Ellen "Elliot" Page: For Reasons I Don't Understand, People Aren't Calling Me Up to Offer Me Roles to Play Characters Who Look Like Whatever I Am
—Disinformation Expert Ace
You don't say?
A woman who cut off her breasts and had fake plastic "abs" inserted but who still looks and sounds like a ten-year-old boy but with visible wrinkles is finding that there aren't a lot of films calling for that particular type?
You don't say. You don't say.
Elliot Page Is 'Not Really' Getting Casting Calls After 'The Odyssey': 'If Someone Wants to Call Me...I'd Love to Do Good Work'
Did you guys watch The Umbrella Academy? If you haven't seen it, don't bother. You wait for it get good and you keep waiting. At points, it gets okay, and then gets bad.
Here's one five minute scene featuring two cute girls (on the "bad guys'" team) and nothing in the show is this good so don't bother.
Anyway, I watched for a couple of seasons. Ellen Page was in it, playing the typical Ellen Page character, a fragile, squeaky-voiced scoldy girl with mental problems.
Then she "transitioned," and continued looking just as she did previously, but apparently insisted on having her character also transition, and then make two seasons' storylines mostly about her "transition." I signed up to watch an X-Men parody, I got two seasons of lessons about transgenderism.
She could have just played her character as a woman -- because she still looks like a woman. And aren't actors supposed to play "any role"? Well this role is female, and you should be qualified to play that, because you played it previously for 30 years.
But no, she had to now be "a guy."
The show turned rancid about this time, generally, and it's not all about her weird insistence on playing herself. I mean -- himself.
But it didn't help!
Elliot Page has never felt more comfortable on screen. Finding the right role, however, has proven to be more difficult. During his appearance on the "On Film... With Kevin McCarthy" podcast, Elliott revealed he hasn't been able to find another great role after starring in "The Odyssey," which hit theaters in July. The actor revealed he has no role currently lined up.
Yeah because Christopher Nolan did you a favor by rescuing you from unemployment by giving you a role you were totally unsuited for and which cost the movie maybe a half-billion in ticket sales.
But you can't count on former colleagues tossing you a Charity Role forever.
Your choices have severely restricted the roles available to you. You could actually still play squeaky-voiced tiny women... but you insist that no, you're a guy now, and you can only play Dude Roles.
I don't know what to say.
The "Umbrella Academy" actor, who came out as transgender in 2020, said he hopes to continue acting. Looking back at his experience filming Christopher Nolan's 2010 film "Inception," Page recalled feeling uncomfortable in his own skin. But now that he's embraced his true identity, he feels he's in the perfect place to accomplish his "best work."
Playing what?
I mean, you could do cartoon voice-work, but again, you'd insist on playing a Dude.
I guess if there's an animated Fish Movie you could play a Dude Fish with a squeaky voice. Maybe there'll be a new cartoon fish movie. I think that's your sweet spot, playing cartoon Dude Fish with low T.
...While working on Nolan's film, Page developed shingles after feeling out of place while working "in a cast full of cis men." In his memoir, "Pageboy," the actor shared the cast and crew were "delightful to work with," but he still struggled to feel comfortable on set.
This article began with the obviously-bullshit claim that she's never felt more comfortable in her own skin, which does not survive past the fifth paragraph. Now we find out that in her last film -- and I mean "last" in both senses -- she was "uncomfortable" to be around men.
But you're a dude now. You should be having Bro-Time with the dudes.
"To come back no as you can imagine, being more comfortable in yourself makes these sorts of projects more enjoyable," Page said during the "X-Men: Days of Future Past" panel at New York City Comic Con in 2025 about "The Odyssey." "To get to have a Chris Nolan experience again now meant so much to me selfishly."When Page's casting as Sinon, the cousin of Odysseus (Matt Damon), was announced, the actor faced backlash online. Conservative commentator Ben Shapiro called the choice an "absolute puzzler," noting that Page is "about 5'2 and 105 pounds soaking wet and has the voice of a woman. It doesn't work."
Whoopi Goldberg spoke out against Shapiro's remark during an episode of "The View" in July, saying "A lot of conservatives who see this are going to feel the same way. That's okay. But I don't understand. Why go see the movie? If you don't want to see it, don't go see it. Why do you care who's cast in it?"
Seriously? Who cares about who's cast in a movie?
The cast is usually the biggest selling point of a movie. Actors' names are often above the title of the film.
And in historical movies, where a big selling point is to "see the world as it once was," and feel "immersed in a different age," you kind of want to see people who could have possibly existed in that age to be cast.
On to Ryan Reynolds. I tried to not hold the Blake Lively thing against him. Hey, if your wife gets crazy, you have to support her, even if she's crazy and being a real See You Next Tuesday.
But I am now wondering why I ever thought he was funny. Yes, he's doing Fletch-type gags and I guess he writes some of them but I'm not 14 any longer so the juvenile snark thing is wearing out its limited charm.
At least he seemed somewhat intelligent. For a creampuff light comedy actor, I mean.
But is he?
What the hell is this revisionist woke bullshit?
Ryan Reynolds is beloved in Hollywood because he has mostly refrained from talking politics. Until now.
Exactly. He was -- emphasis on the past tense -- an unobjectionable lightweight.
He just became objectionable. I guess he's got to prove his Woke Cred now that his wife (and his own complicity in his wife's actions) has turned Hollywood against him.
The comedic actor best known for playing the flippant anti-hero "Deadpool" wasn't quite as funny when he decided to launch a stray at the 1980s.
He wants you to know the 80s were a living nightmare. Thank goodness we're in the new woke world where we don't have any of that old baggage!
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Trump to Universities: End Anti-White and Anti-Asian Discrimination NOW or Lose Your Tax Exempt Status
—Disinformation Expert Ace
Trump's been making a lot of moves to break the uniparty establishment cartel, which distresses fat piggies at the establishment cartel's sloptrough like Jonah Goldberg and Erick Erickson.
Gunther Eagleman @GuntherEaglemanAug 21
THIS IS HUGE.
The Trump Education Department just recommended stripping the American Bar Association of its power to accredit law schools.
A 500-page report concludes the ABA's accreditation arm is not independent, it operates like a cartel that injects its own political ideology into the process.
For decades the ABA has held a near-monopoly over who gets to become a lawyer in America. That monopoly is now under direct attack.
No more forced ideology.
No more one organization controlling the pipeline.This is how you break the stranglehold!
He told the corrupt Marxist universities to stop discriminating based on race. The Supreme Court told them to stop discriminating based on race.
They continued discriminating based on race. Many made up new words and new programs and discriminated based on race while calling it something else. Many didn't even do that much.
Trump is now moving to end the tax exemptions enjoyed by these racist schools.
This is the New York Times, so enjoy the way they spin this.
Trump Moves to Strip Tax Exemption From Schools That Aid Minority Students
Aid how, New York Times?
Once again, we're back to hiding the details that make the left look like what it actually is.
The Treasury Department released rules that would prevent schools with race-based programs from qualifying for tax-exempt status, a threat to both higher education and other private schools.
A vague way to say it -- "race-based programs."
Is that what the Supreme Court found to be illegal -- "race based programs," whatever they are?
Or racially discriminating against the white and Asian races?
The Trump administration released new rules that could revoke tax-exempt status from any school offering targeted support to Black or other minority students, a sweeping change that opens another front in the president's campaign to reshape American education.
Targeted support? Are there any races that experience targeted discrimination, I wonder?
Because that's what the Supreme Court determined to be (obviously) illegal. Not "supporting" people. Discriminating against people based on their races.
The proposed regulations, which the Treasury Department published on Thursday, would add another element to the guidelines that schools and other organizations must follow to qualify for tax-exempt status with the Internal Revenue Service. The rules would deny tax-exempt status to any school, including secondary schools and universities, if it has any policy or program, including admissions and scholarships, that the I.R.S. finds to be racially discriminatory.
