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If Trump Has Lost Ace of Spades …

Posted on | July 28, 2023 | Comments Off on If Trump Has Lost Ace of Spades …

It’s never been my habit to over-interpret anything — a Foucault-style textual analysis is just more work than it’s worth — but today I saw Ace of Spades take a shot at Donald Trump and thought, “Hmmmm.”

Yesterday the special counsel added new charges to his indictment of Trump over #DocumentGate (or whatever they’re calling it) and in his reaction to this news, Ace felt the need to add these comments:

So now comes my least favorite phase of every new Trump indictment, the ranting by Trump’s more passionate defenders that Ron DeSantis isn’t doing enough to defend the man who slurs him as a pedophile and homosexual!! His statements aren’t STRONG enough in swearing for the honor of a man who smears him dishonorably!!! and that Trump’s legal problems — almost all of which are self-inflicted– are a reason to elect him president to fuck up all over the place some more, rather than a reason to elect a strong president who will pardon Trump and let him live peacefully and free as a private citizen.
Every one of Trump’s problems gets weaponized against DeSantis, and then people wonder — Gee, why aren’t DeSantis’ supporters more interested in talking about Trump’s problems?
Tell you what: If Trump issues a STRONG statement clearing him from the previous lies that DeSantis is a pedophile, gay, cheats on his wife, killed more people with Covid than Democrat governors Newsom or Cuomo, then I’ll join you in your calls for STRONG statements clearing Trump of crimes which, let’s face it, he probably did commit.

To repeat myself: “Hmmmm.”

Something I realized long ago, sort of Rule Number One for survival in the conservative blogosphere: Never piss off Ace of Spades.

Ace has very good instincts about who is or is not Down For The Agenda. If he ever starts taking shots at somebody, you can bet that sooner or later that person will prove himself to be an unprincipled quisling.

But why bring up Allahpundit at this late date, eh?

If you look at the RCP average, Trump is beating DeSantis 3-1 and, quite frankly, DeSantis is starting to look like This Year’s Scott Walker. It is therefore remarkable that Ace would take this stance just now, when Trump looks like a shoo-in for the 2024 GOP nomination.

After my experience in 2011-2012, I stopped trying to influence Republican primaries because, despite what some people may imagine, the voters don’t seem to give a damn about the opinions of bloggers. If my herculean efforts to stop Mitt Romney from getting the GOP nomination were futile, why even bother commenting on primaries?

Basically, I’m agnostic on the matter of who gets the Republican nomination, as long as it’s not someone named “Bush,” or a useless blob of frustrated impotence like Chris Christie. Everything I’ve seen so far suggests to me that Trump is a lead-pipe cinch for the 2024 nomination, however much anyone may wish otherwise, or however much better DeSantis might be as a candidate in the general election.

Is there some way that could change? I don’t know, but maybe some of Trump’s more outspoken supporters should think about toning down their rhetoric just a wee bit, because they appear to be in danger of violating Rule Number One: Never piss off Ace of Spades.

Trust me. You never want to see an angry ewok.



 

Category: Ace of Spades, Donald Trump

Crazy People Are Dangerous (Special California Hate Crimes Edition)

Posted on | July 28, 2023 | Comments Off on Crazy People Are Dangerous (Special California Hate Crimes Edition)

Carl Chan (left); James Lee Ramsey (right)

In April 2021, the president of the Oakland Chinatown Chamber of Commerce was assaulted on the streets by a man who yelled, “F–k you Chinatown! F–k you Chinaman!” A week later, 25-year-old James Lee Ramsey was charged with felony assault and a hate crime against Carl Chan, and the case was scheduled for trial in August 2021.

In September 2021, however, Ramsey got a plea deal:

Ramsey, 25, pleaded no contest to assault with force likely to produce great bodily injury in exchange for the hate crime allegation being dismissed.
“As long as he’s receiving help and not going out into the community hurting people. I think that’s the important thing,” says Chan.
The district attorney’s office has the option to ask the judge to sentence Ramsey to serve his time in a secured mental health facility. He faces up to four years in state prison.

It was at this point that “activists” got involved:

On April 29th, James Ramsey, a 25-year-old Black Oakland resident with a documented history of serious mental illness, allegedly knocked over, potentially by accident, 62-year-old Chinatown Chamber of Commerce President Carl Chan.
Mr. Ramsey has been diagnosed with schizophrenia and bipolar disorder and told officers he had been off of his medication for about a month when he was arrested for the alleged assault. Instead of being provided sufficient treatment, James is potentially facing years in prison.
[The Oakland Police Department] is using this alleged assault as justification to get more money from the City, and Carl Chan, in his role as Chinatown Chamber of Commerce President, is pushing for more policing.
The Anti Police-Terror Project condemns anti-Asian hate and stands in solidarity with Asian people and oppressed people everywhere. However, in this case, we see a man with disabilities in need of intensive care, not someone committing a hate crime.
James Ramsey’s sentencing hearing was rescheduled for Thursday, November 18th at 9:30am.
Join us at the Rene C. Davidson Courthouse at 1225 Fallon St, Oakland, CA 94612 to demand the charges be dropped!

