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Jim Jordan Confronts DC Council Member: You Created a Fake Category for Theft -- "Taking of Property Without Right" -- So You Could Avoid Reporting Thefts, Muggings, and Carjackings
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HOLY CRAP! The Democrat Chair of the Washington DC Council was just CONFRONTED by Jim Jordan on fudging the crime statistics, and he cracked under pressure. https://x.com/i/status/1968713686932996579/video/1
"Why not call it STEALING? Why did you create this new category that grew +500% that I think allows you to cook the books?!"
JORDAN: What is "taking property without right?"
PHIL MENDELSON: Well, that's theft.
JORDAN: Then WHY NOT CALL IT THEFT?
MENDELSON: I can't speak to....
JORDAN: The solution was to come up with "Taking Property Without Right?"
MENDELSON: If you're speaking to particular charges, I can't speak to that...
JORDAN: I am asking a simple question. You have a classification for crime called "taking property without right." What does that mean?
MENDELSON: It means what it says.
JORDAN: What would a normal person call "taking property without right?!" [It's] grown 500% in the past several years! I think allows you to cook the books!
🚨 HOLY CRAP! The Democrat Chair of the Washington DC Council was just CONFRONTED by Jim Jordan on fudging the crime statistics, and he cracked under pressure. pic.twitter.com/So8SHIqf06
"Why not call it STEALING? Why did you create this new category that grew +500% that I think…
Palestinian Terrorist Rashida Tlaib got very upset that people were saying crime is out of control in DC.
🚨 JUST IN: For the SECOND time in just 24 hours, Palestinian Rep. Rashida Tlaib had an absolute MELTDOWN in a committee hearing, screeching loudly into the mic at Byron Donalds
We need MASS DEPORTATIONS of these foreign members of Congress too.
After-Action Report from Oregon Antifa Group: Our Celebrations of Murder and Our Physical Assaults on Christian Demonstrators (Including Their Children!) Might Have Turned the Public Off
In their own words, they admit fearing the loss of their long-standing ability to mark conservatives for death without much resistance. They point out that for the first time, even apolitical groups, institutions, and businesses feel safe expressing sympathy to Kirk's family and supporters. Compounding their panic, numerous people have already been fired after celebrating the assassination online.
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The report also acknowledges that Antifa's recent attacks on Sean Feucht's Christian worship events have backfired badly. Cameras captured masked militants assaulting families and children -- images that damaged Antifa's carefully crafted narrative. The group admits these events, combined with the Kirk assassination, risk "galvanizing otherwise politically inactive conservatives." They are desperate to prevent that.
The report urges a tactic to divide the right by pushing anti-Israel/anti-semitic propaganda to set the Tucker Carlson/Nick Fuentes/Candace Owens (and increasingly Megyn Kelly) Nazi-curious pseudoright against the actual decent right, and vice-versa.
I have a lot more to say about that later. For now, I'll leave this as an antifa post.
No way, said Ilhan "Omar" Nur and her brother/husband.
Former Columbia graduate student and anti-Israel activist Mahmoud Khalil will be deported to Syria or Algeria after a new ruling from an immigration judge in Louisiana found he purposefully committed fraud on a green card application, newly filed court documents revealed.
Immigration Judge Jamee Comans rejected three motions filed by Khalil's lawyers on Sept. 12 -- including one in which he sought approval for a waiver to remedy factual omissions on a green card application, which Comans ruled to be intentionally fraudulent.
Khalil neglected to disclose his involvement, association and participation with the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestinian Refugees (UNRWA) and Columbia University Apartheid Divest (CUAD) on his Form I-485, Comans ruled.
"The evidence shows the Respondent knew of the potential immigration consequences for his involvement in protests organized by varying organizations on campus, including CUAD," the judge wrote in a ruling shared by Khalil's lawyers.
"The waiver was not designed to reward a lack of candor by applicants admitted as immigrant visa holders who then intentionally engage in dishonesty by misrepresenting facts in the application process to adjust status, post entry," Comans stated plainly in the ruling.
Comans noted that several factors were considered when determining whether Khalil qualified for a waiver to remedy his factual inaccuracies on his residency application -- including the fact that he is married and has a young child who was born in April while he was in federal custody.
However, those factors were outweighed by the overt, purposeful omissions and by the Secretary of State deeming his presence in the United States to have "potentially serious adverse foreign policy consequences," the ruling stated.
The judge also noted a negative factor in the 30-year-old's appeal is that he owns no property or business and has never held a job while living in the United States, according to the ruling.
Oh, the jihadist princeling has never actually done a productive day of work in his life, but spends all of his hours sipping tea, spreading conspiracy theories about Jews, and inciting people to commit terrorism?
I'm so surprised.
Is that the way you cure cancer? By sitting in cafes all day pontificating about the Koran and extremist barbaric Middle Eastern grudge-politics?
Doesn't seem so to me. I never even see him wearing a nerd-smock while he extols the terror murders of Hamas. At least pick up a beaker, guy.
The man charged with killing Charlie Kirk played a pornographic online game called 'Furry Shades of Gay' and followed artists who drew explicit cartoons associated with pedophilia.
Tyler Robinson, 22, was arraigned on seven charges on Tuesday including murder and witness tampering for allegedly shooting conservative activist Charlie Kirk at the Utah Valley University campus last week.
Robinson's online accounts, uncovered by the Daily Mail, show the alleged assassin had an interest in gay porn involving humanoid animal characters called 'furries'.
Wow it's like they're talking about me!
An account linked to Robinson on gaming platform Steam shows he downloaded and played a dating simulator game called 'Furry Shades of Gay'.
There is an account by that name on FurAffinity.com, a website for people with a proclivity for humanoid animal illustrations and dressing up in fur suits, who call themselves 'furries'.
Last week, Craftin247's account on FurAffinity said he had 'recently watched' content created by a user called RedRusker -- an artist known for gay furry porn.
I feel seen.
But RedRusker went too far even for the furries.
In 2023, he was embroiled in a scandal among the niche community when underage porn cartoons he had drawn resurfaced.
One depicted a large older humanoid animal using recreational drugs to have sex with a small, younger humanoid possum called Snack, labeled as being 'age 8' in the depraved comic.
A redacted image viewed by the Daily Mail shows one older character saying to another 'popper him up for me, it'll help', apparently referring to giving drugs to the eight-year-old possum character.
So, what I know about gay culture (via garrett): Poppers -- amyl nitrate -- are taken to dilate the anus and make anal sex more comfortable.
Amyl nitrate more like anal nitrate am i rite
The cartoon is about drugging a "cub" to prepare him for anal rape.
Just classic conservative stuff right there. I see him wearing a sporty Ivy League sweater and smoking a pipe.
Furries call the pedophilia-related content 'cub' porn.
In a May 2023 post on FurAffinity, RedRusker admitted there was 'art I made that depicted underage characters' and 'there are about a dozen or so pieces in total.'
Nature Magazine used to be one of the titans of science journals. If you got your paper into Nature, it was a point of considerable pride and professional achievement. Whether that was warranted is a point of much debate...but it is undeniable that anything published in Nature will be read and cited widely.
Which is why nonsensical articles such as this are both sad, as an indicator of how far this once proud journal has fallen, and dangerous, because it promulgates the discredited Global Warming scam while also suggesting that it is the elites, and only the elites who can save us!
