Tuesday Overnight Open Thread – 05/14/2024
—Buck Throckmorton
First Pitch
For tonight’s Overnight Thread, we’ll start off with the ceremonial first pitch.
The worst “ceremonial first pitch” ever pic.twitter.com/Porl59clF2
— BaseballHistoryNut (@nut_history) May 1, 2024
Congratulations on Your Son Making This Elite Travel Baseball Team
I suppose neighborhood Little League as I once knew it is lost and gone forever, so I’ll quit fighting against travel ball. It won. But this is still very funny…
“Alright parents, listen up. Congratulations on your son making this elite travel baseball team.”
“If we win the second tournament, we get an automatic bid into the Travel Baseball National Championship, Elite Sectional, Silver Bracket…which is a qualifier for the World Series Travel Baseball, International Tournament.”
Congratulations! Your kid made the travel ball team!
— Todd Wolfson (@CoachWolfson) May 9, 2024
Great video by: @ChinookSeedery pic.twitter.com/i3iVKOFa1E
Harvard Has a Problem with Firemen
Firefighters risk their own lives to save others’ lives, but the “future leaders” at Harvard Business School vilify them for a lack of diversity. It’s good that employers are finally waking up to what is being taught at the Poison Ivy League schools, but it has been going on for a long time. This nasty smear of firemen came out of Harvard in 2018.
U.S. firefighters are overwhelmingly white and male. Here’s why that needs to changehttps://t.co/llRGS1tAYd
— Harvard Business Review (@HarvardBiz) December 18, 2018
The Real Life “Jaws” Event in New Jersey in 1916
59 years before the movie Jaws was released, there was a series of shark attacks on the Jersey Shore. One of them happened in Matawan Creek, which seemed to be an inspiration for one of the terrifying scenes in the movie Jaws.
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Tulip Abuse Cafe
—Disinformation Expert Ace
Chiba, Japan
by @saitoxdenki via #Japan_City_blues
Candid photography of a couple of bathing beauties.
HTML checker. I need one of those.
I would accept some ice cream if you gave some to me.
ICYMI: He got mixed up with a bad crowd.
This dog has ball-handling skills on par with David French. (Okay so I've used that one once or quice before.)
Chase camera view of a world-record 954 foot ski jump.
The switchback trail (on the left) on this fjord is something.
Lake Como. So it's beautiful, but unfortunately, George Clooney has a house there, and I've heard that every taxi driver will tell you "You know, George Clooney lives near here," which would really ruin the trip for me.
Little kid helps another little kid get back to his mommy.
Happy belated Mothers Day! Here are some flowers!
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Wick's Hits
—Disinformation Expert Ace
A thread recounted by Twitchy shows that the "Fednapping" plot was proposed, planned, and propagandized for by the FBI's paid agent provocateur.
So when do these FBI agents go on trial for conspiracy to commit kidnapping?
From Moron Robbie, an average guy got no replies on a dating app. He figured he just needed to post a better picture of himself. So he photoshopped himself holding an oversized jackpot lottery check -- and wouldn't you know it, women were suddenly kicking down his f***ing door down to get some play! Maybe he just had a better haircut in that picture.
Speaking of kicking the f***ing door down, Kamala Harris, who has previously supported and urged her blackshirt paramilitary allies in antifa and BLM to "not stop" their terrorism and arson campaign, now tells her jackboot supporters to take but to "kick the f***ing door down" in their unhinged support of The Great Revolutionary Cause.
She apologized for using the f-word. How about apologizing for urging your violence-prone supporters to kick in people's doors?
Prepare to be delighted by the sheer brazenness of the Biden Crime Family's corruption: A "non-profit" (note that the principles directing these grifts make HUGE profits) which settles illegal aliens in the US gets a huge $350 million contract after hiring a Biden crony.
Did I say $350 million? Sorry, I got that wrong. It's actually $530 million, more than half a billion dollars. The number was so large my subconscious self couldn't believe it and reduced it.
Axios:
A Texas nonprofit that recently hired a Biden transition official got a contract worth as much as $530 million to help manage the influx of migrant children at the southern border, Axios has learned.
AdvertisementWhy it matters: The contract is by far the largest ever awarded to Family Endeavors. It's potentially worth more than 12 times the group's most recently reported annual budget -- a sign of the demand the new work will place on its operations.
The no-bid contract also is the second largest ever awarded by the agency overseeing the migrant child program.
America is now just Burisma.
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Unbelievably -- or Perfectly Believably, Honestly -- Biden Is Attempting to Pressure Israel to Allow Hamas to Survive, So They Can Be "Partners In Peace (TM)" Together
—Disinformation Expert Ace
The Sage of Scranton has an evil, twisted, rotten brain and always has had.
The reporter at the Times of Israel first notes the "dissonance" of Biden attempting to force a quickie "wrap-up" of the Gaza campaign, while continuing to make (insincere) noises about the need for the "elimination" of Hamas.
Anonymously -- of course -- administration sources attempt to paper over this enormous gulf by saying the want Hamas not eliminated, but merely chastened, so that the Two State Solution can be put back on track.
From The Times of Israel:
"If we can get a ceasefire, we can get something more enduring and then maybe end the conflict," White House National Security Council spokesperson John Kirby said this month.
What appears less clear, though, is how pushing for this ceasefire squares with another US commitment, which is to eliminate the threat of Hamas.
"An enduring defeat of Hamas certainly remains the Israeli goal, and we share that goal with it," Kirby said last week.
The two objectives seem to clash, given that a temporary-turned-permanent deal with Hamas would ostensibly leave the terror group standing in Gaza.
The Biden administration has not directly and publicly addressed this apparent dissonance, but two US officials and two other sources familiar with the matter who spoke to The Times of Israel on condition of anonymity offered some clarity.
IDF troops operate in the Gaza City neighborhood of Zeitoun, in a handout image released May 11, 2024. (Israel Defense Forces)"The goal is for Hamas to be severely weakened when the dust settles, i.e., incapable of carrying out another attack like the one [it] launched on October 7," the first US official said, referring to the terror onslaught unleashed on southern Israel during which some 1,200 people were killed and 252 were taken hostage.
"But we have to be honest about the fact that Hamas will remain in Gaza in some form after the war is over. The past six months have proven no amount of fighting is going to change that," they added. Last week, Israeli troops raided Gaza City's Zeitoun neighborhood for the third time since the war's outbreak after Hamas fighters returned to areas previously cleared by the IDF.
Advertisement"What we are trying to do is advance a vision where Hamas would be marginalized, while Israel would be stronger through improved relations with its Arab neighbors," the official explained. "By doing that, we are able to eliminate the threat of Hamas without having to continue the war indefinitely."
