I've been busy lately telling people about the benefits of eating dried grapes.
I'm raisin awareness.
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Facebook should have a limit on how many times a relationship status can be changed.
After 3 times, it should change by default to "Unstable."
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A man in a hunter's outfit enters a butcher's shop. "I would like to buy two undressed ducks, please."
"I'm very sorry," the butcher replies. "But I'm afraid we're fresh out of ducks. I can sell you a couple of fresh chickens instead if you like."
"Chickens!" the hunter exclaims. "I can't go home and tell my wife I bagged a couple of chickens!"
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Oneliners:
I worked hard all this week to put this beer on the table.
There should be a summer camp for adults where you just go to sleep for three weeks.
You think you love your family, but suddenly there are three of you and one remaining slice of pizza.
A shout out to everyone who got report cards growing up that said, "Talks too much."
Purses are just junk drawers with handles.
One thing horror movies have helped me realize is that as a parent, you definitely want to avoid having demonic children.
It is not the lofty sails but the unseen wind that moves the ship.
If something is confidential, it will be left in the copier machine.
Ditch the driving test for an I.Q. test.
Trust everybody, then cut the cards.
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The 107th Running of the Indianapolis 500 is happening Sunday at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway in Speedway, Indiana.
It sounds like there was a shortage of available words when they came up with this event.
Quote of the Times;
“When Joe Biden came to Washington as a Senator in 1973, America’s national debt was $438 Billion. Under his 50 year control, America is now nearly $32 Trillion in debt.” - Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene
Link of the Times;
Three Lies They're Telling You about the Debt Ceiling:
https://mises.org/wire/three-lies-theyre-telling-you-about-debt-ceiling
Issue of the Times;
The Absurdities Of Our Age by Davis Hanson
A sign of a civilization in headlong decline is its embrace of absurdities. Unfortunately for the United States, we are witnessing an epidemic of nihilist nonsense.
Here are a few examples:
Reparations
How could a dysfunctional state like California even contemplate $800 billion in reparations?
The state currently faces a $31 billion annual deficit—and it’s climbing. The state’s $100 billion high-speed rail project is inert, a veritable Stonehenge of concrete monoliths without a foot of track laid down.
California’s income tax rates are already the highest in the nation. Its sales taxes, electricity rates, and gas taxes and prices are among the steepest in the country. And for what?
Crime, homelessness, and medieval decay characterize the once great downtowns of San Francisco and Los Angeles. It is now not safe to walk alone in any major California city after dark.
Shoplifting and smash-and-grab theft are no longer treated as real crimes. The result is the mass flight of brand stores from our downtowns and inner cities, with all the accustomed cries of “racism,” even as racist public prosecutors pick and choose whether to indict the arrested on the basis of race.
California infrastructure, once the best in the county, is now among the worst. Decaying and crowded freeways, inadequate water storage, and pot-holed streets are the new norm. Once robust gas, oil, mining, and timber industries are nearly inert.
The state’s public schools are dysfunctional. Once premier public universities are spiraling headlong into decline—junking scholastic tests for admissions, using illegal racial quotas to warp admissions, and institutionalizing racialized dorms and graduation ceremonies.
Even if California enjoyed a huge surplus, even if 300,000 residents were not fleeing the state each year, even if California had a history of being a Confederate slave state, even if whites were the majority of the population, even if the black population was greater than its present 5-6 percent, it would be insane for the state to even contemplate racial reparations.
Twenty-seven percent of the state’s residents were born outside of the United States, and have no American ancestors. The state is the most racially diverse in America, and one in which every group could, in theory, lodge complaints against the dead of the past. Mexican-Americans, Armenians, Asians, and the descendants of the impoverished “Okie” diaspora could all cite legacies of bias—but from whom exactly? The long dead?
For those of increasingly mixed heritage—about a quarter of the state—did their own ancestors oppress their own ancestors? Are all blacks sure that eight generations ago their individual ancestors were slaves outside of California, and therefore they have monetary grievances against those in the state whose ancestors eight generations ago might have owned slaves outside of California? And can such writs be documented?
Do we really wish to go down this path of destroying individuality and insisting that superficial appearance damns us to a collective rooted in the past?
If so, are we to tally up the half-century role of racial quotas to calibrate all the impoverished whites of the last 50 years who were discriminated against in admissions and hiring? Have there not been existing reparations from the decades-long implementations of racial preferences and exemptions—or perhaps in some $20 trillion dollars in reparatory transferences during a half-century of Great Society entitlements?
If we are collectives and not individuals anymore, are all of us to be judged by adding up our group’s historical and current pluses and minuses?
If so, do we add or subtract reparatory charges based on group data? If one race is vastly overrepresented in hate crimes or interracial crime statistics, and other groups vastly underrepresented as perpetrators, is it the role of the state now to intervene and provide reparatory and collective “equity” from one collective for the relatives of the victims of another collective?
Are we really convinced that past institutional racial bias is all-determinative of present opportunity? If so, why do Asians nationally as a collective on average earn $20,000 a year more than non-Hispanic whites—despite past exclusionary immigration laws, forced government relocations, and zoning prohibitions? Was there some unknown university study that postulated that the Japanese-internment or early 20th century Yellow Peril exclusionary immigration statutes were irrelevant to Asian-American upward mobility?
Inequality Under the Laws
Ideology now has made a mockery of the cherished traditions of blind justice and equality under the laws. Whether you are arrested, indicted, and convicted increasingly hinges on your politics.
During the 120 days of 2020 riots, looting, arson, and assault that saw $2 billion in damage, 35-40 killed, hundreds of injured police officers, and 14,000 arrests, were there mass detentions, thousands of convictions, and lengthy sentences handed out to Antifa and BLM members for the violence? After all, the insurrectionary rioters staged iconic attacks on the idea of government, whether defined as torching a police precinct or federal courthouse.
Why then were so many protestors of January 6 demonstrations at the Capitol that saw no violent deaths at the hands of another—except a Trump supporter lethally shot for the misdemeanor of entering a broken window of the Capitol—given lengthy prison sentences?
George Floyd—a 6’4”, 223 pound black career violent felon, arrested while suspected of passing counterfeit money, serially high on dangerous drugs, resisting arrest—was choked into unconsciousness while resisting arrest by a reckless white police officer.
Floyd was canonized as an American hero, often portrayed with halo and angelic wings.
The officer was convicted of second-degree murder and is serving combined state and federal prison sentence of over 40 years.
A white Ashli Babbitt, 5’2”, 113 pounds, a 14-year military veteran, and, like Floyd, unarmed, was lethally shot for the crime of entering a broken window in the Capitol by a black policeman.
Postmortem, her life was smeared and slandered, her shooter canonized. Was Babbitt some sinner, Floyd a saint? The choker officer Chauvin a Satan, the lethal shooter cop Byrd godly? The petite Babbitt a mortal danger stopped only by a bullet, the huge and uncooperative Floyd supposedly easy to arrest with no need of force?
Why were the downtowns of Washington, D.C. and Seattle simply hijacked and expropriated by violent groups with impunity, while federal troops were forbidden to assist overtaxed local law enforcement? Was that not in stark contrast to the barbed wire, 20,000 soldiers and barricades that marked Washington for weeks after the Capitol demonstrations?
Why was there not to be a 2020 riot congressional commission to investigate the deaths and destruction caused by groups who crossed state lines to plan and orchestrate the violence, often weaving their conspiracies with the aid of social media?
Nullification
Did we not fight a Civil War to reestablish that states and locales could not ignore federal laws?
Why did 550 local and state jurisdictions, in old Confederate South Carolina style, declare with impunity that federal immigration law did not apply in their territories? Does the Left now believe in such neo-Confederate principles? Would it applaud counties that rendered federal endangered species, or handgun-control statutes null and void in their jurisdictions?
Or do we now declare some nullifications good and others bad, depending on our own politics?
How did the Biden Administration simply suspend all immigration law to greenlight 6-7 million illegal entries across the southern border since January 2021? Did Biden not take an oath to execute our laws faithfully?
Does any president now have the right to order the executive branch not to execute entire bodies of federal law? Will the next president declare entire sections of EPA statutes inert by de facto nonenforcement to appease a particular political base?
At any time, did Joe Biden send a bill to Congress requesting that anyone can now cross U.S. borders without identification and legal sanction?
So do citizens fly into JFK or LAX from foreign countries and simply announce that they either forgot their passports or never obtained them? And as a reward for lack of an ID or legal permission, are they still allowed into the United States and given a free phone, and a free hotel room? Do we have one set of laws for citizens, and another for non-citizens? And if so, why?
Rogue Agencies
How can a former FBI director under oath claim amnesia or ignorance 245 times during congressional testimony, or leak a classified account of a private conversation with a president with complete impunity, as did James Comey?
How can an FBI director, as did Andrew McCabe, lie on four occasions with impunity to federal investigators? Is it now the case that FBI directors at times must lie and deceive as part of their job descriptions?
How can a former FBI director, as in the case of Robert Mueller, with all seriousness deny under oath any knowledge of Fusion GPS or the Steele dossier, whose controversies prompted his own special counsel appointment? Can citizens tell inquisitive IRS auditors that they have no memory of deductions in question?
Why is there still an FBI after it has been confessed that it paid a foreign national, Christopher Steele, to compile dirt against a presidential candidate—and paid his source in Washington to provide Steele with false information to impugn a presidential candidate? How did the FBI manage to play a central role in both the 2016 and 2020 elections in efforts to alter the result?
How can a legitimate FBI knowingly submit such information that it knew was false to a federal judge to spy on an American citizen to further a farcical plot to destroy a presidential campaign?
So what will the FBI not do? Forge documents? Offer in vain $1 million to a foreign national to verify just one fact in a fake, bought dossier used to obtain a FISA warrant? Disappear cell phone data under subpoena?
Have high-ranking officials promise that a presidential candidate will never be elected? Infiltrate Latin-Mass Catholic Church services and school board meetings to monitor the activities of church-goers and parents in attendance?
Use armed performance-art SWAT teams to swoop into private homes to arrest suspects accused of mostly misdemeanors? Hire out social media private companies like Twitter to suppress free expression deemed by the FBI unhelpful or problematic?
Suppress information about an FBI-confiscated Hunter Biden laptop, while keeping mum as former intelligence officers lie absurdly before a national election that the computer in FBI hands was likely the work of Russian disinformationists—to aid a presidential candidate in a debate and harm the incumbent?
Destroy the lives of any whistleblowers who expose such miscreant behavior to Congress?
Printing Money
The journalist/historian Paul Johnson famously once wrote that the tripartite duty of any government leadership was “to ensure external security, internal order and maintenance of an honest currency.”
We certainly do not maintain an honest currency by borrowing 130 percent of annual GDP, with a looming debt of $33 trillion, an annual $1.5 trillion-plus budget deficit, and a 2022 annualized 6.5 percent inflation rate.
But statistics mask the real problem, which is a mentality of suicidal spending passed off as juvenile “modern monetary theory.” Unlimited borrowing as a “theory” is the academic idiocy that some socialist hare-brained professors dreamed up to excuse printing money we do not have.
Both parties have run up the debt. Yet the culpability mounts as each successive president adds to the crushing debt, in fear that on his watch the medicine of restraint will be worse than the disease of insolvency.
Note how casually the federal government burns through billions of dollars. We still have no idea how many billions of dollars in arms and equipment the military shrugged away in Kabul. Who cares anyway whether the terrorist Taliban is becoming one of the largest dispensers of U.S. taxpayers’ weaponry?
Currently, Joe Biden lies that by not spending allotted money he somehow is the greatest deficit hawk in memory, as he rams through a $1.5 trillion 2023 budget deficit.
The top federal income tax rate is 37 percent. In California, to take the example of our largest state, the top state bracket is 13.3 percent. Income subject to federal payroll taxes is 15.3 percent for the self-employed—and income subject to that crushing take is a whopping $160,200.
