Wednesday Overnight Open Thread (9/18/24)
—Misanthropic Humanitarian
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Unidentified Floating Object Cafe
—Ace
by Dale Rockell
This is a young go-getter with upper management written all over him.
Ahh-oooh, werewolves of Paris...
Best werewolf movie ever? (It's a pretty short list of good werewolf movies.)
I'm starting to think that video of cars literally flying past photographers might be real.
Feeding your woodland friends.
When your farm friends invite themselves to brunch.
The family that plays together stays together.
These pandas are out of control.
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"It Appears War is Here:" Israel May Be Preparing for Ground Invasion of Hezballah's Strongholds in Southern Lebanon
—Ace
Before that: The comms bombs, the Beep Beep Booms, are hitting Hezballah where it hurts: in their bad-seed groins.
Paging all terrorists!Thousands of Hezbollah terrorists were injured in southern Lebanon on Tuesday when their new pagers all simultaneously exploded -- causing horrifying wounds to their groins and hands as the devices detonated on their belts and in their pockets.
Lebanese officials said 2,800 people were injured and nine killed in what Hezbollah officials claimed was an attack by Israel.
Hezbollah -- a Lebanese militant group that the US has designated as a terrorist organization -- confirmed the wide-ranging attack on its operatives, including fighters and medics. One official, speaking on the condition of anonymity, called it the "biggest security breach" since the group began its near-daily attacks on Israel on Oct. 8.The devices that detonated were all the latest models acquired by Hezbollah in recent months. They were distributed to members after Hezbollah's leader warned his fighters not to carry cell phones -- telling them they could be used to track their movements or carry out targeted strikes.
L-O-L.
What a bunch of dickless buffoons.
Israel's cabinet approves sending an elite force north to the southern Lebannon border.
As many suspected and feared, this deadly two-day Israeli covert operation to blow up Hezbollah pagers, walkie-talkies, and small electronic devices was but preparation for a likely Israeli military ground operation in southern Lebanon. It appears war is here. According to breaking news wires:Israeli cabinet has given PM Netanyahu and Defence Minister Gallant the authorization to undertake military action against Hezbollah -- even if it leads to an all-out war.So far the second day of explosions across Beirut and Lebanon have led to 14 killed and 450 wounded, but the casualty toll could be much higher.
Defense Minister Gallant has also declared a "new phase" of operations against Hezbollah along northern Israel...
Southern Lebanon is dominated by Hezballah. It's almost a separate province of Lebanon.
It's a poor area of the country. The rest of Lebanon has to send it aid. Of course, this aid is not marked as coming from the Lebanese government nor the various sectarian factions that are kind enough to provide charity to their poor southern cousins. This aid is re-boxed into crates stamped "Hezballah" and distributed from Hezballah-marked relief centers. So the poor, backwards population thinks that Hezballah is providing the charity.
You know, I imagine, that Hamas does the same thing with UN-provided aid in Gaza. As far as the Gazans know, what little charitable aide that gets distributed their (the fraction which isn't seized by Hamas itself) is provided by Hamas.
Based on my limited knowledge -- just a week-long junket meeting Lebanese politicians -- Hezballah is not well-liked in Lebanon, except in the south. Hezballah participates in violence against other factions in Lebanon, and of course they periodically start wars with Israel, which then causes the rest of Lebanon to come under counter-fire.
I've asked why the rest of Lebanon just doesn't declare southern Lebanon its own country and let them fuck off. The answer I got is something like: Although Hezballah is a violent, backwards, trouble-making part of the Lebanese family, they're still part of the Lebanese family, even if they occasionally shoot up the rest of the family and drag the rest of the family into their endless wars.
I really wish Lebanon would declare itself independent and separate from southern Lebanon. There are multiple Christian factions, a Druze faction, and a Sunni Muslim faction in the north, and they all manage to get along relatively well. Yes, there are ethnic tensions -- it turns out that America is not the only country in the world where differing racial and religious factions experience tensions and stress between them -- but they generally get along without too much strife.
On the other hand, there is the Hezballah-controlled south, which is an armed camp funded by Iran for all practical purposes.
By the way, you'll never guess what the White House Press Corps' take on the highly-targeted Comms Bombs campaign is.
Or, I guess, you probably will:
Katie Pavlich @KatiePavlichTo nobody's surprise, the White House press corps is very mad about the pagers.
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Teamsters Union Makes No Endorsement in Presidential Race; First Time They Haven't Endorsed a Democrat Since 1996
—Ace
Now, some of you will say the union members greatly preferred Trump, so they should have endorsed Trump!
Right you are, I'm getting to that. Gimme a quick second. First, the non-endorsement:
The International Brotherhood of Teamsters will not issue an endorsement in the presidential election for the first time since 1996, and for only the second time since 1960.Teamsters General President Sean O'Brien said "neither major candidate was able to make serious commitments to our union to ensure the interests of working people are always put before Big Business."
