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December 03, 2024

Daily Tech News 3 December 2024

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Monday Overnight Open Thread (12/2/24) - Doof

—Open Blogger

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Howdy Hordelings, and welcome to this week’s Monday ONT. Step inside and see what is on the docket tonight.

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A Case of the Mondays Cafe

—Ace

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Eagles in Alaska
by Steve Slade

Montana showing off the monts.

This must be Florida Man in his native terrain.

Working in the ocean at 3 am.

An iceberg wakes up from hibernation.


Rebellious calf scoffs at your "rules."

Sometimes you need to clean your vehicle of lions.

Steve Inman:

I can relate. Vespas are hard to drive too!

Thugs need to stop standing in the middle of the road.

A thug imposes his will on a guy minding his own business, then gets his teeth kicked out of his head.

A out-of-town New York thug starts a fight, then finds out that Alvin Bragg isn't around to protect him.

Suspected Gentle Giant gets rekt.

The Battling Bickersons decide to take their marital strife out into the public and find out no one wants to see that trash.

Just another day in DEI-occupied America.

They came at him 2-on-1. They should have brought reinforcements.

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Congressional Report: "Scientists" At Heart of Creating Covid-19 In Wuhan Decieved Congress, May Face Prosecution

—Ace

Interesting:


A sprawling final report by the House Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic provokes questions over whether some in the scientific community -- including EcoHealth Alliance, the American nonprofit that collaborated on novel coronavirus discovery and engineering research with the Wuhan Institute of Virology, and its president Peter Daszak -- could face criminal charges stemming from the COVID-19 tragedy.

The report's findings -- the culmination of two years of work by congressional investigators, the review of more than one million documents and dozens of transcribed interviews and public hearings -- include evidence that Daszak misled the committee on questions central to the COVID-19 origins mystery. Daszak exported gain-of-function coronavirus experiments to China; shirked his duty to probe his Wuhan colleagues for lab notebooks, viral samples and genomic data; and helped to falsely persuade millions that the idea of a Wuhan lab leak was a conspiracy theory, the committee's investigation shows.

Daszak did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

In May 2024, the committee's investigation helped spur the Department of Health and Human Services to initiate debarment proceedings against EcoHealth and Daszak. The debarment process is not yet finished, but could result in EcoHealth and Daszak being ineligible for federal funding for a period of years. But the new revelations spur the possibility of criminal charges related to the COVID-19 pandemic as well, namely making false statements or perjury.

Among the report's most striking revelations: the Department of Justice empaneled a criminal grandy jury to investigate potential federal crimes related to the origins of COVID-19. The status of this grand jury investigation is not public. Though the DOJ dragnet ensnared EcoHealth, neither the nonprofit nor Daszak are the target of the DOJ investigation, EcoHealth's attorney told the committee.

A February 2023 email indicates that EcoHealth stayed mum on numerous nonpublic investigations.

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In a transcribed interview with the committee on June 16, 2023, Kristian Andersen, a virologist at the Scripps Research Institute, reported that agents with the Federal Bureau of Investigation were asking questions about COVID-19 at a May 2023 virology conference.

While the Biden DOJ and FBI slow-played this investigation, Trump will have every incentive to see justice done.

Unless Joe Biden starts pardoning ev-er-y-one.

Which I think he might. Keith Olbermann is demanding 10,000,000 pardons for everyone on the political left:

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You may say, "Oh, that's just old brokedown lunatic Keith Olbermann ranting as usual."

Well it is that, but Biden himself indicated that he was ready to start handing out pardons to any of his political or "business" cronies who might be prosecuted for his crimes:

No reasonable person who looks at the facts of Hunter's cases can reach any other conclusion than Hunter was singled out only because he is my son -- and that is wrong. There has been an effort to break Hunter -- who has been five and a half years sober, even in the face of unrelenting attacks and selective prosecution. In trying to break Hunter, they've tried to break me -- and there's no reason to believe it will stop here. Enough is enough.

In other words: They came for my innocent drug-addict pervert short-eyes son Huntie, and that means they'll come for the rest of the Biden Crime Family. So start the pardon-printing machine.

I think Biden thinks that the Hunter Biden pardon is the most understandable pardon, so he's issuing it first. He thinks this will prepare the public for the mass issuance of pardons he has coming.

A couple of more pardon-related thoughts:

The Fifth Amendment gives you a right to refuse to answer questions if the answers may tend to incriminate you. But the Fifth Amendment no longer applies if you have immunity -- like a pardon -- for your crimes.

Hunter Biden can therefore be called before Congress to answer questions about his influence-peddling scheme, and his father's role in it, and has no legal right to refuse to answer. If he refuses to answer, that's obstruction of justice. If he lies, that's also obstruction of justice.

Note that Congress doesn't need a law-enforcement aim in its questioning. In fact, Congress may not conduct law-enforcement investigations. That's for the Executive. Congress just needs a plausible area about which they may seek to pass legislation -- such as creating rules and regulations for the scumbag sons of corrupt presidents from soliciting foreign bribes.

Biden may have done Huntie a disservice by pardoning him for everything, including child sex charges. (The pardon was plenary, so it includes that.) If Hunter could claim there was some undiscovered crime out there, he could refuse to answer under the 5th Amendment. But now that Joe Biden has cleared him of any prosecution, he may not.

And I suggest that Congress get on this, pronto.

Another thought is about Biden's many, many lies -- and the media's repetition of those lies. Watching those compilations of Biden denying he would pardon Hunter, I was reminded that Biden made those promises in explicit contrast to what he claimed was Trump's unlawfulness. Trump challenges his prosecutions; I welcome them. Trump argues that the DOJ is corrupt; I, on the other hand, have the strength of character to "trust the DOJ" even as it prosecutes my own son.

Well, we always knew that was a lie, and that Biden would pardon Huntie the moment the election was over.

Will the media now revisit its partisan propaganda about the great contrast between Biden's character and Trump's? They used this as a major, major propaganda offensive; will they now admit they were wrong? Or just lied, all along?

The media was very insistent that it was inconceivable that Biden secretly planned to pardon Hunter. That was a conspiracy theory pushed by MAGA zealots who wanted to bring Joe Biden down to Trump's low, base level.

But, once again, the "conspiracy theorists" were right, and the media, supposedly the fair and factual judge of all matters, once again took a Democrat's mere word as the uncontestable truth and lied to the nation.

