Quick Hits
—Disinformation Expert Ace
At what age are you legally required to stop being a spaz?
For twenty years, O'Donnell has been losing it on TV. His signature tantrums include his jugular vein popping out and his classic Irish face turning beet red.On Tuesday night, O'Donnell struck a blow for women's equality by lambasting Secretary of War Pete Hegseth for pointing out what had been U.S. military policy for about 250 years. Commenting on the rescue of the weapons specialist from the downed F-15, Hegseth said, "No Lives were Lost, No Man was Left Behind."
"That is, of course, the old school version of the idea, back when only men flew American military planes," O'Donnell informed us. He then played a clip that showed the "modern way" the phrase should be uttered. Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman (that's "chairman) Gen. Dan Caine, declaring that America leaves "no one behind."
"The general knows, unlike Pete Hegseth, that that could have been a woman they were trying to rescue -- and it might be a woman the next time," O'Donnell said.
I doubt it.
"But this 21st-century notion that we leave no one behind ignores the 120,000 prisoners of war held by German and Japanese forces in World War II for years, who were left behind."
What are you talking about? We invaded Germany as soon as we were capable of it and dropped two nuclear bombs on Japan to force them into unilateral surrender.
Old, decrepit libs continue talking like absolute moronic children because they are so in love with the idea of "youth" -- an idea they can barely remember -- they make themselves deliberately flighty, frivolous, stupid, and irresponsible in hopes that someone will mistake this for "having a young mind."
From The Guardian: Is cheap z-grade internet porn the hero we need to stop "global warming"?
The actual answer is "no" but whatever.
This is again from washed-up has-been Adam McKay, who was formerly funny -- or at least some of us thought so -- when he was making movies with Will Ferrell. (Who is also now a washed-up has-been.)
All he is now is propaganda and lectures. He thinks this makes him a Serious Person.
Are OnlyFans models the best way to explain the climate crisis?Actor Megan Prescott has joined with Adam McKay in the hope that showing bite-size web videos of women undressing will persuade us to save the world. Will it work?
Why would anyone want to see this pyrsyn unclothed? Or clothed? Pick one, I don't want either.
The world, as we know, is in trouble. The last three years have been the hottest ever recorded. Global emissions are still at record highs. The planet is now consistently flirting with the 1.5C limit it promised not to cross. Increasingly, it feels as if we need a genuine miracle to stop us from sleepwalking into catastrophe. Could that miracle be an environmental warning from a woman in her pants?This is the stated desire of Headline Newds, a new series of web videos by actor Megan Prescott, film-maker Bree Essrig and "climate narrative strategist" Jessica Riches. Released through the not-for-profit Yellow Dot Studios -- belonging to Adam McKay, creator of movies The Big Short and Don't Look Up -- Headline Newds is made up of bite-size videos in which the climate emergency is broken down and raunchily explained to us by a variety of OnlyFans models.
A Cultural Enrichment Officer burned down an entire toilet-paper making factory to protest the fact that they don't think he's worth as much for his labor as he seems to believe he's worth.
Given that this lunatic just burned down a several million dollar warehouse, I'd say they were right not to give him a million dollar check just for existing.
Paul A. Szypula @BubblebathgirlUPDATE: Video allegedly from INSIDE the Ontario, California, warehouse where 29-year-old Chamel Abdulkarim of Highland started a fire on Tuesday that torched that building operated by consumer goods company Kimberly-Clark in San Bernardino County.
The original Instagram account with Abdulkarim's name has been suspended, but not before this video was captured.
In this video, Abdulkarim can be heard saying:
"You know, if you're not going to pay us enough to live or afford to live, at least pay us enough to not do this sh**."
"You should have paid us enough to f***ing live."
"You know, we may not get paid enough to f***ing live, but these b****es dirt cheap."
"All you had to do was pay us enough to live. All you had to do was pay us enough to f***ing live. All you had to do was pay us enough to live."
"There goes your inventory."
Abdulkarim was caught near the warehouse while the fire still raged.
He is being held without bail and is accused of intentionally setting ablaze the nearly-1.2 million square foot building.
Over 140 firefighters worked like heroes to put out the fire that burned all day, leveling the warehouse that's worth an estimated $156 million, based on Zillow.
(inlandwire on IG)
Video of this lunatic immigrant's rampage here.
By the way, the media refuses to report that this criminal terrorist is an immigrant, but Grok says it has discovered records showing he's from Eritrea:
Public reports and social media discussions describe him as originally from Eritrea (with some mentions of birth in Saudi Arabia to Eritrean parents or connections). Eritrea is in the Horn of Africa, and the name "Abdulkarim" (or variants like Abdul Karim) has Arabic/Islamic roots common in Eritrean and broader East African/Middle Eastern communities. He appears to have immigrated to the United States at some point and is now living and working there as an adult.No mainstream news articles provide a full official biography (e.g., exact birth date/place, year of immigration, or citizenship status), as coverage has focused on the arson case itself. However, the consistent references to him being "originally from Eritrea" while residing in California confirm immigrant background. He is not described as U.S.-born in any available reporting.
Boy immigrants sure do add a lot to our economy and culture. Say, why don't we have a study to actually add up the exact contributions and exact debits racked up by immigrants? Including piracy, of course, and endless welfare dependency, and deaths due to terrorism, and the economic losses suffered due to waiting in line for security checks, and the costs of additional security, surveillance, and insurance to cover terrorist attacks, etc.
Let's tally that all up.
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California Arrests Five People in Raids on 10 Fake Hospices in Newsom's Fraud Paradise of California
—Disinformation Expert Ace
Five people arrested in California crackdown on hospice fraud, with more arrests to comeAccording to California Attorney General Rob Bonta, the scheme defrauded California of $267 million using bogus charges to the state's Medicaid program.
The California Department of Justice has arrested five people as part of a crackdown on hospice fraud in the state.The suspects were part of an alleged hospice fraud ring, CBS News reported Wednesday.
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The state Justice Department, in a joint operation with other state agencies, alleges the suspects purchased identifying information for non-California residents from the dark web and enrolled them in the state Medicaid program. Straw owners bought 14 hospice companies, then billed the state for hospice care for the stolen identities.
The hospice companies were state-licensed and approved by the California Health and Human Services Agency.
Note Newsom only ordered this because Mehmet Oz is investigating this fraud and he wants to prove he can be a Real President.
Great job, Newsom. Give yourself another big $19 million taxpayer funded advertising campaign to show the public what a great president you'd be.