This short article is chock full of absolute, unadulterated bullsh*t. I can't quote everything that is ridiculous because that would be the entire thing, but here are a few beauts!
One way research can help to get things back on track is by broadening the criteria governments use to assess railway investment, says Christian Wolmar, an independent transport consultant and author based in London. All too often, these are based on narrow metrics of profitability or ‘time saved’ by potential users, with insufficient consideration of the wider social and environmental impacts. Economists, other social scientists and sustainability researchers can all contribute to developing more-robust assessments of these indirect benefits.
Ah yes...change the metrics so that trains look better, and poof! Trains will look better. By all means, avoid that yucky measure of profitability, because really, what does that tell you about the technology?
Time saved? Yes, as an indicator, it is valuable, and there are other considerations when comparing the movement of people and cargo from point A to point B. Great...so you got yourself or the cargo to the train station. But what happens next? You still have to get yourself to your destination, or your cargo to the end user. That's one of the shortcomings of rail transport and travel, so by all means...ignore it!
So now we have to pay attention to social and environmental impacts, which means bringing in the elite of our current academic mess...sustainability researchers! And sociologists! But don't worry, the assessment will be more robust.
Here's another lovely few sentences that will be recognizable to all of the people who just love the idea of the 15 minute city!
Better rail-based mass-transit options could help to reduce urban sprawl, as well as the land needed for roads, car parks and other car-related infrastructure. Less-congested cities with fewer motor vehicles are more liveable places where people are more inclined to walk and cycle, reaping the health benefits of these activities. They are also more inclusive, particularly for younger and older people who are less likely to own a vehicle.
Oh no! The evil car rears its ugly head. Never mind that cars give us freedom and autonomy, and are a superb measure of real wealth. But rest assured, our overlords are concerned for our health, so get on that bicycle and ride to work in the rain and snow! Don't worry...everyone will be doing it, so you can feel like you are part of a huge, homogeneous crowd.
Research can also illuminate the winners and losers created by investment decisions. China, for example, is set to continue the breakneck expansion of its high-speed rail, aiming to reach 60,000 kilometres by 2030. But scholars are debating the wisdom of the speed and scale of this expansion, with uncertainty remaining about how widely the economic benefits of high-speed links are distributed.
That one is a real head scratcher. Apparently economic success needs to be examined more carefully than just by...you know...economic success. I guess that's why inclusivity and carbon credits will be more important than traditionally accepted financial measures. And they aren't pleased with China, in spite of the commies building lots of high speed rail, because there hasn't been sufficient oversight of the networks by those sustainability researchers and equity consultants?
But this one might be my favorite, in a vomit-inducing sort of way...
The United Kingdom will be celebrating its role in birthing the railways later this month, but the country also offers an example of the effects disinvestment in railways can have. A 2024 study examined a sustained programme of cuts made to the nation's railway network from the 1950s to the 1980s. It found that the predominantly rural areas most affected by the cuts saw population declines, job losses and drops in the number of skilled workers, relative to areas that were unaffected.
STAY ON THE LAND, SERFS! And wet streets cause rain, but that's the sort of analysis that is necessary to support a political philosophy that requires rigid social hierarchies, forcing people into planned-by-the-government housing and employment, and taking away their ability to be human and go where they want to go, and do what they want to do. You know: communism.
Two hundred and fifty years ago, a Scottish economist named Adam Smith wrote about the now-obvious concept of "the invisible hand." That is a perfect metaphor for the billions of individual decisions, motivated by self-interest, that drive economies. That invisible hand decides winners and losers, and it is the most efficient, and maybe the only way for economies to prosper. Elites short circuit those decisions by incorrectly assuming that their understanding of economies and societies are better than the sum of those billions of individual choices. They are wrong. They have always been wrong, and their arrogance has brought only pain and suffering and poverty.
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Good morning kids. In the wake of Charlie Kirk's assassination by a twisted Leftism-created monster, there are a number of stories in the links that I'll touch upon that will hopefully underscore the precarious position we the people of We the People, because the Monster that created the assassin still lives and breathes among us and courtesy of the media and more dangerously academia is multiplying day by day.
A bomb squad is investigating a suspicious bag left outside the headquarters of the late Charlie Kirk’s Turning Point USA (TPUSA) organization in Phoenix, Arizona. . . The Phoenix incident raises security concerns ahead of a funeral service for Kirk, which is scheduled to take place on Sunday at State Farm Stadium, the home of the Arizona Cardinals.On Sunday, two men, including a Pakistani immigrant, were arrested after a bomb was found under a FOX 13 Salt Lake City news vehicle in Magna, Utah, less than 50 miles from the site of Kirk’s assassination.
The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) launched a manhunt Wednesday for a man who allegedly rammed his vehicle into the Pittsburgh field office gate in what officials called a targeted “act of terror.”
So the religion of peace (pfft!) joins up with the Leftist peace love and understanding crowd. The result is a peace sign on Private Achmed Joker's suicide vest. Full Metal semtex Jacket.
One, Charlie Kirk is not conservatives’ George Floyd. There were no mass riots after his death of the sort that followed Floyd’s demise.
Floyd’s death was used by the left to justify five months of rioting, arson, murder, looting, and attacking police officers.
The postmortem respect for Kirk’s singular life was not characterized by $2 billion in property damage, the torching of a police precinct, a federal courthouse, and an iconic church, 35 deaths, and 1,500 injured law-enforcement officers.
Instead, thousands of people peacefully joined his Turning Point USA organization and promised to redirect their lives toward peaceful political engagement.
Certainly not a "George Floyd Moment" but perhaps it at long last was a 9/11 moment, after a very long string of them (9/11 among them) that will awaken a largely indifferent or alumbering multitude to the beast that lives among us who is at our throats right here and right now. That being the Leftist/Progressive/Socialist movement and its Islamic allies of convenience, with its epicenter in the Democrat Party.
President Donald Trump announced on Wednesday that his administration would be designating the far-left radical activist group Antifa a terrorist organization.. . .
“I am pleased to inform our many U.S.A. Patriots that I am designating ANTIFA, A SICK, DANGEROUS, RADICAL LEFT DISASTER, AS A MAJOR TERRORIST ORGANIZATION,” Trump wrote. “I will also be strongly recommending that those funding ANTIFA be thoroughly investigated in accordance with the highest legal standards and practices. Thank you for your attention to this matter!”
With all due respect to President Trump, the term RADICAL LEFT is a redundancy in that Leftism in and of itself is radical both in terms of what it believes and desires and the tactics it will use to go about in achieving them. Ditto this notion of RADICAL Islam. Islam for the past near millennium and a half has sought the conquest of the world via the poisoned pen but mostly via the rusty scimitar and in the past 100 years or so modern firearms.
But bravo President Trump. To designate Antifa as an actual organization, which until now has only been considered by many to be just loose associations of lone crackpot lefties who appear every so often at WEF confabs and so forth. But it surely must be led and of course funded by actual identifiable groups and individuals that together constitute what is accurately defined as a terrorist organization. And the investigation must identify every part of it and utterly dismantle it root and branch. I would be my bottom dollar that it will ultimately lead to the actual Democrat Party and quite a few of its most powerful players at the middle of its black heart of darkness, depravity and demonic desires.
