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March 21, 2025

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—Ace

Epic Posts Daily @WallaceBeaufort
This stunning photo by Giorgia Hofer captures the position and phases of the Moon above the Cridola Group peaks in the Italian Alps during a synodic month

Dolphins dropped by to say hi to the astronauts abandoned by Biden and rescued by Trump and Elon Musk.

Sneezey the Tiger.

Thundering cuteness.

"Tiger Mom" Golden Retriever.

Hawk lands on a parachuter's helmet mid-fall.

I've linked this before, but: man takes his hawk out for a drive-and-fly.

The insane (medieval) engineering of Venice. The video says that because the piles that support the city are completely underwater, they are protected from rot and most of the piles are the same ones that were first pounded into the ground a thousand years ago. Wait -- wood doesn't rot underwater? What about barnacles and stuff?

An absolute mob of camels migrates along the beach.

Speaking of mobs: a mob of roo's invades Hole 12.

ICYMI: Camel tries to make frenz with a pack of horses.

Duck has a crush on a cow.

Bioluminescence.

The alpaca's name is Poochie.

Very deceptive picture -- no, those aren't black horses. They're the shadows of zebras you can't even see until you look real hard for them.

Border collies absolutely flying under stormy skies.

Dog enjoys a baby's toys.

Woman rescues a dog.

Water spout. The top just kinda curls off into nowhere.

This is why you shouldn't bother buying toys for cats.

Posted by Ace at 07:38 PM Comments

The Week in Woke

—Ace

End Wokeness @EndWokeness
FBI Top 10 Most Wanted:

2023: 1 caught in the entire year
2024: 0 caught in the entire year
2025: 3 caught since January 20th

The FBI caught a lot of grandmas in red hats, though!

End Wokeness
@EndWokeness

Illegal migrants released at the border by Border Patrol after apprehension:

February 2024: 76,924
February 2025: 1

Yes, you read that correctly

Gunther Eagleman @GuntherEagleman
JUST ANNOUNCED: Approval ratings for the Democrat Party falls even further, from 29% to 27%.

Hate and violence is not working

Former Howard Stern intern is disgusted by Stern's craven embrace of wokeness.

Shock jock Stern was a different person back when Grillo, now 58, worked for him in the 90s on New York's WXRK station.
Pre-woke, decades before he did softball interviews with Joe Biden, Stern's politics leaned Republican.

"He definitely got George Pataki elected Governor [of New York in 1995] and he was a big [Rudy] Giuliani supporter," said Grillo. "It's gross to see what he's turned into. I think it's quite pathetic, to be honest."

Grillo is referring to Stern's 180 in terms of his political standing, "At some point, his brain flipped," he said. "I think it has to do with the people he associates with. He's in the [left wing] herd, and he doesn't want to upset them. Now he's friends with all these A-listers, people like Jimmy Kimmel. If he goes up against them, he's going to get kicked out of the club. He used to make fun of all those celebrities," who Grillo counts as fair game due to their public profiles.

Ironically, one person Stern did not mind going up against was Donald Trump. "Trump and Howard were friends, they talked all the time," said Grillo. "Then Howard turned on his friend."

Periodically men of a certain age (those of us nearly 29) bemoan Stern's transformation. I heard Anthony Cumia recently talking about it, how Stern used to be funny, and how he turned into everything he once hated.

Is it time to ask the question: Was Stern ever actually funny? Does anyone still recite Stern bits? Does anyone watch the old clips?

I sure thought he was funny for about ten years. So it's kind of hard for me to say that I was wrong, he was never funny.

Still: What legacy does this ugly Gollum leave? Butt Bongo Fiesta?

Healthy-At-Any-Size Pro-Obesity Self-Diagnosed Anorexic Tess Holliday is fitter than any normal-sized person and her obesity doesn't hamper her in her rigorous exercise routines.

Also, she's now hospitalized after tearing a ligament in her knee. Ligaments get torn when too much strain is put upon them, which is obviously something that her obesity had nothing to do with. She says she's surprised it turns out that you can tear a knee ligament just for having the "thickest, juiciest ass." Her knee ligaments, sadly, were not thick and juicy enough to support her weight.

A very lovely lady fears that Trump will ban all books and albums.

A US judge has ordered a school to put pornographic books back into its library so that children can learn how to give oral sex to adults.

An MGM Casino marketing official admitted to a James O'Keefe undercover report that he would illegally hire people based on race.

Trans activists are shocked and appalled by a spa's locker room policy, which consists of the draconian rule that people with female genitals use the women's lockers and those with male genitals us the men's. The trans activists are aghast, and say, "So you want a man in the woman's room?" By which he means, a woman dressed as a man.

Noted Genius Don LeMon states that "People love AOC, people love Jasmine Crockett, people love Eric Swallwell," and the Democrat Party should put these beloved figures on all the Sunday shows to increase the Democrats' appeal to moderates.

Shakespeare's home town of Stratford-on-Avon has been pressured into changing its exhibits to push "diversity" and to attack Shakespeare as a beneficiary of white privilege.

Here's Google's Woke AI summing it up:

The Shakespeare Birthplace Trust in Stratford-upon-Avon is working to "decolonize" its collection and create a more inclusive museum experience, acknowledging concerns that Shakespeare's legacy might perpetuate white supremacist narratives and examining the impact of empire on its holdings. Here's a more detailed explanation:
The Issue:

Scholars and critics have raised concerns that the continued veneration of Shakespeare, particularly within a Western-centric context, risks reinforcing white supremacist narratives and overlooking the contributions of other cultures and perspectives.

The Response:

The Shakespeare Birthplace Trust, which owns several buildings in Shakespeare's hometown and a collection of personal documents, has pledged to develop a more inclusive museum experience.

Key Actions:

Examining the Impact of Empire: The Trust plans to analyze the ongoing impact of empire on its holdings and acknowledge how colonialism has shaped global historical narratives.

Removing Offensive Language: The Trust is working to remove any language or depictions that are racist, sexist, homophobic, or otherwise harmful from its collections.

Shifting Perspectives: The Trust is moving away from a solely Western perspective and aiming to present a more diverse and inclusive understanding of Shakespeare and his works.

Acknowledging Multiple Authors: Researchers have urged the trust to stop referring to Shakespeare as the "greatest" writer and to recognize him as part of a group of "equal and different" international authors.

A trans activist photographed itself replacing hand sanitizer with testosterone gel in women's bathrooms in a women-only gym, to forcibly dose normal real women with male hormones and trans them against their will.

Chris Hanson caught an illegal alien in his latest Catch-a-Predator sting.

Colleges take young at-risk women and turn them into unemployable, unmarriageable miserable government-dependent maniacs.

Michele Obama debuts her new look. Surprise, she looks like an ugly man.

Absolutely disgusting fatbody incel sticks his fingers up xis ass repeatedly and then wipes it on a car, presumably a Tesla.

Posted by Ace at 06:30 PM Comments

Snow White Opens With a Soft $3.5 Million In Its Opening Day Premiere

—Ace

You might think that kids wouldn't show up for Thursday night "previews" so this number is pretty good.

But the Thursday "preview" for this film began at 2pm. And it's Spring break, so kids were at home.

It's a meh opening at best.

Snow White Opens 46% Worse Than The Marvels in Thursday Preview Box Office--Legacy Media Scrambles to Spin It as a Win
The numbers are in, and they're damning. Disney's troubled live-action Snow White remake earned a paltry $3.5 million in Thursday box office preview showings. That figure alone would be embarrassing for any Disney tentpole, but when you stack it against Marvel Studios' widely panned flop The Marvels, the situation becomes downright catastrophic.

The Marvels, which has become a cautionary tale within the Disney machine, still managed $6.5 million in Thursday previews. That's nearly 46% higher than Snow White's opening night take. And what happened to The Marvels after that soft start? It went on to open to just $46 million and earned just $206 million worldwide through its entire run. The film was universally recognized as one of the studio's biggest box office flops.

Now imagine what lies ahead for Snow White--a film burdened with an eye-watering $250 million-plus budget, a wave of bad press, a Rotten 46% critic score, and a lead actress who has alienated large swaths of the audience.

Yet if you're reading outlets like The Hollywood Reporter, Deadline, or The Wrap, you'd think Disney is on the verge of another Frozen-level success.

Each outlet has rushed out glowing headlines, bending over backward to spin the disastrous opening. THR even had the audacity to call the $3.5 million haul "promising," while comparing it to the underwhelming $2.8 million preview of Dumbo--a film no one considers a success story. It should be noted Dumbo had a budget of just $170 million. The failure of Dumbo was so extreme that Tim Burton stopped making movies for five years after its release, effectively ending his long-standing relationship with Disney.

In other words, outperforming Dumbo is far from the symbol of excellence the mainstream access media wants you to believe it is.

A post-showing polling firm found that only 39% of those coming out of the theater would "definitely recommend" it to friends and family, a poor score indicating that this movie will probably do poor business in its second and third weeks as word-of-mouth spreads.

Disney engaged in deceptive propaganda by inviting its hand-picked shills to see the movie and post early "social media reactions." The media spun these not-quite-reviews from hand-picked shills as great news for the movie. They put an embargo on actual reviews from non-hand-picked reviewers until the last possible second.

But then the actual reviews started coming out.

The Snow White shill brigade isn't going to like this. Disney's Rachel Zegler-led Snow White remake splatted onto Rotten Tomatoes today and the results were far less flattering than the glowing social media reviews of just a few days ago.
The embargo has lifted, and the truth is finally out: Disney's live-action Snow White has officially earned a rotten rating on Rotten Tomatoes, clocking in at a dismal 49%. It's a brutal wake-up call, especially when contrasted with the studio's carefully controlled early social media reactions that bizarrely labeled the film a "triumphant return to form" for Disney and called Rachel Zegler a "super nova."
Snow White Rotten Tomatoes

This sharp drop in critical reception highlights exactly why Disney delayed lifting the review embargo until just 24 hours before release. The studio knew the real reviews would paint a far less flattering picture than the hand-picked influencers and Disney-friendly outlets who showered the film with premature praise.

