(5/7/24) Tuesday Overnight Open Thread
—Misanthropic Humanitarian
Quote IThe first lesson of economics is scarcity: there is never enough of anything to fully satisfy all those who want it. The first lesson of politics is to disregard the first lesson of economics. Thomas Sowell
Quote II“We’re concerned about the increasing regulation of knives due to the violence in the world,” said Carl Elsener, the fourth-generation CEO of the family-run company Victorinox(Swiss Army Knives)When knives are outlawed only outlaws will have knives.
Quote 3“This is surprising,” Director of Infectious Disease at Dignity Health Dr. Suman RadhakrishnaWhy are the experts always surprised?
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It Takes a Village to Catch a Fish Cafe
—Disinformation Expert Ace
Barcelona's Park Guell
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More pics here.
Bringing your fren with you on a walkie.
ICYMI: the moment a cat realizes the red part is the good part of a watermelon.
Cats fighting for room on a cat bed.
Cat: How do you like having this ratty thing jiggled in front of your face?
Puppysitting for the new parents.
Badass goose. It's not just humans that they menace.
The frolicking sheep is cute, but check out the dogs on the roof in background. Who's running this farm? Yahoo Serious?
Whoa, I zonked out and had a 1982 flashback. Apologies.
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—Disinformation Expert Ace
Flaky corpservative Kristi Noem tells Fox News "journalist" Stuart Varney that he "needs to stop" asking her about her puppy murder. I think the media is fixated on the puppy murder to draw attention away from the goat murder she killed the same day (IIRC) but that's just me, I believe in the value of goats' lives.
Victor Davis Hanson doesn't look too comfortable about Megyn Kelly's cruelty in trashing Noem about her lies about meeting (and staring down) Kim Il-Jun. Noem weirdly says she worked to correct this lie "as soon as it was brought to my attention," but... her ghostwriter must have gotten it from somewhere, and Kristi Noem read this passage aloud for the audiobook. Didn't she hear this lie then? Was she just zoned out completely? Is it a lie she's told, Biden-like, so many times it's become part of her Personal Head Cannon?
Kelly is probably riding her hard because they both kind of inhabit the same social space -- pretty women near the top of the pile in the politico-media sphere -- and people who occupy the same sort of slot tend to be enemies.
Especially if they're women. Obviously.
But who cares about her bias. Kristi Noem showed her true colors when she vetoed the no-boys-in-girls-sports law, and then lied about just wanting to avoid litigation or having only exercised the veto for technical reasons. She's another small-state red governor, like Asa Hutchinson, entirely dependent on her state's corporate oligarchs, who are of course all-in on transgenderism. Fuck her and the dead dog (and goat) she rode in on.
Megyn Kelly nails her on her "Aw shucks" shitkicker schtick. Whenever you catch her in a lie, she says something like "Well that's just the way we get things done on the ranch, you urban pointyheads wouldn't understand."
I understand you shot a puppy and didn't meet Kim Il-Jun. Would spending time holding a pitchfork improve my understanding?
An ex-CNN "reporter" tells a frightening story of attending a dinner party with educated, nicely-dressed people of her social order.. only to discover they were all "closeted Trump supporters" and "MAGAts." And this knowledge, that "MAGAts" might be walking around pretending to be humans, "haunts" her.
Chilling!
Ex-CNN reporter Michelle Kosinski wrote in a Sunday social media post that she was surprised by how "normal" a group of "closeted" Trump supporters seemed at a dinner she attended, which she said continues to "haunt" her."All were well-educated and successful in careers. They seemed great! On the surface. For like an hour. But slowly, over a few drinks, they began to let slip their true MAGA natures," Kosinski wrote.
Kosinski, a former correspondent for both CNN and NBC News, wrote that one couple in the group wouldn't allow their kids to apply to Ivy League universities, but were "weird" about explaining their reasoning. Others used air-quotes while talking about climate change.
"The others-- when they realized that a few in their presence came armed with (gasp) actual facts (NO!)-- quickly changed the subject and nervously said they don't want to talk politics. They realized they would be eviscerated on all idiotic points, especially on the economy," Kosinski said.
Kosinski said it was funny how "extremist" or "wrong" beliefs can leak out from those who you least expect, but warned, "they are out there."
"This dinner continues to haunt me. They all seemed so... normal. When I asked the couple who were my old friends how THEY didn't know, they said that in their upscale FL neighborhood, people are extremely careful not to ever broach or debate the subject. This is not healthy," Kosinski continued in her thread.
Yes, dear, Those People are unhealthy. On the other hand, you in your bitter, twisted hysteria and obsessive hatred -- you're completely healthy.
Hey, Valley of the Dolls, how many fucking pills are you on? Do you even know?
"If people don't ever talk about these things as friends and neighbors, and only live in their own warped information silos, how will they ever learn what is true or false? How will the truth ever make them consider alternatives? The allure of bulls--- is co-opting decent minds," Kosinski wrote.
LOL. The MAGAts live "in their own warped information silos." Yes, of course.
Mark Hemingway @HeminatorIt is truly amazing how at a time when mortgage rates have close to tripled in three years, overall consumer prices are up 20 percent (25 for food), and Russia's at war in Eastern Europe and the entire Middle East is a powder keg -- the response is "MAGAts don't know facts!"
As you probably have heard by now, this excitable little idiot actually managed to get laughed out of the "news" industry when she rowed a kayak to pretend that flood waters were so deep they required boats to get around in. She was humiliated when two men walked into frame, showing that the flooding was about six inches deep.
Jen Psaki: Don't Give Up Hope for a Biden Win -- After All, Trump Could Die!
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—Disinformation Expert Ace
Hamas makes a new wonderful ceasefire offer for Israel -- would you accept dead hostages (aka "murder victims") in our hostages-for-prisoners deal?
What a deal! Hamas has a new proposal for a cease-fire, disguised as the former US-negotiated hostage deal, but with a new twist. Now that the Israelis have made it clear that Joe Biden won't stop them from destroying the remaining Hamas brigades in Rafah, they want to go back to the deal they rejected ... as long as the Israelis aren't too picky about body temperature:[The Times of Israel:]In an announcement detailing the clauses to which it had agreed Monday in the latest proposal for a deal, the terror group said, "During the first phase, Hamas releases 33 Israeli detainees (alive or corpses)."
The New York Times reported Tuesday that the terror group had explicitly told mediators that some of the 33 hostages it would release under the first phase of the prospective deal would not be alive. The Times said it was not clear whether the terror group had informed interlocutors how many of the 33 would be alive.
A failure to release 33 living hostages would appear to conflict with Israeli demands.
I'm feeling a real Colonel Kurtz kind of way about these Gazans.
People are declaring this summer to be "Frat Boy Summer." What they mean is that this is the summer that traditionalist men declare, "We're here, we're straight, we want to wear loose shorts with lots of big pockets."
Behold the "frat boys" unapologetically saving Old Glory, singing the national anthem, chanting "USA, USA, USA," and rudely ridiculing the campus freaks who parade around in Hamas colors and barricade themselves in university buildings.God forbid! They look like Trump voters.
This display of irrepressible masculinity erupting in Gen Z is an affront to the grand societal feminization project of the left, which has only itself to blame.
