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CBS "News" Continues Hiding the Real Video of Kamala Harris' Word-Salad Nonsense Answers, and Also Refuses to Make a Transcript of Her Real Words Available, Too
—Ace
A "news" organization is attempting to hide the actual news of their own interview.
CBS News remained mum Wednesday amid mounting pressure to release the full transcript of Kamala Harris' interview with "60 Minutes" -- even as a former correspondent said there's "precedent" for the network doing so when it came to Donald Trump.
Ex-CBS News reporter Catherine Herridge -- who was laid off earlier this year as she investigated the Hunter Biden laptop scandal -- said the network released the full, unedited transcript of her interview with Trump when he was president in 2020.
The Republican presidential candidate has demanded CBS News publish the full interview with Harris after accusations that the Tiffany Network edited her "word salad" answers during the sit-down with Bill Whitaker.
"As Trump campaign calls on @60Minutes to release 'full, unedited transcript' of Kamala Harris interview ... There is precedent," Herridge posted on X on Wednesday.
Vice President Kamala Harris granted an interview to CBS's "60 Minutes" that aired on Monday night. 5
"When I interviewed then President Trump in July 2020. @CBSNews we posted the interview transcript. This is more complete and NOT the same as a transcript of the edited TV report."
The award-winning journalist provided the link to the unedited interview on CBS News in which she grilled Trump on hot-topic issues like the COVID vaccine.
"It's about transparency and standing behind the integrity of the final edit," Herridge said.
A source close to the network said Herridge had pushed for the publication of her full transcript at the time and that it was a "special case."
CBS News declined to comment.
Of course, of course. Why should the Guardians of Truth explain their deceptions to the lower order?
A spokesperson also did not reply to repeated calls and emails from The Post about whether the network would release the unedited "60 Minutes" transcript.
The controversy continued to swirl after a truncated version of the Democratic presidential candidate's response to a question from Whitaker about Israel was broadcast on the "60 Minutes" episode on Monday.
Harris' reply stood in contrast to her longer, stammering answer that was aired as a promo for the interview on "Face the Nation" on Sunday morning.
If you missed this story, they deleted her real answer -- which was another rambling, incoherent word-salad answer -- with something that sounded more confident and coherent, but which was offered as an answer to a different question.
A giant Fake News Scam by CBS & 60 Minutes. Her REAL ANSWER WAS CRAZY, OR DUMB, so they actually REPLACED it with another answer in order to save her or, at least, make her look better. A FAKE NEWS SCAM, which is totally illegal. TAKE AWAY THE CBS LICENSE. Election Interference.… pic.twitter.com/JRxSda3NeC
When Whitaker noted that "it seems that Prime Minister Netanyahu is not listening" to the administration's calls for restraint in Israel's military actions, the vice president spoke in fits and starts, appearing unsure of what she was trying to convey.
The interview was conducted by "60 Minutes" reporter Bill Whitaker.
"Well, Bill ... the work that we have done has resulted in a number of movements in that region by Israel that were very much prompted by or a result of many things, including our advocacy for what needs to happen in the region," Harris said in the clip shared by "60 Minutes" on X over the weekend.
That same clip aired on "Face the Nation."
But the "60 Minutes" edition that was broadcast in primetime did not include the full answer.
Instead, viewers who tuned in to the primetime special saw a much more erudite answer from Harris: "We are not going to stop pursuing what is necessary for the United States to be clear about where we stand on the need for this war to end."
CBS also did not include the unedited version in its YouTube upload of the "60 Minutes" segment with Harris. The original answer also could not be found in the transcript of the interview that was posted to CBS News' official website.
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However, a CBS insider said the network should just be transparent in this case amid mounting questions.
"You have a responsibility when you interview a president or vice president to make the transcript available to everyone," the source said.
Herridge revealed another "precedent:"
Another transcript @CBSNews 2019 Bill Barr interview with chief legal correspondent Jan Crawford @JanCBS
Elon Musk says that CBS "News" edits the answers of Democrats and leftists in a favorable manner -- but also butchers quotes from its political enemies to make them sound monstrous.
Elon Musk
@elonmusk
Major cleanup needed at 60 Mins. Producers need to be fired.
They edited an interview I once did with them. My actual words were "I can do what I want at Tesla, provided that shareholders agree."
They deleted the last four words, giving my statement the opposite meaning.
CBS "News" released the full transcript of a Trump interview because it was news and to give Democrats a chance to paw through it to craft attack lines.
But they're hiding the Kamala transcript. It's obviously news, and important news, as she's only sat down for one solo interview with a reporter. This is literally her only solo interview with the Truth-Tellers of the Media.
Why would they hide this?
You know why.
PRESIDENT TRUMP: The other big news is the fraud committed by 60 Minutes and CBS, together with the Democrat Party... which will go down as the single Biggest Scandal in Broadcast History! The REAL ANSWER of Kamala's WAS CRAZY, OR DUMB... so they actually REPLACED it with another… pic.twitter.com/TIATJPQDNq
60 Minutes is a major part of the News Organization of CBS, which has just created the Greatest Fraud in Broadcast History. CBS should lose its license, and it should be bid out to the Highest Bidder, as should all other Broadcast Licenses, because they are just as corrupt as CBS--and maybe even WORSE!
Meanwhile, CBS is also getting flack for its alleged "editorial commitment to objectivity" -- namely, CBS has decided that if black and Muslim staffers get angry because a reporter dares to challenge Woke Grifter-Prophet Ta-Nehisi Coates on his book, published to coincide with the glorious anniversary of 10/7, which basically says the Jews deserve every terrorist attack they get. Black wokies are angry that the Racial Aristocratic Caste Protocols weren't observed -- whites must always defer to blacks, it's the way to Be an Anti-Racist -- and of course the Muslim defense of their terrorism must be respected as "righteous rebellion."
Dylan Byers has some of the behind-the-scenes action there:
On Monday, the anniversary of the October 7 attacks, Paramount Global chairwoman Shari Redstone was alerted to a fast-metastasizing, five-alarm shitshow at her company's news division--and one that would turn out to be particularly personal for her. Earlier that morning, on a staff-wide call, CBS News C.E.O. Wendy McMahon and her deputy Adrienne Roark had stunned their teams by announcing that a recent CBS Mornings interview with the author Ta-Nehisi Coates had failed to meet the network's editorial standards.
The executives didn't specify the offense or offender, but they didn't need to.
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It was an exchange that tested the octaves of morning television, but it was also mostly quite civil and actually, in many moments, quite compelling: Two smart guys, actively disagreeing with one another, without resorting to screams or any sort of name-calling. And it provided a fascinating, microcosmic glimpse into one of the most significant fissures within the modern Democratic Party this election season.
Indeed, in the aftermath of October 7, a surprising political realignment has recast Israel not as a consequential ally and refuge to a historically oppressed people surrounded by hostile nation-states, but rather a ruthless regional hegemon.
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Internally, however, the fallout quickly gathered steam. Within 24 hours of the interview, McMahon had come under enormous pressure from several dozen employees in New York and abroad--foreign correspondents, morning show producers, seasoned veterans, and younger hands alike--who took issue with Dokoupil's treatment of Coates, as well as what they perceived as his history of editorializing on the Israel-Palestine conflict. Meanwhile, a veritable alphabet soup of journalistic organizations--AAJA, SAJA, NABJ, AMEJA, etcetera--signaled plans to write letters of protest.
If you notice a lot of "A's" there, that's because they're mostly Arab-American or American Muslim "journalist" societies.
Now here comes the big reveal: CBS "News" has a "Race and Culture unit" and all questions affecting, I guess, blacks and Muslims are supposed to be vetted through this unit before being asked:
Last Tuesday, while the CBS News leadership was consumed with the network's vice presidential debate, the issue was elevated to the network's Race and Culture unit, which was formed in the summer of 2020, amid the George Floyd reckoning, and determines whether the "tone, content, and intention" of any segment or package are suitable for the network's air. The unit, led by Alvin Patrick, determined that while Dokoupil's questions and intentions were acceptable, his tone was not.
It's not just that this unit reviews things retrospectively -- they're claiming Tony Dokoupil violated CBS "News'" rules by not clearing his questions through "the Race and Culture unit" before daring to question the Black Grifter-Prophet.
Meanwhile, the network's Standards and Practices division, led by Claudia Milne, determined that Dokoupil had not followed the preproduction process wherein questions are run through Race and Culture and Standards and Practices. The following day, McMahon reached out to Dokoupil directly and informed him that the network would need to address the violation with staff, though she and Roark would spend the next three days deliberating over exactly how to do that. Ultimately, McMahon decided to have Roark announce the violation at the all-hands meeting, which angered a lot of Dokoupil's friends and acolytes at the network.
CBS "News" says that Dokoupli's big sin was that he wasn't objective like, say, Norah O'Donnell and Margaret Brennan are when dealing with white Republicans.
On Monday morning, which happened to be the one-year anniversary of the October 7 Hamas attacks on Israel, Roark noted that Dokoupil's indelicate tone failed to uphold "the legacy of neutrality and objectivity that is CBS News." And then all hell broke loose.
It was yet another flare-up of the fight in newsrooms between older liberals who want to maintain the veneer of objectivity while being clear Democrat partisans and the Young Wokies who want to say "YOLO" and just make their racist, misandrist propaganda as blatant as possible to finally make leftwing voices heard.
They've been so quiet until now, doncha know.
And as we've seen at the New York Times and Washington Post -- the older liberals are too cowardly to fight the Young Wokies, so the Young Wokies won again.
[T]his particular micro-drama had the distinction of touching several highly charged political and cultural tinderboxes that had been roiling the CBS News staff for months and became especially acute after the Coates interview. These issues ranged from debates about domestic race relations and media bias to questions about Israel's very existence and, honestly, ongoing existential fears about the future of TV news, itself.
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These tensions poured over into a subsequent all-hands meeting on Tuesday, which the CBS Mornings executive producer Shawna Thomas had organized for the express purpose of trying to foster greater communication across the network. During the call, which Dokoupil joined, one employee said the anchor's treatment of Coates was "racist," "xenophobic," and "Islamophobic."
Another commended Dokoupil for challenging an author whose book read like an antisemitic polemic.
Some argued that Dokoupil's editorializing put foreign correspondents in danger, while others complained that, by commandeering the interview, he had deprived his Black co-hosts, King and Burleson, from asking their own questions.
Again, whites must always be silent and let Marginalized Black Voices Be Heard -- the coerced compliance with the "Progressive Stack."
And note they continue with this crap that you have to pretend Hamas isn't a terrorist organization or else foreign correspondents covering Hamas will be murdered by Hamas terrorists.
But they're not terrorists! We're scared they will murder us but they're not terrorists! Please don't say they're terrorists!
And yes, people expect Dokoupil to now be fired or, you know, "voluntarily choose to separate himself from CBS. Though Shari Redstone's (a major stakeholder in the conglomerate that owns CBS) endorsement has shifted thinking:
Still, in light of Redstone's comments, the discourse in media circles has obviously shifted from questions about Dokoupil's future at the network to speculation about McMahon and Roark's.
Those are the two that decided that CBS "News" could no longer challenge black polemicists. Adrienne Roark is your typical AWFL Karen and I do have to ask, why are you stealing your job from a Strong and Empowered minority who deserves it more, Adrienne?
McMahon is also a woke white woman, of course.
McMahon had the best intentions, several network sources said, but her failure to anticipate this outcome, and the reputational hit to CBS, has raised broader questions about her command of the delicate art of newsroom management. Before joining CBS News in 2021, McMahon had spent more than a decade at ABC News, where she served as a marketing executive...
Byers notes, in closing, that CBS "News" violated its own editorial rules in knitting together two different answers to make Kamala sound more coherent:
On Wednesday, while CBS News was still scrambling to clean up the Dokoupil mess, the network was on to another micro-scandal: 60 Minutes had released two different transcripts of its interview with Kamala Harris, leading the Trump campaign to accuse the network of trying to edit the remarks in her favor. The error, whatever its cause, was an obvious violation of the CBS News standard guide, which states, verbatim, that "answers to different questions may not be combined to give the impression of one continuous response." It continued, in a line that evokes the nostalgia and anxiety and wishful thinking of the era, "You cannot create an answer merely because you wish the subject had said it better."
It's not a micro-scandal, m'dude, but whatever, good report.
Megyn Kelly has an additional update. Gayle King, the Strong and Empowered Black Woman that Dokoupil should have deferred to and let monopolize the discussion (even though it's about Israel, and you'd think Dokoupil, who converted to Judaism and who has an ex-wife and children in Israel would be the minority more invested in this story) had, Ta-Nehisi Coates, plenty of probing questions for him that she should have been allowed to ask.
How does he know Gayle King had probing questions for him, if she didn't ask them?
Simple: Gayle King approached him backstage before the interview and told him in advance all of the questions she intended to ask him so he'd have a head's up and could start figuring out his answers ahead-of-time.
You know -- like Real Journalist does!
What does the Race and Culture unit say about giving selected special guest propagandists a head's up about the questions they'll be asked when peddling an antisemitic conspiracy theory book?
By the way, if you're not satisfied with my excellent digest of the background of this situation, Megyn Kelly runs though it all.
Amber Duke calls this another example of what she calls (and wrote a book about) The Snowflakes' Revolt.
One of the most famous statisticians of the 20th Century, George Box, had a saying that I've known since high school (my dad is a world famous statistician himself who has won the Shewhart Medal, though his area is industrial engineering and experimental design). That saying is, "All models are wrong. Some models are useful." I say this: polling, as it currently exists in the American political space, is not useful.
I've been extremely dismissive of polling in general for a while, and there are lingering questions from commenters I interact with about where the source of that dismissiveness comes from. Well, here is my perspective.
Polling has several innate problems that exacerbate when funded by people with agendas and who don't have the amount of money to do it right. Polling is expensive. Response rates on phone calls for polling are minute. Something like 1 in 10 calls (according to a research paper, it's actually just under that at 9%) gets a response that a firm can actually use. So, to get a 1,000 sample, you have to call about 10,000 numbers. That's a lot of time if you're using real people to make the calls (reportedly the more accurate way to do it). It requires a lot of resources, and that gets expensive. Your fly-by-night polling firms, are they investing in their efforts at that level? The news organizations that pay for polling, the same ones seeing contractions at even the highest "talent" levels, are they investing at that level? Most likely not.
