Quick Hits

Live voting in the House to end the shutdown.

Lumpy Jack: The GOP isn't "taking away Obamcare subsidies." Those "emergency temporary subsidies" were always designed to expire.

During a portion of an interview with NPR aired on Monday's broadcast of "All Things Considered," Sen. John Fetterman (D-PA) stated that the Affordable Care Act subsidies that were at issue in the government shutdown are not being taken away by Republicans, since "Democrats designed those tax credits to expire at [the end of] this year." And Republicans were saying they would take about extending the tax credits.

You know when pay channels offer you teaser rates of $3 per month for three months? And then the price zooms up to $15 per month but they trust you're not paying attention and will keep paying forever to watch old episodes of Hello Larry?

That's every single Democrat spending "plan." They claim the spending will only be for a short period of time and then when that time is up, guess what? It was always intended to be permanent spending until the end of days.

Two major proxy advisory firms -- which I guess analyze corporations and recommend to shareholders who to vote for in corporate board elections -- are telling Cracker Barrel shareholders to dump the Woke DEI marketing executive who drove the stock into the ground.

Institutional Shareholder Services and Glass Lewis advised investors to vote against the re-election of Gilbert Dávila, a DEI specialist, at the annual shareholder meeting on Nov. 20 -- slamming his "faulty" board-level marketing expertise.

The proxy firms seemingly implied that Dávila -- also one of Cracker Barrel's top individual shareholders -- played a significant role in the company's rebranding.

"Dávila is highlighted in board materials as one of two marketing specialists among the independent directors. He is also a member of a standing board committee whose purview is to assess social and political risks to the company's business," ISS wrote in a note.

However, the proxy firms did not push for the removal of CEO Julie Felss Masino, who took over the chain in November 2023.

Why?

Let me guess: Because she's a woke white woman with ginormous Attitude Glasses, which give her enhanced powers to Judge You, right? And we can't impose male standards of success or failure on woke women, who are alternately Super-Empowered Girlbosses or Damsels who need rescuing as the circumstances may require.

In more woke corporate news, the new non-woke head of Paramount devised a tricky way to get the woke non-workers to quit: He demanded that they "RTO," or Return to Office, and finally take off their Covid Jammies and put on normal work clothes and go to the office to work like all people have done since... well since people have had jobs.

Six hundred people quit, which I imagine was not unwelcome by the owners.

Fortune, which used to be a business magazine and is now just another woke propaganda outfit, highlights the "cost" to the company of the severance packages.

As if those aren't being paid gladly.

About 600 employees in the company's Los Angeles and New York offices at the vice-president level and below took the buyout, according to company disclosures filed on Monday--and the severance packages set Paramount back $185 million. The filings cited restructuring costs "associated with actions to align the business around our strategic priorities."

I do understand and appreciate the advantages of working from home. (Obviously.) And I know this is a boon to many, and many workers will put in a good day of work from home.

But I've also seen all those "Day in the Life" Tik-Toks of entitled non-workers spending their whole day "at work" drinking Himalayan frog tea or whatever. And if that's what a lot of Millennials and Zoomers are doing at work, I cannot imagine what they're doing at home in their jam-jams.

Musk's AI Grok is based. It refuses to role-play as a transgender, because that would require denying biological fact.

Julie Kelly does not think much of The Blaze's "bombshell" revelation of the J5 bomber based entirely on gait analysis. Actually, her theory is that there is no J5 bomber, and that the video of someone walking around the Capitol on the evening of January 5 does not show that person actually planting bombs. She thinks the bombs -- or "bombs" -- were planted on January 6h. I would guess (but do not know) she thinks that the bombs were planted opportunistically after trouble had started, to sweeten the case against MAGA and the J6ers.

Whatever the merits of that theory, here's her new reporting:

ulie Kelly 🇺🇸 @julie_kelly2

5h

I spoke this morning with the individual believed to be "Person of Interest 3" (POI3) in the FBI's original pipe bomb investigation related to January 6.

I will not name this individual to protect his privacy since he just found out today (by me) that he had been under FBI surveillance for allowing another individual--"Person of Interest 2" (POI2)--to use his Metro card to travel to Washington DC for Stop the Steal events on Jan 5 and Jan 6.

