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There was a European election a few months ago and it was perhaps an example of Our Sacred Democracy in action. At the end of November while the dust was still settling around Trump's re-election and the mad scramble was fully underway, Romania had an election of its own. A man called Calin Georgescu got enough votes in that election to proceed to the runoff. His platform is unacceptable, as he is a nationalist, a Ukraine skeptic, a COVID skeptic and, if reporting is to be believed, also a Nazi, a moon-landing denier and a stooge of Putin.
He was, of course, a "far-right candidate." Whether that's true or not, I have no idea. But in the wake of his electoral surge, there was an inevitable recount. He won that, too. Then it went to court. The opponents to the election outcome argued not that the election was fake, but that it was manipulated by Russian social media operations, unleashing dormant TikTok accounts and buying off influencers to back Georgescu without disclosure, in violation of the law.
Russia and Georgescu, of course, denied this. In the days after the election, however, the Romanian high court tersely annulled the election after being briefed by Romanian intelligence. As near as I can tell, nobody argued that the vote was manipulated or faked. They argued that there's no way Georgescu could have won absent foreign interference, pointed out some potentially suspicious social media activity, blamed Russia and voided the election.
This may be an example of the grand European electoral tradition of "the wrong guy won, so the election was canceled." In that fine tradition of European democracy, the Romanians will have a chance to vote right next time, when they have their replacement election in May. Like Ireland and France before them, the voting shall continue until the outcome improves. To help ensure the correct outcome, the Romanian government charged Georgescu criminally a couple of weeks ago. Is any of it true? Is Georgescu a Nazi, a Russian stooge, a money launderer or a moon-landing conspiracy theorist? I have no idea. It's possible, of course, but the press is also in the business of lying. There's no way that I as an outsider can know.
True or not, however, the fact remains that in Europe, canceling elections or even nullifying them when the wrong person or cause wins is fairly routine. Ireland and France both did it with the European Constitution debacle (which they eventually rammed through as a treaty instead). Vance had plenty of content when he sternly dressed down Germany and Europe more broadly during his recent visit to Munich. AfD was not forbidden from participating in their elections a couple of weeks ago, but the other parties are refusing to consider cooperation with the country's second-largest - and officially-labeled "right-wing extremist" - party to ensure it remains marginalized. This is the same country where a left-wing party allegedly came "back from the dead" thanks to TikTok - the same phenomenon behind Romania's annulment of its election.
On our own continent and more recently, it's more of the same. Trudeau fake-resigned until his party could determine a replacement, and will likely hang on for a bit until he finally begrudgingly hands the reins over to Carney. Our own elections weren't exactly an exemplar of honesty in '20. Occasionally, a Trump '24 slips through the cracks, but it's fairly rare and it's fairly rare by design and the operators gear up to thwart it when it happens.
For the ruling class, elections aren't usually a problem. Their systems are designed to obviate them.
Good morning kids. On a number of fronts, the Trump MAGA agenda is moving forward, despite all efforts by the anti-American Dems and their cohorts to derail it. First up, the CR that Trump has backed passed in the House and now it's on to the Senate. As I asked yesterday, does continuing to fund a federal leviathan at least like this with these CR's and not a real budget antithetical to MAGA and DOGE? It seems though on a positive note there is an actual spending freeze in the thing so some on our side are calling this a win. Elsewhere there are very strong numbers in the labor market and evidence that prices such as with eggs (the most visible and talked about item we've been pelted with by the propaganda machine as a supposed sign of Trump failing to deliver) have fallen significantly and rapidly.
Meanwhile, Linda McMahon in her position as head of the Dept. of Education is already taking a bulldozer to the whole rotten edifice with immediate mass layoffs. And that seems to be the start of dismantling it lock stock and barrel.
Watching Democrats try on different arguments to thwart Donald Trump, I’m reminded of a story involving the late Indiana basketball coach Bobby Knight.
After John Feinstein wrote an unflattering portrait of Knight, he responded by attacking the author mercilessly. In one barrage, Knight called him both “a whore and a pimp,” leading Feinstein to quip: “I wish he’d make up his mind so I’d know how to dress.”
So it is with Democrats as they search desperately for a way to rally the public against Trump.
Their only guiding light — to be against whatever he is for — is creating confusing contradictions and leading them ever deeper into political parody. Consider that the same members of Congress who refused to stand as Trump honored a child with cancer and families who lost loved ones to murderous illegal immigrants are now defending an Arab immigrant who is a leader of a group that sympathizes with terror organizations Hamas and Hezbollah and calls for the “end of Western civilization.” Defending him is a strange hill to die on, but the Dems have become a very strange party.
The suggestion that he’s a political prisoner led an astonished GOP senator, Tom Cotton, to respond by asking if it’s true “that Dems are fighting for a pro-Hamas foreigner who has made life hell for Jews on campus?”
Sadly, it is true, with House Dem Jamie Raskin confirming it with an outrageous attack on the White House.
The arrest of Khalil “is ripped straight from the authoritarian playbook,” Raskin said in a statement, and charged it proves Trump “is hellbent on wielding fear and intimidation as weapons to crush political dissent.”
Ho hum, another day in the crazy lane. The case is instructive for another reason, too.
Columbia anti-Israel agitator Mahmoud Khalil being deported over ‘pro-Hamas propaganda flyers,’ White House says Beyond the Dems’ madness, they and their lickspittle media are hell-bent on distorting the facts by echoing Khalil’s claim that he was just exercising his free speech rights. This is especially rich coming from the party that created cancel culture and defended the Biden junta's censorship regime on social media. . .
. . . Trump’s promise —
As Trump himself put it, his team “will not tolerate pro-terrorist, anti-Semitic, anti-American” activity on college campuses. “We will find, apprehend, and deport these terrorist sympathizers from our country — never to return again.”
Emphasis mine, as it raises some very interesting questions, particularly who gets to decide what defines each of those things. As Justice Potter Stewart stated vis a vis obscenity, I'll know it when I see it. If you'v read my opinions here and elsewhere, you know where I stand on Democrats and Leftists. So I'm most curious as for President Trump to amplify his thoughts on what constitutes being "anti-American" and how to deal with that?! Believe me, everything wrong with this country has its root cause in our educational system dating back to John Dewey, the infestation of the refugees from "the Frankfurt school" like Marcuse and Adorno all the way up to Bill Ayers and his acolytes that resulted in garbage like the 1619 Project and Ibram X. Krement's hideous racialist Jive Kampf screeds being pumped into several generations of American kids' heads creating as Rush Limbaugh said "skulls full of mush."
The other aspect to the virulent opposition to giving this fiend the boot is that it "intersects" (SWIDT?) with the immigration issue, specifically finally getting serious about sealing the damn border and deporting en masse as many illegal aliens as we can round up. Something that hasn't been done in well over 60 or more years.
Democrats are in deep, deep trouble, according to their own internal polling.
Politico’s Elena Schneider, revealing the Democrat numbers, wrote on Tuesday that the Democrat brand is in the gutter.
“The Democratic Party’s brand is in rough shape in the congressional battlegrounds,” Schneider wrote. “Nearly two months into the second Donald Trump administration, a majority of voters in battleground House districts still believe Democrats in Congress are ‘more focused on helping other people than people like me,’ according to an internal poll conducted by the Democrat group Navigator Research. Among independents, just 27 percent believe Democrats are focused on helping them, compared with 55 percent who said they’re focused on others.” Democrat pollster Molly Murphy is quoted in the Politico piece as saying while voters were somewhat critical of Trump in some spots, the Democrats have serious damage to fix with their own brand before voters trust them in government again. Murphy and others from Navigator, which is part of Democrat nonprofit the Hub Project, are expected to present these polling numbers to House Democrats in Leesburg, Virginia, at their Issues Conference later this week.