"We sought commitments from both Trump and Harris not to interfere in critical union campaigns or core Teamsters industries -- and to honor our members' right to strike -- but were unable to secure those pledges," O'Brien said.
The Teamsters endorsed President Biden during the 2020 election, and has consistently supported Democratic presidential nominees in recent election cycle.
The union notably waited to announce its endorsement decision far longer than other unions and labor organizations, including the United Auto Workers, National Education Association, Service Employees International Union and AFL-CIO, which all endorsed Biden, then Vice President Harris, after the president dropped out of the race in July.
The Teamsters has endorsed GOP presidential candidates, including Richard Nixon, Ronald Reagan and George H.W. Bush, and O'Brien's flirtation with former President Trump and Republicans sparked speculation the union could once again break from the pack.
Now: The union conducted a poll to determine its members' sentiments about the election.
It turns out those sentiments, get this, didn't matter to the corrupt leadership. The members strongly preferred Trump, which resulted in... no endorsement either way.
Ah, Democracy! We must all work to save our precious Democracy, where the people's votes never matter and the Party always picks the winners.
Below, the Teamsters' own data for the race. While Teamsters preferred Biden over Trump in a straw poll conducted a while ago, they now approve Trump over Harris by 58-59% to 31%, depending on the metric. An electronic poll of members says one thing, a "research" effort (which I guess consists of randomly calling members) says another. But both show almost 60% preference for Trump.
The leadership's conclusion? Too close to call!
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Despite Inflation Still Raging, Fed Chairman Powell Slashes Interest Rates by a Big Half Point
—Ace
He has given up on fighting inflation, and in fact is now putting us on the path for more inflation, to forestall the Biden-Harris Recession by a couple of months until we're safely past the election.
As I always say, cutting interest rates puts more money into the economy, which further devalues our already-devalued dollars. It is inherently inflationary. The market is already flooded with cheap dollars, reducing the value of all of them. This floods the market with more cheap dollars, reducing their value still further.
The only way this can be justified is that if there's a big recession on the way that is even worse than runaway inflation.
But Powell won't admit that's the case. That would damage the Biden-Harris lie that the economy is booming, baby!
The other way this can be justified is if you're a Deep State Democrat looking to rig another election.
Looks like the Federal Reserve doesn't like the latest jobs reports any better than others do -- at least others outside the White House. In an 11-1 vote, the Fed cut its lending rate by 50 basis points rather than the usual 25, pushing it back down to between 4.45-5.0%. That matches up with expectations over the last few days by economists hoping that the Fed would take more aggressive action to prevent a collapse in job creation. AdvertisementThis won't be the last action from the Fed this year, and we could see another full 100 basis points cut before next summer:
[WSJ:]Eleven of 12 Fed voters backed the cut, which will bring the benchmark federal-funds rate to a range between 4.75% and 5%. Quarterly projections released Wednesday showed a narrow majority of officials penciled in cuts that would lower rates by at least a quarter point each at meetings in November and December.
Fed Chair Jerome Powell's decision to trim rates by a larger amount than most analysts anticipated until just a few days ago moved the central bank unwaveringly into a new phase of its inflation battle: It is now trying to prevent past rate increases, which last year took borrowing costs to a two-decade high, from further weakening the U.S. labor market.
"The committee has gained greater confidence that inflation is moving sustainably toward 2%, and judges that the risks to achieving its employment and inflation goals are roughly in balance," the Fed said in its policy statement Wednesday. The rate cut reflected both "the progress on inflation and the balance of risks."
Update: The ignorant DEI hire Kamala Harris claims that flooding the market with even more cheap dollars is anti-inflationary.
The US Federal Reserve cut its key lending rate by half a percentage-point Wednesday in its first reduction since the Covid pandemic, sharply lowering borrowing costs just before November's presidential election.The Fed's decision will affect the rates at which commercial banks lend to consumers and businesses, bringing down the cost of borrowing on everything from mortgages to credit cards.
Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris praised the move while emphasizing her commitment to fighting inflation.
"While this announcement is welcome news for Americans who have borne the brunt of high prices, my focus is on the work ahead to keep bringing prices down," the Vice President said in a statement.
Interest rate hikes wring some cheap dollars out of the economy, thus making each remaining dollar worth more, thus reducing inflation. Interest rate cuts do the exact opposite.
But she majored in Sucking Dick of Her Boss. What do you expect of her?
Hezballah Rocked by More Explosions, As Israel Begins Detonating Solar Power Controllers, Smart Watches, Home Appliances, and Electronic Keypad Door Locks in Houses Owned by Hezballah Terrorists
—Ace
"Some beepers did some things." -- Sponge
So you like terror bombing, huh?