And then you get to the question of incentives: What incentive is there for polling firms to "try and get it right?"
"Well," you say, "that's obvious. You're dumb TJM for not figuring this out. If they're not accurate, then no one will believe them in the future."
That's a great idea, but it doesn't actually hold up with reality. Let's take Quinnipac as a case study. In 2016, their final poll of the presidential race was Clinton 50, Trump 44. The race ended 48 to 46. In 2020, their final poll was Biden 50, Trump 39. The final result was 51 to 47. Their pattern over the last two cycles is to be within a reasonable (we'll get to that) distance of the Democrat number and to regularly (sometimes vastly) underestimating Trump's support. They're not very accurate. They're not very good. What is the generalized opinion of the firm? Well, 538 calls them the 17th most accurate pollster and rates them 2.8/3 stars. How? Quinnipac is terrible.
I'm not interested in seeing what esoteric reasons 538 rates Quinnipac so highly, but it's obvious that them regularly getting things wrong isn't actually a concern for its reputation. Getting it wrong doesn't hurt them. So, what incentive is there in being right?
Another aspect that needs to be talked about is the difference between every poll a firm does other than the final poll, and the final poll. Which poll is the firm rated on if there's even a consideration for accuracy? It's the final poll. What do we mostly end up talking about over the course of the year of election season? Not the final poll. If the final poll is the only one that counts (again, assuming it actually counts), then is there even an incentive to have previous polls be accurate? Who can tell if they are or not?
You know we've been fed the line for literally decades that the polls "tighten up" after Labor Day, that the American people don't start paying attention to politics until the final month or two of an election, which is why the polls suddenly and regularly change. Is that even true? How would we know if it's true or not? We can point to election results and say, "this pollster was close and that one was not," for their final poll, but what about the polls in June? Or July? "Well, the electorate completely changed in September," is honestly not a good excuse, and accepting it is silly. The polling industry has gotten the American political commentariat to parrot its excuses for not being close to accurate for decades now, and it'd be nice if it would stop.
So, all that being said, let's assume, just for argument's sake, that polling is at least trying to be generally reflective of the facts on the ground, that the firms are trying to be accurate no matter what their limitations. Should we still accept them?
Nope because once you get into the nitty gritty of their methods, you realize how much is smoke and mirrors.
What is the one thing you need to do statistical analysis? It's not special software. It's not even that much of an education in statistics. It's a good sample. What's a good sample? Size is important, but also randomness. The sample of data needs to be large enough and truly random to apply statistics to with any kind of reliability. How to actually get a random sample has been a problem that the polling industry has actually been very publicly dealing with for a few years now. Long gone are the days when you could rely on the phone book to provide you with some kind of random population to pull a random sample from. What happens when area codes don't matter, certain segments of the population are FAR less likely to actually answer the phone? What about using online tools? Does that exclude large segments of the population as well? Without that randomness, that polling firms openly admit to struggling with, you have to rely on modelling of the data before you even begin the statistical analysis.
What do I mean by modeling? I mean that you have to take your raw data set, realize that it probably doesn't reflect reality because it's not actually random, the breakouts of the data don't reflect the population in any form, and something has to be done. So, you say, "Well, we got 50% Democrats, 35% Republicans, and 15% Independents, but we know that's not right. So, we have to reweight this to 35% Democrat, 35% Republican, and 30% Independent." Except...what mix do you actually choose? I chose that mix at random because it "seemed" reasonable. Is it accurate? Where do we go for accurate information about what something like partisan (could be racial, could be income, could be education) makeup of the electorate will be? There are sources you can pull like registration numbers or even a larger survey like Gallup's, but then you also have to assume what percentage of these groups will vote and how much that'll be of the electorate.
We haven't even gotten to the statistics, and we're already compiling assumptions on top of each other. What's the point of data gathering at this point if you're just going to change everything around?
This brings me to the margin for error. I seriously, seriously doubt that the posted margins for error are close to accurate. 3.5% on data that you've had to massage to get to a place where you can even begin to analyze it? Please. But, let's give in and say that everything is fine with the process and the margin of error is accurate. Do we know what that means?
The margin for error is usually interpreted (at least through implication) that it's the overall margin for error of everything. It's not. It's the margin for error of every data point individually. So, the poll showing 48-48 with a MoE of 3.5%? The actual range of possible results given the data is from 44.5-51.5 to 51.5-44.5 within one standard deviation. The idea is that the most likely scenario is somewhere between those results...somewhere. That's extremely far from precise. It also expands the idea of what's "outside the margin of error". When you see a poll saying 45-49 with a 3.5% margin of error, the natural implication in our innumerate society is to say that it's outside the margin of error. It's not. It's comfortably inside it. And some of these polls have margins for error admitted to be at least 5%. Think of that, it's at least somewhat likely that there's a 10% swing in the placement of the two main data points that the firm is ADMITTING to.
"Well, they all agree around the same point, and they're kind of right some of the times."
When you don't know what you're doing, when you don't know the actual result, but you have an inclination that it's generally a 50-50 race, how hard is it to massage the data during modeling to get to results like 48-49 consistently? Is there an incentive to keep to that kind of result if everyone else is doing it? If everyone is saying 48-48 but then a firm comes out with 45-55, are they considered probably right or wrong? Usually wrong because, well, no one else sees that. This is called herding, and looking over the history of polling, it seems obvious that it's an extremely common practice, telling me that, really, almost no one doing public polling is independent or even doing it that well.
"But the aggregates!"
Ask a statistician what happens to the margin of error when you average two averages. It gets bigger, not smaller. If aggregates are right, it's because of herding, not because averaging statistics is a good idea. And, again, assuming a major party's candidate gets at least 45% of the vote is not a hard assumption. Assuming that they'll get no more than 55% is the same thing. That gives you a 10 point window to say that both candidates are in there somewhere, leaning more towards one or the other. And Quinnipac failed even that in 2020.
So, polling is imprecise, done badly, and full of assumptions while firms have their own incentives for doing whatever they do (trying to be accurate or selling a narrative), and even accuracy isn't even rewarded by major players in the game. It's also not that hard to get within a couple of points because it's not like we live in a world where a political candidate at the national level is going to get 25% of the vote. Is polling to be dismissed entirely?
I think so. I'm a pretty firm First Amendment guy, but if there came a law to outlaw all polling, I'd be hard pressed to come up with an argument not relying on free speech against it.
Is there something else we can do?
Well, ultimately, even reactions to polling are about gut feelings. "This poll looks right," and "This poll looks wrong." We're automatically dismissive of things that don't mesh with our preconceived notions and accepting of things that do. That creates a set of assumptions about results right there. But what other actual data is out there?
Well, I started all of this because I found the below thread:
🧵1/ PA Vote Analysis: This is a follow up to my previous one from early today, just due to some more information now that pollsters are asking voters they poll their voting preference: Mail Early Voting vs Election Day voting.
It's a thread from a guy looking at Pennsylvania early voting data, making a series of assumptions and extrapolating from that. I think the assumptions are reasonable considering past behavior, but they're still just assumptions. They could be wrong, but it feels right to me (my own assumption). It also feels more grounded in the reality of how things are actually going in PA than pollsters who make assumptions about turnout based on...whatever they want.
Is Trump going to win? It depends on a whole lot more than voting. Are the polls going to be wrong again? Hell, the most accurate individual pollsters of 2020 were wrong by a few points. Pretty much every pollster is "wrong" every single election. It's not a question of who's the most right but of who's the least wrong. Are there signs out there other than polling that we could use as a potential sign of how things will go? For sure.
It's just that polling generally sucks, and I hate it.
THE MORNING RANT: After Moving All-Star Game from Charlotte in Solidarity with LGBTQ, NBA Opens 2024 Season in Abu Dhabi, where Homosexuality is a Crime
—Buck Throckmorton
The new NBA season kicked off with an exhibition game last week in the United Arab Emirates.
Like many sports leagues, the NBA seeks to increase its revenue by expanding its global following. For the UAE, being awarded the NBA season opener affirms the country’s stature and importance.
Of note, homosexuality is a crime in the United Arab Emirates, with allowable punishment including the death penalty. Transgender cross-dressing is also a crime.
Also of note, the NBA has established the precedent that it either condones or condemns a location’s criminal code regarding sexual behaviors by how the league awards – or revokes - featured exhibition games. By awarding the season-opening exhibition game to Abu Dhabi, the NBA has endorsed the UAE’s brutal criminalization of LGBTQ behavior.
The NBA’s apparent endorsement of criminalizing homosexuality in the Arab world would seem puzzling, because just a few years ago, the NBA revoked the NBA All-Star game from the city of Charlotte after the North Carolina legislature passed legislation banning biological men from entering women’s restrooms and locker rooms.
While it may be entirely consistent for the NBA to oppose homosexuality while still endorsing the right of men to terrorize women in restrooms and changing facilities, the reason given by NBA Commissioner Adam Silver for yanking the All-Star Game from Charlotte was that it discriminated against LGBTQ people.
In an unprecedented and monumental decision, the NBA will move the 2017 All-Star Game from Charlotte, N.C. to another state because of North Carolina’s controversial anti-LGBT law called House Bill 2.
“While we recognize that the NBA cannot choose the law in every city, state, and country in which we do business, we do not believe we can successfully host our All-Star festivities in Charlotte in the climate created by HB2,” the league said in a statement.
This section of HB2 simply and justly states that persons must use the bathroom and locker room that identifies with the gender on their birth certificates. It also states that municipalities requiring different sexes to share public accommodations is inconsistent with North Carolina’s law and constitution.
How hateful! This law prohibited a man in North Carolina from strolling into a women’s restroom and conscripting unsuspecting women into his fetish. Meanwhile in the UAE, this is from the Human Dignity Trust’s website:
Same-sex sexual activity is prohibited under the Criminal Codes of the Emirates of Abu Dhabi, which criminalises ‘unnatural sex with another person’, and Dubai, which criminalises acts of ‘sodomy’. The Federal Penal Code criminalises ‘voluntary debasement’, but it is not clear what acts this covers. These provisions carry a maximum penalty of fourteen years’ imprisonment. Both men and women are criminalised under the law. Same-sex sexual activity may also be penalised under Sharia law, under which the death penalty is possible, though there is no evidence that this has been used against LGBT people.
In addition to potentially being captured by laws that criminalise same-sex activity, trans people may also face prosecution under the Federal Penal Code 1987, which criminalises a ‘male disguising as a female’ with a maximum penalty of one year imprisonment and a fine.
May I also mention that the NBA, which advocates for allowing men into women’s restrooms, has had a problem with its players getting arrested for sex crimes?
Former NBA guard Ben McLemore was arrested by U.S. Marshals on Tuesday and jailed in Oregon, where he faces sex crime charges stemming from allegations that he sexually assaulted a woman in 2021 when he was playing for the Portland Trail Blazers.
NBA Commissioner Adam Silver advocates for allowing sexual predators like NBA player Ben McLemore into women’s restrooms so long as they are willing to state they are LGBTQ.
There was a time when Luis David Montero-Carrasco had a promising career in the NBA. He played for the Miami Heat, the Detroit Pistons and the Portland Trail Blazers. It is likely that he won't be playing professionally anytime soon. A meeting at the Best Western Hotel at 131 Fairway Dr., in Miami Springs, with a 13-year-old girl is now part of the 25-year-old basketball player's criminal record.
NBA Commissioner Adam Silver advocates for allowing sexual predators like NBA player Luis David Montero-Carrasco into women’s restrooms so long as they are willing to state they are LGBTQ.
The good news is that normal Americans are repulsed by what Adam Silver and the NBA are promoting. As Outkick has documented, NBA ratings have plummeted since the NBA went woke, losing 45% of its audience since 2012.
Good Morning Kids. Tonight is the start of the most solemn Jewish holiday of Yom Kippur, the day of atonement. To all of you I wish an easy fast, and a meaningful day. G'mar Chatima tovah and, observing the holiday or not, may you all be inscribed in the Book of Life for the coming year.
So there are a few things that jump right out at me that do not exactly fill me with strength and confidence about what we can expect come the day after Election Day if not the days leading up to it. It is eminently clear that we have a junta in power and a Deep State bureaucracy that will do anything to hold on to and increase its grip on absolute power. The bungled response to two back to back hurricanes, on top of the East Palestine toxic train derailment shows how much the government cares for people whom it views as political enemies. The sheer incompetence of the Maui wildfire response might be to clear land and then give it away to friends of the party like Oprah for pennies on the dollar as a reward for stellar service to the cause.
The Afghan national who was arrested Monday for allegedly plotting an Election Day terrorist attack worked as a security guard for the CIA in Afghanistan, NBC News reported citing sources familiar with the matter.
Twenty-seven-year-old Nasir Ahmad Tawhedi was allegedly planning a “violent attack in the United States in the name of and on behalf of ISIS, which was planned for Election Day,” according to the criminal complaint filed against him. While the CIA has not publicly commented on the revelation, “sources familiar with [Tawhedi’s] work in Afghanistan say he would have had minimal interaction with Americans and he was not a CIA informant or a member of the U.S.-trained and armed paramilitary force known as ‘Zero Units,'” according to NBC News. . . Tawhedi entered the United States on Sept. 9, 2021 on “a special immigrant visa and is currently on parole status pending adjudication of his immigration proceedings,” the complaint states. Tawhedi was residing in Oklahoma. NBC News reports that “two U.S. officials familiar with the matter [say] the charging document is incorrect, and that Tawhedi entered the U.S. on what’s known as humanitarian parole. Officials say humanitarian parole generally entails far less screening than a Special Immigrant Visa.”
Gee, who was occupying the White House back then. And how was it that these thousands of Afghanis suddenly were flooding into the country? Oh yeah, the Biden Junta decided it was a great idea to just bug out of the country and declare the war over while leaving behind billions of dollars worth of our weapons in the hands of Islamic barbarians to use to wage Jihad all over the world.
