Posts on Friday, April 14, 2023
Renowned artist, international playboy, scallywag and presidential scion, Hunter Biden is prancing around the Emerald Isle with his dear old dad, all the while under Justice Department and Congressional investigations.
Must be nice. But back at home, Americans have a few questions.
In fact, millions have been waiting years to resolve the myriad probes and scandals swarming around the troubled second son of the president. And instead, they get slapped in the face with this?
SpaceX finally has clearance to launch its new Starship mega-rocket to orbit, and the company plans to attempt the monumental feat as soon as Monday.
Starship is the rocket on which SpaceX founder and CEO Elon Musk is hinging his biggest aspirations — including building and populating a human settlement on Mars. NASA, meanwhile, is counting on Starship to land its next astronauts on the moon as soon as 2025.
On Friday, after years of review, the Federal Aviation Administration granted SpaceX a license to launch the 40-story-tall rocket from the company's facilities in Boca Chica, Texas.
Trump says mass shootings are not 'a gun
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problem' as 2024 GOP hopefuls pledge loyalty
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INDIANAPOLIS — Former President Donald Trump vowed to defend and expand gun-owners rights in a speech to the National Rifle Association's annual meeting here Friday.
"I was proud to be the most pro-gun, pro-Second Amendment president you've ever had in the White House," Trump said to an audience that leapt to its feet, cheered and chanted "U-S-A" when he was introduced. "And with your support in 2024, I will be your loyal friend and fearless champion once again as the 47th president of the United States."
Against the backdrop of recent mass shootings in Tennessee and Kentucky, a stampede of 2024 Republican presidential hopefuls and possible candidates rushed to pledge their loyalty
Bragg vs. the Windmills
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It has always been my contention, drawn from long experience along with wide reading, that the American Left is fundamentally stupid. This is both in a general and particular sense. You have to be a little dense to accept left-wing ideas in the first place. [snip] European leftists have often been true intellectuals – people who do the reading, who are open to debate, who believe in ideas. But American lefties are simply punks. They think only in terms of slogans. They can’t reconcile experience and ideas. They can’t read or understand the historical record [snip] They almost always wind up sabotaging themselves.
Elon Musk has said that doctors or parents who approve or conduct sex-change surgeries on minors should be jailed for life.
The billionaire Twitter and Tesla boss tweeted: 'Any parent or doctor who sterilizes a child before they are a consenting adult should go to prison for life.'
His comment came in response to discussion about new rules approved by medical boards in Florida banning gender-affirming care such as puberty blockers for kids under 18.
Revealed: Shadow Billionaire Funding Sexual
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Assault Suit Against Trump Is LinkedIn’s Founder replies
The mysterious billionaire funding a sexual assault lawsuit levied against former President Donald Trump by E. Jean Carroll has been revealed after years of speculation.
Reid Hoffman, a billionaire co-founder of social media networking giant Linkedin and now a top donor for the Democrats, has been quietly bankrolling Carroll’s rape suit against Trump, according to court records revealed Thursday.Hoffman’s identity as the shadow funder for Carroll was disclosed in “last-minute” correspondence between lawyers for both sides.
According to the Daily Beast, Hoffman is not just bankrolling Democrats but also dead set on weakening Trump’s position
Irish Senate Chair Calls for ‘Four More
Years’ of Biden as President Addresses
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Years’ of Biden as President Addresses
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The chair of Ireland’s Senate has called for “four more years” of Joe Biden after the ‘anti-British’ President addressed the country’s parliament.
Jerry Buttimer, the chair of Ireland’s senate, has called for “four more years” of President Joe Biden after the senior Democrat addressed the nation’s parliament.Although the American leader’s four-day long tour of the island has been warmly welcomed by many Irish politicians, it has rubbed officials in Britain and Northern Ireland the wrong way, with the President repeatedly being accused of being “anti-British” both before and during Biden’s stint abroad.
Former President Trump pledged to be the National Rifle Association’s “loyal friend” at its annual conference on Friday ahead of the 2024 presidential election.
Trump said during remarks at the Indianapolis event that he “saved” the Second Amendment to the Constitution while serving as president and will continue to do so for a long time. He added that he was the “most pro-gun, pro-Second Amendment” president to ever serve. “With your support, in 2024, I will be your loyal friend and fearless champion once again as the 47th president of the United States,” he said.
While greeting embassy families and firefighters in Dublin, Ireland, on Wednesday President Joe Biden needed help from his son, Hunter Biden, in answering a child’s question on what the key to success is.