Let's see how you feel about it when your household devices are exploding in your face, Hezballah.
Hezballah is so angry about these "indiscriminate bombings of innocent civilians" -- actually targeted bombings of Hezballah illegal combatant terrorists -- that they showed their opposition to indiscriminate bombing of civilians by launching wave after wave of rocket attacks against civilians in Israeli towns and cities.
It's terrible when civilians die in war, they cried, as they paraglided into youth "peace" rave to machine-gun civilians and rape young girls to death.
Per a French outlet, the casualty count in just this second wave is up to 14 dead, 250+ wounded.
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Kamala Harris Has a New Fake Accent: Latinxish
—Ace
Lemme just do a quickie, I've been refuting Jim Geraghty's claims about Israel on Twitter.
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Nine More Hezballah Terrorists Killed by Racist Right-Wing Memes and Remotely-Detonated Walkie-Talkies But Mostly by Remotely-Detonated Walkie Talkies
—Ace
Live by the bomb, die by the bomb.
Hezbollah walkie-talkies explode in second day of wide-scale, remote-detonated attacks against terror group
A second wave of explosions rocked Lebanon on Wednesday, targeting thousands of handheld radios used by the terror group, Hezbollah. This latest wave comes after at least 12 were killed and over 2,800 injured after pagers used by the terrorist group detonated simultaneously across the country on Tuesday.Key Details:
Explosions were reported in Beirut and southern Lebanon, following Tuesday's initial wave that targeted Hezbollah pagers.
Wednesday's attack focused on walkie-talkies ordered by Hezbollah five months ago, around the same time as the pagers.
Hezbollah has blamed Israel for the attacks, though official links between the two incidents remain unconfirmed.
Diving Deeper:
Hezbollah experienced a second day of devastating explosions on Wednesday as thousands of handheld radios used by the Iran-backed terror group were detonated remotely. The explosions, which targeted devices in Beirut and southern Lebanon, come after at least 12 were killed and over 2,800 injured after pagers used by the terrorist group detonated simultaneously on Tuesday.
Sources told Axios reporter Barak Ravid that the targeted radios were acquired by Hezbollah around the same time as the pagers, five months ago. The attacks have disrupted Hezbollah's communications infrastructure, with at least one explosion occurring near a funeral for those killed in the first wave of blasts.
Oh my, that is precious. Hey, while you're here mourning the last dead terrorist, boom, here's another one. You can throw him right in the same hole. Saves you time and bother. You're welcome, Hezballah.
I think that is shown in the video under the fold, with the street procession. I guess that is the funeral they're talking about. At the end of a clip, another bomb goes off.
Hezbollah has pointed the finger at Israel for the coordinated strikes, with Reuters reporting that the group blames Israel for both days of attacks. Israeli officials have yet to comment on the allegations, but reports from the New York Times suggest that Israel had hidden explosives in Taiwan-made Gold Apollo pagers, which were later imported to Lebanon. The explosives, placed next to the battery, were triggered remotely by a message impersonating Hezbollah leadership.
Hezballah both cried about this senseless act of "terrorism" and then responded by sending rockets into civilian areas. They promise a "reckoning."
But they're also telling their fellow terrorists to stay off all communication devices. As Ed Morrissey points out, coordinating a terrorist strike against Israel will be more difficult when no one feels save getting on a communications device.
Open Source Intel @Osint613BREAKING
SECOND WAVE
Hezbollah Communication Explosions in Lebanon
This is a developing story; the following details are subject to change as more information comes in:
- Backup communication devices (walkie-talkies) used by Hezbollah have started exploding across Lebanon.
Key facts:
1. Multiple individuals were wounded at a Hezbollah funeral.2. The explosions are reported to be significantly larger than yesterday's explosions.
3. Houses, cars, and motorcycles have also exploded.
4. Explosions have been reported in Beirut, the Beqaa Valley, and southern Lebanon.
5. Solar systems have been reported to explode as well.
6. Over 100 people have been wounded so far.
7. Three Hezbollah terrorists have been confirmed eliminated.
Update from weft-cut loop:
@Breaking911BREAKING: Lebanon's official news agency reports that home solar energy systems exploded in several areas of Beirut - AP
Below, various explosions. The funeral bomb, I think, is show in the third video clip, at the bottom left of the square of four videos.
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The DHS's Evasiveness and Incompetence Is Too Much Even for Leftwing Democrat Partisan Senator Richard "Danang Dick" Blumenthal, Who Accuses the Agency of "Stonewalling" About Its Botched Protection of Trump
—Ace
Before that: The report about a bomb being found near a Trump rally is claimed to have been a false report.
Police say there is no threat to former President Donald Trump's rally site on Long Island after 'explosives' were reportedly found in a car near the site.A spokesperson for the Nassau County Police Department confirmed to DailyMail.com that 'there was a suspicious occurrence' on Wednesday ahead of Trump's speech where thousands of MAGA fans are gathering.
