Rumble in the Jungle Cafe
—Disinformation Expert Ace
the Na Pali Coast, Hawaii
by Ben Milbrath/@PurdueToobah
Beach volleyball practice with your pug.
He learned one way to go up the stairs and darnit, he's sticking to that one way.
Action figures are getting out of control.
Panda doing some important panda business.
Update on the dog that climbed to the top of the pyramid: Don't worry, he just walked right back down.
This is the shape of a Cat's Soul.
These monkeys are even louder.
Now this llama is mouthing off.
Dog knows one part of the song.
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Bret Baier: Kamala Harris Tried to "Ice Me" By Showing Up Late, and Then Having Her Staffers Wave Their Arms Wildly to Tell Me to Stop Asking Questions
—Disinformation Expert Ace
Before getting to the headline story: Bret Baier failed to challenge her when she claimed that Trump would weaponize the government against his political foes:
John Strand
@JohnStrandUSADid anyone notice Kamala whining to Bret Baier that "scary orange man is going to jail his political opponents"?
Trump was in office for 4 years--zero political prisoners.
Kamala is in office for 4 years--HUNDREDS of political prisoners... I'm one of them.
She's a total fraud.
Insurrection Barbie @DefiyantlyFreeThey put Bannon in prison.
They put Navarro in prison.
They are trying to bankrupt Gateway Pundit.
They indicted the CFO of Epoch Times.
They are investigating Elon Musk.
They are trying to put Donald Trump in prison.
They are trying to disbar Jeff Clark.
They disbarred John Eastman and debanked him.
They arrested the doctor who blew the whistle that a Texas hospital was illegally performing gender reassignment surgeries on minors.
They indicted and disbarred Rudy Giuliani.
They spied on Catholic Churches.
They put concerned parents who went to school board meetings on the FBI watchlists.
They imprisoned 1500 protestors, most first time nonviolent offenders.
But Donald Trump is going to weaponize the government to go after his enemies?
One of the most embarrassing exchanges came when Kamala Harris could not say what she was "turning the page" from, given that she's the sitting vice president. JD Vance commented:
Vance rips Harris over change platform: 'Who are they turning the page on?' Vance specifically took issue with Harris's recent interview on Fox News with Bret Baier, which saw her struggle to account for her vice presidential tenure.
Republican vice presidential nominee JD Vance on Thursday excoriated Vice President Kamala Harris for presenting herself as a change candidate without acknowledging her ties to President Joe Biden and his administration.
"We're gonna remember that the entire theme of her campaign is basically her pretending that she doesn't even know who Joe Biden is," Vance said at an event in Pittsburgh, Pa. "Don't pay attention that high inflation. Don't pay attention to that wide open southern border. Because Kamala Harris will tell you it's not her fault. She doesn't even, she's never even seen Joe Biden, that's what she'll go out there and tell people.""And anybody with a lick of common sense is saying, Kamala, day one was 1400 days ago. What the hell you been doing that whole time?" he went on.
Vance specifically took issue with Harris's recent interview on Fox News with Bret Baier, which saw her struggle to account for her vice presidential tenure.
"So Brett Baier asked her, well, the American people were saying they want to turn the page. And that is, in fact, the theme of your campaign. They want to turn the page. Well, who are they turning the page on?" Vance said. "Because you've been the vice president for the past three and a half years."
"And you know what she said? She started talking about Trump," he went on. "She is pathologically incapable of talking about the American future without talking about a person who hasn't been president for three and a half years."
This was the cringiest part of her interview: She claimed the reason people want to "turn the page" is because Donald Trump has been campaigning for three and a half years, and that's what they want to "turn the page" on, not her governance for three and a half years.
When Bret Baier objects that this makes no sense, she says "You know what I'm talkin' about, you and I both know what I'm talkin' about," and Baier, to his credit, says "I Actually don't."
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Quick Hits
—Disinformation Expert Ace
Liz Cheney, the super-duper hardcore conservative, is now also campaigning for Democrat Congressmen.
But this is all about Trump. That's the cover story, right?
Now her political devolution is complete - Liz Cheney is campaigning for Democratic Congressional candidates.[The Hill:]Former Rep. Liz Cheney (R-Wyo.) is taking her anti-Trump crusade to the congressional battlefield, endorsing Democrats in a pair of contested House races in a sign that she sees the lower chamber as a potential check on former President Trump if he wins a second term in the White House.
On Tuesday, Cheney endorsed John Avlon, a former CNN commentator who's challenging GOP Rep. Nick LaLota (R-N.Y.) on Long Island. And on Wednesday, she threw her weight behind Rep. Susan Wild, a four-term Democrat who's in a tight race for reelection in Pennsylvania's Lehigh Valley. More endorsements may be forthcoming.
That's a lot of effort to go through just to "get Trump," so there must be something more at work here. It's not the first time, after all, that Cheney has done this.
Cheney has already jumped into the presidential race, announcing in September that she will vote for Vice President Harris in a bid to keep Trump from a second term. And her foray into House contests has precedent: In late 2022, Cheney endorsed a pair of House Democrats with national security backgrounds, Reps. Elissa Slotkin (Mich.) and Abigail Spanberger (Va.), both of whom won tight reelection races that year.
University professor: Buildings are racist.
Buildings can be racist, concludes CU Boulder profThe professor alleged that certain classroom settings were 'made mainstream by Western colonization, which eliminated enslaved or otherwise colonized Indigenous communities.'
He also claimed that the existence of certain ethnic communities in the U.S. is proof of racism since '[m]any people feel more comfortable living with others who look like them, because outside that community, they tend to face discrimination.'
A University of Colorado (CU) Boulder professor is arguing that buildings can be racist.A CU Boulder Today article titled "Can buildings be racist? A CU Boulder architect explores" was published on Wednesday, featuring an interview with Shawhin Roudbari, a CU Boulder professor of Environmental Design.
When asked: "Can buildings and spaces actually be racist?" Roudbari answered that "architectural design often reflects social hierarchies, and those hierarchies are frequently tied to the history of Western colonization and racism."
Roudbari went on to allege that classroom settings "like the auditorium-style lecture hall where students surround a professor" were "made mainstream by Western colonization, which eliminated enslaved or otherwise colonized Indigenous communities as part of attempts to extract wealth or advance supremacist projects like Manifest Destiny."