Vice President Kamala Harris is promising to provide tens of thousands of Afghan nationals brought to the United States often without in-person screenings, with green cards. The move would come even as an accused Islamic State (ISIS) terrorist was able to get resettled in Oklahoma from Afghanistan as part of Harris and President Joe Biden’s massive Afghan resettlement operation.
In September 2021, the Biden-Harris junta began resettling nearly 100,000 Afghan nationals across American communities. Among those resettled was 27-year-old Nasir Ahmad Tawhedi, who was arrested in Oklahoma this month after allegedly plotting an ISIS terrorist attack on American citizens on Election Day.
This is the same CIA that is part an parcel of the Deep State bureaucracy that does not want Donald Trump back in office under any circumstances.
Now, however, it has come to light that he worked for the CIA, which casts doubt upon every other aspect of this story. . . What’s the big deal? He was just a security guard, right? That hardly means that he was the Afghan version of Agent 007. Sure, but when the CIA is involved, it’s impossible to dismiss the suspicion that there is more going on here than meets the eye. The agency, like all other intelligence agencies around the world, is not exactly open and honest about who exactly works for it and what they actually do. . . Sometimes it seems as if we can trust absolutely nothing that our governing authorities and the establishment media tell us. That may (or may not) be a wild exaggeration, but those in positions of public trust have no one but themselves to blame for the widespread and increasing suspicion. They’ve been discovered to be dishonest about so very much (remember all the falsehoods that have been attached to Donald Trump: Russian collusion, “insurrection,” rape, fraud, and so very many others) that it’s hard to assume that they’re being aboveboard and honest about literally anything. . .
. . . There is, after all, no good way to spin this. Tawhedi could be a CIA agent and his Election Day jihad plot is fake, perhaps fabricated in order to make Americans afraid to head to the polls and more accepting of mail-in ballots, which can be so easily used to commit election fraud. Alternatively, Tawhedi is a bona fide jihadi who worked as a security guard for the CIA, indicating that the vaunted intelligence agency is incapable of recognizing jihadis even when they’re standing at their own gates.
Now, put all of the above in context to two failed assassination attempts on Trump to which we still don't really know all of the facts on the identities and backgrounds of the shooters and, given the nature of who we are dealing with likely never will. As well as the desperation to keep Trump and anyone who thinks and feels as he does out of power at any cost.
Moving on to the next and not necessarily unrelated item on the agenda, should the polling, tea leaves and vibes indeed point to a Trump victory as well as control of the House and Senate, well look what we have here: Can you say INSURRECTION?
Top House Democrats won’t say for certain if they will certify the results of the 2024 presidential election if former President Donald Trump beats Vice President Kamala Harris, according to a new report. Some of these members, including those who objected to Trump electors in 2017, signaled to Axios that Trump may cause issues with the vote that would give them pause. Democrats would certify a Trump victory “assuming everything goes the way we expect it to,” said Jim McGovern (D-MA), the ranking member of the Rules Committee “We have to see how it all happens,” McGovern said. “My expectation is that we would.”
. . . Oversight Committee ranking member Jamie Raskin (D-MD), who served on the former January 6 panel, suggested Trump may resort to “manipulating” counts in some states.
These are the same revolting, shrieking criminal coprolites who screamed from the rooftops that the results of the 2000, 2004 and 2016 elections were illegitimate.
If Trump please dear God make it so wins come November, there is no way he will be allowed to take a seat behind the Resolute Desk. And should actual protests occur . . . Now get ready for this story:
More in the long train of abuses and usurpations….
Kathleen Hicks is the Deputy Secretary of Defense, or Lloyd Austin’s right-hand gal, and on September 27, the agency issued a new directive, approved by Hicks, that authorized U.S. military personnel to use “lethal force” when “assisting” local law enforcement in its operations.
Hopefully your local police chief isn’t corrupt, and your sheriff isn’t a George Soros purchase!
Sean Miller at InfoWars reported that the DoD directive, titled “DOD INTELLIGENCE AND INTELLIGENCE-RELATED ACTIVITIES AND DEFENSE INTELLIGENCE COMPONENT ASSISTANCE TO LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCIES AND OTHER CIVIL AUTHORITIES”, granted extensive new powers to the federal government, explained below: New provisions within the Directive expand the circumstances under which the DoD can assist law enforcement, including the use of lethal force, although assassinations are forbidden. GreenMed Info reported that the 2016 version of the directive did not mention ‘lethal force’ but rather centered around intelligence gathering.
So, if Trump wins, the paramilitary forces come out and are assisted by the army to move against him and We the People. If he loses or it's stolen yet again, ditto should anyone be dumb enough to march in protest on D.C. or even stand on a soapbox in a public park, lest they too get roasted alive like a house cat or a duck and eaten by Haitians.
What a country. It sure ain't America.
Have a good weekend, and prayers for all still affected by Helene and Milton.
David Harsanyi: In 1970, safety-net funding accounted for a significant share of income in fewer than 1% of all counties in the country. By 2000, 10% of counties were getting a significant share of their income from federal and state safety-net and social programs. Today? More than half of all US counties draw at least a quarter of their income from government aid. Entitlements are spiraling us into a bipartisan spending suicide pact
Many locals commenting on these local stories weren't convinced that it was an accident. One wondered where the generator being delivered was and another said that the private pilots who were threatened with arrest never pulled any shenanigans like that. This Government Move Against North Carolina Hurricane Relief Workers Was No Accident
ISRAEL vs IRAN & GAZA/HAMAS/Hezbollah . . . AND BIDEN
IDF Spokesman Rear Admiral Daniel Hagari published a video, in English, in which he toured the ruins of a home raided by Israeli soldiers — a home where a vast arsenal of Hezbollah weapons had been stored, he said, as part of “Operation: Conquer the Galilee.” WATCH: IDF Shows Village Where ‘Every House’ Is a Hezbollah Terror Base
Twenty-seven-year-old Nasir Ahmad Tawhedi was allegedly planning a “violent attack in the United States in the name of and on behalf of ISIS, which was planned for Election Day,” according to the criminal complaint filed against him. While the CIA has not publicly commented on the revelation, “sources familiar with [Tawhedi’s] work in Afghanistan say he would have had minimal interaction with Americans and he was not a CIA informant or a member of the U.S.-trained and armed paramilitary force known as ‘Zero Units,'” according to NBC News. Afghan Who Plotted Election Day Massacre Worked For The CIA: Report
There’s no nice way to say this, but Department of Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas is a complete joke. He attempts to do his job correctly only when called out on his failures, and even then, he seems to feel no obligation to answer for his clear shortcomings. There’s a reason the man has been impeached. Mayorkas sat down to answer questions from the press, primarily on the aftermath of both Hurricane Helene and Hurricane Milton. But, there was one reporter who had a very important question concerning the recent arrest of an Afghan national who allegedly plotted to carry out a terror attack on Election Day. Oaf of Office: Mayorkas Dodges Question About Election Day Terror Plot Involving Afghan Nat'l
OFFICIAL DEMOCRAT PARTY/LEFTIST-ENDORSED ANTI-SEMITISM, ANTI-CHRISTIANITY
U.S. Border Patrol agents arrested 35-year-old Nancy Berenice Fernandez Luna last week during a smuggling attempt, court records revealed. Luna was riding in a bus with 39 adult illegal migrants and Jose Torres Ayala, who is also facing human smuggling charges. Dave Hendricks first reported the case for CBS4. ICE Contractor Used Charter Bus to Smuggle Migrants, Says Prosecutor
"When you let 25 million people into the country, you have to house them somewhere," Vance continued. "We have veterans living on the streets. We have illegal aliens living in first-class hotels across our country. When you do that... American citizens can't afford a house in their own country." Vance: Illegal Aliens Crowd U.S. Millennials Out of Housing Market
FIRST AMENDMENT ISSUES, CENSORSHIP, FAKE NEWS, MEDIA, BIG BROTHER TECH
The Arkansas senator wrote a letter to FCC Chairwoman Jessica Rosenworcel with questions regarding the FCC’s decision to bypass a national security review and expedite Soros’s purchase, a decision that could allow the prominent left-wing billionaire remarkable influence over the airwaves in the days leading to the election. Exclusive – Tom Cotton Presses FCC for Expediting George Soros’ Pre-Election Purchase of 200 Radio Stations
Vice President Kamala Harris’s husband allegedly engaged in abusive, misogynistic behavior toward women during his tenure at a Los Angeles law firm between 2006 and 2017, according to the Daily Mail. In an even more explosive Daily Mail story, the outlet reported that Emhoff assaulted an ex-girlfriend, an allegation that he has since denied. Something to note, Emhoff allegedly had an affair with a nanny and knocked her up. New York Times Digs Up Dirt On Mark Robinson’s Wife, But Ignores Explosive Doug Emhoff Story
The report comes as the economy remains a critical campaign issue just weeks until the presidential election. A Gallup poll this week found that voters rank the economy as their most important issue, with former president Donald Trump holding a 9-point lead over Vice President Kamala Harris on handling the economy. Inflation Rate Jumps Higher Than Expected in 'Last Reading Before the Election'
[so-called quote-unquote] President Joe Biden’s junta was set to ban menthol cigarettes just before April 2024, until concerns arose that such a move could have negative political implications. The administration has since paused progress on the ban, though the Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA) top tobacco official has indicated that they are still planning to implement the rule. While Harris has not clarified where she stands on the issue, tobacco farmers in North Carolina, who the Daily Caller spoke to, are worried about what could happen to their farms if the vice president goes through with the ban. ‘A Devastating Impact’: Harris’ Silence On Key Biden Policy Leaves American Farmers In The Lurch
The idea behind this tax cut is simple but impactful. By making interest payments on car loans deductible, Trump aims to give a financial break to Americans while encouraging more car sales and stimulating the auto industry. Since the auto sector is such a vital part of the economy, particularly in places like Michigan, this policy could be a game-changer for both consumers and manufacturers. Trump Announces New Tax Proposal, and It's Pretty Awesome
RED-GREENS, CLIMATE CHANGE HOAX, DEMOCRAT-LEFT WAR ON FOSSIL FUELS, JUNK SCIENCE, LYSENKOISM
The number of English Language Learners (ELL) in school districts in Pennsylvania has surged nearly 40% since 2021, forcing public schools to shell out more cash to try and meet the needs of these students, according to documents obtained via records requests and open-source information reviewed by the Daily Caller News Foundation. The surge for many schools began in the 2021-2022 academic school year, coinciding with the onset of the Biden-Harris administration and the subsequent border crisis. EXCLUSIVE: Migrants Are Overwhelming School Districts In Key Swing State, Saddling Taxpayers With Hefty Price Tag
With less than 30 days until the 2024 presidential election, one major polling average suggests former President Donald J. Trump is on pace for an Electoral College landslide victory over Vice President Kamala Harris. According to the polling aggregates compiled by RealClearPolitics (RCP), Trump holds the edge in five of the seven critical battleground states.The data, comprised of an average of publically available presidential race polling in each state, shows Trump leading Harris in Georgia by 1.5 percent, Arizona by 1.4 percent, North Carolina by 0.6 percent, Michigan by 0.5 percent, and Pennsylvania by 0.2 percent. Harris, meanwhile, leads Trump in Nevada and Wisconsin by 1.1 percent and 0.6 percent, respectively. The RCP Polling Average Gives Trump a Landslide Win.
The presidential race is tight, with neither Trump nor Harris leading by more than 1% in any of the top seven battleground states, and Trump currently ahead in five, according to the RealClearPolling averages. Axelrod, on “The Bulwark Podcast with Tim Miller,” said the neck and neck race should trouble Democrats, but noted that he believes pollsters are capturing Trump’s support more accurately than in past elections. ‘The Vibe Right Now Isn’t Great’: David Axelrod Says Dems ‘Right To Be Concerned’ About Harris Campaign
On Wednesday, political analyst Mark Halperin dropped some incredibly bad news for the Democrats. According to Halperin, new private polling shows that Kamala Harris is in an extremely dangerous position in critical battleground states. Democrats Will Have a Stroke if This Polling Data Is True
it seems as if Democrats control is slipping away and that Republicans are poised to get the majority New York Times Sienna Poll of the critical race in Montana right now shows the incumbent Democrat there that it’s the Senator Jon Tester. He’s down eight points to his Republican challenger, Tim Sheehy. Democrats right now have a slim 51 seat majority in the Senate. They are all but guaranteed, right now to lose their Democrat seat in West Virginia.” CNN’s Enten: ‘The Senate Is Most Likely Going Republican’
Ruiz said that "everything was kind of cheaper" when Donald Trump was president and the country also wasn’t at war, USA Today reported. "To be honest, it wasn’t really that bad," Ruiz said. He added that he doesn't believe Harris’s plans will help the economy. 'Gone to S—t': Poor Economy Drives Latino Men Away from Harris in Swing State Nevada
Three years ago, wearing a MAGA hat—even on the newly red-pilled Long Island—was an invitation to turn me into an expectoration target. Blue-haired, razor-dodging harpies would screech "RACIST" as I was talking on the phone with a comedy booker trying to help a black comedian friend get a booking. Today, people give me a thumbs up over the hat (even at the hippie-rific Trader Joe's store) and honk manically as they drive past my car flying a "Trump Nation" flag. More Than a Political Stripe, MAGA Is a Now Movement
The secretary of state insists the world is better off today than in January 2021, despite all evidence to the contrary. Blinken Puts Lipstick on the Pig
Leonard and the EPA are clearly implying that they must be allowed to block any further space activities if those activities will require disposal in the ocean. And if that power is granted it will essentially block American space exploration for good. EPA to NASA: We intend to regulate how you dispose ISS, and that’s only the start
FEMINAZISM, TRANSGENDER PSYCHOSIS, HOMOSEXUALIZATION, WAR ON MASCULINITY/NORMALCY
High school students across New York are organizing a statewide walkout on October 24 to protest the inclusion of transgender athletes in girls’ sports. The Coalition to Protect Kids is spearheading the ‘Walk Off for Fairness Day’ event. The Catholic Church and conservative groups have also announced their support for it.The demonstration comes amid debate over Proposition 1 on the November ballot. This measure, known as the Equal Rights Amendment, would codify abortion into the New York State Constitution but also includes language that could allow male-born athletes identifying as females to participate in girls’ and women’s sports, disadvantaging female athletes. Students Plan Walkout Over Trans Athletes in Girls’ Sports.
