REPORT: Female inmates forced to share shower with biological male at Shakopee women’s prison
"He is fully a man, and still has a man’s body part attached to him. He acts like a man, sounds like a man, behaves like a man," one woman told Reduxx. pic.twitter.com/V0vhq0z5pU
[POWERLINEBLOG] The entire country met Minnesota's own Tampon Tim Walz ...Kamala's smarmy-looking running mate, governor of Minnesota, who decided to retired rather than to deploy with his National Guard unit, then claimed to have been in Iraq and Afghanistan. One man's socialism is another man's neighborliness.... this past August when Kamala Harris former senatrix from California, 2020 Dem presidential hopeful and ultimately Joe Biden's intended successor selected him as her running mate. The more the country saw him, the less it liked him. Walz thrilled Democrats ...every time you hear the phrase white people, white supremacy,white anything but paint, you're listening to a Democrat. Ask him/her/it to reimagine something for you; they do that a lot, though not well. They can hear a dog whistle a mile or two away. They invented the spoils system and Tammany Hall, and inspired the addition of the word (Thomas) Nasty to the English language. They want to stop continental drift and repeal the law of unintended side effects... in convention assembled when he called Trump running mate J.D. Vance ''weird.'' That proved a poor choice of words on Walz's part. The more the country saw Walz, the weirder it thought he was. He made a poor vice presidential candidate.
Taking the path of least resistance under fire, he declared himself ''a knucklehead.'' He is worse than that, but it was a revealing concession. In the glare of the national spotlight Walz was exposed as a compulsive liar.
Among other things, in the 2023 ''let's go crazy'' legislative session, Walz had supported and signed the Minnesota Democrats' mandate of tampons in all school restrooms (grades 4-12). The Star Tribune all but celebrated the bill and its manifold good works while it worked its way through the legislature.
State representative Sandra Feist was an ardent proponent and sponsor of the bill in the legislature. In a January 2023 column published by the Star Tribune when the bill had just been introduced, Feist specified the law's application to ''all menstruators.''
In an August 2023 summary of school legislation, the Star Tribune drily recorded (link in original): ''The sweeping education bill Walz signed later in the spring also included a provision that requires schools to stock bathrooms with free menstrual products.'' The text of the law is posted here.
Once Harris made Walz a national candidate, however, the Star Tribune undertook to obfuscate and deny the purport of the law. I took a look at the Star Tribune's attempted obfuscation once Walz became a candidate for national office in ''Of Tim and the tampons.''
The dishonesty of the Star Tribune in general and editorial board member Jill Burcum in particular continues to rankle. Having all but celebrated the bill before and through its enactment into law, the Star Tribune sought to shield Walz from his own folly once he joined Harris on the Democrats' ticket.
Crooked Hillary Clinton ...former first lady, former secretary of state, former presidential candidate, Conqueror of Benghazi, Heroine of Tuzla, formerly described by her supporters as the smartest woman in the world, usually described by the rest of us as The Thing That Wouldn't Go Away. Politix is not one of her talents, but it's something she keeps trying to do... chose not to follow the Star Tribune's defensive line. She got on the bandwagon. Ladies and gentlemen, give it up for Tim Walz.
Well, that's all ancient history. Minnesota Democrats usually lag their exemplars on the East and West Coasts. However,
it was a brave man who first ate an oyster... not entirely so in this case. Minnesota helped lead the way for the New York Times
...which still proudly claims Walter Duranty's Pulitzer prize... . Joe Simonson reports:
The New York Times added menstrual products to its Manhattan office's men's bathrooms over the summer, according to internal communications obtained by the Washington Free Beacon.
The paper's decision was announced by the vice president for global real estate and facilities, Victor Liu, in a company-wide Slack message. From July 26 to July 29, Liu said, the company would begin ''adding menstrual products and sanitary baskets'' to the office's men's restrooms ''to support transgender and non-binary colleagues.'' The company also announced that it was ''removing gendered imagery and adding language that colleagues are welcome to use the restroom in which they feel most comfortable.''
The Star Tribune never misses an opportunity to highlight the local angle on a national story or show Minnesota leading the way toward the precipice. However,
it was a brave man who first ate an oyster... I seriously doubt that the Star Tribune will report this development or claim any credit for Minnesota Democrats setting the example for the New York Times. Yet it does make me wonder if the Star Tribune's practice leads or lags the Times.
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Tucker shreds Walz mercilessly.
