DHS Agents Raid Sean "Puff Daddy" Combs' Homes in LA and Miami, Searching for Evidence of "Sex Trafficking"
—Disinformation Expert Ace
Since late last year, onetime hiphop megaproducer Sean "Puff Daddy/P-Diddy" combs is being accused of sexual harassment and r*pe. Allegedly, he sexually abused men as well as women.
Recent sex abuse lawsuits against music impresario Sean "Diddy" Combs have damaged his reputation and career. But a new suit from music producer Rodney "Lil Rod" Jones makes new, explosive claims about Combs' alleged assaults and misconduct in granular detail, naming several prominent artists and music executives as well.Jones, who worked closely with Combs on his recent release "The Love Album: Off the Grid," sued him in federal court in New York on Monday, alleging Combs sexually and physically abused him, engaged in sex trafficking and ran his inner circle as a "RICO enterprise" that functioned like a criminal organization. Jones' suit contains what he says are photos, videos and screenshots corroborating his allegations.
Combs denied the previous claims against him, including those from a former partner, R&B singer Cassie, whose November suit kicked off a wave of complaints against Combs under New York's Adult Survivors Act.
The feds have now raided Combs' LA and Miami homes, searching for, they claim,
evidence of sex trafficking.
This would have meant more to me two years ago, before the DOJ and FBI revealed themselves as worst criminals than the people they pursue.
This raid was conducted by the Department of Homeland Security. Of course they have their own heavily-armed SWAT forces.
Homeland Security agents conducted searches of Holmby Hills and Miami mansions owned by Sean "Diddy" Combs on Monday as part of a federal inquiry into sex trafficking allegations involving the hip-hop and liquor mogul, law enforcement sources said.The 17,000-square-foot mansion where Combs debuted his last album a year ago was flooded with Homeland Security Investigations agents, who served a search warrant and gathered evidence on behalf of an investigation being run by the prosecutors in the Southern District of New York, according to law enforcement officials familiar with the inquiry.
Oh! The Southern District of New York! More evidence that this is completely on-the-level.
"Earlier today, Homeland Security Investigations New York executed law enforcement actions as part of an ongoing investigation, with assistance from HSI Los Angeles, HSI Miami, and our local law enforcement partners. We will provide further information as it becomes available," an HSI spokesman said in a statement.
Two of Combs' sons were briefly detained on the Holmby Hills property as agents searched the mansion in footage captured by FOX11 Los Angeles....
A hip-hop star turned entrepreneur, Combs has become the focus of sexual assault and sex trafficking allegations in the last year. The raid is the latest and most serious threat to his gilded lifestyle.
Four female plaintiffs have filed civil lawsuits against Combs accusing him of rape, sex trafficking a minor, assault and a litany of other alleged abuses, imperiling his empire and sending shock waves through the music industry.
...His former girlfriend Casandra Ventura, the singer known as Cassie, accused him of rape and repeated physical assaults, and said he forced her to have sex with male prostitutes in front of him. Joi Dickerson-Neal accused Combs in a suit of drugging and raping her in 1991, recording the attack and then distributing the footage without her consent.
Liza Gardner filed a third suit in which she claimed Combs and Guy singer Aaron Hall sexually assaulted her. Hall could not be reached for comment.
Another lawsuit alleges Combs and former Bad Boy label president Harve Pierre gang-raped and sex-trafficked a 17-year-old girl. Pierre said in a statement the allegations were "disgusting," "false" and a "desperate attempt for financial gain."
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RFK Jr. Picks "Radical Leftist" as Running Mate, Ending Chances of Pulling Many Republican Votes
—Disinformation Expert Ace
Though, it must be said, NeverTrump has really embraced radical leftists, so who knows.
Oh wait, he's anti-vax. NeverTrumpers all share the single allowed Liberal White Suburban Housewife Opinion on questions of covid and vaccines. So he was never a possibility.
They'll just all vote for Biden again. You know, Mr. Sensible Conservative.
Speculation can finally end as sources reveal that Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has selected Nicole Shanahan, a California attorney, as his vice presidential candidate for his campaign.
In addition to being an attorney, Shanahan, 38, runs a foundation dedicated to left-wing causes like abortion rights, criminal justice reform, and fighting climate change.
Whew! Had he picked a more conservative figure, he might have siphoned off votes from the right.
According to the Wall Street Journal, prior to joining forces with Kennedy, Shanahan had a history of supporting Democratic campaigns, including Joe Biden's 2020 presidential campaign. Kennedy is expected to formally introduce Shanahan as his running mate during an event scheduled for Tuesday in Oakland, Calif., Shanahan's hometown.Shanahan, a political novice, was thrust into the spotlight over her public split with [Google co-founder Sergey] Brin amid a brief alleged affair she had with Elon Musk in 2021 that ruptured the billionaires' long friendship, The Wall Street Journal reported. After the article published, Musk denied the allegations and Shanahan later followed suit.A Journal spokeswoman has said the Journal stands by its reporting.
In addition to donating to Kennedy's campaign, Shanahan told the New York Times she donated $4 million to the Kennedy-aligned super PAC that ran the Super Bowl ad supporting his candidacy. Shanahan not only paid for a significant portion of the controversial ad--which repurposed an ad from when his uncle John F. Kennedy Jr.ran for president and caused controversy with some members of his family--but she was a key force in the ad's production.
Sounds like the most important thing she brings to his campaign is a nice fat wallet.
She has said that she aligns with Kennedy on issues such as vaccine skepticism and the environment. Kennedy is known for his claims--debunked by public-health experts--linking childhood vaccinations to autism and casting doubt on the safety of Covid-19 vaccines. In an interview with the Journal last year Kennedy said he wasn't antivaccine but believed they should go through more rigorous scrutiny. Shanahan used a similar line in her New York Times interview.
Breitbart points out she's a "six figure donor" to pro-crime Soros DA George Gascon.
