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In The Mailbox: 07.24.25

Posted on | July 25, 2025 | Comments Off on In The Mailbox: 07.24.25

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Silicon Valley et Hamas delenda sunt.

RIP Hulk Hogan
(cartoon by Kukuruyo)

OVER THE TRANSOM
357 Magnum: The Cultural Wasteland that is 2025
EBL: Brother Brigham, Brother Young, Marvin the Martian, MAGA – Tulsi Time , and One of My All Time Favorite Fish
Twitchy: Sen. Hirono Asks If Any Court Has Found DEI Unconstitutional, “Do You Even 2A, Bro?” 9th Circuit Spanks Gov. Hairgel Again, and Jonathan Turley Says John Brennan Is Most Vulnerable to Charges In Obama’s Russiagate Hoax 
Louder With Crowder: NFL Coach shows the playbook on how NOT to be baited by an anti-Trump reporter into bashing the President, Democrat senator attempts to use Detroit Lions to appeal to normies, but doesn’t know how football works, and Tom Homan nukes Hunter Biden into orbit, responds to Hunter’s illegal immigration rant with new “job title”
Vox Popoli: Correction, That Was Fast, Last Call for Coffee, Clown World Turns on Zelensky, and Forget The Village
Stoic Observations: The Conservative Brotherhood
Toni Airaksinen: Why Palestinians Need To Admit Their Victimhood Narrative Is A Lie
Jim McCoy: Dude, Seriously?

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
American Conservative: U.S. Delegation Withdraws From Gaza Ceasefire Talks
American Greatness: Senate Advances Jeanine Pirro as US Attorney for DC in Tense Hearing Marred By Paid Protesters, 65,000 Unanswered Calls to Biden Era Safety Hotline for Unaccompanied Migrant Children, DOJ Meeting With Ghislaine Maxwell Set for Thursday, The Autopen Presidency Controversy Is Just Beginning, and Revenge or Justice?
American Thinker: Obama’s Self-Incriminating Defense, ‘They all must be held accountable’, and The Law Strikes Back
Animal Magnetism: Animal’s Red Thursday News
BattleSwarm: Video Tab Clearing – Potted Pelosi, Hunter For Prez, Pool Fix, .50 BMG Myth, also, Texas Mobilizes National Guard To Help ICE
Behind The Black: JAXA/Mitsubishi test upgraded engines for H3 rocket, Study identifies range of interference produced by Starlink satellites, Rocket startup IRocket merges with investment company, T-Mobile makes its Starlink capability available to everyone, and Mexico’s president says it will investigate SpaceX for doing salvage operations off its coast
Cafe Hayek: The Protectionist Troll Serves the Case for Free Trade, also, Full Text of Gramm’s and Boudreaux’s “Steel and Aluminum: These Are Trump’s Worst Tariffs”
CDR Salamander: What Does The Expected New CNO Think?
Chicago Boyz: Uncontrollable Anger
Da Tech Guy: Five Thoughts Under the Fedora
Don Surber: When in doubt, shout First Amendment
First Street Journal: The Hassan Elliot case finally comes to a close, also, Every once in a while, the left will say the quiet part out loud
Gates Of Vienna: Illegal Mosques Sprouting Like Mushrooms In Padua, Those Moroccan “Youths” Are Busy Boys, and An American Tourist Gets Culturally Enriched In Milan
The Geller Report: Department of Justice Launches STRIKE FORCE to Investigate Russia Hoax Evidence, Jewish Summer Camp Children Removed From Flight in Spain, Supreme Court Protects President’s Right to Fire Agency Heads, and Trump Secures $221M Columbia University Settlement Over Civil Rights Violations
Hollywood In Toto: Darrell Hammond – How Trump Crushed It on ‘SNL’, Fantastic Four – Pro-Family, Pro-Life and Pro-MCU, and How Osiris Star Max Martini Meets This Hollywood Moment
The Lid: On the Passing of Our Host Jeff Dunetz
Legal Insurrection: 65,000 Calls to Biden Admin Hotline for Unaccompanied Alien Children Reportedly Ignored, Conservative Blogger Jeff Dunetz of ‘The Lid’ Passes Away at 67, Colorado Hit With Another Lawsuit Over Controversial Anti-Discrimination Law, 22 States Back NJ Father’s Fight Against School For Keeping Daughter’s Sex Transition Secret, and Appeals Court Affirms Nationwide Injunction on Trump’s Birthright Citizenship Order
Matt Taibbi: Activism Uncensored – Christopher Columbus & Stephen Colbert, also, Fact-Checking Glenn Kessler
Outkick: Rest Easy, Hulk Hogan, President Trump Signs Executive Order To ‘Save College Sports’, Nico Iamaleava Explains Decision To Leave Tennessee, Savannah Bananas Player Attempts Backflip Live On CNN, Fails Spectacularly, and Paige Spiranac Slams Beer In Daisy Dukes, ‘The View’ Gasbags Are In Timeout & CNN Finally Airs Something Good!
Power Line: Defund the IEA, Land war in Asia, and Who Cares What Putin Wanted?
Shark Tank: Rep. Bean Introduces Bill Seeking Harsher Penalties For Harming Police Animals
Shot In The Dark: The Ultimate Berg’s Seventh Law, also, No Kings…But Lords?
STUMP: RIP Malcolm Jamal-Warner – Drowning As The Summer Menace
This Ain’t Hell: Thursday notes
Victory Girls: FireAid $100M MIA and Other Insults
Watts Up With That: Suspicions Mount as Met Office Continues to Open More Junk Temperature Measuring Sites, Climate Activism In Judicial Drag, How the Trump AI Action Plan will Wreck Green Energy, and California Dems Reportedly Scrambling To Find Buyer For Refinery After Running Owner Out Of Town
The Federalist: The Intelligence Community Needs To Be Dismantled, Politico Wants You To Believe The Massive Russiagate Scandal Is Just A Story About Trump’s ‘Impulses’, There Was No Peaceful Transfer Of Power In 2017, The Wall Street Journal’s Epstein Reports Are Kind Of Proving Trump’s Point, and How Reddit Destroyed Mainstream American Culture
Mark Steyn: Live Around the Planet – Seeking Justice In The Swamp, Jewlepathy, and The Return of Durham?