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Ex-Delta Force Support Civilian -- Who Railed About the Need for More "Diversity" in Delta Force's Support Staff -- Charged With Leaking Classified Information
—Disinformation Expert Ace
Of course this is what she looks like: Narcissistically posing like a super-model, despite being less than mid.
Definitely we need "diversity" in the staff that supports Delta Force, not just the best, most qualified people. More diversity like this smugly beast.
It's not as if the unit absolutely depends on microscopic advantages over the enemy to survive.
Boy these DEI hires sure do add a lot.
Note that the media is of course misrepresenting her as a "Delta Force member." She's not. She's back-office support staff. I think she's a civilian now -- she had once enlisted for some Army gig at one point, but she's now just an "Army employee," not an enilsted soldier.
A former Army employee was arrested and charged with allegedly leaking classified information about a covert military force to a reporter, according to court documents unsealed Wednesday.Federal prosecutors allege in a criminal complaint that Courtney Williams of Wagram, North Carolina, divulged classified information to an unnamed reporter between 2022 and 2024 about her time in Delta Force, a U.S. Army Special Military Unit, or SMU.
According to the complaint, Williams worked for the Army between 2010 and 2016 after serving as a contractor and previously enlisting, and held a top secret security clearance. Williams left in 2016, after investigators said she had her access to classified information suspended, "based on an internal investigation" conducted in 2015 and 2016.
She is charged with one count of illegally communicating or transmitting national defense information, which is punishable by up to 10 years in prison if convicted. Court records show she was arrested Tuesday and was ordered to be temporarily detained in jail ahead of a preliminary hearing on April 13.
According to an FBI affidavit included in the complaint, Williams and the reporter "discussed William's employment at the SMU and associated information" in texts and "consistent and extensive phone conversations." The affidavit also alleges that Williams "provided documents, photographs, notes, and/or other materials to the Journalist, some of which likely contained classified NDI that was subsequently published in the Article and the Book," through a removable hard drive and emails in ten document batches.
What I've seen on Twitter is that she doxxed the Delta Force commander who the Maduro mission. These men's identities are kept top secret for a reason -- they and their families will be subject to violent retaliation by terrorists and drug barons if they're publicly known.
Williams was featured prominently in a Politico article as an on-the-record voice in a story profiling alleged misconduct in Delta Force, a covert military unit where Delta Force is headquartered. That article, by Seth Harp, was adapted from his book, which was to be published shortly after the article.
Here's the DEI bullshit:
In a statement posted to social media late Wednesday, Harp described Williams as a "courageous whistleblower who exposed rampant gender discrimination and sexual harassment" in Delta Force.
...In another text message to someone else, prosecutors allege that Williams said she was "probably going to jail for life" for her alleged disclosures.
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Oh, the "reporter" she leaked to, who is pushing her "gender discrimination" bullshit, is a guest of Tuq'r Qarlson's, of course.
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Billy Bush: I Know For a Fact That ABC "News" Had an Entire Division of 75 People "Dedicated to Getting [Trump]"
—Disinformation Expert Ace
You mean George Stephanopolous continues to be a Democrat propaganda minister the same as he's been his entire life?
You've been had! Ya been took! Ya been hoodwinked! Bamboozled! Led astray! Run amok!
Former TV host Billy Bush alleged ABC News had an entire "division" dedicated to "get" Donald Trump during the 2016 election.
Remember, Bush used to work for NBC so he's not a rando.
Former TV host Billy Bush alleged ABC News had an entire "division" dedicated to "get" Donald Trump during the 2016 election.
"ABC News had a division. They had a division dedicated with 75 people in it -- because I knew the guy who ran the division, which was dedicated to basically getting him," Bush said on Thursday's installment of the "Hang Out with Sean Hannity" podcast.
Bush, who was swept up in the infamous "Access Hollywood" tape that nearly derailed Trump's first presidential campaign, recalled the last meeting he had with then-NBC News chairman Andy Lack before Bush was ousted at the Peacock network.
"I said, 'Andy, I understand what you want to do with this [the "Access Hollywood" footage] and what you want to weaponize this because there's a debate on Sunday night, the second debate with Hillary and Donald,'" Bush said. "And sure enough, it was the first question to come out of Anderson Cooper's mouth. He was the moderator."
The semen-hued nepo baby used to work at ABC "News" before getting hired at CNN.
He also worked for CBS on 60 Minutes.
"This was it! This was -- there has always been an 'it' to get Trump, but this was definitely it at the time," he continued....
When asked for comment, Bush declined to identify who allegedly ran the alleged anti-Trump division at ABC News but suggested the person no longer works at the network. ABC News did not immediately respond to Fox News Digital's request for comment.
The Disney-owned network has had a long, contentious relationship with Trump. In 2017, ABC News was forced to retract a report alleging that fired National Security Adviser Michael Flynn would testify that Trump had ordered him to make contact with Russians about foreign policy while Trump was still a candidate.
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In December 2024, just weeks before Trump was sworn into office for his second term, ABC News paid a $16 million settlement to Trump after he filed a defamation lawsuit earlier in the year for comments made by "This Week" anchor George Stephanopoulos.
Stephanopoulos had falsely claimed that Trump was "found liable for rape" in the E. Jean Carroll case when, in fact, a civil jury ruled he was liable for "sexual abuse." ABC News issued an apology as part of the settlement, which was reportedly approved by then-Disney CEO Bob Iger.
Sick of High Energy Prices, the Irish People Rise Up in Protest
—Disinformation Expert Ace
They're blocking the streets in cities and, a little counter-productively, fuel depots.
) Protesters calling for further government help to lower the cost of fuel clogged up busy thoroughfares and motorways with parked lorries and tractors across Ireland on Wednesday, disrupting commuters and public transport for a second successive day.Convoys of vehicles began converging on Dublin's city centre and other towns and cities on Tuesday, with protesters, including hauliers and farmers, complaining that a 250 million euro package to temporarily cut taxes on petrol and diesel did not go far enough to cushion the knock-on cost of the Middle East conflict.
"With the price we're paying for fuel, I'm probably two months away from my business folding," said Christopher Duffy, 46, an agricultural contractor who was part of a group blocking Dublin's main thoroughfare of O'Connell Street that is calling for the price of diesel to be capped at a lower rate.
"It's not a lot to ask for really... We're just backed into a corner."
Ministers said they would not agree to the protesters' demands to meet with them as they did not belong to representative groups with whom the government has been engaging on supports. Organisers pledged a third day of disruption on Thursday.
Do you think they'd agree to meet with the protesters if they were 1, communists, 2, Islamofascists, or 3, both?
Because I do. I know there's one group of people who aren't allowed to protest and whose concerns just don't matter.
