https://winteryknight.com/2024/06/28/high-ranking-democrat-gay-activist-and-his-underage-boy-rpe-fantasies/
As the piece notes, this is not the first time a prominent DFL activist whose been lauded and welcomed by the Bidens has had these sorts of issues.
The debate was a shit show, as many thought it would be.
Biden looked old and incompetent.
Trump made all sorts of claims about him being "The best in the history of the US", and about his amazing "numbers", without ever actually citing anything specific.
All in all it was pretty much a waste of time.
What was fascinating was watching the post debate news coverage as left wing MSM personalities competed to see who had the most anonymous DFL sources who texted them that Biden should drop out or be replaced. That's the narrative after last night, that Biden needs to go.
Except on Twitter, where you've got the die hard DFL hacks swearing that they'd vote for Biden no matter how incompetent he is, or even if he was in a "coffin".
More than 330 million people in the US, probably 150-200 million of those are nominally eligible to run for president, and we get these two.
https://apnews.com/article/girl-12-killed-houston-arrest-31b535cc2d1a27fc972c6f83c3d33e8a
What bit of pertinent information do you think the AP might have left out?
https://www.nationalreview.com/news/andrew-cuomo-says-alvin-braggs-trump-prosecution-was-politically-motivated/
Who has more credibility on this topic? Former NY governor Cuomo, or Dan the random internet guy from a smallish city in the south?
https://www.statesman.com/story/news/local/2024/06/20/ricky-thompson-iii-round-rock-juneteenth-shooting-update-arrest-old-settlers-park-aggravated-assault/74154345007/
I can't help but wonder why this mass shooting hasn't gotten big notional coverage in the MSM.
https://x.com/wallstreetapes/status/1802024438772514897?s=51&t=cLq01Oy84YkmYPZ-URIMYw
One wonders exactly how much influence she has.
https://x.com/i/status/1799280609774203233
Take a look at the embedded video from CNN, you know CNN the trusted source for real journalism.
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/the-64-million-mystery-anonymous-donations-2024-presidential-campaign/
For years the left has been whining about getting big money out of politics, yet one single anonymous donor managed to donate $64,000,000 through various "dark money" PACs to directly benefit Biden in 2020. I know, I know, CBS news is a "right wing" extremist organization and has absolutely no real journalist who work there.
From Victor Davis Hanson
Most Americans believe it is unhinged to deliberately destroy the border and allow 10 million illegal aliens to enter the country without background audits, means of support, any claims to legal residency, and definable skills. And worse still, why would federal authorities be ordered to release repeat violent felons who have gone on to commit horrendous crimes against American citizens?
Equally perplexing to most Americans is borrowing $1 trillion every 90 days and paying 5-5.5% interest on the near $36 trillion in ballooning national debt. Serving that debt at current interest exceeds the size of the annual defense budget and may soon top $1 trillion in interest costs, or more than 13% of the budget.
Why would the United States suspend military aid to Israel as it tries to destroy the Hamas architects of the October 7 massacres? Why would it lift sanctions on a terrorist Iran? Why would it suppress Israel’s response to Iran’s missile attack on the Jewish homeland? Why would it prevent Israel from stockpiling key munitions as it prepares to deal with the existential threats posed by Hezbollah?
Why would the Biden administration cancel key pipeline projects and put vast swaths of federal lands rich in oil and gas off limits to production, even as it further drains the strategic petroleum reserve? Why not pump rather than drain our own oil from strategic stockpiles?
Why would the Biden White House’s counsel’s office meet with Nathan Wade, the former paramour chief prosecutor in the Fani Willis Fulton County prosecution of Donald Trump? Why would the third-ranking prosecutor in the Biden Justice Department step down to lead Alvin Bragg’s Manhattan prosecution of Donald Trump? Why would the Biden Justice Department under Attorney General Merrick Garland select Jack Smith as a special prosecutor of Donald Trump—given his past failures as a special counsel and known political biases?
Nihilism only explains so much. A better explanation is that the Biden administration and its handlers knew that there was a good chance that most of their policies would prove unpopular and might even jeopardize Biden’s reelection.
But they also were confident the changes were of such magnitude that the United States would either become—in the infamous phrase of Barack Obama—“fundamentally transformed” or force the next Republican administration to adopt such tough medicine that it would prove untenable politically and the malady would still prove mostly impossible to undo.
After all, how would a Trump administration deal with 10 million illegal aliens who entered the US without audit or legality? Where are they? How would they be found and deported? How many court suits in blue-jurisdictions before blue judges would have to be overcome?
