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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.
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.
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
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
Iranian missiles and drones had targeted the UAE harder than any other country in the conflict, including civilian and energy infrastructure. Israel moved fast, while the system helped defend Emirati skies from Tehran's attacks. . .Netanyahu's office also revealed that he secretly visited the UAE during the war and met Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan in Al Ain on March 26. The meeting marked their first confirmed encounter and produced what Netanyahu's office called a historic breakthrough in relations. The Abraham Accords Went to War, and Iran United Its Enemies
If convicted, the suspects could face the death penalty under Texas law. The case highlights ongoing concerns about violent crimes involving illegal immigrants and has reignited calls for the Trump administration to deliver mass deportations. Illegals Face Execution for Shooting Pregnant Teen, Killing Unborn Baby.
If found guilty, Mohamed faces up to 20 years in prison or a $100,000 fine. Notably, this is not the first time that Minnesota has been hit by a major welfare fraud scandal. Last week, it was reported that a co-defendant in Minnesota’s largest Medicaid fraud case had pleaded guilty as part of no-jail plea deal with the office of Minnesota’s Attorney General. Minnesota Grocer Abdidwahid Mohamed Charged Over $1M EBT Fraud Scheme.
It seems so long ago and far away [Steve, it was maybe last month —Editor] that New York City's Democratic Socialist Mayor, Zohran Mamdani, promised residents everything from free bus rides to universal child care to free groceries — because you just know that nobody was going to prosecute shoplifters at Mamdani's crony-run grocery stores. Gooder and Harder, NYC: Mamdani's Plan to 'Nickel & Dime' You to Death
The Department of Education launched a new risk assessment tool on April 26 to screen federal student aid applicants for fraud. Since the tool launched two weeks ago, the administration has found about 300,000 fraudulent applications that amounted to $60 million in student loans, officials told the Caller. EXCLUSIVE: Trump Admin Intercepts $60 Million In Student Loan Fraud
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, Chip Roy gets it, but the "ism" is just a redundancy and camouflage- jjs) Chip Roy Blames ‘Expansionist’ Legal Immigration For Rise In Islamism
In an interview with Port of Los Angeles Executive Director Gene Seroka on Monday, (US Trade Representative Katherine) Tai acknowledged that Trump’s tariff agenda, which brought in a record-breaking $200 billion in revenue last year alone, has won massive support from working-class communities that have borne the brunt of free trade for decades. Biden’s Trade Ambassador: Trump’s Tariffs Strongly Backed by Blue-Collar Americans Left Behind by Free Trade
CRIME & PUNISHMENT, NON-DOSTOYEVSKY
The theft ring is linked to more than a dozen home burglaries across the three states, prosecutors allege, and is accused of stealing about $1 million worth of cash, jewelry, firearms, precious metals, and rare coins. Prosecutors say the three Chilean illegal aliens traveled back and forth from Florida to Wisconsin and Minnesota via a rental car, while Watay organized the travel, Airbnbs for the trio to stay in, posted bail for them when necessary, and handled their financial transactions. Chilean Illegal Aliens Indicted for Operating Million-Dollar Multi-State Burglary Ring
AMERICA AND THE WORLD IMPRISONED: CHINESE CORONAVIRUS FICTIONS AND FACTS
North Carolina taxpayers and families deserve to know whether their flagship public university played any role in the research that may have sparked the COVID disaster. What Role Did UNC play with COVID?
Cloobeck has historically been a powerful and reliable Democrat donor, donating more than $4 million in federal contributions since 2000. As such, these charges not only harm the now-dispersed Swalwell camp, but the Democrats’ campaign machine as a whole. Former Democrat Gubernatorial Candidate, Swalwell Donor Arrested.
Unlike other recent surveys that showed failed presidential candidate Kamala Harris as the fan favorite, this survey had the “Squad” member leading the pack with 26 percent support. Former Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg came in second place with 22.4 percent support, followed by 21.2 percent who chose California Gov. Gavin Newsom. Poll Shows Titty-Caca AOC Leading Field of Potential 2028 Democrat Candidates
“Today is not the end of the redistricting process—it is just the beginning!” he said on X. However, assuming any potential redistricting proposal for Mississippi will not take place until after the November midterms, Republicans will have to look to other states to shore up additional potential representation. Mississippi Governor Backs Off Redistricting Before Midterms.
Republican Georgia gubernatorial hopeful Rick Jackson’s company promoted an organization tied to Syrian refugee resettlement. Jackson, whose company reports over $3 billion in annual revenue, is pouring historic sums into Georgia’s Republican gubernatorial primary. He has also faced scrutiny over his company’s ties to foreign worker recruitment, according to an Atlanta Journal-Constitution report. EXCLUSIVE: GOP Governor Hopeful Tied To Syrian Refugee Resettlement Group
Trump’s visit to Beijing is the first by an American president in nine years. The previous presidential visitor was also Trump, during his first term in 2017. In addition to a full military honor guard and band, the reception ceremony featured about three hundred Chinese students waving Chinese Communist and American flags while chanting “Welcome!” in Mandarin. Trump responded with his characteristic fist pump gesture: Beijing Rolls Out the Red Carpet for Trump: Bright Lights and Hundreds of Children Greet President in China
Over the past two days, Cubans living in Havana have been enduring yet another over 30-hour-long blackout as the ailing communist regime finds itself unable to consistently provide power to the Cuban capital city. Cuban-focused outlets reported that residents of the Havana neighborhoods of Bahía, Marianao, Diez de Octubre, Nuevo Vedado, Luyanó, and others banged pots, set up campfires, and burned piles of trash that the ailing ruling regime has failed to properly dispose of during Tuesday night’s protests. Heated Protests in Cuba After Yet Another 30-Hour Blackout in Havana
It went into Ukraine imagining a swift and decisive victory, but after four years, its energy and business sectors are increasingly fragile. Russia Is Struggling Badly
FEMINAZISM, TRANSGENDER PSYCHOSIS, HOMOSEXUALIZATION, WAR ON MASCULINITY/NORMALCY
Research on sex differences in intelligence is longstanding and empirically contested, yet discussing findings that favor men is often treated as taboo rather than science. The Heresy of Sex Differences
CULTURE WARS, NATIONAL SUICIDE
On Tuesday, Comedy Central’s The Daily Show host-of-the-week Jordan Klepper welcomed actor Paul Dano to the set to promote his new movie, The Wizard of the Kremlin, which is a satirical film on Vladimir Putin’s rise to power. According to both Klepper and Dano, the film also has relevant insights for Trump’s America. Dano plays the part of Vadim Baranov, who is based on the real-life Vladislav Surkov. Surkov was a Putin advisor up until 2020 who helped shape and define what could be called Putinis Daily Show Tries To Equate Trump's America To Putin's Rise To Power
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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.
