Thursday Cafe
—Disinformation Expert Ace
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Lazy watchdog. (But he keeps an eye on things, as long as they're directly outside the window.)
Oldster still makes sure his dogs get their exercise.
Kitten tucks herself in.
What did they think was going to happen?
An odd couple but they make it work.
Cats do weird things just to freak us out.
The League of Shadows, but with huskies.
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Republicans Sean Duffy, Brandon Gill Expose Democrats' Fathomless Corruption
—Disinformation Expert Ace
Brandon Gill grills Chicago's radical racist grifter Brandon Johnson.
Johnson has been receiving expensive personal gifts like cufflinks and Gucci bags from people and organizations he refuses to disclose. He says he accepts these personal gifts "on behalf of Chicago," but I don't think Chicago is wearing the cufflinks or toting the Gucci bags. I think it's Johnson himself.
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@GOP_is_GutlessTHE PITBULL BRANDON GILL: "On June 12th, 2023, you received HUGO BOSS cufflinks and a personalized Montblanc pen. Do you know who gave you those?"
Johnson: "So I did not receive those personally. The city of Chicago..."-
Gill: "You received those on behalf of the ciry of Chicago. I understand the difference Do you know who has provided those to the city of Chicago? Do you know who gave those to the city of Chicago?"
Johnson: "So again, on behalf of the city of Chicago, there are..."-
Gill: "It's a yes or no question."
Johnson: "I do not accept. Those are not my personal gifts..."-
Gill. "I'm reclaiming my time here, sir. On March 18th, 2024, you received a Gucci tote bag. Do you know who gave you that? Gave the city of Chicago that?"
Johnson: "Again, I was here and I was invited..."-
Gill: "I'll also take that as a no. On March 19th, 2024, you received a Davinci bag, a Kate Spade purse, and Carucci shoes. Do you know who gave the city of Chicago those?"
What's Chicago's shoe size?
Johnson: "Again, I was brought..."-Gill. "I'll take that as a no. I'm reclaiming my time... This raises serious ethical concerns. You're providing an enormous amount of aid to illegal aliens, aiding and abetting criminals who have come into our country illegally. And you yourself are receiving an enormous amount of gifts, and you won't even tell us who they're coming from. That raises serious ethical concerns."
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John Thune Declares: I Demand a Well-Funded MAGA Primary Opponent In 2028 and I'm Going to Stamp My Little Feeties and Hold My Breath Until I Get It!
—Disinformation Expert Ace
You got it, Princess.
Bill Melugin @BillMelugin_CBP/ICE funding bill will not be on President Trump's desk by June 1st, as he had said he wanted.
Senate going home. Bad vibes on the Hill today.
Supposedly this is over his pique at the weaponization compensation fund, but, as with Thomas Massie discovering the Epstein files for the first time weeks after Trump called for him to be replaced -- that's creating a fictional "policy" cover because the power-politics "I'm in charge" gripe is too petty to be admitted.
Julie Kelly 🇺🇸 @julie_kelly22h
So Thune and company having a temper tantrum over Trump's Paxton endorsement so he's using the weaponization fund as an excuse to once again not do his job.
Senate leadership is an absolute disgrace and every single one should be replaced.
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Disney Star Wars: Shit or Garbage?
—Disinformation Expert Ace
The Marblemouth and Gorp opens tonight.
The movie was previously tracking at a low $80 million for its three day debut. That's on the level of Soylo: A Soy Wars Soyry (as Ethan Van Sciver called it), which was the first Star Wars movie to lose money.
Note this weekend is a four day weekend, but that projection was for the actual Fri-Sat-Sun frame. They estimated that with Monday included, it would make $105 million for the four day weekend.
I mean: It's opening tonight so it's a five day "weekend," but the industry pretends that Thursday receipts are really Friday receipts. Which just another lie from the Industry of Lies.
But that's been revised. Downwards. Now it's projected to make $80 million... for all four days of the weekend.
Maybe $60 million for the three day weekend.
Disney doesn't like that headline, so now they're bragging about a $160 million opening weekend.
The catch? That $160 million is for the global debut, not the North American debut we always talk about.
So this is a big revision downwards which Disney is spinning, incredibly, as double the previous projection.
Disney looked around for a shill propaganda outlet that was desperate enough and corrupt enough to print up this corporate lie.
Gentlemen, you asked for a miracle. I give you Deadline.
'Star Wars: Mandalorian & Grogu' Hopes To Hyper-Space To $160M Global Opening Over Memorial Day Weekend -- Box Office PreviewBy Anthony D'Alessandro (Chief Corporate Shill)
The good news is that this Memorial Day weekend won't be the lowest post-Covid, and Lucasfilm/Disney's Star Wars: The Mandalorian and Grogu won't open as low as Warner Bros' Furiosa did two years ago at this time with a $32.3M 4-day. The new hope is that the pic from director Jon Favreau co-written with EP Dave Filoni and Noah Kloor will meet or exceed its $80M 4-day tracking in North America.
Comparing this opening with the lowest Memorial Day opening ever -- from two years ago. Nice job of bar-lowering!!!
That all depends on whether families show up and push the first Star Wars film in seven years to a bigger number. Burger King is a promo partner on the pic, so hopefully Whoppers will have more influence on potential moviegoers than blue milk did for Luke Skywalker nearly a half-century ago.
Wow they have a fast-food promotional tie-in? That means it will make a huge amount of money -- No Star Wars film or other corporate IP slop has ever had a Burger King tie-in before!!!
The global outlook is $160M worldwide, with $80M of that from a 98% footprint offshore.
In other words, the global debut is juiced because most movies do not open in every country in the same weekend. In some cases, very big countries like Brazil or Japan or China or the UK have openings weeks after the North American debut.