Further, Shanahan, in that same interview, stated that she believes a mental health professional on scene of the George Floyd's arrest could have possibly changed the outcome of the situation.San Francisco Magazine put it this way:
Another important area of investment--criminal justice reform--is one that Shanahan has been devoted to for years, long before the Black Lives Matter movement. "I remember telling Sergey's foundation head about five years ago that criminal justice reform was going to be one of the biggest topics of our generation," she says. "I'm happy that I could be a major donor for Measure J in Los Angeles County, which was voted in and will be rerouting some of the law enforcement budget toward mental and social support services." Shanahan notes that having a mental health professional on the scene of George Floyd's arrest would have de-escalated the situation and possibly saved his life.Conservative and Turning Point USA founder Charlie Kirk also pointed out that Shanahan is a "six-figure donor to... George Gascon, the pro-crime, Soros-backed prosecutor who helped wreck San Francisco and is currently wrecking LA."
Want to hear something weird?
George Gascon became the first prosecutor to not oppose parole for the man who murdered RFK Jr.'s dad, Robert F. Kennedy.
While prosecutors had opposed Sirhan's release in 15 previous parole hearings, Gascón upon taking on his role in December 2020 said his office's "default policy" would be to not attend parole hearings and to instead work to submit letters in support of inmates who have served mandatory minimums and no longer pose a threat to society....
"The parole board's sole purpose is to objectively determine whether someone is suitable for release," [Gascon adviser] Bastian said. "If someone is the same person that committed an atrocious crime, that person will correctly not be found suitable for release."
"However, if someone is no longer a threat to public safety after having served more than 50 years in prison, then the parole board may recommend release based on an objective determination," the adviser added.
"The man I gave hundreds of thousands of dollars to wants to let the man who shot your father in the head out of prison."
Awkward!
Wait, maybe it's not awkward at all:
The assassination has gained renewed attention in recent years, especially after Robert F. Kennedy Jr. told the Post in 2018 that he visited Sirhan in prison to tell him that he did not believe he killed his father.Kennedy Jr., who has said he thinks there was a second gunman, noted this week that he supports Sirhan's latest effort to be released on parole.
Were conservatives really pushing this fruitcake as some kind of acceptable candidate?
Lord have mercy. Some "conservatives" have succumbed to full-blown Oppositional Defiant Disorder and their politics is now scarcely more than blind allegiance to anyone claiming to be "anti-establishment."
Brazenly Public Adulterers Joe Scarborough and Mica Brzezinski Melt Down Over Hiring of Ronna McDaniel
BREAKING: NBC #Cancels McDaniel, Will Break Their Contract With Her and Fire Her
—Disinformation Expert Ace
After Democrat operative and Husky Huckster Chuck Todd, adulterers Joe and Mica, and ugly cashew-headed lesbian Rachel Maddow demanded that NBC declare itself to be dedicated to 100% ideological conformity, NBC has decided to break its contract with Ronna McDaniel.
NBC News plans to drop former Republican National Committee boss Ronna McDaniel as a paid contributor after network stars including MSNBC prime time headliner Rachel Maddow and the co-hosts of "Morning Joe" blasted the decision to bring the Trump-backing politico on board.The network has not made an announcement, but one is pending, according to Puck News. The Post has sought comment from NBC and McDaniel.
McDaniel is reportedly looking to hire a lawyer, according to Puck News.
I'll bet she is.
Little hint: Move out of whatever blue district you're in and file in a red jurisdiction.
Maddow, MSNBC's most bankable name, said on her Monday show that hiring McDaniel was "inexplicable" and demanded that executives "reverse their decision."
...Maddow went on to bash McDaniel as "someone who hasn't just attacked us as journalists, but someone who is part of an ongoing project to get rid of our system of government."
"You wouldn't hire a made man like a mobster to work at a DA's office, right? You wouldn't hire a pick-pocket to work as a TSA screener," Maddow concluded.
What do you think? Post a comment.Earlier on Monday, Joe Scarborough and his wife, Mika Brzezinski, who co-host MSNBC's "Morning Joe," pledged on the air that they would not invite McDaniel to their program, calling her an "anti-democracy election denier."
Joe Scarborough, a first-rate scumbag, then attempted to #cancel Ronna McDaniel like Kathleen Kennedy cancelled Gina Carano. They're attempting to make her radioactive and unemployable at any company.
Moments ago, JOE SCARBOROUGH and MIKA BRZEZINSKI became the latest voices at NBCUniversal News Group to criticize their company's hiring of former RNC chair RONNA McDANIEL as a paid contributor."We weren't asked our opinion of the hiring but, if we were, we would have strongly objected to it for several reasons," Scarborough said at the top of "Morning Joe," with Brzezinski adding, "We hope NBC will reconsider its decision. It goes without saying that she will not be a guest on 'Morning Joe' in her capacity as a paid contributor." They then played a reel of McDaniel's various comments questioning the outcome of the 2020 election.
MSNBC is the network that alleged for eight or nine years straight that Donald Trump was a paid agent of Vladimir Putin and that the KGB rigged the 2016 election.
I know you know that. Just wanted to underline it.
Their comments come a day after CHUCK TODD pilloried NBC executives moments after McDaniel's first network appearance, an interview with KRISTEN WELKER on "Meet the Press.""I think our bosses owe you an apology for putting you in this situation," Todd told Welker. "There's a reason why there's a lot of journalists at NBC News uncomfortable with this, because many of our professional dealings with the RNC over the last six years have been met with gaslighting, have been met with character assassination."
Other NBC and MSNBC hosts and contributors will undoubtedly now be under pressure to speak their minds as well. MSNBC's prime-time lineup tonight will be worth watching.
Will it though?
Well actually I guess it was.
Black Conservative Perspective cut video of the Adulterers and the Harry Potter Cosplayer. The adulterers went on the air to cancel someone who had never done them any harm, and then the angry lesbian accused her of plotting to "get rid of our system of government."
Politico presents this all as just and necessary:
These on-air protests may be a seminal moment in political media as news organizations continue to grapple with how to responsibly represent voices from the Trump right on their screens and in their pages without handing their platforms over to election deniers or bad faith actors who have attacked and attempted to discredit their own reporters.
You see, reporters can attack the credibility of leaders on the right, but leaders on the right may not attack the credibility of "journalists."
It's not hypocrisy. It's hierarchy.