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[NEWSBUSTERS.ORG] The re-election of Donald Trump ...The cad! Twice caught beating wimmin!... has created overwhelming angst among the press. With Trump, they have been like the opposite of the Humpty Dumpty rhyme. The media are all the king's horses and all the king's men -- and they couldn't tear Humpty Dumpty apart. All of their screeching about his menace only makes him successful.
Longtime CBS News correspondent Lesley Stahl engaged in conversation at the 92nd Street Y in New York City with columnist Peggy Noonan, and they both agreed the legacy media are "fraying" — for 20 years, Noonan insisted.
"I'm extremely worried about the press," Stahl said, as she dragged out her usual story about Trump and press criticism. ''I once asked Donald Trump why do you keep pounding on the press? This was right after he won, in 2016....It's kinda boring, you say the same thing over and over, and you won! It's time to drop it!''
This is a bizarre demand, since no one in the press announced, ''well, Trump won, so it's kind of boring to keep criticizing him, saying the same thing over and over.''
Stahl said she asked why he would do it, and Trump replied: ''I do it, and I repeat it, because the more I do that, the less people are going to believe you when you say negative things about me—.And it's happened!'' The media's public trust ratings are the worst they've ever been in the television era.
This alleged Trump comment did not air on CBS, although Stahl drags out the anecdote like it's nefarious. It's the exact opposite of the Stahl shtick -- if I attack Trump, and I repeat it, it means the more I do it, the less people are going to believe Trump when he attacks the press. But he's won that battle.
''I despair, seriously. I worry greatly,'' Stahl said. ''We're at a point where if the President of the United States is going to say 'Legacy media is dead'—It is, kind of, sort of hobbling right now. And I don't know how it recovers. I'm very dark about it."
Noonan made the mistake of associating an unpopular press with the end of freedom of the press, which is not the same thing. The First Amendment doesn't automatically grant sainthood to the press. You're allowed to think the press has performed terribly without ending the First Amendment. That's freedom of speech.
Noonan didn't push back on Stahl. She could ask if CBS and 60 Minutes ever did anything wrong that undermined trust in the media. Dan Fake but Accurate Rather ...the man who put the BS in CBS News. In 2004 he put on a news story that highlighted dissatisfaction with Lt. George W. Bush in the Texas Air National Guard during the Vietnam war. This was almost casually--but gleefully--debunked by the Blogosphere at large. Rather's face was rubbed in journalistic mud, four of his staff were fired, and within a short time his 43-year (about the same length as Muammar Qadaffy's) career had settled to the bottom, from whence he periodically emits a bubble, which proves he's not dead yet... offered the nation phony documents about George W. Bush on 60 Minutes II.
Lesley Stahl is infamous among Republicans for lecturing Trump in 2020 that you could not report on the Hunter Biden laptop because it could not be verified. CBS news hound Catherine Herridge verified the laptop in 2022, and she's no longer at CBS.
While Stahl was very rough with Trump, Scott Pelley's interviews with President Biden sounded promotional. In October of 2023, Pelley sympathetically asked, ''Mr. President, given these two wars and the dysfunction in Congress, are you sure that you want to run again?'' (Imagine all the Biden babble that was edited out.)
In October, CBS Face the Nation viewers saw a typical word-salad answer from Kamala Harris launched her campaign on the “RuPaul’s Drag Race” , but on the 60 Minutes primetime special a day later, CBS edited in a much shorter and more coherent soundbite.
When news hounds start whining about their unpopularity, questioners should press them to explore what they may have done to deserve unpopularity. Conversations like these leave the impression that these egotistical journalists are incapable of introspection.
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[Brookings Inst. from 2001] ....But Clinton’s truly remarkable achievement was in creating a consensus against himself with his pardon of Marc Rich, popularly known as the "fugitive financier," and otherwise known as large-scale tax cheat and buster of sanctions. On this one, I’d wager all the money Rich owes the government that Clinton’s friends are even more outraged than his enemies.
Take Rep. Barney Frank, a Massachusetts Democrat and House Judiciary Committee member who was one of Clinton’s most forceful and articulate defenders during the impeachment mess. "I was very angry about it," Frank says of the Rich pardon. "It was a real betrayal by Bill Clinton of all who had been strongly supportive of him to do something this unjustified. It was contemptuous."
Then there’s Sen. Paul Wellstone, a Minnesota Democrat who is one of the most liberal members of Congress. "It puts back into sharp focus all the questions about values and ethics in relation to the Clinton administration," he said. "I think it was a mistake. I don’t know why he did this. People in the country need to be given more encouragement about public affairs, not more reasons to be cynical."
