Posts on Friday, December 6, 2024
White House reporters fumed at Karine Jean-Pierre for repeatedly lying about the Hunter Biden pardon during an absolutely brutal press briefing.
Last Sunday Joe Biden issued a full and unconditional pardon to his son, Hunter Biden, absolving him of any federal crimes committed between 2014 and 2024.
Hunter was facing federal tax fraud charges in California and felony gun charges in Delaware.
Joe Biden gave his son a blanket pardon after repeatedly claiming he wouldn’t.
Washington— President-elect Donald Trump on Friday offered a public show of support for Pete Hegseth, his embattled choice to lead the Defense Department, whose confirmation by the Senate is in doubt as he faces questions over allegations of excessive drinking, sexual assault and his views on women in combat.
Hegseth, a former Fox News Host, Army National Guard major and combat veteran, spent much of the week on Capitol Hill trying to salvage his Cabinet nomination and privately reassure Republican senators that he is fit to lead Trump’s Pentagon.
“Pete Hegseth is doing very well,” Trump posted on his social media site. “He will be a fantastic, high energy, Secretary of Defense.”
Rep. Alexandria Ocaio-Cortez (D-NY) hopes to become the top Democrat on the House Oversight Committee, as current Ranking Member Jamie Raskin (D-MD) looks to lead Democrats on the Judiciary Committee.
On Friday, Ocasio-Cortez launched her candidacy to become the Oversight Committee’s ranking member, writing a letter to fellow House Democrats asking for their support, as Axios first reported. “I write to you today to seek your support to serve as Ranking Member of the Committee on Oversight and Accountability in the 119th Congress,” she wrote.
The hunt for Brian Thompson's killer continues on its third day, as the NYPD reportedly believes the gunman has left New York City.
Thompson, 50, was gunned down in the early hours of Wednesday as he was on his way to an investor conference at the New York Hilton.
His unidentified assassin remains on the loose but cops have released a photo of him smiling and have searched a Manhattan hostel where he's believed to have stayed. Officials have also said they obtained a DNA swap for a water bottle possibly dropped by the killer, who has not yet been identified.
On Friday evening the NYPD managed to recover
Investigators believe that a person of interest in connection with the deadly shooting Wednesday of the CEO of UnitedHealthcare is no longer in New York City, a person familiar with the matter told CBS News Friday.
The person of interest may have boarded a bus at a Manhattan bus terminal bound for Atlanta, the person familiar with the matter said.
The Atlanta Police Department said that they were contacted by the New York Police Department and will be providing assistance as needed.
Federal authorities have arrested a leftist Democratic city councilwoman in Boston after being accused of defrauding the city and giving kickbacks to a family member on her staff.
Tania Fernandes Anderson, who immigrated to the U.S. illegally from Cape Verde, was charged by the Justice Department with five counts of wire fraud and one count of stealing federal funds, including a charge for providing a $13,000 bonus to an unnamed relative she employed at city hall. The two allegedly shared the money.
“The charges stem from an alleged kickback scheme she orchestrated to obtain several thousand dollars in taxpayer money
The Democratic Party is the party of hate. They look at middle- and working-class Americans and see “garbage” and “deplorables,” words that President Biden and Madame Hilary used. On November 4, MSNBC host Joe Scarborough trashed Trump voters, asking, “Who are these people...who raised them?”
Mr. Scarborough, let me tell you who raised me.
My parents came to this country in 1948. They were Polish Jews who survived Hitler’s Holocaust. They did not know each other when they arrived in the United States.
When my father was fourteen, he was imprisoned in a Nazi slave labor camp for the sole crime of being a Jew.
Why Is the Media Fixated on Pete Hegseth
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Liberal media outlets have recently turned their focus to smearing President-elect Donald Trump’s pick for defense secretary, Pete Hegseth, devoting significant time and energy to criticizing his casual beer-drinking habits, calling it “jarring.” What should have been a celebratory moment for Hegseth and his family receiving the nomination from Trump has been blown out of proportion, with the left seizing on every opportunity to attack Hegseth for something so trivial. This relentless focus on his personal choices appears less about holding him accountable for any meaningful actions and more about attempting to discredit him through manufactured outrage to undermine Trump’s future cabinet.
The top manslaughter charge against Daniel Penny was thrown out Friday, with the jury to return next week to debate a lesser alternative, negligent homicide.
It’s an embarrassing defeat for Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg, who never should have brought charges against former Marine Daniel Perry in the first place.