The above taxes are well aside from capital gains taxes, sales taxes, property taxes, and fuel taxes, which, along with income taxes, can easily take 50-60 percent of one’s middle-class income. Note that the government not only does not appreciate the crushing extractions but targets for auditing those who pay at that rate. And all this tax revenue leads to what? Multitrillion-dollar budget deficits and unsustainable national debt.
Adding insult to injury, our current White House occupant, Mr. “Ten-Percent”/ “The Big Guy” Joe Biden demagogues as “greedy” anyone who resents the wastage of federal spending after handing over half his income to the government. Yet did the Bidens report all their past foreign income and pay at that rate? Could Joe have ensured that his son first paid all he owed to the IRS before he smeared other Americans as not paying their fair shares?
A sane country would immediately reboot and update the old Simpson-Bowles reduction and simplification of taxes and spending proposals that would gradually work our way toward a balanced budget—and maybe, in a century, pay off what we have borrowed. But we know that is impossible since we would hear ad nauseam that such fiscal integrity was racist, heartless, and cruel.
So we will keep up borrowing and printing bread-and-circus money until, like the late fourth-century polis, or late imperial Rome, there is finally no money for the upkeep of infrastructure, domestic law and order, and deterrence against foreign enemies.
Then what cannot go on, will not go on and all the absurdities of the present will end with a bang not a whimper.
News of the Times;
Target Becomes The Latest Target Of Anti-Woke Boycott As It Sells ‘Satanist Pride’ LGBTQ+ Products For Kids:
https://summit.news/2023/05/22/target-becomes-the-latest-target-of-anti-woke-boycott-as-it-sells-satanist-pride-lgbtq-products-for-kids/
The Leftist Controlled FBI is now American KGB. Speak against them and get crushed:
https://daily.whatfinger.com/the-leftist-controlled-fbi-is-now-american-kgb-speak-against-them-and-get-crushed-jim-jordan-dicusses/
The FBI just got caught in yet more massive, outrageous FISA abuses:
https://nypost.com/2023/05/21/the-fbi-just-got-caught-in-yet-more-massive-outrageous-fisa-abuses/
Sorry vegans, a major health organization says meat, eggs and milk are vital sources of 'much-needed nutrients':
https://www.msn.com/en-us/health/nutrition/sorry-vegans-a-major-health-organization-says-meat-eggs-and-milk-are-vital-sources-of-much-needed-nutrients/ar-AA1aVtlW
Universal flu vaccine based on mRNA tech to be tested by National Institutes of Health:
https://www.cnbc.com/2023/05/15/nih-will-start-testing-universal-flu-vaccine-based-on-mrna-technology.html
Texas DPS recovers 30 children in joint human trafficking operations:
https://www.newsbreak.com/news/3026240467499-texas-dps-recovers-30-children-in-joint-human-trafficking-operations
UC Berkeley Hosts Exclusive “Black Only Graduation Ceremony”:
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/05/uc-berkeley-hosts-exclusive-black-only-graduation-ceremony/
Chicago suburb forced to cancel armed forces carnival:
https://www.theblaze.com/news/chicago-suburb-flash-mob-armed-forces-carnival
Homeless Vets Ousted to Make Room for Illegal Immigrants:
https://uniondailypost.com/homeless-vets-ousted-to-make-room-for-illegal-immigrants/
China Built an Army of Influence Agents:
https://www.thedailybeast.com/how-china-built-an-army-of-influence-agents-in-the-us
Tampa drag queen event canceled after DeSantis signs new law protecting children:
https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/tampa-drag-queen-event-canceled-after-desantis-signs-new-law-protecting-children/
Supreme Court Reins in EPA Overreach:
https://reason.com/2023/05/25/supreme-court-reins-in-epa-overreach/
WHO Issues Warning on “Unusual” Surge of Severe Myocarditis Cases in Newborns:
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/05/who-issues-warning-unusual-surge-severe-myocarditis-cases/
Social media risks for youth mental health highlighted:
https://www.statnews.com/2023/05/23/social-media-youth-mental-health/
Native American Man Gunned Down:
https://pjmedia.com/news-and-politics/lincolnbrown/2023/05/22/native-american-man-gunned-down-after-calling-cbp-on-trespassing-illegals-n1697296
Absurdity?
Normalcy?
What is a web developer's favorite tea?
URL Grey.
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Oneliners:
Whoever invented the idea that your harshest critic is yourself was clearly never married.
A balanced diet is dark chocolate in one hand and white chocolate in the other.
You've got to spend money to lose money.
Love is like Wi-Fi, you can't see it, but you know when you've lost it.
I wonder if Ikea has a decaf coffee table.
Just because I can't sing doesn't mean I won't.
I fully intend to haunt people when I die, I've got a list.
Never trust a story that has been told more than twice.
A clean tie attracts the soup of the day.
A promise is a debt.
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Top 5 Dog Breeds Not Officially Recognized by the American Kennel Club:
The Remarkable, but not Great Dane
The French Snoop Dogg
The Canoodle Poodle
The Whippet Whippet Good
The Bowser Schnauzer
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I think Hitler was falsely accused of being racist.
After all, he married a Braun girl.
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The kids next door challenged me to a water balloon fight.
I'm just updating my status while waiting for the water to boil.
Quote of the Times;
"If you catch 100 red fire ants as well as 100 large black ants, and put them in a jar, at first, nothing will happen. However, if you violently shake the jar and dump them back on the ground the ants will fight until they eventually kill each other. The thing is, the red ants think the black ants are the enemy and vice versa, when in reality, the real enemy is the person who shook the jar. This is exactly what’s happening in society today. Liberal vs. Conservative. Black vs. White. Pro Mask vs. Anti-Mask. Vax vs. Anti-vax. Rich vs. poor. Man vs. woman. Cop vs. citizen. [Etc.] The real question we need to be asking ourselves is who’s shaking the jar… and why?" - Starr
Link of the Times;
Whistleblower: FBI Withheld J6 Video to Conceal Undercover Agents:
https://nationalfile.com/whistleblower-fbi-withheld-j6-video-to-conceal-undercover-agents/
Issue of the Times;
Do Not Fall for the Normalcy Presumption – Nothing Is Normal Anymore by Kurt Schlichter
Conservatives, being conservative, like to think they live in an ordered world with norms and rules and that if they rely upon the norms and rules, they will be protected. They won’t be. The genius of cultural Marxism is how it attacks those foundational premises that conservatives believe in, perverts them, and then uses them as a suppository on the befuddled cons.
Let’s look at the phenomenon of the Soros DAs. Why did the leftist zillionaire decide to spend a ton of money in otherwise obscure local races? Because he found a weakness in the American political system and decided to exploit it knowing that dumb conservatives would be slow to understand how his actions destroyed the system and keep acting as if the old system was still in effect long after it had been demolished. Here’s how it works.
District attorneys, and other prosecutors, have incredible discretion to charge or not charge crimes. In normal times, this was not a problem, because while a prosecutor position was typically an elected office, it was not a political position in the usual sense. Republican, Democrat, whatever – the DAs usually prosecuted bad guys relatively fairly and squarely. Sure, sometimes they got stupid and went after enemies, but generally they were not partisan. My mom became an assistant DA in San Mateo County in the 1970s. She went in to meet the DA, Keith Sorenson, a legendary prosecutor.
He told her that her job was not to convict people but to do justice, and that he expected her not to prosecute cases where the result would be unjust or the case could not be proven beyond a reasonable doubt. To this day, I cannot tell you if Keith Sorenson was a Democrat or a Republican, and it did not matter. He ran his office like it should be run. Most DAs did – that was why prosecutor offices were once respected institutions. That was why it was safe to give prosecutors massive discretion. We could rely on them to do their duty.
But what if Keith Sorenson was a communist catspaw?
Instead of enforcing the law, the Austin Soros DA – like Alvin Bragg, George Gascon, that idiot in Atlanta, and so many other scumbags seeded in blue cities across the map – decided that he would choose not to prosecute crimes that the legislature enacted laws against, not on the grounds that the individuals were innocent but on the grounds that the Soros serf did not like the law the people’s representatives had enacted. They protected regular criminals, and they especially protected Democrat agents who rioted and looted, making it possible for Democrats to use violence to achieve their goals.
And they decided they would, unlike typical felonies, go full throttle on shaky and legally dubious cases against political opponents (like Trump) and those exercising the (leftist-disfavored) right to self-defense. They took that broad, unfettered discretion DAs had been entrusted with and used it in the service of cultural Marxism instead of the people.
And now we have the sham system of today. But dumb cons cannot comprehend that systems only function if all the cogs are working correctly. If one component is flawed – like a leftist DA pursuing a specific agenda – you stop having a system. But dumb cons do not want to accept that the justice system has been corrupted so that there is no justice system anymore. They seek the false comfort of illusory normalcy so they do not have to face the ugly reality.
Get it through your thick squish heads – there is no justice system to preserve or protect anymore. That’s why you look at a sham prosecution like Daniel Perry in the blue enclave of Austin and you do NOT shrug and say, “Oh well, the jury has spoken.” That is the normalcy bias – you cannot assume this is normal because the presence of a leftist DA pursing a leftist agenda destroys the system.
The great @IowaHawk, before he got totally disgusted with politics and began tweeting primarily about old cars, called it with a tweet made famous by PJ Media’s own Instapundit Glenn Reynolds. He tweeted:
1. Identify a respected institution.
2. kill it.
3. gut it.
4. wear its carcass as a skin suit, while demanding respect.
#lefties
The city and county district attorneys’ offices were once respected institutions, not perfect but generally trusted enough to be given a huge level of discretion. Then Soros saw their unfettered discretion and identified the system’s vulnerability. The Soros candidates jumped into the normally low-energy races with millions from their patron and won them. Next, they proceeded to kill and gut the institution by politicizing it. They then wore its pelt pretending that nothing had changed and that they were still entitled to the same respect and deference the non-political prosecutors enjoyed. And stupid conservatives nodded along.
You owe these institutions no respect because they are not the institutions that had once been worthy of respect. They are a simulacrum of the old institutions, a fraud, a scam, a clever ploy to get people who default to assuming everything is normal to go along when everything is not normal. And the left counted on that normalcy bias to defeat any resistance.
But some of us know what time it is. Governor Ron DeSantis gets it. He fired a Soros DA and passed laws to limit the ability of pinkos to perpetrate their violence. Governor Greg Abbott promised to pardon Daniel Perry, rejecting the notion that we are obligated to pretend that a Soros DA’s actions have any legitimacy at all. And Jim Jordan is going to investigate that slob Alvin Bragg. Republicans in Congress investigating a DA in a Democrat city? Why, that’s against all the norms! No, it’s not, because the norms only apply when you do not have nakedly partisan prosecutors using their power to interfere in national elections. Change the system by changing a component, and you change the rules. You don’t get to defend your rejection of normalcy by demanding that we pretend that everything is normal.
This is the way.
Understand what has changed and stop pretending it has not changed because you really wish everything was normal and you think that if you shut your eyes and pretend hard enough, it will all be normal again. Soros found a loophole – prosecutorial professionalism that meant we trusted prosecutors with expansive powers. Well, we need to fix that. In every red state there are blue cities where this crap happens. Time to rein these communists in. In red states, we have the power of the state, and we can take the power the left exploits away from the leftists and retain it for ourselves to protect the citizens who are being plagued by unpunished crime and threatened by unfair political prosecutions.
Red states must:
Invest red governors with the power to remove DAs who refuse to do their job.
Pass broad laws that expand and protect the right to self-defense, like presuming it exists where mobs exist or when the citizen is trapped in his vehicle.