Here's just a sampling of what critics on Rotten Tomatoes had to say about Snow White.

Odie Henderson, Boston Globe:
"I had high hopes that *Snow White* would make me happy. Instead, this dopey remake made me sleepy and grumpy."

DarkSkyLady, Nerdist:
"With an uneven combination of forgettable music, bland choreography, and few genuine laughs, Snow White fails to find and maintain its footing."

Joonatan Itkonen, Toisto.net:
"This is a film that tries very hard to not take risks or even acknowledge that risks exist. The result is a hodgepodge of awful CGI, contrived new songs, and a story full of plot and lacking in substance."

Abe Friedtanzer, Awards Buzz:
"This reimagining of a story everyone knows lacks imagination, essentially translating a solid text with the least possible creativity and depth."
Even Positive Reviews Are Barely Positive

Perhaps more telling is how lukewarm even the positive reviews are. The majority of them boil down to "Well....it's not the WORST thing I've ever seen..."

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These Snow White Rotten Tomatoes reviews are certainly a far cry from the over-the-top praise shouted by early social media reviewers who gushed about Zegler's performance and positioned the film as a triumphant return to form. Now that the embargo has lifted, it's clear that those early reactions were more about access and optics than honest critique.

Even hard left outlets are panning the film:

The BBC softly praises the movie as, get this, "not calamitous."

With its creepy CGI dwarfs and muddled tone, Disney's latest live-action remake is "not calamitous" but is a "a mind-boggling mash-up".
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The good news for the studio is that the film itself is not so calamitous. It's not the worst of the studio's live-action remakes (that's Robert Zemeckis's straight-to-streaming dud, Pinocchio), and while it's not the best, either, it's undoubtedly the most fascinating. What's so unique about Disney's Snow White is that it seems as if some of the producers wanted to make an old-fashioned tribute to a feudal fairy tale, and the others wanted to make a revisionist, Marxist call-to-arms. Rather than settling on one option or the other, the producers apparently compromised by making both versions at once, so the results are like a mind-boggling mash-up of two different films.

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The film's split personality problems don't go away. Half of it is set in a grimy, gloomy land where Snow White wants to foment a peasants' revolt and restore a socialist utopia, but half of it is set in a chirpy, brightly-coloured fantasy realm of benign and beautiful aristocrats. Half the time, the characters are belting out overwrought, self-empowerment anthems by Benj Pasek and Justin Paul, the songsmiths behind The Greatest Showman. But half the time they're trilling the jaunty 1937 ditties by Frank Churchill and Larry Morey.

Perhaps we should appreciate the value for money: the studio is in effect giving us two films for the price of one.

The Guardian:

Snow White review -- Disney's exhaustingly awful reboot axes the prince and makes the dwarves mo-cap
With tiresome pseudo-progressive additions that tie the whole thing in knots, this is a waste of estimable entertainers like Rachel Zegler and Gal Gadot

John Sexton posts some more reviews:

To start with, the reviews aren't good. This is currently at 45% among reviewers which suggests this never really had a chance of being something people wanted to see. Let's just start with the top critics. One of the problems many reviewers mention is the look of the dwarves. Here's how the Globe and Mail review put it:
Grumpy, Doc, Sleepy, Dopey -- they're all highly unnerving spoonfuls of nightmare fuel, their dead-eyed compositions resting somewhere deep inside the uncanny valley of CGI artifice.

The new film ditches some of the classic songs and changes up some of the ones that remain. The Austin Chronicle wasn't impressed.

Which is more astounding? That Disney let Pasek and Paul, the team behind the widely loathed Dear Evan Hansen, write more songs? Or that even they could somehow massacre seemingly indestructible classics like "Heigh-Ho" and "Whistle While You Work" with terrible new arrangements and asinine new lyrics?

And then of course there's the politics which clearly pervade this remake or reimagining. Here's a paragraph from the Wall Street Journal:

The songs "I'm Wishing" and "Someday My Prince Will Come" have been cut; the big what-she-wants number near the outset is called "Waiting on a Wish." Instead of longing for true love (=fairy tale), Snow White hopes to sharpen her leadership skills (=M.B.A. program). And she keeps talking about a more equitable distribution of wealth in the kingdom she is destined to rule...

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The Times of London review is brutal when it comes to Disney's politics-first approach:

this Snow White, cooked up by The Amazing Spider-Man director Marc Webb and umpteen screenwriters (including Greta Gerwig and Jez Butterworth) through a near decade's development, emerges as the epitome of Disney's Pravda-like approach to contemporary adaptation -- prescriptive politics first, followed by "inspirational" messaging, followed by more politics. And drama? And story? And character? Nope. These are, it seems, decadent tools of the oppressor.

Of course that approach works for some reviewers. Enter the Washington Post:

"Snow White" feels fresh enough to pass, and it's certainly not the disaster a lot of people seem to have hoped for. The kids and their parents will like it, and girls and boys of all ages might even welcome a Snow White who slightly more actively resists a dictatorial ruler and brings her squabbling, divided countrymen together.

"Not the disaster a lot of people seem to have hoped for." Put that on the poster!

Why are even leftwing reviewers panning the movie? I think they've been carrying water for Disney for years, because Marxist Solidarity demands they defend the woke propaganda company from the critiques of The Deplorables. But all through this ten years of claiming that every shitty, soulless, passion-free, low-effort corporate cashgrab movie was a terrific has gotten to them. Since corporations went woke and Marxists, leftwingers have been in the strange position of defending mega-corporations from the people. And they weren't just defending a mega-corporation, they were defending empty, stupid exploitations of old IPs, which also rankled their Marxist hearts.

I think it's like claiming that Biden is physically and mentally fit and wearing out his 20-something-staffers: They feel compelled to lie for the Great Marxist Cause but years and years of lying gnaw at them. They're getting tired of having to lie on behalf of a mega-corporation, and are starting to sprinkle some truth in with their lies.

Leftwingers, with their skinnyfat arms and sunken chests, can only carry water for a little while before they have to push their covid mask above their noses and catch a breath.

Posted by Ace at 05:30 PM Comments

Quick Hits

—Ace

The Bidens have thought about what the American public craves, and what they've decided is that America just wants more Biden Cowbell!

David Strom quotes NBC "News:"

WASHINGTON -- Former President Joe Biden has told some Democratic leaders he'll raise funds, campaign and do anything else necessary for Democrats to recover lost ground as the Trump administration rolls back programs the party helped design, according to people close to him.
Biden privately met last month with the new Democratic National Committee chairman, Ken Martin, and offered to help as the party struggles to regain its viability amid polling that shows its popularity has been sinking, the people said.

So far, Biden's overture seems to have fallen flat. Democrats find themselves adrift, casting about for a compelling messenger.

Whoever that is, it's not Biden, many party activists and donors contend. He's tethered to the 2024 defeat and, at 82, is a symbol more of the party's past than its future, they argue.

"Who's going to want Joe Biden back in the game?" said a major Biden supporter, speaking on condition of anonymity to talk candidly about him.

Strom also writes that transgender violence is a real and growing concern, and that we must no longer be silent about it.

Gay-coded deserter and Chinese Agent Tim Waltz also believes that the Democrat Party needs him, too. Here he argues that abolishing the Department of Education will bring back Jim Crow, the Democrats' favorite stupid thing to say.

Karolien Leavitt wants to know what American students have gotten out of three trillion dollars in DOEd funding.

UFC star Connor MacGregor officially announces his candidacy for president of Ireland. Ireland needs a hero.

John Sexton points out that "Obama's Brain" Ben Rhodes -- the man who created the leftwing media "know nothing" Echo Chamber to sell the Iran Nuclear Deal -- is now admitting that a lot of the Democrat Party's current problems stem from their constant lying about Joe Biden's mental fitness.

The hard truth is that the Democratic Party, in its current form, cannot lead the opposition that is required. Faced with a relentless onslaught from Mr. Trump, the party has lost touch with an electorate that sees it as emblematic of what they hate about politics, a polarized culture, overseas commitments and an economy where being middle class doesn't feel like enough to get by.
The party has a credibility gap rooted in its initial willingness to support Joe Biden's decision to run for re-election while warning that the stakes were existential. If that was the case, then why ignore the overwhelming majorities of Americans who believed that he was too old to run, and choose loyalty to a Washington stalwart over the country's appetite for drastic change?

We are living through the reckoning of defending the status quo.

Even CNN is tired of Gavin Newsom's lies as he attempts to distance himself from unpopular woke positions he's long championed, but now claims he never endorsed.

Since launching his new podcast two weeks ago, Democratic California Gov. Gavin Newsom has taken aim at a number of causes popular among progressives: He's rejected the term "Latinx," said he doesn't back trans women competing in women's sports, and suggested he opposes taxpayer-funded gender transition surgeries for prisoners and detained immigrants.
His more than 20-year political record in California tells a much different story.

Newsom has repeatedly used the term "Latinx," a gender-neutral term referring to people of Latin American descent. He's also supported a number of policies over the years expanding transgender rights, including those for undocumented immigrants and even signing into law a bill acknowledging prisoners' need for gender transition medical care.

Now, in the aftermath of the 2024 election, with the Democratic Party facing record low favorability numbers, Newsom appears to be disavowing some of these positions as he wrangles with conservatives on his new podcast, "This is Gavin Newsom."

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The problem for Newsom is that he's spent his career staking out progressive positions on a host of issues that are seen by some as part of his party's weakness. In 2004 as the mayor of San Francisco, Newsom notably defied court orders by issuing same-sex marriage licenses establishing him as a progressive standard-bearer.

As lieutenant governor in 2014, Newsom celebrated California's new law allowing trans student athletes to compete in sports that align with their gender. He then applauded the failure of a Republican-led campaign to repeal the law.

As governor in 2020, Newsom signed a landmark bill expanding rights for transgender prisoners, allowing inmates to be housed based on their gender identity rather than their sex assigned at birth and acknowledging their need for gender transition care.