A judge in Delaware has denied Deadspin’s request to dismiss a defamation lawsuit over an article published by former Deadspin writer Carron J. Phillips, accusing a young NFL fan of wearing blackface at a Kansas City Chiefs game.The article featured an image of Holden Armenta, age nine, who was wearing a Native American headdress and painted half his face black and the other half red. Deadspin, which also criticized the headdress, initially displayed only the black-painted side of Holden’s face in its coverage. Lefty Sports Blog Deadspin Smeared a Child for ‘Blackface’ – A Judge Said the Defamation Suit Will Continue.
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If you need high clock speeds rather than just the maximum possible number of cores, the 9575F offers 64 cores running at 5GHz. The 192 core 9965 "only" runs at 3.7GHz.
In theory you could put one of each in the same server. (I think?) Not sure how much the Linux kernel would appreciate that though.
The 285K will be slightly slower than the existing 14900K for gaming, but use less power. Unfortunately it is expected to be up to 20% slower than AMD's best gaming chips like the 7800X3D, which uses much less power.
Which is very interesting because the claimed power consumption hasn't changed with respect to 13th and 14th generation parts, neither the base TDP nor the maximum turbo power.
Which means that either Intel was lying before, or is lying now, or both.
That would salvage the lackluster launch of the 9000 series. It's not at all a bad CPU, but it shines at heavy server-oriented workloads rather than typical productivity apps or gaming.
With that clock boost the 9800X3D should easily be the fastest CPU available for games.
They weigh 900 pounds and there are 24,000 of them scattered across the country, typically wired directly into power so you can't even unplug them. Walgreens says that just sitting there the boxen are costing the company $184,000 a month.
And they're typically anchored in concrete to prevent theft, so you can't just yank them out.
This is the personal site of DHH, the creator of Ruby on Rails. I might have some philosophical differences with the design of Rails, but to my knowledge DHH never blackmailed or libeled anyone.
The ISP was found liable because it did not act on infringement notices, but the calculation of the damages at $47 million was found to be incorrect and excessive. Where a CD was copied, the jury calculated the full damages on each song individually, which was deemed incorrect.
The damage calculation heads back to the lower court while the fundamental matter of law likely goes to the Supreme Court, as the entire industry has an interest in how this turns out.
I could maybe get behind the 1916 one. So, tonight's game is this: If you could, what amendments would you add to the constitution? Here's a few I've thought of.
A) Congress may not exempt itself or any federal agency or department from any laws which apply to The People.
B) Congress Shall not pass any bills containing more words than the Constitution as in force at the time of the law's passage, inclusive of any active amendments.
C) No regulation, statute, law or guideline made by any federal agency shall be valid and binding on The People or The States unless it is passed by the Congress of the United States and signed into law by the President.
That's a good start, what have you got?
Doom Thread
What I see in America today is a country on the cusp of a major collapse in our standard of living. You should always ignore the government’s manipulated data and look at real world indicators, like: the price of Ford F-150 and the price of gold. Look at standards that are…
The problem with solving problems is that once they are solved, no one needs the solver anymore. The better kinds of problems are recurring problems that ensure customer retention, employing plumbers, locksmiths and police officers, but the best kind are the completely unsolvable problems.
And those are the only kinds of problems that the Left wants to solve.
Given enough human ingenuity and technological development, most problems can concievably be addressed and that is why the Left has to contrive to make them unsolvable by either causing the problem (homelessness), defining it in such a way that it is inherently unsolvable (equity), defining the inappropriate problem while obscuring the actual problem (gun violence) or inventing fake problems (global warming) that can never be solved because they don’t exist in the first place.
Why create unsolvable problems? They’re a virtually infinite source of money and power.
The Left came into being by defining inequality as its signature problem. Since inequality is a factor of human nature and every attempt to solve it involves creating more inequality, it was the perfect unsolvable problem. But the primal leftist error was defining inequality in social and economic terms. Growing technology and social mobility made both social and economic inequality managable even as leftits were building up a full head of steam, toppling governments and setting off revolutions.
It's actually fun to see the expression on someone's face if you can get them to realize that government has no reason to solve problem X, because if it did, then all of the government agencies and unionized employees dedicated to X wouldn't be needed anymore.
The devastation wrought across the American Southeast by Category 4 Hurricane Helene last week has naturally drawn comparisons to the 2005 Hurricane Katrina response. As a veteran of military logistics, I can confirm that President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris’ response to this round of mass suffering has been orders of magnitude worse than federal actions taken after Katrina.
In August of 2005, I was a U.S. Army colonel serving on the Army staff in the Pentagon. Before Hurricane Katrina was even nearing landfall, I was detailed as a shift officer in the National Military Command Center (NMCC) for hurricane support operations. As a career logistics officer, this was the culmination of a noncombat mission I had been associated with since I was first commissioned: disaster relief and humanitarian support operations.
He then goes on to compare the response in both cases, and gives a list of seven possible reasons. Beyond the general incompetence that's built into the equation when dealing with Democrats, I lean towards number seven.
Say hello to Joseph Nathan Ryan, “a Springfield, Va., resident who lived with his grandmother and a small dog,” according to the Washington Post, until one day in February 2023, when he was shot to death as “part of an elaborate ruse that lured a man interested in sexual fetishes” to the home of a married couple “in a well-to-do suburb of the nation’s capital.”
My brother Kirby told me about this story, and after doing some research, I remarked to him what I’ve often said before: “There’s a reason why some things are called ‘fantasies,’ because if you try to do them in real life, bad things happen.” Certainly, Joseph Ryan would agree, were he still alive to discuss the subject. What brought Ryan to the home in Herndon on the day of his death was a website called “FetLife,” catering to the devotees of bizarre sexual fetishes, where Ryan’s account handle was “tacosupreme7000.” He had been communicating with an account with the handle “Annastasia9.”
Gee, being perverted is dangerous to your health. Who wouldda thunk it?
Forty U.S. Army soldiers who were in Israel as the advance team for what they thought was a routine training exercise last October 7 suddenly found themselves in the middle of a war, unarmed, and being forced to beg reluctant Pentagon officials to send an Air Force plane to extract them.
Approximately a quarter of the soldiers were just miles from Gaza in off-base housing near the IDF’s Tze’elim base when the attack began. A group of local Israelis – IDF reservists, police officers, and ordinary citizens – got them to the base, which Hamas terrorists were quickly heading toward. With his men in mortal danger, the U.S. team leader requested permission to open the arms locker so they could retrieve their firearms but was denied at the US Central Command level and “denied and/or ignored” at a level above that, according to a military intelligence analyst with knowledge of the mission and exfiltration.
But in America, Jews and their Jewish organizations had leaned so far into their leftist identity that this was difficult to accomplish, especially as October 7th brought the realization to many of them that their leftist friends were very much not on their side.
For those of us on the right, we had to be patient and watch them figure out for themselves the serious mistakes they had made over the course of decades. Some are not quite there yet and it’s been hard to watch.
Some Jews, you can not reach. Every Jewish society in history had people who lined up to help the enemy and ours is no different. Jewish Voices for Peace, and nonsense groups like that, are Jews who use their Judaism only to harm other Jews with it. Their stupid tallit, meant to be worn only in prayer, suddenly a shmata they wear to choke other Jews. They cry out for peace only when it’s time for Jews to fight back and never when Jews are attacked. They are best shunned and forgotten.
Then there are Jews who do get the moment, understand what we are up against, but have spent so long in their “we’re Democrats-first” world that they don’t know how to adjust to our current time.
There are people in this world that I will never understand if I live to be a million. “Gays for Gaza” groups, for example. That's like “Chickens for KFC”. Blows my mind.
In the initial sales pitch to Hezbollah two years ago, the new line of Apollo pagers seemed precisely suited to the needs of a militia group with a sprawling network of fighters and a hard-earned reputation for paranoia.
The AR924 pager was slightly bulky but rugged, built to survive battlefield conditions. It boasted a waterproof Taiwanese design and an oversized battery that could operate for months without charging. Best of all, there was no risk that the pagers could ever be tracked by Israel’s intelligence services. Hezbollah’s leaders were so impressed they bought 5,000 of them and began handing them out to mid-level fighters and support personnel in February.
None of the users suspected they were wearing an ingeniously crafted Israeli bomb. And even after thousands of the devices exploded in Lebanon and Syria, few appreciated the pagers’ most sinister feature: a two-step de-encryption procedure that ensured most users would be holding the pager with both hands when it detonated.
Israel's intelligence services have to be the best the world has ever seen.
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A poor and beautiful dog was left tied to a fence in the driving rain as people fled their homes in Florida. That cute little pup has been saved.
People are saying whoever left the dog are monsters. I watch Rocky Kanaka on YouTube, and he says we shouldn't assume the worst of dog-abandoners. If you lose your home, your dog becomes, well, difficult to care for. It could be that the people who abandoned this dog had no car but hitched a ride with neighbors, and the dog got sick or started peeing or something and the neighbors told them "either you put the dog out of the car, or you can get out." I know that doesn't make it much better.
The good news is that this good boy is now dry and safe.
Ron DeSantis' Emergency Response Efforts are Proceeding Crisply While FEMA is Short-Staffed Due to Providing "Services" For Illegal Aliens at Harris and Biden's Dissolved Border
We're not allowed to say that, though: Kamala, America's Drunken, Embarassing Side-Piece, wants to play president and will go on CNN to say that reporting the actual strength of the storm is "misinformation" because we're all required to lie to amp up the fear and pretend that Kamala Harris is "really showing executive competency."
It wasn't as bad as Experts predicted. Does that mean Global Warming is a lie? They said the power of the storm proved global warming; does the relative weakness of the storm prove global warming is fake?
Just wondering.
Hurricane Milton made landfall near Siesta Key, Florida late Wednesday evening as a Category 3 storm with winds of 120 mph.
Around 3.2 million people in Florida are without power Thursday afternoon as the storm has devastated Florida's coast.
Milton is currently a Category 1 storm and has moved off the coast, bringing destructive winds, flooding rains and storm surge in its wake.
More than 10 inches of rain has fallen so far in some parts of Florida and an additional 8 to 12 inches of rain is possible in many areas.
St. Lucie County Sheriff Keith Pearson also confirmed to Fox Weather that there have been 17 tornadoes along with several fatalities in his county, with "a rescue mission ongoing, and hundreds of homes destroyed."
At least 10 fatalities have been confirmed, with more expected
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis gave an update on Hurricane Milton Thursday afternoon after it made landfall the night before as a Category 3 Storm.
By Thursday afternoon, the governor said, at least 340 individuals and 49 pets had been rescued. Florida National Guard, Florida law enforcement, and urban search and rescue teams were continuing to work through the day. Hundreds of rescuers were engaged in more than 125 missions in 26 counties.
"The northern side of the storm had a lot of precipitation. They were just getting water dumped on them. So, whereas [Hurricane] Helene created a lot of storm surge in that part of the state, this one didn't do that here, but it create inland flooding," DeSantis said.
Around 4 million were left without power. As of the 3 p.m. update, around 880,000 had been restored, with 3.2 million accounts still without power.
He pre-deployed 50,000 linesmen so power lines are going back up.
DeSantis said that while Hurricane Milton did inflict damage, "I think in some areas that in terms of what was being predicted, some of the worst case scenarios did not come to pass, certainly in terms of some of the storm surge people were predicting."
He has a warning for Kamala voters -- I mean, "looters."
Gov. DeSantis warned people against taking advantage of a dire situation.
"I'm warning you, don't do that. If you loot, you will be held accountable. If you're doing things that violate the law, if you're gonna try to take advantage of vulnerable people, we're going to throw the book at you," DeSantis said.
He then went on to own the relentless propgandists of the press, who kept demanding he tell them that global warming is real and will kill us all.
At a press conference on Thursday, DeSantis was asked whether "global warming" impacted the hurricane's intensity after Milton spawned several tornadoes that wreaked havoc in the Sunshine State.
DeSantis rejected the premise that Milton was worse than previous hurricanes, stating, "I think you can go back and find tornadoes for all of human history."
Compared to previous storms, Milton had a barometric pressure of about 950 millibars when it made landfall, the governor said. "I think if you go back to 1851, there's probably been about 27 hurricanes that have had lower barometric pressure -- so the lower the barometric pressure, the stronger it is."
The governor noted that 17 hurricanes stronger than Milton made landfall in Florida prior to 1960 and that the strongest hurricane on record since the 1850s was the Labor Day hurricane, which occurred in 1935 and had a barometric pressure of 892 millibars. The most deadly hurricane in Florida history happened in 1928, he added.
"I just think people should put this in perspective there. They tried to take different things that happened with tropical weather and act like it's something -- there's nothing new under the sun," DeSantis said.
"I think what's changed is we've got 23 million people. A storm is likely to hit more people and property than it would have 100 years ago. And so the potential for that damage has grown, but what's also changed is our ability to do the prevention, to pre-stage the assets."
On the eve of Hurricane Milton's landfall on a disaster-weary Florida, FEMA, the nation's disaster relief agency reported a stark shortage of frontline workers available to be deployed: just 8% of the Federal Emergency Management Agency's vaunted Incident Management personnel were still available for deployment.
The stunning declaration in Wednesday's Daily Operations Briefing exposed the longtime impact of FEMA's expanding work on unrelated missions like COVID funerals and illegal immigrant services, a crisis created by a worker shortage, a workforce morale issue and the reality of burnout from a increasingly frenetic natural disaster pace.
Just seven months earlier, the Government Accountability Office, the auditing arm of Congress, warned that FEMA was in an increasingly weak position to handle multiple major crises at once.
"Increasingly complex and severe natural disasters coupled with the COVID-19 pandemic and responsibilities at the southern border have created an unprecedented demand for FEMA's disaster workforce," the GAO concluded.
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Wednesday's situation report showed FEMA had most of its IM (incident management) resources deployed in the region struck by Hurricane Helene two weeks ago or pre-positioned in Florida for Milton. But the 8% in reserves -- only 90 workers -- would be be hard pressed if another disaster like an earthquake or wildfire broke out in the ensuing days.