Fresh off his battle against John Ashcroft’s nomination for attorney general, Sen. Pat Leahy of Vermont, the ranking Democratic member on the Senate Judiciary Committee, was no less angry. "It was a terrible pardon," he said. "It was inexcusable. It was outrageous...Here was a man who was involved in a huge swindle and has shown absolutely no remorse." Usually, Leahy added, pardons go to those who have paid at least some penalty for their crime. Rich’s penalty? He’s been living "a life of luxury" in exile in Switzerland and Spain.
I noticed on The Washington Post’s op-ed page that one of the original prosecutors in the Rich case was Martin Auerbach, now a lawyer in private practice. Having met Auerbach in college more than three decades ago, I rather doubted he had become a right-wing conspiracist. So I called him, too.
"I voted for Clinton three times," said Auerbach, who lives in Brooklyn and was referring to his presidential votes in 1992 and 1996, and his ballot for Hillary Clinton in last year’s Senate contest. "I’ve defended Clinton for years. I always felt that the rules had changed around him. But this creates a whole different question in my mind."
The problem with Rich is that "he thumbed his nose at the law every single time the country responded to a crisis," whether the matter was the energy crisis or the hostage crisis in Iran. "You may think tax rates are too high," Auerbach said. "But to unilaterally evade taxes on $ 100 million is not the way to go."
Auerbach, still a political progressive, offers what should be a very troubling observation for liberals. "Think of all the kids who hot-wire cars and go to jail. They don’t get to choose between going behind bars or spending a rather comfortable exile." And he adds: "I sure would like an explanation from the former president: What was he thinking?"
It’s possible for Clinton’s defenders to argue that the president’s enemies made a bigger deal out of some of the post-presidential controversies than they would have for any other former president. The gifts were excessive, so unnecessary and, well, so uncool, not to mention a way around the gift rules that now cover the junior senator from New York. But other presidents have taken gifts too. And office space in Manhattan is, by definition, expensive. These mistakes were easily undone.
But the Rich pardon cannot be undone. In defending himself last Friday, the former president offered these wise words. "You never get in trouble for saying no," he said. Yes, and sometimes "no" is exactly the right thing to say.
Just Saying!🤔😎Breaking: DHS Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas is reportedly considering stepping down, seeking guarantees of immunity from any potential investigations when a future Trump administration takes office. I say Oh HELL NO! Trump needs to burn his ass for the bullshit he… pic.twitter.com/12x8kXqGVa
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Immunity from what? I always thought he was doing everything on the up and up, so why should he need "immunity"? I guess I missed something along the way.
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A few months ago the House impeached him but the Senate blocked further proceedings. IMNSHO the new Congress should prioritize his actual impeachment and removal from office. This could happened in just a few days. However I doubt Congress will bother with that.
[Politico] Some defendants claim that Trump can issue “pardons of innocence,” but federal prosecutors told a judge that pardons would not wipe away their guilt.
The Justice Department sent a message Wednesday to Jan. 6 defendants: Accepting a pardon from Donald Trump is “a confession of guilt” for your crimes.
Ditto for Hunter Biden and the large number of others President Biden has been pardoning recently — and still to come — right? Good to know.
“[A] pardon at some unspecified date in the future ... would not unring the bell of conviction,” federal prosecutors argued in a Jan. 6 case before U.S. District Judge Carl Nichols. “In fact, quite the opposite. The defendant would first have to accept the pardon, which necessitates a confession of guilt.”
The pronouncement is the latest attempt by the Justice Department to salvage the legacy of its Jan. 6 investigation, which leaders say is the most sweeping criminal probe in American history. Trump has pledged to unravel that probe with the stroke of his pen by granting clemency to many of the nearly 1,600 people who have been charged for their roles in the attack on the Capitol four years ago.
The legal significance of presidential pardons, and whether they imply guilt, has been debated in courts for decades.
Makes sense. The Justice Department has been full of really bad advice for its targets, as has the FBI, et al. Which is why we’re told to never, ever say anything to them without a good lawyer present, even when their agents assure you that you aren't a target, but merely helping them with their inquiries.
The Supreme Court has opined that pardons often carry an “imputation of guilt” even if the consequences for that guilt are erased. And the Justice Department has previously concluded that even if pardons eliminate criminal consequences, those convicted of crimes can still face punishment in other forums, like professional ethics boards.
“A pardon … does not erase the conviction as a historical fact or justify the fiction that the pardoned individual did not engage in criminal conduct,” the Justice Department’s Office of Legal Counsel wrote in a 2006 opinion.
