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

Posted on | May 9, 2024 | Comments Off on Red-Pilled at Last? ‘Reliably Anti-Trump People … Have Had It With Biden’

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 | 1 Comment

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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In The Mailbox: 05.09.24 (Afternoon Edition)

Posted on | May 9, 2024 | Comments Off on In The Mailbox: 05.09.24 (Afternoon Edition)

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Silicon Valley et Hamas delenda sunt.

The Sisters of Battle are appalled at your impiety.

OVER THE TRANSOM
Twitchy: Day 3 Of My Google Encampment – Help! The Squirrels Are Getting Woker! MSNBC Panel Shocked By Biden v. Trump “Threat To Democracy” Polling, and Court Sketch Artist Must Be MAGA Because These Stormy Daniels Sketches Are Atrocious
Louder With Crowder: Chris Cuomo backtracks on vaccine hesitancy, claims to be injured after shilling for Big Pharma on CNN
Vox Popoli: AI vs Biologists, GHOST OF THE BADLANDS Update, Migrant Rape in Germany, How Civilization Ends, and An Appeal to Innumeracy
Upstream Reviews: Dune Part II

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
Baldilocks: Leaders & Soldiers Of The Escalating War In 2024
Dana Loesch: The Classified Documents Case Goes Off The Rails,
Don Surber: Trump Triumphing Over Evil

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In The Mailbox: 05.08.24 (Abbreviated Punditocracy Edition)

Posted on | May 8, 2024 | Comments Off on In The Mailbox: 05.08.24 (Abbreviated Punditocracy Edition)

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Hit Baldilocks’ tip jar. It’s kinda important.

Silicon Valley et Hamas delenda sunt.

How I feel on an average day looking at the news.

OVER THE TRANSOM
357 Magnum: Texans Are Still Armed
EBL: Hamas pretends to accept “ceasefire” when IDF ready to enter Rafah, also, MAGA Indefinite Postponment of the Trump Classified Document Case
Twitchy: “I Live In One of The United State” Tweets Discount Comm Shop Bot, Rep. Adam Schiff Has A Meltdown As Another Trump Trial Faces Delay, and House GOP Bill Proposes Sending Criminal Anit-Israel Protesters To Gaza
Louder With Crowder: David Hogg Made The Most Bizarre Claim About What “Men Want” In Strange Rant Romanticizing Trains, Watch: Berkeley Holds Lecture From Furry Who Claims “Living Openly Gay” Gave Him “Superpowers”, Boy Scouts To Now Be Called “Scouting America” To Be More Inclusive, “Take your mask off, p*ssy”, and Female dart champion takes a stand, refuses to compete against trans opponent claiming to be a woman
Vox Popoli: Women Love Bears, The End Approaches, A Physicist Endorses MITTENS, The Gazacaust is Bad PR, and “Enough,” said the Bear
Gab: The Wartime Church,
Upstream Reviews: Pirates Of The Electromagnetic Waves

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
Baldilocks: Tactical Assault,
CDR Salamander: What Do We Do About Shipbuilding?
Dana Loesch: So Kristi Noem’s Book Launch Is Going Well, Last Week In Legal (Tila Tequila Edition),
Don Surber: Our credit card economy
Glenn Reynolds: Pushback works
STUMP: Alternative Assets In Public Pensions 2001-2022 Update,

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In The Mailbox: 05.07.24 (Afternoon Edition)

Posted on | May 7, 2024 | Comments Off on In The Mailbox: 05.07.24 (Afternoon Edition)

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For reasons known best to themselves, SWA changed my flights so I left Las Vegas at noon instead of 1400, and won’t be leaving Denver until 1800, which puts me at Dulles around 0010 tomorrow. Also, the flight in and the flight out are at opposite ends of Denver International. Truly, Murphy’s cursed attentions are upon me.
Calling Authors! The Summer Based Book Sale Is Nigh!
Silicon Valley et Hamas delenda sunt.

