Bizarre Democrat Congresswoman Frederica Wilson Is Missing, and Her Staff May Be Covering Up For Her Absence

—Disinformation Expert Ace

Before getting to that: Debbie Wasserman-Schultz's congressional seat was eliminated by Ron DeSantis in what many are calling a mercy killing.

Just to prove how important it is to Democrats that blacks have their very own black-only districts, for Muh Representation, Schultz has decided to "appropriate" a majority black district for herself.

This is the seat currently represented by the black female Democrat who stole $5 million in taxpayer funds for covid.

Who is also running again: Because this is the Party of Looters and Shooters.

Politico, but via Ed Morrissey:

Five candidates are vying to be the Democratic nominee in the solidly blue congressional district, and more are considering jumping in -- including Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz, one of the country's most recognizable Democrats whose current path to reelection has been made more uncertain after Florida Republicans' mid-decade redistricting. Her possible candidacy has generated vocal opposition from existing candidates -- all of whom are Black -- who argue that the seat was held by a Black lawmaker for more than three decades and should be represented by someone who shares their experiences.

As one may imagine, voters in the new district are unhappy with both choices:

"This is a majority Black primary electorate and a working class district that needs someone to fight for them -- and they don't have stability and representation," said civil activist Elijah Manley, one of the candidates who has openly criticized Cherfilus-McCormick and Wasserman Schultz. "Now there's a war to decide who will be the voice for these people. ... The people here just want stability, and in order to have stability, they need someone who understands their community and what they need."

Candidate Luther Campbell, a former 2 Live Crew member who won a landmark free-speech Supreme Court case over sexually explicit material in one of his albums, called it "ludicrous" that Cherfilus-McCormick was running again. "Focus on your case, and then if you win in your case, then this seat is always up for every two years," he said. He also criticized Wasserman Schultz as "appalling" for considering a run, arguing she would be trying to "take a Black seat."

"I am upset with Debbie Wasserman Schultz. I am upset with Sheila McCormick," he said. "I'm upset with these people because they are playing with people's lives."

On to the missing fashion plate Frederica Wilson. If you're wondering where you've heard that name: She's the Hat Clown Grifter.

She has a wildly inappropriate hat for every occasion. That's her thing. Some focus on national defense, some focus on the economy.

She focuses on novelty cowboy hats. To Save Democracy (TM).

She's missing, but her staff is covering that up.

Florida Rep. Frederica Wilson (D-Fla.) missed the last 43 House votes and hasn't been seen for a month -- that's maybe not the most disturbing part of the story.

The eight-term incumbent is probably best known for her collection of hats -- usually sparkly ones -- is 83 years old, and so it's natural to fear the worst. Wilson's last recorded House vote was on April 17, and House reporter Jaime Dupree noted on BlueSky Wednesday that she "missed all 10 votes on Wednesday in the House," bringing the total to 43 consecutive missed votes over the last four weeks.

The only non-proof of life her staff has offered was a canned statement about a Supreme Court case and DNC pablum in her twitter feed.

But when the congresswoman in question goes missing in action for a month, and that somebody on Wilson's staff just keeps going as though nothing were wrong, well, that's disturbing. When they also photo from last year as though it's new, that's when the paranoia kicks in.

My attempts to reach her office via phone and email received no response. Whatever happened, it looks like Wilson's staff are in lockdown mode.

See the link for more. Steven Greene's best guess is that she has had a major health event, but her staff is covering that up so that no Democrat files to challenge her before the deadline expires.

Speaking of Democrat congresswomen who might have suffered a severe neurological incident:

Minnesota House Report Faults Walz for Engineering the Looting of Taxpayer Funds; Gavin Newsom Spent $189 Million to Give Prisoners Brand-New Free iPads So That They Can Jerk Off to Porn All Day

—Disinformation Expert Ace

So they don't have to work, are given free room and board, and they can cruise the internet all day and jack themselves off to porn twice a day.

And it costs taxpayers close to $200 million.

Oh -- and they also have sex chats with women outside of prison and use the tablets to sexually groom children.

This is "punishment"?

Chris Rufo:

Under Governor Gavin Newsom, California has sought to transform its massive prison system into a Nordic-style rehabilitation program. Newsom has placed a moratorium on all executions, transferred condemned prisoners to facilities across the state, dismantled San Quentin State Prison's death row, and turned the notorious prison into a therapeutic center, with art, classrooms, a café, and podcast studios.

As part of this transformation, the Newsom administration approved a $189 million contract to provide new digital tablets--generic, flat-screen devices in a plastic shell--to every inmate in the state prison system, at "no cost" to offenders. The administration heralded the effort to replace inmates' old tablets--which were piloted in 2018 and given to nearly all prisoners by 2023--as a step toward "digital equity" for "justice impacted" individuals, who could, in theory, use the devices to contact their families, consume "educational" content, and "learn new technology."

In reality, taxpayer-funded tablets have also been used for more lurid endeavors. In this exclusive City Journal investigation, we contacted dozens of death-row inmates, who told us that prisoners in the state system use such devices to watch pornography and have explicit sexual conversations. Some prisoners, according to a former high-ranking California corrections official, use their tablets to groom minors. Though the state has claimed to regulate explicit content, the inmates told us that users can easily evade detection.

When reached for comment, the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation said the tablets were "tightly controlled education tools" that provided inmates with "access to the Bible, education, and reentry resources that actually reduce crime."

LOL. Except if they get their hands on the password to turn off parental controls, which I imagine gets sold to them for $10.

But inmates told us a different story. For some, the devices have become personal sex machines. In the words of one inmate, California's death row is populated with desperately "horny" criminals who see the tablets as a way to satisfy their basest fantasies and desires--all thanks to the California taxpayer.

In the 1980s, a rapist and serial murderer named Robert Maury earned the nickname "the Tipster Killer" for calling in anonymous tips identifying the locations of the dead bodies he left behind. During this period, he killed a woman by strangling her with a nylon clothesline, strangled and killed another two women, and brutally raped a fourth before he was caught by authorities.

Now, Maury is living at a state prison facility in Stockton, California, where he has viewed pornography on his taxpayer-funded digital tablet. In an interview, Maury told us inmates can receive "nude pictures" and watch pornography through their devices. In his case, he claimed to have received a topless photo from a 22-year-old German psychology student who was "hoping that I would share my story with her for her class project." After the student sent the photo, Maury said he "flirted" with her "for a while."

Maury said another way that inmates can watch pornography is through the video chat application. In this scheme, he explained, an inmate can call someone on the outside, that person can "put porn on their TV," and the inmate can "watch with them." Maury specified that he has never explicitly asked anyone to broadcast pornography in this manner, but when it happens, he "just say[s] cool and thank you."

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"I would bet my pension that there's a vast amount of childhood pornography on the tablets," said the former official. "There are probably several thousand [children] that are currently being groomed."

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Meantime, despite the obvious risks, Governor Gavin Newsom is moving full-speed ahead with his initiative to "reimagine our prison system" and turn San Quentin into "the nation's most innovative rehabilitation facility." Newsom has offered no indication that he will reverse course on the free tablet program. In fact, the new vendor contract allows for four one-year extensions, which could push its total cost to $315 million. At least one Democratic legislator is demanding that the state make inmates' messages free of charge.