Admissions and scholarships in "race-based programs," you say?
What does this mean?
Do you mean they affirmatively discriminate against white and Asian students in order to give illegal racial preferences to black and Hispanic students?
That's obviously what you mean -- and you support this practice.
So why can't you say it? If it's something to be proud of, why do you hide it?
Such a change would thrust the I.R.S. into the center of the Trump administration's push to pressure schools to abandon initiatives aimed at supporting Black and other minority students, efforts meant to address the nation's long history of racial discrimination and segregation.
Do these efforts, allegedly "meant to address the nation's long history of racial discrimination and segregation" involve any current, present-day racial discrimination?
Because again, this is what the Supreme Court determined was illegal
Trump officials, however, view such programs as a form of discrimination against white and Asian Americans, and federal civil rights lawyers have opened investigations on those grounds into admissions policies at Harvard, Yale and other schools.
Oh they view it that way, I see.
The threat of losing tax-exempt status would tighten the financial squeeze the administration has applied to higher education by withholding federal research funding. Last year, President Trump called for the I.R.S. to strip Harvard of its tax-exempt status, which experts said would be contrary to a federal law prohibiting the I.R.S. from carrying out politically directed audits.
While schools may still not owe much in federal income taxes even if they lost their tax-exempt status, the exemption is valuable because it allows donors to deduct donations they make directly to the school, helping fund-raising efforts. The rules will take effect after May 31 and apply to as many as 18,000 schools, the Treasury said.
Maria Bartiromo Reportedly Fired by Fox for Sharing Information About Election-Rigging with Trump, Which Fox Decided Must be Suppressed
—Disinformation Expert Ace
Update on Lindsay Clancy case, via Mark1971:
NEW: @FoxNews has obtained Lindsay Clancy defense attorney Kevin Reddington's appeal filing to the MA Supreme Court, which includes Reddington accusing the lone holdout juror of being "biased" against those with "debilitating mental illness", which he says is a protected category.
Dylan Byers @DylanByers17h
NEW: The Maria Bartiromo backstory, per multiple sources familiar....
Maria Bartiromo wanted to pursue a story related to China and 2020 election voting conspiracies... a major sensitivity for the network given its Dominion and Smartmatic lawsuits.
A Fox Business executive sent a text to Fox Business producers informing them that that story could not go to air.
Bartiromo took a screen shot of the guidance and sent it to senior White House officials.
Fox News leadership learned about that after receiving a call from the White House, which they viewed as a fireable offense.
Fox pulled Bartiromo from air after Aug. 9. She was fired today. I have also learned that her executive producer Patrick Ignozzi was also fired after the annoucnement.
Maria had resigned her contract with Fox last February.
Ed Morrissey suggests that "resigned" there is supposed to be "re-signed."
He adds that Maria Bartiromo is looking to sue:
Byers did add another juicy tidbit last night. Bartiromo has hired a well-known attorney to handle the situation with Fox. Bryan Freedman is a heavyweight in the entertainment industry, described by the Hollywood Reporter in 2024 as a "street fighter" and "the Dark Knight"...
Bryan Freedman represented Tuq'r Qarlson in his own suit against Fox, and actor Justin Baldoni in his defamation fight with cardboard actress Blake Lively. Tuq'r Qarlson praised him as "one of the good ones." (Not really, he hates all Jews.)
What is Fox even doing? Do they want to be MSNOW?
Unfortunately, JD Vance said that it was unlikely she would join the White House as Press Secretary:
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Lindsay Clancy Trial: Clancy's Lawyer Seems to Dox the Lone Holdout, Identifying Him as a Male In Favor of Conviction
Judge Sends Jury Home Until Tomorrow
—Disinformation Expert Ace
Juror intimidation by other jurors? The judge seems to suggest that the jurors passed a note identifying the lone holdout by juror number:
Viva Frei @thevivafreiThe judge just instructed the jury "If there are any notes in the future... make sure we don't put down where everyone is numerically".
Well, the damage is done. And if it is wrong, going forward, it was wrong to have done in the first place.
Not only did the note indicate specifically ONE lone holdout and put a target on that juror's back, Reddington amplified it and said "the juror has been identified".
If that is not juror intimidation, I don't know what is.
Update: Clancy's lawyer wants to pause the trial so that he can appeal to the Massachusetts Supreme Court, to ask them to kick the lone holdout on the jury. The judge has already refused to exclude this juror.
Update: I think the judge was about to declare a mistrial, because the jury reported they were hopelessly deadlocked, but the c-sucker defense attorney demanded a pause in the trial so he could try to get the holdout excluded and get a win.
Eric Daugherty @EricLDaugh54m
🚨 NOW: The judge just got frustrated with the Lindsay Clancy defense attorney trying to appeal the mistrial and keep the exhausted jurors goingUNBELIEVABLE!
DEFENSE: I want to appeal
JUDGE: How much TIME do you need to do that?
DEFENSE: Filed today, argue tomorrow
JUDGE: Saturday?! So what, are we gonna tell this jury to come back tomorrow?! As they're WALKING IN you're asking for this. I'm trying to figure out what you're asking for...I'll give you ONE HOUR to petition for a stay before we bring the jury back down.
The judge called this move "unprecedented."
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THE MORNING RANT: Big Four Accounting Firm Settles with DOJ for $21 Million Due to Racist, DEI Hiring Practices
—Buck Throckmorton
As a reminder of just how deep the woke virus seeped into corporate America, even the conservative world of public accounting is infected. It was just last week that I wrote about red state Attorney Generals notifying the Big Four accounting firms that they may be flirting with criminal behavior by pursuing climate and ESG goals at the expense of their clients. The AGs’ letter specifically stated that the accounting firms may be engaged in “deceptive and unfair acts and practices” because of their climate and social justice agenda.
Now comes news that one of those four firms has just agreed to pay a $21 million fine as a result of its racially discriminatory hiring practices.
Accounting firm Deloitte agreed to pay $21.5 million to settle Department of Justice allegations that it violated the False Claims Act by failing to comply with anti-discrimination requirements in federal contracts and discriminating on the basis of race or sex, the department announced Tuesday.
As a federal contractor, Deloitte is not allowed to engage in hiring practices that prioritize candidates based on their sex or the color of their skin. Perhaps because Deloitte thought it was engaging in the “good” kind of racist hiring, it must have thought the government would smile on its vulgar actions. In fact, the Obama/Biden administrations certainly did favor such discrimination. However, racial discrimination in the name of DEI is not tolerated under the Trump administration’s Department of Justice.
Deloitte had little choice but to settle, because its proven actions were explicitly racist and well documented. Per the DOJ, Deloitte assigned its leaders goals for required racial demographics, and if too many white men were hired, there were negative consequences for partners, principals, and managing directors. Monthly tracking reports were distributed documenting how successful the various units were in denying jobs and promotions to white men.
Newly sworn-in Attorney general Todd Blanche stated about Deloitte’s institutional racism ”Government contractors cannot reward or penalize employees based on race or sex — and labeling the practice DEI does not make it lawful. The Justice Department will aggressively pursue government contractors that have used taxpayer dollars to fund unlawful discrimination."
Deloitte’s left-wing CEO, Jason Girzadas, is a huge fan of DEI. At his now-deleted Twitter account (@jgirzadas), Mr. Girzadas stated that “#DEI is a pillar of focus at @Deloitte, as we work to find new initiatives that drive purpose and impact.” Apparently one of those “new initiatives” was setting formal goals for discriminating against white men, and instituting corporate protocols to punish those who failed to discriminate accordingly.