"It's a years-long process, and it will require Israeli buy-in, but the alternative is a never-ending cycle of violence that the Israelis could be left alone to deal with," a second US official said, referencing the danger of waning international support.
What do you expect from a decrepit pervert who showered with his daughter as she entered puberty?
Shocker: the UN revised its "estimates" of the number of women and children killed in Hamas. It turns out they shouldn't have trusted Hamas for the real numbers.
The UN's new numbers are also preposterous, but they've cut them nearly in half.
Throughout the ongoing war unfolding in Gaza, we have been reminded of the "barbarous" actions of Israel's military, typically measured via daily updates to the number of women and children that have been killed. Unfortunately, the only group providing these figures is the Gaza Ministry of Health which is run by Hamas. That detail hasn't stopped the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) from dutifully reporting those figures without raising any questions. However, that situation appeared to change this month. The latest Health Ministry quote said that 9,500 women and 14,500 children have been killed in the fighting, with the OCHA reporting the same. But only two days later, the UN revised those numbers significantly. In fact, they nearly slashed them by half. (Fox News)In a dramatic shift, the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) has revised its data pertaining to the number of Palestinian casualties in the seven-month-old Gaza war, reducing almost by half the number of women and children it previously said were killed in the hostilities between Israel and the Iranian-backed terror group Hamas.
According to an infographic published in OCHA's daily report on May 6, the number of women killed in the fighting was said to be 9,500, while the organization, which admits to relying on figures from the Hamas-run Ministry of Health in Gaza, claimed that 14,500 children had been killed since the war began on Oct. 7.
Two days later, in its May 8 report, the U.N. agency appeared to have cut the number nearly in half, showing instead that some 4,959 women and 7,797 children had been killed so far in the war.
A spokesman for the UN was asked how the numbers had shifted so dramatically. He said that the figures are only "estimates" and that they sometimes change based on the situation on the ground in Gaza. But he also noted that the UN has recently been able to have some of their own people doing independent research inside of the Strip. Perhaps that's how the inaccuracies were uncovered.
The Foundation Defending Democracies reported:
The Gaza Ministry of Health cannot provide names of more than 10,000 of the 34,000 individuals it says have died during the war between Israel and Hamas. While the Health Ministry conceded earlier this month that it has "incomplete data" for nearly one-third of the deceased, this is the first admission that it lacks an essential data point necessary to establish these deaths have even taken place...
Psst: they didn't.
Hamas' official figures include almost no deaths of terrorists (or "fighters," as they prefer to call them). They just claim that every dead man is a "child" or a "woman."
We've all seen the "child migrants" attending schools in Europe, their five-o-clock shadows slightly grayed...
After claiming all dead men are actually "children" and "women" (muh pronouns), they then multiply the actual casualty counts by a factor of five or eight or ten.
I missed this yesterday: The Biden Administration is attempting to bribe (coerce?) Israel into allowing Biden's pals in Hamas to escape retribution by promising that they'll provide intelligence about Hamas' tunnels and hideouts, as well as about the hideouts of Hamas' terror masters, if they promise not to enter Rafah.
This means that, currently, Biden is withholding information about terrorist bases and boltholes from an ally.
Time to impeach?
barry Tigay @TigayBarryUS said offering intel on Hamas leaders' whereabouts if Israel drops major Rafah op.
If true, this means that the US is withholding or threatening to withhold intelligence that could destroy Hamas, save lives and end the war. Disgusting.
David Strom:
Uh, what? Why haven't we been giving Israel this information freely already? Whose side are we on?
We're on the terrorists' side, because Joe Biden wants to win the pro-terrorist Newcomers of Michiganistan.
Oh, right. Joe Biden is president, which always means the US is doing the wrong thing.
The Biden administration has reportedly offered to give Israel "sensitive intelligence" on the whereabouts of senior Hamas leaders if it agrees to hold off on a long-promised major military operation in Gaza's southernmost city of Rafah.
The Washington Post quoted four unnamed sources as saying that the United States "is offering Israel valuable assistance if it holds back, including sensitive intelligence to help the Israeli military pinpoint the location of Hamas leaders and find the group's hidden tunnels."
The Post's story focuses mainly on the efforts to convince Israel to build a tent city for civilians in Rafah to evacuate to before Israel commits its military to destroying Hamas in the city...
But the real news in the story is that the carrot the US is using to induce Israel to bend to our will is access to intelligence on the location of Hamas tunnels and leaders.
The Biden administration, working urgently to stave off a full-scale Israeli invasion of Rafah, is offering Israel valuable assistance in an effort to persuade it to hold back, including sensitive intelligence to help the Israeli military pinpoint the location of Hamas leaders and find the group's hidden tunnels, according to four people familiar with the U.S. offers.
American officials have also offered to help provide thousands of shelters so Israel can build tent cities -- and to help with the construction of delivery systems for food, water and medicine -- so that Palestinians evacuated from Rafah can have a habitable place to live, said the officials, speaking on the condition of anonymity to disclose secret diplomatic talks.
It is possible, although no better, that the US has been supplying what intelligence we have up to now and that the "offers" here are actually threats to withhold information unless Israel compliss. The US officials who spoke to the Post did say the US has been providing intel throughout the war.
Israel says they're fighting Biden's Allies anyway, and killing terrorists.
Israel Defense Forces (IDF) have deepened their offensive in Rafah and re-entered northern areas of Gaza, following intelligence that Hamas was reorganizing in the area. The IDF has reportedly destroyed significant amounts of underground infrastructure and eliminated several Hamas terrorists.Key Details:
The IDF dropped leaflets over Jabalya in northern Gaza, warning civilians to evacuate and warning Hamas leadership, "We will return like a roaring flood until the clear victory."
The IDF's 98th Division launched an operation in the Jabalya area due to intelligence about Hamas reorganizing in the area.
Israeli forces have reportedly destroyed large amounts of underground infrastructure and eliminated several Hamas terrorists.
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No Way! MIT Just Hired Six Deans of DEI. (SIX!!!)
According to a Report, Two of Them Are Serial Plagiarists
—Disinformation Expert Ace
My world is spinning. I'm in a cyclone of confusion and I just don't think I can trust anymore.
DEI sure attracts some genuine fuckin' scholars, don't it?
It's almost as if the entire "academic field" was invented to give semi-literate morons who barely earned a HS diploma an easy-peasy way to collect a fake-ass degree and land Didn't Earn It jobs.
In June 2021, a year into the cultural aftershocks of George Floyd's death, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology set out to meet the moment, as so many other schools had, by hiring more diversity officers.