“The Democratic brand is still not where it needs to be in terms of core trust and understanding people’s challenges,” Murphy said. “Even though voters are critical about Trump and some of the things he’s doing, that criticism of Trump doesn’t translate into trust in Democrats. The trust has to be earned.”
What these people are not asking themselves is what is the Democrat "Brand" in the first place? It can't be supporting things that the majority of American people reject as insanity/depravity and/or declaring Trump to be literally Hitler, and that the Left are the defenders of "our precious democracy."
Sen. Elissa Slotkin (D., Mich.) suggested Tuesday that Americans elected President Donald Trump because the country is in its "angry teenage years" and voters' brains have not fully formed.
"I don’t think there’s anyone who feels like what’s going on right now is normal, even if you voted for Trump," Slotkin said on The View. "We’re about to turn 250 years old, right? We’re still pretty young for a country."
Yeah, keep it up genius. Filthy courveh.
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ABOVE THE FOLD, BREAKING, NOTEWORTHY
As birthrates drop in developed nations, mass immigration reshapes demographics, raising concerns about cultural integration, intelligence decline, and the long-term stability of advanced economies. Immigration and Fertility by Nation
What acting director Carr sent on Tuesday amounts to little more than a final burn bag notice. Periodically federal departments and agencies are instructed to remove any classified, sensitive, or personal documents that are no longer being used from their secured storage. Those documents are then shredded and placed in what is called a “burn bag,” which, as its name portends, is burned. This isn’t an action to avoid transparency or to hide wrongdoing; instead, it is a national security measure to ensure that employees do not unnecessarily retain sensitive documents and that those documents are not left outside the employee’s custody.Additionally, burn bags are used when an employee is fired, or a presidential transition is underway to ensure the destruction of any personal documents that might contain that employee’s social security number or other personal information they do not wish to be disclosed to whoever will occupy the office after them. In the case of USAID, classified and personal materials will need to be shredded and destroyed before CBP staff can begin occupying the building. USAID Tells Staff to Burn & Shred Docs. That’s Actually Not Uncommon.
LOS ANGELES WILDFIRES
Daniel Greenfield: It’s no big deal when the city burns, but a huge deal when firefighters wear MAGA hats. LA’s Political Bosses Are On Fire
Far-left Democrat Rashida Tlaib Rancida Taliban (D-MI) cast the only vote against a bill that will require an annual report on cartel smuggling tunnels used to traffick drugs and people from Mexico into the United States. The U.S. House of Representatives passed the Subterranean Border Defense Act, also known as H.R. 495, with an overwhelming majority on Monday.T Lone, Far Left Democrat Votes Against Bill Aimed at Monitoring Drug Cartel Smuggling Tunnels Under U.S. Border.
Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents arrested 646 illegal migrants, 543 of which were foreign nationals charged or convicted of a criminal offense and living unlawfully in the United States, according to a press release from the agency. The extensive operation — which was conducted in the Houston, Texas, area from Feb. 23 to March 2 — was the latest in the Trump administration’s mission to arrest and deport criminal illegal migrants from the country. ICE Arrests Nearly 550 Criminal Migrants In Massive City Sweep
“This is not a guy who has respected anybody else’s rights, yet we as a country will respect his rights to the extent he has them. This is not a free speech issue…. Don’t tell me that he’s being persecuted for 'Palestinian' views because Israelis are not doing this on campuses.” Mahmoud Khalil – Not a Free Speech Issue
U.S. District Court Judge Jesse M. Furman, who issued a temporary order preventing Khalil’s removal from the United States while he considers a habeas corpus challenge to the arrest filed by Khalil’s attorney, holds a deeply liberal political pedigree and even clashed with President Donald J. Trump during his first term. He was appointed by former President Obama in 2011. REVEALED: Judge Blocking Pro-Hamas Student Deportation is Obama-Linked Son of Democrat Mega Donor.
Then, in what was perhaps the most striking moment of the exchange, Leavitt drove a stake through the heart of Boak’s line of questioning. “And I think it’s insulting that you are trying to test my knowledge of economics and the decisions that this president has made,” she said, her tone firm. “I now regret giving a question to the Associated Press.” MIC DROP: Karoline Leavitt Humiliated an AP Reporter, and It Was Awesome
The final tally was 217 to 213. Only one Republican, Rep. Thomas Massie (R-KY), opposed the legislation. Rep. Jared Golden (D-ME) was the sole Democrat to cross the aisle. House Passes CR in Huge Step Forward for Trump Agenda
We’ve officially reached the halfway mark of the first 100 days of President Donald Trump’s second presidency. What we learned today is that the labor market is stronger than thought, factory jobs are coming back, Canada is not a reliable trading partner for strategic resources, and the legacy media’s campaign to stop Elon Musk is unconstrained by things like accuracy or objectivity. Trump’s Blue-Collar Boom Begins
A good piece of news we just got in the last day or two is that the average cost of a dozen eggs has now gone down $1.85 since we announced our plan about a week and a half ago,” Rollins said in a video posted to X (formerly Twitter). However, the Agriculture Secretary did warn that prices could creep back up slightly as the country heads into the Easter holiday and demand increases. Egg Prices Are Down Nearly $2.00 in Just 13 Days Following Trump Plan to Lower Cost.
Ontario Premier Doug Ford announced late Tuesday that the province would suspend its electricity levy after discussions with U.S. Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick, signaling a clear diplomatic win for Trump. The Ontario surcharge had been set as retaliation against earlier tariffs imposed by Trump. Trump Scores Victory For U.S. As Ontario Backs Down on Electricity Charges
Milton Friedman’s negative income tax misfired—Americans don’t need incentives to work, they need better work options, and a negative tariff would do far more to boost prosperity. Forget the Negative Income Tax, How About a Negative Tariff?
RED-GREENS, CLIMATE CHANGE HOAX, DEMOCRAT-LEFT WAR ON FOSSIL FUELS, JUNK SCIENCE, LYSENKOISM
The announcement comes at the Education Department is trying to streamline its operation and prioritize allowing states to control federal education funding. Department of Education Cuts Staff By 50 Percent
[Titty-Caca] Ocasio-Cortez, Green, and Crockett will do nothing to improve the lives of their constituents. They are just auditioning for a part of Trump's worst hater. Auditioning for the Part of Trump's Worst Adversary
Trump’s first month in office has been like a wrecking ball for Democrats, disastrous for the entrenched ruling class and administrative state, which stands to lose power. Democrats Stand for Ukraine but Sit for America
Democrat pollster Molly Murphy is quoted in the Politico piece as saying while voters were somewhat critical of Trump in some spots, the Democrats have serious damage to fix with their own brand before voters trust them in government again. Murphy and others from Navigator, which is part of Democrat nonprofit the Hub Project, are expected to present these polling numbers to House Democrats in Leesburg, Virginia, at their Issues Conference later this week. Internal Democrat Polling Shows Party in Complete Brand Collapse
THE UKRAINIAN "FRONT"
After Ukrainian representatives met with U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio and National Security Advisor Mike Waltz in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, they “expressed readiness to accept the US proposal to enact an immediate, interim 30-day ceasefire, which can be extended by mutual agreement of the parties, and which is subject to acceptance and concurrent implementation by the Russian Federation,” Ukraine’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs said in a joint statement with the U.S. Department of State: Report: Ukraine Agrees to 30-Day Ceasefire, Now Attention Turns to Moscow
The group, Molfar, created an online blacklist including Vice President JD Vance, Republican Kentucky Rep. Thomas Massie, U.S. Counterterrorism Director Joe Kent and others. The list claims these officials are “external agents of Russia,” demanding their removal from public positions and investigations into their “personal involvement in crimes.” and calling for sanctions against them. USAID-Linked Ukrainian Group Smeared JD Vance, Tucker Carlson As ‘Foreign Propagandists’
Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán announced Hungary’s intention to hold a referendum on Ukraine’s potential membership in the European Union (EU). Orbán revealed this plan during discussions in Brussels following a summit with EU leaders. He emphasized the importance of involving the public in such critical decisions rather than allowing decisions to be made solely at the governmental level.The summit, which included representatives from every EU member state, had initially aimed to issue a unified declaration of continued military support for Ukraine amidst its ongoing conflict with Russia. However, Hungary’s veto, led by Orbán, blocked the statement, as unanimous consent from all EU nations is required for such declarations. Let European Voters Decide if Ukraine Can Join the EU, Orban Suggests.