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In The Mailbox: 07.23.25 (Evening Edition)

Posted on | July 24, 2025 | 1 Comment

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Silicon Valley et Hamas delenda sunt.

DNI Tulsi Gabbard gets her marching orders

OVER THE TRANSOM
EBL: Outrageous, Casimir Pulaski Day, Tom Homan – ICE ICE Baby, The Reason it’s Hard to Fillet Sheepshead, and Ukraine Women Drone Fighters
Twitchy: Reporter Asks Ravens Coach Jim Harbaugh Why He Met Trump & Immediately Regrets It, Scott Jennings Zings Catherine Rampell’s WaPo Exit By Sharing Go Goo Eyes She Made At Doug Emhoff, and CNN’s John King Says No Trump Voters He’s Talked To Are Leaving Him Over Epstein Files
Louder With Crowder: Democrat Congresswoman demands more illegals in her district ‘for redistricting purposes’ in surfaced video, also, Sunny Hostin claims CBS cancelling Stephen Colbert for losing $40 million a year totally violates the Constitution or something
Vox Popoli: Someone is All Talk, Just the Payments, Scott Adams is a Liar, Japan Moves Right, and Point of Order
Upstream Reviews: Jurassic World Rebirth Gets Back To Basics
Based Book Sale: Indie Primer – Useful Things To Know
Cedar Sanderson: Clementine
Monster Hunter Nation: Two Big Announcements