Frat Boy Summer is this year's backlash against an epidemic of arrogant, entitled women who have been coddled all their lives and think they're smarter and more important than they really are.
It is a manifestation of the growing political divide between men and women that has been evident in opinion polls for some time. There is a 10-point gap on most issues between men and women.
Young unmarried women, in particular, skew very left, while young men are becoming markedly more conservative.
The latest ABC-Ipsos poll over the weekend showed Donald Trump winning the under-30s by five points over Joe Biden, 48% to 43%. That was entirely down to Trump's huge advantage with young men, 54% to 43%.
Young women favored Biden by three points, 44% to 41%, still a rather anemic vote of confidence considering all the "Handmaid's Tale"-style propaganda being thrown at them about abortion and Trump's beastly ways.
It's a nightmare scenario for Biden, who has been counting on the youth vote to win him the election like it did in 2020. Hence his desperate pandering to Gen Z.
The president is splashing around billions of taxpayer dollars on student debt relief, relaxing cannabis legislation, championing "trans kids" as the greatest heroes of their generation and inviting gender-fluid young TikTok influencers to VIP events at the White House. This is not your granddad's Joe Biden.
But none of it can close the growing ideological gulf between the sexes, which has its roots in the unjust treatment of boys and young men in recent decades.
The college gender gap was a crisis when men outnumbered women up until the 1980s, but now that there are three women for every two men in college, we must rejoice. You go, girl!
Now there are 1 million fewer men in college than in 2011, according to Pew Research, with one-quarter of male Ivy Leaguers identifying as LGBT. It's sexual reparations in which nobody had a say.
There is a cohort of women who are giving the fairer sex a bad name. These toxic femmes gobbled up the unjust privileges of affirmative action and the punitive fakery that the #MeToo movement became and then found they were more miserable than ever.
So they doubled down, offloading blame onto the patriarchy or toxic masculinity or whatever excuse they could find to avoid looking in the mirror.
Speaking of, neurotic hysterical White Women are now pushing the latest shrill propganda, claiming that it's safer to encounter a bear in the woods than a (spit) man.
They claim that men are more dangerous to women than bears.
Which is a strange claim, as they encounter hundreds of men daily, with few adverse incidents.
They have never encountered a single bear, of course.
So as usual, humiliating levels of childlike ignorance is both their shield and their sword.
Man Or Bear? Many Women Say They'd Rather Be Stuck In The Woods With A Bear In Latest Viral TikTok Debate
In the latest viral debate taking over TikTok, users are asking women whether they'd rather be trapped in the woods with a man or a bear, and many are choosing the bear, stating that a man may pose more potential danger than the wild animal--and the trend is sparking conversations about violence against women.Many women participating in a new viral debate on TikTok say they would rather be alone with a bear than a man in the woods, answering a hypothetical question that is leading many women to open up about negative experiences they have had with men, including domestic violence and sexual assault.
Some women say they'd choose the bear because they don't know the man in question--like one user, who said "it's not my boyfriend, it's not my father, it's not my cousin," adding being alone with an "unpredictable strange man is more frightening than being alone with a predictable wild animal."
In one video liked more than 2 million times, a user compiled some of the most gut-wrenching reasons women chose the bear--such as "the worst thing the bear can do is kill me," "the bear doesn't get enjoyment out of it" and "the bear sees me as a human being."
The bear. The bear "sees you as a human being," you say.
Remarkable.
Some users are flipping the question, asking men whether they'd rather their wife or daughter be alone with a bear or a man in the woods, and many of the men chose bear--including one, who said "I think you're more likely to anticipate what a bear would do than what a man would do."
I think that guy is grinding feminist points for snizz.
Now, if the question were "would you rather be alone with a "male feminist" or a bear" -- that I could see being a closer question.
Boy Scouts to change its name again, kind of like a child sex predator hoping that people will forget about it.
Boy Scouts of America is changing its name for the first time in its 114-year history in a bid to 'boost inclusion'.The Texas-based organization is set to become Scouting America as it hopes to improve participation amid flagging membership.
The historic change is the latest in a series designed to take the troop into the 21st century, including allowing gay youth and welcoming girls throughout its ranks.
It comes as the organization is emerging from bankruptcy following a flood of sexual abuse claims.
'In the next 100 years we want any youth in America to feel very, very welcome to come into our programs,' Roger Krone, who took over last fall as president and chief executive officer, said in an interview before the announcement.
David Hogg, a hypermasculine Alpha Chad with testosterone levels that make The Incredible Hulk look like a pansy, obviously knows what Real Men are thinking. Here, He (capital "He" for this stud) tells us "men want one thing." Ladies, brace yourselves. Reading this may get you pregnant in your vaginas.
David Hogg @davidhogg111Men want one thing and it's literally regional high speed rail with affordable, frequent and reliable local public transit connections and mixed use development around transit hubs
A female darts competitor forfeited the championship match rather than play against a man in a Party City wig.
'I'm not playing against a man in a women's event.' That is what British darts champion Deta Hedman said Saturday. So, she forfeited her match against transgender competitor Noa-Lynn van Leuven at the Denmark Open.Yay for her. She is 64 years old and has been a vocal critic against rules that allow men to compete in women's sports. She is well-known among women's darts fans. She previously called on the Professional Darts Corporation (PDC) and the World Darts Federation (WDF) to exclude men from women's tournaments.
Instead of competing with van Leuven in the WDF tournament quarter-finals, she boycotted the game.
A round of applause for Deta Hedman.
She posted on her Facebook page about her decision two days before the match. "Women & girls deserve to be CHAMPIONS in their own sports."
A TIPP poll -- which puts Biden slightly ahead of Trump -- simultaneously finds that Biden has lost 28 points of support among blacks.
A new I&I/TIPP poll highlights a dramatic 28-point decline in support for President Joe Biden among Black Americans since the 2020 election, marking a significant shift in voter sentiment.Key Details:
In the 2020 presidential election, 87% of Black voters supported Biden, but recent figures show only 59% now do, reflecting a 28% drop.
Former President Donald Trump has increased his support among Black voters from 12% in 2020 to 15% today.
The poll also notes Biden's decreased support among Hispanic and independent voters, with Trump leading significantly among independents in scenarios including third-party candidates.
But he's ahead of Trump. Riiiiight.
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The New York Times -- "All the News That's Fit to Print" -- Finally Admits the Existence of Covid "Vaccine" Injuries, Three Years After Hundreds of Millions of Injections
—Disinformation Expert Ace
Sometimes late is not necessarily better than never.
The Times gave the delicate task of offering a Modified Limit Hang-Out to the public they've been immunizing with massive doses of disinformation to Apoorva Mandavilli, who herself has been noted as one of the worst covid reporters and a constant font of alarmist panic-porn disinformation.
The New York Times Spreads Misinformation About COVID-19Patiently waiting for senators and whistleblowers to freak out over this
Regime Lies are not disinformation, they are a Deeper Form of Truth.
The purported threat of social media has emerged once again as a top concern of senators, whistleblowers, and members of the press. They are very, very worried about Facebook fanning the flames of hate, compromising U.S. democracy, and spreading COVID misinformation.How many of them are worried about the COVID misinformation being spread by The New York Times?
