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DC Mayor Muriel Bowser Under Investigation for Bribery From Qatar
—Ace
Ah, Qatar. The country that has bribed a quarter of our politicians, half of our comedians, and three-quarters of our social media influencers.
But at least they're not Jews!
Washington, DC Mayor Muriel Bowser is reportedly the target of a federal corruption investigation over a trip she took with members of staff that was paid for by Qatar.
People familiar with the matter told the New York Times that the inquiry is based on potential bribery or campaign finance law violations. The investigation has reportedly been underway for months, and is being handled by the US Attorney's Office in Washington.
Bowser's office said in a written statement, "This was a business trip. DC representatives regularly travel to promote Washington as a destination for investment and growth." The office said that those efforts have brought business to the city. "All proper paperwork for this standard donation is on file."
I know this might be shocking, but Bowser's "paperwork" lied about who paid for the junket. First she claimed a mayor's group paid, then, when that was proven false, she claimed the trip was paid for by the US Chamber of Commerce.
In fact, the bulk of the trip was paid for by Qatar. And the expenses were significant.
It was revealed that the mayors' group only paid a portion of the cost. The Foundation for Accountability and Civic Trust filed an ethics complaint, which stated that Qatari officials in March sent a letter to the mayor's office showing that the country had paid over $61,000 for Bowser and her staff to come to Doha just before the UN conference.
Justice Department officials in Miami and Washington, D.C., are actively preparing to issue several grand jury subpoenas relating to an investigation into former CIA Director John Brennan, Fox News has learned.
🚨 BREAKING: The DOJ is now sending out grand jury SUBPOENAS in Florida regarding the investigation into disgraced former CIA Director John Brennan, following the criminal referral from DNI Tulsi Gabbard.
Second Circuit Court of Repeals Rebukes and Reverses Lowly District Court Judge, Instructing the Judge to Consider Trump's Motion to Remove the Alvin Bragg "34 Felonies" Case to Federal Court
—Ace
Yes, the rigged, illegal "conviction" that the left never stops gassing us about.
Trump had moved to remove the entire case to federal court. This motion was denied. The Supreme Court's subsequent opinion on presidential immunity suggested that Trump's original motion had more merit than it was credited for, so Trump refiled the motion, asking again to move the entire case out of Alvin Bragg's Soros-Sponsored Kangaroo Court to a federal court.
The lowly district court judge -- once again assigned completely randomly, I'm certain -- again blew off Trump's argument.
The Second Circuit Court of Appeals ordered the judge to reconsider and this time actually consider Trump's argument instead of automatically rejecting it like a corrupt hack.
Okay, they didn't say that. I see that in the Penumbras and Emanations, however.
I think that Trump now has a good basis to insist that only a federal court can hear this case, given the federal questions involved, so the state case should be removed to federal court.
We cannot be confident that in doing so [dismissing Trump's renewed motion as untimely (late)], the District Court adequately considered issues relevant to the good cause inquiry so as to enable meaningful appellate review.
Those issues include but are not limited to the impact of Trump v. United States on the removability of the underlying state prosecution. For example, the District Court did not consider whether certain evidence admitted during the state court trial relates to immunized official acts or, if so, whether evidentiary immunity transformed the State's case into one that relates to acts under color of the Presidency. Nor did the District Court consider whether any notice of removal of a criminal prosecution under sec. 1455(b)(1) must be filed before trial even if new grounds for removal arise during or after trial. We therefore VACATE the District Court's order denying Trump's motion for leave to file a second notice of removal and REMAND for reconsideration of the motion consistent with this opinion.
DO YOUR FUCKING JOB THIS TIME, FAGGOT.
Whoa, that last sentence seems extremely injudicious. I mean, just waaayyy over-of-line. Why not try constructive criticism? Use words that help, not words that hurt.
What does it mean if the case is removed to a federal court?
It could mean that the conviction just vanishes. It could mean the conviction never happened.
Specifically, they're complaining that judges violated the rules about respecting higher courts by anonymously complaining to New York Times "journalists" that the Supreme Court is a deranged authoritarian catspaw of Trump.
In interviews, federal judges called the Supreme Court's emergency orders "mystical," "overly blunt," "incredibly demoralizing and troubling" and "a slap in the face to the district courts." One judge compared their district's current relationship with the Supreme Court to "a war zone." Another said the courts were in the midst of a "judicial crisis." The Times explained that "the judges responded to the questionnaire and spoke in interviews on the condition of anonymity so they could share their views candidly, as lower court judges are governed by a complex set of rules that include limitations on their public statements." The Times went on to characterize these responses and interviews as "overwhelmingly critical of the Supreme Court" and reflective of "extraordinary tensions within the judiciary."
Why do leftwing judges hate the emergency docket? (A docket of cases granted speedy review?)
Well, because it stops their unhinged partisan decisions from standing as the law of the land for more than a year until they're overturned.
RedState's streiff:
Without the SCOTUS emergency docket, lower court decisions could remain in effect for years before getting to the Supreme Court.
For instance, it took the Supreme Court 15 months to hear the "Muslim Travel Ban" case during Trump's first term; see The Trump Travel Ban Probably Survived the Supreme Court -- RedState. It took them an additional two months to finally announce the decision. SCOTUS ruled in Trump's favor, but a frivolous lawsuit had delayed his policy by nearly a year and a half.
Correction: I initially asserted, WITHOUT EVIDENCE, that the 2nd Circuit (a Northeastern circuit including NY and Connecticut and Vermont) was "another left-leaning court."
Elric the Blade says that my information is out of date:
Ace, the second circuit is about 50-50 now, with maybe one extra Dumocrap appointment. Trump added 5 or 6 judges to the 2d Circuit in his first term. It was then fairly conservative, but then Biden added a bunch DEI retards. So now it's close to 50-50. Of course depends on which panel you get. You could get three raving Biden lunatics.
It's the district courts in the 2d circuit that are dominated by leftist retards.
Thanks for the update. (District courts are federal trial courts, the Circuit Courts of Appeal are just appeal courts where judges review rulings from the trial courts, and of course the Supreme Court is the court of final appeal.)
Surprise! A Virologist Warned the "Intel" Community That Covid-19 Did Not Look Natural and Likely Came From a Lab. Then Fauci Had a Chat With Him. And Then He Started Telling the Public and Congress It Must Be a Natural Virus.
Prominent Virologist Warned Intelligence Community COVID-19 Could Have Leaked From Wuhan Lab. Then He Met With Fauci and Changed His Tune.
The researcher, UNC professor Ralph Baric, also privately downplayed the wet market theory but publicly lent it credit
A prominent U.S. virologist who collaborated with the Wuhan Institute of Virology before the COVID-19 pandemic privately informed the U.S. intelligence community in January 2020 that the Chinese lab may be responsible for the outbreak. But in his public remarks to congressional staffers one month later--and after meeting with former White House health adviser Anthony Fauci--the researcher stayed mum about the Wuhan lab and lent credence to the discredited wet market theory.
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill virologist Dr. Ralph Baric warned the Office of the Director of National Intelligence during a closed-door presentation with the agency's Biological Sciences Experts Group on or around Jan. 29, 2020, that the Wuhan lab, which was conducting risky gain-of-function experiments on bat viruses similar to the one that causes COVID-19, may have accidentally released the virus into the human population. Baric's presentation, which the Washington Free Beacon obtained from a whistleblower, went beyond mere speculation: Considered one of the world's foremost experts on coronaviruses, Baric experimented with coronaviruses in 2015 with the Wuhan Institute of Virology's top researcher, Shi Zhengli. Later, in early 2024, he testified to House investigators that he had privately warned Shi that her lab lacked sufficient biosafety protections and that he always believed a lab leak origin was possible.
But Baric had nothing to say about the Wuhan lab in his public remarks during the early days of the pandemic as the press cast Sen. Tom Cotton (R., Ark.) and other proponents of the lab leak theory as unhinged conspiracy theorists.
Huh. You don't say.
Baric's private presentation to the intelligence community in January 2020, which was first disclosed Friday by Sen. Rand Paul (R., Ky.), was almost identical to a public briefing he delivered to the Congressional Biomedical Research Caucus the following month on Feb. 26, 2020. For the public presentation, however, Baric removed the slides referencing the possibility that the virus could have leaked from the Wuhan Institute of Virology.