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
Adam Piggott: God Made Us Perfect, also, Why does Lifesite News have a CEO?
American Conservative: Hong Kong has Become Just Another Chinese Captive, also, Is Israel Losing American Christians?
American Greatness: DNI Tulsi Gabbard Declassifies HPSCI Report Detailing How Team Obama ‘Manufactured’ Intel Assessment That Launched RussiaGate, The World Woke Up, President Trump Signals Support for Bill Eliminating Capital Gains Taxes on Home Sales, New WSJ Report Claims AG Pam Bondi Informed President Trump in May That His Name is Mentioned in Epstein Files, and Supreme Court Okays Trump’s Restructuring of Department of Education
American Thinker: They Buried the Truth to Destroy Trump, also, Russiagate Was Treason; Will Trump Prove That No One Is Above the Law? 
Animal Magnetism: Goodbye, Blue Monday, Animals Daily Border Closure News, and Animal’s Hump Day News
BattleSwarm: LinkSwarm For July 18, Republicans Dominate Texas Fundraising, Did Microsoft Outsource DoD Data To China? Is Russia Finally, FINALLY Running Out Of Tanks In Ukraine? and For Democrats, It’s Always Social Justice Graft All the Way Down
Behind The Black: Curiosity amid the boxwork, SpaceX launches NASA’s twin Tracers solar wind monitoring satellites, Rocket Lab’s new Neutron rocket faces red tape delays at Wallops, One of China’s big satellite constellations appears in trouble, and Trump administration moving to reduce rocket launch environmental regulations
Cafe Hayek: Donald “Bernie Bro” Trump, Correcting the Record on the 1980s-1990s VERs, and What Business Is This Of Trump’s?
CDR Salamander: I Think I Know What We’re Calling The F/A-XX
Chicago Boyz: Absence of Abilities, Dug-in Like an Alabama Tick, and Globalization, Reindustrialization, and Movies
Da Tech Guy: Br’er Trump and the Epstein Patch
Don Surber: Why Obama and not Hillary
First Street Journal: Poor, poor Larry Krasner is tearfully upset that he couldn’t lock up another cop for longer, For the people of Gaza to receive any aid, they must repudiate Hamas and surrender, The journolism of The Philadelphia Inquirer, and Why should it be illegal to do something for money that is perfectly legal to do for free?
The Geller Report: “This Was Treason”, President Trump Pulling US Out of UNESCO Over DEI & Other Policies, Over $100 Million Was Donated to California Fire Victims – Who Received NOTHING, CBP Officer Shot In The Face By Illegals in New York, and AG Bondi Backs Clinton Email Investigation After Bombshell Report Reveals FBI Botched and Scotched Investigation
Glenn Reynolds: The Elvis Problem
Hollywood In Toto: Explorers at 40: How Joe Dante Captured Childhood Awe & Wonder, Late Night R.I.P.? CBS Pulls Plug on Colbert’s ‘Late Show’, Billy Joel: And So It Goes Will Delight Hardcore Fans, Neal McDonough: From Canceled to Constant Film, TV Gigs, and Are These Stephen Colbert’s Worst ‘Late Show’ Moments?
The Lid: ICE Had to Arrest Illegal Alien Who Murdered a Woman Since Illinois Officials Kept Releasing Him, also, Trump Border Czar Has a Warning for Sanctuary Cities Continuing to Obstruct the Law
Legal Insurrection: The Battle for Higher Education and the Manhattan Statement, Dept. Education Investigates Discrimination Against American-Born Students After Equal Protection Project Complaints, Media Driven Story About ICE Secretly Deporting Pennsylvania Man to Guatemala is a Hoax, 2016 Russian Intel Alleged Hillary Clinton Used Heavy Tranquilizers, Faced Serious Illnesses, and Tulsi Gabbard Demolishes Obama’s Weak Attempt at Damage Control
Matt Taibbi: In a Brutal Document Release, The Russia Hoax Is Finally Exposed, also, Russiagate Explained – The Sins of the 2017 Intelligence Community Assessment
Outkick: Bill Belichick Already Paying Off Financially For North Carolina, Rockies Stun with First Shutout In More Than A Year, Snapping 220-Game Drought, Tennessee Freshmen Travis Smith, Jr. and Jaedon Harmon Give $10K From NIL Earnings to Knoxville Kids, Apprentice Brunette Erin Elmore Turns On The White House, Sydney Sweeney Has Great Jeans & Tread Lightly, ESPN, and Does FSU QB Thomas Castellanos Understand What ‘No Disrespect’ Means?
Power Line: Thoughts from the ammo line, Another Colbert Coda, Overcoming the Times, and Sanctuary no more
Shark Tank: DeSantis Suspects Video Of Jax Sheriffs’ Violent Traffic Stop Has Been Debunked
Shot In The Dark: The Invisible Hangover, More Vibrancy! Where’s The Beef?, Berg’s 21st Law Is Universal, and Ask Not Why Stephen Colbert Is Gone
This Ain’t Hell: Rancid Cherry Theory Proven Once Again, Wednesday “We Remember”, Marine Nominated to Head USNA, Beta O’Rourke: We have to be absolutely ruthless about getting back in power, and How do you kill a drone?
Transterrestrial Musings: Light Blogging
Victory Girls: Mahmoud Khalil: “Absurd” To Ask If I Support Hamas, Martin Luther King, Jr. Files Released; Officially Nothing New Here, and Obama Had Direct Role In Setting Up Russia Collusion Hoax
Watts Up With That: Another Day, Another Model of Future Climate Doom, COPocalypse Now, Department of Energy Terminates Taxpayer-Funded Financial Assistance for Grain Belt Express, and Steeper Road for Zero-Emissions Vehicles
The Federalist: Austin Fire Chief Who Refused To Deploy Rescue Boats For Flood Victims Was A DEI Hire, DOJ Launches Strike Force To Investigate Obama Team’s ‘Weaponization’ Of Russia Hoax, House Committees Issue Subpoena To ActBlue CEO In Donation Fraud Probe, SCOTUS Hands Trump Win In Consumer Product Safety Commission Case, and Nike’s Scottie Scheffler Dad Ad Signals A Serious Cultural Vibe Shift
Mark Steyn: The Day the Earth Stood Still – The Spaceman Slaps Our Wrists, Ladders at the Palace, Nice’n’Easy, Omar, He’s Making Eyes at Me, and T is for Treason