Create procedural protections, like the threshold motions to dismiss already available in some states, that force the prosecutor to present actual evidence that could potentially be believed beyond a reasonable doubt before the prosecutor can proceed to trial where there is a claim of self-defense
Create penalties and incentives to force DAs back to their proper role, like forcing city/county governments to pay not only attorney’s fees but damages to citizens who successfully assert a self-defense defense.
Expand pardon powers for red governors – too many states force them into complicated administration proceedings before they can issue pardons, and the people can pass judgment on the red state governors’ use of the power at the ballot box
And the most important thing – red state leaders and our GOP pols in the federal government must understand and accept that this situation is not normal, and that different realities call for different measures. Thirty years ago, our prosecutors could generally be trusted to do something like the right thing, but thanks to Soros’s exploitation of that trust, we cannot say that today. We Republicans need to stop pretending that everything is normal. It’s not.
News of the Times;
Disgraced Soros Prosecutor Refuses To Charge Cinco de Mayo Shooting Suspect:
https://freebeacon.com/democrats/disgraced-soros-prosecutor-refuses-to-charge-cinco-de-mayo-shooting-suspect/
Head Of Ukraine's Supreme Court Arrested For "Large-Scale Corruption":
https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/head-ukraines-supreme-court-arrested-large-scale-corruption
Bakhmut Falls, Artemovsk Rises. What's Next:
https://simplicius76.substack.com/p/sitrep-52023-bakhmut-falls-artemovsk
Alarming Surge In Gun Shop Robberies As Democrats Fail To Enforce Law And Order:
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/alarming-suge-gun-shop-robberies-democrats-fail-enforce-law-and-order
Leftist Campaign Worker Shot and Killed by Fellow Leftist Campaign Worker:
https://www.westernjournal.com/leftist-campaign-worker-shot-killed-fellow-leftist-campaign-worker-canvassing-city-streets-police/
Girl, 6, Performed Oral Sex in Class With Teacher in Room:
https://thenewamerican.com/girl-6-performed-oral-sex-in-class-with-teacher-in-room/
1500 African men formed spontaneous migrant mob army in northern Italy:
https://www.riotimesonline.com/brazil-news/modern-day-censorship/african-migrant-mob-spontaneously-formed-in-northern-italy-and-attacked-localities-and-girls/
Tunisia Coast Guard Rounds Up Mediterranean Migrant Boats, Returns Them to Africa:
https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2023/04/27/tunisia-coast-guard-rounds-up-mediterranean-migrant-boats-returns-them-to-africa/
Record-Setting 83,000 Migrants Illegally Crossed US Border This Week:
http://www.renegadetribune.com/record-setting-83000-migrants-illegally-crossed-us-border-this-week/
Elementary students reportedly violently forced by black peers to pledge fealty to BLM:
https://www.theblaze.com/news/black-students-at-ohio-school-allegedly-force-white-students-to-pledge-fealty-to-blm
Illegal Alien Released by Biden Regime Charged with Brutally Raping Alabama Teen Girl:
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/05/illegal-alien-criminal-released-biden-regime-charged-brutally/
FBI Misused Surveillance Powers Nearly 300,000 Times in 2 Years, Unsealed Court Document Says:
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2023/05/19/fbi-misused-surveillance-powers-nearly-300000-times-in-2-years-unsealed-court-document-says/
John Kerry Declares War on US Farmers: Gov’t Farm Confiscations ‘Not Off The Table’:
https://thepeoplesvoice.tv/john-kerry-declares-war-on-us-farmers-govt-farm-confiscations-not-off-the-table/
Breakfast Club Star Takes On Cancel Culture:
https://fortheloveofnews.com/breakfast-club-star-takes-on-cancel-culture-unsustainable-were-basically-a-bunch-of-puritans-robm/
FDA updates blood donation policy to include gay, bisexual men:
https://thehill.com/policy/healthcare/3999657-fda-updates-blood-donation-policy-to-include-gay-bisexual-men/
URL Grey.
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Oneliners:
Whoever invented the idea that your harshest critic is yourself was clearly never married.
A balanced diet is dark chocolate in one hand and white chocolate in the other.
You've got to spend money to lose money.
Love is like Wi-Fi, you can't see it, but you know when you've lost it.
I wonder if Ikea has a decaf coffee table.
Just because I can't sing doesn't mean I won't.
I fully intend to haunt people when I die, I've got a list.
Never trust a story that has been told more than twice.
A clean tie attracts the soup of the day.
A promise is a debt.
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Top 5 Dog Breeds Not Officially Recognized by the American Kennel Club:
The Remarkable, but not Great Dane
The French Snoop Dogg
The Canoodle Poodle
The Whippet Whippet Good
The Bowser Schnauzer
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I think Hitler was falsely accused of being racist.
After all, he married a Braun girl.
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The kids next door challenged me to a water balloon fight.
I'm just updating my status while waiting for the water to boil.
Quote of the Times;
"If you catch 100 red fire ants as well as 100 large black ants, and put them in a jar, at first, nothing will happen. However, if you violently shake the jar and dump them back on the ground the ants will fight until they eventually kill each other. The thing is, the red ants think the black ants are the enemy and vice versa, when in reality, the real enemy is the person who shook the jar. This is exactly what’s happening in society today. Liberal vs. Conservative. Black vs. White. Pro Mask vs. Anti-Mask. Vax vs. Anti-vax. Rich vs. poor. Man vs. woman. Cop vs. citizen. [Etc.] The real question we need to be asking ourselves is who’s shaking the jar… and why?" - Starr
Link of the Times;
Whistleblower: FBI Withheld J6 Video to Conceal Undercover Agents:
https://nationalfile.com/whistleblower-fbi-withheld-j6-video-to-conceal-undercover-agents/
Issue of the Times;
Do Not Fall for the Normalcy Presumption – Nothing Is Normal Anymore by Kurt Schlichter
Conservatives, being conservative, like to think they live in an ordered world with norms and rules and that if they rely upon the norms and rules, they will be protected. They won’t be. The genius of cultural Marxism is how it attacks those foundational premises that conservatives believe in, perverts them, and then uses them as a suppository on the befuddled cons.
Let’s look at the phenomenon of the Soros DAs. Why did the leftist zillionaire decide to spend a ton of money in otherwise obscure local races? Because he found a weakness in the American political system and decided to exploit it knowing that dumb conservatives would be slow to understand how his actions destroyed the system and keep acting as if the old system was still in effect long after it had been demolished. Here’s how it works.
District attorneys, and other prosecutors, have incredible discretion to charge or not charge crimes. In normal times, this was not a problem, because while a prosecutor position was typically an elected office, it was not a political position in the usual sense. Republican, Democrat, whatever – the DAs usually prosecuted bad guys relatively fairly and squarely. Sure, sometimes they got stupid and went after enemies, but generally they were not partisan. My mom became an assistant DA in San Mateo County in the 1970s. She went in to meet the DA, Keith Sorenson, a legendary prosecutor.
He told her that her job was not to convict people but to do justice, and that he expected her not to prosecute cases where the result would be unjust or the case could not be proven beyond a reasonable doubt. To this day, I cannot tell you if Keith Sorenson was a Democrat or a Republican, and it did not matter. He ran his office like it should be run. Most DAs did – that was why prosecutor offices were once respected institutions. That was why it was safe to give prosecutors massive discretion. We could rely on them to do their duty.
But what if Keith Sorenson was a communist catspaw?
Instead of enforcing the law, the Austin Soros DA – like Alvin Bragg, George Gascon, that idiot in Atlanta, and so many other scumbags seeded in blue cities across the map – decided that he would choose not to prosecute crimes that the legislature enacted laws against, not on the grounds that the individuals were innocent but on the grounds that the Soros serf did not like the law the people’s representatives had enacted. They protected regular criminals, and they especially protected Democrat agents who rioted and looted, making it possible for Democrats to use violence to achieve their goals.
And they decided they would, unlike typical felonies, go full throttle on shaky and legally dubious cases against political opponents (like Trump) and those exercising the (leftist-disfavored) right to self-defense. They took that broad, unfettered discretion DAs had been entrusted with and used it in the service of cultural Marxism instead of the people.
And now we have the sham system of today. But dumb cons cannot comprehend that systems only function if all the cogs are working correctly. If one component is flawed – like a leftist DA pursuing a specific agenda – you stop having a system. But dumb cons do not want to accept that the justice system has been corrupted so that there is no justice system anymore. They seek the false comfort of illusory normalcy so they do not have to face the ugly reality.
Get it through your thick squish heads – there is no justice system to preserve or protect anymore. That’s why you look at a sham prosecution like Daniel Perry in the blue enclave of Austin and you do NOT shrug and say, “Oh well, the jury has spoken.” That is the normalcy bias – you cannot assume this is normal because the presence of a leftist DA pursing a leftist agenda destroys the system.
The great @IowaHawk, before he got totally disgusted with politics and began tweeting primarily about old cars, called it with a tweet made famous by PJ Media’s own Instapundit Glenn Reynolds. He tweeted:
1. Identify a respected institution.
2. kill it.
3. gut it.
4. wear its carcass as a skin suit, while demanding respect.
#lefties
The city and county district attorneys’ offices were once respected institutions, not perfect but generally trusted enough to be given a huge level of discretion. Then Soros saw their unfettered discretion and identified the system’s vulnerability. The Soros candidates jumped into the normally low-energy races with millions from their patron and won them. Next, they proceeded to kill and gut the institution by politicizing it. They then wore its pelt pretending that nothing had changed and that they were still entitled to the same respect and deference the non-political prosecutors enjoyed. And stupid conservatives nodded along.
You owe these institutions no respect because they are not the institutions that had once been worthy of respect. They are a simulacrum of the old institutions, a fraud, a scam, a clever ploy to get people who default to assuming everything is normal to go along when everything is not normal. And the left counted on that normalcy bias to defeat any resistance.
But some of us know what time it is. Governor Ron DeSantis gets it. He fired a Soros DA and passed laws to limit the ability of pinkos to perpetrate their violence. Governor Greg Abbott promised to pardon Daniel Perry, rejecting the notion that we are obligated to pretend that a Soros DA’s actions have any legitimacy at all. And Jim Jordan is going to investigate that slob Alvin Bragg. Republicans in Congress investigating a DA in a Democrat city? Why, that’s against all the norms! No, it’s not, because the norms only apply when you do not have nakedly partisan prosecutors using their power to interfere in national elections. Change the system by changing a component, and you change the rules. You don’t get to defend your rejection of normalcy by demanding that we pretend that everything is normal.
This is the way.
Understand what has changed and stop pretending it has not changed because you really wish everything was normal and you think that if you shut your eyes and pretend hard enough, it will all be normal again. Soros found a loophole – prosecutorial professionalism that meant we trusted prosecutors with expansive powers. Well, we need to fix that. In every red state there are blue cities where this crap happens. Time to rein these communists in. In red states, we have the power of the state, and we can take the power the left exploits away from the leftists and retain it for ourselves to protect the citizens who are being plagued by unpunished crime and threatened by unfair political prosecutions.
Red states must:
Invest red governors with the power to remove DAs who refuse to do their job.
Pass broad laws that expand and protect the right to self-defense, like presuming it exists where mobs exist or when the citizen is trapped in his vehicle.
Create procedural protections, like the threshold motions to dismiss already available in some states, that force the prosecutor to present actual evidence that could potentially be believed beyond a reasonable doubt before the prosecutor can proceed to trial where there is a claim of self-defense
Create penalties and incentives to force DAs back to their proper role, like forcing city/county governments to pay not only attorney’s fees but damages to citizens who successfully assert a self-defense defense.
Expand pardon powers for red governors – too many states force them into complicated administration proceedings before they can issue pardons, and the people can pass judgment on the red state governors’ use of the power at the ballot box
And the most important thing – red state leaders and our GOP pols in the federal government must understand and accept that this situation is not normal, and that different realities call for different measures. Thirty years ago, our prosecutors could generally be trusted to do something like the right thing, but thanks to Soros’s exploitation of that trust, we cannot say that today. We Republicans need to stop pretending that everything is normal. It’s not.