Biden said that Trump must accept the prosecutions inflicted by the corrupt DOJ, because Biden's corrupt DOJ was incorruptible.

But now, to explain away pardoning his vile pervert bribery-collecting scumbag spawn, he himself says his DOJ is corrupt and engaged in a political war against him:

Today, I signed a pardon for my son Hunter. From the day I took office, I said I would not interfere with the Justice Department's decision-making, and I kept my word even as I have watched my son being selectively, and unfairly, prosecuted. Without aggravating factors like use in a crime, multiple purchases, or buying a weapon as a straw purchaser, people are almost never brought to trial on felony charges solely for how they filled out a gun form. Those who were late paying their taxes because of serious addictions, but paid them back subsequently with interest and penalties, are typically given non-criminal resolutions. It is clear that Hunter was treated differently. The charges in his cases came about only after several of my political opponents in Congress instigated them to attack me and oppose my election. Then, a carefully negotiated plea deal, agreed to by the Department of Justice, unraveled in the court room -- with a number of my political opponents in Congress taking credit for bringing political pressure on the process. Had the plea deal held, it would have been a fair, reasonable resolution of Hunter's cases. No reasonable person who looks at the facts of Hunter's cases can reach any other conclusion than Hunter was singled out only because he is my son -- and that is wrong.

This is, of course, all straight from Hunter Biden's lawyers, who have been arguing, bizarrely, for years that Hunter Biden's father was singling out Hunter Biden for a political prosecution.

The media maintained for years it was anti-American disinformation to suggest the DOJ was anything less than pure and incorruptible. Well, now Biden has stated that his DOJ is so corrupt it goes after his son to "break" Biden.

So why would Trump have any reason to trust it? If Biden's DOJ is politically corrupt in its prosecutions of Hunter Biden, surely it is even more biased in its prosecutions of Biden's political enemy Trump, no?

The media, of course, will not admit any of this, and will simply lie more and more, as it must. The DOJ is simon-pure when it prosecutes Trump, but rife with Trumpish corruption when it prosecutes a Biden.

Fugly voodoo doll Latrine John-Pissoir made that case to reporters today, insisting that Biden was telling the truth when he said the DOJ was incorruptible, and likewise telling the truth when he says it's rotten to the core:


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Quick Hits

—Ace

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We live in an age of miracles and wonders, my friends.

Human 'washing machine' uses AI to hose down your filthy body -- because people are now too lazy to shower


Thought the Japanese toilet was advanced?

Japanese showerhead firm Science Co. has put the "pod" in "Tide pod" after inventing an AI-powered "washing machine of the future" that is purported to give people the ultimate bath.

"We're about 70% there," said company Chairman Yasuaki Aoyama while discussing when the device will be available at a lecture at the Osaka Healthcare Pavilion in late October, Japanese publication Ashahi Shimbun reported.

Dubbed the "Mirai Ningen Sentakuki," the cutting-edge shower capsule is completely enclosed like a hygiene-based cryogenic chamber and takes just 15 minutes to wash and dry the user.

"It made me excited, thinking about what kind of future there would be," declared Science Co. Chairman Yasuaki Aoyama while discussing the invention (pictured).

After the user steps into the center seat, the transparent cockpit-like contraption fills partway with water, as demonstrated in a viral YouTube video.


Sensors embedded in the seat then measure the person's pulse and other biological metrics to make sure the user is bathed at the ideal temperature.

They're then blasted by highspeed water jets harboring 3-micrometer-wide air bubbles, the Daily Mail reported.

When those pop, they produce a small but powerful pressure wave that scours grime from the skin -- the same process used to clean electrical components that can't be washed with chemicals.

Just like so many things nowadays from smartphones to restaurants, the wash pod offers far more than its primary function.

In this case, an innovative artificial intelligence system AI analyzes the aforementioned biomarkers to see if the customer is calm or excited and then projects a specially chosen video onto the plastic pod's interior to calm their nerves.

"Some people are simply too obese and weak to stand in a conventional shower and need mechanical assistance to maintain basic hygiene," said Jonah Goldberg's doctor.

I may have added a line to that article.

A New Yorker taken hostage by Hamas is admitted to be a murder victim.

A New Yorker who was kidnapped by Hamas on Oct. 7 was confirmed dead on Monday, according to the Israeli military.

Omer Neutra, 21, had long been assumed to be alive, but was actually killed during the terrorist attack, with his body taken to the Gaza Strip by Hamas, the Israel Defense Forces said.

Neutra, of Plainview, Long Island, had been serving as an IDF tank commander.

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Flooding struck the English county where Ellen DeGeneres fled after the Trump election. Unfortunately, early reports that her mansion was flooded are being denied by the abusive former talk-show host.

Ellen DeGeneres is setting the record straight about the status of her new U.K. home amid severe storms that devastated parts of the U.K.

After reports circulated over the weekend that the former talk show host's farmhouse in England's idyllic Cotswolds region had been flooded, DeGeneres, 66, spoke out on Instagram. At the end of a post toasting her wife, retired actress Portia de Rossi, 51, on their 20th anniversary, DeGeneres added a postscript: "P.S. for those of you concerned, our UK farmhouse did NOT flood," she wrote.

Others in the area were not so lucky. Multiple days of heavy rainfall and strong winds led to at least five deaths, as well as severe damage to homes, roads and rail networks in the U.K., the BBC reports.

Ho-hum: Angry femcel writing for the New York Times blames Trump's huge victory on the "manosphere" and incels who are just angry that they can't date all of these strong and empowered gross unfuckable women.

A New York Times op-ed attributed President-elect Donald Trump's success in the 2024 election to resentful young men and their creation of a "manosphere," which, according to the writer, "reinforces the male breadwinner norm."

The piece, written by playwright Sarah Bernstein, argued that "our cultural narratives still reflect the idea that a woman's status can be elevated by marrying a more successful man -- and a man's diminished by pairing with a more successful woman."

The op-ed, titled, "How Our Messed-Up Dating Culture Leads to Loneliness, Anger and Donald Trump," noted that men's and women's fortunes were trending in opposite directions. After Trump was declared the winner over Vice President Kamala Harris, many have blamed his victory on sexism, misogyny and racism.

"Now that women are pulling ahead, the fairy tale has become increasingly unattainable. This development is causing both men and women to backslide to old gender stereotypes and creating a hostile division between them that provides fuel for the exploding manosphere. With so much turmoil in our collective love lives, it's little wonder Americans are experiencing surging loneliness, declining birthrates and -- as evidenced by Donald Trump's popularity with young men -- a cascade of resentment that threatens to reshape our democracy," Bernstein argued.