Biden seemed to have a hard time understanding the child’s question until Hunter Biden stepped up and helped him by rephrasing the question. Hunter Biden also corrected the president when Biden was talking about former Sen. Jesse Helms (R-N.C.), by saying that Helms was from North Carolina, not South Carolina, as the president said.
Journalist James O’Keefe confronted controversial transgender influencer Dylan Mulvaney at the Four Seasons in Beverly Hills this week.
O’Keefe sought Mulvaney’s reaction to a report that the journalist released this week regarding male inmates who are allegedly abusing the correctional system in Washington state by claiming they are transgender so they can be put in a prison for women.The interaction comes as Mulvaney has been front and center in national media headlines over the last couple of weeks due to his marketing partnership with Bud Light.
After alienating "fratty" customers and hiring biological male Dylan Mulvaney to promote Bud Light, resulting in a $5 billion loss over the past few days, Anheuser-Busch CEO Brendan Whitworth is finally weighing in.
"As the CEO of a company founded in America’s heartland more than 165 years ago, I am responsible for ensuring every consumer feels proud of the beer we brew, We’re honored to be part of the fabric of this country. Anheuser-Busch employs more than 18,000 people and our independent distributors employ an additional 47,000 valued colleagues. We have thousands of partners, millions of fans and a proud history supporting our communities, military, first responders,
Former President Donald Trump mentioned Mike Pence during his speech at the 2023 NRA Convention, and the crowd continued their booing of the former vice president and Indiana governor. (Photo) "I hope you gave Pence a good warm approval," Trump said as the crowd responded with boos. They also booed during Pence's speech earlier in the day. During the not-so-warm reception, one crowd member shouted "we love you, Mike," to which Pence responded "I love you, too."
Female prison inmates inside the Washington Corrections Center For Women (WCCW) revealed in secret video footage this week how biological males are gaming the state’s Transgender Housing Program and victimizing vulnerable women.
Washington State’s Department of Corrections (DOC) boasts that it has been “a leader in the nation working with incarcerated transgender individuals providing gender affirming care to include housing in gender appropriate facilities.”
DOC officials, however, reportedly refuse to disclose how many genitally intact biological males have been incarcerated in state women’s prisons, and are not taking allegations of sexual abuse seriously, according to whistleblowers.
Jack Teixeira, the 21-year-old Massachusetts Air National Guardsman accused of leaking a trove of classified military intelligence, was charged Friday in federal court with “retention and transmission of national defense information and willful retention of classified documents.”(snip)Teixeira became a National Guard “cyber transports systems journeyman”—which is similar to an information technology specialist—in February and started leaking highly sensitive military documents to his small Discord chat group in early March, according to the New York Times.
As his unit provides intelligence for combat support and homeland security, Teixeira was granted a “top secret security clearance” in 2021.
Trading With The Enemy
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The Ukraine government, headed by Volodymyr Zelensky, has been using American taxpayers’ funds to pay dearly for the vitally needed diesel fuel that is keeping the Ukrainian army on the move in its war with Russia. It is unknown how much the Zelensky government is paying per gallon for the fuel, (snip)What also is unknown is that Zelensky has been buying the fuel from Russia, the country with which it, and Washington, are at war, and the Ukrainian president and many in his entourage have been skimming untold millions from the American dollars earmarked for diesel fuel payments. One estimate by analysts from the Central Intelligence Agency put the embezzled
Mike Pompeo, who has called for more seriousness in GOP leadership, is not entering the 2024 presidential race. The former Trump administration secretary of state made the announcement on Twitter on Friday.
Pompeo first shared the update with Fox News host Bret Baier. “Susan and I have concluded, after much consideration and prayer, that I will not present myself as a candidate to become President of the United States in the 2024 election,” Pompeo wrote in a statement with his PAC, Champion American Values.
Pompeo, who also previously served as a U.S. representative, director of the Central Intelligence Agency, and as a soldier in the U.S. military
Obama said he wanted change and this is was what he wanted.A few days before President Trump’s inauguration and while he was behind the scenes spying on Trump, conjuring up lies of Trump being a Russian spy, and doing all he could to cover up his corruption by going on the offense, Obama was widely recognized as being America’s first Muslim President.
Under Obama major US cities began filling up with Muslims from the Middle East. This program of bringing in individuals from around the world has expanded under the Biden-Obama regime. The fruits of their work are now in the open.
Former President Trump turned an address before gun rights activists at the National Rifle Association (NRA) into a post-indictment stump speech by tearing into prosecutors for going after him instead of 'thugs and hoodlums.'