The paper of record had to print a lengthy correction to a big error in a Thursday news article. The story was about other countries' approaches to vaccinating young people, and whether one shot would be better than two given the risks of heart inflammation in teenagers. The article wrongly claimed that nearly one million U.S. children--900,000 to be precise--had been hospitalized with COVID-19 since the start of the pandemic.
The actual number? About 63,000 since August 2020, when stats first became available.
And while that was the biggest error, it wasn't the only mistake in the story. According to the correction, the reporter "described incorrectly the actions taken by regulators in Sweden and Denmark" and misstated the timing of a crucial Food and Drug Administration meeting.
This wasn't a junior reporter new to the job. The author was the paper's lead coronavirus correspondent, Apoorva Mandavilli. (Her bio, which notes that she won the Victor Cohn Prize for Excellence in Medical Science Reporting in 2019, appears under the correction.)
This isn't Mandavilli's first questionable article. In early August, FiveThirtyEight's Nate Silver accused her of framing the Provincetown study of the delta variant's spread in a "misleading and sensationalist way."
Mandavilli also tweeted, as recently as May of 2021, that the lab leak theory of COVID-19's origins is "racist" at its roots. She eventually deleted that tweet but doubled down on the sentiment.
In general, her pandemic reporting has manifested a paranoid slant. But the Thursday article wasn't just slanted; it was wrong, wrong, wrong.
And only now, after hundreds of millions of doses, does the Times even admit the possibility that people have been getting injured (or killed) by their miracle non-vaccine vaccine.
Note that from the start, the article speaks of "belief" that the non-vaccine vaccine causes injury.
Thousands Believe Covid Vaccines Harmed Them. Is Anyone Listening?All vaccines have at least occasional side effects. But people who say they were injured by Covid vaccines believe their cases have been ignored.
Given that this is the Times' first foray into the entire subject, how is it merely a "belief" that they're being ignored?
They are being ignored. That's a fact, not a "belief."
Why did it take the Times so long to even address this important subject?
Ah, they've got that covered -- see, they've been researching this single story for more than a year, you see.
Apoorva Mandavilli spent more than a year talking to dozens of experts in vaccine science, policymakers and people who said they had experienced serious side effects after receiving a Covid-19 vaccine.
Some might say that the year of "talking" wasn't for purposes of gathering information, but for endlessly delaying any reporting about the information that's been in hand for a year.
It's almost as if The Regime has told us ten Foundational Lies in the past eight years upon which all of their authority depends, and are extremely unwilling to admit they lied.
Within minutes of getting the Johnson & Johnson Covid-19 vaccine, Michelle Zimmerman felt pain racing from her left arm up to her ear and down to her fingertips. Within days, she was unbearably sensitive to light and struggled to remember simple facts.She was 37, with a Ph.D. in neuroscience, and until then could ride her bicycle 20 miles, teach a dance class and give a lecture on artificial intelligence, all in the same day. Now, more than three years later, she lives with her parents. Eventually diagnosed with brain damage, she cannot work, drive or even stand for long periods of time.
"When I let myself think about the devastation of what this has done to my life, and how much I've lost, sometimes it feels even too hard to comprehend," said Dr. Zimmerman, who believes her injury is due to a contaminated vaccine batch.
The Covid vaccines, a triumph of science and public health, are estimated to have prevented millions of hospitalizations and deaths. Yet even the best vaccines produce rare but serious side effects. And the Covid vaccines have been given to more than 270 million people in the United States, in nearly 677 million doses.
Weird. You say it's routine and predictable that "even the best vaccines" cause injury.
But you've denied it until this moment with this vaccine. In fact, you're not even admitting it here. You're still claiming the covid non-vaccine vaccine might not be causing injury, and that all the people claiming injury merely "believe" they've been injured.
If injuries are commonplace and to be expected -- and thus, no big deal -- why have you denied their very existence until now?
Dr. Zimmerman's account is among the more harrowing, but thousands of Americans believe they suffered serious side effects following Covid vaccination. As of April, just over 13,000 vaccine-injury compensation claims have been filed with the federal government -- but to little avail. Only 19 percent have been reviewed. Only 47 of those were deemed eligible for compensation, and only 12 have been paid out, at an average of about $3,600.Some scientists fear that patients with real injuries are being denied help and believe that more needs to be done to clarify the possible risks.
"At least long Covid has been somewhat recognized," said Akiko Iwasaki, an immunologist and vaccine expert at Yale University. But people who say they have post-vaccination injuries are "just completely ignored and dismissed and gaslighted," she added.
In interviews and email exchanges conducted over several months, federal health officials insisted that serious side effects were extremely rare and that their surveillance efforts were more than sufficient to detect patterns of adverse events.
The events are "extremely rare," and so, as with women making false sexual abuse claims, they can be safely propagandized as entirely non-existent. Is that how The Science (TM) works?
"Hundreds of millions of people in the United States have safely received Covid vaccines under the most intense safety monitoring in U.S. history," Jeff Nesbit, a spokesman for the Department of Health and Human Services, said in an emailed statement.
But in a recent interview, Dr. Janet Woodcock, a longtime leader of the Food and Drug Administration, who retired in February, said she believed that some recipients had experienced uncommon but "serious" and "life-changing" reactions beyond those described by federal agencies.
"I feel bad for those people," said Dr. Woodcock, who became the F.D.A.'s acting commissioner in January 2021 as the vaccines were rolling out. "I believe their suffering should be acknowledged, that they have real problems, and they should be taken seriously."
"I'm disappointed in myself," she added. "I did a lot of things I feel very good about, but this is one of the few things I feel I just didn't bring it home."
Even Basement Boy Chris Cuomo is now airing the testimony of people who "BELIEVE" they were injured by the vaccine.
In fact, the Basement Boy, who once warned that America's greatest enemies were "our fellow Americans" who were vaccine-hesitant, now says that he himself has a lingering health problem caused by the non-vaccine vaccine:
NewsNation anchor Chris Cuomo admitted to suffering from side effects he believes were caused by the COVID-19 vaccine."We know that vaccines can have unintended consequences, aka side effects, but nobody's really talking about it because they're too afraid of blame, and they just want it to go away," Mr. Cuomo said on his eponymous show while interviewing nurse practitioner Shaun Barcavage.
"But the problem is people like Shaun -- and me -- and millions of others who still have weird stuff with their bloodwork and their lives and their feelings, you know, physically, are not going away," he said.
Mr. Cuomo brought Mr. Barcavage on the show after he was featured in a New York Times article about several people who feel they have been harmed by the vaccine. Mr. Barcavage recounted his story, saying that since his first shot, his heart starts racing every time he stands up. He said he has had pain in his eyes, mouth and genitals that has since gone away, but continues to have tinnitus.
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Julie Kelly: DOJ Finally Admits They Doctored Trump's "Classified" Documents by Putting Them Inside Classified Information Folders, and Then Propagandizing the Country With Photos of Them
—Disinformation Expert Ace
Why is this important?
Because the media seized on the idea -- no doubt intended by Merrick Garland's criminal gang at the DOJ -- that the fact that the "classified' documents were in folders plainly marked CLASSIFIED means that Trump could have no possible question that they were in fact classified, and no defense at any future trial.