After Trump was declared the winner over Harris, many have blamed his victory on sexism, misogyny and racism.

Bernstein argued that modern romantic comedies promote the idea that women should have a successful career "and also a husband who is doing just a little better than she is."


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Leftwing UK PM Keir Starmer: Damn These Conservatives For Unleashing This Dangerous Uncontrolled Mass Immigration On Us!

—Ace

Notably potent pugilist Keir Starmer has changed his position on changing the population of the UK.

It must be all of the toxic testosterone this man's man has in his well-built body.


In fairness, the "conservatives" were turned out of office in a gigantic voter revolt due to the economy and due to their complete refusal to even slow the rate of illegal immigration.

Sound familiar?

But, as in the US, the "conservatives" were not acting alone, but with their partners in the Regime, the hard left.

For Keir Starmer to claim that this was something the "conservatives" came up with and implemented is a claim WITHOUT EVIDENCE, as failed reporter Jake Tapper's snarky chyrons would say.

Still, this is a major shift. You don't blame a policy on your opponents unless you're promising -- even if dishonestly -- to change it.

The Trump Tide is sweeping over the whole post-Western Western world.

There's a petition circulating in the UK demanding a new election, one that would sweep the left back out of power. It has almost three million signatures. (I don't believe it has any kind of legal force, it's just an expression of popular will.)

Starmer is looking to defuse that challenge to his power.

Starmer is throwing a Hail Mary here by dropping a (half) truth bomb; Britain is wracked by violence, his approval ratings compete with the Black Plague, and millions of Britons are experiencing so much buyer's remorse that his position at the top of the Labour Party is at risk.

Britons have been going to jail for saying exactly what Starmer is saying--it amounts to, according to the government, hate speech. It also happens to be obviously true that mass immigration is a reality because the elites wanted it to happen.

Konstantin Kisin @KonstantinKisin


Yesterday, Keir Starmer admitted that Britain has been "running an open border experiment".

A few years ago, you would have been called "far right" and likely fired from your job for saying that.

Unprecedented open border immigration chickens are coming home to roost.


David Strom wrote a couple of weeks ago about what real fascism looks like -- it looks exactly what the UK government is currently doing, arresting citizens for posting their criticisms of the uncontrolled mass immigration policy imposed by the corporate neoliberal Regime without the consent of the people, and in fact, against the clear wishes of the people.

They can't convince the people to accept their policy, so they'll just terrorize them with midnight police raids until they comply.

Now that leftwing PM Starmer is admitting that uncontrolled mass immigration from the Muslim world is resulting in social disruption and out-of-control crime, will it be legal for mere citizens to say the same thing? Or is this a special dispensation permitted only to Regime leaders looking to stave off a new election?

Farrukh @implausibleblog

2016: Boris Johnson, "Brexit so we can take back control of our immigration system"

2024: Keir Starmer, "Tories were running an open borders experiment"

"ONS say nearly 1 million people came to Britain in the year ending June 2023"

"That is four times the migration levels compared to 2019 (when the UK was in the EU)"

"A failure on this scale isn't just bad luck, a global trend or taking your eye off the ball. This happened by design, not accident"

"Policies were formed to deliberately liberalise immigration"

"Brexit was used for that purpose to turn Britain into a one nation experiment in open borders"

"Global Britain, remember that slogan? That is what they meant"


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Trump Nominates Revealer of the Russiagate Psyop Kash Patel to be New Director of the FBI

—Ace

He's definitely a Trump ally.

A former FBI special agent is weighing in on Trump's pick to lead the law enforcement agency where she once served, suggesting several concrete steps she says will help it regain the trust of all Americans.

"Over the last several years, the FBI became politically and socially weaponized. That must end," former FBI special agent and Fox News contributor Nicole Parker told Fox News Digital." Those responsible for the bureau's destruction must be held accountable with tangible consequences."

President-elect Donald Trump on Saturday announced he intends to nominate Kashyap "Kash" Patel to replace FBI Director Christopher Wray, who Trump nominated in 2017 during his first term in office.

"I am proud to announce that Kashyap 'Kash' Patel will serve as the next Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation," Trump posted on Truth Social. "Kash is a brilliant lawyer, investigator, and 'America First' fighter who has spent his career exposing corruption, defending Justice, and protecting the American People."


Wray is currently serving a 10-year appointment that began in 2017. He could either resign from his post or be fired.

In his post, Trump wrote that Patel "played a pivotal role in uncovering the Russia, Russia, Russia Hoax, standing as an advocate for truth, accountability, and the Constitution."

"It is of paramount importance that the new FBI director reform the bureau into an agency that Americans can trust, depend on for unbiased law enforcement and protect them while upholding the Constitution," Parker said. "The FBI needs to get back to its true mission of fighting crime, keeping communities safe and be the agency that solid agents can once again be proud to work for."

Parker added that the new FBI director must overhaul the culture of the agency.

"When I was an FBI special agent, they always drilled into our heads the mantra 'Needs of the Bureau,' which I strongly denounced. It should not be the needs of the bureau, it should be the needs of the American people. As an FBI special agent, my salary came from the taxpayers. They were the ones I was sworn to protect. They were my boss," Parker said.

Patel is a solid, sensible man who has been on the right side of every single Deep State op and hoax.

That means they will stop at nothing to block him.

Patel held numerous national security roles during the first Trump administration but would be a new face at the FBI.

Here are five things to know about Patel.

A loyal Trump ally

Patel has been a staunch ally to Trump, stretching back to the FBI investigation into his 2016 presidential campaign.

Patel got his start in politics as a staffer to then-Rep. Devin Nunes (R-Calif.), working as an adviser on the House Intelligence Committee.

Patel played a key role there in seeking to discredit the committee Democrats' investigation of Trump's ties to Russia. That included authoring a report analyzing FBI and Justice Department responses in their own investigations of Russian election interference.

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"I discovered a coordinated effort to use the Russiagate hoax as a way to attack then-President Trump," Patel wrote in an April email.

"It was a big hoax!"

Patel echoes Trump on weaponization, plans for retribution

Patel regularly attacks a "deep state" that he blames for having "weaponized the government for their own political and personal agenda."

Much of his commentary about alleged government wrongdoing has been focused on both the investigations of Trump, as well as the Jan. 6, 2021, rioters.