But it’s not the first time Bragg has failed his office. Indeed, since Day 1, the district attorney has been a walking disaster for the city.
He needs to go.
Consider: Violent crime is up and continues to rise, and his “Day 1” promises to “make us safer” by reducing enforcement and punishment have backfired spectacularly.
White House Press Secretary Karine Jean Pierre held a briefing for the first time Friday since President Joe Biden issued a broad and sweeping pardon for his son, Hunter Biden, Sunday night. After the pardon was issued, which covers any potential crimes committed between 2014-2024, Biden bolted to Africa and refused to answer questions from reporters. "Today, I signed a pardon for my son Hunter. From the day I took office, I said I would not interfere with the Justice Department’s decision-making, and I kept my word even as I have watched my son being selectively, and unfairly, prosecuted.
Sen. Joni Ernst (R-IA) on Thursday, after a groundswell of support for Defense Secretary nominee Pete Hegseth, denied she is behind a campaign on Capitol Hill to tank his nomination and seek the job herself.
“I don’t have a campaign against Pete,” she told RealClearPolitics’s White House correspondent Philip Wegmann, adding that he deserved to have a Senate confirmation hearing. “I just want to make sure the process is able to play out and that we’re thoroughly vetting him. I do believe that Pete deserves to have a hearing. All the rumblings out there are absolutely false. My role as a senator is to make sure that we are
Serial liar and Trump-Russia collusion hoaxer Adam Schiff officially resigned from Congress effective Sunday after more than two decades in the US House of Representatives.
Schiff will be sworn into the Senate on Monday after defeating Republican Steve Garvey in California.
Adam (X) “I just cast my last vote as a member of the House of Representatives,” Schiff said on Friday. “To my LA constituents — thank you for the amazing opportunity to serve,” he said. “And to the people of the whole state of CA, I’m so grateful for your confidence and look forward to all we can get done together!”
FIRST ON FOX: A House GOP lawmaker wants to award a U.S. Marine veteran, accused of killing a homeless man in what he argued was the defense of himself and others, with Congress’ highest civilian honor. Rep. Eli Crane, R-Ariz., is planning to introduce a resolution to give Daniel Penny the Congressional Gold Medal, Fox News Digital was told on Friday. "Daniel Penny’s actions exemplify what it means to stand against the grain to do right in a world that rewards moral cowardice," said Crane, a retired Navy SEAL.
A Manhattan judge on Friday agreed to drop the top charge against Daniel Penny in the subway chokehold death of Jordan Neely. “We move to dismiss the top count of manslaughter in the second degree,” Assistant District Attorney Dafna Yoran told the court at around 3:30 p.m. The judge then signed off on the request — which came after jurors twice said Friday they couldn’t come to a verdict on the manslaughter rap. The 12-person panel will continue deliberating Monday on the lesser charge of criminally negligent homicide, which Penny, 26, faces in the fatal May 2023 encounter aboard an uptown F train.
Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has avoided a snap election so far but sooner or later his time is going to run out and when it does, polls suggest he and his party are going to face a big loss to the conservatives. Today the Free Press published a story helping to explain why so many young voters have turned on Trudeau. As the saying goes, it's the economy, stupid.
"At University Hospital in London, Ontario, Amanda Vanderley, 25, works grueling 12-hour shifts as an emergency room nurse. Each day includes not just providing critical care and assisting doctors with emergency procedures but also managing patients’ anxieties...
Amanda’s $38 an hour,
Dr. Johanna Olson-Kennedy runs the gender clinic at Children's Hospital in Los Angeles. You can read an interview with her about trans health here on the Children's Hospital website. As author Jesse Singal explains in a report for the Economist, Dr. Olson-Kennedy isn't just any doctor, she's one of the most outspoken proponents of gender affirming care for minors in the country, i.e. someone who is quoted in the media on this topic frequently.
Her activism seems to have overcome her commitment to transparency. Recently, Dr. Olson-Kennedy made news for sitting on the results of a government funded study of trans children because the outcome didn't support her ideological commitments.
Ding, Dong, the Krugman's Gone!
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Paul Krugman is the James Cramer of opinion writing.
Always wrong, but never in doubt, Krugman's shtick is to tell liberals exactly what they want to hear and slap the credibility of a Nobel Prizewinner's credential on top of whatever the fashionable opinion of the day is.
So let me be the first to wish Krugman well as he rides off into the sunset. Don't let the door hit you in the a--, Paul.