"I think we plan for multiple events. We've done this before we are prepared for this," she added.
Several factors contribute to the increasing strain on the workforce of the nation's premier disaster relief agency related to the agency's expanding roles and responsibilities outside of traditional disaster relief. The GAO report specifically highlighted the impacts of workforce burnout from increased responsibility for the COVID-19 pandemic response and deployments to the U.S. southern border.
FEMA did not respond to additional questions from Just the News about the number of FEMA employees or contractors deployed to the southern border or handling other immigration-related programs.
Recently, Congress has continued to fund FEMA programs for feeding and sheltering illegal immigrants released into the country awaiting court dates at a time when the agency is running short of disaster relief funds. The agency has come under additional scrutiny by Republicans for hiccups in its response to severe flooding in the southeast last month, Just the News reported this week.
White House spokeswoman Karine-Jean Pierre took the lead in trying to suggest it was a "conspiracy theory" to suggest that FEMA was using its resources to aid illegal aliens. Republicans came back with receipts, showing that FEMA had routed $640.9 million in grants to nonprofits aiding immigrants, many of whom have crossed into the U.S. illegally.
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Last week, a group of Republican Senators who did not support the budget deal wrote to the Department of Homeland Security, which oversees FEMA, expressing concern that its continued "entanglement" with immigration threatens readiness.
"FEMA's continued entanglement in DHS's efforts to respond to the border crisis could impact its readiness and emergency response mission," GOP Senators James Lankford, Josh Hawley, Rand Paul, and Ron Jonson wrote to Biden last week. "Rather than ensuring FEMA is ready to respond to hurricanes and other emergencies, FEMA has been pulled into a border crisis mission."
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Arab racist Mehdi Hassan is arguing with black racist Brianha Joy-Grey about who hates white people and Jews more and who is higher on the progressive Attention Stack.
This is based on inflation dropping a tenth of a percent from August -- and being a tenth of a point higher than expectations.
Note that the cumulative effect of years of inflation now has prices 20%+ higher than they were before Harris-Biden "fixed" the Trump economy.
But the pace of inflation slightly fell, so prices aren't going up as quickly now, but are still going up from their already high level, and we're in a dream economy and you racists just won't admit it.
A couple of days ago, Trump announced a NYC rally to be held in Madison Square Garden.
A New York State Senator is using his political might to block Trump from speaking (in a safe environment) in New York City. I guess he wants him outdoors, with lots and lots of clear lines of sight for assassins:
Senator Brad Hoylman-Sigal
@bradhoylman
Let's be clear. Allowing Trump to hold an event at MSG is equivalent to the infamous Nazis rally at Madison Square Garden on February 20, 1939
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This is a disastrous decision by Madison Square Garden that will endanger the public safety of New Yorkers and has the potential to incite widespread violence.
For the good of NYC and its residents, I demand @TheGarden keep our city safe by cancelling the Trump rally
You're worried about violence? You're trying to create a good shooting lane for an assassin.
Governor Tim Walz of Minnesota, the serial fabulist running for vice president on the Democratic ticket, has a bigoted code name for his running mate Kamala Harris. During a friendly interview with Democratic fundraiser and former comedian Jimmy Kimmel on Monday, the VP nominee confessed that Harris was listed as "My Dry Cleaner" in his phone contacts. "They told me to come up with something, and that was all I could think of," Walz chuckled.
In fact, there is nothing funny about misogyny and racism. Walz's "dry cleaner" code name is problematic for several reasons. Harris is running to be the first female president of the United States, but Walz's word choice suggests that women are better suited for domestic tasks such as doing laundry or dropping off their husband's work clothes at the dry cleaner. Hey, Tim, the 1950s called; they want their small-minded gender stereotypes back, bigot.
Harris would also be the first Asian-American president in history. Viewed in this context, it is reasonable to conclude that Walz is vehemently biased toward non-white ethnic groups. The Asian dry cleaner is a familiar trope that only a passionate racist would joke about on national television. This might explain Walz's bizarre affinity for communist China. A devoted white supremacist with low self-esteem would presumably enjoy surrounding himself with members of an inferior race. A racist misogynist would presumably view Asian women as subservient sex objects.
Diminishing Returns: Hillary Clinton's Second Angsty Screed About 2016 Loss Sells Way Fewer Copies Than the First
Maybe now she'll finally go away (or at least accept the fact that no one cares)
Simon & Schuster
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Hillary has just written another memoir about how unfair it was that she lost to Donald Trump and why you still owe her an apology for being right about everything. Released last month, Something Lost, Something Gained: Lessons on Life, Love, and Liberty is a tedious slog through familiar grievances and blatant lies about her "thicker skin" and "stiffer spine." She lauds herself as "the first woman to win a presidential primary, the nomination of a major party, and the national popular vote." She remembers the good times when she "flew on Air Force One, dined with kings and queens, and was constantly surrounded by armed guards." She refuses to go away or accept the fact that no one cares.
You probably won't be surprised to learn that sales of her second angsty screed about losing the 2016 election are much lower this time around. Something Lost, Something Gained sold just 27,000 copies in its first week, according to an industry source. That's less than 20 percent of her "record-breaking" haul during the Trump administration, when trauma-brained MSNBC viewers were particularly ravenous for #Resistance slop. That's still an alarming number of copies--more than eight times the week-one sales for Extremely Online (2023), the fawning history of teen influencers by disgraced reporter Taylor Lorenz. But the trend line is promising.
Read our review of Hillary's new book if you'd like to know the unlikely name she's given her "postmenopausal belly," and other sad facts.
Hillary Clinton isn't going anywhere. Why would she? She was right. She tried to warn us. She was treated so unfairly. She deserved it; we betrayed her. We were sexist. We were duped. She was robbed. Putin, Comey, Facebook, Electoral College. The goddamned voters, man. Sorry? She's not sorry. She's still waiting for an apology from you. From all of us.
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"These days, I find myself thinking mostly about the future," Hillary bluffs as she relitigates old grievances. "Time and so many battles won and lost have given me a thicker skin and a stiffer spine." How she really feels is revealed in the text. Her "pang of vindication" when Trump was convicted of paying hush money to a porn star. "A fraud was committed against the American people, against all of us," she bristles. "I would have won. ... Even now, just thinking about that moment makes fury well up in my chest." She's owed an apology, dammit, even if we don't deserve her forgiveness just yet.
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When she's not moping about being right, Hillary tries to convince us she doesn't spend all her time obsessing about politics. That she's fun! You can imagine how persuasive this is. Several chapters recount good times hanging out with old friends who know her as "Big Girl," and her "postmenopausal belly" as "Beulah." (Don't ask.)
The dean of Michigan State University's College of Education, Jerlando Jackson, plagiarized extensively over the course of his career, according to a complaint filed with the university on Thursday, lifting text without attribution and raising questions about his fitness to lead one of the top teacher training programs in the country.
The complaint includes nearly 40 examples of plagiarism that span nine of Jackson's papers, including his Ph.D. thesis, and range from single sentences to full pages. It adds to the allegations of research misconduct already facing the embattled dean, who was a coauthor on several papers implicated in complaints against diversity officials earlier this year, including Harvard University's chief diversity officer, Sherri Ann Charleston.
"Jackson has failed all ordinary standards of academic honesty," said Peter Wood, the head of the National Association of Scholars and a former provost at Boston University, where he helped lead plagiarism investigations of faculty and alumni. "As long as he remains as a dean, the university has no legitimate basis to hold students and faculty to basic standards of intellectual integrity."
Michigan State University defines plagiarism as "copying another person's text or ideas and passing the copied material as your own." And Jackson--who can expel students for "academic misconduct," per the university's handbook--has a decades-long record of doing just that.
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The allegations against Jackson come as teachers are confronting a wave of AI-generated plagiarism in student writing. Demand for AI detection tools has surged since the release of ChatGPT, according to data from the Center for Democracy and Technology, jumping by 30 percentage points in just one year and corresponding to an increase in student discipline.
That context makes the allegations all the more galling, said Steve McGuire, a fellow at the American Council of Trustees and Alumni, given that graduates of Jackson's program will inherit a plagiarism crisis with no precedent in modern memory.
"It makes a mockery of the whole enterprise of education to have someone who appears to be a serial plagiarist running a school of education, especially in an age in which teachers and professors are increasingly encountering extensive academic dishonesty facilitated by the rise of artificial intelligence," McGuire wrote in an email. "How can educators combat this very real crisis if students can point to academic leaders and accuse them of plagiarism too?"
Jackson and Michigan State University did not respond to requests for comment.
Hamas made one enemy too many: This time, they pissed off an LA restaurant owner who, if I understand his words properly, is connected to the "Albanian mob."
And he doesn't need the mob for back-up. He's got Mr. Left and Mr. Right with him at all times.
Breaking: A restaurant manager in Los Angeles knocks out a Hamas protestor who was harassing his patrons in the restaurant.
This country must show these domestic terrorists that we will not be intimidated by them. pic.twitter.com/LJce7EWs4C
Folie a DUH: Studio Scrambling to Figure Out Why a Movie That Was an Undisguised "F*** You" to Its Fans Failed to Find an Audience
—Ace
Here's a quick EduGraphic. The best point is the first one: Joachin Phoenix reportedly awoke from a dream (which one might imagine was in an altered state) and said he had the greatest idea for a sequel -- it should be a musical!
Todd Phillips, who never wanted to make this movie but changed his mind when they offered him $20 million, supposedly loved the idea. Or, more likely, he just couldn't be bothered enough to care and so he said "Sure let's do what this idiot just said."
The thing about Phillips isolating himself at a ranch during the premiere is no big deal. A lot of directors do that. I believe Spielberg and Lucas were hiding out in Hawaii during the release of their films that they started talking about Raiders of the Lost Ark.
But... One imagines Phillips knew he had a problem on his hands and didn't want to hear from anyone in the opening weekend.
Inside the 'Joker: Folie a Deux' Debacle: Todd Phillips 'Wanted Nothing to Do' With DC on the $200 Million Misfire
The article notes that the two men put in charge of Warner Bros. DC universe, James Gunn and Peter Saffron, did not attend the premiere for this bomb.
Because no one wants to be found near a corpse.
Insiders say the duo's glaring absence for a film that is based on one of the biggest draws in the DC canon underscores a dysfunctional dynamic that played out behind the scenes on the ill-fated Warner Bros. musical. Todd Phillips "wanted nothing to do with DC" during the making of the film, says one agent familiar with the director's unique carve-out, which allowed him to bypass any oversight from the brand's gatekeepers. Although Gunn has publicly supported the film on social media, Phillips has distanced himself from DC. As the animated title-card sequence unspooled inside the iconic Hollywood cinema in the opening minutes, it became apparent that Phillips had just given DC the middle finger. There was no DC Studios logo.
Gunn has since been silent about the movie. He doesn't want it tarnishing his own brand.
"If the first movie was about some down-on-his-luck, mentally ill guy in a downtrodden city, it makes maybe $150 [million] worldwide. Not a billion," says a source familiar with the internal awkwardness. "People showed up because that guy was Joker."
(A DC spokesperson downplays any tensions and says Gunn was busy directing the Max series "Peacemaker" in Atlanta, which had lost a day of production due to Hurricane Helene, while Safran was sick. A Warners spokesperson notes that a DC logo appears at the end of the "Joker" sequel. Phillips declined to comment for this story.)
He doesn't have access to Twitter when he's hanging around waiting for the crew to finish setting the lights? No, he's hiding because he doesn't want the radiation from this bomb poisoning him.
Now that the dust has settled on the sequel's disastrous opening weekend, plenty of soul-searching is taking place on the Burbank lot. The overarching question being asked is: Why spend $200 million to make -- and nearly $100 million to market -- a tentpole that ignores the DC fanbase? And "ignores" may be putting it mildly. As a Rolling Stone review of the film succinctly put it: "'Joker: Folie a Deux' Has a Message for Fans: Go F-ck Yourselves."
Alas, the fanboys and fangirls stayed home, resulting in a shocking $37.7 million domestic opening for Phillips' follow-up to his 2019 "Joker," an enormous success that cost just $60 million and earned $1.1 billion. Such disregard for the base has brand repercussions.
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The movie began production in December 2022, two months after Gunn and Safran took control of DC, and many expected the duo to provide notes and feedback on the R-rated musical, especially given the capital outlay involved. But Phillips balked and would only liaise with De Luca and Abdy.
You know who's probably putting this out to the media? James Gunn. He wants it to be very clear that he had nothing to do with this, and that, while he did offer "notes" to Phillips, Phillips gave him the finger. So you can't blame Gunn's "notes."
And he has done little to dispel the appearance of friction, even though Gunn and Safran were on hand for the first director's cut screening for the studio....
Now Warner Bros.' higher-ups go to the press to say "he ignored us, too!" Zaslav reportedly asked Phillips to reduce the budget by filming in London, which is cheaper, and the UK provides a tax incentive for filming there.
He told Zaslev to get bent. There would be no reducing the hefty price tag. (Phillips' $20 million salary was a part of that price tag, of course.)
The studio also objected to debuting the film at the Venice Film Festival. Note that that was about 45 days before the premiere, so that gave bad reviews plenty of time to set in with the public. Phillips insisted on a Venice debut, and yes, the reviews were bad and ending of the film leaked.
Phillips refused test screenings, claiming he didn't want the ending to leak. But it leaked after Venice. (It's a divisive ending. And the original version was worse.) Those test screenings could have told him what the public objected to in the film, but he was too high on his own supply and wouldn't compromise his artistic vision.
Other battles of will between Phillips and Warners ensued. Phillips refused to test screen "Joker 2." So its premiere in Venice marked the first time an audience saw it. The critics rejected it, and the film tallied a disastrous 33% score on Rotten Tomatoes well before earning a dismal "D" CinemaScore. To put that grade into context, the much reviled "Madame Web" landed a "C+" earlier this year. (A Warners spokesperson says, "Given the film contains spoilers, the studio did not want to unnecessarily divulge plot points too early to test audiences, but rather, allow moviegoers to discover the film in their own time.")