Mr. Girzadas has not been fired, despite his racist leadership costing the accounting firm millions in fines. Even more damaging may be the reputational damage to Deloitte. I would never recommend hiring Deloitte so long as the leadership that enforced racial quotas remains in place.
You’ll not be surprised to learn that according to his Deloitte biography Mr. Girzadas is on the Board of Directors of the US Chamber of Commerce and is also a member of the Wall Street Journal CEO Council. Both are formerly respectable business organizations now captured by the left, and pushing the left’s agenda.
What is most despicable about people like Jason Girzadas is that he has reached the pinnacle of success, and is likely earning more than $10 million per year, yet his white-guilt has him boasting about shutting the door of opportunity to young men who might want to try to follow his path. He is living large while feeling smug about denying job opportunities to young accountants seeking their first job.
Related to all this I have a few other thoughts:
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The Morning Report — 9/ 4 /26
—J.J. Sefton
Good morning kids. Well at long last the Labor Day weekend and the unofficial end of summer is here. Let's start off with arguably the most serious of domestic issues the disaster that has been the erased border and all of the troubles that it has engendered. First off is a story that many had thought might precipitate yet another trademark Democrat-induced/fomented summertime season of rioting, in an effort to boost Democrat voter enthusiasm, and power-grabbing.
Federal prosecutors have charged an ICE officer with lying to investigators about his shooting of a Venezuelan migrant in Minneapolis earlier this year, according to reports.Christian Castro, 52, is charged with lying to federal agents about the January encounter in which he shot Julio Sosa-Celis in the leg. Making false statements to federal agents carries a maximum punishment of five years in prison, according to The Washington Post.
The federal charges come after Castro’s release from custody in Texas, where he had been arrested on Minnesota charges stemming from the shooting. His federal charges remain sealed, and he has not yet been taken into federal custody, according to the Post. Hennepin County Attorney Mary Moriarty said during a May news conference that Castro fired toward a north Minneapolis home “with the intent to cause fear of immediate bodily harm or death to the four adults who were just inside the door.” The bullet struck Sosa-Celis in the leg before traveling through a closet and into the wall of a child’s bedroom, according to prosecutors.
Lest we forget that Minneapolis was the epicenter of the 2020 Summer of mostly peaceful rioting in the wake of the death of George Floyd who died while resisting arrest after ingesting his stash of narcotics to avoid a potential third strike and a long stretch in prison. It also resulted in the railroading of arresting officer Derek Chauvin who, at least in this instance was merely doing his duty as the suppressed and distorted coroner's report clearly indicated. But the racialist grievance monger Democrat-Leftists demanded their scapegoat and they got it.
That's why this whole thing with Officer Castro just completely reeks of the same kind of grandstanding as well as attempting to hold Texas and indeed the nation hostage just as the crucial midterm elections are heating up.
The city council for Democrat-run Danbury, Connecticut, voted to allow non-citizen migrants to serve as city police officers. The vote was taken in retaliation after federal immigration forces had recently conducted raids in the town... He added, “It’s legal. It’s allowed. It’s been recommended. … I do think it’s timely, and this vote sends a message to our immigrant community that you are welcome in Danbury.” The town’s Mayor, Roberto Alves, heartily supported the policy change and noted that he was an illegal alien when he first came to the U.S. Alves blasted ICE late last month after immigration officers spent several days conducting enforcement actions in the city. And he accused ICE of sowing fear and making local businesses a “ghost town” in the wake of the raids.
This abject mutt piece of shit and everyone who thinks and acts like him is the reason our country is a red-nether hair's width from turning into a third world shithole banana republic. The denigration and disrespect for the rule of law as a result of the continued denigration of America, its history heritage and founding as illegitimate, racist and repressive against colored people of color. And so, with the actions of our phenomenal President in doing all he can to restore our borders as well as institute sane immigration policies that exclude scumbags and cancerous tumors like this degenerate mayor, naturally we're going to get the reactions we are seeing as illustrated by Danbury and every other Leftwing shithole city and state in the nation to disobey and demonize the rule of law.
The race for control of the US Senate is a dead heat.Conventional wisdom suggests the contests in swingy states like Michigan, North Carolina and Georgia could prove decisive — and they might. But it’s possible that the fate of the chamber known as the “world’s greatest deliberative body” will come down to a state not usually considered all that swingy: Texas. I lived in Texas in 2018, when Lone Star Democrats similarly felt confident that then-Rep. Beto O’Rourke would defeat the incumbent GOP senator, Ted Cruz. That didn’t happen: In a similar tough midterm cycle during a Trump presidency, Cruz narrowly prevailed. But what if this time is different? Talarico might not win — in fact, I don’t think he will — but it’s crucial for Republicans to understand how to prevent a leftist, “Christian”-cosplaying caricature like James “the Annunciation justifies abortion” Talarico from getting a job promotion to Washington. Many polls in Texas tell a similar story: Paxton suffers from softer support within the GOP, whereas Democrats are more unified in their support for the joker who has called capitalism “oppressive,” predicted the oil and gas industry is “not gonna last,” and has called for Americans to pare back “meat consumption.” Yes, that’s right — the guy taking a sledgehammer to the oil and gas and cattle industries is seeking statewide office in Texas.
The other thing that's different is despite the President's incredible success in rounding up and deporting the wetbacks is that they've had a many years headstart in invading Texas which is a major border state and miraculously has still managed to remain controlled by the GOP lo these many election cycles.
Does James Puertorico really have a shot? Only if GOP voters just assume he doesn't and just stay home, owing also to what I perceive as a kind of lukewarm support for Ken Paxton.
But there is some encouraging news here and across the nation in general that I'll leave you with.
Despite the nonstop propaganda in the media, the HarrisX poll reflects a very different political reality among Americans. 10 out of 13 key Trump policy positions continue to see majority support. His most popular policies are lowering prescription drug prices (84% support), deporting illegal immigrants who have committed crimes (74%), and requiring proof of citizenship to vote (70%). Trump’s least popular policy positions include placing a 15% tariff on imports from all countries (40%), allowing immigration authorities to access information on low-income families (48%), and eliminating mail-in voting (50%).. . 10 out of 13 key Trump policy positions continue to see majority support. His most popular policies are lowering prescription drug prices (84% support), deporting illegal immigrants who have committed crimes (74%), and requiring proof of citizenship to vote (70%)... Based on media coverage, you would think the majority of the country has turned against immigration enforcement. Despite the torrent of lies, that’s not the case.
Obviously all of us have to show up to vote to overcome the kind of fraud we know the Democrats are going to pull, perhaps not successfully in Texas but for sure in Michigan where they got away with it before and elsewhere where they control the election process via the Secretary of State and Governor, as well as the courts. And on that note, I give you full on revolution, or what should be!
This may be the first time a court has thrown out a congressional map after the primaries already were held using those maps. That would require a general election in different districts than the primaries. That is what the Missouri Supreme Court just did.The Attorney General vows to go to SCOTUS:
Never before in American history has a court overturned a congressional map after a primary and before a general election. This unprecedented decision clearly violates federal law and has thrust our state into a full‑fledged constitutional crisis.
And so with all this plus all the other insanity in the linkapalooza, I bid you all to have a great, safe and relaxing Labor Day holiday weekend.
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Daily Tech News 4 September 2026
—Pixy Misa
Top Story- Bernie Sanders (Stalinist-Vt.) is calling for a ban on AI superintelligence, having spent his life erasing the regular kind. (The Hill)
Fortunately AI doesn't yet reach the level of human general intelligence, and nobody is foolish enough to claim it does.
- GPT 6 Astra: A new level of intelligence. (OpenAI)
Um.
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Thursday Overnight Open Thread - September 3, 2026
—Doof
Howdy Hordelings! Welcome to the Thursday ONT! Mixed bag of content for those who care. Open thread, as always. What's on YOUR mind tonight?