MIT welcomed six new deans of diversity, equity, and inclusion, one for each of the institute's main schools, as part of a "DEI Strategic Action Plan" launched the previous year. Aimed at boosting the representation of women and minorities, in part by developing DEI criteria for staff performance reviews, the plan pledged to "make equity central" to the university "while ensuring the highest standards of excellence."But according to a 71-page complaint filed with the university on Saturday, at least two of the six DEI officials may not be living up to those standards. The complaint alleges that Tracie Jones-Barrett and Alana Anderson are serial plagiarists, copying entire pages of text without attribution and riding roughshod over MIT's academic integrity policies.
In her 2023 dissertation titled "Cite a Sista"...
We're off to an uhhhhmazing start right here.
... which explored how black women in the Ivy League "make meaning of thriving," Jones-Barrett, MIT's deputy "equity officer," lifts a whole section on "ethical considerations" from Emmitt Wyche III, her classmate in Northeastern University's Graduate School of Education, without any sort of citation.
"Make meaning of thriving?" Is this an academic field or Oprah Winfrey's Favorite Things?
Norman MacDonald speaks for me on this.
The section is one of several long passages taken from Wyche's 2020 thesis, "Boyz in the Hoods: (Re) Defining the Narratives of Black Male Doctoral Degree Completers," which does not appear in Jones-Barrett's bibliography. Wyche and Jones-Barrett did not respond to requests for comment.
"Boyz In the Hoods"? Can these DEI grifters write a single paper without screaming, "grade me on the curve, because I'm black, y'all!
And a lot of DEI "graduates" have been running the same scam since their college entrance exam, in which they blew off the actual question proposed for discussion to instead write about their experiences with oppression.
Anderson, who served as the diversity czar for MIT's computer science college until last year, when she left to become Boston Beer Company's inclusion and belonging program manager, likewise copied copious material from other scholars. Her 2017 dissertation, "#BLACKONCAMPUS: A Critical Examination of Racial and Gender Performances of Black College Women on Social Media," lifts over a page of material from Mark Chae, a professor of counseling at Pillar College, who is not cited anywhere in her dissertation."It would have been nice to at least get a citation!" Chae told the Washington Free Beacon in an email. "Anderson seems quite comfortable in taking credit for large portions of another writer's scholarly work."
Anderson, who held DEI posts at Boston University and Babson College before coming to MIT, lifts another long passage from Jarvis Givens, a professor at the Harvard Graduate School of Education, without an in-text citation. The omissions appear to violate MIT's plagiarism policy, which states that scholars must cite their sources any time they "use the words, ideas, or phrasing of another person."
MIT did not respond to multiple requests for comment.
In total, the two diversity deans lifted about 10 full pages of material without attribution, according to the complaint, as well as dozens of shorter passages sprinkled throughout their theses.
Like former Harvard University president Claudine Gay, who resigned in January amid her own plagiarism scandal, Anderson even stole language from another scholar's acknowledgments, copying phrases and sentences used by Khalilah Shabazz, now a diversity official at Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis, to thank her dissertation advisers.
Anderson's acknowledgments contain several typos not seen in Shabbaz's, including missing words and commas and a lack of subject-verb agreement.
Givens and Shabbaz did not respond to requests for comment. Anderson, who received her Ph.D. from Boston College's school of education, did not respond to a request for comment. Boston Beer Company did not respond to a request for comment.
Andrerson even copied a dust-jacket blurb from another "DEI Scholar's" book.
Like many of the authors plagiarized by Gay, Wilder defended Anderson's decision to copy his work, writing in an email that he didn't think a citation was necessary."I cannot imagine why anyone would cite a dust jacket, nor do I see the urgency of criminalizing the failure to do so," Wilder told the Free Beacon. "I'm honored," he added, when other scholars "find inspiration from my publications."
I think what it shows is that she didn't really read the book, just skimmed the dust jacket.
Quick, let's give her the Nobel Prize for Outstanding Achievement In Laziness.
Is there some good news on the way?
The board of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill just voted, unanimously, to slash $2.3 million from the school's DEI budget -- and give it all to the police.
The campus police, I mean. Apparently, the pro-Hamas protests were the last straw that told them they needed to spend more on maintaining order and less on sinecures for revolutionaries.
Please let this be a harbinger of the End of Days of DEI.
Today the UNC-Chapel Hill Board of Trustees cut DEI spending by more than $2 million and transferred the money to the campus police.[NBC "News":] The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Board of Trustees approved a change that would divert $2.3 million of diversity funding to go toward public safety and policing at a special meeting to address the university's budget. The board's vote would only impact UNC-Chapel Hill's diversity funding, which could result in the loss of its diversity office.The vote to shift more funding to public safety comes as continued pro-Palestinian protests on UNC's campus have resulted in several arrests in recent weeks. The budget committee vice-chair Marty Kotis said law enforcement has already been forced to react to protests, but they need more funding to keep the university "safe from a larger threat."
"It's important to consider the needs of all 30,000 students, not just the 100 or so that may want to disrupt the university's operations," Kotis said. "It takes away resources for others."
The board said this move had been under discussion even before the campus protests which popped up over the past couple weeks. Still, it sounds like the protests were the last straw.
[WUNC:]Many members specifically mentioned recent pro-Palestinian demonstrations on campus. Last month, police detained more than 30 people at an encampment where protesters removed the U.S. flag and replaced it with a Palestinian one.
"When you destroy property or you take down the U.S flag and you have to put up gates around it -- that costs money," Kotis said. "It's imperative that we have the proper resources for law enforcement to protect the campus."
He's referring of course to this moment when a group of students refused to let the protesters take down the US flag.
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Doddering Old Dementia Patient Insists That All the Polls Showing Him Losing to Trump Are Twisted and Skewed
—Disinformation Expert Ace
OUT: Trust the Science
IN: Math is a lie told by the Devil
They just sent the Toricelli Option to the bullpen to warm up.
President Joe Biden genuinely believes his abysmal polling numbers don't reflect his actual support ahead of the 2024 election, an Axios report this week indicates.Axios reported Tuesday that Biden and many of his closest advisers have privately insisted that the president is gaining ground--and even has the advantage--on former president Donald Trump in their rematch.
This insistence goes beyond efforts to save face, sources told the outlet, as many Democrats have attempted without avail to persuade Biden to alter his campaign strategy.
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Biden has repeatedly cast doubt on the validity of polls that show him behind. At a campaign reception in California on Friday, he said, "I ... don't think the polls mean anything today," but that "the momentum is clearly in our favor."
In a CNN interview last week where he said he was pausing weapon shipments to Israel, he also insisted "the polling data has been wrong all along."
You know this talking point is important to Biden because he asked his shill Joe Scarborough to lie about it outrageously on MSNBC.
Joe Scarborough claims -- I'm not joking; my word as a Disinformation Expert -- that the New York Times poll has been "consistently slanted" against Biden and in favor of Trump.
Joe Scarborough is just a murderer (of the truth, I mean).