Politico reports that Chuck Todd is the Real Victim Here:
Todd's outburst [Sunday] that crystallized the turmoil. It was in some ways the culmination of years of frustrations, laid bare by the guy who had lived through all of it.Todd spent a decade in the MTP chair and suffered so much vitriol from anti-media attacks -- on both the right and the left -- that NBC regularly hired private security for him. There was internal criticism, too: By the end of his tenure, the show was being excessively micromanaged by executives, and he'd had clashes throughout with colleagues at MSNBC as he did much of the frustrating work trying to distinguish the non-ideological NBC News from its ideological cable cousin. But he won over that crowd yesterday.
LOL, "non-ideological NBC News."
Oh Boy: "Intelligence" Community's DEI Sensitivity-Enforcers Demand an End to the Terms "Jihadist," "Islamic Extremism" and "Radical Islamist"
—Disinformation Expert Ace
The civilization-destroyers are doing what civilization-destroyers do.
Internal Docs Show Entire Intelligence Community Warned To Avoid 'Problematic Phrases' On Islamic TerrorismDW INVESTIGATES: Top intel agency's DEI newsletter states that terms such as 'Jihadist' and 'Radical Islamists' must be avoided
By Spencer Lindquist
An internal newsletter sent by diversity, equity, and inclusion officials in the Biden administration's top intelligence agency warns personnel not to use "problematic phrases" when discussing Islamic terrorism and foreign adversaries such as China, an internal document obtained by The Daily Wire reveals.
The unclassified newsletter from the Office of the Director of National Intelligence, called "The Dive" and exclusively obtained through a Freedom of Information Act request by The Daily Wire, argues in its cover story that the intelligence community needs to focus on "changing terminology related to counterterrorism," because "words matter."
"This article is about one of our goals: disentangling Islam from words and phrases used to discuss terrorism and extremist violence," writes the author of the article, whose name was redacted from the document released to The Daily Wire. The article declares that it's trying to remove "certain phrases to identify international terrorism threats that are hurtful to Muslim-Americans."
"Some of the problematic phrases include, but are not limited to: 'Salafi-Jihadist,' 'Jihadist,' 'Islamic-Extremist,' 'Sunni/Shia-Extremism,' and 'Radical Islamists.'"
Note that "Radical Islamists" and "Islamic-Extremists" are words created for the express purpose of isolating violent jihadis from Islam. That is, those words are created to stress that most of Islam is not extremist, and that we're only concerned with the minority of "radical" or "extremist" Islamists.
But these DEI Terrorists have decided that our attempt to spare the feelings of Muslims is inadequate, and we'll just have to stop associating Islamism with Islamic terrorism altogether.
Maybe we can blame it on MAGA? That seems to be the plan.
The article is part of the newsletter created by ODNI's Intelligence Community Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Accessibility Office and sent out to personnel throughout the Intelligence Community, which includes the country's most powerful executive agencies like the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), the National Security Agency (NSA), the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), and the Department of Justice (DOJ), as well as intelligence components within each branch of the military....
The newsletter was published just months after Islamic Hamas terrorists murdered roughly 1,200 Israelis during the October 7th terrorist attack. Meanwhile, the United States has experienced three consecutive year-over-year increases in border encounters with those on the terror watch list amid an unprecedented border crisis that's resulted in about 9 million nationwide encounters and 1.7 million estimated gotaways since Biden took office.
The newsletter states that the DEI office took guidance from the Muslim community when considering alternative terms.
"We took great efforts to engage with the Muslim community, academics, and members of our constituency across the country," it reads. "In July 2023, we invited a renowned Islamic scholar, Shaykh Hamza Yusuf of Zaytuna College, to speak."
Renowned Islamic Scholar! Is that like an Austere Religious Scholar, by any chance?
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Massive Container Ship Smashes Into Baltimore's Francis Scott Key Bridge, Utterly Destroying It
—Disinformation Expert Ace
Two people have been rescued. Search parties are still searching for more people lost in the collapse. The collision happened at 1:30 am, so hopes of finding the other lost people are fading.
The crew of the cargo ship that struck the Francis Scott Key Bridge in Baltimore lost power and issued a mayday in the moments before the disaster, Maryland Gov. Wes Moore said.The container ship Dali sent the mayday in time for authorities to stop traffic from entering the bridge, limiting the number of vehicles involved in what officials have called a "mass casualty event."
"We're thankful that between the mayday and the collapse that we had officials who were able to begin to stop the flow of traffic so more cars were not on the bridge," Moore said.
Authorities said a crew of eight construction workers were on the bridge, in addition to any traffic at the time of the collapse.
Search and rescue operations pulled two workers from the water, one in critical condition who was hospitalized. Efforts to locate the other six are ongoing.
Authorities said that sonar had detected cars in the water, which is about 50 feet deep. The temperature was about 47 degrees Fahrenheit before dawn on Tuesday, according to a buoy that collects data for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.
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The Morning Rant: Minimalist Edition
—CBD
Ah...unintended consequences are often delicious, and this one is a doozy! Donald Trump was a bombastic businessman with an insatiable desire for publicity and fame. He wasn't much of a conservative, and that worked well in his world, where there were plenty of Democrats whose money and approval he needed.
But the savagery exhibited by those same Democrats when Donald Trump entered the political arena was almost unbelievable. And when he won the Presidency they doubled down, attacking him on all fronts, and trying to muzzle him by limiting his social media communication.
So he built his own outlet!
Trump Joins List of World's 500 Wealthiest Despite Left's Endless Lawfare
...[I]nvestors approved a deal to bring Trump's "Truth Social" platform public by merging it with a special purpose acquisition company (SPAC) called "Digital World Acqusition Corporation." That SPAC had the ticker DWAC at the time of the merger, and it's changed to DJT as of Tuesday to reflect the new listing.While it's "on paper" for now, Trump's net worth officially doubled yesterday, making him one of the wealthiest 500 people on the planet.
I have no idea whether it will be a financial success. Valuations for businesses such as this are laughably inaccurate, and a darling of the stock market one day can be crushed the next.
But the timing couldn't be more galling for the rabid left trying to crush Trump under an avalanche of civil and criminal proceedings. Had they treated Donald Trump the way they did before he entered politics, my guess is that he would have been a mushy Republican with a few quirks about easing business restrictions after eight years of Obama lunacy. Probably Romney with a hotter wife!
The deplatforming, lies, legal machinations and vitriol pouring forth from every Democrat maw made sure that Donald Trump was combative and defensive and absolutely pushed him to take more conservative stances on many issues.