Sarabia, representing Colombia at CND’s 68th session in Vienna, Austria, claimed during her speech that if coca leaves are removed from the list they would serve an industrial use in the manufacturing of fertilizers and beverages. Sarabia further claimed that a removal of coca leaves would not imply a change in Colombia’s drug-fighting policies and instead called for the international community to “rethink” global drug policy. Colombia Asks U.N. to Remove Coca Leaves from Harmful Substance List
Giorgia Meloni is definitely a different head of state from the others of Europe. A Friend for Trump in Italy
HEALTH AND HEALTH CARE
This strain may have emerged from gain-of-function research conducted at two specific facilities: the USDA Southeast Poultry Research Laboratory (SEPRL) in Athens, Georgia, and the Erasmus Medical Center in Rotterdam, the Netherlands.
Many accused Disney of being too “politically correct” and “woke.” Others also took issue with Zegler, a Latina actress, being cast as the lead. Even “Game of Thrones” actor Peter Dinklage, who has dwarfism, shared his critiques. “Literally no offense to anyone, but I was a little taken aback [when] they were very proud to cast a Latina actress as Snow White, but you’re still telling the story of ‘Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs,’” Dinklage said in January 2022. Disney scales back ‘Snow White’ premiere as controversy surrounding film grows: report
Actress Rosie O'Donnell took to social media on Tuesday to announce that she and her 12-year-old daughter had relocated to Ireland on January 15 and would not considering coming back until "it is safe for all citizens to have equal rights there in America." (Still waiting for Meathead Reiner to immolate himself - jjs) Another Liberal Celebrity Leaves the Country...
HITHER & YON
We learned that former Congressman Lincoln Diaz Balart passed away in Miami. We remember him as a prominent Cuban American figure and a longtime Republican politician who represented South Florida in Congress for nearly 20 years. He was an institution in South Florida and evidence of the Cuban influence in U.S. politics.. . .Cuba is an island with a complicated history. The other Diaz-Balart
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Well, I don't have Passmark scores for this particular chip, but the 24-core M2 Ultra was slower than a 12-core previous-generation AMD desktop chip, and the latest 16-core M4 Max is slower than a 12-core previous generation AMD laptop chip.
So it's perfect if you're spending someone else's money, have a square foot of desk space, run Handbrake transcoding all day, and electricity costs ten dollars per kWh.
It also looks pretty. I'll grant Apple that.
But you still can't upgrade memory or storage after purchase. You can configure as much at 512GB of RAM and 16TB of storage, but that will cost you over $14,000.
When I say "us", I mean... Someone. At $699 it's not insanely expensive for the fastest mainstream CPU available, but it's still twice the price of my 7900 non-X CPU for 40% more performance.
Tuesday Overnight Open Thread - March 11, 2025 [scampydog]
—Open Blogger
View from the Bandon Lighthouse - looking out over the Coquille River and Pacific Ocean.
Good evening and Happy Tuesday ONT. Spring is inbound! Change of seasons and change of the times. America is finding its legs again. Thank you for spending some of your Tuesday evening here. Let's get to the ONT.
I am monitoring the emails of a company we recently acquired. The previous owner is fully left and a regular stream of DNC emails come through. They are amusing - not nearly as comical as our DU friend posts, but amusing. Not much for messaging, nothing new in their playbook. Here is a snip from one today (the only one so far that has not asked for money). Best if you read it in Sally Struthers voice.
Will you take a minute to fill out our feedback survey and let us know how you think the DNC should move forward?
Your input, combined with thousands of other Democratic voices nationwide, will play a pivotal role in honing our strategy.
My large venue days are long gone - live music in a small venue is the path these days.
Any of the Horde attend the US Festival back in '83?
Had some US Festival notes in draft for a month or so. Keep circling back to Heavy Metal day and how Triumph blew the lid off. When they took the stage (watching it on TV) - we were laughing at their white pants. It was Heavy Metal day, not White Pants and Milquetoast day. Wrong judgement, Triumph (three man band) was so good live. The Scorpions sounded great and also put on a helluva show.
Quiet Riot (they used rented instruments)
Motley Crue (did not enjoy)
Ozzy
Judas Priest
Triumph
Scorpions
Van Halen (DLR doing rock star things)
*****
A bit more of Rik Emmett from Triumph - six minutes of guitar. Around the 1:15 mark is pretty fun. Talented guy.
*****
How about some 'cancel culture' eye poking?
A number of authors pulled their books from consideration of the award/competition. Heh.
After dozens of authors had been cut, at least one began complaining about Eriksen's inclusion in the competition based on his numerous blog posts and tweets, which contain comments about immigration and transgenderism that frequently offend the Left. Dozens of people on Bluesky and the SPSFC discord started calling Eriksen a "nazi" for his posts and published some screenshots of them on Reddit along with a summary of the situation at the SPSFC.
"As a science fiction author, I want to concentrate on writing science fiction people will fall in love with, not on passing a purity test whose requirements are only known to the gatekeepers," Ste. Just wrote on X.
A senior official at USAID instructed the agency's remaining staff to convene at the agency's now-former headquarters in Washington on Tuesday for an "all day" group effort to destroy documents stored there, many of which contain sensitive information.
The materials earmarked for destruction include contents of the agency's "classified safes and personnel documents" at the Ronald Reagan Building, said an email sent by USAID's acting executive director, Erica Carr, and obtained by POLITICO.
"Shred as many documents first, and reserve the burn bags for when the shredder becomes unavailable or needs a break," the email said. Carr instructed staff to label the burn bags with the words "SECRET" and "USAID/B/IO/" (agency shorthand for "bureau or independent office") in dark Sharpie.
The email didn't provide any reason for the document destruction.
Unbelievable.
But wait -- the Highly Suspicious Shredding Party is Trump's fault, Politico has decided.
The effort also underscores the tumultuous way in which the Trump administration is dismantling an agency that once managed a $40 billion annual budget and had more than 10,000 staff around the world.
Trump made them destroy evidence of their lawbreaking!
Republicans Scramble to Pass "Clean" Continuing Resolution Bil CR Passes 217-213
—Ace
Conservative Brief
@ConservBrief
BREAKING NOW
Houses of Representatives PASSES Continuing Resolution Bill by a vote of 217-213.
Bill now heads to the Senate.
I saw Thomas Massie once again declared he will not vote for any budget, but Chip Roy xeeted favorably of this one.
Someone at Hot Air pointed out that if Democrats do force a shutdown, it will beTrump deciding which programs get priority and get funded during the shut-down, and which are drained of all money.
House Republicans are racing to pass their bill by 11:59 p.m. EDT Friday to avert a government shutdown, teeing up a final vote on the legislation Tuesday afternoon.
The chamber voted 216-214 to adopt a rule -- which governs debate on legislation -- for Speaker Mike Johnson's (R-La.) continuing resolution. The measure would keep the government funded through Sept. 30.
It's unknown whether the bill will have enough support to pass, as Rep. Thomas Massie (R-Ky.) has maintained he would not vote in favor of it. Several other Republicans are undecided, even after hearing support from Vice President Vance.
Democrats are expected to oppose the legislation in large numbers as they raise concerns about the cuts included in the bill. Meanwhile, Senate Democrats are cautious about blocking the funding bill, fearing a government shutdown could backfire on them politically.
And as usual, that's the only thing they care about.
Notice the media is now making the case for a shutdown -- while in the past, they've screamed that the country would be destroyed by a shutdown. Anything to prop up their degenerate Communist party.