SK Hynix is paying its staff close to half a million dollars each in bonuses this year on the back of record profits, with numbers expected to be even higher in both respects next year.
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[Top photo: Billy Mays is buried in Mt. Cavalry cemetery in McKees Rocks, Pittsburgh]
How often does marketing transcend merely selling things and becomes entertainment? Rarely, but when it happens, it becomes a part of our common cultural fabric.
Billy Mays starts us off this evening. Wikipedia lists over 40 products that Billy pitched, but OxiClean is the most well known (which explains the cleaning products left at his headstone).
Here is an unofficial list of other Billy Mays products. Do you know or remember any? Did you buy any based on his pitch?
OxiClean - a versatile stain remover and laundry booster
Orange Glo - A wood floor cleaner and polish
Kaboom - A tile, grout, and bathroom cleaner
Zorbeez - A highly absorbent chamois-style cloth for spills and cleaning.
Mighty Putty - An epoxy putty for fixing almost anything with an "everlasting bond."
Mighty Mendit - A fabric bonding agent for quick clothing repairs without sewing
Awesome Auger - A powerful gardening/drill attachment for digging holes.
Big City Slider Station - A mini-burger press and cooker
Ding King - A DIY dent and ding remover for cars
Hercules Hook - Heavy-duty wall hooks for hanging items easily.
Impact Gel - Shock-absorbing shoe insoles
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Billy Mays did not pitch Shamwow (Billy's product Zorbeez was similar). Shamwow was pitched by Vince Offer:
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George Foreman tells the story of his grill. He made a lot of money.
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Is Ron Popeil the godfather of the infomercial?
Ron was the son of inventor Samuel Popeil, creator of the Chop-o-Matic food chopper and its more famous offspring, the Veg-o-Matic food chopper and slicer.
Ron Popeil began his career in the 1950s by selling those and other kitchen gadgets in live demonstrations at retail stores and county fairs.
Contrary to what many people believe, he did not say "It slices! It dices!" in the Veg-o-Matic commercials. Where did that phrase come from? Some print ads for the Veg-o-Matic said product "slices and dices and juliennes to perfection." (No, I don't know what "juliennes" means." Maybe they know on the food thread.)
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The interweb says the first TV infomercial in the US was arguably in 1949 when Vitamix founder W.G. "Papa" Bernard created and aired a 30-minute demonstration for the Vitamix blender. It ran on WOR-TV in New York in a late Sat/early Sun overnight time slot. It was highly successful.
Early long-form ads were limited because of strict FCC regulations from the 1950s-1960s that capped advertising time per hour and discouraged "program-length commercials" to protect the public from excessive selling.
In 1984, the FCC deregulated television advertising which kicked off the age of the infomercial. Stations could air as much commercial time as they wanted. Program-length commercials became common, especially in cheap late-night and early-morning slots. This filled unsold airtime profitably for broadcasters while giving direct-response marketers a long-form platform to demonstrate products in detail.
And now you know...
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Susanne Somers sold the Thighmaster:
Fess up: how many of you have a Thighmaster in your attic or basement?
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Sy Sperling: "I'm not only the hair club president, but I'm also a client."
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Phil Swift for Flex TAPE:
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These aren't infomercials, but I had to include the Clapper and Snuggie:
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We could do a whole segment on QVC and HSN (someday, but not today). My favorite trivia nugget of QVC history is the fact that a young Mike Rowe got his break into TV through late night QVC.
In 1990, Rowe was an opera singer in Baltimore with no TV experience. He crashed an open audition for QVC hosts at a local hotel and was hired on the spot for the overnight shift.
Mike Rowe on QVC is stream of consciousness irreverent improv comedy. Safe to say he was unlike other QVC hosts which made him perfect for the overnight hours. He was fired and re-hired three times before leaving on his own in 1993.
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"I can't believe they invented it!"
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You didn't think the ONT would miss Gallagher's Sledge-O-Matic, did you?
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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.
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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.
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.
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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.
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."
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"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.
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_
3h
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.
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
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.
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.’
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
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.
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
4h
🚨 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
4h
🚨 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
58m
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."
BOMBSHELL: Here is the entire opening statement from CIA whistleblower James Erdman lll. He testifies that Dr. Fauci's role in the COVID cover-up was INTENTIONAL.
He stacked the intelligence community's analysis with conflicted scientists funded by NIAID who pushed the natural… pic.twitter.com/S1ZP9FlZGl
.@SenRandPaul: "CIA scientists from an early time…were concluding that a lab leak was the most likely hypothesis?"
CIA whistleblower James Erdman III: "There were agencies within the IC circulating papers…that said that all the conditions were present for a lab leak." pic.twitter.com/ozjQ59PORJ
🚨 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. pic.twitter.com/2j40uToh4e
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.
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."
Those are parodies. But this is real: Mayor Karen is upset that the super-meth smoking homeless have no teeth. Her policy agenda here is to give the super-meth smoking homeless "comprehensive medical care" to fix them up with great false teeth.
Not to get them off meth, you understand.
That would be Fascist.
Karen Bass: “How many people, who are unhoused, that you meet have no teeth at all? They don’t have teeth, why? Because meth rots your teeth. YOU CAN’T SUCCEED WITHOUT TEETH! So there needs to be comprehensive healthcare provided to people.”
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.
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.
I just want to remind everyone that in addition to once saying on CNN that "rape is sexy," E. Jean Carroll's accusation against Trump is an exact plot line from a 2012 Law & Order SVU episode.