Um, a would-be blockbuster opening in 4,000 theaters isn't built to allow audience to discover it in their own time. It's made to make $200 million opening weekend.
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"No one could get through to Todd," says one source directly involved with the film. "And the one thing about genre stuff: If you don't listen and pay attention to what the fan expectations are, you're going to fail."
Why doesn't anyone in Hollywood understand this (except for this one source)?
This Variety article is written by a goof who was one of the cringing fearful shitlibs worried the movie would "incite incels," but even he understands that attacking your own audience is bad business.
'Joker: Folie a Deux's' Fatal Flaw Is Turning the Fans Into the Villains of the Sequel
I hated Todd Phillips' original "Joker," which made me feel like a crank when the hit anti(super)hero movie went on to earn the top prize at Venice, an Oscar best picture nomination and more than a billion dollars at the box office back in 2019.
That film struck a nerve with me -- not in a good way, though I fiercely believe that provocation can be one of art's highest aims -- by transforming the beloved Batman villain into a poster boy for incels everywhere. I know people like Arthur Fleck, and the last thing they (or any of us) need is such a film to encourage them. I feared it would go down like "Scarface," as a fictive role model for sick minds.
Flash forward five years, and the character is back for a scandalously unpopular sequel, except that this time, it feels like "Joker" hates us -- or, more to the point, it's as if Phillips turned on his original audience. (Turns out, fans are returning the favor. I spoke to a couple theater managers yesterday, and they reported a strange phenomenon: People are canceling their tickets, or simply not showing up, because of the bad reviews.)
Ask yourself, who is the villain in "Joker: Folie a Deux"? Hint: It's not Arthur Fleck. Instead of fearing Joaquin Phoenix's character, it's his fans we ought to be worried about -- those who want him to reprise his role as the face-painted chaos-monger.
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You want to know what's wrong with the "Joker" sequel? It's boring.
I've seen critics note that the movie is mostly one long courtroom scene which simply repeats -- or "relitigates," as this article puts it -- the events of the first movie.
I know that retracing your steps -- going back to places, repeating actions and dialogue -- is just absolute poison in a movie, which is always about moving forward. If you go back a step every time you go forward a step, the audience can see the movie is not progressing but just wasting time.
The YouTuber "CaptainMidnight" faults the film for undoing the whole conclusion of Joker and reverting to the midpoint of that film. That is, the first movie is all about Arthur Fleck coming to terms with the idea that he is Joker, and accepting that, after fighting it for most of the movie. In this movie, it reverts back to Arthur fighting this. So the movie undoes the dramatic choice he makes at the end of the first movie, and once again has him go through the same process of debating if he is Joker. This time, he decides he's not, but the movie makes us tread the same ground again.
Leftwingers have been shrieking, shrieking about this.
This article itself frames this as "Hollywood considers bringing 'the toxic fandom' into the creative process."
"The Acolyte" was the latest high-profile target of "toxic fandom," the catchall term for when fan criticism curdles from good-faith dissatisfaction into a relentlessly negative, often bigoted online campaign against either the project or its stars or creative leaders. In a franchise economy increasingly dependent upon established audience devotion to drive the bottom line, the threat of toxic fandoms poisoning that enthusiasm has become a seemingly intractable headache for almost every studio. And it's only getting worse.
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Perhaps the greatest irony of this phenomenon is the disproportionate impact these toxic fandoms have relative to their actual number.
Ah yes: the "Tiny Minority of Haters" paradigm.
Weird that this tiny minority is simultaneously so enormous that millions and millions of people around the world are rejecting these movies.
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Those who did talk with Variety all agreed that the best defense is to avoid provoking fandoms in the first place. In addition to standard focus group testing, studios will assemble a specialized cluster of superfans to assess possible marketing materials for a major franchise project.
"They're very vocal," says the studio exec. "They will just tell us, 'If you do that, fans are going to retaliate.'" These groups have even led studios to alter the projects: "If it's early enough and the movie isn't finished yet, we can make those kinds of changes."
Several studio insiders say they often put their talent through a social media boot camp; in some cases, when a character is intentionally challenging a franchise's status quo, studios will, with the actor's permission, take over their social media accounts entirely. When things get really bad -- especially involving threats of violence -- security firms will scrub talent information from the internet to protect them from doxxing.
The "Toxic Fans" are doing exactly what the SJWs did for years: They are pressuing studios to make movies for them. The SJWs demanded that every male hero be gender-flipped to female and every white character (especially gingers) to black. Hollywood didn't call them "toxic" -- instead, they catered to this actually-tiny minority of incessantly online Identity Warriors. All the "toxic" fans are doing now is trying to push back against the SJWs never-ending brigading and pressure campaigns to object these franchises with nonstop leftwing propaganda messaging.
The leftwingers who demand genre films be made to please their tastes are heroes, the normies who say "No, stop this, make these films without a leftwing agenda" are villains.
But here's the thing:
There sure do seem to be a lot more "villains" than "heroes" in the audience, huh?
In Bizarre Attempt at Viral Vote-Getting Stunt, Governess Gretchen Whitmer Feeds Doritos to an Influencer on Her Knees In Offensive Mockery of the Giving of the Holy Eucharist
—Ace
I don't know what on earth this is supposed to mean.
These people will do literally anything a woke "young person" tells them to do.
Collin Rugg
@CollinRugg
NEW: Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer feeds a chip to a begging liberal podcaster on her knees in an effort to get more votes for Kamala Harris and Tim Walz.
Whitmer joined Canadian feminist Liz Plank for an abortion podcast episode.
The pair released the following video as a bizarre way to get more votes for Harris.
At one point during the podcast, Plank asked Whitmer if she ever thinks about getting a "post-birth abortion" on her two daughters.
The pair also talked about "masculinity" and why men aren't supporting Democrats.
NEW: Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer feeds a chip to a begging liberal podcaster on her knees in an effort to get more votes for Kamala Harris and Tim Walz.
Whitmer joined Canadian feminist Liz Plank for an abortion podcast episode.
Elderly Internet Spinster Taylor Lorenz Repeatedly Lied to Her Bosses, Says NPR Hit Piece
—Ace
They just want to date her
Carbon date her that is
Posted by: Stu Podaso
Taylor Lorenz claimed she left the Washington Post of her own accord.
No one believed her, obviously.
Now NPR relays leaks from their buddies at the Washington Post to do a hit-piece on her.
They're all super-left-wing, but they're also catty and vindictive. That's the only reason this was leaked and is being published -- they're personally pissed at her for lying.
The lunacy and gonzo leftwing bias, they're fine with. They just mad that she think she cute.
Oh, and of course: Her gonzo leftwing bias showed itself in attacking the Democrat "President" Joe Biden as a "war criminal," which they cannot abide. The Washington Post are all shitlibs -- they're Democrat operatives, full stop. Yes, they hate Israel and agree that helping Israel makes one a war criminal -- but they don't let you say that. Certainly not during an election year.
When tech columnist Taylor Lorenz left the Washington Post last week, she did so with a splash: An interview with The Hollywood Reporter about launching her own digital magazine, called User Mag.
"I like to have a really interactive relationship with my audience," she said. "I like to be very vocal online, obviously. And I just think all of that is really hard to do in the roles that are available at these legacy institutions."
Lorenz's professional fate at the paper was in doubt even prior to her announcement. Since August, its editors had grappled with the disclosure that Lorenz had labeled President Biden a "war criminal" in a selfie from a White House event in which Biden was visible in the background. She had circulated the picture to friends in a private social media post.
Lorenz, a frequent and often divisive presence online, never wrote for the paper again.
Three people at the Post with knowledge of events tell NPR that Lorenz lost the trust of the newsroom's leadership both by posting that selfie with the caption about Biden and then by willfully misleading editors in claiming that she had not done so.
Lorenz initially denied writing the caption or sharing it. After Jon Levine of The New York Post posted a screengrab of it online, Lorenz tweeted, "You people will fall for any dumbass edit someone makes." She told editors that someone else had added the caption to the photo.
After NPR verified the post was authentic, Lorenz changed her account of what happened, acknowledging to editors she had shared the image.
The Post kicked off a formal review, saying, "Our executive editor and senior editors take alleged violations of our standards seriously." Lorenz maintained she shared the image as a joke echoing an online meme, not as a commentary on Biden.
The paper has not announced the findings of its review. "We are grateful for the work Taylor has produced at The Washington Post," a corporate spokesperson said in a statement. "She has resigned to pursue a career in independent journalism, and we wish her the best." The paper would not comment further.
"I have no idea about their review," Lorenz writes in a text to NPR. "All I know is that they've been incredibly cool to me and very great, and I'm on good terms with them.
"I want out of legacy media as a whole, for so many reasons," Lorenz writes to NPR. "And that's not a knock on legacy media, I love and support all of my friends in that system, but it's not the right environment for me to do the work that I want to do."
When I discussed her firing, I mentioned that it seemed unlikely she wanted to strike out on her own, and that she's the type who wants to be associated with an establishment outfit to lend her credibility and clout. NPR says that's accurate:
Even so, according to counterparts and colleagues who have known her at various points in her career, Lorenz has until now placed great stock in her affiliation with major mainstream news outlets. She reported for The Atlantic magazine and The New York Times before joining the Post. Yet she has consistently tangled online with critics in a way that tested the social media policies of those outlets. Both newspapers have struggled with policies seeking to regulate their journalists' social media postings on contentious issues.
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At the Post, Lorenz was designated a columnist, giving her more leeway for personal expression in print and on her own accounts than a reporter would have. Even so, her work for the newspaper focused on reported articles rather than opinion pieces.
Ha. Hah. Hah.
Obviously if this gross internet stalker had attended a Trump event and labeled him a "war criminal," she'd still be working for the Post.
CBS Owner Shari Redstone Backs Reporter Tony Dokoupil Over His Woke Inquisitors
—Ace
For all that that matters. And it doesn't matter much. The wokies own the place. It doesn't matter who "legally" owns it.
The chair of Paramount Global, Shari Redstone, is backing CBS Mornings co-host Tony Dokoupil after a contentious interview last week with author Ta-Nehisi Coates.
"I frankly think Tony did a great job with that interview," Redstone said on Wednesday. "I was very proud of the work that he did. Yes, as hard as it was for me to go against this company, I think they made a mistake here."
"I just want to be clear that I've been working with the CEOs," the mogul elaborated. "I've been working with the woman who does a lot of our diversity training, and I think we all agree that this was not handled correctly, and we all agree that something needs to be done. I don't have, you know, editorial control. I am not an executive, but I have a voice in our platform, like all of us."
The comments from Redstone come after CBS Mornings co-anchor Tony Dokoupil is said to have discussed the matter with his CBS News colleagues. It is not immediately clear what Dokoupil said.
As I was saying: It doesn't matter what the owners and senior people say.
The young woke semi-literate savages have taken over the newsroom, just as they took over the New York Times, Washington Post, and CNN, and they took it over without even a fight from the self-styled "Stunning and Brave Truth-Tellers."
Does CBS News Know Where Jerusalem Is?
'Do not refer to it as being in Israel,' said the network's senior director of standards and practices.
By Oliver Wiseman
October 9, 2024
In late August, Mark Memmott, the senior director of standards and practices at CBS News, sent an email to all CBS News employees reminding them to "be careful with some terms when we talk or write about the news" from Israel and Gaza. One of the words on Memmott's list of terms was Jerusalem.
Of Jerusalem, Memmott wrote: "Do not refer to it as being in Israel."
He continued, in a note sent to thousands of journalists at the network: "Yes, the U.S. embassy is there and the Trump administration recognized it as being Israel's capital. But its status is disputed. The status of Jerusalem goes to the heart of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Israel regards Jerusalem as its 'eternal and undivided' capital, while the Palestinians claim East Jerusalem--occupied by Israel in the 1967 Middle East war--as the capital of a future state."
Jerusalem's status is indeed contested. For instance, the United States' embassy in Israel is in Jerusalem, and the Jordanian Islamic Waqf has custody of its holy sites. But acknowledging the competing claims on different parts of the city, or declining to refer to Jerusalem as Israel's capital, are one thing. Denying that it is in Israel at all is quite another.
You know what else is disputed? Whether or not there is a "Palestinian people" at all. Oh, there are people living in Judea who are not Jewish-- but many say they're simply Jordanians, and that the "Palestinian people" idea was manufactured by Yasser Arafat to justify a demand for "a homeland for the Palestinian people" to rebut the Jews' own demands for "a homeland for the Jewish people." There was no real "Palestinian people" before it was created as a propaganda point.
(The people currently living in Gaza and the West Bank are descendants from the people living in the larger country of "Transjordan.")
So: Will CBS "News" also stop referring to "the Palestinian people," as it's also a "contested" point, or not?
Listen to Michael Walsh on the CutJibNewsletter podcast about the feminization of our military, and this pathetic display of military weakness will make perfect sense.
The maniacal Houthis are playing in the big leagues by limiting global trade with their ragtag military and some modern missiles and drones supplied by...you guessed it...Iran! But they aren't a big league team, and the curious inability of the American military to do much of anything against them is a searing indictment of the current crop of political cronies and fellow travelers in the upper reaches of our armed forces.
Major Gen. Pat Ryder told reporters on Monday that the strike involved 15 Houthi targets across five locations, and those targets included "offensive military capabilities, to include Houthi training and weapons storage facilities." He said "initial assessments are that we had good effects on that."
However, the strike involving Navy ships and Tomahawk land attack cruise missiles follows a year of U.S. military operations in the Red Sea aimed at fending off Houthi attacks, yet the rebels have continued to lob missiles and send drones to harass merchant ship traffic.
A year of operations against a 5th rate military that has no air force and is supplied by a single country, and we have failed. whoever planned those operations should be sacked. Whoever looked at the first strikes and didn't fire the planners should be sacked. In fact, everyone involved should be sacked and maybe the United States Military should reach back into its history and find some retired O5s who know how to kill people and break things.
At least we are burning through our stocks of stupidly expensive smart weapons so Raytheon and Boeing and Lockheed Martin and Northrop Grumman can sell us some more stuff at inflated rates, far behind schedule!