White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre on Friday would not rule out the idea of President Biden issuing preemptive pardons on behalf of his allies before he leaves the Oval Office next month.
The press secretary’s comments come as media reports have indicated the White House is privately weighing whether to issue preemptive pardons to several Biden allies, including Dr. Anthony Fauci, former Congresswoman Liz Cheney, and retired General Mark Milley, who served as the joint chiefs of staff under Trump’s first administration.
Representative James Clyburn (D-SC) claimed Friday on CNN’s “Inside Politics” that the country was in danger of Jim Crow laws returning because voters did not prioritize democracy.
Host Dana Bash said, “I want to switch gears to something that former President Obama said.[Snip] “Talk of bridging our differences when the country and the world seemed so bitterly divided felt like an academic exercise, it felt farfetched, even naive. Especially since as far as they were concerned, the election proved that democracies pretty far down on people’s priority list.”
Coldplay has released a video for their recent song, “All My Love,” starring 98-year-old actor Dick Van Dyke. The special, extended “Directors’ Cut” edition of the clip, co-directed by Spike Jonze and Mary Wigmore, arrives ahead of the official music video, set for release on Dec. 13, Van Dyke’s 99th birthday.
The video was filmed at Van Dyke’s Malibu home and features the actor, known for his roles in classic movies Mary Poppins and Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, ruminating about age, family, and love.
Eating a specific type of sugar can turbocharge cancers and make them more deadly, according to new research.
Fructose — which is added to thousands of US food and drinks — was found to speed up the growth of certain kinds of skin, breast and cervical tumors.
The study showed this type of sugar gets converted by the liver into components that tumors need to build new cells and grow. The more quickly a tumor grows, the more aggressive the cancer may become - able to take over a person's body before they can fight back.
Added fructose is sugar that is extracted from sources like corn and added to
The Biden administration has made a precedent-setting arrest related to anti-climate change activities this fiscal year, highlighted in a new report that shows a ramped-up enforcement effort against environmental offenses. On Thursday, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) issued a final report on enforcement efforts under President Biden, which detailed how climate-related penalties were enforced this fiscal year.
Is he the Ghost of Christmas Past — or just another Scrooge?
President Biden shocked attendees at the White House’s National Christmas Tree Lighting Ceremony on Thursday night when he doffed his stocking cap to reveal long, wispy locks — appearing more like a character out of Charles Dickens’ Yuletide classic than the commander-in-chief.
His white, billowy hair stood on end from the wool cap’s static electricity, spooking the White House press corps by making him seem older — and ghostlier — than usual. (Photo) You’re still here?” he said in a playful jab at the journalists huddled in the frigid air on the South Lawn after he delivered his remarks
UPDATE: Jurors are instructed to continue deliberating under an Allen charge, after the defense asked for a mistrial, saying such would be "coercive." The judge disagreed, sending the jury back to deliberations. Afterward, another note came in. Jurors are seeking clarification in determining whether a person reasonably believes physical force is necessary: "We'd like to better understand the term 'reasonable person.' Can the judge elaborate?"
"Ultimately, what a reasonable person is is up to you to decide," the judge told jurors. He suggested a two-part test: Did Penny actually believe Neely would use deadly force? Would a reasonable person
Federal Court Upholds Law to Force TikTok’s
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A federal appeals court on Friday upheld a law that would ban TikTok in the U.S. unless the app’s Chinese parent company sells the platform.
A panel of three judges from the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit unanimously declined to review the petition for relief from TikTok.
“We conclude the portions of the Act the petitioners have standing to challenge, that is the provisions concerning TikTok and its related entities, survive constitutional scrutiny,” judge Douglas Ginsburg wrote in the majority opinion. “We therefore deny the petitions.”
The most sensible Democrat in the land, Sen. John Fetterman (D-Pa.), is still a man of the left, and so moments of madness are almost as frequent from him as moments of insight, but he has come a very long way down a road that most leftists never travel at all. On Thursday’s episode of “The View,” of all places, he demonstrated a remarkable and unprecedented honesty among leftists regarding the legal persecution of President-elect Trump and offered an intriguing suggestion for what could be done to end it. He still isn’t all the way out of the cult, but Fetterman’s heart is clearly in the right place.