"We respect people's right to protest but what is not acceptable is people declaring that we will turn O'Connell Street into a car park," Prime Minister Micheal Martin told a news conference.
Again, I see the Extinction Agenda doing this every day and I never see European politicians objecting. I see Islamists blocking the streets during peak traffic hours to "pray" and definitely not assert their control over swathes of England and France.
But these people? They're a riotous menace that must be put down.
Indeed, the "Irish" government now says it is ready to deploy the military against its citizens.
The army is being called in to help remove vehicles blocking roads, with the Irish police now treating protests at fuel depots as "blockades".Travel in parts of the country is being affected for the third day in a row, with slow-moving convoys protesting against high fuel prices caused by the US and Israeli war against Iran.
The Irish Minister for Justice, Jim O'Callaghan, said there would be "legal consequences" for the protests.
"It might not arise today or tomorrow but people have licences to drive vehicles, those licences will be affected."
O'Callaghan added that he expected insurance coverage to become "void as a result of the owner of the equipment deciding to voluntarily get involved in such illegal activity".
Gardaí (Irish police) can request the assistance of the Irish army in "aid to the civil power... when required".
In a statement on Thursday, a gardaí spokesperson said the force was "moving to an enforcement phase" unless those blocking access to critical infrastructure "desist and disperse".
But Muslims are still allowed to occupy the streets to "pray," yeah?
More threatening language against the Davos-hated normies, the one group of people you can brutalize when they annoy you:
"The blocking of critical national infrastructure will not be permitted to continue and the assistance of the Defence Forces has been requested," justice minister Jim O'Callaghan said in a statement.He said large vehicles would be removed -- and warned owners to "remove them immediately" on Thursday morning, or face the possibility of them being damaged.
Owners "should not complain later about any damage caused to those vehicles during removal", he said.
"Denying people access to fuel and clean water is an unacceptable interference in the most basic of human rights," he added.
They can bully and brutalize the normies precisely because they are law-abiding and do not blow things up when they're angry.
We'll see how long that continues.
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You're Not Going to Believe This, But Leftwing "Republicans" Are Pitching, Get This, Comprehensive Amensty Reform Yet Again, This Time With a Hot New Name Designed to Appeal to Your Psychology: "The DIGNITY Act"
—Disinformation Expert Ace
Well who could possibly be against Dignity?
You're not against la dignidad, are you, Racist?
This bill is cosponsored by 20 "bipartisan" Democrats and Democrats who run as Republicans because the rubes they're conning lean right. It is pushed by long, long time Amnesty Whore Maria Elvira Salazar.
Bonchie @bonchieredstate23h
It's literally no deportations, work permits, and a pathway to citizenship.
What exactly do you think the word amnesty means?
Rep. María Elvira Salazar @RepMariaSalazarApr 7
READ. THE. BILL. BEFORE. YOU. OPEN. YOUR. MOUTH.Calling the DIGNITY Act "amnesty" isn't just wrong. It's a deliberate distortion and it exposes just how little you know about the bill.
This is enforcement first: zero tolerance for criminals, permanent border security, and hard, earned requirements to step forward and face the law, so American workers are protected, not undercut.
Amnesty is the chaos you've defended, millions in the shadows, no control, no accountability, and a system that stopped working a long time ago.
No shortcuts. No giveaways. No blanket forgiveness. That's law and order. That's DIGNITY.
Does that sound like a lie to you?
Because it is:
Community Note Currently rated helpful 21hDirectly addresses the post's claim · Provides important context
It grants amnesty: permanent residency (Dream Act), deferred action & legal status (Dignity Program), and halts deportations. Wipes 3/10 year bans, creates inspected and admitted loophole, grants AG power to terminate deportation for family "hardship"
Matt Van Swol @mattvanswol21h
Replying to @RepMariaSalazar
So, I did exactly what you asked and I sat down and read ALL 261 pages of your bill.
It does support mass amnesty and I'll tell you exactly where:
Pages 162-170... The Dream Act:
You grant conditional lawful permanent resident status to ILLEGAL ALIENS who:
>Have been continuously present in the U.S. since January 1, 2021
>Entered before age 18
>Meet education, employment, or military service requirements
>Pass criminal background checksOn top of this, in Sec. 2102(b)(3)(B), DACA recipients get fast-tracked to conditional green card status.
...which is literally mass amnesty
BUT THE BILL GOES EVEN FURTHER!!!
On pages 204-217, you present the Dignity Program:
This is a separate track for illegal aliens who don't qualify for the Dream Act.
If you are an illegal aliens who:
> Was continuously present since December 31, 2020
>Pay a $1,000 upfront "restitution" fee
>Submit biometrics, pass a background check
>No felony convictionsYou get work authorization + travel authorization + deferred removal for 7 years
After completing the 7-year program (paying $7,000 total in fees, staying employed, obeying laws, paying back taxes):
We grant you:
> "Dignity Status" which is essentially a lawful nonimmigrant status, which is renewable any number of times
>Work and travel authorizationBut the most important bit that you're hiding here is that it totally suspends deportation of anyone who qualifies for this.
This would effective end ALL MASS DEPORTATIONS in the United States immediately.
You are a liar, you are a fraud, everything you stand for is fake... did YOU read your own bill?
Because I just did, and you are a damned LIAR!!!!!
It's not just that, either. The bill specifically forbids the use of court records to establish someone is a gang member. It pretends that gang members aren't eligible -- but then forbids the government from using court evidence to show someone is a gang member.
Now I have a feeling I know the lie she'll offer: Well, if someone is convicted of being a gang member, then they would be barred from amnesty.
But hang on: Who is ever "convicted of being a gang member"? There is no crime of being a gang member. Gang members are frequently jailed -- but for things like extortion, murder, rape, arson, theft, selling stolen goods, importing and selling drugs, etc.
You might get a sentence lengthened if the prosecutor, during the sentencing phase, then presents additional evidence that in addition to the crimes you've been convicted of committing, you're also a gang member.
A judge might make it a condition of someone's parole that he no longer participate in gang activities -- and a prosecutor or parole officer might present to the court that the criminal has violated that condition.
But this isn't "conviction for being a gang member." It's intelligence and evidence presented to a judge in a post-sentencing hearing, not presented to a jury to determine if someone is factually a gang member or not.
But this is exactly the kind of evidence this nasty lying whore forbids the government from using to prove that someone is a gang member.
So there is literally no evidence that the government can ever present to prove someone is a gang member and hence not eligible for Salazar's Mass Amnesty.
So all gang members will be granted amnesty, because the government is absolutely forbidden to open its records to show someone is a gang member.
