Netherlands will have to get rid of the idea that electricity is available at all times and for everyone,” a translated version of the NRC piece states.
Having the government turn off access to electricity adds another dimension to EV charging anxiety.
With consumers rejecting electric vehicles, things are not looking good for the manufacturers of EV batteries.
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Mid-Morning Art Thread
—CBD
Pietà
Giovanni Battista di Jacopo (Rosso Fiorentino)
The Pietà is a classic subject of Renaissance art, dominated by Michelangelo's glorious sculpture. Many examples have a static feel about them...more portrait than exposition of Mary's sorrow.
I found Fiorentino's Pietà to be almost painful to look at, and of course that is exactly the emotion one expects, but rarely gets.
The Morning Report — 7/26/24
—J.J. Sefton
Good Morning Kids. So the Obama's have now officially endorsed Kamala. I assume this means she's either agreed to become their puppet or else her staff is now comprised mostly of Obama loyalists, and not Clintonistas, nor Klainsmen. Or is there something else going on since this endorsement flies in the face (pun intended as you'll recall Obama's face being a fly magnet) of reports that Obama fears or feared Trump wiping the floor with her.
Whatever's going on, I think it's a fair bet that there is still quite a bit of Machiavellian maneuvering behind the scenes of Dems sensing an opportunity to get a shot at the top slot. Despite the propaganda hype machine going into overdrive, she has never been all that popular with most rank and file lefties. She had the correct melanin and was an anatomically correct female. Right now, her polling against Trump is not good.
SO the messaging is she's a prosecutor and Trump a convicted felon. Not mentioned is the fact that the cases against Trump are spurious. And his conviction in that E Jean Carrol debasement of justice was not for rape but for defamation. Because he had the audacity to accurately call her a liar in public. And her record as a prosecutor includes incarcerating black men on dubious grounds while setting violent hardened criminals loose.
She did such a great job as Border Czar that now the propagandists are in overdrive with the lie that she was merely a point person. As if that matters with over 8 million illegal alien foreigners now on our soil, likely forever. In her defense, her job was merely as window dressing to pretend the junta was doing something to seal the border as opposed to actively working to erase it.
Her Jew-hatred, as was on full display with her remarks to Israeli PM Netanyahu as well as her refusal to condemn the violent protests just outside the White House grounds and all over DC, as well as her equivocation between Israel and the terrorists who attacked her on 10/7 and those who continue to cheer that on.
No way she picks Josh Shapiro as veep, lest she lose the Jew-hating base of the Democrat Party. And what kind of Jew is Shapiro for not even acknowledging this let alone continue to be in that party. He's an apostate leftist, that's what kind of Jew.
Have a good weekend.
- ABOVE THE FOLD, BREAKING, NOTEWORTHY
- Cheatle was cut loose because Democrats are covering their rears. Democrats want to fob off the shooting as another misfit white guy with grudges. But is that the real story? Thanks to their hate rhetoric, more likely, Thomas Matthew Crooks was incited to try killing Trump. The “Trump as Hitler” line was started by Hillary Clinton last autumn on The View. Crooks nearly changed history. Democrats have been dodging the truth. Republicans shouldn’t let them get away with it, but probably will.
Elites seek to centralize power and rig the system. The goal is open-ended Democrat rule. . . A World of Illusions
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Daily Tech News 26 July 2024
—Pixy Misa
Top Story- OpenAI has unveiled its Google rival, SearchGPT. (Tech Crunch)
Kill it with fire.OpenAI seems to have taken note of the blowback and says it's taking a markedly different approach. In a blog post, the company emphasized that SearchGPT was developed in collaboration with various news partners, which include organizations like the owners of The Wall Street Journal, The Associated Press, and Vox Media, the parent company of The Verge. "News partners gave valuable feedback, and we continue to seek their input," Wood says.
Kill it with fire and sow the ground with salt.The rapid advancements by OpenAI have won ChatGPT millions of users, but the company's costs are adding up. The Information reported this week that OpenAI's AI training and inference costs could reach $7 billion this year, with the millions of users on the free version of ChatGPT only further driving up compute costs. SearchGPT will be free during its initial launch, and since the feature appears to have no ads right now, it's clear the company will have to figure out monetization soon.