But there is 'no validity' to a report that there was an 'explosive device found.'
'Reports of explosives being found at the site are unfounded,' said Nassau County Commissioner of Police Patrick Ryde.
'There is a person who is being questioned who may have been training a bomb detection dog near the site. The individual with the bomb dog falsely reported explosives being found and that individual is currently being detained by police.'
And when you've lost Dick Blumenthal...
A Democratic senator accused the U.S. Department of Homeland Security of "stonewalling" requests for information about the first attempted assassination of former President Donald Trump.
Sen. Richard Blumenthal, D-Conn., told reporters Monday from a Senate office building that DHS has not provided documents, witnesses nor other evidence relating to the July assassination attempt.
"I am reaching the point of total outrage, because the response from the Department of Homeland Security has been totally lacking. In fact, I think it's tantamount to stonewalling in many respects," Sen. Blumenthal said.The Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs has been investigating any security failures that led to the assassination attempt. Sen. Blumenthal sits on that committee.
"The Department of Homeland Security has to be more forthcoming, not only to me, but to the American people, and it has to do it quickly or it will fuel the conspiracy theories that are so dangerous to our democracy, as well as undermining its own credibility," he said.
One of those conspiracy theories is that government actors orchestrated the shooting. Rep. Eli Crane, R-Ariz., said in a radio interview that he didn't "put it past some of the people in our government to do anything necessary to hold on to power," according to The New York Times.
Sen. Blumenthal said that he has expressed his frustration to DHS, adding that he would support a subpoena to obtain evidence of what actually happened.
"I'll certainly support a subpoena. It takes very little drafting to do a subpoena here and even less time," he noted. "I know how to do subpoenas. I'm ready, willing and able to use the subpoena process if necessary to get information from the Department of Homeland Security."
The Secret Service admits that it again failed to follow its own procedures in providing Fake Protection to Trump, not even taking the basic step of searching the golf course before Trump arrived there.
What would you say you do here?
Wednesday Morning Rant
—Joe Mannix
In any account of any event, there are always two primary components: the facts, and the framing of those facts. Facts are irrefutable. They are, or they are not. There can be a lie or a misapprehension presented as a fact and thus facts are subject to - in the language of our day - debunking, but it is still a matter of fact as such. It is or it isn't. Facts, though, are only part of the story. Sometimes they aren't even the dominant part. The other part is how those facts are framed.
For any account, it's in the framing that biases, ideologies, agendas, etc. surface. The selection of which facts to include and how to present them is how to lead the reader to the "correct" conclusion about those facts. There was stupendous example of this in Mother Jones yesterday (h/t Gentlemen, this is junta manifest). It's a story of a woman from Georgia who died following an out-of-state abortion.
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The Morning Report — 9/18/24
—J.J. Sefton
Good Morning Kids. Wow, has it really been eight years since the Morning Report debuted? A lot has happened to me professionally and personally and what a ride it has been for all of us. First and foremost, my thanks and appreciation to Ace for giving me the opportunity to host this forum, to my fellow co-bloggers for their help and support and most crucially to all of you fantastic commenters whose combination of snark, erudition and knowledge make the Morning Report, IMHO, the best daily forum and news aggregation site out there.
I cannot begin to thank all of you for your support and for being here and making this place what it is.
So, let's start off with a literal bang! While given the fact that we can control the weather, is it really any surprise that Israel could pull off one of the most daring, retaliatory strikes in history. If only it could have prevented the events of 10/7 in the first place, but the IDF and the Israeli people are going to have to sort that out for themselves as to who and what is to blame for that equally massive failure. In any case, given who and what is running this country – Kamalorama Hussein Obama-Harris, is this item really surprising:
Israel did not take responsibility for the pager attack that crippled Hezbollah’s comms and took out a chunk of their officer corps. It certainly did not go ahead and describe how it was done for the media. That’s tradecraft. And you don’t reveal it.But the New York Times had a report detailing how it happened that same evening. I won’t link to it as it carries the byline of fake news fabulist Sheera Frenkel who had previously carried water for Hamas and lied that the Islamic terror group had not kidnapped and killed three Israeli teens.
The report is described as being based on briefings received by American officials.
The material leaked to the Times comes from “American and other officials briefed on the operation” and the “American and other officials spoke on the condition of anonymity given the sensitive nature of the operation.”
. . .Under Obama, leaks of Israeli operations were standard procedure. But if this was Biden-Harris admin policy, it doesn’t just hurt Israel, it hurts America. The leak undermines claims that we didn’t know about it beforehand. And encourages Hezbollah to target our people as the weaker link in the Oct 7 war. Some officials in this junta clearly don’t care, but they could also find themselves in the line of fire.