I think this is the Metro card the FBI believes was used by the "bomber." I don't know if Kelly believes that.

POI2, according to a Congressional report published last year, was seen on security cameras on the morning of Jan 5 "photographing a dumpster next to the location where the RNC pipe bomb would later be planted." In the days after Jan 6, the FBI considered "POI2's movements to be 'highly suspicious' and considered POI2 as a 'possible accomplice' to the pipe bomber."

Both POI2 and POI3 were placed under physical surveillance by the FBI's Washington Field Office.

POI2 told investigators in an interview on Jan 19. 2021 that he had "traveled to Washington, D.C. to attend First Amendment activities on Capitol Hill on January 5 and that throughout the day, POI2 photographed 'objects bearing numerals' including doors, dumpsters, and other objects and intended to use these photographs in a book he was writing."

Both men were ruled out as suspects by late Jan 2021.

POI3 is a 66-year-old man currently employed by the Air Force. Here is what he told me today about the use of his Metro card by his friend (POI2) who he has known for more than 55 years.

"I have a friend who came up for the January 6 Stop the Steal protest, he lives out of state. I've known him since 1969, we went to elementary and high school together. He's from my understanding not affiliated with anything illegal or immoral. He is kind of like an evangelist, a religious educator [who] goes all around the world preaching the gospel but he's very Republican, very pro-Trump person.

He is probably 67 [years-old] now. He was probably 63 on January 6.

He came up a day before or a couple days before the January 6 date and I took him to the Metro. He stayed at my house. I took him to the Metro and I let him borrow my Metro card. I have an extra Metro card, I have one that I use to ride the Metro every day and one that I keep [as] my personal thing.

This was during the pandemic so I was working from home the entire time. So he went downtown the day prior to January 6 and he was downtown on January 6. I know he was doing some type of journaling for this event. I know he posted some stuff on Facebook. He was keeping a log telling everybody about all the events and activities that took place.

And then I think on the 7th of January, I took him back to Dulles to catch his flight. He came up again for the inauguration [this year] and I let him stay at my house again.

Now that relates to my friend who I've known since elementary school who I grew up with.

I lived next door to this individual who supposedly is identified as the pipe bomber from everything that I've heard. I've lived in this house [in Falls Church, Virginia] since 2003. So in 2021, they had moved in the year before, her and a gentleman. I knew them purely in passing exchanges, pleasantries on the street. I never went into their house so I don't have any idea of their political leanings in any way, shape, or form.

I've been contacted and I did look into the paper and when a picture of this supposed person came up, I said, yes that looks like her.

All I can say is there's two people involved in this that I know--my friend who I went to elementary school and high school together who asked for a favor to let him stay at my house during the January 6 rally.

As it relates to this lady, this policeman, other than her living next door to me, I have no involvement with her in any way shape or form. It was my understanding they worked for the Metropolitan Police Department, that's all I know and they were not here that long.

They just lived next door to me."

I will have much more to say on this shortly.

She does not think much of The Blaze's "scoop" or of Kyle Seraphim's various accusations.

Julie Kelly @julie_kelly2

The allegations in The Blaze, the deceptive (and inconsistent) framing by Seraphin and his acolytes--which I will get to soon including his suggestion POI2 was the alleged pipe bomber's boyfriend lol--and this so-called "whistleblower" report promoted by Tom Massie all rely on the notion that the FBI pulled surveillance of these two men to cover up for the "pipe bomber" neighbor.

But as this man told me today, the true account of what happened is very straightforward. And I can tell you after speaking with him, he is extremely sincere, talked very plainly about what happened over those few days, and had no idea he (or his friend) had been a subject of the initial pipe bomb investigation.

That is why surveillance of both men ended--not some batsh*t conspiracy theory promoted by the likes of The Blaze and the "Suspendables" that somehow the FBI KNEW the neighbor was the pipe bomber and pulled the agents off the case.

More about her take on Seraphim's claims here. Seraphim is now saying he was actually surveilling the suspect publicized by The Blaze much earlier, and was pulled off that surveillance detail. I don't know. I believe it when I hear someone else confirming this.

posted by Ace at 06:25 PM

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