Disney's Snow Woke Expected to Tank at Box Office as Projections Keep Falling
—Ace
As we suspected: Only about 20% of the country favors this constant woke propaganda. Unfortunately, it turns out that it's the woke propaganda enthusiasts who control all the media.
Snow White has more than just poisonous apples to worry about, judging from the upcoming movie's revised box office forecast. The live-action re-imagining of Disney's animated classic is already facing an uphill battle thanks to all the controversy swirling about the Gal Gadot and Rachel Zegler-led film. However, now the most recent projections indicate that Snow White could make far less than the $63 million to $70 million originally predicted back in early February.
Well, according to a new report published by The Hollywood Reporter, Snow White is now eyeing a more modest neighborhood of $48 million to $58 million domestically. Originally, long-range forecasts published by Boxoffice Pro indicated director Marc Webb's take on the beloved character might make somewhere between $65 million to $85 million, and, even on the low end, that window was much more promising than the new numbers in the revised forecast.
With just days to go before the release of its live-action Snow White remake, Disney is drastically reducing its usual Hollywood premiere spectacle. The studio is still hosting an event on March 15 at the El Capitan Theatre, but it won't include the extensive red carpet and media presence typically associated with a major Disney release. Instead, only photographers and a house crew will be allowed to cover the event, with no traditional press interviews taking place.
Disney has not commented on this shift, but even Variety acknowledges that this decision comes amid ongoing controversy surrounding the film. The move follows months of backlash and marketing missteps, making it clear that Disney is playing defense as the film nears its March 21 theatrical release.
In the past, Disney has gone all-out for live-action remakes, with elaborate red carpet events, numerous interviews, and a media blitz to build hype. The decision to scale back this aspect of Snow White signals a lack of confidence in the film's reception.
For context, even underperforming Disney films have received full red carpet treatment.
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This premiere downgrade aligns with Disney's broader approach to limiting Snow White's exposure. As we previously reported, lead actress Rachel Zegler has been noticeably absent from American press appearances. Instead, Disney sent her on a scripted, highly controlled press tour in Japan, where she was unlikely to face tough questions about her past comments or the film's creative direction.
This is a stark contrast to how Disney promotes its other high-profile films. Usually, the lead star is front and center in talk shows, interviews, and press junkets leading up to the release. The decision to keep Zegler largely away from the American media suggests the studio is trying to prevent further controversy.
Disney's Snow White has been a public relations nightmare from the start, but now, it seems the controversy has gone beyond bad trailers and box office projections. The two lead actresses, Gal Gadot and Rachel Zegler, appear to be on completely opposite sides of one of the most divisive global conflicts of our time--and it may be showing in more ways than one.
At an Anti-Defamation League (ADL) event this week, Gadot received the ADL International Leadership Award and delivered a passionate speech affirming her support for Israel and condemning what she sees as growing hostility toward the Jewish community. The speech comes just months after Zegler posted "#FreePalestine" while promoting the Snow White trailer, directly tying the Disney film to her stance on the Middle Eastern conflict.
While Gadot never directly mentioned Zegler, the timing, wording, and strong rebuke of those who "celebrate hostility" certainly feel like a pointed response.
And if that wasn't enough, the tension between the two actresses became even more obvious when they appeared together at the Academy Awards this week.
BTW, a movie out right now, Mikey 17, is a derivative, messy, boring TDS Meth Nightmare.
Critical Drinker mentions The Sixth Day as also featuring a clone that's printed off before the person who's been cloned has died.
Not just that one. The very good movie Moon featured Sam Rockwell as a lunar base supervisor who is presumably killed while out farming Lithium-3 from the Moon's soil. His clone is activated, and then recovers the still-living body of the man he was cloned from. He didn't know that he was being cloned.
I'm sure it's much better than this piece of shit. Really good practical special effects of Lithium-mining rigs driving around the Moon's surface.
Update: More woes for Woke Hollywood.
Tangential:
Massive shakeup at the top of WB.
The two executives in charge of the studio under Zaslav are being replaced by the co-CEO of DCU (not Gunn, the other guy).
This is after WB has been spending ungodly amounts of money on original films that are failing (including Mickey 17). The newest thing is Maggie Gyllenhal's remake of The Bride of Frankenstein which cost $100 million and has apparently screened so poorly another executive is being charged with "fixing" it and has nowhere to go to make it better.
For all the shitting on Zaslav, he's been betting big on being different and giving resources to creatives to do what they want. He's just gotten all of the terrible creatives.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, leading the proletariat with Eisenstein
Warner Bros. was known historically as a place that allowed you to make the film you wanted to make. Unless you were making a DC movie, in which case they first granted you that leeway and then completely took it back.
I mean, they let Todd Philips burn $200 million in cash to make a F-Off movie to fans of the first Joker movie.
Ukraine Agrees to 30 Day Ceasefire; Rubio Will Take the Deal to Russia
—Ace
Either Russia accepts or they reveal that the negotiations are pointless.
Eric Daugherty
@EricLDaugh
SECRETARY OF STATE MARCO RUBIO: We've offered Ukraine an immediate ceasefire. They accepted. We will now take this to the Russians. The ball is now in their court.
Video of the announcement here. I can't embed it because Twitter may have disabled embeds, given the mass denial-of-service attack on them.
Which Elon Musk said was made by IPs originating in Ukraine.
Clay Travis
@ClayTravis
Ukraine has agreed to a 30 day ceasefire. Incredible work by Trump team. Now if Russia agrees, Trump may have gotten cease fires in the Middle East and Europe in his first 60 days. Nobel Peace Prize worthy:
Meanwhile...
US Homeland Security News
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Update: US Agency for International Development (USAID) has been implicated in funding a Ukrainian organization, Molfar, which labeled Vice President J.D. Vance and other US officials and public figures as "foreign propagandists" aligned with Russia, according to an investigation by The Grayzone.
Molfar, established in 2019, describes itself as an open-source intelligence community platform which "collects lists of Ukrainian enemies to bring war criminals to justice." The group's website identifies USAID and the US Civil Research and Development Fund (CRDF) as partners, indicating financial and operational support from US government agencies.
Bonus: This sniveling foreign agent again.
Paul Sperry
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BREAKING: Eric Ciaramella, the anonymous "whistleblower" who helped Adam Schiff orchestrate an impeachment of Trump over a phone call w/ Zelensky, just decried on a podcast "these unwarranted personal attacks by Trump" on Zelensky, whose regime Ciaramella's been secretly advising
After Downplaying the Price of Eggs for Four Years, Democrats Are Now Babbling About the Price of Eggs. But the Price of Eggs Has "Plummeted" Under Trump.
—Ace
The Democrats' major attack on Trump is that he promised inflation would begin to fall on "day one" and it hasn't fallen yet. That was the point of that embarrassing robotic-repetition-of-the-same-message we saw on Monday of last week.
Disgraced coked-up hasbeen loser Al Franken just pushed this Democrat talking point last night. Scott Jennings pushed back.
Remember when Democrats thought they had a winning message to combat Trump's popularity by harping about egg prices? They just lost their favorite talking point.
"Instead of leaning into Trump's teardown of the federal government or his alliance with billionaire lieutenant Elon Musk, they're steering to what they perceive as the everyday concerns of Americans -- none more important than grocery prices and eggs in particular," the Associated Press reported earlier this month.
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According to Trading Economics, after reaching an all-time high of $8.17 per dozen in early March, egg prices have plummeted to $5.51, which now sits below the nearly $7 average when President Trump took office in January.
As the above chart shows, prices were trending up in the final months of Biden's presidency. However, Democrats didn't acknowledge the rising prices until after Trump took office in an attempt to blame his policies for the rising prices.
The ironic thing about the Democrats' attacks on Trump is that he inherited the egg price situation from Joe Biden. The Biden administration's disastrous decision to slaughter 150 million egg-laying chickens in an attempt to contain avian flu is what sent prices soaring. Major restaurant chains like Denny's and Waffle House were forced to implement egg surcharges just to stay afloat. Some markets saw prices reach absurd highs, with a San Francisco Safeway charging a mind-boggling $10.99 per dozen.