The left can thank themselves for that, and they can thank themselves for his potential new-found wealth!
It would take a heart of stone not to laugh!
The Morning Report — 3/26/24
—J.J. Sefton
Good morning, kids. Breaking news this morning is that a cargo ship slammed into the Francis Scott Key Bridge which crosses Baltimore harbor, resulting in a total collapse of the structure. Absolutely horrific:
A mass casualty event has been declared after a bridge in Baltimore, Md., was struck by a container ship Tuesday morning. Horror footage shows the moment the Francis Scott Key Bridge crumbled after a vessel crashed into the central part of the structure. The steel arches then instantly dismantled into the Patapsco River shortly before 1:30 a.m. Several vehicles fell into the water.It was unclear how many vehicles were on the 1.6 mile-long span but the Baltimore City Fire Department confirmed to that “at least seven people” were in the river. Rescue workers are searching for about 20 people at this time, a Fire Department spokesperson told CNN.
Baltimore City Fire Department’s communications chief Kevin Cartwright has called the incident a “developing mass casualty event”. “The dive and rescue team has arrived on scene to locate the individuals,” Cartwright said. Cartwright said emergency services are now “trying to rescue and recover” people believed to have fallen into the water. “This is a dire emergency,” he added.
. . . Baltimore County Executive Johnny Olszewski Jr. said on X that, “Rescue efforts are underway. Please pray for those impacted.” The department said the surrounding body of water was filled with diesel.
The Singapore-flagged container ship, called Dali, had left Baltimore just after 1 a.m. and was heading to Colombo, Sri Lanka, according to the maritime data platform, MarineTraffic.All lanes were closed in both directions following the horror incident, the Maryland Transportation Authority said.
. . . The bridge, which is part of I-695, was built in 1977 and crosses into Baltimore’s harbor.
The death toll will likely be high, yet were it not for Beau Biden – who after losing his life at Gettysburg, then at the Battle of the Bulge and then again in the Iraq war – lost it yet again, this time by singlehandedly holding up the bridge with his last ounce of strength, it could have been much higher. Karine Jean Pierre's words, not mine.
Seriously, this might very well be just a massive mishap or even a series of mishaps that together resulted in a chain reaction which brought the bridge down. That said, given the state of the world today, both from a cultural, competency and global security standpoint, that presents a chain reaction of events of a completely different nature. That it happened at 1:30 in the morning certainly will mitigate the death toll, as traffic I assume would be light at that hour. In my mind I'm kind of leaning towards accident and not intentional. Meh, who the hell knows anymore. I'm sure Ace and the cobs will be updating this story throughout the day as more information becomes known.
Side note: The Key Bridge was built almost 50 years ago, in the pre-DEI era. Look who's "graduating" from engineering schools these days. A slew of Claudine Gays. Boeing called to say "happy landings." (Swalwell hears that as "happy endings.")
Meanwhile, an unprecedented, and until very recently, unthinkable tragedy occurred at Turtle Bay. This one with absolute malice aforethought:
In the classic 1966 film A Man For All Seasons, Thomas More, the Chancellor of England and patron saint of the witty and apposite quip, finds himself besieged by ambitious young men hoping he will appoint them to a lucrative and prestigious position. One of them, Richard Rich, eventually betrays More and receives as his reward the position of attorney general for Wales.Soon afterward, More, on trial with Rich as one of his accusers, sees the emblem of his new office and says, “Why Richard, it profits a man nothing to give his soul for the whole world... but for Wales?” A nearly identical question can now be asked of Old Joe Biden: “Why Joe, it profits a man nothing to give his soul for the whole world... but for Michigan?”
As Stephen Green noted Monday, “it’s official. Under Joe Biden, this country has taken sides against the country trying to defend itself from a genocidal organization that murdered 1,200 civilians — plus other little niceties like kidnapping children and raping women to death.” Old Joe did this by refraining from having the U.S. veto a UN resolution calling for a ceasefire in Israel. A ceasefire in Gaza would allow Hamas to survive. It would amount to a massive Israeli defeat and could lead to the ultimate demise of the Jewish state. . .
. . . Now Old Joe can rest easy. He has allowed the UN to demand that Israel essentially surrender since that is what the effect of a ceasefire would be. Now Biden can count on Tlaib, Awad, and their friends, and that’s all that matters. For Michigan, he has betrayed a friend of the United States and once again given aid and comfort to the enemies of this nation, as well as to those of Israel. . .
. . . The end result of the Biden regime’s betrayal of Israel on Monday could turn out to be not only the demise of Israel but of the United States itself. In their madness to keep control of the goose that lays the golden eggs, Biden regime apparatchiks are busy killing the goose itself, and appear neither to have noticed or cared that such an outcome could result from their self-serving recklessness.
Robert Spencer, yet again, nails it. That said, will this move at the UN really be enough to guarantee the voters in Dearbornistan and Mogadishappolis and wherever the hell else they exist come to the polls and pull the lever (at least 10 times etc, including their dead relatives and their 72 virgins as is SOP for Democrats)? That remains to be seen because in the interim, this sends the signal to Bibi Netanyahu and the entire Israeli populace that the United States of America is at best, an ally no longer and, quite probably at worst an active enemy. It also gives them the green light to go all the way into Rafah to wipe out whatever is left of Hamas AND retain control of Gaza's government in any post-war environment.
At that point, Bro-Fo, Rancida Taliban and the Titty-Caca Ocasio-Cortez Jew haters that not only control but now comprise virtually the entirety of the Democrat Party will demand the US military literally declare war on the IDF. Sounds crazy, no? I believe it is a distinct possibility.
In a sane world, that would not happen, but as we all know and has been thoroughly demonstrated by the Kalorama Klown Komintern that are pulling Joey Sponge-Brain Shits-Pants' strings, we are no longer in a sane world. Adding to the fact that they sabotaged and likely stole one national election in 2020, created a phony Reichstag Fire event on 1/6/21 resulting in the imprisonment of scores of innocent people, including Donald J. Trump, kneecapped our burgeoning fossil fuel industry and sent our economy into the shitter, unleashed a massive crime wave via the defund the police movement, intentionally erased our borders and allowed an 8 million-strong with a few million more to follow invasion of our nation – including along with indigent third world peasants thousands of military age males and even terrorists – and on and on and on, I would not put it past Obama to actually order air strikes on Israeli military targets, not just in forward positions in Gaza but within territorial Israel itself.