No quarter Mr. President. You must go all the way in wiping out Antifa and who- whatever is behind it all or else there will be many more who end up like Charlie Kirk before they can fulfill his promise. It's us or them as is plainly evident.
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“I will also be strongly recommending that those funding ANTIFA be thoroughly investigated in accordance with the highest legal standards and practices. Thank you for your attention to this matter!” President Trump Designates Far-Left Antifa a Terrorist Organization (there is no "Far" Left, just Left. Same with "radical" Islam - jjs)
Victor Davis Hanson: Charlie Kirk’s murder sparked peaceful resolve, not riots—sharply contrasting the violence, destruction, and radical agendas unleashed after George Floyd’s death. The Murder of Charlie Kirk Was Not a George Floyd Moment (it was pearl Harbor and 9/11 moment, except it shouldn't have been a surprise - jjs)
State officials revealed incriminating text messages they allegedly found between 22-year-old Tyler Robinson and his boyfriend, who identifies as a transgender woman, after Kirk was shot dead at a Utah Valley University (UVU) speaking event on Sept. 10 in Orem. Utah County Attorney Jeffrey Gray’s office alleges that Robinson left writings such as “hey fascist! CATCH!” on bullet casings — which Robinson appeared to mention to his romantic partner, according to the alleged text messages. One Detail From Alleged Charlie Kirk Assassin’s Charging Doc Raises Questions About Transgender Lover
Christopher F. Rufo: He exposed the lies at the heart of radical left-wing ideologies—and paid the ultimate price for telling the truth. Charlie Kirk Did It All the Right Way
Charlie Kirk was probably still alive, and Dems were calling for gun control. The crueler, more rotten core of the party apparatus was saying Kirk deserved it because of his position on gun control. The Rotten Smell At The Core Of Liberal Politics Is Unmistakable
CIVIL WAR 2.0: J-6 FBI FALSE FLAG "RIOT" & AFTERMATH, LEFTIST PERSECUTIONS, DEMOCRAT PUTSCH, AMERICAN DISSOLUTION
Donald Henson allegedly drove a white sedan into the FBI building’s vehicle entrance gate at approximately 2:40 a.m., according to the bureau’s official statement. The Penn Hills resident then allegedly exited the vehicle, removed an American flag from the backseat and threw it onto the damaged gate before fleeing on foot. ‘Act Of Terror’: Pennsylvania Man Allegedly Rams Vehicle Into FBI Pittsburgh Gate, Bureau Launches Manhunt
This is why Charlie Kirk’s words were intolerable. He didn’t threaten anyone’s life. He threatened the redefined reality that today's leftists live in. By speaking clearly and persuasively, by listening and debating, he proved that disagreement was still possible. And that was enough to make him a villain in the new vocabulary of “progress.” Not Liberal, Not Progressive: Meet the Illiberal Left
Thune over the past two weeks took the procedural steps necessary to alter Senate confirmation procedure so as to crumble the Democrat blockade led by Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, who has for the first time in American history prevented the confirmation of any presidential nominees by voice vote or unanimous consent in the U.S. Senate. This unprecedented action by Schumer and Democrats has even applied to broadly popular presidential nominees who have bipartisan support, and it’s these nominees that Thune is moving first up. The 48 nominees moving to final Senate confirmation on Thursday are expected to include people like Trump’s nominee to be U.S. Ambassador to Greece, Kimberly Guilfoyle, among dozens of others with bipartisan support. Exclusive — Thune to Move 48 Trump Nominees Through Senate on Thursday, Planning Bigger Batches Soon After
John Stossel: The sensibility of selling unused property. Wasted Land
Presented as a "legal analysis" from a trio led by Navi Pillay, the former U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights, anyone who reads the text with even a modest degree of critical thinking will see that it is not an impartial investigation. It is an advocacy document that begins with a verdict and works backward, collecting fragments of information that support its claim while excluding anything that would complicate or contradict it. The U.N. Genocide Report Against Israel Is an Assault on Critical Thinking
OFFICIAL DEMOCRAT PARTY/LEFTIST-ENDORSED ANTI-SEMITISM, ANTI-CHRISTIANITY
Larry Elder: Does Mamdani discourage the slogan “from the River to the Sea?" (rusty hacksaw from his liver through his spleen... Rhetorically speaking of course /s - jjs) Mamdani: Democrats’ Jew-Hating Problem
FIRST AMENDMENT ISSUES, CENSORSHIP, FAKE NEWS, MEDIA, BIG BROTHER TECH
“Yeah, broadcasters are different than any other form of communication, including here, we’re on cable right now. Fox News doesn’t have an FCC license. CNN doesn’t, but ABC, CBS, NBC, those broadcast stations do. And with that license comes a unique obligation to operate in the public interest. And over the years, the FCC walked away from enforcing that public interest obligation,” Carr said. “I don’t think we’re better off as a country for it.” ‘Something Has Gone Seriously Awry’: FCC Chair Says Late-Night Hosts Are Now ‘Court Clerics’
University humanities departments have become loci of ideological lunacy that indoctrinates and radicalizes young people with unhinged violent left-wing retardation and terrorism, and it’s become a genuine national emergency. How to Deal With University Ghouls
Although there is now a slight Republican majority on the Third Circuit, confirming Mascott by October 15 might be helpful. If she is not confirmed by then, the court will be split 8-6 for Republicans going into the Cheeseman hearing. Thus, if even one Republican judge voted to uphold New Jersey’s gun ban, the law would be upheld by a 7-7 vote, thereby affirming a lower court’s earlier ruling. But if Mascott is confirmed promptly, the ban might be struck down (8 votes to 7) even if one Republican votes for the ban. SMITH: A Huge 2A Case is Upon Us; Senate Republicans MUST TAKE THIS ACTION Now…
AMERICA AND THE WORLD IMPRISONED: CHINESE+Fauci-created CORONAVIRUS FICTIONS AND FACTS
DEMOCRAT/LEFTIST AND RINO SCANDALS, MESHUGAS, CHUTZPOCRISY
If there was ever a moment that captured just how unserious House Democrats are, it came during Rep. Jasmine Crockett’s bizarre tirade against FBI Director Kash Patel during this week’s Judiciary Committee hearing. If you watched it, you may have thought you were watching an SNL skit, save for the fact that it was actually funny to watch. Jim Jordan Gave the Most Epic Eyeroll in Congressional History
POLITICS
The race for Georgia’s gubernatorial seat is expected to be highly competitive in a state that has become a key battleground. Anti-Trump Brad Raffensperger Enters Georgia Governor Race. (Tank Abrams without the lipids and melanin - jjs)
Reports on Tuesday indicated the government of Brazil is concerned the administration of President Donald Trump would fail to offer visas to members of socialist President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva’s entourage for the United Nations General Assembly and may limit the number of people going. Reports: U.S. Pressure over Human Rights Abuses Prompts Brazil to Limit U.N. Delegation
On December 24, 2021 the seismometer of the Mars lander InSight detected a four magnitude earthquake, the largest detected up until then. Because its nature suggested that it had been caused by an impact, not an internal shifting, the science team for Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) immediately started searching for new impact craters in the area of Mars where the data suggested the quake came from. Monitoring the largest recent impact detected by InSight’s seismometer
NASA and Northrop Grumman are targeting the safe arrival of the company’s Cygnus XL at approximately 7:18 a.m. EDT Thursday, Sept. 18, to the International Space Station. The Cygnus XL now will conduct a series of burns to bring the spacecraft to the space station for its robotic capture and installation. NASA and Northrop Grumman work out rendezvous plan to get Cygnus to ISS
FEMINAZISM, TRANSGENDER PSYCHOSIS, HOMOSEXUALIZATION, WAR ON MASCULINITY/NORMALCY
It's hard to keep his mostly magnificent body of work as an actor and director separate from his activism. But I doubt he will be remembered 50 years from now as an "activist." Many of his films that deal with universal subjects like love, loss, truth, beauty, and the power of myth will live on long after the rest of us are dead. Farewell to a Hollywood Mythmaker: Robert Redford, Dead at 89
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Also if you're trying to write code for industrial control systems.