But this is opening everywhere, except Korea.
The only territory not going this weekend is Korea. That start for the $165M net production would be slightly ahead of the global opening of 2018's Solo: A Star Wars Story in like-for-likes. That box office low point in the franchise -- which went into theaters with a lot of behind-the-scenes melodrama (Lord & Miller were fired and the directing reins handed to Ron Howard -- posted a 4-day over Memorial Day weekend of $103M domestic and another $52M abroad.
Even shill critics are panning the movie. It is currently just over "rotten" at Rotten Tomatoes, but the bulk of reviews currently tabulated are from hand-picked shills and influencers. It will be Rotten within hours.
Most are complaining that it's "meh" or "mid" or a TV episode with a slightly larger budget (but still a cheap, TV look).
Those who are sick of masculine action hero and self-declared "Big Bougie Daddy Bitch" Pedro Pascal will be happy to know that he's not really in the movie much, because it's almost always his stunt-doubles in the armor when he has his helmet on. Which is 96% of the time.
They're also complaining that it is plainly for children, and by "children," I don't mean 12 year olds. I mean little children. I mean babies.
That's not a terrible reposition for the franchise, as it's lost all older fans and all teen fans. Maybe it's best to start over with a New Modern Audience that doesn't know tha Disney Star Wars is a pathetic joke yet.
But it's obviously going to result in a low take.. Only babies want to see movies about a baby for babies.
And if you want to see a good movie aimed at a younger crowd -- I keep hearing The Sheep Detectives is wonderful. Chris Gore and Allen Ng of Film Threat both praised it, only disagreeing about what audience it's for. Gore thought it was a kid's movie that was also interesting enough for adults, whereas Ng thought it was a good and "worthy" kid's film, but not really one that adults would like.
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Surprise! The DNC's "Autopsy" Is a Sham, a Deliberately Incomplete Document Left Unfinished Because Democrats Don't Dare Tell the Truth About Their Collapse
—Disinformation Expert Ace
You don't need an autopsy to know why the Democrats lost in 2024. No one does.
The Democrats know as well. The problem is, they are beholden to their extreme left wing, and they're beholden to the extreme left wing because the extreme left wing in the majority of the Democrat Party.
Democrats now know -- if they didn't before -- that transgender "science" is a propaganda lie spun up by WPATH, an organization funded by J.B. Pritzker's transgender brother "Jennifer" Pritzker. It was never true that "gender affirming surgery" reduces suicide -- and multiple studies now prove that beyond doubt. It was never true that "gender affirming" "medicine" improves mental health or well-being.
And on top that: The politics of it are horrible. It's a 20-80 issue.
But the Democrats cannot admit this because the 20% that is gonzo for gay and transgender extremism is the core of the activist class.
Likewise, the Democrats know that Obama's and then Biden's open border policy is absolutely toxic political poison. It's another 20-80 issue.
But the Democrats cannot admit this because the 20% that supports the Great Replacement is the core of the most partisan Democrat voters.
And they know they foisted a brain-damaged demented fool and corrupt grafter on the country in the form of Joe Biden. But they can't admit that because most of the Democrat Party -- and the media -- is in legal jeopardy should the entirety of their massive conspiracy be revealed.
So the "autopsy" is a sham. They never bothered to complete it and left most the issues that actually caused the loss entirely unmentioned.
Not underplayed. Not under-analyzed.
Unmentioned entirely.
The only fake conclusion the sham "autopsy" is certain of...?
Democrats and their media allies didn't go negative enough on the man they claimed was Hitler on a mission to destroy America and resurrect the Third Reich.
Trump got off so easy you guys!
Live Updates: Democrats' Draft Report on 2024 Loss Reopens Political Wounds Ahead of MidtermsAn incomplete examination of what went wrong for the Biden and Harris campaigns in 2024 was released after it had become an embarrassment for the Democratic National Committee.
The Democratic National Committee on Thursday released a draft of an autopsy of what went wrong in the 2024 presidential campaign, highlighting a series of failures and placing blame for Kamala Harris's defeat partly on former President Joseph R. Biden Jr.'s political operation.
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The draft report, which is disorganized and leaves empty entire sections, blames both the Biden and Harris campaigns for failing to successfully drive a negative view of Mr. Trump. But it otherwise offers only vague or limited conclusions about the party's failings.
Mr. Martin had tapped a longtime ally, Paul Rivera, to oversee the creation of the autopsy. But Mr. Rivera's final product was "wasn't ready for prime time. Not even close," Mr. Martin wrote on Thursday. Atop each of the document's 192 pages is a bright red disclaimer that the D.N.C. "was not provided with the underlying sourcing, interviews, or supporting data for many of the assertions contained herein." (Mr. Rivera declined to comment.)
There is not a single mention of Mr. Biden's age, a regular concern of voters and Democratic officials throughout his presidency, nor of Israel and Gaza, an issue that dogged Mr. Biden and Ms. Harris in 2024 and has since fractured the party.
Still, it does include a number of revelations, including the conclusions of pollsters who found that a Trump ad attacking Ms. Harris for expressing support for taxpayer-funded surgery for transgender inmates had been highly effective.
So one single sub-issue regarding transgender extremism was mentioned. One specific issue about forcing taxpayers to pay for "transitions" of fucking criminals.
Limited conclusions: The draft report's findings were limited, often veering into political clichés and hard-to-follow explanations.
From 2020 to 2024, I documented Kamala Harris complaining a thousand times -- and leaking her complaint to the media anonymously -- that Biden had "failed to position her for success." This began, if I remember right, when he made her the Border Czar. He had failed to position her for success by giving her a tough assignment and not an easy one like making her the Black Women are Awesome Czar.