The country has become accultured to a nonexistent border. And so, the left assumes, it would be expensive and difficult to finish the wall, to stop catch and release, to insist refugee status must be obtained before entry, and to deport what is likely now 20-30 million illegal aliens in toto. In other words, the Biden administration may sigh, “Our work is done. Whatever you think about our illegal methods, we forever changed the idea of immigration and the demographics of the country.”
All presidents—Bush, Obama, Trump, and Biden—have run deficits and vastly increased the debt since the Bill Clinton-Newt Gingrich compromises that resulted in a temporary period of balanced budgets. But in the case of Biden, there was no need to keep up the multitrillion-dollar deficits, especially as interest rates on the national debt tripled and the service costs now approach $1 trillion per year.
Biden, after all, inherited a recovering economy, flush with post-COVID-19 lockdown stimulatory dollars, pent-up consumer demand, and ossified supply chains. And then he stupidly poured gasoline on the explosive mix by dousing the country with even more federal spending. Now we have the worst of both worlds: high interest rates and nearly $36 trillion to service.
But in the leftist mind, it was worth it, given that left-wing constituencies received vast expansions of entitlements that will be hard to prune back. And unprecedentedly vast debt at levels like our current burden of 123% of annual GDP prove unsustainable. And the historic correctives are brutal: 1) major cuts in entitlements and redistributive spending programs; 2) tax hikes at a time when state, local, federal, and gas, sales, and property taxes—and other “fees”—already take over half the income of most middle-class Americans; 3) hyper-inflation to pay back what is owed with cheap funny money, with the added leftist fillip that those who have dollars lose wealth and those who don’t gain greater access to them; 4) renunciation of debt. We already saw in the Obama era that liberal bureaucrats and courts often reversed the orders of creditors in bankruptcy hearings. When debt becomes unsustainable, historically arise cries of “Why should the poor suffer more when the rich already have enough money and don’t really need to be paid back?”; and 5) efforts to “confiscate” private wealth by giving, in exchange, government “credits.” For example, there have already been floated ideas that 401Ks could be absorbed into the insolvent Social Security system for credit in government benefits.
Most Americans poll strong support for Israel. They oppose the Biden effort to triangulate by revisiting the old Obama nihilist agendas of emboldening the Iranian/Hezbollah/Hamas/Houthis axis to play off against our traditional allies of Israel and the more moderate Arab regimes.
By failing to prosecute nine months of domestic violence committed by pro-Hamas lawbreakers, by allowing leftist campuses to normalize anti-Semitism and pro-terrorist advocacy, and by destroying the once close alliance of Israel and the United States, the left feels it will be almost impossible to go back to the pre-Obama/Biden years. Their legacy, they hope, is a mendicant Israel utterly dependent on U.S. largess—a condition itself predicated on essentially destroying the idea of a secure Jewish state within its present borders.
The Biden administration sought to curb oil and gas production—save for brief periods before the midterm and reelection campaigns, when it drained the strategic petroleum reserve. The point was to acculturate the public to high gasoline prices, to make inefficient solar/wind/EVs projects competitive against artificially costly fossil fuels, and to institutionalize policies that will make it difficult to reopen closed fields, to reboot federal oilfield leasing, and to dismantle costly subsidies for inefficient green fuels.
That Americans paid hundreds of billions of dollars more for their fuels under Biden, that the auto industry is stuck with vast inventories of money-losing electric vehicles that the public does not want, and that the entire economy has been shackled by counterproductive green mandates were considered worth the cost of alienating the public.
The left knows that neither Alvin Bragg, E. Jean Carroll, Letitia James, Jack Smith, nor Fani Willis would have gone to court against Donald Trump if he was either a leftist or had bowed out of the 2024 presidential race. They know no one has been tried on such pseudo-charges, and no one will again be so charged after Trump. And they accept that no republic can long survive if the opposition party seeks to remove the names of its political opponents from the ballot.
But they also know that the left has now established a valuable precedent: oppose woke progressivism, and one will either become bankrupted by indictments or land before a blue-city jury eager to nullify evidence to ensure the accused is jailed and broke.
So the left believes that its new lawfare was well worth the destruction of the entire tradition of equality under the law: 1) Donald Trump has lost a half-billion dollars in fines and legal fees; 2) a court-bound Donald Trump was robbed of weeks of valuable campaign time; 3) Donald Trump can be forever now libeled as a “convicted felon”; and 4) the left has played chicken with the American Constitution and believes it has won, given conservatives would never enter into a destructive cycle of tit-for-tat.