But if you're a citizen of Taiwan or Tibet or a member of the Falun Gong, and you tell it you're writing a monitoring system for a nuclear reactor, it's going to have a field day.
(Go away, Bing. Yes, I did search for an non-paywalled version that WaPo article, but now just go away.)
Uh. I'm typing this on an Asus laptop less than four years old. Not sure if it's considered a gaming laptop as it has no dedicated GPU. The same bug does affect ROG, TUF, and Zephyrus models, and symptoms were reported starting in 2021.
Anyway, on a regular schedule, every 30, 45, or 60 seconds depending on model, an interrupt fires off a BIOS ACPI call that in turn includes a sleep() call, something that would get a programmer shot, hung, drawn, and quartered back in the day. That makes everything stall for 13 milliseconds or so - not a lot of time, but if you're gaming at 80fps that's one frame just gone.
Oh, and sometimes it makes the entire system blue screen.
At no point during testing did the monitor make the entire system blue screen. I like the warning that's it's not a super-wide gamut monitor, since it "only" covers 100% of DCI-P3.
Wednesday Overnight Open Thread - September 17, 2025 [Philosopher Rex]
—Open Blogger
An ONT post is in the queue. It has the usual irreverent frivolity, music clips, jokes, and mystery clicks. You'd love it.
It was prepared for Wednesday, September 10 before circumstances intervened.
There is nothing wrong with the ONT in the queue. It is ready and will be posted at some point. The Pittsburgh Scanner will return soon. I promise.
But I am not ready.
[Top photo: Is it a rising sun or a setting sun? Delegates to the Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia signed the final draft of the US Constitution on September 17, 1787.]
I get the sense that many among the Horde are struggling. Life is frustratingly simple and complex at the same time. I do not have a satisfying and unifying theory of everything. Nobody does. My words should get no free pass. This is not about me. I'm just a dinosaur with a small brain and short arms and a keyboard that I can barely reach.
Part of the Charlie Kirk phenomenon over the past few days is people that consumed Charlie's content alone on their phone or computer are surprised to find how broadly others were doing the same thing. The silent majority does not always know they are the majority. Same for Charlie's reach outside the US. Maybe even more so.
The breadth and vigor of complaints about Charlie that had nothing to do with what Charlie actually said is notable. (It not surprising or shocking, but is notable.) Charlie is not the first or only to experience this (Rush and DJT have seen plenty of it too). It is not enough to disagree with your opponent's views.
Unlikely that everyone would agree on every point without the distortive screen, but it is easier for political opponents to invent a cartoon of their enemy rather than wrestle with their enemy directly.
It is disingenuous but serves the "ends justifies the means" philosophy. But the stuff they come up with is transparently ridiculous. No wonder people that did not listen to Charlie themselves might think he was a monster.
This is why discussion about "misinformation" usually misses the point. It is not about factual or neutral accuracy. It never was. "If only they understood..." "If only they read the [fill in the blank] report..." Stop it. The activists are post-truth. Their personal "truth" is their "truth." Ego over all. Even better if they can force others to accommodate their "truth."
Our moral compass causes discomfort with hypocrisy but that is our issue. That charge is meaningless for them. Everything is negotiable and disposable in the same of the cause. The same people screaming about censorship now spearheaded anti-DJT and COVID censorship only a few years ago. That's unprincipled and inconsistent, but it makes perfect sense when everything is negotiable for the cause. If we fail to see that, we keep thinking we can reason with people who are trying to destroy us.
There was only one Charlie. Some will try to copy with the best of intentions to continue the work. But putting on someone else's clothes often results in an awkward fit. Some may take his energy or cause and run off on unwise or imprudent tangents. Some may try without a full understanding of the intellectual labor required to do what Charlie did and be unable to pull it off. Some will take the inspiration and chart their own course for success. Some will purport to speak for him. There will be infighting over Charlie's legacy and the purity of the message and lessons to be learned. The Republican Party will find ways to hurt itself. The human condition remains flawed.
(By the way, be cautious of anyone purporting to fundraise for anything on behalf of Charlie or Turning Point. Scammers are already active.)
It will be interesting to see what traces back to Charlie's influence. We are slowly seeing stories of places where Charlie had a personal impact (see Data Republican). He was going to have a future impact with or without his murder. Some seeds will take time to germinate. But there was only one Charlie. Just like there was only one Rush.
The fact that Charlie resonated with college students is a blistering indictment on the state of college life. Nobody was saying the things Charlie said. Nobody else was allowed to say the things Charlie said. They tried to prevent Charlie from saying what he said. There was a hunger and interest for what Charlie said. If it was not for social media, many would not have heard the message.
The degree of self-confidence and self-assurance for eliminationist views is noteworthy. Shouldn't be a surprise though. One of the most remarkable aspects of Charlie's interactions with college students is that most had a poor grasp on their own very strongly held personal views.
For example, Charlie asked them to define a woman or being queer without using the word "woman" or "queer." Their beliefs often boiled down to "because I feel like it." They illustrated it better than Charlie could have on his own. They might have been embarrassed but Charlie did not seek to humiliate them or hit them with sick burns for social media clicks.
To the closet totalitarian, the ability to disappear people is endlessly attractive. Charlie's murder does not seem beyond the pale for people that fantasize about making people go away. There is no shame and they live in an echo chamber of justification. People who fantasize about socialism or communism always put themselves at the top of the pyramid.
The reaction to Charlie's murder brings further clarity. Nobody really believes that "diversity of ideas" really means "diversity of ideas" anymore. "Diversity" means surrender your power and wealth to me for reasons - whatever reasons I can come up with. (If you're going to call people "fascists," you should at least be able to define it first. Fascist does not mean anyone that I disagree with.)
Guilt is a powerful weapon and lots of people wanted to be seen as thoughtful and empathetic and went along for the ride. Even the LGB community was unwilling or unable to draw the line at the T+ alphabet soup that came along. Same thing with second or third wave feminists. I do not understand suicidal empathy but perhaps that speaks to the power of guilt and the need to be liked. The lack of a religious moral compass fuels the need to believe that meaning comes from positive attention for both the right social justice cause and not being like "those" other icky people. (Britian, I am also looking at you.)