Eckenrod, who anticipated the dark side of "digital equity," believes California has opened the floodgates to abuse. "We created a pathway for them to reach out and groom folks," he said. "There are going to be victims that didn't need to have been victims because of these decisions."

Read the whole thing.

The Party of Looters and Shooters continues showing its ass in Minnesota.

Final Walz fraud report rips 'culture of tolerance' as Minnesota taxpayers face billions in alleged losses

84-page report follows two dozen hearings and hundreds of whistleblower tips about state government malfeasance

A comprehensive final report released Tuesday by the Minnesota House Fraud Prevention and State Agency Oversight Committee concluding its work for the current session takes aim at a "culture of tolerance" under Gov. Tim Walz that it says allowed serial fraudsters to fleece taxpayers for billions of dollars.

The 84-page final report, which follows two dozen hearings and hundreds of whistleblower tips, paints a grim picture of state government malfeasance, incompetence and the active suppression of internal warnings.

The committee concluded that the scale of fraud in Minnesota is "massive and unprecedented," costing taxpayers an estimated $300 million in federal meal program fraud and up to $9 billion in Medicaid fraud. The report asserts that the total amount stolen across multiple programs, including childcare and SNAP, is significantly higher than previously believed.

The report cited several examples of what it characterizes as Walz failing to act on fraud, including a situation, reported by Fox News Digital, where he "tried to blame a court order" for failing to stop payments to the Feeding Our Future fraudsters. However, the presiding judge later issued a public statement clarifying that he never ordered the state to resume payments, asserting that the Walz administration did so voluntarily.

Investigators identified a recurring "business model" used by criminals to fleece taxpayers, which involved low barriers to entry, the use of shell companies and the payment of kickbacks to enroll recipients. The report specifically links the Feeding Our Future scandal to earlier unaddressed fraud in the Child Care Assistance Program (CCAP), suggesting that the failure to stop one led directly to the explosion of the other.

The report alleges that Governor Walz created a culture that enabled fraud by failing to hold officials accountable despite years of credible whistleblower reports and audits. It claims the administration "ignored and consciously downplayed" shocking levels of fraud across more than a dozen Medicaid waiver programs and prioritized "compassion over compliance."

While the committee uncovered numerous findings highlighting the severity of the fraud, they found themselves consistently facing opposition from Democrats, including earlier this month when Democrats on the committee blocked an effort to subpoena Democratic Rep. Ilhan Omar for information on her alleged ties to the convicted fraudsters in the Somali community.

A "Grenade-Type IED" Discovered by Divers at Base of Alabama Dam

—Disinformation Expert Ace

So Culturally Enriching.

A group of divers conducting routine maintenance on a dam in Mobile, Ala., discovered a hidden explosive device underwater, the Mobile Area Water and Sewer System (MAWSS) announced on Wednesday.

Multiple outlets described the explosive as "grenade type-IED," which authorities retrieved and later detonated safely, NBC 15 reported.

"This is an unprecedented threat, and we are fortunate that this device was discovered before it could cause serious damage to our water supply or harm to individuals," MAWSS Director Bud McCrory said in a statement.

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Authorities referred the discovery to the Department of Homeland Security. As of press time, they have not identified a suspect or motive for the device's placement near the dam.

I could take a guess if you're looking for a place to start.

Beginning of the End? Top Starmer Minister Resigns and Blasts Him as a Failed Leader, Demands a Contest for a New PM

—Disinformation Expert Ace

Is this enough? Well, I saw Carl Benjamin laughing at Labour's plight-- Labour was decimated in the council elections, and Starmer is a toxic failure, but Starmer is basically acting like the Joker, insisting that he will remain PM and that the rest of the party can go hang if they don't like it.

I even heard -- I can't find a cite -- that Starmer had threatened to call a snap election if Labour tries to replace him. There must be a general election by 2029, but the government can call for a new election anytime it likes, a so-called "snap" election. So Starmer is basically threatening -- if this claim is true -- that if Labour tries to depose him, he will call for a quick election that will surely result in the near-extinction of Labour at the national parliamentary level.

That aside, pressure is building. I don't know who Wes Streeting is and I'm pretty sure I'd punch you if you tried to tell me. That's how much I don't care about this cuck.

But apparently he's a Health Minister and a big macher in the party.

And now he's jumped off of Starmer's sinking ship, and called for a leadership contest. Which isn't the same as a national general election, it would just be the current parliament voting for a new PM.

So Starmer would, if this actually happens, be replaced by another Labour twat, possibly this Streeting cuck.

David Shaw @David90shaw

4h

🚨 BREAKING: It is finally over. Health Secretary Wes Streeting has officially resigned and delivered the final blow to Keir Starmer.

In a brutal resignation letter, Streeting told the Prime Minister directly that it is now clear he will not lead the party into the next election. He is openly demanding a "battle of ideas" to decide what comes next and has called on Starmer to facilitate the transition.

The Cabinet mutiny has officially succeeded. The Starmer era is finished.

Yeah I don't know. Starmer insists that he's the Indispensable Man and that the country would collapse without his weak spindly arms wrapped around the nation in hug that is supposed to be paternal but you can feel his tiny feeble erection poking you in the thigh.

GB Politics @GBPolitcs

🚨BREAKING: Wes Streeting to Keir Starmer in his resignation letter:

"It is now clear that you will not lead the Labour Party into the next general election and that Labour MPs and Labour Unions want the debate about what comes next to be a battle of ideas, not of personalities or petty factionalism. It needs to be broad, and it needs the best possible field of candidates. I support that approach and I hope that you will facilitate this."

Starmer responded with a letter once again declaring that he's just too successful to be replaced and he will continue "delivering" hot sexy "change" to the UK, whether the UK wants it or not.

Dude read the room already, goodness gracious.

Starmer previously convinced 100 Labour MP's to sign a letter stating that they would not support a leadership contest and still backed Starmer. That's a good number of MPs -- but it's not nearly a majority, neither in the entire Parliament nor just in Labour's parliamentary delegation (which is a whopping 403, due to the Tories' remorseless betrayal of the voters on immigration and subsequent defenestration).

Do they walk back their support now? And does it matter if they do or don't? 303 is more than 100, even in the confusing metric system.

Apparently it doesn't matter: Starmer loses, according to the polls, to any of the most-mentioned possible challengers.

Politics UK @PolitlcsUK

5h

🚨 NEW: Labour members voting intention:

Starmer vs Streeting:
Starmer: 53%
Streeting: 23%

Starmer vs Burnham:
Burnham: 61%
Starmer: 28%

Starmer vs Miliband:
Miliband: 46%
Starmer: 39%

Starmer vs Rayner:
Rayner: 45%
Starmer: 41%

Via @LabourList, 1214 members

(1214 members? I don't know what that means, given that I assume only MPs vote.)

Relatedly, Tommy Robinson is planning a big "United the Kingdom" rally this Saturday. Supposedly, 750,000 people are expected to attend.