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In The Mailbox: 07.23.25 (Afternoon Edition)

Posted on | July 23, 2025 | Comments Off on In The Mailbox: 07.23.25 (Afternoon Edition)

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Yesterday evening was eaten by snakes and owls.
Silicon Valley et Hamas delenda sunt.

OVER THE TRANSOM
357 Magnum: RIP Ozzy Osbourne
Twitchy: CNN Runs Breathless Story About Epstein Attending Trump’s Wedding When The Internet Knew This Years Ago, Paid & Neutered – Democrat Cat Ladies Boo & Hiss JD Vance’s Nantucket Fundraising Visit , and Human Earache Molly Jong-Fast Says Self-Censorship Is Creepy (Unless Democrats Make You Do It)
Louder With Crowder: Jon Stewart’s response to Stephen Colbert’s cancellation manages to be more embarrassing than Colbert’s response
Vox Popoli: Iran and the 5D Chess, There are No Good Guys, On Self-Determination and Failed Rhetoric, 10 Civilizational Blind Spots, and Japan Opts Out
The Bugscuffle Gazette: Think-pudding still offline
Toni Airaksinen: Study says boys more likely to be victims of dating violence than girls

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
CDR Salamander: The Battle of the Ports Is Afoot
Don Surber: Getting media to cover Obamagate
Matt Taibbi: Classified Report On Hillary Clinton, Loretta Lynch, & James Comey Released, also, Debating Russiagate With Michael Isikoff, 

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In The Mailbox: 07.22.25 (Afternoon Edition)

Posted on | July 22, 2025 | Comments Off on In The Mailbox: 07.22.25 (Afternoon Edition)

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Son of Silvercon III was a qualified success. We’re going to do it again next year.
Silicon Valley et Hamas delenda sunt.

Especially when they fall on a Tuesday.

OVER THE TRANSOM
357 Magnum: Colbert and the Insanity of the Left, also The Most Unique Photo in the History of Humanity
EBL: Ozzy Osborne – “Mama, I’m Coming Home“, Why Seafood Markets Love This Fish, Hunter Biden says ‘F*ck You’ to George Clooney, Striped Bass, and The Shady Bunch
Twitchy: Trump’s White House Slams Hunter Biden’s Profane Border Rant, Receipt-Filled Thread Detailing How Much John Durham Missed While Investigating The FBI Is A Must-Read, and Rock Legend Ozzy Osbourne Dead At 76
Louder With Crowder: Hunter Biden goes on UNHINGED anti-Trump rant in defense of illegal immigration, also, Dave Portnoy explains why Stephen Colbert DESERVED to be cancelled slow enough for libs to understand
Vox Popoli: About That “Analytical Thinking”, Coffee Table Book, The End of r/neilgaiman, The Wrong Lesson, and They Hate Their People
Upstream Reviews: Cross Over, Splinter Effect, and For The Emperor!
Stoic Observations: Are You An OODA Buddha? also, The Cost of Compliance
Jim McCoy: The Library Bards, also, One October Night 
The Abbey of Misrule: Zen and the Art of Bear Spotting
Draw & Talk Comics: The New Superman Movie Cost Me Followers and Backers
Defending The Wood Perilous: Do Men Read?
Cedar Sanderson: Re-Focusing
The Bugscuffle Gazette: Brain no brainy

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
CDR Salamander: Fullbore Friday, Non-State Special Operations with Craig Whiteside on Midrats, and The Nuclear Priesthood Is Having A Moment
Don Surber: Trump will sue you, Rupert, also, Sell ads, PBS
Glenn Reynolds: Slouching Toward War?
Matt Taibbi: Explaining Russiagate – Why The December 9 2016 Meeting Mattered, 
STUMP: Math, Education, & Technology, also, The Week In Meep – For The Love Of Math!