The Biden years did the country great damage and rendered Biden himself one of the most unpopular incumbent presidents in American history. But his agendas may have fundamentally changed the country for decades, if not longer—and will require tough remedies that may be almost as unpopular as the wreckage they wrought
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https://www.fox9.com/news/feeding-our-future-who-is-charged-in-the-fraud-scheme
Up here in the people's republic we've had quite a run with some big cases of defrauding the government. Strangely enough, almost all of those charged seem to have one thing in common. Maybe some folks choose the wrong ways to assimilate their culture into US culture.
"Anatomy of a Full Leftwing Meltdown The media is afire with warnings of the impending Trump “dictatorship”. Celebrities, the Squad, and Biden administration grandees vie to conjure up the most nightmarish things that Trump might do to them. What drives their current mounting hysteria? 1) The Left feels it may be heading to an historic 1972 McGovern-like or 1980 Carteresque blowout. And it is terrified at this late date that it cannot do anything either about the escalating dementia of Joe Biden, or the terror instilled by the specter of either a President or continued Vice-President Kamala Harris. 2) It knows that a first-term novice Trump had a successful four years, and that he now is savvier four years later—and far more likely and able to overturn the entire four-year Biden catastrophe and thus enjoy an even more successful second term. 3) It fears that all it did to destroy democracy—the Russian collusion hoax, the Russian disinformation laptop farce, the two first-term impeachments the moment the Republicans lost the House, the Senate trial of ex-President Trump as a private citizen, the effort to remove Trump from state ballots, and the five criminal and civil show trials designed to bankrupt the leading presidential candidate and keep him off the campaign trail—might boomerang on the Left. So, it is in full panic that its unconstitutional efforts to destroy Trump will obviously be used against itself—given it knows that if it returned to power it would go after its enemies in precisely the same, any-means-necessary ways that it had sought to destroy Trump. That is, they have destroyed norms and have established dangerous new precedents that they just assume, given their Jacobin nature, must rebound against themselves. 4) The Left is terrified that growing voter repugnance now extends even to traditional Democratic constituencies—Latinos, Blacks, Asians, Jews, the young, and even the college educated. And the Left privately grasps that these defections are fueled not just by the obnoxiousness and dementia of Joe Biden, but due to his far-left agendas that left us with abhorrent inflation, wild unsustainable federal deficits, a lethal open border, 10-million unaudited and often dangerous illegal aliens, foreign policy catastrophes, woke racial and tribal disunity, spiraling urban crime, and cultural extremism. Leftists accept that while in secret they blame the cognitively challenged Joe for their dilemmas, deep-down they know that “The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars, but in ourselves”—that is, in their own failed revolution that has utterly repulsed Americans and nearly destroyed the country. 5) In the next five months, the Left and Democrats know that they must pander to try to save themselves. But the more Biden panders, the more obvious, repugnant, and counterproductive the pandering becomes. The public is growing sick of Biden’s 11th-hour groveling to save himself from his self-created oblivion. And the more in his last days as President he drains even more the strategic petroleum reserve, the more he cancels student loan debt, the more he abandons Israel to win a few thousand votes in Michigan, the more he pressures the Fed to lower interest rates, the more he flips on tariffs, and the more he grants blanket amnesties to illegal aliens—all the more the country at large becomes disgusted at the low effort to temporarily appease particular voting blocs at the expense of the general interest of the country. 6) As we watch the Left go through the proverbial cycles of “denial, anger, bargaining, depression and acceptance”, it will increasingly deny the accuracy of supposedly inaccurate swing state polls, then angrily damn the supposedly clueless, deplorable electorate, then turn to all sorts of dreams of remedies (changing or violating more voting laws being the most prominent), then get sullen about the entire American project, and only finally accept the inevitable of what likely lies ahead."
Interesting perspective from Victor Davis Hanson
Last weekend, Chuck Shumer in an attempt (I suppose) to appear more like an ordinary, average, guy, instead of an ancient, rich, white, politician, posted a picture of himself in front of a grill. He was allegedly grilling for his family. Yet the post was quickly removed as people pointed out how staged it was. Anyone who's spent a bit of time in front of a grill knew quickly that this was bullshit. The fact that Schumer actually thought that this staged photo was a good idea seems like a bit of a red flag in regards his competency.
I saw this quote the other day and I was a little taken aback.
"While I'm not suggesting Bill Burr is a racist, a white man having s non-white wife can sometimes be a sign of racism. So you shouldn't assume someone isn't a racist just because they own a minority sex servant. They may very well have one because they are racist."