But Starmer is refusing visas to most of his invited foreign speakers.

Meanwhile, any terrorist "cleric" can come to the UK to fundraise for Hamas and Hezballah and even the IRGC, which continues to be a perfectly legal organization in the UK.

Trump Cancels $1.3 Billion in Medicaid Payments to Fraud and Piracy Ridden State of California

—Disinformation Expert Ace

The Party of Looters & Shooters.

One Nation Under Fraud: Trump administration uncovers massive welfare, citizenship abuses

The cost to taxpayers identified by Vice President JD Vance's task for targeting government benefit programs is mounting, and no plausible explanations are forthcoming.

The Trump administration's work to pare back waste, fraud, and abuse in the federal government has reportedly exposed a vast network of taxpayer-fleecing scams, abuses of immigration, and of the citizenship process across all corners of the United States.

The story involves resettled refugees soaking up federal paychecks to run home healthcare and childcare businesses, transnational criminal organizations exploiting food benefit programs, and scammers using fake student profiles to make off with millions in federal student loans. It also involves non-monetary forms of fraud, especially in immigration -- legal and illegal alike.

Minnesota's Somali community just the start

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Recent public reports indicate that federally-funded state government programs beyond just Minnesota are ripe for exploitation and fraud. In a sweeping investigation, the Daily Wire and a researcher from the Capital Research Center found that Ohio spent billions of federal dollars on "personal services" payments to home healthcare companies with dubious credentials.

These funds are frequently used to compensate individuals for performing non-medical tasks such as cooking, cleaning, and "companionship" for their own family members. Because these services are conducted inside private residences without supervision, it can be difficult to verify actual service delivery.

Yeah this is just foreigners and other pirates signing up to be paid what they are supposed to do for free -- care for their family members.

"I provided three meals last week to my elderly father." Yeah you're fucking supposed to, jackass. The taxpayer isn't on the hook for buying McDonald's three times (and you charging the taxpayer $200 per "service rendered."

The investigation found a surge in dubious home health companies that appear to exist solely to bill the government. In Columbus, the reporters found a single windowless office building that houses 94 different companies that have collectively billed taxpayers $66 million over a few years. Many of the business owners lacked medical training or had criminal records, the outlet reported.

There is evidence that this type of fraud is specifically encouraged by the way federal government programs are set up. For example, the Office of Refugee Resettlement runs a program that helps new immigrants develop "microenterprises," like home healthcare companies, "to help generate an income and achieve self-sufficiency."

Welfare fraud a top priority

The Trump administration has made hunting down this type of welfare fraud a top priority. President Donald Trump signed an executive order earlier this year establishing a national task force to combat such fraud and appointed Vice President JD Vance to lead it.

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California and Ohio were apparently only the tip of the iceberg. On Wednesday, the task force announced that it would be halting $1.4 billion in federal funding for home health and hospice providers across the entire United States.

Vance also issued an ultimatum to all 50 states on Wednesday, demanding they show that they are adequately protecting against fraud in federally funded Medicaid programs, or risk losing that funding.

"Today, we are sending, across 50 Medicaid programs, letters that will require them to show that they are effectively and aggressively prosecuting Medicaid fraud in their states," Vance said at a press conference. "These letters are the first step. The first effort to try to force these states to get serious about prosecuting fraud."

"We're a generous country. We're generous people. I love that about this country," the vice president added. "But part of that generosity is that it extends to our fellow Americans. We cannot give Medicare and Medicaid benefits to everybody all over the world."

They've cancelled $1.3 billion in Medicaid payments to California due to Newsom deliberately allowing widespread looting of the American treasury, gay "news" network NBC complains.

Vice President JD Vance announced Wednesday that the Trump administration is withholding $1.3 billion in Medicaid payments to California and is threatening to suspend federal funding to all states if they don't aggressively prosecute fraud in their Medicaid programs.

As part of his role as the fraud czar, Vance said that the administration is targeting California because the state isn't taking fraud seriously.

"There are California taxpayers and American taxpayers who are being defrauded because California isn't taking its program seriously, but also you have people who have been prescribed medications that they don't even need. They've had drugs put into their bodies that they don't need because fraudsters have actually encouraged false prescriptions and false administration of medications," Vance said at the White House.

The move is similar to the one the administration took in February suspending Medicaid payments to Minnesota.

Hello. Happy Thursday.

Crowey dropped in to grab the last of the turned ground beef. He carried it off to his nest.

The Morning Rant: Thune Needs To Go!

—CBD

What has the vaunted United States Senate done for us lately? Remember, they are the self-described "greatest deliberative body on the planet!"

They have done nothing. And the only substantive effort they have made has been to keep the Senate in pretend session to prevent a sitting president from recess appointments to the various administrative departments. That is an abuse of the process, that is an abuse of their political mandate, and that is an abuse of the American people.

How does a Republican majority in this senate differ from a Democrat majority?

They have deliberated nothing other than faux issues and nonsensical pronouncements. They have subverted the will of the American people, and have obfuscated and delayed and flat-out lied. And those lies have mostly come from the cartoonish fake-statesman Thune. He is a craven weasel whose political philosophy begins and ends with his personal aggrandizement, and the wishes of his benefactors, which is a fancy term for "owners." And who are they? Pharma! Health Care! Goldman Sachs! And, weirdly, a bunch of auto dealers! And for a senator who is not up for reelection, why does he have $17 million cash on hand? For a small state like South Dakota?

Thune Has Tried Nothing To Pass The SAVE Act And He's All Out Of Ideas

Senate Majority Leader John Thune, R-S.D., said Tuesday “We don’t have the votes to get rid of the filibuster” as his defense for why he won’t get the SAVE America Act passed. Lucky for Thune, he doesn’t need to “get rid of the filibuster” to pass the SAVE America Act, but he already knows that — he just doesn’t want to pass the legislation at all.

Cui Bono? Who benefits from our country's slide into 3rd world sh*thole status, courtesy of illegal voting? The Democrat junta obviously. But why would Thune support the continuation of this destruction of our constitutional republic and its conversion into a majority-rule "democracy" without any of the checks and balances that have defended our freedoms for 250 years? Is it as simple as Thune's desire for the status quo, which makes his life quite easy, but will ultimately destroy our republic?

If so, he might be even sleazier and amoral than the typical senator, and that is saying a lot.

PS. For a taste of a different sort of politician, listen to Jeff Carter, candidate for Nevada State Treasurer on the CutJibNewsletter podcast!

[Crossposted at CutJibNewsletter and X/Twitter]. If you folks who are on X/Twitter would follow us it would be much appreciated!

And...Yeah...I was in a meeting that ran late!

Mid-Morning Art Thread

—CBD

T. R. in Panama
Edward Laning

The Morning Report — 5/ 14/26

—J.J. Sefton

Good morning kids. I will try to be charitable this morning by asking the simple question, is this guy deaf, dumb, blind and clueless or worse, a miserable collaborationist Quisling?! I don't live in South Carolina so I don't know this guy's record. But given the blast of infernal heat that this nation has endured for generations, regardless there is just no fucking excuse!

