TO BE HONEST, PROBABLY NOT: ‘You Think I Don’t Know How F*cking Old I Am?’ Biden Reportedly Fed-Up With Media Fixation on His Age.

Related: How to Respond to Anger and Aggression in Dementia. Understanding the Causes and Finding Ways to Cope.

STANDING UP TO LOWER COURT RESISTANCE: The Second Amendment’s “plain text” rule.

Some of these lower court opinions remind me of something John Jeffries once said, about an error so profound and inexcusable that it could only have been made by someone who had been legally trained.

AARON SIBARIUM:  “Universal Basic Income Hits the Bay Area–If You’re Black.”  (Sigh. Why do we have to litigate this kind of idiocy?)

#FTX: Sam Bankman-Fried denied $250K cash bail offer after begging judge to be let loose over vegan diet, ADD.

Fallen FTX mogul Sam Bankman-Fried brought up his vegan diet and apparent ADD diagnosis as he begged a Bahamas judge to let him out of jail on Tuesday — with his attorney proposing a $250,000 cash bail to no avail, according to reports.

A magistrate judge in the Bahamas denied bail for the 30-year-old accused crypto crook, who lowered his head and hugged his parents, both Stanford professors, following the decision.

It came after a lengthy hearing — Bankman-Fried’s first in-person public appearance since his arrest in the Bahamas on Monday and the stunning collapse of his cryptocurrency exchange.

Also at the same hearing: Bankman-Fried’s parents were at his hearing in the Bahamas, and his mother laughed during the proceedings, report says. “During the proceedings, Bankman-Fried’s mother Barbara Fried laughed when her son was called a ‘fugitive,’ according to CoinDesk’s report, which described his parents as showing both ‘dejection and defiance.’ She also ‘clenched her jaw and chewed on the frames of her glasses,’ per the Times. His father, Joseph Bankman, ‘occasionally put his fingers in his ears as if to drown out the sound of the proceedings,’ per CoinDesk.”

Interesting courtroom behavior from a pair of Stanford law professors.

I HOPE IT PULLS DOWN THE CCP AS IT FALLS: China’s Great Wall of “Zero-Covid” is Crumbling. “I want to note that I have said it was senseless to contain an uncontainable virus. That makes my analysis better over The New York Times, which bitter clung to praising Zero-Covid as recently as the last week of November.”

KEVIN DOWNEY JR: Former CNN Animal Pleads Guilty to ‘Child Sex Training.’

THE AUTOCRAT IN YOUR IPHONE: How Mercenary Spyware Threatens Democracy.

In fact, the incident is only one of dozens of cases in which Pegasus or other similar spyware technology has been found on the digital devices of prominent political opposition figures, journalists, and human rights activists in many countries. Providing the ability to clandestinely infiltrate even the most up-to-date smartphones—the latest “zero click” version of the spyware can penetrate a device without any action by the user—Pegasus has become the digital surveillance tool of choice for repressive regimes around the world. It has been used against government critics in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) and pro-democracy protesters in Thailand. It has been deployed by Mohammed bin Salman’s Saudi Arabia and Viktor Orban’s Hungary.

If it’s not in use in the United States, it’s only because the U.S. government has its own version deployed. It’s been clear for a long time that they have no compunctions about spying on citizens.

OH, YEAH, HEY, LOOK, I GOT A REVIEW:  Book Review: “Bowl of Red” by Sarah A. Hoyt.

A GOVERNMENT ENCOURAGING AND ENFORCING A FOREIGN INVASION IS NOT FOLLOWING THE CONSTITUTION:  ox News Video Shows ‘Mass Release’ of Illegal Immigrants as Encounters Already Hit 500K in FY23.

They are, in fact, knowingly violating their oath of office.

OH. I SEE NOW:  But Why? Democrat Mega-Donor Crypto King Sam Bankman-Fried Arrested In Bahamas Preventing His Congressional Testimony.