Clayburn Griffin
The topic of slavery has gotten a lot of attention over the past few years. Lot's of Narratives and resources out there.
I have to wonder why, in all of the discussion, the name Hamad ibn Muhammad ibn Sa'id al Murjabi isn't more well known. It seems as though he played a pivotal role in the slave trade, yet I don't seem him mentioned very often.
I wonder why.
"Mostly, he seems to cite "twitter"/X... as if that's some authoritative source."
Clearly Dan is not interested in Truth at his blog. At best he's interested in his one of a billion Truths, without regard to whether or not his truth comports with reality.
To be clear the Truth is that I have NEVER "cited" Twitter as an "authoritative source". Not once.
What I have done is used the links embedded in various tweets as a path to other sources or I've posted a tweet from someone as an "authoritative source" regarding something they said or did.
For example, if I post a tweet from Biden's official Twitter account, I'm posting it because it is an accurate representation of what Biden has said or done. The medium of Twitter doesn't invalidate the message. Or if I link to something from the NYT Twitter account, it clearly is no different (in authority) than from the print edition.
For example, if a tweet contains a video of something or someone actually doing or saying something worth commenting on, I'll post the tweet solely for the embedded video. I just posted about Jon Stewart and a bit he did on late night TV. I could have posted any number of links to that video, all of which would have taken one to the video. The medium (Twitter, YouTube, FB, IG, etc) doesn't invalidate the content. Nor does it validate the content. It is, however, a convenient way to post links to video, news stories, and other things. I've been quite clear, repeatedly, that I post tweets only for their links to other sources, and for inconvenience.
It's interesting that Dan's commitment to "journalism" seems so rooted in the '80s when he took some JUCO classes, and not in the 21st century where Twitter is an outlet for journalism.
I understand that it's less about Truth than it is about enhancing feelings of superiority. I also understand that it's less about Truth than it is about coming up with an excuse to ignore something based on the medium it is conveyed it. As long as one can dismiss something for some superficial reason, one doesn't have to contend with the Truth or what's being communicated.
Finally, I'll note that Dan could just prove things wrong.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TW6H-RoVp1w
https://thehill.com/homenews/house/4717214-ocasio-cortez-raskin-to-introduce-legislation-to-rein-in-a-fundamentally-unaccountable-and-rogue-supreme-court/
Apparantly Rankin and AOC are unaware of the concept of separation of powers. That we have three co-equal branches of government and that the legislative branch does not have jurisdiction over SCOTUS. This seems to be a nakedly partisan attempt (one of many that have been floated) to overturn the power of the executive branch to appoint justices, and the power of the judicial branch to remain independent.
The legislative branch does have the power to impeach SCOTUS justices, but clearly wants more power over the court. This has less to do with anything the court has done in it's duties, and more to do with the current (temporary) ideological tilt of the court. The push to pack the court during a DFL administration was another example of this. It's all about control of the agenda and narrative.
If there are credible allegations that a friend of a justice taking the justice on vacation directly affected a specific decision, then by all means start the impeachment process. But this witch hunt is out of control and demonstrates what an idiot AOC is.
I had a thought today about the Hunter Biden trial. It's not at the level of a conspiracy theory or anything, just a thought experiment.
Hunter's trial happened soon after Trump's conviction and Biden was quite clear that he was not going to intervene in any way in the trial. (I'd suggest that making public statements about BOTH trials probably IS interference, but who cares.)
So, hear me out. The Trump trial was replete with actions that support the "lawfare" theory being bandied about. I've heard enough legal experts who seem confident that the verdict will be overturned (or at least has plenty of grounds for overturning), that I suspect that this isn't the final verdict. But if it looks like a duck...
What if Biden's strategists decided that one way to divert attention from the "lawfare" narrative was that Hunter would be convicted quickly of the few charged he's been charged with. That way Biden has the opportunity to talk tough, act like he won't get involved, and maybe pick up a few points in a poll or two. This way Biden can crow about not giving Hunter a pardon, not getting involved, and appear as someone who would never use the legal system to go after an electoral rival until the election. If Biden wins in November, as a lame duck, what possible negative consequences will he receive if he changes his mind and pardons Hunter. They'll leave Hunter in prison long enough to go through withdrawal, and hopefully his sister-in-law/wife to kick the crack as well. Then he'll quietly be pardoned or his sentence commuted or they'll find an appellate court that'll cut him loose.
It's a win-win for Joe, a minor inconvenience for Hunter, and maybe a tiny, short term boost in the polls.