'The only one they wanna prosecute is Donald Trump,' the former president said after leaving New York, where Manhattan DA Alvin Bragg has charged him with 34 counts of business fraud and state Attorney General Letitia James is launching a $250 million lawsuit over his business practices.
'Let's get that son of a b***h!' Trump quipped.
President Trump is taking the stage at the 2023 National Rifle Association (NRA) Convention to speak about how he will protect our gun rights in the face of radical leftwing gun grabbers.
President Trump’s Team provided the following information from his former appearances at the NRA Convention:
President Trump has continuously supported responsible American gun owners, including his sons Don Jr. And Eric, who are lifetime members of the NRA. President Trump is committed to protecting law-abiding Americans’ Second Amendment rights.
INDIANAPOLIS — Last year it was Uvalde. Now it’s Nashville and Louisville. For the second year in a row, the National Rifle Association is holding its annual convention within days of mass shootings that shook the nation.
The three-day gathering kicked off Friday with thousands of the organization’s most active members at Indianapolis’ convention center attracting a bevy of top Republican presidential candidates — enough that it could help shape the early part of next year’s GOP primary race.
Protesters are demanding that transgender women be removed from New Jersey’s only all-female prison — where 24 transgender women, including one who says she has a “taste for blood,” are held out of a total of 356 prisoners.
#GetMenOut activists held a protest at the state Capitol in Trenton on Friday, reading letters from four biologically female inmates at the Edna Mahan Correctional Facility, where one transgender inmate impregnated two women last year. (Snip) Harmeet K. Dhillon, CEO of the conservative Center for American Liberty, has estimated there are 900 biological males housed in women’s prisons around the country.
Joe Biden is still in Ireland with his son Hunter and sister Valerie, going to visit various areas associated with his ancestors on our dime. He was in County Mayo on Friday.
I think he’s already set a record for how many embarrassing things he can do on a foreign trip. He laid down a festival of made-up stories during his remarks in Ireland. He told a weird story to little kids that couldn’t possibly have happened and had to have Hunter help him and correct him. He also told the Irish Parliament some stories that were a bunch of malarkey too.
But before he left Dublin he left the Irish
U.S. Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito on Friday temporarily blocked lower court rulings that imposed tighter restrictions on the abortion pill mifepristone.
U.S. Judge Matthew Kacsmaryk of the U.S. Northern District of Texas suspended the Food and Drug Administration's approval of mifepristone last week. The U.S. 5th Circuit Court of Appeals blocked that part of Kacsmaryk's order and kept the FDA approval in place. But the appeals court temporarily re-imposed tighter restrictions on how mifepristone is used and distributed, which would make it more difficult for women to access the drug.
Alito blocked those rulings restricting mifepristone access until 11:59 p.m. Wednesday.
What happens when a pre-operative transgender teacher says she wants to shoot some of her students and has suicidal ideation? If the school is Fox Chapel Middle School in Hernando County, FL, the answer, until yesterday, was “not much and definitely not immediately.”
In a police report posted on the Moms for Liberty Hernando County Facebook page (Title: Your voice matters. Help fix Hernando county schools.), on March 24, the school resource officer was contacted by the assistant principal and guidance counselor (you just knew that when a guidance counselor got involved the whole story was going pear-shaped, didn’t you?).
Happy Friday, dear Kruiser Morning Briefing friends. (Snip) We’ve all lost count of the number of times I have exhorted Team Biden to not let Ol’ Joe off his leash too often. He’s an unfailing embarrassment to a once proud country. Heck, at this point our enemies are probably embarrassed that the United States can’t be taken seriously anymore. They’d probably like more of a challenge.
There are rumors that Joe Biden wants to run for reinstatement via the Magical Mail Ballot Machine reelection and subject the country to Sir Sniffsalot, the Sequel. It’s a frightening prospect, yet one I’m not too worried about for a variety of reasons. Chief
Sen. Joe Manchin (D-WV) has been sending out a whole lot of reminders that he's willing to work with his Republican colleagues, perhaps in hopes he'll hold onto his seat next year, if he does run for reelection. He may now help tank President Joe Biden's nominee for Secretary of Labor, Julie Su, though he's not the only one to express concern with her nomination.
Su will have her confirmation hearing with the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee next week, on April 20. According to sources mentioned in an Axios report, described as "people familiar with the situation," Manchin has expressed reservations about her nomination.
Local leaders in Chicago's Chatham neighborhood, located in the south side, held a press conference to demand the area's Walmart to not close down, going as far as to blame the company leaving the area is the reason they not are economically thriving.