News of the Times;
Disgraced Soros Prosecutor Refuses To Charge Cinco de Mayo Shooting Suspect:
https://freebeacon.com/democrats/disgraced-soros-prosecutor-refuses-to-charge-cinco-de-mayo-shooting-suspect/
Head Of Ukraine's Supreme Court Arrested For "Large-Scale Corruption":
https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/head-ukraines-supreme-court-arrested-large-scale-corruption
Bakhmut Falls, Artemovsk Rises. What's Next:
https://simplicius76.substack.com/p/sitrep-52023-bakhmut-falls-artemovsk
Alarming Surge In Gun Shop Robberies As Democrats Fail To Enforce Law And Order:
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/alarming-suge-gun-shop-robberies-democrats-fail-enforce-law-and-order
Leftist Campaign Worker Shot and Killed by Fellow Leftist Campaign Worker:
https://www.westernjournal.com/leftist-campaign-worker-shot-killed-fellow-leftist-campaign-worker-canvassing-city-streets-police/
Girl, 6, Performed Oral Sex in Class With Teacher in Room:
https://thenewamerican.com/girl-6-performed-oral-sex-in-class-with-teacher-in-room/
1500 African men formed spontaneous migrant mob army in northern Italy:
https://www.riotimesonline.com/brazil-news/modern-day-censorship/african-migrant-mob-spontaneously-formed-in-northern-italy-and-attacked-localities-and-girls/
Tunisia Coast Guard Rounds Up Mediterranean Migrant Boats, Returns Them to Africa:
https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2023/04/27/tunisia-coast-guard-rounds-up-mediterranean-migrant-boats-returns-them-to-africa/
Record-Setting 83,000 Migrants Illegally Crossed US Border This Week:
http://www.renegadetribune.com/record-setting-83000-migrants-illegally-crossed-us-border-this-week/
Elementary students reportedly violently forced by black peers to pledge fealty to BLM:
https://www.theblaze.com/news/black-students-at-ohio-school-allegedly-force-white-students-to-pledge-fealty-to-blm
Illegal Alien Released by Biden Regime Charged with Brutally Raping Alabama Teen Girl:
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/05/illegal-alien-criminal-released-biden-regime-charged-brutally/
FBI Misused Surveillance Powers Nearly 300,000 Times in 2 Years, Unsealed Court Document Says:
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2023/05/19/fbi-misused-surveillance-powers-nearly-300000-times-in-2-years-unsealed-court-document-says/
John Kerry Declares War on US Farmers: Gov’t Farm Confiscations ‘Not Off The Table’:
https://thepeoplesvoice.tv/john-kerry-declares-war-on-us-farmers-govt-farm-confiscations-not-off-the-table/
Breakfast Club Star Takes On Cancel Culture:
https://fortheloveofnews.com/breakfast-club-star-takes-on-cancel-culture-unsustainable-were-basically-a-bunch-of-puritans-robm/
FDA updates blood donation policy to include gay, bisexual men:
https://thehill.com/policy/healthcare/3999657-fda-updates-blood-donation-policy-to-include-gay-bisexual-men/
Know?
Topless dancers in Los Angeles have become the first to unionize.
Best picketing line ever!
*.*
A Dutch man has been banned for making any more donations at a sperm bank when it was discovered he had fathered at least 550 children.
The letter carriers had demanded it, as several have been injured delivering cards around Father's Day.
*.*
A man went to see his doctor because he was suffering from a miserable cold. His doctor prescribed some pills, but they didn't help.
On his next visit the doctor gave him a shot, but that didn't do any good, either.
On his third visit the doctor told the man to go home and take a hot bath. As soon as he was finished bathing he was to throw open all the windows and stands in the draft.
"But doc," protested the patient, "if I do that, I'll get pneumonia."
"I know," said his physician, "I can cure pneumonia."
*.*
A teenage girl had just been given family-car privileges. One Friday night she returned home very late from a party.
The next morning her father went out to the driveway to get the newspaper and came back into the house frowning. At 11:30 am the girl sleepily walked into the kitchen, and her father asked her, "What time did you get in last night?"
"Not too late, Dad," she replied nervously.
Dead-panned, her father said, "Then I'll have to talk to the paperboy about putting my paper under the front tire of the car."
*.*
Sometimes I wonder if I could get away with murder.
Then I remember I can't even eat pancakes without getting syrup all over me.
Quote of the Times;
"What truly matters is not which party controls our government, but whether our government is controlled by the people." - Trump.
Link of the Times;
The Durham Report is Out; Trump-Russia Collusion Plot was KNOWN TO CIA; and was Briefed to Obama:
https://halturnerradioshow.com/index.php/en/news-page/world/the-durham-report-is-out-trump-russia-collusion-plot-was-known-to-cia-and-was-briefed-to-obama-biden-ag-lynch-and-fbi-director-comey
Issue of the Times;
What the Media Doesn’t Want You to Know About Its Mass Murder Narrative by Lee Williams
A large group of unsuspecting people was waiting at a bus stop in Brownsville, Texas around 8:30 a.m. Sunday, when a Land Rover suddenly blew through a red light and barreled straight into their midst at a high rate of speed. The bus stop was located outside of the Ozoman Center, which provides care for the city’s burgeoning migrant community.
Eighteen people where hit, six were killed instantly and two died later. Police said the driver, 34-year-old George Alvarez, has an extensive criminal record. A police spokesman described him as “uncooperative,” adding that he tried to flee the scene and gave investigators several fake names. Alvarez is facing eight counts of manslaughter and 10 counts of aggravated assault with a weapon. More charges are likely. The carnage he allegedly caused was the worst some officers had ever seen.
The story is already disappearing from legacy media newscasts and websites. There were no protests, marches or calls to ban Range Rovers or other SUVs. No one filed suit against Land Rover or organized a boycott. No one from the White House went blood-dancing at the scene. The 24-7 coverage that normally follows a mass killing involving a firearm never materialized, because as horrific as it was, the Brownsville killings did not fit the legacy media’s mass-murder narrative, for several reasons.
There are several factors the legacy media considers before deciding how to cover a mass murder. Here are the main considerations.
Race
Black lives do not matter to the legacy media, at least not as much. White victims always receive more media coverage than a killing spree where the victims are people of color. The race of the murderer matters, too. A white shooter will always generate more coverage than a Black, Asian or Hispanic shooter. Downplaying or ignoring killings in a minority community is racist, but this is the type of racism the media allows. No one gets cancelled for what they don’t cover. Unfortunately, this type of racism allows the killings to continue unabated, since without media pressure elected officials know they can simply ignore the problem and hope it somehow goes away.
Weapon
If an AR or AK is used in a mass murder, the legacy media has prewritten stories ready and waiting to add to their coverage. These stories usually involve interviews with biased “experts” as well as anti-gun advocates. The media wants you to believe that “assault weapons” are responsible for most firearm murders, even though the data proves otherwise.
According to the FBI’s UCR crime reports, there were 10,258 firearm homicides in 2019, but only 364 involved rifles – all types of rifles. The FBI neither defines nor maintains a specific data set for “assault rifles.” The majority of the firearm homicides, 6,368, involved handguns. Knives or other cutting instruments were responsible for 1,476 homicides that year.
Motive
Today’s cable TV news actors love to speculate about a mass-murderer’s motive, as if someone who walks into a classroom or a shopping mall and starts shooting innocent people has a legitimate reason for their killings. Their actual motive is simple: they’re crazy. They’re deranged. They are extremely mentally ill. It doesn’t matter if mommy and daddy didn’t give them enough love and attention, or if they were bullied as a child. There is no justification for shooting innocent people. Nothing in their background can excuse such horrific acts, but this doesn’t stop the legacy media from endlessly speculating about the “real reason” behind the deaths.
Politics
I worked in five newsrooms during my 20 years as an investigative reporter and editor and met scores of journalists from other organizations. I don’t need all the fingers on one hand to count the conservatives, and only two of these were gun owners. Today’s journalists may not be able to articulate the difference between a shotgun and a rifle, but they all have a firm grasp of politics – especially leftist politics. They would never violate the left’s unwritten rule: Guns are bad. They would never stray outside the accepted political narrative; much write a story that a shooting was justified. There are thousands of justifiable defensive gun usages every year. How many have you seen covered by the legacy media?
Gender
When a mass-murderer is male, the media usually tries and convicts them in the court of public opinion – justifiably so, most of the time. Nowadays, when a shooter is female or their gender identity is unclear, the coverage is much less accusatory. Sometimes it’s even sympathetic. After Audrey Hale killed six people in Nashville’s Covenant School and her gender identity became known, NBC News “pointed to an already combustible political environment in which transgender people have become a frequent target of right-wing lawmakers and pundits.” Keep in mind three of Hale’s victims were nine-year-olds.
Definition
CNN, FOX News, MSNBC and even the Washington Post now rely solely on mass-shooting data from the Gun Violence Archive – an anti-gun nonprofit we debunked years ago. The reason is simple. The GVA inflates body counts, so its overblown numbers have become the data set of choice for the legacy media, which is constantly seeking more sensational headlines and news stories.
How does the GVA get its inflated numbers? They created their own definition of a mass shooting, of course. When most Americans hear the term, they picture a madman stalking the halls of a school or a shopping mall, coldly murdering innocent victims. What does not come to mind are rival drug crews shooting it out in Chicago, a deranged husband murdering his entire family, or a law-abiding gun owner acting in self-defense.
Yet for the GVA, and by extension the legacy media, anytime four or more people are killed or even slightly wounded with a firearm, it’s labeled a mass shooting. For example, according to the FBI and its more conservative definition, there were 30 mass shootings in 2019. The GVA claims there were 417.
Proof
If you still don’t believe the legacy media’s coverage of mass murders is flawed and extremely biased, just look at the never-ending carnage in Chicago or any other large metro historically controlled by Democrats.
In Chicago this year, 852 people have been shot and 172 have been killed – and it’s only May. Just last week, 60 Chicagoans were shot and six died as a result. That’s more than the equivalent of one mass-shooting every week, but where is the news coverage? Where is the White House spokeswoman? Why isn’t she denouncing these killings? Where are the interviews with Giffords, Brady or Demanding Moms? Why aren’t they claiming that the guns locked in our safes are somehow responsible for the Chicago deaths? Where are the so-called gun experts at the ATF? Why aren’t they blaming Chicago’s killings on bumpstocks, pistol braces, after-market triggers or some other innocuous plastic accessory in common use? Where are the elected officials? Why aren’t they leading demonstrations, protests or marches to bring awareness to the killings?
Bottom line, today’s legacy journalists are nothing but hypocrites. If a mass-murder fits their narrative, they will cover it ad nauseum for weeks or even months. If it doesn’t meet their specific criteria, they might mention it occurred, maybe, but only if no one is likely to become offended.
