ABOLISH THE AGENCY, RAZE THE BUILDINGS, SALT THE EARTH: Mar-a-Lago Raid: Feds Seized Privileged Trump Documents, New Court Filing Confirms.
Put a plaque on the site explaining what they did, and how their deeds stain their memory forever. Look, we’re getting to be a middle aged nation. We need to learn this stuff.
WHAT? LIKE THEY’VE ALREADY LOST IT IN COLORADO TO TO VOTE BY FRAUD MAIL AND THE CORRUPT MACHINES? YEAH: CO Dem Says U.S. Will Lose Right To Vote If Republicans Win.
I weep for the state my heart will always reside in.
TBF SHE CAN HARDLY DISCUSS WHAT SHE HAD FOR BREAKFAST: Kamala Harris Dodges Student Debt Questions.
I suspect the reason Willy Brown liked her so much is that her head is completely hollow. There’s a brain the size of a walnut* to maintain autonomic functions, and that’s about it.
*I apologize to dinosaurs who might have been more articulate.
AGAIN, MUCH TOO LATE. FBI DELENDA EST: Report: Top FBI Agent Forced Out After Accusations of Political Bias Concerning Hunter Biden.
WHEN THEY’VE LOST PAUL BEGALA … Democratic strategist Paul Begala blasts Biden student loan relief: ‘Terrible policy’.
UH, UH. SURE SHE DOES. BLAMING IT ALL ON TRUMP IN 3-2-1: CNN Medical Pundit Now Has Regrets about Her Covid-Absolutism.
ANOTHER THREE YEARS AND THE CITY MIGHT TAKE THEM SERIOUSLY: Fed-up San Francisco businesses vow to stop paying taxes over homeless problem.
HOW DARE ANYONE ACCUSE THEM OF ANTISEMITISM JUST BECAUSE THEY ENGAGE IN ANTISEMITIC BEHAVIOR? Democratic group accused of anti-Semitism for mocking names of Jewish NY pols.
IT’S MUCH TOO LATE. FBI DELENDA EST: FBI special agent who opened Trump investigation reportedly escorted out of Bureau.
SOCIALISM AS PER USUAL: Reports from Cuba: After milk and beef, bread disappears from the Cuban table.
CHINESE SHOW-TRIAL “JUSTICE:” The Railroading of Hong Kong’s Jimmy Lai Continues: The charges against him are laughable, but the Chinese Communist Party is intent on keeping him locked up.
The latest show trial of Hong Kong’s most famous political prisoner will conclude this week. All that is left is the guilty verdict.
Jimmy Lai, founder of the pro-democracy newspaper Apple Daily, stands accused of fraud. His alleged crime? Subleasing a small corner—well less than 1%—of the headquarters of his media company, Next Digital, to a Lai family company. Mr. Lai paid market rent to the publicly traded Next Digital, which disclosed the arrangement to shareholders.
The Chinese Communist Party is desperate to keep Mr. Lai, 74, in jail. A successful entrepreneur, Mr. Lai jumped into media after the 1989 Tiananmen Square killings catalyzed his interest in politics. Apple Daily became the most important pro-democracy voice in Hong Kong, and it remained so even after Mr. Lai was jailed in December 2020.
Under a sweeping national-security law imposed by Beijing, the Hong Kong government froze Apple Daily’s bank accounts, without any court order or review, forcing the shutdown of its news operations in June 2021. Hong Kong authorities also charged Mr. Lai with national-security law violations and arrested six senior staffers, including Apple Daily’s chief executive officer and editor in chief. All members of the Apple Daily Seven remain in jail, denied bail, more than a year later.
The lease violation Mr. Lai is accused of committing has always been a civil—not criminal—matter in Hong Kong. Mr. Lai’s original jailing in December 2020 came after a judge revoked bail when prosecutors argued that he should be locked up to keep him from reoffending. As if, once sprung, Mr. Lai would do something really dangerous, like sign a lease for a flower stall and instead open a coffee shop.
The fraud case would be laughable if it hadn’t resulted in Mr. Lai’s imprisonment. After bail was revoked, a judge found Mr. Lai guilty on a pair of civil disobedience charges and sentenced him to 14 months in prison. A conviction for inciting a riot came after Mr. Lai silently lit a candle to commemorate the Tiananmen Square killings.
Mr. Lai would have been eligible for release next week after serving the civil-disobedience sentences, but the Chinese Communist Party doesn’t want him to go free.
He should be out of jail today, since it’s already Tuesday in Hong Kong. Should be.
Be glad you live in America, where something like this could never happen to a critic of the people in power.
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AND THE HITS JUST KEEP ON COMING: Top FBI agent resigns amid claims he shielded Hunter Biden from probe: report.
HMMMM: Tinfoil Haturday: Did Dave Chappelle Get ‘the Talk’ Back in 2005?