The massacre of October 7th on the Jewish Holiday of Simchat Torah. This historical episode will be spoken about in the futures years and decades as much as people will discuss the Holocaust. Of course, the scope of a one-day massacre of 1,200+ Israeli civilians as opposed to the systemized destruction of an entire race during World War II cannot be compared. However, what happened in that one fateful day was truly analogous to what happened on a single day during the early period of the Holocaust.
Is it that hard to deliver small trailers for survivors of a monstrous hurricane?
Well, to FEMA, Joe Biden's emergency management agency it is.
Here are the sorry leavings:
Investigative reporter James O'Keefe said there was remarkably little done in hurricane-ravaged North Carolina, this, even after bad publicity hit the agency for its inadequate response. Since then, there has been clear evidence of political favoritism, first in Florida, and later in North Carolina. But results? They aren't about results:
There’s not much Donald Trump could ever do as president that will generate more resistance and hatred than bleeding the fetid capital swamp. It’s arguable that there’s nothing he could ever do as president that would be better for the republic.
Trump’s decision to make administration appointments from figures who are outside of the establishment adds to the loathing that so many in the political-media establishment already directed toward him. Various grifters, vipers and unprincipled schemers from both parties have spent their adult lives seeking seats of power, comfort and endless tenure in the capital.
Jurors deadlocked in Daniel Penny manslaughter
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Jurors at Daniel Penny’s trial in the caught-on-camera subway chokehold death of Jordan Neely said Friday they’re struggling to reach a verdict on the top charge of manslaughter. Penny’s lawyers have said the Marine veteran and aspiring architect was justified in protecting passengers from a man who witnesses said yelled, “Someone’s going to die today!” and said he was ready to go to jail after boarding the uptown F train. But Manhattan prosecutors have stressed that no witness testified that Neely threatened anyone specifically, touched anyone, or brandished a weapon. Police later found only a muffin in his pocket.
Deflated by the resounding November defeat, the left now believes it can magically rebound by destroying President-elect Donald Trump's cabinet nominees.
Many of Trump's picks are well outside the usual Washington, D.C./New York political, media, and corporate nexus.
But that is precisely the point -- to insert reformers into a bloated, incompetent, and weaponized government who are not part of it.
Trump's nominee for FBI director, Kash Patel, is already drawing severe criticism.
His furious enemies cannot go after his resume since he has spent a lifetime in private, congressional, and executive billets, both in investigations and intelligence.
The Talk of “Preemptive Pardons”
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Anytime the professional leftists lose anything, they immediately become victims. Whether defeated in the battle of ideas (retreat to safe spaces), defeated in the field of pop culture, or even defeated linguistically through debate (words are violence). Whenever the professional left loses, they immediately become victims. It’s what they do.
The professional political left, newest version from the Chicago spawn of Dohrn/Ayers, has been waging full combat Lawfare via a weaponized government for the past 16 years. However, Obama/Plouffe were defeated, “their kind” rose again and won the 2024 U.S. Presidential electionWhat we see in this “preemptive pardon” narrative, is a repeat of the victim narrative.
Sen. Joni Ernst has not made up her mind about Pete Hegseth’s nomination to be secretary of defense, but despite the suggestion of some of her colleagues, the Iowa Republican told RealClearPolitics during a Thursday interview that she is not pursuing that role for herself.
“I am not seeking to be secretary of defense,” Ernst said after some on the left suggested she would make a better candidate than Hegseth and after critics on the right accused her of trying to sink his nomination for personal gain. A combat veteran herself, she explained that while “I absolutely have interest in the military…”
Washington— President-elect Donald Trump said Thursday he has selected former Sen. David Perdue of Georgia to serve as his ambassador to China, leaning on a former business executive turned politician to serve as the administration’s envoy to America’s most potent economic and military adversary.
Trump said in a social media post that Perdue “brings valuable expertise to help build our relationship with China.”
Perdue lost his Senate seat to Democrat Jon Ossoff four years ago and ran unsuccessfully in a 2022 primary against Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp. Perdue pushed Trump’s debunked lies about electoral fraud during his failed bid for Georgia governor.
Report: 94% of Federal Employees Do Not
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A sobering report by the Public Building Reforms Board paints a grim picture of federal employees’ blatant disregard for duty.
The report found that 94% of federal workers do not show up in person regularly, highlighting the poor service delivery and complacency in government offices.
The Department of Energy, the Agency for Global Media, and the U.S. Department of Agriculture topped the list of absentee/ absconders with abysmal occupancy rates of 0%, 2%, and 6%, respectively.