News of the Times;
How Corrupt Is Our Current Situation:
https://archive.is/Yn5lj
General Michael Flynn Releases Statement on John Durham Report:
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/05/general-michael-flynn-releases-statement-on-john-durham-report-this-report-must-be-rally-cry-if-we-do-not-fight-back-now-america-we-know-may-be-lost-forever/
Obama's CIA chief makes startling Biden admission:
https://www.wnd.com/2023/05/obamas-cia-chief-makes-startling-biden-admission
IRS Removes Team Investigating Hunter Biden After DOJ Request:
https://redstate.com/bonchie/2023/05/15/in-shocking-development-irs-removes-team-investigating-hunter-biden-after-doj-request-n746548
The Biden-backing union barons who rake in eye-watering six figure salaries:
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12063665/The-union-bosses-Biden-make-six-figure-salaries.html
Jew-Tagging @Wikipedia:
https://www.commentary.org/articles/edward-kosner/jew-tagging-wikipedia/
Man Charged With Molestation At Public School:
https://www.illegalaliencrimereport.com/post/man-charged-with-molestation-at-public-school-part-of-scheme-to-promote-latino-and-chinese-culture
Another Child Has Been Victimized By An Illegal Alien:
https://www.illegalaliencrimereport.com/post/thanks-to-obama-s-policies-another-child-has-been-victimized-by-an-illegal-alien
Gates-Funded ‘Edible’ Food Coating Gets Green Light From Regulators:
https://creativedestructionmedia.com/analysis/2023/05/08/gates-funded-edible-food-coating-gets-green-light-from-regulators/
Receipts Prove Matt Gaetz Correct, The Deep State Stole the 2020 Election:
https://nationalfile.com/receipts-prove-matt-gaetz-correct-the-deep-state-stole-the-2020-election/
Brits are dying in their tens of thousands:
https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/health/brits-dying-tens-thousands-dont-29955386
Alligators in the sewer myth is true:
https://nypost.com/2023/05/11/alligators-in-the-sewer-myth-is-true-watch-city-workers-find-out/
New York, San Francisco Office Buildings Are Absolute Ghost Towns:
https://www.zerohedge.com/economics/new-york-san-francisco-office-buildings-are-absolute-ghost-towns
China's assault on our economy is being funded by the US taxpayer:
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/restoring-america/courage-strength-optimism/chinas-assault-on-our-economy-is-being-funded-by-the-us-taxpayer
Dolly Parton Rejects Offer from Biden to Receive Presidential Medal of Freedom Honor:
https://slaynews.com/news/dolly-parton-rejected-offer-from-joe-biden-to-receive-presidential-medal-of-freedom-honor-slams-politicians-in-new-song/
Best picketing line ever!
*.*
A Dutch man has been banned for making any more donations at a sperm bank when it was discovered he had fathered at least 550 children.
The letter carriers had demanded it, as several have been injured delivering cards around Father's Day.
*.*
A man went to see his doctor because he was suffering from a miserable cold. His doctor prescribed some pills, but they didn't help.
On his next visit the doctor gave him a shot, but that didn't do any good, either.
On his third visit the doctor told the man to go home and take a hot bath. As soon as he was finished bathing he was to throw open all the windows and stands in the draft.
"But doc," protested the patient, "if I do that, I'll get pneumonia."
"I know," said his physician, "I can cure pneumonia."
*.*
A teenage girl had just been given family-car privileges. One Friday night she returned home very late from a party.
The next morning her father went out to the driveway to get the newspaper and came back into the house frowning. At 11:30 am the girl sleepily walked into the kitchen, and her father asked her, "What time did you get in last night?"
"Not too late, Dad," she replied nervously.
Dead-panned, her father said, "Then I'll have to talk to the paperboy about putting my paper under the front tire of the car."
*.*
Sometimes I wonder if I could get away with murder.
Then I remember I can't even eat pancakes without getting syrup all over me.
Quote of the Times;
"What truly matters is not which party controls our government, but whether our government is controlled by the people." - Trump.
Link of the Times;
The Durham Report is Out; Trump-Russia Collusion Plot was KNOWN TO CIA; and was Briefed to Obama:
https://halturnerradioshow.com/index.php/en/news-page/world/the-durham-report-is-out-trump-russia-collusion-plot-was-known-to-cia-and-was-briefed-to-obama-biden-ag-lynch-and-fbi-director-comey
Issue of the Times;
What the Media Doesn’t Want You to Know About Its Mass Murder Narrative by Lee Williams
A large group of unsuspecting people was waiting at a bus stop in Brownsville, Texas around 8:30 a.m. Sunday, when a Land Rover suddenly blew through a red light and barreled straight into their midst at a high rate of speed. The bus stop was located outside of the Ozoman Center, which provides care for the city’s burgeoning migrant community.
Eighteen people where hit, six were killed instantly and two died later. Police said the driver, 34-year-old George Alvarez, has an extensive criminal record. A police spokesman described him as “uncooperative,” adding that he tried to flee the scene and gave investigators several fake names. Alvarez is facing eight counts of manslaughter and 10 counts of aggravated assault with a weapon. More charges are likely. The carnage he allegedly caused was the worst some officers had ever seen.
The story is already disappearing from legacy media newscasts and websites. There were no protests, marches or calls to ban Range Rovers or other SUVs. No one filed suit against Land Rover or organized a boycott. No one from the White House went blood-dancing at the scene. The 24-7 coverage that normally follows a mass killing involving a firearm never materialized, because as horrific as it was, the Brownsville killings did not fit the legacy media’s mass-murder narrative, for several reasons.
There are several factors the legacy media considers before deciding how to cover a mass murder. Here are the main considerations.
Race
Black lives do not matter to the legacy media, at least not as much. White victims always receive more media coverage than a killing spree where the victims are people of color. The race of the murderer matters, too. A white shooter will always generate more coverage than a Black, Asian or Hispanic shooter. Downplaying or ignoring killings in a minority community is racist, but this is the type of racism the media allows. No one gets cancelled for what they don’t cover. Unfortunately, this type of racism allows the killings to continue unabated, since without media pressure elected officials know they can simply ignore the problem and hope it somehow goes away.
Weapon
If an AR or AK is used in a mass murder, the legacy media has prewritten stories ready and waiting to add to their coverage. These stories usually involve interviews with biased “experts” as well as anti-gun advocates. The media wants you to believe that “assault weapons” are responsible for most firearm murders, even though the data proves otherwise.
According to the FBI’s UCR crime reports, there were 10,258 firearm homicides in 2019, but only 364 involved rifles – all types of rifles. The FBI neither defines nor maintains a specific data set for “assault rifles.” The majority of the firearm homicides, 6,368, involved handguns. Knives or other cutting instruments were responsible for 1,476 homicides that year.
Motive
Today’s cable TV news actors love to speculate about a mass-murderer’s motive, as if someone who walks into a classroom or a shopping mall and starts shooting innocent people has a legitimate reason for their killings. Their actual motive is simple: they’re crazy. They’re deranged. They are extremely mentally ill. It doesn’t matter if mommy and daddy didn’t give them enough love and attention, or if they were bullied as a child. There is no justification for shooting innocent people. Nothing in their background can excuse such horrific acts, but this doesn’t stop the legacy media from endlessly speculating about the “real reason” behind the deaths.
Politics
I worked in five newsrooms during my 20 years as an investigative reporter and editor and met scores of journalists from other organizations. I don’t need all the fingers on one hand to count the conservatives, and only two of these were gun owners. Today’s journalists may not be able to articulate the difference between a shotgun and a rifle, but they all have a firm grasp of politics – especially leftist politics. They would never violate the left’s unwritten rule: Guns are bad. They would never stray outside the accepted political narrative; much write a story that a shooting was justified. There are thousands of justifiable defensive gun usages every year. How many have you seen covered by the legacy media?
Gender
When a mass-murderer is male, the media usually tries and convicts them in the court of public opinion – justifiably so, most of the time. Nowadays, when a shooter is female or their gender identity is unclear, the coverage is much less accusatory. Sometimes it’s even sympathetic. After Audrey Hale killed six people in Nashville’s Covenant School and her gender identity became known, NBC News “pointed to an already combustible political environment in which transgender people have become a frequent target of right-wing lawmakers and pundits.” Keep in mind three of Hale’s victims were nine-year-olds.
Definition
CNN, FOX News, MSNBC and even the Washington Post now rely solely on mass-shooting data from the Gun Violence Archive – an anti-gun nonprofit we debunked years ago. The reason is simple. The GVA inflates body counts, so its overblown numbers have become the data set of choice for the legacy media, which is constantly seeking more sensational headlines and news stories.
How does the GVA get its inflated numbers? They created their own definition of a mass shooting, of course. When most Americans hear the term, they picture a madman stalking the halls of a school or a shopping mall, coldly murdering innocent victims. What does not come to mind are rival drug crews shooting it out in Chicago, a deranged husband murdering his entire family, or a law-abiding gun owner acting in self-defense.
Yet for the GVA, and by extension the legacy media, anytime four or more people are killed or even slightly wounded with a firearm, it’s labeled a mass shooting. For example, according to the FBI and its more conservative definition, there were 30 mass shootings in 2019. The GVA claims there were 417.
Proof
If you still don’t believe the legacy media’s coverage of mass murders is flawed and extremely biased, just look at the never-ending carnage in Chicago or any other large metro historically controlled by Democrats.
In Chicago this year, 852 people have been shot and 172 have been killed – and it’s only May. Just last week, 60 Chicagoans were shot and six died as a result. That’s more than the equivalent of one mass-shooting every week, but where is the news coverage? Where is the White House spokeswoman? Why isn’t she denouncing these killings? Where are the interviews with Giffords, Brady or Demanding Moms? Why aren’t they claiming that the guns locked in our safes are somehow responsible for the Chicago deaths? Where are the so-called gun experts at the ATF? Why aren’t they blaming Chicago’s killings on bumpstocks, pistol braces, after-market triggers or some other innocuous plastic accessory in common use? Where are the elected officials? Why aren’t they leading demonstrations, protests or marches to bring awareness to the killings?
Bottom line, today’s legacy journalists are nothing but hypocrites. If a mass-murder fits their narrative, they will cover it ad nauseum for weeks or even months. If it doesn’t meet their specific criteria, they might mention it occurred, maybe, but only if no one is likely to become offended.
News of the Times;
How Corrupt Is Our Current Situation:
https://archive.is/Yn5lj
General Michael Flynn Releases Statement on John Durham Report:
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/05/general-michael-flynn-releases-statement-on-john-durham-report-this-report-must-be-rally-cry-if-we-do-not-fight-back-now-america-we-know-may-be-lost-forever/
Obama's CIA chief makes startling Biden admission:
https://www.wnd.com/2023/05/obamas-cia-chief-makes-startling-biden-admission
IRS Removes Team Investigating Hunter Biden After DOJ Request:
https://redstate.com/bonchie/2023/05/15/in-shocking-development-irs-removes-team-investigating-hunter-biden-after-doj-request-n746548
The Biden-backing union barons who rake in eye-watering six figure salaries:
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12063665/The-union-bosses-Biden-make-six-figure-salaries.html
Jew-Tagging @Wikipedia:
https://www.commentary.org/articles/edward-kosner/jew-tagging-wikipedia/
Man Charged With Molestation At Public School:
https://www.illegalaliencrimereport.com/post/man-charged-with-molestation-at-public-school-part-of-scheme-to-promote-latino-and-chinese-culture
Another Child Has Been Victimized By An Illegal Alien:
https://www.illegalaliencrimereport.com/post/thanks-to-obama-s-policies-another-child-has-been-victimized-by-an-illegal-alien
Gates-Funded ‘Edible’ Food Coating Gets Green Light From Regulators:
https://creativedestructionmedia.com/analysis/2023/05/08/gates-funded-edible-food-coating-gets-green-light-from-regulators/
Receipts Prove Matt Gaetz Correct, The Deep State Stole the 2020 Election:
https://nationalfile.com/receipts-prove-matt-gaetz-correct-the-deep-state-stole-the-2020-election/
Brits are dying in their tens of thousands:
https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/health/brits-dying-tens-thousands-dont-29955386
Alligators in the sewer myth is true:
https://nypost.com/2023/05/11/alligators-in-the-sewer-myth-is-true-watch-city-workers-find-out/
New York, San Francisco Office Buildings Are Absolute Ghost Towns:
https://www.zerohedge.com/economics/new-york-san-francisco-office-buildings-are-absolute-ghost-towns
China's assault on our economy is being funded by the US taxpayer:
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/restoring-america/courage-strength-optimism/chinas-assault-on-our-economy-is-being-funded-by-the-us-taxpayer
Dolly Parton Rejects Offer from Biden to Receive Presidential Medal of Freedom Honor:
https://slaynews.com/news/dolly-parton-rejected-offer-from-joe-biden-to-receive-presidential-medal-of-freedom-honor-slams-politicians-in-new-song/
IRS?