Whoa! It’s one thing to give the guy a plea bargain — proving “hate crime” charges can be difficult — but it’s something else entirely to “demand the charges be dropped.” Crazy is as crazy does. The state cannot be in the business of policing people’s delusions and fantasies, so whatever was going through Ramsey’s mind while he was off his meds is between him and whatever psychiatrist may be assigned to treat him. But assault? We’re going to just give crazy people a free pass on assault?

And just who is this “Anti Police-Terror Project”?

The Anti-Police Terror Project is a radical-left anti-police activist organization based in Oakland, California. The organization advocates defunding the police, supporting cutting half of the budget of the Oakland Police Department and redirecting those funds towards various social welfare programs including mental health and wellness services.
The group has alleged that the police have caused “community trauma” in the Black community and other communities of color. It has demanded more resources to research “police-related trauma” and the use of any research to shape the policies of the police. . . .
Cat Brooks is the co-founder of the organization. . . .
According to its 2021 tax return, the organization the organization had $5,709,289 in revenue and $313,631 in expenses. It had $5,403,517 in assets.

So, what do we know about Cat Brooks? Conn Carroll explains, “In June [2021], the Oakland City Council voted to cut $18 million from the city’s police budget and spend that money instead on a variety of social programs.” Cat Brooks actually organized a protest at the home of one of the two council members who voted against this measure:

Foremost among those advocates [of defunding the police] is Cat Brooks, the co-founder of the Anti Police-Terror Project, one of the main groups pushing for defunding the Oakland Police Department. She was brought up in Las Vegas by a white mother who was an anti-domestic violence activist. Her father, a black man, struggled with substance abuse and ended up in prison. “I watched him be terrorized and traumatized by law enforcement,” she recalled.
While pursuing a career in acting in Los Angeles, Brooks stumbled into political activism, which eventually brought her to Oakland. In 2018, she ran for mayor, coming in second with about a quarter of the vote.
When I asked Brooks about the two Council members — both black — who voted against the reduction in the police budget she was unambiguous in her contempt. They are “representing the interests of the police, and they’re representing the interests of development,” she said. “If they were representing the interests of the people, then they, too, should want black bodies to stop falling.” . . .
When I asked Brooks if she supports the abolition of police, she said, “Absolutely. Unapologetically.” Describing the role of the police in society, she said, “Their job is to maintain the status quo. And the status quo is race-based capitalism. And so they are the front line soldiers of the larger system of white supremacy, which is the engine of this country, both here locally and globally.”

So, her father was a dopehead who went to prison and therefore, the cops are the bad guys, “front line soldiers . . . of white supremacy.” And rich people gave her $5.7 million to promote this lunatic idea.

Well, how’s that working out for James Lee Ramsey?

James Lee Ramsey, a 27-year-old Oakland resident, was arrested on July 21 after kicking and assaulting an 88-year-old Asian woman and reportedly attacking a witness at the scene, NBC News reported. Ramsey avoided prison in 2021 after having hate crime charges against him dropped by former Alameda County District Attorney Nancy O’Malley.
The elderly woman was rushed to the hospital and is currently in stable condition, according to NBC News.
Ramsey is now in police custody and is being charged with elder abuse, assault by means likely to produce great bodily injury, and battery causing serious bodily injury. He pleaded not guilty to all charges and is being held without bail.
San Fransisco District Attorney Brooke Jenkins called the crime “horrific” and promised Ramsey would finally face proper justice, according to NBC.
“The crimes that Mr. Ramsey is accused of are horrific. I am grateful to the witness who was able to detain him until police arrived ensuring that he did not flee,” Jenkins said in a statement. “My office, on behalf of the victims, and every San Franciscan who is fed up with brazen violence like this, will stand for justice and seek to hold him accountable for his crimes.”
O’Malley previously dropped hate crime charges against Ramsey in 2021 after he assaulted Carl Chan, president of the Chinatown Chamber of Commerce. Ramsey plead no contest and walked free after his public defender cited mental health challenges, the San Fransico Chronicle reported.

It is not mercy to let crazy people run around the streets attacking innocent strangers, and certainly it is not justice. It is folly to permit our sympathy for those afflicted with mental illness to override the need to protect public safety, which is the first duty of any government.