California's Medicaid program, which now covers undocumented immigrants in the state through an expansion approved under Newsom in 2021, also provides taxpayer-funded gender transition surgery, according to a 2022 memo from the state-run health provider.

Later, in 2022, Newsom praised Utah Republican Gov. Spencer Cox's statement vetoing a trans sports ban.

"Your governor said it right when he said, 'Never has so much fear and anger been focused on so few people,'" Newsom said of Cox's statement vetoing the bill.

Now, facing a shifting political landscape, Newsom is distancing himself from those progressive policies he once recently championed -- though not acknowledging his own role in supporting and advancing them.

In response to questions from CNN, a Newsom spokesperson declined to comment on the record but defended the governor's record on transgender youth, citing his past efforts to expand protections for transgender individuals.

On the first episode of his podcast Newsom proclaimed, "Not one person ever in my office has ever used the word Latinx," he said, dismissing the term as an "out-of-touch fixation."

"Where did that even -- I just didn't even know where it came from," he added.

In fact, someone in his office repeatedly used the term: Newsom himself.

As governor, Newsom invoked "Latinx" in press briefings in 2020, and social media posts from his personal and official X accounts when highlighting issues affecting Latino communities.

"I hope we can really paint a picture in terms of our consciousness of how impactful this has been on the Latinx community," Newsom said at one Covid-19 briefing.

In 2023, he attacked Republicans for "banning the word 'Latinx'" instead of focusing on gun control. In 2020, he warned that COVID-19 was disproportionately impacting the "Latinx community" and announced $52 million in state funds to combat rising cases.

CNN airs compilation of Gov. Newsom using the word LatinX after he claims nobody did

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— End Wokeness (@EndWokeness) March 21, 2025

A 2024 poll by the Pew Research Center found the term Latinx to be broadly unpopular among Latino adults in the US. Only 4% say they use the term to describe themselves, and 75% of Latinos who have heard of the term say it should not be used to describe the Hispanic or Latino population.

A spokesperson for Newsom told CNN that Latinx is "not a term that is regularly used by the Administration.

Just as Newsom has tried to distance himself from "Latinx," he is now trying to cast taxpayer-funded gender transition surgeries for prisoners as a political loser.

Also on the first episode of his podcast, Newsom dismissed the issue as a "90/10" debate--suggesting it was overwhelmingly unpopular.

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Yet the policies Newsom is condemning are currently the law in California. Legal challenges and a court order made California in 2017 the first state to provide a state-funded transition surgery for an inmate, when Newsom was the state's lieutenant governor.

Later in 2020, Newsom signed the landmark Transgender Respect, Agency, and Dignity Act, which further cemented those rights -- requiring that transgender prisoners be housed according to their gender and acknowledged their need for access to transition-related healthcare.

"Some transgender, nonbinary, and intersex people experience gender dysphoria that requires medical treatment, while others do not experience gender dysphoria," the law states. "Due to safety concerns, inconsistent medical and mental health care, insufficient education and resources, and other factors, incarceration often serves as a barrier to gender transition."

At the same time, California extended taxpayer-funded gender-affirming care to undocumented immigrants in the state because of the state's Medicaid expansion that was signed by Newsom's predecessor, Democratic Gov. Jerry Brown in 2015 and then-expanded under Newsom in 2021.

Newsom's spokesperson declined to comment on the state's transgender policies, saying, "The Governor's comments speak for themselves."

That is true. That is true.

Shock -- BLM radical Cori Bush's husband engaged in fraud.

BLM radical? Fraud? This cannot be!

JUST IN: Former Rep. Cori Bush’s husband indicted for wire fraud, accused of submitting false applications to receive COVID relief funds.

Shocker!

The development comes following a separate investigation where Bush is accused of paying her husband $150,000 to serve as her… pic.twitter.com/eVypHMLg2F
— Collin Rugg (@CollinRugg) March 20, 2025

Head AFT childless lesbian non-teacher political hack Randi Weingarten is once again lying about having fought to open schools in April 2020.

She actually pressured the CDC to change its reopening guidelines to make them almost impossible to meet -- to keep schools closed indefinitely.

And she has a long, remorseless history of fighting to keep children uneducated so that fatassed teachers could skip out on work and do "Zoom classrooms" in their pajamas.

🚨RANDI WEINGARTEN: THE IDEA THAT WE WANTED SCHOOLS TO REMAIN CLOSED IS A "REPUBLICAN TALKING POINT!"

"COVID was a terrible time for us...I wanted schools to be reopened as early as April of 2020."

"This has been a Republican talking point for a long time." pic.twitter.com/y03BRtbTG5
— Townhall.com (@townhallcom) March 20, 2025

Karol Markowicz @karol
CDC was going to change idiotic 6 foot rule to only slightly less idiotic 3 foot rule, largely allowing schools in blue areas to reopen. CDC met with Randi, were convinced to keep it at 6 feet. Kids still haven't recovered. You're not going to get to lie about this.

Leftist terrorists are going to start catching hands -- or catching something worse.

Woman falls on her face after trying to grab a MAGA hat from a man’s head in New York.

“He’s a racist!”

Instant karma. pic.twitter.com/Y9RXATSrpc
— Collin Rugg (@CollinRugg) March 21, 2025

Who supports President Trump? pic.twitter.com/OHLETIy7EJ
— Brick Suit (@Brick_Suit) March 21, 2025

Why do leftwing AWFLs believe they can put hostile hands on men and not get the entitlement slapped out of them? Legally, if you commit an assault, your victim has the right to use physical force in return.

A man hunted down and stalked a Tesla driver and cut her off to yell at her that she’s driving a Nazi car and must sell it. This happened in Seattle

This is what Democrats are inciting
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— Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) March 21, 2025

Close it up

Posted by Ace at 04:20 PM Comments

Alec Baldwin's Fake Hispanic Wife Cucks Him on Worldwide Television, Tells the World that the Actor Once Prosecuted for Manslaughter Lies Incessantly and Shouldn't Be Believed

—Ace

Noted Ladykiller Alec Baldwin has a new reality show on TLC, presumably because he's now uninsurable and unable to get hired to act. He actually shows his seven children on camera because that's very healthy for their development, as his Selfish Little Pig Daughter can tell you.

In what may or may not be an attempt to stir controversy to get people to notice this show is even on the air, his Fake Spanish Wife Hilarious cucked him publicly.

Megyn Kelly points out that Hilarious says not to believe anything Alec Baldwin says about anything except history, because he "just makes it all up." This is at 6:00 in the below clip.

(Personally I'd guess he also lies about history, but Hilarious is stupid and ill-educated so she can't say for sure that he is lying when he makes up a historic "fact.")

Alec Baldwin claimed that he never pulled the trigger when he shot Helyna Hutchins to death.

And here's his own wife -- or should I say, muher -- telling the world they shouldn't believe anything Baldwin says because all he does is lie.

"If you look carefully, he's actually blinking S.O.S in Morse code, he wants to get out..."@itslinklauren and @HollywoodinToto on Alec Baldwin shockingly dressed down by wife Hilaria on red carpet.

Watch below:https://t.co/F96HgI7HIW pic.twitter.com/qv21YoLDqD
— The Megyn Kelly Show (@MegynKellyShow) March 20, 2025

What price will the Hilaria Baldwin Dead Pool open at? You know he's going to kill her, right? He's got a taste for taking women's lives now and he's surprised to discover how right it feels.

Hilarious doubles down on henpecking Alec.

Hilaria Baldwin has vowed to never let anyone speak for her again, days after she scolded Alec for interrupting her on the red carpet.
The couple's marriage was thrust into the spotlight this week when a clip of Hilaria snapping at her husband 'When I'm talking, you're not talking', went viral.

Seemingly doubling down on her remarks, Hilaria, 41, sat down for a chat with Today where she expressed her frustration at not being able to voice her thoughts.

Discussing why the Baldwins opened up their home for a new reality series, she explained: 'Since I met Alec a lot of people have spoken for me, have taken my narrative. I don't want that anymore.

'This is an example for my children to hold your head up high and take control of your own narrative and we did it during a very vulnerable time.'

The family filmed the series amid Alec's involuntary manslaughter trial over the fatal shooting of Rust's cinematographer Halyna Hutchins.

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Unsurprisingly the now viral clip raised questions about their marriage, with many condemning her behaviour.

But 'fireworks' are the norm, according to sources close to the fiery couple who dismissed the humiliating interaction as nothing more than 'banter.'

'That was a true reflection of their relationship,' an insider told Daily Mail. 'They test each other. It may have looked concerning to some, but it was all playful banter.

'There is no harm. They both have strong personalities and that's why they're attracted to one another.

'Alec finds Hilaria captivating and he loves that she can take his humor because Alec is never reserved in anything he does and vice versa.

For some, the thought of constant tussles with a partner is exhausting, but not for the A-list couple who reportedly 'love challenging one another.'

'Don't get it twisted, there are always fireworks between them, it is what makes them tick. They love challenging one another.'

She accused Baldwin of "manterrupting" her. Greg Gutfled joked that "manterrupting" is better than man-slaughtering.

Close it up

Posted by Ace at 03:34 PM Comments

Jimmy Kimmel, Jasmine Crockett, and the Lincoln Project's Rick Wilson All Call for Political Violence

—Ace

Scott Jennings writes about the left inciting terroristic violence.

[T]his is deadly serious because the hysteria driving the critics of the President and Elon Musk is disturbing and dangerous.
On Tuesday, I had the pleasure of debating this topic with former Biden White House official Neera Tanden over on CNN. When given the opportunity to unequivocally denounce recent violence and vandalism directed at Musk's company Telsa, Tanden deflected and dissembled.

'Anyone who commits violence against Tesla or Congress or anyone else should be put in jail 1,000 percent, but that should not stifle dissent or opposition to Elon Musk,' she said.