As sick as this would be to imagine this is just about holding onto political power just for one election cycle, this is about gaining absolute power forever. Look at who we are dealing with. Not just Joe Biden but the entire Democrat Party. Most especially its Jews by birth, i.e. Chuck Schumer. And he's been in government about as long as Biden, going back to an era when allegedly the Democrat Party and America itself were allied with almost total support for the State of Israel. Biden for sure is going to Hell but Schumer and his ilk are going to roast like nobody's business for what they've done and are doing today.
I've said it before, but let me break it out here to be absolutely clear: The State of Israel is the world's absolute moral authority. Considering what it faces and has faced for the past 75 years and most especially since the coming of Obama and for sure since last October 7th, there is no doubt in my mind about it. And America, which once was, has now absolutely cemented its newfound position as, in the words of a French Israel-hater, just another "shitty little country."
But to also be absolutely clear, I reserve that condemnation for our political leaders, bureaucrats, the media, academia and those who consider themselves our betters. We shall overcome them, as will Israel overcome them and the rest of the amoral, degenerate world. The segment made that way by godless post-World War One postmodernism and that other segment made that way in Mecca 1,500 years ago.
There will be blood. Sadly, much of it ours. But HIS will be done.
- ABOVE THE FOLD, BREAKING, NOTEWORTHY
- "Horror footage shows the moment the Francis Scott Key Bridge crumbled after a vessel crashed into the central part of the structure. The steel arches then instantly dismantled into the Patapsco River shortly before 1:30 a.m. Several vehicles fell into the water."
Baltimore’s Francis Scott Key Bridge Collapses After Being Struck by Ship; "Mass Casualty Event"* * * * * - David Solway: "If this bill passes, one could be jailed for life for sharing opinions and beliefs that oppose the radical Left’s politically correct narratives. Even if the Bill is defeated, it would still be something of a pyrrhic victory if the Bill’s sponsor Justin Trudeau, the single worst prime minister in the entire history of Confederation bar none, is not defeated as well in the approaching election. For Justin Trudeau and Bill C-63 are one and the same — the Bill is the man."
Kill Bill (C-63)
- "Derek Chauvin and his colleagues did not murder George Floyd."
George Floyd Revisited: Derek Chauvin Was Wrongfully Convicted
- Daniel Greenfield: "Why is Biden lying to Americans but telling the truth to China?"
Biden Covers Up China’s War on America
- "On the face of it, spikes in oil and gas costs in the U.S. would spell doom for Biden’s reelection."
Another Reason Why Stakes are Sky-high this Autumn
- Robert Spencer: " . . . this is not a call to die. It is a call to live, to recognize what is coming, to assess our situation realistically, and to plan accordingly. For too long, Americans have been passively trusting in our institutions, secure in the knowledge that the police, and the military, and our elected officials were on the job and had our best interests at heart. Those days are over. Nevertheless, the jihadis have not won. The left has not won. The socialist internationalist tide that has swept away so much of what we used to take for granted as Americans could still be turned back. But that is up to us."
Are You Ready for a Major Jihad Attack in the U.S.? Because It's Coming.
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Daily Tech News 26 March 2024
—Pixy Misa
Top Story- Europe is investigating Apple for its malicious compliance with the new Digital Markets Act. (The Register)
And Google.
And Facebook.
Do all three companies lie and cheat and steal? Sure.
Are they all woke beyond possibility of redemption? Well, Google certainly is. Apple while woke as hell notably produces genuinely well-engineered hardware on a regular schedule.
Do they suck less than the European government even after granting all of that? Absolutely.
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Monday Overnight Open Thread (3/25/24) White Knuckle Driving Edition
—Misanthropic Humanitarian
Quote I“Officers recovered over $9,000 worth of stolen merchandise. This demonstrates the ongoing efforts of our department to combat retail theft in our city,” Roseville Police Department
Quote II“We found that those children who teachers felt had problems with attention, peer relationships and emotional instability did end up earning less in the future, as we expected, but we were surprised to find a strong link between aggressive behaviour at school and higher earnings in later life,” Prof Emilia Del Bono
Quote III“If you had long terms, for example, they’d have to be long. Why long? Because I don’t think you want someone who’s appointed to the Supreme Court to be thinking about his next job.” Retired SCOTUS Justice Stephen Breyer
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Squatters Cafe
—Disinformation Expert Ace
Diving the SS Thistlegorm
More cool pics here.
Saving a starved, abused horse.
Baby goat on a see-saw, plus ducks.
Cat has work to do and won't be interrupted.
You're digging? I want in on that!
Things humans aren't made to see.
When you trip and activate the fire alarm, like BLM thug Jamaal Bowman did.
It's almost too many corgi puppies.
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Budget Deal Just Signed by Biden Contains Ban On Flying Gay Flags at Embassies, and Old Raggedy Joe Biden Is Angry About It
—Disinformation Expert Ace
I expect some yelling. Some yelling mixed in with some whispering.
Joe Biden was apparently fooled into signing into law a ban on flying gay pride flags at American embassies, with his administration vowing to fight the measure despite his signature approving it.
As reported by Axios, the ban was included as a provision of the $1.2 trillion spending bill that had been passed by the House of Representatives and the Senate, before being signed into law by Biden on Saturday. Biden's State Department had first authorized the flying of the flags, including the rainbow flag and the "progress" flag featuring colors that represent so-called "transgender" people, as well as black and brown lines, in 2021.
Apparently unaware of the provision's inclusion until after it had been signed, a Biden spokesman issued a statement saying that Biden "believes it was inappropriate to abuse the process that was essential to keep the government open by including this policy targeting LGBTQI+ Americans."
Democrats are angry that Republicans snuck something into a garguantuan 1,000 page must-pas spending bill.
Well, maybe don't write 1000 page spending bills, assholes.
Meanwhile: Time reports that Obama is nervous and had lunch with Biden to tell him that he's f***ing everything up and on the way to a loss.