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Mini-Vacation Cafe
—Ace
Hohenzollern Castle, Germany
Built in the 11th century but rebuilt in the 1850s
I'll be taking most of tomorrow off and then Labor Day too. I have some actual newsy posts for tomorrow for the first part of the day, then it'll be silly stuff.
It will probably be a slow news day as it usually is on a Friday before a weekend.
If there's big news, I'll pop in just to link it.
The Lindsay Clancy jury will probably announce it is deadlocked, or that they've made child-murder legal for women. I'll post that link the news breaks, unless it breaks so early that JJ covers it.
Otherwise, I'll be relaxing, though I'll be in the comments. So make me laugh.
Sylvester Stallone runs lines with a young actor.
A man put GPS trackers on his dog and cat.
Saving a fawn that got trapped in an aqueduct or something. And he's a feisty one so it takes some effort.
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How Is This Even a Question? Texas Establishment RINOs Debate Whether They Will Support Ken Paxton Over James "Jesus Has Six Gender" Talarico
—Disinformation Expert Ace
"Lousy loser" John Cornyn refuses to campaign with Ken Paxton.
He's a real conservative you guys, he really wants to beat the Democrats.
Sen. John Cornyn slammed Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton as a "lazy" and "poor campaigner" Friday as he explained why he won't help the Republican Senate nominee in his race against Democrat James Talarico.Cornyn, who lost to Paxton in the bitter Texas GOP Senate primary runoff election earlier this summer, explained in an interview with the Texas Tribune that while he wants to see Republicans hold their majority in the upper chamber after the midterms, he isn't going to fundraise for Paxton because he hasn't made a compelling case to Lone Star State voters.
"Paxton's a poor campaigner," Cornyn told the outlet. "He's lazy and doesn't raise money. And he basically is not offering a very compelling case for his election."He's making this harder than it needs to be."
...
"This is unfortunately shaping up to be a close and I hope not disastrous election," Cornyn said. "But it ain't looking good right now."
Byron York: What is the GOPe doing?
AS TALARICO GOES FROM BAD TO WORSE, GOP DEBATES SUPPORT FOR PAXTON. There's been a lot of commentary lately about the faults of Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton, the Republican candidate for Senate. There are many such faults, and the impeached and scandal-ridden Paxton is widely recognized among GOP strategists as a poor candidate.But take a moment to remember the utter terribleness of Paxton's opponent, Democratic nominee James Talarico. You've heard his greatest hits. His belief that there are six genders. That God is nonbinary. His "non-meat" campaign. His claim to be "a Christian who hates Christianity." And more.
Now, there's something else to consider. It comes from September 2020, when Talarico was running for the Texas legislature and took part in a Zoom forum run by the Sierra Club. He was asked what he would do to "fight for climate justice" for "communities of color" that "receive the most harm from the impacts of climate change."
"I'm so thankful that you asked this question, and also thankful that young activists have really drawn the link between climate change and white supremacy and capitalism in our country," Talarico answered. "And I think only understanding the ways that all three of those oppressive systems work together are we going to be able to begin the process of dismantling them."
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Meanwhile, some Republican and conservative commentators have spent a good bit of time dumping on Paxton. National Review published a piece headlined, "Everyone is Edging Away from Ken Paxton," which said a "horrid smell" was "filling the room" in Texas -- the "stench of potential electoral doom" brought about by the Paxton campaign.
Conservative radio host Erick Erickson is on an anti-Paxton crusade, writing, "The only thing for which Paxton has ever shown prodigious energy is philandery and possibly corruption. He is a lazy candidate in a heated race, and laziness is not a flaw you can fundraise your way around."
Oh, he's repeating the lines from the GOPe op. What a surprise from this brain surgeon.
...[Conservative radio host Steve] Deace argued that "uniparty" Republicans are the ones bashing Paxton right now, and they would be perfectly happy for him to lose and Talarico to win. (Deace called Sen. John Cornyn (R-TX), defeated by Paxton in the GOP primary, a "uniparty stooge.") If true conservatives don't vote for Paxton, Deace said, they would give the "uniparty" Republicans "exactly what they want" while at the same time would "permit Democrats to inflict absolutely all their demoniac madness upon you without reservation." The bottom line, Deace argued, is that true conservatives should vote for Paxton to stop Democratic awfulness.
That was the message Cruz sent in his Tuesday appearance with Fox News's Laura Ingraham. "Some of the Republicans that are throwing rocks at Ken Paxton, my message to them is: Enough! Stop your b****ing," Cruz said. Citing previous years in which centrist Republicans urged conservative voters to support centrist nominees, Cruz continued, "My answer to everyone whining: Shut up and support the nominee, and don't hand Texas over to a communist lunatic."
No. There are more important issues, like Erick Erickson's capacity for grifting.
Byron York
@ByronYork
This was written the day of the Dobbs decision. One can understand opposing Dobbs. One can understand wanting to overturn it. But advocating for what would, in effect, be a Federal Abortion Service, staffed by a Federal Abortion Corps, seems...out there. But classic Talarico.
I'm sure his communist staff will tell you, if you ask for comment, that this "cringey language" "misses the mark" and that he believes in capitalism and Jesus.
So I wouldn't bother asking his communist staff.
Chris Loesch 𝕏 @ChrisLoesch
The NRSC and GOP telling Texas voters that they are stupid for choosing Paxton over Cornyn (we like our gun rights - go figure) and withholding any funding they would have normally put into the race is the establishment trying to rule over the plebes. Cornyn wasn't a "safe choice" for our rights. So if the rest of the nation wants to turn Texas blue then good luck ever getting another republican majority or president. Nice Texas is gone, so is the nation.Thanks coastal elites!
Here's Steve Deace's take:
Steve Deace @SteveDeaceShowHere's some tough love. But it's why I make the better than average bucks.
Ken Paxton is one of the finest public servants in this country. His work as Texas AG would rank among the most impactful of any statewide elected official in this nation (DeSantis is in his own GOAT tier). He would be a tremendous upgrade at Senator not just for Texas, but the country. But he's also made a mess of his personal life, and the residual impact of that is costing him some support (including financially). So, again, anyone that tells you sexual ethics are strictly a private matter is dead wrong. An entire state/country may suffer consequences. Paxton's personal failing is giving people an objection they otherwise wouldn't have to an exemplary AG. The Biblical model always requires us to first accept responsibility for our own actions, and the role we played in our own situation.
However, given how little we know much of Washington DC's uniparty cares about marriage, family, and sexual ethics that alone doesn't come close to explain him (and thus the country) being hung out to dry in this crucial Texas Senate race. There's no moral high ground within the uniparty. Only vested interests. And uniparty Republicans would much prefer to be in the minority. Because in that case they can raise all kinds of money to ensure their positions off how bad the Democrats are, with no expectations to do anything about it.
Thus, you will not be punishing these Republicans by staying home but just yourself. You will be giving them exactly what they want, prestige with no responsibility, while you will permit Democrats to inflict absolutely all their demoniac madness upon you without reservation. Nothing new is coming. There is no alternative to the GOP possible within any time frame what's left of our way of life would survive. You won't teach anyone any lessons. Most of these Republicans would rather lose to Democrats than lose control of the party to you, anyway.
And yes, this is a poopy position to be in. But it's the position we are in generationally, and our job is to do the best we can with the times that we have. The best we can do is slow down as much of this Democrat madness as possible, while also keeping Republicans in power to expose themselves in the hopes that creates more primaries where a Paxton can beat an exposed uniparty stooge like Cornyn.
Again, not a great spot. But it is the spot. Short of revival, it's all we have left. And it's still by far the best country in the world. So suck it up and occupy until He comes. This is the best we can do.