Ryan Wesley Routh, the 58-year-old man who is suspected of an assassination attempt against former President Donald Trump, had connections in Iran that are leading some security experts to question if there was Iranian involvement. A New York Times reporter who had interviewed Routh last year wrote on Sunday that Routh was working to recruit former Afghan special operations soldiers who had fled to Iran to go fight in Ukraine. . . The reporter, Thomas Gibbons-Neff, wrote that when he was writing an article on volunteer fighters in Ukraine last year, his former Afghan colleague and friend Najim Rahim had put him in touch with Routh, who he had learned about from a source of his in Iran, a former Afghan special operations soldier. A number of U.S.-trained Afghan special operations forces had fled to Iran after the disastrous Biden withdrawal from Afghanistan in August 2021. Since those forces were trained by U.S. special operations forces, the Afghan commandos’ escape into Iran potentially delivered “closely guarded secrets on U.S. special operators” to Iran, according to Foreign Policy.
Whether the Iranian connection is merely incidental, there's also this connection worth noting:
A Pakistani national with ties to Iran pleaded not guilty on Monday to charges related to an Iranian plot to assassinate former President Donald Trump.A federal judge in Brooklyn ordered Asif Merchant detained pending trial at the Monday hearing in which Merchant pleaded not guilty to charges of attempting to commit an act of terrorism transcending national boundaries and taking part in a murder-for-hire plot, according to ABC News.
Merchant pleaded not guilty the same day that another man suspected of targeting Trump for assassination appeared in a federal court in West Palm Beach, Florida. That man, who was arrested shortly after allegedly fleeing from a sniper spot at Trump International Golf Course, was arraigned on charges of possessing a firearm as a convicted felon and possessing a firearm with an obliterated serial number.
So, if I even attempt to connect the dots of Routh and Merchant to Iran that would light up the switchboards in the non-existent wink-wink Nina Jankowicz Merrick Garland Ministry of Truth, nein? Forget the fact that the junta in power and the generationally-embedded anti-American ticks in Foggy Bottom have been trying to replace Israel with Iran as the top dog in the Middle East going back at least as far back as Obama, if not before. Considering what's happening in Springfield Ohio and Obama's culinary proclivities, maybe the word dog is inadvisable in this context.
Meh, who needs Iranian, or Pakistani cutouts when you have a slew of psycho trannies running around, armed to the teeth and hopped up on hatred for enemies the media brainwash them into believing are targeting them.
And speaking of Ministry of Truth:
Democrat Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz said in 2022 that there is “no guarantee to free speech on misinformation or hate speech.” “Yeah, years ago, it was the little things, telling people to vote the day after the election, and we kind of brushed them off. Now we know it’s intimidation at the ballot box,” responded Walz. “It’s undermining the idea that mail-in ballots aren’t legal. I think we need to push back on this. There’s no guarantee to free speech on misinformation or hate speech, and especially around our democracy. Tell the truth, where the voting places are, who can vote, who’s able to be there.”It remains unclear if Walz was speaking about censorship on social media or actual government regulations on individuals spreading misinformation.
The problem is who gets to determine what is and what is not the truth. Well, even a cursory look at human history and tragically even American history will inform you of exactly who gets to be the arbiter.
Well, eight years has been a good long run. And while my doctors are optimistic that I have a very good shot at beating the odds of my cancer returning in the next 10 years or perhaps longer, they told me that I likely could die of something totally unrelated. Probably in prison for writing this column after being denied medical treatment, or food and water.
So here's to another eight years. Meh, it was probably wading through the madness on a daily basis to write this that gave me a brain tumor in the first place!
God bless you all, and have a great day.
- ABOVE THE FOLD, BREAKING, NOTEWORTHY
- "Straight out of the Iranian regime's playbook" The Iranian-backed assassination plot allegedly involving Merchant is unrelated to the Florida assassination attempt.
Pakistani National Pleads Not Guilty In Alleged Plot To Kill Trump
- According to Republican Ohio Governor Mike DeWine said the city has received “et least 33 separate bomb threats, each one of which has been responded to, and each one of whom has been found as a hoax.” The governor added that these fake threats appear to have originated overseas.
All Those Bomb Threats Springfield Was Getting? Turns Out They Were All a Hoax
- Emerald Robinson: There's only thing President Trump must do this year: he needs to stay alive. (Hat tip to commenter "Voter Theater" who says "This woman has an uncanny ability. . . to see what is there(reality) rather than an illusion that would make us happy."
48 Days To Go: The Biden Regime Missed Again!
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Daily Tech News 18 September 2024
—Pixy Misa
Top Story- Well, that happened.