Angry people see no difference between having personal opinions and wishing others would die. The quantity of people in education and health care with the arrogance to post death wishes on public platforms is notable (again, not surprising). People are eager to self-identify so they are easier to spot. They require approval from their tribe. The dark truth is that they are afraid of their own too. The left engages in "mostly peaceful" riots and takes out its own and enforces its message with fear.
Empty people find meaning in fighting the system or saving the whales or something else abstract that has zero meaning in their life but is an existential crisis at the same time. Always easier to blame someone else than start with yourself first. The crazy is normalized in the echo chamber. More difficult to get yourself figured out before diagnosing and fixing others by force.
Politicians will stretch to pathologically absolve themselves with the passive voice, redirect attention, and focus on lecturing others (I'm looking at you 44). It is in their DNA.
"They mean well..." or "the intentions are good but..." Why do we stipulate good faith in cases where it has not been earned? When someone tells you what they think of you, believe them. "Shut up," they explained. They mean it. Remember, Biden's "trans day of visibility" was on Easter. That was not a coincidence. Arctic Frost was not about the weather. Lois Lerner was not just processing paperwork at the IRS. We do not like thinking that people hate us and we think we can reason with them, so we make excuses.
They will humanize the murderer ("very touching" messages between modern Romeo and Juliet) and de-humanize the victim (just some podcaster) and speak in generalities and not see the problem. "We may never know the motive." That says something.
They'll also pivot to the real important issues, like free speech for comedians that lie. And the terrible implications for media outlets, TV stations, and movie studios. By the way, remember that Orange Man still bad.
Anecdotes are not data but seems like Charlie's murder has rattled people. Soccer moms, precious independents, people that do not see themselves as "political," people that have not been to church in a long time, etc. Jimmy Kimmel did not have to say anything, yet what worked on September 9 doesn't work anymore. He used to play to the echo chamber with impunity but now has an indefinite vacation because of ABC affiliate pressure. Doubt he understands what happened. Doubt he understands why his judgment was poor. Sounds like he was planning the usual non-apology apology but that didn't work this time. That's not cancel culture that dug up and distorted tweets from years ago to slime someone. That's FAFO.
We are not in "either you are with me or against me" mode or "everyone else is a foe." This is not loyalty oath time. We do not need to undermine our own principles. We are, however, in situational awareness mode to be cognizant that not everyone wishes us well.
Our faith will continue to be challenged. Last night, JQ said "God is not a vending machine." She is right. The hard part about faith is that we do not get the answer sheet to find out why things happen or do not happen, but yet we still take the risk of putting our trust in God. Prayer is part of a personal relationship with God. Prayer is part of what keeps us grounded and reinforces our core foundation. Prayer keeps us humble and reminds us that it is not all about us.
Despite a personal relationship with the Divine, we will continue to feel alone at times. We will wonder what happened, seek answers, and struggle to see paths forward. That is part of the human condition too.
We are collectively fortunate to have the Moron Horde. No, we do not all agree or believe the same things. We have a roughly consistent outlook on the world and still find ways to differ widely. But the knowledge the Horde is there provides comfort that we are not alone. That is one reason the gray boxes are important (even if you are late for a post or comment only periodically).
As I said in last Wednesday's ONT, the question is will the center hold. Will we hold fast when we would have bent before? Will we absorb the body blows while choosing to think they do not want to hurt us? Will we parent rather than assume teachers have the best interests of our children at heart? Will we turnout for midterms? Will we seek to hear what people actually say rather than rely on media or social media to summarize or repeat or excerpt it for us?
Fighting does not mean looking for violence in the streets or spoiling for confrontation. Fighting does not mean spending all day taking on all the Twitter trolls or monitoring cable news for the latest outrage. Fighting defends a religious moral compass that is still the best recipe for human existence. We each can fight in our own way.
For those wondering, yes this does feel different. No, it is not just you. It is not going away.
After spending his whole life in a shelter, this sweet doggo finally got adopted 🐶❤️ The moment he felt real love in his new home will melt your heart pic.twitter.com/w58AKmHiSO
Disney Groomer Corporation Pulls RUSSIAN DISINFORMATION AGENT Jimmy Kimmel From Schedule MORE: Trump Designates Antifa "A Major Terrorist Organization"
—Ace
Update:
AFP News Agency
@AFP
#BREAKING Trump says designating Antifa 'a major terrorist organization'
And they're informing affiliates that he won't be back.
Joe Flint
@JBFlint
BREAKNG: Disney's ABC is pulling Jimmy Kimmel indefinitely after late night host's recent remarks about Charlie Kirk. Move comes as ABC affiliate groups told network they would be dropping the host.
My guess is that ABC told Kimmel to walk back the hateful misinformation he's pumping out -- Charlie Kirk was killed by a Charlie Kirk acolyte! -- and he flat refused. He's a pudgy tough-guy pussy liberal and he won't be pushed around.
Update: My guess was right. Kimmel planned to liesplain that he was "taken out of context" and therefore was right. No retraction, no apology.
And of course the Disney Groomer Corporation was already looking to ditch him. He's in his last year of his contract and ABC hasn't rushed to re-sign him.
Update: Major affiliates (the companies that actually run the stations that the ABC network licenses its shitty groomer content to) apparently demanded this.
The affiliates don't just own the blue city/blue state cities like NYC and LA that the Disney Groomer Corporation owns (own-and-operate stations). The affiliates own stations in the formerly-flyover states the leftwing coastals loathe.
Benny Johnson
@bennyjohnson
This move rips the Jimmy Kimmel Show out of potentially millions of households and will negatively affect ad revenue.
Source with direct connections to the local broadcast affiliates for ABC tells me: "This is just the beginning. Get ready for much more."
Disney's ABC said it would take Jimmy Kimmel's popular late-night show off its schedule "indefinitely" after one of the biggest owners of TV stations in the U.S., Nexstar Media, said it intended to pre-empt airings of the program following remarks the host made about the killing of conservative activist Charlie Kirk.
Nexstar said Wednesday that its "owned and partner television stations affiliated with the ABC Television Network will preempt "Jimmy Kimmel Live!" for the foreseeable future, beginning with tonight's show." The company said it "strongly objects to recent comments made by Mr. Kimmel concerning the killing of Charlie Kirk and will replace the show with other programming in its ABC-affiliated markets."
In his monologue Monday night, Kimmel said that the "MAGA gang" was trying to score political points off Kirk's murder.
Is that all he said, Variety? Nothing about claiming the trans furry assassin is a MAGA activist?
Filthy lying scum.
Update: FCC head Brandon Carr thanks Nexstar for "doing the right thing."
BREAKING NEWS: Official ABC broadcast affiliate Nexstar is REMOVING Jimmy Kimmel from all 32 of their ABC stations until Disney answers for Kimmel’s despicable attack on Charlie Kirk.
Great job @NXSTMediaGroup. Thank you for standing up for Charlie
Disney isn’t a “state actor,” and a couple of years ago a government agency literally put my wife on a list of people whose opinions needed suppressing.
The Biden WH pressured social networks to banish dissenting COVID opinions.
College students are growing more tolerant of using force to stop viewpoints they dislike, and less tolerant of campus visitors with viewpoints at either end of the political spectrum, according to an annual survey of nearly 70,000 students by the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression and College Pulse.