I’ll get ahead of this and say BF didn’t kill himself.

OH, JUST GO AHEAD AND SAY YOU HATE HUMANS:  Anthony Fauci merges COVID & Climate: Infectious diseases ‘largely the result’ of human ‘encroachment on nature’ & ‘often aided by climate changes’ – Published in New England Journal of Medicine.

WELL, YOU KNOW, WE WERE IN AN INTERVAL IN GLACIATION. MAYBE WE STILL ARE:  UK’s Arctic Blast and Australia’s Cold Spring Contradict Climate Narrative.

Maybe we’re not. The problem with the idiots who want to destroy civilization to fight the weather is that the weather always wins. And that warmth is always much better for humans than cold.

YEAH, FOR SURE. THIS TIME TRUMP IS REALLY FINISHED. LIKE ALL THE 3457 TIMES HE’S BEEN FINISHED:  Poll indicates support for Trump fading.

Let’s face it he’s been done since he came down the escalator at Trump tower and announced he was running for president. And yet, it moves.

AND THIS IS WHERE EUROPEANS ARE GOING TO REGRET GETTING RID OF THEIR PITCHFORKS:  Must-see: Joel Kotkin on similarities between historical feudalism and today’s neo-feudalism.

As Americans we lost all our pitchforks in a canoe accident, needless to say. But that’s okay, because we have a lot of specialized divers.

OF COURSE THEY KNEW. BUT THEY STILL DID IT BECAUSE THEY COULD:  Twitter files reveal they themselves knew Trump ban was bogus.

WHAT I LIKE ABOUT THIS IS HOW ASPIRATIONAL IT IS. YOU CAN BE WHATEVER YOUR ENEMIES CALL YOU!  Not white? You can still be a white supremacist.

It was very thrilling as a female who tans and is an immigrant from a Latin country, not to mention rather more traditional as to religion, to find I’d become a White Mormon Male some years back. My husband and sons found it very exciting too. Suddenly, we were one of those edgy counterculture families.  Go ahead, annoy a leftist. Only they know what you can become.

MEANWHILE NO ONE’S LIFE, LIBERTY OR PURSUIT OF HAPPINESS IS SAFE WHILE THE LEGISLATURE IS IN SESSION:  Why we need an end to sneak-attack bills.

THE LEFT’S IDEA OF SCIENCE IS BECOMING MORE LIKE HITLER’S OR STALIN’S:  Today’s blacklisted Americans: Archaeologists go underground to practice their research.

THE LEFT CANNOT TOLERATE ANYTHING SIMPLE, PURE, INNOCENT OR FUN:  Another One Bites the Dust…

BEHOLD! MY SHOCKED FACE:  Former Spy Says Biden Is a “Controlled Asset” of the CCP – Biden’s Actions Show This Is the Case.

BUT WAIT, THERE’S MORE OUT THERE, AT THE VERY OUTER LIMITS OF POE’S LAW:  they seriously think the take away is to advise the unvaxd to drive more carefully.

And some excerpts to get the full insanity as comments on that thread take the study apart:

This is all nonsense. They don’t even understand the implications of their research. The implications of their research that are most interesting is that most vaccine effectiveness population studies are horse shit

AND this one had me giggling so hard the cats are scared:

This isn’t science. It’s clown world.

CLOWNWORLD IS THE NEW SPELLING OF CANADA:  The Unvaccinated Had More Car Crashes… Because they Were the Ones Driving!

UNEXPECTEDLY!  Condo prices in San Francisco plummet as drug abuse and crime soar.

They were all pour epater les bourgeois until they realized they were the bourgeois.

WHATDAYA MEAN, ‘FIDUCIARY DUTY’?  Disney investor sues over company’s response to ‘Don’t Say Gay’ bill.

MY NEW YORK POST COLUMN: Biden’s return to ‘normalcy’ brought us crazy instead — like Sam Brinton.