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Rutgers University professor of chemical biology Richard Ebright, one of the most prominent academic proponents of the lab leak theory, said it was no coincidence that Baric omitted his references to the Wuhan Institute of Virology in his public presentation. Ebright said Baric held a "highly unusual one-on-one meeting" with Fauci on Feb. 11, 2020, an appointment reflected in a copy of Fauci's schedule obtained through a Freedom of Information Act Request.
At the time, Fauci was quietly coordinating efforts to cast the lab leak theory as a baseless conspiracy. Fauci and former National Institutes of Health director Francis Collins were also warned about the Wuhan lab's potential role in the outbreak during a Feb. 1, 2020, conference call. But instead of heeding those warnings, Collins and Fauci, who led the federal agencies that funded gain-of-function research with the Wuhan Institute of Virology, set out to cast discussions of lab origin of COVID-19 as a baseless conspiracy theory.
Collins lamented in an email exchange with Fauci the next day that discussion of a lab origin of COVID-19 "would do great potential harm to science and international harmony."
Trust the experts, peons.
They are above suspicion. Unlike non-experts, they all have sterling characters and possess no human flaws that can be exploited. They are never motivated by money or self-interest.
Did you know that being accredited makes you an actual angel created directly by the hand of God Himself?
It's true, Racists. Read a fucking book once in a while. Ever hear of "the Bible"? It's in there, somewhere.
Sydney Sweeney Is Repeatedly Badgered by a Woke Ugly Karen "Journalist" To Apologize for Being White and Pretty, and Keeps On Not Apologizing
—Ace
Struggle Session rejected.
Do you repent of your race, Sinner?
Usually I start with real news and do a fun silly post later in the day, but the whole internet has been buzzing about this since last night so f*** it, I'm doing it live.
The woke left media is still demanding Sydney Sweeney apologize for her "great genes/jeans" ad. They are still after her to admit it was a Race Crime to make so many neurotic, hysterical, internet-addicted Karens upset by making a dumb pun Brooke Shields made in her jeans ads in 1980.
This gross, manipulative cow interviewing her even demanded she apologize for being "white" and speaking, she claims, of "genetic superiority."
So what you're saying is that lobsters have better jeans than minority women?
Same vibe.
If you're a fan of the Annikin/Padme meme, where Padme pleads with Annikin to mean something less dark than what he clearly meant, and Annikin just gives her a dead-eyed dark stare in return, Sydney Sweeney now has you covered.
Goodyear Senior Executive Outsourced Jobs to India While Personally Benefitting from the Outsourcing Industry…annnnd She Just Departed Goodyear after Being Exposed
—Buck Throckmorton
Corporate America has a problem. Its C-suites are stocked with ethically compromised individuals who have embraced a hostility to American labor, while wrapping themselves in a veneer of wokeness to cover the depth of their corruption and self-serving behavior.
I periodically like to highlight examples of this America-last, corporate corruption. Here is another example:
This scandal has already taken down one Goodyear executive, Mamatha Chamarthi. The company’s CEO, Mark Stewart, has not yet resigned, even though he is in the thick of the scandal. He needs to be dismissed by Goodyear’s Board of Directors. (But of course, the Board probably think they work for him, not vice versa.) Here is what happened:
• CEO Mark Stewart hired Mamatha Chamarthi as Goodyear’s “Chief Digital Officer” in 2024. Under Ms. Chamarthi’s direction, Goodyear is aggressively outsourcing jobs to India, with the full blessing of the CEO.
Tech Mahindra, one of India’s leading IT services companies, is finalizing plans to establish a global capability center (GCC) for Ohio-based Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co in Hyderabad. The center, expected to employ 3,000 professionals, will focus on managing Goodyear’s research and development (R&D) and IT operations.
It goes without saying that Hyderabad is not in Ohio. It’s in India.
• Ms. Chamarthi is also the co-founder of T200, an organization with a goal of “Empowering Women in Technology.”
• Accenture is a company that specializes in providing outsourcing services and consultation, with a special focus on outsourcing jobs to India. Accenture is a potential contractor for Goodyear’s outsourcing contracts. The CEO of Accenture is Julie Sweet.
• A few weeks ago, T200 held its “Soar 2025” conference at Accenture headquarters in Chicago. Two of the three featured speakers at the T200 conference were Accenture CEO Julie Sweet and Goodyear CEO Mark Stewart.
• At the conclusion of the seminar, T200 put up a post at Linked-In that read, ”Thank you Julie Sweet and Accenture for your generous donation to T200.”
• News of this apparent kickbackdonation from Accenture to Ms. Chamarthi quickly spread among Goodyear employees and Reddit boards. Twitter/X user Karl Hollywood (@WokeCapital) picked up the story and spread it further.
• Without any press release or other announcement, Ms. Chamarthi suddenly departed Goodyear. Her biography page on the Goodyear corporate website was just scrubbed. This is the link which now reads “Sorry! We couldn’t find the page you’re looking for.” This is what used to be at the link:
• CEO Mark Stewart then provided an internal memo to Goodyear’s Global Digital & IT Associates reading in part, “Mamatha Chamarthi has left Goodyear. This departure does not change the strategic importance of our digital and IT transformation to our business. We have begun an external search for a leader with deep technical expertise and a proven track record in delivering end-to-end global IT and digital strategies…”
• Even as the behind-the-scenes drama that cost Ms. Chamarthi her job was playing out at Goodyear, Schlumberger (now known as SLB Limited) appointed her to their Board of Directors.
Ms. Chamarthi will also serve on the Board’s Audit Committee and Energy Innovation and Technology Committee. Ms. Chamarthi brings innovative technology and transformation experience to the Board. Ms. Chamarthi is the Senior Vice President and Chief Digital Officer of The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company, a position she has held since July 2024.
• But just a few days later, Ms. Chamarthi was forced to resign from her newly appointed board position, as word apparently reached her fellow Schlumberger directors that Ms. Chamarthi’s ethical lapses had just ended her Goodyear career.
SLB Limited (NYSE:SLB) reported that Mamatha Chamarthi resigned from its Board of Directors on Sunday. According to the company’s statement in a Securities and Exchange Commission filing, Chamarthi’s resignation was not the result of any disagreement with SLB.
In contrast to the ethical rot that has infected Goodyear and much of the rest of corporate America, I work with many small businesses whose owners and executives are model citizens. They are generous, patriotic, loyal to their employees, and devoted to their local communities for whom they contribute so much economically. These small businesses and their owners are what make me such a proud free marketeer.
But with corporate America having become so unethical and so hostile to American labor, while also switching its allegiance from the United States to countries in Asia, a backlash is developing. The left may have co-opted the executive suites of major corporations, but the left also still dreams of imposing socialism. Team Mamdani is not a friend of corporations. But it is becoming mighty hard for those of us on the right to keep defending corporations who are so antagonistic toward everyday Americans, especially when they are engaged in such corrupt behavior for the benefit of their executives.
Corporate America must clean itself up, or voters will eventually impose a clean-up on Corporate America.
One last thing that I may want to address more fully in the future…
People like me who were once fervently anti-union, and who consistently voted to weaken organized labor, have been betrayed. In 1980, about 22% of the American workforce was unionized. People like me argued that unions made corporations less competitive due to inflated labor costs not based on market labor rates, and especially because they were paying full-time wages to idle employees and to early retirees. While I was always willing to acknowledge that unions had once served a purpose in improving hours and labor conditions, I argued that the day had passed for labor unions. And indeed, the era of private-sector unions did pass. Only about 6% of America’s private-sector work force is now unionized. My side won! We defeated organized labor and made it nearly irrelevant. So how did corporate America thank people like me for unburdening them from unions? They spit in our faces by proceeding to offshore every possible job they could. And for those jobs they couldn’t offshore, they aggressively imported a low-wage, H1B workforce that is effectively a form of chattel labor. Absolute betrayal.
Mostly, though, Pelosi helped Trump win his historic second-term comeback in 2024 by backing Joe Biden and his disastrous policies, everything from open borders to appeasing Iran to vaccine mandates and all the terrible choices that led to record inflation. Worse still was her role in the cover-up of Biden’s cognitive decline and her immediate endorsement of Kamala Harris to take Biden’s place in the 2024 presidential election, which meant no primary for the so-called pro-democracy party.
Above all, Pelosi was so polarizing and divisive that throughout her role on the national stage after becoming House Speaker in 2007, she was not only one of the most consistently unpopular politicians in the country, but she also helped the GOP raise money like no one else.