The Department of Veterans Affairs (7%), the Environmental Protection Agency (8%), the Department of Labor (9%), and the Nuclear Regulation Commission (9%) followed closely with their appalling numbers.
Federal agencies with the highest office occupancy rates include
Melania Trump gave her reaction to the viral video of her son Barron talking about his 'soot case,' saying she is 'very proud of him.'
In her first interview since Donald Trump won the election, the incoming first lady talked about her plans for the White House, her son being 'grown,' and her husband's dance moves.
She admitted she has never tried Trump's signature styles on the dance floor, but called it all his own. 'This is very special and unique dance,' she told Fox & Friends. 'And I think a lot of people are copying it and everybody have fun with it.'
She also described the 18-year-old Barron
Kash Patel is striking fear into the hearts of the Department of Justice workers, both current and former. He was briefly smeared as a crazy person and a Trump loyalist who would smash up the agency. I didn’t need any more convincing regarding the pick—I want him. Any person disgraced former FBI official Andrew McCabe finds deplorable is the right choice.
Patel looked like he would be a tough fight on the Hill regarding confirmation. Yet, given how Joe Biden has weaponized the Justice Department to the point where even non-Trump supporters see right through the lawfare, that might have played a role in Patel seemingly cruising to confirmation.
Really, Politico?
The “far-right New York Post”?
In a Wednesday news report, the site’s Jason Beeferman snarks about how “the influential, far-right New York Post” seems interested in Rep. Ritchie Torres’ likely run for governor.
We’ll take the “influential,” of course: Our last pick for president is headed to the White House; our last choice for mayor sits in Gracie Mansion.
But what in heck makes us “far right”?
Yes, we’re right of center for New York City; we mostly endorse Republicans and support Israel; our news coverage includes plenty of shocking stories about President Biden’s failures at the border, etc.
Washington, D.C., is bracing for an unprecedented show of support as over 100 Navy SEALs prepare to descend on the nation’s capital, standing in solidarity with President-elect Donald Trump’s nominee for Secretary of Defense, Pete Hegseth.
Hegseth, a decorated Army combat veteran and prominent conservative voice, has faced relentless media attacks in recent weeks.
The fake news media have leveled accusations ranging from outdated and disproven sexual misconduct claims to allegations of public drunkenness and financial mismanagement during his tenure at Concerned Veterans for America (CVA).
After a screaming match between Acting Secret Service Director Ron Rowe and Texas Rep. Pat Fallon erupted at a Thursday House hearing on the attempted assassination attempts against President-elect Donald Trump, new details are emerging about the circumstances that sparked the outburst.
Several Secret Service sources question whether Rowe has perjured himself during the explosive exchange.
The face-off occurred during the final meeting of the House Task Force on the Attempted Assassination of Trump when Fallon produced a photo of Rowe standing behind President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris at a 9/11 memorial event in New York City in September. Trump and Vice President-elect
During the 2024 presidential campaign, Democrat Kamala Harris tried to run away from her beliefs and policies as fast as she could.
Open borders, abolishing fracking, health care for illegals, higher taxes, and forcing people to buy electric cars are not popular policies, so she had to lie.
We are constantly told that James Carville is a very smart Democrat strategist. I have not seen evidence of this intelligence.
Throughout the 2024 campaign, Carville watched Kamala and continually said she was going to win. He did not lecture the campaign about how stupid they were.
President-elect Trump picked Anthony Salisbury to be the deputy Homeland Security Advisor on the White House Homeland Security Council.
“Tony will bring his vast Law Enforcement, counter-narcotics, and counter-cartel experience to the White House where he will serve under Stephen Miller, Deputy Chief of Staff for Policy and Homeland Security Advisor,” Trump said in a Thursday night Truth Social post.
Salisbury is currently a Special Agent in Charge of Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) in Miami.
“Tony manages all of HSI’s complex Federal Law Enforcement investigative programs related to National Security and smuggling violations, including counter-proliferation, financial crimes, commercial fraud, human trafficking, human smuggling, narcotics smuggling, transnational gangs,
President-elect Trump plans to nominate ex-president of the border patrol union, Brandon Judd, as his ambassador to Chile.
“I have personally known and worked with Brandon over the past nine years. Brandon helped me develop and implement the most effective Border Security policies in our Nation’s History,” Trump said Thursday night on Truth Social. “I have also watched as Brandon tirelessly and honorably represented the Border Patrol Agents who elected him as their voice in all matters, especially in their efforts to secure our Great Country’s Borders, and keep all Americans safe.”
