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The Democrats are hysterical and frantic and absolutely energized to kill us at the polls -- and maybe in real life too.
And too many Republicans, and especially too many Trump supporters, are content with the 2024 win and don't really care about the Democrats winning Congress back and impeaching Trump in the first month of 2026.
Republicans won Tuesday's special election in Tennessee. But instead of celebrating, many are dreading what it means about the midterms.
Republican Rep.-elect Matt Van Epps' roughly nine point win marks a massive shift toward Democrats from 2024, when President Donald Trump carried the district by 22 points. That double digit swing -- on the heels of crushing losses in off-year elections in November -- could be a harbinger of what House Republicans will face in the midterms next year, members and strategists warned, as they seek to hold on to their narrow control of the chamber.
"Tonight is a sign that 2026 is going to be a bitch of an election cycle," said one House Republican, granted anonymity to speak candidly. "Republicans can survive if we play team and the Trump administration officials play smart. Neither is certain."
Democrat Aftyn Behn's overperformance in the Tennessee special election -- which attracted millions of dollars in spending and national attention in its final days -- continues a trend of concerning electoral results for the GOP. Earlier this year, Democrats saw big overperformances in losses in other special elections in deep-red seats, and last month they swept a slate of critical off-year elections, including gubernatorial races in Virginia and New Jersey.
In the wake of those victories, some Republicans urged the White House to retool its political message to better engage moderate voters and independents who broke for Trump in the presidential election.
"I'm glad we won. But the GOP should not ignore the Virginia, New Jersey and Tennessee elections," Rep. Don Bacon (R-Neb.), who is retiring from his swingy Omaha-based district, said. "We must reach swing voters. America wants some normalcy."
Gerrymandering is becoming a very tricky thing for us. When you gerrymander to increase the number of seats you could win, you necessarily increase the number of seats you can lose. There's no way around that. Gerrymandering for numbers involves drawing districts which have scant majorities of your voters. You spread your voters around so that you can win with thin margins in as many districts as possible.
But doing this means that in a bad year, you lose many of those districts you've drawn to have thin margins. Your deliberately-thin margin of victory turns into a loss.
Does that mean we shouldn't redistrict? No, because control of the House is a very binary thing. It kind of doesn't matter if you lose the House by ten seats or thirty seats. Either way, you have lost the power to bring bills in for a vote, or block them from a vote, and of course Democrats are intensely partisan hive-mind bug people who will all vote in lockstep so even a majority of two seats for the Democrats is a guaranteed majority in every important vote. There are effectively no more swing districts or moderate Congressmen... except on the GOP side.
But given our performance so far, I think it's now guaranteed that we will lose the House by thirty seats, unless something changes bigly, and I don't know what that could be.
Trump has attracted new voters, yes, but these voters... don't really vote.
Meanwhile, a new poll released by the Democrats shows that Ken Paxton is leading shameless RINO traitor John Cornyn.
InteractivePolls
@IAPolls2022
TEXAS SENATE GOP PRIMARY POLL
Ken Paxton - 32%
Wesley Hunt - 22%
John Cornyn - 22%
Not sure - 24%
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Paxton vs Cornyn
Paxton - 44%
Cornyn - 34%
Not sure - 22%
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Hunt vs Cornyn
Hunt - 45%
Cornyn - 28%
Not sure - 27%
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Hunt: 34-14 (+20)
Paxton: 48-35 (+13)
Cornyn: 29-44 (-15)
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• PPP for Senate Majority PAC (Dem)
• 12/1-2 | 527 LV
Why did the Democrats release this poll? PPP is a bad polling outfit that pumps out crap polls, so we shouldn't put much stock in this poll either way; but why are the Democrats releasing it? Presumably they want to make trouble and influence the primary vote, but influence it how?
Are they trying to gin up support for Cornyn, the liberal? Or are they trying to depress his voters in the belief that Ken Paxton, the actual conservative, would be easier for Jasmine Ratchet to defeat in the general election?
I don't know. Neither seem like very compelling ops to me.
Cornyn has led several recent polls; his campaign adviser Matt Mackowiak said the incumbent senator will win and that "Democrats are desperate to run against fatally flawed homewrecker Ken Paxton and cost the GOP a critically valuable Senate seat and as much as $200M in the general election."
Lauren French, a Senate Majority PAC spokeswoman, called that response "weak, half-hearted spin."
Some will be mad at me for this but I say it out of love for our country... We won the TN special election by less than we should have.
If you've been to this area, you know it should have been a blowout. And this isn't a knock on Matt Van Epps. He had lower name ID to begin with and did a good job pulling it out. A lesser candidate would have made it a real nail biter.
So why was it close? Many voters are apathetic and have very little enthusiasm on our side. Why? They think our majority in Congress is failing them due to weak leadership, bad priorities & inconsistent messaging.
Before I go further, I don't say this to punch my own side for fun. I don't do that. I say this because I want us to dominate for many years to come. Major time was wasted this year that should have been spent IN SESSION solving problems.
We need to right the ship or voters will sink our ship in 2026. Enthusiasm from 2024 is gone. The blind trust is gone. They want action. The people in Congress need to realize that they aren't Trump and he isn't there to carry them on the ballot in 2026. They need to deliver now. And even then we likely have to run '26 like a Presidential election with Trump going around the country.
I see it on the ground. Voters want to know when promises are going to be kept by Congress. They want a Congress that works as much as they do. They want the agenda they voted for in 2024 passed into law. They want the deep state held accountable. They want transparency. They want full focus on domestic issues instead of foreign issues. They want Congress to improve their lives. They want them to stop trading stocks. And they want to know what the hell Congress is actually doing for them. If our GOP majority doesn't deliver, many of these people won't vote, no matter how much they hate Democrats.
I'm hearing from people who I'd describe as the Trumpiest people I met from 2016-2024 who straight up won't vote in 2026 unless Congress changes to a fighting spirit this year and stacks wins on the board. These people have lost faith and feel like everything is rigged by uniparty puppets for special interests.
Doesn't matter what I tell these people. I can't make most of them vote again. Neither can any other big social media account. Only ACTION from electeds will move them at this point to feel that the incumbents deserve their vote. This is exclusively a right wing problem. The left is enthusiastic just about hating us. That animates their base by itself.
And many of the good things that have happened in Congress this year aren't even reaching the ears or eyeballs of average voters because the messaging is soft and inconsistent. Everyone needs a gut check and to tell the truth NOW to right the ship or they're going to get a much larger gut check in November 2026 when we lose the House majority and go through another stupid impeachment hoax.
Voters feel like they've shown up time and time again for politicians but that politicians aren't showing up for them by running on the same promises every election but then never delivering them. That goes for both sides but the left has enthusiasm simply from their base hating Trump. Our side needs to actually motivate our people to vote.
Congress needs a hard look in the mirror and to get to work on fixing this NOW. Our majority CAN fix this. Now the question of 2026 is this: Will they? I sure hope so because the alternative is dark. It's time to get to work.
Welcome to Wednesday. The word Wednesday comes from the Old Norse word "Wednyss," meaning "the hump of the workweek."
Whoops! I was so focused on writing posts I forgot to post this one at 12:10. I'm telling you, I think this creatine actually improves focus.
For a little while now, there has been a new term that keeps cropping up on the internet. That term, which was apparently popularized by Gad Saad, is "suicidal empathy." I think "pathological empathy" is a bit more accurate, but it's more or less the same thing. The "suicidal empathy" concept is that the desire of some - usually leftists, and usually AWFLs - to be "caring" or "compassionate" has become destructive to themselves and the culture.
Cases of rape victims who refuse to describe their attackers when the attacker is a minority because they don't want to accuse a minority of a crime and "contribute to the problem of racism" or somesuch are often pointed out as micro-level examples of "suicidal empathy," as are cases of the parents of children murdered by illegal aliens publicly emphasizing how much they support unchecked migration and the dissolution of borders. At the macro level, examples are usually things like open borders or elimination of prisons. At some point, the desire to "do good" or be one of the "good people" (and not ever a garbage person like those MAGA people!) becomes so destructive as to be fatal. There is some truth to that, at least among individuals.
Individually, I think "suicidal empathy" or "pathological empathy" are very real phenomena and there are countless people who would happily see the entirety of civilization fall to avoid being seen as unempathetic. These are the idiots who will happily ride the train directly over the cliff, celebrating the entire time. It is a huge problem, but it does not explain much of what we see. What we see from many people in power smacks of "suicidal empathy," but there is an obvious undercurrent of naked corruption beneath it.
The prime example from the recent news cycles is the looting of Minnesota by Somalis and the use of stolen Minnesota taxpayer dollars to finance Somali terrorism abroad. In a recent article that Ace covered, a number of state employees place the blame firmly on Governor Walz. In the article was a segment that I think is illustrative of the power elite manifestation of what could be described as "cynical empathy:"
They allege agency leadership handpicked by Walz "willfully disregarded rules and laws to keep fraud reports quiet" and filled top posts with political allies who were "not qualified for their jobs." Staffers who witnessed or documented fraud were "shut down, reassigned and told to keep quiet," the statement said.
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Walz has pushed back on the criticism, telling The New York Times that his administration "erred on the side of generosity" during the pandemic and disputing claims that concerns about racial optics slowed the state's response.
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Tienanmen Tim allegedly knew - or at least, people told him repeatedly - that these programs were being looted by Somalis who then used at least some of the money to finance terrorism abroad. He knew, but did nothing about it. The theft was consistent with his worldview and political objectives. Looting the taxpayers to hand money over to preferred minority groups in openly fraudulent schemes was just fine by him. When called on it, he brushed it off as merely "[erring] on the side of generosity." He justified his behavior with an empathy-based argument.
But is this yet another example of "suicidal empathy?" I don't think so. Unlike the useful idiots who vote for people like Walz so as to be "good people," Tienanmen Tim doesn't believe a word of it. He isn't trying to be "generous." He isn't trying to be compassionate. He isn't exhibiting empathy. He is stealing and supporting his allies - who are, by definition, our enemies - by doing harm to the people of Minnesota. The "empathy" is just a cover.
But it may, perhaps, be a distinction without a difference. Whether suicidal empathy or cynical empathy, the outcome would be the same.
Moving on, in yesterday's editorial, I questioned why President Trump from time to time throws all kinds of red meat with the blood still dripping from it out there. In that instance it was his contention that the truly horrid Ilhan "BRO-FO" Omar should be stripped of her citizenship and repatriated back to the gaping bedsore of a nation known as Somalia from whence she oozed. No need to rehash my thoughts on this, as I agree with him on this for sure. (reminder not to comment on old threads to avoid accidental banning) And once again, he threw something out there that definitely caused a reaction, intentional on his part or not:
Somali migrants should go home to fix up their own country, President Donald Trump told his cabinet meeting on Tuesday. “They come from hell and they complain and do nothing but bitch” about Americans and America, he said, adding: “We don’t want them in our country. Let them go back to where they came from and fix it.”