Of course, Tanden points to the January 6 riots -- a shameful day that I have condemned at every chance -- because she would rather debate a strawman than face facts.

The truth of the matter is that mobs are not descending on Capitol Hill any longer - they're targeting Telsa. And Tanden won't clearly condemn it.

In cities across the country, Tesla vehicles, dealerships and charging stations have been vandalized, firebombed, shot at and otherwise attacked.

On Wednesday, a website - that I will not name - reportedly published the personal information of Tesla owners and an interactive map that uses an image of a Molotov cocktail as a cursor.

President Trump has labeled the violence as domestic terrorism and I couldn't agree more. But flip on your TV sets and you'll hear America's leading liberals reveling in the mayhem.

Take Minnesota Governor Tim Walz, the hapless buffoon who recently ran for vice president on Kamala Harris's 2024 'Joy' campaign.

'I'm not a vindictive person or anything, but I take great pleasure in the fact that [Musk's] life is going to get very, very difficult,' he admitted during a town hall event on Tuesday.

There's a word for taking pleasure in another person's pain: sadism.

During Tim's rant, he pulled out his iPhone to reveal that he has belatedly added a stock widget to his home screen so he can watch Tesla's recent declining stock values - he said it gives him 'a little boost.'

(For the record, while Telsa stock has fallen in recent weeks, it is still trading above its price just five months ago and is worth more than General Motors.)

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President Trump has labeled the violence as domestic terrorism and I couldn't agree more...

Far worse than Walz's hypocrisy is the fact he is justifying a manic anti-Telsa frenzy.

On Tuesday, late night 'comedian' Jimmy Kimmel cheered Tesla's recent stock drop (as his leftist audience applauded wildly). Then he stared into the camera and said -- with all the sarcasm he could muster -- "Please don't vandalize... don't ever vandalize Tesla vehicles," pausing dramatically to make sure you got the joke.

To me, his message was clear, ABC's Kimmel endorses the criminal destruction of Telsa cars.

Kimmel stared into the camera and said ¿ with all the sarcasm he could muster ¿ 'Please don't vandalize¿ don't ever vandalize Tesla vehicles,' pausing dramatically to make sure you got the joke.

For sure, the Left has condoned destruction when it suited them in the past -- whether it was justifying the violence of the George Floyd riots, or harassing Trump officials in public, or censoring speech on social media. And just as they smeared Trump as a dictator and a Nazi -- claiming he would cancel all future elections if he won and that he would tear up the US Constitution -- Elon now faces the wrath of Leftists who don't consider the consequences of their rhetoric.

'People are legitimately upset,' said Tanden on CNN.

Perhaps, but there's nothing 'legitimate' about domestic terrorism.

If Democrats can't summon the courage to say that then they have no business calling themselves patriots.

The Reaping Phase @AceofSpadesHQ
very serious and important question for you, @KrystalBall and all the other neolib revolutionaries. I have a strong disagreement with you. Do I and other MAGA voters have a right to set your cars and businesses on fire? Let us know so we can all play by the same rules.

The Reaping Phase @AceofSpadesHQ
The days of the left's claim to the exclusive right to political violence are OVER, @KrystalBall. If political violence is permissible, you better believe the right will partake in the orgy of arson and assault.

So choose carefully if you really want a civil war.

I don't like to talk about political violence, and I have avoided it before. But now "respectable" members of the media left are calling for political violence and it's time to go on the record:

The left is going to protect its terrorists. When they ago to trial, leftwingers will indulge in jury nullification and let their terrorists free to terrorize again.

They will cheer this as a victory. In fact, they will have engineered a bloody defeat.

Tokyo Rose was not "protected" just because she was part of the media. She was a propagandist for an enemy. The propaganda officers of a terrorist army are valid targets in war.

Media types who sign on to be the propagandists of domestic terrorists are themselves enemies and therefore #Eligible for the same treatment they urge for their enemies.

This is a delicate moment. I warn the left: You are not immune. If you call for domestic terrorism, you are yourselves perfectly valid, #Eligible targets for the same criminal behavior.

Either we all agree that political violence is unjustifiable in all cases, or we all agree that political violence is justifiable in all cases.

The left has made its choice. I warn you that the right is considering a very similar choice.

Lefty media types assume they're somehow untouchable. They're not. They're ringleaders. If the left imagines that they can agitate for their antifa Street Militias to beat up conservatives and destroy their property and set fire to their businesses again, and the right will meekly take it as we took it in the Summer of Love, I am providing them with the vital intelligence that We are no longer submitting to your reign of violence peaceably.

We also can stage "fiery but mostly peaceful 'protests.'"

Remember that your hero, the DEI president Barack Obama, used a drone strike to assassinate an American citizen for propagandizing for terrorism. Not actually committing it by his own hand, but by cravenly urging others to do his bloody work for him.

He was deemed a valid target in warfare. His American citizenship did not protect him, nor did his nominal claim to be a "political commentator."

It's important to let the left know what the New Rules are: what is sauce for the goose is sauce for the gander.

I know what the left believes: They have used their propaganda powers to establish the double-standard that the left is justified in burning down car dealerships and entire neighborhood whereas the right should be sent to prison for ten years merely for "parading in a public place."

But the left must understand: Your propaganda powers are at their lowest level in all of history. Witness the election of Trump 2.0.

We are done with the "domestic terrorism for thee but not for me" regime.

You are playing an extremely dangerous game. I think you have the right to be warned of the danger you're placing yourselves in.

Please desist from the path of madness and violence you're on or you will find the right joins you on this bloody path.

Is that what you want?

Everyone on the right has a Little List. Do you really want us to start checking people and businesses off our Little Lists?

War is easy to get into and hard to get out of. Please stop before we stop asking you to stop and simply embrace the #NewRules you've created.

The left seems to think they're the only ones "smart" enough and "brave" enough to embrace political violence. I've got news for you: A lot of us on the right have been thinking about this too.

Abandon your belief that you, the weakest and poorest-armed people in the country, can impose your will on the rest of the country through domestic terrorism, or get ready for the right to start taking their own trophies.

And get ready for "respectable" voices on the right to do exactly what you're doing -- making excuses for domestic terrorism or even actively encouraging it.

Posted by Ace at 02:23 PM Comments

Trump Strikes Agreement With Paul, Weiss Law Firm, with Firm Agreeing to End All DEI Practices and Donate $40 Million in Pro Bono Services to Causes Trump Chooses

—Ace

Hello everyone. I hope you're all doing well.

Paul, Weiss acknowledged the wrongdoing of its former partner Mark Pomerantz, who was a key instigator/plotter of the Alvin Bragg fake charges against Trump in the Stormy Daniels matter.

President Donald Trump has reached a peace deal with a prominent law firm, agreeing to lift a punitive executive order in exchange for concessions that include an agreement to do pro bono work on behalf of conservative causes.
The White House said in a social media post Thursday that it would rescind the executive order Trump imposed March 14 on Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison as part of a broader assault on law firms he viewed as antagonistic.

Paul, Weiss pledged to abandon diversity policies and to provide free legal representation equivalent to $40 million for clients with a "full spectrum of political viewpoints" to include the president's antisemitism taskforce, "fairness in the justice system" and "other mutually agreed projects," according to the post.

Paul, Weiss had no immediate comment but the White House included a statement from the firm's chairman, Brad Karp, in the announcement.

"We are gratified that the President has agreed to withdraw the Executive Order concerning Paul, Weiss," Karp said. "We look forward to an engaged and constructive relationship with the President and his Administration."

The agreement removes the immediate threat to Paul, Weiss from an order that would have sharply limited its ability to interact with government agencies and its access to government contracts -- actions that a federal judge said in a similar case involving another firm appear to violate the Constitution.

I'm worried about the part of the agreement about $40 million for pro bono services for Trump's favored causes. That's not a direct personal benefit, but it is an indirect personal benefit. I think Trump made a mistake in agreeing to that or asking for that.

It feels like a trap to me. A judge will overturn this agreement and use that part of it as proof that Trump is weaponizing government for his own benefit. I wonder if Paul, Weiss offered that themselves, knowing it was a Poisoned Apple that Trump should not take.

Trump issued the executive order to punish Paul, Weiss for its past association with Mark Pomerantz, a former partner who investigated Trump's finances and payments to porn star Stormy Daniels for the Manhattan District Attorney's office. The lawyer ultimately resigned after District Attorney Alvin Bragg chose not to pursue charges.

"The President is agreeing to this action in light of a meeting with Paul, Weiss Chairman, Brad Karp, during which Mr. Karp acknowledged the wrongdoing of former Paul, Weiss partner, Mark Pomerantz, the grave dangers of Weaponization, and the vital need to restore our System of Justice," the White House said in the statement.

Posted by Ace at 01:18 PM Comments

Biden Hired a DEI Fake "Physicist" Whose Major Research Was Into the Dangers of "White Empiricism"

—Ace

This is DEI.

A professor of physics and gender studies who has argued that "white empiricism" undermines Einstein's theory of general relativity now sits on a top physics advisory panel within the Department of Energy, raising questions from fellow scientists about the panel's integrity and providing a potential target for the Trump administration as it seeks to stamp out DEI within the federal government.
Chanda Prescod-Weinstein, a cosmologist at the University of New Hampshire who has suggested that string theory "failed to succeed" because the field has too many white men, was appointed to the High Energy Physics Advisory Panel (HEPAP) under the Biden administration in 2024. The panel advises the Energy Department on research and funding priorities for particle physics, giving it significant say over which projects receive federal support.

String theory failed because there was never any empirical evidence for it and in forty years of spending billions, no one has found any. The theory is a math-only, paper-only "theory" that is endlessly mutable. Every time a very expensive test rules out one configuration of string theory, they just change some of the formulas and champion this "new" model of string theory.

It's a 40-year hole we've been digging.

But for this DEI racist -- it's just that "White men" were doing the research into it, not brilliant Strong Empowered Feminist Grifters like herself.