Shipping data shows that the number of vessels crossing the Suez Canal, a key passage that is near the area of the Red Sea where Houthis are targeting ships, fell by about half at the end of 2023 and has yet to recover to original levels.
Salvatore Mercogliano, a maritime historian and former merchant mariner, told Military.com on Tuesday that despite the fact that "the Houthi attacks are infrequent and seldom effective, with two ships sunk and four mariners killed, [they] have provided enough of a risk to deter shipping companies from risking their high-value ships sailing via the Red Sea."
Mecogliano said the impact has been that “the Houthis have pinched off 15% of world trade, sending the most valuable ships on a detour that has added time, cost, carbon emissions and risk in sailing in the Southern Ocean during wintertime.”
Hah...they can even drag "Global Warming" into this clusterf*ck! 15% of world trade is a very big deal, and the Houthis should have been destroyed in the first month they played their little game
"We're not seeking a full-out war with the Houthis, but we will continue to conduct strikes against the kinds of capabilities that we've seen them use against innocent mariners and maritime traffic as well as military vessels," Ryder said.
Oh good! Just a little war, with tea and scones in the afternoon and no bad guys being killed because that would be mean! let's blow up some empty warehouses and goatherd huts...that'll scare 'em!
There is no other kind of war. Either you fight to destroy the effectiveness of your enemy and cow him into submission, or you fail. Israel proved that over the last 25 years. Accepting some low level war from your enemies is a recipe for failure. There are lots of dead Israelis and many more dead Arabs because the long-term result of a titrated mess of a strategy is a bigger war down the road.
This mess has shown the bad actors of the world exactly how easy it is to disrupt trade and tie up large chunks of a nation's military with a couple of missiles, some off-the-shelf drones, and a few hundred 7th century pirates to threaten shipping. Next time maybe it will be surface-to-air missiles fired at major airports by recent "immigrants." Or maybe it will be a 40' container loaded with explosives detonated in the middle of a major bridge or tunnel in the West.
By not dealing with the Houthis, America and the West has shown that we are paper tigers, and the unintended consequences of this ridiculous, gentle war we are conducting will be far reaching.
The Harris campaign walked back Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz’s Tuesday claim that the Electoral College "needs to go," saying that it is not an official campaign position.
"I think all of us know the Electoral College needs to go. We need, we need national popular vote, but that’s not the world we live in," Walz said at a campaign fundraiser in California.
The campaign clarified later that the Harris-Walz ticket is not advocating for eliminating the Electoral College.
"Governor Walz believes that every vote matters in the Electoral College," a campaign official told CNN, adding that Walz "was commenting to a crowd of strong supporters about how the campaign is built to win 270 electoral votes."
Walz has made a series of verbal blunders that his campaign has had to clean up, including false claims about being present at the Tiananmen Square protests in 1989. During the vice presidential debate on October 1, Walz admitted that he can be "a knucklehead at times." During her 2020 presidential campaign, Vice President Kamala Harris said she was "open to the discussion" of abolishing the Electoral College.
The purpose of the Electoral College is to stave off what James Madison called the “tyranny of the majority.” The system gives voters in rural, lesser-populated states a voice in presidential elections by limiting higher-populated states’ ability to solely determine their outcomes. That was also the original design of the U.S. Senate, and without such protections for smaller states, the U.S. Constitution would never have been ratified. That means without constitutional protections for lower-population states, there would be no United States at all.
As with many of America’s institutions, Democrats loathe the Electoral College because it deprives them of the unbridled power to silence all opposition. There’s no need to waste time campaigning to the rubes in “flyover country” if they can juice turnout in Democrat-heavy cities and states instead.
Walz’s fundraiser remarks are an outward display of this disdain. Democrats claim they’re fighting for the “forgotten” man and woman, all the while working to deprive millions of Americans of having a say in the policies that control their lives.
It kind of puts the erasure of our border and flooding of the country with at least 40 million foreigners since the disastrous Teddy Kennedy -pimped Simpson Mazzzoli bill of 1965 with zero means or desire to ensure their assimilation into the American culture. Mostly because the Democrats need to erase that culture in order for them to amass permanent power in the drive to fundamentally transform America into yet another shitty little tyranny that has been humanity's lot until 1776 and then 1789. The Exception to history until the coming of Progressivism that has done nothing but Regress us back towards the dark ages.
So, if they were so cocksure that they had 2024 in the bag, why bring this up at this time? Yeah, Tim Walz is an arrogant, dimwitted fool, and sadly in fairness, far too many people in this country have no idea why there is an Electoral College, the difference between a democracy and a republic nor do they necessarily give a damn. Remember, at the same time our citizenry is being replaced by third world illiterate peasants, America's children have been brainwashed to hate their nation, its history, their birthright and even themselves.
A New York state Democratic lawmaker sparked outrage Wednesday when he compared Donald Trump’s upcoming campaign stop at Madison Square Garden to a Nazi rally that took place at the famous Big Apple venue 85 years ago.
State Sen. Brad Hoylman-Sigal, 58, called on MSG officials to cancel Trump’s Oct. 27 rally, claiming it could lead to “widespread violence” as he ripped into the former president and his supporters during the online diatribe.
“Let’s be clear. Allowing Trump to hold an event at MSG is equivalent to the infamous Nazis rally at Madison Square Garden on February 20, 1939,” Hoylman-Sigal, a Democrat, tweeted in reference to the disgraceful Nazi assembly held during the reign of German dictator Adolf Hitler. . .Hoylman-Sigal, whose senate district includes the Garden, said he confirmed Trump’s rally is scheduled for 3 p.m. — just nine days before Election Day. The campaign event was first reported by The Post.
“This is a disastrous decision by Madison Square Garden that will endanger the public safety of New Yorkers and has the potential to incite widespread violence,” the Big Apple pol continued.
“For the good of NYC and its residents, I demand @TheGarden keep our city safe by cancelling the Trump Rally.”
Do I think that New York state could be in play for Trump? I strongly doubt it. My gut is that this is more a revolting display of not just hatred of Trump but for the fact that while many New Yorkers either Democrat or Democrat-adjacent might not necessarily dig him, but are becoming more and more disenchanted with Democrat policies, especially the open borders, crime and the crashing economy. It won't flip New York to Trump but it certainly seems to be freaking out the usual suspects about Trump's prospects elsewhere and all over the nation with less than a month until Election Day.
Have a good day.
ABOVE THE FOLD, BREAKING, NOTEWORTHY
How does one justify squelching free speech and censoring opponents? By justifying it by “science.” The authors of a new study published by the scientific journal Nature submit that “differential sharing of misinformation by people identifying with different political groups could lead to political asymmetries in enforcement, even by unbiased policies.” The left is using bogus COVID-19 research to censor their opponents
Water levels rose more than 8 feet in nearby Sarasota, the National Weather Service reported, with storm surges up to 5 feet recorded from Naples to Charlotte Harbor, with more inundation likely in Manatee and Sarasota counties. By early Thursday, the superstorm was downgraded to a Category 1, though its effects could still be felt as it made its way across the Sunshine State. “Sarasota will continue to see intense wind gusts upwards of 100-plus the next few hours as Milton gradually moves across the region, as well as storm surge as high as 12 feet,” Jordan Overton, a senior meteorologist with Fox Weather, told The Post. Hurricane Milton slams into Florida’s west coast with 120 mph winds, leaving 3M without power
Robert Spencer: Islamic law is very clear about when these pauses in the war can go into effect. It only allows for a truce if the Muslims expect their foes to convert to Islam, or if the Muslims are weak and need to gather strength to fight later more effectively: “If Muslims are weak, a truce may be made for ten years if necessary, for the Prophet (Allah bless him and give him peace) made a truce with the Quraysh for that long, as is related by Abu Dawud… Interests that justify making a truce are such things as Muslim weakness because of lack of numbers or materiel, or the hope of an enemy becoming Muslim…” (Reliance of the Traveller, o9.16). Hezbollah Wants a Ceasefire Now. Here’s Why Israel Shouldn’t Give Them One.
Israeli forces on Sept. 28 launched a sweeping set of airstrikes on a compound where Hassan Nasrallah, Hezbollah’s former leader, was hiding, ultimately destroying the compound and killing the terrorist group’s chief. The Biden-Harris administration wasn’t informed about the plan to kill Nasrallah until after he had already been killed, which surprised U.S. officials and left Austin fuming, according to sources with direct knowledge of the matter who spoke to the WSJ. ‘What Did You Say?’: Biden Defense Sec Reportedly Fumed Over Israel’s Sudden Assassination Of Hezbollah Chief
Victor Davis Hanson: Rather than admitting their own role in igniting the Middle East, Biden and Harris now blame the victims of their own incendiary foreign policy. Try a Little Honesty About Israel
Pro-Hamas protestors have vandalized the district office of a New York Congressman for the second time in a matter of weeks. The Manhattan office of Representative Adriano Espaillat (D-NY) had its windows and facade covered in red paint, and the glass in its front door broken. “Free Gaza” graffiti was spray painted on the sidewalk in front of the Democrat Congressman’s office. Pro-Hamas Protestors Vandalize Congressman’s Office for a Second Time.
WE-ALL-SLAM-FOR-I-SLAM
The populist Sweden Democrats, who participate in the current Swedish government, have called for cousin marriage to be banned as part of the government’s coalition deal, known as the Tido Agreement. Under the new proposal, marriage between cousins and uncles or aunts and their nephews or nieces would be banned. Marriage between half-siblings, who are currently allowed to marry if granted an exemption, would also be prohibited. Country Flooded with Migrants Plans to Ban Cousin Marriage by 2026
Tim Walz (D-MN) was caught advocating for the total eradication of America’s Electoral College, advocating for a national popular vote to decide presidential elections instead. Speaking at a campaign fundraising event hosted by Gov. Gavin Newsom (D-CA), Walz criticized the current electoral system, arguing it does not reflect the majority’s will. Walz’s comments come as his running mate, Vice President Kamala Harris, has lost ground to President Donald J. Trump in several critical swing states.“I think all of us know the Electoral College needs to go,” Walz told donors at Newsom’s residence on Tuesday.”We need a national popular vote that is something. But that’s not the world we live in.” Kamala’s Running Mate Tim Walz Just Said The Quiet Part Out Loud
The purpose of the Electoral College is to stave off what James Madison called the “tyranny of the majority.” The system gives voters in rural, lesser-populated states a voice in presidential elections by limiting higher-populated states’ ability to solely determine their outcomes. That was also the original design of the U.S. Senate, and without such protections for smaller states, the U.S. Constitution would never have been ratified. That means without constitutional protections for lower-population states, there would be no United States at all. In Calling For Axing The Electoral College, Tim Walz Tells Swing State Voters To Get Lost
AJ Rice said the political left is making efforts to erase Western Civilization and the middle class.. . “So if they can, on a macro level, get rid of the Western Civilization, the most successful civilization in earth’s history, what’s the next thing?” Rice said on a recent episode of The Greatness Conversation. “They’ve got to get rid of the middle class, right?” Rice: Political left trying to ‘get rid of the middle class’
Something has been bugging me about the Vance-Walz debate. JD Vance won that confrontation easily, but during an exchange about the 2020 election, Tim Walz asked Vance, “Did he [Trump] lose the 2020 election?” Vance missed an opportunity with that question. How Republicans Should Handle Questions About the 2020 Election
With the federal government always trying to “help” the American people, who needs enemies? Particularly in the last 30 years, the federal government has accelerated the process of their grasp for “total control” — as Hillary Clinton recently said. And with things in place like the Patriot Act, and now the Corporate Transparency Act (CTA), just know the government will be watching you while knowing everything about at the same time, as if they already didn’t. The CTA is supposed to be an anti-money laundering initiative, as The Federalist reported. But, it’s so much more than that. Small Businesses Beware! New Act Forces Private Data into Government's Creepy Hands
Police in Lowell, Massachusetts, arrested Maynor Francisco Hernandez-Rodas — a 38-year-old Guatemalan national living in the country unlawfully — on June 14 for alleged aggravated rape of a child and rape of a child with force, according to an ICE press release. However, a county superior court chose to release Hernandez out of jail, despite the heinous nature of the allegations and a request by deportation officers to transfer him directly into their custody. Blue State Authorities ‘Ignored’ Detainer And Released Illegal Migrant Charged With Child Rape, ICE Says
Hard to find, except for in New York where former anti-gang cops are working in low-wage Bidenomics jobs because [so-called quote-unquote] President Joe Biden’s migration chief gave them visas to fill jobs in [so-called quote-unquote] President Joe Biden’s economy. Gangs Massacre Haitians as Mayorkas Extracts Cops, Doctors, Teachers for Bidenomics Jobs
Harvard Law School professor Jack Goldsmith — a former George W. Bush official who has been critical of Trump — wrote in the Times that Smith had violated legal norms and appeared to be attempting improperly to influence voters. NY Times Op-ed: Jack Smith Abused Power, Interfering in Election
FIRST AMENDMENT ISSUES, CENSORSHIP, FAKE NEWS, MEDIA, BIG BROTHER TECH
Ben Meiselas, co-founder of the far-left MeidasTouch Network tied to the Biden-Harris White House, owes his political career to disgraced hip-hop mogul Sean ‘P. Diddy’ Combs. Meiselas’s father, celebrity attorney Kenny Meiselas, worked for Combs and arranged for the Democrat celebrity to give his son an internship at his record label, Bad Boy Records.Combs spearheaded MTV’s ‘Vote or Die’ voter registration campaign in 2004. Meiselas’s internship revolved around this effort, which saw him attend that year’s Democratic National Convention. Meiselas would later parlay this experience with Combs into an internship with then-Senator Hillary Clinton (D-NY). This Biden-Harris Media Ally Got His Start in Politics Through P. Diddy.