The DOJ blitzed the public with these photos to poison the jury pool with this idea.
But it was all a lie.
The FBI brought their own CLASSIFIED folders and then put Trump's documents inside them, then took pictures they immediately flooded the media with, creating the false impression in the minds of 300 million potential jurors that Trump knew these documents were classified.
It is the picture that launched a thousand pearl-clutching articles.
A few weeks after the armed FBI raid of Mar-a-Lago in August 2022, the Department of Justice released a stunning photograph depicting alleged contraband seized from Donald Trump's Palm Beach estate that day; the image showed colored sheets representing scary classification levels attached to files purportedly discovered in Trump's private office.
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Included as a government exhibit to oppose Trump's lawsuit requesting a special master to vet the 13,000 items taken from his residence, the crime scene pic immediately went viral--just as Attorney General Merrick Garland, who authorized the unprecedented raid, intended.At the time, even regime-friendly mouthpieces questioned the need and optics of the raid; the photo helped juice the DOJ's justification for the storming of Trump's castle.
"[The] question of whether Trump had classified material with him at his Mar-a-Lago resort has captured the public's attention. The photo published by the government appears to answer that question quite affirmatively," Washington Post resident fact checker Philip Bump wrote on August 31, 2022.
Some of Bump's colleagues were more hyperbolic. An ex-CIA officer told ABC News the cover sheets indicated the highest level of secrecy, which in the wrong hands could have resulted in murder. "People's lives are truly at stake. Without being melodramatic, anything that helps an adversary identify a human source means life and death," intelligence expert Douglas London melodramatically warned in reaction to the photo.
The New York Times insisted the photo was consistent with how the FBI handles criminal investigations. "[It] is standard practice for the F.B.I. to take evidentiary pictures of materials recovered in a search to ensure that items are properly cataloged and accounted for. Files or documents are not tossed around randomly, even though they might appear that way; they are usually splayed out so they can be separately identified by their markings," reporters Glenn Thrush and Adam Goldman wrote on August 31, 2022.
Except...that is not what happened.
New court filings in Special Counsel Jack Smith's espionage and obstruction case against Trump and two co-defendants conclusively demonstrate that the government used the cover sheets to deceive the public as well as the court. The photo was a stunt, and one that adds more fuel to this dumpster-fire case.
Jay Bratt, who was the lead DOJ prosecutor on the investigation at the time and now is assigned to Smith's team, described the photo this way in his August 30, 2022 response to Trump's special master lawsuit:
"[Thirteen] boxes or containers contained documents with classification markings, and in all, over one hundred unique documents with classification markings...were seized. Certain of the documents had colored cover sheets indicating their classification status. (Emphasis added.) See, e.g., Attachment F (redacted FBI photograph of certain documents and classified cover sheets recovered from a container in the '45 office')."
The DOJ's clever wordsmithing, however, did not accurately describe the origin of the cover sheets. In what must be considered not only an act of doctoring evidence but willfully misleading the American people into believing the former president is a criminal and threat to national security, agents involved in the raid attached the cover sheets to at least seven files to stage the photo.
Classified cover sheets were not "recovered" in the container, contrary to Bratt's declaration to the court. In fact, after being busted recently by defense attorneys for mishandling evidence in the case, Bratt had to fess up about how the cover sheets actually ended up on the documents.
Here is Bratt's new version of the story, where he finally admits a critical detail that he failed to disclose in his August 2022 filing:
"[If] the investigative team found a document with classification markings, it removed the document, segregated it, and replaced it with a placeholder sheet. The investigative team used classified cover sheets for that purpose."
But before the official cover sheets were used as placeholder, agents apparently used them as props. FBI agents took it upon themselves to paperclip the sheets to documents--something evident given the uniform nature of how each cover sheet is clipped to each file in the photo--laid them on the floor, and snapped a picture for political posterity.
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In the NY Soros DA prosecution, the judge whose daughter is helps Adam Schiff raise money off her dad's court case threatened to jail Trump again.
Before witness testimony started Monday, Merchan ruled that Trump violated his gag order for the tenth time, fining him for comments he made about the jury. Merchan said next time the court "will have to consider a jail sanction."
Do it. Do it. I dare you.
Meanwhile, Stormy Daniels testified, and implied that Trump had raped her. At least this paid whore described herself "shaking" after "the incident," suggesting that it was involuntary without actually saying so.
Even the corrupt judge told her to knock it off with her highly political, choreographed defamation, saying that details of "the incident" are "irrelevant."
The jury still heard them, of course. As planned.
Remember, the prosecution called in Hope Hicks just so that he could read excerpts from NBC's leaked "grab them by the pussy" incident.
This is all unduly prejudicial material, attempting to secure a conviction by bringing up irrelevant evidence (like the whore Stormy Daniels' claim she was Literally Shaking You Guys) or barely-relevant evidence that is brought in precisely to poison the jury against the defendant based on "prior (alleged) bad acts."
And the judge lets it all in.
It's critical that they get this shame conviction. Appellate courts will overturn it, but they need the conviction before the election.
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ABC "News" Fires Its Woke DEI Hire "News Chief"
—Disinformation Expert Ace
They're pretending she left of her own accord. But there were reports a week ago that ABC "News" was going to get rid of her, so you tell me.
She wasn't just a DEI hire. She is literally made of DEI atoms.
ABC News President Kim Godwin, who touted diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI), is reportedly on the chopping block, according to CNN.Debra OConnell, who was appointed in February to oversee the network, is currently conducting a leadership review as she has allegedly been appalled by Godwin's management and leadership style, sources told CNN. She has reportedly failed to replace key positions and has caused anxiety to circulate among staff.
And now she's "retiring." Retiring under a cloud of failure and scandal, that is.
ABC's 'Historic' Diversity Hire Out Of Top Spot Amid Rumors Her Incompetence Shocked Higher UpsABC News President Kim Godwin stepped down Sunday night following an investigation into her management of her network.
The overseer of the network, Debra O'Connell, opened a corporate investigation into Godwin and other senior executives over the growing frustration among staffers, vacant top positions and the drop in ratings at its prominent program, "Good Morning America." Several people alleged Godwin dedicated more time to her profile than creating success in the news division, and that her mismanagement "shocked" O'Connell, WSJ reported.
"I have decided to retire from broadcast journalism," Godwin said in an email to staff Sunday night, according to WSJ. "Anyone who's passionate about what we do knows there's no other business like it, so this was not an easy or quick decision. But after considerable reflection, I'm certain it's the right one for me as I look to the future and prioritize what's most important for me and my family."
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Several executives were laid off in March 2023, reportedly causing "shock" throughout the newsroom. Godwin told her staff the downsizing was a "difficult time" for the entire network, but vowed they were on a "solid footing."
Black Conservative Perspective points out that ABC "News" had the same problem with her that the Biden Usurpation has with Karine Jean-Pierre -- they can't be seen to be firing a Strong and Empowered WOC, so they have to just pressure her to "quit on her own."