Prescod-Weinstein will remain on HEPAP until 2027 unless the Trump administration takes action to remove her. Her role at the Energy Department has rankled some scientists, who say that an institution tasked with directing federal research should not be advised by a woman who, in one 2020 paper, wrote that "Black feminist theory intersectionality should change physics."

Prescod-Weinstein's "scientific accomplishments seem modest and her racialist and sexist view of science, combined with her uniquely destructive activism, ought to be disqualifying," said Sergiu Klainerman, a mathematician at Princeton University who studies the theory of general relativity. "It seems to me incredible that she has a voice on important decisions concerning the DOE physics division."

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She first raised eyebrows in 2020 when she argued that a culture of "white empiricism"--in which "only white people" are deemed capable of objectivity--"undermines a significant theory of twentieth-century physics: General Relativity."

Now get ready for her to expose herself as an idiot grifter: This woman, who is now a high-ranking official in the DOE's high-energy physics department, has a grade-school level of what "relativity" means. She thinks it means what all freshmen non-science-majors thinks it means, which is that "we're all equal" or some bullshit.

I would like to put her under oath and force her to answer actual scientific questions about the theory. I don't think she could answer the most basic ones.

Einstein's theory is rooted in the "idea that there is no single objective frame of reference that is more objective than any other," Prescod-Weinstein wrote in Signs, a gender studies journal published by the University of Chicago. "Yet the number of women in physics remains low, especially those of African descent ... Given that Black women must, according to Einstein's principle ... have an equal claim to objectivity regardless of their simultaneously experiencing intersecting axes of oppression, we can dispense with any suggestion that the low number of Black women in science indicates any lack of validity on their part as observers."

In other words, if a black woman knows nothing at all about relativity or even high-school level physics, her opinions about it are just as important as those of an actual specialist in relativity.

Because, see, the theory of relativity just means that We're All Equal or something.

Later in the paper, Prescod-Weinstein blamed racism and sexism for the slow pace of scientific discovery in physics. "String theory has failed to succeed in expected ways," she said, "because the community--which is almost entirely male and disproportionately white relative to other areas of physics--is too homogeneous."
The argument attracted widespread ridicule from other scientists, including New York University's Alan Sokal, the physicist who famously conned an academic journal into publishing a paper arguing that quantum gravity was socially constructed.

Prescod-Weinstein "fails to note the most obvious explanation" for string theory's morass, Sokal wrote: "String theory has failed to succeed in expected ways because the problems being studied are extraordinarily difficult."

Well, and also, string theory has not produced a single accurate prediction nor resulted in any theory that advanced any other science or technology.

Sokal, of course, hoaxed leftwing gender ideology journals, like the one that published this grifter know-nothing's musings. From Wikipedia:

The Sokal affair, also known as the Sokal hoax, was a demonstrative scholarly hoax performed by Alan Sokal, a physics professor at New York University and University College London. In 1996, Sokal submitted an article to Social Text, an academic journal of cultural studies. The submission was an experiment to test the journal's intellectual rigor, specifically to investigate whether "a leading North American journal of cultural studies--whose editorial collective includes such luminaries as Fredric Jameson and Andrew Ross--[would] publish an article liberally salted with nonsense if (a) it sounded good and (b) it flattered the editors' ideological preconceptions."
The article, "Transgressing the Boundaries: Towards a Transformative Hermeneutics of Quantum Gravity", was published in the journal's Spring/Summer 1996 "Science Wars" issue. It proposed that quantum gravity is a social and linguistic construct. The journal did not practice academic peer review at the time, so it did not submit the article for outside expert review by a physicist. Three weeks after its publication in May 1996, Sokal revealed in the magazine Lingua Franca that the article was a hoax.

The hoax caused controversy about the scholarly merit of commentary on the physical sciences by those in the humanities; the influence of postmodern philosophy on social disciplines in general; and academic ethics, including whether Sokal was wrong to deceive the editors or readers of Social Text; and whether Social Text had abided by proper scientific ethics.

She's a "physicist" who can't be published in an actual journal of physics, just in "gender ideology" journals riffing pottishly about relativity meaning that everyone's opinion matters, man.

After the 10/7 Hamas slaughter and rape terror campaign, she of course accused Israel of genocide. I guess "relativity" proves that all methods of conducting war are equally valid, man.

Fire them all. All of them. The entire government exists now only to pay off otherwise-unemployable Democrat polemicist and actual anarchist revolutionaries.

Posted by Ace at 12:03 PM Comments

THE MORNING RANT: Periodic Roundup of the EV Follies – 3/21/2025

—Buck Throckmorton

*****

Ford’s External Combustion Vehicle Nightmare

The rolling debacle of everything associated with Ford’s electric vehicle agenda just keeps getting worse. Its flagship EV, the F150 ~~Conflagration~~ Lightning pickup truck, has just been recalled again, for the usual reason…

“Ford Recalls F-150 Lightning Over Fire Risk” [KBB – 3/07/2025]

Ford’s EVs aren’t the only thing burning. So is its cash.

You know how the EV fanatics love to toss the word “sustainable” around. Do Bill Ford and CEO Jim Farley not understand that the EV losses they keep piling up year after year are not sustainable? Ford lost another $5.1 billion on its EV program in 2024 after losing $4.7 billion in 2023, and it’s now projecting a $5.5 billion loss in 2025 from its EV division. Something that cannot go on forever will stop. Either it stops because Ford goes broke, or it stops when someone says, ”Enough.”

There has got to be some adult supervision somewhere in the Ford boardroom who will tell Farley and Ford that they gave it their best shot, but it’s now time to, ahem, pull the plug on this 21st century E-dsel.

*****

The EV Death Pool

I never even got around to entering Canadian school bus manufacturer Lion Electric into my EV death pool, but it is already circling the drain. Unfortunately, it didn’t cease to operate before sucking up $160 million in US tax dollars, compliments of Joe Biden and Kamala Harris.

Top Biden EV Bus Maker Nears Bankruptcy, Leaving School Districts and Tens of Millions of Taxpayer Dollars in Limbo [Washington Free Beacon – 02/07/2025]

The Biden administration awarded Canadian electric bus company Lion Electric nearly $160 million to manufacture hundreds of battery-powered buses for school districts nationwide as part of its sweeping climate agenda. In recent weeks, Lion has initiated bankruptcy proceedings, laid off all employees tasked with building its buses, and paused manufacturing operations.

There are dozens of school districts across the country still waiting on delivery of their Lion EV school buses.

Lion's financial demise leaves dozens of school districts—including those in California, Montana, North Dakota, Iowa, Alabama, and Maryland—questioning whether they will receive the buses the Biden administration promised them. Lion has yet to deliver $95 million worth of electric buses to 55 districts across the country…

The school districts that didn’t take delivery of Lion’s electric buses are actually the lucky ones. The school districts that got hurt the worst are the ones that took delivery of these barely operational abominations.

School districts could get a free Lion electric bus through the Biden EPA’s “Clean School Bus Program” for each functioning diesel school bus they disposed of. Now those school districts are without the functioning buses they got rid of, while also stuck with inoperable Lion electric buses.

“Maine’s Lion Electric school buses have been a disaster. What’s next?” [CentralMaine.com – 01/27/2025]

This woman proudly standing (cackling?) in front of a Lion electric school bus is not the President of the United States, for reasons including her support of “venture socialist” boondoggles like the one that sent taxpayer dollars to Lion Electric for inoperable EV school buses.

[h/t to Mike J.Y. (@MichaelinMI on Twitter) for reminding me to post about Lion Electric.]

*****

Trump’s EPA is Beginning “The EV De-Transition”

This is why I voted for Donald Trump…

“Trump EPA begins rolling back Biden EV ‘mandate’ in ‘biggest day of deregulation in American history’” [NY Post – 3/12/2025]

President Trump’s Environmental Protection Agency began the process Wednesday of rescinding vehicle fuel efficiency standards that Republicans have called a de facto “electric vehicle mandate,” The Post has learned.
An administration official said dozens of additional regulatory rollbacks loomed on what would be “the biggest day of deregulation in American history.”

This is also why I voted for Trump…

“The General Services Administration is shutting down its EV chargers, calling them ‘not mission critical’” [The Verge – 3/11/2025]

The General Services Administration (GSA), which manages buildings owned by the federal government, is planning to shut down all of its electric vehicle chargers nationwide, describing them as “not mission critical.” The agency, which manages contracts for the government’s vehicle fleets, is also looking to offload newly purchased EVs.

All the “true conservatives” of Conservative, Inc. who were working to defeat Donald Trump were also therefore working to perpetuate the EV mandates and keep taxpayer subsidies flowing to the EV hustlers.

*****

A Democrat Senator is also De-Transitioning from EVs

Sen. Mark Kelly is having a snit fit about Elon Musk, so the Democrat senator just announced that he’s de-transitioning from his electric Tesla to a big, gas-guzzling SUV. I consider this to be an endorsement by Sen. Kelly for an end to all EV mandates and incentives.

Mark Kelly Shows Off His New Gas-Guzzling Chevy Tahoe After Ditching Tesla Over Elon Musk https://t.co/CbrF2pN6e9
— Mediaite (@Mediaite) March 17, 2025

It’s also noteworthy that Mark Kelly is a former astronaut, and at the exact same moment that Elon Musk was rescuing fellow astronauts who had been stranded in space for almost a year, Sen. Kelly was having a tantrum about Mr. Musk. Quite the team player there.

*****

A Dummkopf and His Money Are Soon Parted

Three years ago, Porsche was rolling in the dough, producing record revenue, profit, and unit sales. In a press release exactly three years ago touting the company’s blowout financial performance, the company also announced that it was boldly going in a new direction – almost all-electric.

“Porsche's ambition for 2030: More than 80 percent all-electric new vehicles” [Porsche Newsroom – 3/18/2022]

Nothing that followed is a surprise…

“Porsche Sales Are Falling, Here's Why: Porsche's best-selling vehicle is going electric at a very bad time for EVs” [Motor 1 – 11/09/2024]

“Porsche sees market value cut in half amid billions in EV losses” [Straight Arrow News – 02/10/2025]

Earlier this month, Porsche announced that it will also be taking a $21.7 Billion loss for its investment in VW, which is also going through a crisis related to its regrettable commitment to the EV transition.