But she'll lie to you and say that proven gang members aren't eligible. Asterisk: There is no evidence permitted to be introduced to prove someone is a gang member.
But this isn't amnesty, Bigots.
READ. THE BILL. BEFORE. YOU OPEN. YOUR MOUTHS. RACISTS.
DataRepublican (small r) @DataRepublican Hello Representative Salazar,You probably don't even know this... but he word "dignity" in your bill's title carries decades of political science literature behind it.
Dignity shifted from something that originates within the individual to something engineered from above by institutions. When the UN, NGOs, and multilateral bodies invoke dignity, they mean the replacement of organic, inherited civic bonds with managed, contractual ones administered by a professional class. That is the tradition your bill's language is drawing from, whether you intend it or not.
On the substance: the DIGNITY Act is amnesty. Symbolic barriers to permanent residency do not change that the bill provides a path to legal status for tens of millions of people who entered the country unlawfully. Others have dissected the policy details thoroughly, so I won't repeat their work here.
But I want to press a different question. Why the insistence that this isn't amnesty? The most straightforward explanation is that you know your constituents oppose it. They voted for enforcement, in the most demographically diverse Republican coalition in modern history. That coalition didn't ask for managed integration. It asked for sovereignty.
The Founding Fathers built a republic from the bottom up, starting with human nature as it actually is: rooted in specific communities. The rules-based international order builds from the top down, starting with an abstract ideal and engineering populations to match it. Your bill, whatever its intentions, belongs to the second tradition, the one that is non-American. It assumes that cohesion can be manufactured through NGO programs... public schools, civic integration, managed assimilation... rather than protected through enforcement of the boundaries that a self-governing people chose to establish.
That is not a conservative position. It is not a republican position in any meaningful sense.
And your constituents can see it.
We see you.
You are a fraud, Representative Salazar.
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Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals: Pornographers Have No "Right" to Sell Their Pornography to Taxpayer Funded School Libraries So That Children Have Access to Their Porn
—Disinformation Expert Ace
Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals announces stunning legal conclusion: Schools do not "owe" pornographers the "right" to have taxpayer-funded schools purchase their pornography to make it available to children in school libraries.
This is where we are: This was actually a live debate in the courts.
Authors of pornographic books do not have an inalienable right to sell their goods to school libraries, a three-judge panel of the Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals ruled on Monday.A coalition of LGBT groups, free-speech organizations, authors, and publishers is challenging an Iowa law requiring schools to ensure that books are "age-appropriate."
Senate File 496 explicitly refers to books with "descriptions or visual depictions of a sex act" and says school libraries cannot hand them out to kids.
This upset Penguin Random House, Hachette Book Group, and HarperCollins, who all really want to place pornographic books in front of kids.
However, the Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals reversed a preliminary injunction against the law, holding that schools have a "legitimate pedagogical" interest in which books are accessible to kids during the day.
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The court further ruled that children do not have a right to read certain books in schools, and this does not amount to a book ban.
"The First Amendment does not guarantee students the right to access books of their choosing at taxpayer expense," the ruling stated, citing case precedents.
Hello! Happy Thursday, one of the best days of the week!
Just a quick slumpbuster if you would, or even if you wouldn't.
Here's a little news on me: I got almost eight hours of uninterrupted sleep last night and my energy levels are yuge. I've gotten a huge amount done this morning. Went after it hard twenty minutes after getting up. Unfortunately I've been working on a bunch of things to the exclusion of the first post of the day, which is why I'm posting this quickie.
(Oh, varnishing done, but there is a little left in the can so I'm going to slop on one more coat on to the top.)
Man, do you people routinely get a full night of sleep and have this much energy? If so, I feel really cheated.
The Morning Rant: Iran Is Not Of The West
—CBD
The gulf between East and West is massive, and the best way to see it is to negotiate. Westerners, animated by 2,500 years of Western culture -- based on empiricism and truth and morality -- make implicit assumptions about the motives of the people across the table: that they are motivated by the same goals...an honest and fair agreement that recognizes the needs of both parties.
And those are laughable from the perspective of the rest of the world. Lying, cheating, outright stealing is part of the game, and they simply take advantage of the morality of Western culture to get what they want, and be damned with the other parties to the agreement.
Iran has never and will never negotiate in good faith. Their goals will never change, and until those goals are seen as 100% unobtainable, they will continue along the same path. And what are those goals? Regional hegemony. A nuclear arsenal. The destruction of Israel. The destruction of America. How can honest negotiation proceed if those goals are immutable?
The U.S. never promised Lebanon would be included in the ceasefire agreement, Vance said, despite Iran's claims it was, chalking that up to a "reasonable misunderstanding" between the parties.Vance said he's not confident in how well Ghalibaf understands English, "because there are things that he said, frankly, that didn't make sense in the context of negotiations that we've had."
On Wednesday, the Iranian Parliament speaker claimed the U.S. is violating three parts of a ceasefire deal, citing continued fire in Lebanon, a drone allegedly entering Iranian airspace and a "denial of Iran's right to enrich uranium." Vance said that if Ghalibaf only has three points of disagreement, there must be quite a lot of agreement.
It's cute that the Vice President is scrambling around for excuses for the Iranian negotiator. He's a commercial pilot, and the universal language of flying is English. But even if his command of the language is shaky, the difference between including Lebanon and not including Lebanon in the ceasefire is clear and unambiguous.
What is actually going on is murky, but it is entirely possible that Ghalibaf does not have overall authority, or he is simply lying and Iran had no intention of opening Hormuz. Or both. And the IRGC and the Iranian government are not one and the same, unlike Western countries with militaries that answer to civilian leadership.
That is why the only clear path to a peaceful Iran is the total destruction of their military capacity, and the decapitation of the IRGC down to the squad level. Negotiation will never change the savage focus of the Mullahs and the IRGC, and to assume that there are "moderate" factions within Iran that can take control is just silly. Absent a successful revolution and the ascension of Pahlavi or another anti-Mullah figure to a position of authority, Iran will not change.
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The Morning Report — 4/9 /26
—J.J. Sefton
Good morning kids. The situation with Iran and the ceasefire remains at the forefront of the news. And as the ceasefire begins, friend and friend of the blog, Middle East and Islam expert par excellence Robert Spencer declares, with tongue planted firmly in cheek:
Oh, Great, Peace in the Middle East Again — Hey, I’m as happy as everyone else, but I can’t help but notice those missiles raining down on Israel. . .. . . A big day for World Peace! Iran wants it to happen, they’ve had enough! Likewise, so has everyone else! The United States of America will be helping with the traffic buildup in the Strait of Hormuz. There will be lots of positive action! Big money will be made. Iran can start the reconstruction process. We’ll be loading up with supplies of all kinds, and just “hangin’ around” in order to make sure that everything goes well. I feel confident that it will. Just like we are experiencing in the U.S., this could be the Golden Age of the Middle East!!! President DONALD J. TRUMP The Islamic Republic of Iran was likewise in a celebratory mood, and in its joyful exuberance, fired off a round or two of celebratory missiles and drones into Israel and the Sunni states that it has targeted since the beginning of this conflict. Fox News’ Trey Yingst reported that on “Ceasefire day 1,” Israel “took multiple waves of Iranian missile fire after the ceasefire was announced.