President-elect Trump is holding court with foreign leaders as they seek to gain influence and insight into his mindset before he takes office, with the expectation that the Trump administration will bring major shifts to the global economy and to its approach to alliances.
Trump has met with and spoken to a wide array of global leaders since he won last month’s election. On Saturday, he will be taking a trip abroad to attend the reopening of the Notre Dame cathedral in Paris, a visit that is seen as a way for French President Emmanuel Macron to bolster his standing with the president-elect.
As Joe Biden is preparing to exit the White House, Democrats and activists on the left are urging him to give away more student loan debt forgiveness.
These people know that the gravy train is coming to an end soon and they want to maximize the grift while they still can.
Of course, the U.S. Supreme Court has already told Biden that he can’t do this but that hasn’t stopped him so far.
FOX News reports: Top Dems, activists call on Biden admin to dole out more student loan forgiveness before term ends
It’s always been a perennial lie of the political left to falsely claim they’re all about fresh ideas, bringing in “new” winds of change, and that communism has never really been tried before. Anyone with a passing familiarity with history knows that’s a colossal pile of B.S., but if they can bluff their way along, they can hawk their societal slavery once again. The strains of collectivist control of the economy were in the cards in the last election, and if they had won, they would be crowing about how we’re all commies now.
We Were 100% Right In 2020 — ‘Elect
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Ranking modern presidents, from first to worst, is an entirely subjective matter. That said, we’re quite sure Joe Biden will be, if elected, the most destructive president of our lifetimes if not of all time. At I&I we tend to look at Jimmy Carter and Barack Obama as being the worst presidents from our lifetimes. Carter saw himself as the caretaker of the country’s inevitable decline rather than someone who would lift it from its malaise. Obama managed the worst economic recovery in our post-war history, allowed ISIS to grow into a terrorist power, and rolled over for Iran’s mullahs. His was the most divisive presidency of modern times.
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President-elect Donald Trump is off to a strong start with markedly fewer obstructions than the last time he won.
In football terms, In nautical terms, it’s plain sailing.
In political terms, it might not be a honeymoon, but no one is throwing any furniture, either.
he has a lot of green space ahead of him. Naturally, there are all sorts of potential pitfalls.
Some of Trump’s more controversial cabinet picks could, if confirmed, blow up once they are in place (does anyone believe that RFK, Jr.’s tenure at Health and Human Services will be smooth and uneventful?).
Republicans only have two votes to spare in the House.
The 2024 election marked the worst performance for a Democratic presidential candidate in the Empire State in over 30 years, with Kamala Harris underperforming Joe Biden by about 10 points.
The full extent of this dramatic failure cannot be explained by Harris’ dismal campaign performance alone. Rather, the election highlighted a movement to the right in New York so decisive that Democratic leaders like her must rethink their position.
After all, this election followed a tight race for governor two years ago where the Democrat, Gov. Hochul, did worse than any other Dem since 2002.
Yet Hochul continues to operate as though the state is immune to a rightward slide,
The United States Capitol Police officer who shot and killed Ashli Babbitt during the events at the Capitol building on Jan. 6, 2021, reportedly received preferential treatment from the law enforcement agency after Democrat lawmakers applied pressure. Internal emails reveal that House Democrats leaned on U.S. Capitol Police to provide extraordinary financial and professional support to Lt. Michael Byrd, the officer who fatally shot unarmed protester Ashli Babbitt, according to Just the News.
…. And just like that, another piece of the puzzle falls neatly into place. President Trump has announced that David Sacks will be joining the administration as the Czar of Artificial Intelligence and Cryptocurrency. The group of Peter Thiel (Palantir), Elon Musk (X), Vivek Ramaswamy (DOGE) and JD Vance (VP), now gain the addition of David Sacks to their core mission. Both govt inspired/networked AI and the world of Cryptocurrency will benefit.
Many voices say the introduction of AI into government networks was/is a foregone conclusion, so we should be happy that it’s the ideology of Musk, Thiel, Sacks, Ramaswamy and Vance constructing the parameters of the weapon.
First things first, Tucker Carlson deserves enormous credit for gaining reentry into Russia during a time when Russia has essentially locked down their entry visa process. This was not a simple task, and Tucker’s motives for doing so are accepted without immediate reservation. As the only other American I know who has navigated this dynamic, congratulations Tucker.