State Sen. Shane Massey's (R-NC) first time talking to the president came last week when Trump called him to discuss how he wanted the redistricting to happen, the New York Times reported. The Republican leader of South Carolina's state Senate defied President Donald Trump and voted against a redistricting effort that could have slashed the state's only Democrat-led congressional district, arguing that "South Carolina is stronger when we have a vibrant Democratic Party." Contrary to Trump's wishes, Massey joined four other Republicans in voting against the proposal that would have allowed for the Senate to reconvene later this month for a redistricting effort.

As a complete aside, regardless of the spelling, just what the hell is it with people named Massey, (the late great thespian Raymond, notwithstanding)?!
I am of course referring to RINO sex-pest Tom from Kentucky.

Shane, the fucking problem and the reason that this nation is a red nether hair's breadth from plunging headlong into the abyss is because it has had to endure the very same "Vibrant" Democrat party and the fires of hell it has unleashed on us going back almost to the founding. In what insane version of reality is South Carolina better with James Clyburn anywhere within 10 billion light years from the levers of power? Ditto his entire party.

And a hearty fuck you to this loathsome turd of a RINO too:

Republican Governor Tate Reeves has suggested that Mississippi will not redraw its congressional maps before the 2026 midterms.

I suppose Tate Reeves and Shame, er ShaneMassey think Germany in 1933 was much more vibrant with the Nazis, eh fellas?!

And here we are nearly 100 years later and we've got vibrancy out the wazoo!!!

On the whole right now I'd rather NOT be in Philadelphia. . .

A Pennsylvania House candidate endorsed by Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D., N.Y.), Rep. Ro Khanna (D., Calif.), Sen. Chris Van Hollen (D., Md.), and other leading far-left figures has hailed notorious cop-killer Mumia Abu-Jamal as one of several "Black freedom fighters" and "elderly political prisoners" and called for his release from prison.

Chris Rabb (D.), a five-term Pennsylvania state representative running to represent the state's Third Congressional District, cosigned a letter from the Philadelphia Democratic Socialists of America last month urging Gov. Josh Shapiro (D.) to free the 71-year-old Abu-Jamal from prison, where the former Black Panther is serving a life sentence for the 1981 murder of Philadelphia police officer Daniel Faulkner.

If Shapiro wants to burnish his prospects for the Democrat nomination in '28, dim as they are being white, male, non-homo, and mostly Jewish by birth, he will find some flimsy excuse to cut this animal loose. If they can steal a national election and create the Russia collusion hoax, surely they can fake exculpatory evidence. Be that as it may, the problem is in not recognizing who and what the enemy is, and our worst enemy is right in our midst.

On a positive note, it was rather nice to see Chip Roy, whose record at least from what I have seen over the years has been spotty at best, come out with this statement:

Roy laid out Islam's growing foothold across the globe, including his home state of Texas, which has seen a surge in Muslim immigration and Islamic communities. . . "Over the past few years, Shariah-based legal institutions have taken root in American communities, and nowhere is this problem worse than in my home state of Texas," Roy said during the House Judiciary Subcommittee on Constitution and Limited Government hearing.

Wow, bravo Chip Roy who absolutely gets it. That said the term Islamism is a dodge and camouflage. It's ISLAM, period full stop. Islamism perpetuates the lie that Islam itself is benign and only fringe elements are insane terrorists. That is of course a dangerous myth. I suppose to go full Robert Spencer and call it out for what it is would have been too much insofar as inviting the usual suspects to shout racist, Islamophobia, Xenophobia, etc. ad nauseam and be politically within third rail territory. Still, this is about as close to calling the proverbial spade a spade as I have yet to see any real American politician, declare. So at least it's something.

On another bright note, to compare and contrast with the aforementioned RINO flunky sellouts, CBD and I had a fantastic conversation on the latest episode of the podcast with friend of the blog and now FRIEND Jeffrey Carter, a bright, outstanding patriot who is running for the office of Treasurer of the state of Nevada.
Linked here and in the sidebar and at the usual outlets listed at the bottom of the post.

If we had more Jeff Carters running, and please God, winning, perhaps the term RINO would become extinct and then before long, Democrats along with them! Support Jeff Carter at Jefcarternv.com

On these positive notes, I hope you all . . .

Have a good day.

ABOVE THE FOLD, BREAKING, NOTEWORTHY
• There can be only one. Choose a side.
  Good vs. Evil
  
• Miranda Devine: Jihadis and cartels are targets of the new White House counterterrorism strategy, but so, too, are Antifa, Tran­tifa and other violent domestic left-wing anti-American groups. It’s a sharp departure from the Biden junta's sinister national strategy on counterterrorism that pretended groups like Antifa didn’t exist and instead targeted Catholics at traditional mass, parents questioning gender ideology at school-board meetings and Trump supporters who, Joe Biden told us repeatedly, were “ultra-MAGA,” “semi-fascist” domestic terrorists.
  The Trump admin is going after violent leftists and their twisted ideology

• He continued on to argue that “Republicans are stronger when the Democrat Party is vibrant and viable.” “You are. Competition makes you better, y’all,” he added.
  Republican South Carolina Senate Leader Kills GOP’s Redistricting Effort: ‘Competition Makes Us Better’

Daily Tech News 14 May 2026

—Pixy Misa

• This must be Thursday. I never could get the hang of Thursdays.
  
  Fragnesia is the fourth local privilege escalation bug to hit Linux in the past two weeks. (Phoronix)
  
  Bad news: No major distributions have patches out yet.
  
  Good news: It's in the same kernel modules as all three other vulnerabilities, so if you applied the quick fix of just disabling those modules entirely, you're protected this time as well.
  
  
  
• Oh, and five new vulnerabilities in CPanel since the weekend. (InMotion)
  
  But these ones aren't being actively exploited yet, so just update and you're good.

Wednesday Night ONT - May 13, 2026 [TRex]

—Open Blogger

Good evening Horde. The time has come for mid-week shenanigans. The bar is open.

Welcome to the Wednesday night ONT which means another edition of random overnight fun and games. Pull up a chair and sit a spell. Good will offerings of amusing puns are happily accepted. Pants are optional. Be nice to your fellow commenters and AoS contributors. This is a Tucker, Candace and Megyn free zone. Please.

Will you be smarter after reading this ONT? Will you be better looking? Will you be more fun at parties? Will you lose weight? Will you be wealthier? Will you be more fashionable? If you skip the content, you'll never know!

[Top photo: Billy Mays is buried in Mt. Cavalry cemetery in McKees Rocks, Pittsburgh]

Golden Cafe

—Disinformation Expert Ace

by Joao Miguens

Just hanging out.

Sneezy tiger.

Donkeys are underrated.

Tiger kit practices stalking.

Even in virtual reality, a cat's first instinct is to destroy. Their second instinct is to c**kblock. Their third instinct is to destroy again.

Groove is in the hips.

ICYMI: Man finds his lost dog.