*****

If We All Drove EVs, the Introduction of ICE Vehicles Would Be a Revolutionary Improvement

I’ve often joked that outside of the boutique automotive niche captured by Tesla, EVs are a solution in search of a problem. The funny thing is that if we were all driving EVs, the introduction of internal combustion vehicles would revolutionize driving and provide a solution to so many problems inherent to EVs.

To that point, Mr. CBD sent me this quote: ”Imagine we lived in a world where all cars were EVs, and then along comes a new invention, the ‘internal combustion engine!’ Think how well that would sell: A vehicle half the weight, half the price that will almost quarter the damage done to the road. A vehicle that can be refueled in 1/10th of the time and has a range of up to 4 times the distance in all weather conditions. It does not rely on the environmentally damaging use of non-renewable rare earth elements to power it, and it uses far less steel and other materials. Just think how excited people would be for such technology. It would sell like hotcakes.”

Indeed, ICE cars provide the solution to the nightmare that the EV-mandaters are trying to push on us.

*****

Sustainable Organic NPR Listeners Don’t Buy Maseratis

“Maserati kills electric version of MC20 supercar for lack of demand” [ARS Technica – 3/07/2025]

The sub-heading has this line, “Buyers are increasingly turned off by electrification when it comes to supercars.” True, but buyers are also increasingly turned off by electrification when it comes to pickup trucks, SUVs, sedans, child haulers, vehicles used for towing, etc.

But an electric Maserati would seem an especially tough sell, since the most passionate EV evangelists are the humorless scolds for whom NPR is their daily Mass and Whole Foods is their temple. They’re not buying supercars.

*****

Throckmorton’s First Law of Live Music: “If there’s an upright bass in the band, it’s probably going to be good.”

Let’s boogie into the weekend with the Moonlight Howlers. While their guitar might be electric, there’s nothing electric about the carbureted Chevrolet pickup truck in “Rocket to the Moon”

Have a great weekend.

[buck.throckmorton at protonmail dot com]

Close it up

Posted by Buck Throckmorton at 11:00 AM Comments

Mid-Morning Art Thread

—CBD

Allegory of Italy
Valentin de Boulogne

Posted by CBD at 09:30 AM Comments

The Morning Report — 3/ 21 /25

—J.J. Sefton

Good morning kids. Well, it looks as if the Dept. of Education is indeed dead. Of course I fully expect some judge to crawl out of the rim of Kilauea and declare the action null and void at any moment. In the past 45 years, about the only thing the Federal DoE did was waste billions of dollars and aid and abet the poisoning of two generations of the minds of America's school children. So, in turning off a major brainwashing mill, the reactions from the criminal scum and mutants also known as the Democrat Party were predictable.

The Department of Education, one of the 100 worst legacies of ‘Jimmuh’, the late and unlamented former worst president, is being slowly phased out by the Trump administration. Expect multiple legal battles to come and the media hysteria has been mounting for much of last week. The problem however is… who cares? The D of E is one of those things that sound important but are really just ways for government bureaucrats, special interests and their massive allied constellation of contractors and crooks to buy second homes.

If it only was mere graft. But the DoE was far worse than that in what it spearheaded

The Biden junta's Department of Education threw away over $100 million on university grant funding to train K-12 social workers in diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) ideology, “anti-racism,” and critical race theory.

According to a Wednesday report from Parents Defending Education (PDE), the Education Department awarded $100,964,880 to 26 colleges and universities for the far-left trainings. The grants were awarded apparently to help students with mental health under the Mental Health Service Professional Demonstration and the School-Based Mental Health Services grant programs. . . . The Education Department awarded an $8 million grant to Georgia State University’s Master of Social Work program in 2023. The program, which is directed at youth mental health, mandates a “Diversity and Social Justice” course, which “focuses on understanding and applying multicultural concepts to practice, developing awareness of one’s cultural identity, and exploring how diversity and justice issues impact generalist practice in the context of field education,” according to the university website. . . In addition to dismantling the Department of Education altogether, the Trump administration has also been focused on eradicating concepts like DEI ideology, critical race theory, and other discriminatory practices from schools. While the Trump administration had already slashed hundreds of millions in far-left teacher training, a Biden-appointed judge ordered the grants be reinstated.

Literally mainlining Mao and Mau-Mauism into the bloodstream of your children, from preschool to Post-graduate. It should be noted that every state in the union has its own Dept. of Education and you best believe that even in Red States, perversion, anti-Americanism, racialism and leftist indoctrination is in the curriculum to one degree or another.

And as far as judges are concerned, CBD and I discussed this on the latest episode of the podcast linked here and the sidebar. We are in agreement that Trump should disregard these lawless lower court hacks in black, but it raises the specter of the flaccid response from both Congress and SCOTUS in reining in these lawless tyrants as well as what a God-forbid never again Democrat president will do.

Funny how Democrats always view the actions of the court as sacrosanct, except of course when rulings don't go their way, then they go all out to either pack the court or delegitimize it. Failing that, attempt to impeach justices like Clarence Thomas, who they hate with a fury perhaps even greater than that for President Trump for a number of reasons, primarily in that he is the living embodiment that destroys so many of their beliefs and shibboleths about our society,their worldview and belief in their abosule moral authority to impose their will on us. And beyond impeachment, there's always assassination as an option, like what almost happened to Brett Kavanaugh. Lest we forget it was Chuck Schumer who openly threatened Kavanaugh and the other justices if they dared overturn Roe.

Funny, did SCOTUS ever overturn FDR's executive order rounding up Japanese Americans and putting them in concentration camps? The case was Korematsu. Meh, SCOTUS never overturned Dred Scott nor Plessy v. Ferguson. Just saying.

All things considered, the political and cultural winds are at Trump's and our backs at least for the present time on a whole host of issues. And as the Molotov cocktails go flying at Tesla dealerships, the flames seem to be setting the Democrats on fire.

This was the week I became convinced that Don Lemon is an undercover MAGA operative. The former CNN presenter was on Bill Maher’s podcast the other day and was asked about the dire outlook for the Democratic Party. Which way should it go?
“People love AOC” Lemon ventured. “People love Jasmine Crockett. People love Eric Swalwell and the like. I think the Democratic Party should put people out there who the people want — who they’re asking for.”
Maher begged to differ. People do not want these people, he pointed out. But Lemon continued to insist otherwise.
Personally I suspect the only person who ever even pretended to love Eric Swalwell was Chinese spy Fang Fang, who Rep. Swalwell was banging the other year. But that’s a detail.
As I say, the only explanation for Lemon’s statement (other than it being a characteristic brain-fart) is that Lemon is secretly working to keep the MAGA movement in power for the foreseeable future.

Because it is only if the Democrats swing to the hard left that they can make sure the Republicans continue in power unchallenged.
Because it is only if the Democrats swing to the hard left that they can make sure the Republicans continue in power unchallenged.
Desperate times may call for desperate thinking. But these are certainly desperate times for the Democrats.
Just consider how bad the situation is for the party.
First, it is utterly leaderless. Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer is trying to hold the party together, but his decision to allow a vote on the Republicans’ government funding bill has led to a fall out among the party’s gerontocracy.
Former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, 84, this week jabbed at Schumer for giving away to the Republicans “for nothing” in exchange. So dire has been the backlash against Schumer (a mere stripling of 74) that he has canceled his upcoming book tour. “Security concerns” have been offered as the reason.
But that isn’t security concerns from Republican rivals — but rather from disgruntled members of his own party.
Second, there is the dire bench that the Democrats have coming up. One-time golden-boy Gavin Newsom has spent recent weeks trying to tidy up his image faster than he tried to tidy up the Palisades.
Today Governor Gavin is trying to “reach out” and show himself to be a man of the political center. By interviewing Steve Bannon.
Yet the disasters of Newsom’s time as governor will continue to swirl around him. And it’s unlikely that smoke will be able to clear from a bit of light podcasting.
Then there is the left of the party that is trying to drag it their way. But just look at how pathetic it is. It sounds more like a street movement than a political movement.
At a recent protest against federal government expenditure cuts, Democrat Congressman Emanuel Cleaver told an audience: “I want to send a message to somebody. Elon, take your musty millions and musty Moscow rights to the moon. Because if you don’t, we are going to stand up, we are going to speak out, we´re going to march and we are going to do anything we need to do. You must your musty hands off our money or go to Moscow, you musty moo, moo, moo.”

The Gettysburg Address it was not.
But in case anyone forgets, Rep. Cleaver is a member of the Financial Services Subcommittee. And this is the best that he and his colleagues can do? To threaten to stand up and speak out and march and moo?
Similar vibes are coming out of Boston, where Mayor Michelle Wu yesterday announced again that her city will not comply with ICE or any other agencies seeking to remove dangerous illegal migrants from her area.

Confirming her stance, Wu said “We stand with immigrants, you belong here. Boston doesn’t back down. If you come for one of us, you will get all of us.”
So Wu is willing to stand-off against the federal government and law enforcement based on the idea that someone who breaks into America illegally and stays in Boston has as much right to be there as anyone who has spent their whole life working in the city and paying taxes there?
That’s a heck of a platform to run on.
Meanwhile the party’s road-kill are doing what they can to cheer themselves up. This week former VP Candidate Tim Walz (remember him?) cropped up to boast about how masculine he is and how threatening that makes him to Republicans. I won’t repeat the nickname that did for Tim. . . It´s not a much prettier picture in this town [NYC], where the best challenger the Democrats can run for Mayor is Andrew Cuomo — a former governor who was forced to resign in shame.
If the Democrats are willing to take any friendly advice they should accept the fact that they really need to come up with some coherent policies. Something at a higher level than a street protest.
But if you were their enemy? Well then, like Don Lemon, you’d tell them to go the way of AOC and Cleaver and Walz and Wu, and encourage them to moo and moo ’til they can moo no more.