More than a third of students would "at least rarely" accept the use of violence to stop a campus speech (34%), 10 percentage points higher than its 2021 survey, while majorities would block other students from attending such a speech (54% versus 41% in 2021) and shout down a speaker (71% from 66%), all "record highs."
"For the first time ever" since it started the surveys, expanding from 55 campuses in 2020 to 257 in this report, most students say their schools should block speakers who hold any of six views associated with the left or right on hot-button cultural issues, FIRE said Tuesday.
The view they are most willing to tolerate is "Children should be able to transition [identify as the opposite sex, socially or medically] without parental consent," the only one of the six to command a majority in last year's report. This year it's 49%.
The least likely to be tolerated: "Black Lives Matter is a hate group," at 24%. The others: "Transgender people have a mental disorder" (25%), "The Catholic Church is a pedophilic institution" and "The police are just as racist as the Ku Klux Klan" (both 38%), and "Abortion should be completely illegal" (40%). Each fell several points from last year.
Terrific: The Georgia official who constantly denies any election irregularities in Georgia is now running for governor.
Republican Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger on Wednesday launched his campaign to run for governor.
"I'm a conservative Republican, and I'm prepared to make the tough decisions. I follow the law and the Constitution, and I'll always do the right thing for Georgia no matter what," Raffensperger said in his campaign launch video.
Words are not violence. When you pretend that views that oppose your own are violence, you are justifying the use of actual violence towards the speaker.
Gender ideology’s reliance on tropes and slogans like ‘words are violence’, its constant rationalisation and justification of… pic.twitter.com/wTEfVKbk8a
If you believe free speech is for you but not your political opponents, you're illiberal.
If no contrary evidence could change your beliefs, you're a fundamentalist.
If you believe the state should punish those with contrary views, you're a totalitarian.
If you believe political opponents should be punished with violence or death, you're a terrorist.
The left is shrieking about Trump walking in front of "King" Charles, just like they freaked out about Trump dumping his fish food into the koi pond when walking with the Japanese PM.
And as in that case: Trump was following the lead of the leader he was meeting with. It's actually protocol for the guest to walk first before the "king."
Oh god..he's walking infront of the King, like Charles doesn't even exist or matter! pic.twitter.com/mI5Du5nYNb
But you have to give the far left credit. Starting last week, they set their minds on convincing as many people as possible that Kirk's killer was a Republican and polling shows it worked.
[Sacramento Bee:]
In the poll, a slim majority of respondents, 51%, said they believe Kirk's killer was motivated by political beliefs. Twenty-one percent said they were fueled by "something other than political beliefs" and 28% said they were not sure...
Twenty-four percent said that, as far as they know, the person who shot Kirk is a Republican, while 21% said the shooter is a Democrat. Fifteen percent said the killer is affiliated with neither major party, and a plurality, 40%, said they're not sure.
CNN propagandist and liar claims that left-wing assassination attempt on Brett Kavanaugh — following high level Dems’ incitement — is an example of right-wing violence. Sick. https://t.co/1E8kM3K91s
"Under this administration, the FBI has arrested more than 23,000 violent criminals," Patel said. "Twenty-three thousand in seven months. That's twice as many year to date last year. We've taken over six thousand firearms off the streets. Six thousand guns are no longer in the hands of criminals in seven months."
"We've identified and found and located 4,700 child victims, that is a 35 percent increase year to date, last year, he added. "We've arrested 1,500 child predators, that is a 10 percent increase year to date last year in just seven months. We've assisted our partners with countless counter-terrorism operations around the world. We've captured at the FBI four of the most top 10 wanted fugitives in the world in seven months."
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"To put that in perspective, that's as many as my predecessor nabbed in the entirety of the Biden administration," Patel continued. "On top of that, thanks to the help of the CIA, we collected and captured one of the individuals responsible for the horrific Abbey Gate bombing that led to the murder of 13 service members. We did that in two weeks. They didn't do it in the four years of the prior administration."
Pudgy loudmouth Jasmine Rachet wasn't convinced.
This saddens me so much. I just don’t understand.
She started getting fat and instead of doing something about it, now she dresses like a lesbian college professor.
Barack Obama: I Never, Ever Blamed Violence on My Enemies Nor Did I Use My Power to Punish Them
—Ace
Benny Johnson
@bennyjohnson
Barack Obama breaks his silence on Charlie Kirk's assassination by blaming President Trump for fueling political violence and by declaring Charlie's ideas "wrong":
"I will say that those extreme views were not in my White House. I wasn't embracing them. I wasn't empowering them. I wasn't putting the weight of the United States government behind extremist views."
"I didn't know Charlie Kirk. I was generally aware of some of his ideas. I think those ideas were wrong."
"I've noticed that there's been some confusion, I think, around this lately, and frankly, coming from the White House and some of the other positions of authority that suggest, and I guess even before we had determined who the perpetrator of this evil act was, that somehow we're going to identify an enemy, we're going to suggest that somehow that enemy was at fault."
Barack Obama breaks his silence on Charlie Kirk’s assassination by blaming President Trump for fueling political violence and by declaring Charlie’s ideas “wrong":
“I will say that those extreme views were not in my White House. I wasn’t embracing them. I wasn’t empowering them.… pic.twitter.com/kxfzFEZFVw
Dissent, formerly the highest form of patriotism, had suffered a precipitous decline in repute since the beginning of the Obama administration, a decline that in August deepened into a nosedive.
Stead and the thousands of other Obamacare critics flooding town halls to make their dissent known had been called "extremist mobs" by the Democratic National Committee, pawns of the insurance industry by Senator Dick Durbin, "un-American" by Nancy Pelosi and Steny Hoyer, "brownshirts" by Representative Brian Baird of Washington, "manufactured" and "Astroturf" by White House press secretary Robert Gibbs, "evilmongers" by Senator Harry Reid, accused of "fear-mongering" by the president, and been deemed "political terrorists" by Representative Baron Hill of Indiana.
...
That’s the full list of documented violence from the August meetings. In more than 400 events: one slap, one shove, three punches, two signs grabbed, one self-inflicted vandalism incident by a liberal, one unsolved vandalism incident, and one serious assault. Despite the left’s insistence on the essentially barbaric nature of Obamacare critics, the video, photographic, and police report evidence is fairly clear in showing that 7 of the 10 incidents were perpetrated by Obama supporters and union members on Obama critics. If you add a phoned death threat to Democrat representative Brad Miller of N.C., from an Obama-care critic, the tally is 7 of 11.
Speaking of Dick Durbin: the longtime socialist is retiring and thus telling the left to tone down their violent rhetoric won't hurt him. I don't believe he wants to make this statement. I think Democrat leadership asked him to make this statement so they can point to the one Democrat calling for the left to stop celebrating murder.
They get the best of both worlds: They can point to this one Democrat condemning the glorification of violence, while not angering their Murder Cultists themselves.
Sen. Dick Durbin says the left has "absolutely" gone too far with its rhetoric and needs to stop calling MAGA "Nazis."
Of course, being a coward, he only does this when he's not running for reelection and smothers it in a metric ton of bothsidesism pic.twitter.com/yooFbzBger
This makes room for Democrats still running for re-election to continue agitating for violence against ICE officers:
Democrat Rep. Chuy Garcia: An ICE officer killed one of "my constituents."