When she constantly embarrassed herself by being entirely unprepared at briefings and press appearances, she then blamed her staff for not adequately preparing her. Her staff, she complained to her media allies -- again as an anonymous source familiar with the Vice President's thoughts -- failed to position Kamala Harris for success.
Obviously she then complained throughout the campaign that Biden had Failed to Position Her for Success when he anointed her the new candidate.
I say all this because what key finding do you think made it into the sham autopsy?
But it argues that Mr. Biden's team failed to position Ms. Harris for success in the race after it became clear she would be the party's nominee and relied too heavily on an assumption that voters would reject Mr. Trump without making a sufficiently strong case for the vice president.
Biden called Trump Hitler in a nationally televised address, ranting while bathed in blood-red light.
Was that too subtle for the alcoholic and barren Coconut Kamala?
Again, we see that the sham autopsy refuses to find fault with Kamala Harris, too. She didn't lose. She just wasn't positioned for success by White Men.
This is her narrative, one that she's pissed into the media for four years.
And then it babbles about -- get this -- messaging.
Failed strategy: The Harris campaign's inability to diminish Mr. Trump's standing with voters was a "major failure," the report said. It suggested the Harris campaign should have been able to "remind voters of his incompetence," and found that a Trump campaign ad showing Ms. Harris expressing support for taxpayer-funded transition surgeries for transgender inmates had been particularly effective.
Midterm worries: Findings from the most recent New York Times/Siena poll underscore the concerns raised in the report that Democrats did not effectively make their case against Mr. Trump in 2024. Nearly 60 percent of Democratic supporters in the Times/Siena poll said they were not satisfied with how much the party was fighting back against Mr. Trump.
"This report is so stupid," say Democrats.
Democrats "have proven incapable of projecting strength, unity, and leadership, and voters have drifted away," Democratic strategist Paul Rivera, who authored the report but is not mentioned in the published version, writes. The autopsy was first released by CNN and shortly after published by the DNC.The incomplete report doesn't mention a number of key issues that continue to dog the Democratic Party, including the issue of the war in Gaza. In 192 pages, it sparsely touches on former President Joe Biden's decision to drop out.
It also appears to lack any formal conclusions about what went wrong.
Both the report and the process drew immediate, scathing criticism from prominent Democrats.
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"It feels like what the DNC is doing is cherry-picking the parts of it that it wants to actually release, that [are] less problematic for the party going forward, because most of the stuff that we're reading right now is ... not groundbreaking."
..."The report's so stupid, it's hard to make sense why something's in there and why it's not," another senior Democratic operative close to the process who was granted anonymity to speak candidly told POLITICO in an interview.
Awesomesauce: The "Quality Learing Center" Somali Pirates Exposed by Superstar Muckraker Nick Shirley Indicted on Federal Charges
—Disinformation Expert Ace
Do we need some good news?
I think we need some good news.
Now they will be prosecuted and imprisoned and later, I hope, denaturalized and deported.
The owner of a Minneapolis day care featured in a viral video by Nick Shirley exposing fraud has been federally charged with wire fraud and conspiracy for allegedly stealing over $4.6 million through false claims to federal nutrition and state childcare assistance programs.Fahima Egeh Mahamud, CEO of Future Leaders Early Learning near George Floyd Square, is charged with falsely claiming to serve thousands of meals through Feeding our Future while defrauding Minnesota's Child Care Assistance Program.
The day care allegedly pocketed more than $4.6 million in fraudulent claims before closing in January following state investigations triggered by a viral Nick Shirley video in December.
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Trump Is Booting Illegal Aliens Out of Taxpayer-Funded Welfare Housing and I Am Here For It
—Disinformation Expert Ace
Thomas Massie, Illegal Alien Simp and Friend of Illegal-Hiring Businesses, is sad. His pinecone is droopy.
Home prices are squeezing American family budgets. The median home price is up 60% since 2019, now five times the median household income. The country is short more than 4 million homes, and a record 22.6 million renter households are spending more than 30% of their income on rent. Housing costs have risen another 14% in just the last two years.While Americans are fighting for a place to call home, a recent Department of Housing and Urban Development and Department of Homeland Security investigation revealed major eligibility errors in HUD housing programs. HUD found nearly 6,000 confirmed ineligible tenants, and another 200,000 more tenants who have gone through zero eligibility verification. In addition, HUD identified 25,000 deceased tenants still living in taxpayer-funded housing units. These aren't likely empty units. Someone is wrongly receiving this benefit.
You'll be shocked to hear this, but Congress passed laws to restrict public housing to US citizens, but were conning the rubes as usual. On paper, illegal aliens weren't allowed.
In reality -- no one bothered checking, so illegal aliens were allowed.
But the rubes didn't know so the rubes couldn't complain.
Federal law is clear: Section 214 of the Housing and Community Development Act limits HUD housing assistance to U.S. citizens and eligible non-citizens. In addition, the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act of 1996 prohibits public welfare benefits from going to illegal aliens and requires HUD housing programs to verify immigration status at the point of application, now a nearly instantaneous process through the SAVE program. Yet HUD rules have systematically avoided this verification until now.
Instead of using the existing Systematic Alien Verification for Entitlements (SAVE) program, HUD created two workarounds. The first is the "do not contend" provision, under which a tenant declares they do not contend their non-citizen status and receives prorated assistance anyway. This is blatantly illegal. The second workaround is an age exemption HUD fabricated 15 years ago under the Obama administration. Current regulations exempt anyone 62 or older from verification, but this has no basis in federal law.
It turns out, in contrast to federal law, the federal government has been incentivizing illegal immigration by offering taxpayer-subsidized housing along with other welfare programs by not using any verification to ensure benefits are going to only eligible individuals. Hundreds of thousands of tenants, including able-bodied adults, have spent years, even decades, in federally subsidized units still needing eligibility checks. This is exactly what has been prohibited for 30 years, and it's part of what's driving up housing prices today.