It is very important we see some kind of improvement in the rate of inflation. The earlier we see it, the more likely we are to actually win the midterms.
Crotchety Hard-Left Fanatical Fossil Ruth Marcus Resigns from Her Sinecure at the Washington Post, Angry that Bezos Will No Longer Let Her Publish Demands to Censor Her Enemies
By telling opinion columnists they can no longer fulminate endlessly for censorship and suppression, he's encouraging the Dead Enders to MoveOn.org.
A top political columnist for The Washington Post resigned today, accusing Post chief executive and publisher Will Lewis of killing her column that criticized owner Jeff Bezos's drive to overhaul the opinion pages to focus on his libertarian priorities.
Post columnist and Associate Editor Ruth Marcus, who has worked at the paper for four decades, says she can no longer stay there.
"Jeff's announcement that the opinion section will henceforth not publish views that deviate from the pillars of individual liberties and free markets threatens to break the trust of readers that columnists are writing what they believe, not what the owner has deemed acceptable," Marcus wrote in a resignation letter obtained by NPR.
More than 75,000 digital subscribers canceled in the 48 hours after Bezos revealed his intentions late last month, which included an edict that the paper would not print opposing views; then Opinions Editor David Shipley stepped down after vainly trying to dissuade Bezos from his course.
Marcus confirmed to NPR she had resigned and the authenticity of the letter but declined further comment.
"Will's decision to not ...run the column that I wrote respectfully dissenting from Jeff's edict - something that I have not experienced in almost two decades of column-writing - underscores that the traditional freedom of columnists to select the topics they wish to address and say what they think has been dangerously eroded," she wrote.
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All this led to critical columns about the endorsement decision in the Post's own pages and multiple resignations by editorial board members and by contributors to the wider opinions section. Shipley, while still editor, killed a cartoon late last year by Pulitzer Prize-winner Ann Telnaes showing Bezos among the media and tech figures abasing themselves before Trump; she resigned. A deluge of veterans have taken jobs at competing news outlets.
Only when Jews or Christians kill Arabs, even during a just defensive war, does the world respond with its typical, fanatical calls for Restraint and Cease-fire and Return to former borders and Humanitarian Crisis and Disproportionate and even Genocide!
But real genocide happens all of the time, and often at the hands of Muslim Arabs, who seem to be involved in most sectarian killing across the world. The latest is in Syria, where the Great Hope of the Bien Pensant and The New York Times, Ahmed al-Shara, is turning out to be what anyone with a brain knew he would... Osama bin Laden in a crappy suit and a trimmed beard. Be careful what you wish for! Is he al-Qaeda? ISIS? Only his barber knows for sure, but the Christians being murdered by his terrorists-turned-Syrian-patriots probably don't care. Sure, he is knocking off the Alawites too, because they supported the Assad regime and their brand of Islam isn't quite savage enough for him and his psychotics. And who is next? The Druze? The Kurds? Sure! That will help Turkey, which is playing its usual game of talking out of both sides of its mouth...publicly declaring Hay'at Tahrir al-Sham a terrorist organization while privately supporting them. And they got what they wanted...Assad fell, and Syria is being run by their pet terrorist group.
Northern Syria, especially the part towards the Mediterranean coast, is in the throes of an extremely bloody conflict with massacres against Alawites and Christians alike by the Turkish-backed Islamic regime and its jihadist militants.
The ethnic cleansing, which threatens to destabilize once again the country that has experienced endless warfare for 15 years, is unfolding under the gaze of the international community, which condemns but for now has not gone beyond…recommendations for “restraint“. The United States and Russia have, however, called for the United Nations Security Council to meet on Monday, behind closed doors to discuss the escalating violence.
The latest tally from the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights puts the death toll at least 1,311 in recent days. Of these, more than 830 were civilians, mostly Alawites, the majority of whom were executed. More than 480 are the armed dead from both sides.
Nobody cares about the Arabs being murdered by other Arabs, and certainly nobody cares about the Christians being murdered. Oh, there will be meetings and talk of boycotts and there will absolutely be a stern lecture from some United Nations functionary about the opportunity for peace and prosperity now that the Assad regime has fallen.
But very little will be done, and Syria will become another dysfunctional Muslim dictatorship, whose thugs will cruise around the country killing anyone they dislike or whose religion is inconvenient. Sort of like how it was under Assad, only nastier.
Israel was vilified when, soon after Hay'at Tahrir al-Sham conquered Syria, they entered the country and established a buffer zone, because unlike the naive and foolish NYT, Israel knows what Jihad means and what can happen. If al-Shara of the trimmed beard would send his henchmen to kill Muslims and Christians, what would he do with Israelis? Oh, Israel also destroyed the majority of the Syrian army's weaponry, because fanatical 7th century maniacs with missiles is a bad combination.
But the problem for Christians remains, and absent an Israeli invasion of Syria, who is going to protect them? The United Nations? The Pope? The American Army? The EU?
Maybe we can convince Putin to send troops...after all, he was a supporter of Assad!
Good morning kids. Well, despite all the winning vis a vis DOGE, as well as the exposure of all the waste fraud and abuse that has opened a lot of eyes, that Rush Limbaugh of blessed memory lamented would normally glaze over. And so it is now an issue, but despite this there is yet another Continuing Resolution being put forth to avoid (heaven forfend /sarc) a government shutdown. Is this antithetical to Trump and DOGE or is it a good move politically?
“I’m not a huge fan of the kick the can down the road continuing resolution as the best form of how we fund our government, but what I do believe is that you’ve got to figure out how to empower President Trump and Elon to continue to keep the lights on to carry out DOGE,” Roy said. [Chip] Roy said he is still combing through the 99-page bill, which was released on Saturday, but emphasized that it puts a stranglehold on spending.
OK, I hope that this is the last time that I have to write about this execrable woman. If I don't have to, it's because she ends up toeing the Trump 47 company line — which I sincerely hope will be the case. Should I have the occasion to write anything about the goings-on at the Department of Labor, it won't be about anything pleasant. . . The Senate has confirmed that former Oregon Rep. Lori Chavez-DeRemer will lead the Department of Labor, finalizing President Donald Trump's Cabinet. This confirmation marks a significant step in the administration's efforts to fill key positions, with Chavez-DeRemer poised to oversee the nation's wor kforce policies and labor standards. . . I have not been shy about my dislike for this woman's politics. For starters, she's an Oregon Republican, which I'm not even sure is legal. When it comes to Big Labor, she's virtually indistinguishable from your garden variety Democrat. She's so awful in that regard that she's got me agreeing with Mitch McConnell. . . Her nomination set off all kinds of warning bells for me because she was one of the co-sponsors of the Dem-friendly PRO Act, which legalizes union thuggery and bullying via what we used to call "card check" back in the Tea Party days. It was one of the more insidious Dem initiatives that we were fighting against lo those many years ago. Suddenly, the guy who I'd enthusiastically voted for was nominating her for a position in his cabinet.
About 40 topless women with swastikas painted on their bare chests marched in formation through the streets of Paris wearing military caps while giving the Nazi salute and shouting “Heil Musk! Heil Trump! Heil Poutine!”
Over the weekend, Bernie Sanders held a rally. Someone on his staff decided it would be a great idea to invite Thomas Gabel (aka “Laura Jane Grace,” his professional name) to sing for the gathered crowd. It was not a great idea. Gabel thinks he’s a woman and, with that belief, comes a mind that permanently lives in a sexual gutter. Therefore, Gabel sang a graphic, deeply offensive song about the Biblical God as a sexual predator assaulting people. Believe it or not, it was a good thing for America that he did this . . They’re not the Democrats of old, who were normal, working- and middle-class people and patriots, but who misguidedly believed that bigger government would help them achieve the American dream. Instead, they are deeply sick people who despise American and Western institutions, especially Christianity, and want to destroy these institutions in the name of a fusion of Marxism, Islamism, and nihilism. With luck, Americans will run away from this dystopian desire for our future.