But Jan. 6 defendants have increasingly been seeking “pardons of innocence,” claiming Trump has the authority to grant them clemency without forcing an admission of guilt. Those who haven’t been convicted are hoping Trump’s Justice Department simply drops their charges, obviating the need for a pardon altogether.
The Justice Department’s comments on the effect of Jan. 6 pardons came in a court filing in the case of Dova Winegeart, who is seeking to delay her imminent jail term in anticipation of a possible pardon from Trump. Nichols, a Trump appointee, convicted Winegeart for damaging government property after a brief bench trial in October and acquitted her of several misdemeanor counts. On Monday, he sentenced her to four months in prison but agreed to hear arguments on whether the sentence should be delayed to await a potential pardon.
Winegeart is one of many Jan. 6 defendants who have been seeking to delay their sentences or pause their cases in light of Trump’s electoral victory and the potential for him to issue mass pardons when he returns to office.
Prosecutors sharply opposed Winegeart’s request and warned of far-reaching consequences to criminal justice if she is granted a delay based on speculation about a future pardon.
“The criminal justice system cannot operate on such uncertainty. Indeed, it is neither the court’s role or function to speculate about any president’s pardon decisions, nor is it appropriate for the Court to halt the normal functioning of criminal procedure based solely on that speculation,” the prosecutors wrote.
“If a future Executive cannot, today, grant a pardon, this Court cannot expand the temporal grace that Executive may or may not extend in the future to … affect the present,” the DOJ attorneys added.
Sure the court can. Courts do all sorts of things that prosecutors dislike.
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Don't worry DOJ, when you get prosecuted for your malicious prosecution, deprivation of rights under the color of law, torture and other crimes against the J6 people, there won't be any pardons, just lengthy jail terms and executions for the sh*tstain that murdered Ashli.
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Personally I believe there should be a separate class of Law and punishment for the abuse of public office. A public servant is just that and the time is ripe for a swift, sustained, and very harsh reminder.
[RealClearInvestigations] Even as President-elect Donald Trump promised on Sunday to act “very quickly” on pardons for many of the protesters involved in the events of January 6, the Biden administration’s Justice Department is continuing to arrest and try people for actions that occurred almost four years ago while opposing motions to delay trials because of the need for “the prompt and efficient administration of justice.”
If the defeat of Kamala Harris constituted at least a partial repudiation of the lawfare against Trump and his supporters, the message appears to be lost on top brass at the DOJ. Prosecutors are pushing ahead with what they consider the department’s crowning achievement: the so-called “Capitol Siege” investigation into the events of Jan. 6, 2021.
In what Attorney General Merrick Garland describes as the biggest criminal investigation in Department of Justice history, more than 1,560 people have been charged for federal crimes never before used against political protesters, including under a post-Enron obstruction statute overturned by the Supreme Court in June. At least 1,000 of these defendants have been convicted – either at trial or by accepting plea offers – with some 650 defendants ordered to serve time in a federal prison. Sentences range from a few days in jail to up to 22 years as the DOJ seeks “terror enhancements” to tack on additional time.
Activity in the J6 investigation accelerated the month before the election. At least 16 individuals were arrested; home security camera footage obtained by RCI shows the heavily-armed pre-dawn FBI raid of a subject in California on October 17.
Shortly after the election, DOJ officials instructed attorneys working on J6 cases to carry on regardless of the pending change in leadership. “[Federal] prosecutors in the Justice Department’s Capitol Siege Section received guidance this week about how to proceed in pending Jan. 6 cases … including a directive to oppose any Jan. 6 defendant’s requests for delays,” Ryan J. Reilly of NBC News reported on Nov. 9. “Prosecutors are instructed to argue that there is a societal interest in the quick administration of justice and these cases should be handled in the normal order.”
At the same time, the Biden Justice Department is continuing to apprehend protesters. On Dec. 4, for example, the DOJ announced the arrest of a 44-year-old Alabama man, Robert James Bonham, charging him with a range of crimes, including “assaulting, resisting, or impeding certain officers and obstruction of law enforcement during a civil disorder.”
If Trump shuts down the department’s “Capitol Siege” section, as he is expected to do, Bonham will never go to trial. But this does not appear to concern Matthew Graves, U. S. Attorney for the District of Columbia. Appointed by President Biden in November 2021, Graves has presided over the sprawling J6 investigation and now continues to advance related cases.
His office has opposed the J6 defendants’ requests to halt proceedings until after Trump is sworn in next month. Judges began receiving a slew of defense motions starting the day after the election asking to postpone trials and hearings, but Graves said there is “public interest in the prompt and efficient administration of justice” as a reason to continue business as usual.