Massive Report Details the Apocalyptic Evil of the October 7 Massacre -- as the NYT Hides That Reporting to Push Absurd Hamas Propaganda About Israel Training Dogs to Rape Palestinian Terrorist Prisoners

—Disinformation Expert Ace

And the Times rushed that article out -- as opinion, not news, because they couldn't confirm any of the absurd claims in the Hamas propaganda discharge -- to blunt the impact of report about real warcrimes and nihilistic murder-cult depravity.

Among the mutilated and butchered bodies of young women slaughtered on October 7, it was their colourful, polished nails that many of the morgue staff remember.

Bright, beautiful, shiny, pink manicures glistening amid the pervasive 'grey and green' of death were often the only reminder of who these girls had been just hours earlier.

Because Hamas-led terrorists had not just executed these women. They had 'deliberately and systematically' defiled them, as the most comprehensive account of the atrocity released by The Civil Commission today shows.

The terrorists shot their eyes, their faces and their breasts, and even targeted their most intimate parts, to destroy their beauty and rob their loved ones of a final goodbye.

Women were stripped, bound, stabbed, shot and burned. They were executed both during and after rape amid an orgy of violence in which 1,200 people were killed and 250 taken hostage.

Heads were decapitated. Pelvic bones shattered. Even after death, sexual assault continued.

A grotesque, medieval obsession with sexual organs pervaded the crime scenes at the Nova Festival and in the Kibbutzim near Gaza.

At Kibbutz Be'eri, nails, sharp objects, and pieces of metal and plastic were similarly embedded in a woman whose body was discovered naked and bound. On another victim, grenades were used.

While ordinarily newspapers censor the full horrors of such accounts, today, as hard as it is, over 430 witnesses, survivors, experts and medical staff ask that you do not look away.

For over two years they have given evidence to The Civil Commission, an independent Israeli women's rights NGO established in the wake of October 7, 2023, in response to the failure of international institutions to address the sexual violence committed that day.

The Daily Mail was the first British newspaper granted advance access to the report, fittingly titled 'Silenced No More', which is released today.

It shows it was not just women who were degraded as a 'deliberate tool of terror, humiliation, and control'. Men were also sexually abused and in at least one case gang raped.

Victims were mutilated, with body parts cut off used to create depraved scenes gleefully concocted to traumatise those who discovered them.

'The purpose was humiliation, not victory,' first responder Eran Masas, who came across one such barbaric arrangement, told The Civil Commission.

...

One dead woman was 'completely without clothes, missing an arm, shot in the head.' He found his sister alive beneath bodies in a shelter.

Eden Wessely, driving to rescue a friend, found the body of a woman in a black dress who appeared to have been raped beside her husband.

'Half of her face was burned, half wasn't,' she said of footage she passed to The Civil Commission. 'She had a bullet in her cheek, and she was frozen in that position.'

Read the whole thing, if you can. There are additional stories of family members forced at gunpoint to perform sexual acts on each other, for the humiliation and depraved evil of it.

Because this story was coming out, it fell to one of the NYT's many terrorist mouthpieces to launder the propganda claims of the Hamas terrorist organization into print in a formerly "respectable" and formerly western outlet.

David Harsanyi:

Like many leftists living in social media bubbles, New York Times op-ed columnist Nicholas Kristof is obsessed with Israel. And because he has a risible understanding of the Middle East, he's also highly susceptible to believing unhinged conspiracies aimed at the country.

This week, however, in a pseudo-journalistic piece headlined "The Silence That Meets the Rape of Palestinians," the columnist excavates conspiracies so unhinged that no marginally reputable media outlet has ever touched them. Even the New York Times relegates it to its op-ed section, since the piece breaks every rule of objective journalism. But even columnists have an obligation to abide by the basic standards of evidence. Kristof does not.

Kristof tells the story of an unnamed 23-year-old Palestinian woman who contends she was arrested after Oct. 7, strip-searched, mocked, tied up, beaten, and then molested and likely raped by Israelis. The Israelis, the woman tells Kristof, wanted to "crush her spirit," a curiously political statement for an alleged rape victim.

In any event, Kristof not only fails to provide the woman's name, but he offers no other witness, no complaint, no medical evidence from an Arab doctor, no photos of bruises, nothing but the accusation. Did the columnist ever verify that the woman had been detained? Because Kristof doesn't tell us in which prison this woman was purportedly held, or why she was arrested, or even when. Any competent journalist would have heard blaring sirens when a story leaves out any detail that could be used to launch a genuine investigation. It's difficult to believe that's an accident. Yet, Kristof treats all the allegations as fact.

Then again, even the named sources Kristof relies on are highly problematic.

Sami Sai, an introspective "freelance journalist" according to Kristof, is actually a Palestinian activist who publicly celebrated on Oct 7. Sai, who has been arrested numerous times for violent incitement, has an evolving story about allegedly being raped.

Another "source" is longtime Palestinian activist and media favorite Issa Amro, who also has an ever-changing story about his time in an Israeli prison. In a 2024 Washington Post piece, for example, Amro very specifically claimed that he was threatened with sexual assault while in Israeli detention. In Kristof's column, he has morphed into a victim of rape.

But Kristof's most cartoonishly evil accusation contends that the Israelis use trained dogs to rape Palestinian prisoners. This hoax is the favorite of online antisemitic podcaster types. Not only has there never been a shred of evidence that this has happened, but it's also probably "biologically and cognitively unfeasible" for humans to train dogs to rape people.

The dog rape claim originates with the EuroMed Human Rights Monitor, a pro-Hamas Qatari-based group. It was spread by, among other shady types, conspiracy theorist Shaiel Ben-Ephraim, a former postdoctoral fellow at UCLA who was forced to leave the school after sexual-harassment allegations involving minors.

Palestinians have spent over 70 years pulling hoaxes on gullible Westerners to gain sympathy. Anyone who's followed the Middle East situation for more than five minutes is aware that Israel's enemies are constantly making up ludicrous claims about trained animals. Israelis are apparently the greatest animal trainers in history. The country has been accused of deploying sharks, rats, lizards, cows, dolphins, hawks, and pigs by its enemies. The only difference here is that a Western journalist was credulous or despicable enough to spread the conspiracy.

People pointed out that no reports of a "dog raping a human being" have ever been filed, anywhere, and that it seems mechanically impossible for a dog to accomplish this.

Kristof rebutted that his Palestinian sources had provided him with "medical journals" discussing accounts of dog rape.

But he didn't read those journals, of course.

Because they were reporting human violations of dogs, not dogs' violations of humans.

Tomatoh, tamatoh, right?

I wonder what the relative stats for rapes are as between Jews and Muslims.

No I don't. I know.

Murkowski, Collins, and Paul Defect to the Democrats, As Usual, to Demand Trump Surrender to Iran

—Disinformation Expert Ace

Boy that Rand Paul, what a Great Conservative Manlet.

Alaska's embarrassment, Senator "Princess" Lisa Murkowski (R-AK), has struck again. This time, she joined Republicans Susan Collins (R-ME) and Rand Paul (R-KY) in voting for a resolution to force President Trump to pull out our armed forces who are still poised, locked, loaded, and aimed at Iran. The good news is that the resolution still failed.

...