 

Category: California, Crime, Racism

Judge Wrecks Hunter’s Sweetheart Deal

Posted on | July 28, 2023 | Comments Off on Judge Wrecks Hunter’s Sweetheart Deal

A thing of beauty is a joy forever:

Hunter Biden pled not guilty on Wednesday to gun and tax charges, refusing to accept a new plea deal laid out by prosecutors.
The original plea deal fell apart after the judge questioned if it covered future potential charges of the Justice Department’s ongoing investigation. The prosecution reportedly said the deal did not include any alleged Foreign Agents Registration Act (FARA) violations.
MSNBC reported the court took a ten-minute recess to determine if the two parties could quickly come to an agreement. When the deal got back on track, reports indicated it would “be more limited in scope,” only including specific charges related to tax and gun wronging. “The two sides have agreed that this deal does not shield him from potential future charges,” CNN reported.
But the judge said she was not ready to accept the plea deal and asked both the prosecutor and Hunter Biden to submit additional briefs, according to reporters inside the courthouse. The parties will have to return to court in the future.
The hearing ended with Hunter Biden pleading not guilty.
Sen. Josh Hawley told CNN the high court drama shows the plea “sweetheart” deal was flawed, and additional charges could be brought:

It’s very telling that the judge intervened here and said basically, ‘No, I’m not going to approve some sweeping blanket deal.’ … I mean, that tells you the court has serious concerns about other potential charges here, and also the scope of the deal, which has seemed outrageous from the beginning.

“This, I think, signals that they’re [sic] still very much potential for prosecution forward,” he added.
U.S. prosecutor David Weiss admitted in July that the FBI informant form alleging the Biden family bribes is part of an ongoing investigation.

Will Scharf at The Federalist has more:

Hunter Biden arrived in a Delaware federal court on Wednesday morning expecting that, in a few short hours, he would walk out a free man with full immunity from prosecution for an exceedingly wide range of alleged criminal conduct, ranging from gun and drug charges to foreign influence peddling. His expectation was that his deal would be insulated from challenges from the presiding judge, or from a prosecutorial change of heart under a future administration. His expectation was that his legal ordeals were coming to a close.
Instead, U.S. District Court Judge Maryellen Noreika picked apart his plea deal with surgical precision, exposing its legal contradictions, and upbraiding both defense counsel and the Department of Justice for structuring an unprecedented deal that in her view — and mine — was illegal and unconstitutional. . . .

Read the whole thing.

Need a bonus? Guess who appointed the judge?

After all these years, still #winning!



 

Category: Corruption, Crime, Joe Biden

In The Mailbox: 07.27.23 (Evening Edition)

Posted on | July 28, 2023 | Comments Off on In The Mailbox: 07.27.23 (Evening Edition)

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Silicon Valley delenda est.

OVER THE TRANSOM
EBL: Sinéad O’Connor RIP, Critical Drinker – Oppenheimer, and Why the Ukraine-Russia War probably should not go on indefinitely
Twitchy: Eric Holder’s Anti-Racist Advice To Starbucks Got Them Sued, Anheuser-Busch Laying Off 350 Employees, and Man Who Didn’t Get Sweetheart Plea Deal Examines The Two Tiers Of Justice
Louder With Crowder: MSNBC lady swears Joe Biden did nothing wrong but love Hunter Biden…to Biden’s former spokeswoman, Ice Cube uncensored with Tucker Carlson: Says he’s banned from ‘The View,’ compares trans people to pigeons, and David Hogg sticks his head out for a Mitch McConnell tweet, gets run over by Roseanne Barr
Vox Popoli: The Shadow Can Only Mock, The Capital That Was Lost, Babymetal is Back, It’s Just Greed, Right?, and SSH with Stew Peters
Stoic Observations: Broken
Flappr: Torts Illustrated – The Hunter Biden Plea Deal