Federal judges in Washington agree with the DOJ’s approach. According to an analysis by RCI, 44 pardon-related motions including requests to delay trials and sentencings have been filed since November 6. Of those, judges, with the exception of Judge Rudolph Contreras, have denied each one. Several more are pending awaiting the court's decision.
Details of the denials by each judge can be seen at the link:
Judge Dabney Friedrich denied a motion to delay a J6 jury trial for Mitchell Bosch.
Three J6 jury trials are set to begin this week. For the trial of one of those defendants, a man charged with civil disorder and four misdemeanors, Judge Amy Berman Jackson recently entered an order allowing prosecutors to describe January 6 to jurors as an "attack on the Capitol," "attack on Congress," and a "riot.”
The day after the election, an attorney representing Christopher Carnell, who was convicted of nonviolent misdemeanors following a bench trial in February 2024, asked the judge in his case to delay a scheduled hearing based on the possibility of a pardon. But Beryl Howell, the former chief judge of the court, immediately rejected her request.
Her colleagues on the D.C. federal bench, citing either a public interest in continuing court proceedings or making separation of powers arguments, followed her lead with recent rulings:
Judge Reggie Walton
Judge Amit Mehta
Judge Paul Friedman
Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly
Chief Judge James Boasberg
Royce Lamberth, a Reagan appointee, is the most outspoken judge when it comes to any downplaying of what happened on Jan. 6. In an April 2024 Wall Street Journal profile, the 80-year-old jurist was described as “a leading voice pushing back against attempts by Republican politicians to play down the Jan. 6 attack.”
And at least one D.C. judge is taking direct aim at Trump for even considering pardons. Trump-appointee Carl Nichols, who presided over Steve Bannon’s contempt case and sentenced the longtime Trump adviser to four months in a federal penitentiary, went so far as to say in a recent court hearing that it would be “beyond frustrating and disappointing” for the incoming president to issue “blanket pardons … or anything close.”
But it’s not just existing cases that are being fast-tracked before the transfer of power. Graves has announced the arrest of at least 10 Jan. 6 protesters since Election Day; last week, Graves charged at least three individuals for their participation in the Capitol protest.
There is no indication the DOJ will halt the pursuit of J6ers even as the pardon of Hunter Biden raises concerns over the practice of presidential pardons. Shortly after Joe Biden pardoned his son, Trump posted a message on Truth Social referring to the J6ers in what some consider a sign he is considering a similarly broad pardon. “Does the Pardon given by Joe to Hunter include the J-6 Hostages, who have now been imprisoned for years? Such an abuse and miscarriage of Justice!” Trump wrote.
In apparent response, the New York Times editorial board criticized the Hunter Biden pardon not on its merits but because it makes it easier for “ Trump [to] pardon the perpetrators of the violent Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol.”
[PJMEDIA] For years, Democrats ...every time you hear the phrase white people, white supremacy,white anything but paint, you're listening to a Democrat. Ask him/her/it to reimagine something for you; they do that a lot, though not well. They can hear a dog whistle a mile or two away. They invented the spoils system and Tammany Hall, and inspired the addition of the word (Thomas) Nasty to the English language. They want to stop continental drift and repeal the law of unintended side effects... have made a spectacle of their disdain for President Trump at every opportunity, so it should come as no surprise that once again, Democrats are planning to boycott his inauguration. The same thing happened in 2017, when they skipped Trump's inauguration because they claimed he'd stolen the election with the help of Russia. Now, after Trump won a landslide electoral college victory as well as the national popular vote, Democrats are once again coming up with excuses to skip the event.
According to a report from Axios, more than a dozen congressional Democrats have announced that they're going to skip the event, citing reasons ranging from ''safety concerns'' to personal principles—which is hilarious coming from any Democrat. This shameful display of partisanship not only highlights the left's inability to respect democratic processes, but also exposes its penchant for theatrics over governance.
Many Democrats justified their boycott by invoking the Jan. 6 Capitol riot, despite the fact that Trump had nothing to do with it and had called on his supporters to protest peacefully. Representative Bennie Thompson (D-Miss.), the chairman of the J6 committee, referenced Trump's ''rhetoric'' against him as his rationale.
Whatever, he won't be missed.
Rep. Delia Ramirez (D-Ill.) claimed her decision stemmed from ''concerns'' about her ''safety'' as a Latina—weird she didn't use Latinx—citing Trump supporters' presence at the event. Gimme a break.