The CU Boulder professor claimed that alternative "non-Western" teaching methods promote more "communal" learning in which "people sit around in a circle and share their expertise."
Tren de Aragua is only taking over a handful of New York City neighborhoods. No big deal!
A 15-year-old Venezuelan migrant busted at least 10 times in the last few months -- and believed to be part of a violent crew of young gang members -- was arrested again this week for a knifepoint robbery, sources said Wednesday.And this time he's finally getting locked up.
The teen terror, who had been sprung without bail after each of his previous arrests, sobbed as the judge remanded him during his arraignment in Manhattan Family Court Wednesday on yet another first-degree robbery charge.
"The court finds that remand is appropriate and at this time there are no alternatives, and that a return to home at this time would be inappropriate," Judge Betsey Jean-Jacques said.
The troublesome teen -- identified by sources as a member of "Los Diablos de la 42," a pint-size offshoot of the vicious Venezuelan gang Tren de Aragua -- had been cuffed in the latest bust on Tuesday, just as The Post was revealing the baby-faced bandit's shocking exploits.
He's accused of pulling a knife on a 34-year-old man at Ninth Avenue and West 35th Street around 7 p.m. Sept. 30, along with a pal, according to the sources.
The teen and his buddy allegedly body-slammed the victim into a pole, flashed a kitchen knife and demanded that he turn over his phone, the sources said.
The man was able to get away unscathed.
Video from the scene helped cops identify the alleged mugger, and they busted him at 59th Street and Columbus Avenue, according to the sources.
The "Little Devil" was arraigned on the new charge late Wednesday afternoon -- with sources anticipating he would be freed with a slap on the wrist again because of his age and the state's lenient juvenile crime laws, as he had following his other slew of arrests.
But the judge's decision in the lastest case doesn't change the fact that the system remains broken, according to law enforcement sources.
"This has to be a wake-up call to the stakeholders," one source said Wednesday. "To the state legislature who has to decide how we're going to deal with this problem.
"This kid's gonna go home today and probably rob somebody else," the source said. "We can arrest him but we can't hold him."
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Since May this year, he has made his presence known in the Big Apple, with at least 10 prior arrests for robbery and grand larceny, sources said.
He was released each time, which means he's been free to return to the city-funded migrant shelters where he has been shacking up -- until now.
"So, 10 is the number? Ten arrests for the government to finally give in and say maybe there's a problem here?" one cop griped. "Or are they doing it because public opinion is forcing them?
"Either way the damage is done. People have been victimized and a child slipped further and further into a criminal enterprise," the cop said. "This is not criminal justice reform. This is perverse."
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"She's Not As Strong As Me:" Lip-Readers Pick Out Biden's Complaint About Kamala Harris, Made to the Man Who Engineered His Ouster, Barack Obama
—Disinformation Expert Ace
Biden groused to Obama in line at Ethel Kennedy's funeral.
You can't hear what either man said, but lip-readers think they know what was talked about.
President Biden griped to former President Barack Obama that "she" is "not as strong as me" -- with Obama agreeing "that's true" -- in a stunning off-mic conversation deciphered for The Post by a professional lip reader.
The apparent candid assessment of Vice President Kamala Harris' standing going into the Nov. 5 election occurred Wednesday afternoon as America's two most recent Democratic presidents conversed at Ethel Kennedy's memorial service in Washington.
"She's not as strong as me," said Biden, 81, according to the translation, which was produced by analyzing the on-video lip movements during the discussion.
"I know ... that's true," the popular former president agreed, adding, "We have time."
"Yeah, we'll get it in time," said Biden, who was forced by fellow Democrats to relinquish the party's nomination in favor of Harris on July 21 in a mutiny that Obama was believed to support.Moments earlier, Obama said, "it's important that we have some time together" in a possible reference to campaigning alongside Harris.
The dialogue was translated for The Post by Jeremy Freeman, a London-based forensic lip reader who was born deaf and for 16 years has served as a University College London-certified expert witness for litigants, the police and journalists.
Although Harris' name was not included in Freeman's transcription, it's unclear to whom else the conversation could have pertained.
Spokesliars for both liars denied the existence of deaf people who serve as professional lip-readers:
Biden spokesman Andrew Bates scoffed: "A 'lip reading expert'? Did your usual right-wing soothsayer have their out-of-office up? Only President Biden and President Obama know what they discussed, but this certainly wasn't it."A source close to Obama didn't deny the translation but said, "Only President Obama and President Biden know what they discussed yesterday. Any assertion otherwise is ridiculous."
What would a deaf person know about reading lips, am i rite or am i rite
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Kamala Harris's Hot New Plan to Woo Black Men: How's Legal Weed and Free $20,000 "Loans" That Don't Have to be Repaid Sound?
—Disinformation Expert Ace
The loans were first announced for blacks only, but after being criticized for this obviously racist promotion, the campaign says that the loans can be applied for by whites, too.
I mean, whites won't get them, but they're free to apply.
Harris proposes 1 million forgivable loans to Black entrepreneurs, as Trump makes inroads
Vice President Kamala Harris unveiled an "Opportunity Agenda" plan for Black men, which includes a proposal of forgivable loans of up to $20,000 to Black entrepreneurs.
She also pledged to support federal marijuana legalization, a big step beyond the Biden administration's current stance.Harris' crypto plans "will make sure owners of and investors in digital assets benefit from a regulatory framework so that Black men and others who participate in this market are protected," her campaign said.
Vice President Kamala Harris unveiled an "Opportunity Agenda" proposal for Black men Monday, which includes plans to provide 1 million forgivable loans to Black entrepreneurs and new pathways to help Black Americans succeed in the legalized marijuana industry."This agenda is a further realization of Vice President Harris' Opportunity Economy," said former Rep. Cedric Richmond, a Harris campaign co-chair, in a statement. "An economy where people don't just get by, but get ahead. Where Black men are equipped with the tools to thrive: to buy a home, provide for our families, start a business and build wealth."
As part of the marijuana industry, huh?
Harris' announcement is aimed at increasing her support among Black male voters, and comes in the final weeks of an extremely close race between the Democratic vice president and Republican former President Donald Trump.The plan outlined Monday would provide 1 million fully forgivable loans of up to $20,000 to Black entrepreneurs and others to start a business. The loans would be financed through partnerships between "mission-driven lenders," community oriented banks and the Small Business Administration, the campaign said.