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
American Conservative: The Myth of the ‘Underfunded School’
American Greatness: Watchdog Group Claims China is Funding Indoctrination Efforts in American Schools
American Thinker: Our Government Has Been Covering Up Its Crimes For A Very Long Time, Biden: Hiding in Plain Sight, and Bidenomics: Controlling Inflation by Making Us Poorer
Animal Magnetism: Animal’s Daily Free Market News
Babalu Blog: Belarusian Dictator Lukashenko wishes Cuba’s fake president good health and inexhaustible strength, Surprise! Cuban peso continues to lose value in exchange rate versus dollar and euro, and Cuban mother of severely ill girl begs for help from diaspora exiles
Baldilocks: Lucking Out
BattleSwarm: Mark Zuckerberg Has Been A Very Bad Robot Boy
Behind The Black: FAA: No Starship/Superheavy launch until we say so!, Boeing’s total losses due to Starliner now equal $1.5 billion, FTC will not block the purchase of Aerojet Rocketdyne by L3Harris, Scientists think they have finally discovered what makes the Sun’s corona so hot, Juno’s next fly-by of Io coming on July 30, and Pushback: City in Georgia forced to rescind a law that required permits for any protest
Cafe Hayek: Some Links
CDR Salamander: A Good Game Of Catchup In The SW Pacific
Chicago Boyz: What Happened in 2012?, also, Will There Ever Be an Apology for Covid Overreaction?
Da Tech Guy: The Biden Regime’s ban on portable gas generators is going to have a very negative impact on emergency communications
Dana Loesch: Byron Donalds & Kamala Harris Finally Agree On Something 
Don Surber: Someone Finally Told Hunter No
First Street Journal: Editorial cartoonists gobsmacked by reality, also, Killadelphia: How many extra have died?
Gates Of Vienna: Verdicts in the Trial of the Brussels Ten, Albatross Generation, The Truth About Climate Change, and Moloch Must Be Appeased
The Geller Report: DOJ Drops Campaign Finance Charge Against DEMOCRAT MEGA DONOR Sam Bankman-Fried, also, Biden Regime Being Sued For Concealing FBI Background Investigation Into Mayorkas
Hogewash: Team Kimberlin Post of the Day, Hunter Draws A Card, Imagine, If You Will, and Juno Flies Past Io and Jupiter
Hollywood In Toto: Journalists Torch ‘Anti-Vax’ Ice Cube, also, Is Depp v. Heard the Next Tiger King?
The Lid: Dropping The Atomic Bombs Remains The Right Call
Legal Insurrection: Conditions of Release: Hunter Biden Must Look for a Job, Not Use Controlled Substances, and Consume No Alcohol, Feds File Superseding Indictment Adding Charges Against Trump And Additional Defendant in Florida Case, RFK Jr. Deserves the Benefit of the Doubt On Antisemitism Accusations, Hot Mic Catches Sen. Feinstein Confused Over Roll Call Voting During Committee Hearing, Political Scientist Suggests Higher Ed Can Win Back Public Trust by Dismantling DEI Policies, and Newsweek Tries Riding to Joe Biden’s Rescue After Strange ‘Cancer Cure’ Claim
Nebraska Energy Observer: Organization is everything
Outkick: Colorado Officially Announces Intentions For Big 12 Move, ESPN To Test All-Female ‘SportsCenter’ To Spotlight Women’s Sports Instead Of The NFL, Gardner Minshew Is Very Frugal, Slept On A Mattress He Found In The Garbage, Ohio State Player Says He Wants To Be Paid In Tractors, and Buffs Called The Pac-12’s Bluff: Report
Power Line: America’s decline follows a familiar arc: ‘gradually, then suddenly’, The Facebook Files: More Censorship Revealed, and Judge Noreika to Hunter Biden: Get a Job, Stay Sober
Shark Tank: Rubio & Scot Leverage Congressional Power To Block Biden EV Rule
Shot In The Dark: One Day In The Theme Park, 
The Political Hat: The Monomania Of The Woke Worldview
This Ain’t Hell: Bidens, Bidens, we got Bidens, even Bitin’ Bidens, Biden’s Dog, Commander, Terrorizing the Secret Service, Navy Centenarian Flys Again, Nigerian Soldiers Stage Coup, Need Account For Trapped Funds, and Charles Adams, hard time getting out of bed, easy time doing exertion exercises
Victory Girls: Long Knives Out For Joe and DOCTOR Jill Biden?
Volokh Conspiracy: UK Banks Commit to “the Principle of Non-Discrimination Based on Lawful Freedom of Expression” as to Clients
Watts Up With That: Climate Shock: An anti ULEZ Candidate Just Won a London Election, Intrusive ‘smart meters’ threaten to turn UK homes into Net Zero Panopticon, Polar bear habitat around Svalbard Norway above average despite high temps in N. Atlantic, and Aussie Green Hydrogen Project Scrapped, “Not Viable”
The Federalist: New York Is Waging Radical Pro-Abortion Lawfare On Peaceful Pro-Lifers, Entire Democrat Party Pretends Biden’s 4-Year-Old Grandchild Does Not Exist, The ‘Laptop Class’ Fetish For Manual Labor Is An Attempt To Justify Privilege, It’s Time For Americans To Stop Tolerating Mentally Deficient Politicians, and For The Pentagon, Subsidizing Abortions Takes Priority Over Transporting Service Members To Their Final Resting Place
Mark Steyn: No Harm, also, Dread and Danger

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The Science Is Settled!

Posted on | July 27, 2023 | Comments Off on The Science Is Settled!