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Hunter Biden’s Lack of Impulse Control

Posted on | July 22, 2025 | Comments Off on Hunter Biden’s Lack of Impulse Control

Hunter Biden chose an interesting venue for his uncensored rant. Andrew Callaghan is a 28-year-old YouTuber with a shady past, having been accused of sexual misconduct by numerous women. Well, thank God there was no YouTube back when I was a young man, so let’s not discuss the relative shadiness of my own past, eh? Bert the Samoan Lawyer assures me the statute of limitations has expired, but I nevertheless will maintain my right to remain silent.

The Social Media Platform Formerly Known as Twitter was full of clips Monday from the Hunter Biden interview, and you can watch the whole three-hour episode on YouTube, if you’d like. While the specific content of what Hunter said is of less interest to me than his pathological mental state, let’s just grab a chunk of his newsworthy remarks:

Hunter Biden went on a profanity-ridden rant against Democrats who lent credence to Jake Tapper and Alex Thompson’s Original Sin, the exposé on former President Joe Biden’s mental decline, in a very bizarre, three-hour interview with a YouTuber.
The former first son, who has not given a sit-down media interview in years, told popular “Channel 5” video journalist Andrew Callaghan that the book revealing the White House’s cover-up of his father’s cognitive issues was “a money grab,” and attacked George Clooney, James Carville, David Plouffe, and others. . . .
“Fuck him!” Hunter exclaimed to Callaghan about Clooney. “Fuck him and everybody around him. I don’t have to be fucking nice. Number one, I agree with Quentin Tarantino. Fucking George Clooney is not a fucking actor. He is fucking like… I don’t know what he is. He’s a brand. . . . Fuck you. What do you have to do with fucking anything? Why do I have to fucking listen to you? What right do you have to step on a man who’s given 52 years of his fucking life to the service of this country and decide that you, George Clooney, are going to take out basically a full page ad in the fucking New York Times to undermine the president at a time in which, by the way, what do people care about the most? Why do you think that the Republicans have an advantage over us? Because they’re unified.” . .
“James Carville, who hasn’t won a race in 40 fucking years, and David Axelrod, who had one success in his political life — and that was because of Barack Obama, not because of David Axelrod,” Hunter huffed. 
Plouffe, another Democrat adviser who was a White House aide to Obama, told Tapper and Thompson that the party’s 2024 loss was “all Biden.”
“He totally fucked us,” he told the Original Sin co-authors.
Hunter went on to name him and other former Obama aides who host the Pod Save America podcast who called on Biden to drop out of the race before he eventually did.
“David Plouffe and all of these guys, and the ‘Pod Save America’ guys who were junior fucking speech writers on Barack Obama’s Senate staff who have been dining out on the relationship with him for years making millions of dollars,” the former first son continued.
“The Anita Dunns of the world, who has made $40-$50 million off of the Democratic Party,” Hunter added, referring to the former president’s ex-senior adviser who called the presidential pardon he issued for his son’s criminal actions “an attack on our judicial system.”
“They’re all gonna insert their judgment over a man who has figured out, unlike anybody else, how to get elected to the United States Senate over seven times, how to pass more legislation than any president in history, how to have a better midterm election than anybody in history, and had to garner more votes than any president that has ever won,” the younger Biden told Callaghan. “And they’re going to replace their judgment for his.”

One of the aspects of addiction that most people don’t understand is how heavy long-term substance abuse has a cumulative effect in terms of brain damage. In particular, the damage impacts the frontal cortex, impairing the function of conscience and impulse control. When you see Hunter Biden dropping f-bombs in such profusion — I count 11 of them in a span of 128 words — that’s symptomatic of brain damage.