TIME reports that Barack Obama has had two private visits with Biden, over lunches, where he has told Biden that changes have to be made to his campaign or Trump will win. Last June, Obama warned Biden that defeating Trump would be harder in 2024. The country is in a Carteresque malaise. Voters are not feeling all the wonderful successes Biden boasts about on the campaign trail. The truth is that 60% of Americans say they are living paycheck to paycheck. No one but the most loyal Biden supporters believe his happy talk about the economy.Obama advised Biden to move more aggressively to make the race a referendum on Trump. What did Obama think Biden was doing all along? Old Yeller can't deliver a speech or make remarks without trashing Trump and MAGA Republicans. He demonizes Trump and his supporters.
Obama realized over the next six months that Biden didn't get the message. Or, he was simply failing to take Obama's advice. In December, he returned to the White House. Biden invited him to lunch. Obama's message this time was reported to be more urgent. He told Biden that the re-election campaign was behind schedule in building out its field operations. He discouraged Biden from continuing to lean on a small group of White House advisers. Again he told Biden that Trump would win in November if he didn't make changes.
Per CNN, Biden trails by 8 in Michistan.
Former president Donald Trump leads President Joe Biden by 8 points in Michigan, according to a CNN poll released Friday.The poll shows 50 percent of likely Michigan voters supporting Trump, with only 42 percent supporting Biden. Biden only holds a 35 percent approval rating in the state, while 40 percent of voters view Trump favorably.
Trump's voters are also far more enthusiastic about his candidacy, with 62 percent of likely Trump voters saying it is more of a vote "for Trump" than "against Biden." For Biden, however, these numbers are almost exactly reversed, with only 37 percent describing their vote as being "for Biden" and 63 percent describing it as being "against Trump."
No Way (x2): Harvard Study Determines That "Disinformation Experts" Are Overwhelmingly Leftists
—Disinformation Expert Ace
Because this has been a leftwing information operation all along.
The left wants to censor the right, and to do so, they had to create the rebrand the concept of "disinformation" and then they had to quickly transform a bunch of leftwing Twitter rabble-rousers and gossip-mongers into Credentialed and Officially-Approved-Of "Disinformation Experts."
Then a Consensus of these "experts" -- who, I stress, were just invented in the past five years, precisely so that they could form a "consensus of experts" -- brand rightwing speech "disinformation" and create the predicate for social media companies and the US government itself to suppress it.
That wouldn't work if these "Disinformation Experts" had varied political viewpoints.
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Nelson Peltz Finally Gets Around to Blasting Disney for Its "Woke" Agenda In Filmmaking
—Disinformation Expert Ace
He had been dancing around it, trying to let it be the elephant in the room he wasn't speaking of.
I think that's a good strategy, because the minute you breathe a hint that you might be objecting to the left's culture warring, all the good little Marxists will line up to join the culture war.
So I don't know if this was wise.
Perhaps he felt that he wasn't winning the proxy war to get two seats on Disney's board -- and finally have two board members who represent the shareholders, and who aren't just Bob Iger's handpicked cronies -- and felt he had to do something dramatic to shake the proxy race on.
As the Disney board proxy fight nears its deciding day, activist investor Nelson Peltz is taking aim at what he calls the company's "woke" film strategy, particularly as it pertains to Black Panther and The Marvels.In a recent interview with The Financial Times, Peltz questioned the leadership of Marvel chief Kevin Feige and the larger movie strategy under Disney CEO Bob Iger. Though he said he did not want either leader unseated (Peltz is outwardly campaigning to take the board seats of current members Michael B.G. Froman and Maria Elena Lagomasino), he questioned how long Feige should remain and what the strategy should be moving forward.
"People go to watch a movie or a show to be entertained," Peltz said in the interview. "They don't go to get a message.""Why do I have to have a Marvel that's all women? Not that I have anything against women, but why do I have to do that? Why can't I have Marvels that are both? Why do I need an all-Black cast?" he later said in the interview.
These comments recall similar anecdotes about former Marvel Entertainment chairman and CEO Ike Perlmutter, who is a friend of Peltz's and a supporter of his proxy fight.
In Iger's 2019 memoir The Ride of a Lifetime, Iger said he had received pushback on his idea to diversify the slate of Marvel movies and stop exclusively featuring characters who were white men. When presenting the idea, Iger wrote that one of the leaders of the Marvel team in New York, run by Perlmutter, told him "female superheroes never drive big box office." But Iger decided to move forward.
And boy did Bob Iger show him!
Is the proxy fight going poorly for Peltz?
Well, he just got a big ally. ISS, a firm that advises shareholders on how to vote during proxy fights, has recommended that Disney shareholders vote the Peltz slate.
In a blow to Walt Disney, activist Nelson Peltz received a powerful endorsement in his battle against the entertainment conglomerate on Thursday, when proxy advisory firm Institutional Shareholder Services (ISS) recommended shareholders elect him to the board.ISS, whose recommendations can sway hundreds of investors' votes, said Peltz, a large Disney shareholder, could ensure the board does its job well as it tackles questions of CEO succession and strategy at the home of Mickey Mouse.
The recommendation comes as Disney CEO Bob Iger continues to rally support among a high profile cast that included Emerson Collective founder and president Laurene Powell Jobs on Thursday and Star Wars-creator George Lucas earlier this week.
"Dissident nominee Peltz, as a significant shareholder, could be additive to the succession process, providing assurance to other investors that the board is properly engaged this time around," the report seen by Reuters said.
Peltz's Trian Fund Management is vying for two board seats, one for Peltz and the other for former Disney financial chief Jay Rasulo, while another activist firm, Blackwells Capital, is pushing for three board seats.
The fight over who will help guide Disney, valued at $213 billion, is one of the year's most bitter and closely watched board battles, pitting a prominent activist investor, who says he works well with target companies, against a talented media industry CEO who returned to the top job two years ago after the board fired Iger's hand-picked successor.
Peltz and Blackwells said Disney bungled plans for life after Iger, lost its creative spark and failed to properly harness new technology.
At the end of this clip, Jim Cramer mentions some other CEOs who are backing Peltz.
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No Way: Complaint Alleges that UWisconsin's "DEI Czar" Is Guilty of Decades of Research Misconduct
—Disinformation Expert Ace
The research misconduct alleged is self-plagiarism for a change. Now, you may say, "You can't plagiarize yourself," and then you might repeat, with no fear of ethical rebuke, "You can't plagiarize yourself."