. . .“I don’t want them in our country,” Trump told his cabinet meeting, adding: Their country is no good for a reason. Their country stinks … I can say it about other countries too. We got to, we have to rebuild our country … [Rep.] Ilhan Omar [D-MN] is garbage. She’s garbage. Her friends are garbage. These aren’t people that work. These aren’t people that say, “Let’s go, come on, let’s make this place [Somalia] great.” These are people that do nothing but complain.
Again, I cannot disagree with what the President is saying. But the issue he is skirting around is WHY? What is the reason Somalia stinks? ISLAM, and its Dark Age culture of death and subjugation of those who refuse to submit (which is what Islam mans in English FYI) to it. Mr. President, Bro-Fo Omar did not come here to escape Hell, she and her ilk came here to unleash it on us and transform America and everywhere else they emigrate into Hell.
If you want to throw out red meat, well what I just said is an abattoir primed and ready for you to go to town. Could you not see the smoldering ruins of the World Trade Center from the top of Trump Tower? Did you not watch in abject horror what happened at the Munich Olympics in 1972, the Marine Barracks in Beirut 11 years later, and on and on and on.
But that said, there are indeed good and decent people who are desperate to escape the hell of places like Somalia. The estimable and noble Ayaan Hirsi Ali to name but one. The issue was and always has been the proper vetting of people who seek American citizenship and once here the monitoring of them to ensure they become assimilated to the fullest extent possible so as whatever cultural proclivities from their societies of origin cannot ever pose any kind of threat to American society.
Good luck with that, considering there is a very large segment of our own native born citizenry that views this nation as founded as racist and illegitimate in the first place and have been feverishly working to destroy it and seize absolute power to remake it into some other nightmarish hellscape of their own liking. The importation of anti-American, anti-Western ideologies and those who mean us harm in the acquisition of absolute power and control was and is a major weapon in the Leftist arsenal.
As for Islam, all you have to do is peruse the links I have aggregated today alone in that section, not to mention every weekday for nine years now. Be that as it may, arguably the greater threat to the American experiment and our society as we approach our 250th birthday are the native born miscreants and power-mad narcissists with delusions of "Ubermenscheit" who continue to rot at the vitals of our nation.
It's one thing to give Bro-Fo the boot, but how do we neutralize the Newsoms, Pelosis, Randi Weingartens, Ibram X. Krements, Al Sharptons, and all the others like them in our midst?
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Rahmanullah Lakanwal was seen on surveillance video staking out the area near the Farragut West metro station for roughly a minute before shouting “Allahu Akbar” and opening fire, according to a charging document filed Tuesday. The charging document reveals Lakanwal shot soldier guardsman Beckstrom in the back of the head before delivering another headshot to guardsman Andrew Wolfe. Lakanwal then chased and shot at an unnamed National Guard major, the document alleges. Court Docs Reveal Nightmarish Details Of Accused National Guard Shooter’s Rampage
CIVIL WAR 2.0, LEFTIST PERSECUTIONS, DEMOCRAT PUTSCH, AMERICAN DISSOLUTION
Fox News investigative reporter Matt Finn broke the news about the deranged criminal with explosive intent, who appears to have been a leftist domestic terrorist. The attack occurred in downtown Los Angeles, California, and the man was arrested by federal officers. The man himself purportedly described the attack as a terroristic one. Man Throws Molotov Cocktails Into L.A. Federal Building
There is no degenerate a leftist, especially their empty-souled women, will not rally in support of — be it drug dealers, rapists, murderers, child molesters, or even the accused assassin of a husband and father. Alleged Assassin Gets ‘Cougars for Luigi Mangione’ Fan Club
The push — which follows the White House highlighting a taxpayer-fraud case tied to members of Minnesota’s Somali community — will surge “strike teams” of federal officers into Minneapolis and St. Paul, with roughly 100 agents brought in from around the country, the Times reported. (RELATED: Judge Tosses Conviction Of Somali Who Ripped Off Minnesota Taxpayers) Trump’s ICE Reportedly Targeting Somali Illegal Immigrants In Wake Of Minnesota Fraud Scandal
“They come from hell and they complain and do nothing but bitch” about Americans and America, he said, adding: “We don’t want them in our country. Let them go back to where they came from and fix it.” Trump Slams Somali Migrants: Fix Your Own Country
No longer will any patriot's blood be spilled by a migrant from another nation. The right for national security that puts Americans first and only is the path forward for handling any future immigration policy. Halting legal migration is the new American civil right
“We might decide to let in more migrants, but still we will end up being cruel to the would-be migrants” who don’t quite reach the criteria for being allowed into the United States, Tyler Cowen wrote in an article for The Free Press. “And as demand to migrate continues to rise, we have to be increasingly coercive over time.” Pro-Migration Activist: Democrats’ Welcome for Migrants Requires Cruelty
Residents of Hoover in suburban Birmingham “showed up in force” to a zoning commission meeting on Monday as the board voted on whether to allow the establishment of the Islamic Academy, the Daily Mail reported. Approximately 170 locals attended the meeting, where many opposed a motion to move the existing Muslim school from Homewood to Hoover. Alabama Zoning Commission Rejects Plan for Muslim School After Massive Town Outcry (Allah - Bummer! - jjs)
The rapid decline of a great city. (The city where they forced the Jews to clean the streets with toothbrushes after the Anschluss: My dear mother of blessed Memory, an inmate in Mauthausen was forced to clear bomb damage as a slave laborer during the War. Years later when visiting a s a proud American citizen, she remarked how upon seeing even back in the late 1970s how the city was overrun with Muslims, that theViennese got what was coming to them after what they did to her and the Jews. - jjs) The Last Time I Saw Vienna
Steyer’s blue-collar act can’t hide a record of climate-driven policies that helped make California unaffordable in the first place. Oligarch Tom Steyer’s Fraudulent Populism
The Trump plan, originally including 28 distinct points, has already been discussed with Ukrainian and European officials and reportedly whittled down to 20 action items. Ukrainian officials reportedly said last week they would support the revised plan, if Russia also agrees and a few remaining details are worked out. Trump Envoys Meet with Putin in Moscow
Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk and German Chancellor Friedrich Merz clashed during a joint press conference in Berlin, Politico Europe reported. The two leaders had promised to repair relations between their nations but instead spent much of the event at odds over how Germany should compensate Poland for Nazi-era destruction. Germany And Poland’s Leaders Meet To Show Unity. They End Up Openly Sparring On World Stage
Crow said, “You have an administration that continues to put our service members in terrible situations and then throw them under the bus when people call it out or something goes wrong. There is a complete lack of leadership. There’s a complete lack of moral clarity. And the lawlessness and recklessness of this administration is putting our service members in terrible positions.” Dem Rep. Crow: Hegseth ‘Could Be’ Impeached over Follow-Up Strike
This galaxy underlines the difficulty for cosmologists by much of Webb’s data of the early universe. Present theories of galaxy formation say it should take billions of years to form such a spiral galaxy, meaning it shouldn’t exist as yet so soon, only 1.5 billion years after the Big Bang. Astronomers detect another galaxy that shouldn’t be there, so soon after the Big Bang
The five-carbon sugar ribose and, for the first time in an extraterrestrial sample, six-carbon glucose were found. Although these sugars are not evidence of life, their detection, along with previous detections of amino acids, nucleobases, and carboxylic acids in Bennu samples, show building blocks of biological molecules were widespread throughout the solar system. Three new papers find sugars, “gum,” and lots of stardust in the samples brought back from the asteroid Bennu
FEMINAZISM, TRANSGENDER PSYCHOSIS, HOMOSEXUALIZATION, WAR ON MASCULINITY/NORMALCY
Since Mittereder’s bosses at the Transportation Security Administration are aware that the name of the agency is not the Transgender Security Administration, and because they also know that Danielle Mittereder is really a man, they don’t allow him to pat down women. And now the enraged Mittereder is suing them, because he really, really wants to pat down women, and also because he really, really wants the TSA, and the world, to play along with his fantasies and pretend that he is really a woman. TSA Agent Who Say’s He’s a Woman Claims ‘Civil Right’ to Grope Women (T 'n A agent! - jjs)
CULTURE WARS, NATIONAL SUICIDE
“The Jaguar commercial, which was posted to the car company’s social media on Tuesday, showed only androgynous individuals clad in bizarre attire that would hardly fit in at a fashion show. The advertisement also failed to showcase even one single vehicle from the luxury car company,” the article said. Report: Jaguar Land Rover Design Chief ‘Terminated’ After Brand’s ‘Woke’ Reinvention
Failed reality TV star Jennifer Welch’s podcast is a favorite content hub for the left. And it’s become the perfect mascot for everything that has gone catastrophically wrong with the American left. The Left’s Favorite Wine Mom Encapsulates Their Suicide Pact
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To add to the mystery, while this increase is supposed to have already happened, nobody seems to know which models are affected or what the increases are. Indeed, the whole thing might just be the end of Black Friday discounts at the distributor level.
Current EUV fab equipment uses 13.5nm lasers. xLight is planning to bring that down to just 2nm, which is pretty inarguably an x-ray more than UV light.
This takes money from the 2022 CHIPS Act, which apparently still has $6 billion available to spend on chip fabrication facilities.
An officer from Hanover County Animal Protection and Shelter responded to the store Saturday morning for a report of an unusual break-in. When Officer Martin arrived, she found shelves ransacked and bottles broken on the ground.
The “suspect” was discovered passed out on the floor of the bathroom, and was identified as an intoxicated raccoon, according to the shelter.
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Martin safely captured and transported the animal to the shelter, and the raccoon was given several hours to “sober up before questioning,” the shelter joked in a post on social media.
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A man died after choking during a competitive eating contest where he consumed numerous live cockroaches, with a python as the grand prize.
Edward Archbold, 32, from West Palm Beach, Florida, suffered fatal asphyxiation when cockroach fragments obstructed his airway during the 2012 competition.
He fell unconscious and started vomiting moments after taking part in the "Midnight Madness" marketing event at the Ben Siegel Reptile Store in Deerfield Beach, Florida, reports Mirror UK.
Multiple news stories have recently been posted about this, even though it happened in 2012. Not sure why this is news now, but here we are!