Not long ago, as is my YouTube habit, I was watching a police chase and, after the suspect got rammed off the road by an Arkansas state trooper’s PIT maneuver, I was surprised to see that the suspect was a white guy, because nine times out of 10 in these Arkansas chases, the suspect is some criminal ghetto trash from Memphis trying to get back across the river. But this suspect was white and as it turned out, of course, was cranked up on crystal meth. What does it tell you about the long-term effects of drug addiction that the behavior of a white meth-head is indistinguishable from the behavior of Memphis ghetto trash?

So it is with Joe Biden’s degenerate spawn. If his last name weren’t “Biden,” that boy would’ve been doing time in prison by now, and I don’t ever want to hear another word about white privilege from any liberal who hasn’t publicly denounced the way Hunter Biden was protected from the consequences of his disgusting criminal behavior.

Hunter Biden had better stay away from Arkansas, is all I can say. Trooper Byrd would put that scumbag in a ditch pretty quick.



 

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Rule Five SundayMonday: Belated Bikini

Posted on | July 22, 2025 | 1 Comment

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Too farking busy running a convention this weekend to post anything. This week’s appetizer courtesy of kbdabear on X.
Ceterum autem censeo Silicon Valley et Hamas delendam sunt.

Bikini and Daisy Dukes. Yum.

ANIMAL MAGNETISM: Rule Five Liberals Are Nuts Friday and the Saturday Gingermageddon.

EBL: Saturday Night Girls With Guns, MN Democrat State Senator/Burglar Nicole Mitchell, Thanksgiving Came Early This Year, MAGA – Colbert Cancelled, Connie Francis RIP, Settlers, Happy Birthday Ginger Rogers, Seventies Summer, Death Valley, McHale & His Schweinhunden, The Institute, Patience, Gemma Arterton, and The Anarchists.

A VIEW FROM THE BEACH: Ani Kiri, Fish Pic Friday – Lea Ann P, Tattoo Thursday, Maryland Summer Striper Closure Starts, The Wednesday Wetness, Tuesday Tanlines, This Stinks, The Monday Morning Stimulus and Palm Sunday

BACON TIME: Rule Five – A Trip To Hooterville

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To Cap an Action-Packed Week of #Winning, Tulsi Nukes ‘RussiaGate’

Posted on | July 19, 2025 | Comments Off on To Cap an Action-Packed Week of #Winning, Tulsi Nukes ‘RussiaGate’

Easy to see now why the Deep State went all-in to try and wreck Tulsi Gabbard’s nomination as Director of National Intelligence. I have more thoughts, but let’s get the news out of the way first:

The Obama administration’s top officials committed a “treasonous conspiracy” by manufacturing and politicizing intelligence to create the false narrative that led to the years-long Trump-Russia collusion probe, according to newly-declassified documents released by Director of National Intelligence (DNI) Tulsi Gabbard. . . .
Despite the intelligence community’s consensus that Russia “lacked the intent and capability to hack U.S. elections” prior to Trump’s 2016 win over Hillary Clinton, Gabbard said Obama’s officials changed their tune soon after the president won, ignoring the evidence. . . .
On the day the [Presidential Daily Briefing] was supposed to be published on December 9, NSC officials including Clapper, then-CIA Director John Brennan, then-National Security Advisor Susan Rice, then-Secretary of State John Kerry, then-Attorney General Loretta Lynch, then-Deputy FBI Director Andrew McCabe, and others, met in the White House Situation Room to discuss Russia. . . .
Following the meeting, Clapper’s assistant emailed intelligence leaders telling them to create a new assessment “per the president’s request,” detailing the “tools Moscow used and actions it took to influence the 2016 election.”

You can read the rest. The most important revelation — based on newly declassified documents, keep in mind — is the extent to which the “Intelligence community,” in assembling this frame-up against Trump, were acting on direct orders from Obama. We’ve known the basic outlines of the Russian “collusion” hoax for a while now, but what Gabbard has done is to prove that Obama administration officials perpetrated this hoax on the basis of presidential orders. That’s what the December 9, 2016 meeting was about, and Tulsi’s got the receipts to prove it.

As I said previously, I have some thoughts about this, e.g., do you believe it is just a random coincidence that, hours before Gabbard released this RussiaGate bombshell, the Wall Street Journal published a flimsy smear about Donald Trump sending a birthday card to Jeffrey Epstein in 2003?