Thanks to President Trump and HUD Secretary Scott Turner, every housing authority in the country must finally verify eligibility. This is a strong step towards restoring public trust in HUD housing. For the first time, the system Congress mandated will be employed.
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Trump is sending the illegals back home and limiting illegals' access to loans and banking services.
On Tuesday, President Donald Trump signed an executive order directing banks to more aggressively scrutinize illegal immigrants, closing a fiscal fence around American taxpayer interests and resources, and likely further incentivizing self-deportations."80% of voters believe that illegal immigration is bad for America, and by the way, the flip side of it is 80% believe that legal immigration is good for America," veteran pollster Scott Rasmussen told Just The News.
Trump's Tuesday order, titled "Restoring Integrity to America's Financial System", directs federal regulators and the Treasury to issue guidance strengthening banks' customer due diligence, identify red flags/suspicious activity linked to undocumented immigrants (such as Individual Taxpayer Identification Number misuse, payroll tax evasion, or off-the-books wages), and manage credit risks from extending loans or services to non-work-authorized individuals who may face deportation or wage loss.
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On limiting illegal immigrants' access to banking and financial products, the administration's stated goal is to reduce risks to the banking system -- such as people getting deported and then defaulting on loans or credit cards.
Banks are now encouraged by the Trump administration to be more careful with loans and services to those without work authorization, but the order does not require them to check every customer's citizenship status.
Meanwhile, the DOJ just hired 80 new immigration judges to speed up the pace of deportations.
"The Trump administration is committed to reestablishing an immigration judge corps that is dedicated to restoring the rule to the law in our nation's immigration system," acting Attorney General Todd Blanche said in a statement. "Today, we are onboarding the largest immigration judge class in agency history. This could only happen thanks to President Trump's decisive leadership and commitment to securing our borders. I also applaud EOIR's leadership team for helping facilitate these hiring efforts and recruiting highly qualified and talented personnel in record time."
Trump campaigned on a promise of mass deportations, but has faced considerable legal pushback to his efforts to speedily remove large numbers of people from the country. The DHS has estimated that as many as 22 million illegal aliens were in the country when Trump took office.
Hello everyone! Happy Thursday.
Are you ready for the three day weekend?
The Morning Rant: An Islamist In Congress?
—CBD
The prospect of an American Islamist winning the Democrat primary for a New Jersey congressional seat would have been unimaginable just a few years ago. 750 New Jersey residents died on September 11th, 2001, which in and of itself should have made Hamawy's candidacy a punch line in every bar in New Jersey.
But the Democrat party, ably aided by a gerrymandered district, is interested in one thing, and that is power. Electing a terror-supporting, malpracticing physician as a United States congressman is perfectly reasonable in their singleminded quest for control. They have a few Islamists from other states: brother-f*cker Ilhan Omar, the shockingly ugly Rashida Tlaib, Lateefah Simon... But they are from states far from the tragedy of 9/11. New Jersey electing an Islamist is a bellweather of the rise of Muslim political power, and the huge chasm that has developed between mainstream America and the rabid left of the Democrat party.
Adam Hamawy, a Princeton plastic surgeon, is a frontrunner in a crowded Democratic primary to replace retiring Rep. Bonnie Watson Coleman (D.) in New Jersey's deep-blue 12th Congressional District—despite his years-long friendship with Omar Abdel-Rahman, the Muslim extremist cleric who was sentenced to life in prison for his role in the 1993 bombing.
He is a run-of-the-mill Muslim political activist who is pro-Hamas, and has gotten a huge amount of support from a Palestinian PAC ($1,000,000 so far, with plans for another $1,000,000). If elected, he will vote reliably leftist, and vote against all American support for Israel, our only reliable ally in the war against militant Islam.
And completely unsurprising, he seems to be a shitty doctor!
But that isn't the worst part...he is credibly involved with, and a supporter of a man and a movement that took an active role in the murder of Americans as part of a religious/political philosophy that is incompatible with Western culture and American political philosophy.
That is how far from sanity the Democrat party has slid, and I see no signs that it will moderate. At least until the Republican party is purged of its RINOs, and voting is once again reserved for American citizens.
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The Morning Report — 5/ 21/26
—J.J. Sefton
Good morning kids, and apologies in advance, as it's going to be another one of those nothing but scum on parade posts to whet your appetite or induce projectile vomiting before or during your breakfast. On a positive note, President Donald Trump despite the ongoing muddied and muddled state of affairs with Iran has done more to bring about peace and security in service to our real national interests than perhaps any president since Ronald Reagan if not since the end of the Second World War. Finally, after 66 years it looks as if the Socialist hellhole of an island gulag, Cuba might actually be on the brink of at least overthrowing the Communist dictatorship and breathing free once again. Certainly removing the Maduro regime in Venezuela as well as severely crippling their Iranian benefactors have brought Cuba to the verge of liberation.
Federal prosecutors on Wednesday charged former Cuban President Raúl Castro with ordering the 1996 shootdown of civilian planes operated by Miami-based exiles, a major escalation of pressure by the Trump administration on the socialist government. President Donald Trump has set a calamitous energy blockade on the island and has been threatening military action ever since U.S. forces captured the Cuban government’s longtime patron, Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro. . . Top Communist Party leader praises Raúl Castro, says Cubans will defend his legacy ‘at any cost’ . . . Cuban president condemns Castro indictmentCuban President Miguel Díaz-Canel condemned the indictment of Raúl Castro and accused the U.S. of lying and manipulating the events of 1996. He called it “a political action without any legal basis” that only seeks to “bolster the case they are fabricating to justify the folly of a military aggression against Cuba.”