A forgiveable loan is just a gift. She's literally buying votes with an unconstitutionally-racist proposal.
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Facebook Enginneer in Sting Video: Facebook Automatically Demotes Posts Against Kamala and "Redlists" the Account
—Disinformation Expert Ace
James O'Keefe @JamesOKeefeIIIBREAKING: Senior Meta Engineer Reveals Anti-Kamala Posts Are "Automatically Demoted," Admits Shadowbanning Tactics
"Say your uncle in Ohio said something about Kamala Harris is unfit to be a president because she doesn't have a child, that kind of sh*t is automatically demoted," reveals @Meta Senior Software Engineer, Jeevan Gyawali (@JGyawali), to an undercover @OKeefeMedia journalist during a hidden camera date. He confirmed, "The person would not be notified," but would see a decline in their post engagement and impressions, explaining that Meta's "Integrity Team" is responsible for controlling content through "civic classifiers," a system that "shadowbans" posts without notifying users.
Gyawali also revealed a specialized Special Weapons And Tactics (SWAT) team that was created at Meta, stating, "There is a SWAT team that's already set up since April... just to think about all the scenarios of how the platform could be abused." When asked if Meta is doing their due diligence to protect democracy from disinformation, Gyawali ensured "that's all going to be demoted 100%."
When asked, "You guys [Meta] have the ability to influence the outcome of the election?" Gyawali confirmed, "Yes," admitting Meta's power to sway political outcomes. When asked if Mark Zuckerberg (@finkd), Co-Founder and CEO and Meta, supports Meta's political influence and agenda to help the Democratic Party, Gyawali answered, "100%."
@MetaNewsroom
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Israel Confirms That Yahya Sinwar, Architecht of the 10/7 Terror Attacks, Is Dead Due to the IDF Blowing Up "Muh Mentions" and Also Blowing Up "Muh Molecules"
—Disinformation Expert Ace
Sinwar proudly holding up a child dressed for a suicide attack
Apparently they stumbled across him when fighting Hamas. It doesn't seem like they were targeting him in a raid or that kind of thing.
Israeli forces in Gaza killed Hamas' top leader Yahya Sinwar, a chief architect of last year's attack on Israel that sparked the war, the military said Thursday. Troops appeared to have run across him in a battle, only to discover afterwards that a body in the rubble was the man Israel has hunted for more than a year.Sinwar has topped Israel's most wanted list since the beginning of the Israel-Hamas war just over a year ago, and his killing strikes a powerful blow to the militant group. There was no immediate confirmation from Hamas of his death.
The military confirmed Sinwar's death after conducting DNA and other tests on a body that it said was among three militants killed Wednesday during operations in Gaza. Foreign Minister Katz called Sinwar's killing a "military and moral achievement for the Israeli army," saying it would "create the possibility to immediately release the hostages."
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Mid-Day Open Thread...
—CBD
...Until Ace wakes up!
'Gaza's Bin Laden,' Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar killed in Gaza
Comer report reveals Biden-Harris admin's 'rampant waste, fraud, abuse'
Litany of Secret Service Failures Enabled First Trump Assassination Attempt
The Morning Rant: Minimalist Edition
—CBD
The default stance among the majority of the Biden/Harris/Obama administration is unbridled Israel hate, with a soupçon of Jew-hate for good measure. That they are now taking a harder stance with Israel suggests that the careful balance between their new-found voting block in American Arabs, and their traditional -- and wealthy -- Jewish supporters has become less important, because they think the election is lost and they might as well get some Jews and Israelis killed, and help their best buddies in Tehran!
US gives Israel 30 days to address Gaza aid crisis, threatens to curb weapons supply
The White House has warned Israel it has one month to implement significant improvements to the humanitarian situation in Gaza or jeopardize the continued supply of US weapons, as US President Joe Biden’s administration toughens its stance weeks before the country’s presidential elections.In a Sunday letter to Defense Minister Yoav Gallant and Strategic Affairs Minister Ron Dermer, obtained by The Times of Israel on Tuesday, US Secretary of State Antony Blinken and Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin lamented that the past several months have seen a significant deterioration in the amount of aid entering Gaza.
Whether that is true, or it is a fiction created by the United Nations and the NGOs that are dedicated to the destruction of Israel is moot. The Junta accepts all data that show Israel in a bad light...just look at the obscene numbers produced by the terrorists in Gaza! 80 Billion dead! Mostly women and children. And the decrepit toad in the oval office and his Jew-hating minions parrot those numbers uncritically.
The truth is that they want Iran to be a player in the region, and see Israel as an impediment to that. Pay no attention to the rabid, theocratic, genocidal maniacs in turbans, Iran is our friend! We can bring them into the family of nations. Or create another lawless region that will be a safe haven for every anti-Western terroroist group on the planet. Israel is the sheriff in the Middle East, and the Obama wing simply cannot abide that.
It is idiocy on a grand scale, or it is a calculated effort to destroy Israel, and complete Hitler's final solution. And with the (hopefully) impending loss of the presidency and the return of a pragmatic, Western-focused leader in Donald Trump, the time is now for an Iranian empire. Whatever the junta has planned will happen before January 20th...they have very little confidence that Chlamydia Harris and her pedophile sidekick Tampon Tim Walz will win.
Luckily the Israeli body politic has seen the light, and there is, at least for now, a calculated commitment to the safety and security of the state. That means no terrorists on its borders. And if that also means regime change in Iran and Lebanon, and a significant military presence in Gaza, Judea and Samaria, then so be it.
And to punctuate their renewed seriousness, Israel is busily investigating the real possibility that Yahyah Sinwar is now being buggered by 72 Virgins! It is another step in dismantling the Iranian presence on their borders, and is a clear signal that Israel will not stop.
But...they do not need American troops, and that missile battery manned by American soldiers is a disturbing change. Are they hoping Americans get killed so that support in America for Israel crumbles? Send munitions, and step aside and let Israel do the work of protecting the West.