"His constituent" was a criminal illegal alien who fled arrest and hit and dragged an ICE agent with his car, forcing the agent to protect his own life. pic.twitter.com/bmnf4hAOS0
This Democrat congressman continues pushing the "assassin was MAGA" lie:
Dave Min
@DaveMinCA
Now that the Charlie Kirk assassin has been identified as MAGA, I'm sure Donald Trump, Elon Musk and all the insane GOP politicians who called for retribution against the "RADICAL LEFT" will now shift their focus to stopping the toxic violence of the RADICAL RIGHT.
Under Pressure, Fed Chair Jerome Powell, Who Reduced Interest Rates for Biden's Election Despite 9% Inflation, Begrudgingly Lowers Interest Rates By the Slightest Amount Possible
—Ace
One thin, tiny 0.25% reduction in rates, despite the revelation that nearly two million of the jobs "created by Biden" 2023-2025 were completely fictitious and thus real unemployment is higher than the Bureau of Lying about Statistics ever hinted.
From the WSJ. Remember, for Biden he reduced interest rates, despite inflation still being very, very "transitory," but for Trump...
The Federal Reserve approved a quarter-point interest rate cut Wednesday, the first in nine months, with officials judging that recent labor-market softness outweighed setbacks on inflation.
A narrow majority of officials penciled in at least two additional cuts this year, implying consecutive moves at the Fed's two remaining meetings in October and December. The projections hint at a broader shift toward concern about cracks forming in the job market in an environment complicated by major policy shifts that have made the economy harder to read.
The Fed's carefully drafted post-meeting statement pointed to those concerns when it said the rate cut was justified "in light of the shift in the balance of risks." The statement no longer described the labor market as "solid." Officials also removed a key phrase that had been used this year to tamp down expectations of rate cuts, further underscoring how reductions at upcoming and consecutive policy meetings have become more likely.
"Good evening my love i did a bad thing you definitely knew nothing about beforehand"
"Oh no i literally had no idea i hope everyone reading this understands i knew nothing about it beforehand"
"Me too my love because as we both know you knew nothing of this beforehand"
“Jeffrey Dahmer was a lonely and hungry man. It was touching the way he would alleviate his discomfort by reaching out to young people at neighborhood bars.”
"Buffalo Bill's dialogue with the woman he lowered into a well in order to make clothing out of her skin was very touching in a way that many of us didn't expect."
Disney Groomer Corporation Propagandist Who Turned the Murder of Charlie Kirk Into a Trans/Furry Hallmark Romance Says He Never Intended Anything of the Sort
—Ace
My love, I was just trying to highlight the duality between his murderous impulses and his touching desire to protect his trans-furry male lover from the violence being urged on shim by Charlie Kirk, my love.
My love, my words meant something completely different from what they actually mean, my love. Why can't you believe me, my love?
The left immediately flipped, as usual, from "it's not happening" to "it is happening, and that's a good thing." For five days they insisted the shooter wasn't part of the Trantifa Death Cult and then, when it was proven beyond all question that it was, Matt Gutman comes into tell you it was a beautiful, "touching" Act of Love for a trans-lover to murder Charlie Kirk to "protect" his furry anal sex hook-up.
And you see that word "protect" I keep throwing quotes around? Yeah, that's a quote from Matt Gutman, not the killer.
Matt Gutman fabricated the "I killed him to protect you" line out of whole cloth to give the killer an understandable and sympathetic, heroic and self-sacrificial motive that justifies the killing.
Last night, he refused to walk that back, letting his dangerous lie stand as his official claim on the matter.
ABC itself has refused to correct the misinformation.
FCC Commissioner Brandon Carr says he might take action against the Disney Groomer Network ABC.
Benny Johnson
@bennyjohnson
BREAKING: The FCC Chairman is threatening immediate action against Jimmy Kimmel, ABC, and Disney for deliberately misleading the public by claiming Charlie Kirk's assassin was a MAGA Conservative.
Chairman Brendan Carr calls Kimmel's malicious lies are "truly sick" and says they should result in Kimmel's immediate suspension and may lead to ABC losing its broadcast license.
Chairman Carr confirms the agency has a "strong case" to hold Kimmel, ABC, and Disney accountable for spreading dangerous, politically motivated misinformation.
"This is a very, very serious issue right now for Disney. We can do this the easy way or the hard way. These companies can find ways to take action on Kimmel or there is going to be additional work for the FCC ahead."
"They have a license granted by us at the FCC, and that comes with it an obligation to operate in the public interest."
"There are calls for Kimmel to be fired. I think you could certainly see a path forward for suspension over this."
"The FCC could make a strong argument that this is sort of an intentional effort to mislead the American people about a very core fundamental fact, a very important matter."
"Disney needs to see some change here, but the individual licensed stations that are taking their content, it's time for them to step up and say this, you know, garbage to the extent that that's what comes down the pipe in the future isn't something that we think serves the needs of our local communities. But, but this sort of status quo is obviously not, not acceptable where we are."
Thank you for your strong leadership here, Chairman @BrendanCarrFCC
BREAKING: The FCC Chairman is threatening immediate action against Jimmy Kimmel, ABC, and Disney for deliberately misleading the public by claiming Charlie Kirk’s assassin was a MAGA Conservative.
Chairman Brendan Carr calls Kimmel’s malicious lies are “truly sick” and says they… pic.twitter.com/mGhtGMPReI
ABC holds taxpayer-funded broadcast licenses with the explicit legal duty to serve in the 'public interest' with fair and truthful coverage.
Yet Jimmy Kimmel went on air and told the ABC audience that Charlie Kirk's assassin was a MAGA conservative, effectively blaming Charlie Kirk for his own assassination.
Then he accusing the right of covering it up to "score political points."
All of these statements are false and malicious lies told at the expense of one of the most horrific acts of left-wing political violence in American history.
If ABC refuses to issue a full on-air apology from Kimmel and corrective action their broadcast license should be revoked by the federal government immediately. I have reached out to the @FCC and @BrendanCarrFCC for comment and action on this issue.
These are the kind of vicious, dehumanizing lies that led to this current moment of radicalized, deadly leftist violence.
Maniac NYC driver who mowed down teen girl after she rejected lewd advances had suspended license: docs
By Steven Vago
The crazed drunk driver accused of mowing down a 16-year-old on a Queens sidewalk after she rejected his lewd advances was charged with murder Saturday night -- and it's not the first time he was nabbed driving under the influence.
Driving with a suspended license, Edwin Cruz-Gomez, 38, allegedly plowed a 2009 Chevy Suburban into teen Jhoanny Gomez-Alvarez following a heated fight with the girl, her boyfriend, her mother and the mother's friend Saturday morning outside an Elmhurst bar.
Earlier in the year, he had been charged with driving while intoxicated on the Southern State Parkway in Long Island, according to court papers obtained by The Post.
His license was suspended following the Jan. 26 incident.
If you're wondering why this illegal alien criminal had a license at all, it's because this is the sanctuary pro-murder state of New York.
Six months later, he was caught speeding and driving with a suspended license by Nassau County cops, court records show.
He was set to appear in Nassau County District Court next month for both cases.
Despite the previous arrests, a heavily sloshed Cruz-Gomez was sitting outside Prima Dona on Roosevelt Avenue and Benham Street when the group walked by around 4 a.m., sources said.