He also points to a claim from the Daily Beast, possibly just leftwing spin, that she was actually against DEI. Or, at least, the claim goes that she was against too much DEI -- she thought the network had "overcompensated" after the George Floyd riots Freedom Arsons and hired too many black people. Black people don't watch news, she reportedly said.
Supposedly that's "controversial." But why? The network pays millions of dollars to know exactly who is watching every minute of its shows. This claim is either true or false -- not "controversial." Just true or false.
The fact that they're creating a controversy about it suggests to me that it is substantially true. It's just another thing we're Not Allowed to Say after the George Floyd Freedom Arsons.
But this whole claim sounds like spin, as I said. It may be that the DEI Dead-Enders want to say, "This isn't a loss for DEI, it's a great victory! That strong empowered Woman of Color was a racist and we got rid of her!"
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The Biden Usurpation is Now Withholding Precision-Guided Bombs From Israel (Which Will Force Them to Use "Dumb Bombs," Resulting In More Civilian Deaths (both Real and Fake), Which They Will Then Blame Israel For
—Disinformation Expert Ace
Boy oh boy are leftwingers smart and intellectual and all the good things!
Especially Joe "The Professor" Biden himself. He's America's greatest living foreign policy mastermind, did you know that?
My word as a Biden, it's true, I'm not joking.
The Biden administration is holding up shipments of two types of Boeing-made precision bombs to send a political message to Israel, according to a U.S. official and six other people with knowledge of the deliberations.
The U.S. has yet to sign off on a pending sale of Boeing's Joint Direct Attack Munitions -- both the munitions and kits that convert them to smart weapons -- and Small Diameter Bombs, according to six industry and congressional sources with knowledge of the discussions.
While the Biden administration has not formally denied the potential sale, it is essentially taking action through inaction -- holding off on approvals and other aspects of the weapons transfer process -- to send a message to Israel, a U.S. administration official familiar with the process told POLITICO. The official, along with others, was granted anonymity to discuss sensitive internal deliberations.
This appears to be the first time the U.S. administration has delayed a potential weapons sale for Israel since Hamas attacked the country on Oct. 7. President Joe Biden has been under pressure from some in his party to set conditions on aid to Israel after the Israeli bombing campaign in Gaza began to exact a heavy toll on civilians, and after Israel hit humanitarian convoys delivering aid to the enclave.
Biden hid this Hamas-helping move from Congress. Of course The Professor did.
The Biden administration hid information about its decision to pause U.S. arms sales to Israel from Congress, sparking a probe led by two GOP senators, the Washington Free Beacon has learned. FreeBeacon Progressive Florida Dems Push To Cancel Fetterman Speech Over Support for Israel Read moreSenators Joni Ernst (R., Iowa) and Ted Budd (R., N.C.), in a letter sent Monday evening to the White House, are asking the administration to immediately inform Congress about what types of ammunition are being withheld from Israel and why. The pause in these ammo shipments was approved last week, but only became publicly known over the weekend when the decision was leaked to Axios. The Biden administration is holding up shipments of two types of Boeing-made precision bombs to send a political message to Israel, one U.S. official told Politico.
"We are shocked that your administration has reportedly decided to withhold critical ammunition to Israel," the senators wrote, according to a copy of the letter obtained by the Free Beacon. "You promised your commitment to Israel was ironclad. Pausing much-needed military support to our closest Middle Eastern ally signals otherwise."
The senators say the White House "failed to notify Congress about this decision," leaving lawmakers to learn of the decision from press reports. The letter signals mounting GOP concern with the Biden administration's increasingly hostile stance toward Israel as it launches an offensive campaign into the Gaza Strip's Rafah neighborhood, which the United States has lobbied against. The reported halt in ammunition sales is being viewed as a sign the Biden administration is caving to pressure from anti-Israel advocates in the Democratic Party who want to see the Jewish state isolated.
Meanwhile, Fire Marshall Jamaal (as a commenter called him) is rallying for Hamas with the CAIR leader who called himself "happy" to see Hamas murder and rape raids.
When they show you who they are, you should probably believe them. That tried-and-true bit of wisdom should be applied to "squad" member Congressman Jamaal Bowman of New York. Over the weekend, Bowman attended a fundraiser that was put on for him at a private home in Fairfax, Virginia. There's nothing unusual about House members hitting fundraisers during an election year, but this one was hosted by Nihad Awad, the national director of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR). In case you're not familiar with Awad, he is one of the people who came out shortly after the October 7 terror attacks and said that he was "happy" to see the people of Gaza "breaking their shackles" and storming into Israel. And here we have a member of the House from New York hanging out with him and leveraging him for fundraising purposes.
Can't wait for the Jake Tapper lecture about why this is really all my fault.
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Kamala Harris Wows Nation with Debut of Entirely New Way to be Off-Putting
—Disinformation Expert Ace
Vice President Kamala Harris only smirked and gave a sarcastic answer Monday to reporters' questions about Hamas saying it had accepted a cease-fire deal involving the bloody Mideast war."Madam Vice President, Hamas says it accepted--," a reporter began as Harris exited Joe Louis Southern Kitchen in Detroit, Mich.
"Shrimp and grits," Harris, 59, interjected with a grin as she pointed to her bag. "You wanted to know."
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The Morning Rant: Minimalist Edition
—CBD
Spare me the deeply disingenuous rhetoric from the vast media apologia of the "Pro-Palestine" protesters. The thinly supported argument that anti-Zionism has nothing to do with the rabid Jew-hate that is being plainly, openly, proudly expressed, is factually nonsensical, and simply proof proof that Jew-hate exists and is now mainstream.
Protesters disrupt Auschwitz March of the Living on Yom HaShoah
Pro-Palestinian activists staged a protest at the annual March of the Living in Poland on Holocaust Remembrance Day.The activists went to Auschwitz to protest the march, which is held each year to pay respects to victims of the holocaust and chanted "stop genocide" and waved Palestinian flags at attendees.
The march was attended by survivors of the Holocaust as well as those who survived the October 7 attacks on Israel.
Images show some protesters wearing yellow badges resembling the stars that Nazis forced Jews to wear.
Aside from the ancient historical animus, we have two additional sources for anti-Semitism: the post-modern fixation on victim-hood, and the cultural and religious hatred of Jews by Arabs and Muslims. Of course post-modernism simply feeds into the traditional Jew-hate of the left, and gives it an additional point of purchase.
Sadly for Israel and worldwide Jewry, the left is expert at manipulation of the masses, and social media has given them an incredibly powerful tool. Now they can reach the mushy-brained, apolitical, ignorant college freshmen who used to be obsessed with confounding mommy and daddy with their disheveled dress and weird boyfriends/girlfriends. Now they can be part of a worldwide network of similarly ignorantly disaffected youth who are part of a concerted effort by the hard left to de-legitimize Israel, and deplatform Jews!
The fact that they have no understanding of the issues, and can't name the river or the sea means nothing to them. They are fighting the power! They are questioning authority! How exciting!
Israel and some Jews are fighting back, using social media to counter the baldly ahistoric claims. But it is a long road, and they are far behind. Absent a significant political change, the next generation of Jews, both in Israel and around the world will have to contend with the rise of what can only be described as 21st Century Nazism.