Or It's just my imagination running away with me...
https://x.com/i/status/1801093113194127668
This is a link to a video clip from Jon Stewart, comedian and late night TV host. Stewart is extremely and publicly left wing. Under no possible circumstances would he be considered right wing in any sense.
A second note, as you watch the video keep in mind that Kathy Griffin posed holding what appeared to be Trump's severed head and didn't get this kind of reaction.
Finally, the "stars" of this video are all "journalists", the type of people that Dan "reveres" and who are always evenhanded and free from bias.
In short this video should be an SNL sketch, rather than a compilation of news reports about a video that was posted on Truth Social.
If this is the future of journalism, journalism is in bad shape.
https://www.realityslaststand.com/p/the-impossible-space
In the rush to push the "trans" agenda of medical/pharmacological/surgical intervention as quickly as possible and at younger ages, these stories get ignored. As does what's happened in Europe over the last year or so. The amount of pain inflicted by what is essentially a political movement, which happens to generate lots of money as well, is increasing.
I guess "Don't harm people" as a philosophy has it's limits.
https://kstp.com/kstp-news/top-news/police-investigating-assault-of-trans-student-at-hopkins-high-school-as-possible-hate-crime/
I've commented previously about the inherent conflicts between various factions in the DFL electoral coalition, and how those factions often have interests that directly conflict. Over the last week, we've seen one example starting to unfold at a local high school.
Basically what happened is that a "transgender woman" (biological male) had to take a leak between classes and chose not to use the gender inclusive pissoir, but instead to use the bathroom for biological male students. At some point during his sojourn in the pissoir, another student saw him and made disparaging comments to him. Things escalated from there and the "trans" student escalated from there resulting in significant injury.
Before I go on, I have to say that there is no question that the "trans" student was a victim of a crime, and that the perpetrator should be punished appropriately regardless of the status of the victim. There is no reason why this sort of physical attack should be tolerated.
But, and there's always a but, isn't there?
It appears that, despite the best efforts of the school to confirm, that the attacker is black. Now it gets interesting. We have one victim class person attacked by another victim class person and reports of both racist and anti-ABC comments being made.
https://alphanews.org/black-student-group-says-full-story-not-being-told-about-hopkins-trans-attack/
The other day, the black students association released a statement that muddied the waters even more, especially their line about a "dangerous narrative about our black scholars". I also find it interesting that the BSA wants to give "fearless black LGBTQ+ leaders" a great deal of credit for being responsible for "pride month".
In short, it's going to be fascinating to watch this conflict between dueling victim groups, each vying for a higher spot on the pyramid of victim hood. I'm sure there will be protests, knowing the leftists up here probably violent or at least threatening violence, and vitriol thrown back and forth. To find out whether calling someone a "faxxxt" or a "nxxxxr" is more provoking and if a "trans" kid calling a black kid "nxxxxr" justifies him getting punched.
What's interesting at this point is the MSM trying to keep the race of the aggressor out of the story despite the BSA pushing to make it an issue.
The left has done this to themselves by justifying and encouraging violence when one of the "victim" groups hears offensive words, but in this case, they're both members of the victim class.
https://www.newsweek.com/chelsea-handler-50-cent-comment-outrage-black-cant-vote-trump-1909449
The attitude Chelsea Handler demonstrates in this clip seems representative of a lot of white liberals, including Biden. The notion that white liberals can tell black voters who they can and can't vote for or that they're not black based on who they vote for seems to go against the entire white liberal narrative. But, as we see regularly, double standards run rampant among liberals in general and white liberals specifically.
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2024/06/breaking-9th-circuit-court-appeals-rules-mrna-covid/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=breaking-9th-circuit-court-appeals-rules-mrna-covid
For years the 9th Circuit of the federal appellate court system has been considered to be the most liberal circuit in the country, yet somehow they went against that perception. The 9th released a decision that clarifies that the COVID "vaccine" is not a vaccine based on the historic/traditional definition of a vaccine and therefore declared that the "vaccine" mandates were illegal.
This seems like a big deal..
"Just to be clear: IF the verdict is Not Guilty, I will be disappointed, but I won't be in the streets and calling it a sham. IF, on the other hand, he's found guilty, you can count on anger and protests from Trump and his allies."
I've seen some version of this sentiment a fair amount over the last couple of weeks, yet I haven't seen anyone acknowledge that they were wrong.
Of course Trump is annoyed, maybe even angry. I'd say he has the right to be. He believes, with reason, that he's been denied justice and a fair trial. Of course he's pissed. I regularly see people who are angry with how the justice system treated them react angrily, it seems like human nature.