- OpenAI's new AI called o1 is the same garbage but more expensive. (The Verge)
It still makes shit up, because it's a language model (a bad one) and not a fact model. It is somewhat improved in making excuses for its lies, but that's about it."What worries me more is that in the future, when we ask AI to solve complex problems, like curing cancer or improving solar batteries, it might internalize these goals so strongly that it becomes willing to break its guardrails to achieve them," Hobbhahn told me.
No, really?
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Tuesday Overnight Open Thread (9/17/24)
—Misanthropic Humanitarian
Quote I“Everybody had better entertain it. Everybody had better entertain everything, right? I never thought I’d say this again. I’m not that tinfoil hat guy, I’m actually a very sane human being and I think there’s a lot of conspiracy theories out there that are absolutely insane. You better believe after, you know, twice in five weeks, you better start entertaining all of those scenarios, because something is very, very wrong, and it could have been very, very different,” Eric Trump
Quote II“We actually found that police pullback was associated with greater increases in crime in more middle to upper class communities,” David Pyrooz
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Prince Charming Frog Cafe
—Ace
Neuschwanstein Castle
Bloth. That's the celebrity couple name for Beagle + Sloth.
Odd bird loves her eggs.
Sometimes cats just do normal things but in the weirdest way they can think of.
Dogs get weird too, but they only do it when they think we're not looking.
Cat thoughts: Who can I f*** with next?
Cute: Border collie teaches her puppy how to herd.
Steve Inman: Guy wants to be all tough brandishing a gun at a pool and picking fights while wielding it, but he makes the classic mistake: never bring a gun to a fist fight. Well, the rule is, never bring a gun to a fist fight, if you're going to continue mouthing off while setting the gun down.
Inman: Community justice.
Thug beats up an old man, but a second fighter tags in.
Thugs approach a bike delivery guy, but what the bike delivery guy is delivering is a f***ing machete and it's piping hot.
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The Violent Storming of the Border In March of This Year Included 100 Suspected Tren De Aragua Gang Members
—Ace
Kamala Hoorish still won't say she'll close the border and send the illegals packing.
More than 100 suspected members of Tren de Aragua (TdA) were a part of the group that violently stormed the border at El Paso, Texas in March -- as Texas Gov. Greg Abbott has declared the Venezuelan prison gang a foreign terrorist organization."Earlier this year, more than 100 suspected TdA members were arrested after the riots at the El Paso border, when immigrants assaulted the Texas National Guard," Gov. Abbott revealed Monday, as he announced a plan to crack down on the group's growing presence across the US.
The wild border rush, captured exclusively by The Post, saw hundreds of illegal migrants break through razor wire to dash into the US -- shoving Lone Star State troops in the process.
In one case, a migrant stomped on a service member's knee as they tried to desperately make their way across the besieged southern border.
Abbott labeled the Venezuelan gang a "foreign terrorist organization" as he detailed his plan to quash the gang's threat.
"Texas is aggressively going after these foreign terrorist organizations of TdA," the governor declared during the Monday press conference.
The plan would institute a 10-year mandatory minimum sentence for TdA smugglers bringing people into Texas, create a database to track members of the gang and beef up law enforcement's capabilities to target the transnational criminal organization.
Don't worry -- Biden's DOJ, headed by straight-shooting lawman Merrick Garland, dealt harshly with the foreign terrorist invaders:
Following the March melee, a judge dismissed charges against 211 of the migrants accused of rioting and then Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) let dozens of them go free into the US.Since then, the gang has created footholds across the country, allegedly taking over apartments in Colorado, seizing hotels near the Texas border in El Paso and shooting cops in New York.
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[A border official] called out the "weak-minded" Harris-Biden administration for allowing the gang to infiltrate the US due to the lack of thorough background checking, which he likened to an "honor system."
This is because Venezuela doesn't share any criminal history information to US officials.
In testimony before a committee panel last year, Border Patrol chief Rodney Scott blasted the "vetting" as akin to referencing them "against a blank sheet of paper."
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Two Days After One of Her Political Allies Tried to Kill Trump, Hillary Clinton Again Chums the Waters with Assassin-Bait and Demands Everyone Repeat How Much of a "Danger" Trump Is to America Itself
—Ace
A day after a failed assassination attempt on Donald Trump, Hillary Clinton said Monday that the former president posed a "danger to our country and the world.""The press is still not able to cover Trump the way that they should," Clinton told MSNBC's Rachel Maddow. "They careen from one outrage to the next ... I don't understand why it's so difficult for the press to have a consistent narrative about how dangerous Trump is. You know, the late great journalist Harry Evans, one time said that journalists should, you know, really try to achieve objectivity, and by that, he said, I mean they should cover the object."
"Well, the object in this case is Donald Trump. His demagoguery, his danger to our country and the world. And stick with it."
The Clintons head an international criminal organization, undermine America at every turn, and pose a danger to the world, some might say. "We came, we saw, we killed him"? Remember that?