"We have healthcare deserts. We have food deserts. And we wonder why! Our communities look like they look! That we have violence every single day! It is not just on us, it is on the corporate citizens that come into our community and ravage our community. And Walmart, you should absolutely be ashamed of yourselves. You are the reasons that our communities lack the investment that they have,"
A 21-year-old Massachusetts Air National Guardsman has been hit with two federal charges under the Espionage Act for his alleged role in the Pentagon leak.
Jack Teixeira appeared in a Boston federal court on Friday and is facing 15 years in prison if convicted of illegally taking and leaking classified information and military secrets.
Fresh questions are being asked as to how Teixeira, who lived with his mother in North Dighton, Massachusetts and accused of being behind the humiliating security breach, got clearance to access sensitive documents.
President Joe Biden committed a number of gaffes and awkward moments this week as he toured Ireland with his family members.
As a self-proclaimed “gaffe machine,” Biden continued his streak of errors during three separate events, causing social media to erupt.Below are the top three gaffes:
1.) Biden mislabels his office location
Speaking Wednesday at Ulster University, Northern Ireland’s regional university, Biden claimed his Oval Office was in the United States Capitol instead of the White House, which he properly identified later in his remarks.
NIH guide warns against describing pronouns
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as ‘chosen,’ pushes slew of 40 different options replies
An office within the National Institutes of Health published a guideline that outlines how professionals should use gendered pronouns to "affirm gender identity" for themselves and colleagues, warning that intentionally using the wrong pronouns is "equivalent to harassment." Fox News Digital reviewed the NIH Sexual & Gender Minority Research Office’s "Gender Pronouns & Their Use in Workplace Communications" guide, which provides more than 40 different pronoun examples, while also providing examples on how to avoid making pronoun "mistakes" in the workplace. For professionals to "facilitate inclusive, affirming and welcoming" workplaces, the gender pronouns guide hashes out a series of different
Until I saw the document labeled, CIA Operations Center Intelligence Update, I was inclined to believe that the leaked documents were the work of a frustrated whistleblower. But I have changed my mind. This looks like a controlled, directed leak by individuals who manipulated the 21 year old National Guard troop into taking certain documents and posting them on a public server.
The CIA Operations Center Intelligence Update is a document produced by analysts in the Operations Center to be delivered to the regular CIA analysts. When I worked in the Ops Center I was responsible for monitoring traffic from Latin American posts
Big Leak Roundup
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What’s going on? What’s the Big Picture? This looks like another Deep State coup in the making, probably spearheaded by the Intel agencies and the Pentagon. Our position has been that that’s what’s behind the drip, drip, drip, of revelations about Zhou. The classified documents and so forth. The motive behind this coup is that the US is losing its war with Russia—Big Time. There will be consequences. There have been a variety of attempts to get the US out of this war—Gen. Milley suggesting negotiations, things of that sort. None of those attempts have gained traction with the public, which is instead focused on Drag Shows.
The Incalculable Damage Done by the Gamer/National
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First, there’s the “how.” How did a 21-year-old Air National Guardsman gain access to and reveal closely held military and intelligence secrets? Then there’s the “what.” What exactly did Airman First Class Jack Douglas Teixeira post to his teenage friends on the gamer board “Thug Shaker Central”?
The “why” will await some psychiatric profile that will tell us about Teixeira’s sad, lonely life and his need to be noticed. And military counterintelligence experts are still sifting through the evidence to find answers to the “what.”
But the shocking truth is that a low-ranking Air National Guard member was able to snap hundreds of photos of classified documents and post them
If you bought stock in U-Haul in the past couple of years, your retirement account is probably looking better than a lot of other people’s. (Particularly those who invested in Budweiser.) If it feels like there’s a lot of traffic on the roads these days, particularly along the east coast, it’s not your imagination. And most of that traffic is heading south. In the first three months of 2023, more than ten thousand people fled New York and relocated to Florida. If things keep going at this pace, Ron DeSantis is going to run out of places to put them all. (NY Post)
Sam Brinton, the embattled former senior Department of Energy (DOE) official, was able to escape jail time earlier this week in a grand larceny case dating back to July 2022.
According to Clark County, Nevada, criminal court records, Brinton was ordered to pay $3,670.74 to the victim in the case and $500 in additional fees including a criminal fine. Clark County Judge Ann Zimmerman then handed Brinton a 180-day suspended jail sentence, a sentence that doesn't need to be served, and ordered Brinton to "stay out of trouble."