Liberalism is the disease, craziness is just a symptom:

In 2021, Scott McGreal, writing in Psychology Today, reported that an American study demonstrated  a link between high levels of neuroticism and liberal politics. Additional findings from a British study later that same year indicated a similar link between left-wing political views on economics and the environment (among other issues) and the occurrence of generalized anxiety disorder, panic disorder, and phobias. One interesting aspect of these findings is that they run counter to the hypothesis that persons expressing generally conservative political views hold their views due to “increased threat sensitivity.” Another is that the researchers presenting these findings had no axe to grind against political liberals or leftists. Quite the reverse, in fact, and they were startled by their own findings.
These findings are of a piece with those of a much larger longitudinal study of the mental health of American adolescents over the years 2005 to 2018. That study showed both a marked increase of “internalized symptoms” of poor mental health and a consistent disparity between the mental health of self-reported teenage “liberals,” who consistently evinced greater levels of these internalized symptoms, and “conservatives,” who consistently evinced lower levels, even as mental health deteriorated for the entire age cohort as an aggregate. The study broke the subjects down by socioeconomic group, sex, race, and their parents’ educational level. The findings generally indicated that these social factors, along with parental ideology, had significant though differing influences driving the increase in anxiety, depression, and loneliness among those with “internalized symptoms.” The results showed white, liberal adolescent girls faring the worst in mental health. The findings of that study were buttressed by a 2020 Pew Research Center study that demonstrated, yet again, a correlation between liberal politics and mental health problems, prompting headlines to the effect of “white liberal girls in mental health crisis.” . . .

(Hat-tip: Instapundit.) Also see, “Progressivism Is Aggravating America’s Mental Health Crisis” in The American Spectator. We didn’t actually need any scientific studies to prove liberals are crazy. I mean, almost 43% of voters approve of the job that Joe Biden’s doing as president — clearly, these people have lost touch with reality. Quod erat demonstrandum.

People who elect Democrats are self-evidently daft, demented, deranged, bonkers, berserk, off their rockers, nuttier than a Snickers bar, a few fries short of a Happy Meal, and cuckoo for Cocoa Puffs.

And like I say, Crazy People Are Dangerous.



 

Category: Liberals

In The Mailbox: 07.27.23 (Afternoon Edition)

Posted on | July 27, 2023 | Comments Off on In The Mailbox: 07.27.23 (Afternoon Edition)

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Silicon Valley delenda est.

Meanwhile at Clyde’s…

OVER THE TRANSOM
EBL: Hunter Biden Plea In Jeopardy
Twitchy: Rep. Burchette (R-TN) Not Buying CNN Anchor’s Claim That She Doesn’t Have A Political Base, also, Ted Lieu’s Chart In Border Hearing Doesn’t Make The Point He Thinks 
Louder With Crowder: Here we go: BLM footage gets edited out of Jason Aldean’s “Small Town” video on YouTube, also, Ice Cube blasts Democrats failing Black America as he cruises South Central with Tucker Carlson
Vox Popoli: Mailvox: Borrowed Time, also, This is Why They Take the Ticket
Gab News: The Truth About Drinking Raw Milk