The traditional resistance to that sort of sentiment must change. It seems to be changing in Israel, where a mostly united populace has resisted the leftist calls for accommodation. In the West it is a slower process, but American Jews (Europe is almost certainly lost to the Muslim hordes) must fight back with different tools, and must reevaluate the traditional connection to the Democrat party. The liberals who once controlled it have been subsumed in a sea of hard-left sensibilities that are savagely opposed to Jews, Judaism, and Israel.
What are the new tools?
Physical Self defense. One-issue voting (unequivocally support Israel and Jews, or lose the Jewish vote). Deny all financial support to the new Nazis in academia.
Sounds simple, but it isn't.
[Crossposted at CutJibNewsletter]
The Morning Report — 5/7/24
—J.J. Sefton
Good morning, kids. Joe Biden has full-blown dementia. Yet, speaking of full and blown, what in the actual hell is Chlamydia Harris' excuse?
“Madam [fake] Vice President, Hamas says it accepted a ceasefire deal…” the reporter began.“Shrimp and grits. Is that what you wanted to know?” Harris said.
Hamas, a U.S.-designated Islamic terror organization, announced on Monday that it had agreed to a ceasefire proposal.
Israeli officials responded to Hamas begging for a ceasefire, claiming that the deal Hamas was agreeing to was “not the same proposal” that Israel and Egypt had previously agreed upon, adding that “all kinds of clauses” were added.
The news came hours after the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) dropped leaflets warning residents in Rafah, located in the southern Gaza Strip, to evacuate and go to “safe” zones.
In any case, the IDF has begun its final push on what is likely the last Hamas redoubt in Gaza. Should all of this have been done much earlier? Could all of this have been done much earlier? And the ultimate question is could 10/7 have been prevented in the first place? There are a number of factors to consider when grappling with those questions: the unquenchable desire to live in peace that can and often does blind Israel to the equally unquenchable desire of Islam to slit the throat of every Jew on the planet.
The former has led Israel to go above and beyond any armed force and nation in history to attempt to spare the lives of "non-combatants." Knowing this full well, the latter intentionally uses "non-combatants" as cannon-fodder, wanting them to be killed in order to gain a strategic advantage vis a vis international opinion far outweighing the rivers of Jewish, and its own, blood it spills.
I put the phrase "non-combatants" in quotes because unless one is a crawling, non-verbal infant under the age of perhaps 4 or 5, these individuals have aided and abetted in the initial attack and barbarism perpetrated on Israel on 10/7 because they are adherents of Islam. Not radical Islam, not fundamentalist Islam but Islam as it has been preached and practiced since Mohammed raped his 9-year-old wife way back when in the original dark ages.
The evil unleashed on 10/7, on top of the body count in both wars and acts of terrorism perpetrated by Islamic nation states and terrorists since the re-establishment of the state of Israel in its modern form in 1948, means nothing. "The World's Oldest Hatred" not just from Islam but sadly as a 2,000-year-old relic of western antipathy and hatred, which was the seed from which the godless totalitarians of modern Leftism, has kept it alive and burning unto today. Perhaps brighter than we had ever thought possible considering the events of 1933-1945.
Robert Zimmerman, Larry Elder and Alexander Markovsky have quite good and in some cases sobering to depressing analyses along these lines and I recommend each of these essays.
On a positive note, at least one that I hope takes hold in Israel's leadership and more importantly, its society at large is that all of the considerations of the past must go out the window when it comes to national survival. Sadly, recognizing that the junta in power over here is no longer an ally and is likely acting in concert with its, Israel's, mortal enemies, then they must not allow the US nor the always-feckless EU to dictate policy. The latter is well on the way to becoming subsumed by the global caliphate and unless we reverse course radically, and fast, we're not that far behind them.
Wiping out Hamas is crucial but long-term it will not be enough. Handing the Gazans the keys and withdrawing will not lead to the strip magically turning into another Singapore. Hell, that was supposedly Beirut many many decades ago and look what happened there for nearly the past 50 years.
Israel must maintain control of Gaza including its educational system. The entire population especially the younger generations must be deprogrammed and deNazified. How you do that by demanding the abolition of the teaching of the Koran or its editing out of the juicier bits of Jew-hatred is a conundrum, to say the least.
Of course, the same must happen over here in terms of the brainwashing of the past several generations of America's children, who now run the show and the prevention of same of future generations.
Finally, longtime Texas Democrat Henry Cuellar has been indicted by Lavrenty Garland's DOJ.
Is Cuellar guilty? Considering his political party and that he has been in public office for many years, it's highly likely. But that's not the issue. The indictment is most likely because Cuellar, being Latino and Democrat has committed the unforgivable apostasy of going against Leftist dogma by being very loudly critical of the Biden Junta's erasure of our border. If he had only toed the Leftist line or just kept his fat yap shut, he could've kept his grift going forever. Like every other loyal Democrat who remains untouchable and above the law (mostly because they control the law, how it is applied and to whom).
For that heresy, he has to go the way of Bob Menendez. Were it not for double standards, the Dems would have none.
- ABOVE THE FOLD, BREAKING, NOTEWORTHY
- Kurt Schlichter: "A habit mixed up with personal identity."
SHOT: Will Jewish Voters Stop Voting for the Democrats Who Want to Kill Them?
- Dennis Prager: "Psychopathology and left-wing ideology are the two primary explanations for why Jews such as those in groups like 'Jewish Voice for Peace' and 'IfNotNow' willingly serve as useful idiots for those who wish to exterminate the Jewish state and the Jewish people. Including them."
CHASER: Sick Jews
- Michael Walsh: ". . . conservatives need to understand that handing the abortion club back to the Left is political suicide. . . To lose the White House over an issue that's already been constitutionally decided is lunacy."
On Abortion, Take the Win and Move On
- Glenn H. Reynolds: "In Brazil, starting in the 1960s and continuing on and off until the present, we wound up seeing 'death squads' deal out vigilante justice that the legal system couldn’t, or wouldn’t deliver, with predictably bad results. We’re not in danger of that in New York, yet, but Alvin Bragg, both through his overreach aimed at Trump, and his no-prosecution approach to many genuine criminals, is moving us closer."
Dems Use the Legal System to Target the Right – Yet Give the Left a Pass
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Daily Tech News 7 May 2024
—Pixy Misa
Top Story- Republicans are pulling out all the stops to reverse EV adoption. (The Verge)
By which The Verge means Republicans are objecting to laws and regulations designed to make internal combustion vehicles more expensive and less efficient.
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(5/6/23) Monday Overnight Open Thread
—Misanthropic Humanitarian
Quote IThe gift of fantasy has meant more to me than my talent for absorbing positive knowledge. Albert Einstein
Quote 2“This is what this is all about — election inference, how do we stop it — and it’s a disgrace. President Donald Trump I wonder if this comment will cause the Honorable Wannabe Judge Dred to jail President Trump
Quote III‘I’m thankful to God that I’m still here. Jesus’ Dwelling Place Church shows Pastor Glenn Germany
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Maestro Mutt Cafe
—Disinformation Expert Ace
Vagina Rock
Sedona, AZ
by desert_badger
A cigarette break in Antarctica.
You must gather eight pieces of tuna, and I will give you the enchanted sword.