The question is how are we going to actually slap the cuffs on him, since as with Nicolas Maduro it would obviously entail some form of military action. While the operation in Venezuela that led to his apprehension was minimal and textbook, Attempting the same in Cuba might be much more problematic. This is a smart military blog after all so I'll leave it to the commenters here who have given us that reputation to discuss how best to bring about Castro's capture and the downfall of the regime as quickly and neatly as possible.
And with that, we now come to scumbag number one for the day:
On Wednesday’s broadcast of CNN’s “Situation Room,” Rep. Jim Himes (D-CT) discussed possible legal action against Raul Castro and said that “Legal accountability is critical. And, by the way, the Trump administration people may think about that as they undertake illegal wars and illegal actions, for example, the double-tap strike on the two individuals, the drug runners who were clinging to a sinking boat.” And “It is possible that Raul Castro undertook criminal activities, not a concept that would be entirely foreign to the occupant of the Oval Office himself.”
Yeah, nice subtle way to slander our President while weeping for the criminals poisoning our people, you degenerate filth. And with that we slide right into the next greasy shitstain on society.
Wednesday on MS NOW’s “Ana Cabrera Reports,” political commentator Stacey Abrams said Democrats have to “fight back against” President Donald Trump’s “authoritarian regime.” . . . Abrams said, “Well, Ana, that’s the work that I’m doing with the 10 Steps Campaign. We are fighting to show that Democrats and people who believe in democracy can fight back against an authoritarian regime that is doing everything in its power to create harm and chaos. I’m here right now because we believe that in Georgia and across the country, the — the false incarceration of families and children show that we have to stand up for and defend our people, that we can have safe borders without denying the humanity of the people that we serve. And so what Democrats have to do in Georgia and across the country is actually fight. We have to show that we will make certain that democracy delivers . .
That Democrats deliver fake ballots by the tractor-trailer load like they did in 2020 as well as real bullets like in Butler Pa, and at synagogues, churches, pregnancy crisis enters and schools by transexual maniacs and others. . .
The obligatory mass-shooter manifesto has been recovered in the wake of Monday’s San Diego mosque shooting carried out by two teenage losers, and predictably, it is a testament of nihilistic rage directed at just about everybody and everything. Apparently the truth can be ignored, because this is an absurd smear. There is no “state-funded demonization of Muslim Americans.” The San Diego mosque shooting notwithstanding, there is no climate of “anti-Muslim bigotry” in America. There is no such thing as Islamophobia, the “irrational fear of Islam.” There most certainly is, however, a growing, justifiable frustration among American patriots who are fed up with surging Islamic supremacism, Islamic antisemitism, the demonstrable threat of spreading sharia, and outright Islamic terrorism not only in this country but throughout the Western world. Based on their own statements in the manifesto, the Jew-haters Clark and Vasquez were more likely to attack a synagogue than a mosque; in fact, the manifesto confirms that they hoped to have opportunities to hit “a diverse selection of targets,” but proximity may have prompted them to target the Islamic Center of San Diego first (it’s in the same neighborhood as the house where Clark lived).
Psaki-Psircling back to Tank Abrams, it's noxious blathering like her oral flatus that drives maniacs like the ones in San Diego which was a one-off of extreme rarity, compared to Leftist violence (and the San Diego duo are freaks who have been disowned by everyone on our side of the divide, although that is never reported of course) which is praised and even sanctioned by Democrats and Leftists at every level of influence...
And with that, it brings us to our final emetic of the day:
Two police officers who defended the United States Capitol on January 6, 2021, are suing the Trump administration in an attempt to block a new $1.8 billion Justice Department compensation fund designed to provide relief to Americans the administration says were targeted by politically motivated Biden-era prosecutions. Former Capitol Police officer Harry Dunn and Metropolitan Police officer Daniel Hodges filed suit this week against President Donald Trump, Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche, and Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent, claiming the administration lacks the authority to establish what critics have labeled an “anti-weaponization” fund without congressional approval.The lawsuit argues the fund could ultimately compensate some January 6 defendants and members of “paramilitary groups,” with the officers warning it could embolden political violence.
I imagine somewhere up in Heaven, Ashli Babbitt and Roseanne Boyland are looking down and shrieking "you bastards can go straight to Hell!!!"
I know I am. And hopefully the murdeous Michael Byrd, who executed n unarmed and harmless, Ms. Babbitt in cold blood, will descend to a fiery damnation before too long, having escaped justice in this world, aided and abetted by a system that enabled the murder of those women and the persecution and ruination of hundreds of other decent American citizens on that black day. What happened on 1/6 was engineered by and/or approved by none other than Malig-Nancy Pelosi herself. Her complicity or dereliction of duty in the proper deployment of the Capitol Police and refusal to allow National Guard Troops to secure the area resulted in the chaos and indeed she used that as pretext to declare an insurrection wanting to use it as a political weapon with which to destroy President Trump and indeed all political opposition to the Democrat Party if not to seize power with her bony claws and never let go.
Along with their aiding and abetting the Dresdenization of America's cities during the summer of 2020, the events of that black day of 1/6 underscores the lack of trust in law enforcement and our justice system — not only by those who become "involved" with it but by ordinary law-abiding Americans who want nothing more than to be left alone to go about their lives and whose taxes have paid for their own abuse, at the hands of said corrupt justice system and of course by an out of control bureaucracy.
Okay, I'm exhausted.
¡Cuba Libre!
Have a good day.
- ABOVE THE FOLD, BREAKING, NOTEWORTHY
- Victor Davis Hanson: The 'Thucydides Trap' is a misread of history: wars are not inevitable between rising and ruling powers, and today’s US-China balance points more to deterrence than destiny.
America Is Not Caught in a ‘Thucydides Trap!’