Remember the dead of Benghazi? And Hillary Clinton deflecting blame by ginning up a hate-panic against a guy who made a cheapie internet video? And got her Deep State buddies in the DOJ to send him to prison for ticky-tack charges?
At least one is credibly alleged to be a pedophile as well. Who knows what depravities this ugly drunken sow gets up to at night.
She knows Trump is going to release the Epstein files if he wins is officially acknowledged as the winner.
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Christopher Rufo: I Have Verified Video of Two Cats Being Barbecued on a Grill in Dayton, OH in 2023
—Ace
Our investigation begins in a run-down neighborhood of Dayton, Ohio, the closest major city to Springfield, about a half-hour's drive away. We identified a social media post, dated August 25, 2023, with a short video depicting what appear to be two skinned cats on top of a blue barbeque. "Yoooo the Africans wildn on Parkwood," reads the text, referring to Parkwood Drive. The video then pans down to two live cats walking across the grass in front of a run-down fence, with a voice on the video warning: "There go a cat right there. His ass better get missin', man. Look like his homies on the grill!"We spoke with the author of the video, who asked to remain anonymous but confirmed its time, location, and authenticity. He told us that he was picking up his son last summer, when he noticed the unusual situation. "It was some Africans that stay right next door to my kid's mother," he said. "This African dude next door had the damn cat on the grill."
We then identified the home by matching it to the visuals in the video and cross-referencing them with the eyewitness. When we knocked on the door of the first unit, a family answered, telling us they were from the Democratic Republic of the Congo and that all of the surrounding units were occupied by other African migrants.
One of the residents told us that her former neighbors, also from Africa, had lived in the adjacent unit until last month. They had a blue grill and the father would find meat in the neighborhood. "Her dad was going to find meat," she said. "Her dad was going, holding a knife." The current residents also showed us a blue grill of the same make and model as in the video, which the former neighbors had abandoned after they moved out. There were at least ten cats wandering around the complex and another resident complained that they were breeding on the property.
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To be clear: this single incident does not confirm every particularity of Trump's statement. The town is Dayton, not Springfield; cats alone were on the grill, not cats and dogs. But it does break the general narrative peddled by the establishment media and its "fact checkers," who insisted that this has never happened, and that any suggestion otherwise is somehow an expression of racism.
It takes only a single exception, however, to falsify a hypothesis, and the logical next step, for any honest broker, is to ask if it is happening more often, and elsewhere....
There is a legitimate debate to be had about migration and culture. All immigrants bring with them a particular tradition, which, in the case of countries such as Haiti and the Congo, can include practices that many Americans find disturbing....
These revelations do not mean that assimilation is impossible, but the establishment will need to engage in a more honest debate, rather than simply smearing critics as racists and conspiracy theorists. One can make the case for migration, but one cannot, at the same time, deny that it comes with costs--which, in this case, seem to include a pair of flayed cats on a blue barbeque in Dayton, Ohio.
Video of the cats on the barbecue here, if the link still works. It might have been taken down for being too upsetting.
The left is claiming that these false conspiracy theory RUSSIAN desimformazinaya hate crimes are causing Real Violence, by which they mean, fake bomb threat hoaxes being called into Springfield area government offices:
Alexander S. Vindman
@AVindmanDonald Trump can really reduce the temperature for the remainder of the election and condemn political violence of any stripe. He can start by telling his supporters it is not okay to call in bomb threats against Haitians and attack immigrants or political opponents.
Deb Heine, Dissident @NiceDeb Why do media hacks keep assuming in their reporting these bomb threats in Springfield, Ohio are coming from Trump supporters? We don't know that. Leftists commit fake hate crimes all the time to further a political agenda. Hate crime hoax database https://fakehatecrimes.org has hundreds of examples.
Note that DeWine now confirms, as Deb Heine correctly forecasted, that all of these "bomb threats" are in fact hoaxes. Hoaxes called in by Trump supporters? No, hoaxes called in from overseas, and from "one specific country" which DeWine says is still trying to interfere in our election.
I don't know why he's being cagey about which country. The fact that he says this country is still trying to "interfere in our election" suggests he means the hoax bomb threats are called in from.... drum roll...
RUSSIA.
So the bomb hoaxes seem to be coming from RUSSIA, attempting to stir up controversy and discord.
And the fat little hatemonger Alexander Vindman is therefore promoting RUSSIAN disinformation.
Will there be any consequences?
No, of course not. He's a Regime operative.
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"Worse Than Dobbs:" Leftwing of Court Illegally Leaks to Damage Majority Again
—Ace
Is Roberts once again going to call for a deliberately-toothless investigation with no power to compel people to disclose their cell-phone records? With no one swearing, under oath, they're not the leaker?
That's what I imagine he'll do.