WELL, not to doubt our friend but Secretary of War Pete Hegseth has declared:
Secretary of War Pete Hegseth claimed Wednesday that Iran is under a new regime with a “new calculus” about negotiating with the United States, just a day after President Donald Trump threatened total destruction over the nation’s intractability.
That seals the deal for me, and yet we have all these doubting thomases.
When President Trump first struck Iran over a month ago, I took a “wait and see” approach. I wasn’t supportive of the foreign intervention, as it seemed unwise and reckless. But there was a possibility the blowback could be minimal. Trump had previously killed Qasem Soleimani and bombed Iran with hardly any consequences. History could repeat itself once again with the Khamenei assassination.
It’s clear now that this war was a grievous mistake. We did not achieve regime change, nor did we even get a more amenable leader to deal with Iran. The Islamic Republic isn’t going to give up its missiles or nuclear program. While Iran has lost many of its leaders and military installations, it’s still able to shut down the Strait of Hormuz and strike critical infrastructure throughout the Middle East. With these advantages, the Islamic Republic has upended the global economy and world oil supply. It’s more likely America and its allies will make serious concessions to open the strait than it is for Iran to meet Trump’s initial demands.
In all seriousness for the past 47 years, the regime in Iran has spilled oceans of innocent blood in its eternal jihad and quest to conquer the world in the cause of Islam. The fecklessness, acquiescence and surrender of prior American and western nations to Iran in not defending Western Civilization from this threat to the advancement of humanity and civilization is why we are facing an existential threat. In that regard, the attempt to take Iran down had to be done sooner or later. Trump bucked the tide of prior administrations that were at best indifferent/ineffective (Reagan, Busshes)at worst collaborationist and) (Carter, Clinton, Obama/Biden).
At this point it certainly looks as if President Trump has painted himself into a corner.
The world breathed a sigh of relief Tuesday night on news of a cease-fire in the Iran war, but this is certainly no time for President Donald Trump to go wobbly.If he can’t work out a comprehensive deal to end the Iran threat for good, he needs to get the jets back in the air over Iran pronto — and let the bombs drop.
If not, he does risk that TACO label. Trump saw enough hope for a peace deal — and an “immediate” opening of the Strait of Hormuz — to hold off, for now, on the enormous additional devastation he threatened to inflict on the Iranian regime.
Fine.But it’s far from clear what, exactly, the Iranian leaders he’s dealing with (whoever they are) will ultimately agree to. And stick to.
That’s why any deal to be worked out over the next weeks must be absolutely air-tight.
It must cover all the bases, paving the way for a future Iran that can’t continue to threaten the world and wreak havoc, whether through actual violence or economic terrorism. . .Nor can Iran’s negotiators be allowed to drag out the talks indefinitely, spared of fresh airstrikes from the United States or Israel.
Trump must be prepared to resume bombing, including of infrastructure used by Iran’s military, if — as he would put it — he smells BS.
Indeed, he should warn publicly (and not just threaten but mean it) that he’s ready to restart the attacks, and even ratchet them up, if Iran refuses to meet his conditions.
Let’s face it: This is the world’s one chance to end the 47-year Iran nightmare once and for all — or at least to set conditions that can lead to its end.
It’s Trump’s chance to make good on his promise that Iran will never have nuclear weapons. Not in a year. Not in 10 years.
Remember, it took 47 years for any US president to confront the ayatollahs the way Trump has. No other leader will have the guts to do it again. Look at North Korea’s nukes if you doubt it.
Yet Trump himself may be less willing to prolong the war now: Oil prices fell the minute he announced the cease-fire. The markets shot up. .
Back here at home there are other things happening. On a related note we have a point counterpoint to contemplate:
POINT:
The Fall of Islam It will start here in Texas, and inspire others in America to stand.
To Colonel Allen West I would say "Unless and until Islam falls in Mecca and way too much of the rest of the western world and in the hearts nd minds of all its billion and a half adherents, we're merely trying to hold back the tide."
Counterpoint: with backstabbing blithering fools like this, we're going under.
Texas AG Candidate Tried To Force Towns To Greenlight Development Of Muslim ‘Sharia Cities’
Elsewhere we have madness from the courtrooms to contend with:
In an apparent effort to delay and thus perhaps permanently undermine justice for Iryna Zarutska's killer, prosecutors have accepted the assessment from Central Regional Hospital, leaving a judge to decide whether to reject the assessment and proceed with the April 30 hearing to delay 180 days as the hospital and prosecutors recommend. The new claim that Decarlos Brown is "incapable to proceed" on state murder charges became public in a motion filed April 7, according to the New York Post. Decarlos Dejuan Brown Jr. already had 14 arrests on his record when he boarded a Charlottesubway train in August 2025 with violence on his mind. Brown did not know Iryna, who was also riding the subway and quietly minding her own business. But Brown suddenly and randomly approached Iryna and stabbed the young woman to death while most of the other passengers looked another way, refusing to intervene. Just before he got off the train, video of Brown shows him gloating to himself, "Got that white girl."
Thankfully Gavin Newsom's concubine has words of wisdom to calm us down.
In a video clip resurfacing on social media, Gavin Newsom’s activist wife Jennifer Siebel Newsom is heard describing how she told a group of convicts in San Quentin about the childhood incident in which she killed her own sister with a golf cart — something she was never punished for because it was accidental. “Yours were probably accidents too…” she told the prisoners.
What an utterly evil filthy diseased pudenda! Makes Michelle Obama look like Dolly Madison by comparison. Or not.
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- ABOVE THE FOLD, BREAKING, NOTEWORTHY LINKS
- Victor Davis Hanson: Trump’s critics cry “war crimes” while ignoring decades of U.S. precedent—revealing less a legal argument than a reflexive, and deeply selective, political outrage.
By All Means, Let the War Crimes Trials Begin!
- Critics argue the bill weakens freedom of expression and religion by removing the ‘good faith’ defense for religious texts.
Canada Pushes Law That Would Classify Bible Quotes as Hate Speech.