What I also see, and see with Trump, is the channeling of that justified anger in appropriate ways. Last week, our country attorney dropped charges against a State Trooper who shot a driver who was trying to escape from a justified traffic stop/injure or kill him. The family was angry, spoke out angrily, and is channeling their anger into seeking a massive payday in the civil justice system. Trump and his followers are channeling their anger into support for his campaign. We saw a massive increase in funds raised, a string of high dollar fund raisers from donors who likely supported Biden last time around, and huge crowds at rallies. We've seen Trump gaining traction among black voters because they relate to how he's been treated.
What we haven't seen is violence. The left has repeatedly pushed the narrative that Trump followers will react violently IF X,Y, or Z happens. Yet nothing. Even J6, while problematic, was not violent.
It's almost like the APL needs to project how they react to news they don't like onto Trump supporters despite the reality that the promised violence never happens.
https://ground.news/article/sweden-79-per-cent-of-refugees-have-vacationed-in-country-they-fled_e64350
According to a recent poll published in the Bulletin newspaper in Sweden, almost 80% of those claiming "refugee" status in Sweden have chosen to return to the countries they sought refuge from for vacation. Now, what's interesting to me is not the high percentage, although that is interesting. It's the fact that they apparently feel safe enough to vacation in the countries they fled from, but not safe enough to move back. I would be fascinated to see what the numbers for US refugees/asylum seekers are.
I vividly remember a conversation with a refugee who was forced to flee his home country. He was forced to flee because he had the temerity to share the Gospel of Jesus with Muslims. The local representatives of the religion of peace were so happy with him that they issued a fatwa against him, which would have resulted in his death. I can't imagine him ever going back for a vacation.
Train people are hard core. I saw a tweet the other day whining about why we don't have more trains and how high speed rail is the answer to all of our transportation problems. I pointed out that I currently live in Minneapolis, and frequently travel to KC to visit friends and family. It is currently about a 7 hour drive, straight down I-35 which costs me about $80 each way for gas. If I want to fly, it's a one hour flight and can be had for as low as $114 each way. I just checked Amtrak and they have no service between the two cities. So I could book MSP to CHI for $88 and enjoy a 10 hour trip to CHI, then I oculd book from CHI to KC for $101 and an 11 hour trip. This would almost certainly include an overnight stop in CHI which would entail another @ $150 hotel stay plus Uber rides back and forth. So if I was to avail myself of the miracle of rail travel, I'd turn a 7 hour relatively inexpensive trip into a 2 day slog though the Midwest for more money.
My problem with trains is that they are incredibly limited in where they can go, and they end up making multiple stops which slow down the trip. I get it, for a train to make money they have to stop in a lot of places to pick up more passengers.
Now, there are places in the US where trains might be a viable alternative IF you can eliminate all the stops (LA-SF for example), and if you can get speeds up high enough. The problem I see with this is that you then lose the opportunity to transport a lot of people between LA and SF, and a lot of potential revenue.
Not to mention that new train lines are ridiculously expensive. CA just built a BRIDGE for $11 billion dollars, that took 9 years, and spans 1600 feet. Of course that bridge isn't connected to anything. But seriously, the costs per mile are outrageous, the cost of the trans themselves are high, and if a fast express is the goal, then the potential ridership is lower.
So, if you build high speed between LA and SF spend tens/hundreds of billions on laying the track, millions? on the rolling stock, before you even get to operating expenses what will ticket prices look like. As this moment that fastest drive time between the two is 6 hours and 381 miles. IF you had a train that could average 150 mph, you'd cut that drive almost in half, but at what cost? Let's estimate that gas for the drive would be $5.00/gal, and that it would take 40 gallons of gas to make the trip, that's $200 for gas. So, can this imaginary train get you there for less than $200?, $300? $400? who knows, but given the costs, it seems unlikely. What if your ultimate destination is not close to the train station, wouldn't you need to rent a car, Uber, or take public transportation (if possible) which adds time, costs, and hassle.
Look, I get that some people like trains. I personally have several trips that would be perfect for a train, but none of them involve efficiency in travel. But let's get serious, the notion that it makes any sort of sense to start building train tracks across the US in hopes of getting high speed express trains for the elites to travel between high density urban areas in a way that assuages their conscience is absurd.
Seriously train folks, find another hobby.
https://x.com/i/status/1798457753779990987
A 20 minute video denying that the Hunter Biden laptop story was factual. The "journalists" at all of the MSM outlets ran with this false narrative, with Leslie Stahl going so far as to attack Trump for talking bout the laptop.