"The FBI goes after J6ers like terrorists," he wrote in a March email.

He has also crafted his own list of "government gangsters" that includes Wray, Attorney General Merrick Garland and former CIA Director Gina Haspel.

Patel has called for using the power of the bureau and the Justice Department to prosecute journalists.

"We're going to come after you, whether it's criminally or civilly -- we'll figure that out," he said during an appearance on Steve Bannon's podcast.

He's called for major FBI reforms

Patel has called for major shifts at the FBI, starting on his first day as director.

"I'd shut down the FBI Hoover building on Day One and reopen it the next day as a museum of the deep state. And I'd take the 7,000 employees that work in that building and send them across America to chase down criminals. Go be cops," Patel said.

Patel, through his eponymous foundation, has elevated several whistleblowers who have made claims of wrongdoing by the FBI.

"I am on a mission to root out all government gangsters from positions within our bureaus," he wrote in a July email.

Patel has also been a critic of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA), including Section 702, which allows the government to spy on foreigners when they are located abroad.

The FBI relied on a separate provision of the law to spy on Trump campaign aide Carter Page.

Nonetheless, many FISA critics have called for reforms to the law, including requiring a warrant to review information from Americans communicating with foreigners being surveilled.

During last year's battle to reauthorize Section 702, Patel argued for letting the powerful spy tool lapse. Congress will once again weigh its renewal this coming year.

"We call upon Congress to let it lapse -- better to have no authority for 7 days or so than another 365 days of spying on Trump and his supporters," Patel said at the time in a statement alongside Richard Grenell, who briefly served as director of national intelligence in Trump's first administration.

He criticized Jan. 6 committee

On Jan. 6, Patel was serving as chief of staff to then-acting Secretary of Defense Christopher Miller, who was appointed to the role about two months prior, the day after Trump fired Defense Secretary Mark Esper.

His short time at the Pentagon earned scrutiny from the now-disbanded Jan. 6 committee, which asked him to sit for an interview after writing, "there is substantial reason to believe that you have additional documents and information relevant to understanding the role played by the Department of Defense and the White House in preparing for and responding to the attack on the U.S. Capitol, as well as documents and information related to your personal involvement in planning for events on Jan. 6 and the peaceful transfer of power."

Patel ultimately sat with the panel's investigators on Dec. 9, after its slate of summer hearings in 2021.

Patel denied any wrongdoing or improper actions related to the attack but has complained about how the Justice Department handled cases involving the rioters.

He's been highly critical of that work, listing California Democrat Adam Schiff, who is moving from the House to the Senate beginning next month, as a "government gangster" and calling former Rep. Liz Cheney (R-Wyo.) "the main architect of this disinformation campaign."

In a May email, he wrote that Cheney "and her band of miscreants suppressed evidence that completely exonerates the Jan. 6 defendants from their ginned-up charge of insurrection."

Unfortunately, the head of the FBI is considered a cabinet-level posting and Trump will need Senate approval to confirm Patel.


I don't think he'll get it, unfortunately:

The hosts of MSNBC's Morning Joe sounded the alarm on Monday over President-elect Donald Trump's choice to install MAGA loyalist Kash Patel as the director of the Federal Bureau of Investigations, focusing much of their attention on Patel's promise to "come after" the media.

In fact, Joe Scarborough repeatedly aired a 2023 clip of Patel touting Trump's plan to seek retribution against his opponents if elected, noting that Trump "apologists" on Capitol Hill should be "deeply disturbed by this" and vow to block Patel's nomination.

Trump sparked widespread backlash over the weekend when he announced Patel, who served in numerous positions in the president-elect's first administration, as his choice for the nation's FBI chief. Critics cited his clear lack of qualifications for the position and also cautioned that this was a warning to journalists across the country that Trump was serious about his threats against the free press.

Patel, who has also endorsed aspects of the unhinged QAnon conspiracy theory, has not only pledged his loyalty to the incoming president but also said that Trump should use federal law enforcement and national security organizations to punish his critics, especially within the media.

During a December 2023 appearance on former Trump strategist Steve Bannon's podcast, Patel declared that in a new administration, Trump would fill the FBI, CIA and DOJ with loyalists who would do the president's personal bidding. Specifically, Patel said, they wanted to go after media outlets that accurately reported that Trump lost the 2020 presidential election.

That's going to be a big problem with him. If that is an accurate claim -- which I shouldn't assume, as we know whenever the media "paraphrases" a statement, they twist the meaning -- then the McConnell club of saboteurs will block him. We have at least six very-nominal "Republicans" who are heavily invested in the Biden "victory," and who actively worked to thwart Trump and depose him. Collins, Murkowski, McConnell, Thom Tillis, and Bill Cassidy will all likely vote against Patel just for this statement.

Senatrix Linsey Graham would also vote against Patel if his vote was needed. But he's a cringing toady with the heart of a coward, and continues pretending he's pro-MAGA to subvert it from within. So he won't vote against Patel -- but he'll do everything possible behind the scenes to stop the nomination.

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Dave Reaboi: Why Did the Left Tell Antifa To Stand Down After Trump's Victory?

—Ace

The left told antifa to stand down in 2020, too.

But that was after a win. (Or, a "win.")

Why did they tell antifa to stand down after Literal Hitler was elected?



A Whimper, Not a Bang: Where Was Antifa After Trump's Victory?


The Democrats had gone to the edge of American discourse -- beyond which is the disintegration of normal political life -- and then, when they'd been repudiated by the voters, meekly pulled back. Why?


Perhaps the only disappointment for those of us elated with the outcome of this month's presidential election was the muted, downcast response from the Left at Donald Trump's massive victory. We'd expected angry riots from purple-haired Antifa goons; emotive demonstrations of impotent and self-righteous defiance by Handmaid's Tale cosplayers; and, maybe best of all, delicious cable news highlight reels reminiscent of Hillary Clinton's surprise defeat in 2016. The quiet sobbing we got instead came as somewhat of a surprise.

For the Left, it all seemed to end, as it did at Kamala Harris's victory party at Howard University, with a whimper. There was no defiant or fiery speech that night; in fact, the candidate wasn't seen at all, unwilling to face even the dedicated supporters who had worked hardest for her candidacy. Over the next few days, while there was some hissing and a few entertaining misfiring synapses at MSNBC and CNN -- including some angry denunciations of elements of the Democrat coalition -- the emotion seemed forced and perfunctory.