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Daily Tech News 9 April 2026
—Pixy Misa
Top Story- Apple MacBooks slow down after 49 days due to a MacOS time bomb. (Notebook Check)
Not just MacBooks. Anything running MacOS:This bug means that after exactly 49 days, 17 hours, 2 minutes and 47.296 seconds from the moment a Mac is switched on, network connections are no longer terminated correctly. This initially leads to an increase in CPU utilization, because after some time hundreds or even thousands of connections are managed that should actually have been terminated. As soon as the available ports, usually 16,384 in number, are used up, no more new connections can be established.
49 days, 17 hours, 2 minutes, and 47.296 seconds?
That number might ring a bell for the 29 year olds in the audience, because the same bug caused Windows 95 and 98 to crash outright when they were running for just shy of 50 days: It's a 32-bit unsigned integer counting milliseconds.
Of course Windows 95 and 98 had the saving grace that they would usually crash for some other reason well before that time ran out.
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Wednesday Night ONT - April 8, 2026 [TRex]
—Open Blogger
Good evening Horde. The time has come for mid-week shenanigans.
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.
[Top photo: Peek a boo. NASA Artemis II mission]
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Givers, Takers, and Fakers Cafe
—Disinformation Expert Ace
The Chosen Fawn
Kristin Mae Photography
"Mummy said that monsters aren't real. But they are real."
Border collie keeping a balloon aloft.
These dogs are so happy just to touch grass.
Cute: Helping a lost dog find his way home in an apartment building.
Flat-Earthers cope and seethe over the Artemis II launch. They'll be on Tuq'r Qarlson next week.
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Christopher Rufo Uncovers a New California "Fraud Magnet," Costing Us $30 Billion Per Year
—Disinformation Expert Ace
You know how Somali Pirates claim to be "day care providers" for each other's kids? And get paid $150,000 per year for sitting on their asses at home?
Well here's another grift: "In-Home Support Care."
Does your Uncle Mohammad need "in-home support"? Is he willing to claim he does?
Well, here's $100,000 to provide that service. We promise -- we won't check up with you and won't even balk at your claiming to provide federally-compensated "in-home supportive services" to your spouse.
California Governor Gavin Newsom is embroiled in a national fraud scandal. Thus far, much of the coverage has focused on alleged schemes related to unemployment insurance, hospice care, and food stamps. In this exclusive investigation, we shine a light on one of California's largest initiatives: the In-Home Supportive Services Program, or IHSS, which pays family members and other individuals to provide home-based care for the elderly and disabled--at a cost of nearly $30 billion per year.On the surface, IHSS presents itself as an instrument of compassion, directing billions to caregivers who help with cooking, personal care, laundry, and other daily needs inside recipients' homes. But a growing number of experts and critics argue that the program is rife with fraud, losing roughly an estimated $6 billion to $12 billion yearly to scammers. Meantime, the state's powerful home-care unions collect more than $149 million in membership dues, funneling money into the political network supporting Newsom and California Democrats.
This is the story of a government that has allowed compassion to become a mask for fraud, creating a self-reinforcing system that keeps the Democratic establishment in power.
In 1973, California created what became the IHSS program to provide in-home care to the elderly and disabled. The IHSS caseload exploded in the 1980s, prompting the state to impose hour caps on care providers. California offers the program through Medi-Cal, its version of Medicaid, and pays providers with a combination of federal, state, and county funds.
IHSS has long been considered a magnet for fraud. In 2009, then-Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger estimated that up to 25 percent of IHSS claims were fraudulent. A Sacramento grand jury report that year found that providers had "no meaningful oversight, no assessment of skills to meet client needs, no monitoring of the validity of service hours, and no background checks."
After growth of the program's rolls exploded in the early 2000s, Schwarzenegger signed legislation aimed at curbing abuse, requiring IHSS providers to undergo criminal background checks and introducing random claim reviews.
But soon after the law's passage, a state workgroup, teaming with representatives from "labor organizations," introduced a key loophole. Citing concerns about disruptions for "vulnerable members of the IHSS community," the task force barred regulators from conducting fully randomized, unannounced home visits, leaving the program more exposed to scammers.
Yes, they do this on purpose. Minnesota stopped all auditing and verification precisely to allow Democratic Somali Pirate voters to use Minnesota paperwork to defraud the taxpayers from other states.
They approve of this because they see it as Back-Door Reparations. Evil White Racists won't agree to provide reparations to Somalis -- a people we have virtually no historic connection to, for good or for ill, and so owe absolutely nothing to them -- so they deliberately blind the government to fraud. Let the Somalis pick whatever level of Unofficial Back-Door Reparations they think they're "owed."
It's barely even fraud -- it's the politicians like Ellison and Walz who are the criminals. They're the embezzlers.
Since then, the program has expanded dramatically again. "IHSS provider" has become the largest low-wage occupation statewide, with more than 800,000 taxpayer-funded caregivers offering everything from grocery shopping to personal care.
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The system operates largely on trust. Providers self-report their timecards and check-in records. In roughly 60 percent of cases, providers and beneficiaries live together, delivering care in private homes--typically without the threat of random, unannounced visits.
Just sign up for to provide "in-home supportive services" to your own f***ing spouse. California will pay you do to so, taking money from the federal government for the payments.
...California, in other words, is sending billions of dollars per year to a program that is easy to exploit, difficult to administer, and almost impossible to supervise.
In 2024, the federal government began a series of enforcement actions. As part of a nationwide crackdown on health-care-related crimes, the United States Department of Justice announced prosecutions for alleged IHSS fraud in California.
In one case, the DOJ alleged that San Dimas resident Giacomo Lorenzo Garbarino billed the state for more than $170,000 in fraudulent IHSS and Medi-Cal services over a five-year period. The patient in his care was reportedly hospitalized or living in a facility at the time and thus ineligible for IHSS reimbursement. In another case, Joseph Depiazza allegedly billed the state for more than $50,000 in fraudulent IHSS services. According to prosecutors, he kept submitting claims after the patient entered the hospital--and even after she had died.
Last year, federal officials announced another round of IHSS fraud prosecutions. In one case, prosecutors alleged that Maryam Erambakhsh falsely claimed payments for caring for her parents while they were outside the United States. In another, Cindy Lynn Fromm allegedly billed the program for more than a year of services while the recipient was incarcerated.
These cases may be the tip of the iceberg. Haywood Talcove, CEO of LexisNexis Risk Solutions for Government and a nationally recognized fraud expert, estimates that annual IHSS fraud could amount to 20 percent to 40 percent of total program spending. Applied to projected IHSS outlays for fiscal year 2025--26, that suggests roughly $6 billion to $12 billion in losses. Multiple senior officials at the Department of Health and Human Services have described a similar pattern, estimating that about 25 percent of the Medi-Cal budget is lost to fraud. The share is likely higher for IHSS, given the program's structure and its susceptibility to abuse.