Taking a break from posting cringey rap-sync TikTok in the halls of Congress, the Texas congresswoman took to the airwaves to declare that crossing the U.S. border in violation of U.S. law doesn’t actually…violate…U.S. law. Yes, she said that. “It is not a criminal violation to enter the country illegally,” Crockett told MSNBC over the weekend. “It’s not a criminal…it’s not a crime.” “They really want our local law enforcement to go and round up people when they could be looking out for the murderers and the sexual abusers and the robbers, they want them to go and round people up on civil accusations,” she rambled on, referring to efforts by the Trump administration and some red states to allow local and state law enforcement agencies to help in detaining illegal aliens. We’ll just skip over the part where many of the illegal aliens allowed in under the Biden junta were, in fact, murderers, sexual abusers, and robbers - not that we knew that, of course, given the junta's unwillingness to treat unlawful border crossing like the crime that it is.
Yes, she has the intellectual agility of plankton. But is she wholly unaware of what she's saying or does she actually believe it? Or is it more of she's saying it in the belief if not hope that anyone who hears it will nod their head in agreement.
I think the results of the last election explodes that theory all to hell, and ditto the transexual madness. Elsewhere the jackhammering into rubble of the so-called "Black Lives Matter" Plaza in DC is a joy to behold. And let it be a metaphor for the anti-American left in general, that have brought us to the very brink of destruction. Lest we forget that Derek Chauvin, the police officer who in the course of doing his job unfortunately had to cause the death of a career criminal who was resisting an arrest that likely would have returned him to prison for perhaps the rest of his born days, since George Floyd already was in poor health pls the swallowing of his stash of narcotics is what killed him, not the fictitious knee on his neck which the suppressed coroners report ultimately revealed.
Lots of other goodies, such as the self-gassing apostates and the Democrats rallying in support of the Columbia University Hamas terrorism and Jew-slaughter booster potentially facing deportation. And twisted harridan Randy Weingarten's head exploding with the potential shuttering of the Dept. of Education.
And lastly, a quick shout-out and thank you for your continued support in hitting our tip jar. It truly is appreciated more than you can know.
ABOVE THE FOLD, BREAKING, NOTEWORTHY
Kaley Chiles is a Christian counselor in Colorado. When the state passed a law forcing mental health professionals to advance radical gender ideology, she challenged it. Now, the Supreme Court has agreed to review the case — in what could bring a landmark ruling for free speech. SCOTUS To Consider Whether Government Can Strangle Therapists’ Speech
Defeats are guaranteed to happen, but as long as Trump and his allies never stop pushing forward these defeats will merely be a retreating action by his opponents against his winning campaign. Expect no end, no slowdown, in Trump’s non-stop offensive
Remember when Democrats insisted that they needed unlimited COVID relief funds to help “struggling Americans?” Well, guess what — millions of those dollars went to elementary school “business owners” and people who would've been alive during the Civil War. You can't make this stuff up. The Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) just dropped a bombshell that exposes the mind-boggling incompetence of Biden's administration. It has uncovered nearly $2 billion in "misplaced" funds at HUD, but that's just the appetizer in this feast of government waste. DOGE Makes Another Bombshell Discovery
A far-left environmentalist group has launched legal action against the Trump administration and Citibank over withheld funds from a federal grant intended for climate and housing initiatives. Climate United, holding a $7 billion grant from the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund, alleges it has not received the promised funds and has not been provided an explanation by either the EPA or Citibank.The lawsuit, filed in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, seeks an injunction to compel Citibank to release the funds and to prevent further interference by the EPA. The suit asserts that the EPA’s actions breach the Administrative Procedure Act, describing the fund suspension as arbitrary and an abuse of discretion. Additionally, it accuses EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin of violating the Fifth Amendment’s due process clause, claiming inadequate explanations were provided for the actions taken, and asserting the decision limited Climate United’s ability to contest the decision. Climate Grifters Sue Trump Admin Over $7 Billion in Frozen Funds.
“They really want our local law enforcement to go and round up people when they could be looking out for the murderers and the sexual abusers and the robbers, they want them to go and round people up on civil accusations,” she rambled on, referring to efforts by the Trump administration and some red states to allow local and state law enforcement agencies to help in detaining illegal aliens. We’ll just skip over the part where many of the illegal aliens allowed in under the Biden junta were, in fact, murderers, sexual abusers, and robbers - not that we knew that, of course, given the junta's unwillingness to treat unlawful border crossing like the crime that it is. Rep. Jasmine Crockett: 'It's Not a Crime to Enter the Country Illegally'
“I ordered a vast increase in work enforcement … We’ve got a plan right now [of] 200 worksites a week,” Homan told Breitbart News on March 8. “Better [for companies] to get square of the law than us to take action,” he added. Tom Homan Wants 200 Worksite Checks Every Week
“Republicans are done playing this racist game. This doesn’t intimidate us anymore,” Gill told Elizabeth MacDonald. “We need leaders in Washington who are going to look out for the American people, for American citizens, not for foreigner illegal aliens. All of her actions and her comments since suggest that she is more interested in advancing the interests of illegal aliens than she is in looking out for American citizens. I believe that that is wrong.” ‘Republicans Are Done Playing This Racist Game’: House Rep Says Democrats Will No Longer Intimidate Them
The Trump administration has transformed the Biden-era "CBP One" app, which allowed migrants to apply for asylum in the United States from their home countries, into "CBP Home," a platform aimed at streamlining the self-deportation of illegal immigrants. Trump Admin Replaces Biden's Migrant Entry App With a Migrant Self-Deportation App
According to human rights observers, Christians, Alawites, and other minorities have been targeted by Syria’s Islamist government security forces as they also clash with pro-Assad fighters in coastal enclaves. During her Senate confirmation hearing earlier this year, President Donald J. Trump‘s Director of National Intelligence, Tulsi Gabbard, warned that the United States’s decade-long policy of backing al-Qaeda-aligned forces against the Assad regime could embolden the Islamist fighters to carry out genocidal attacks against Syria’s Christians and other minorities once they were in power. The Islamist Persecution of Christians in Syria is the Rotten Fruit of U.S. Foreign Policy.
An aggressive Islamic culture with high birthrates will sweep away the postmodern secular European culture that can’t be bothered to awaken from its slumber to defend its people or have children of their own. Faith, Hope, and Babies
CIVIL WAR 2.0: J-6 FBI FALSE FLAG "RIOT" & AFTERMATH, LEFTIST PERSECUTIONS, DEMOCRAT PUTSCH, AMERICAN DISSOLUTION
The bond market reflected growing investor caution, with yields on U.S. Treasuries falling as traders moved into safer assets. The 10-year Treasury yield slid 9.19 basis points to 4.226 percent, while the 2-year yield fell 9.8 basis points to 3.904 percent, indicating expectations for slower economic growth. A basis point is a one-hundredth of a percentage point. Bond yields fall when bond prices rise.