This fearmongering doesn't just insult millions of peaceful Trump voters; it reinforces the Democratic strategy of smearing political opponents as inherently racist.
Rep. Ilhan Omar ...Somali-American Dem representative from Minnesota. She was apparently married to her brother and may be her own grandmaw on her mother's side. She is a member of The Squad, and would like to make the country look a lot more like Mogadishu... (D-Minn.) conveniently chose Martin Luther King Jr. Day events as her reason to avoid the inauguration. Something tells me that if Kamala Harris who got her start in politix between former Oakland mayor Willie Brown's' knees had won (God forbid), Omar would have found the time to attend the inauguration.
Again, she won't be missed. Frankly, I'd rather she and her brother not attend.
According to Axios's count, of the Democrats they contacted who responded, 13 are boycotting the 2025 inauguration, 20 are undecided, and 44 are attending. At least 55 Democrats boycotted Trump's 2017 inauguration.
You're probably thinking that after Democrats made such a big deal about the peaceful transfer of power, respecting democracy, and all that stuff, they should be making a point to attend the inauguration. Some actually are. According to Axios, Sen. Jacky Rosen (D-Nev.), sees attending as a chance to restore faith in institutions. But it's clear the party's loudest voices have no interest in reconciliation or unity, only in deepening divides. When figures such as Rep. Steve Cohen (D-Tenn.) claim they're skipping due to ''lingering trauma'' from Jan. 6, it's hard not to see this as yet another excuse to perpetuate the left's victimhood narrative.
The bottom line here is that any Democrat's decision to boycott Trump's inauguration isn't about principles—it's about partisan pettiness. Their obsession with vilifying Trump has blinded them to the importance of setting an example for the country. Americans expect their leaders to rise above partisanship, not wallow in it.
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I expect most of our leaders to sink into the Blob even further than they already are.
[NYPOST] President-elect Donald Trump ...The cad! Twice caught beating wimmin!... tapped his former acting Director of National Intelligence Richard Grenell to lead the presidential envoy for special missions, he announced on Truth Social Saturday night.
Trump said Grenell, an outspoken champion of the 45th president's America First credo, will focus on some of the ''hottest spots'' around the world, including North Korea ...hereditary Communist monarchy distinguished by its truculence and periodic acts of violence. Distinguishing features include Songun (Army First) policy, which involves feeding the army before anyone but the Dear Leadership, and Juche, which is Kim Jong Il's personal interpretation of Marxism-Leninism, which he told everybody was brilliant. In 1950 the industrialized North invaded agrarian South Korea. Twenty-one countries of the United Nations eventually contributed to the UN force opposing the invasion, with the United States providing around 90% of the military personnel. Seventy years later the economic results are in and it doesn't look good for Juche... and Venezuela
...a country in Central America that sits on an enormous pool of oil. Formerly the most prospereous country in the region, it became infested with Commies sniffing almost unlimited wealth. It turned out the wealth wasn't unlimited, the economy collapsed under the clownish Hugo Chavez, the murder rate exceeded places like Honduras and El Salvador. A significant proportion of the populace refugeed to Colombia and points south... ''In my First Term, Ric was the United States Ambassador to Germany, Acting Director of National Intelligence, and Presidential Envoy for Kosovo-Serbia Negotiations,'' Trump wrote.
''Previously, he spent eight years inside the United Nations ...an idea whose time has gone... Security Council, working with North Korea, and developments in numerous other Countries. Ric has a B.A. from Evangel College and an M.P.A from Harvard. Ric will continue to fight for Peace through Strength, and always put AMERICA FIRS ...the Internal Revenue Service; that office of the United States government that collects taxes and persecutes the regime's political enemies... T.''
Grenell, 58, became the first openly gay man to serve in a cabinet-level position when Trump appointed him acting director of national intelligence in February 2020. The appointment came after he resigned from his Berlin-based role and as a special envoy for peace talks between Serbia and Kosovo.
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Grenell is loyal to Trump and is automatically confirmed by the Senate based on identity politics. He will end up in the cabinet over the four year term.
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[NYPOST] A Washington, D.C.-area restaurant server has been fired after she spoke out about possibly refusing service to incoming Trump administration officials.
''I personally would refuse to serve any person in office who I know of as being a sex trafficker or trying to deport millions of people,'' Suzannah Van Rooy, a server at Beuchert's Saloon on Capitol Hill, told the Washingtonian this week. ''It's not, 'Oh, we hate Republicans.' It's that this person has moral convictions that are strongly opposed to mine, and I don't feel comfortable serving them.''