She claimed that this was a complete coincidence when asked about it.
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.
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."
...
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.
🚨 JUST IN — FAFO: Tennessee Speaker of the House REMOVES Democrat lawmakers from *ALL* committee assignments who acted like thugs and trash when the legislature passed redistricting
GREAT! Now expel Rep. Justin Pearson (D), who intimidated a police officer. Pearson frankly… pic.twitter.com/ruAyToHzOu
Tennessee State Representative Justin Pearson (D-Memphis) was accused of using "race baiting" in his campaign advertisement announcing the relaunch of his campaign for the Democratic nomination for the 9th Congressional District, where first launched his campaign to unseat U.S. Representative Steve Cohen (D-TN-09) before the Governor Bill Lee signed the newly redrawn districts into law.
As part of the redistricting legislation, candidates must refile or file a notice that they no longer intend to run by Friday. In his video, Pearson confirmed he intends to run in the same district, despite most analysts saying it now leans overwhelmingly Republican.
"Today, we re-launch our campaign to take on billionaires and the political status quo. Whether you live in the new TN-09, the old TN-09, or anywhere that our systems have failed you, I'm running for Congress for all of US," wrote Pearson in a post to social media.
Pearson described the redistricting as "immoral and wrong" in his advertisement, before claiming Tennessee's redrawn congressional districts, "are racist tools of white supremacy," enacted "at the behest of the most white supremacist in the United States of America, Donald J. Trump."
It's always these weedy little black shrimpdick manlets who turn ultra-hard-core racist, to show how "hard" they are. It's their way of attempting to appear masculine.
It's called Spike Lee Syndrome.
Crow updates:
The crow continues visiting. Have you ever had eggs freeze in the refrigerator? I had two freeze so I broke them open and put them out for the crow. He loved them.
There was an incident -- I found a dead little baby bird in the feeder. I don't know what happened. I don't know if it was the crow or a bluejay or what. Maybe a pigeon -- I see them being pretty territorial with the other birds. One pigeon just sits his fat ass down in the feeding tray to claim ownership of the seeds and nuts.
I went out on the deck while the crow was eating the last of the egg and tossed him some of the cinnamon cereal I gave him on the first day of attempting to befriend him. He didn't fly away, he just ate the cereal.
Still no gifts.
Oh, I don't know if the crow caller works at all. It doesn't sound too much like a crow to me. Just a raspy honking kazoo, really. It sounds like Jake Tapper after a night of drinking Zima and puffing on a vape with cum-flavored nicotine.
What really seems to attract the crow is the smell of meat or egg.
How are you? Any luck for the other crow-recruitment officers?
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.
The United States did not participate in the International Migration Review Forum and will not support the May 8 "progress" declaration.
The United States has persistently objected to the United Nations' efforts to advocate and facilitate replacement immigration in the United States and across the broader West. In 2017, President Trump rejected the Global Compact on Migration. The intervening years have confirmed the wisdom of that opposition.
...
President Trump is focused on the interests of Americans, not foreigners or globalist bureaucrats. The United States will not support a process that imposes, overtly or by stealth, guidelines, standards, or commitments that constrain the American people’s sovereign, democratic right to make decisions in the best interests of our country.
Our goal is not to "manage" migration, but to foster remigration.
And in keeping with that, from PJ Media on the same date:
"The number of people receiving a decision of voluntary departure has risen dramatically since the change in presidential administration," writes non-profit Vera Institute of Justice in a report, "particularly among people who were detained. Judges appointed by the second Trump administration have granted voluntary departure at higher rates than judges with more experience - while still granting orders of removal at comparable rates."
As Ace covered last week and as reported in The Hill, it isn't just rejection of the globalists' immigration schemes and stepped up removal of illegals, it's also now denaturalization:
Federal prosecutors filed denaturalization actions in U.S. District Courts across the country this week against 12 people, alleging they lied during the naturalization process, including about previous criminal behavior.
The DOJ said these people -- ranging in age from 28 to 75 years -- concealed serious offenses while seeking legal status, including providing material support to a terrorist group, war crimes and sexual abuse of a minor.
So that's a smattering of developments from over here over the past week - but what about over there? It is, of course, the opposite. In Labour's Britain, it's still all about "accommodation," of course:
Chris Philp, the Shadow Home Secretary, urged Labour to "come clean" about where they plan to send illegal migrants, commenting: "The truth is that they are moving illegal immigrants from asylum hotels to residential housing because they do not have control of our borders."
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His warning has already become a "nightmare" reality for Crowborough residents. All 350 male migrants live a mere 20-minute walk from the town centre and are able to freely roam without a curfew. Residents are also entitled to a £50 weekly allowance to pay for basic amenities, such as food, clothing, and toiletries.
The Home Office confirmed the Crowborough site could house as many as 540 people. They will stay in the barracks for up to three months while their asylum claims are processed.
Not removed, just moved. And subsidized. And the locals' preferences be damned. Pretty normal. Not that this problem is limited to the north:
Greek Migration Minister Thanos Plevris said this week that Athens estimates there are approximately 550,000 migrants waiting in Libya, the African hub, for the opportunity to cross to Europe.
Pelvris said that Athens is working closely with Libyan authorities as well as the European Union’s external border force Frontex to prevent migrant boats from taking off from the coastline of the Maghreb nation.
Remember the constant "caravans" from Central America during non-Trump years? This is the Afro-European version of that. Do you remember what happened to those "caravans" once Trump took over? They stopped pretty quickly. These "caravans" do not happen spontaneously. They are funded, coordinated and managed by governments, NGOs and associated gangs. If you turn off the "government" side of that - including throttling the state sponsorship of NGOs - they stop. That this is getting geared up in Libya means only that it will succeed. They don't bother if it won't. Europe is as bad as ever.
But there is perhaps no greater contrast than between the US and Australia. While the US is denaturalizaling and deporting criminals, Australia is moving mountains to ensure they get to stay:
After his permanent visa was cancelled following his 2021 conviction Al Qatrani made an application to revoke the cancellation, which was refused in February this year, but last week he successfully reviewed the decision at the Administrative Appeals Tribunal in Sydney.