[Crossposted at CutJibNewsletter]
The Morning Report — 10/17/24
—J.J. Sefton
Good Morning Kids. Well, Kamala Harris' interview with Fox's Brett Baier was an abject disaster for her. For her to agree to go one on one with him means either he too was in the bag as the known hack leftist propagandists from MSNSDAP, XiNN and the legacy broadcast networks for sure are, or else team Harris detected an opportunity to reach primarily white males who they think or have been led to believe are disaffected with Donald Trump. This is kind of a strange calculus since the usual gaggle of idiots in and outside her campaign are openly freaking out that the usually reliable cohort of black males are not only not enthusiastic about Harris but openly jumping ship to Trump. IF Democrats, have to actively campaign for black males even while fielding a black candidate, you can smell their fear. Is it justified is the question.
Clearly, going on Fox News was a Hail Mary, and it was bad. You could tell right away it wasn't going to go well for her. She was evasive, often filibustering with word salads to run down the clock and prevent Baier from asking questions she didn't want to answer. The shouting was a terrible look for her. So was talking over Baier, refusing to let him finish asking questions, and then proceeding to pivot away and respond with her rehearsed lines, even when they didn't actually answer the question she was asked. If she didn't want to answer a question, she just didn't.And she got nasty at times. She even refused to apologize to the families of women who were assaulted and killed by illegal immigrants allowed into the country thanks to Biden-Harris border policies... It's hard to see how anyone could think this interview went well for her. It was really something to watch. What do you think? Did her Hail Mary work, or did she just blow up her campaign?
Four Kamala Harris staffers waved their arms pleading to end Harris’s much-anticipated but widely panned Fox News Channel’s Special Report interview, Bret Baier revealed Wednesday night. Baier, who interviewed Kamala Harris, made the shocking revelation during the post-interview broadcast, saying he had many questions he was unable to ask Harris before the interview wrapped. “I had to dismount there at the end,” Baier said, describing the chaotic ending to his interview of Harris. “There are so many things, and she maybe should do more of these.”. . .Harris’s team quickly began framing the interview as a biased attack on the vice president. Senior campaign adviser David Plouffe whined that Baier’s interview was an “ambush” in a tweet minutes after the interview concluded.
Well, compared to the usual fluffers that Plouffe approves of, actually asking direct, unscripted questions that call into question the real record of the interviewee would naturally be called biased attacks." Well, if she felt as such, she should've said so to Baier, instead of dodge them.
Look, I'm no fan of Fox News, especially these days. They were in the early days actually "fair and balanced" both in how they covered hard news stories (as close to what we think real journalism is supposed to be [the who, what, where, when and why]), and in their punditry and editorials giving more or less equal time to both Left and Right perspectives. That was the secret of their success. Naturally to do that earned them the ire of the legacy media since their job was is and always will be to promote and defend Leftism and attack anyone and anything that exposes it/tem for what it/they are. When Trump came along, unfortunately, Fox was not immune to TDS. Small wonder since as we know, the GOP-e and too many on the so-called right get along and go along with the dismantling of America as founded.
Donald Trump has been nearly assassinated twice, but that didn’t stop the far-left Salon from claiming Trump and his supporters are “infected” with a “contagious disease” called “Authoritarian Violence Disorder” and that Trump “is a massive superspreader.” (I don’t link fake news meant to inspire assassins, which is what this obviously is.)Welcome to the Democrat party’s latest edition of assassination porn…Under the headline, “‘Brain flaws’: Understanding MAGA as an epidemic disease” and the subheadline, “Epidemiologist Dr. Gary Slutkin: MAGA is a ‘dangerous and lethal syndrome’ of ‘Authoritarian Violence Disorder,’” we are told Slutkin is “a distinguished epidemiologist, formerly with the World Health Organization.” And under the guise of stopping violence, he fires off this Nazi-style propaganda to inspire violence against Trump and his “diseased” supporters.
Just as Adolf Hitler used “experts” to dehumanize Jewish people as genetically inferior and a dangerous disease, so does Salon use Slutkin…
That's how you get two, or more assassination attempts against Trump in as many months. And we still have a couple of weeks to go until election day and three more months to go until the inauguration. Slightly less until Congress meets to certify the Electoral College results. Just like four years ago.
In a not necessarily unrelated piece:
Scott Hayes, 47, says he lost his job because he defended himself by shooting an anti-Israel attacker who charged through traffic and tackled him in Newton, Massachusetts.
Hayes was charged with assault and battery with a dangerous weapon and released on a $5,000 bail on September 13 after he shot Caleb Gannon, 31, in the stomach the day before. Hayes pleaded not guilty and is arguing that he acted in self defense.
The disabled Iraq War veteran was contracted to provide natural gas leak detection, leak surveys, and inspections for a company that contracts with National Grid, one of the largest utility provider companies in Massachusetts.
National Grid refused to allow Hayes to work on their account after the incident. As a result, his company informed him on Sunday — a month after the attack — that there was no work available, and advised Hayes to file for unemployment.
“National Grid tried to hold me guilty until proven innocent and kept me out of work for one month because of optics,” Hayes told The Daily Wire. “Then, at about the 30-day mark, while I was honoring the hostages, I got a phone call telling me that I should go collect unemployment.”
“As of today, I am jobless,” he added….
At some point, blacklisting will be the least of our worries because with rhetoric like that of this Slutkin, you'll wind up being prosecuted for defending your life while trying to put out the flames on your kids' backs.
REmember, Projetion ain't just a river in Egypt:
So, does VP Kamala Harris think former President Donald Trump will put minorities in camps?Sure sounds like it according to the answer she gave to a voter during a podcast with Charlamagne tha God.
BOBBY FROM GEORGIA: Could you please respond to Trump’s claim that he’s going to use the alien? Enemies act of 1798 to round up immigrants if he wins the election. This law was last used to put Asian Americans in internment camps during World War II, and I have a sneaking suspicion that if Trump wins, he.’s going to use this law to put anyone that doesn’t look white in camps. And I’m scared.
Remember that quite a few people are still rotting in the Garland Archipelago for merely showing up on 1/6/21 to exercise their first amendment right of free speech to protest what they felt was a stolen election. All the other garbage about insurrection and rioting was just that. The only lives lost were Ashli Babbitt and Roseanne Boyland, murdered by Nancy Pelosi's goons from the Capitol PD and other Deep State agents.
This is where we are heading, folks. And with millions of third world peasants invading us from socialist tyrannies where political repression has been part of the landscape for decades or longer, The Democrats will have lots of help doing the job of Junta enforcers. ¿Can you say Tren de Aragua? Replacement theory, it's what's for desayuno!