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
American Conservative: Define the Mission, Barbie: A Millennial Mom Movie, and Oppenheimer and the Roots of Tragedy
American Greatness: FBI Hands Over Documents Relating to Targeting of Catholics, also, The Educational Establishment’s Radical New Ploys
American Thinker: ‘Shut Up or Else!’ The True Link between Islam and the Left, How Investigative Journalists Have Become Cover-Up Promoters, and Welcome to the Persecution, RFK Jr.
Animal Magnetism: Animal’s Hump Day News
Babalu Blog: 70 years ago today, Cuba’s endless nightmare began, Exiled Cuban journalist threatened by Cuban dictatorship’s agents in Spain, and Barbie’s boyfriend Ken does Cuba, historical style
Baldilocks: California Reaping
BattleSwarm: Bill Maher Interviews Jordan Peterson
Behind The Black: House rejects FCC bill because the bill approved FCC’s recent power grab, Varda blocked from bringing its capsule back to Earth by FAA, Houston mission control loses contact with ISS for about 90 minutes, Optical image of accretion disk around baby star, taken by ground-based VLT, New Space Force language would give it the power to take over all commercial space assets, and Democrats now favor oppression and censorship by almost 3 to 1
Cafe Hayek: The Statrix
CDR Salamander: Another Layer To The Nation’s Humiliation At Kabul
Da Tech Guy: The Worst Possible Case For The King (and the Fauci Flock)
Dana Loesch: Hunter Biden Rejects Plea Deal After Judge Denies Immunity,
Don Surber: Try That In National Review
First Street Journal: Life is cheap in Lexington!
Gates Of Vienna: The Demonic Convergence of Communism and Islam
The Geller Report: TRUMP’S LEAD IS UNSHAKABLE AS GOP DEBATES APPROACH, Hunter Biden’s Art Patron Visited White House Over a Dozen Times, Hunter Biden’s Plea Deal CANCELLED, Sweetheart Deal OFF, and Nobel Prize Winner Canceled By IMF After Announcing There Is No Climate Crisis
Hogewash: Team Kimberlin Post of the Day, Zooming in on V960 Mon, and Hunter Biden’s Plea Deal Falls Through
Hollywood In Toto: Here’s the Only Reason to See Haunted Mansion 2.0, also, Is Ordinary Angels the Next Faith-Based Smash?
The Lid: Biden: My Administration “Ended Cancer As We Know It.”
Legal Insurrection: Vanderbilt Spending $17 Million on a Faculty DEI Initiative Aimed at the Biomedical Research Community, McConnell Claims He’s ‘Fine’ After Freezing and Appearing Unwell at Press Conference, Hunter Biden Pleads NOT GUILTY Due to Stripping of Protection From Future Prosecution, Rep. Cammack Exposes Harsh Reality of Border Crisis to Sec. Becerra, and Less Than a Quarter of College Students View Capitalism Favorably, According to Survey
Nebraska Energy Observer: Relationships and History
Outkick: 320-Pound Iowa Offensive Lineman Sets New Record With Massive Hay Bale Toss En Route To Dynasty Status, Bradley Cooper Reportedly Not Pumped About Ex Irina Shayk Dating Tom Brady, Enes Kanter Freedom Eyes Potential Congressional Run, Reveals Main Issue, Travis Kelce Describes Failed Scheme To Give Taylor Swift His Phone Number Via Friendship Bracelet, Travis Kelce Describes Failed Scheme To Give Taylor Swift His Phone Number Via Friendship Bracelet, and Donald Cerrone Claims He Would Destroy Andrew Tate In A Fight: ‘Shut The F*ck Up’
Power Line: Misunderstood in Wilmington, Speaking of phony baloney, and Podcast: Special Edition with William B. Allen on Harris’s Demagoguery
Shark Tank: DeSantis Touts Florida’s “Back To School Sales Tax Holiday”
Shot In The Dark: Try That In A Place That Hasn’t Opioided Or Woked Itself Into A Living H.L. Mencken Essay, also, Complete Control
This Ain’t Hell: Bergdahl conviction overturned, Four More Accounted For, Dear Jonn, and Jonn Lilyea, five years since he left us
Transterrestrial Musings: Starliner, also, An Evergreen Headline
Victory Girls: Hillsdale College’s 1776 Curriculum is Annoying Our Betters
Volokh Conspiracy: Lawsuit Over Firing of Sports Show Host for Tweeting “ALL LIVES MATTER…EVERY SINGLE ONE” Can Go Forward
Watts Up With That: We Stopped Just Stop Oil, Biden Violates Inflation Reduction Act Less Than One Year After Signing It Because, and ‘When will politicians listen?’: Another green energy project ‘bites the dust’
The Federalist: Biden Family Scandals Are So Much Bigger Than Hunter’s Hookers And Burisma Bribery, If Republicans Want To Keep Their House Majority, They Must Impeach Joe Biden, Oppenheimer Explores The Heroic And Horrific Power Of Man’s Inventions, Hunter Biden Plea Deal Derailed By Federal Judge, Defense Department Is Boxing Parents Out Of Their Children’s Medical Care And Records , and Republicans Must Stand Strong On The NDAA Amid Biden’s Woke War On The Military

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In The Mailbox: 07.26.23

Posted on | July 27, 2023 | Comments Off on In The Mailbox: 07.26.23

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Silicon Valley delenda est.

Not this “climate change” bullshit again.

OVER THE TRANSOM
EBL: Tom Brady Bounces Back With Irina Shayk, also, Where in the world is Fu Xiaotian?
Twitchy: Politico Explains That Kamala Is A Better VP Than You Think, also, So-Called Conservative Alyssa Farah Goodwin Suddenly Very Worried About Consequences Of “Lowering The Bar To Impeachment”
Louder With Crowder: Jason Aldean makes progressives regret trying that in a small town, sees massive 999% increase in plays, As Bud Light continues to crumble, America’s beer makes a play for the top spot, and ‘Just Stop Oil’ slacktivists finally get taste of their own medicine
Vox Popoli: The Etymology of “Yahweh”, Obvious Manufacture is Obvious, Promises, Promises, and Whatever Could it Be?