“The result of the UK’s decarbonization efforts appears to be weak economic growth, stalling living standards, high energy prices and deindustrialization – without denting rising global emissions,” he wrote last week in the Telegraph. Net Zero Is A Big Fat Zero For Economic Growth
Weingarten, for the record, is a nakedly partisan political hack, as is the public employee union she represents. She doubles as the teachers’ union boss and a DNC Rules Committee voting member. The union’s Open Secrets page reveals a cornucopia of funding avenues that all feed the Democrat machine. VIDEO: Teachers’ Union Boss Suffers Conniption Fit Over Looming Department of Education Death
Seriously: Charters have attracted nearly half the district’s families, so of course that leaves it needing to shrink its regular public school spending. Indeed, the real scandal here is that it’s only now feeling the squeeze — yet another telltale that New York insanely overfunds its regular public school systems.Let’s get one thing straight: When families flee traditional public schools for charters and take state dollars with them, they’re not the ones guilty of anything. LI educrats drive parents to charters, then punish them for wanting good schools
DEMOCRAT/LEFTIST AND RINO SCANDALS, MESHUGAS, CHUTZPOCRISY
Despite the assertions that the Chinese investors are not looking to use their financial leverage to pressure Musk and influence the U.S. government, the revelation could revive long-standing concerns regarding Musk’s business ties to China and the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). The National Pulse has previously reported that several business deals between Musk’s electric vehicle company, Tesla, and Chinese manufacturers have drawn scrutiny from lawmakers on Capitol Hill. Musk’s Companies See Flood of Chinese Investors.
The Department of Justice (DOJ) on March 3 arrested Joseph Neal Sanberg, 45, a cofounder of Aspiration Partners Inc., which dubs itself a “climate-friendly banking alternative” on its website. The arrest stemmed from “a federal criminal complaint alleging that he conspired to defraud two investor funds of at least $145 million,” per a DOJ press release. Musk-Bashing Democrat Donor Pleads Guilty in Alleged Woke Fraud Scheme
CONFIRMATION HEARING News and Views
That news was, put mildly, a buzz kill after the "50 Wins" list. I have not been shy about my dislike for this woman's politics. For starters, she's an Oregon Republican, which I'm not even sure is legal. When it comes to Big Labor, she's virtually indistinguishable from your garden variety Democrat. She's so awful in that regard that she's got me agreeing with Mitch McConnell. Well, It's Been Fun — Trump's Commie Labor Pick Confirmed
The great question of the moment is whether the Trump Revolution is irreversible, or whether our Democrat friends will get their act together and return in clouds of glory to rule over us. Will the MAGA Barbarian Invasion Succeed?
Defending bureaucrats just doesn’t anger ignorant masses like identity politics. The Resistance Sequel Flops
There is a reason voters see Democrats as the party of chaos. They align with the far-left wing of their party on issues that most Americans find insane. Instead of moderating their views, their strategy is to appropriate President Donald Trump’s successful campaign playbook as their own. However, it won’t help them like it did Trump because Democrats lack essential conditions that helped Trump overcome. Democrats Are Clueless If They Think Stealing Trump’s Strategy Is Going To Work
House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries recently tried spinning this disaster by claiming Democrats have Republicans "on the run." Really, Hakeem? That's like the captain of the Titanic bragging about making good time while the ship is taking on water. The Democratic leadership seems to be living in an alternate reality where their policies haven't led to historic inflation, an unprecedented border crisis, and the systematic dismantling of women's rights in favor of radical gender ideology. Van Jones Admits Democrats Are ‘Screwed’
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky issued an apology to U.S. President Donald J. Trump following a heated exchange in the Oval Office, according to U.S. special envoy Steve Witkoff. Witkoff disclosed on Monday that Zelensky had sent a letter expressing regret over the incident. Although Trump mentioned receiving a letter from Zelensky during his recent address to Congress, he did not acknowledge any apology. A spokesman for Zelensky had previously indicated that there would be no apology from the Ukrainian leader.The confrontation in the Oval Office involved Trump, Vice President J.D. Vance, and Zelensky, focusing on Zelensky’s skepticism of diplomatic talks with Russia and Vladimir Putin. This encounter led to Zelensky’s abrupt departure, interrupting discussions about a mineral agreement that was pending between the two nations. As a result, U.S. intelligence sharing and military support for Ukraine were temporarily halted, a decision confirmed by CIA Director John Ratcliffe. REPORT: Zelensky Sent Apology Letter to Trump for Oval Office Incident.
FOREIGN AFFAIRS, INTERNATIONAL
Alrighty, boys and girls. If you ever wanted a picture-perfect definition of chutzpah, here it is: The state-owned, government-controlled, taxpayer-funded France 24 “news” station is accusing Trump of having a "ministry of propaganda." French (Government-Owned!) Media: ‘How Could You Not’ Compare Trump to Hitler?
A collision between two large vessels occurred in the North Sea off East Yorkshire on Monday. The incident involved the oil tanker Stena Immaculate and the container ship Solong. According to data from vessel tracking service MarineTraffic, the vessels struck each other at roughly 09:48 UTC.Stena Immaculate, a 183-meter-long U.S.-registered tanker, was anchored off the coast of Immingham when it was hit by the 140-meter-long Solong, which sails under the Portuguese flag. At the time of the accident, the Solong was headed toward Rotterdam. The collision between the two ships resulted in a fire on the tanker, which was reportedly carrying jet fuel. Container Ship and Tanker Collide Off England’s Coast, Causing Maritime Disaster.
Vance calls for America to rethink defending Europe, arguing it suppresses democratic dissent while Ukraine's victory would embolden totalitarianism. The Vance Doctrine
Ret. Air Force Lt. Gen. Dan “Razin'” Caine is set to replace Air Force Gen. Charles Q. Brown as the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff pending confirmation by the Senate. Service members who trained, taught and fought alongside him throughout his career told the Daily Caller News Foundation that he is qualified for the role, in character and in capabilities. ‘Smartest Guy In The Room’: Meet The Man Trump Just Tapped To Head America’s Highest Military Office
The picture to the right, taken by Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) prior to the successful landing of Firefly’s Blue Ghost lunar lander, shows its entire landing region. The inset in the lower left is a picture taken by LRO on March 3, 2025, after landing. Blue Ghost landed almost dead center within its target zone
What makes this galactic pair so intriguing is that the two galaxies are so different with very different theorized histories. A galactic ball and spiral interact
FEMINAZISM, TRANSGENDER PSYCHOSIS, HOMOSEXUALIZATION, WAR ON MASCULINITY/NORMALCY
Where the previous model offered just four cores running at 1.5GHz, this model offers eight cores running at 2GHz. Which is taking things in the right direction, at least.
Memory is still soldered, but at least now you can specify up to 64GB of it instead of the 8GB included with the current model.
TZ Barry says yes. OK, not really - but check out this timely short story. (See what I did there??)
It was the perfect plan: rob a bank at 1AM on daylight savings night, so when the clocks reset, it'll be like the past hour never happened.
"Daylight Saving Crime" a short story from Time Zone Weird
National Mario Day on Mar 10 recognizes an iconic character from a popular video game. The character, known today as Mario, first appeared in 1981 in a game called Donkey Kong made by Nintendo.
Dedicated fans knew Mario before his time as a plumber. At his creation, Donkey Kong portrays Mario as a carpenter named Jumpman. Then in 1983, Nintendo launched a new game in which bad guy Jumpman reinvents himself into an Italian plumber who rescues princesses.
Italian plumbers, Mario and his brother Luigi face numerous obstacles in the games produced by Nintendo. Over the years, gammers help Mario cross several different landscapes all to rescue Princess Toadstool or Princess Peach, depending on which game they play. No matter the kingdom or galaxy, video game fans find the games entertaining and challenging. Many will admit, they find the characters endearing. The storylines provide hours of fun and continue to be a part of the pop culture landscape.
Here is a really cool video covering the history of the mustachioed plumber from 1981-2021
Who else was stuck on this jump FOREVER??
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Wholesome Content x2
Baby girl waits for her father every day with his truck to hug and help him. 🤗 pic.twitter.com/hIHpSkClgH
Its bow & arrow season 🏹🐟- rounding up these tasty CONVICTS aka sheepshead, didn’t loose an ounce of meat with this HEAD shot!😏 I’d say I’m getting pretty good at this!💯 The fish were staying quite deep, the deeper the fish is- the further you aim below the fish due to water… pic.twitter.com/YjVmDyXqUg
1. The world’s entire population could fit inside the state of Texas
4. Boston and Austin are the only two U.S. state capitals with rhyming names
11.The United States is home to the world’s shortest river
14.A piece of Africa is underneath the United States
22.There’s only one U.S. capital without a McDonald’s
Hit the link to see all 23 facts along with a short blurb about each one.