Her remarks were part of a report about whether there would be local ''resistance'' to certain Trump figures when they were in public settings again after several high-profile incidents during his first term. They included then-aide Sarah Huckabee Sanders being ejected from a restaurant in Lexington, Va., and protesters swarming then-Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen at a D.C. Mexican establishment.
''People were a lot more motivated the first time around to do those kinds of shows of passion. This time around, there is kind of a sense of defeat and acceptance,'' Van Rooy said, according to the Washingtonian. ''But I hope that people still do stand up to this administration and tell them their thoughts on their misbehavior.''
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I hope she enjoys the unemployment lines and food banks.
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She’s probably been hired at a new place already. She’ll just sabotage orders quietly.
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Promulgating her new restaurant is an option.
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[NYPOST] '''This is the way the world ends,'' T.S. Eliot famously wrote.
''Not with a bang but a whimper.''
He might have been talking about Joe The Big Guy Biden ...46th president of the U.S. Former Senator-for-Life from Delaware, an example of the kind of top-notch Washington intellect to be found in the World's Greatest Deliberative Body.... 's presidency.
As he prepares to slink out the door, Biden's final days in the Oval Office offer a perfect metaphor for everything that was wrong with his tenure.
He pardoned his convicted-criminal son after vowing not to and his mass commutations included one for a judge convicted of taking kickbacks to send juveniles to for-profit detention facilities.
The judge was in Scranton, Pa., meaning Biden even betrayed distraught parents in his hometown.
Joe Biden's predictable pardon of Hunter didn't threaten his reputation — it cemented an already corrupt legacy
How's that for a legacy?
His most recent dereliction fits another pattern.
Just as he paid no attention to raging inflation, the open border and the decline of America's global standing, Biden has gone missing as swarms of drones spark fears among millions of Americans on the East Coast.
Biden has said nothing, Vice President Kamala Harris launched her campaign on the “RuPaul’s Drag Race” has disappeared since losing the election and the White House offers only bland assurances that there's nothing to worry about.
But asked who is behind the noisy, bright and large drone presence expanding night after night, the administration says it doesn't know.
In other words, we don't know and we don't really care, but trust us anyway.
Sorry, it's too late in the game for that, especially when drones forced the White Plains airport to close runways Friday night.
Even the usually somnolent Gov. Hochul stirred to demand answers.
CONTRAST OF LEADERSHIP
Only a fool would deny that something unprecedented is happening, and it's doubly worrisome when the blanket assurances come from Alejandro Mayorkas, head of Homeland Security.
Recall it was Mayorkas who insisted repeatedly, under oath, that ''the border is secure'' even as more than 10 million unvetted migrants colonists poured across.
So when he says ''don't worry,'' we should worry.
The incident also illustrates why there is so much excitement about Donald Trump ...They hit him with slander, they impeached him twice. Nancy Pelosi tore up his State of the Union address on national TV. They stole an election and put his adherents in jail. They vilified him. They couldn't crucify him, so they shot him. Still, they can't keep him down... 's return.
Politics is ultimately about contrasts, and there is an extraordinarily stark contrast between the current and next president.
It goes far beyond the usual changing of the guard.
Although Biden is just four years older than Trump, it feels as if the torch is being passed to a new generation.
And that joy has switched sides.
ACTION AT 'MAGA LARGO'
That's certainly the vibe at Mar-a-Lago, or, as reader John Peter Zavez calls it, MAGA Largo.
With a steady stream of well-wishers, tech moguls, captains of industry, donors and media arriving daily, the historic estate is living up to its designation as the Winter White House.
The impression of a president ready to hit the ground running is underscored by Trump's business-like approach to shaping his administration.
His lightning-speed rollout of his Cabinet and other top picks is supplanting the usual thumb-sucking post-mortems about the campaign.
There's little point in dwelling on the past when the future is taking shape so quickly.
The announcement by FBI chief Christopher Wray that he will resign reflects the momentum.
He could have fought to finish his 10-year term, but it would have been futile.
And for what purpose?
Wray was a deeply flawed leader of the troubled FBI, but he at least got the point — there's a new sheriff in Washington.
Trump, with a landslide win in the Electoral College and victory in the popular vote, expressed the futility of looking backwards.
In an interview with Time magazine for its issue naming him Person of the Year, he was asked what he thought were Harris' worst mistakes.
Without hesitation, he answered: ''Taking the assignment. Number one, because you have to know what you're good at.''
Next question!
His answer could be applied to the entire Democratic Party.
It proved to be terrible at governing, with the so-called moderates signing on to the most radical agenda in US history.