Though maybe if we just wait a bit they'll encounter the delicious salty fires of bankruptcy.
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I Am ONT The Great And Terrible!
—WeirdDave
Howdy boys and girls, welcome to Thursday night. Tonight's tip: It's never to late to finish the job.
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Artistic Elephants Cafe
—Disinformation Expert Ace
Utrecht, Netherlands
via Architecture & Tradition (@archi_tradition)
Seals store a lot of flubber.
Cat wants to help with the Ikea building.
Now pandas are getting out of control, too!
Adopting a feral dog found in the wilderness of the mountains of Montenegro.
Rabbit can't believe you grew all of these crops just for him!
Some stunts make you wonder: "Why?" "Why are you doing this, exactly? Who's this for?" I guess he's a big Indiana Jones fan and wants to prove that Indy's trick of jumping out of a plane on a liferaft and surviving is plausible (if were he also wearing a parachute).
This poor lizard. He's too shy to compete for delicious ants.
The mutual admiration society between this lab and his garbagemen is strong.
Nobody dresses to fly anymore.
I previously linked a video of a dog who spins wildly in some kind of ninja frenzy. Here, he shows off his Spinning Ninjitsu techniques against an enemy, who is equally fearful and confuzzled.
Wind advisory. Stay with it until the end.
This is a very poignant story: A poor elephant was bullied and ostracized by other elephants in a zoo enclosure.
Because the other elephants were jealous of the attention he was getting.
I did not post this for a while because it seemed... what's the word? Total horseshit.
Like several other species that are able to produce abstract art, elephants, using their trunks to hold brushes, create paintings which some have compared to the work of abstract expressionists.[50] Elephant art is now commonly featured at zoos, and is shown in museums and galleries around the world.[51] Ruby at the Phoenix Zoo is considered the original elephant art star,[52] and her paintings have sold for as much as $25,000.[50] Ruby chose her own colors and was said to have a keen sense of which color she wished to use.[52] The Asian Elephant Art & Conservation Project, an "elephant art academy" in New York, teaches elephants retired from the logging industry to paint.[53] For paintings that resemble identifiable objects, teachers give the elephants guidance.[50] An example of this was shown in the TV program Extraordinary Animals, in which elephants at a camp in Thailand were able to draw portraits with flowers. Although the images were drawn by the elephants, there was always a trainer assisting and guiding the movement.[54]A popular video showing an elephant painting a picture of another elephant became widespread on Internet news and video websites.[55] The website Snopes.com, which specializes in debunking urban legends, lists the video as "partly true", in that the elephant produced the brush strokes, but notes that the similarity of the produced paintings is indicative of a learned sequence of strokes rather than a creative effort on the part of the elephant.[54]
Well... may be. But humans learn to be artists by repetition and copying, too.
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Biden Family Source: Obama Hasn't Endorsed Harris Because He Knows She Can't Win
—Disinformation Expert Ace
I don't get the whole Kamala Harris play. You staged a coup against Biden because he couldn't win, and now you anoint someone else who can't win?
Former President Barack Obama hasn't endorsed Kamala Harris' presidential bid because he doesn't think she can beat Donald Trump, according to a source close to the Biden family.Following President Biden's shocking exit from the race on Sunday, and his immediate endorsement of the vice president, most of the Democratic elite have been quick to rally behind Harris -- but Obama is a notable exception.
"Obama's very upset because he knows she can't win," the Biden family source told The Post.
"Obama knows she's just incompetent -- the border czar who never visited the border, saying that all migrants should have health insurance. She cannot navigate the landmines that are ahead of her."
SHE WASN'T THE BORDER CZAR! SHE WASN'T THE BORDER CZAR! HERETIC! HERETIC! HERETIC!
"When you are running for president, there are things you can and can't say."
The turning point for Biden, 81, came after his disastrous performance against Trump in a televised debate in Atlanta last month -- which, The Post first revealed, was part of an "elaborate set-up" to remove him from the race.
But the source doesn't have high hopes for a TV debate between Trump and Harris. When Biden was still in the race, a second debate was scheduled for September 10.
"Wait until the debate ... She can't debate. She's going to put her foot in her mouth about Israel, Palestine, Ukraine. She's going to say something really stupid," the source said.