My extra winter weight is finally gone.
Now, I have spring rolls.
*.*
I just found out I'm colorblind.
The diagnosis came completely out of the purple.
*.*
Oneliners:
Sunglasses are a lot like Facebook: they allow you to stare at people without getting caught.
I ordered new coats for my kids and to be efficient, I had them mailed to their school's lost and found section.
Puns are for children, not groan readers.
Some mistakes are too much fun to only make once.
They who profess to be normal are the strangest of them all.
Skepticisms is the longest word that alternates hands when typing.
The only 15 letter word that can be spelled without repeating a letter is "uncopyrightable".
A messy kitchen is a happy kitchen, and this kitchen is delirious.
Clean enough to be healthy but dirty enough to be happy.
A journey of a hundred miles starts with an argument over how to load the car.
*.*
"You are late for golf again Dave."
"Yes, well being a Sunday, I had to toss a coin to see if I should go to church or go and play golf."
"Okay, but why are you late?"
"I had to toss it 19 times!"
*.*
I’m trying to learn the alphabet but I can’t get past X.
I don’t know why.
Quote of the Times;
“I’m not sure if most people fully appreciate the significance of this Bud Light stuff. We made an iconic American brand toxic, virtually overnight, because it endorsed gender ideology. This is a pivotal moment. A map to follow going forward.” - Walsh
Link of the Times;
Our Two Deep States, One Public, One Private:
https://charleshughsmith.blogspot.com/2023/05/our-two-deep-states-one-public-one.html
Issue of the Times;
New IRS report provides fascinating glimpse into your “fair share” by Simon Black
Every year the IRS publishes a detailed report on the taxes it collects. And the statistics are REALLY interesting.
A few weeks ago the agency released its most recent report. So this is the most objective, up-to-date information that exists about taxes in America.
This is important, because, these days, it’s common to hear progressive politicians and woke mobsters calling for higher income earners and wealthier Americans to pay their “fair share” of taxes.
But this report, directly from the US agency whose job it is to tax Americans, shows the truth:
The top 1% of US taxpayers paid 48% of total US income taxes.
And that’s just at the federal level, not even counting how much of the local and state taxes the wealthy paid.
Further, the top 10% paid nearly 72% of total income taxes.
Meanwhile, the bottom 40% of US income tax filers paid no net income tax at all. And the next group, those making between $30-$50,000 per year, paid an effective rate of just 1.9%.
(Again, this is not some wild conspiracy theory; these numbers are directly from IRS data.)
But the fact that 10% of the taxpayers foot nearly three-fourths of the tax bill still isn’t enough for the progressive mob. They want even more.
The guy who shakes hands with thin air, for example, recently announced that he wants to introduce a new law that would create a minimum tax of 25% on the highest income earners.
But the government’s own statistics show that the highest income earners in America— those earning more than $10 million annually— paid an average tax rate of 25.5%. That’s higher than Mr. Biden’s 25% minimum.
So he is essentially proposing an unnecessary solution in search of a problem.
I bring this up because whenever you hear the leftist Bolsheviks in government and media talking about “fair share”, they always leave out what exactly the “fair share” is.
The top 1% already pay nearly half the taxes. Exactly how much more will be enough?
Should the top 1% pay 60% of all taxes? 80%? At what point will it be enough?
They never say. They’ll never commit to a number. They just keep expanding their thinking scope.
Elizabeth Warren, for example, quite famously stopped talking about the “top 1%” and started whining about the “top 5%”. And then the “top 10%”.
She has already decided that the top 5% of wealthy households should not be eligible for student loan forgiveness or Medicare.
And when she talks about “accountable capitalism” on her website, Warren calls out the top 10% for having too much wealth, compared to the rest of households.
Soon enough it will be the “top 25%” who are the real problem…
Honestly this whole way of thinking reminds me of Anthony “the Science” Fauci’s pandemic logic on lockdowns and mask mandates.
You probably remember how reporters always asked “the Science” when life could go back to normal… and he always replied that it was a function of vaccine uptake, i.e. whenever enough Americans were vaccinated. But then he kept moving the goal posts. 50%. 60%. 70%. It was never enough. And there was never a concrete answer.
This same logic applies to what the “experts” believe is the “fair share” of taxes which the top whatever percent should pay.
They’ll never actually say what the fair share is. But my guess is that they won’t stop until 100% of taxes are paid by the top 10%... and the other 100% of taxes are paid by the other 90%.
News of the Times;
The Neocons and Their Rise to Power:
https://www.unz.com/runz/the-neocons-and-their-rise-to-power/
Putin condemned for saying Jews may have manipulated US election:
https://www.smh.com.au/world/europe/putin-condemned-for-saying-jews-may-have-manipulated-us-election-20180312-p4z3wh.html
Who is Linda Yaccarino? The WEF-Aligned Exec Elon Musk Hired as Twitter CEO:
https://thenationalpulse.com/2023/05/12/who-is-linda-yaccarino-the-world-economic-forum-aligned-exec-elon-musk-wants-as-twitter-ceo/
What Michael Stenger Said About Jan. 6 'Professional Agitators':
https://www.newsweek.com/michael-stenger-said-about-jan-6-professional-agitators-statement-1719740
Geraldo Accidentally Gives the Game Away on Biden Bribery Bombshell:
https://www.westernjournal.com/geraldo-accidentally-gives-game-away-biden-bribery-bombshell-reveals-dems-store/
Black Oklahoma man is charged with racist hate killing of two white strangers:
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12055121/Black-Oklahoma-man-charged-racist-hate-killing-two-white-strangers.html
DA Bragg to Charge Marine Hero Who Defended Passengers Against Subway Monster:
https://www.frontpagemag.com/da-bragg-to-charge-marine-hero-who-defended-passengers-against-subway-monster/
There Is Karma – Nordstrom Gets Its Punishment:
https://creativedestructionmedia.com/news/business/2023/05/06/there-is-karma-nordstrom-gets-its-punishment/
Shocking images of Portland's homeless shows encampments taking over area:
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12059547/Shocking-images-Portlands-homeless-shows-encampments-taking-area.html
TSA canine handler removed after viral video showed what he was doing to dog:
https://www.wnd.com/2023/05/tsa-canine-handler-removed-duties-viral-video-showed-dog/
California's New Hotline Program: Snitching on Your Neighbors for 'Hateful' Activity:
https://redstate.com/jeffc/2023/05/08/californias-new-hotline-program-snitching-on-your-neighbors-for-hateful-activity-n742929
Record-Setting 83,000 Migrants Illegally Crossed US Border This Week:
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/record-setting-83000-migrants-illegally-crossed-us-border-week
Trembling, Confused Dianne Feinstein Asks ‘Where Am I Going?’:
https://dailycaller.com/2023/05/11/dianne-feinstein-return-us-senate-shingles/
Trans-activists clash with College Republicans:
https://www.campusreform.org/article?id=22796
U of CO: Assume everyone you meet is trans:
https://hotair.com/headlines/2023/05/12/u-of-co-assume-everyone-you-meet-is-trans-n550406
Now, I have spring rolls.
*.*
I just found out I'm colorblind.
The diagnosis came completely out of the purple.
*.*
Oneliners:
Sunglasses are a lot like Facebook: they allow you to stare at people without getting caught.
I ordered new coats for my kids and to be efficient, I had them mailed to their school's lost and found section.
Puns are for children, not groan readers.
Some mistakes are too much fun to only make once.
They who profess to be normal are the strangest of them all.
Skepticisms is the longest word that alternates hands when typing.
The only 15 letter word that can be spelled without repeating a letter is "uncopyrightable".
A messy kitchen is a happy kitchen, and this kitchen is delirious.
Clean enough to be healthy but dirty enough to be happy.
A journey of a hundred miles starts with an argument over how to load the car.
*.*
"You are late for golf again Dave."
"Yes, well being a Sunday, I had to toss a coin to see if I should go to church or go and play golf."
"Okay, but why are you late?"
"I had to toss it 19 times!"
*.*
I’m trying to learn the alphabet but I can’t get past X.
I don’t know why.
Quote of the Times;
“I’m not sure if most people fully appreciate the significance of this Bud Light stuff. We made an iconic American brand toxic, virtually overnight, because it endorsed gender ideology. This is a pivotal moment. A map to follow going forward.” - Walsh
Link of the Times;
Our Two Deep States, One Public, One Private:
https://charleshughsmith.blogspot.com/2023/05/our-two-deep-states-one-public-one.html
Issue of the Times;
New IRS report provides fascinating glimpse into your “fair share” by Simon Black
Every year the IRS publishes a detailed report on the taxes it collects. And the statistics are REALLY interesting.
A few weeks ago the agency released its most recent report. So this is the most objective, up-to-date information that exists about taxes in America.
This is important, because, these days, it’s common to hear progressive politicians and woke mobsters calling for higher income earners and wealthier Americans to pay their “fair share” of taxes.
But this report, directly from the US agency whose job it is to tax Americans, shows the truth:
The top 1% of US taxpayers paid 48% of total US income taxes.
And that’s just at the federal level, not even counting how much of the local and state taxes the wealthy paid.
Further, the top 10% paid nearly 72% of total income taxes.
Meanwhile, the bottom 40% of US income tax filers paid no net income tax at all. And the next group, those making between $30-$50,000 per year, paid an effective rate of just 1.9%.
(Again, this is not some wild conspiracy theory; these numbers are directly from IRS data.)
But the fact that 10% of the taxpayers foot nearly three-fourths of the tax bill still isn’t enough for the progressive mob. They want even more.
The guy who shakes hands with thin air, for example, recently announced that he wants to introduce a new law that would create a minimum tax of 25% on the highest income earners.
But the government’s own statistics show that the highest income earners in America— those earning more than $10 million annually— paid an average tax rate of 25.5%. That’s higher than Mr. Biden’s 25% minimum.
So he is essentially proposing an unnecessary solution in search of a problem.
I bring this up because whenever you hear the leftist Bolsheviks in government and media talking about “fair share”, they always leave out what exactly the “fair share” is.
The top 1% already pay nearly half the taxes. Exactly how much more will be enough?
Should the top 1% pay 60% of all taxes? 80%? At what point will it be enough?
They never say. They’ll never commit to a number. They just keep expanding their thinking scope.
Elizabeth Warren, for example, quite famously stopped talking about the “top 1%” and started whining about the “top 5%”. And then the “top 10%”.
She has already decided that the top 5% of wealthy households should not be eligible for student loan forgiveness or Medicare.
And when she talks about “accountable capitalism” on her website, Warren calls out the top 10% for having too much wealth, compared to the rest of households.
Soon enough it will be the “top 25%” who are the real problem…
Honestly this whole way of thinking reminds me of Anthony “the Science” Fauci’s pandemic logic on lockdowns and mask mandates.
You probably remember how reporters always asked “the Science” when life could go back to normal… and he always replied that it was a function of vaccine uptake, i.e. whenever enough Americans were vaccinated. But then he kept moving the goal posts. 50%. 60%. 70%. It was never enough. And there was never a concrete answer.
This same logic applies to what the “experts” believe is the “fair share” of taxes which the top whatever percent should pay.
They’ll never actually say what the fair share is. But my guess is that they won’t stop until 100% of taxes are paid by the top 10%... and the other 100% of taxes are paid by the other 90%.