Chronic constipation becomes more common with age. Researchers from Mass General Brigham conducted a new study examining whether five widely followed diets could help prevent chronic constipation in middle- and older-age adults. The team monitored more than 96,000 participants for several years to see how long-term eating habits influenced the likelihood of developing this persistent gastrointestinal issue. Their analysis showed that people who routinely ate a Mediterranean or plant-based diet experienced a lower incidence of constipation.
Read the whole thing. Maybe it'll be helpful for you?
The iconic white mansion overlooking Hyannis Harbor, visible to ferry riders traveling to the islands and located next to the Kennedy Compound, has hit the market with a $21.5 million price tag — the highest active listing on Cape Cod.
The 13-bedroom, 12-bath estate on 3 acres includes a main house and a guesthouse at 151 and 155 Irving Ave., with a private beach and landscaping designed by the Olmsted Brothers.
From the water, passersby often mistake the property built in 1914 for the nearby Kennedy Compound, which sits just up the street. Historic photos show the Kennedys sailing in front of the house, and even Jackie Kennedy waterskiing nearby.
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“It feels like a 4th of July house,” said Grover. “It feels like a real slice of Americana.”
I always imagined simpler things when I heard the word "Americana". Not hoity toity mansions near a compound belonging to an elitist family who is best known for holding elected office. What do I know? Maybe our Masshole Hordelings can set me straight.
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The dog tried to de-escalate with a Chang-like monk-smile, but the bully just didn't understand that while the dog seeks peace, he is always ready to make war.
There are 42,861 NGOs handling $120 billion in Minnesota per year.
Imagine the fraud.
We're just scratching the surface.
Madonna's got AIDS
on her mind.
The criminal dementia patient Joe Biden will be rewarded for advancing the Sexual Left's radical agenda with some kind of Gay Award.
Former President Biden will receive the Chris Abele Impact Award at the LGBTQ+ Victory Institute's Leaders Conference in Washington, D.C., on Friday, and deliver a rare post-presidency speech.
The award for Biden follows "what LGBTQ+ advocates widely view as the most inclusive administration in U.S. history," as the former president had appointed the most LGBTQ+ officials, restored transgender military service, and reinstated and expanded federal protections, The Advocate reported.
It is "rare" for Biden to give a post-presidential speech for the same reason it was rare for him to appear publicly as president: Because he's demented and dying.
House and Senate Republicans targeted by former Special Counsel Jack Smith's subpoenas were gearing up for significant oversight of both the Justice Department and the FBI when their phone records were seized.
This raises questions about whether the subpoenas served a dual purpose--to investigate Jan. 6, as Smith was appointed to do, and to keep tabs on the oversight probes into agency conduct, one former representative whose phone records were seized by Smith suggested.
"They were trying to spy on us to see what we were doing," former Rep. Louie Gohmert told the John Solomon Reports podcast. "And also, I think they were looking for anything that they could use to come after us, or hold over our heads, because, you know, you can intimidate the people that are coming after you."
BREAKING: Tulsi Gabbard just CRUSHED IT in Trump's Cabinet meeting, thanking him for leading the charge against the deep state's weaponization of intel agencies.
Under his watch, they've declassified over 500K docs exposing the abuse, and delivering historic transparency that's… pic.twitter.com/sDCEZbeMVm
Michael Douglas's moron son Dylan got embarrassed by Scott Jennings as he burbled out stupid Democrat talking points about the Republicans voting to keep the government shut down.
Scott Jennings just left Michael Douglas’ 25-year-old liberal son stuttering in his dust.
Dylan Douglas tried to shift blame for the shutdown away from Democrats, but @ScottJenningsKY wasn’t having it after 40 days of gridlock.
Dylan must be a Millennial because his parents are now coming to rescue him from a bad interview.
Scott Jennings
@ScottJenningsKY
Michael Douglas and his wife, Catherine Zeta-Jones, are reportedly very displeased over the manner in which their son Dylan was humiliated during a roundtable discussion on politics with CNN commentator Scott Jennings.
Michael Douglas and his wife, Catherine Zeta-Jones, are reportedly very displeased over the manner in which their son Dylan was humiliated during a roundtable discussion on politics with CNN commentator Scott Jennings.
Young Dylan was left stuttering incomprehensibly midway through the interview, which has seemingly become a source of mockery behind the scenes.
Now, according to sources, his parents, Michael Douglas and Catherine Zeta-Jones, intend to blacklist the entire network, as they believe CNN crossed the line.
Insiders have informed Rob Shuter's #ShuterScoop about Douglas and Zeta-Jones' reaction to their son's disastrous interview on CNN.
The couple is said to be so "furious" with the media outlet that they intend to "blacklist the whole network" moving forward.
On Zeta-Jones' part, she has reportedly been ranting to her friends about how the interview was "unfair and exploitative," seemingly referring to how her son was left stunned and stuttering at some of the questions he was asked.
Meanwhile, Douglas shares the same opinion and has told his close circle that the outlet "crossed a line."
Part of the reason the couple is so angered by the entire situation appears to be that they knew their son wasn't prepared for such a heated debate.
"Dylan's never been spoken to like that in his entire life. He's always been the golden boy -- adored, protected. CNN gave him a taste of the real world, and his parents hated every second of it," said a source.
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For a while, the two continued engaging in a back-and-forth, but when Jennings began hitting Dylan with statistical figures and facts, the young politics enthusiast was left stunned and unable to defend his stance.
This became especially apparent when the conversation shifted toward the expiring Affordable Care Act tax credits, which Democrats said were the reason they would not pass the funding bill.
The politically active son of the Hollywood favorite began stuttering incomprehensibly, a sign that he seemed unsure of what to say.
So, CNN's too conservative for Michael Douglas and Catherine Zeta-Jones?
Dylan Douglas was born in 2000 making him 25 years old and almost 26.
And this "golden boy" got himself on CNN to spout his ludicrously uninformed nonsense, and it's CNN's fault for "exploiting" him?
He's twenty-five. That's only four years younger than the age I pretend to be. They're speaking as if he's a child, and a developmentally-disabled child at that.
MASSIVE WINNING UNDER TRUMP! Russ Vought just dropped the hammer at the Cabinet meeting:
Deregulation ratio is now 48-to-1.
That’s FORTY-EIGHT regulations killed for every new one.
Trump’s original goal was 10-to-1. They blew past that in the first term and now they're… pic.twitter.com/1e8vJnKXUI
Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem on Monday delivered one of the strongest border-security demands yet of the Trump administration's second term, urging President Trump to enact a sweeping travel ban on "every damn country" sending violent offenders into the United States. Noem revealed the recommendation in a blistering post on X shortly after meeting with the president, saying the nation can no longer accept foreign nationals who, in her words, are "flooding our nation with killers, leeches, and entitlement junkies."
Noem framed the proposal as a necessary break from the failed leniency of the Biden years. "Our forefathers built this nation on blood, sweat, and the unyielding love of freedom -- not for foreign invaders to slaughter our heroes, suck dry our hard-earned tax dollars, or snatch the benefits owed to AMERICANS," she wrote, adding a final line aimed squarely at the countries she argues are exploiting U.S. generosity: "WE DON'T WANT THEM. NOT ONE."
A DHS spokesperson told the New York Post that the department will soon publish the list of countries facing new restrictions.
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In the immediate aftermath of the attack, the State Department halted visa processing for Afghan passport holders, a move intended to prevent additional entry from the same channels that admitted the alleged gunman.
It's not just the terrorists, and it's not just the Somali pirates stealing a billion dollars from us and sending it back home to fund Al-Shaabab terrorism against us.
Fox News legal analyst Gregg Jarrett said Monday that Democratic Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz allowed the state's massive COVID-era fraud scandal to fester because he sought political favor from the state's large Somali community.
Walz defended his administration Sunday by claiming Minnesota "attracts criminals" and telling the public not to "demonize" the Somali community, even as he faced questions over more than $1 billion in welfare fraud tied to Somali-linked schemes. Appearing on "The Evening Edit," Jarrett said the question many Minnesotans want answered is simple: Why would Walz allow a massive fraud scheme to flourish?
"So if all of this is true, and I suspect it is, the question is, why would he do it? Well, the answer is he was currying favor with the large Somali community where the fraud was largely happening. He was turning a blind eye for political gain," Jarrett told host Elizabeth MacDonald.
Jarrett said state employees allege more than just simple administrative failure.
It's also incompetent third-world drivers paying for fraudulent commercial drivers licenses to kill us on the highways:
🚨LISTEN TO THIS FROM SEC SEAN DUFFY! Foreigners flooding into sham “CDL schools." Getting commercial licenses they have ZERO business holding. Then climbing behind the wheel of 80,000-lb death machines on OUR highways
The US Postal Service tried to fire all illegal alien truck drivers, but soon found that illegal aliens made up such a large portion of the driving force that they had to reverse that policy in order to deliver any mail.
This is insane. Driving is one of the last jobs left available to working class men and we're hiring only foreigners for the jobs.
he Department of Homeland Security sent a letter Monday to New York Attorney General Letitia James, demanding that she turn over the more than 7,000 illegal migrants that are allegedly locked up in jails and prisons in the state.
Acting Immigration and Customs Enforcement Director Todd Lyons claimed that nearly 7,000 illegal migrants, who had active detainers because they allegedly committed thousands of crimes, were released back into the state since January and 7,113 illegal migrants with active ICE detainers are currently locked up in New York, according to the New York Post.
"These are people who are not only in the country illegally, but who have committed additional crimes, including heinous crimes like murder, rape, possession of child pornography, armed robbery, and many others," Lyons wrote.
The DHS said that the migrants are being protected by New York's sanctuary laws, which limit local law enforcement cooperation with immigration agents.
🚨🇺🇸 NYC HARBORING 7,169 CRIMINAL ILLEGAL ALIENS INCLUDING HUNDREDS OF MURDERERS AND SEXUAL PREDATORS
This is not a border crisis anymore. It is a national security failure playing out in broad daylight.
As the Media Insists That It's Illegal To Shoot Missiles at Foreign Terrorist Drug Boats, They Also Claim That It's Okay to Shoot National Guardsmen If You Object to Their Presence
Responding to the news that a crazed asylee from Afghanistan had shot two National Guard troops in Washington, D.C., the New Yorker's Jane Mayer concluded that the attack was "so tragic" and "so unnecessary," before proceeding to identify the real culprit of the abomination: President Donald J. Trump. "These poor guardsmen," wrote Mayer, "should never have been deployed."
