FMJRA 2.0: A Winning Week

Posted on | May 12, 2024 | No Comments

My Senators had a good week last week, taking two of three from the Atlanta Bananas and surprisingly enough, two out of three from Pete’s Brewers. We’re 22-28, tied with the Twins for last place in the division and eleven games in back of the Brewers. We’re scheduled to play the Angels Tuesday, but since I’m going to be in the air most of Tuesday, I’m hoping to postpone the series until I get home on Wednesday.
Had been thinking about buying Albert Bouchard’s Re:Imaginos albums (if you aren’t familiar with the story behind those, read this) but I decided to listen to the middle album of the trilogy, Bombs Over Germany (Minus Zero & Counting) on YouTube. This was a wise decision. I had hoped that the album, largely made of remixes of BOC songs, would mostly be in the style of BOC’s music from their third through sixth albums (Secret Treaties through Fire of Unknown Origin), but it was not, and I generally found the songs annoying and dissonant. Your mileage may vary.
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In The Mailbox: 05.07.24 (Afternoon Edition)
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In The Mailbox: 05.08.24 (Abbreviated Punditocracy Edition)
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A Made-for-TV Travesty: Can You Guess Who Takes Stormy Daniels Seriously?
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Red-Pilled at Last? ‘Reliably Anti-Trump People…Have Had It With Biden’
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White Criminal Gets Shot by Police

Posted on | May 12, 2024 | No Comments

Alan Metka is a California resident and a convicted felon:

A terrifying moment was captured on police body camera when an armed man with a criminal history caught a female Fontana officer in a headlock.
The officer’s partner shot the suspect and they were able to take him into custody. He survived and is awaiting trial.
The incident happened Feb. 9 in Yucaipa. Fontana officers were involved in a gang operation with the San Bernardino County Sheriff’s Department when they pulled the man over for traffic violations.
The encounter started with a friendly tone, as the female officer spoke to the man and her partner went to the vehicle to run his information.
Suddenly he hears his partner yell for help and sees the suspect wrestling her with his arm around her neck.
As her body-worn camera later revealed, the change in his demeanor happened as she discovered the man was hiding a gun.
“He’s got a gun,” she shouts as the struggle starts.
The officer ran to help his partner and shot the suspect one time. The video shows him on the ground in pain. He was cuffed and taken to a local hospital to be treated for his injury.
Officials later identified the suspect as Alan A. Metka, 56, of Fontana.
He was arrested for assault with a deadly weapon on a peace officer.
The department says Metka has an extensive criminal history, which includes arrests for assault, carjacking, robbery, possession of an explosive device and illegal firearms possession.

The reason I’m calling attention to this incident is because, if you get your information from the national media, you might believe that only black people ever get shot by cops. Or run over by cops, as in the Michigan case of Samuel Sterling. There is a sort of media script, when it comes to cops killing black suspects — the “family demands answers” stories, made-for-TV press conferences by the “civil rights” attorney, the protest crowd at the courthouse, etc. This script reflects an apparently widespread belief among journalists that systemic injustice must be involved in such incidents. No matter how extensive the suspect’s prior criminal history, or what it was that led up to the suspect getting killed by cops, most journalists display a childlike naivete: “But he was black and the cops shot him.” To which reasonable people might reply, “So what?”

There are tens of millions of black people in this country who have never been shot by a cop, for the simple reason that they’ve never done the sort of things that lead up to such incidents. Yet many in the media seem to believe that law enforcement is a genocidal conspiracy against black people, and their coverage reflects that belief, despite all contradictory evidence, e.g., the shooting of a white guy like Alan Metka. In many ways, his shooting was quite typical — convicted felon in possession of a firearm gets pulled over for a traffic violation, and the “routine traffic stop” escalates after cops ask him to step out of the car. Next thing the cops know, they’re in a fight for their lives, and the suspect gets shot.

Ben Crump is not holding press conferences about this shooting, for some reason. Nobody is smashing windows or looting CVS in protest of any alleged violation of Alan Metka’s “rights.” He’s a white guy, and nobody cares — nor should they, I hasten to add. Criminals getting shot by cops is a statistical rarity, and only a comparative handful of such shootings involve any questions about the lawfulness of the officers’ actions.