Bye, Nancy. You won’t be missed. Enjoy your ice cream and Scrooge McDuck pile of unearned money.
Most egregious was her role indirectly and in my view directly of the chaos that ensued on 1/6/21 at the Capitol first by her refusing to allow President Trump to call out the troops to secure DC and then in her role as the chief of the Capitol Police, whose ineptitude and or intentional actions allowed the ensuing civil disturbance to escalate to a point where two innocent women, Ashli Babbitt and Roseanne Boyland wound up dead at the hands of her officers and other unknown law enforcement agents. This allowed her and her ilk to transmogrify the events into a charge of insurrection against Trump and to brand him and his voters as dangerous, treasonous, racist Nazis, fascists and traitors, etc. etc. All of which has escalated to the point where she and her party and their base now have a license to commit literal murder and terrorist acts because they view themselves as defenders of democracy and us as an existential evil to be eradicated. Three attempts on Trump and one successful take down of Charlie Kirk, plus the weaponization of our Judiciary, intel and LE agencies as instruments of political repression against anyone and everyone who opposes the Democrat Party and its rule.
I assert that the events of 1/6/21 were engineered in part by Pelosi, Obama and a cabal that included Brennan, Clapper, Comey and the cadre of power-mad tyrants who engineered the Russia Collusion hoax, aided and abetted by cops on the take, then prosecutors and judges who collectively became the American Gestapo and Gulag commandants and guards of the J-6 political prisoners.
Of course now, the Democrat Party is openly bust-out proudly Democrat/Soy-cialist/Islamist nearly to the point of being the closest thing to Ba'athist that we have yet encountered — and unless and until there is a radical (ironic that word) change of course in our society, it will only get worse from here.
So why is Pelosi ankling? Does she sense her own physical mortality or is it that she thinks she may be targeted for termination by the Titty-Caca up and comers that she herself had an outsized role in creating in the first place.
Like Zohran Mamdani, Scott Wiener is the frightening face of a new Democratic Party, in which letting children get transgender surgeries is just the tip of the iceberg. From letting the state take gay kids away from their parents to legalizing pedophilia, Wiener makes even the most radical member of Congress look like a moderate. . .In the Golden State, Wiener has pushed socially seismic policies that allow male sex offenders live in female prisons if they claim to be transgender, to exempt gay sex offenders from the state registry if the minor is at least 14 and within a 10-year age gap, and to make California a “haven” for out-of-state kids to come for sex changes without their parents’ consent.
Just as a reminder that Islam was founded by a megalomaniacal, bloodthirsty savage pedophile. And Islam is a growing factor in the Democrat party. If the Bro-Fo Omars and Rancida Tlaibs weren't a wakeup call then for sure this Mamdani cancer in NYC ought to be.
whether Weiner or someone else wins Pelosi's House seat, one thing is certain, with San Francisco the modern equivalent of Sodom on the Pacific, and now with California slated to get at least 5 more House seats which thanks to Newsom's Prop 50 will likely be all Democrat. The only question is will they be Stalinist or merely Trotskyite? So Pelosi is gone, but the Democrat bench is ugly dark and deep.
There are many conclusions to be drawn from resounding Democrat victories in Tuesday’s elections, but perhaps none is sadder than this: the left suffered little blowback from the assassination of Charlie Kirk. In the aftermath of Kirk’s killing, there was a sense that it could be a momentous event in U.S. history, and a wake-up call for the right and the country as a whole. Not only had extreme anti-conservative rhetoric culminated in the murder of arguably the GOP’s brightest young star, but platforms like Bluesky and Reddit showcased the left immediately reveling in the gruesome shooting of an innocent man. .. Two months after the assassination, on Tuesday, Jay Jones was elected Virginia’s AG despite leaked text messages in which he fantasized about the violent death of a Republican lawmaker and that lawmaker’s “little fascist“ children. Jones’ candidacy was a morbid litmus test as to whether Kirk’s death created any significant ramifications for Democrats, with the results being a very clear “no.”
. . . The lack of fallout over Kirk’s assassination has proved once again that the left is vastly more adept at following Rahm Emmanuel’s famous advice never to let tragedies go to waste. Kirk’s death, politically speaking, was a blip compared to George Floyd’s, for instance. The date Kirk was slain is not common knowledge, unlike that of the Capitol riots, which have been forever branded in the public memory, 9-11 style, as “January 6.”
. . . The devastating irony is that Kirk would have been the first Republican to realize that the party needed to respond aggressively to his murder and leverage it to force a change in Democratic behavior. He would have recognized the opportunity to continue pushing the issue until Democrats were held accountable for both their rhetoric leading up to the fatal shot and the widespread, disgusting reactions by their base during the aftermath. Instead, in Kirk’s absence, the GOP dropped the ball and allowed the event to exit the news cycle without any major consequences for Democrats. By failing to draw a line even at murder, Republicans have left an open question as to where the boundary is for the left, or whether one even exists.
First of all, and it's no excuse, "the news cycle" is controlled by some of the loudest cheerleaders of Charlie Kirk's assassination.
If we not only cannot seek redress as guaranteed by our Constitutional first amendment rights, or in what is supposed to be the fairest most impartial judicial system yet seen by humanity, then we as a society are lost and when just the opposite happens, that the state or those who wield its power and its supporters are seen as above the law and the arbiters of what is and what is not legal then we as a society are finished, America is dead. Then all bets are off.
If as I pray with all my might we are not at that point and never get even close to it, then this situation cannot go on and must not go on. And what cannot go on, ultimately will not go on. After that, I can't see what the future holds, and I'm too damned scared to even hazard a guess.
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“There will be some pretty substantial damage done to a Democratic brand that has been rehabilitated, if on the heels of an election in which the people told us to keep fighting, we immediately stop fighting,” Murphy told Punchbowl News on Thursday morning. “We’re going to start operating on an increasingly short calendar. The 2026 election is just 12 months away. And if we surrender without having gotten anything, and we cause a lot of folks in this country who had started to believe in the Democratic Party to retreat again, I worry that it will be hard to sort of get them back up off the mat in time for next fall’s election cycle.” Democrats Vow To Continue Shutdown For Sake Of The Party’s ‘Brand’
The truth is that SNAP expansions increase the price of groceries regardless of bureaucratic micromanagement. According to a 2023 analysis by the Foundation for Government Accountability using retail scanner data from the World Bank, food prices increase 1% for each 12.5% increase in per-capita food stamp spending. SNAP Program Rules Take A Bite Out Of Taxpayers
Tariffs have been around for a long time, imposed by nearly every U.S. president. A Tariff is Not a Tax
CRIME & PUNISHMENT, NON-DOSTOYEVSKY
Boeing remains a very untrustworthy company, with a corporate culture that does not appear to require high standards, or even low standards, while allowing corruption and fraud to run rampant. This deal in many ways lets it off the hook. At the same time, the deal is clearly an effort by Justice to give Boeing another opportunity to reform itself. We shall see if it works. Skepticism is certainly called for. Judge approves plea deal related to Boeing’s malfeasance that caused two 737-Max crashes killing 346
OFFICIAL DEMOCRAT PARTY/LEFTIST-ENDORSED ANTI-SEMITISM, ANTI-CHRISTIANITY
The COPs, formally named the “Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC),” are annual gatherings attracting thousands of people to discuss eradicating fossil fuels, the alleged “green” transition, and implementing globalist climate proposals such as the Paris Climate Agreement. Syria’s Jihadi President Lands in Brazil for U.N. Climate Alarmism Summit
The CEO of BH Group in Miami, Isaac Toledano, explained that his company “has closed more than $100 million in signed contracts from New York buyers in just the past few months – about twice last year’s volume,” and he believes a lot of it has to do with politics, the outlet reported Wednesday. He said, “I think the election accelerated how people make decisions. I think people are nervous [for] what’s coming, how it’s going to affect their lifestyle, the quality of life, taxes, potential of crime [or] no crime.” Developer: Florida Real Estate Surges as New Yorkers ‘Nervous’ About Socialist Zohran Mamdani
Voters struggled to answer why they were happy about Mamdani’s victory and could not explain what his policies were while they were questioned by journalist Cam Higby. Not a single Mamdani voter could explain how the upcoming mayor will be able to pay for his programs, such as free buses and government-run grocery stores. Tons Of Mamdani Supporters Don’t Actually Know Why They Voted For Him
The uncomfortable truth is that capitalism as an economic system may not survive in a political equilibrium in which wealth is increasingly concentrated at the top. Why is Support for Socialism Growing?