Trying on a new Lightning Suit.
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Quick Hits
—Disinformation Expert Ace
Oh no! Police brace for pro-terrorist protests at the extremely annoying Met Gala tonight.
As fd said, "please please please, don't burn the place down!"
Or just get the good paintings out first, at least.
The NYPD is bracing for possible unrest to rock Monday's star-studded Met Gala, law enforcement sources told The Post -- as anti-Israel groups called for a "Day of Rage" protest at CUNY's nearby Hunter College.Police security will be heightened in and around the Metropolitan Museum of Art as A-listers start descending on the iconic Upper East Side venue for the glitzy gala Monday evening, sources said.
No specific threats have been identified so far for Fashion's Biggest Night -- but everything is on the table, a police source noted, adding that protests in the vicinity are widely expected.
"We are using every tool at our disposal," a source said. "We approach this like we do all large-scale events -- examining information and applying it to a measured and calculated response should the need arise."
Oh no, I sure hope no needs arise.
Hunter "College" is one mile away, a twenty minute walk (if you aren't walking in NYC).
One ugly AWFL Karen protester already showed up and was arrested. Boy, The Regime doesn't f*** around when you disrupt one of their events, huh?
In the interests of peace and conciliation, I have contacted the Met Gala and they have appointed me mediator in this dispute.
Here is the Message of Peace the Met Gala wants me to pass on to the protesters:
You're all talk. I was just talking with representatives of the Met Gala, and they were all laughing about what ineffectual pansies and posers you all are. The Met Gala says your "men" are all homosexuals and your women wear the mustaches your catamite "men" are too weak to grow.
Their words, not mine.
You don't have the nerve to do what has to be done at the Met Gala. You don't have the guts.
The Met Gala is laughing at you. The Met Gala says that you all shame your ancestors with your filthy cowardice.
Again, their words.
Go ahead, prove me wrong. Prove the Met Gala wrong. They dare you.
I hope these Words of Peace sooth the wounds of our nation like a fine unguent.
Also Anna Wintour says, "PS, Suck a dick, softcocks."
Unfunny former comedian Jon Stewart accurately notes the obvious, that "Biden is so f***ing old to be president," "he just shouldn't be president."
Jon Stewart said President Biden is too old for the job."I know liberals say, 'Don't say Joe Biden is old' -- don't say what people see with their own eyes! You can say it, he can't hear us," Stewart said during a comedy performance in Los Angeles that was streamed on Netflix.
"I know you know how f--ing old he is, and I know you don't want to say it because [former President Donald] Trump is so scary, but he's so f--ing old ... when you watch him on television, you're nervous, aren't ya?" said the host of "The Daily Show."
Stewart made the remarks at an appearance at the Netflix Is a Joke Fest, which debuted on the streaming service on Friday, according to the Hollywood Reporter."I'm not saying that Biden can't contribute to society, he just shouldn't be president," Stewart added.
Wow, he can see that a plainly-demented man is too impaired to be president. Can we declare him a Prophet now, or does that take three miracles or something?
A Jewish woman was beaten to unconsciousness by pro-Hamas occupiers at UCLA while campus security refused to intervene. A group of Jewish students responded by returning to exact revenge and then, only then, did Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass (D) finally find a voice to condemn "detestable violence on campus". How convenient. How transparent.Where was campus security? Intimidation by pro-Hamas occupiers towards students, faculty and staff, especially Jews, has been going on almost two weeks, with nary any interference from administrators.
Speaking with Fox News, professor Nir Hoftman recalled his hostile encounters with the protesters and accused them of deep antisemitism."This was never peaceful," he said. "Jews were not allowed to go into the campus. Jews were not allowed to go into the library. Jews were not allowed to go to classes. It was never peaceful. They're vandalizing the entire quad."
Hoftman added that there had been a "total breakdown of law and order" and denounced local authorities for restraining the police from disbanding the camp until Wednesday. To emphasize his point, he recalled an encounter he had with the protesters days before.
"You might be shocked, but I'm not -- because these people attacked me a few days ago," he said when hosts asked if he was shocked by the violent scenes involved in the police storming of the encampment.
The administrators of many of the universities hosting these encampments have either been too fearful to act or actually sympathize with the pro-Hamas brownshirts. They allowed not just the tent occupation on a public university campus to fester, but even with evidence of brownshirts' being trained ...
Hit the link to see a clip of these Hamas brownshirts training each other in (inept, limpwristed) hand-to-hand combat.
Princeton students on hunger strike are complaining about "unsafe conditions."
There's no crying in jihad.
Probably because she's such a hottie. I look at her and wonder what the ragweed pollen count is today. She looks like a gorgeous, succulent, gawky, adenoidal 7th-grade boy and Treasurer of the D&D Club. (The Presidency and Vice Presidency are just popularity contests, the Treasury is where real change can be made.)
Last week, a professor wrote this FaceBook letter to protesting "students":
Melinda RothDear Campus Protestors
I've seen other people write to you, but I just walked among you at one of your campus encampments (GW in DC).
Here are my thoughts:Instead of hanging out in your nice brand new paid from unknown sources green and white tents, why not send them to those displaced in Gaza who really need them? After all, you have dorms and apartments that mommy and daddy are paying for right now.
You have catered food and an all you can eat snack bar, why not send food to those you claim are starving?
Since you are skipping classes (if you are actually a student), why not go volunteer to help in Gaza? Many American Jews have gone to help in Israel on farms and kibbutzes to provide missing labor as so many Israelis have been called up to military service. If you really want to help, why don't you go where you really could make a difference for the people you profess to be supporting?
Why don't you use all the time hanging out in the quad and in your tents to learn about what you are supporting? You are supporting rape, as your signs "resistance by any means necessary" state. You are supporting gender inequality and lack of any LGBTQ rights. You are supporting a named terrorist organization. Your call for an intifada revolution is a call for more innocent lives to be lost.
Let's address that for a second. You claim to be against the war in Gaza given all the innocent lives lost -- but in your next chant you want bloodshed everywhere with your call for an intifada revolution. It is glaringly inconsistent.
Why is there not a single sign or chant to release the hostages? Innocent people have been kidnapped, including women and children and Americans. How can you claim signs that say "final solution" or "zionists pigs get out" or chants like "Burn Tel Aviv to the ground" are not antisemitic? I believe strongly in free speech, but this is hate speech.
You call each other comrades. I spent a lot of time in eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union. I can promise you that most people in the world prefer capitalism over communism.
Why block people from coming in and or taking photos, why block the press and why taunt people like me trying to engage?
If you are so proud of yourselves, why hide those faces? Why mask up? I took photos this afternoon, and every single time a protestor noticed, they put their mask back on. Real protestors are proud of what they are doing and ready to face the consequences, whether getting arrested or suspended or whatever. You are not real protestors. You are sheep. You are indoctrinated to think Israel and Zionists and even Jews are evil.
You are not on the right side of history like you think you will be. No one with hate in their heart ever is.
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Israeli Warplanes Begin Pounding Rafah Like Sweetdick Pounding Fani's Wretched Snizz
—Disinformation Expert Ace
In an obvious attempt to delay this final attack on their terror stronghold, Hamas announced they were "agreeing" to a ceasefire.