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Daily Tech News 21 May 2026
—Pixy Misa
Top Story- AMD has released its new Epyc Sorano CPU range for low-end servers. (WCCFTech)
Where low-end now means six-channel RAM and up to 84 cores. All full Zen 5 cores too, none of this efficiency nonsense.
And 96 lanes of PCIe 5.0, all in a 225W TDP. It runs at up to 4.5GHz, which is pretty good for a server processor (and would make for a good workstation CPU), but due to thermal constraints the base clock of the 84 core model is just 1.6GHz. (The slower models are faster in that respect.)
- Speaking of workstation CPUs, AMD's rumoured 10th Anniversary edition Ryzen 5800X3D is fast becoming more than a rumour. (Tom's Hardware)
It's something of a legend, since AMD killed it because it was competing to well with its own newer and more profitable models like the 7800X3D. Plus it works with DDR4 memory, so if you happened to nab of cheap 128GB of DDR4 at the end of last year just before the door slammed shut, it would make fine use of that... If it were available.
Not only has the 5800X3D been removed from sale, so has the slower 5700X3D. The 5600X3D is a Micro Center exclusive, and the 5500X3D is China-only.
But all of that looks set to change with packaging and pricing showing up ahead of release: It looks set to cost around $300, compared to $450 when it originally launched.
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Wednesday Night ONT - May 20, 2026 [TRex]
—Open Blogger
Good evening Horde. The time has come for mid-week shenanigans. This will be a colorful ONT. The bar is open.
Welcome to the Wednesday night ONT which means another edition of random overnight fun and games. Pull up a chair and sit a spell. Good will offerings of amusing puns are happily accepted and are eligible for comment of the week consideration. Pants are optional (but pants or the lack of pants has no role in comment of the week consideration). Be nice to your fellow commenters and AoS contributors (being nice has an impact on comment of the week consideration). This is a Tucker, Candace, Megyn and Bill Kristol free zone. Please (violations definitely impact comment of the week consideration).
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[Top photo: Guess how many jelly beans are in the jar.]
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Midweek Burn-Out Cafe
—Disinformation Expert Ace
Inner Mongolian Child
by Han Chengli
A duck stretches his legs.
Panda enjoying his toys.
Dog gets a diploma.
Don't mess with a cat. They play for blood.
Boys and girls are completely 100% the exact same. Their gender is just assigned by tightass parents.
Little turtle backs away from a big ol' river monster.
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One of Jack Smith's Prosecutors Was Just Charged for Hiding Classified Documents About Trump, Disguising Them as "Cake Recipes"
—Disinformation Expert Ace
Prosecutor charged for allegedly emailing self sealed Jack Smith Trump report veiled as cake recipesThe Justice Department has identified prosecutor as Carmen Mercedes Lineberger, the managing assistant U.S. Attorney of the Fort Pierce branch of the United States Attorney's Office for the Southern District of Florida.
By Jerry Dunleavy
A federal prosecutor in the office that helped handle Justice Department special counsel Jack Smith's classified documents case regarding his investigation into Donald Trump was charged Wednesday for allegedly illegally emailing herself a copy of the materials disguised as cake recipes.The department announced the indicted prosecutor as Carmen Mercedes Lineberger, a managing assistant U.S. attorney of the Fort Pierce branch of the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Southern District of Florida.
Lineberger has been charged with two counts of theft of government money or property; the destruction, alteration or falsification of records in federal investigations; and with the concealment, removal or mutilation of public records.
The charges against Lineberger were filed in the Northern District of Florida. She pleaded not guilty on Wednesday.
The department, in announcing the charges, said that in separate instances in late 2025, Lineberger altered the electronic file names of government records that she received in her official capacity "to conceal" her unauthorized electronic transmission of the records to personal email accounts belonging to her "without being detected."
The altered government records included a document that included parts of internal DOJ electronic messages, an internal DOJ memorandum and a DOJ report related to a criminal prosecution that had been court-ordered to remain under seal and prohibited from distribution or disclosure outside of the department, the DOJ also said.
Lineberger allegedly attempted to conceal her actions by saving electronic copies of the government records in question under misleading file names such as "chocolate cake recipe" and "Bundt cake recipe" before emailing the documents to her personal email accounts.
The DOJ also said Wednesday that Lineberger also acted "knowing that her transmission of the record outside DOJ directly violated the court order and impaired the proper administration of the underlying criminal prosecution."
"This afternoon, a former managing assistant U.S. Attorney who supported Jack Smith's politicized investigation of President Trump has been charged with stealing the confidential investigation documents," FBI Director Kash Patel said in a Wednesday afternoon X post. "This FBI will not hesitate to bring to account those who violated the trust of the American public in an investigation that should've never been brought to begin with."
Republicans -- the Real Ones -- Win Big In Georgia, Sweeping the Suprme Court Races and Sending Raffensberger and His Grima Wormtounge Into Retirement
—Disinformation Expert Ace
First, the two Supreme Court races:
OSZ @OpenSourceZone17h
Republicans sweep and win both Supreme Court Elections in Georgia tonight
🔴 Charlie Bethel: 51.6% ✅
🔵 Miracle Rankin: 48.4%🔴 Sarah Hawkins Warren: 59.7% ✅
🔵 Jen Jordan: 40.3%(85% Reporting)
I saw Black Conservative Perspective crowing that when Republicans bother to vote in these non-presidential years -- which we've been pretty bad about lately -- we win.
On to Secretary of State and chief vote-counter Brad Raffensperger, the Democrat plant who insisted that there was not a single fraudulent vote cast in Georgia in 2020.