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After all, when faced with an enemy that would extinguish all freedom in America and usher in a holocaust, procedural resistance in courtrooms or acts of civil disobedience are plainly inadequate. With the evil of a Hitler, there is no negotiation, comity, civility, or ordinary politics; only violent resistance is commensurate with the threat.

Some on the Left received the message clearly, as intended. Even before Harris herself began referring to him as a "fascist," Trump had already been the attempted victim of two failed assassinations. Immediately following the first shooter's very near miss, the New Republic all but endorsed this violent, final solution to the Trumpian problem, revealing a menacing, monochrome drawing of the former president on its cover complete with Hitler mustache. And below the image -- subtle, in the color of dried blood -- was the headline, "American Fascism: What It Would Look Like" in faux-Germanic typeface. Scandalously, law enforcement disappeared any information about the would-be assassins' motives, saving the Democrats having to address the fact that their manifestos dovetailed too closely with the party's messaging.

All this gathered momentum and intensity in the press until, on the evening of November 5, "our sacred democracy" simply ended. Donald Trump won the electoral college and the popular vote by wide margins, and his party was in control of every branch of the Federal government. The people had spoken with a clear and resounding voice. If you'd been following the speeches of Vice President Harris, you'd assume that what they wanted was Nazi Germany.

When the defeated Democrat finally emerged in public early the next evening, however, her tone had shifted. "Earlier today," she told the crowd, "I spoke with President-elect Trump and congratulated him on his victory. I also told him that we will help him and his team with their transition..." Would she congratulate Hitler for his victory? Would she help Hitler's team during their transition?

Reaboi thinks that leftwing protesters try to portray themselves a the vanguard of a frustrated majority, not a violent and unappeasable minority.

Trump's big win allowed them no such pretense:

In short, we didn't see post-election violence or mass protests because the scale of Trump's victory meant that such rioting would appear -- at least temporarily -- as the angry self-indulgence of a minority that had been legitimately beaten at the ballot box. But the riots will come soon enough, and Antifa will menace the streets once again. While it wouldn't have served to activate them during or after the 2024 campaign, the Democrats' rhetoric about fascism and Nazism is a boon to Antifa, which looks forward to being presented again (as it was memorably in 2020, storming the beach at Normandy) as "freedom fighters" in the media's next just cause.

I think he's right. They've been told to stand down -- for now. But the first opportunity they have to show the (fake) "frustrations of the majority," say with deportations of illegal alien rapists, then they'll get the greenlight to start burning down cities and ICE offices.

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"Showbiz Source:" George Clooney "Fuming" That Barack Obama "Manipulated" Him Into Calling for Biden's Ouster So That Our First Homosexual President Could Keep His Hands Clean

—Ace

Sometimes when an army is crushed, they hang their generals.

Activist actor George Clooney is outraged after being manipulated by former President Barack Obama into lobbying for Kamala Harris to take faltering Joe Biden's place in the 2024 election -- and then getting thrown under the bus by his onetime buddy when she lost, RadarOnline.com can reveal.

"George is furious with Obama for disappearing after the election disaster and leaving him holding the bag for pushing the plan with his Hollywood pals", a showbiz insider said.

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Clooney is understood to be outraged after being 'manipulated' by former President Obama into lobbying for Harris to take faltering Biden's place in the 2024 election.

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Clooney wrote a no-holds-barred opinion piece in July calling for Biden to drop his reelection campaign, citing his declining mental faculties.

A political mole told RadarOnline.com it was Obama who urged Clooney to call for Biden -- his own vice president -- to end his sputtering campaign, fearing the fallout if he did it himself.

"Obama and Clooney have been tight for years, and George became Barack's surrogate in leading the charge for Joe to step away", explained the source. "Barack knew he would look like a traitor if he publicly called for Joe to be cut loose. And now, he's trying to walk away from it all.

"George feels duped and vows he's not going to be anyone's political water boy anymore."

Trump cannot succeed unless he purges the Deep State of all of Obama's Marxist, civilization-destroying plants in the government.

Congress should hold hearings questioning Deep Staters' communications with Obama. It is contrary to the Constitution for government employees, sworn to uphold the Constitution, to be conspiring with a former president with no constitutional role to implement his vision.

I've never seen a former president subpoenaed by Congress, but this would be the time to press congressional power to the utmost.

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Demented Liar Joe Biden Pardons His Spree Criminal Son After Years of Vowing He Would Never Do So Because He Trusts the Judiciary and Wants to Uphold Norms

—Ace

That thing this old rapist promised he wouldn't do in your mouth?

Plot twist, he did it in your mouth.

He pardoned Hunter Biden for all crimes, including those we haven't yet discovered, over a nearly 11-year period beginning in 2014.

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Why go back to 2014? Because that's when this disgusting foreign agent and bribery bagman started collecting Joe Biden's 10% from Burisma:

zerohedge @zerohedge Do you know why Biden picked 2014 as the first year of Hunter's pardon?

That's when he was appointed director of Ukraine's Burisma, starting a sequence of events that almost ended in World War 3. And so we go full circle.

Here's a compilation of Biden and his Bride of Chucky voodoo doll liar repeatedly vowing Biden would never pardon Hunter Biden.

It's not just Joe Biden exposed as a rancid liar. All of his media praetorian lied on his behalf, assuring us all that Joe Biden's sterling character would never, ever permit him to use government power to advance his family's wealth or interests.

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THE MORNING RANT – Periodic Roundup of the EV Follies [12/02/2024]

—Buck Throckmorton

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EV Death Pool Update: Rivian

Rivian is performing in a manner that according to any historical business metrics would have it on the path to bankruptcy in the very near future. The EV manufacturer is producing staggering losses, it is rapidly burning through its cash, and its already weak revenue figures have peaked and are now in decline.

“Rivian reports first drop in quarterly revenue since IPO, shows loss of $1.1 billion” [Detroit Free Press - 11/07/2024]

Rivian continues to lose over $30,000 on every vehicle it sells, and with a negative gross profit margin, there is no sales volume that would be profitable.

Expectations are being lowered to minimize how “unexpectedly” bad Rivian’s Q4 will be. Concurrently, Rivian continues to burn cash like it’s being consumed by a runaway thermal lithium fire. Over the past 9 months, Rivian has burned through more than $2.4 billion in cash, leaving it with just $5.4 billion.

“Rivian lowers earnings guidance after missing Wall Street’s third-quarter expectations” [CNBC – 11/07/2024]

In the quarter ended Sept. 30, Rivian said its cash and cash equivalents were $5.4 billion, compared with $7.86 billion in the fourth quarter of last year.