The Biden campaign highlighted these comments from MSNBC's Joe Scarborough on Monday morning where he says the New York Times/Siena poll always slants in favor of Donald Trump."I love the Times," Scarborough said. "But the New York Times/Siena poll traditionally, has consistently slanted toward Donald Trump. What's so funny is the Times will release their poll, the political and media class will run around with their hair on fire for about a month, and then three days later polls will come out and show a deadlocked race."
Preposterous video at the link.
You know, if Biden intends to steal the election again -- and he does -- he would first have to establish a plausible deniability about the outcome of the race. He would have to put out the word that the polls are lying and that he's really ahead in Wisconsin -- so that when they start stuffing ballot boxes and again reaching 130% voter participation, they can say, "Well, as we have long said, the polls were wrong. Not only were we right, but we just won the election."
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Daily Caller: Former Vivek Ramaswamy Aide Is Using Conservative Influencers to Spread Pro-RFKJr. Propaganda
—Disinformation Expert Ace
Note that most of the people who spread some of this propaganda deny they were paid. They say they were just retweeting something an acquaintance asked them to retweet, without knowing it was part of a greater, organized propaganda effort.
Eh. Just assume everyone is getting paid and is specifically being paid to screw you over.
A former communications staffer for Vivek Ramaswamy's 2024 presidential campaign has been trying to leverage pro-Trump and conservative figures to boost content in favor of Robert F. Kennedy Jr., who is running against former President Donald Trump and President Joe Biden for the White House, according to a leaked pitch deck obtained exclusively by the Daily Caller.Zach Henry, who worked as the Deputy Communications Director for Ramaswamy's campaign, has since started his own firm, Total Virality, and is taking money from the Kennedy campaign. According to FEC reports, RFK Jr.'s campaign paid Total Virality nearly $8,000 in March for "influencer engagement."
The pitch deck obtained by the Daily Caller shows that Henry was touting his work with RFK alongside screenshots of prominent conservative twitter users.
"RFK's team contracted Total Virality to help boost his SOTU video. The original agreed upon goal was 4M views (this would have made it the third-highest viewed video ever posted by RFK on the platform)," slide three of the deck says. "We delivered 6M views in the first 24 hours leveraging a custom list of influencers -- many of whom were already in our network as well as others we added specifically to this project. It is now RFK's most-viewed video ever on X."
The same slide includes screenshots of various prominent Twitter users sharing Kennedy's State of the Union response video, including avowed Trump supporters and other conservative figures like Scott Adams, Alex Jones, Oli London, Ian Miles Cheong and Joey Mannarino, among others.
Again, note that these people deny they were paid to carry water for RFKJr.
Nancy Pelosi Is Embarrassed at Oxford Debate
—Disinformation Expert Ace
The guy speaking is Winston Marshall. If that sounds vaguely familiar, he's the musician who was forced out of the semi-popular band Mumford and Sons for saying something incredibly inoffensive like -- IIRC -- that Jordan Peterson wasn't all bad.
Something like that. Something like "we should read books before banning them" or something incendiary like that.
Update: Mark1971 reminds me of the reason for the cancellation -- he tweeted something vaguely and weakly positive about Andy Ngo's book about the terrorist organization antifa.
Our elites have decided that they will no longer pretend there's any distance between them and their protected and paid street terror paramilitaries. They've decided it's illegal to criticize their blackshirts.
That got him cancelled and thrown out of an industry.
Below, the part of his summation in which he points out that the left keeps saying Trump rejected the outcome of the election, but Nancy Pelosi herself claimed the 2016 election was "hijacked."
She interrupts him, rudely, and says "It was."
After humiliating her, he read a series of shrieking headlines from the faux elites of the leftwing Democrat Media claiming that Democracy Has Failed Us! because Trump won in 2016.
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Shock: Corrupt Partisan "Judge" Merchan's Democrat Operative Daughter Worked on the Campaign to Get Trump Kicked Off the Colorado Ballot
—Disinformation Expert Ace
This judge has allowed a ton of unduly prejudicial "prior bad acts" falsified testimony from Sloppy Daniels, and allowed the prosecution to proffer "Choose Your Own Adventure" charges against Trump, with three different and contradictory legal theories. The judge said, that's fine.
But he's not biased.
It's just that his daughter is making bank working to get Trump kicked off of every ballot and prosecuted for non-crimes.
Dem operative daughter of NYC judge in Trump trial aided effort to kick Trump off Colorado ballot: reportThe Brennan Center for Justice filed an amicus brief in support of the Supreme Court rejecting Trump's appeal of the Colorado Supreme Court's decision to remove him from the ballot.
Authentic Campaigns, the digital marketing and fundraising agency run by the daughter of the judge overseeing the falsified business records case against Trump, has been revealed to have worked with a group that has sought to take Trump off the ballot.Loren Merchan's company worked with the Brennan Center for Justice, highlighted on the company's "Our Work" page. The Brennan Center for Justice filed an amicus brief in support of the Supreme Court rejecting Trump's appeal of the Colorado Supreme Court's decision to remove him from the ballot, Natalie Winters reported for War Room.
"The brief urges the Court to reject Trump's attempts to revive the independent state legislature theory on appeal," the Brennan Center wrote. The push to remove Trump ultimately failed in the high court, with the justices ruling 9-0 in favor of keeping him on the ballot.
The center is still listed as an active client, with Authentic Campaigns appearing to have worked with the center since at least 2023. Authentic Campaigns said it has "boosted the organization's newsletter subscribers by 300K new names, a 204% increase" and "seamlessly integrated diverse platforms and mediums to expand the Brennan Center's reach."
More at the article. His daughter, I'm sure, gets a cut of every dollar donated to the prosecute Trump campaigns. No one works for these grifter organizations to remain poor.
Mechan claims this doesn't technically required him to recuse himself, as the law only specifies that a spouse with an interest in a case is disqualifying. This is his daughter, so it's obviously completely different.
Given the intense partisan interest in the case and the huge political implications of the trial, any actually non-conflicted judge would, in these circumstances, recuse himself simply to avoid the appearance of conflict.
Instead, Mechan fights like hell to remain the judge on the case, whereas a man who really had no personal interest in the case would simply recuse himself so that the trial would have no taint.
That's extremely suspicious. Tainting a case with the stench of corruption is only worth it if you're going to profit from it.
Kickbacks -- they're not just for Fani Willis!
CNN: Polls Show Americans Don't Care About the Left's Lawfare Campaign Against Trump
—Disinformation Expert Ace
They don't have a Plan B. This is what they've got. This is it. This is the only thing they have in the cupboard.
And it's crapping out.