He attempted to illegally hide his counting of the votes from outside observers, but was ordered to allow observers in by a judge:
LindellTV @RealLindellTVMay 19
🚨 BREAKING NEWS OUT OF GEORGIA: A Fulton County judge has officially ORDERED that Georgia State Election Board members be granted access to Brad Raffensperger's controversial "secret bunker" where statewide election results are aggregated.
The order, signed by Judge Earl Glanville, was filed this morning and marks a major victory for election transparency advocates after months of backlash over the locked-down facility being hidden from board members, candidates, and the public.
"There should be equal access and transparency for everyone." - @1stVCGAGOP
Grubbs also raised serious concerns about @GaSecofState allies allegedly having insider access to election operations while election integrity advocates and even board members were shut out.
She further accused Raffensperger of placing election workers in difficult legal territory by reportedly visiting county election offices while actively running for governor - citing Georgia election law restrictions on candidates being present around ballot processing operations.
"If Georgia's elections are truly the cleanest and most transparent in the country... why keep this place secret?"
Massive development in Georgia election oversight.
Update: Piper says the judge rescinded that TRO, so the secret vote counting is back on, at least unless he decides otherwise at an upcoming hearing.
Raffensperger was running to be the "Republican" candidate for governor.
Republicans rejected him like he was Tom Massie asking them if they're "swingers."
Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger became the latest enemy of President Donald Trump's to lose a Republican primary on Tuesday.Billionaire Rick Jackson and Lt. Gov. Burt Jones advanced to a runoff election for the GOP nomination for Georgia governor -- locking out Raffensperger, who rose to prominence defending Georgia's 2020 election results but struggled to gain traction among his party's increasingly MAGA base.
Raffensperger's defeat is another sign of Trump's grip on the GOP, following the president's wins ousting state Republican senators who clashed with him over redistricting in Indiana and Sen. Bill Cassidy's loss in Louisiana on Saturday.
But the runoff also prolongs an already rancorous and expensive primary by several weeks. Jackson, a political newcomer who entered the race late but quickly rose in the polls, and Jones, who boasts Trump's endorsement, are both courting the same MAGA voters.
Raffensperger's hand-picked toadie Gabe Sterling was meanwhile running to fill his position as chief Democrat vote-rigger.
This is amazing:
Election Wizard @ElectionWizGabe Sterling (Raffensperger's right hand at the GA Secretary of State) just lost the GOP primary for the job. In 2020 he was on TV insisting there was NO fraud. Then it turned out someone had fraudulently voted using his own home address. Tonight MAGA returned the favor.
Students of physiognomy will be interested to learn that he looks like Karl Rove's jerksock came to life and developed gynecomastia.
This fat pile of old dusty cum was a apparently a star witness for the Pelosi/Cheney J6 committee, providing false claims about zero ballots being double-scanned (and counted twice).
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No Longer Propped Up by the American Taxpayer, Communist Former-State Media NPR Will Cut 300 Jobs
—Disinformation Expert Ace
NPR is slashing jobs and restructuring its newsroom as the public-radio giant grapples with a financial crunch fueled by federal funding cuts, weakening station revenue and dramatic changes in how Americans consume news.
The nonprofit broadcaster told staff this week that roughly 300 employees, mostly on newsgathering desks, are eligible for voluntary buyouts as executives scramble to close an $8 million budget gap.
NPR management expects only about 30 employees to accept the buyouts voluntarily, meaning layoffs in the 425-strong newsroom could follow if too few workers opt in.
The downsizing comes during a grim moment for the news biz, with the Washington Post seeing brutal cuts and CBS News launching layoffs earlier this year.
But they're not in the news business. They're in the propaganda business.
Fox manages just fine in the news business.
Communists should try reporting news rather than Party Doctrines.
NPR's crisis traces back at least to last summer, when Congress voted to eliminate roughly $1.1 billion in funding for the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, dealing a massive blow to local stations that pay NPR for programming.Though NPR has long said direct federal grants account for less than 1% of its budget, the organization depends heavily on fees from member stations, many of which are now under severe financial strain.
They lied and said "we only get 1% of our funding from the federal government." Yet when that "only 1%" is cut, they're forced to fire 300 of their 425 "news gatherers."
Liars.
Democrat Who Won the Most Votes for the Primary for Texas' 35th District Wants to Create Concentration Camps for "Zionists" and Forcibly Castrate Them
—Disinformation Expert Ace
That's not an exaggeration, that's her policy program as announced on her Instagram page.
Bill Melugin @BillMelugin_Maureen Galindo, a Democrat running for Congress in TX-35, says in an Instagram post that she would turn an ICE detention center near San Antonio "into a prison for American Zionists", and will also use it as a castration processing center for pedophiles, "which will probably be most of the Zionists".
Yes, it's real, and yes the post is still up. She has a runoff election next week.
In other posts on her Instagram, Galindo claims that her runoff opponent, Johnny Garcia, was part of a human trafficking conspiracy orchestrated by "billionaire Zionist Jews."
She did not outright win the primary, as she did not hit 50%, but she won most of the votes. She will now face another Democrat in a runoff.
Controversy-tarred congressional candidate Maureen Galindo this week pledged to transform a site south of San Antonio now used by the Trump administration to detain migrants into an internment camp for "American Zionists.""She'll turn Karnes ICE Detention Center into a prison for American Zionists and former ICE officers for human trafficking," Galindo wrote in an Instagram post over the weekend, referring to herself in the third person. "It will also be a castration processing center for pedophiles, which will probably be most of the Zionists."
Galindo's latest set of inflammatory remarks comes as the Democratic hopeful for Texas' newly redrawn 35th Congressional District continues to draw national attention for remarks critics have called antisemitic and untethered from reality. The controversy is snowballing as she heads into the May 26 Democratic primary runoff.