For some inexplicable reason, struggling automaker Volkswagen is trying to throw Rivian a $5.8 billion lifeline. VW desperately needs to liberate itself from its destructive commitment to EVs, but instead, it is aligning itself with Rivian, which makes as much sense as the fabled K-Mart/Sears merger, may it rest in peace.

Meanwhile, the Biden administration just announced that it is granting Rivian a $6 billion federal “loan” to re-start construction on its suspended new plant in Georgia.

“Nearly $6 billion federal loan will help Rivian restart construction of electric-vehicle plant” [MSN – 11/26/2024]

A nearly $6 billion federal loan will help electric-vehicle manufacturer Rivian restart construction of a $5 billion vehicle and battery plant near Covington, U.S. Sen. Jon Ossoff, D-Ga., announced Tuesday.

"There was real concern last spring that construction would never start," Ossoff told reporters Tuesday morning in an online briefing. "What we have now is a major step forward to make sure this plant is built in Georgia."

There is abundant excess capacity at Rivian’s existing Illinois plant, so there is no reason to build a plant in Georgia, and even if there were some product demand, subsidizing the plant with US tax dollars is offensive. And yes, this is a subsidy. If this were a viable project, banks would be lending the money. This “loan” will almost certainly never be repaid.

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Gangster Government Choosing EV Winners and Losers

Tesla founder Elon Musk has famously supported Donald Trump, and he also supports elimination of the government’s $7,500 EV tax credit. This is because Tesla doesn’t need the tax credit to be profitable selling its EVs, while Tesla’s competitors do not have any model for profit in the EV game without the government subsidizing its EV sales.

So, in the upside down world we live in, in which the government seeks to pick winners and losers, the Biden administration is seeking to choose Rivian as a winner by giving it $6 billion. Meanwhile, in California, which is the country’s biggest market for EVs, Governor Gavin Newsom is trying to make Tesla a loser in the EV marketplace, by explicitly targeting Tesla for retaliation.

Specifically, with the Trump administration seeking to eliminate the federal EV tax credit, California is not giving up yet on the all-electric dream, so Gov. Newsom is proposing to have California fund its own EV tax credit…with a catch. Tesla vehicles would be specifically excluded.

“Tesla would likely be excluded from new California EV tax credits, governor's office says” [Reuters – 11/26/2024]

Tesla's electric vehicles likely would not qualify for California's new state tax credits under a proposal in the works if President-elect Donald Trump scraps the federal tax credit for EV purchases, Governor Gavin Newsom's office said on Monday.

This is effectively no different than Newsom announcing that he is imposing a stiff Tesla-only tax. This gangster-style of government that Gavin Newsom embodies is the reason that Tesla relocated from California to Texas, and it certainly influenced Musk abandoning the Democrats in disgust.

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The Climate Cult’s War on Auto Manufacturing Jobs

Meanwhile in Europe, there has been a burst of announcements regarding automobile manufacturing plants being closed and auto workers getting laid off. This is a direct result of the “EV transition” that Europe’s leaders have tried to impose.

Stellantis (Chrysler, Vauxhall, Fiat, Peugeot, etc] just dropped some awful news on the British auto industry…

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Mid-Morning Art Thread

—CBD

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It is Cholera to Blame
Pavel Fedotov

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The Morning Report — 12/2/24

—J.J. Sefton

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Good morning kids. The revolting if not completely unsurprising news that broke late yesterday is that Joey Sponge-Brain Shits-Pants, the demented venal daughter-raper pardoned his bastard-making bastard of a son and bag man Hunter of any and all crimes he may have committed between 2014 and 2024. This after repeatedly lying about ever intending to do such a thing in the media for years now. Shocking, right?! Pfft. It's perfectly clear why he did this to anyone who has more than two functioning neurons to rub together why the vegetable sham president did this:

2014 was the year that Hunter Biden joined the board of Ukraine’s Burisma, scoring a $1 million payday, and millions more for the Biden Crime Family. It was also the year that Yelena Baturina, the wife of former Moscow mayor Yury Luzhkov sent $3.5 million to a Hunter organization and attended an event with Joe Biden in D.C. It was also the year that a Kazakh oligarch who had just taken over the BTA Bank with whom both Joe was photographed sent six figures.

Were all of these foreign oligarchs sending big checks to a man who had just been discharged from the Naval Reserve over his cocaine use or to his dad who was the one actually in power?

Joe Biden did not pardon Hunter Biden: he pardoned himself.

Hunter, an inept crackhead who could barely write coherent emails, was not being showered with checks, wire transfers and even diamonds because of his legal and business acumen.

The only reason an addict was being sent so much money that he could use it to indulge his worst appetites was because of his father. The ‘Big Guy’ was always the mastermind.

Emphasis mine, as if this is not apparent, especially to any regular reader of this site in particular and/or who has the horse sense to ignore the transparent attempts going back years to ignore and cover up the criminal enterprise fronted by elective office that is the Biden family, second only to that of the Clintons, at least that we are aware of. Sadly, I can say with near 100% certitude that there will never be any calling to account of either of these clans.

Naturally, with very few exceptions, the reaction to this from Leftist quarters is to praise the move and continue the disgusting titanic Goebbelsian-level lie that Biden and his son are victims or will be victims of political persecution, as if the gun charges as well as the verified timeline of Hunter's involvement with Ukrainian energy company Buurisma and how an unqualified, drug-addict literal son of a bitch wound up on its board of directors. And that's just two items.

While this is going on, President-elect Trump has made perhaps his most electrifying administrative pick in that of Deep State nemesis Kash Patel to head the utterly corrupt FBI, which had degenerated into, or really revealed itself to be the personal political hit squad of the Democrat/Left and anti-American Deep State it always had been:

The FBI went rogue a very long time ago. J. Edgar Hoover was a law unto himself, and everyone in political life was a potential victim. His violations of civil rights were a national disgrace. Throughout his 48 years as director, he broke the law routinely. Like his insufferable successor, James Comey, he believed he answered to "a higher authority" -- his own conscience. These are delusions of grandeur. The FBI has degenerated into one of the greatest threats to American liberty. These people think they're above the law.

Beyond thinking they're above the law, they, along with virtually the entire bureaucracy in DC – every agency, every department, every office is staffed with self-inflating egomaniacs who think they are superior elites and therefore are on a mission from God to save the unwashed, unworthy masses of American prole untermenschen from themselves. And if they (that is WE) do not comply and reject them, we deserve to get it good and hard. For our own good, of course!