To channel and paraphrase a popular insult, when your enemies are setting themselves on fire, don't cross the street to piss on them.

As for DOGE and the courts, if Trump ignores the hacks in black and charges forward, does he give Democrats an avenue of attack and as mentioned earlier, future precedent to ignore the courts. Then again they've used the courts and bureaucracy as both shield and cudgel to amass, maintain and increase their own political power, thanks to their amorality, criminality and the spinelessness of the institutions and people in them that were supposed to prevent that from happening.

Trump or no Trump, is our society so far gone that even 40 more years of Trump and MAGA administrations might not make a dent in reversing course?

At least the dismantling of the DoE is a positive and necessary opening salvo in the attempt.

May We now go from victory to victory and see our wonderful nation if not fully restored in our lifetime, then secure in the knowledge that it is well on that path that it will be, God-willing.

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Huge fire shuts down UK’s Heathrow Airport all day Friday — more than 1,300 global flights disrupted as planes forced to turn around
TRAVEL NIGHTMARE
The move fulfills a key campaign promise.
Trump Officially Signs Order To Dismantle Dept Of Education, Pledges: ‘It’s Going To Work’

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DOMESTIC AFFAIRS, THE COURTS, WASTE/FRAUD/ABUSE
The point of all the injunctions and restraining orders is to preserve the supreme rule of unelected and unaccountable bureaucrats.
The Judicial Insurrection Is Worse Than You Think
Robert Spencer: A threat to the Republic.
Should Petty Judicial Tyrants Really Be Allowed to Act As Dictators?
Wednesday’s announcement signaled that the leadership change came down to Amtrak maintaining support from U.S. President Donald Trump. In a statement, Gardner said he was stepping down “to ensure that Amtrak continues to enjoy the full faith and confidence of this administration.”
Amtrak CEO abruptly resigns from the nation’s passenger railroad
In an email sent to the department staff, the Trump-appointed Deputy Director of USAID, Pete Marocco, announced that Jeremy Lewin, a senior official from Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency, will replace Marocco as the Deputy Director “effective immediately,” according to the Associated Press. (RELATED: HART: DOGE Doesn’t ‘Put Democracy At Risk,’ DOGE IS Democracy)
DOGE Reportedly Gets New Power Over USAID

"BIDEN/HARRIS BORDER BLOODBATH," AMNESTY, IMMIGRATION, BORDER SECURITY
Judge Boasberg required the administration to provide specific flight details, including departure and landing times. However, the Department of Justice (DOJ) argued that providing such information would interfere with executive functions and expose sensitive negotiations with other countries. Despite the extended deadline set by the judge, the DOJ maintained its stance, disputing the court’s requests (How many divisions does the hack-in-black have? - jjs)
Judge Warns Trump Admin of ‘Consequences’ for Deporting Venezuelans Against His Orders.
This reflects growing support for Trump among Hispanic voters, who shifted right in the 2024 election. This change is seen as partly motivated by perceptions that stricter border controls are necessary.
Latinos Back Trump’s Deportation Push.
Daniel Greenfield: Illegals First.
LA Cuts Everything Except Legal Aid for Illegal Aliens
Hectoring, Hysterical, Halitosis-hurling Hysterectomy Claire McCaskill said Thursday on MSNBC’s “Deadline: White House” that certain deportation methods could cripple higher education and threaten the United States’ “peace and prosperity.”
Fmr Democrat Senator Melts Down, Says Deportations Will Cripple Higher Ed, Threaten US ‘Peace And Prosperity’
Immigrant Defenders Law Center calls to 'dismantle the systems that seek to deport our clients'
Taxpayer-Funded Immigration Group Chaired by DOJ Employee Wants To Abolish ICE, Defund Police

ISRAEL vs IRAN & GAZA/HAMAS . . . AND Democrats
i24NEWS: “Several senior Hamas commanders have been killed since the army restarted operations.”
Missiles, Rockets Fired at Israel from Yemen, Gaza as Ground Fighting Against Hamas Escalates
'From now on, negotiations will only be led under fire,' Netanyahu says
Israel Takes Out Two More Hamas Leaders as IDF Tanks Reenter Gaza
The Israel Missile Defense Organization (IMDO) at the Directorate of Defense Research & Development (DDR&D) within the Israel Ministry of Defense (IMOD) has successfully completed a comprehensive series of interception tests for the Iron Dome defense system, evaluating its response to advanced aerial threats such as rockets, cruise missiles, and UAVs.
Israel Successfully Advances Iron Dome System with Major Flight Test Campaign

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Terrorist-linked groups raise funds in the United States through tax-exempt organizations, the report alleges.
EXCLUSIVE: New Report Shows U.S. Charities Helping Fund Groups Linked To Hamas and PFLP
The effort would target prominent Qatari nationals who have financed groups like Students for Justice in 'Palestine'
Trump Administration Weighs Sanctions on Foreign Funders of Pro-Hamas Campus Protests
When the media omit the facts that matter most, it’s clear that they are more interested in undermining the Trump administration than informing the public about threats America faces.
You’d Never Know From Corrupt Media That The ‘Student’ Facing Deportation Is A Hamas Chief’s Son-In-Law
Badar Khan Suri, who was “studying and teaching on a student visa,” was reportedly arrested by DHS agents outside of his home in Virginia on Monday evening, according to a lawsuit filed by Khan’s lawyer, Hassan Ahmad, Politico reported.
Report: DHS Arrests Georgetown University Student Who ‘Actively’ Spread ‘Hamas Propaganda’
“with an undergraduate student body of only about 4,000, the enrollment drop has hit hard”
One Year After Anti-Israel Protests, Emerson College Still Suffering From Drop in Enrollment

WE-ALL-SLAM-FOR-I-SLAM
Lloyd Billingsley: And die as Islamic martyrs.
‘Minnesota Men’ Hate U.S., Yearn to Wage Jihad

CIVIL WAR 2.0: J-6 FBI FALSE FLAG "RIOT" & AFTERMATH, LEFTIST PERSECUTIONS, DEMOCRAT PUTSCH, AMERICAN DISSOLUTION
The term “swatting” refers to an anonymous attacker targets someone by making a false call to emergency services — using anonymous tools like Google Voice or VPNs to make it appear the call is coming from a certain location — and telling authorities a murder or hostage event is transpiring at a particular address. Swatting is designed to prompt SWAT teams to arrive at the targeted home and descend on unsuspecting victims, which in the past has lead to deadly encounters and murder charges for the offender.
‘Attempted Murder:’ 15+ Conservatives Targeted by Swatting Attacks in 1 Week
Leftists want to use actions like swatting to take out conservative voices that hold power.
Swatting against Shroyer continues a violent trend against conservatives
Curiously, the Daily Caller notes that an inordinate number of Tesla vandals are transgender . . . The Democrat terrorists have also launched a “DOGEQUEST” website doxxing the names, addresses, phone numbers, and email addresses of Tesla owners, symbolically threatening them with a Molotov cocktail cursor icon. The site claims it will remove an individual’s data if they can prove they sold their vehicle. In addition, a map includes the locations of Tesla dealerships, supercharger stations, and even DOGE employees.
Welcome to leftist "resistance" - and Democrat treason.
“Let this be a warning: if you join this wave of domestic terrorism against Tesla properties, the Department of Justice will put you behind bars.”
Pam Bondi Charges Three People for ‘Violent Destruction of Tesla Properties’
Wilson’s Substack post is titled “Kill Tesla, Save the Country” and features the unsubtle subheading: “Elon has a weak spot. Attack.” For anyone who didn’t catch his drift, his post included an image of a Tesla cybertruck engulfed in flames.
National-Man-Boy-Lincoln Project’s Rick Wilson Suspended From Twitter Over ‘Kill Tesla’ Post

CRIME & PUNISHMENT, NON-DOSTOYEVSKY
Willie Frank Peterson sold cocaine to the half-brother of MSNBC's Rev. Al Sharpton.
Drug Dealer Let Out Of Prison By Biden Charged With More Drug Crimes

FIRST AMENDMENT ISSUES, CENSORSHIP, FAKE NEWS, MEDIA, BIG BROTHER TECH
During a CNN discussion on the Tesla attacks, host Abby Phillip stated, “Now, I just want to be clear, no one at this table condones violence, right? Setting cars on fire, breaking windows, whatever, all of that is bad.” She then asked, “Is it okay for an American company to just be hated, for people to want it to not do well?”
CNN Host Compares Anti-Tesla Terror Attacks to Conservative Boycotts
“So much of what they’ve reported just over the past four or five years is blatantly false and we’re going to have some of those articles and some of those stories that they’ve written that just are not true.“And there’s no doubt today they’re not true. They never went back and recanted. So, we’ve got a lot of questions.”
DOGE Cmte to Grill NPR, PBS CEOs on ‘Demonstrably Bias News’ Funded by Taxpayers (Baste them liberally with gasoline - jjs)
Burnett said, “Tonight, quote, ‘What in God’s name is going on with Gavin Newsom? That’s a headline. And there’s headline after headline asking that sort of question as the country is trying to figure out how he went from progressive hero and governor of the most liberal state in the country to interviewing and spending time with MAGA favorites like Steve Bannon and Charlie Kirk on his new podcast. Tonight, our KFile looked into that, finding that Newsom, well, he’s really completely changed his tune on some of the most hot-button issues for Democrats.”
CNN’s Burnett: Newsom Is ‘Rewriting History,’ Abandoning Progressive Policies