This is all just speculation, of course. The Colorado thing really got me going. Also, I've seen a lot of people on both the left and the right openly fantasizing about, or advocating for, the Balkanization of the United States. Peaceful coexistence doesn't seem to be on the table at the moment. Will There Be Any Purple States in 10 Years? 5 Years? (Meh, will there be any United States of America even?! - jjs)
Sec. Noem traveled to Ecuador on Wednesday and met with President Noboa. Her two-day visit marks the second time Noem has visited the South American country this year. The officials discussed the possible installation of Homeland Security bases in the coastal cities of Manta and Salinas as part of Noboa’s efforts to combat organized transnational crime, given their strategic access to Pacific waters and already-available infrastructure. Ecuador’s President Vows to End Drug Trafficking in Meeting with Kristi Noem
Fred FLeitz: Trump and Orbán reunite at the White House to fortify borders, counter globalism, and advance a shared vision of national sovereignty. Why the Trump/Orbán Friendship Matters
Supporting Israel isn’t a betrayal of America First—it’s a strategic necessity for defending Western values and national security. ‘America First’ and Israel
In a 2-1 ruling, the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that the group of Chinese nationals challenging parts of the law (SB 264) lacked standing to bring their suit. The decision comes after the district court denied plaintiffs’ request for a preliminary injunction blocking the statute’s enforcement. Appeals Court Upholds Florida Law Restricting Chinese Communist Land Purchases
Late-night hosts Jimmy Kimmel and Stephen Colbert were crowing after the Muslim socialist won the mayor’s office with Kimmel thrilled to say Mamdani’s election was a swipe at President Donald Trump. Colbert was ecstatic that Mamdani’s win was a slap at “billionaires.” Stephen Colbert, Jimmy Kimmel Celebrate Socialist Zohran Mamdani’s NYC Mayor Election
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To reach that level would require the company to reach a market cap of $8.5 trillion, up from $1.5 trillion today, which would require the bubble to inflate for at least a couple more years.
Finland is doubling down on evidence from four years ago that definitively shows how children can avoid diseases and allergies throughout their lives if they’re permitted to get down and dirty in daycare.
Dozens of comparative studies have previously found that children who live in rural areas and are in contact with nature have a lower probability of catching an illness resulting from disorders in the immune system—and a lower risk of developing coeliac disease, allergies, atopy, and even diabetes.
A 2021 study conducted at a Finnish daycare and published in Science Advances showed that repeated contact with nature-like elements five times a week diversified the body’s microbes which offered protection against diseases transmitted through the immune system in daycare children.
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Each human individual is actually an environment in themselves: a host of trillions of microorganisms, including bacteria, viruses, and fungi. These collectively outnumber our own cells 4-1, and are emerging as one of the most influential forces—if not truly the single most—in human health and function.
Check out the whole thing.
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Doggos are good for kids too. I could watch this all day!
It’s not everyday that Henry the polar bear sees something that weighs more than he does.
At 1,200-pounds, the polar bear is the world’s largest land predator, but here was something substantially heavier, and it was just sitting there in his enclosure.
Defensive at first, Henry eventually dug into the sweet crunchy flesh of a giant, 1,400 lbs. pumpkin that was donated to the nonprofit that looks after him. The photos will steal a chuckle out of anyone.
Valdir Segato, a Brazilian bodybuilder known for using synthol injections to enlarge his muscles, died on his 55th birthday.
Segato had been injecting himself with synthol injections for years to increase the size of his biceps, chest, and back. This practice is risky and can lead to serious health issues such as strokes, infections, and even permanent muscle damage.
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Doctors had warned him as early as six years ago that continued use of synthol injections could lead to severe nerve damage, muscle deformities, or even limb amputation. Nevertheless, he pushed forward with his extreme bodybuilding goals, growing his biceps to 23 inches and earning the nickname “the monster” in his neighborhood.
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On the morning of his death, a neighbor named Moisés da Conceição da Silva said Segato appeared at their home struggling to breathe and begged for help, saying, “Help me because I’m dying.” He was taken to a local medical facility, but collapsed at the front desk, reportedly suffering a heart attack.
Dude shoulda just called these guys
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Republicans -- Get This -- Compromise With Democrats for CR
—Ace
Before that, an update to the J6 pipe bomb story.
The story is on hold.
Steve Baker
@SteveBakerUSA
🚨Update on J6 Pipe Bomber Report🚨
After an abundance of counsel from trusted parties within and outside the government, we've hit the pause button so those interested parties can have some more time to look at the J6 pipe bomber evidence. There are things they need to do internally.
This is a real story. When it breaks, it's going to be a HUGE story. There are a lot of moving parts, but we need to give them time to do what they need to do, and I know everyone is waiting. Believe me. Tensions are running high. There have been a lot of sleepless nights the last two weeks. But this is a game-changer, and we don't want to do anything to jeopardize that right now.
I was up at 3:30 am preparing the video clips for the release on this morning's Glenn Beck Program. Contrary to what so many X complainers will say, this wasn't a hype stunt for views and clicks. And no, the government didn't silence us. Glenn and I both were pretty amped up to put it all out this morning. And we were both very disappointed when the decision to postpone was made.
The government's investigation into the J6 pipe bombs was going nowhere just two weeks ago. Today I can tell you that has all changed. A bunch of people got pretty spun up yesterday.
Hang tight. It's all coming.
DISAPPOINTED!!!!
Well, this is understandable. They are about to name a citizen as a criminal who has been sought (sort of...) by the feds for almost five years. The story can't just be dashed off like an internet post; it needs a full legal scub-down by defamation lawyers.
Still:
DISAPPOINTED!!!!
On to the story of Republicans caving.
Here's why Republicans are caving: Despite the fact that it is the Democrats keeping the government shut down, the propaganda media has convinced the cow-like public that it's the Republicans who are to blame.
If they do press on, if they do keep the government closed, Democrats will be acting with confidence that comes from a number of polls that show more people blame Republicans for the shutdown than blame the Democrats, who actually caused the impasse. Two polls out just before the election, one from the Washington Post and the other from NBC News, both found that more people blamed Republicans for the shutdown than blamed Democrats.
That seems odd, given the plain facts of the case: Democrats are filibustering the government-opening bill. But it makes more sense after looking at media coverage of the standoff. In a new report, the Media Research Center's NewsBusters studied broadcast newscasts for October and noted that "the big three broadcast networks (ABC, CBS, and NBC) have hammered both congressional Republicans and President Trump with a wall of negative shutdown coverage, while largely shielding Democrats from blame for the now-historic gridlock."
"Coverage across all three networks was conspicuously vague about how the shutdown had even occurred," the MRC report continued. "There were only 12 instances in which any of the three outlets hinted that Senate Democrats had voted repeatedly against a continuing resolution." Just informally reading print coverage of the shutdown, it's interesting to note that many articles discussed the internal Republican debate on ending the filibuster but did not specifically say the reason for the debate is that Senate Democrats are employing the filibuster to block a government funding bill that has majority support.
This must be because the GOP isn't anti-Israel enough. (According to Israel obsessives on the pseudoright.)
We're going to be delivering them a win in exchange for opening the government:
Andrew Desiderio
@AndrewDesiderio
THUNE told Senate Republicans to plan to stay here this weekend & that he'll tee up the House-passed CR for a vote TOMORROW -- but he said he was unsure if enough Dems would back it.
60+ would need to get on the bill and then amend
To the point about GOP skepticism -- Dems likely wouldn't provide the votes to advance the House-passed CR until there's clarity on *what* the final deal actually is.
CR end-date is still not ironed out, for example. And Dems demanding RIF language after R's expressed openness
I believe RIF means "Reduction in Force." Democrats want to force Trump to hire back all the useless leftwing bureaucrats fired by DOGE. Or maybe just fired during the shutdown. (But did we actually fire anyone during the shutdown, or did we just threaten to?)
How many we're agreeing to, I don't know.
Andrew Desiderio
@AndrewDesiderio
MORE -- Dems came to consensus that they should hold out a bit longer (i.e. block Fri procedural vote) to try to extract more from GOP, such as language on RIFs (which R’s injected into the convo)
Belief is they can get a better deal & shouldn’t fold for what’s currently on table
Early on, some R's privately grumbled about RIFs and blue-state funding freezes because Dems would likely use it as a bargaining chip in a deal to get out of the shutdown.