In this ugly asseveration, Mayer was swiftly joined by a bunch of other political commentators, each more desperate than the last to train their fire on the current occupant of the White House. In The Atlantic, Juliette Kayyem wrote that "there are costs to performatively deploying members of the military, one of which is the risk of endangering them." On Twitter, the author John Pavlovitz explicitly proposed that "Donald Trump and Pete Hegseth are culpable for endangering the National Guard by putting them in harm's way." Not to be outdone, MS NOW's Ken Dilanian followed this path to its revolting terminus by suggesting that the guardsmen were "walking around with uniforms in an American city," that "there are some Americans that might object to that," and "so, apparently, this shooting has happened."
As with Charlie Kirk: The victims brought their murders at the hands of leftists upon themselves.
I'm sorry . . . what? In what possible universe could that be an appropriate response? Washington, D.C., is a federal city over which the federal government has plenary control. If, as has been the case this year, the federal government decides that it is necessary to deploy federal agents to enforce the law, it is permitted to do so without the expectation that those agents will be murdered. Certainly, the American social contract has become more complicated over time than it was back in 1787, but at no point has it come to tolerate the proposition that officials who have been sent to keep the peace should expect to be gunned down by assassins if their deployment is disapproved of by the progressive intellectual class. Politically, one can believe that Donald Trump's decision to deploy the National Guard was a good one, a bad one, or a middling one and that postulate will not change one whit. Whether they are there to pick up trash, fight an alien invasion, or solely to smile for foreign tourists, there is no circumstance in which killing them is appropriate.
Meanwhile, ABC "News" under George Sloppadopoulos and the Gay Model says that the Motive May Never Be Known, but right now we can confidently say that he shot those National Guardsmen not because he is a foreign Islamic terrorist and not becuase he was programmed to kill by a traitor media that justifies the murders of its opponents, but because... of Trump's economy.
Ah, it’s one of those classic cases of a guy suffering financial stress driving all the way across the country to gun down two National Guardsmen in a city to which he has no connection. When you think about it, it’s our fault. https://t.co/yQzySC6kuu
A Week of Ops: Traitor Media That Insisted Biden Was a Cognitively-Gifted "Super-Ager" Continues Pushing the Op That Trump Is Too Old to Serve and Must be Removed by the 25th Amendment
—Ace
Shipwreckedcrew
@shipwreckedcrew
Nov 29
Wayyy too much coordination on the new manufactured narrative about Trump showing signs of aging.
Wayyy to much coordination on WaPo story about strike on drug boat.
Does no one remember 2017-2018??
This is a redo -- facts don't matter to media, only narrative matters.
Facts that don't fit the narrative don't get published.
The NYT admitted it as an EXPRESS policy. There was no "neutrality" -- Trump was such a threat to how they wanted the Govt to work that driving him from office what the overriding consideration.
The media and Dems were back on their heels for 9 months.
Now that his approval numbers have been talked down, they think he's vulnerable enough to go after him with falsified reports to drive a narrative.
I've seen this movie -- and I paid attention when the credits ran.
Experts say!
Brian Stelter
@brianstelter
The NYT produced a seemingly undeniable report on Trump showing signs of aging. The story was data-driven, almost clinical, proving that Americans see Trump "less than they used to" and that "his battery shows signs of wear."
Trump is trying to deny it anyway.
The data is that Trump usually scheduled his first event of the day at 10:30 am in his first term, but now the average first event starts at 12:08 pm.
Obviously then, based on this seemingly undeniable data-driven almost-clinical evidence, Trump is unfit to serve.
You'll notice that that's Noted Truth Merchant Brian Stelter saying that.
Who claimed Biden was fit as a fiddle and video showing him stumbling and bumbling and wandering and fondling were all "cheap fakes."
I'd like to see this fat retard's medical records. He looks pretty unhealthy to me, and his brains are rotten garbage.
So... is any of this true? Is it true that the guy who seems to always be doing something, speaking to reporters, negotiating peace deals, etc., is really running out of energy?
President Trump has been clocking 12-hour days this month, according to internal White House documents shared exclusively with the New York Post, an unusual disclosure meant to swat down a New York Times storyline that the 79-year-old president is showing "signs of fatigue." The unpublished logs, spanning 10 weekdays between Nov. 12 and Nov. 25, show Trump working roughly 50-hour weeks -- not counting weekend duties, pre-dawn phone calls, or the after-midnight bursts of activity his staff has come to expect. Far from slowing, the records depict a president driving hard on trade and immigration reforms, pushing for an end to the Russia-Ukraine war, and overseeing the most extensive White House construction effort in decades.
The schedule stands in stark contrast to the Biden era that Americans still remember vividly, when the previous president's staff routinely called early-afternoon "lids" and shielded him from public view on days when he appeared visibly drained. Biden, who left office at age 82, was widely understood to be fading cognitively long before he stepped aside -- a reality even many Democrats eventually acknowledged. Trump, by comparison, is presenting a workload more reminiscent of his first year in office, with the private logs showing a relentless pace from morning into late night.
On Wednesday, November 12 -- the day Congress ended the 43-day government shutdown -- aides documented 32 meetings and calls. Trump began with a 10:30 a.m. staff session in the Roosevelt Room and moved straight into a gauntlet of calls with Vice President JD Vance, Staff Secretary Will Scharf, lawmakers, judicial nominees, and business leaders. He ended with a 7:45 p.m. dinner with Wall Street executives, a bill-signing event after 10 p.m., and a late-night meeting with a corporate executive at 10:40 p.m. Notably, none of this includes the off-schedule calls he is known for taking at dawn and well past midnight.
The next day brought another 17 meetings and calls over eight-and-a-half hours. He met with Chief of Staff Susie Wiles and Counsel David Warrington at 10:39 a.m., conferred with Secretary of State Marco Rubio, reviewed intelligence, sat for a "pre-brief" with speechwriters, signed an executive order alongside Melania Trump, granted a media interview, spoke with U.S. Trade Representative Jamieson Greer, and joined a 6 p.m. tele-rally for Tennessee congressional candidate Matt Van Epps.
The old op was this: Trump's boundless energy was not a sign of good health, but proof that this famous teetotaler was an amphetamine addict.
I actually was open to the idea he was popping uppers. How else to explain the constant energy? (It also made me feel better about being Low Energy Ace.)
Now that op's usefulness is expired, so the new op: Trump is so tired you guys, seriously you guys, he may work 12-hour days but you can see that sometimes he gets fatigued.
White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt called out The New York Times and its White House reporter, Katie Rogers, for suggesting that President Donald Trump is cognitively unwell after previously defending former President Joe Biden's health.
Rogers and journalist Dylan Freedman authored a story on Tuesday titled, "Signs of Fatigue: Trump Faces Realities Of Aging in Office," which suggested that the 79-year-old president has made fewer public appearances and has appeared tired in comparison to his first term. Leavitt denied these allegations, and pointed out that the story is by the same reporter who defended Biden's cognitive health after his fall on Air Force One in March 2021.
"I will point out one fake news story over the weekend before I let you all go from The New York Times that took about one-third of the president's daily calendar and his daily schedule and said that he's doing less than he did in his first term or he might not be fit for the job. That is unequivocally false and it's deeply unfortunate that this story was written by the same outlet and the same reporter who wrote this. 'Biden is doing 100 percent fine after tripping while boarding Air Force One,'" Leavitt said.
"Oh, same outlet, same reporter who wrote that President Trump is not fit for the job. Are you kidding me? You all see him almost every single day. He is the most accessible president in history," Leavitt continued.
Video at the link.
What a RIDICULOUS hit piece by @nytimes against @POTUS@realDonaldTrump claiming that he’s “aging in office” & losing stamina.
Where was this paper during 4 years of BIDEN, who suffered major dementia & hardly worked?
Absurd ancient lefty Lawrence O'Donnell is likewise insisting that Trump, who is only a bit older than O'Donnell, is unfit to lead.
The left has a particular obsession with Trump's hands. Here, a picture shows Trump carrying excess water in his hands. Now that's not healthy but they guy is almost 80 so there are going to be circulatory problems.
The left takes this as proof that he's mentally incompetent:
It’s an undeniable fact. Donald Trump is aging rapidly. It should concern us all. pic.twitter.com/qwpe2IWGxo
What makes that Xeet funny is that this "Madeleine Hays" is the White House operative who blocked Biden from speaking to reporters during the Easter Egg Roll.
Batya Ungar-Sargon on the FAKE NYT article: "Shorter Days, Signs of Fatigue: Trump Faces Realities of Aging in Office": "I just find the story hilarious… This is the most effective president of my lifetime. The next president is going to get half as much done. So whatever is going on with him, he seems to me to be very virile, but he is extremely, extremely effective. He has done so much. He has revolutionized this country both in terms of foreign policy."
"I think a lot that comes from a place of compassion for forgotten Americans. And so to me to see people sitting around being like, oh there must be something wrong with it, we should all be so lucky to be this effective."
"When we are half his age."
Is Trump not, like Biden, a "super-ager"?
What happened to "super-agers" and the reassurance that rich guys with access to today's medicine stay health and cogent well into their 80s?
Oh, I guess that was an op, too.
Trump is showing signs of aging worse than Biden ever did ~ Democrats
President Trump reminisces about the Easter Bunny leading President Biden around the White House grounds: “Remember when the bunny took Joe Biden out? He’s not taking Trump out! That was a beautiful moment. When the bunny saved Joe Biden.” pic.twitter.com/rhjU9sm6lt
The White House on Monday finally shut down the weeks of Democrat-fueled gossip about President Trump's health, releasing the full memo on the MRI that sent the press into a frenzy -- and the findings couldn't be clearer. Trump, at 79, is in "excellent overall health," with imaging results that his physician described as "perfectly normal."
Dr. Sean Barbabella, the president's Navy physician, said the scan taken during Trump's Oct. 10 visit to Walter Reed was nothing out of the ordinary -- a standard, preventative test for men in his age group. He explained that advanced imaging is used to catch issues early and confirm long-term cardiovascular and abdominal health. And in Trump's case, Barbabella wrote, everything came back clean.
"President Trump's cardiovascular imaging is perfectly normal," Barbabella reported. No narrowing of the arteries. No blood-flow issues. No abnormalities in the heart or major vessels. Heart chambers normal. Vessel walls smooth. No inflammation. No clotting. In short -- a textbook-strong cardiovascular system.
The abdominal MRI showed the same result. Barbabella said "all major organs appear very healthy and well-perfused," noting zero signs of acute or chronic concerns. Every organ evaluated was operating within normal limits.
Indiana Republicans Unveil New Restricting Map That Could Result in Two More GOP House Members, But It's Unclear if Indiana RINOs Will Pass It
—Ace
RINOs are balking about redistricting because... I don't know why. Because Democrats will be mad at them.