The resolution failed in part because of the Democrats' last sane Senator: John Fetterman (D-PA), who voted against the War Powers resolution. The administration is insisting that the cease-fire is, in effect, a reset button on the conflict's 60-day window.

Speaking of the odious Rand Paul: Rand Paul's son doesn't fall far from the Rand Paul, or Ron Paul, tree.

The adult son of Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) launched a vile antisemitic and homophobic tirade at Rep. Mike Lawler (R-NY) at a DC bar Tuesday night, saying at one point that the Iran war was "about the gays and the Jews, and I hate them both, and I don't care if they die."

In a phone conversation recounting the evening, Lawler told The Post that he was sitting at a popular DC bar with a friend and a reporter for NOTUS, which first revealed the incident involving William Paul.

"So Rand Paul's f--ing son is sitting next to us at the at the bar ... And he just like chimes in on our conversation, f--ing drunk and belligerent, and then starts going off about, you know, if [Rep. Thomas] Massie [R-Ky.] loses [his primary], it's because of my people," Lawler recalled.

"I'm like, 'What people?' He goes, 'Jews,' and I'm like, 'Do you think I'm Jewish? ... I'm Irish-Italian Catholic, buddy,'" the Hudson Valley lawmaker went on.

"He's like, 'Wait, you're not Jewish?'" Lawler recalled the younger Paul asking, to which the lawmaker said he replied: "And even if I was, what's the problem?"

"And then he got into the Middle East, and he was talking about, like, us trying to steal Iran's land for the Jews and steal the West Bank, and I'm like, 'What are you talking about?'"

At that point, William Paul said: "This war, it's all about the gays and the Jews, and I hate them both, and I don't care if they die."

...

...

"Last night, I had too much to drink and said some things that don't represent who I really am. I'm sorry and today I am seeking help for my drinking problem," William Paul posted on his X account Wednesday afternoon.

The senator's son previously pleaded guilty in 2015 to driving under the influence after smashing his Honda truck into a parked car and being found "belligerent" and with "a strong odor of alcohol," per the Lexington Herald-Leader.

Uh-huh.

He also apologized to Lawler... for calling him a Jew, when he wasn't a Jew at all.

Reese Gorman @reesejgorman

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New: Sen. Rand Paul's son drunkenly accosted and hurled anti-Semitic insults at Rep. Mike Lawler at a Capitol Hill bar on Tuesday night.

His son told Lawler that if Rep Thomas Massie loses, it's going to be because of "your people."

"My people?" Lawler asked Paul.

"Yeah, you Jews," Paul responded.

"Do you think I'm Jewish?" Lawler asked. "I'm not."

"Oh wow, I'm so sorry for calling you a Jew," Paul said.

He then said that Jews were "anti-American" and how Lawler and his "Jewish supporters" served Israel more than America.

I don't really care what this fat alcoholic Daddy Got Me a Job Nepo Baby Failure thinks -- but it is a very interesting look inside the "thinking" of the entire Paul family, and how they launder straight-up antisemitic hatred and support for Islamists though bullshit jive about "libertarians" being absolutist pacifists.

Hollywood: Shit or Garbage?

—Disinformation Expert Ace

The Odyssey is every bit as woke and gay as we were fearing.

First of all, it's based on a revisionist translation of Homer's text, by a radical feminist who used the tale to critique masculinity, "the patriarchy," and to center female voices.

You know, like the 3,000 year old war and adventure tale The Odyssey was always meant to be.

Jon Root @JonnyRoot_

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Christopher Nolan's The Odyssey movie was doomed from the start...

It's rumored that the screenplay is based on a woke, feminist retelling of the story by Emily Wilson*

1. The language is dumbed down (modernized)
2. It downplays masculinity & male hierarchy.
3. It shames violence/war
4. Odysseus is emasculated & less of an inspirational hero. He's more "complicated" (vulnerable, arrogant, manipulative)
5. Woman are made more prominent & impactful at the expense of male characters.

This retelling infuses modern, liberal ideology into the story, turning the epic into political propaganda.

This movie will no doubt have elements of identity politics throughout.

*Nolan has mentioned Wilson's version in interviews.

This is why Odysseus' son says "My dad is coming home," too. She translates ancient Greek for (say it with me) The Modern Audience.

Nolan is not using the standard cinematic music for epics, the orchestral score, saying that the orchestra did not exist in ancient Greece and so the movie shouldn't have an orchestral score.

DiscussingFilm @DiscussingFilm

May 12

Christopher Nolan instructed Ludwig Göransson not to use an orchestra for 'THE ODYSSEY' score.

"It's not like the orchestra existed back then. It was a challenge and also an opening to try to make something unique."

So, you may think: Oh he's using period-accurate music for the film.* He just wants to make the most period-accurate epic of ancient mythic Greece ever made.

But then... Why this?

Christopher Nolan says he cast rapper Travis Scott in #TheOdyssey as a “nod“ to the tradition of oral poetry:

“I cast him because I wanted to nod towards the idea that this story has been handed down as oral poetry, which is analogous to rap.” (via Time)… pic.twitter.com/gvgwo20YHC

— Variety (@Variety) May 12, 2026

He plays "a bard." You know, those famous African bards of ancient Greece.

Did they have rap in ancient mythic Greece?

Two of his beancounting casting choices -- complying with the Academy's demand for precise levels of overrepresentation of actors from Marginalized Groups in any movie in order to be eligible for an Oscar -- are now confirmed.

Variety:

The all-star cast is rounded out by Tom Holland as Telemachus, Robert Pattinson as Antinous, Lupita Nyong'o as Helen of Troy, Zendaya as Athena, Charlize Theron as Calypso, Jon Bernthal as Menelaus, and Benny Safdie as Agamemnon.

Note that Nolan is selling his race-swap-crazy feminist take on The Odyssey as hyper-accurate.

Anyone who's been following Nolan's career knows the British filmmaker is painstaking when it comes to accuracy. On "Interstellar," he hired a team of scientists to get the physics to be as accurate as possible. He took a similar approach to "The Odyssey."

"For 'Interstellar,' you're looking at, 'What is the best speculation of the future?' When you're looking at the ancient past, it's actually the same thing," Nolan said. "'What is the best speculation and how can I use that to create a world?'"

He added, "Hopefully they'll enjoy the film, even if they don't agree with everything. We had a lot of scientists complain about 'Interstellar.' But you just don't want people to think that you took it on frivolously."

I care less about the race-swap of Athena. She's a "goddess" and I guess can take whatever form she likes. I don't see much wisdom in Zendaya's blank eyes, though.

But Lupito Nyong'o as Helen of Troy?

Helen of Troy was born in... Sparta.

Does Lupito Nyong'o have that classic Spartan look?

Is this the most accurate speculation about what the ancient Greek world looked like?

Lupita Nyong’o will play both Helen of Troy and her sister, Clytemnestra, in Christopher Nolan’s ‘THE ODYSSEY.’

(https://t.co/wG33R7UAQs) pic.twitter.com/Mn8e5sG1RA

— Pop Base (@PopBase) May 12, 2026

So he ostentatiously avoids orchestral score for the sake of "accuracy" and "realism and immersion," and then relocates Sparta to sub-Saharan Africa?