Have a good day.
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Daily Tech News 17 October 2024
—Pixy Misa
Top Story- Meta (Facebook) is laying people off again. (Tech Crunch)
11,000 were laid off in 2022, and another 10,000 last year. In addition, 5000 open positions were cancelled entirely.
No numbers yet for this round of layoffs but it does appear to be smaller.
- Intel meanwhile is laying off 1300 workers at its Oregon foundry as part of its company-wide reduction of 15,000. (Tom's Hardware)
Like Boeing, Intel worked long and hard to achieve this disaster.
- TSMC meanwhile has recorded a record $10 billion in net profit for the last 3 months. (The Verge)
TSMC is manufacturing Intel's latest Lunar Lake laptop chips.
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Li'l Bellybuckers Cafe
—Ace
Waterspout in Tampa Bay, by Joey Mole
This was taken before any of the most recent hurricanes
These dogs know who butters their biscuits.
This lynx immediately became Big Man on Campus.
I don't think he's saying "Little Timmy's trapped in the well."
The Florida police found the man who tied his dog to a post on the side of the road as Hurricane Milton approached. Ron DeSantis says he'll be prosecuted for animal cruelty.
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Texas Has Arrested More "Special Interest" Illegal Aliens, Some From Iran
Plus: Clips from Kamala's Filibustering Sesh
—Disinformation Expert Ace
This is what we have to accept to not be called "racist" by Martha Raddatz.
Texas Department of Public Safety troopers working through Gov. Greg Abbott's border security mission, Operation Lone Star, continue to arrest "special interest aliens," primarily men from countries of foreign concern. That includes Iran, a U.S. State Department designated State Sponsor of Terrorism.
Texas DPS first sounded the alarm about increasing arrests of SIAs last month, The Center Square first reported.In the past week, DPS troopers have arrested dozens of SIAs, Texas DPS Lt. Chris Olivarez said in a series of social media posts.
SIAs are noncitizens who, based "on an analysis of travel patterns," are "known or evaluated to possibly have a nexus to terrorism" who "potentially poses a national security risk to the United States," the U.S. Department of Homeland Security explains. Having an SIA designation does not necessarily mean the individual is a terrorist, but their travel pattern "indicates a possible nexus to nefarious activity (including terrorism) and, at a minimum, provides indicators that necessitate heightened screening and further investigation," DHS says.
On Oct. 11, DPS troopers apprehended 165 foreign nationals in Quemado, outside of Eagle Pass, after they illegally entered Texas from Mexico. Among them were 14 identified as SIAs -- citizens of Iran, Egypt, and the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
Via the Battleswarm Blog, Texas middle schools are being taken over by Tren de Aragua gang members.
Don't worry, though -- it's just a handful of middle schools being taken over by violent foreign criminal/child trafficking gangs.
Authorities have arrested a confirmed Tren de Aragua gang member, after he allegedly recruited students from two Houston middle schools to join the Venezuelan gang.According to U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, Jorgenys Robertson Cova--an illegal alien from Venezuela--entered the United States two years ago.
Cova is suspected to have recruited students from Jane Long Academy and Las Americas--both of which are located in the Houston Independent School District. He was arrested last week after being wanted in Pearland for theft and was accused of recruiting the students.
The Texas Department of Public Safety confirmed Cova was part of the Venezuelan gang after observing known tattoos related to the gang on his arms that included a five-point crown and a clock and roses. Other known tattoos include stars, Ak-47s, and trains.
Cova was scheduled for an asylum hearing in Houston on the same day he was taken into custody and booked into the Brazoria County Jail.
,,,The gang has also been spotted in North Dallas, with Dallas Police officers confirming they have infiltrated the city. Members of the Tren De Aragua gang have congregated with other Venezuelans in the northern part of Dallas, nicknamed "Villa Dallas." Since the gang's arrival, the neighborhood has become riddled with illegal street racing, beatings, shootings, and extortion attempts.
Tren de Aragua has seized Just Another Handful of Apartment Complexes, this time in Texas.
No big deal!
A dangerous Venezuelan gang has taken over at least four apartment complexes in San Antonio, Texas, as it expands its reach in yet another America city, DailyMail.com can reveal.Dubbed the 'epitome of evil', Tren de Aragua (TdA) is known to run drug smuggling, child prostitution and human trafficking rings in South America, with its members crossing over into the US in recent years amid a wave of Venezuelan migrants.
The tattooed mobsters have since unleashed a wave of crime across the country from Miami and Texas to Denver and New York.
DailyMail.com is not naming the three other apartment complexes to avoid jeopardizing ongoing police investigations.
However, the locations were confirmed by law enforcement sources, and we spent days visiting the sites where we spoke to terrified residents.
The rise of Tren de Aragua in America
In a pre-dawn operation, hundreds of law enforcement officers closed in on the sprawling Palatia Apartments in the early hours of October 5 after spending weeks investigating reports that Tren de Aragua had control of the area.
Neighbors recounted how they awoke to the sound of helicopters, drones, and doors being kicked in at around 5 a.m.
'My husband came outside in his boxers and had a rifle held to him. They said, "Who are you?" He said, "I live here." They asked, "Where are you from?" He said Pennsylvania and that was the end of that.'After searching over 300 units, cops arrested 19 individuals - four of which have been confirmed as gang members.
'One TdA member is a confirmed "enforcer" for that gang,' and 15 were in the country illegally,' the city's top cop William McManus said.
Mobsters, who brazenly showed off gang tattoos, or wore red clothing, were squatting in empty units where they sold drugs or humans, he added.
'They had women and children and were prostituting the women and the children,' said one resident.
'There was a lot of them and watching all the women and children being put into a paddy wagon, I was like, "Aah!"'
TdA had also threatened apartment property staffers who discovered their criminal schemes.
The gang's San Antonio activity almost exactly mirrored what was happening in Aurora, Colorado-- where a video of armed gang members storming an apartment made national headlines in August.
The gang took over at least three apartment complexes in the Denver suburb - though lawyers for the properties alleged there were many more rentals in the gang's grip.
A bombshell report by a law firm that represents one of the apartment management companies found the gang engaged in assaults of apartments staff, threats of murder, extortion and child prostitution.