Commissar Trejo has opinions.

OVER THE TRANSOM
357 Magnum: Woke Hollywood Is Broke
Twitchy: DNC War Room Learns The Hard Way About FAFO After Lying About Scott Presler, Labour Councilor WRECKED Over Idiotic Post About “Gender Neutral Toilet” At Home, and Gen-Z Lefties Dropping Selfies With Their Ages Bragging About Voting For Biden Backfires Spectacularly
Louder With Crowder: Did Joe Biden poop his pants in front of the press this weekend? An investigation
Vox Popoli: Hey, New Friend! May the Fourth, The Vacuous Rhetoric of Evolution, An Unconscionable Hope, and How Genghis Khan’s MITTENS Strangled Darwin
Stoic Observations: Presiding Over Chaos, also, The Private Corpus
Upstream Reviews: The Powers of the Earth,
Defending The Wood Perilous: Losing The Sexual Revolution

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES

Dana Loesch: Can Kari Lake Pull Off A Win In Arizona? also, Trump Isn’t Desperate By Appealing To Libertarians,
Don Surber: Where are the anti-Hamas protests?
STUMP: Public Pension Governance In Ohio,

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Rule 5 Sunday: Cherie Currie

Posted on | May 6, 2024 | 3 Comments

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Lead singer for the all-girl punk band the Runaways (you may have heard of her bandmates Lita Ford and Joan Jett), Cherie Currie went on to become an actress, a mom, and is currently raising hell on X by vigorously opposing the castration and mutilation of kids, which you would think wouldn’t be a controversial stance – but then, we are living in Robert Heinlein’s Crazy Years. Here’s a pic of Cherie in her Runaways days at the Whiskey-A-Go-Go in LA back in 1978.
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ANIMAL MAGNETISM: Rule Five Trump Veep Friday, and the Saturday Gingermageddon.

EBL: The Scarlet Pimpernel, Saturday Night Girls With Guns, May The 4th Be With You, The Foreign Correspondent, MAGA Pizza Delivery For FDNY, The Lady Vanishes, The Lusty Month Of May, The 39 Steps, Hail Hail The First Of May, The Man Who Knew Too Much, Evidence Of Planet Nine, Hunter Biden Sues Fox News, The Long Voyage Home, and 49th Parallel

A VIEW FROM THE BEACH: Kaylee Ricciardi, CBF’s Take On The Striper Problem, Fish Pic Friday – Nautiale, Whale Lawsuit Slows Virginia Offshore Wind Power Project, Thursday Tanlines, Gone Fishin’, Wednesday Wetness, Orange Tree, The Monday Morning Stimulus, and Sunday Sunrise

FLAPPR: T.I.T.S. for May 3, also, Alternative Words For Bobs, Breasts & Bosoms (a/k/a The Gland Glossary)

Thanks to everyone for all the luscious links!

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Crazy People Are Dangerous

Posted on | May 5, 2024 | Comments Off on Crazy People Are Dangerous

Say hello to Delroy Thomas of Riviera Beach, Florida, who has a lot of problems, including gunshot wounds:

Just two days before an encounter with a police officer that resulted in a Riviera Beach man being shot and wounded on the campus of Suncoast High School, his family sought to get him help.
Delroy Thomas was taken to HCA JFK North Medical Center on Saturday, April 20, to be evaluated for involuntary commitment under Florida’s Baker Act, his brother Calvin Nance said this week. It allows a person to be kept in the hospital for up to 72 hours if there is reason to believe the person is a danger to themselves or others.\
Nance said his brother has long struggled with mental illness and that family members requested that he be taken to the hospital after a recent episode. Yet somehow, Nance said, the hospital released Thomas over the weekend without the family’s knowledge. . . .
“I’m trying to understand why they would have released him,” he said of his brother, who remains hospitalized after the shooting and whose arrest report indicates that he was wearing what appeared to be blue scrubs as he walked toward Suncoast High’s south gate. “We were under the impression he was supposed to be Baker Acted.”
Nance said he believes long-term treatment for his brother would have prevented the school encounter with police.
“The system failed him in so many ways,” he said. “All of this could have been prevented. It should have been prevented. … Everybody could see that he was (struggling).”