But other Republicans have unveiled their redistricting plan to spit Democrats up so that Indiana's 7 to 2 delegation can become a clean sweep of nine Republicans to zero Democrats.
(If things work out -- there are no guarantees.)
The move comes as President Donald Trump pressures Republicans across the country to redistrict in order to bolster the GOP's chances of holding the House in 2026.
Indiana currently has 7 Republicans and 2 Democrats in Congress. The proposed map would split the current Democratic-leaning districts into the other GOP-leaning districts and divide the blue-leaning urban areas, Politico reported.
It remains unclear whether the legislature will pass the plan, though Trump has urged them to do so.
"Yeah, so we're going to redistrict," DeSantis told The Floridian on Monday, according to NOTUS.
The governor said that the timing of redrawing the state's congressional map will depend on the results of a voting rights case before the Supreme Court.
The case is regarding the legality of Section 2 of the 1965 Voting Rights Act, which has been interpreted as the enforcement mechanism for the 15th Amendment. The statute allows judicial relief for a voter if they believe their right to vote is being infringed upon on the basis of race.
"The argument in October about Section 2 of the VRA, that impacts Florida's maps, so we're going to do it next spring," DeSantis said. "I am going to talk to [state Senate Majority Leader Ben Albritton] about when it makes sense to do it, but that will be done. I think we are going to be required to do it because of this court decision."
Florida GOP Chairman Evan Power said last month that he expects Republicans to gain three to five House seats under the new redistricting proposal.
Note that DeSantis seems to be saying he must redistrict if the Supreme Court overturns the unconstitional judge-made rule that districts must be drawn on racial grounds. But I don't know if he's saying that if the Supreme Court punts on this issue, he'll redistrict anyway.
In the meantime, we're waiting for results from the special election in Tennessee 7, a +10 Trump district in which an absolute maniac even further to the left than AOC is actually within two points of winning the seat and narrowing the deadly-thin GOP majority still further.
If you're in the district, you must vote. It's critical.
Crazy Democrat chick Aftyn Behn said we should defund police. Asked today if more police in Nashville would be a good thing, she refused to answer. She’s batshit insane. Vote @MattForTN tomorrow: pic.twitter.com/IwM20GrkJL
This is Democrat Nashville Tennessee Rep Aftyn Behn, and this is what she stands for in her own words
- “We've got our girl squad and we're bullying the ICE vehicles and state troopers” - Burning down a police station is justified - Metropolitan Nashville Police Department… pic.twitter.com/RE029aSTt3
Tomorrow is the special congressional election for district 7, so get out and vote for @MattForTN , his opponent is total lunatic who supports "police abolition" and every other woke word salad you can imagine
New Deep State Op Drops: Pete Heseth Said "Kill Them All" Just Like Colonel Kurtz, and US Planes Fired on Drug Boat Survivors Clinging to the Wreckage Like Heroes
—Ace
I missed this story, but someone I knew who spent the holidays with her liberal family said that CNN is pushing this latest op non-stop.
It has to do with the latest drug boat interdiction-by-missile.
There are two main hoaxes in this latest op. The first is that Pete Hegseth showed that he is a psychopathic dry-drunk unfit to serve by demanding that the military "kill everybody."
The second, pushed by deranged insurrectionist and future court-martial convict Mark Kelly, is that there is video of the survivors of the first missile strike clinging to the wreckage of the drug boat, but then the second missile ordered by Jack T. Ripper, I mean Pete Hegseth, murders them.
Here's the Washington Post -- not edited enough by centrist liberal Bari Weiss -- pushing the hoax, based on highly credible Unnamed Sources.
The Washington Post
@washingtonpost
Exclusive: Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth gave an order to "kill everybody" in the first strike on suspected drug boats in the Caribbean. After two men survived, the mission commander ordered a second strike to comply with Hegseth's instructions, according to two sources.
Hegseth order on first Caribbean boat strike, officials say: Kill them all
As two men clung to a stricken, burning ship targeted by SEAL Team 6, the Joint Special Operations commander followed the defense secretary's order to leave no survivors.
The longer the U.S. surveillance aircraft followed the boat, the more confident intelligence analysts watching from command centers became that the 11 people on board were ferrying drugs.
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth gave a spoken directive, according to two people with direct knowledge of the operation. "The order was to kill everybody," one of them said.
A missile screamed off the Trinidad coast, striking the vessel and igniting a blaze from bow to stern. For minutes, commanders watched the boat burning on a live drone feed. As the smoke cleared, they got a jolt: Two survivors were clinging to the smoldering wreck.
The Special Operations commander overseeing the Sept. 2 attack -- the opening salvo in the Trump administration's war on suspected drug traffickers in the Western Hemisphere -- ordered a second strike to comply with Hegseth's instructions, two people familiar with the matter said. The two men were blown apart in the water.
The article strains to insinuate that the "Kill everyone" order came after the first strike, with the express intent to kill the two alleged survivors clinging to the wreck, while soft-pedaling the actual claims made in this op, that the order came before any missile strikes at all.
There's also no context for the "kill everyone" order, if it was made at all. Here's some context I can imagine: Given resistance leftists and their determination to refuse to carry out "illegal orders" -- that is itself an op -- I can see leftist personnel objecting to the strikes entirely, saying "we should just stop the boats and arrest them" and an annoyed Secretary of War saying, "We have declared war on the narcoterrorists, and we kill people in war. You have your orders, kill everyone attempting to smuggle drugs into the US."
Or something like that.
The fact that this article provides no context for the alleged order strongly suggests that the context, were it supplied, would undermine the narrative being pushed. Propagandists don't leave out context which supports their propaganda messaging, after all.
Hegseth's order, which has not been previously reported, adds another dimension to the campaign against suspected drug traffickers. Some current and former U.S. officials and law-of-war experts have said that the Pentagon's lethal campaign -- which has killed more than 80 people to date -- is unlawful and may expose those most directly involved to future prosecution.
Which is the point of the Democrats' "Refuse to obey the chain of command" op.
And that's further context for the alleged order: Resistance leftists might say "But I am exposing myself to prosecution by AOC and Mark Kelly" and Hegseth might have responded, "You have your orders, you cannot be prosecuted for following a lawful order, I am ordering you to kill everyone on those boats. You have no legal liability."
The alleged traffickers pose no imminent threat of attack against the United States and are not, as the Trump administration has tried to argue, in an "armed conflict" with the U.S., these officials and experts say.
Well, if experts say....
Amazingly, even the New York Times points out that critical context for this alleged order is entirely absent from the hit piece. Even they seem to realize that this is likely yet another op.
The Times also points out that while the Post strains to link the order to the second strike -- they want to claim the second strike was an attempt to fulfill Hegseth's alleged order -- in fact there is no actual connection between the order and the second strike.
🚨 BREAKING: The New York Times reports that the story from The Washington Post that alleged that @PeteHegseth ordered narcoterrorists who survived an attack to be killed is *false*
From the article: "The Post article did not provide context on when Mr. Hegseth gave what its… pic.twitter.com/2XThgkYwC0
It is not surprising that the WashPost, which originated the Russia collusion hoax, the Kavanaugh hoax, and the first Trump impeachment hoax, would run another false info op. It IS a bit surprising that the NYT isn't going along with it in their normal manner.
"As usual, the fake news is delivering more fabricated, inflammatory, and derogatory reporting to discredit our incredible warriors fighting to protect the homeland," Hegseth wrote on X after the report dropped.
"As we've said from the beginning, and in every statement, these highly effective strikes are specifically intended to be 'lethal, kinetic strikes,'" the Pentagon chief continued. "The declared intent is to stop lethal drugs, destroy narco-boats, and kill the narco-terrorists who are poisoning the American people.
"Every trafficker we kill is affiliated with a Designated Terrorist Organization."
Echoing Hegseth, Pentagon press secretary Kingsley Wilson argued: "Every lethal kinetic strike against narco-terrorists is:1) Completely legal 2) Conducted against the operations of a Designated Terrorist Organization 3) In defense of vital U.S. national interests."
President Trump shared footage of the Sept. 2 attack -- the first of more than a dozen military strikes targeting suspected drug smugglers in the Caribbean Sea and Eastern Pacific -- showing only the first missile hitting the speed boat, and seemingly obliterating it.
Hegseth also denied the claim that there were any survivors clinging to the boat targeted by the second strike.
"The Biden administration preferred the kid gloves approach, allowing millions of people -- including dangerous cartels and unvetted Afghans -- to flood our communities with drugs and violence," Hegseth's post continued. "The Trump administration has sealed the border and gone on offense against narco-terrorists.
"Biden coddled terrorists, we kill them."
The war secretary argued that the strikes against suspected narcoterrorists, part of a campaign dubbed "Operation Southern Spear," are "lawful under both US and international law, with all actions in compliance with the law of armed conflict -- and approved by the best military and civilian lawyers, up and down the chain of command."
Democratic lawmakers vowed to investigate and prosecute anyone who gave "illegal orders" in response to the report.
"The idea that wreckage from one small boat in a vast ocean is a hazard to marine traffic is patently absurd, and killing survivors is blatantly illegal," Rep. Seth Moulton (D-Mass.), wrote on X. "Mark my words: It may take some time, but Americans will be prosecuted for this, either as a war crime or outright murder."
Rep. Eugene Vindman (D-Va.) warned Hegseth that he will be "held accountable for illegal orders you give.
Kelly continues breaking military law by telling military personnel they themselves can discern "legal" orders from "illegal" ones, despite the fact that the code of military justice says that personnel can only reject "manifestly" illegal orders and specifically tells them not to bring their own judgement to that question.
Sen. Mark Kelly Pushes Military Rebellion, Refuses Clear Answers on Drug Boat Strikes
Seditious Sen. Mark Kelly is digging his own hole, suggesting military personnel must decide in real-time whether to obey orders, even when illegal, during questioning with Kristen Welker.… pic.twitter.com/ZrYgXzRB07
Surgeons Removed His Cancers and Saved His Life. He, a "Transgender," Is Now Suing the Doctors for Having Questions About His Fake Gender.
—Ace
The transgender decided to make trouble by secretly recording the medical staff during his surgery so he could hear if the surgeons Failed to Correctly Gender Him when they were saving his life.
They did correctly gender him -- they called him a man, which he was and is and always will be. And at least part of this discussion was medically necessary, because his patient file stated, falsely, that he was a woman, whereas the correct designation was "transgender female." It actually matters whether you're a man or woman for diagnosis and treatment -- for example, if you're a man, you don't need a pregnancy test and the doctors can rule out lots of things that only affect women, or they can deprioritize testing for diseases and syndromes that affect women much more frequently than they do men.