THE ECONOMY, STUPID
“I think we can easily see ourselves manufacturing several hundred billion of it here in the U.S.,” Huang told the Financial Times. He added the Trump administration could help boost the expansion of the American artificial intelligence (AI) industry.
Nvidia Could Invest Hundreds of Billions in America
“The Fed would be MUCH better off CUTTING RATES as U.S. Tariffs start to transition (ease!) their way into the economy,” President Trump wrote in a post on Truth Social late Wednesday night. “Do the right thing. April 2nd is Liberation Day in America!!!”
Trump Urges Fed to Cut Interest Rates After ‘Liberation Day’ Tariffs Take Effect.
How about cutting taxes and regulations?
Newsom’ s Answer To California’s Business Exodus Is … A Free Burner Phone?
Borrowing becomes easier for consumers when the yield is low.
What the Trump Administration Will Mean for Ten-Year Yields
Why can the government claim taxes in the first place?
Taxation as a Moral Question

RED-GREENS, CLIMATE CHANGE HOAX, DEMOCRAT-LEFT WAR ON FOSSIL FUELS,
The Vineyard Wind project is also under review by President Donad Trump’s Interior Secretary Doug Burgum.
Fishing Industry Hopes to Take Vineyard Wind to the Supreme Court

EDUCATION, AND WHAT PASSES FOR IT
According to a Wednesday report from Parents Defending Education (PDE), the Education Department awarded $100,964,880 to 26 colleges and universities for the far-left trainings. The grants were awarded apparently to help students with mental health under the Mental Health Service Professional Demonstration and the School-Based Mental Health Services grant programs.
The Biden Education Department Burned $100M On ‘Anti-Racist’ Social Workers And DEI For K-12 Schools
Are American colleges and universities finally getting their comeuppance?
A Reckoning for Higher Education?
The suit said that the Biden junta stonewalled the group's FOIA requests.
EXCLUSIVE: Parent Group Sues For Biden-Era Education Department Communications
UPenn argues Wax has failed to make her case, but in a separate motion, Wax’s lawyers say she is likely to succeed on the merits of her contractual and civil rights claims, both of which serve the public interest.
UPenn Asks Court to Dismiss Professor Amy Wax’s Racial Discrimination Lawsuit
Daniel Greenfield: No one.
Who Will Miss the Department of Education?

THE 2020 AND 2022ELECTION HEISTS & AFTERMATH
The law, passed by the New York City Council in December 2021, would have enabled nearly 800,000 “lawful permanent residents” to vote in local elections. The New York Court of Appeals ruled 6-1 to strike it down.
Liberal Judges Join Conservatives To Plunge Knife Into Heart Of Blue City’s Noncitizen Voting Law
It’s of a piece with the progressive view that it’s somehow evil to control our own borders, and the left’s general contempt for anything approaching patriotism — and of course they figure it’d help them win elections.
Why the left can’t let go of its nutty love of noncitizen voting
‘Federal funds should not have been used to influence our elections,’ said GOP Rep. Bryan Steil.
Exclusive: GOP Chairman Demands Info From 14 Agencies On Biden’s Taxpayer-Funded GOTV Efforts To Boost Dems

DEMOCRAT/LEFTIST AND RINO SCANDALS, MESHUGAS, CHUTZPOCRISY
Federal Election Commission records reviewed by The Federalist appear to show that Crawford — who is running against conservative Brad Schimel in Wisconsin’s April 1 supreme court race — gave numerous small-dollar donations to ActBlue during her time as a private lawyer. As described on its website, ActBlue is an “online fundraising platform for Democrat candidates up and down the ballot, progressive organizations, and nonprofits.”
Wisconsin’s Susan Crawford Donated To Democrat Fundraising Giant Under Fire For Alleged Fraud
Daniel Greenfield: Has the California legislature been raided by the FBI? It won’t tell you.
California’s Legislature Hides FBI Investigations in the “Public Interest”
Bush paid her husband, Cortney Merritts, more than $150,000 in campaign funds to work as her 'bodyguard'
Cori Bush's Husband Indicted for Wire Fraud, Allegedly Submitted False Applications To Obtain COVID Relief Funds

POLITICS
Douglas Murray: Because it is only if the Democrats swing to the hard left that they can make sure the Republicans continue in power unchallenged.
Titty-Caca AOC, Walz, Wu — these nuts are the future of the Democrats?!
This cabinet's not playing defense—they're rewriting the rules.
Trump’s cabinet is young, fierce, and a Gen Z game-changer
Trump laid out the demise of the Democrat Party, which has polled terribly in two recent establishment media surveys, during an interview in a private dining room off the Oval Office.
Exclusive–President Trump: ‘The Democrat Party Broke Themselves’
President Donald Trump’s November victory over former Vice President Kamala Harris was bolstered by increased support from rural voters. In response to a listener question on “Politics War Room” about whether Democrats should begin to “campaign hard in rural areas,” Carville said they should have been doing so all along.
James Carville Says ‘Urbanist’ Dems ‘Ought To Apologize’ To Rural America ‘For Being So Godd*amn Stupid’
'We want you to show some of the backbone,' one voter shouted.
WATCH: Democrats' Town Halls Disrupted by Enraged Left-Wing Voters
Kornacki reports that it’s not just a difference of opinion but the equivalent of two demographics who are living in polar opposite political and cultural universes.
NBC Poll: Gap Between College-educated White Women and Other White Voters Is Growing

THE UKRAINIAN "FRONT"
“We are bringing back soldiers, sergeants, and officers – warriors who fought for our freedom in the ranks of the Armed Forces, the Navy, the National Guard, the Territorial Defense Forces, and the Border Guard Service,” said Ukraine´s President Volodymyr Zelenskyy.
Russia and Ukraine Swap Prisoners in One of Largest Exchanges of the War
The European nation holds vast reserves of critical minerals vital for modern technologies, defense systems, and clean energy applications.
A Win-Win Mineral Deal For The U.S. And Ukraine
The statement highlighted discussions on Ukraine’s electrical supply and nuclear power plants, including the notorious Chernobyl facility. The U.S. government considers its potential involvement as a potential means of securing stability in the region’s power supply.
Trump Proposes U.S. Takeover of Ukrainian Nuclear Plants.
Far from a concession, it’s a calculated realignment—leveraging economic incentives for geopolitical control.
President Trump’s Siberian Shuffle: Playing the Long Game with Russia

FOREIGN AFFAIRS, INTERNATIONAL
Trump moves to crack down on unfair trade and border security with Canada and Mexico, using tariffs and tough diplomacy to assert U.S. dominance and reverse Biden-era policies.
Trump Slaps Down the Upstart Petty Tyrants of North America
Trump’s threat to impose crippling tariffs on wine and other alcohol products has caused several European national leaders to push against the EU’s retaliatory trade measures. Notably, Italy’s Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni cautioned against entering a “vicious circle” of trade measures. Meanwhile, France’s Prime Minister François Bayrou warned that Europe risks targeting inappropriate sectors.E
Europe Postpones Tariffs on U.S. Whiskey and Other Goods, Fearing Trade War With Trump
Multiple South Korean news agencies published a photo of the man sporting the superhero costume and his iconic American star shield.
South Korea Arrests ‘Captain America’ for Allegedly Attacking Chinese Embassy

DEFENSE, MILITARY, SECURITY AFFAIRS
Even leftists know the Constitution would never allow courts to force presidents to enlist deranged men wearing skirts. That’s why they hate the Constitution.
Valley Girl Federal Judge Cites Broadway Play, Rips Up Constitution In Trans Soldiers Screed
For the sake of both American national security and industrialization, the Trump administration should keep a close eye on the Tech Right.
The Pentagon’s Risky Experiment
Fred Fleitz: Trump's Golden Dome missile shield may take a decade, but deploying Israel’s Arrow system now could quickly bolster U.S. defense against missile threats.
How President Trump Can Deploy a Missile Defense Shield to Defend America in Only Three Years

BIDEN AFGHANISTAN BUG-OUT DISASTER AFTERMATH
George Glezmann's health has deteriorated significantly while in captivity.
Trump Admin Secures Release Of U.S. Citizen Held Captive By The Taliban

ACTUAL SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY
NASA plans to certify Starliner for operational, long-duration astronaut missions shortly after this next flight, if all goes well.
NASA’s still undecided as to Starliner’s next flight
Or to put it more clearly, this is just another example of the uncertainty of science.
New Horizons detects too much ultra-violet light coming from blank patch of sky

FEMINAZISM, TRANSGENDER PSYCHOSIS, HOMOSEXUALIZATION, WAR ON MASCULINITY/NORMALCY
McNabb has previously spoken out about how she was partially paralyzed at 17 years old when a biological male opponent spiked a volleyball in a high school match. The incident ended her sports career. She has since spoken out against men competing in women’s sports.
EXCLUSIVE: Volleyball Player Injured By Trans Opponent Fires Back At Critics For Calling Her ‘Paid Spokesperson’
We are now gearing up for the most muted, small-scale pride month that we've seen in a very long time.
The Downfall Of ‘Pride’ Is Here And It’s Glorious

CULTURE WARS, NATIONAL SUICIDE
Klepper said some people have left “helpful messages,” before cutting to vandalized Tesla and dealerships with swastikas and “Nazi scum” spray painted on them. “Maybe people are mad at you because you don’t seem to know what the [expletive] you’re doing!” he said.
Comedy Central Audience Repeatedly Applauds Tesla Terrorism, as Host Jordan Klepper Justifies Left-Wing Violence
Audiences at 'Jimmy Kimmel Live,' 'Daily Show' giggle over domestic terrorism
Late Night Laughs While Tesla Dealerships Burn
The few Jews with their eyes open are being accused by world-famous celebrities of overreacting.
Debra Winger, Joe Rogan: It’s hard out there for a Jew

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Trump Strikes Agreement With Paul, Weiss Law Firm, with Firm Agreeing to End All DEI Practices and Donate $40 Million in Pro Bono Services to Causes Trump Chooses

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DHS Officials Arrest a Georgetown Grad Student With Alleged Hamas Connections and a History of Promoting Antisemtism and Pushing Pro-Terror Propaganda

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Trump Set to Sign Executive Order Abolishing the Department of Education

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Trantifa Activist -- or, a "Woman" as the Media Insists -- Arrested In Connection With Explosives Found at a Tesla Dealership She Was "Protesting"

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