Several years ago, the Washington Post started a database of all fatal police shootings in the United States, which tells us that as of today, there have been 1,133 such shootings in the past 12 months. This may seem like a large number, but in a nation with a population over 330 million, it’s the proverbial drop in a bucket. However, if only 1% of those fatal shootings were questionable or unjustified, that’s 11 protest opportunities annually. What that means is that 99% of police shootings could be entirely legitimate, yet if half of the dubious cases involved black suspects, the media would still get a half-dozen or so chances every year to depict cops as racist killers gunning down innocent black people.

THIS IS EXACTLY WHAT THEY DO — seize upon the handful of such cases, which looked at in isolation may indeed be grievously wrong, but which are in no way typical of law enforcement in general. And given what we know, that in an average month, 94 suspects are killed by police gunfire, that means there will be about 500 such shootings between now and Election Day. Almost certainly among these shootings will be three or four cases where an unarmed black man is shot to death by police in circumstances where the shooting seems unjustified. The national media will seize upon the most egregious of these cases, and we’ll have more “mostly peaceful protests,” the real purpose of which is political, i.e., to “energize the base” for Joe Biden’s reelection campaign.

Be prepared for another “long, hot summer.”

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In The Mailbox: 05.10.24

Posted on | May 10, 2024 | No Comments

— compiled by Wombat-socho

SOTD (it’s been on my mind)
Had a good afternoon & evening hanging out with Stacy & Kirby McCain, and got to see the first few episodes of Fallout, which was entertaining.
Ceterum autem censeo Silicon Valley et Hamas delendam sunt.

OVER THE TRANSOM
EBL: Glenarvon, Homunculus Troll Greta Thunberg ?? Hamas, Saint Damien de Veuster of Moloka’i, and Eurovision 2024: Israel’s Eden Golan: Hurricane
Twitchy: Man Gives Local Government Creative Finger Over Boat Fence Mandate, Newsom-Appointed Regulators OK Change To Utility Billing That Makes Responsible Customers Pay More, and Patricia Heaton Decimates Florida Mosque Speaker Who Whines That He Can’t Deny The Holocaust
Louder With Crowder: Patriotic and Petty! Man’s response to complaints about HIS boat in HIS driveway goes viral, “I like to make a political statement”, also, Pro-Hamas teen f*cks around desecrating WW1 memorial, finds out when his FATHER turns him into police
Vox Popoli: WWIII and the Élefsiton, also, Dominic Cummings Smells the Coffee
According To Hoyt: ReRuns, We Ain’t Dead Yet, and The State of The Writer
Monster Hunter Nation: Monster Hunter Fantom
Upstream Reviews: The Thing From HR