The Times will eventually acknowledge that -- after first ginning up sympathy for this malignant ingrate.
The transgender found that the surgeons and nurses discussing his actual biological sex as they were operating on him and saving his life intolerable, and is now suing because he says that pretending to be a woman makes him feel "pretty" and helps his psychological health, and surgeons and nurses discussing his actual sex made him feel un-pretty.
As usual, substitute "he" for "she" in this article, and read "woman" as "fake woman."
Jennifer Capasso, a 42-year-old transgender woman, figured there was a good chance she would be dead within 18 months. Since her diagnosis of metastatic rectal cancer, her life had become a succession of treatments and surgeries as more tumors were found. On her liver, and her lungs, and her large intestine, and again on her lungs.
At her apartment in Long Island City, Queens, she read cancer research papers and estimated her chances of survival, updating the odds after each scan, each tumor, each treatment. She tried to remember exactly what her doctors had said, and the tone they had used.
It frustrated her that she was unconscious at the most crucial moments -- as the surgeon removed each cancerous mass. What if the surgeon said something important, a stray comment that no one bothered to tell her about after the anesthesia wore off? She decided to record her next surgery, on March 7, 2022, at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, the renowned Manhattan hospital.
"I wanted to know what's going on," she recounted. She turned on the audio recorder on her phone before the anesthesia hit. "Knowledge is power."
"I wanted to record TikTok 'misgendering crime' content during my lifesaving surgery so that I could shame and cancel the people who saved my life."
In case you live such a happy and non-mentally-ill life that you didn't know this, transgenders love staging confrontations with normal people they interact with and recording them misgendering them -- "correctly gendering," in reality -- for clout and to cancel the poor normies who struggle to deal with these lunatics.
The surgeon removed part of her lung. She did not get around to playing the recording until a few weeks later. Though the audio was muffled, she could follow some of what the surgical team was saying before the procedure began. Someone was going out for coffee -- did anyone want something from Starbucks? The conversation then shifted.
" -- still has man parts."
It seemed to Ms. Capasso that they were talking about her genitalia.
Actually they were talking about all of the parts of his body, because they're all man parts.
But yes, they were also noting that despite claiming to be a woman and wasting medical resources by demanding a pre-surgery pregnancy test, he still had his dick and balls. He wants the world to make maximum effort to pretend he's a woman while he himself takes minimum effort to actually appear to be a woman.
On the recording, the health care workers express a variety of opinions about transgender identity more generally. "Not that it's not right, but -- " one person can be heard saying. "I don't get any of it," another says.
Oh no, mentally healthy people do not "get" the delusions of mentally ill people.
And in the middle of the conversation, one person suggests updating Ms. Capasso's medical file. "Yeah, it needs to say 'male,'" the person says.
Ms. Capasso said it appeared that hospital staff had in fact changed her electronic medical records, all while she was unconscious.
Yes, they corrected it, because if the operation went badly, he could sue them for working from false medical records. As I said, it is medically important to know if the patient is a male or female. Apparently this man lied in his intake forms and put a false medical history into the system.
Hey, if you're falsifying records, why not also claim you have ovarian cancer instead of lung cancer? Why stop at one falsehood?
With her records now marked "M" for "male," some hospital staff members called her "sir" during weekly appointments for blood draws. Others made a big deal about her being transgender. One person, perhaps taunting her, perhaps trying to be supportive, said things like "Yes, queen" -- also unwelcome, Ms. Capasso said.
Ms. Capasso said that when she asked hospital administrators to switch the "male" designation back to "female," she received a surprising answer: It couldn't be done, not anytime soon. She recounted the interaction in court papers, part of a lawsuit she filed in March in State Supreme Court in Manhattan accusing the hospital of discrimination. Ms. Capasso's lawyers shared the surgery recording with The New York Times.
The hospital, in its own court filings, has denied discriminating against Ms. Capasso and suggested that Ms. Capasso's "secret" recording invaded the privacy of its health care workers. The hospital denies changing Ms. Capasso's sex designation in medical records and "denies that plaintiff has been misgendered and misidentified in all of her records since 2022." In response to questions from The Times about Ms. Capasso's lawsuit, Memorial Sloan Kettering said in a statement that it "does not comment on ongoing litigation."
Ms. Capasso said that long before she made the recording, she had experienced discriminatory treatment at the hospital.
The year before, during an endoscope exam of her rectum and colon, the colorectal surgeon kept referring to Ms. Capasso as "he" when mentioning her to other medical workers, Ms. Capasso said in an interview.
It was, she said, among the worst interactions she had experienced as a trans woman in years, resurrecting old anxieties.
Two Medical Journeys
Ms. Capasso began her gender transition in 2015, in her mid-30s. She formed a tight circle of friends, and was dating. Life made more sense to her.
And then, in 2019, she was diagnosed with cancer.
Over the years that followed, Ms. Capasso was on two medical journeys: one, at Memorial Sloan Kettering, to keep death at bay; the other, with a plastic surgeon's help, to look more feminine. Starting in 2021, she underwent a half-dozen procedures to feminize her face.
Her brow ridge was sanded down. Her orbital bone was shaved to give her eyes an upward tilt. Her square chin was softened. There were cheek implants. Changes to her nose, too.
"I needed radical surgical intervention," she said. And she wanted it fast. The clock was ticking, maybe not for much longer.
"I wasn't going to die looking like the way I looked, especially getting treated the way I was getting treated," she said. "Like, not a chance."
She had decided on an open-casket funeral.
"I was going to be a pretty corpse," she said.
Even while preparing for death, she found that the feminization procedures gave her more confidence. "I wanted to blend in and be able to go out in public and just kind of be ignored," she said.
Ms. Capasso believes that her transition -- and her new life as a woman -- is what has kept her alive.
But her newfound confidence was fragile.
Yes because you're attempting to live an easily-disproven lie and so you're always "fragile" because the slightest bump or jostle will burst your bubble of self-deception.
And you've decided to make this the world's problem instead of dealing with it on your own, with the help of a psychiatrist. It's the world's duty to lie to support your self delusion, not your duty to make yourself more resilient when your delusion is challenged.
Whenever she went to Memorial Sloan Kettering, she felt dread, and not only the mortal kind. "I was constantly being reminded, every time I went, that I am different," she said. "It immediately brought me back to earlier days when I was very visibly trans, and it was rough."
And that's the world's problem now, huh, Chief?
She had been asked to take a pregnancy test, a routine preoperative step for female patients. Even though she doesn't have a uterus, she had offered to do whatever was easiest.
"I don't want to go into the operating room with any bad vibe," she later explained.
They asked him to take a pregnancy test? That is doubtful. My guess is that he demanded one.
And if they did perform a pregnancy test -- that shows why you're not supposed to lie in your medical case file and provide doctors with 100% false information.
Part of the campus of Memorial Sloan Kettering is reflected in a window seen from outside.
In the recording, the health care workers can be heard reassessing how Ms. Capasso's medical records describe her. "It's not supposed to just say 'female,'" one can be heard saying. "It's supposed to say 'transgender female.'"
Correct.
"It's still wrong per se," someone says.
They might have been annoyed or alarmed that they had been tricked into ordering a medically-unnecessary pregnancy test, which could be a basis for a lawsuit from a mentally-ill patient with a litigious streak.
And either way, I think it's going to be hard to bill the insurance company (or Medicaid, more likely) for the medically-unnecessry test, so the hospital is eating that loss.
After the surgery, it was there every time Ms. Capasso logged into her online patient portal or looked at test results: "M."
Before, she had generally been listed as "F" or "female" on any form with a field for "sex" or "gender."
Ms. Capasso wondered who had made the change and why. It was around then that she listened to the recording. Her stomach dropped when she heard the discussion about marking her down as male.
His stomach dropped.
His stomach dropped like his balls dropped at age 9.
Health care workers debate whether their patient's medical records should be listed as "male" or "female."
According to her lawsuit, the "M" in her medical records changed her interactions with hospital staff. At imaging appointments and blood draws, staff members looked at her longer than they had before, struck by the dissonance.
"My name is Jennifer, I look the way I look and I sound the way I sound, but it says 'M' on there," she recalled. "You could see there was a little reaction."
She just wanted cancer care. "I don't want them concentrating on my transgender status," she said. "I'm going there for them to keep me alive, and hopefully cure me."
See, it's other people who are always focused on transgenders' sex. Not they themselves. You're the bigots, Racists.
In legal filings, Memorial Sloan Kettering states that "its records accurately reflect Plaintiff's sex assigned-at-birth as male."
"Such information is relevant to and necessary for the provision of standard-of-care treatment," the hospital stated in court papers.
Medical journals and research articles have emphasized that doctors should be fully aware of the anatomy of their transgender patients -- as well as the sex they were assigned at birth -- in order to screen for diseases such as cancer and to properly interpret lab results.
Transgender women, for example, are less likely than men to be screened for prostate cancer, although they can remain at risk, according to research studies.
When Ms. Capasso asked Memorial Sloan Kettering to change her designation back to "female," she was told it would take two or three years, according to her lawsuit. Administrators said that they needed to wait for new record-keeping software.
So you get sued if you do, and you get sued if you don't.
His cancer has returned and he has returned to the hospital that saved his life, which he is now spitefully, viciously suing.
And they're now complying with his demands to falsify his medical records.
This past January, nearly three years after her surgery, Memorial Sloan Kettering updated its electronic medical record system. Soon, Ms. Capasso began to see "F" and "female" on her records. She decided to pursue a lawsuit, she said, to help trans patients who came after her.
Her cancer has returned, and, in August, Ms. Capasso began a taxing round of radiation therapy to her lymph nodes. On a late summer afternoon, as she arrived for treatment, she tried to clear her mind of the worry she felt about both the cancer and how she would be received at the hospital as a trans woman.
She imagined she could gather up all the unpleasantness and anxiety and direct them, in a focused beam, to her tumors -- like a radiation beam.
She was back at Memorial Sloan Kettering, the hospital she was suing. She said she had chosen it in the first place because "they're the best." Her opinion of the hospital's cancer care hasn't changed.
"I'm still alive," she said. "I can't complain."
Transgenders, a tiny minority, have set upon a path of attempting to bully, coerce, and menace the vast majority into compliance, and it's working out for them about as well as you'd expect.
How is everyone? Where I am it's cold and wet but I think there'll be some sun later so I'll get out for my hike. Hopefully.
At what population density do immigrants retain their original culture, and have the ability to reject the culture of their "adopted" country?