CNN chief national affairs correspondent Jeff Zeleny reports that swing-state voters are showing disdain and fatigue over the ongoing Trump trial, amidst polling data that shows Trump leading Biden in six key states.
Jeff Zeleny revealed that swing-state voters he interviewed feel "disgusted" and "tired" of the Trump trial, suggesting minimal political fallout against Trump so far.Recent New York Times/Siena College polling indicates Trump is leading Biden in swing states like Nevada, Georgia, and Arizona, with significant margins.
Voters are more concerned with economic issues rather than the trial, with inflation noted as a critical issue affecting voter sentiment.
In a recent commentary, CNN's Jeff Zeleny highlighted a significant disconnect between the media coverage of Donald Trump's ongoing trial and the concerns of voters in battleground states. According to Zeleny, despite exhaustive media focus, the trial has not resonated as a critical issue among these voters. Instead, economic issues, particularly inflation, are at the forefront of voters' concerns as they assess their choices for the upcoming election.
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The polling also reveals a surprising shift in demographic support, with Trump making gains among Black and Hispanic voters, groups traditionally seen as Democratic strongholds. Biden's lead among these voters has diminished compared to previous elections, further complicating the electoral landscape for Democrats.
Zeleny notes that while the trial garners considerable media attention, the actual impact on voter decision-making may be limited. He suggests that unless the economic concerns are addressed effectively, the trial itself will likely remain a peripheral issue for many voters, overshadowed by more immediate personal and financial impacts.
Video at the link.
I know the public tunes out of the partisan outrage sort of political discourse because we on the right could never get the public very interested in Benghazi. I think the public tends to discount these scandals on the theory that "both sides do it" and both sides exaggerate this stuff.
I think it's similar to when unions and management try to get the public on their side about a labor dispute -- the public says, "I don't care, work it out yourselves, stop trying to involve me."
All the Democrats have offered the public for years and years now is partisan outrage crap -- stuff that Jake Tapper and his fellow hyperpartisans care about intensely, but which everyone else thinks is both a nothingburger and a cheap manipulation by partisan agitators like Tapper.
When the public asks about the economy, Tapper and his fellow Democrats shriek: "But Muh Democracy!"
When the public asks about out-of-control violence and mayhem, Tapper and his fellow Democrats scream, "But Sloppy Daniels!"
When the public asks about the wide-open border and Americans killed by "newcomers," Tapper and his fellow Democrats cry "But his Twitter!!!"
Every time the public asks about a real issue with a tangible impact on their lives, Tapper and his fellow Democrats shovel progressive outrage-bait slop at their faces.
The Morning Rant: Minimalist Edition
—CBD
After arch-racist and KKK supporter Woodrow Wilson ("Segregation is not humiliating, but a benefit...") segregated much of America's government, including some of the armed forces, it took decades to repair the damage. But our military has been conspicuously integrated for many years, and there is a legitimate argument to be made that it is the most colorblind part of our society. The aphorism "There are no atheists in foxholes" can be easily changed to "There are no racists in foxholes."
But not any more!
President Joe Biden's Department of Veterans Affairs is offering race-based training programs and workshops that exclude white veterans—programs that one legal expert says are "of dubious constitutionality and legality."The programs are taking place in at least four states, a Washington Free Beacon review of online offerings found.
In Battle Creek, Mich., for example, the VA offers a "BIPOC Support Group," an "8-week curriculum designed to provide support for Veterans that identify as people of color/BIPOC, or as multiracial or biracial," according to a program description. The Battle Creek VA also offers a "Race-Based Stress/Trauma and Empowerment" program, a "weekly group, tailored to our Veterans of color, to address race-based stress and trauma in a safe and validating environment."
It's the same drum they have been beating for generations...the politics of victim-hood! No longer does the concept of equality of opportunity exist in our federal government. In fact, equality itself is being carefully rejected as an antiquated and destructive ideal.
That quaint and anachronistic Declaration Of Independence is no longer the governing document of our desires as a people...as a culture...as a country.
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.
The savage, humanity-destroying principles of the left demand that Man must be beaten down into his* constituent parts: his race; his religion; his class; his sex. Only then can he be rebuilt as the New
So while we build a country filled with drones, dedicated only to themselves as a pressure group or government charity recipient, our borders are being overrun with a far more focused political philosophy; one that is dedicated to our destruction.
* Oh dear! I have violated the sacred pronoun rules!
[Crossposted at CutJibNewsletter]
The Morning Report — 5/14/24
—J.J. Sefton
Good morning, kids. There's cluelessness and then there's cluelessness. Sometimes I guess it's just a way of coping; trying to process the events in front of one's own eyes while preserving one's sanity and worldview. And then there's just having one's head shoved so far up their alimentary canal they can see light from their own nostrils.
Michael Cohen apparently wants a reality show but, if his testimony Monday is any indication, reality is about to sink in for not just Cohen but the prosecutors and the court. In stoking interest in his own appearance, the former Trump counsel promised the public that they should be “prepared to be surprised.” Thus far, however, Cohen has offered nothing new and, more importantly, nothing to make the case for Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg. . .. . . With the prosecution’s case almost over, Bragg needed Cohen to clearly state that Trump intentionally committed fraud to conceal some still poorly defined crime. The problem is that Cohen only confirmed that Trump knew he was going to pay for the nondisclosure agreement and that it would be buried before the election. None of that is unlawful.
On his reality show promo, Cohen tells viewers that he is now there to fix their problems because “the little guy doesn’t usually have access to people with my particular set of skills. ”Those skills seem to have escaped all of the witnesses who were compelled to work with him. Witnesses detailed how Cohen was ridiculed as someone “prone to exaggeration” and unprofessional. . .
. . . Absent a sudden epiphany in his final testimony on Tuesday, Merchan should rule in favor of a directed verdict — that is, throwing the case out before it goes to a jury. If he instead sends this farcical case to the jury, it is Merchan, not Cohen, who may have a better claim to a reality show as the ultimate “Fix It Man.”
I will give Turley credit for that last paragraph. He is a brilliant legal scholar but sadly he, like Alan Dershowitz and others, still believe we are living in a country where, flawed as our legal system was, is still the best/fairest that the world has ever seen and justice will prevail.
The sad truth of the matter is if that were still the case, this pornographic farce of banana-republicanism would never have happened in the first place. Ditto the other show trials Trump is facing. Does Turley actually believe that a NYC jury is going to acquit Trump or that Merchan, whose fangs dripping with nitric acid have been bared against Trump from the get-go is going to throw this case out?
Meh, why should I hammer away at a decent guy like Turley? He's merely trying not to have a complete breakdown by realizing the profession and cause he devoted his entire life to is now a farce. In a mirror universe way, it's why Merchan and all the others are going all out to destroy Trump and by extension all of us. They are true believers in every sense of the word that what they are doing is absolutely justified to save "our precious democracy."