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"Obama knew this was going to happen, Joe knew this was going to happen. Now she is going to have to answer real questions."
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After Biden's ouster, Obama -- who did not return a request for comment Wednesday -- wanted Arizona Sen. and former astronaut Mark Kelly "at the top of the ticket" when the Democratic National Convention is held next month, the source said.
Obama is "furious" that things haven't gone his way, "which is why he is not joining in the Democratic Party's support of Harris," the Biden source added.
Another well-placed Democratic source said, "Obama being surprised by a smart political decision actually makes sense when coupled with his personal inability to see politics beyond his singular, immediate interests.
"Obama always thinks he is the smartest and coolest guy in the room. He's friends with George Clooney, after all."
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Six Democrats Join House Republicans to Condemn Kamala Harris' Failures as Border Czar
—Disinformation Expert Ace
The vote was to condemn both Biden and Harris for their failure to enforce the border.
Six Democrats join Republicans to pass resolution condemning Harris' performance as 'border czar'
There were six Democrats who joined Republicans in the House to pass a resolution "strongly condemning" Vice President Kamala Harris, now the top 2024 Democratic presidential candidate, for her performance as the border czar.The resolution, introduced by Rep. Elise Stefanik, R-N.Y., the House Republican conference chair, formally condemns Harris and the Biden administration for failing to "secure the U.S. border." The resolution notes that there have been about 9.7 million illegal immigrant encounters nationwide since January 2021.
Democrats who voted with all Republicans included Rep. Henry Cuellar of Texas, who is often critical of the administration's handling of the border as well as Reps. Yadira Caraveo of Colorado, Don Davis of North Carolina, Jared Golden of Maine, Mary Peltola of Alaska, and Marie Gluesenkamp Perez of Washington State.
The Regime's latest gaslighting effort consists of repeating Kamala Harris' command to brainwash the public into thinking they must have been hallucinating when they saw Harris constantly referred to as "Biden's border czar," including by Regime outlets.
They know this issue is toxic for her, just as it was toxic for Biden. So Kamala Harris has pushed out talking points to the media.
What are the talking points? Well, no surprises -- the talking points are exactly what the Regime media has been repeating like a mantra for the last 72 hours:
The media wants you to know: We lied every single time we previously called Kamala "the border czar."
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Obama Judge Refuses to Dismiss Gina Carano's Political/Sex Discrimination Suit Against Disney
—Disinformation Expert Ace
The judge had seemed skeptical of Disneys' claim that, as a company engaged in "speech products," it had an absolute right to discriminate based on sex and based on political speech. (Which, again, is illegal in California -- California law prohibits firing people based on political activity, a law they passed to protect Communists.)
But now she rules that their motion to dismiss is meritless.
A Los Angeles federal judge has denied Disney's motion to dismiss the lawsuit which was filed by Carano after she was ousted from the Disney+ "Star Wars"-linked streaming series "The Mandalorian" three years ago over social media posts comparing the political climate in the US to the Holocaust.US District Judge Sherilyn Peace Garnett, who was appointed to the bench by President Biden, rejected Disney's claim Wednesday that it had a "right to dissociate its own artistic message from Carano's outspoken 'political beliefs.'"
Carano's "beliefs" were "outspoken"? She said like five political things on twitter. She's one of the least-outspoken celebrities on Twitter.
It's just that one of the thing she said -- that she would not put pronouns in her bio, and when vilely attacked for weeks by trans extremists and pressured to put pronouns in her bio, she said her pronouns were "Beep/Boop/Bop" -- is absolutely forbidden to be said by the crazed Transgender Cult which now controls our politics.
"I am moved to tears," Carano wrote on her X account on Wednesday in response to the ruling.
"After a brutal 3 1/2 years, I am being given the opportunity to move forward in the court of law before the judge and my peers to clear my name. I am so grateful for this opportunity."
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Carano fell under heavy criticism after she posted that "Jews were beaten in the streets, not by Nazi soldiers but by their neighbors.... even by children."
The actor continued to say, "Because history is edited, most people today don't realize that to get to the point where Nazi soldiers could easily round up thousands of Jews, the government first made their own neighbors hate them simply for being Jews. How is that any different from hating someone for their political views?"