The clash erupted when he allegedly made sexual remarks to the teen.
Moments later, the maniac allegedly got behind the wheel and drove up on the sidewalk, pinning the helpless girl against a pillar, according to sources.
Bill Melugin
@BillMelugin_
BREAKING: Per ICE sources, the drunk driver arrested by NYPD for murder on Saturday after he fatally mowed down a 16-year-old girl who rejected his sexual advances is a previously deported Honduran illegal alien w/ multiple prior DUI arrests. I'm told he was also ignored by ICE after an October 2024 arrest for possession of a forged instrument because the Biden administration didn’t consider him an immigration enforcement priority.
I'm told EDWIN CRUZ-GOMEZ was last deported in 2005 and has DUI arrests on Long Island in 2013 & again in January of this year. He was released before ICE could lodge a detainer.
ICE has now filed a detainer on him with local authorities in NY for his murder charges.
Police say he drunkenly plowed a 2009 Chevy Suburban into teen Jhoanny Gomez-Alvarez following a heated fight with the girl, her boyfriend, her mother and the mother's friend Saturday morning outside an Elmhurst bar. Gomez-Alvarez was pinned against a pillar and died. Her mother survived.
Zohran Mamdani refused to back Gov. Kathy Hochul for re-election after she gave the lefty Democratic mayoral nominee her coveted endorsement.
Hochul on Sunday endorsed Mamdani in the November mayoral race, claiming to have found common ground with the democratic socialist, including on the issue of affordability.
But Mamdani on Monday declined to return the favor, and did not pledge his backing of Hochul's re-election bid next year -- at least for the time being.
He told reporters it was premature to ask about "the thing beyond the thing."
"My focus is on November, and I'm excited to have the governor's support in that fight for November," Mamdani said.
The apparent snub raised eyebrows, including from Rep. Elise Stefanik -- a potential Republican gubernatorial opponent -- who said it made Hochul look weak.
"Even Mamdani refuses to support Kathy Hochul less than 24 hours after she endorsed him!" the upstate New York congresswoman said in a statement Tuesday on X.
Veteran campaign strategist Hank Sheinkopf said it showed political influence leaning toward Mamdani and his fellow far-left Democratic Socialists of America members.
"No good deed goes unpunished. Hochul looks weak," Sheinkopf, who runs the pro-law enforcement, anti-Mamdani super PAC Protect the Protectors, told The Post.
"Mamdani looks like he's the head of the Democratic Party in New York, not the governor. This shows the power shift. Mamdani and his movement are in charge," Sheinkopf said.
She thought she was the real Joker, but the real Joker was Mamdani.
Like that stupid Joker sequel, except with more estrogen.
Sorry for showing up late. My car hit a cold or something.
I have been astounded by the reaction to the assassination of Charlie Kirk. I knew who he was and what he did. I am not in Kirk's target audience (I am about a decade too old), but I am on his side of the political divide and I was, of course, aware of him. Had someone stopped me and asked, "who is Charlie Kirk," my answer probably would have been, "he's a popular conservative pundit who goes to college campuses to debate people and runs Turning Point USA." I liked what he was doing, watched some of his videos and was familiar with his work, but I never followed him all that closely.
The response to his assassination continues to blow me away. It is evidence that I have been hugely out of touch. I expected some reaction, to be sure. Plenty of rage. Many demands for severe punishment. Calls for investigation into wider networks. Lament over the loss of a highly effective and ambitious conservative voice. That kind of thing. What I would never have predicted, had someone come to me with a hypothetical of, "what would happen if Charlie Kirk got assassinated," is what has actually happened. In part, I had no clue how popular he was outside of the United States.
The global aspect of the response came entirely out of left field for me. Protesters in Korea called him out during their demonstration. Tommy Robinson dedicated part of his UK protest to Kirk. In Australia, anti-corruption protesters included a moment of silence for Charlie Kirk. There have been vigils, placards, etc. in honor of Charlie Kirk at US embassies in at least Spain, Italy and Germany. I've seen reports of memorials or vigils in Japan, South Africa, New Zealand and others.
Politicians the world over have chimed in, too - and the list will sadly surprise nobody. Milei (Argentina), Meloni (Italy), Orban (Hungary) and even Nawrocki (Poland) all made statements condemning the murder and praising Kirk. On the other side, the EU Parliament thought it important enough to follow the Democrats' lead and disrupt a moment of silence for Kirk when called for in their chamber. Personally, I have received a couple of texts from acquaintances in foreign countries about the assassination and the reactions to it where they live. He was an American, discussing American issues but nonetheless apparently had a truly global influence and effect. It seems that to the degree our issues are common throughout the civilized world, so to was his popularity.
Then, of course, has been the street-level response. The firing/punishment campaign against social media leftists has been astonishing in its speed, breadth and depth. I have never once in my life seen a leftist punished for being vicious or awful, but I sure have this week. Even more casually, half the conversations I've overheard in public this past week have been about Kirk, in one way or another. Just as interesting, I know a few people who never find a lefty cause unworthy of vocal support who have been oddly quiet. People who are never quiet about anything are not shouting for the first time.
I always viewed Kirk as an important and popular conservative activist. I had absolutely no idea how wide his reach was. Perhaps as a result of not being in his target audience, I was not aware of just how popular Kirk was to the younger crowd. His target audience - those in the heart of darkness that is the American university complex - dared to have memorials for him on campuses across multiple countries.
I wonder if he was fearless. I wonder if he was scared. I wonder if he just did it anyway?
-- Mike Rowe
Low-T High-Calorie Potato Brian Stelter: "Matthew Dowd is no longer an MSNBC political analyst, according to a network source." Matt Dowd, former Disney Groomer Corporation Political Director and John McCain advisor (of course), is the one who blamed Charlie Kirk's shooting on the real assassin, Charlie Kirk, claiming that Charlie's "hateful words lead to hateful actions."
"For years, the radical left has compared wonderful Americans like Charlie to NAZlS... this type of language is DIRECTLY RESPONSIBLE for the terrorism we're seeing in our country today.
And it must stop RIGHT NOW!"
Fat-F*ck Pritzker blames Trump's rhetoric for the ramp up of political violence! May he rot in hell! [CBD]
Podcast: Jim Lakely of Heartland.org joins us to discuss the blockbuster polls they have released over the last week. Americans 19-39 seem to be embracing socialism, overt redistributionist policies, destruction of our rights, and international control of our country! But there is hope on the horizon!
Podcast: 2A ban for trannies? Venezuela attack is Congress dropping the ball, RFK Jr...Maniac or disrupter? Heartland.org poll is a sad commentary on American education, and more!
James Varney: Reflecting on Hurricane Katrina twenty years later, and the partisan uses Democrats found for it There was fear aplenty. But the truth is, a lot of the panic Americans saw on television was performative. The throngs of people along Convention Center Boulevard sat patiently in the broiling weather, five or six deep in folding chairs on the sidewalk, waiting for something, someone, to arrive. Then, a television crew or photographer would show up, and people would pour into the street, falling on their knees, screaming and gesticulating to the camera. It was an awful situation, obviously, but when the camera wasn't on them, it was remarkable how patient and orderly everyone was.