For them to actually follow the very same law in the same way that Turley has tried all his life would create an equal if not opposite crisis of conscience that Turley faces by letting the scales fall from his eyes. It'd be a fascinating Beale vs Loki situation were it not for the fact that it has such dire and direct consequences on every one of us.
In the "having one's head shoved so far up their alimentary canal they can see light from their own nostrils" category, we have another entry from the floundering ship that is The American Conservative these days:
My conundrum begins with the base concept that there is no such thing as hate speech according to the First Amendment. I believe something very different than the encampment protesters at Columbia. But I believe in defending their right to protest legally just as much. Makes for some uncomfortable times, but it’s the thought that counts.There are no laws against “hate speech.” Some people have developed an alternate understanding of free speech, with students in particular believing “offensive” speech should not be protected, particularly when the offense is directed at groups defined by race, religion, ethnicity, gender, or sexual orientation. But the 1A says a speaker can call people names and insult them by their religion. What many people think and say is hateful. It is in fact carefully thought out to inspire hate, to promote hate, to appeal to crude and base instincts. Indeed, that is the point. Free speech means just that, with any limited restrictions content-neutral. So there’s nothing in the law per se preventing people from holding and/or shouting anti-Semitic views.\
(BONUS: Much of what follows applies to Donald Trump’s own statements to the mob on January 6. His so-called inflammatory statements that morning are protected by much of the same law as the Gaza encampment people. It should make a college age ACLU donor proud to know her $25 contribution with Mom’s credit card helps the Gaza encampment people, Israel supporters, and Trump all at once.) . . .
. . . Universities like Columbia, which accept pubic funds, are avoiding the 1A by claiming their protesting students are trespassing or violating school Codes of Ethics that specify time, place, and manner of protests. Whether the latter would stand up in court is an open question.
There is no legal or other justification for banning speech based on who it may offend or threaten; in fact, quite the opposite. Wendell Holmes declared a “marketplace of ideas”—all ideas, not just popular ones. Free speech is messy as hell, but it is our essential defense against fascism, whether from the left or the right.
Even in the week before finals.
Bravo, Peter Van Buren, for a fairly rational, cogent, point by point argument. And bonus points for your nice "bonus" shot at Trump, despite the fact what you said about his "inciting" the J-6 crowd, and even the nature of that crowd, is complete bullshit. But seriously, given everything we know about cancel culture and our own government colluding with media to actively silence all voices of opposition and prosecute parents at school board meetings among many other things, do you really expect us to believe that you believe we have a level playing field where all opinions are welcome? Give me a fucking break. The title of the above quoted drivel, "Free Speech Still Applies at Universities" is the giveaway.
As a palate cleanser, there's no one better than Daniel Greenfield:
After weeks in which college students at campuses from Columbia to Harvard to UCLA celebrated murders and rapes, waved the flags of Islamic terrorist organizations and assaulted Jewish people, one student has finally been held accountable.The student, a frat brother at University of Mississippi, was a counterprotester who allegedly mocked a pro-terror student as “Lizzo” and made sounds some thought resembled a monkey.
While no amount of calls for the destruction of America or assaults on Jewish students led to any outrage in the media or actual consequences (including Khymani James, a leader of the Columbia University encampment who talked to university officials about killing Jews), the incident at a decidedly non-Ivy school has actually generated outrage and consequences.
Knocking a Jewish female UCLA student unconscious didn’t do it. Barring Jewish students from being able to go to their classes didn’t do it. Assaulting staff members and faculty at universities didn’t do it. But call a fat black female activist Lizzo” and it’s an instant nationwide outrage. . .
. . . No university would tolerate a KKK rally on its premises. When racists marched at the University of Virginia, it was a national outrage, but when UVA recently cleared an encampment of Hamas supporters, the president felt the need to offer multiple apologies to the terrorist supporters. The terrorist rallies are not protected because of free speech, but because the Left backs them.
Even while defending the Hamas encampments, universities and the media have taken every opportunity to criminalize and punish opponents and counter-protesters. Whether it was assistant professor Shai Davidai being banned from the Columbia campus, Yale spending a year investigating Evan Morris, a Jewish engineering professor, for signing a letter condemning campus antisemitism, or blaming UCLA Jewish counterprotesters for fighting back against violent assaults by Hamas supporters or the Ole Miss incident, there’s a consistent pattern of harassing, penalizing and demonizing anyone who gets in the way of the Hamas supporters.
That’s not free speech either. . .
. . . Now the unfortunate former frat brother at ‘Ole Miss’ is the latest national villain because it allows the media to distort the conflict between Jewish students and Hamas supporters in the Ivies into a more familiar story about a showdown between Southern racists and black people. While the story of the frat brother was covered by every major national media outlet, the story of Eleanor Saghian, a Jewish UCLA student who was knocked unconscious, only appeared on FOX News. Milagro Jones, a formerly homeless non-Jewish UCLA student who was mistakenly assaulted by Hamas supporters, was likewise only able to tell his story to FOX News.
The perpetrators of the assaults have not been suspended or expelled from campus. If Hamas supporters violently assault students, the national media will boycott the story, but if a counterprotester insults a Hamas supporter, the media will make sure it’s front page news.
Jews — who are “tyrannical” and the “brothers of apes and pigs” — should be “annihilate[d],” according to a Florida Islamic cleric, who also accused Israel’s army of being “worse than the Nazis.”During a sermon at the North Miami Islamic Center in Florida in late April, Imam Dr. Fadi Kablawi called for Allah to support “our oppressed brothers” in Palestine, as well as for the total annihilation of Jews, whom he referred to as “apes and pigs” — a phrase that radical Islamists have historically used to describe Jews.
“Oh Allah, annihilate the tyrannical Jews… for they are no match for You,” he said. “Oh Allah, annihilate the brothers of apes and pigs… [and] cut off their seed.”
. . . “[Israel’s army] is the most immoral army… they are worse than Nazis,” he claimed, adding that he “apologized to the Nazis last week because these people have been proven to be worse than the Nazis.”
“They steal the skin of the Palestinians. It is not enough that they stole their land; now they steal their skin,” he added, claiming that organs are “missing from children [and] from adults.”
Kablawi, who called for Allah to “show us the black days that you inflict upon the Jews” just weeks after the October 7 massacre, then suggested identifying just “who is behind organ trading” both in the United States and around the world, reviving conspiracy theories alleging that Israeli rescue and medical teams sent to Haiti after the devastating 2010 earthquake participated in organ trafficking.