'Prostitution is a big money-maker, and the thing with prostitution is that it brings guys in that they can then sell dope to,' former Colorado ICE director John Fabbricatore told DailyMail.com in September.
Illegal aliens from Honduras were just arrested for sexually assaulting a 12-year-old.
Three illegal immigrants from Honduras were arrested in Florida and charged with multiple counts of sexual assault on a minor under 12, authorities said. The crimes are alleged to have occurred between August 2024 and the present.The men, identified as Selvin Lopez Lopez, Erick Lopez Lopez, and Jesersson Lopez Lopez, were charged with Capital Sexual Battery on a child.
Two of the men crossed into the U.S. in 2021, the third in 2023, all during the Biden-Harris administration.
The arrests come as illegal immigration remains a key issue ahead of the November 2024 election.Diving Deeper:
Three Honduran illegal immigrants were arrested in Florida and charged with multiple counts of sexual assault against a child, according to the Palm Beach County Sheriff's Office. The men, identified as Selvin Lopez Lopez, Erick Lopez Lopez, and Jesersson Lopez Lopez, face numerous charges related to Lewd and Lascivious Behavior and Capital Sexual Battery involving a minor under 12 years old.
In a statement, the sheriff's office said, "[The men] were arrested for numerous counts of Lewd Lascivious Behavior (Capital Sexual Battery) on a minor under 12 years of age. It is believed this despicable behavior took place between August 2024 to the present."
Investigators found that Selvin and Erick Lopez Lopez had crossed into the U.S. illegally in 2021 and had been released under the Biden administration's immigration policies, which allowed them to remain in the country while awaiting a court date. However, the two men reportedly failed to attend their scheduled hearings. Jesersson Lopez Lopez, who entered in 2023, was given a court date in 2028.
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For First Time, Kamala Harris Will Sit Down to Dodge Questions from Bret Baier
—Disinformation Expert Ace
CNN's "media analyst" warns that Bret Baier "has a history of appeasing Fox's Trump-supporting audience."
Huh. Does CNN have a similar habit of appeasing its cuckoo-for-cross-sex-hormones audience?
You won't read about that here. This is by Noted Arbiter of Media Ethics Brian Stelter.
Fox News anchor Bret Baier is all too keenly aware that Fox's viewers want him to affirm what they already feel.This week, he is under pressure as he prepares for a high-stakes interview with Vice President Kamala Harris -- the Democratic nominee for president's first-ever formal interview on the right-wing cable network.
Fox is effectively a television extension of Donald Trump's campaign. Hour after hour, conservative talking heads pummel Harris and promote Trump with little regard for the facts. Analysts have described the vice president's appearance on Fox as a surprising visit to "enemy territory."
Baier has tried to position himself above that partisan fray as "fair, balanced and unafraid," as he says in his sign-off every night.
But a review of Baier's emails and comments during the 2020 election aftermath suggests otherwise. And his recent social media activity shows that he is supremely aware of the Fox base's extreme disdain for Harris and distrust of the media.
The interview will run on Fox News starting at 6pm Eastern, though it will be taped an hour earlier at around 5pm. Fox reports:
"We are going to run it uninterrupted, unedited, all the way," Baier said on the eve of the interview.
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Politico: Federal Employees Are A-Scared of Being Fired if Trump is Re-Elected
—Disinformation Expert Ace
'They're so vindictive': Why some federal employees are fearing Trump 2.0They're finalizing Biden priorities, dusting off their resumes and delaying home repairs as they fear losing their jobs.
EPA employees are shuffling to "safer" agencies. An Interior Department worker is putting off buying a new car and poring over Project 2025. And civil servants across the government are worried they might soon get fired.Federal employees throughout the executive branch are panicking at the thought of another Trump administration.
Former President Donald Trump has pledged to "demolish the deep state." His running mate, Ohio Republican Sen. JD Vance, has said Trump ought to fire "every civil servant in the administrative state." It's not just campaign-trail bluster. In the waning days of his first administration, Trump sought to make it easier to fire federal employees -- a move that was quickly reversed by the Biden administration.
Workers in some agencies are particularly distraught about a possible Trump return. The former president and his allies have singled out certain agencies -- including those that issue environmental rules -- as prime targets, should he return to office in January.
Climate, clean energy and conservation programs scaled up and burnished with cash during the Biden administration are certain to be lightning rods for Trump and his team. That's looming large over energy and environmental workers, who are feeling the pressure on a professional level as they're hustling to get Biden's priorities wrapped up in the coming months. It's also hitting them personally as they fear they might soon be out of a job.The prospect of a Trump return is shaping how one Interior employee and their spouse -- another federal worker -- are handling their finances.
"We have stopped doing any money-spending things because what if we're without jobs in the next year?" the Interior employee said. "We need all the savings we can get."
That couple has put off buying a new car and paying for needed home repairs, that person said. "We're both feeling the heaviness of this right now."
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"They're so vindictive, I can see them going back through E&E News articles and saying, 'You're fired,'" the Interior employee said.
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It's "in the back of everybody's mind" that a Trump administration might purge the federal workforce, said one employee at the National Science Foundation."People are worried, but anybody who has half a brain is existentially afraid for the safety of democracy," that person said. At the moment, "people are very concerned with their day-to-day jobs" and are "working to make sure they can get a lot of good done now."
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Push to 'drain the swamp'
Feds' fears about Trump are justified, said Rep. Gerry Connolly, a Virginia Democrat whose district is packed with government employees.
"Federal employees are rightly concerned about what a second Trump presidency will mean for them and, by extension, for the American people they so dutifully serve," Connolly said.
Trump "has pledged to fire or relocate more than 100,000 federal employees who live and work in the D.C. region. He has repeatedly and shamelessly mocked the work of career experts and scientists, going so far as to scrub references to climate change from government websites. He has even promised to abolish entire government agencies that do not sufficiently bend themselves to his whims," Connolly said.
Trump and his allies, some of whom are still fuming over feds' pushback during his first administration, are eager to make changes. Senior energy and environmental appointees who served in the Trump administration have been vocal about their frustrations with civil servants when they were in office.
Apologies for the very light blogging today. I've had bad insomnia for five nights straight. I think I know the culprit: I was taking Afrin before bed, which causes insomnia and also dries my mouth out so much that sleeping is uncomfortable.