Which is true.
But he keeps presenting the same research as "new research." Apparently he's Regifted the same freaking "research" five times, counting each regurgitation as a new, separate academic achievement.
Oh and he also strangled a cop in 2011.
The chief diversity officer of the University of Wisconsin-Madison, LaVar Charleston, who also teaches at the university's school of education, has a decades-long track record of research misconduct, according to a complaint filed with the university on Wednesday and a Washington Free Beacon analysis. That misconduct includes presenting old studies as new research, which he has done at least five times over the course of his career.The complaint, which was filed anonymously, implicates eight of Charleston's publications, many of them coauthored, and accuses him of plagiarizing other scholars as well as duplicating his own work. It comes as the university is already investigating Charleston over a separate complaint filed in January, alleging that a 2014 study by him and his wife--Harvard University's chief diversity officer, Sherri Ann Charleston--is a facsimile of a study he published in 2012.
"This is an extraordinary case of serial misrepresentation and deception," said Peter Wood, the head of the National Association of Scholars and a former associate provost at Boston University. "The closest analogy would be someone who sells the same real estate to five different buyers, all of whom are unaware of the others."
In January, Charleston won a lifetime achievement award for "excellence in higher education." The university trumpeted the award in a press release, praising his "unwavering dedication to creating inclusive environments in academia" and noting his "wealth of academic accolades."
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"It is academic misconduct to publish essentially the same paper twice with no acknowledgment of the duplication," Alexander Riley, a sociologist at Bucknell University, told the Free Beacon. "It seems fairly clear that Charleston is gaming the system in order to get more on his CV than is merited by the amount of research he has actually done."
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Each study is framed as a novel survey addressing a gap in the scholarly literature. None cite Charleston's dissertation or indicate that they are drawing on previously published material.
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Charleston did not respond to a request for comment.
The complaint raises serious questions about how a flagship public university vetted one of its top administrators, whose career has been marked not just by questionable research practices but by criminal conduct.
Shortly after joining UW-Madison as a researcher in 2009, Charleston was charged in 2011 with attempting to strangle a police officer, according to documents obtained by the MacIver Institute, a conservative think tank in Wisconsin. He avoided a conviction through the Deferred Prosecution Program, a local initiative run by the district attorney's office that offers first-time felons the chance to do community service in lieu of jail time and removes their arrest records from public databases.
"Even with a PhD, I'm looked at as a criminal," Charleston said in an interview in 2020. "[I]t has to be because of my color."
Of course.
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MSNBC Hires Democrat-Leaning Romneykin Ronna McDaniel as an Analyst and Chuck Todd Is Triggered
—Disinformation Expert Ace
Oh -- and they hired chief RussiaGate conspirator and psyops coordinator John Brennan as a "security and intelligence analyst."
Chuck Todd, former host of NBC's "Meet The Press," publicly criticized NBC News for hiring former Republican National Committee chair Ronna McDaniel as an analyst. Todd called for an apology from network bosses, citing McDaniel's credibility issues and the difficult position this puts other NBC journalists in.
Chuck Todd claimed that NBC giving her a contract would somehow change her answers in any interviews of her.
So the media can't hire politicos for fear of somehow altering their answers in future interviews?
Why then is NBC filled with Democrat operatives -- starting with Chuck Todd himself?
Despite the backlash, NBC News currently employs other political figures such as former top Biden White House staffers Jen Psaki and Symone Sanders, as well as ex-RNC chair Michael Steele and former George W. Bush aide Nicolle Wallace. However, Todd did not mention these individuals in his criticism.
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You Know That Bizarre Story Biden Told the Special Counsel About a Worker Getting His Penis Burned Off? Yeah, Biden Lied About It.
—Disinformation Expert Ace
It wasn't just a random story told by a confused old man. It was that, too, but it wasn't just that.
It was yet another confabulation by a confused old man to brag about himself.
He told the story to indicate that when he was a young (incompetent) lawyer, he fought for the rights of this abused worker. It's a hero origin story.
Trouble is, there's only been one case like that ever reported in legal reporters -- those thick books you see behind lawyers in ambulance-chaser reporters -- and when that case was settled, Biden was still in law school.
It's yet another case of Biden hearing about something and just incorporating it into his ever-expanding self-mythology.
For nearly two decades, President Joe Biden has told a story about why he devoted his life to politics. He repeated the tale, at the risk of facing criminal charges for lying to a federal agent, while speaking to Special Counsel Robert Hur in October 2023.Fresh out of law school and working as a clerk at a high-powered Wilmington, Delaware, law firm, Biden, in his telling, was tapped to defend a construction company sued by a 23-year-old welder who "lost part of his penis and one of his testicles" to a fire that broke out when he was working inside a chimney at a Delaware City plant. Thanks to Biden's shrewd legal defense on the construction company's behalf, the injured man lost the case.
"I wrote this memo. And son of a b--, it prevailed," Biden told Hur on Oct. 8. "And I looked over at that kid...and I thought, 'son of a b--, I'm in the wrong business, I'm not made for this.'"
Remember that one time in law school when Biden hadn't read the material but gave a 10-minute dissertation on it anyway that caused the class to erupt into spontaneous applause?
Biden said he was so wracked with guilt that he concocted an excuse to avoid a celebratory lunch with one of the firm's named partners and walked into the public defender's office to ask for a job that very day. It's "the only time I ever lied," Biden told Hur on Oct. 8. Thus began, according to a New York Times report on the special counsel interview, "a career that would one day take him to the White House."But this story is almost certainly a complete work of fiction.
Although Biden did work at a law firm tapped to defend a construction company in a negligence suit like the one he described to Hur, the case concluded in 1968, while Biden was still in law school. And the welder won, walking away with $315,000, more than $2.8 million in 2024 dollars.
Biden, whose 1988 presidential campaign collapsed amid allegations that he had plagiarized speeches and a law school paper, has a long record of embellishments and yarn spinning. Over the years, he has told several stories about himself that don't stand up to scrutiny. Those fibs range from the small and peculiar--he claimed in November 2023 that he was offered a spot on the Naval Academy's football team--to the mendacious, such as his insistence that he never spoke with his son, Hunter Biden, about the latter's foreign business dealings.