ART Senior Member Mark Harrowell overturned the cancellation using Ministerial Direction 110, which has been maintained by immigration minister Tony Burke since 2024, and has resulted in dozens of serious criminals being spared deportation in recent months.
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Mr Harrowell noted in his decision that Al Qatrani has two minor children aged 9 and 11 with his current wife - a South Korean national who he met in 2009, and an adult son with his first wife, and that he claimed he was a 'changed man from the one sentenced to the crime I was convicted of nine years ago.
We don't have a monopoly on Hawaiian Judges - or Hawaiian Ministers.
This all is - or should be - abjectly humiliating for the rest of the Western world. We have a long, long way to go until the US is cleaned up and some of the incalculable damage of the past thirty years is undone, but at least we are trying to deal with it and taking real steps to not only stop the influx but to reverse it. The rest of the West is the opposite and is still business-as-usual and full throttle on open borders, with the glorious masters in the warrens of their bureaucracies and at the United Nations leading the way as always.
Maybe the other benighted nations of the West will eventually tire of it and get some Trumps of their own.
Good morning kids. As we discussed with disgust yesterday, after getting their naked power grab of a gerrymander scheme shot down by the Virginia State Supreme Court, the reaction was surprisingly mellow for the Leftists - move to sack the entire bench, as opposed to the typical Democrat reaction which would be to lynch the Jurists who dared oppose them. All seriousness aside, among the most execrable Leftists around who has done more in service of Anti-Americanism over the course of his miserable existence is one Marc Elias:
The party considered all kinds of responses — including a scheme to force the retirement of every sitting justice on the Virginia Supreme Court. That's a perfectly normal reaction from a political party that claims they respect democratic norms, right?
But they weren’t done.
Marc Elias, the left's go-to power lawyer for all things election-related, took the rhetoric to a genuinely alarming place. Elias responded to the ruling by invoking language from the Virginia Constitution itself. Not to make a legal argument, but to suggest that the current Virginia government has lost its legitimacy and therefore can and should be abolished.
Marc Elias, the left's go-to power lawyer for all things election-related, took the rhetoric to a genuinely alarming place. Elias responded to the ruling by invoking language from the Virginia Constitution itself. Not to make a legal argument, but to suggest that the current Virginia government has lost its legitimacy and therefore can and should be abolished. I assure you that I am not joking. Democrats Now Want to ABOLISH the Virginia Government
The rising financial burden of the Iran war and heightened nuclear threats from Tehran underscore the fragility of the ceasefire, which Trump called “unbelievably weak” on Monday, and raise questions about the U.S. administration’s strategy in the Middle East. Iran War Cost Hits $29 Billion as Tehran Threatens to Enrich Uranium to Weapons-Grade.
Golden State politicians are bowing to the Teamsters and choosing higher transportation costs over productivity-enhancing technology. (So, union thugs, robots or drunken wetbacks behind the wheel? - jjs) California’s War on Autonomous Trucking
FIRST AMENDMENT ISSUES, CENSORSHIP, FAKE NEWS, MEDIA, BIG BROTHER TECH
It’s a banner month for Jew-hating propaganda at The New York Times, where libel against the state of Israel is normalized and celebrated. Last week, jaws dropped everywhere when the so-called Newspaper of Record won a Pulitzer Prize for the 2025 work of a Gaza-based contributing photographer best known for a picture so misleading, fraudulent, so useful in the quest to ramp-up antisemitism, the paper was forced to issue a correction. New York Times’ libelous campaign against Israel continues apace
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The case highlights growing concerns over the potential for AI platforms to provide unverified medical advice, raising questions about liability and the need for stricter safeguards. It also underscores broader debates about the role of AI and whether teenagers, the mentally ill, and other vulnerable people should have unsupervised access to it. Parents Sue OpenAI After Son Fatally Overdosed Following ChatGPT Drug Advice.
The 615-acre Fayetteville-based data center campus, codenamed “Project Excalibur,” was found to have one water connection installed without the knowledge of the Fayette County water system, and another that was not linked to its developer’s account and therefore was not being billed, according to the outlet. REPORT: Blackstone-Owned Data Center Drained 30 Million Gallons Of Water From Atlanta Suburb
The president needs Congress to act. There's no guarantee it will. GOP lawmakers, including Sen. Josh Hawley (R-Mo.), quickly promised legislation, but Senate Majority Leader John Thune was noncommittal. Trump Faces Uphill Climb to Suspend Federal Gas Tax
The report does not prove that inflation is spiraling. One month never proves that. But it does show that the comforting version of the inflation story has taken a serious hit. The best hope is that April was a storm month: war-driven energy prices, seasonal quirks, and shelter noise combining to make the report look worse than the underlying trend. But the Cleveland Fed’s numbers make that hope harder to hold. The whole point of median and trimmed mean CPI is to see through the storm. In April, we got the downpour. May had better bring flowers. The April Inflation Report Was Even Worse Than It Looked
EDUCATION, AND WHAT PASSES FOR IT
Then again, it’s not always Democrat states that have this problem, because teachers around the country tend to be woke activists who support child grooming. Last May, for instance, I highlighted child-grooming educators from Florida to Tennessee to California. Seattle Teachers Union’s Brand-New President on Leave for Abuse Allegations
Harmeet Dhillon, head of the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division, recently announced a new legal offensive against states and localities with gun laws that clearly run afoul of the Constitution. Her office just filed very strategic lawsuits against the city of Denver over its ordinance prohibiting so-called assault weapons, and against the state of Colorado over its ban on selling standard capacity magazines. Trump Admin’s Recent Pro-Second Amendment Moves Are Good for Lawful Gun Owners
DEMOCRAT/LEFTIST AND RINO SCANDALS, MESHUGAS, CHUTZPOCRISY, INSANITY
The Senate Special Committee on Investigations announced Monday that it had subpoenaed Abrams, as well as New Georgia Project leaders Lauren Groh-Wargo and Nsé Ufot. They are expected to appear at the State Capitol at 10:00 a.m. on Friday, Fox News reported. Georgia Senate Committee Subpoenas Tank Abrams in Campaign Finance Violations Probe
“The poll finds registered voters closely split in their partisan preference ahead of the midterms, with 45% saying they’d support a Democrat candidate for Congress, 42% a Republican candidate, and 14% neither,” the CNN article said. “Polling on congressional preference this year, including previous CNN surveys, has largely given Democrats the advantage. Voters who aren’t sold on either party’s economic message tend to prefer the Democrats on the generic ballot, the CNN survey finds.” Poll: Support for Democrats Slides as Critical Midterms Approach
If successful, the petition could bring back party-specific primaries, ensuring each party has a candidate in the election for governor. The effort indicates a sudden change of heart among Democrats, given that the system has, up until recently, worked to their benefit. Back in early April, President Trump endorsed Steve Hilton. Hilton is an ex-advisor to former British Prime Minister David Cameron and a former Fox News host. California Dems Scheme to Alter Election Rules, Block All-GOP Governor’s Race.