The latest leaks about the Supreme Court's internal deliberations on three major cases involving former President Donald Trump could be coming from a high level member of the minority, former clerks and long time court observers told the Daily Caller News Foundation.Drawing on "details from the justices' private memos, documentation of the proceedings and interviews with court insiders, both conservative and liberal," a Sunday report published by The New York Times offered a window into the the justices' decision making process on three major cases, including Trump v. United States, where the Supreme Court held former presidents are immune from prosecution for official acts taken in office. The report mainly targets Chief Justice John Roberts, highlighting his efforts to secure a consensus on controversial cases.
"This is another disturbing leak from the Court, and Congress should look into it because clearly a member of the minority is conspiring with the Left to destroy the Court," JCN President Carrie Severino told the DCNF.
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South Texas College of Law Houston professor Josh Blackman argued in Reason that the New York Times' report was "far worse than the Dobbs leak" in 2022, when Alito's draft decision overturning Roe v. Wade was leaked to Politico. He noted the latest leaks are "systematic and thorough," requiring insights from "so many different people."
"Moreover, all of this comes after the Dobbs leak when Chief Justice Roberts (apparently) put strict limitations on access to Court information," he wrote. "What did all of those measures accomplish? Apparently not much."
Blackman wrote that he believes Justice Elena Kagan's absence from the reporting suggests she or her surrogates are behind the leaks.
"If Kagan is willing to publicly undermine her colleagues in a speech at the Ninth Circuit, why would she do any less off-the-record?" he wrote. "Moreover, this entire story is consistent with Kagan's MO, and describing the Court as bending over backwards for Trump."...
Ilya Shaprio, director of constitutional studies at the Manhattan Institute, told the DCNF the leaks are "a further reflection of the left's discontent at having lost control of the Court."
"This is all part of a campaign to smear and pressure justices, and ultimately to delegitimize one of the few remaining institutions that hews to the rule of law and can resist progressive fascism," Shaprio said.
Carrie Severino
@JCNSeverinoTerrible leaks of confidential Court documents like this are deliberately aimed at intimidating and pressuring the originalist justices into changing their opinions on key cases in the future.
And if they don't -- their reputations will be dragged through the mud and they will subjected to targeted harassment and even potential violence.
We are at this unprecedented and dangerous moment because the Left is waging a full-blown political campaign to delegitimize and destroy the Supreme Court so they can exert total control over it.
Hundreds of Hezballah Terrorists Hurt By Online Hate Speech and Israel Remotely Detonating Their Pagers But Mostly by Israel Remotely Detonating Their Pagers
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My only reservation is that any brilliant cover operation can usually only be executed once. You rely on the target not even knowing that your exploit is even a possibility. Once you execute the exploit, your ignorance-based advantage is gone. Hezballah and all other terrorists now know to check their electronic devices regularly.
As with killing the Hamas leader in Iran with a bomb slipped under his bed, Israel is burning through a lot of the covert op tricks it's been slipping up its sleeve for decades, and these tricks will be unavailable (or at least, less reliable) in the future.
Still, this is a pretty existential fight and I guess Israel doesn't want to go down holding any of its arrows in its quivers, unused.
Hundreds of Hezbollah terrorists were reportedly injured in separate explosions across Lebanon on Tuesday, according to multiple reports.The widespread detonation was the result of a large number of the terrorists' communication and "wireless" devices suddenly exploding in Lebanon and Syria, according to Axios' Barak Ravid and Reuters. Though it's still unclear who was behind the attack, it comes a day after Israel warned that it was considering taking new actions against an increasingly aggressive Hezbollah.
Israel and Hezbollah have since been engaged in cross-fire skirmishes that have only grown more frequent and sizable since Oct. 7, the date Hamas attacked Israel and started a regional war. The Israeli Defense Minister reportedly told a U.S. envoy on Monday that the time for a diplomatic solution had "passed because Hezbollah continues to tie itself to Hamas and refuses to end the conflict," according to Axios.
It was the "biggest security breach" Hezbollah has experienced since it started engaging with Israel last year, a senior Hezbollah commander told Reuters.
Are you ready for this casualty estimate? I don't think you are.
A current total of 2,800 people, including terrorists, are believed to be injured or killed, according to the Lebanese Health Ministry cited by Axios.
I guess Lebanon could be inflating those numbers, thinking, incorrectly, that a lot of Hezballah terrorists dead or with their fingers and faces half-blown of will elicit sympathy.
What it elicits are Glory Boners.
How long before they start claiming that it was mostly "women and children" talking on Hezballah's phones?
Iran's ambassador to Lebanon was reportedly injured in one of the explosions, according to The Jerusalem Post.
LOL.
More at the link.
Below, a couple of videos of the small explosions. There is some collateral damage, although the explosions are small enough that I think the non-targets just got light damage from the pocket-bombs.
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