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According to leftwing agitprop operation Vox, calling attention to rampant anti-semitism on the left is "weaponizing anti-semitism."

NBC "News" finally noticed that Hunter Biden's "business" partner emailed Vice President Joe Biden 54 times during his term in office. That's a lot of involvement in a "business" for someone with no involvement in that business.

We haven't seen the emails yet, but the timing is suspicious: Biden really increased his email traffic with Hunter's "business" partner just before, and just after, Biden's trips to... Ukraine.

All told, then-Vice President Biden emailed Schwerin 35 times before and after his 2014 trips to Ukraine. Five emails were exchanged just prior to a trip by Vice President Biden to Ukraine on June 7, 2014, and 27 emails were sent from the end of June to a second trip to Ukraine by Biden on Nov. 21, 2014.

The bulk of the communication occurred in the lead-up to and following an agreement for Hunter Biden to serve on the board of the Ukrainian natural gas company Burisma.

But I'm sure it was all just talk about the weather.

And trains, probably.

And graft.

A federal district judge has invalidated most of the state's new "gun free zones." Obviously, California attempted to make virtually the entire state a "gun free zone."

A judge said, Nah brah, your brain is emotional and gay right now, you need to sit down and get your head straight before you make any more decisions.

In a 43-page opinion handed down late Wednesday, Carney described SB 2 as "repugnant to the Second Amendment, and openly defiant of the Supreme Court." The law "turns nearly every public place in California into a 'sensitive place,'" according to Carney, "effectively abolishing the Second Amendment rights of law-abiding and exceptionally qualified citizens to be armed and to defend themselves in public."

Carney ruled in favor of the gun owners and Second Amendment organizations who brought the May v. Bonta and Carralerro v. Bonta litigation on every one of their challenges; granting an injunction against the following "gun-free zones" established under SB 2:

Hospitals, mental health facilities, nursing homes, medical offices, urgent care facilities, and other places where medical services are customarily provided,
Public transportation
Establishments where "intoxicating liquor" is sold for consumption on the premises
Public gatherings and special events
Playgrounds and private youth centers
Parks and athletic facilities
Department of Parks and Recreation and Department of Fish and Wildlife property, except hunting areas,
Casinos and gambling establishments
Public libraries, zoos, and museums
Places of worship
Financial institutions
Privately-owned businesses open to the public
Parking areas (including those adjacent to "sensitive places" not challenged by the plaintiffs)

Damn, Milei laid it down pretty directly in his address to Argentina. Assuming the translation is accurate:

... the problem is not the chef, but the recipe. Those ideas that failed in Argentina are the same ideas that have failed throughout the planet because everywhere they've been tried, they've been an economic failure, they have been a social failure, they have been a cultural failure.

On top of that, it has cost the lives of millions of human beings, that doctrine that some could call left-wing, socialism, communism, fascism and that we like to classify as collectivism; is a form of power that dilutes the individual in favor of the power of the state, and is the basic foundation of the caste model. It is a doctrine of thought which is based on the premise that the state is more important than the individuals that make up the nation. That the individual is only recognized if he submits to the state and that, therefore, we citizens owe obsolescence to its representatives: the political caste.

Posted by: Joe Mannix

Apparently there was another case of a congressional staffer making gay sex tapes. The staffer "quietly" left his position in 2022. Apparently he worked for a Republican, Dan Newhouse.

But Semafor says the sex tapes are still floating around in the intertubes.

Apparently the identity of the man making the videos can't be confirmed, though his identity is suspected. Newhouse's office investigated and found no violation. Probably due to the difficulty of identifying exactly who is on the tape.

Mark Zuckerberg is building a super-secret Villain Lair in Hawaii.

If you want to know what's going on with Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg's massive Koolau Ranch compound on the Hawaiian island of Kauai, there's no use asking anyone involved in its construction -- they're all bound by strict nondisclosure agreements.

According to an anonymous former contract employee who was willing to risk life and limb -- not really (?!?) -- to talk to Wired, "It's fight club. We don't talk about fight club." More ominously, he added, "Anything posted from here, they get wind of it right away."

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Sources differ on the size and expense of Zuckerberg's compound. In its exposé last week, Wired claimed it spans 1,400 acres. Still, The Guardian reported two years ago that Zuckerberg had just spent $17 million adding another 110 acres to his property that already covered 1,500 acres. Even before then, "Zuckerberg angered neighbors" by building "a 6ft stone wall around his property that blocked easy access to Pila'a Beach."

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According to [a twitter source who provides drone pictures of the site], Zuck's compound "leaves a mark that's hard to reconcile with nature's blueprint. A bridge over what was once unspoiled river. Clear-cut forests paint a different picture of 'protection.'" His feed is a fascinating read, including tidbits about a smaller-scale "bunker" being built on nearby Maui by none other than Oprah Winfrey.

Environmentalism for you, indulgent opulence that would make the Bourbon kings blush for moi.

Ugh. Some women have really, really been broken by social media.

In this story, I'm not that concerned about whatever mysterious behavior that took place in a bathroom stall during a Christmas party got her fired from work. It was either sex or drugs, obviously.

That happens. (Though it happens less often at a nursery Christmas party.)

What is bizarre to me is that she rushed to social media to brag about getting fired, and to complain that the other person involved in the scandalous bathroom behavior didn't get fired, too.

Leftwing women really, really want to be INTERNET STARS! and believe anything they do, no matter how disgraceful or revolting, is fuel for their TikTok rocketship to fame.

A woman claimed she was "sacked" after attending a holiday party her job threw, revealing on TikTok the termination letter she received from her boss.