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DJ Doof – Happy Birthday Version
Born on this day in 1983: Carrie Underwood, American pop country music singer, winner of the fourth season of American Idol. Her debut album 'Some Hearts' is the fastest selling debut country album in Nielsen SoundScan history.
(My vote for greatest vocal performance of the 21st Century)
Born on this day in 1963: Jay "Rick" Rubin, American record producer and former co-president of Columbia Records. Along with Russell Simmons, Rubin is the founder of Def Jam Records and also established American Recordings.
(Rubin produced the 1987 album ELECTRIC from The Cult)
Also born on this day in 1963: Jeff Ament, bassist for Pearl Jam
Stag Rock at the lighthouse at Blackrocks Point, Northumbria. The legend is that the stag jumped into the sea rather than be killed by hunters, or that a saint saved the stag by turning him invisible.
Trump Repurposes Biden's Illegal Immigration-Enabling App to Turn It Into an App That Urges Illegals to Go Home
—Ace
I'm sure you remember Biden's "CBP One App." The app enabled illegal immigrants to apply for asylum by checking a few boxes on a phone app. They would illegally immigrate to America and Biden would claim they were here legally because the app had assigned them a court hearing for their bogus asylum claims in like 6-10 years or whatever.
Trump has gently tweaked "CBP One." It's now the CBP Home app. Illegals can now use it to notify the government that they're leaving the US to go back home.
The Trump administration is rolling out a new app to replace the controversial CBP One app with the new replacement designed to facilitate the self-deportation of illegal immigrants.
The Department of Homeland Security is announcing the CBP Home app -- which will launch with a self-deportation reporting feature for those in the country illegally.
It replaces the CBP One app, which was expanded by the Biden administration to allow migrants to schedule appointments at ports of entry to be paroled into the U.S. Hundreds of thousands were paroled into the U.S. as a result. The Trump administration has ended the ability to use the app for that purpose.
All CBP One apps will update to the new CBP Home app.
"The Biden Administration exploited the CBP One App to allow more than 1 million aliens to illegally enter the United States. With the launching of the CBP Home App, we are restoring integrity to our immigration system," DHS Secretary Kristi Noem said in a statement.
The app allows aliens to "Submit Intent to Depart" and submit information regarding their intent to leave the U.S. They can also provide information to verify they have left the U.S., a function limited to those who were paroled into the U.S.
"The CBP Home App gives aliens the option to leave now and self-deport, so they may still have the opportunity to return legally in the future and live the American dream. If they don't, we will find them, we will deport them, and they will never return," Noem said.
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SCOOP: The Trump admin has repurposed the controversial Biden era CBP One cell phone app into a self deportation app called CBP Home that launches today. DHS tells me any migrants who had the prior CBP One app will have it auto update to this new app, & DHS can use data from prior CBP One registrations to track migrants for removal.
The new app allows illegal aliens and migrants in the US to register with CBP to self deport. They fill out biographical information, including their countries of citizenship, which country they plan to return to, their alien registration numbers, contact information, and it allows them to upload photos of themselves to confirm their identity. All of it is then submitted to CBP, and they leave the country.
You may be asking yourself -- why would an illegal alien want to self deport?
In a statement to FOX News -- DHS Secretary Kristi Noem answers that question.
"The CBP Home app gives aliens to option to leave now and self-deport, so they may still have the opportunity to return legally in the future and live the American dream. If they don't, we will find them, we will deport them, and they will never return," Noem said. "The Biden administration exploited the CBP One app to allow more than one million aliens to enter the United States. With the launching of the CBP Home app, we are restoring integrity to our immigration system."
DHS says it is significantly cheaper for the US if illegal aliens decide to self deport, and limited ICE resources can instead be used to target criminal aliens.
Outstanding.
Can't wait for an Obama judge to rule that Trump has to keep Biden's app, and for Amy Coney Barrett to bless that ruling.
It's time to bankrupt this corrupt grifter organization -- which deliberately allows foreign donors to illegally donate to Democrats, and which allows the fraud of "smurfing," whereby foreign donors, or donors who have already maxed out their donations, donate under an assumed name -- once and for all.
Open their books. Open their books. Open their books.
Here's one flier being passed around by Democrats, but not necessarily ActBlue.
And the DOJ needs to start investigating criminally.
There is a massive campaign to destroy Tesla through terrorism, going after both Tesla showrooms and Tesla drivers. There are mutterings about assassinating Elon Musk, a media campaign to ostracize and demonize him, and normal people want it to stop, as they should.
They aim their ire at Musk because he is an easier target than thousands of activists. If only Musk were compliant we can get back to "normal," even if normal is a pattern of corruption that is bankrupting the country. Bankruptcy is in the future; the low-level civil war is right here and now.
I look at this coordinated campaign and react with outrage at the people doing it and funding it. Many ordinary people look at it and see that convincing the protesters to act like adults instead of throwing tantrums and expect the authorities to stamp out illegal and disruptive activity. The former are like parents who keep giving children candy and an iPad to shut up their brats in exchange for temporary peace and quite, and those of us who want to impose order as adults who are socializing the children to participate in society.
ActBlue is a criminal organization, engaged in wide-scale money laundering from foreigners, including foreign governments, and of course in all likelihood USAID through the NGOs they fund. We already know that BLM was funded by USAID, and we have only scratched the surface.
Are they fleeing the criminal enterprise as they realize it's gone too far and there will be consequences?
Charlie Kirk
@charliekirk11
The NYT reports that ActBlue is in "turmoil."
Mysteriously, seven top executives have all left in the past three weeks, several of whom had all been there more than a decade. None of them will explain on the record why they left.
The last remaining lawyer at ActBlue's general counsel's office has been locked out of his email and put on leave after sending internal messages that "we have Whistleblower Policies for a reason."
Two unions representing ActBlue employees are openly questioning the group's stability and call the situation "alarming." They're demanding the hiring of an independent investigator.
More than $16 billion has passed through ActBlue in the past 20 years. What could they possibly be hiding?
From the NYT:
he departures from ActBlue, which helps raise money for Democrats running for office at all levels of government, come as the group is under investigation by congressional Republicans. They have advanced legislation that some Democrats warn could be used to debilitate what is the party's leading fund-raising operation.
The exodus has set off deep concerns about ActBlue's future. Last week, two unions representing the group's workers sent a blistering letter to ActBlue's board of directors that listed the seven officials who had left. The letter described an 'alarming pattern' of departures that was 'eroding our confidence in the stability of the organization.'
What prompted so many longtime ActBlue officials to leave is not clear -- none of the former officials agreed to be interviewed on the record.
Lawyers and executives resigning en masse.
That won't be enough to protect them from prosecution.
Podcast: CBD and J.J. Sefton are joined by Robert Spencer of Jihad Watch, perhaps the world's expert on the reality of Islam. We discuss the failure of Europe, the rigidity of Islam, the blindness of the West to that rigidity, and the possibilities for the future.
Correction on Gavin Newsom story: Newsom didn't go on Charlie Kirk's podcast. Charlie Kirk was the first guest on Gavin Newsom's new podcast, which he calls "This is Gavin Newsom," apparently intending it to be an Oprah Winfrey style star vehicle for making himself president
CORRECTION: I inadvertently reported that our NSA and CIA "intelligence" professionals were talking about "anal bleaching" in government checks while on the taxpayers' dime. In fact, they were discussing "butthole lasers."
"Butthole lasers" may be used for anal bleaching, but also for anal fistulas.
Laser treatments for the anus and rectum can be used for a variety of conditions, including hemorrhoids, fissures, and fistulas. Laser treatments can also be used for hair removal and anal bleaching.
I apologize to all "intelligence" professionals I maligned. I regret the error and vow to do better in the future.
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