There have been no diplomatic channels used by the U.S. government toward Russia for over two years. Literally, all talks between government officials and emissaries have been severed for the past two years. As I have said before, this is a very dangerous dynamic.
Another Trump Miracle: Will Jeff Bezos
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According to Forbes, Amazon founder Jeff Bezos is the second richest man in the world. The only people who are more wealthy are Elon Musk, who has a Tesla, SpaceX, Boring Company, Neuralink, and Solar City empires. So, it is worth paying attention to when these two barons agree that America must take action to dig our way out of the debt hole that was created. Bezos made noise at a recent New York Times Deal Book Summit by expressing optimism about incoming President Donald Trump’s approach to reducing regulation, saying about the second Trump presidency,
A leftist-dominated educational establishment and its media enablers fear that Donald Trump will make good on his vow to defund educational institutions that embrace DEI and tolerate antisemitism.
That is why Trump's scorched-earth approach is so necessary, even as it is being denounced by the same people who are responsible for creating or perpetuating the current mess as too extreme or even needed at all.
More to the point, it will mean that policing antisemitism on campus will be shifted away from the ineffectual Title VI complaints overseen federal education bureaucrats,
Obama is suddenly very concerned about what the party in power can do to rig elections and weaponize the government against perceived political enemies. What curious timing.
While speaking at the ‘Democracy Forum’ the former president talked about the dangers of extremism and polarization. Isn’t it strange how this is all just becoming a concern for him now?
Obama knows his party just got wiped out but he still doesn’t seem to understand why.
The Washington Examiner reports: Obama scorns ‘doom loop’ of political extremism after Democrats’ election defeat
Senior White House officials are reportedly considering issuing retired Gen. Mark Milley a pre-emptive pardon over fears that President-elect Donald Trump’s incoming administration will go after the former chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.
The potential pardon for Milley, who was the nation’s highest-ranking military officer for part of Trump’s first term, was reported by the Washington Post Thursday.
Milley, 66, faced intense scrutiny on Capitol Hill during President Biden’s first year in office after journalist Bob Woodward revealed that the Pentagon official placed secret phone calls to a top Chinese official before the 2020 election and after the Jan. 6. 2021, riot at the US Capitol.
Sen. John Fetterman (D-Pa.) shockingly revealed his support for President Joe Biden to pardon President-elect Donald Trump on the heels of Sunday’s controversial blanket pardon for first son Hunter.
Appearing on ABC’s “The View,” Fetterman was asked by co-host Joy Behar about his views on Biden’s about-face regarding his sons’ criminal case.
“It’s undeniable that the case against Hunter Biden’s trial was really politically motivated but I also think its true that the trial in New York for Trump, that was politically motivated as well,” the first-term senator said.
President Joe Biden toured the National Museum of Slavery in Angola’s capital of Luanda on Tuesday, delivering a speech in which he described slavery as America’s “original sin” and claiming it still taints American public discourse. “The United States is founded on an idea, one embedded in our Declaration of Independence, that all men and women are created equal. It is abundantly clear today we have not lived up to that idea, but we have not fully walked away from it either,” Biden said.
Biden said slavery was “cruel, brutal, dehumanizing,” an “original sin” that “haunted America and cast a long shadow ever since.”
Some Democrats are so mad about Joe Biden pardoning his son Hunter that they are threatening to withhold funding for Biden’s presidential library.
According to some reports, Biden and his inner circle have been caught surprised by the backlash to the pardon. They can’t seem to understand why this would make so many people angry.
There will be more fallout from this in the coming months, especially because Biden has angered so many people on his own side. If he ends up issuing more pardons, which is fully expected, anger will only grow.
President-elect Donald Trump accepted the “Patriot of the Year” award Thursday at a Long Island event organized by Fox Nation.
Trump, 78, accepted the award, designed to resemble the American flag, after a live performance of Lee Greenwood’s “God Bless the USA” – the president-elect’s go-to entrance song.
In his acceptance speech, Trump reflected on his campaign for the White House and argued that the country is already seeing the fruits of his victory against Vice President Kamala Harris.
“We had such a spectacular election,” Trump said after receiving the award at the Tilles Center for Performing Arts in Brookville, NY.
Health insurance companies have started removing images of their leadership teams from their websites following the assassination of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson.
The 50-year-old was murdered on Wednesday morning when a masked gunman unloaded several rounds outside of the Hilton Hotel in Midtown, Manhattan.
Thompson was named UnitedHealthcare CEO in 2021 and earned a reported $10 million a year, and for several years prior he ran the Medicare business within UnitedHealthcare.