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
Adam Piggott: Israel is and always has been a Terrorist State
American Conservative: Teaching in the Age of the Smartphone
American Greatness: Will the Real Dictator Please Stand Up?—If He’s Able
American Thinker: Hamas Declares That It Will Make No Further Concessions
Animal Magnetism: Rule Five Cow Cuddling Friday, also, Animal’s Red Thursday News
Babalu Blog: Disastrous harvest forces Cuba to import sugar, Reports from Cuba: Government exports 90% of island’s honey, which Cubans must buy on the black market, and Top medical official in Italy denounces incompetence of Cuban doctors as well as their enslavement
BattleSwarm: Paxton Sues NGO For Aiding Illegal Alien Invasion, also, LinkSwarm For May 10
Behind The Black: SpaceX launches 20 more Starlink satellites, Starlink revenue in 2024 estimated at $6.6 billion, Update of the reusable cargo capsule by the French company, The Exploration Company, Perseverance looks ahead, out of Jezero Crater, Pentagon: SpaceX effectively blocking Russian illegal use of Starlink, and German startup loses prototype of aerospike spaceplane during test
Cafe Hayek: Doug Irwin on Trade Openness and Economic Growth
CDR Salamander: Fullbore Friday
Da Tech Guy: Media’s opening attacks on Trump allies, God Help the College Idiots if Israel Takes Into Account The Single Most Important Fact from VDH’s Latest, Irony Overload Pro Hamas Camps NOT ALLOWED by the Palestinian Authority in Universities Controlled by Them, We Interrupt our Coverage of the Problems of the world for an update on our 1972 Dynasty Draft League Season, Donuts are now a luxury food item, and Young Sheldon, George Cooper and the Ivermectin Irony
Don Surber: We don’t want journalism back
First Street Journal: A hunger strike is only effective if someone actually cares if you starve yourself to death
Gates Of Vienna: Jihad Comes to the Tourtoirac Cemetery, The Great Vaccine Leap Forward, Send ’Em Back — The Ukrainians, That Is, Paul Weston: Mass Murder in the Care Homes, We’ll Always Have Malmö, and Morally Corrupt Stupidity or Malicious Culpability?
The Geller Report: “Palestinianism”: Jew-Hating Terror Students Caught Making Nazi Salute, Impersonating Hitler
Hollywood In Toto: How Did We Miss David Mamet’s Spartan? Irreverent Mr. Birchum Hammers Woke Culture, Six Reasons Baby Reindeer Earned All That Hype, Tom Brady Roast Proves Woke Is on the Run, Woke Wicked Little Letters – Clapter: The Movie, and When Will Stars Speak Up for Canceled Jews?
The Lid: Fed Chief Admits that Illegals Raise Mortgage Rates for Americans
Legal Insurrection: Farm States Resisting Biden Administration’s Bird Flu Response, Only 6 of the 33 Arrested at George Washington U. Were Students, Emerson College Giving Arrested Anti-Israel Protesters Bail, Extended Housing for Court, Republican Senators Want Biden to Reject WHO’s Proposed “Pandemic Treaty”, Evergreen State College Caves to Anti-Israel Protesters, Will Form Divestment Task Force, and This Is How It’s Done: Frat Boys Challenge Antifa To A Push-Up Contest
Nebraska Energy Observer: Put your money, also, Scattershot Friday
Outkick: College Players Should Be Forced To Pay Contract Buyout If They Transfer Under Revenue Sharing, UCLA Will Have To Pay Cal $10 Million Per Year For Leaving Pac-12, Jayson Tatum On Celtics ‘Super Team’ Label: ‘We Didn’t Get Rewarded Like We Are’, Shaq’s Nikola Joki? MVP Rant Sparks Ongoing Feud With Shannon Sharpe, And It Gets Personal, Caitlin Clark’s Indiana Fever Already Soaring As 13,028 Fans Show For Preseason Game, After A Respectable Fight Brandel Chamblee Finally Surrenders To The Saudis And LIV Golf, and Like It Or Not, The ‘Summer Of Olivia Dunne’ Is About To Begin As MLB Has Their Taylor Swift
Power Line: The Nine-Percent Solution, Begin & Bibi v. Biden, Oil Companies: Please Support Trump! and Thoughts from the ammo line
Shark Tank: Buchanan & Soto Introduce Bill To Strengthen Healthcare Ties With Israel
Shot In The Dark: I’ve Never Been Less Proud To Be An American, also, Little Boxes Made Of Ticky-Tack
STUMP: Ohio Pension Drama Continues – Investigation Called On “Hostile Takeover”
The Political Hat: Firing Line Friday: Public Medicine?
This Ain’t Hell: Dick Rutan into the skies one last time, VA Faker Awarded Federal Prison Time, Valor Friday, American woman trained with ISIS, and Boy Scouts changing to Scouting America
Transterrestrial Musings: On The Pro-Terrorist Gender Gap, also, Mars Sample Return
Victory Girls: Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. And His Brain Worms
Volokh Conspiracy: District Court Dismisses Genesis B. Kids Climate Suit Against the EPA
Watts Up With That: Concerns Mount Over Exploding Electric Vehicles, Green Extremist Activists Attack Magna Carta Document in London, and Biden Administration locking up public lands from West to East
The Federalist: Working Moms Shouldn’t Have To Choose Between Girlboss And Tradwife, Pressure Grows For Ohio Speaker To Advance Bill Keeping Foreign Cash Out Of Elections, The Discovery Of ‘Mass Graves’ Of Indigenous Canadian Children Was Actually A Massive Hoax, This Week In Lawfare Land: Prosecutor Misconduct Jeopardizes Another Case, North Carolina’s Early Voting Locations Illegally Favor Democrats, and Presbyterian Church In America Invites Professional Polarizer David French To Lecture Christians On Getting Along
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In The Mailbox: 05.09.24 (Evening Edition)

Posted on | May 9, 2024 | No Comments

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Silicon Valley et Hamas delenda sunt.