If a small number of immigrants show up in a typical American city, they will be swamped by the tremendous cultural pressure of America. Some of their neighbors might be immigrants, but not from their home country. Their employers might be Americans, their children's teachers will probably be Americans, the advertisements they see, the music they hear, the food they see in most markets, all will be of their new country, or of immigrants from different countries and possibly radically different cultures.
But at some speed and density, the new immigrants will be able to recreate some of the conditions from their origin. If there are 50 people from country X, no ethnic food store will emerge to satisfy their demand for fried crickets or sheep's eyeballs or goat brains or.... But if 10,000 of them descend onto a neighborhood, then the demand can and will be satisfied. And not just food. Clothing, education, music, advertisements, religion, and on and on. Density and speed of the immigration will overwhelm even the power of American culture to assimilate.
And that is what happens when we prioritize a particular people for immigration to America. Somalia on the Mississippi exists because the desire to create a monolithic sub-culture that is insulated from the now defunct "Melting Pot," and can be manipulated for political ends, was far more important than the idyllic vision of vibrant immigrants enriching America while embracing our culture and political philosophy. Dearborn and Paterson exist because we have allowed our political class to create the conditions necessary for a permanent alien presence in America that conveniently votes for them!
That we have allowed these cultures to bring with them savagery, and even worse, an unadulterated contempt for everything that America and American Exceptionalism stands for is trivial to our political elites in comparison to winning the next election.
One of the most important structural changes that made these huge concentrations possible was the creation of the welfare state by the Democrats in the 1960s, ably and vilely led by the execrable Lyndon Baines Johnson. No longer did economics drive the desire to leave the inner city ghettos where most immigrants began their lives in America. Uncle Sugar made sure that they could remain with their fellow immigrants...forever! Section 8 housing, government housing, generous welfare payments, and other massive redistributionist policies allowed oceans of American tax dollars to flow into these areas, so that the voting blocs grew, but their morphing into Americans never happened.
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Good morning kids. As per yesterday's post about President Trump calling for Bro-Fo Omar to be stripped of citizenship and deported, despite being absolutely justified is likely a non-starter for a number of reasons. But that said, one has to ask why President Trump is wont to make these sort of statements. Does he do it just to stir things up, knowing that nothing will ever come of them? It does shine a very bright light on a do-nothing Congress, even if it is controlled by the GOP (I didn't use the term "his party" as it really isn't), and a bureaucracy and judiciary that is controlled by his bitterest enemies. The salient point is that by his making these kind of statements, he puts the issues and the bigger picture out into the broader public discourse and that to me is something that very few if any politicians on our side have ever done. Trump doesn't give a damn about how it looks, so long as he gets a broader point across and that ultimately in the long term if not short term I think will have a salutary effect on our government and society at large.
President Donald Trump recently offered yet another devastating characterization of one of the Democrats’ legion of America-Last, far-left politicians. All of Trump’s rhetorical cylinders were firing as he gave us this: The worst “Congressman/woman” in our Country, Ilhan Omar, always wrapped in her swaddling hijab, and who probably came into the U.S.A. illegally in that you are not allowed to marry your brother, does nothing but hatefully complain about our Country, its Constitution, and how “badly” she is treated, when her place of origin is a decadent, backward, and crime ridden nation, which is essentially not even a country for lack of Government, Military, Police, schools, etc.” The “swaddling hijab” business is a nice little nod to the Christmas season, and while this is Trump at his most acidic, there is no denying any of it. In fact, Ilhan Omar herself has made it clear more than once that she has little but contempt for the land that welcomed her and her family and gave them refuge from her violent, anarchic, war-torn homeland.
And so it goes. Obviously the leftist propaganda press as is their wont and mission will do everything to shield the President's targets and in turn attack him, his allies and agenda. While we must do all we can to be on guard from the foreign born invaders hell bent on taking us down, what in Heaven's name can we do to eradicate the equally lethal, if not more deadly threat, from the enemies within who are not foreign born but whose mindset, beliefs and goals are as devastating as Afghani gunmen or Saudi/Eguptian airplane hijackers. Back to you, Mr. President:
Referring to Holder by the nickname “FAST AND FURIOUS,” invoking the Obama-era gun-running scandal, Trump warned that Holder “emphatically stated, above all else, that Democrats will PACK the Supreme Court of the United States if they get the chance.” According to Trump, Holder supports not just a minor expansion, but an increase to “21 Radical Left Activist Judges,” up from “the heretofore 15 that they were seeking.”
For those who are unaware, and if you've been coming to the Ace of Spades HQ for any length of time, you certainly know what the President is referring to. but for the sake of clarity, "Fast and Furious" was a highly illegal and horrendously evil scheme cooked up by Obama and Holder to run guns into Mexico so that the criminal element there would cause such bloodshed and havoc that Obama and Holder would use the carnage to attempt to whip up public outrage here on this side of the border, and create a groundswell of public opinion to abolish entirely or render ineffective our Second Amendment right to keep and bear arms.
TPUSA Frontlines reporter Julio Rojas covered a protest in Mexico City on Thursday in which Mexican citizens denounced the presence of the cartel in their country and the failures of President Claudia Scheinbaum’s administration in sufficiently addressing it.
The protests took place at the Angel of Independence Monument in the Zocalo in the Historic Downtown Neighborhood. According to the US Embassy in Mexico, the march coincided “with the Mexican Revolution Commemorative Military Parade, which begins at 10:00 am at the Zocalo and ends at the Revolution Monument.”
Other actions from the Mexican government are also being criticized in protests that have been ongoing throughout the past week; several of these protests are being attended by younger citizens, rallying against corruption and other “injustices” from the government, leading news outlets to call it a “Gen Z Uprising.”
The most extraordinary thing about the confrontation that wrongly sent Ian Cranston, an unassuming young man in glasses, to prison for a decade, is that there was very little argument over the facts because they’re amply documented and were caught on video.
The prosecution admitted that Cranston was assaulted by Barry Washington Jr: a violent criminal who had been harassing his fiancée. The assault by Washington was severe enough that Cranston looks battered in his booking photo, suffered a brain injury, and had to be taken to the hospital for evaluation.
Before Ian Cranston shot Washington in self-defense, the drunken violent criminal had not only attacked him, but also his fiancée, and had punched another of Cranston’s friends in the nose.
The only reason a case that normally should never have even come to trial not only did, but led to an innocent man being locked up for ten years was due to the deadliest three letter acronym.
BLM.
BLM and Antifa of course are the unofficial/official brownshirt/black mob stormtroopers of the Democrat Left. And considering this case is unfolding in Oregon, which is and has always been a safe haven and a home base for the most violent of Antifa Leftist political terrorists. It is essentially Gaza on the Willamette, If Cranston is exonerated it will be nothing short of a miracle. In any case, this is how vigilante death squads and Star Chambers are born. Add to this the case of Daniel Penny and what was done to him and the families of victims of illegal aliens who went unpunished as well as what’s happening in Britain with the Islamic rape gangs that will one day perhaps soon be coming here . . . and voila, the USA goes third world.
The Free Speech Union warns the United Kingdom risks losing “a check on governmental power and arbitrary justice” in “the biggest assault on our liberties in 800 years” if the government is able to push ahead this week with plans said to be looking at abolishing the right to a trial by jury in all but the most serious cases, such as murder, rape, terrorism, and others. For many other criminal cases where defendants face considerable jail time, the chance to have their guilt assessed by their peers hangs in the balance as Justice Secretary David Lammy looks for a cut-cost way to clear a backlog in cases, and the Union warns freedom of expression cases are particularly threatened.
So much for packing the Court, eh Holder? Hell, just do away with trials altogether!!! And as far as all but the most serious cases, they mean the ability to go after the political enemies of the Left and ultimately Islam. Oh there will be courts and trials, all done according to SHARIA law.
And as Bro-Fo, Mamdani and the Afghan assassin in DC show, it's coming here . . FAST and FURIOUS, so to speak.
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Glenn H. Reynolds: Tuesday is a big day for Tennessee, and for the closely divided US House of Representatives. Democrats have been vowing to turn red states blue, and last month’s elections gave them some hopeful signs, thanks largely to revved-up urban voters. This week a special election in Tennessee’s 7th District, pitting GOP military veteran Matt Van Epps against far-left candidate Aftyn Behn, will show them just how far their base can take them. Going by conventional wisdom, this should be a walkover for Van Epps: The district leans Republican by 10 percentage points, and Van Epps’ policy positions echo those of the previous incumbent, former Rep. Mark Green, who resigned in July to launch a new business. Too-close Tennessee election warns GOP: Damning the left isn’t enough
CIVIL WAR 2.0, LEFTIST PERSECUTIONS, DEMOCRAT PUTSCH, AMERICAN DISSOLUTION
A coordinated bid to tell troops to distrust their Commander-in-Chief reveals how far some lawmakers will go to erode military discipline and destabilize the constitutional order. Principled Cowardice and the Seditious Six
Referring to Holder by the nickname “FAST AND FURIOUS,” invoking the Obama-era gun-running scandal, Trump warned that Holder “emphatically stated, above all else, that Democrats will PACK the Supreme Court of the United States if they get the chance.” According to Trump, Holder supports not just a minor expansion, but an increase to “21 Radical Left Activist Judges,” up from “the heretofore 15 that they were seeking.” Trump: Eric Holder’s Court-Packing Scheme Will ‘Destroy Our Constitution’
The U.S. needs immigrants and refugees who share American values and are willing to assimilate into the Golden Age of America, not try to transform it. (As mythological a creature as Bigfoot or a 'Palestinian'; better we should deprogram native-born lefties - jjs) Vetting Aliens from Third World Countries
In addition to retaliating against whistleblower, Tim Walz disempowered the Office of the Legislative Auditor, allowing agencies to disregard their audit findings and guidance. Media and politicians supporting Tim Walz or the DFL-agenda attacked whistleblowers who were trying to raise red flags on fraudulent activities. Minnesota DHS Workers Blame ‘Dishonest’ Gov. Tim Walz for Massive Fraud: ‘100 Percent Responsible’
A federal appeals court upheld a decision Monday finding Alina Habba is disqualified from serving as U.S. Attorney for the District of New Jersey. The Third Circuit Court of Appeals agreed with the defendants who argued that her appointment was unlawful. Appeals Court Upholds Decision Disqualifying Alina Habba
The epidemic has spread like wild-fire. Jew-Hate and Medical Personnel(In the immortal words of Lord Olivier as Dr. Christian Szell DDS, “IS IT SAFE?!” - jjs)
The liberal secularist values of the Fifth French Republic look set for a collision course with the burgeoning Muslim population, which has been imported mainly from France’s former colonies in the Maghreb region of North Africa. Seven in Ten French Voters Would Back Ban on Islamic Veil in Public: Poll
Murdered by her Muslim father and brothers in an 'honor' killing. Where are the West's feminists? Remembering Rayan Al-Najjar
FIRST AMENDMENT ISSUES, CENSORSHIP, FAKE NEWS, MEDIA, BIG BROTHER TECH
RED-GREENS, CLIMATE CHANGE HOAX, DEMOCRAT-LEFT WAR ON FOSSIL FUELS,
Just weeks after 50,000 people flew to the COP30 climate summit in the Brazilian city of Belém and agreed to agree on nothing other than the need for more meetings, the U.N. is welcoming upwards of 600 “experts” in France to prepare yet another report on “climate change.” Airports Alerted: U.N. Hosts Yet Another Fly-In Climate Doomer Conference
EDUCATION, AND WHAT PASSES FOR IT
It means that taxpayers will no longer pay for degrees that don't meet certain criteria. And if they do meet that criteria, there is a cap on how much the taxpayer will provide. That's all. Capping student loans isn't sexist, it's common sense
Tuesday, Dec. 2, will determine whether America’s crisis pregnancy centers can operate freely or whether politicians in pro-abortion states can continue to harass them with lawfare. Tuesday the Supreme Court will hear oral arguments in First Choice Women’s Resource Centers, Inc. v. Platkin. Pregnancy Center Lawfare: Will the Supremes End This?