Fat shabby one-pair-o'-pants grifter Jonah Goldberg, who swiped the research for "his" book Liberal Fascism from writers at the Claremont Institute, accuses Steve Deace of being paid to say this.
Jonah Goldberg @JonahDispatchThis is the kind of opinion that makes me assume someone is being compensated to offer it. Not saying that's the case. But I find it difficult to understand how a person could come by it honestly.
Who's signing your checks, Jonah? I know it's not Republicans.
Is it Pierre Omidyar?
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Tuq'r's Correlegionist Abdulrahman Mohamed El-Sayed Struggles, For Some Reason, to Win Over Jewish Voters;
Michigan's Jewish Demcrat AG Says Jews Must Put Aside Worries About Antisemitic Violence to Support Muslims Who Want to Kill Them
—Disinformation Expert Ace
The Democrat Party is really hitting on all cylinders now.
The New York Times is sad to admit this:
El-Sayed Wants to Mend Ties With Jewish Democrats, but Some Are Not ImpressedLingering concerns about the Senate nominee in Michigan could make it harder for him to assemble a winning coalition.
What concerns specifically, NYT? Why are you being vague?
This is why Bari Weiss had to step in and change a headline to specifically say that Abdulrahman Mohamed El-Sayed was deleting tweets about 9/11. The "Journalist" herself (I'm assuming a Karen) didn't want to alert the reader to what the tweets were about so Bari Weiss took the unethical step of informing the readers.
Dr. Abdul El-Sayed, the Democratic Senate nominee in Michigan, recently spent two days trying to mend fences with Jewish Democrats after an acrimonious primary against a pro-Israel opponent.For some of them, it wasn't enough.
Specifically, Dr. El-Sayed sought to address remarks he had made shortly after an attack on a synagogue in the Detroit area in March that some interpreted as too sympathetic to the assailant.
WHAT WAS THE COMMENT?
If you told us, we could judge. But you're hiding it from us.
Why is that?
Oh, the comment was, of course, an excuse for the child-slayer: "Hurt people do hurt people." The Muslim was "hurt" -- his feelings, he meant -- so he shot a bunch of Jewish kids.
There's hurt on one side, there's hurt on the other. Let's not bicker and argue about 'oo killed 'oo.
But his apologies last weekend fell short with some Jewish Democrats in part because he seemed to be seeking forgiveness for the timing of his remark rather than its substance.Dr. El-Sayed's criticism of Israel has concerned many Jewish Democrats. And some are angered by his association with Hasan Piker, a provocative streamer whose comments about Israel have drawn blowback from Democrats and Republicans.
What were those provocative comments, NYT?
The ones about America deserving 9/11? The framed photo of the burning towers behind him in his podcast office? The claim that Jews might have been involved in 9/11? The statement that Hamas' murder of babies was justified because murdering "settlers" is justified and "there are baby settlers" who therefore are justifiable targets for Muslim murder?
WHAT ARE THE COMMENTS?!
It's weird how every salient detail keeps not appearing in this article, which is supposedly about why Jews are rejecting Abdulrahman Mohamed El-Sayed.
It's almost as if the media exists not to report the truth but to hide it.
The frictions revealed the still-fresh wounds from a bitter primary struggle between Dr. El-Sayed and his pro-Israel opponent, Representative Haley Stevens.
Haley Stevens has now been identified twice as "pro-Israel" but Abdulrahman Mohamed El-Sayed has not been identified as "anti-Israel" or "pro-Islam" or "pro-Hamas" or "pro-Muslim Brotherhood."
Their race became a proxy war over the Democratic Party's divisions on Israel, which propelled numerous progressive candidates, including Dr. El-Sayed, to victory.
What divisions? Haley Stevens seems to have a position you identify, but Abdulrahman Mohamed El-Sayed has no position you can identity. How can there be "divisions" when only one side has an opinion and the other side is, we assume, just neutral on the matter?
The lingering tension is a hurdle for Dr. El-Sayed as he seeks to turn to his general-election opponent, former Representative Mike Rogers, a Republican. Uniting Democrats is proving difficult for Dr. El-Sayed, who won his primary by fewer than 18,000 votes. And he is battling on two fronts, as Mr. Rogers and other Republicans, including Vice President JD Vance, have begun to assail him over his position on Israel in an effort to peel off Jewish support.
We still have not heard about Abdulrahman Mohamed El-Sayed's "position" on Israel, but it is nice that we finally know he has one.
Meanwhile, even Van Jones is blasting Abdulrahman Mohamed El-Sayed's anti-Israel extremism, pointing out that the Muslim Brotherhood Manchurian Candidate wants to ban Israel from buying, with its own money, purely defensive arms like the Patriot missile.
Almost as if he wants Israeli civilians to be killed by Hamas and Iranian missiles.
But I know that from a Van Jones clip-- not from the NYT.
With just over two months left before the general election, the dissonance could threaten Dr. El-Sayed's efforts to assemble a winning coalition in a key Senate battleground race that will help determine control of the upper chamber.
What is the reason for the "dissonance"? Why are you so deliberately vague?
And now, after that deliberately falsified article, they admit they made some very minor technical errors in the first published version.
They do this so you believe, wrongly, that what remains is true and complete:
An earlier version of this article misspelled the given name of a Democrat who plans to vote for Republican Mike Rogers. She is Stacy Gittleman, not Stacey Gittleman.
We acknowledge mistakes in our reporting with corrections. If you spot an error, please let us know at corrections@nytimes.com.Learn more.
I spotted a bunch of errors but I don't think you're serious about correcting them.
Meanwhile, Michigan's female Democrat Jewish AG Dana Nessel tells Jews to put concerns about their safety aside and just vote for the guy who wants them all dead.
Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel's remarks on Sunday constitute a new low in contemporary political discourse.Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel, who is Jewish, was being honored at a gathering of the Michigan Democratic Jewish Caucus on Sunday when Mv
"We have a moral imperative to place the needs of the world above even our own self-interest and, yes, even our own survival," she also reportedly said.
Did you just say that Jews must put aside their own survival to support the Democrats and Hamas' plans to exterminate all Jews in Israel??!!?
Say what?
Nessel's remarks were made in the context of the controversy over the vocally anti-Israel Democratic nominee for Senate in Michigan, Abdul El-Sayed, whom many Jewish Democrats oppose -- and whom Nessel has not endorsed, at least not yet.
Oh, someone finally told me what Abdulrahman Mohamed El-Sayed's position on Israel is.
This is a Democrat who is still open to voting for Abdulrahman Mohamed El-Sayed. Of course.
...And now, a Jewish Democratic politician -- a state attorney general, no less -- is telling her Jewish constituents that they should be prepared to sacrifice their safety and their survival for some sort of "common good"?
In her speech, again according to the Jewish Insider report, Nessel suggested emulating the biblical Queen Esther to "sacrifice the comfort, safety and security and even the very future of our own people in exchange for the opportunity to save the rest of humanity." Except, of course, it would appear that Nessel did not pay attention in her religious school classes at West Bloomfield's Temple Kol Ami, since Esther did no such thing. What Esther did was risk the displeasure of her husband King Ahasuerus (the Persian king Xerxes I) and possibly her own life in order to ensure the survival of her people -- that is, the Jewish People. Nessel's analogy is, to be kind, entirely off base.
So is her curious attempt to link support for Israel with environmental causes. "What good is defending the historic homeland of our ancestors and demanding that candidates acknowledge its right to exist," she asked, "if the planet upon which it rests is no longer inhabitable?" This is a non-sequitur to end all non sequiturs, and it makes no sense in the present-day political climate.
Is Nessel suggesting that we should ever turn a blind eye to any threats to Jewish safety?
Yes she is. How are you not getting this? Are you stupid?