The tail wagged the dog right out of power.
HERE THEY GO AGAIN
And here they go again.
Many congressional Dems are saying they will boycott Trump's inauguration.
That's a repeat of 2017, when more than 50 of them failed to show up for the transfer of power.
Some even made threats to impeach him, a promise they kept when they won the House majority two years later.
Axios reports that 13 Dems have pledged to stay away this time, and 20 others are undecided.
My hope is that sanity will prevail and the movement will fizzle.
Again, what's the argument for staying away?
The public spoke with a clear voice, so those who boycott are proving they haven't learned their lesson and are giving voters another reason to consign the party to a long sentence on the sidelines.
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Chris Rock on SNL:“I gotta hand it to Joe. He don’t move as fast as he used to, he don’t talk as fast as he used to,” Rock laughed. “But that middle finger still works.”
[FoxNews] ABC News will pay $15 million as a charitable contribution to a Trump presidential foundation and museum
ABC News and its top anchor George Stephanopoulos have reached a settlement with Donald Trump in his defamation suit, which will result in the news network paying the president-elect $15 million.
The settlement was publicly filed on Saturday, revealing that the two parties have come to an agreement and avoided a costly trial. According to the settlement, ABC News will pay $15 million as a charitable contribution to a "Presidential foundation and museum to be established by or for Plaintiff, as Presidents of the United States of America have established in the past." Additionally, the network will pay $1 million in Trump's attorney fees.
So in the end all President Trump was out of pocket was time? Sweet!
Stephanopoulos and ABC News also had to issue statements of "regret" as an editor's note at the bottom of a March 10, 2024, online article, about comments made earlier this year that prompted Trump to file the defamation lawsuit. The note reads, "ABC News and George Stephanopoulos regret statements regarding President Donald J. Trump made during an interview by George Stephanopoulos with Rep. Nancy Mace on ABC’s This Week on March 10, 2024."
ABC News said the network was "pleased" to have concluded the case.
I’ll bet.
"We are pleased that the parties have reached an agreement to dismiss the lawsuit on the terms in the court filing," an ABC News spokesperson told Fox News Digital.
Trump filed a defamation suit against Stephanopoulos after he asserted that Trump was found "liable for rape" in a civil case during a contentious interview with Rep. Nancy Mace, R-S.C., last March.
After playing a clip of Mace discussing being a victim of rape, Stephanopoulos asked her, "How do you square your endorsement of Donald Trump with the testimony we just saw?"
"You've endorsed Donald Trump for president. Judges and two separate juries have found him liable for rape and for defaming the victim of that rape," Stephanopoulos said, alluding to the legal victory by Trump accuser E. Jean Carroll.
Stephanopoulos repeated that claim ten times during his spat with Mace, despite the fact that a jury actually determined Trump was liable for "sexual abuse," which has a distinct definition under New York law.
After the federal jury found Trump liable for sexual abuse, but not rape, Judge Lewis Kaplan wrote in a later ruling that just because Carroll failed to prove rape "within the meaning of the New York Penal Law does not mean that she failed to prove that Mr. Trump ‘raped’ her as many people commonly understand the word ‘rape.’"
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Plus, there are numerous reports Trump plans to donate the $15M Award to Charities.
[Twitchy] ProPublica really hoped to prove Pete Hegseth lied about acceptance to West Point. They were full steam ahead with the story until Hegseth's team went ahead and outed the scheme to the public. Today, we learned how the plot unfolded.
"One hour deadline" by the way means they had already written the story they were gonna publish. ProPublica should be lucky Pete had his acceptance letter otherwise they would've taken one the fattest L's in journalism history.
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Hegseth probably had it accessible from the vetting process. They should have let them hang themselves.
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Hegseth should have kept that info to himself. Then when ProPublic went public with its BS story, just hit them with the evidence and a multi-million dollar lawsuit. No warning letters, just the lawsuit.
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...Kamala's smarmy-looking running mate, governor of Minnesota, who decided to retired rather than to deploy with his National Guard unit, then claimed to have been in Iraq and Afghanistan. 
launched her campaign on the “RuPaul’s Drag Race”
[Brookings Inst. from 2001] ....But Clinton’s truly remarkable achievement was in creating a consensus against himself with his pardon of Marc Rich, popularly known as the "fugitive financier," and otherwise known as large-scale tax cheat and buster of sanctions. On this one, I’d wager all the money Rich owes the government that Clinton’s friends are even more outraged than his enemies.
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[FoxNews] ABC News will pay $15 million as a charitable contribution to a Trump presidential foundation and museum