DEMOCRAT/LEFTIST AND RINO SCANDALS, MESHUGAS, CHUTZPOCRISY
Abigail Spanberger, the Democratic governor-elect of Virginia, says she’ll govern as a pragmatic moderate — while pursuing a $15 minimum wage, constitutional protections for same-sex marriage and voting rights for felons. (Evil filthy degenerate slag. Congratulations, Virginia - jjs) Abigail Spanberger Pledges ‘Pragmatism’ — And Felon Voting Rights
Zelenskyy’s visit to Paris followed a meeting between Ukrainian and U.S. officials in Florida on Sunday, which Secretary of State Marco Rubio described as productive. The two sides have worked to make revisions to a proposed U.S.-authored plan that was developed in negotiations between Washington and Moscow but criticized as being too weighted toward Russian demands. Zelensky and Macron Meet in Paris Again Amid Peace Talks Flurry
This story however highlights a positive aspect of these new constellations. Just as Russia can’t be prevented from obtaining black market terminals, neither can the oppressed citizens in totalitarian nations like Russia and China be blocked as well. These constellations as designed act to defeat the censorship and information control of such nations, a very good thing.
Russia still using black market Starlink terminals on its drones
The head of the Catholic Church is on the second leg of his first international tour in that position, traveling to Lebanon after a first stop in Turkey for events commemorating the 1,700th anniversary of the Council of Nicaea, in which early Christian leaders agreed on the major tenets of the faith. In Istanbul, the pope addressed Turkey’s miniscule Christian population – ravaged by genocides throughout the 20th century – and offered them encouragement, urging them to use the “true strength” in the “logic of littleness” that they possess to thrive. Pope Leo XIV Suggests Leaders Should Discourage Migration in Lebanon Speech: Building Homeland ‘Very Valuable’
The man who once seemed a phantom operating globally could, under maximum pressure, become the key witness who finally brings the entire silence-driven structure crashing down. German Financial Scandals Turn Hot
HEALTH AND HEALTH CARE
Americans import more and more ultra-processed foods from China every year, but its track record on product safety is hardly comforting. How the Chinese poison pet food
One fact must be recognized, based on the red tape and delays experienced by SpaceX during the Biden junta. Had Kamala Harris and the cadre that ran the White House under Biden had been in office now, this approval would almost certainly have not happened, or if it did, it would have likely been delayed for a considerable amount of time, into next year at the earliest. It is certain that Trump is clearing the path to prevent red tape and the administrative state from slowing things down unnecessarily.
SpaceX gets Air Force approval to launch and land Starship/Superheavy at Cape Canaveral
Ali’s rant came days after Trump vowed he would end “third world migration” to the United States in the wake of West Virginia National Guard Specialist Sarah Bergstrom and West Virginia Air National Guard Andrew Wolfe being attacked at the Farragut West Metro Station in Washington, D.C., roughly a mile from the White House. Ali claimed on his Substack during a livestream of “The Left Hook” that Trump was doomed to failure. ‘Your Culture Sucks’: Wajahat Ali Attacks White Americans, Brags ‘Brown People’ Are Breeding In Bizarre Rant
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Rather than rapidly expanding facilities, we will pursue a strategy of maintaining long-term profitability. We will minimize the risk of oversupply through a capital expenditure (CAPEX) strategy that balances customer demand and pricing.
Translation: All our competitors tried this and went broke in the last "boom-and-bust" cycle. We don't plan to go broke.
Attempts to recreate it exactly as Fleming described it - with the Petri dish contaminated with mold after the bacterial samples were placed - fail. But if the contamination happens before or at the same time, the results can come out pretty much as stated, under the right conditions. It's particularly temperature-dependent.
And it turns out that right when Fleming went on his week's vacation leaving his experiment unmonitored, there was a cold spell that put conditions right in the path of a happy accident.
If that is how it worked out, there was even more luck involved than we thought.
The Atlantic is complaining about the ill-considered use of AI in higher education, which is fair enough. They are not complaining about all the other self-inflicted metaphorical head wounds in academia, which is less fair.
That mountain is 5,249 feet high, and it is so short in comparison to the mountains of the western United States that I can't even find it on a ranking list! It's a great hike during the summer, but since it is in the White Mountains, which is smack dab in the middle of weather that originates in Northern Canada, it can be miserable and dangerous any other time of the year.
Interestingly, the top of the mountain is in an Alpine Zone, which means the weather is so crappy that only small plants grow. No trees!
And for you layabouts and slugabeds, unlike Mount Washington, there is no road, so you will have to get off the couch and walk! But it is worth it...the views are wonderful, especially if you like fog and low clouds. Yeah; I would wait for good weather before climbing it.
This is from the mostly wonderful Daniel Greenfield. And even he doesn't get the whole picture! These so-called "Afghan allies" of ours when we were in that 3rd-World Sh*thole country weren't doing it out of some desire to assist America, or to bring enlightened Jeffersonian democracy to Afghanistan.
They assisted American armed forces because we were the power in the country, and they knew that aligning themselves with America would allow them to conduct their own vendettas under our shield. These people are tribal, and have no sense of patriotism. They are loyal to family, clan, tribe...and nothing else.
They are also savages with no respect for human life. That they are murderers in the Western sense isn't just unsurprising, it should be expected!
The whole idea of leaving Afghanistan was that Afghans would no longer be able to kill Americans. But Biden’s disastrous Operation Allies Welcome program turned the problem on its head by bringing 100,000 Afghans to America. The previous distribution of visas to Afghan 'allies' handed out over 50,000 SIV visas to supposed allies. Those unwise moves brought Afghan terror to America. And now our soldiers are fighting Afghans in the streets of D.C.
Instead of leaving Afghanistan, we imported it to America, now it's time to deport it back.
This is the existential fight, and America isn't even aware that it is in a battle!
Every bit of the culture these people brought to America is antithetical to everything that America is based upon, and everything that we have created over the last 250 years. There is no way to find some common ground with them, because they are a binary society...it is them or us!
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Okay, maybe I am on a bit of a Steve Earle kick, but I think he is a solid musician and singer.
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Oh, what the hell, let's stick to the very general genre of country! Or Country Rock.
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Podcast: Sefton is back with CBD to discuss killing narco-terrorists (we are both for it!), the TN special election, Trump's communication skills, and more!
Incumbent Senator John Cornyn (RINO - TX) betrayed his party and his country by voting in favor Biden's Afghan resettlement bill in 2021. Cornyn voted to bring in the Afghan who shot two National Guard soldiers on US soil. A vote for Cornyn is an endorsement of importing unvetted, radicalized murderers. [Buck]
Podcast: Jim Lakely of Heartland Institute joins CBD for a discussion of their recent polling that shows a majority of 18-39s want socialism, the Epstein files, what will Mamdani do, and more!
Podcast: Buck Throckmorton joins us for a wide-ranging discussion about the cultural and business shift away from the insanity of EVs and Climate Religion, his calm perspective on last week's election, Tucker is a toad, and more!
Our Favorite British Couple Exploring True America Experiences Flora-Bama And Sees A Side Of The Deep South Rarely Seen. [dri]
Tucker Carlson claims that it's weird that Ted Cruz is interested in the massacre of Christians by Nigerian Muslims, because he has "no track record of being interested in Christians," then blows off the massacre of Christians by Nigerian Muslims, saying it might or might not be a real concern Tucker Carlson enjoys using the left-wing tactic of "Tactical Ignorance" to avoid taking positions on topics. Is Hamas really a terrorist organization? Tucker can't say. He hasn't looked into it enough, but "it seems like a political organization to me." Are Muslims slaughtering Christians in Nigeria? Again, Tucker just doesn't know. He hasn't examined the evidence yet. He knows every Palestinian Christian who said he was blocked from visiting holy sites in Bethlehem, but he just hasn't had the time to look into the mass slaughter of Christians in Nigeria that has been going on since (checks watch) 2009. He doesn't know, so he can't offer an opinion. Wouldn't be prudent, you know? Don't rush him! He'll sift through the evidence at some point in the future and render an opinion sometime around 2044. Of course, if you need an opinion on Jewish Perfidy, he has all the facts at his fingertips and can give you a fully informed opinion pronto. Say, have you ever heard of the USS Liberty incident...? You'd think that the main issue for Tucker Carlson, who pretends to be so deeply concerned about Palestinian Christians being bullied by Jews in Israel (supposedly), would be the massacre of 185,000 Christians in Nigeria itself. But no, his main problem is that Ted Cruz is talking about it, "who has no track record of being interested in Christians at all." And then he just shrugs as to whether this is even a real issue or not.
Whatever we do we must never "divide the right," huh?
Tucker is attacking Ted Cruz for bringing the issue up because he's acting as an apologist for Jihadism, and he can't cleanly admit that Jihadists are killing any Christians, anywhere. There is no daylight between him and CAIR at this point.
One might conclude that Tucker Carlson himself isn't interested in the plight of Christians -- except as they can be used as a cudgel to attack Jews. Just gonna ask an Interesting Question myself -- why is it that Tucker Carlson's arguments all track with those shit out by Qatarian propaganda agents and the far left? That if Jews crush an ant underfoot it is worldwide news, but when Muslims slaughter Christians it elicits not even a vigorous shrug?