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Lindsay Clancy Trial: 11 to One In Favor of ... Full Acquittal, With a Single Juror Hanging on For a Conviction?
—Disinformation Expert Ace
I don't understand what's going on.
It's the defense attorney who says he wants the juror excluded for refusing to follow the judge's orders about what "reasonable doubt" means.
So... does this mean that 11 jurors are voting to acquit and one lone juror is insisting on a conviction? And the other jurors are claiming that the juror is inserting a "more likely than not" standard over the more stringent "beyond a reasonable doubt" standard?
And how could you even say that this is just a matter of feeling that the prosecution is slightly more persuasive than the defense? Were they all absent the day they presented evidence?
The defense lawyer claims this juror keeps "ignoring the law" and will not accept the judge's rules as to the threshold of evidence required to convict.
This is 11 to one for acquittal, and women are officially allowed to commit murder if they have the grumpies.
Eric Daugherty
@EricLDaugh🚨 BREAKING: The Lindsay Clancy m*rder defense attorney just DEMANDED that ONE HOLDOUT JUROR be REMOVED from the jury, accusing that juror of not listening to "reasonable doubt" instructions
HOLD THE LINE!!
The attorney worries there will be a mistrial, meaning it would GO AGAIN to try and convict her
"There's one juror who refuses to listen to the law that you've given him or her on reasonable doubt...if we come back here in a half an hour with a mistrial because of a juror that has just spurned the instructions of this court, it's a shame, it's a real shame!"
Let me know if you think I'm right.
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Harvard/Harris Schmoll: Republicans Take the Lead in the Midterms with Likely Voters, +2%
—Disinformation Expert Ace
Democrats have a "thin" 2 point advantage with all voters, but the common wisdom is that Democrats must win by 3-4 to win the House.
Among likely voters, it's Republicans with that thin two-point edge.
InteractivePolls @IAPolls2022📊 2026 Generic Congressional Ballot among LIKELY Voters
🟥 Republicans: 51% [+2]
🟦 Democrats: 49% [-2]Harvard/Harris | 8/28-30
Mitt Romney5 minutes ago
This new poll is redolent of Hitler's Reich
In other poll findings: 65% of Americans say Iran is just playing for time, not negotiating in good faith, and 69% say they must not be allowed to control the Strait of Hormuz.
The Tucker Carlson Network (TCN)5 minutes ago
Ben Shapiro is hypnotizing America with his Hebe-Peepers.
More:
InteractivePolls @IAPolls202221h
Should Democrats embrace or reject people like Hasan Piker, who said America "deserved 9/11"?
❌ Reject: 77%
✅ Embrace: 23%Reject/Embrace
GOP: 79-21
Dem: 72-28
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Should Republicans embrace reject people like Candace Owens, who said "the Jews are behind everything"?❌ Reject: 75%
✅ Embrace: 22%Reject/Embrace
GOP: 73-27
Dem: 76-24Harvard/Harris | 8/28-30
Fantastic news: Kamala Harris leads all Democrat contenders with all racial groups. The numbers given below represent her net lead on the next-highest polling Democrat presidential contender.
InteractivePolls @IAPolls202221h
Harris tops the Democratic field among White, Black, Hispanic, and Asian voters in Harvard-Harris poll
Black Dems: Harris +46
Hispanic Dems: Harris +20
White Dems: Harris +19
Asian Dems: Harris +2
Didn't she sell herself as an Asian?
As Alex Thompson reported on Twitter/X, Harris easily leads the field with 42% among Democrat respondents, having picked up five points since last month. Gavin Newsom trails badly in second place with only 18%, dropping six points from July. Everyone else is in single digits; Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Pete Buttigieg, Jon Ossoff, and Josh Shapiro are in a virtual tie for third, scoring between seven and nine percent each. Harris also has commanding leads among black and Hispanic Democrats.
Morrissey also notes the politician with the highest favorable ratings, and it's a surprise:
Harris comes in third, Trump edges her out for second, and the politician with the highest favorables is... RFKJr.
So the media's ability to drive hate at people they don't like is now, basically, gone.
Putin comes in last? Quick, Tuq'r, do another sit-down ball-washing.
I have a quick thought about RFKJr. Give this as much consideration as I gave it, which is none.
The parties have flipped as far as trust in institutions. I know that part is obvious. Leftists used to be the ones always screaming that America was a rigged game for the oligarchs and Big Corporations are crushing the common man.
But now, of course, conservatives have woken up to how absolutely foul -- and subverted by Marxists -- our institutions are. Meanwhile, thanks to Barack Obama, the CIA and FBI have been purged of most conservatives, who were replaced, of course, with Boomer Marxists.
Here's the slightly interesting part about this: This is why the media absolutely lost their minds over Trump and the Unbearable Threat of the New Right. The media had always coddled and supported leftwing revoiutionaries, of course, supporting Bill Ayers' "rehabilitation" and telling us that left-wing rioting was "the voice of the unheard." They feel that any violence committed by the left may be regrettable but is Useful in the Greater Scheme of Things.
But the possibility of the right becoming revolutionary? That's just a Threat to the Very Foundations of Our Republic. Were the right to become violent, that violence would just be a complete negative. There would be no useful "lessons" for the ruling class to learn. Riots would not be the voice of the unheard, but the voice of the deplorables.
Conservatives aren't allowed to talk about a rigged system and being oppressed! That's our grift! Conservatives are supposed to eat their slop and say thank-you!
It's the job of conservatives to shore up the pillars upholding civilization! It's our job to undermine those pillars and bring them down! If conservatives stop propping civilization up, it will crash from all of our endless subversions and treachery, and then we'll have to learn how to hunt!
Now, as to RFKJr.'s particular ambit: As a conservative, I used to roll my eyes and laugh off the hippies who would talk about Big Pharma and Big Ag and Big Processed Food putting out products that made us sicker, not healthier.
You probably did too. (And you might still roll your eyes.)
But for many on the right, our skepticism of our corporate overlords and governmental institutions is now at its highest point in American history, and that includes intense skepticism, if not outright hostility, towards Big Pharma and the bullshit "health" experts.
And the corrupt corporations whose C-suites are now dominated by woke civilization-razing leftists.
Anyway, RFKJr.'s brand of health-nannyism would have been a non-starter on the right ten years ago but now many of us are at least curious about it, or even supportive.
And even on the left, many of the Health Nuts have not abandoned their skepticism about Big Phrama and Big Ag just because the Democrat Party now tells them that's Traitor-Talk and they must worship Anthony Fauci and Wear the Fucking Face-Mask forever.
And anyway, RFKJr's form of health-nannying doesn't feel scoldy or even like nannying. He has Some Questions. I do too.
And this feels fun, not dour and woke like Michelle Obama's bullshit:
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As Predicted: Tuq'r Qarlson Essentially Endorses Abdulrahman Mohamed El-Sayed By Saying He Wouldn't Vote for His Opponent Mike Rogers "Even At Gunpoint" Because He's a "Tool of Israel"
—Disinformation Expert Ace
OUT: GOPe NeverTrump
IN: Nazi NeverTrump
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DHS: An Ignored 1996 Clinton-Era Law Says That States Have to Report the Number of Illegals Receiving Federal Benefits Like SNAP. We're Going to Start Enforcing It Now.
—Disinformation Expert Ace
The law was passed insincerely, I imagine, with both Clinton and corporate-owned fake "conservatives" pretending they didn't want to take American's tax payments and deliver them to foreign criminals.
But insincerely or not, political ploy or not, they passed it. There is no "We only passed this to con the rubes" exception to federal legislation. Look it up. I didn't, but I assume there's not one.
Finally, someone is going to actually enforce it.