But that was just the pretext for her firing (and that pretext makes no sense -- what did she say that was wrong or offensive?)
The real reason was that Trans and Gay extremists at Disney had been screaming that she must be fired over the pronoun "controversy." Disney pretended that her statement about the Nazis was "denigrating" someone's "religion and heritage" -- HOW? -- because they didn't want to admit they were simply pushing the Not-So-Secret Trans Agenda of their vicious employees and the mentally-ill audience they've cultivated.
I saw Lawyer to the Stars (he briefly represented me) Ron Coleman talking about this on Valliant Renegade's channel. Valliant Renegade pointed out that Carano was not looking to settle, but to go through the whole discovery process and get Disney's emails demanding they fire her for her normie, completely-sane view of "pronouns." Carano had said that she's looking to "go all the way" with this. In other words, she's not looking for a settlement. She wants all the emails.
Ron Coleman countered by saying every man, or woman, has his price. Disney will just offer so much money to Carano to make her go away that she will have to settle.
But will she? This suit is being funded by Elon Musk. Elon Musk isn't funding this suit just to help Carano -- he's fighting the culture war against Disney.
Recall that Peter Thiel funded Terry "Hulk Hogan" Bollea's lawsuit against Gawker Media for its nasty revenge porn. Thiel wasn't just interested in helping Bollea -- he wanted vengeance. (Gawker had revealed sexual details about him years before.)
And that suit went "all the way," and bankrupted Gawker.
I'm not saying that Elon Musk would tell Gina Carano she must continue pressing the lawsuit and reject all offers of settlement. I'm saying that Thiel might have had a deal with Hulk Hogan that he himself would pay Hulk Hogan the settlement money that Gawker might offer, in exchange for not agreeing to settle with them.
Elon Musk might have a deal like that with Gina Carano. Maybe he's agreed to pay her whatever Disney offers -- so long as she doesn't accepted Disney's offer.
I hope so.
Those emails will be compelling and rich.
Or, if Disney destroys them: Even better.
Correction: I wrongly said the Post called her "outspoken." That was a quote from Disney, not the post's own words. Thanks to Eric Blade for that correction. The quotes-within-quotes got me confuzzelated.
Criminal FBI Director Wray Chums The Water of "Trump Wasn't Shot" Conspiracy Theory, and Leftwingers Go Into Feeding Frenzy
—Disinformation Expert Ace
The left desperately, desperately wants to steal valor from Trump and claim AKSHUALLY he wasn't shot, just hit by "shrapnel."
The think this is a big win for them.
Christopher Wray, the most loathesome left-leaning political animal Trump sadly appointed (recommended by Severe Conservative Chris Christie), knows what the left wants at all times -- and always delivers it to them.
Ryan Nobles @ryanoblesThis got lost yesterday.. but FBI Director Wray told Congress:
"I think with respect to former President Trump there's some question about whether or not it's a bullet or shrapnel that you know hit his ear."
Trump has not released medical records from after the shooting.
There is no question about this, other than the Just Asking Questions conspiracy theorists of Bullet Trutherism.
But the left seized on Wray's endorsement of their pet conspiracy theory, as he knew the left -- his constituency -- would:
CNN's freak-a-deak leftist "National Security Analyst" seized on the conspiracy chum:
Juliette Kayyem @juliettekayyemI've waited a while to say this but the burden is now on Trump to show he was shot. I can condemn the assassination and still demand truth, especially since Trump is now politicizing taking a bullet. Wray has now opened the door; this is not a conspiracy theory. Wray, known for exact phrasing and being careful, didn't say this on accident. He is begging us to ask.
Indeed, this vile monster is begging the left to pick up the crumbs he just left them.
No word yet from Jake Tapper about whether this is one of the Bad Conspiracy Theories, or one of the Good Conspiracy Theories that CNN supports.
In related news: Wray denied that he ever, ever saw a hint of Biden's obvious mental decline.
Former President Donald Trump called on FBI Director Christopher Wray to resign on Wednesday after the director testified before Congress that he has not noticed any cognitive decline in President Joe Biden.Wray was questioned by House Republicans on Wednesday about the assassination attempt on Trump earlier this month. During the hearing, Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL) also questioned Wray about his interactions with Biden and if he's witnessed the president's cognitive abilities go downhill.