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
American Conservative: Rubio’s Reveille
American Greatness: Trump Holds 27-Point Lead Over DeSantis in Iowa Poll, also, DOJ Will Allow Delaware U.S. Attorney to Testify Before House Judiciary Committee, Balks on Ten Other DOJ Employees
American Power: The Democratic Party Hates America
American Thinker: The GOP Death Wish, also, The Perils of Race Baiting a Kennedy
Animal Magnetism: Animal’s Daily Doom Pixie News
Babalu Blog: Spain and the inconclusive election, Cuban priest denounces harassment and intimidation of clergy who dare to criticize dictatorship, and Being Cuban does not make us ‘Latin’
BattleSwarm: Mapping Austin’s Homeless Problem, also, Incompetent Uvalde Gun Lawsuit Draws Fines
Behind The Black: Swirling layers in the basement of Mars, NASA awards 11 small development contracts to a variety of companies, Rocket Lab delays its private mission to Venus two years to ’25, ESA: Ariane-6’s launch systems tests “progressing well”, and The grassroots revolt led by mothers
CDR Salamander: Berger Goes Salamander
Chicago Boyz: Retrotech: Making a Tunic, 1700 Years Ago
Da Tech Guy: Thank God for the Atom Bomb, also, Serious Irony Alert Rapture and Bronny
Dana Loesch: Special K Says Hunter Biden Is A Private Citizen So Stop Asking Questions About Him, also, Hunter Biden’s Lawyers Caught Lying To The Court One Day before Expected Guilty Plea
Don Surber: They’re Rubbing Our Noses In Their Filth
First Street Journal: I point at the moon; they stare at my finger, also, Killadelphia: Lies, damned lies, and statistics
Gates Of Vienna: Taharrush on the Milan Metro, Giorgia Meloni on the EU’s Deal With Tunisia, and Groped on the Beach? There’s an App For That!
The Geller Report: Barack and Michelle Obama’s Personal Chef Drowns Near Couple’s Estate in Martha’s Vineyard, also, Belief in God Reaches All-Time Low Among Americans
Hogewash: Team Kimberlin Post of the Day, An Irregular Dwarf, and I’m Not Making This Up, You Know
Hollywood In Toto: Sympathy for the Devil Lets Cage Off His Leash, Tulsi Gabbard Has Jason Aldean’s Back, and Ice Cube on Refusing COVID Jab: ‘It Wasn’t Ready’
The Lid: Tisha B’Av: The Day God Cursed, The Day Jews Cry
Legal Insurrection: President of Thomas Jefferson U. Resigns After Controversy of Liking Tweets, Biden Overrides SecDef Recommendation for Navy’s CNO, Appoints Woman To Achieve “A First”, Soros-Backed Group Receiving Millions From Biden Admin to Teach Puerto Rican Men About ‘Toxic Masculinities’, Federal Judge Blocks Biden’s Asylum Rule Put in Place After Lifting Title 42, and What Happens When Democrats Start Ignoring U.S. Supreme Court Rulings They Don’t Like?
Nebraska Energy Observer: How to help
Outkick: Olivia Dunne Can’t Attend Classes At LSU For Safety Reasons, Dan Le Batard Co-Host, ‘Stugotz,’ Says Le Batard ‘Sold Out,’ Goes On Extremely On-Point Rant About State Of ESPN, Sports Journalism, Bronny James Suffers Cardiac Arrest During Workout At USC, In Stable Condition After Stint In ICU, Olivia Dunne Beats The Heat With A Bikini And Lots Of Water, LeBron James Ready To Go Play In Saudi Arabia After Seeing $776 Million Kylian Mbappe Offer, and Michigan’s Jim Harbaugh Working With NCAA On Four-Game Suspension Relating To Recruiting Violations, Dishonesty
Power Line: “This elaborate censorship conspiracy”, Joe Biden vs. the Microphone—Again, and Toward a More Democratic Israel
Shark Tank: Gaetz Introduces Bill To End Birthright Citizenship
Shot In The Dark: Voting Via Feet, also, Further Evidence
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Feds Are Mystified Why Syrian Named Mohamad Planned Terrorist Attack

Posted on | July 26, 2023 | 1 Comment

Almost as soon as the July 14 shooting happened in Fargo, North Dakota, the media rushed to emphasize that nothing was known about the gunman’s motive. On a Friday afternoon, on a busy street just blocks away from the city’s Downtown Street Fair, there was a traffic accident. When police responded to the accident, they were targeted by gunfire that killed one officer and wounded two others. A civilian was also struck by gunfire during the shootout, in which the suspect was killed.

It was not until 24 hours later that we learned that the suspect was named Mohamad Barakat, but in the June 15 press conference announcing this information, Fargo’s police chief made it a point to declare the shooting happened “for no known reason at all.”

It is a profound mystery, you see, why a guy named Mohamad would want to kill policemen in Fargo, North Dakota. But how did Mohamad get to Fargo? We now know how that part happened:

Barakat arrived in the U.S. from Syria in 2012 as part of former President Barack Obama’s massive wave of Syrian refugees, where nearly 20,000 were admitted from October 2011 to December 2016. Eventually, Barakat gained a green card, allowing him to permanently reside in the country. In 2019, Barakat was allowed to become a naturalized American citizen.

Thank you, Barack Hussein Obama! I’m sure the family of the dead cop is grateful that you brought their son’s killer to America. Daniel Greenfield highlights the continuing “mystery motive” theme:

Authorities said they don’t know why Barakat was planning the attack downtown or why he stopped to shoot officers Friday afternoon.
“In regards to motive, if we had clear evidence of that, we would share it,” North Dakota U.S. Attorney Mac Schneider said.

I’m sure he would. Mac Schneider was a [Democrat] politician who lost a congressional race and got nominated as U.S. Attorney by Joe Biden.