Try to imagine the experience of the police officer at the school, when she sees this lunatic walking onto campus still wearing his hospital scrubs, arriving directly from the psychiatric ward. Readers will perhaps not be too surprised to learn that he has an extensive criminal history:

Palm Beach County court records reveal that an encounter that ended with gunfire in a high school parking lot Monday morning [April 22] is the culmination of a series of troubling encounters between Delroy Thomas, law enforcement and area hospitals.
Thomas, 29, faces charges of battery on law enforcement and trespassing on school grounds, among other counts, stemming from Monday’s incident in the parking lot of Suncoast High School in Riviera Beach, while students were being dropped off.
According to the probable cause affidavit in the case, Riviera Beach police Officer Nodane Cherisma approached Thomas when he walked onto school grounds and she did not recognize him as a student. The document described Thomas as becoming physically “aggressive” with Cherisma in an “unprovoked attack.”
Cherisma shot Thomas twice. The affidavit said the officer was “forced to use deadly force to stop the immediate threat to herself and any possible threat to the students and staff on campus.” . . .
This was not Thomas’ first violent encounter with law enforcement, according to Palm Beach County court records.
A 2014 affidavit detailing charges of battery on a law enforcement officer and resisting with violence alleges Thomas “forcefully squeezed” a corrections officer’s fingers, and threatened to kill him. Thomas was in jail at the time facing theft charges. The battery charges were dropped by prosecutors.
Another affidavit from 2018, while Thomas was being held on burglary charges, states that he elbowed and kicked corrections officers who were trying to take him to a medical evaluation. He was found guilty and sentenced to time served amid a five-year sentence stemming from other charges related to the burglary.
More recently, Thomas’ criminal record shows a string of less violent charges.
Court records of five separate trespassing arrests this year:

Jan. 13 at HCA Florida JFK Hospital
Jan. 31 at Saint Mary’s Medical Center. The arrest affidavit showed Thomas was told not to return for a year.
Feb. 15 at JFK Hospital. The affidavit said Thomas had just received treatment there and refused to leave.
March 15 at JFK Hospital. Once again, the affidavit states Thomas had refused to leave following treatment. This encounter resulted in a ban from the hospital.
April 10 at an Intown Suites hotel in Riviera Beach. According to the affidavit, the hotel’s night manager told officers Thomas was an unregistered guest, lying in the hallway.

“My brother got a mental problem. They actually let him out and can see he’s not in his right mind,” Calvin Nance, referring to multiple hospital admissions for his brother Thomas under the Baker Act, said.

The man’s own family wants him locked up in the looney bin, but for some reason they kept turning him loose until he got shot by a cop.

Crazy People Are Dangerous.

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FMJRA 2.0: No Satisfaction

Posted on | May 5, 2024 | Comments Off on FMJRA 2.0: No Satisfaction

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Another bad week for Senators fans, though marginally better than last week. It started well with two wins and a loss against the Tribe at the Mistake by the Lake, but then we came home expecting to sweep Dom’s Reales con Queso only to get shut down by Roger Nelson in the first game and the Reales bullpen in the second. Despite his whining, his team isn’t actually that bad – with a couple of exceptions, every hitter in his lineup but two has C power or better, and they hit a couple of homers off Pat Dobson and Eddie Fisher that proved decisive. Well, we’ll see how we do against Atlanta on Monday or Wednesday; normally it would have been Tuesday but I’ll be en route to Dulles most of the day.
Just picked up the most recent in Klaus Schulze La Vie Electronique series of CDs on Thursday and ripped it today. First disc seems to have a lot of pseudo-operatic stuff that isn’t too great; we’ll see how the other two work out.
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