News of the Times;
The Neocons and Their Rise to Power:
https://www.unz.com/runz/the-neocons-and-their-rise-to-power/
Putin condemned for saying Jews may have manipulated US election:
https://www.smh.com.au/world/europe/putin-condemned-for-saying-jews-may-have-manipulated-us-election-20180312-p4z3wh.html
Who is Linda Yaccarino? The WEF-Aligned Exec Elon Musk Hired as Twitter CEO:
https://thenationalpulse.com/2023/05/12/who-is-linda-yaccarino-the-world-economic-forum-aligned-exec-elon-musk-wants-as-twitter-ceo/
What Michael Stenger Said About Jan. 6 'Professional Agitators':
https://www.newsweek.com/michael-stenger-said-about-jan-6-professional-agitators-statement-1719740
Geraldo Accidentally Gives the Game Away on Biden Bribery Bombshell:
https://www.westernjournal.com/geraldo-accidentally-gives-game-away-biden-bribery-bombshell-reveals-dems-store/
Black Oklahoma man is charged with racist hate killing of two white strangers:
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12055121/Black-Oklahoma-man-charged-racist-hate-killing-two-white-strangers.html
DA Bragg to Charge Marine Hero Who Defended Passengers Against Subway Monster:
https://www.frontpagemag.com/da-bragg-to-charge-marine-hero-who-defended-passengers-against-subway-monster/
There Is Karma – Nordstrom Gets Its Punishment:
https://creativedestructionmedia.com/news/business/2023/05/06/there-is-karma-nordstrom-gets-its-punishment/
Shocking images of Portland's homeless shows encampments taking over area:
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12059547/Shocking-images-Portlands-homeless-shows-encampments-taking-area.html
TSA canine handler removed after viral video showed what he was doing to dog:
https://www.wnd.com/2023/05/tsa-canine-handler-removed-duties-viral-video-showed-dog/
California's New Hotline Program: Snitching on Your Neighbors for 'Hateful' Activity:
https://redstate.com/jeffc/2023/05/08/californias-new-hotline-program-snitching-on-your-neighbors-for-hateful-activity-n742929
Record-Setting 83,000 Migrants Illegally Crossed US Border This Week:
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/record-setting-83000-migrants-illegally-crossed-us-border-week
Trembling, Confused Dianne Feinstein Asks ‘Where Am I Going?’:
https://dailycaller.com/2023/05/11/dianne-feinstein-return-us-senate-shingles/
Trans-activists clash with College Republicans:
https://www.campusreform.org/article?id=22796
U of CO: Assume everyone you meet is trans:
https://hotair.com/headlines/2023/05/12/u-of-co-assume-everyone-you-meet-is-trans-n550406
Broken?
A reminder that Mother's Day is this coming Sunday.
You know, before you throw out that leftover Easter candy.
*.*
Milly and Molly are waiting at the railroad station, watching a train come in.
"Here she comes!" Milly exclaims.
Molly then replies, "Actually, you mean; Here he comes.”
“It's a mail train.”
*.*
Little Johnny's mother is making dinner when Johnny runs up to her, sobbing uncontrollably. "Mom, Mom! I just cleaned my room!" he exclaims.
"Why, that's wonderful dear!" his mother replies. "But why does that make you so unhappy?"
"Because I still can't find my snake!"
*.*
Top 5 Things We're Hoping A.I. Does For Us:
Call balls and strikes. Seriously. Is it in the square, or not?
Explain how my wife can always be wrong.
Defend my Magic the Gathering collection with laser weapons.
Help me understand why Carrot Top is funny.
Replacing rolls of toilet paper the right way.
*.*
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg won two medals in a Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu tournament held at a Silicon Valley high school last Saturday.
In an unrelated story, three judges had their Facebook blocks removed.
Quote of the Times;
"If you still believe we have fair elections and a fair judicial system your brain is fake newsing you." - Randy Quaid
Link of the Times;
The US has never defaulted on its debt - except the four times it did:
https://thehill.com/opinion/finance/575722-the-us-has-never-defaulted-on-its-debt-except-the-four-times-it-did/
Issue of the Times;
Build Back Borderless, Bankrupt, and Broken by J.B. Shurk
Remember: the same people who cannot protect the border from foreign invaders want you to believe that they can control inflation, COVID, and climate change. While they lose the war against drug cartels in their own backyard, they want you to think that they can successfully manage wars on the other side of the globe. While small towns struggle with transnational gang battles, urban homeless shelters overflow, and record-high overdose deaths cripple American society, the government's crack team of nation-killers ignore the country's pressing threats and instead preach about racism, "green" energy, and the importance of welcoming men in girls' restrooms.
The "ruling class" deserves to go extinct because useless things are little more than a fire hazard. Take a look around: America is burning.
Here's a simple rule of thumb to keep in mind: whenever you see crime that is spun as too big and complex for the government to tackle with its oversized toolkit of immense powers and nearly unlimited funding, the government is in on the crime. I don't mean that it is aware of and actively monitoring the crime as it unfolds. I mean that it has chosen to partner with the perpetrators and should be considered every bit as dangerous to the public as any other violent criminal would be.
When the same government agents who conducted warrantless searches of Americans' cell phones in order to nab every patriotic granny waving a flag near the Capitol on January 6 claim they have no way of tracking illegal aliens in the United State, they're lying. When the same national security surveillance State that censors Americans' online speech claims not to know how many illegal aliens are here, it is lying. When the same IRS that regularly targets conservatives for their political beliefs claims it can't track tens of millions of migrants working here illegally — or worse, stealing Americans' social security numbers and fraudulently assuming their identities — it is lying. When the same Intelligence Community that has eyes on every inch of Ukraine's border claims that the U.S. border is just too long to reasonably guard, it is lying.
The American government is in the illegal immigration business, and as such, it actively aids and abets narco-traffickers, child sex slavers, money-launderers, murderers, violent gangbangers, and every other evildoer who operates freely because of the federal government's partnership with organized crime. If we were living in a just society guided by the rule of law, every politician, bureaucrat, and just-following-orders agent of the State who has conspired to make Americans unsafe by undermining border enforcement would be charged for drug-smuggling, rape, and murder before facing a deserving fate. For all the blood that they have spilled on neighborhood streets across the country, government accomplices should not be walking free — let alone along the halls of power. While the federal government has the audacity to go after J6 protesters for "insurrection," its willful and intentional violation of immigration law has produced such immense national pain and suffering that treason charges are not out of the question. When the U.S. government is actively involved in creating a humanitarian crisis of epic proportions, is it not guilty of crimes against humanity?
The federal government is a malicious enterprise that routinely treats Americans as second-class citizens. It prosecutes foreign wars in their name without their consent. It sends their jobs overseas, shutters their factory towns, and bankrupts their futures in exchange for cheap imported trinkets and shoulder-patting promises of "progress." It ignores the cries of Americans in pain and their desire for political change and instead locks up those who earnestly protest. Yet of all the ways the U.S. government betrays American citizens, its utter disregard for border security and decades-long criminal operation to flood the country with illegal aliens is the most contemptible because the same government saboteurs who aid and abet vile crimes then turn around to scold Americans who object to the resulting destruction as being "racist." For the federal government to intentionally harm Americans and then shame them for noticing is enough to make a sane person wonder who the real enemy is.
For the Establishment Class — "Big Club" Republicans and Democrats alike — the enemy is the American people. Is there any other explanation for our current arrangement? For the last three decades, D.C. politicians have been in bipartisan agreement that the American middle class must die so that very wealthy people could become only more obscenely wealthy. They have done so by stabbing the American people in the back with two long blades: first, they exported the great majority of high-paying industrial and manufacturing jobs overseas in the name of "free trade," and second, they opened up America's borders to flood the nation with an endless supply of cheap labor. In other words, the federal government eliminated the best blue-collar employment opportunities in the country and then made sure that the remaining jobs would never receive a raise. The predictable result has been the destruction of middle class-wealth, stability, and intergenerational advancement. America's "ruling class" knocked over all the economic ladders that had traditionally allowed an ordinary person to succeed during the course of a lifetime, support a family, and help the next generation prosper.
In exchange for destroying America's once-robust intra- and inter-generational social mobility, the wealthiest Americans made out like bandits. Their companies benefited by relocating overseas, where slave labor went ignored and workplace rules were disentangled from the federal bureaucracy's labyrinthine regulatory minefield at home. Their national name-brand corporations grew to become multinational behemoths with operations as diverse as a nation's accounting budget. With the support of their friends in control of the globe's central banks, non-stop money-printing ensured that stock valuations and asset prices continued to rise. This artificially increased upper-class wealth created so much ill-gotten loot that quid-pro-quo money spigots perpetually flowed right back into the bank accounts of "humble" political and bureaucratic "public servants." Newly minted billionaires had the excess cash to prop up lobbying groups posing as "public interest non-profits" to do their bidding. And because D.C.'s Uniparty was being paid handsomely to do so, the federal government's open-borders policies ensured that the über-1% never had to waste an extra dollar on housekeeping or lawn care expenses at any of the several homes they owned in the United States.
Middle-class Americans, on the other hand, lost their jobs, savings, and self-respect. Their once safe and clean towns rusted, rotted, and died. Low-level fast-food service jobs that had once been merely the starting point for teenage employees soon became the last, best hope for middle-aged workers. "Retirees" were forced to return to the workforce because their pensions could not keep up with the inflation artificially set in motion by money-printing and government spending. The costs of "owning" anything continued to rise, so fewer people now "own" anything of value. A federal government beholden to the World Economic Forum's Marxist globalism and "climate change" zealotry dedicated itself to hurting the lower classes with an inane war on essential hydrocarbon energies. To top it all off, the "ruling class" countermanded federal immigration law, flooded the nation with tens of millions of foreigners competing for the most vulnerable Americans' available jobs, and radically transformed once happy towns into decaying, multicultural hot zones where local traditions and historic community bonds were doomed to die.
There's a reason anybody on television arguing for Kate's Law gets fired and any president working to "build the wall" gets impeached: the U.S. government's overarching objective is to Build Back Borderless, Bankrupt, Broken, Bolshevik, and Bitter. That's the unvarnished truth.
News of the Times;
How One Of World’s Best Self-Propelled Artillery Guns Lost Its Reputation:
https://eurasiantimes.com/image-collapse-how-one-of-worlds-best-self-propelled-artillery/
Journalist exposes Pfizer’s quiet funding for groups that lobbied for COVID-19 vaccine mandates:
https://dcdirtylaundry.com/journalist-exposes-pfizers-quiet-funding-for-groups-that-lobbied-for-covid-19-vaccine-mandates/
RFK JR.: CIA “Definitely Involved In The Murder” Of JFK:
https://summit.news/2023/05/08/rfk-jr-cia-definitely-involved-in-the-murder-of-jfk/
The New Ugly Americans:
https://dailycaller.com/2023/05/04/victor-davis-hanson-the-new-ugly-americans/
Biden admin orders Catholic hospital to snuff out sanctuary candle or lose all federal funding:
https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/biden-admin-orders-catholic-hospital-to-extinguish-small-candle-or-lose-all-federal-funds/
Moment 'gang members' beg for mercy before vigilante lynch mob stones them and burns them alive:
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12011009/Haiti-Gang-members-beg-mercy-vigilante-lynch-mob-stones-burns-alive.html
Conservative Anglicans Reject Church of England and Archbishop of Canterbury:
https://www.christianitytoday.com/news/2023/april/gafcon-rwanda-anglican-communion-global-south-gsfa.html
Navy hires drag queen as digital ambassador to boost recruitment:
https://hotair.com/karen-townsend/2023/05/03/navy-hires-drag-queen-as-digital-ambassador-to-boost-recruitment-n548092
Justice Sonia Sotomayor didn’t recuse herself from cases involving publisher that paid her $3M:
https://nypost.com/2023/05/04/supreme-court-justice-sonia-sotomayor-didnt-recuse-herself-from-cases-involving-book-publisher-that-paid-her-3m-report/
Deranged Pregnant Passenger Viciously Assaults Airline Employee:
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/05/beat-a-bh-up-deranged-pregnant-passenger-viciously-assaults-airline-employee-passenger-smelled-of-alcohol-and-previously-threatened-a-gate-agent-video/
The CIA arranged an affair for a king that produced a dwarf, and then things got weird:
https://nypost.com/2018/01/09/cia-had-a-hand-in-king-husseins-affair-with-actress-that-resulted-in-love-child/
Biden Creates ‘Disinformation Office’ Tasked With ARRESTING Americans Who Post Fake News Online:
https://thepeoplesvoice.tv/biden-creates-disinformation-office-tasked-with-arresting-americans-who-post-fake-news-online/
Ron DeSantis was all smiles after a court handed him this massive victory:
https://conservativeundergroundnews.com/ron-desantis-was-all-smiles-after-a-court-handed-him-this-massive-victory/
KISS musician grovels before social media mob after being mobbed for speaking the truth:
https://humanevents.com/2023/05/05/struggle-session-kiss-musician-grovels-before-social-media-mob-after-being-mobbed-for-speaking-the-truth-about-child-sex-changes
Eric Swalwell Gets Smacked Down by Fact Checkers:
https://ijr.com/eric-swalwell-smacked-fact-checkers-gloat-trump-verdict/
You know, before you throw out that leftover Easter candy.