So I won't take that any more (or at least not later than 2pm).
But today, I am demolished.
Unrelated: Tim Walz cosplayed as a "normal guy:"
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Mark Halperin: The Re-Election of Trump Would Result in "the Greatest Mental Health Crisis in the History of the Country," As Leftists Literally Have Breakdowns and Pick Fistfights at Work and Even Divorce Their Spouses
—Disinformation Expert Ace
It's at 1:55:00 below. You can expand the post to see the chapters -- it's the last chunk listed in the post.
Let's face it, this started in 2015. As I've said a hundred times, we currently have the highest level of nervous breakdowns in this country's history, almost all going undiagnosed because the psychiatrists had nervous breakdowns too and insist that it's "healthy and normal" to obsess about Trump 24/7.
During the interview Halperin also explained why public polls may overstate support for Harris. He says that public polls are done as quickly and cheaply as possible, and that the pollsters don't really care if they're accurate or not. They're released for publicity. They just want any results they can use for self-promotion
Private polls, like the leaked Kamala Harris polls (if they were indeed her polls), cost a lot more because the candidates want to know what the numbers really are.
He said the big problem here is that the easiest Democrats to get on the phone and answer a survey are more educated, wealtier gentry liberals -- and these people are solidly for Kamala Harris. It's more downscale voters that support Trump, and the pollsters have trouble finding these people and keeping them on the phones. So they just want to hit their Democrat numbers, without much concern for what kind of Democrat they're reaching.
This, he says, is skewing the public polls. They're not randomly calling all Democrats -- circumstances and penny-pinching cause them to mostly poll Kamala's strongest constituencies while not contacting her skeptics and even opponents among Democrat voters.
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NYT: Why Is Kamala Losing, and Trump Gaining, Black and Hispanic Votes?
—Disinformation Expert Ace
On Friday, the NYT released a new poll showing Trump poised to win the most black votes since the Civil War.
Okay I made that last factoid up. But he's doing well.
Nearly eight out of 10 Black voters nationwide said they would vote for Ms. Harris, the poll found, a marked increase from the 74 percent of Black voters who said they would support Mr. Biden before he dropped out of the race in July. But Mr. Biden won 90 percent of Black voters to capture the White House by narrow margins in 2020, and the drop-off for Ms. Harris, if it holds, is large enough to imperil her chances of winning key battleground states.Democrats have been banking on a tidal wave of support from Black voters, drawn by the chance to elect the first Black female president and by revulsion toward former President Donald J. Trump, whose questioning of Ms. Harris's racial identity, comments on "Black jobs" and demonizing of Haitian immigrants pushed his long history of racist attacks to the forefront of the campaign.
Ms. Harris is no doubt on track to win an overwhelming majority of Black voters, but Mr. Trump appears to be chipping away broadly at a longstanding Democratic advantage. His campaign has relied on targeted advertising and sporadic outreach events to court African American voters -- especially Black men -- and has seen an uptick in support. About 15 percent of Black likely voters said they planned to vote for the former president, according to the new poll, a six-point increase from four years ago.
Much of the erosion in support for Ms. Harris is driven by a growing belief that Democrats, who have long celebrated Black voters as the "backbone" of their party, have failed to deliver on their promises, the poll showed. Forty percent of African American voters under 30 said the Republican Party was more likely to follow through on its campaign commitments than Democrats were.
"They sweep table scraps off the table like we're a trained dog and say, 'This is for you,'" LaPage Drake, 63, of Cedar Hill, Texas, just outside Dallas, said of the Democratic Party. "And we clap like trained seals."
Mr. Drake, who owns a tree removal service, said he would back Mr. Trump.
"Regardless of how people call him racist and stuff, he is for the country of America," Mr. Drake said.
The NYT followed up with a Deep Dive into this unprecedented development -- voters actually deciding who to vote for based on announced policies and past results without taking race into it much.
What a terrible racist idea!
In 2016, Donald J. Trump became the Republican nominee and ultimately won the presidency after calling many Mexican immigrants rapists and falsely claiming that Barack Obama was not born in the United States.
Eight years later, the polls suggest that he might well return to the White House by faring better among Black and Hispanic voters combined than any Republican presidential nominee since the enactment of the Civil Rights Act in 1964.
Off to a great start, NYT.
As that MSNBC producer told James O'Keefe's honeypot agent, we now know all the major fake news outlets are completely dominated by "audience capture" -- the little remaining audience is self-selecting hard partisans.
And the Times has to be very careful when dealing with the fanatics they cater too. If they're going to admit that Trump is doing better with minorities, they have to blunt the impact of that by laying out various beloved factoids proving that Bad Orange Man is Bad.
A spoonful of sugar to help the medicine go down is supposed to be a tactic used to placate little children.
Almost any way we can measure it, Mr. Trump is running as well or better among Black and Hispanic voters as any Republican in recent memory. In 2020, Joe Biden's Black support was 92 percent among major-party voters; his Hispanic support was 63 percent, according to Times estimates....
The truth is there are many explanations and they're hard to untangle. Here, I'll offer five explanations offered by the survey. This list is not comprehensive -- not even close. But each one plays a role in the story.
Before going on, an important thing to keep in mind: While Mr. Trump is doing far better than prior Republicans, he is still far from winning a majority of the Black or Hispanic vote. As a consequence, many of the factors helping Mr. Trump apply only to a minority of Black and Hispanic voters. Even so, Democrats have typically won these groups by such wide margins that even modest support by Black or Hispanic voters can lay the groundwork for politically significant gains.
1. They don't mind the dog whistles
To liberals, Mr. Trump's views on race, crime and immigration are little more than racist dog whistles.
Many Black and Hispanic voters feel similarly, but a surprising number hear those dog whistles and like what they're hearing.
Around 40 percent of Black voters and 43 percent of Hispanic voters say they support building a wall along the Southern border. Similarly, 45 percent of Hispanic voters and 41 percent of Black voters say they support deporting undocumented immigrants.Half of Hispanic voters and nearly half -- 47 percent -- of Black voters say that crime in big cities is a major problem that's gotten out of control. That's essentially the same as the share of white voters (50 percent) who say the same.