These warped, twisted tyrants at the FBI, DoJ, CIA and everywhere else who engineered the Russia collusion hoax and worse, the January 6th false flag operation intended to decapitate Trump and everyone allied to him and all of us who supported and voted for him are the real criminal/traitor insurrectionists. I applaud Trump's vow to pardon those who were targeted and some still rotting away in the Merrick Garland Archipelago. Beyond that, Trump needs to go after anyone and everyone who engineered those operations.

Beyond that, Just for starters, I'd like to see Kash Patel go after this fish-eyed racialist for Operation Fast & Furious:

Former Attorney General Eric Holder, who described himself as President Barack Obama’s “wingman” while in office, tried to defend President Joe Biden’s pardon of his son, Hunter, on Sunday night, saying he was unfairly singled out.

Considering the murder and mayhem being caused by the Biden-erased southern border, it provides a legitimate reason to go after Holder, who I believe has been and continues to be a Biden/Harris string-puller behind the scenes. A little sunlight can disinfect a very nasty rats nest of operatives who've been gnawing away at what remains of the Republic for many many years, and continue to do so. Beyond Holder, the Sunsteins and Powers must be defanged and called to account. That and the criminal enterprises of Soros, Schwalb and now Buffet and Gates.

And hear this good and loud trolls. It's not retribution. It's Justice. Long delayed and as such denied.

You know Kash Patel at the FBI is a good thing when it elicits a reaction like this:

Former Deputy FBI Director Andrew McCabe said Saturday evening on CNN that President-elect Donald Trump’s nomination of Kash Patel as FBI director signals how the former president plans to “disrupt,” “dismantle” and “distract” the agency under his second administration.
Trump announced Patel as his FBI pick Saturday, writing in a statement that the former chief of staff to the secretary of defense “has spent his career exposing corruption, defending justice, and protecting the American people.” On “CNN Newsroom,” McCabe called the announcement a “terrible development” for those at the agency, stating that Patel has no qualifications for the job.

Andrew McCabe's pronouncement is a ringing endorsement, given the fact that McCabe is a traitor, and deserves to sit in whatever is left of the grease spot that is Julius Rosenberg, in Old Sparky and follow him to the infernal reaches.
Hope you all had a blessed Thanksgiving holiday.


    ABOVE THE FOLD, BREAKING, NOTEWORTHY

  • Daniel Greenfield: Joe Biden did not just pardon Hunter: he pardoned himself.
    Biden Pardons Son and Co-Conspirator

  • Roger Kimball: ‘The administrative state’ is that quota of political power that covertly fills the vacuum left by the failure of the legislative branch to discharge its obligations.
    What is the Administrative State?
  • As in a dystopian suicide orgy, Westerners have staged their own downfall, defying common sense, loyalty to civilization, and love of family.
    A Disaster Foretold
  • Neil Gorsuch chronicles the human toll of overregulation.
    Defying Administrative Tyranny

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Daily Tech News 2 December 2024

—Pixy Misa

Top Story

  • The most valuable gemstone on Earth is not blue diamond, or Padparadscha sapphire, or imperial jadeite. It's a little-known mineral called kyawthuite. (ScienceAlert)

    Composed of an unusual formulation of bismuth antimonite and formed in cooling magma flows, it gets its value from its scarcity.

    There's exactly one stone, and it's less than a quarter of an inch long.


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Sunday Overnight Open Thread (12/1/24) - Doof

—Open Blogger

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Howdy Hordelings, and welcome to December! Thanks for stopping the Sunday ONT. Thanksgiving, Black Friday, and the whole month of November are now in the rear view mirror. Shall we cruise on into the last month of the year and get into the holiday spirit?

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Gun Thread: El Firsto of Decembero (The First December) Edition!

—Weasel

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Howdy, Y'all! Welcome to the wondrously fabulous Gun Thread! As always, I want to thank all of our regulars for being here week in and week out, and also offer a bigly Gun Thread welcome to any newcomers who may be joining us tonight. Howdy and thank you for stopping by! I hope you find our wacky conversation on the subject of guns 'n shooting both enjoyable and informative. You are always welcome to lurk in the shadows of shame, but I'd like to invite you to jump into the conversation, say howdy, and tell us what kind of shooting you like to do!

Holy Shitballs! How in the ever-loving Hell did it get to be December? You know what happens in December? Do you know? Christmas! Christmas happens in December! Oh the pure, unadulterated joy of receiving gifts! Also, Boxing Day happens in December, but never once in the entire history of my life have I ever heard of anyone celebrating Boxing Day. Not even a little bit, and not even in Canada where this pseudo-holiday evidently it took root. I have a WeaselTheory that the reason people wish each other "Happy Holidays" rather than the preferred "Merry Christmas" is because Boxing Day is sitting right there on the calendar and people feel compelled to include it lest they offend the Boxing Day adherents, if there are any, which I do not believe there are. Anyhoo...

With that, step into the dojo and let's get to the gun stuff below, shall we?

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FOOD THREAD – Sunday 12/01/2024

—Buck Throckmorton

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[Greetings to all of you who have come here for an exposition on the finer pleasures of cooking and dining. This is certainly the place to find it…but not today. Your regular host, Mr. CBD, should be back on the job by next week. Until then, here is a little something to chew on. – Buck]

Family Recipes versus Shrinkflation

There is not much I can add to how annoying it is when product sizes are made incrementally smaller. It epitomizes the quietly dishonest, business school philosophy that margins can be improved by shrinking a product’s size while holding the price steady. In this era of high-inflation, shrinkflation is also being used to disguise the inflationary increase in price per unit, since each unit is now smaller. But no one is being fooled, as more units must now be bought to get the same volume as before, which also means more packaging, with all the costs and waste involved in that.

For heirloom recipes, shrinkflation is especially frustrating. My wife is a punctual, organized person for whom recipes are not suggestions, they are a precise roadmap. She has a few cherished recipes for side dishes that are an important part of our holiday meals. But these recipes also date back to before MBAs shrank the ingredients. So, we end up buying more of each component ingredient to ensure there is enough, which must give the business school graduates a big smile. They successfully turned a two-can purchase of corn into a three can purchase, with some accompanying waste.

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How Many Sodas in a 12-Pack?

Related…

My wife is a fan of a soft drink named Zevia.