Because I do not believe it’s a coincidence. Democratic operatives of the Deep State, and their media minions, are certainly not naïve as to how this game is played. It took many weeks for Gabbard’s team to put together the contents of that document trove she dumped on Friday, and this Epstein thing was timed as a “spoiling attack,” as such tactics are called in the military. So I don’t doubt for a minute that the timing of the Wall Street Journal story was part of an attempt to distract from Gabbard’s release of the RussiaGate documents. Despite every effort that Gabbard might make to keep the preparation of this report a secret, the Deep State still has assets inside the bureaucracy who would tip off Democrats about what was coming down the pike and, having advance notice of when it was slated for publication, this “spoiling attack” was set up to be published previous to Gabbard’s bombshell. That’s not paranoia talking, it’s a logical deduction based on facts:

One of the co-authors of the WSJ report, Joe Palazzolo, previously wrote for a publication called Main Justice, which was founded by Mary Jacoby, who happens to be the wife of Glenn Simpson, the Fusion GPS founder behind the debunked Steele Dossier and the Russia hoax. Both Simpson and Jacoby previously worked at the Wall Street Journal themselves, which tells you everything you need to know about the political rot festering in that newsroom.

Anyway, a lot of people are demanding “accountability,” i.e., criminal prosecutions of everyone involved in the RussiaGate scandal, up to and including Barack Obama himself. While I would enthusiastically applaud such a Payback Is Hell and Karma Is a Bitch reprisal — given everything these vile swine did to Trump — I don’t think it’s likely.

It is one thing to expose such scandals, and another thing altogether to turn the scandal into a criminal indictment that can result in a jury voting unanimously for conviction. There is a reason why the protest mobs who wave signs demanding “#Justice for [Insert Dead Criminal’s Name Here]” are so often disappointed when the local District Attorney announces that the cops won’t be charged for shooting the suspect. Our criminal justice system is, thank God, designed to make it difficult to get a felony conviction in court. In the case of a suspect getting shot by cops, before a prosecutor can charge the cops with any wrongdoing — even mere negligence, let alone deliberate murder — he must first ask whether the cop can make a plausible case for self-defense or otherwise justify the shooting as necessary to public safety. Over and over again, in such cases, the prosecutors find themselves facing a self-defense argument they can’t beat. This is why, even when it’s a Soros-funded anti-police district attorney like Larry Krasner in Philadelphia, the cops aren’t prosecuted for shooting suspects, no matter how sketchy the case may seem to Ben Crump and the #Justice mobs. And so it is with RussiaGate.

Those of us who’ve been angry for years about the Steele Dossier, etc., now find ourselves in the shoes of the urban protest mobs demanding #Justice. We know damned well that Team Obama and Team Hillary engaged in wrongdoing, and that they deserve to be punished for it, but what are the chances that Pam Bondi could actually get a criminal conviction in a federal court? Not good — not good at all.

As egregious as the RussiaGate scandal is, the overwhelming likelihood is that nobody involved in this sordid mess will ever be charged with a crime, and that if somehow Bondi does find a way to get indictments against Brennan, Clapper, Comey, et al., the subsequent trial will end in a verdict of acquittal. “Guilty as hell, free as a bird,” to quote Weather Underground alumnus Bill Ayers. “America is a great country.”

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Is NPR’s Popularity Waning, or Has Their Appeal Become More Selective?

Posted on | July 18, 2025 | 1 Comment

Excuse me for dropping a Spinal Tap gag in the headline, but I couldn’t help thinking of that line as Republicans in Congress voted to eliminate federal taxpayer funding for the Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB), which is the umbrella organization for National Public Radio (NPR) and the Public Broadcasting Service (PBS). What put me in mind of Spinal Tap manager Ian Faith’s dishonest spin on the band’s declining concert attendance was the link-backs to NPR whistleblower Uri Berliner’s April 2024 exposé of the public radio network’s bias:

It’s true NPR has always had a liberal bent, but during most of my tenure here, an open-minded, curious culture prevailed. We were nerdy, but not knee-jerk, activist, or scolding.
In recent years, however, that has changed. Today, those who listen to NPR or read its coverage online find something different: the distilled worldview of a very small segment of the U.S. population. . . .
Like many unfortunate things, the rise of advocacy took off with Donald Trump. As in many newsrooms, his election in 2016 was greeted at NPR with a mixture of disbelief, anger, and despair. . . . But what began as tough, straightforward coverage of a belligerent, truth-impaired president veered toward efforts to damage or topple Trump’s presidency.
Persistent rumors that the Trump campaign colluded with Russia over the election became the catnip that drove reporting. At NPR, we hitched our wagon to Trump’s most visible antagonist, Representative Adam Schiff.
Schiff, who was the top Democrat on the House Intelligence Committee, became NPR’s guiding hand, its ever-present muse. By my count, NPR hosts interviewed Schiff 25 times about Trump and Russia. During many of those conversations, Schiff alluded to purported evidence of collusion. The Schiff talking points became the drumbeat of NPR news reports.
But when the Mueller report found no credible evidence of collusion, NPR’s coverage was notably sparse. Russiagate quietly faded from our programming. . . .
Back in 2011, our audience leaned a bit to the left but roughly reflected America politically; now, the audience is cramped into a smaller, progressive silo.
Despite all the resources we’d devoted to building up our news audience among blacks and Hispanics, the numbers have barely budged. In 2023, according to our demographic research, 6 percent of our news audience was black, far short of the overall U.S. adult population, which is 14.4 percent black. And Hispanics were only 7 percent, compared to the overall Hispanic adult population, around 19 percent. Our news audience doesn’t come close to reflecting America. It’s overwhelmingly white and progressive, and clustered around coastal cities and college towns. . . .

Read the whole thing. Not surprisingly, Uri Berliner got the ax at NPR after spilling the beans, because liberal media bias is like Fight Club — the first rule is, you can’t mention it, at least not if you want to be employed at an outfit like NPR. Media bias is structural and systemic in its nature, the result of hiring practices that exclude opposing voices, so that there is no one in the newsroom who doesn’t share the echo-chamber delusions that their one-sided coverage is fair and accurate.

Here again I’m reminded of Spinal Tap, where so much of the humor derived from the band members’ absurd lack of self-awareness. Nigel Tufnel is playing a quiet and moody piano part for Marty DiBergi, telling him that it was influenced by Mozart and Bach:

Marty: What do you call this?
Nigel: Well, this piece is called “Lick My Love Pump.”

 

Just as Nigel didn’t get what was wrong with that — and let’s not even talk about the cover art for their Smell the Glove album — so, too, do the folks in public broadcasting fail to understand what’s wrong with producing partisan propaganda on the taxpayer’s dime. Doubling down on Trump Derangement Syndrome, making Adam Schiff and his “Russian collusion” fantasies a regular feature of their news coverage — why would they do that? Or, more to the point, why would they not see what’s wrong with that? The answer, as Uri Berliner pointed out, was that everyone in the building shared the same bias. NPR’s boss at the time, CEO John Lansing, had declared diversity was the organization’s “North Star,” but that obviously did not extend to diversity of opinion:

Concerned by the lack of viewpoint diversity, I looked at voter registration for our newsroom. In D.C., where NPR is headquartered and many of us live, I found 87 registered Democrats working in editorial positions and zero Republicans. None.
So on May 3, 2021, I presented the findings at an all-hands editorial staff meeting. When I suggested we had a diversity problem with a score of 87 Democrats and zero Republicans, the response wasn’t hostile. It was worse. It was met with profound indifference. I got a few messages from surprised, curious colleagues. But the messages were of the “oh wow, that’s weird” variety, as if the lopsided tally was a random anomaly rather than a critical failure of our diversity North Star.

The belief that the exclusion of Republicans from employment at NPR is random, rather than deliberate, is a “Lick My Love Pump” level of not getting it, and the current leadership is even worse:

On Thursday’s “CNN News Central,” NPR CEO Katherine Maher responded to accusations that NPR is biased by saying that the network has worked to address that criticism and they’ll “keep doing that work in order to both understand those criticisms, but also to ensure that we remain the nonpartisan organization that we are today.”

As might be expected, others in the liberal media have circled the wagons to defend taxpayer funding for such crap, with CNN’s Brian Stelter supplying this laughable headline: “Trump’s victory over PBS and NPR ‘bias’ will be ‘devastating’ for rural areas, station leaders say.” Oh, sure, it’s going to be “devastating” for rural folks in Kansas and Kentucky that they might lose access to a daily dose of what Katherine Maher thinks of as “nonpartisan” coverage. Now shut up and lick my love pump.



 

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