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Milly and Molly are waiting at the railroad station, watching a train come in.
"Here she comes!" Milly exclaims.
Molly then replies, "Actually, you mean; Here he comes.”
“It's a mail train.”
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Little Johnny's mother is making dinner when Johnny runs up to her, sobbing uncontrollably. "Mom, Mom! I just cleaned my room!" he exclaims.
"Why, that's wonderful dear!" his mother replies. "But why does that make you so unhappy?"
"Because I still can't find my snake!"
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Top 5 Things We're Hoping A.I. Does For Us:
Call balls and strikes. Seriously. Is it in the square, or not?
Explain how my wife can always be wrong.
Defend my Magic the Gathering collection with laser weapons.
Help me understand why Carrot Top is funny.
Replacing rolls of toilet paper the right way.
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Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg won two medals in a Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu tournament held at a Silicon Valley high school last Saturday.
In an unrelated story, three judges had their Facebook blocks removed.
Quote of the Times;
"If you still believe we have fair elections and a fair judicial system your brain is fake newsing you." - Randy Quaid
Link of the Times;
The US has never defaulted on its debt - except the four times it did:
https://thehill.com/opinion/finance/575722-the-us-has-never-defaulted-on-its-debt-except-the-four-times-it-did/
Issue of the Times;
Build Back Borderless, Bankrupt, and Broken by J.B. Shurk
Remember: the same people who cannot protect the border from foreign invaders want you to believe that they can control inflation, COVID, and climate change. While they lose the war against drug cartels in their own backyard, they want you to think that they can successfully manage wars on the other side of the globe. While small towns struggle with transnational gang battles, urban homeless shelters overflow, and record-high overdose deaths cripple American society, the government's crack team of nation-killers ignore the country's pressing threats and instead preach about racism, "green" energy, and the importance of welcoming men in girls' restrooms.
The "ruling class" deserves to go extinct because useless things are little more than a fire hazard. Take a look around: America is burning.
Here's a simple rule of thumb to keep in mind: whenever you see crime that is spun as too big and complex for the government to tackle with its oversized toolkit of immense powers and nearly unlimited funding, the government is in on the crime. I don't mean that it is aware of and actively monitoring the crime as it unfolds. I mean that it has chosen to partner with the perpetrators and should be considered every bit as dangerous to the public as any other violent criminal would be.
When the same government agents who conducted warrantless searches of Americans' cell phones in order to nab every patriotic granny waving a flag near the Capitol on January 6 claim they have no way of tracking illegal aliens in the United State, they're lying. When the same national security surveillance State that censors Americans' online speech claims not to know how many illegal aliens are here, it is lying. When the same IRS that regularly targets conservatives for their political beliefs claims it can't track tens of millions of migrants working here illegally — or worse, stealing Americans' social security numbers and fraudulently assuming their identities — it is lying. When the same Intelligence Community that has eyes on every inch of Ukraine's border claims that the U.S. border is just too long to reasonably guard, it is lying.
The American government is in the illegal immigration business, and as such, it actively aids and abets narco-traffickers, child sex slavers, money-launderers, murderers, violent gangbangers, and every other evildoer who operates freely because of the federal government's partnership with organized crime. If we were living in a just society guided by the rule of law, every politician, bureaucrat, and just-following-orders agent of the State who has conspired to make Americans unsafe by undermining border enforcement would be charged for drug-smuggling, rape, and murder before facing a deserving fate. For all the blood that they have spilled on neighborhood streets across the country, government accomplices should not be walking free — let alone along the halls of power. While the federal government has the audacity to go after J6 protesters for "insurrection," its willful and intentional violation of immigration law has produced such immense national pain and suffering that treason charges are not out of the question. When the U.S. government is actively involved in creating a humanitarian crisis of epic proportions, is it not guilty of crimes against humanity?
The federal government is a malicious enterprise that routinely treats Americans as second-class citizens. It prosecutes foreign wars in their name without their consent. It sends their jobs overseas, shutters their factory towns, and bankrupts their futures in exchange for cheap imported trinkets and shoulder-patting promises of "progress." It ignores the cries of Americans in pain and their desire for political change and instead locks up those who earnestly protest. Yet of all the ways the U.S. government betrays American citizens, its utter disregard for border security and decades-long criminal operation to flood the country with illegal aliens is the most contemptible because the same government saboteurs who aid and abet vile crimes then turn around to scold Americans who object to the resulting destruction as being "racist." For the federal government to intentionally harm Americans and then shame them for noticing is enough to make a sane person wonder who the real enemy is.
For the Establishment Class — "Big Club" Republicans and Democrats alike — the enemy is the American people. Is there any other explanation for our current arrangement? For the last three decades, D.C. politicians have been in bipartisan agreement that the American middle class must die so that very wealthy people could become only more obscenely wealthy. They have done so by stabbing the American people in the back with two long blades: first, they exported the great majority of high-paying industrial and manufacturing jobs overseas in the name of "free trade," and second, they opened up America's borders to flood the nation with an endless supply of cheap labor. In other words, the federal government eliminated the best blue-collar employment opportunities in the country and then made sure that the remaining jobs would never receive a raise. The predictable result has been the destruction of middle class-wealth, stability, and intergenerational advancement. America's "ruling class" knocked over all the economic ladders that had traditionally allowed an ordinary person to succeed during the course of a lifetime, support a family, and help the next generation prosper.
In exchange for destroying America's once-robust intra- and inter-generational social mobility, the wealthiest Americans made out like bandits. Their companies benefited by relocating overseas, where slave labor went ignored and workplace rules were disentangled from the federal bureaucracy's labyrinthine regulatory minefield at home. Their national name-brand corporations grew to become multinational behemoths with operations as diverse as a nation's accounting budget. With the support of their friends in control of the globe's central banks, non-stop money-printing ensured that stock valuations and asset prices continued to rise. This artificially increased upper-class wealth created so much ill-gotten loot that quid-pro-quo money spigots perpetually flowed right back into the bank accounts of "humble" political and bureaucratic "public servants." Newly minted billionaires had the excess cash to prop up lobbying groups posing as "public interest non-profits" to do their bidding. And because D.C.'s Uniparty was being paid handsomely to do so, the federal government's open-borders policies ensured that the über-1% never had to waste an extra dollar on housekeeping or lawn care expenses at any of the several homes they owned in the United States.
Middle-class Americans, on the other hand, lost their jobs, savings, and self-respect. Their once safe and clean towns rusted, rotted, and died. Low-level fast-food service jobs that had once been merely the starting point for teenage employees soon became the last, best hope for middle-aged workers. "Retirees" were forced to return to the workforce because their pensions could not keep up with the inflation artificially set in motion by money-printing and government spending. The costs of "owning" anything continued to rise, so fewer people now "own" anything of value. A federal government beholden to the World Economic Forum's Marxist globalism and "climate change" zealotry dedicated itself to hurting the lower classes with an inane war on essential hydrocarbon energies. To top it all off, the "ruling class" countermanded federal immigration law, flooded the nation with tens of millions of foreigners competing for the most vulnerable Americans' available jobs, and radically transformed once happy towns into decaying, multicultural hot zones where local traditions and historic community bonds were doomed to die.
There's a reason anybody on television arguing for Kate's Law gets fired and any president working to "build the wall" gets impeached: the U.S. government's overarching objective is to Build Back Borderless, Bankrupt, Broken, Bolshevik, and Bitter. That's the unvarnished truth.
News of the Times;
How One Of World’s Best Self-Propelled Artillery Guns Lost Its Reputation:
https://eurasiantimes.com/image-collapse-how-one-of-worlds-best-self-propelled-artillery/
Journalist exposes Pfizer’s quiet funding for groups that lobbied for COVID-19 vaccine mandates:
https://dcdirtylaundry.com/journalist-exposes-pfizers-quiet-funding-for-groups-that-lobbied-for-covid-19-vaccine-mandates/
RFK JR.: CIA “Definitely Involved In The Murder” Of JFK:
https://summit.news/2023/05/08/rfk-jr-cia-definitely-involved-in-the-murder-of-jfk/
The New Ugly Americans:
https://dailycaller.com/2023/05/04/victor-davis-hanson-the-new-ugly-americans/
Biden admin orders Catholic hospital to snuff out sanctuary candle or lose all federal funding:
https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/biden-admin-orders-catholic-hospital-to-extinguish-small-candle-or-lose-all-federal-funds/
Moment 'gang members' beg for mercy before vigilante lynch mob stones them and burns them alive:
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12011009/Haiti-Gang-members-beg-mercy-vigilante-lynch-mob-stones-burns-alive.html
Conservative Anglicans Reject Church of England and Archbishop of Canterbury:
https://www.christianitytoday.com/news/2023/april/gafcon-rwanda-anglican-communion-global-south-gsfa.html
Navy hires drag queen as digital ambassador to boost recruitment:
https://hotair.com/karen-townsend/2023/05/03/navy-hires-drag-queen-as-digital-ambassador-to-boost-recruitment-n548092
Justice Sonia Sotomayor didn’t recuse herself from cases involving publisher that paid her $3M:
https://nypost.com/2023/05/04/supreme-court-justice-sonia-sotomayor-didnt-recuse-herself-from-cases-involving-book-publisher-that-paid-her-3m-report/
Deranged Pregnant Passenger Viciously Assaults Airline Employee:
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/05/beat-a-bh-up-deranged-pregnant-passenger-viciously-assaults-airline-employee-passenger-smelled-of-alcohol-and-previously-threatened-a-gate-agent-video/
The CIA arranged an affair for a king that produced a dwarf, and then things got weird:
https://nypost.com/2018/01/09/cia-had-a-hand-in-king-husseins-affair-with-actress-that-resulted-in-love-child/
Biden Creates ‘Disinformation Office’ Tasked With ARRESTING Americans Who Post Fake News Online:
https://thepeoplesvoice.tv/biden-creates-disinformation-office-tasked-with-arresting-americans-who-post-fake-news-online/
Ron DeSantis was all smiles after a court handed him this massive victory:
https://conservativeundergroundnews.com/ron-desantis-was-all-smiles-after-a-court-handed-him-this-massive-victory/
KISS musician grovels before social media mob after being mobbed for speaking the truth:
https://humanevents.com/2023/05/05/struggle-session-kiss-musician-grovels-before-social-media-mob-after-being-mobbed-for-speaking-the-truth-about-child-sex-changes
Eric Swalwell Gets Smacked Down by Fact Checkers:
https://ijr.com/eric-swalwell-smacked-fact-checkers-gloat-trump-verdict/
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