Well, the FBI just entered it as evidence in a court of law in the long delayed case against Biden. They were quite clear that the laptop and it's contents were intact and unmolested.
I'm not holding my breath for the apologies and retractions.
https://www.wsj.com/politics/policy/joe-biden-age-election-2024-8ee15246
Well, this isn't particularly good news.
https://winteryknight.com/2024/06/05/new-study-mental-health-issues-persist-after-receiving-gender-affirming-treatment-2/
" Contacting specialized GIS [gender identity services] is on the increase and occurs at ever younger ages and with more psychiatric needs. Manifold psychiatric needs persist regardless of medical GR [gender reassignment]."
"Manifold psychiatric needs persist regardless of medical GR"
The data is seeming to demonstrate that gender surgery is NOT the panacea for mental health issues that everyone claimed that it was.
https://www.cbsnews.com/minnesota/news/7-minnesotans-accused-in-massive-scheme-to-defraud-pandemic-food-program-to-stand-trial/
This story combines multiple left wing narratives.
We've got that COVID overreaction that made it hard for some people to get food. We've got the immigration aspect as well.
It's going to be fascinating to see how this goes. There seems to be no question that these scumbags swindled various governments out of tens of millions of dollars, while also depraving those in need of food. They were literally taking money intended for to feed the poorest people in the area (many of them also immigrants) and stealing it. Yet, we live in such a progressive paradise that it wouldn't shock me if these scumbags get off with little or no penalty. At a minimum, they should be deported. Why should the poor citizens of MN pay for their imprisonment, after they literally took food out of their mouths.
Shockingly some of those involved in this fraud donated some of their ill gotten gains to various DFL politicians including Ilhan Omar (who did donate what she got to food shelves, eventually), Jacob Frey and others.
Oh yeah, they just dismissed a juror because "someone" left a bag on their doorstep with $120,000 in cash inside.
Updates.
Bizarrely the state of MN gave these scumbags an award for what a great job they were doing in "feeding" thousands of kids per day.
Apparently the defense is arguing that this behavior is so ingrained in the Somali culture that they shouldn't be convicted.
"In 64 countries around the world, homosexuality is still criminalized.
Nearly half are in Africa. The rest are in Asia and the Middle East.
In 12 countries, it’s the *death penalty* for private, consensual same-sex sexual activity. These are:
Iran
Northern Nigeria
Saudi Arabia
Somalia
Yemen
Afghanistan
Brunei
Mauritania
Pakistan
Qatar
UAE
Uganda
*Note the common denominator
This June, as you celebrate Pride out on the streets in NYC and London and SF, instead of LARPing as marginalized communities rather than celebrated ones that everyone from large multi-national corporations to Western governments actively endorse and promote, perhaps zoom out and have a little bit of a global perspective.
The West is sexually liberated. Too sexually liberated, I might add. It doesn’t actually need Pride anymore.
But go ahead and have your fun early summer parades. Just bear in mind where Pride is needed the most.
It’s not where any of you actually live. And to keep calling the places where you can celebrate Pride “phobic” and full of hate and bigotry is to hand a PR coup for all the other places that continue to kill citizens or arrest them for gay sex.
Happy Pride Month y’all 
"
In 2024 32% of the countries in the world homosexuality is a crime. In 12 of those it's a capitol offense. For some reason there is an "organization" known as Queers for Palestine who are staunch supporters of Hamas and Gaza, even though Hamas would imprison or kill them. What I find interesting is that here in the US we have a month of Pride parades with people walking down "Main Street" wearing bondage gear that probably isn't appropriate for wear in public, complaining about how oppressed they are. While they don't seem interested in staging Pride parades in any of the 64 countries where homosexuals really are oppressed. It's also interesting to watch companies like BMW add rainbow graphics to their logos, and to see the rainbow folks laud them for being allies, but these companies don't have the courage to show their "convictions" everywhere. It's almost like companies realize that adding a rainbow to their advertising one month a year magically convinces gay folx to shop there the rest of the year. It's almost like a cynical advertising strategy, instead of a real commitment.
So, all of you Rainbow Social Justice Warriors, how about you take your parades where the fight really is, not just where it's safe.
MLK was a convicted felon.
Gandhi was a convicted felon. (sorry Mahatma, spell check failed me.)
Nelson Mandela was a convicted felon.
Maybe "convicted felon" isn't the impediment to high office some think it is.
" this story of the century"
Somehow the story about Trump's conviction, which was widely predicted and treated as a foregone conclusion even by his supporters, is a bigger story than.