India Today ran a segment on J.D.’s Thanksgiving Day photos with his wife, Usha Chilukuri, who hails from Andhra Pradesh and their family.
The Indian internet is abuzz with news that the incoming vice president is married to a talented and beautiful Indian woman.
Indians are connecting with the images, finding them relatable to their own family gatherings.
The photos depict a scene many Indians consider typical of their own family celebrations, featuring silk sarees, close family huddles, and a festive atmosphere. The warmth and familiarity of the images have resonated strongly with the Indian online community.
On Thursday’s broadcast of MSNBC’s “Katy Tur Reports,” Sen. Chris Murphy (D-CT) questioned the effectiveness of the Department of Government Efficiency and stated that Elon Musk “basically has made his fortune off of government subsidies” and Democrats should “come after the insurance companies, the big defense companies that are all reaping huge amounts of money off of the government. Let’s come after Elon Musk, who’s made his fortune off of taxpayers.”
Murphy said, “I’m just not sure that [DOGE] has anything to do with breaking up the status quo. You’ve put a billionaire, who basically has made his fortune off of government subsidies
Incoming Trump administration plans to
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The incoming Trump administration is preparing a list of countries to which it may deport migrants when their home countries refuse to accept them, according to three sources familiar with the plans.
The countries on the list have included but may not be limited to Turks and Caicos, the Bahamas, Panama and Grenada, the sources said.
The plans could mean that thousands, if not hundreds of thousands, of migrants would be permanently displaced in countries where they do not know any of the people or the language and have no connection to the culture.
It is not clear
The election of Donald Trump has sparked a wave of optimism across America’s agricultural heartland, with farmer sentiment reaching its highest level in more than three years, according to the latest Purdue University-CME Group Ag Economy Barometer.
According to the Purdue University-CME Group Ag Economy Barometer, the overall index surged 30 points to 145 in November, driven by significant improvements in expectations for both current conditions and the long-term outlook.
The Future Expectations Index jumped 37 points to 161, while the Current Conditions Index rose 18 points to 113. The combined effect propelled the barometer to its strongest level since May 2021.
Representative Jamie Raskin (D-MD) said Thursday on CNN’s “The Situation Room” that “we’re in the fight of our lives” against the incoming administration.
Raskin said, “We’re in the fight of our lives, Wolf. There is an incoming administration which has vowed to turn the Department of Justice into an instrument of political revenge and retaliation and persecution of individual American citizens. We’ve got an incoming administration which doesn’t seem to care about any constitutional boundaries they’re threatening to impound funds that have been appropriated for particular purposes by Congress and use them for other purposes. That was, of course, something that Donald Trump did
One of the convenient by-products of accusing your political enemies of engaging in the very skullduggery you are engaging in is that, when your world implodes, your useful idiots will fight to protect you.
Facebook is currently hopping with vegetative dunder-butts celebrating because Hunter Biden will never be tried for crimes that most Democrats are mentally incapable of admitting that he committed.
In this day and age, ignorance is a choice, but for die-hard apparatchik Democrats, it is a duty.
Every time I post the link to the Oversight Committee's findings that prove the Biden crime family hoover roughly $27 million in bribes, I am met with "laughing face"
First to go was Matt Gaetz. Now Pete Hegseth is in trouble. And after the Democrats sink Hegseth with anonymous allegations of sex and booze, Tulsi Gabbard will be their next target.
The Democrats are playing piñata with Trump’s cabinet picks.
Having Gaetz’s head on the chopping block wasn’t entirely unexpected; he was always seen as an outlier. With so much bad blood in his wake, it would’ve required a minor MAGA miracle to get him confirmed. So, losing Gaetz was seen more as a reflection of Gaetz than Trump.
But Hegseth is in a different category. He’s a fresh face, unmarred
The Left Cheers An Assassination
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It wasn't just Taylor Lorenz egging on crazed leftists to go on an assassination spree after the HealthPartners CEO was gunned down on the streets of New York.
It was a vast swathe of the Left who argued it was well-deserved justice and should be emulated with other CEOs. Lorenz herself suggested slyly that a Blue Cross CEO be next on the lst. Beege wrote earlier today a long post about Lorenz's psychopathy, but the rot runs much deeper than one crazy "journalist" whose shtick is saying outrageous things then crying about how she is being oppressed by people who notice.
A vocal faction of the Left seems to revel