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The Bee scoops the world:

Leslie McAdoo Gordon, attorney and author at The Federalist, announced that she will no longer be taking cases, because she considers the justice system corrupt beyond repair and no longer wishes to pretend that it is functional or capable of delivering justice:

So, here's my big (for me) announcement: I am retiring from the active practice of law in the courts. I will no longer be representing clients in litigation (criminal, civil, appeal, administrative) matters or defending investigations. I am done being a working litigator.

What I am not doing is "retiring" from public life. I am not closing my litigation practice to "spend more time with my family." No. I am done being an in-court lawyer because:

I'll have more to say later, but the bottom line is, after 26 years, & especially the last few, I have come to an inescapable conclusion: there is no justice to be had in our "justice" system. I am no longer willing to participate in a system that I consider to be a total farce.

My status as a practicing litigator has constrained me from speaking truth to and about the system. With that constraint removed, I will not be silent any longer.
The state of our institutions - particularly the criminal "justice" ones, but also the federal civil courts - is dire, & is unacceptable for a functioning republic. They must be radically overhauled & reformed, & a renewed emphasis on first principles restored.

Lawyers working from inside the system can make some changes, but not the radical reforms that we now need. Some of us will need to be outside the system to do what is necessary & what can only be done by speaking freely.

That can't be done by me personally unless I no longer have clients whose interests I am honor-bound to place above those of the system and the nation. So, I am changing that to chart a new course.

The decision to do so was made only recently, although after a long period of contemplation. But recent events - national, personal, & with regard to my caseload - have made it clear to me that the time is now right to begin this new chapter.
In the short run, I will be winding up, transitioning, or finishing up the remaining client matters that I have in process, which may continue in one or two cases into next year. These are but a very few in number though.

I may in future again testify as an expert in clearances & I will probably still provide consulting advice to people who need help w/the clearance process.

But, in the main, & for the foreseeable future, I am going to be focusing on our most urgent needs as a nation.

We must rededicate ourselves to the rule of law, to federalism, to free speech, to true tolerance, to the Bill of Rights, to liberty values.

We have lost our connection to these things. We must find it again. We will lose the Republic if we don't.

So, I am going to be taking a short break, starting tonight, to recharge & reorganize after my recent projects & also to prepare myself to take up these challenges. A new course requires a clearing of the decks, a re-stocking of provisions, & a re-rigging of the sails.

I leave you for now with this observation from Elmer Davis:

"This republic was not established by cowards; and cowards will not preserve it."
We need now to screw up our courage and do what needs doing to preserve the Republic. No one else is going to do it for us.

It will not be easy. Nothing worth doing is.

The Republic is absolutely worth it.

And we will do it.

Conservative, Inc. should take a bow -- Twitter is back to banning accounts that post pictures from the "RUSSIAN DISINFORMATION" Hunter laptop again. They're claiming they're "hacked material" again.

Weird how this rule never protects conservatives like Trump. When someone in the IRS illegally leaked some of Trump's tax documents, they were all over the media, and all over Twitter. And no accounts were suspended.

Also weird how one minute the stuff is banned as Russian fakes, and the next minute it's banned as private information posted without the owner's permission.

Neville the Cat:

NevilleTheCat
@FearTheFloof

Just a heads up, Twitter is locking and banning accounts that post pics of Joe Biden's son smoking crack.

For the record I think twitter is tagging images and video they find involving Hunter Biden because my account was instantaneous locked the second I hit send on that video. Like it was a millisecond and they locked my account.

So if you save an image of Hunter Biden off the internet screencap it and post that. That should strip most of the designation off of it but they seem to be monitoring & tagging these pics as they find them & banning people when they're posted.

I had posted that Hunter Biden video before without an issue and I delete my TL every Monday.

But now posting it gets an instantaneous lock on your account.

I can only say this so many times: Different rules apply to monopolies. But NeverTrump and Conservative, Inc. won't admit this, because they're being paid to carry the position that monopolies are now expressly legal and can do whatever they want without overtly changing the law to state this, because they know the public would object if they changed the law overtly.

So they're changing it covertly -- like they changed our immigration policy covertly. The words still say the same things they did before; it's just now we don't enforce the law.

This is the way the Globalists will exert power from now forward. If a law is too popular with the Lower Class Dirt-People, they'll let the law stand as written. They'll just pay off the bureaucrats and Soros Prosecutors to stop enforcing it, and Conservative, Inc. to tell right-leaning people that this is The Way It's Supposed To Be, because Something Something Reagan and Buckley and Eagles and Trucks.

You probably don't want to watch this. Be content with the description: Security cameras caught some pervert stooping down to smell the butts of female customers in a pet supply store.

Fashion models, 1992 vs. 2022.

Someone claimed that was a rightwing made-up fake.

But it's not:

Calvin Klein Plus Size Bralette, available for both women and, well, "other." The story isn't the plus-sized model; there have always been those. The headline is the plus-sized "male" model wearing the bralette.

We're selling bralettes to "men" now. And not just in specialty shops for perverts.

Another repulsive drag pervert dances with his big fat fake breasts right in a child's face. A lefty claims that it's just like Kimberly Guilfoyle doing a non-sexual dance to a Spanish song to a crowd of adults, which is just incidentally sexy because she's an attractive woman who looks pretty good when she moves.

This is what they always claim.

The Queen lying in state at
St. Giles Cathedral in Scotland

posted by Ace at 06:36 PM

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