The invasion of Iraq
The Haiti earthquake
Hurricane Katrina
Me Too
J6
Brexit
The 2014-2021 BLM riots
The por-Hamas protests
Killing of Bin Laden
9/11
Florida election recount
Columbia disaster
12/26 Tsunami
2008 Stock market
Japan nuclear plant/earthquake/tsunami
Russia invading Crimea/Ukraine
COVID
What with the Trump verdict, I guess I understand it, but I'm a little surprised that there not more reaction on the left to what Biden's been doing.
1. Genocide Joe has (in addition to turning the Ukrainian elite into multimillionaires) equipped Ukraine with the long range missiles to attack civilian targets in Russia. I thought attacking civilian targets was a horrible thing. I guess that's only when Israel does it. It's not a big deal when Hamas, Ukraine, Nigeria, and Sudan kill civilians.
2. It's being reported that Biden is going to "close the border" via executive action. That's he's essentially going to employ that Trump border rules.
3. Biden also just gave amnesty to 350,000 people who entered the US illegally.
I can see why the left wouldn't say much about #3, but the rest sound like evil stuff that they protest against.
4. As with so much on the left, Biden "builds a port" to feed those in Gaza that Hamas is withholding food from, and the whole thing is a total failure. But he'll still get credit as it it was a success.
Good old "Genocide Joe", always on top of things.
https://www.mprnews.org/story/2024/06/02/bca-releases-new-details-in-shooting-that-killed-minneapolis-police-officer-jamal-mitchel
While this is getting press here in the area, I've not seen near the outrage nationwide that this should be generating. It couldn't be because it doesn't fit the narrative for shootings. African , Muslim, immigrant shoots and kills a cop in an ambush isn't what the MSM wants to cover.
https://www.cleveland19.com/2024/06/02/27-people-shot-akron-1-man-killed-multiple-victims-hospitalized/
It seems likely that the details of this shooting will probably disappear from the media if the shooters are not white.
There seems to be a belief among some Trump supporters that because Trump won some presidential primaries before his opponents dropped out, that he is guaranteed to be the GOP nominee for 2024. I am pretty sure that this view underestimates the ability of the nominating convention to choose someone other than Trump as the nominee. Just because it hasn't happened recently, doesn't mean that it can't. It seems as though too many people believe that the convention is simply to rubber stamp the results of the primaries/caucuses.
I'm not predicting what will happen in either of the conventions this year, but I am suggesting that neither Trump nor Biden is officially the candidate for president until after the conventions are held and their candidacy is made official.
" IF, on the other hand, he's found guilty, you can count on anger and protests from Trump and his allies."
1. As we've seen multiple left wing experts agreeing that the Trump trail was a sham, I'm not sure that some level of anger and protest are not justified.
2. Given that both Clinton and P-BO somehow got off with fines for their violations of campaign finance laws, I fail to see how ONE instance of allegedly violating campaign finance laws magically turns into 34 felonies or a violation that a negotiated fine wouldn't be appropriate for.
3. Given that right wing protests tend to be significantly less violent and destructive than left wing protests, I fail to see where this fear is justified.
4. Somehow the US congress paying 17 million to assorted victims of sexual misconduct or Clinton paying off Paula Jones aren't crimes, but Trump paying of one person a relatively small amount of money for an act that the "victim" claims never happened is worthy of this farce.
5. Meanwhile Biden dropped the charges against 350,000 immigrants who violated US law when they entered the country.
6. The Trump prosecutor is a record of filing to prosecute and releasing on minimal bail large numbers of violent criminals.
"As a side note, I went exploring today.
Stan
Craig
Marshal
Neil
Glenn
Jesse
...and
almost NONE of the other Trump loyalists (and I know Craig and Stan
will complain about being noted that way, but they are what they are)
who I've engaged with over the years have had ANYTHING to say about this
story of the century yesterday or today."
As I rarely post anything on Friday afternoon, Saturday or Sunday, it's not surprising that I didn't post on this nothing burger of a story. When something happens that is preordained to happen, it's not really much news.
I have been compiling news stories from liberal legal experts about how much of a joke this trial has been and how many obvious reversible errors there are for the defense to argue. I've said repeatedly that this case is not over until the appeals process ends, and that I expect the appeals process to reverse the trial court decision. It also wouldn't shock me to see the judge and prosecutor receive sanctions for their political activities and donations.
As I noted above, the fact that Bragg invested millions of dollars of money and thousands of hours of time into this prosecution while actual violent criminals have not been prosecuted tells me all I need to know about his commitment to protect his constituents from harm.