Earlier this year, Mehmet Oz, head of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, set off a firestorm of controversy with the claim that criminal networks, including the "Russian Armenian mafia," were running massive hospice and home care scams in Los Angeles. He suggested that Armenians in Los Angeles were disproportionately represented among the leaders of hospice fraud rings.
Read the whole thing, after you've taken your blood pressure medicine.
Even CBS is covering Democrat fraud.
A CBS News Investigation found one Los Angeles County hospice physician's name, Dr. Rajiv Bhuva, on Medicare claims for nearly 2,800 patients across 126 California hospices in 2024, according to the last full year of available data.
In one year, mind you. Even if she saw each patient just once and worked seven days a week, she'd have to see about 8 patients per day to rack up 2,800 patient visits.
Update: I made an error. I said she would have to see 40 patients a day.
No doctor in California is connected to more hospices than Dr. Rajiv Bhuva. In 2024, his name appeared on Medicare claims across 126 hospice companies in California -- 115 of them in Los Angeles County alone.
In 2024, Medicare paid out tens of millions in taxpayer dollars for care attributed to Dr. Bhuva -- a figure that surpassed nearly every other hospice physician in the state.The average California hospice doctor cares for about 140 patients a year. In 2024, claims with Bhuva's name were submitted for 2,791 terminally ill patients.
Only one hospice doctor in California was identified as receiving more Medicare reimbursement than Bhuva in recent years: Dr. Domingo Barrientos. His reimbursements totalled $90.3 million. He is currently in federal prison for conspiracy to commit health care fraud.
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Dr. Kristina Newport, chief medical officer at the American Academy of Hospice and Palliative Medicine, said the kind of numbers linked to Bhuva and other highly prolific medical providers in the industry raise an array of questions.
"They would have a superhuman schedule to do that in a meaningful way," Newport believes.
In a brief interview at the front door of his mid-century stucco home in a mountainside suburb of Los Angeles, Bhuva told CBS News he doubted the figures and said there was no statutory limit to the number of hospices any one physician can staff. But after a brief exchange, he declined to speak further.
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The data shows Bhuva's national identifier was tied to the one of the largest volumes of Medicare hospice reimbursements in California in 2024. The data does not establish whether Bhuva personally authorized the claims, whether his credentials were used without his consent, or whether there is another explanation.
CBS News found Bhuva's name among the physicians billing Medicare at several hospices that lost their Medicare certification for what regulators called an "abuse of billing" -- a pattern of submitting improper claims. Those hospices were banned from Medicare for a 10-year period.
California state auditors say that anytime records show a doctor working for more than three hospice providers at one time, it could be a hallmark of fraud and prompts reasonable questions about "whether they are actually participating in the operations of those hospices." More than 600 doctors exceed that threshold in California, according to Medicare data obtained and analyzed by CBS News.
On paper, those 600 doctors appear to be both incredibly busy -- and profitable to the businesses they serve. While they accounted for roughly 7% of California's hospice physicians, they generated more than half of the state's $4.2 billion in Medicare hospice reimbursements in 2024, the last full year of data available.
In state and federal records, certain names stand out. The ten busiest hospice doctors -- those whose names are linked to the most operators in California -- generated more in Medicare reimbursements than 90% of their peers in 2024.
The Democrats are not "asleep at the wheel" -- they are active co-conspirators in the greatest mass-looting in the history of the Earth.
The Party of Third-World Looters:
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DeCarlos Brown, the Racist Killer Who Slit Iryna Zarutska's Throat for No Reason Other Than Her Race, Found by Psychiatrists to be Too Mentally Incompetent to be Tried for Murder
—Disinformation Expert Ace
The judge will now decide whether to accept this report.
If she does accept -- I assume it's a she because that's how these things I always go -- at some point, we're just going to "bypass" the judges and juries.
This will not be allowed to go on forever.
Justice will be done. Whether in an orderly way or a disorderly way -- justice will be done.
The deranged homeless man accused of savagely butchering Iryna Zarutska, a 23-year-old Ukrainian refugee, on a Charlotte light rail train has been found "incapable to proceed" on state murder charges.According to a motion filed April 7, Decarlos Brown Jr. was evaluated Dec. 29 at Central Regional Hospital, and the subsequent report determined he was not competent to stand trial, according to WBTV.
This article is written vaguely, so I'm forced to guess at the procedural aspects here. What I'm guessing is that a defense "expert" found he was incapable of standing trial, just as the client, the defense, wanted.
I'm not sure though. This whole report is sketchy and, frankly, amateurish.
The results were previously sealed in state court, and were only revealed as the motion was filed.
A judge must now determine whether to accept the report's findings, and the case against him will likely be delayed until his capacity is determined to be "restored" by the court, the station reported.
In the motion filed by Brown's public defender, he claimed the court-required capacity hearing cannot take place with the accused killer in federal custody, and that the court also can't order to have his capacity restored.
Brown has been in federal custody in Chicago since a grand jury indicted him on Oct. 22 for violence against a railroad carrier and mass transportation system causing death.
He's been ordered to undergo a psychiatric evaluation pursuant to his federal case, but court filings viewed by the outlet last month show it hasn't been completed and that the evaluation period has been extended.
See? There the article says the evaluation hasn't been completed, but it also claims some report -- maybe this one, maybe another one -- was completed and found him too incapable to be tried.
This is why I'm forced to guess that there are two separate reports, the official one which is incomplete, and one performed by a psychiatrist hired by the defense, which, of course, found him incompetent.
The outlet reports that restoring competency can take a long time in North Carolina because of limited space in state psychiatric facilities, and said it's not uncommon for defendants to wait a year or more for a bed to open up.Brown, 35, whose mother told The Post is schizophrenic, was arrested at least 14 times in North Carolina for crimes ranging from assault and firearms possession to felony robbery dating back to 2007.
At the time of the senseless attack in late August, he was free on cashless bail after a magistrate released him with a "written promise" to show up for court after placing a bogus 911 call.
Trump to Megyn Kelly: "May She Rest in Peace"
—Disinformation Expert Ace
I didn't even hear she was sick. Does she have blood coming out of her... whatever?
Megyn Kelly, the Norma Desmond of Podcasters, is raging about... Trump's tweets.
Yes, everything is 2015 again.