That is in fact what's happening
Byron York
@ByronYork
Bad precedent: Democrats will be rewarded for shutting down the government. Republicans did not insist on hard line. And biased media coverage helps shield Democrats from the consequences of what they have done
Well, if this just means that Trump will hire back people he fired during the shutdown and undo the funding freezes he imposed during the shutdown -- that's not catastrophic.
Look, let's be serious: Those were always bargaining points, intended to be leverage and ultimately bargained away.
If that's the price of opening the government and paying the troops and air-traffic controllers, shrug.
If that's all it is.
Democrats have also demanded that they be given a vote on spending taxpayer dollars on illegal aliens and extending the supposed "emergency" Obamacare subsidies Biden enacted.
But here's the rub: The deal they want is that that stuff would not require a 60-vote cloture vote to come to a vote, but would proceed directly to a vote where all you need is 51 votes.
Murkowski, Collins, Bill Cassidy and I'm sure a couple of other fake Republicans would then deliver Democrats their victory.
That would be a huge concession.
The Democrats never gave us anything.
The Republicans, of course, make concessions to terrorists.
"We Must Stop Fighting, We Cannot Divide the Right*" * "Except for Tucker Carlson Who Is Allowed to Continue #Cancelling All Jewish Republicans He Doesn't Like"
—Ace
David Strom has a good piece: How can the Tucker Apologists claim that we mustn't attack Tucker Carlson for his, erm, evolution, while his entire show consists of relentlessly attacking Republicans himself?
Is it just some Republicans -- and anti-Republican, anti-MAGA Nazis -- who are afforded this Identitarian Privilege?
Is it, or should it be true that in order to win, we should follow the principle that there are "no enemies to the right?"
On its face, the principle makes sense. After all, elections are won by adding together enough voters and voting blocs to get a plurality of the vote. Unless you have more voters than the other side(s), you lose. So if you see a group of voters who might be persuaded to vote along with you, it makes sense to either appeal to them or, at the very least, not criticize them.
This is the essence of some conservatives' arguments that the critiques of Tucker Carlson, Nick Fuentes, and Heritage Foundation President Kevin Roberts are counterproductive. Some would toss Candace Owens into the mix, but fewer because she now just seems kooky to people.
At least I hope so.
There are a number of problems I see with this seemingly plausible argument, morally, intellectually, and electorally, where the rubber meets the road.
First, let's get this out of the way: Nick Fuentes is not a conservative, nor is he somebody who could (at least reliably) be included in the Republican coalition even if we wanted him to be. He is a racist, authoritarian, antisemitic bottom feeder who says he is on "Team Hitler," admires Josef Stalin, attacks JD Vance for marrying his wife, and who literally campaigned against Donald Trump in the last election.
He's not only a scumbag, but he spends a lot of time trying to kick people OUT OF the Republican coalition because they don't fit his model for what America should look like.
Anybody who says "no enemies on the right has to explain why this is not a declaration of enmity TO the right:
"No enemies on the right?" Nick Fuentes is not on the right, and he has declared himself to be an ENEMY of the right. Anybody who defends him as a potential ally is an idiot or disingenuous.
A lot more clips at the article. I've spent the whole day retweeting clips of Nick Fuentes:
1, telling people to vote for Kamala Harris
2, jubilantly gloating that "MAGA" lost Tuesday's election
3, proclaiming that he will destroy MAGA
And this is the person that Tucker Carlson, Megyn Kelly, and Matt Walsh tell us we must not "cancel" because he's "on our side" and we have no enemies to the right?
Even though he declares himself to be the right's enemy every chance he gets?
Are you quite sure you're advancing the Republican Party?
Because it sure seems like you are advancing the Nazi Party, at the direct expense of the Republican Party.
But whatever, Tucker Carlson is a "friend" to these people (which I imagine for most of them means that Tucker has DM'd them to plant his chosen stories, like my Best Friend Jake Tapper did with me, and they feel they must pledge their eternal liege-ship to this lord because he's Appeared on Television and anyone who's Appeared on Television is a high-ranking Nobleman).
I wrote about Megyn Kelly, Matt Walsh, and various other numbskulls and shills for Nazis claiming that to exclude Nazis from our party would be a "cancellation" and gee fellas, we don't cancel people, do we?
Why yes.
Yes we do. In politics -- you bet we cancel. In fact, "cancellation" is the primary tactical objective in politics.
Let me explain.
The Reaping Phase
@AceofSpadesHQ
A thread: "Cancellation" versus "Just normal politics"
A few years back, when people started really getting animated about cancelling cancel culture, people began suggesting that pumping out dirt about a political opponent during a campaign might be like "cancellation."
After all, a political campaign consists of digging up past statements and actions of a person to try to get them fired -- or at least not hired -- for a job. In this case, the job of being an elected official.
And so people began to wonder: "Wait, if I just dredge up derogatory information about a politician to try to get him 'fired' -- or turned out of office -- isn't that like a cancellation?"
The answer is, and always was: Yes, that is exactly like a cancellation.
But here's the thing: That's how politics works. It's how it's always worked.
The problem is not in "cancelling" politicians -- it's in waging political campaigns against private citizens.
In other words: Politics is dirty and what makes it dirty and seedy is exactly this nasty practice of digging dirt on someone who is usually a perfect stranger to try to keep them from assuming an office. It feels nasty. Because it is nasty.
But there's no other way to do it.
The problem came after Obama's Ascension when people, mostly on the left but sometimes on the right, began using the nasty tactics of political campaigns against private citizens holding private, not public, jobs.
Suddenly we didn't just have public votes about who would be mayor or governor or an elected judge.
No, suddenly we were having public plebiscites, usually on Twitter, about whether someone could continue in his job as an ARCHITECT at a private firm.
We weren't just combing through political candidates' twitter feeds to find statements that revealed their true intentions and true political beliefs.
Added on edit:
And we do this to judge their real agenda. Politicians lie, and we cannot compel them to take lie-detector test, so we comb through past statements to check if their current claims track with their prior ones.
Back to original post:
Now we were combing through private citizens' old statements to get them fired from their jobs as a truck driver.
Politics itself always has and always will involve this "cancellation" tactic.
The sin was in turning every single aspect of normal civilian life into a political campaign, where people were forced to issue political statements to appease a mob to remain employed as a doctor.
We must allow the dirty practice of dredging up old statements and ruthlessly interrogating people's characters and beliefs when "hiring" them for -- electing them to -- political office.
We must NOT allow this practice when determining if a plumber can remain a plumber.
Turning to Tucker Carlson: Tucker Carlson and his defenders are now claiming that it's similarly a "cancellation" when some people attempt to reduce someone's political influence or exclude him from a political movement.
WRONG. Just like with "canceling" a politician seeking office, politics ALWAYS consists of elevating political leaders, including thought leaders, you agree with and marginalizing or denigrating those you don't agree with.
Tucker Carlson can hardly dispute this, as he is currently waging nonstop political campaigns to reduce the influence of Ted Cruz, Mark Levin, Ben Shapiro, and anyone else he deems insufficiently anti-Israel.
It cannot possibly be the "rule" that Tucker Carlson can wage endless political war -- filled with nasty insinuations and questions about "dual loyalty" -- against his enemies but the rest of us are all required to bow to Tucker or else we "cancel" him.
Indeed, no one in the MAGA movement can possibly object to reducing people's influence or excluding them from positions of influence in a political movement because, of course, well did that together in displacing and ejecting the neocons and NeverTrumpers.
And there is and was NOTHING WRONG WITH THAT. Politics consist of forming alliances and coalitions and, critically, excluding those from your coalition who do not agree with you or who would harm your coalition.
This is the most basic, fundamental aspect of the right of free association. When I form my political coalition, I have to define what it is, and more importantly, what it is NOT.
No one in MAGA would welcome in a bunch of Zohran Mamdani communists. We would suspect that they intended to subvert our movement and turn it into something antithetical to our beliefs (and we'd be right).
We do not have to "unite with communists."
There is nothing wrong with this. We MUST do it. If we just allow left-wing Democrats and actual communists (and jihadists) to "join MAGA," well, that's the end of MAGA. We would admit a large block of people who want to change MAGA into an Islamist-Communist movement.
So now comes Tucker Carlson demanding we change MAGA -- and remember, the top dog of MAGA is vociferously pro-Israel -- and that we have to admit some extremely unsavory, Nazi-leaning (at least) antisemites into the party.