Kablawi. No doubt named after that most stylish of Muslim sartorial perfections that goes Ka-bloo-ee in Israeli pizzerias, London tube stations, German nightclubs and US Marine barracks, right? Funny how Jews are worse than Nazis who managed to annihilate two thirds of Europe's Jews, and who Hamas has emulated since forever in trying to achieve the same not just in Israel but all over the world. Which is funny given their constant yammering that the Holocaust was a myth. Also, referring to him as a "radical Islamist" is a redundancy given the nature of Islam itself. He's a Muslim. Period.
Is this protected speech Mr. Van Buren? Well, okay. But I double dog dare you or anyone else to set up a sound truck and blast "Hava Nagila" in front of his mosque or set up a barbecue and do a pork roast during Ramadan and see what happens.
You'll be indicted by Alvin Bragg 34 times. One for each piece of your desecrated body they can find after scraping up the rest of you from the pavement.
Meh. At some point, when sharia rules from "the river to the sea" – that is from the Hudson to the Pacific – this conversation will be moot. Or impossible due to our tongues having been cut out.
- ABOVE THE FOLD, BREAKING, NOTEWORTHY
- Sohrab Ahmari: "America’s worst epidemic is an addiction to cheap and vulnerable labor. It brings together unlikely bedfellows like the farm-and-ranch lobby and open-borders progressives in the White House and beyond. Curing the addiction will require a similar pro-worker alliance across partisan and regional lines."
An Epidemic of Exploitation
- Did illegal border crossers from the Middle East just try to attack a U.S. military base? Many more questions deserve answers too. But the federal government has gone mum."
An Illegal Border Crosser – Probably Jordanian – Tried to Force His way Onto a US Marine Base — Why Isn't This a Bigger Story? (Because Biden is sinking fast 6 months before the election? - jjs)
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Daily Tech News 14 May 2024
—Pixy Misa
Top Story- Dell spilled all the beans, leaking details of the next four generations of Intel's laptop CPUs and some future Nvidia GPUs as well. (Tom's Hardware)
They're pretty boring beans, but Dell spilled them anyway.
- Dell also spilled Qualcomm's beans, including wholesale pricing. (Tom's Hardware)
The upcoming X Elite Arm-based CPUs will have similar performance to Intel's current laptop chips, use half the power, and even better, cost half as much.
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Overnight Open Thread [05/13/2024]
—CBD
What? A CBD ONT? Yeah...Misanthropic Humanitarian is shopping for messenger bags and Crocs, and doesn't have the time to phone it in!
Luckily...I have the time to phone it in, so have at it, you Morons!
The less talent they have, the more pride, vanity and arrogance they have. All these fools, however, find other fools who applaud them.-- Erasmus
Words are wise men's counters, they do but reckon with them, but they are the money of fools.-- Thomas Hobbes
Tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow,-- William Shakespeare
Creeps in this petty pace from day to day,
To the last syllable of recorded time;
And all our yesterdays have lighted fools
The way to dusty death. Out, out, brief candle!
Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player,
That struts and frets his hour upon the stage,
And then is heard no more. It is a tale
Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury,
Signifying nothing.
Man is no angel. He is sometimes more of a hypocrite and sometimes less, and then fools say that he has or has not principles.-- Honoré de Balzac
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Dog Park Cafe
—Disinformation Expert Ace
"I didn't do it"
from bloodhound.is.my.life on Instagram
Kitten tries catching sunbeams.
Raccoon attacks little girl, but Savage Mom is there to grab the little bastard and yeet him across the lawn.
Eerie northern lights display.
If I get another dog I'm definitely getting him an automatic ball thrower.
Sound on: Dog's got some speed.
Doggo loves his stuffed animals.
Parenting is hard, even for pandas.
Awesome water gun. I really like the sci-fi design.
Husky wanders off and joins a pack of bears.
A slide-for-life over a glacial chasm.
What's worse than bedhead? Hibernation hair.
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Shock: Habitual Liar Jen Psaki Habitually Lied In Her New Book (Which Blasts "Misinformation," BTW);
She Claims Gold Star Family Members Lied When They Said Biden Kept Checking His Watch at the Dignified Remains Transfer Ceremony
—Disinformation Expert Ace
Oh, what an absolutely delightful!
She bakes cookies for the reporters! Oh, what a sweetie!
Former White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki has a new book out and, unfortunately for her, it is already in need of a correction. Ironically, Psaki chose a story about Joe Biden looking at this watch during a ceremony for US soldiers killed in Afghanistan as an example of media misinformation. But it turns out her book is the actual misinformation and it will need to be corrected. AdvertisementThe backstory here is the disastrous withdrawal from Afghanistan which resulted in 13 dead soldiers. In August of 2021, Biden attended a "dignified transfer" ceremony at Dover Air Force Base where the bodies of the soldiers were taken off a plane in coffins draped in the American flag. But for some reason, President Biden kept checking his watch during the ceremony, making it look like he had more important places to be. Now, Psaki is claiming that never happened.
Driving the news: In her new book "Say More," Psaki writes that "the president looked at his watch only after the ceremony had ended. Moments later, he and the First Lady headed toward their car."Psaki, now a star anchor at MSNBC who has described herself as a journalist, writes that Biden's critics were engaged in "misinformation" and used the image to make "him appear insensitive, concerned only about how much time had passed."
There were indeed claims that Biden had only checked his watch after the ceremony but fact-checks at the time found that wasn't true.
Associated Press photos taken 10 minutes apart show Biden checking his watch during the ceremony. Another photo from the Agence France-Presse, distributed by Getty Images, also shows Biden glancing at his watch, although it's unclear what time the image was taken...Biden did check his watch at least three times, according to photos and video reviewed by USA TODAY. Several family members of fallen service members who attended the ceremony have criticized Biden for checking his watch.
She is indirectly defaming the Gold Star Families who spoke about Biden's watch-checking as liars, and they've informed this rottencrotch bitch that she should lawyer up.
Mark Schmitz, whose son Jared was one of the 13 American service members killed in Afghanistan on August 26th, 2021, told Townhall that Psaki "will be hearing from our attorney, [and] so will her publisher...to the fullest extent of the law," adding that "what she wrote was absolutely disgusting and clearly only for political and financial gain at the expense of grieving Gold Star families."According to Axios's Alex Thompson, who had the misfortune of reading at least parts of her book, Psaki falsely claimed that it was "misinformation" for the Gold Star families and their supporters to claim that Biden checked his watch as their loved ones' remains returned to American soil.
"The president looked at his watch only after the ceremony had ended. Moments later, he and the First Lady headed toward their car," Psaki falsely claimed. She, of course, was not on the tarmac -- and the Gold Star families who were held nothing back in the aftermath of her book release.
"Her useless a** wasn't even there. We were," Schmitz added of the incident when Biden had "half the families rushing across the tarmac to pound the s**t out of him." It's particularly cruel for Psaki "to publish this right before Mother's Day," Schmitz said.