But let's face it -- this was Megyn Kelly's real position all along. She just goes to where she thinks the traffic is. From 2023 to 2025, the clicks were in pretending to be More MAGA Than Trump.
And now? The clicks from Pakistan are in attacking Trump as a madman and not a "normal person" and sucking up to Cavernous Nostrils and her army of lunatics spreading lies about Erika Kirk being a lesbian child sex trafficker and a murderess.
Megyn Kelly TORE into President Trump over his "completely irresponsible and disgusting" social media posts on Tuesday: "I don't know about you, but I am sick of this sh*t! I'm just-- I'm sick of it. Can't he just behave like a normal human? I mean, honestly, like the president--'3D chess'--just shut up! F*cking shut up about that sh*t! You don't threaten to wipe out an entire civilization. We're talking about civilians, just casually in a social media post.""I am the first to try to understand Trump and his strategy and not freak out over his weird social media posts and language that is loose and incendiary. Truly, I've lived with it for ten plus years. I learned it the hard way, when I was on the receiving end of it for nine months, and truly I think that was a gift to me in many ways because it helped me really come to understand what he does with his social media. But this is completely irresponsible and disgusting. This is wrong. It's wrong. He should not be doing it."
"I don't care that it's a--his negotiation tactic is to kill an entire country full of civilians--men, women, and children-- an American president, so that the Strait of Hormuz will be opened? It's just wrong. It's not hard to say it, it's not hard to recognize it. I wish he would stop doing this. Like, he can't negotiate without doing this? What does that say about him?"
"What does that say about the position that our country is in right now in these negotiations? He's got to say this? He can't be a dignified, strong leader without threatening a bunch of war crimes? Like what is he, Genghis Khan? Like, what is he trying to do and why can't he do it with strength -- threats, sure, go for it -- that don't diminish and demean the United States of America in this way?"
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Republican Clayton Fuller Wins Marjorie Taylor Greene's Old Stank-Ass Seat in Rome, Georgia
—Disinformation Expert Ace
This is technically a pick-up. Because Marjorie Taylor Greene quit mid-term in January-- on the exact date that her five-year congressional pension kicked in -- Rome, Georgia has been without a Representative for three months, and the GOP has been down a seat in Congress.
So yes, this is a win of a seat we had already won, but that seat was abandoned and has been unfilled for an entire season.
But now we've taken it back. Our slim congressional majority holds (shakily).
If you're sports nerd, we gained a half game in the playoff race.
The highlight from the left and the Woke Reich -- which is now just straight-up a Democrat voting block, like the NeverTrunpers before them -- is that the seat was won by only 12 points instead of 30 points as in 2024, so it's all because we won't agree to the left's and Islam's demands to just let them have Israel, serious you guys that's all we want, just Israel, you gotta believe me bro, we just want Israel and that's it, we don't want to force traffic to a standstill as we ostentatiously and conquerishly pray in the streets during rush hour, we do not want to raid your treasuries like the Barbary Pirates, we just want Israel, why won't you believe us bro?
I wouldn't call the change in margin of victory pure spin. Yes, the Woke Reich and their fellow travelers of the Islamocommunist Left are spinning the fact, but it is a fact, and a worrisome one.
But then -- it's also the case that the former winner of the seat has been running against the party she formerly belonged here. That has to have an impact on party cohesion.
Clayton Fuller won a Georgia special election to replace retired Republican Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene on Tuesday night, growing the House Republican majority by one.However, Republicans won by a slimmer margin than in years past, an ominous sign with just over half a year to go until the midterm elections.
Fuller, a District Attorney, defeated Shawn Harris, a Democrat whose website describes him as a "retired Brigadier General" and "cattle producer," by a 55.9 to 44.1% margin, with 99% of votes counted by 9:30 AM Wednesday.
The election's results mark a double-digit shift in favor of Democrats, as Greene won in 2024 by an almost 30-point margin.
Greene, once a staunch ally of President Donald Trump, retired in January after a falling out with the president, who called her a "traitor" for standing against him on foreign policy and economic issues.
The president had indicated his intention to support a primary challenger against Greene before her surprise retirement.
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DOJ Civil Rights Division Opens Investigation of Madison Cornbread for Perjury
—Disinformation Expert Ace
The Justice Department's Civil Rights Division has opened a probe into former Trump White House aide Cassidy Hutchinson, according to a news report Tuesday.Hutchinson testified in 2022 before a special House committee on the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol riot that implicated President Trump.
The DOJ is looking into whether Hutchinson committed perjury during her testimony, unnamed sources told The New York Times, which is reporting the story.
The department assigning the case to the division appears unusual considering it focuses on potential civil rights violations -- not allegations of crime, which would include lying to Congress.
...A probe regarding perjury before Congress would typically be handled by the U.S. attorney's office in Washington, D.C., which is run by U.S. Attorney Jeanine Pirro.
However, she has also experienced several setbacks in her attempts to pursue criminal cases in federal court against Trump's political opponents.
DOJ leaders didn't offer Pirro the opportunity to open the probe into Hutchinson, instead giving it directly to Civil Rights Division chief Harmeet Dhillon, the anonymous sources also said.
Off to do the final (?) coat of varnish.
Update: Done. At least the upper-facing surfaces are. I only did two coats on the undersides and legs so at 6:30 I'll flip the desk over, give it a quick and sloppy sanding, and dump the rest of the varnish on the underside.
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Communist Dingbats Yesterday Until 7pm: Trump Is a Madman! He Will Nuke the World!
Communist Dingbats at 7:01pm: TACO! Trump Is a Huge Pussy Too Afraid to Do What Is Needed and LET THE NUCLEAR BIRDS FLY!!!!
—Disinformation Expert Ace
Remember, the "smart people" are also the "thoughtful" and "responsible" people. They have all the answers, they'll tell you. They definitely do not simply spam out random disingenuous claims completely incompatible with each other as the day's news cycle might require.
David Strom wrote about this. I've seen it all over myself.
The "nuke" thing was absurd. Trump threatened to use a top-secret conventional weapon the world had never seen before. What was it? I dunno. Maybe some kind of non-nuclear EMP to take out the power plants without harming the child human shields Iran stuffed them with? At no point did he threaten or imply a threat to use a nuke.
Now I might think "Trump is making up some secret uber-weapon," but then again, Delta Force does seem to have unleashed absolute top-secret Sci-Fi weaponry in the Venezuela Snatch-and-Stash operation.
But he never hinted at a nuke.
But the "reasonable," "responsible," "thoughtful" people -- you know, the really "smart" people you can rely upon for their intelligence and probity and smooth emotional restraint -- all just went on twitter and did what they usually do, shriek lies that no one including themselves believes.
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