It’s both sad and tragic that a mere three decades after the collapse of communism, which utterly repudiated the idea of top-down socialist “economic planning,” we should still be debating this failed scheme today. But we are. Or, at least, one major political party is. There must be some sickness among those who so desperately want to restrain the freedom of others through economic manipulations. Let The Economy Roll
RED-GREENS, CLIMATE CHANGE HOAX, DEMOCRAT-LEFT WAR ON FOSSIL FUELS, JUNK SCIENCE, LYSENKOISM
AMERICA AND THE WORLD IMPRISONED: CHINESE CORONAVIRUS FICTIONS AND FACTS
It was only three years ago that MRCTV covered evidence in former NIH-NIAID tax parasite Anthony Fauci’s e-mails that he intentionally lied to the public and internally plotted to suppress valid information offered from people such as the signers of the Great Barrington Declaration. It was only this past spring that the US Supreme Court declined to hear the case of “Murthy v. Missouri,” in which signers of the declaration sued the US government for pressuring social media to engage in censorship (a Supreme Court decision that the majority reached not because the claims were not valid but because the court majority erroneously claimed that the plaintiffs could not show direct harm to their professions/reputations.) COVID Coverups: Fauci Associate Pleads Fifth Over Disappearing Emails
Three stories this week illustrate once again that not only did none of the governmental actions imposed by our “betters” during the COVID panic in 2020 work, they are now resulting in long term harm across large populations. The bad consequences to the bad COVID policies in 2020 continue to pile up
Two Northgate Crossing Elementary School teachers in Spring, Texas, have been placed on leave as police investigate them for allegedly slapping "sleepy stickers" on kids to make them fall asleep. Texas Teachers Busted Knocking Out Kids with 'Sleepy Stickers'
DEMOCRAT/LEFTIST AND RINO SCANDALS, MESHUGAS, CHUTZPOCRISY
In fact, there is nothing funny about misogyny and racism. Walz's "dry cleaner" code name is problematic for several reasons. Harris is running to be the first female president of the United States, but Walz's word choice suggests that women are better suited for domestic tasks such as doing laundry or dropping off their husband's work clothes at the dry cleaner. Hey, Tim, the 1950s called; they want their small-minded gender stereotypes back, bigot. Tim Walz Has a Racist, Sexist Code Name for Kamala Harris
Talk About the Perfect Metaphor for Democrats! - jjs Video footage posted to X appeared showed the two men walking away from the counter after Walz’s daughter tells them she will “wait” for the tea and informs a worker behind the counter that a campaign staffer is coming to the counter to pay. Emhoff, Tim Walz Walk Away from Cafe Counter Without Paying: ‘Someone Will Be Up Here to Pay’
Miranda Devine: It is painful to hear and even worse to transcribe, but here goes: “With, you know, 28 days to go, I’m not Donald Trump. And so when we think about the significance of what this next generation of leadership looks like, were I to be elected president, it is about, frankly, I, I, I LOVE the American people, and I BELIEVE in our country. I, I, I LOVE that it is our character and nature to be an AMBITIOUS people. You know, we have ASPIRATIONS, we have DREAMS. We have incredible work ethic.” There was more, but you get the picture. Kamala Harris is pushing herself as the ‘change candidate’ – but it’s clear she’s just Biden 2.0
OpenSecrets, a nonprofit that tracks political donations and spending, released this estimate in a recent report, highlighting key trends in the current election cycle. Sarah Bryner, OpenSecrets’ Director of Research and Strategy, noted, “Spending on the 2024 election cycle started slowly but ramped up significantly when Vice President Harris took over the Democrat nomination.” 2024 Election Spending Will Break Records at $16 BILLION
I'm not saying that polls are useless. Some polls, especially many state polls, are honest snapshots of where the race is at a particular point in time as best the pollster can say. But forecasts from sources like FiveThirtyEight and RealClearPolitics are next to useless. The 2024 Presidential Election Really Isn't That Close
The Hungarian leader also commented on the implications of a Trump presidency for Europe. He suggested that Trump could resolve the ongoing conflict in Ukraine, which borders Hungary, before his potential inauguration in January. Trump has already stated he intends to broker a deal between Ukraine and Russia to stop the fighting. Hungary’s PM Says Champagne Will Flow if Trump Wins.
The Kamala Harris campaign has led the finger pointing at Republicans who voted against a September funding bill that included appropriations for FEMA – among hundreds of billions for additional projects across the federal government, much of which the Republicans view as wasteful, woke, and contributing to the nation’s poor economy. Democrats Cover Up Reckless Spending to Play Politics with FEMA Relief
The consensus view of the early universe said there would not have been enough time for such a structured galaxy to form. And yet as astronomers use the improved astronomical instrumentation of our time to look deeper and deeper at that early universe, they keep finding things — like this galaxy — that defy that consensus view. Astronomers find another galaxy that shouldn’t be there in the early universe
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The passwords are encrypted with Bcrypt, which is pretty robust, but if you shared a password between the archive and some other site, it's time to change it and also to stop doing that.
The eight core laptop 288V runs like a four year old AMD 5800U - also with eight cores, and the 24 core desktop 285K runs like a two year old 12 core AMD 7900. In both cases the AMD chips use half the power.
The Intel chips have great single-threaded performance but multi-threaded test results so far are meh at best.
The banner picture is the flight track of NOAA42, the NOAA WP-3D, on one of several trips through the eye of hurricane HELENE on September 26th. It’s not a normal track as the typical hurricane hunter transits through the eye wall on various tracks. For example, here’s the track TEAL73, a C-130 from the 53rd Weather Recce guys at Biloxi.
You can see a couple of circles in the eye, but it’s mostly just straight-line transits through the storm center. In any case, avgeeks like me watch the trackers like Flight Aware and ADSB Exchange to lurk and stalk…you know, geeky stuff. The track of the NOAA airplane aroused suspicion and alarm that “something had gone wrong” with the hunters. We all were relieved to find that all was well, and the crew returned to Ellington Field safe and sound.
What stories will come out of MILTON’s assault on Florida? We can only guess at this point, but I remember a saying that has come in handy from time to time: “Nothing is ever as good or as bad as first reported”. We can hope and pray it’s not as bad as we fear, all though I know that some folks in the North Carolina mountains would tell me to pack sand.
After seeing the devastation left by HELENE, as requested earlier in the regular posts, please continue to pray for the relief, recovery and restitution for all our countrymen and women in the paths of these historic storms. And, if it’s not too late, throw in a prayer for our Republic.
Generally, I am relieved that we have these intrepid crews to go out there and ride the storm for us. Specifically, I am relieved to say that I never really wondered about flying a WP-3D into a hurricane, but I wonder why the crew seats are not equipped with shoulder harnesses. In fact, I’m not really a fan of moderate turbulence. I only flew on a Navy P-3C once. It has a very stiff wing, and it felt like riding in a truck with no springs or shocks. The source of the hard ride goes back to the introduction of the Lockheed Electra II in 1959 and the discovery of “whirl mode”.
Wing vibration, or flutter, is inherent in the design and is expected. In engineering terms, there are more than 100 different types of flutter, or “modes”, in which metal can vibrate. The mode that destroyed the Electra’s wing was called a whirl mode.
Whirl mode was not new, nor was it a mysterious phenomenon. Its a form of vibration inherent in rotating machinery such as oil drills, table fans and an automobile’s driveshaft.
I’m sure many of the HORDE know that the word “flutter” will make structural engineers blanche and reach for a whiskey. Airplanes and flutter simply should not be used in the same sentence.
The propellers normal plane rotation is disturbed, sending inharmonious forces back to the wing. The result, if not checked, is a wobbling effect that begins to transmit its motion to a natural outlet: the wing. The wing now begins to flex and flutter, sending discordant forces back to the engine-prop package, which in turn creates more and violent vibrations, feeding the mode new energy. It took less than 30 seconds for the energy to separate the wing.
Yeah, uh, “separate the wing” sounds bad to me. I’m generally relieved that there are people smart enough to be structural engineers. I’m specifically relieved that the Lockheed engineers found a solution to whirl mode. Unfortunately for Lockheed, the B707 and DC-8 had captured the flying public’s imagination by the time Lockheed re-engineered the wing. OTOH, the Electra airframe still enjoyed success with the proof that many are still flying while almost all civilian 707s and DC-8s are beer cans and razor blades. Anyway, here’s the long story if you’re interested.
"Moscow has thus far shown incredible restraint in the face of Western aggression, but things can only go so far before Putin has to respond with something formidable to let the West know that it is not playing around....When asked if he sees a tactical nuclear strike happening soon, Markov responded in the affirmative. He revealed that many Russian experts now agree that Moscow has no choice but to take this kind of action, particularly against NATO airfields."
I was thinking he might be agreeing with the Harris/Dr Jill Junta in trying to incite global thermonuclear war or something.
How about general relief for the commercial real estate market, and specific relief for Minneapolis, eh? Tales of creative Minneapolis real estate deals were posted at the American Experiment website:
Minneapolis to convert deserted downtown offices into apartments
"...Forum buildings in downtown Minneapolis — which just sold for $10.25 per square foot, 90% less than they were bought for in 2019 — “have an occupancy rate of about 45%, as of earlier this year.”
"Under the new rules, commercial-to-residential conversion projects will not be subject to public hearings— instead, the plans will only require approval by city staff."
Of course. Communists do not worry about silly things like "public hearings". In their authoritarian way, they just do things. What makes me wonder is, once you've converted business space to residential space, where do the people work to make money to pay rent? I know, I know, it's a trick question! They DON'T WORK. These will be the new mass housing projects for the dumbmasses. And what entity on the planet is the undisputed expert for mass housing? The tenants will be wards of the state, slaves if you will. They will own nothing and be happy (or else). Fortunately, they will have plenty of time to fill out mail-in ballots. And you and I get to pay for all of it.
As I have said for the last four years, "30 million illegals have to have some place to live too.”
It used to be that “Minnesota Nice” was just nice with a distinctive accent. Now, partially thanks to the “Saint Floyd of Fentanyl” transformation, there are other connotations. Compare and contrast. Discuss among yourselves. There may be a quiz later.
I stream talk radio from time to time and the news breaks for one particular station are typically lit up about data centers, shootings and traffic. Generally, I am relieved to have a blue tooth headset so I can work while listening. Specifically, my wife is relieved that she doesn’t have to listen with me. Data centers have been a hot topic for years and there is often a story about those energy sucking monsters. Amazon needs more cloud storage, you see, and residents seem to resent the invasion while the rulers only see tax revenue. Here's a story from two years ago but the battle continues.
The Cloud Needs More Land in Northern Virginia
"Meanwhile, “land banking” by data center developers has pushed land values for data center parcels past $3 million an acre, up from about $500,00 as recently as 2017. “Loudoun land is the most sought-after asset for this industry,” said Rizer."
Wow. Let me check my savings account balance but I'm pretty sure I can't cover $3 million an acre. If you read the post, all the numbers seem to be millions and billions. Loudoun County is like a whole other country. Hmm…kind of like D.C. isn’t really part of the country either, eh?
Context : After a German football team failed to score in five straight matches, their fans decided to get clever and use giant neon arrows to remind their players where the goal was.
Michael Walsh joins CBD and J.J. Sefton to discuss his newest book: Against The Corporate Media, the fall of American media, Iran and Militant Islam, and more!
America's Shadow Head of FEMA Ron DeSantis: It's now too late to evacuate; if you're still at your home, just hunker down and try your best to keep dry and safe.
Yacht or Nyacht? "Goodbye Stranger" by Supertramp Man do I love the instrumental ending. The Yacht or Nyacht website does not even mention Supertramp, not even to say "Nyacht." I'm really starting to doubt the accuracy and integrity of this website and I'm afraid we'll have to resort to our former method of resolving these disputes, fisticuffs and German-style sword dueling.
Because I've decided I'm now an Honorary Italian, and also because I'm burned out, I'll be taking Monday (Columbus Day) off. Just open threads and animal videos. Friday will also be a little low-effort. Sorry, I need some rest! I've got to get back to Sam and Frodo. This Ring won't bear itself.
Whoops, I linked the wrong Salem's Lot trailer in the thread. I specifically praised it for the song choice, but the trailer I linked had no song. Here's the one I intended to link. It's a good song to suggest desiccated evil corpses pretending to be alive.
Pitch Meeting: Megalopolis It's all spoilers, I guess, if this mad mess can even be spoiled. I don't think the story is the main thing here. Not sure what the main thing is. It sounds like something you dream, and you're super-excited about how cool it is, but then you start to write it down and as your mind becomes clearer you say, "Wait a minute, none of this makes any sense! This is just all stupid nonsense-gibberish!" It sounds like a pipe dream. By which I mean, I think someone beat Coppola with a pipe and he went into a coma and when he woke up he said "Sell my vineyard, I've got a script."
Forgotten 80s Mystery Click Some time from now you'll bow to pressure
Some things in life you cannot measure by degrees
I'm between the poles and the equator
Don't send no private investigator
to find me please
'Less he speaks Chinese
And can dance like Astaire overseas
Yacht or Nyacht? I'd say no. It's an 80s song, a bit out of the Yacht Rock Era, and Yacht or Nyacht doesn't even list it. I think this is what MTV used to call "alternative," which wound up just meaning "neither metal, nor hard rock, nor rap, nor outright dance-pop." (Which actually is kind of Yacht Rock's playing field but I still say no, too much accoustic guitar and no electric piano.)
Maddow: JD Vance is a "slicker" speaker only because he, who entered politics like four years ago, has more experience speaking in debates than the 12-year-congressman, current governor of Minnesota. Note that this insane spin -- that a 20-year politician (he deserted his unit in 2004 to run in 2005) has "more experience" debating policy than a neophyte who just joined the game a couple of years ago -- was put out by Walz campaign before the debate, to lower expectations. (Spoiler: He did not lower expectations enough.) And here's the bitter disinformation-pushing conspiracy-queen Rachel Maddow dutifully propagating it.
Asked for comment about the allegations he publicly slapped a woman at Cannes, Doug Emhoff responded, "Kamala was raised in a middle-class household and her mother is nice."
Rich Lowry observed that while both Vance and Walz agreed with each other and polite, it hit different with each. Vance was clearly beating up this fat retard, so his agreement was seen as magnanimous to a clearly-outclassed opponent. Walz's agreement back did not seem magnanimous, as he was not in any position of strength, but seemed like the stupid kid in class agreeing with the smart kid so that the teacher would move on to the next kid. (On Megyn Kelly's post-debate show.)
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