“The Republican senators say the records — which include text messages between Hunter Biden and the women — show that the government had significant evidence of potential Mann Act violations allegedly committed by Hunter Biden from as early as October 2020,” the article read. “For example, the messages show that Biden, whose father is former President Joe Biden, appeared to have purchased a flight from Los Angeles to an unknown destination for an unidentified woman in 2018.” GOP Senators: Joe Biden’s DOJ Buried Newly-Released Texts of Possible Hunter Biden Prostitution Crimes
FOREIGN AFFAIRS, INTERNATIONAL
The historic results for the upstart party have apparently convinced some voters that Reform is a future worth backing, with the YouGov survey finding that 28 per cent of voters now back the Farage party, an increase of three points over just last week. Meanwhile, the Tories remained static at 17 per cent, the Greens gained one point to reach 16 per cent, Labour declined by two points to fall to 16 per cent, and the Liberal Democrats shrank by one point to 13 per cent. Reform Rising: Farage’s Party Surges in Polls Following Historic Local Election Results
There's big news about the new Trump-class battleship, but there's even bigger and more important news about what's going on in the Pentagon under reform-minded Secretary of War, Pete Hegseth. But first — some things never change — I must nerd out on the battleship news. How to Make the Trump Battleship Even Deadlier With This 1 Weird Trick
The review could lead to significant changes in how the U.S. funds and manages overseas biolabs, especially those handling gain-of-function research. The investigation could potentially end risky experiments that threaten U.S. biosecurity. DNI Gabbard Targets Secretive US-Funded Foreign Biolabs.
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Which raises the question: Why didn't the Chromebook run Android in the first place?
There are no specs or indeed any hardware information at all; that will be left to Google's partners including Acer, Asus, Dell, HP, and Lenovo.
It might potentially be a good time to be launching a laptop that doesn't need 32GB of RAM to get out of bed - as indicated by the runaway success of Apple's MacBook Neo. And there's a slim chance that at least one of the partner companies won't screw things up.
Amazon is requiring its developers to use AI tools to boost productivity. I mean, fair enough up to a point; I use Claude to review code and it catches conceptual issues and pattern mismatches that my IDE can't.
But Amazon is measuring productivity by the amount each developer costs the company on their AI tool usage, with perfectly predictable results.
There is an official music video of this but it seems to be restricted, so that's a reuploaded version. Just in case, here is the official videoless version as well.
While golfing, a guy accidentally overturns his golf cart in a tremendous crash.
A very attractive female golfer, who lives in a townhome overlooking the golf course, hears the crash and calls out, "Are you okay?"
"I'm okay, thanks," says the guy, as he pulls himself from the twisted golf cart wreck.
She says, "Come up to my home, you can recover for a bit, and I'll help you with the golf cart up later."
Even being a bit dizzy, the guy couldn’t help but notice that her bathrobe was partially open, revealing what appeared to be an amazing figure.
"That's mighty nice of you," he answers, "but I really don't think my wife would approve"
"Oh, come on now." she insists.
She was so pretty, so very persuasive, and the guy was so relatively dazed!
"Well okay, but I'm quite sure my wife won't be happy with me"
After a couple of gin and tonics, he thanks her and says, "I feel a lot better, and know that my wife is going to be really upset, so I'd best leave now."
"Don't be silly!" she said with a coquettish smile, letting her robe fall even slightly more open. "Stay for a while. She won't know a thing, we can have another drink” then she asks, by the way, “where is she, anyway?"
The guy replies, "Probably still under the cart, if I were to bet"
President Joe Biden's Homeland Security chief acknowledged Tuesday that the U.S. should have acted sooner to tighten immigration controls at the U.S. border with Mexico.
In an interview at the POLITICO Security Summit, former Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas, who became a lightning rod of Republican criticism for the Biden administration's alleged mishandling of a historic wave of migration to the United States, placed most of the blame on a "broken immigration system" that set a "low bar" for admission to the country for those with "credible fear of persecution."
Asked if earlier steps from the Biden administration on border security -- including raising the bar for migrants claiming "credible fear" of returning to their home country -- would have prevented President Donald Trump's return to the White House, Mayorkas replied: "I am not in a position to speculate, but I will tell you that I would be far more better rested and less punched."
Mayorkas, who was impeached by the House in 2024 on claims that he intentionally did not enforce U.S. immigration laws, also emphasized that the Biden administration did, eventually, act to address the migrant influx at the border.
"I was very pleased that in June of 2024, we took executive action that, I thought, made reforms that were sensible and that proved successful," Mayorkas said. "Our tougher border stance in June of '24 was coupled with an increased focus on providing lawful pathways for people to arrive at the United States outside the hands of smugglers -- more secure and more humanitarian. Those two combined -- our numbers dropped 70, 75 percent."
BTW, I couldn't remember his exact position. I thought he was DHS but decided that there's no way even Biden would appoint such an absolute zero to such a crucial position, so I wrote he was "Secretary of the Interior."