Over the years, the large multipack had shrinkflated from a 12-pack to a 10-pack, and then to an 8-pack, all before the latest round of Bidenflation. But Zevia can’t shrink the multi-pack any further now, since they already sell 6-packs, so instead, they have gone full circle, bringing back a 12-pack as the large multi-pack. I’d like to see more of this. Maybe one day a can of vegetables will be 16 ounces again, and a box of tissues won’t get wiped out by one sneezy day.

A “pound” of coffee has been steadily decreasing from 16 ounces over the years. Maybe when a “pound” of coffee is reduced to 8 ounces, a “double pack” of coffee at 16 oz per package will be re-introduced.

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The “Floz” as a Unit of Measurement

Speaking of ounces, many recipes refer to a volume of liquid in terms of “fl. oz.” I’m certainly not the only person who refers to the unit of measurement as a “floz,” am I? If my wife and I are cooking and the recipe calls for a cup of milk, then I tell her it requires eight “flozzes” of milk.

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Un-Sweet Potatoes

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In my half-century-plus on this planet, I somehow still find that there are foods that I was always “wrong” about, and one of them is sweet potatoes. I spent most of my life thinking I didn’t like sweet potatoes, probably because my early exposure to them was canned, candied yams that were served at holidays. While I have always had a sweet tooth, I generally don’t care for sugary sweet stuff on my plate while I’m eating my savory entrée and sides.

Only in the past few years did I finally try sweet potato fries and baked sweet potatoes with nothing sugary added to them. Absolutely delicious! Who knew?

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First-World Problems...

—CBD

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It's not really a problem...I just found a picture of Cob-logger "Weasel" as a young lad, and I figured I would share with you folks.

Have at it with your own FWPs, or just make fun of Weasel's shorts!

Posted by CBD at 02:00 PM Comments

The NCAA And Its Conferences Have Been Co-opted By Transgender Inc.
Leave The Heavy Lifting To The Women!

—CBD

Gee, what a surprise! The corrupt and pathetic sports conference mandarins have abrogated their primary responsibility -- protecting the athletes -- by being conspicuously silent on the rather important question of whether men should be allowed to compete against women. The Mountain West Conference has allowed this pathetic and embarrassing situation go on for far longer than it should, simply because they are cowardly and craven and don't want to be tagged with the cocktail-party-invitation ending image of being insufficiently woke and respectful of the beautiful mosaic of cocks and balls in the women's locker room.

But they are taking their marching orders from the vilest organization of them all...the NCAA. Two and a half years ago they allowed Will Thomas, a mediocre male swimmer from U. Penn magically to grow his hair, put on a woman's swim suit, and be a chick! He didn't even have to shave his legs, since that's what swimmers do anyway. He won the 500 yard freestyle at the 2022 NCAA championships against a field of real women who didn't have the advantage of male puberty, male bone structure and size, and probably 15 years of training...as a man!

That seems fair.

But the real story is that the women volley ball players of the Mountain West Conference have more balls than the conference bigwigs. Six teams forfeited when asked to play against the San Jose State University women/men. Good for them, and good for their schools for supporting their decisions, or at least not pitching a woke fit and squawking about inclusion and equity and beautiful mosaics. But the conference cowards have allowed this situation to go on for the entire season, because, well, they are cowards, have no moral clarity, and are more interested in the perks than doing their jobs.

U.S. Sen. Risch Says Mountain West 'Failed' Boise State After SJSU Forfeit

Fallout continues from the shocking decision by the Boise State women's volleyball team to forfeit its Mountain West Tournament semifinal match against San Jose State to protest the inclusion of transgender Blaire Fleming on the SJSU team.

On Thursday, United States Senator Jim Risch (Idaho) posted on social media and blasted the Mountain West for continuing to allow Fleming (a biological male) to compete in women's volleyball.

"The @MountainWest has failed our Boise State women’s volleyball team," Risch posted on X. "These women have worked too hard for too long to be denied their right to fair, safe competition. We must fight to protect women’s sports."


It's nice that a United States Senator has finally noticed this issue, but the season is almost over, and perhaps something should have been done a bit earlier.

It is obvious that the sporting authorities in the United States are bought and paid-for by the current insanity that prevents this obvious, clear issue from being exposed. But the women of those six teams that forfeited should be commended for their integrity, respect for sports, and bravery in the face of the media criticism and unwavering support for a dude pretending to be a chick.

President Trump was asked what to do about this issue, and his answer was simple:

Q: "How do you plan on addressing the transgender issue in women's sports? I have 9 grandchildren, 6 of them female, all playing sports. We are very concerned for their safety."

TRUMP: "It's such an easy question. We're not going to let it happen."


Yup.

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Sunday Morning Book Thread - 12-01-2024 ["Perfessor" Squirrel]

—Open Blogger


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(HT: California Girl NOT CaliGirl)

Welcome to the prestigious, internationally acclaimed, stately, and illustrious Sunday Morning Book Thread! The place where all readers are welcome, regardless of whatever guilty pleasure we feel like reading (extra guffaws not included). Here is where we can discuss, argue, bicker, quibble, consider, debate, confabulate, converse, and jaw about our latest fancy in reading material. As always, pants are required, unless you are wearing these pants...(a Thanksgiving feast on the go!)

So relax, find yourself a warm kitty (or warm puppy--I won't judge) to curl up in your lap, snack on leftover turkey, stuffing, and pie, and dive into a new book. What are YOU reading this fine morning?

As I mentioned last week, I am very grateful to all of your support for my meager contributions to AoSHQ. I believe I'm merely the curator of this space while y'all are the CREATORS of the Sunday Morning Book Thread with your own comments and contributions. As a matter of fact, nearly all of the content this week is from YOU...Thank you!

P.S. Thanks to TRex for a great Hobby Thread yesterday!

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I think she's just a one-face who sometimes gets more flattering lighting, but you be the judge
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Thanks to Anna Puma. Personally, I don't really get it. It's just a lot of fan service and images created by AI deepfaking Shatner and Nimoy. But people seem to like it.
"The Tears of CBS:" Norah O'Donnell and other CBS communist propaganda ministers have the sads on election night
Incredibly, during the night, and probably for the first time ever, Norah O'Donnell admits, starting around 4:00, that maybe Biden shouldn't have cancelled all of the Trump executive orders "that really locked down the border." Seriously -- has anyone on CBS ever even allowed that possibility, except after it was clear Trump had won?
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