Not the ceasefire deal that Israel agreed to, of course. No, they "agreed" to a ceasefire deal Israel had no part of.
Avi Mayer @AviMayerLet us all be very clear on what is happening right now:
Hamas has not agreed to any known proposal for a ceasefire.
Its announcement that it has agreed to "a ceasefire" is meaningless, an obvious ploy and delay tactic meant to prevent the imminent military operation in Rafah
Earlier, Israel dropped leaflets on Rafah instructing civilians to evacuate.
Now they've begun the bombing, in preparation for a ground (and underground) offensive.
Israeli warplanes pounded targets in Rafah, a city in southern Gaza, yesterday, as the military told about 110,000 people there to evacuate. Hours later, the political leader of Hamas, Ismail Haniyeh, said that the group had accepted a cease-fire proposal from Qatar and Egypt.The full details of the proposal were unclear, but the conflict remains unresolved. Comments by Hamas and Israeli officials made it clear that Haniyeh was not referring to the plan that Israel had recently put forward.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's office said the proposal did not meet Israel's demands. Israel's war cabinet had also decided unanimously to "continue with its action in Rafah in order to exert military pressure on Hamas," Netanyahu's office said in a statement.
Biden is, of course, trying to save Hamas' terrorist leaders their just reckoning, to placate the pro-terrorist Democrat madrassas in Michiganistan.
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MIT Abandons "DEI Statements" -- Political Loyalty Oaths to the Cult of DEI, Required to Even Get Considered for Employment
—Disinformation Expert Ace
Fascism is always descending on the right only to land with a crash on the left.
The Massachusetts Institute of Technology will no longer require prospective hires to pledge allegiance to the principles of diversity, equity and inclusion as an employment condition, becoming the first elite university in the country to do away with the controversial practice denounced by free speech advocates as a "political litmus test.""Requests for a statement on diversity will no longer be part of applications for any faculty positions at MIT," a university spokesperson told The Post in an emailed statement, noting that the decision was made by MIT president Sally Kornbluth along with the support of the provost, chancellor and all six academic deans.
"My goals are to tap into the full scope of human talent, to bring the very best to MIT, and to make sure they thrive once here," Kornbluth said. "We can build an inclusive environment in many ways, but compelled statements impinge on freedom of expression, and they don't work."
Part CV and part DEI loyalty oath, diversity statements have become common practice in higher ed in recent years, compelling faculty or research applicants to bloviate over two to three pages about their commitment to "advance excellence in diversity, inclusion, equity, and belonging as a teacher and a researcher in higher education," as Harvard describes its own diversity statement requirement.
Similar descriptions can be found on the homepage of just about any prominent school in the US as top universities scramble to loudly proclaim their commitment to the practice.
Princeton peddles its diversity statement requirement as "an opportunity for you to highlight the ways you would advance an institution's DEI work," while Columbia University furnishes job seekers with a four-page guide to help applicants "showcase your understanding and activities" around diversity and inclusion.
As one of the country's most prestigious institutes of higher learning, MIT fields job applications from some of the world's top scientific minds. But even those applying for highly specialized fields weren't spared the diversity statement requirement.
In a 2023 faculty job posting for MIT's Department of Nuclear Science and Engineering, sandwiched between a requirement for three or more reference letters and examples of published research, candidates are instructed to provide "a statement regarding their views on diversity, inclusion, and belonging, including past and current contributions as well as their vision and plans for the future in these areas."
Such practices, though now commonplace at American universities, have long been condemned by academic freedom and free speech advocates as a political exercise.
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Freedom of speech advocacy group the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression warned that diversity statement requirements "function as ideological litmus tests" which "threaten employment or advancement of opportunities for faculty who dissent from prevailing thought on DEI."
All because the media went all-in on the left's political op to turn George Floyd a referendum on Trump.
The Restaurant Industry Is Now Enjoying Bidenomics, and They're Not Enjoying It Much
—Disinformation Expert Ace
In California, restaurants and fast food chains are taking the hit from the eyepopping $20/per hour minimum wage.
Menu prices in California will rise once again when a new law goes into effect in the summer, a double-whammy after fast-food chains in the state hiked prices to help pay for the $20 minimum wage the state imposed last month.Restaurant owners in the state are warning that a new law signed by Gov. Gavin Newsom that bans "junk fees" in the state starting July 1 will force them to raise prices because it prohibits restaurant surcharges and fees.
Restaurant owners have often relied on surcharges to provide their employees benefits like health care. Some businesses would note surcharges on menus, and others would make them optional, with the decision left to the customer.
However, the new law is prompting restaurant owners to hike prices on their menus to comply with the new law.
California's attorney general confirmed to the San Francisco Chronicle this week that restaurant surcharges and fees would be illegal under the new law in a blow to the industry.
Golden Gate Restaurant Association Director Laurie Thomas told CBS News Bay Area the law will put restaurants in a tough spot with either lower wages for employees or by discouraging customers with higher prices."So, now, do you take their rate down and do you go to an old-fashioned tip model and say to your servers, 'You have to tip the whole house, but that drops everybody's salaries' or do you raise your prices 20%, 25%?" Thomas said. "It might make a lot of customers happier. They might say, 'We understand why prices went up.' Let's hope that happens. But I don't know if our industry can hope that's what happens. They're still struggling. It's been a tough year."
Unexpectedly, the restaurant sector is now downsizing. Or should I say, Bidensizing.
Starbucks announced a surprise drop in same-store sales for its latest quarter, sending its shares down 17% on Wednesday. Pizza Hut and KFC also reported shrinking same-store sales. And even stalwart McDonald's said it has adopted a "street-fighting mentality" to compete for value-minded diners.
For months, economists have been predicting that consumers would cut back on their spending in response to higher prices and interest rates. But it's taken a while for fast-food chains to see their sales actually shrink, despite several quarters of warnings to investors that low-income consumers were weakening and other diners were trading down from pricier options.
You just hate to see it happen to Google, too. Google to lay off 200 " " " workers. " " "
The NY Post:
The job cuts -- announced internally on the eve of Google's blowout first-quarter earnings report -- targeted members of Google's "core" team, which works on the "technical foundation behind the company's flagship products" as well as the online safety of users and its global IT infrastructure, according to its website.At least 50 of the roles were based at Google's headquarters in Sunnyvale, Calif. Google is expected to hire replacement workers for the roles in Mexico and India, CNBC reported, citing a review of internal documents.
"Announcements of this sort may leave many of you feeling uncertain or frustrated," Asim Husain, vice president of Google Developer Ecosystem said in an email to staffers last week announcing the cuts, according to CNBC.
But... Google's AI was such a smash success!
The American Public Has the Right to Know, "Did the President Shit Himself, and When Did He Know He Shit Himself?"
—Disinformation Expert Ace
I used to make poopies the size of Buicks, my word as a Biden.
My bowel movement was voted to the All State Bowel Movement Team, I'm not joking.
I almost went to Annapolis to join their Shit In The Pants squad on a free ride scholarship, but they had a guy there, you might have heard of him, named Roger Staubach. He could crap like a choir of angels, I'm serious, this is a fact, you can look it up.
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