Obama's Oxygen Thief HHS Secretary, Xavier Becerra, Is Currently the Leading Democrat for California Governor and Cannot Answer Questions About His Record Without Begging for Mercy
—Disinformation Expert Ace
First, he wasn't able to answer questions about the 85,000 migrant children he lost while supposedly safeguarding them in the Biden Open Borders Regime.
He claims they weren't "lost" at all. Merely, that when their "sponsors" were contacted to check up on the health and safety of the children, the sponsors didn't respond.
So not lost, exactly! We just placed them with extremely unreliable drifters with no fixed abode. They were not lost, the people we trusted them with just won't tell us where they are.
He also claims that it's not his fault that no one can find these children because they went missing -- or merely incommunicado, as he insists -- after the period of "sponsorship" by shiftless drifters.
See, they were trafficked later.
When the reporter points out that children as young as 14 wound up, get this, working as near-slave labor in slaughterhouses and with heavy machinery, he just sulks. It's not fair to demand accountability from a Democrat.
Now this is where it turns pathetic: He begins whining that he agreed to a profile not an interview and in a profile you're supposed to shine his ass with Turtle Wax and a sheepskin chamois and only ask a few "tough questions" while this monster just keeps asking him tough questions!
Let me repeat the headline fact: He's the current front-running Democrat for governor, and he says it's not fair to ask him about his actual record.
Everyone’s been wondering whether Xavier Becerra can withstand scrutiny.
Incredibly awkward moment as Democrat candidate for California Governor Xavier Becerra gets caught asking reporter for a softball interview: “This is a profile piece - Not a gotcha piece, right?” pic.twitter.com/gzLqkZYKnK
Democrats who worked with Becerra in the Biden Administration have been sounding the alarm, not-entirely-subtly warning Democrat voters that this guy is an incompetent who's not ready for the Big Chair:
Biden administration official Xochitl Hinojosa on Xavier Becerra
"I do not trust Xavier Becerra to stand up to Trump. He was not effective in government. A lot of people in the Biden administration are talking about this because they realize he was not an effective HHS… pic.twitter.com/y0sI8N6y7K
South Carolina Dixiecrats Tank Effort to Gain a Congressional Seat, Voting With the Declared Democrats to Kill It
—Disinformation Expert Ace
Indiana redux.
VoteHub
@VoteHub
12m
The South Carolina Senate has rejected extending the legislative session for redistricting.
Unless Gov. McMaster calls a special session, the current congressional map, including Rep. Clyburn’s Democratic-leaning district, will remain in place.
Many South Carolina "Republicans" remain old south Democrats.
A group of South Carolina Republican state senators broke with their party to thwart a redistricting effort that would eliminate the Palmetto State's sole Democratic district.
Though the measure received 29 votes in favor and a mere 17 against, it did not clear the threshold for passage. State Sens. Sean Bennett, Chip Campsen, Tom Davis, Greg Hembree, and Shane Massey joined Democrats in opposing the measure.
The failure of the Tuesday vote significantly narrows the pathway for state lawmakers to redistrict in time for the midterms, though the governor could call a special session of the legislature.
One of the RINOs admitted he just didn't like Republicans having so much power and claims the "number one" ambition of the "founders" was to "diffuse" power.
Matt Rice
@matt____rice
1h
As of now, three Republican South Carolina state senators are opposed to redistricting. It takes 4 to block the resolution allowing lawmakers to proceed with redistricting.
- Massey
- Rankin
- Campsen
Campsen says the founders' "number one" principle was to "diffuse" political power among the states.
Look at the RINOs spam out completely-insincere excuses for why they remain loyal Democrats:
Adam Morgan
@RepAdamMorgan
🚨Senator Massey claims redistricting is a threat to state sovereignty.
Claims @realDonaldTrump is abusing his power and overreaching into SC!
Insane that a Republican would say this. And a blatant lie.
The President only recently weighed into the debate and by Massey's own admissions didn't unduly pressure.
The movement to redistrict originated from grassroots South Carolina conservatives!
Legislators in the @SCFreedomCaucus filed to bill to redistrict in January! Grassroots leaders like @ImFiredUp2 and myself, conservative media like @CharlieOnAir and @TaraServatius, and statewide figures like @RalphNorman have been relentless in pushing to fix this unconstitutional district for months especially since the SCOTUS ruling.
Make no mistake--South Carolinians are the ones demanding to follow the constitution and right this wrong.
And "Republican" senators spouting Clyburn's talking points and attacking their constituents and President Trump need to be thrown out of office.
Redistrict NOW!
Trump wanted you to do this so this is a threat to "state sovereignty" ? How about your own voters demanding it? Are they a threat to "state sovereignty" too?
This guy also lied and claimed he was blocking it to help Republicans win seats. He claimed, based on nothing, that if you changed the districts Democrats would still win one and could even win an extra seat.
In other words, he's lying, and he can't give his real reason, which is that he is, was, and always will be a dirty Dixiecrat loyal to the Democrat Party. It just became too hard to win in SC as an open Democrat.
Kristan Hawkins
@KristanHawkins
Unacceptable.
South Carolina Senate Majority Leader Shane Massey (@shanemassey) is once again standing in the way of conservative priorities by trying to block redistricting legislation, just like he's spent this year blocking @SFLAction backed pro-life legislation from even being brought up for a vote.
@POTUS has made it clear that Republicans must fight back from the Left's power grab and redistricting efforts.
It's time for Sen. Massey to stop obstructing, listen to the people of South Carolina, protect Congress from a Leftist takeover that wants to stack the Supreme Court and legalize taxpayer-funded abortions up until birth, and stand with the pro-life movement instead of against it.
Now I think they needed a supermajority to extend the legislative session, but if the governor calls a special session, a majority will suffice. I think.
New Foreign Pirate Pillaging Operation Uncovered: 10,000 Foreign Students "Working" at Fraudulent Jobs Created by Fraudulent "Employers"
—Disinformation Expert Ace
Why the hell would we be paying foreign students to work, anyway? Why on earth would we be subsidizing foreigners to come here?
Pay full freight or go home. Better yet, go home whether you're paying full freight or not.
Correction: I assumed the taxpayers were paying the salaries of these fake "workers." But I haven't seen anyone say that and now believe this is simply a scheme to remain in the country beyond the limits of one's student visa.