And when we say "No," he says: You're cancelling us.
Is that cancellation? Is it also "cancellation" if I say that AOC, Zohran Mamdani, and Elizabeth Warren also must not be permitted to be influencers and leaders in MAGA?
What is the difference, apart from some people really really liking Carlson's antisemitic turn?
Tucker's guest and apparent ally Nick Fuentes told us "Grow up, Hitler was cool, just admit it."
Well let me say to the Tucker/Fuentes supporters: "Grow up, stop claiming we're not allowed to do politics in actual politics."
Tucker wants to change MAGA. I like it as it is.
All of these are arguments are self-serving and cynical, just attempting to privilege one political position -- the anti-Israel and usually antisemitic one -- as beyond contestation and argument and political opposition.
If Tucker Carlson can continue endlessly attempting to eject -- to "cancel" -- Mark Levin, Ted Cruz, and Ben Shapiro from his 'Face It, Hitler was Cool" movement, then we are allowed to similarly eject, to "cancel," him.
Period.
Grow up.
End of Twitter thread.
Seriously -- I'm supposed to "unite" with this guy, who constantly attacks the right and threatens to destroy the right in future elections?
And if I tell this malignant faggot of a Hitler-loving Twink to fuck off -- I'm "dividing the right?"
Fuck you!
My message to every MAGA Inc talking head who ignored what the America First people have been saying.
I am no fan of Lindsey Graham, but how can Tucker's "friends" and sycophants tell me I can't push Tucker out of the party, when Tucker spends every day nominating Republicans for cancellation?
I agree that some of these people should be cancelled -- but how can Tucker and his Army of Cucks then tell me I shouldn't dare cancel Tucker because that would be like being a soyboy beta cuck SJW?
Their other move is claiming that "Tucker and Nick Fuentes are just criticizing Israel, are you saying we can't criticize Israel?"
When is Israel mentioned in the below clip?
It's not complicated at all
Jews are running society
Women need to shut the fuck up
Blacks need to be imprisoned ( for the most part )
Here, Fuentes calls for the "death penalty" for any American Jews who hold any position of power in American politics or culture.
Again, no "criticism of Israel" -- just a demand that Jews be purged from American society, by means of executions.
I don’t get why people are buying Fuentes’ makeover. As he moves closer to the mainstream he’s busily denying violent intent — yet his 2024 statements made it clear.
"At the high levels of society and specifically among the Jews. They are evil doers. They are people that worship… pic.twitter.com/h1bxxssiLE
Just lmao at the logic: Because the Left falsely smeared the Right as Nazis, therefore actual Nazis must be embraced by the Right.
There's this self-serving mass delusion in the content creator Right that cancel culture was bad because Nazis were canceled. Cancel culture was bad because PEOPLE WHO WEREN'T NAZIS were canceled.
Obviously correct, but she's a Crafty Jew so do not be mesmerized by her Jewish word-sorcery.
But this Venomous Jewess makes a good point: No, we shouldn't cancel people that the left calls Nazis.
But how about... the people who self-identify as Nazis? Who routinely say "Heil Hitler"?
Who instruct us that Hitler was "really really cool"? Who record "Fuhrer Friday" podcasts?
Who demand the execution of Jews who hold positions of influence in America?
Who routinely throw up the Seig Heil salute?
Not the fake one the left sees when anyone on the right lifts his arm up.
No, I mean real, deliberate, full-on Nazi salute, right in your face?
How about that kind of Nazi?
Can we cancel a Nazi then?
Nick Fuentes is a Nazi.
He loves Hitler, the Nazis, the Holocaust, and fascism.
His ideology is anti-West, anti-American, and anti-Christian, all under the disguise of "America First" and fake Catholicism.
And fuck the brain-damaged fat weak alcoholic tubby rich-bitch child of privilege and Nazi propagandist Tucker Carlson for attempting to mainstream Nazism and doing it so loudly and openly that the rest of us -- who were content, nay eager, to just pretend this bullshit away and sweep it under the rug -- must finally confront it?
Oh, and after attempting to destroy TPUSA and hatefully attacking Charlie Kirk -- claiming he wasn't a "real Christian" -- he's now down to claiming that TPUSA staffers arranged the Kirk assassination (most likely in partnership with Perfidious Jews) and that maybe Erika Kirk was involved.
Seriously?
Seriously?
These are the people we need to "unite" with to win big in 2028?
Nazism and unhinged hate are real vote-getters now? All the kids are into Hitler and slander against widows?
Yeah I don't think so.
I think some people would like Nazism to be super-popular, though, and are wish-casting their desires into reality.
The Blaze: We've Identified the J6 Pipe Bomber and It's a Government Worker at a Three-Letter Agency
—Ace
Intel Report Daily
@TruthNinja316
🚨J6 PIPE BOMBER HAS LIKELY BEEN IDENTIFIED🚨
The person responsible for planting the pipe bombs has been ID'd. They are a female. They are from a 3 letter agency. They did work for Capitol Police. I know the name but can't name the person out of respect for the person who worked this story masterfully... @SteveBakerUSA
The "lead suspect" is a woman, and high government official.
'She's one of us!' Steve Baker stuns Glenn Beck with bombshell revelation about J6 pipe-bomb suspect
Joseph MacKinnon
November 05, 2025
Beck indicated that the suspect will be named as soon as the relevant agencies have 'battened down the hatches.'
Blaze News investigative reporters Steve Baker and Joseph Hanneman have spent years working to identify the masked individual who placed pipe bombs near the headquarters of the Republican National Committee and the Democratic National Committee in Washington, D.C., on Jan. 5, 2021.
Baker, whom the Biden FBI arrested over his January 6 reporting, revealed to Blaze Media co-founder Glenn Beck on Wednesday that they have finally locked in on a suspect. What's more, Baker hinted that the suspect's imminent identification will implicate and shame at least one federal agency.
Baker told Beck, "When I pulled this thread, I was so shocked by what I saw, I immediately took it to a source in one of the most important, highest-level investigative federal agencies in the country. I immediately took it to our sources there, and I said, 'You have to see this.'"
"After they looked at it for about two hours, the response that I got back was, 'Holy F,'" continued Baker. "And then the follow-up response was, 'She's one of us!'"
When pressed by Beck about his confidence level in the suspect ID, Baker said, "I will tell you that from gait analysis -- that's the analysis of the hoodied bomber ... compared to the gait analysis of this individual in private life and at work -- that the actual software hit at a 94% accuracy."
"Human analysis from the experts in intelligence is much higher," continued Baker. "They looked at it and went, 'My God, that's it. We got it.'"
In the below interview, Glen Beck says the Blaze will publish the story... tomorrow. And since these were posted yesterday, that means "today." But I don't see an update at the Blaze.
Is this real? I dunno. I have heard rumblings that the bomber has been identified for a few months. I wasn't told who it was, just that a researcher knew who it was and was absolutely confident in her belief. I only mention that as the teensiest, tiniest little scrap of information that suggests that maybe this is real. (It's very weak confirmation, but it's all I have.)
Here's the latest video surveillance of the pipe bomber walking around on January 5, 2021. The bomber is, I think they say, 5'7", which is a very possible height for a woman.
🚨J6 PIPE BOMBER HAS LIKELY BEEN IDENTIFIED🚨 The person responsible for planting the pipe bombs has been ID'd. They are a female. They are from a 3 letter agency. They did work for Capitol Police. I know the name but can't name the person out of respect for the person who… pic.twitter.com/BmjGya1Bci
I mean, if this is someone working for the FBI or CIA or even ATF... wow.
And the entire government will be implicated -- you seriously just couldn't figure out the bomber was one of your own? Or you abandoned leads when it started to show it was one of your own?
Beck said, "This is one of the biggest stories -- I think it is the biggest scandal of my lifetime, maybe in the last 100 years. It is monstrous."
If indeed the bomber is a member of the Deep State, and the other Deep Staters just couldn't identify her -- Whoops! Whoopsie! -- then yes, it is a governmental scandal on the order of Julius Caesar's assassination by senators.
Jeffrey Epstein's Former Cellmate Alleges: James Comey's Daughter, Federal Prosecutor Maureen Comey, Said That I Could Walk Free If I Falsely Claimed That Epstein Implicated Trump in His Pedo Schemes
The former cellmate of infamous financier Jeffrey Epstein has claimed that Epstein said New York federal prosecutors had offered him a deal if Epstein agreed to implicate Donald Trump, then serving his first presidential term.