Without confessing her error, Psaki says the book's next printing will delete any mention of how many times Biden checked his watch.
The Gold Star Families say: That's not enough. You'll be hearing from our attorneys.
Following Thompson's story, Psaki caved to reality and said that the "detail in a few lines of the book about the exact number of times he looked at his watch will be removed in future reprints and the ebook." Importantly, however, she knew prior to the article's publication that she lied -- and presumably had no plans to correct the record -- until she was lit up for it. Congressman Derrick Van Orden (R-WI), himself a former Navy SEAL, called her "Madam Goebbels" for her shameless lying.For Darin Hoover, the Gold Star father of Taylor Hoover, those changes are insufficient. "In the age of cancel culture, she needs to be canceled," he told Townhall. "She's trying to rewrite history and make money off of our kids' backs and their legacy and we will not stand for it. I'm calling on NBC, MSNBC, and Simon and Schuster, the publishers, to terminate Psaki for those lies."
Remember, lefties claim the right peddles "disinformation" while the left, when it makes a rare "error," immediately corrects that error.
Do you Psaki correcting her "error" here? No. She's merely going to "compromise" and not keep on repeating the lie.
At least, until the pressure's off, then she will repeat the lie again.
This is the same thing the left did with the "hands up, don't shoot" lie. They peddled that lie for months. Then Obama's own partisan DOJ admitted this was all a lie, and without retracting their previous lies, the leftwing media simply stopped repeating "hands up, don't shoot."
For a while.
And then, when the cooling-off period was over, they began saying "hands up, don't shoot" as part of their anti-civilizational revolutionary rhetoric again.
It's the same thing they do with all of their lies. When the lies are proven, they briefly put the lie into a cool-off period.
And then, a year later: They just start repeating the lie all over again.
For One Weekend, The Eurovision Song Contest Is The Gayest Thing On the Planet, Displacing Second-Place Entrant Garrett
—Disinformation Expert Ace
The singer from Israel got top public votes from fourteen countries and was booed by antisemites just for being Israeli.
Then they really got angry when she dared to bait the antisemites by singing a verse in Hebrew:
Israel's Eurovision contestant was booed during Saturday's grand final as the competition descended into chaos.Eden Golan, Israel's 20-year-old act, was greeted on the stage in Malmo by a mixture of boos and cheers from the audience in the most anticipated performance of the night.
The booing intensified when the singer switched to Hebrew for her final verse in Hurricane, but Golan was unfazed.
Golan won the second highest number of public televotes in the contest, after Croatia, following days of controversy over her inclusion amid Israel's war in Gaza. She finished fifth, behind eventual winner Nemo, from Switzerland.
Earlier on Saturday, Golan felt forced to practise her power ballad to the sounds of booing and chants of "free Palestine" in preparation for her performance.
Here are those classy leftists and "newcomers" in Sweden booing a 20-year-old girl for the crime of being Jewish.
The song is... I mean, it's fine. If you like this kind of diva pop ballad.
She got the second most public votes overall, after Croatia.
The contest isn't determined by public votes, though. It's determined by a secret algorithm employing both public voting and the professional judges sent to judge the acts, in which the public votes are thrown out the window so that the PC government agents can do whatever they want.
Update:
James Lindsay, full varsity @ConceptualJamesLearn to recognize Communism.
https://tinyurl.com/mt5ahmm9
Visegrad @visegrad24 11h A member of the Norwegian Eurovision Song Contest jury admits that he refused to give Eden Golan and Israel any points at all due to the war in Gaza24-y-old Daniel Owen ends his message with "Free Palestine"
How many such cases were there among jury members yesterday?
Ezra Levant @ezralevantHow is this any different from a judge saying he'd refuse to give a contestant any points because she's black?
Thanks to andycanuck.
What the judges wanted to do was to give the award to a non-binary.
Obviously.
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Ashley Biden Wrote Letter to Judge Confirming That Diary Reporting That Biden Showered With Her Until a "Not Appropriate" Age Is Real
—Disinformation Expert Ace
Snopes has been denying this for years -- and this is one of the "fact" checking outfits which social media companies use to decide whether to censor/throttle accounts.
It was false for years, now it's true.
No apologies. No explanation of how or why this error (or "error") was made.
Their "fact" checking process seems to be: If a Democrat denies something, then that must be the truth, because Democrats never lie. Only if a Democrat admits something will that fact be reluctantly acknowledged as true.
Obviously a Republican denying something only confirms it's true!
So Ashley Biden did suggest her father had a bit of a pedophile problem.
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Judge Cannon Will Hold Hearing to Determine if Jack Smith Was Unconstitutionally Appointed (He Was), and If His Indictments Should Be Quashed
—Disinformation Expert Ace
He was never confirmed by the Senate. Only an officer confirmed by the Senate has the power to bring prosecutions against senators.
But Merrick Garland didn't want Jack Smith to have to answer questions about his past and his politics so he merely hired him as an employee, not an "officer" of the US.
The liberal news media is full of false stories about how Judge Aileen Cannon of the United States District Court for the Southern District of Florida has delayed former President Donald Trump's trial unnecessarily for allegedly mishandling classified documents. But, in fact, the Biden Administration and its Attorney General, Merrick Garland, are themselves to blame for the current delay. Special Counsel Jack Smith claims to be an inferior officer of the United States, but in fact he holds no such office. Smith is a mere employee of the Department of Justice, and he lacks the power to initiate prosecutions. Lucia v. Securities and Exchange Commission, 585 U.S. __ (2018) holds that only officers of the United States can take actions that affect the life, liberty, and property of citizens.Judge Cannon has asked for oral argument on June 21, 2024 on former President Donald Trump's motion to dismiss Special Counsel Jack Smith's indictment on the ground that Smith was unconstitutionally appointed to his current job because he is not an inferior officer. Washington, D.C. super-lawyer, Gene Schaerr, has filed an amicus brief in United States v. Trump on behalf of former Attorney Generals Edwin Meese III and Michael B. Mukasey, as well as me and Professor Gary Lawson, arguing that Jack Smith was unconstitutionally appointed to be an inferior officer, and Judge Cannon has asked Gene Schaerr to participate in the oral argument, which he has agreed to do.
The Appointment Clause of Article II, Section 2 provides that: "the Congress may by Law vest the Appointment of such inferior Officers, as they think proper, in the President alone, in the Courts of Law, or in the Heads of Departments." Jack Smith claims to be an inferior officer of the United States appointed by the Head of the Justice Department, but he is instead a mere employee.
This'll be interesting. If she disqualifies him, then the Democrat partisan judge in DC will have to at least hold a similar hearing. If there's a conflict between their rulings, presumably an appeals court will then have to hear the matter to resolve which judge is right.