I'll try to find out if government money is being used to pay these "workers," but for now, I'm rewriting the post to remove my claims about that.
The fraud concerns a program called Optional Practical Training, which involves foreign students "working" in "jobs" allegedly related to the fields they're training for.
Google's AI digest:
Optional Practical Training (OPT) is temporary work authorization for F-1 visa students in the U.S. to gain hands-on experience directly related to their major field of study.
It typically offers 12 months of employment, either pre- or post-completion of studies, with a 24-month extension available for STEM majors.
So if there's a fraudulent student "worker," he gets 12 months of extra time in the US or possibly 36 months if he's learning how to build bombs for terrorist organizations, or how to smuggle Chinese bioweapon specimens into the US. I assume that's what STEM means in this situation.
Key Aspects of Optional Practical TrainingTypes of OPT: Pre-completion (before graduation, part-time or full-time) and Post-completion (after graduation, full-time at least 20 hours per week).
Eligibility: Must be a full-time student for at least one academic year in an SEVP-certified institution, not studying English as a Second Language (ESL), and the job must directly relate to the major.
Authorization: Students must apply to U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) for an Employment Authorization Document (EAD).
Application Timing: Generally 90 days prior to the program end date and up to 60 days after.
STEM Extension: Eligible STEM students can extend their post-completion OPT by 24 months, for a total of 36 months.
Employment Requirements: Employment must be in the field of study; for post-completion OPT, unemployment is limited.
The entire scheme seems built to defraud the American voter and reportedly that's exactly what it's being used for.
Jennie Taer
@JennieSTaer
3h
ICE just dropped a major fraud bombshell involving 10,000 foreign students "who claim to be working for highly suspect employers" as part of the federal government's Operational Practical Training program.
Here's what they found...
-Empty buildings and locked doors where hundreds of foreign students are supposed to be working
-Multiple employers claiming the same address, where none of them actually have a lease
-Small homes listed as worksites for hundreds of foreign students, where no employees are present. And when someone answers the door, they claim to have no knowledge of the business.
-Some of the employers claim to have offshore HR personnel
-Employers having tax liens, civil law suit collections and breaches of contract
And get this: Even where the taxpayers are paying for foreign students to do real work, guess who's getting the benefit of that taxpayer-paid work?
Tech monoplists, of course!
hernando arce
@hernandoarce
New: Over the last 20 years, we're looking at roughly 2.5 million OPT and STEM OPT authorizations combined.
OPT stands for Optional Practical Training. It's a temporary work permission that lets international students in the U.S. work off-campus in jobs related to their major -- up to 12 months normally, and an extra 24 months for STEM degrees, so up to three years total. This is another fraudulent abused program running rampant in America.
Amazon tops the list with over 10,000 students, followed by University of California, Google, Microsoft, and Meta. Tech giants and universities dominate the top spots. Our government has sold us out to big tech for decades.
ICE has just announced a jaw-dropping fraud bust, saying 10,000 FOREIGN students are involved in the federal government's Optional Practical Training.
Barefoot Student
@BarefootStudent
2h
ICE Director Todd Lyons describes the fraud related to the 24-month Optional Practical Training extension for F-1 students
"We've encountered cases involving espionage, biological threats, intellectual property theft, visa, and employment fraud, and even scams targeting elderly Americans, all perpetrated by individuals abusing their status as students."
"The scope and severity of these crimes cannot be overstated."
@EricLDaugh (Eric Daugherty):
...
There are EMPTY BUILDINGS where HUNDREDS of students should be "working" as part of their ability to be in America -- run by foreign-linked groups that send money out of the country!
Locked doors, hundreds of students sharing the SAME ADDRESS, and "employers" sharing the same unleased addresses
There is a widespread "phantom employee" fraud going on. This is insane.
Many of the so-called "employers" have major red flags, such as facing lawsuits, no employment records, offshore payroll claims, and suspicious INTERNATIONAL MONEY flows
"HSI agents have visited problematic OPT employer work sites in Virginia, Texas, Georgia, Illinois, New York, New Jersey, North Carolina, and Florida."
"Foreign students themselves are entering false addresses and employer names into the student and exchange visitor information system."
"But we are uncovering evidence of organized fraud that spans national and international borders. This is not accidental. It is deliberate, coordinated, and criminal."
"To give you an example, one employer we visited claimed to employ only three foreign students through OPT, while our records show over 500 foreign students claiming to work there."
"The company's representatives were unable to answer basic questions about the business and deferred HR managers in India."
"OPT employers are required to directly train foreign students, but we've seen multiple examples of alleged employers claiming that all management is overseas in India."
"We've also discovered multiple state networks which are large networks of alleged employers claiming to train thousands of foreign students in OPT, then farming them out to unreported third party employers, making oversight nearly impossible and raising serious national security issues."
🚨 HOLY SMOKES. ICE has just announced a jaw-dropping fraud bust, saying 10,000 FOREIGN students are involved in the federal government's Optional Practical Training
There are EMPTY BUILDINGS where HUNDREDS of students should be "working" as part of their ability to be in… pic.twitter.com/vmaKvrcBaT
ICE just dropped a major fraud bombshell involving 10,000 foreign students “who claim to be working for highly suspect employers” as part of the federal government’s Operational Practical Training program.
This is great -- fraud is endemic in OPT. But why hasn't OPT been cancelled altogether? Not only was it just made up by the executive branch, but it's facially illegal -- student visas are only valid while engaged in a full course of study.
And the pillaging continues along all fronts:
BREAKING: A Somali grocer, Abdidwahid Mohamed, has been charged in a $1.1 MILLION SNAP fraud scheme in Minneapolis.
Investigators say he used other people's EBT cards to buy energy drinks and baby formula at Sam's Club and Costco, then resold the goods at his store.
OUT: "Fraud, waste, and abuse" is but a minor part of the federal budget and anyone focusing on it is a charlatan who's not serious about cutting the federal budget
IN: Fraud, waste, and abuse is at least 20% of the federal budget. Anyone not focusing on it is a charlatan who's not serious about cutting the federal budget
When does the actual "enrichment" start happening?