Epstein, who was arrested on child sex-trafficking charges in July of 2019, was transferred to the Metropolitan Correction Center in Manhattan and shared a cell with former police officer Nicholas Tartaglione, who at that time was awaiting trial. Tartaglione was eventually convicted on a quadruple-murder charge, while Epstein died in the jail a month after being arrested.
In a pardon application obtained by the New York Post, Tartaglione wrote, "Prosecutors ... told Epstein that if he said President Trump was involved with Epstein's crimes he would walk free."
"Epstein told me that [lead prosecutor] Maurene Comey said that he didn't have to prove anything, as long as President Trump's people could not disprove it. According to Maurene Comey, the FBI were 'her people, not his [President Trump's]," the filing stated.
Tartaglione added in his petition that Epstein told him "President Trump was not involved in Epstein's crimes."
Now, remember, jailhouse testimony is notoriously unreliable and people will say anything in hopes of currying favor from whoever is in a position to set them free.
Now that I've wasted your time with that: People are claiming it's AI.
I got very annoyed at Democrats always trying to criminalize the use of obvious altered video for parody purposes, claiming that "some people" -- dolts and people without high levels of skepticism -- might believe the obviously altered parody videos are real.
I would never endorse laws against this stuff, but I've got to tell you, it's becoming very, very annoying to always be forced to doubt what your own eyes are seeing. I used to like doing the Cafes; not so much any longer. I always feel like I'm being scammed by AI content farmers.
And I'm afraid you Big Meanies are going to beat me up and call me Lamont the Big Dummy if I get swindled!
Supposedly, the price would drop, eventually, to $245 per month for those paying cash. We'll see.
U.S. President Donald Trump, Eli Lilly and Novo Nordisk unveiled a deal on Thursday to slash the prices of popular GLP-1 weight‑loss drugs for the government's Medicare and Medicaid programs, as well as for cash payers.
The move is aimed at increasing access to the treatments through U.S. Medicare for people aged 65 and over and the Medicaid program for low-income people, which together provide healthcare coverage for nearly half of all Americans.
U.S. patients currently pay by far the most for prescription medicines, often nearly three times more than in other developed nations, and Trump has been pressuring drugmakers to lower their prices to what patients pay elsewhere.
"GLP-1s have been top of mind and not just because of the cardiometabolic benefits that they provide, but also because it is an issue of fairness and utilization and pricing and access and affordability for the American people," an administration official told reporters.
Starter doses of rival weight‑loss pills being developed by Lilly and Novo, if approved, will cost $149 per month for all Medicare and Medicaid enrollees and via the White House's new direct-to-consumer site, TrumpRx, senior administration officials said.
For currently available injectable GLP-1s used for diabetes and other covered health issues, prices would fall to $245 per month for patients with Medicare or Medicaid, they said.
On TrumpRx, the average price of injectables and pills will start at or below $350 monthly and is expected to trend downward to $245 within two years.
I tried to get on Mounjaro. The cost was something obscene like $1400 per month, but you could sign up for a coupon and "only" pay $550 or something.
$350 would be expensive but, I guess, obtainable.
Think about all the money I'd save on Ho-Ho's.
In Medicare, patients' co-pays will be capped at $50 a month, officials said.
Commercial health insurers would also be able to access prices estimated to be 25% lower than current cash prices, they said.
The government will also expand coverage for GLP-1s under the deal, officials said, to overweight patients with prediabetes or heart problems, obese patients with comorbidities and severely obese patients, accounting for 10% of Medicare patients.
Granny Rictus McBotoxImplants, Who Boomers Know as "Nancy Pelosi," Finally Retires
—Ace
I mean, this was obvious, but when Pedophile Enabler Scott Wiener announced he was running for Nancy Pelosi's seat, it was pretty obvious that Granny Rictus McBotoxImplants had put out the word among her Closest Groomer Friends that she was going to retire. The Twink Groomer Friend of All Pedophiles Scott Wiener would not have had the balls to challenge her if she were running again.
Granny Rictus sure made a lot of millions of dollars trading with inside information during her 40 year career.
Former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi announced that she won't seek re-election at the end of her current term, ending a roughly four-decade career in Congress for the key Democratic power player who had been the first female speaker.
"I want you, my fellow San Franciscans, to be the first to know I will not be seeking re-election to Congress," Pelosi, 85, said in a video message to her constituents.
You already told your Pedophile Advocate successor Scott Wiener.
The Golden State Democrat had faced speculation this week that she was planning to announce her plans to skip re-election following Tuesday's off-year elections.
Representative Nancy Pelosi announced on Thursday that she will retire when her term concludes in early 2027, ending a remarkable career in which she rose to become one of the most powerful women in American history.
Ms. Pelosi, 85, was the nation's first and only female House speaker, and she will have represented San Francisco in Congress for 39 years when she leaves office. She has served during an era of seismic change for American society and her own city, from the throes of the AIDS crisis to the legalization of gay marriage, and through the meteoric rise of the tech sector and the nation's extreme polarization.
She entered political office later in life and became a hero to Democrats for the way she wielded immense power to push Obamacare, climate change legislation and infrastructure programs through Congress.
"With a grateful heart, I look forward to my final year of service as your proud representative," she told her constituents in a nearly six-minute video posted on X early Thursday morning, with clips of San Francisco's iconic cable cars and colorful Victorian homes flashing in the background.
The two sides of the coin that is President Donald Trump was on full display two days ago. His amazing ability to motivate and energize an otherwise detached electorate -- when he is on the ballot -- and his equally amazing ability to infuriate and motivate the Democrats.
And that's where JD Vance has a tremendous opportunity. As the presumptive front-runner for the 2028 Republican presidential nomination, He has the next two years, before the 2028 campaign begins in earnest, to create a persona as "The Anti-Trump." But not on policy, where the President and he are in broad agreement. No, it will be in tone, presentation, and image.
Donald Trump's bombast and hyperbole is an integral part of his public face, and in most cases it works to heighten awareness of the topic at hand and, frankly, to pique the interest of disinterested potential voters. But it also raises the hackles of his implacable enemies and, frankly, can blur the message. But that message is vital...love of America, respect for the working man, the desire for American industry to be unequaled, and for his beloved country to be a safe, prosperous, and happy place, with secure borders, a powerful military that is rarely used, a vibrant domestic economy, and the probability of upward mobility for most.
Is JD Vance any different? No, of course not. That message, until recently, would have been completely unexceptional, were it not for the shambling wreck of the Democrat/progressive movement dragging us into 3rd World territory.
But without the lightning rod that is Donald Trump, the Democrats, who can get their compliant flocks frothing at the mouth by the mere mention of the President's name, will lose a powerful recruiting and motivational tool. And the more JD Vance can separate himself from Donald Trump's unique personality, the weaker the Democrat strategy will be when directed at him. Thus the suggestion that he becomes the "Anti-Trump."
The president then turned to Vice President Vance, quipping, “Why don’t you act like that? JD doesn’t behave like that. JD butts into conversations. I wanna have that for at least a couple of days. Okay, JD? We’ll keep you long term, but a couple of days of that would be very, very nice.”
This is exactly the way that JD Vance can create the image of an independent and powerful executive who is more than happy to confront Donald Trump if necessary, but will always be measured and calm in public.
Hyperbole is the politician's stock in trade, but with a thoughtful and quiet delivery, JD Vance can create distance from Donald Trump that will still allow him to communicate the broad strokes of an America First policy. It will also neuter the Democrat shock troops, who operate on rage and adrenaline. Three more years of Donald Trump will, hopefully, leave them exhausted, and the American people bored with their unending, unthinking, and hysterical responses to everything that the President does or says.
Yes, I am a fan of JD Vance. Will he be the nominee? Who knows! But the bench is reasonably deep, so if he fails to secure the nomination, I am confident that there are others who will be good candidates, especially with the possibility of Governor Hair Gel Newsom as the Democrat candidate, with all of California's miserable baggage piled high around him!