"I don't meet with him very often, but what you're describing is not something that I've observed during my interactions with him," Wray said.
"It never occurred to you that he's not up to [the job] in all these briefings you did?" Gaetz pressed.
"As I said, my briefings with the president have all been completely fine," Wray replied.
In a post on Truth Social after the hearing, Trump blasted Wray, whom he nominated to serve as FBI director in 2017.
"I watched the Congressional Hearing today as Christopher Wray was asked the question whether or not he noticed any Cognitive Degeneration in his many conversations with Crooked Joe Biden and, despite the fact that Special Counsel Robert Hur said, effectively, that Joe Biden is INCOMPETENT, with LITTLE MEMORY, etc., Wray said that 'it is not something I observed during my interactions with him, which were uneventful and unremarkable,' essentially stating that he found nothing wrong, mentally or physically, with 'Joe,'" Trump said.
"If that is the case, Director Wray should resign immediately from the FBI, and stop 'sweet talking' Congress every time he goes up, which he loves to do, because anybody can see that Joe Biden is cognitively and physically challenged, and if you can't see that, you sure as hell can't be running the FBI -- Unless, that is, you want to illegally lead the Raid on Mar-a-Lago. Wray has to resign, and NOW, for LYING TO CONGRESS!" he added.
A while back, Just the News reported that the FBI was administering political litmus tests to potential employees.
FBI officials conducting a top-secret security clearance review for a longtime employee asked witnesses whether that employee was known to support former President Donald Trump, if he had expressed concerns about the COVID-19 vaccine or had attended a Second Amendment rally, according to internal memos that prompted a complaint to the Justice Department's internal watchdog alleging political bias inside the bureau.
The employee's security clearance was revoked months after the interviews, which confirmed his support for Trump and gun rights and his concerns about the COVID vaccine, according to the documents obtained by Just the News.
The memos show that agents for the FBI's Security Division asked at least three witnesses in spring 2022 whether the employee, whose name and job title was redacted from the memos, had been known to "vocalize support for President Trump" or "vocalize objections to Covid-19 vaccination." Agents ascertained from at least one witness that the worker, in fact, had declined to get the coronavirus inoculation.
The latter questions about the vaccine were asked in spring 2022, a few months after the U.S. Supreme Court had struck down vaccine mandates in corporate workplaces and a separate federal court had issued an injunction on federal employee vaccine mandates.
Don't worry yourself about that, Wray now says. After an extensive several-hour once-over of the situation, Wray can now confidently conclude that the FBI and his leadership are, as usual, faultless. That was yet another of the hundreds of "isolated incidents" of FBI political bias.
Don't connect these many, many "isolated incidents" and conclude that the FBI has a systematic bias to the leftwing. No, all of these "isolated incidents" just happen spontaneously with no connection at all to FBI political culture, and just randomly all happen to favor the hard left.
FBI director says bureau identified origin of Trump litmus test memo, removed contractor responsibleDirector Christopher Wray confirmed Just the News' reporting on this memo, but said the incident was isolated and the form was created by a contractor.
FBI Director Christopher Wray told Congress Wednesday that his staff identified the source of the litmus test memo that showed security reviewers asked about a bureau employee's support for Donald Trump, opinion about the COVID-19 vaccine, and views of the Second Amendment and called the memo "inappropriate."
Wow, he called the imposition of a political loyalty test on FBI employees "inappropriate"? He really brought out the big rhetorical guns for this one.
He must be so mad!
Director Christopher Wray confirmed Just the News' reporting on this memo, but said the incident was isolated and the form was created by a contractor.
"So, the document you are asking about is an interview outline we only recently learned about and, in my view, is completely inappropriate," Wray told the House Judiciary Committee, in response to a question from Wisconsin GOP Rep. Tom Tiffany.
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But, the representatives of the whistleblower who first brought concerns about the memo to Congress pushed back on Wray's claims, saying their client told Congress that the problem was more wide spread than Wray let on in his testimony."Director Wray is hiding the ball on this. Another whistleblower to [Empower Oversight]--a registered Democrat and supervisor from within the FBI's Security Division--disclosed to [the Justice Department Inspector General] and to Congress that these kinds of questions were asked all the time in interviews, even if they weren't typed up in outlines ahead of time," President of Empower Oversight, Tristan Leavitt, posted to X.