States now must report undocumented immigrants to DHS or risk federal funding, DOJ says
* All states going forward must report undocumented immigrants known to be in a state to the U.S. Department of Homeland Security or risk losing federal funding for programs meant to aid low-income individuals, the Department of Justice said in a new legal opinion.* The DOJ, in issuing the opinion, revised the Office of Legal Counsel's prior opinion from 1998, which found that only specific state agencies that administered the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families and the Supplemental Security Income programs needed to provide information to federal immigration authorities.
* "When a state chooses to participate in TANF, it accepts the obligation to report illegal aliens in the United States," Assistant Attorney General T. Elliot Gaiser said. "Tax dollars intended to help vulnerable Americans should not perversely encourage illegal entry into the United States, but rather should reinforce our laws and our borders."
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The DOJ, in issuing the opinion, revised the Office of Legal Counsel's prior opinion from 1998, which found that only specific state agencies that administered the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families and the Supplemental Security Income programs needed to provide information to federal immigration authorities.
"Congress wrote this requirement plainly," Assistant Attorney General T. Elliot Gaiser of the DOJ's Office of Legal Counsel, said in a statement.
"When a state chooses to participate in TANF, it accepts the obligation to report illegal aliens in the United States," Gaiser said. "Tax dollars intended to help vulnerable Americans should not perversely encourage illegal entry into the United States, but rather should reinforce our laws and our borders."
The DOJ in a statement Wednesday said the Office of Legal Counsel's Sept. 1 opinion "explains that Congress defined 'State' broadly in the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act of 1996."
"As a result, when a state accepts federal TANF or SSI funds, the entire state government -- including all component agencies -- is bound by federal law to share information with DHS about individuals the state knows to be not lawfully present," the DOJ said.
The new opinion only applies proactively, not to past enrollments in TANF and SSI.
All 50 states, the District of Columbia and several U.S. territories participate in both programs. Federal TANF funding grants top $16.4 billion annually, according to the DOJ.
California AG Rob Bonta says he will not comply with the law because Trump is changing the law by following the wording of the law.
Gigantic mutant slothbeast "Big Tish" James says she's "reviewing" the DOJ's demand, in between fabricating new rape charges against Trump.
Breccan F. Thies of The Federalist:
As The Federalist reported, the Clinton administration took numerous actions to pave the way for illegal aliens to come into the country, especially those who offer nothing to American society and were virtually guaranteed to leech off the welfare system.That included trashing the "public charge" rule that had governed American immigration law for at least 100 years, which said that an immigrant should not be admitted into the country if he was unlikely to be able to take care of himself without government assistance.
Now it is estimated that 59 percent of illegal immigrant households are on at least one welfare program, and 52 percent of legal immigrant households are in the same position. Meanwhile, 39 percent of native-born Americans use at least one welfare program, which is still an enormous amount, but the fact remains that the programs are for Americans, not foreigners.
Related: Mexifornia received 80% of federal aid for illegals because they wrote their own rules to make illegals eligible.
California accounted for more than 80% of all federal welfare cash assistance provided to households headed by illegal immigrants in 2024, according to a new report from the Department of Health and Human Services.The report found that $759 million in Temporary Assistance for Needy Families cash assistance was provided to 85,277 households nationwide in which a child qualified for benefits while a parent was living in the United States illegally.
No state came close to California's share of spending, with $617.5 million. The second-place recipient, New York, received just $47.5 million--less than one-tenth of California's total.
Temporary Assistance for Needy Families, or TANF, was created to provide temporary assistance to low-income families. TANF recipients are generally required to work and are limited to 60 months of benefits over a lifetime.
Because parents living in the country illegally are generally ineligible for TANF benefits, assistance in these cases is provided on behalf of eligible children living in the household.
Unlike traditional TANF recipients, these child-only cases are not subject to federal work requirements or the program's five-year lifetime limit, allowing benefits to continue until a child turns 18.
The report's authors noted that the arrangement creates a disparity between American families receiving TANF and immigrant households receiving child-only benefits.
"The result is a striking disparity: needy American families are held to TANF's central work and time-limit rules, while households headed by immigration-status-ineligible parents can receive child-only cash assistance under a structure that bypasses those rules and can allow support to continue from birth through age 18."
freestarThe report estimated that affected households received an average of roughly $742 per month, or about $8,900 annually.
Between 2001 and 2024, approximately $18.3 billion in TANF assistance was distributed through these child-only cases, while their share of the total TANF caseload increased from 5.8% to 10%.
American AF 🇺🇸 @iAnonPatriotSNAP and Section 8 cost U.S. taxpayers $138 billion last year, and that is before Medicaid, SSI, and the rest. Food is expensive in part because 42 million people are buying groceries with a card someone else funded.
The damage is not only the bill. When tens of millions of people organize their month around a government check, they stop voting on the country and start voting on the benefit. Borders, crime, and debt become background noise next to the one question that matters to them: who will keep the groceries and the rent voucher flowing.
Milton Friedman put it plainly: you cannot simultaneously have free immigration and a welfare state.
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The Thursday Morning Rant
—Doof
We are nearly 60 days away from mid-term general election day. How much turnover will there be in Congress? Not Enough! Until we have term limits for members of Congress, there will continue to be way too many incumbents occupying space in the US Capitol for countless terms.
We The People strongly support term limits for members of Congress. Ballot measures in the 90s were very popular with voters. Voters in 14 states approved ballot initiatives in 1992, and 1994 saw at least 6 of 8 additional states' voters approve ballot measures. So approximately 20 states impose term limits on their members of Congress, right? Wrong!
In 1995, the US Supreme Court ruled Congressional term limit measures and amendments passed at individual state levels to be unconstitutional. The case was U.S. Term Limits, Inc. v. Thornton. As in Ray Thornton, Democrat member of Congress from Arkansas. He and his allies sued the state after passage of Amendment 73 to the Arkansas Constitution - which limited US House members to 3 terms and US Senate members to 2 terms.
The organization US Terms Limits was founded in 1992, and it still exists today. According to their website
U.S. Term Limits is the nation’s largest nonpartisan, nonprofit organization dedicated exclusively to advocating for term limits. We believe that a government of the people, by the people, and for the people—not a ruling class focused on self-serving deals—is essential.Our mission is to foster a higher quality of government by establishing a citizen legislature. This legislature would more accurately reflect its constituents and be genuinely responsive to their needs. We work tirelessly with citizens across the nation, helping them understand why term limits are a necessary government reform and how to implement this vision from their local town councils all the way to Congress.
It’s important to note that U.S. Term Limits does not require individuals to self-limit their terms. Our aim is to limit the terms for all members of Congress as an institution, ensuring a more dynamic and accountable representative body.
US Term Limits is trying to get support from enough states to force Congress to call for an Article V convention
The Congress, whenever two thirds of both Houses shall deem it necessary, shall propose Amendments to this Constitution, or, on the Application of the Legislatures of two thirds of the several States, shall call a Convention for proposing Amendments, which, in either Case, shall be valid to all Intents and Purposes, as Part of this Constitution, when ratified by the Legislatures of three fourths of the several States, or by Conventions in three fourths thereof, as the one or the other Mode of Ratification may be proposed by the Congress...
How much progress have they made?
The U.S. Constitution provides the state legislatures authority to propose amendments without the approval of Congress. To make it happen, 34 state legislatures must pass resolutions to call a convention for the states to propose a congressional term limits amendment.Now, here is where it gets a bit complicated. The states don’t always pass the exact same application. So, today there are fourteen state legislatures that have passed the U.S. Term Limits (USTL) single-subject application for congressional term limits. However, there are 9 additional states that have passed applications that include congressional term limits and, therefore, are states we are prioritizing.
34 states have to pass the same application for the convention to be called. Then, any amendments proposed at the convention require ratification by 38 state legislatures.