The woman, who goes by Molly, posted a sound clip from the hit movie "The Hangover" along with Flo Rida's "Right Round" as she promised she'd "behave at the staff party."

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Molly's former employer told the woman, who did not reveal her occupation, that she "risked putting the reputation of the nursery into disrepute.

"This amounts to gross misconduct. As you are still on your probationary period, I had no option but to terminate your contract of employment with immediate effect," the letter added.

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She admitted there was allegedly somebody else involved and mentioned they "played an equal part in what happened," though that person got to keep their job.

She posts this picture of herself, which makes her look like some kind of bizarre demon Lolita.

And given the amount of careful curation these internet thots put into the photos they publish, the effect was intentional.

Why is this AWFL sharing this? Has she no actual real-life friends she can seek solace from?

These AWFLs need to get the **** off TikTok and reconnect with the real world. And maybe call up their fathers for advice on how to straighten their lives out.

Just kidding, their fathers abandoned them when they were 7. That's why they're like this.

Narcissism -- it's the cocaine of the 20's.

(Holy shit we're in "the 20's." That never occurred to me before.)

Meanwhile, Disney-owned ABC "News" is freaking out because Speaker Johnson took his daughter to a "purity ball"... in 2015.

They're really doing a deep dig on this guy to find any dirt.

Meanwhile, the "news" outfit led by Clinton spinner George Stephanopolous can't find any time to report on Joe or Hunter Biden's corruption.

Speaker Mike Johnson and daughter were profiled attending 'purity ball' in 2015 German TV news segment

The unearthed segment is the latest example of Johnson's deeply held views.

By Will Steakin
December 20, 2023, 12:59 PM

Years before Mike Johnson would ascend to No. 2 in the presidential line of succession, a German TV news outlet profiled the future speaker of the House and his then-teenage daughter.

"This looks like a wedding," a news reporter says in German in a 2015 n-tv news segment that was unearthed by ABC News. "But they are not bride and groom -- but rather father and ... daughter," the reporter adds, referring to Johnson and his then-13-year-old daughter, Hannah.

"Unearthed." This is a lie. It was handed to them by Democrat black operators.

The "unearthing" consisted of ABC "News" clicking on a file that one of their favorite Democrat dirt merchants sent them.

The German news segment documented Johnson and his family preparing for and then attending a purity ball, a controversial formal dance event, popular among some conservative Christians, that gained notoriety in the early 2000s. At a typical event, fathers and their teenage daughters dress in formal ball attire for a night that involves dinner and dancing and culminates with the daughter signing a pledge to her father to abstain from dating and to remain sexually abstinent until marriage.

These people know that family members dance non-sexually all the time, right? They know that the father traditionally dances with the bride at a wedding, right?

It is a sign of the fathomless perversions of the left that they see a daughter and a father at an event and immediately think: "Incest." Because, of course, that's what they'd be doing.

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The news segment also features interviews with Johnson's daughter, who is now in her 20s, and shows her at the purity ball pledging to her father "to make a commitment to God, myself, my family, my friends, my future husband, and my future children ... to a lifetime of purity, including sexual purity," in between shots of Johnson nodding along in agreement.

In one brief interview clip, Johnson's wife Kelly Johnson, a Christian counselor, told the German news outlet, "We don't talk to her about contraception. Sex before marriage is simply out of the question."

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Since growing in popularity in the 1990s and early 2000s, purity balls and purity pledges have faced increased scrutiny from both inside and outside the Christian community, ranging from criticism that the practice places too much of a burden on young women to accusations that the balls themselves objectify young girls.

LOL, the left that wants to have "rap seshes" about sex with 7-year-olds is objecting to "objectifying girls."

Johnson's participation in the 2015 news segment is the latest example of the previously little-known legislator's staunchly conservative views, which have informed his political career and rise in Congress.

A Disney-owned subsidiary is objecting to young girls being brought up to be pure and innocent.

Times have changed, eh?

So you have a choice: Either you can try to teach your little girls sexual restraint or you can expect that they'll be posting on social media about being fired for snorting coke off a coworker's dick in a bathroom during a nursery Christmas party. Choose wisely.

You're not going to believe this, but a study -- yes, a study -- has demonstrated that someone's actual sex is a better indicator of their athletic performance than his "gender identity" is. So, like, genes, bone density, muscle mass, and hormones have more of an impact on how strong an athlete is than, say, what kind of Cute Haircut that athlete wears to "present" as female, or which cutesy girl's name the athlete picks as his new fake name.*

It's astonishing, cutting edge stuff. But I bet you the I Believe In The Science (TM) brigade won't be believing this particular science.

Objectives To test the hypothesis that, controlling for age, natal-sex differences in running performance are lower among non-binary athletes than in the rest of the population. To test the hypothesis that natal-male non-binary athletes outperform natal-female non-binary athletes.

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Results There was no evidence that controlling for age, natal-sex differences in running performance are lower among non-binary athletes. Natal-male non-binary athletes outperform natal-female non-binary athletes at a confidence level of p=0.1%.

* Every notice transgenders don't pick out a cohort-appropriate fake name -- that is, they do not pick from the names actually being given to girls in the year they were born, but instead choose on of the trendy names being given out to children currently?

Like Bruce Jenner decided he was "Caitlyn." Oh, "Caitlyn"? So you were born in 1997, huh?

Motherfucker, you were born in the nineteen fucking fifties. You Fake Girl Name should be Peg or Dottie or Mavis.

The names they're picking make it less possible for them to pass. They pick out stripper names, exotic names, and names that are now only common among five-year-olds. Never a Cathy, always a Caitlin. Never a Betty, always a Bijou.

posted by Disinformation Expert Ace at 06:49 PM

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