Swing Voters Say that KAH-ma-la Was Part of the Biden Dementia Cover-Up
—Disinformation Expert Ace
I heard someone say, on Megyn Kelly's show I think, that pollsters were finding that the voters blame KAH-ma-la for the cover-up more than they expected they would.
These Wisconsin swing voters hold her responsible for the lies.
VOTER 2: So I think that's what makes me also nervous about the -- Vice President Harris.Q: Talk about that a bit.
VOTER 2: So yes, she's going to be in it, but she also helped keep him in where he's at right now. And if he's really as bad as what they've been saying, I think if he steps down as president and she steps into his presidency before the end of his term, it almost makes me question it a little bit more why it didn't happen sooner. She's worked with him. She's been -- to my understanding, with him daily or at least a couple of days a week. Why hasn't this been brought to attention? If she's willing to hide that type of information once she's in office now, what's she willing to hide for herself?
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Pro-Hamas Vandals Burn American Flags, Deface the Columbus Memorial, and Dump Live Maggots and Crickets In the Hotel Netanyahu Is Staying At
—Disinformation Expert Ace
Happy Thursday! Thursday was originally "Thirstday," in honor of the Celtic god of electrolytes and proper hydration.
Palestinian protesters released maggots and crickets inside the Watergate Hotel in Washington, D.C., to protest Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's visit. Netanyahu is in the capital to meet with lawmakers and address Congress.Key Details:
Protesters released maggots and crickets in the Watergate Hotel to disrupt Netanyahu's stay.
The Palestinian Youth Movement's DMV chapter claimed responsibility, stating their aim to disrupt Netanyahu and his delegation.
The Watergate Hotel ensured the safety of guests, sanitized the property, and is cooperating with authorities.
Diving Deeper:
According to a report by Fox News Wednesday, Palestinian protestors released maggots and crickets inside the Watergate Hotel in Washington, D.C., in protest of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's visit. Netanyahu traveled to the U.S. capital to meet with lawmakers and deliver a joint session address to Congress.
Video footage captured within the hotel revealed larvae scattered in common areas, including a table covered with mealworms near the display of Israeli and American flags. The Palestinian Youth Movement's DMV chapter claimed responsibility on social media, stating, "Palestine protestors manufactured chaos at the Watergate Hotel last night so that Netanyahu, Israeli Mossad agents, and the Secret Service had no peace as they continue to terrorize our people." They emphasized that there would be "no peace, no rest, until the war criminal's arrest."
They're not "anti-Zionist." They're antisemitic.
And they're also very, very anti-American.
Pro-Hamas, Palestinian protesters clashed with police in Washington, D.C. Wednesday, tearing down and burning American flags outside Union Station after Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's address to Congress.
Oh? They clashed with police? So they were all arrested and a large force of FBI agents are manhunting down those who got away?
No?
Gee, I guess not all Punches Thrown at Cops are equal!
Demonstrators burned American flags near Union Station, despite police efforts to secure the flags. Protesters later hoisted Palestinian flags in their place.Protesters defaced monuments with pro-Palestinian slogans, set effigies of Netanyahu ablaze, and chanted anti-American slogans.
Tensions escalated when a man attempted to save a burning American flag, resulting in him being pursued by the crowd.
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In a dramatic moment, a man ran into the flames to rescue a charred American flag but was chased by the crowd, which shouted, "Get him!" and what sounded like "Get the white guy!"
During another instance of flag burning, protesters were heard shouting "Allahu Akbar" and "F**k the United States" while spraying lighter fluid on the flag.
Below, video the vermin set loose in the hotel by two-legged vermin.
Also, the desecration of the Columbus Memorial.
Don't worry, though -- Democracy wasn't attacked at all by this. Indeed, Democracy was strengthened for tolerance of speech, which of course means "criminal vandalism" and "assaulting police and citizens."
At least, Our Precious Democracy is strengthened when we tolerate the crimes of the tribes protected by the leftwing Marxist Regime.
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