The support for Mr. Trump's views extends beyond issues related to race and immigration. A majority of Black and Hispanic voters seem to sympathize with his "America First" foreign policy, saying that America ought to pay less attention to problems overseas and concentrate on problems at home. Previous Times/Siena surveys have found that a substantial share of Black and Hispanic voters agree with Mr. Trump on trade as well.
Or put differently: There's a lot about Mr. Trump's core populist, conservative message that resonates with a sizable chunk of Black and Hispanic voters.
2. They're not offended; they might even be entertained
Of course, Mr. Trump hasn't just used dog whistles in his campaigns. Sometimes, he's used a bullhorn.
During his time in national politics, he has offended millions of Black and Hispanic voters, including by recently saying that Haitian refugees eat cats and dogs and that undocumented immigrants are "poisoning the blood of our country."
But a sizable minority of Black and Hispanic voters aren't necessarily so offended.
Overall, 20 percent of Black voters say that those offended by Mr. Trump take him too seriously, while 78 percent agree people have good reason to be offended.
Similarly, 40 percent of Hispanic voters say people offended by Mr. Trump take his words too seriously, while 55 percent say there's good reason to be offended. And importantly, only about one-third of Hispanic voters say Mr. Trump is talking about them when he's talking about problems with immigration.Why aren't more Black and Hispanic voters offended by Mr. Trump? One possible factor: He hasn't necessarily offended them so much recently.
While most voters have been offended by Mr. Trump at some point, a substantial 53 percent of Hispanics and 35 percent of Black voters said they hadn't found anything he has said recently to be offensive. Those tallies are down a bit from earlier in the year -- perhaps the remarks about Haitian refugees are a factor -- but I'd guess more voters would have said they had been offended recently if we had asked the same question in the heart of the 2016 campaign.
This is part of the reason -- a smaller part -- Trump is generally doing better in polls.
Three national polls released Sunday depict a tightening presidential race, with former President Trump erasing recent gains from Vice President Kamala Harris with just 23 days to go.Why it matters: Harris started to pull away from Trump in several national polls in September, but all three new polls show a neck-and-neck race nationally.
By the numbers:
An ABC/Ipsos poll of likely voters found Harris up 50% to Trump's 48%, down from a six-point lead for Harris last month.
A CBS/YouGov poll of likely voters showed Harris up 51% to 48%, down from a four-point lead in September.
An NBC poll of registered voters found a dead heat, 48% to 48% -- a major slide from 49% to 44% in Harris' favor last month.
Kamala Harris is now spending three full days, less than four weeks from the election, courting black men. It's not a good sign that she's forced to pander to what was supposed to be an unshakeable cadre of True Democrat Believers.
She went on "Charlemagne 'tha God's" podcast. Some black churchmen object to using a guy who calls himself 'tha God' to preach to believing Christians.
'Black Men Are Not Political Infants': Detroit Pastor Slams Harris for 'Exploiting' Black Voters, Says 'Virtue Signaling' Won't WorkOctober 15, 2024
A prominent black Detroit pastor slammed Democratic presidential nominee Kamala Harris for "virtue signaling" and "exploiting" his community, saying that "black men are not political infants."
"We will not allow virtue signaling. We will not allow identity politics. Black men are not political infants," Pastor Lorenzo Sewell of Detroit's 180 Church said during an appearance on Fox & Friends, referring to Harris's recent outreach to black voters. "We know exactly what's happening with the Democratic Party. We know that they've exploited us for over six decades, and we are saying, just like Moses said to Pharaoh, 'Let my people go.'"Sewell's remarks come in response to Harris's planned interview Tuesday evening with black podcaster and comedian Lenard Larry McKelvey, known professionally as Charlamagne tha God, in Detroit. The interview is part of Harris's campaign effort to regain support from black men in a key swing state as recent polls indicate her backing is slipping.
"I have never been so offended in my life," Sewell said. "She's bringing a man here who is Charlamagne, a false god, to a community that has 4,500 churches, all people of faith. We are extremely offended that she's bringing a podcaster here to talk to black men about politics."
The Times is angry that Trump is bringing his "grievance politics" to black Democrats, who, of course, have never, ever been exposed to the politics of grievance and so have no immunity to the infection built up.
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As Trump Moves To Take the Lead, the Corrupt FBI Crime Stats Stealthily Changes a Fake "Reduction in Violent Crime" Stat That They Gave Biden to Campaign on Two Years Ago
—Disinformation Expert Ace
They claimed that violent crime had fallen 2.1% as a favor to El Jefe Biden.
Now that it looks like Trump might win the White House and hold government-weaponizers to account, the FBI quietly changes the stat from a reduction of 2.1% in the rate of violent crime to a big increase of 4.5%.
When the FBI originally released the "final" crime data for 2022 in September 2023, it reported that the nation's violent crime rate fell by 2.1%. This quickly became, and remains, a Democratic Party talking point to counter Donald Trump's claims of soaring crime.But the FBI has quietly revised those numbers, releasing new data that shows violent crime increased in 2022 by 4.5%. The new data includes thousands more murders, rapes, robberies, and aggravated assaults.
The Bureau -- which has been at the center of partisan storms -- made no mention of these revisions in its September 2024 press release.
RCI discovered the change through a cryptic reference on the FBI website that states: "The 2022 violent crime rate has been updated for inclusion in CIUS, 2023." But there is no mention that the numbers increased. One only sees the change by downloading the FBI's new crime data and comparing it to the file released last year.
After the FBI released its new crime data in September, a USA Today headline read: "Violent crime dropped for third straight year in 2023, including murder and rape."
It's been over three weeks since the FBI released the revised data. The Bureau's lack of acknowledgment or explanation about the significant change concerns researchers.
"I have checked the data on total violent crime from 2004 to 2022," Carl Moody, a professor at the College of William & Mary who specializes in studying crime, told RealClearInvestigations. "There were no revisions from 2004 to 2015, and from 2016 to 2020, there were small changes of less than one percentage point. The huge changes in 2021 and 2022, especially without an explanation, make it difficult to trust the FBI data."
"It is up to the FBI to explain what they have done, and they haven't explained these large changes," Dr. Thomas Marvell, the president of Justec Research, a criminal justice statistical research organization, told RCI.
The FBI did not respond to RCI's repeated requests for comment.
Just like they did with the "earmarks of Russian disinformation" lie about Hunter's laptop, they cooked up this fake story so that Biden could deploy it at debates:
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