OVER THE TRANSOM
357 Magnum: Don’t Bring A Knife To A Gunfight
Twitchy: Bulwark Host Thinks Anti-Trumpers Who’ve Had It With Biden Are “Children”, “Walkable City” Enthusiast Tries To Talk Up Urban Life, Picks Awful Photo To Make His Point, and Ben “Hamas” Rhodes Spreads Terrorist Propaganda With Zero Shame
Louder With Crowder: Anti-Trump actor Michael Rapaport finally gets pushed over the edge by “Cadaver Joe Biden,” rants about why Biden LOST his vote
Vox Popoli: Bad Literature as Predictive Model, Sweden Has a Gun Problem, and A HISTORY OF THE FREEDOM OF THOUGHT
L’Ombre de L’Olivier: Silly Season Arriving Early This Year
Ammo.com: Most Gun-Friendly States In 2024, Second Amendment Grades For Pennsylvania’s 2024 Candidates
Gab: Australia Big Mad At Gab For Refusing To Censor
Stoic Observations: Amateur Philanthropy, Diversity, & Inclusion

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
Adam Piggott: Our Sinking Boat, also, Israel Begins to Panic
American Conservative: Conservative Media Outlets Are Beating Back the State Department
American Greatness: Try a Little Honesty About Israel, also, FBI Admits to Bringing Props to Stage Crime Scene Photos at Mar-a-Lago
American Thinker: The Real Reason Pro-Hamas Protesters Wear Masks, also, Will the Supreme Court Let This Crisis Go to Waste?
Animal Magnetism: Goodbye, Blue Monday, Animal’s Daily Cheating Cheaters Who Cheat News, Animal’s Hump Day News, and Animal Magnetism LIVE Ep. 6 – Spring Surprises
Babalu Blog: Cuban dissident sentenced to 3 years in prison for possession of slingshot rubber bands, Canadian government issues travel warning for tourists visiting communist Cuba, and Cuba has imported $20 million worth of vehicles from U.S. in the past 15 months
BattleSwarm: Kentucky Ballistics Tangles With .50 BMG Again, Sony Surrenders In Battle Of Helldivers 2, Given The Chance, Austin Voters Escape Austin, Profiles In Pettiness, and Is Austin’s Toy Train Finally Dead?
Behind The Black: A former SpaceX employee gives a fascinating account of what it is like to work there, Orbital tug startup Starfish Space wins $37.5 million contract from Space Force, SpaceX launches another 23 Starlink satellites, Webb data suggests a super-Earth might have an atmosphere, ULA signs contract to build a second transport ship for its Vulcan rocket, Proposed private GPS-type satellite constellation raises $19 million, and Biden abandons Israel to appease student rioters and help Hamas survive
Cafe Hayek: Rubio Is Ridiculous
CDR Salamander: Diversity Thursday
Chicago Boyz: From the Department of Painfully Inexact Translations, Teach the Children Well, Poor Mexico, and Evolutionary Stability is Real
Da Tech Guy: The Answer is: “When the First Thought That Comes to Mind When Seeing This Story is: ‘Kristi Get Your Gun.’”, Treat female murderers equally, Bonchie Nails It. Let them Reap, Merrick Garland is a coward, and The Future Belongs to Those Who Show Up, Catholic Edition
Don Surber: Never Trumper discovers Biden sucks
First Street Journal: The left are pro-choice on exactly one thing, The pro #Hamas protesters do everything except actually go to Gaza to help, We all have #FreedomOfSpeech, but that does not come with freedom from consequences, You in a heap o’ trouble, boy, and Another five bite the dust!
Gates Of Vienna: The ‘Holy’ Connection, Two Culture-Enrichers ’Fess Up, A Hardened Criminal From the AfD, The Day(s) That Turkish President Erdogan Humiliated America, and Fights, Blackmail, Burglaries, and Drug Trafficking — Really, It’s Not That Bad
The Geller Report: BETRAYAL: Biden Vows to Cut Off Weapons To Israel
Hollywood In Toto: The Life Aquatic Remains Wes Anderson’s Masterpiece, Nate Bargatze Shows Why Clean Comedy Is King, Bill Maher: I’m Retiring from Stand-Up Comedy, Late Night Shame: ‘SNL,’ Colbert Can’t Condemn College Antisemitism, and Can Classic Movies Save Hollywood’s Summer?
The Lid: Seattle Times Turns To Crystal Ball For Answers About Pacific NW Regions Electrical Reliability Problems, also, Study Finds that Electric Vehicles Far More Expensive than Boosters Claim