Schneider declined to say if Barakat was on the FBI’s radar.

The FBI’s too busy rounding up Trump supporters to bother investigating guys from Syria named Mohamad. Finally this week, we were informed that the Syrian named Mohamad had a vast arsenal of weapons:

The heavily armed man who ambushed Fargo police officers investigating a fender bender last week likely had a bigger and bloodier attack in mind, with at least two fairs taking place at the time in and around North Dakota’s largest city, authorities said Friday.
Mohamad Barakat killed one officer and wounded two others and a bystander before a fourth officer shot and killed him, ending the July 14 attack.
Over the past five years, Barakat, 37, searched the internet for terms including “kill fast,” “explosive ammo,” “incendiary rounds,” and “mass shooting events,” state Attorney General Drew Wrigley said Friday during a news conference in Fargo, a city of about 125,000 people. But perhaps the most chilling search was for “area events where there are crowds,” which on July 13 brought up a news article with the headline, “Thousands enjoy first day of Downtown Fargo Street Fair.”
Had Officer Zach Robinson not killed Barakat, authorities said they shudder to think how much worse the attack might have been. All evidence suggests that Barakat came upon the traffic crash by “happenstance” and that his ensuing ambush was a diversion from his much bigger intended target, Wrigley said. . . .
On the day of the attack, the downtown fair was in its second day and was less than 3 miles from the crash scene. It’s unclear if it was the intended target, though, as Barakat also searched for information on the Red River Valley Fair, which was just a 6-mile drive from the scene, the attorney general said.
After driving by the fender bender, Barakat pulled into an adjacent parking lot to watch from his parked car, Wrigley said. He said Barakat’s car was loaded with guns, a homemade grenade, more than 1,800 rounds of ammunition, three “largish” containers full of gasoline, plus two propane tanks, one completely filled and the other half-filled not with propane, but with “explosive materials concocted at home, purchased lawfully.”
With police and firefighters busy helping, Barakat watched for several minutes until the officers walked by him, when he lifted a .223-caliber rifle out of his car window and began firing, Wrigley said.
The rifle had a binary trigger that allowed it to fire so rapidly that it sounded like an automatic weapon, he said. A binary trigger is a modification that allows a weapon to fire one round when the trigger is pulled and another when it is released — in essence doubling a gun’s firing capacity. The three officers who were shot had no time to react and fell in rapid succession. He also shot and wounded a fleeing woman, Karlee Koswick, who had been involved in the fender bender, he said.
Robinson, who was badly outgunned but was the only officer at the scene who hadn’t been shot, engaged Barakat in a two-minute shootout. It ended with Robinson shooting and killing Barakat as bystanders crouched nearby.
Wrigley described Robinson as “the last man standing in that blue line at that moment.”
“What he was standing between was not just the horrible events that were unfolding there, but between the horrible events that Mohamad Barakat had envisioned, planned and intended and armed himself for — beyond fully — that day,” he said.
Barakat killed Officer Jake Wallin, 23, who served in Iraq and Afghanistan with the Minnesota Army National Guard, and wounded Officers Andrew Dotas and Tyler Hawes. Wallin and Hawes were so new that they were still undergoing field training.
Barakat was a Syrian national who came to the U.S. on an asylum request in 2012 and became a U.S. citizen in 2019, Wrigley said, adding that he didn’t appear to have any ties to the Muslim community in Fargo. He said Barakat had some family in the U.S., but not in the Fargo area, and that investigators are still looking into his history before he arrived in the country.
In recent years, Barakat amassed his arsenal. And his internet searches about causing mayhem date back to 2018, with periods in which they abated before picking back up, the attorney general said. . . .
Wrigley said Barakat was wearing a vest that was “absolutely stuffed” with magazines and that he “was putting the finishing touches on his shooting skills in the last hours before this assault.”
As for the propane tanks, Wrigley said it was “quite dramatic” when the bomb squad detonated them. He suggested the tanks contained something similar to Tannerite, a commercial explosive that can be easily detonated with a shot from a high-powered rifle.
“Obvious motive to kill,” Wrigley said. “I mean, driven by hate. Driven by wanting to kill. Not particularized to some group that we can discern at this moment, not particularized to one individual that we can see.”
Barakat had worked odd jobs, and briefly trained as an emergency responder at a nearby community college. He had no criminal record or social media presence and had so little contact with other people that the only photo law enforcement could provide was a blurry image of him lifted from a video.

Mohamad from Syria arrives here about 10 years ago, and only “worked odd jobs,” so how could he afford all this weaponry? Really, 1,800 rounds of ammunition? A gun with a modified trigger? Notice that the information about Barakat is coming from the state Attorney General, rather than from federal officials. The feds want to make this case disappear, so they can go back to their usual business of investigating Trump voters and giving sweetheart plea deals to Democrats.



 

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