27 amendments to the Constitution have been ratified. 6 others were proposed but not ratified. Do you know how many of the 33 proposed amendments came about through an Article V convention? ZERO! All 33 proposed amendments were the result of Congress - approved by 2/3 of EACH house of Congress.
On January 6, 2025 a resolution was introduced in the House - H. J. RES. 12
It's purpose - "Proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the United States to limit the number of terms that a Member of Congress may serve."
It would impose a 3-term limit on the House and a 2-term limit on the Senate.
What has happened to this amendment since then? It was referred to the House Judiciary Committee on the day it was introduced. That's it. No action at all. Big surprise, right? What are the chances ANY Congress will vote - by a 2/3 majority, no less - to impose term limits upon its members? As the saying goes - "between slim and none -- and Slim just left town!"
Saw this graphic recently. Absolutely ridiculous!
Good for US Term Limits and the work they are doing. However, they are not even halfway to their goal of 34 states passing the same application.
They also have to overcome this kind of stupidity. Stopping a Dangerous Article V Convention
Wealthy donors, corporations, and radical far-right actors are pushing calls for an Article V Convention in states across the country to reshape our Constitution for their own benefit.Frighteningly, they are just a few states away from succeeding.
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Under Article V of the U.S. Constitution, Congress is required to hold a constitutional convention if two-thirds of state legislatures (34 states) call for one.
But here’s the catch: there are absolutely no rules for an Article V Convention outlined in the Constitution.
That means the group of people convening to rewrite our Constitution could be totally unelected and unaccountable. There is nothing that could limit the convention to a single issue, so the delegates could write amendments that revoke any of our most cherished rights – like our right to peaceful protest, our freedom of religion, or our right to privacy. There are also no rules preventing corporations from pouring money into the convention to ensure they get their way.
I guess they missed the text in Article V that says the convention's purpose is amendments, not rewriting the Constitution. And also the part about 3/4 of the states needing to ratify any amendments that may arise at a Convention of the States.
So we have Congress refusing to act and clueless people spouting nonsense about a convention being dangerous.
We really aren't going to be able to vote our way out of this, are we?
The Morning Report — 9/ 3 /26
—J.J. Sefton
Good morning kids. Well to start things off we have this bit of breaking news
Gloria Steinem, the pioneering feminist, writer and activist who helped define the modern women’s movement, has died at 92.
If I want to be kind, and given the utter societal rot that she and others of her ilk precipitated over the past 60 years or so, I find it extremely difficult, so whatever legitimate grievances that women had which begat the women's movement, Steinem certainly played a pivotal role in bringing them to the fore. But at least from my perspective, like the civil rights movement, and our society's natural movement away from segregation and the evils of racism, women ultimately would have gained equal status thanks to the Judeo-Christian and American ethic that undergird society in the first place. Of course the anti-American Democrat/Left have been doing their damndest to tear that all down in their unslakeable lust for absolute power and so especially over the past 60 years they have corrupted every legitimate political movement in order not to build a more perfect union but to tear down the closest that humanity has ever come to it, the American experiment. And yet we're still here, but only just.
At least six people, including two police officers, were shot in downtown Minneapolis Wednesday around 4:50 p.m. local time.
No doubt P3DO adjacent/suspected governor Walz and Minneapolis mayor Jacob Frey will do their best to obfuscate and cover up the identity and background of the shooter, who is in custody per the reports, and lead the call for the destruction of the Second Amendment, despite Minnesota already being one of the strictest anti-2A states in the nation as it is. Having zero information about the perp, but in every case like this that I can recall, the shooter was not a member of the NRA or GOA, but it's the guns, and white people and toxic masculinity (that's for you Gloria Steinem).
Meanwhile in another part of the forest...
‘I Like To Kill Jews’: Columbia Protester Upheld by Media as Gentle Peace Activist Is Accused of Supporting Terrorists, Boasting He Can Use a Machine Gun, in Scathing New Report. . . The Palestinian Columbia student, Mohsen Mahdawi, is currently fighting deportation
Oh no, the infamy! We can't have that can we?!
But addressing an event for Michigan Jewish Democrats, Nessel made her best case in a speech that will last long past this cycle because of the nakedness of its horrifying argument.“We have a moral imperative to place the needs of the world above even our own self-interest and, yes, even our own survival,” Nessel told Jewish Democrats. Those “needs of the world” required Jews to vote for Democrats, including presumably El-Sayed, who had made excuses for a Muslim terrorist attack against Jewish children in the preschool of a Michigan Temple.
With Jews like Dana Nessel we don't need the Einsatzgruppen. Yes sir that's my Yasser!!!! Evil filthy drunken slag shitwhore needs to have dinner with Gloria Steinem, soon!
. . . Like, the DSA, they’re deeply anti-American,” Fetterman said. “They’re deeply anti-capitalism. They’re deeply anti-the American way of life.”Fetterman continued to point out that “when you look at the kind of individuals that are actually in the DSA,” they live in homes that their parents bought for millions of dollars.
“They want to impoverish middle class whites, and seize all the production,” Fetterman continued. “I would think every single Democrat should condemn the DSA. This is not like a big tent situation, they should have their own entire party, and run alone as the kinds of communists, and socialists, and anti-American party that they are.”
Regardless of why he is publicly destroying the DSA while no doubt still embracing core Democrat/Liberal beliefs and shibboleths, his overt broadsides are needed, loudly, frequently and repeatedly. That they are coming most effectively from him and not from anyone in the GOP is frustrating and telling. So give 'em hell Lumpy!
Have a good day.
- ABOVE THE FOLD, BREAKING, NOTEWORTHY
- The order seeks to deny automatic citizenship to additional categories of children born in the United States, including children of “alien enemies of the United States,” members of foreign terrorist organizations and certain people who lobby or act on behalf of foreign governments.
Federal Judge Blocks Trump’s Latest Attempt to Restrict Birthright Citizenship
- The establishment media will use the anniversary to step up its propaganda.
The 25th Anniversary of 9/11 is Approaching, So Get Ready to Hear About ‘Islamophobia’
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Daily Tech News 3 September 2026
—Pixy Misa
Top Story- A group called Nexus is advertising 153 million US drivers licenses for sale on Russian exploit site Exploit. (Krebs On Security)
They advertised this with a photo of the drivers license of a certain... Brian Krebs.
Uh.
And he followed up by asking 10 friends to see if their redacted data was in the list. Nine times out of ten, it was.
How did this happen? We may never know. Oh.Here's where it gets interesting: I was able to find my mother's drivers license in this service as well, and the timestamps for her images are just a few seconds apart from mine. That's notable because we both handed our licenses to the Hertz rental car representative at the same time.
Oops.
So Hertz got hacked?
Nothing so pleasant.Edwards told KrebsOnSecurity that although he did not rent a car in Vegas, he did hand over his license at the TSA checkpoint, at a marijuana dispensary in Vegas, and at his hotel (the Aria). But he said the only one of those three that for sure scanned his ID in some kind of device was the dispensary.
Not Hertz it would appear, but, the company that Hertz uses to verify IDs.Contacted by KrebsOnSecurity, idscan.net said it was investigating the matter, but the company has not yet shared an official statement or a substantive reply to specific questions sent via email.
The birdbath is on fire.
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Wednesday Night ONT - September 2, 2026 [TRex]
—Open Blogger
Good evening Horde! The time has come for mid-week shenanigans of the overnight variety. The bar is open and (mostly) re-stocked. Step up and place your order.
Welcome to the Wednesday night ONT which means another edition of random overnight fun and games. Pull up a chair and join the fun. Good will offerings of amusing puns are encouraged. Pants are optional. Be nice to your fellow commenters and AoS contributors. If you're a troll, go away.
This is a Tucker, Candace, Megyn, and Bill Kristol free zone. Please.
[Top photo: Seymour, Tennessee]
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