Legal Insurrection: New EEOC Guidelines Force Employers to Allow Men in Women’s Bathrooms, Prohibit “Misgendering”, Report: Biden Admin Issued Sanctions Waiver on Arms Sales to Arab States Day Before Withholding Weapons From Israel, Princeton Students on Hunger Strike for Palestine Complain School Officials Not Monitoring Their Health, Judge Merchan Denies Trump’s Motion for a Mistrial After Stormy Daniels’ Testimony, Survey Finds Employers Now More Wary of Hiring Ivy League Grads, and Netanyahu Signals Defiance of Biden Threats Over Rafah, as IDF Controls Eastern Sectors of City
Nebraska Energy Observer: Saturday – just for you, Rogate, Get Woke: Go Broke, This is what I feel, and The West is Better
Outkick: DeSean Jackson & LeSean McCoy Claim Former Eagles Coach Chip Kelly ‘Uncomfortable Working With Black Players’, Hugh Freeze Couldn’t Bring Himself To ‘Spend A Million Dollars’ On Transfer QB, But Never Say Never, Tickets To Caitlin Clark’s Regular Season WNBA Debut Are Incredibly Expensive, Ex-Celtic Glen ‘Big Baby’ Davis Gives Unhinged Response To 40-Month Prison Sentence Over Benefits Fraud Scheme, ESPN Runs Promo Calling WNBA ‘The Best League In The World,’ Downplays Caitlin Clark, The Fan Vote For the NHL’s Utah Team Is Here And Most Of The Names Are Atrocious, and Instagram Model’s Brazilian Butt Lift Nearly Cost Her One Of Her Cheeks
Power Line: The Biden betrayal, The Daily Chart: Big Mac Bidenflation, and Princeton Takes the Cake?
Shark Tank: Miami Commissioners Delay Racial Gerrymandering Settlement, May Cost Taxpayers More Money
Shot In The Dark: You’ve Got To Destroy Democracy In Order To Save It, Next Time Gov. Klink Yaps About The Economy, and Dance With The Nebbish That Brung You
STUMP: Drug Overdose Mortality – The Continuing Tragedy In America 1999-2022
The Political Hat: Quick Takes – Health Care For The Healthy & Death To The Sick: Killing Cancer Patients; Killing Kids; Killing Yourself As A Duty To Society
This Ain’t Hell: Army’s Best Warrior is a Navy Corpsman, Tuesday ‘Say it Ain’t So’ liars, American Soldier arrested in Russia, Canada update, and Aerial drones with machine guns used in combat
Transterrestrial Musings: American Jews, The Biggest Obstacle For Joe Biden, Trump Triumphing Over Evil, Suing Protesters, and On The Starship Delays
Victory Girls: Robert Malley, Biden’s Iran Envoy, Had Classified Docs On Personal Email And Phone, also, Illegal Immigrants Throw Tantrums, Send List Of Demands To Denver Mayor
Volokh Conspiracy: Is the Federal Property & Administrative Services Act Unconstitutional?
Watts Up With That: The Cost of EPA’s Senseless CO2 Capture, Wall Street Journal: Companies are Balking at the High Cost of Running Electric Trucks, and The World’s Largest Floating Solar Farm Wrecked by a Storm Just Before Launch
The Federalist: Board Refuses To Have Fulton County Investigated For Double-Scanning 3,000 Ballots In 2020 Recount, Did Federal Agencies Plant Classified Documents To Frame Trump? Mike Johnson Gave Democrats Everything They Wanted And All He Got Was This Stupid ‘Churchill’ T-Shirt, American Families Can’t Get A Grip On Their Budgets Until Washington Fixes Its Own, Campus Terrorists Demand A Steady Supply Of Gluten-Free Meals, Republicans Introduce SAVE Act To Block Illegal Aliens From Voting In U.S. Elections, and Can Frat Bros Save The Republic?
Mark Steyn: Mark Steyn on the Town, Time and Tide, Live Around the Planet: Wednesday May 8th, and A Simpler Time

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Red-Pilled at Last? ‘Reliably Anti-Trump People … Have Had It With Biden’

Posted on | May 9, 2024 | No Comments

Jonah Goldberg is not the worst of the #NeverTrump crowd. Bad, yes, but not as bad as Rick Wilson or David French. Trump Derangement Syndrome wrecked the minds of a lot of Respectable Republican types, and a lot of it had to do with Trump’s de facto repudiation of the Bush “Global War on Terror” (GWOT) legacy. Whether it’s fair to describe Trump’s policy as “isolationist,” his administration definitely sought to limit the “Permanent War for Permanent Peace” interventionist posture that prevailed when the arch-neocons were riding high in the saddle.