Over the past week, Galindo has accused her runoff opponent -- former Bexar County Public Information Officer Johnny Garcia -- of participating in a human trafficking conspiracy orchestrated by billionaire zionist Jews. She also pledged during a Texas Public Radio interview to put Garcia on trial for treason.
Beyond her attacks on Garcia, Galindo has continued to promote the narrative that a cabal of Jewish zionists controls Hollywood, the media and even local politicians.
Jake Tapper is right now pondering how to turn this into a political attack piece on Republicans.
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Thomas Massie Has No Constituency and Leaves No Legacy
—Disinformation Expert Ace
In the last weeks of his doomed campaign, Tom Massie made explicit what he had previously been coy about: He was a full-blown Nazi.
He also pulled off the mask and revealed he was a man of the left all along. Dana Loesch tried to book him on the show. His press fag said "No," flatly, with no explanation.
But he did make time to appear as a guest on the podcast of Noted Conservative Pundits Cenk Uygur and Ana Kasparian.
When he spoke to his Nazi supporters after his loss, he made his antisemitism clearer still, stating that he would have come out sooner, but it took time to locate his opponent "in Tel Aviv."
He then debuted his upcoming podcast by accusing the Jews of having "bought" his seat out from under him.
Note that Massie spent just as much money as his opponent, and that most of Massie's money came from out of state donors or out of country donors. Many of his donors were leftwingers in California, and many of them are pro-Hamas Muslims.
But but but Muh AIPAC. America First or whatever.
He also claimed he had conducted himself "with honor" and had not thrown a "single foul ball," which... doesn't make sense. You can throw a strike and you can throw a ball but you can't throw a foul ball. You hit a foul ball.
So he's a Gay Nerd Who Doesn't Watch Baseball, too.
Really? Not a single foul ball?
Jordan Schachtel
@JordanSchachtel14h
Don't forget that Massie pulled a last gasp fraud play to try to trick voters into thinking that Trump endorsed him for reelection. When the pressure was on, he showed what kind of person that he's become. What an ugly way to go out.
A few accounts reminded me that Massie was a jock-sniffer for liberal California Speaker Kevin McCarthy -- along with MTG, of course -- and seemed to have spiraled after his Fren got booted out of power, determined to avenge him against the entire Republican Party.
What a prickly, fussy, hyper-emotional "man."
After Massie further accused SEAL hero Ed Gallrein of being an ISRAELI ASSET -- does anyone remember the RUSSIAN AGENT hoax? -- Gallrein had enough and blasted him.
Overton
@overton_news
Trump-backed Ed Gallrein just unloaded on Rep. Thomas Massie after his win.He said Massie wasn't voting against Trump -- he was voting against the very people who elected him.
GALLREIN: "Simply put, what we'd say in Kentucky because I'm pretty plain spoken, is he went to Washington, he burned every bridge, he burned a bridge factory and ran off everybody that would build a bridge to the conservative Republicans."
"Again, the left-wing Democrats, the radical Democrats loved him."
"His votes against our party and our nation go farther back."
"I want to add one thing, Sean, for you and the viewers, and our conservative Republican friends out there..."
"Remember, it wasn't just President Trump. President Trump won nearly 78 million votes in the presidential race. The most ever for a Republican president."
"He won 31 states, including the swing states and also 312 electoral votes."
"And here in this district, President Trump won by 85%."
"He stood against us! But he liked to single out President Trump."
"All that to say it's a new day, these people deserve better and I'm going to give it to them."
He had a positive message as well. And he didn't even thank Bibi Netanyahu or the Mossad a single time.
Ed Gallrein @EdGallrein1h
As I reflect on yesterday's victory, I want to begin by thanking President Donald J. Trump for his support, confidence, and unwavering commitment to fighting for our country and the America First movement.I am deeply humbled and honored by the trust the people of Kentucky have placed in me. This victory belongs to the hardworking patriots across our Commonwealth who believe in faith, freedom, secure borders, strong families, and putting America first.
To every voter, volunteer, supporter, and friend who stood with our campaign -- thank you. Thank you for your prayers, sacrifice, encouragement, and belief in our mission. I will never forget the support you showed my family and me throughout this journey.
Over the course of this campaign, I had the privilege of meeting thousands of Kentuckians from every walk of life -- veterans, farmers, first responders, small business owners, workers, parents, and young people hopeful for the future of our nation. Your stories inspired me every single day.
The Navy SEAL Teams taught me that no mission is accomplished alone. Success requires trust, teamwork, discipline, and people willing to fight side by side for something greater than themselves. I saw that same spirit throughout this campaign, from the farms and small towns of Kentucky to the incredible grassroots team that poured their hearts into this race.
While yesterday was a victory worth celebrating, there is still much work to be done. The real mission begins now. I will fight every day to serve the people of Kentucky, support President Trump's agenda, strengthen our country, and never forget the trust you placed in me.
Thank you again for this incredible honor. I am ready to get to work.
May God bless each of you, the Commonwealth of Kentucky, and the United States of America 🇺🇸
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Wednesday Morning Rant
—Joe Mannix
The Left is defined by predictability. They are so predictable that they put the Cesium clock at NIST to shame. Once the Left latches onto some rationalization or another, it will never, for any reason, ever back down from it. Whatever the idea was, no amount of evidence or counter-evidence will ever change the position. After the position is taken and codified, it is immutable. At most, the Left will abandon one implementation of an idea - but never the idea itself.
Once of these ideas that never, ever goes away is the absurdist notion that creating officially approved venues for criminal activity will reduce that criminal activity outside of those venues. Ace mentioned a new one on this front yesterday, where some cities are making designated venues for wilding teens in the hopes that it will be appealing enough to prevent the feral youth from committing crimes elsewhere. This is absurd, of course, but it is also utterly unsurprising. This is always the answer to crimes committed by preferred groups.
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