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Good morning kids. Of course the main story remains the fallout over his past Tuesday's Election Day insanity. Yes, the most high profile race was of course New York City deciding that a full on Bloodthirsty communist Jihadist was the ideal choice to be mayor. Other significant races included the passage of California's gerrymandering law that will effectively eliminate five GOP congressional seats and Virginia electing a thug with homicidal fantasies as its top law enforcement officer.
what I cannot understand are the mixed signals whereby we have all kinds of polls and indicators that younger generations are turning away from the Democrat Left "brand" as it were and that in the wake of Charlie Kirk's assassination many seem to be returning to traditional religion and church, rejecting wokeism and on and on and on. And yet there are polls (yeah, I know) showing that the aforementioned youths are embracing socialism with a vengeance, of course not really knowing or understanding it's bloody legacy and toll of human life approaching over 200 million in little more than a century. Of course this goes hand in hand with the brainwashing and malediction and inculcation of hatred of country and society.
ABOVE THE FOLD, BREAKING, NOTEWORTHY LINKS
Two more suspects have been arrested in connection with a foiled Halloween terror plot, according to a law enforcement source. The individuals, identified as Tomas Kaan Jimenez-Guzal and Milo Sederat, were taken into custody on Tuesday as part of an ongoing investigation that could lead to additional arrests. The New York City Police Department (NYPD) Intelligence and Counterterrorism Bureau assisted federal authorities in locating and apprehending the suspects. It remains unclear whether the two are among the unnamed co-conspirators mentioned in earlier court documents. Feds Catch Two More in ISIS-Linked Halloween Plot.
Victor Davis Hanson: Democrats wield chaos as a strategy, overwhelming voters with nonstop turmoil that obscures blame and rallies key groups—leaving Republicans scrambling to counter before the clock runs out. Does the Democrats’ Chaos Strategy Work?
In case you hadn't noticed how brazen far-left Democrats have become since President Donald Trump won the 2024 election, allow me to introduce you to a woman who previously admitted that she was living in the U.S. illegally and who just won an election to become the next mayor of St. Paul, Minn. The left isn't even hiding the fact that illegals are participating in our political/governmental systems anymore. Illegal Immigrant Wins Mayoral Election in Major City
The DHS enacted a rule on Wednesday titled “Protection of Federal Property” that allows more law enforcement action against rioters, the agency told the Daily Caller News Foundation in an exclusive statement. Officers guarding DHS buildings may arrest those wearing a mask while committing a crime, using “unmanned aircraft” such as drones to damage federal property, tampering with government tech systems, obstructing access, impeding federal employees from performing official duties, disorderly conduct and threatening to commit any violent crime. EXCLUSIVE: Feds Find New Ways To Show Anti-ICE Rioters Who’s Boss (call me when ICE responds with machine gun fire and flamethrowers - jjs)
Marxism targets the disillusioned with the lofty-sounding idea of the working class controlling the political, economic, and social structures and thereby the means of production—no more working for The Man! Mamdani's win is a tribute to mass migration
Deputy Chief of Staff James Blair told Politico the GOP fumbled the 2025 elections because they did not talk about affordability, something Trump will be focusing on for the midterms. Democrats won a series of high profile elections Tuesday, a year after Trump won the presidential election. Blair reacted to the results in an interview with Politico, telling the outlet that Democrats won because they focused on affordability. (RELATED: Unhappy With Election Results? Blame Women) Top Trump Advisor Admits GOP Fumbled Tuesday Elections, Must Focus On Affordability For 2026
If there is a downside in this for Alvin Bragg, it’s that a soon-to-be neutered NYPD will be less likely to pull his chestnuts out of the fire by keeping crime under control through stepped-up enforcement, as it has over the last few years. The truth is that Bragg and Mamdani are two sides of the same coin. But it’s going to be hard for the public to point a finger at anyone other than Mamdani when public safety begins to deteriorate. With Alvin Bragg’s re-election under a Mayor Mamdani, ‘justice’ in NYC is about to get worse
What observers have called an “Islamist” or “Jihadist” attack, the kind long known in French cities, has struck ‘La France Profonde’, or deep France, with at least ten injured by a man driving a car into members of the public on a picturesque island best known for its fishing community and slow pace of life. ‘Allahu Akhbar’: Suspect Arrested After ‘Deliberately’ Running Down Pedestrians
A young revolutionary is about to come face-to-face with political reality. (He's the entire perpetually Leftist NY city council rolled into one man stuffed inside an Ayatollah - jjs) The Clock Now Ticks on Zohran Mamdani
Kelsea Bond in Atlanta, Georgia, Denzel McCampbell in Detroit, Michigan, Danny Nowell in Carrboro, North Carolina, Ayah Al-Zubi in Cambridge, Massachusetts, Frankie Fritz in Greenbelt, Maryland, and four Minneapolis, Minnesota, candidates won city council races after receiving DSA endorsements, according to multiple reports. The results show that DSA-style radicals bucking the establishment left through Mamdani marked a wider trend. (RELATED: EXCLUSIVE: Mamdani Ally’s Name Mysteriously Ends Up On Hamas-Linked Group’s Guest List) Mamdani’s Socialist Org Makes Progress Flooding Local Offices With Radicals Across US
Jacob Frey secures a third term as mayor, continuing his (fake-as-a-3-dollar-bill) moderate approach to governance and rejecting the more progressive policies championed by Fateh. Somali-American Fails in Bid to Become Wokest Mayor.
Maduro, during an event with members of the United Socialist Party of Venezuela (PSUV) broadcast by his regime’s flagship propaganda television channel VTV, claimed that he finds himself “still surprised” to see coverage of himself in U.S. media. As such, he said that he feels “more famous” than Taylor Swift and other international artists. Venezuela’s Nicolás Maduro: ‘I’m More Famous than Taylor Swift’ (Big deal, as John Lennon quipped, the Beatles were bigger than Jesus! - jjs)
Another month has passed, and so it is time for my monthly update on the never-ending sunspot cycle on the Sun. using NOAA’s own monthly update of its graph of sunspot activity and annotating it with extra information to illustrate the larger scientific context. Sunspot update: Solar activity continues to decline as predicted
Just as Trump had given no reasons why he had withdrawn Isaacman’s nomination in late May, in his announcement Tuesday Trump made no effort to explain why he had changed his mind. Trump renominates Jared Isaacman for NASA administrator
CULTURE WARS, NATIONAL SUICIDE
Christopher F. Rufo: The racialist influencer represents a spectacle that demands cool analysis rather than emotional reaction. What Everyone Misses About Nick Fuentes
On his Tuesday show, ABC’s Jimmy Kimmel sought to explain why ticket sales for the Kennedy Center have fallen since President Trump named himself chairman. Through a satirical ad from Trump, Kimmel claimed the answer lies in anti-woke programming that is also pro-Nazi. Kimmel Skit Claims Nazi Programming To Blame For Decline In Kennedy Center Ticket Sales
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I once glimpsed Garth in the penumbra betwixt my wake and sleep. He was in my dream, standing afar, not looking my way, nor did he acknowledge me. But I felt seen. And that's when I knew I was a traveler on the right path. I'm glad he's still with us.
Podcast: The elections! NYC, Virginia, New Jersey, Texas, California, and the future prospects of the Republican party...
Update on Scott Adams:
Scott Adams had approval for this cancer drug but they hadn't scheduled him to get it. He was taking a turn for the worse. Trump had told him to call if he needed anything, so he did. Talked to Don Jr (who is in Africa) , then RFK Jr, then Dr Oz. Someone talked to Kaiser and he was scheduled. Shouldn't have needed it but he did and he says it saved his life.
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Podcast: Historian and Pundit Robert Spencer joins us for a wide-ranging discussion about the Islamists in our midst: Mamdani in NYC, all across Europe, and others.
Schmoll: 53% of New Jersey likely voters say their neighbors are voting for Ciattarelli, while 47% say the cheater/grifter Mikie Sherrill The "who do you think your neighbors are voting for" question is designed to avoid the Shy Tory problem, wherein conservative people lie to schmollsters because they don't want to go on record with a likely left-winger telling them who they're really voting for. So instead the question is who do you think your neighbors are voting for, so people can talk about who they themselves support without actually having to admit it to a left-wing rando stranger recording their answers on the phone.
Interesting football history: How the forward pass was created in response to the nineteen -- 19! -- people killed playing football in 1905 alone The original rules of football did not allow forward passes. The ball was primarily advanced by running, with blockers forming lines with interlocked arms and just smashing into the similarly-interlocked defensive lines. It was basically Greek hoplite spear formations but with a semi-spherical ball. As calls to ban the sport entirely grew, some looked for ways to de-emphasize mass charges as the primary means of advancing the ball, and some specifically championed allowing a passer to throw the ball forward.