Zimmerman also determined Brinton was guilty of theft of an item with the value less than $1,200.
A California judge has ordered San Jose's Calvary Chapel church to pay $1.2 million in fines for defying COVID-19 pandemic restrictions by meeting for worship and not requiring masks.
In a ruling handed down last week, Superior Court Judge Evette D. Pennypacker said the church should pay fines for flagrantly violating Santa Clara County's mask mandate between November 2020 and June 2021. The court found that the county's face covering requirement was "neutral and generally applicable" to all similarly situated entities in the county, rejecting the church's argument that the health orders violated their religious freedoms.
France's Emmanuel Macron has prompted backlash by saying that Europeans should not be "followers" of either US or China when it comes to Taiwan and urging for more EU autonomy in international policy.
His statements came as China was conducting a massive three-day military drill around the self-ruled island, which Beijing sees as a part of its own territory. On Wednesday, Macron said he was standing by his comments and that "being an ally does not mean being a vassal" of the US. At the same time, he emphasized that France supported "the status quo in Taiwan" and was in favor of solving the situation peacefully.
Then, Germany's Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock
House Republicans to Introduce Legislation
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As the controversy continues over Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg‘s politically motivated indictment of former President Donald Trump in a case that no sane prosecutor would bring against anyone not named Donald Trump, House Republicans are about to introduce multiple bills that would restrict state and local prosecutors from prosecuting current or former presidents.
Any such cases could instead be moved to federal court, House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan told Just the News on Thursday. Jordan said the lead bill would give current and former presidents the option to change venues.
The lead bill is slated to be introduced early next week at the latest. Jordan explained its significance:
There are now five candidates who have either joined the 2024 Republican presidential race or have taken official steps toward doing so: Former President Donald Trump; former U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley, also the former South Carolina governor; entrepreneur Vivek Ramaswamy; former Gov. Asa Hutchinson (R-AR); and Sen. Tim Scott (R-SC).
Scott became the latest to join the group Wednesday with a video announcing that he has formed an exploratory committee for a presidential run. That is not really necessary — super PACs supporting Scott have already raised tens of millions of dollars. But it elevates Scott's status in the race
Donald Trump was indicted recently on 34 felony counts of falsifying business records – but New York City prosecutor Alvin Bragg's case against the former president faces significant legal hurdles, experts told Fox News Digital. The 2024 Republican presidential candidate pleaded not guilty to the raft of accusations against him and has characterized the legal offensive as a politically motivated witch hunt.
"If it wasn’t Donald Trump, no prosecutor in the world would have touched this," said former assistant district attorney Daniel Bibb, who spent more than two decades trying murder cases in Manhattan. "If you and I did what Trump did, we never would have been charged."
Historians will have a hard time grappling with the enormity of the efforts by the media, the Department of Justice, and their allies in the intelligence community (IC) to stop Donald Trump. For a more manageable case study they would do well to look at the 2006 re-election campaign of then 10-term Pennsylvania Congressman Curt Weldon. Seventeen years later, Weldon has a lot to say—with more to come—about how this unholy cabal subverted the democracy its apparatchiks profess to champion. Weldon recently sent me a video tribute made on his behalf in spring 2007 by then former president George H.W. Bush.
With each day, it seems, we hear something new about how President Joe Biden and his ever-eager son, Hunter, used the power of Biden’s various political offices to make money for the Biden family. If even half of the allegations are true, Biden’s in big trouble. Will that make him think twice about running for a second term in 2024?
American voters are a thick-skinned lot, and know pretty much that many politicians are scoundrels. But Biden is a different breed.
His family has, for years, received mysterious piles of money — we’re talking millions of dollars here — from questionable overseas
American taxpayers are likely to subsidize billions of dollars in Affordable Care Act benefits for illegal aliens enrolled in the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program under a plan by President Joe Biden.
On Thursday, President Joe Biden announced a plan to open the Affordable Care Act, commonly known as Obamacare, and Medicaid rolls to hundreds of thousands of DACA illegal aliens. While DACA, created by former President Obama through executive action, has helped shield close to a million illegal aliens from deportation through the years, the Migration Policy Institute states that about 600,000 are currently enrolled in the program.
President Joe Biden will appoint pop superstar Lady Gaga to co-chair the President's Committee on the Arts and Humanities with film producer Bruce Cohen.
The President, 80, made the announcement Thursday in an official press release that also included a list of the committee's A-list members, such as George Clooney and Kerry Washington.
Gaga, 37, has aligned her self with President Biden over the years and famously performed the National Anthem at his inauguration ceremony in 2021.