So there is a deep irony in the fact that the straw which seems to have broken the camel’s back for the #NeverTrump crowd was Biden’s threat to halt arms sales to Israel:

We reported earlier how Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin confirmed earlier reports of a a ‘pause’ in almost $1 billion in weapons shipments to Israel over its plans to invade Rafah, Hamas’ last stronghold where it’s remaining leadership and battalians are located, along with the hostages. Hamas has been firing rockets from Rafah, and killed four Israeli soldiers at a border crossing used to ship humanitarian aid.
In a CNN interview today, Biden went even further. He threatened that if Israel entered Rafah, the U.S. will halt all offensive weapons supplies to Israel . . .

#BREAKING: Biden tells CNN that he will not only continue to pause shipments of bombs to Israel, but also hold up artillery shells because what the IDF has done and wants to do is “just wrong”….

CNN’s Erin Burnett: “I want to ask you about something happening as we sit here… pic.twitter.com/vqxewKM7CU

— Curtis Houck (@CurtisHouck) May 8, 2024

Biden is pandering to the extreme left — the college “camp-out for Hamas” crowd — and in the process alienating more moderate voters, including ex-Republican neocons like Goldberg, some of whom hated Trump because of the perception that his coalition harbored anti-Semites. Well, that shoe is now on the other (Democratic) foot, and Goldberg’s like the once-reputable sorority girl doing the “walk of shame” after pulling a train with the varsity basketball squad.

Permit me to remark that not a few neocons advocated the invasion of Iraq on the grounds that Saddam was an existential threat to Israel, a claim that did not seem very credible to me at the time. The details of the basis for my skepticism are irrelevant, for this discussion; what is relevant is that so many of the Iraq super-hawks had a bad habit of assuming that any conservative criticism was motivated by anti-Semitism. Because I am the exact opposite — a philo-Semite and an ardent Zionist — I was offended by this assumption. You could be pro-Israel and hate Saddam and still have serious doubts about the wisdom behind the neocons’ Iraq project, i.e., occupying Mesopotamia with the professed goal of turning it into a “democracy.” But some of our neocon friends just couldn’t tolerate such nuances, and while it is true that some “isolationist” conservatives were (and are) actual anti-Semites, such questions of motive ought not distract reasonable people from a discussion of the valid policy issues involved. I won’t call you a “dual citizen” if you don’t call me a crypto-Nazi sympathizer, OK?

My basic feeling is that Israel is tough enough to handle its regional enemies, if the U.S. State Department will just stop meddling around in the Mideast trying to arrange a “peace” deal based on the belief that the Palestinians want peace, a belief for which there is no evidence.

If Trump wins in November, he could fire the entire staff of the State Department, replace them all with the children of Republican campaign donors, and nothing of value would be lost in the transaction. Not saying it would make the State Department better — because GOP donors have a lot of stupid kids — but I’m just saying it couldn’t make things worse. The State Department is decadent and depraved, and no random group of amateurs could do worse than the current “experts” at Foggy Bottom.

Well, I find I’ve digressed a long way, but I owe a hat tip to Ace of Spades, and you can go there to read his scornful mockery of the “NeverTrump Fatsos and Softcocks” who’ve been betrayed by Biden.

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A Made-for-TV Travesty: Can You Guess Who Takes Stormy Daniels Seriously?

Posted on | May 9, 2024 | No Comments

One must be a connoisseur of media bias — or perhaps a glutton for punishment — to watch CNN, which I do (so you don’t have to). Do executives at the third-place cable news networks really think America craves wall-to-wall coverage of the sordid Stormy Daniels “hush money” trial inflicted upon Donald Trump by Soros-sponsored Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg? It boggles my mind that anyone could possibly take this trial seriously, and yet, day after day, there’s Jake Tapper acting as ringmaster of this absurd circus, acting as if a vast audience were tuned in, eager to get the latest details.