Why?

And of course it's now essentially confirmed that Achilles, greatest warrior in Greek legend, the ideal of hypermasculinity, will be played by Ellen "Elliot" Page because of course, this is a realistic and immersive retelling of the Odyssey which gets all the details right.

The claim he'll make is that she (and she is a she, even if she did lop off her tits) is playing the shade of Achilles, bedraggled and enfeebled in Hell, but... come on, Hell does not change your sex in any myth or religiion. Give me a break, this is casting to fulfill the Academy's race/gay/trans beancounting.

Industry-shill captured paper Variety is shocked and horrified that Elon Musk said two accurate things about the casting in this woke piece of shit:

Elon Musk is bashing Christopher Nolan for #TheOdyssey casting, alleging the director cast Lupita Nyong’o as Helen of Troy because he “wants the awards.”

In additional X posts, Musk re-tweeted posts that mocked Elliot Page’s masculinity and claimed that Nolan was stomping all… pic.twitter.com/rhMoaZNCXM

— Variety (@Variety) May 13, 2026

Which one of those statements by Musk is a lie, Variety? Do you certify, with all of your "journalistic" authority, that Lupito Nyong'o is an accurate depiction of a Spartan woman so beautiful that she launched a thousand ships to re-take her, or that Ellen "Elliot" Page is a good representation of idealized Greek Heroic masculinity?

Or that Nolan is doing this to comport with Academy racial and sexual bean-counting?

FUUUUUUUCK this guy and FUUUUUUUCK this movie.

I'll watch Troy again. Sean Bean is my Odysseus.

* The first time I heard "well they didn't have orchestral music back then either" was from the writer/director of A Knight's Tale, explaining why it's no big deal that his 14th-century jousting movie contained music by David Bowie and Queen. It's no more anachronistic, he argued, that a medieval-set film should feature "Low Rider" and "We Will Rock You" than it would to feature an orchestral score.

I mean... okay whatever that was a good movie and those music inclusions were fun so I'll let it stand.

Close it up

CIA Whistleblower: Fauci Ordered the Cover-Up About the America-Funded Wuhan Lab's Creation of the Covid Virus

—Disinformation Expert Ace

Bill Melugin @BillMelugin_

NEW: Active CIA employee James Erdman testifies in the Senate that in August 2021, the intelligence community was prepared to determine that the COVID-19 pandemic likely began as a leak from a Chinese lab, but days later, that changed after Dr. Anthony Fauci "injected himself" into conversations and "significantly influenced" them.

Fox News @FoxNews

BREAKING: "Dr. Fauci's role in the cover-up was intentional."

CIA whistleblower James Erdman III lays out the "cover-up" of the COVID pandemic, claiming scientists and analysts were skewed from the start, all stemming from Dr. Anthony Fauci.

"Public health policy would have been very different had the American public been made aware that a virus from a lab in China was going to serve as the foundation for an emergency use authorization M-RNA products."

He testifies that once it became apparent that covid probably leaked from the Wuhan lab, Fauci "injected himself" into the process, gathering a carefully "curated" list of "experts" -- his personal cronies and people dependent on his grants to live -- to claim it was a naturally-evolved virus.

He also goes back to 2015, testifying that Fauci and his cronies rewrote the definition of "gain of function" to evade the ban on federal taxpayer funding for gain-of-function frankenvirus creation.

He also says that CIA scientists found that covid was likely manufactured in the lab -- but were "retaliated" against by "CIA managers" for not going along with the Fauci lie.

And they did so at the behest of Anthony Fauci.

Senator Rand Paul @SenRandPaul

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🚨 CIA Whistleblower reveals that despite a majority of CIA scientists concluding COVID leaked from a lab in Wuhan, Anthony Fauci was able to convince high-ranking intel officials to change the assessment from a lab leak to neutral.

Gunther Eagleman™ @GuntherEagleman

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🚨 BOOM. Career CIA Operations Officer just testified under oath: The COVID lab leak was a deliberate COVER-UP, and Dr. Fauci was in the middle of it.

"I am a career CIA Operations officer... The Intelligence Community's actions resulted in a cover-up."

- IC leaders downplayed the lab leak on purpose.

- Fauci intentionally rigged the process by stacking the deck with his conflicted buddies, the same "Proximal Origin" clowns who pushed the natural origin lie.

- They knew it came from Wuhan. They hid it.

- That lie was used to ram through emergency use mandates on experimental shots while crushing anyone who told the truth.

Millions of lives destroyed. Trillions wasted. Small businesses gutted. Kids masked and isolated. All because the "experts" and deep state didn't want to admit China cooked this thing up and Fauci helped cover their rear end.

I think Fauci was more concerned the public would find out that he rigged the fake "gain of function" definition so that he could send taxpayer money to his buddy Peter Daszack with the understanding that Daszack would then immediately sub-grant that money to Wuhan.

He was protecting his own role in the engineered mass-murder, not China's. I mean, yes, he was protecting China too, but China was a collateral beneficiary.

Erdman worked for the D.I.G., the Director's Initiatives Group.

The CIA spied on this group, bugging their phones and computers, because they were exposing the truth of Fauci's, and the CIA's, cover up of their active and central role in global mass murder.

Catherine Herridge @C__Herridge

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As early as February, I began receiving credible reporting that @DNIGabbard
's investigative team was being track and communications collected because their work was revealing "uncomfortable facts."

Today, James Erdman alleged to Congress the CIA illegally spied on the computer and phones belonging to the Director's Initiatives Group, along with their investigations and contact with whistleblowers.

@CIASpox said, "The Committee acted in bad faith by subpoenaing an Agency officer for testimony today without notifying CIA, despite having already obtained closed-door testimony from the individual previously. The witness testifying today is not appearing as a whistleblower in pursuit of the truth, but instead in response to the subpoena issued by Chairman Paul. This proceeding amounts to nothing more than dishonest political theater masquerading as a congressional hearing. As the CIA has already assessed, COVID-19 most likely originated from a lab leak, and efforts to undermine that conclusion are disingenuous."

They're still covering up. People are wondering how it is that a CIA under Trump's control is still pumping out this self-serving cover-up garbage.

Schmoll: Credibly-Accused Sexual Deviant Thomas Massie Trails His Trump-Backed Primary Opponent

—Disinformation Expert Ace

The vote -- the reckoning -- is this coming Tuesday.

If these poll results are accurate, Thomas Massie will be spending more time with his weird sex fetishes like the Mexican Wheelbarrow, the Saigon Starfish, and the spectacular but dangerous Triple Lindy.

BTW, Elric the Blade said he didn't like pushing this kind of unevidenced accusation. But I'd point out that Thomas Massie has been doing nothing but accusing Trump, WITHOUT EVIDENCE, of participating in the Epstein sex scandals and covering them up.

You play the dirty game, then you play by the rules of the dirty game. Live by the sword, die by the sword.

But that said: This poll was conducted before those allegations were "re-surfaced" on the internet.