He also lied for decades about the death of his first wife. She was killed in a car accident; he constantly claimed the other vehicle in the crash was driven by a drunk -- "someone who'd drank his lunch."
That truck driver got hell for years and years due to Biden's lies.
In fact, the police noted he was not drunk, and the police found that he wasn't at fault. It sounds very much like Biden's wife was at fault.
But having a wife killed by a evil racist trucker who "drank his lunch" is better for the Biden Brand than his stupid wife driving carelessly so into the self-mythology it goes.
There was an episode of Just Shot Me in which Dennis Finch lies profusely about his own origin story. Eventually his lies are discovered. When his co-workers asked him how he could lie so brazenly, he responds: "They're not lies. More like... folklore."
This is the Biden Brand and it has been all of his deceit-filled and filthily-corrupt life
NY Court of Appeals Lowers Amout of Bond Trump Must Post to Appeal from $454 Million to $175 Million
—Disinformation Expert Ace
Trump had moved for the court to accept a $100 million bond, which he said he could afford. Of course the court could not do what Trump asked; they have to punish him and treat him like a rapist.
Hopefully Trump can come up with the extra $75 million to get this appeal started.
Once he exhausts NY state appeals, I think he can then appeal to the 2nd Circuit Court of Appeals (which is liberal) and then the Supreme Court.
The Court of Appeals also gave him an additional 10 days to come up with the money.
Trump New York fraud bond cut to $175 million in appeal from $454 million
A New York appeals court paused for 10 days a massive civil fraud judgment against former President Donald Trump.The court also and sharply reduced the bond he would have to post to obtain a longer stay to $175 million.
Trump's lawyers in a court filing last week said that it was "impossible" for him to get an appeal bond of $454 million to satisfy the judgment in that amount, having approached more than 30 surety companies without success.
I'm sure that the order banning him from doing business in New York factored in here -- as it was intended to.
A New York appeals court on Monday paused for 10 days a massive civil fraud judgment against former President Donald Trump, and sharply reduced to $175 million the bond amount he would have to post to obtain a longer stay of that damage award.
The ruling came the same day that New York Attorney General Letitia James would have been allowed to start seizing Trump's real estate and bank accounts to satisfy the $454 million-and-rising business fraud judgment in the case.
The order by the five-judge appeals courts panel prevents James from doing so, for now.
Trump's lawyers, who had previously suggested that the bond be set at $100 million, in a court filing last week said that it was "impossible" for him to get an appeal bond of $454 million after having approached more than 30 surety companies without success.
Trump's two adults sons, his company the Trump Organization and two executives who all were co-defendants in the case owe a total of about $10 million in additional damages.
None of the surety companies were willing to write a bond without Trump posting cash or some other liquid asset, the attorneys wrote in their filing with the Manhattan Supreme Court appellate division panel.
Because of the size of the fraud judgment, the companies insisted that Trump show "cash reserves approaching $1 billion," according to his lawyers. But neither Trump nor the Trump Organization company has that amount of cash on hand, the filing said.
The criminal James and the criminal Engeron purposely made the fine so large that only someone with one billion in cash could even file an appeal to challenge their corrupt orders.
This is all deliberate.
Jonathan Turley @JonathanTurleyThe NY Court of Appeals has finally intervened to offer a modicum of restraint in the Trump case. It has A has given former President Donald Trump 10 more days to post a bond of $175 million. That is likely doable and avoids the cliff drop set up by Engoron and James.
...Both Engoron and James would have gained greater credibility if they recognized the obvious unreasonableness of the original demand. While still a massive bond lift, it should be attainable for Trump to allow for the review of Engoron's controversial ruling...
...For those looking for a thrill kill moment at midnight, this will be a disappointment. Hopefully, the appellate court will restore a degree of objectivity and restraint missing on the trial level......The true sunk costs of this controversy are likely born by Democrats who are seen as engaging in raw lawfare. Turning the New York legal system into an inescapable political vortex is repellent for many citizens and companies alike.
THE MORNING RANT: A Few Days After Wipeout of Anti-Voucher Republicans in Texas Primaries, Georgia Republicans Suddenly Pass School Choice
—Buck Throckmorton
Local elections are much more important for conservatives than the prominent races for the U.S. Senate and the White House. Not only can real change be brought about by winning state and local races, but local election results can also have an impact on Republicans in other states who watch election results and see how the wind is blowing.
Earlier this month, Texas voters flushed out a significant number of “moderate” Republicans who could always be counted on to align with Democrats on the biggest votes, most prominently school choice. Just a few days later, the Georgia legislature finally passed meaningful school choice legislation. There was correlation between these two events.
This Georgia victory didn’t even require incumbents to be ousted from office. Instead, a group of Georgia Republican House members flipped their position on school choice, and voted for the same legislation they had reliably voted against in the past. They saw what happened in Texas and decided it was better to betray the teachers’ lobby than to be voted out of office in the next Republican primary.
First, let’s take a look at Texas, where the Democrat-RINO alliance in the House not only defeated school choice, but had also aligned to impeach Attorney General Ken Paxton. The impeachment trial activated the conservative base, causing moderate and liberal Republican Senators to go into self-preservation mode and acquit Paxton.
But for the anti-school choice, anti-Paxton, anti-conservative Republicans in the House, they had already sealed their fates. They were wiped out in the Republican primary on March 5.
Voters were clear, one Republican strategist said: No more “betraying conservative principles or collaborating with Democrats.” When Shelley Luther announced she was challenging state Rep. Reggie Smith in this year’s Republican primary, some party members dismissed it as a quixotic bid from the former Dallas salon owner, who rose to prominence in 2020 for defying a pandemic lockdown order. But despite being outspent more than 2-to-1, Luther scored an upset win over Smith in Tuesday’s primary, virtually ensuring she will represent the bright red North Texas district when lawmakers reconvene in January. Luther is among a crop of firebrand Republican candidates likely headed to the Texas House next year to replace the record nine GOP incumbents ousted on Tuesday.
There are still a few more Democrat-aligned “Republicans” who did not win a majority of votes in their primaries, so they are headed to runoffs. These include House Speaker Dade Phelan, who has persistently worked to kill school choice legislation. The great flushing of faux-conservative Republicans in the Texas legislature is not yet over.
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