THERE IS NO ACTUAL CRIME INVOLVED IN THIS CASE!

Every intelligent American understands this and, I have to point out, Jake Tapper is not stupid. However, his job is to pretend that he doesn’t know what I’m sure he actually does know, i.e., that even if this Manhattan jury were to convict Trump, Bragg’s case is so bogus that it will certainly be thrown out on appeal. It’s not just me saying this, either. Guy Benson, who is perhaps slightly less anti-Trump than David French, calls it a “disgraceful, politically-motivated case”:

The legal theory, if you can call it that, behind Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg’s prosecution involves resuscitating lapsed, possible misdemeanors related to bookkeeping categorizations of (totally legal) ‘hush money’ payments. In order to bypass a pesky ‘expired statute of limitations’ problem, and to escalate the alleged offenses into dozens of felonies, Bragg says the bookkeeping scheme was undertaken in furtherance of an additional crime that he still has not revealed. The Biden donor judge in the case has somehow allowed this to move forward, which many legal experts (including longtime federal prosecutor Andy McCarthy) point to as a glaring basis for appeal. But the final outcome of such a process is beside the real point of this trial, which is to secure a conviction — even if temporarily — against Donald Trump before the November election.
Bragg’s predecessor in the DA’s office looked at these exact same facts and declined to pursue charges. The feds did the same. . . . The ‘crime’ doesn’t involve the alleged affair or the existence of the payment, neither of which violated the law. It involves the way Trump and his lawyer listed the payment in documents. Nevertheless, the jury was treated to salacious specifics about sexual positions, etc. during Daniels’ testimony. . . .

Read the whole thing, because those brief excerpts just barely skim the surface of what’s wrong with this trial, namely everything.

The whole point of Bragg’s case — the raison d’être of this illegitimate prosecution — is to help reelect Joe Biden (which assumes, of course, that Biden actually was elected in 2020, but they’ll condemn you as a dangerous “extremist” if you raise questions about that). And this partisan campaign effort relies upon the willing cooperation of the media, to give it the semblance of being a serious legal matter (which, as previously explained, it’s not). Here’s the big clue: It is immaterial to the alleged criminality of the “hush money” payment whether Trump did or did not have sex with Stephanie Gregory Clifford, the used-up, broken-down, hotdog-down-a-hallway 304 known as “Stormy Daniels.”

Despite the irrelevance of this, the prosecution was allowed to put this lying whore on the witness stand to regale the jury with what she claims are the details of her alleged rendezvous with Donald Trump — which, I hasten to add, she claims happened in July 2006.

ARE YOU FREAKING KIDDING ME WITH THIS?

This “scandal” is about what allegedly happened 18 years ago, a full decade before Trump was elected president and, as I say, it is immaterial to Bragg’s case whether or not sex happened between Trump and this worn-out floozy. Bragg’s “case” (which is not really a case at all) is about the falsification of records related to the payments made to keep the story out of the media in 2016. Bragg’s far-fetched theory is that the payments to Miss Echo Canyon should have been counted as an expense by the Trump campaign, thereby violating federal election regulations. (Of course, it’s not the job of the Manhattan DA’s office to enforce federal election law but, even if it were, nearly all such violations are dealt with by having the offending campaign pay a monetary fine.) Everybody with two eyes and a brain can see that what Bragg is doing is simply about smearing Trump by rehashing this bogus “scandal” which no intelligent person ever cared about to begin with. And yet, despite the laughable fraudulence of this trial, the Serious People in charge of CNN are engaged in an all-hands-on-deck effort to convince their retarded audience that what’s happening in the Manhattan courtroom is Very Important.

Get back to me on Wednesday, November 6, and tell me how effective this Democratic strategy was. My hunch is, it’s going to be a failure. Maybe not as much of a failure as CNN’s ratings, but pretty close.

Democrats are hanging their election hopes on a truck stop hooker. pic.twitter.com/JSBDC0zlHz

— The Drunk Republican (@DrunkRepub) May 8, 2024

It's important to remember that George Soros is the real victim in all of this. https://t.co/wI70FWYr9p

— Mike LaChance (@MikeLaChance33) May 8, 2024

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