Quantus Insights @QuantusInsights

NEW QUANTUS INSIGHTS POLL | May 11--12, 2026

Kentucky's CD4 Republican primary has become one of the most closely watched House primaries in the country, and our latest survey finds Trump-backed challenger Ed Gallrein leading Rep. Thomas Massie.

📊 Kentucky CD4 GOP Primary
🔴 Ed Gallrein: 48.3%
🔴 Thomas Massie: 43.1%
⚪️ Undecided: 7.6%
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With leaners included, Gallrein expands his advantage.

📊 Firm + Leaners
🔴 Ed Gallrein: 52.8%
🔴 Thomas Massie: 45.1%
⚪️ Still undecided: 2.1%
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📈 Leaner Movement
Among voters who were not completely sure yet:
🔴 Lean toward Ed Gallrein: 52.4%
🔴 Lean toward Thomas Massie: 23.4%
⚪️ Still completely undecided: 24.1%

Gallrein is winning the leaner pool by more than two-to-one, moving him above 50% when firm support and leaners are combined.
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📊 Key Takeaway
Massie retains a durable base of support, but Gallrein leads on the initial ballot and strengthens his position once leaners are allocated.
In a nationalized Republican primary shaped by Trump's endorsement, outside spending, and Massie's independent brand, Gallrein enters the final stretch with the advantage.

In more schmolling news: Spencer Pratt is performing pretty well in the LA mayoral race. He's just a scotch behind the communist catastrophe Mayor Karen.

Political Polls @PpollingNumbers

New - Mayor poll - Los Angeles

🔵 Bass 30%
🔴 Pratt 22%
🔵 Raman 19%

Emerson #A - LV - 5/10

I'll bet I know whose supporters are most energized.

As you probably saw, a leftwing union released an "anti" Pratt ad accusing him, if you can believe this, of wanting the homeless to either clean up their acts or get out, of wanting to hire more police than social workers (!!!), and of saying that maybe government workers unions shouldn't have all the power in LA.

The ad was so accidentally pro-Pratt that many suspected it was a false flag or parody, but it was real.

Pratt's supporters are pumping out parodies of that real ad (which itself seemed like a parody), accusing Pratt of not wanting LA to burn to the ground, and showing Mayor Karen celebrating her "accomplishments."

Appeals Court Rules That Trump Doesn't Have to Pay Lunatic Fantasist E. Jean Carroll for the "Defamation" of Continuing to Deny This Vicious Fruitloop's Sex Fantasy About Him

—Disinformation Expert Ace

Not only was the original allegation of "rape" insane and ripped off straight from an episode of Law & Order: SVU -- with this lunatic attention-whore unable to even say when the "rape" occurred more specifically than "in the nineties" -- but a subsequent New York jury also decided it was "defamation" when Trump later insisted upon his innocence.

Note that this rule has never been applied to anyone except Donald Trump. Any time a man proclaims his innocence following an adverse court ruling, someone can sue that man for "defamation" for denying his or her story.

And note that every instance of a false claim is a fresh defamation case -- so you can just keep suing an innocent man forever, for saying he's innocent.

This is government-compelled speech of the worst kind: When a partisan jury wrongly finds you culpable, not only do you have to pay the exorbitant penalty they impose on you for partisan bullshit reasons, but you are then compelled by government action to admit the lie of your guilt, forever, anytime someone asks you about it.

An Appeals Court has agreed with Trump that he should not have to pay the insane jackpot $83 million judgment until the Supreme Court rules on this preposterous new Trump-Only Law.

The Second Circuit Court of Appeals this week temporarily blocked an $83 million dollar payment that President Donald Trump owed to E. Jean Carroll in her defamation case while the Supreme Court mulls intervening.

The court order granted Trump's request for a stay, provided he increase his bond by nearly $7.5 million.

Carroll, in 2019, accused Trump of raping her in a Bergdorf Goodman's dressing room some time in the 1990s. She brought separate legal claims for defamation over his denials while in office and after leaving.

Separate -- every time he denies this floridly insane woman's preposterous story, it's a fresh defamation claim.

Tennessee Strips Democrat Racial Insurrectionists of Their Committee Seats

—Disinformation Expert Ace

Sean Davis @seanmdav

BREAKING: Notice has just been given to Democrats in the Tennessee House that all members of the Democrat Caucus are being removed from all standing committees and subcommittees as a result of their behavior in the statehouse during the redistricting debates last week, which included setting fires inside the Capitol and attacking law enforcement.

In the state of Tennessee, political terrorism will not be tolerated. National Republicans take note that this is how you exercise power.

They want a civil war.

The Republican speaker of Tennessee's House of Representatives on Tuesday stripped Democratic lawmakers of all committee assignments as punishment for their role in boisterous ‌protests during last week's special session on redistricting.

The leftwing media -- which told us that some people milling through Congress was an insurrection that threatened the republic -- calls Democrat legislators' attempt to shut down the legislature by letting their activist goons menace the Republican majority "boisterous."

Boisterous.

Not a threat, not an insurrection.

Just Democrats will be Democrats. No big deal.

...

The House floor vote in Nashville was met with raucous protests ‌by activists yelling from the balcony ⁠of the visitors' gallery and from Black lawmakers who stood at the front of the chamber linking arms in prayer as protesters sounded air horns and chanted ⁠slogans against the new map.

Not threatening. Not "racially charged."

"Raucous."

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In a letter to Tennessee's House ​Democratic ​leader Karen Camper, the speaker, Cameron Sexton, said House ​Democrats were being removed from all standing ‌committees and subcommittees as discipline for "instigating and encouraging" disruptions and "disorder on the House floor" during last Thursday's vote.

As examples, he cited lawmakers for "interlocking arms in the well of the House", for "blocking aisles on the House floor" and for using "prohibited props and noisemakers."

Of the 99 seats in the Tennessee House, Republicans hold 75 and Democrats 24.

At least one House Democrat, Representative Justin Jones, posted online a copy of the individual ‌letter he received serving notice of his committee and subcommittee ​removals, referring any questions to Camper.

"This is the same pattern ​of racial discrimination and authoritarian abuse we ​have come to expect," Jones, who is Black and represents Nashville, said on ‌social media.

Goodbye, Malcolm Gay Sex.

Wednesday Morning Rant

—Joe Mannix

One of the reasons for Trump's continued support among many is - as it has been for more than decade now - the fact that he is not like the Western norm. The same thing that strikes rage and terror into the establishment political class (and especially its hangers-on) is the same reason why Trump continues to do well. The "norm" is not desirable anymore, and hasn't been for some time now. The existence of Trump and his agenda also serves, day in and day out, as a larger-than-life foil. As the wider West zigs, he and his team zags.

It is, perhaps, immigration where this is most obvious. Seeing his approach as compared with the rest of the hateful and suicidal West is very much a "same planet, different worlds" - or maybe "same universe, different realities" scenario. It is hard to find a more comprehensive and total example of "Trump's way vs. everyone else's." It is not that everyone else is right, but that Trump alone has been willing to use the all-powerful word: "no." That is shameful for the rest of the world.

Any perusal of global headlines will make the opposite approaches obvious.

Mid-Morning Art Thread

—CBD

Rainmaking among the Mandan
George Catlin