Podcast: Sefton and CBD are joined by Jeff Carter, candidate for NV treasurer, and seasoned finance professional, for a discussion of the issues facing Nevadans, and the larger financial challenges in America.
Few people remember that Norm MacDonald began his career as a ventriloquist MacDonald's old partner Adam Egot revealed that MacDonald repurposed a bit with one of his ventriloquist dolls -- that he was a "bad guy" who "didn't believe the Holocaust happened" -- for the Norm MacDonald show, in which he claimed Egot didn't believe in the Holocaust.
Funniest thing I've read about the Virginia mess. Back when they were hustling the referendum through the assembly both Senators, Warner and Kaine, advised them to go slow and play by the rules. Louise Lucas said she respected them but didn't need advice from the "cuck chair" in the corner. The gerrymandering was overturned and Louise is heading for the big house. Edward G. Robinson voice "where's your cuck now?"
Posted by: Smell the Glove
"Ahhhhh ahh I put my career on the line for Louise Lucas and Jay Jones thinking they'd vault me into presidential contention and we ended up costing Democrats 20 House seats and unleashing a Reverse Dobbs ahhhhh ahhh"
"It's f**king f**ked." -- reportedly a genuine comment offered by a "senior Labour source" Correction: I wrote that Labour is losing 88% (now 87%) of the seats it is "defending." I think that's wrong. The right way to say it is the seats they are contesting -- that is, they don't necessarily already hold these seats, but they have put up a candidate to run for the seat. It's still very bad but not as bad as losing 87% of the seats they already held.
Basil the Great
@BasilTheGreat
🚨ED MILIBAND [a Minister in Starmer's government] SAYS KEIR STARMER WILL RESIGN AS PRIME MINISTER
He has reportedly reassured Labour MP's that Starmer will be resigning following the disastrous results tonight
It's over
"The end of the two party system in the UK" as first the Fake Conservatives and now Labour chooses political suicide rather than simply STOPPING THE INVASION Incidentally, the only reason this didn't already happen in the US is because of the Very Bad Orange Man (who is right on 85% of all policy calls and extremely, existentially right on 15% of them)
No political party that is NOT also a doomsday religious cult would EVER choose a cataclysmic loss -- and possible extinction as a party -- to support a toxically unpopular favoritism of NON-CITIZEN ILLEGAL MIGRANTS over actual citizen voters.
Only a cult does this.
Now they've lost 84%.
Annunziata Rees-Mogg
@zatzi
If this continues Labour loses 2,148 seats tonight.
That is much worse than the worst case predictions I’ve seen.
Cataclysmic
Update: They've now lost 88% of the seats they're defending. As I mentioned earlier, I think I heard that London will not bail them out, as many of those Labour seats will probably flip to "Muslim Independent" or Green. Detroit's 5am vote will not save them.
Yup, Labour is losing 80% of its seats...
The British Patriot
@TheBritLad
🚨 BREAKING: Labour have lost 80% of all seats contested as of 2:25 AM.< br>
If this continues, Keir Starmer will be out of office next week.
Reform has surged and projected to pick up between 1700-2100 seats.
Wow, up to 1700-2100 seats. It's not incredible that this is happening. It's incredible that the Davos crowd is so absolutely determined to privilege Muslim "migrants" over the actual native population who elects them, no matter how loudly the natives scream that they want to be prioritized, that they will gladly self-extinguish as a party rather than simply representing the interests of their own voters. Astonishing.
Remember, when they call other people "cultists" -- they are the ones so imprisoned in their social reinforcement and discipline bubbles that they will choose political death rather than dare upset the Karen Enforcement Officers of their cult. Update: Now they've lost 83% of the seats they were defending.
(((Dan Hodges)))
@DPJHodges
Reform are basically wiping Labour out in the North. It's not a defeat. It's not even a rout. Labour are simply ceasing to exist.
Nick Lowles
@lowles_nick
Tonight’s results are calamitous for Labour. Not just for Keir Starmer's leadership, but for the very future of the party
STARMERGEDDON: In early returns, Reform gains 135 seats, Labour loses 90, the Fake Conservatives lose 36 (and I didn't even know they could fall any further), the Lib Dems lose 4, and the Greens gain 6. Note that the only other party gaining seats is the Greens and they're only gaining a handful of seats.
Update: Reform now up 145, Labour down 98. Labour projected to lose Wales -- where they've ruled for 27 years. Fulton County Georgia just discovered 400 boxes of ballots for Labour
Update: REF +156, LAB -107, CON -45
Brutal: In four out of five council seats where Labour is defending, they've lost. 80%.
I'm sure it's not this simple, but Reform is straight taking Labour's and the "Conservatives'" seats. They've lost almost exactly what Reform gained. If understand this right (and warning, I probably don't), all of London's council seats are up for election, and Labour might lose hugely there, as their old voters abandon them for Reform, Muslim Indenpendents, and the Greens.
REF +190, LAB -134, CON -56.
Updates on the Labour collapse in council elections -- which wags are calling #Starmergeddon -- from Beege Welborne. There are about 5000 seats up for grabs, Labour is expected to lose 1,800, Reform will probably gain 1,580, up from... zero. So this would be more than that. People claim that while Labour has adopted the Sharia Agenda to appeal to the million Muslims it allowed to migrate to the country, those voters are ditching Labour to vote for the Muslim Independent Party or the Greens. Delicious. This shadenfreude is going straight to my thighs. Oh, and if Starmer loses about as badly as expected, Labour will toss him out of a window Braveheart style and replace him. He will announce he is resigning to spend more time with his Gay Ukrainian Male Prostitutes.
Media bias and senationalism are as old as, well, the media:
That was written by Denny O'Neill and illustrated by, get this, Frank Miller. Editor to the Stars Jim Shooter was in charge at the time. I always thought the gag was original to the comic book, but in fact the "Threat or Menace" headline was a satirical joke about media bias and sensationalism for a long while. The Harvard Lampoon used it in a parody of Life magazine: "Flying Saucers: Threat or Menace?"