Back in the early 2000s, there were two seemingly apocryphal stories about famous comedians who had been bouncing around comedy club green rooms for years: Bill Cosby was a rapist and Dave Chappelle had gotten “the talk.” We know at least one of those stories is true.
Remember back in 2005 when Comedy Central offered Dave Chapelle a staggering $50 million contract for two more seasons of the Chappelle Show, then he mysteriously disappeared to South Africa?
As the legend goes, Chappelle got “the talk” as he was on the brink of mega-success. I’ve heard the story several ways. In the most creative version, a bunch of successful black comedians and entertainers, led by Oprah Winfrey, showed up in Chappelle’s bedroom at 4 a.m. and told him that if he wanted big-time money and success he was going to have to “toe the line” politically. In other words, he needed to go full libtard. Chapelle decided instead to go to South Africa without even telling his wife.
Read the whole thing.
GENOCIDAL GOVERNOR DEATHSANTIS KILLS AGAIN: This Time Terminating Four Broward County Schoolboard Members’ Careers for Incompetence. “Meanwhile, his opponent for November is making it clear who’s side he’s on: ‘BREAKING: [CBS Miami] has learned [Charlie Crist] is expected to announce he has chosen Karla Hernandez-Mats, the president of the teachers union in Miami, to be his running mate, according three sources familiar with the decision.'”
What could go wrong for Crist? Charlie Crist picks running-mate who tweeted how Cubans ‘mourn’ the death of dictator Fidel Castro.
Related: Randi Weingarten Praises Charlie Crist’s Teachers’-Union Running Mate in Florida Governor Race.
#JOURNALISM: In yet another failed attack on the Libs of Tik Tok, the Washington Post devalues itself even further.
Is that even possible, at this point?
WHITE HOUSE STAMMERS AFTER PETER DOOCY NAILS ILLEGAL IMMIGRATION QUESTION:
Doocy: “Somebody unvaccinated comes over on a plane, you say that’s not okay. Somebody walks into Texas or Arizona unvaccinated, they’re allowed to stay?”
Jean-Pierre: “That’s not how it works… It’s not like someone walks over.”
Doocy: “That’s exactly what is happening!”
I find it incredibly funny to see Jean-Pierre flail about the moment she goes off script and strays from her magic binder. Doocy is obviously correct that illegal immigration is driven by those who are quite literally simply walking across the border. Jean-Pierre, not having a prepared answer ready, walks into the obvious trap, asserting that’s not happening when that’s exactly what’s happening.
It gets worse toward the end, though, when after being further pressed by Doocy, Jean-Pierre returns to her binder to read a pre-scripted response about what the administration has supposedly done on border security (which is basically nothing). But Doocy wasn’t even asking about border security. He was asking about the nonsensical COVID regulations that punish healthy, legal travelers like Djokovic while allowing masses of illegal immigrants that aren’t vaccinated to be released into the interior of the country. Jean-Pierre has no answer because there is no answer that could make that situation make sense.
To be fair, this is the person who declared in late June, “The fact of the matter is the border is closed.”
Related: “White House Says Biden Not Briefed on ‘National Security’ Materials Seized from Mar-a-Lago.”
No word yet if President Klain has been briefed, though.
PAST PERFORMANCE IS NO GUARANTEE OF FUTURE RESULTS: Or, question asked and answered.
Shot:
Chaser:
Conventional wisdom suggests that any “generic” Republican would easily beat Hillary Clinton in November — and any other Democrat would destroy Donald Trump.
But what if that’s wrong? Increasingly, the notion that Trump could actually win seems less absurd. As I write this, the election forecasting site FiveThirtyEight says that if the election were held today, he’d have close to a 47 percent chance of winning. It’s not crazy to theorize that Trump, with all his faults, might actually be better positioned than any traditional Republican would be.
Let me explain. For years, conservatives have lamented liberal media bias. This bias becomes even more recognizable the closer we get to Election Day. And whether it’s coverage of Hillary Clinton’s fainting flap or the re-emergence of the “birther” story, the media seems to once again have put its thumbs on the scales in favor of the Democrat.
In the past two cycles, Republicans have nominated serious candidates who were thoughtful and irenic. John McCain went so far as to correct his own supporters when they suggested in 2008 that then-Sen. Barack Obama was “an Arab.” “No, ma’am,” McCain said. “He’s a decent family man [and] citizen that I just happen to have disagreements with on fundamental issues and that’s what this campaign’s all about.”
How did McCain’s benevolent nature benefit Republicans? “When the media got through with a good man like McCain,” writes Victor Davis Hanson in the National Review, “he was left an adulterous, confused septuagenarian, unsure of how many mansions he owned, and a likely closeted bigot.”
The next GOP nominee would meet a similar fate. “[Mitt] Romney was reduced to a comic-book Richie Rich, who owned an elevator, never talked to his garbage man, hazed innocents in prep school and tortured his dog on the roof of his car,” Hanson continues.
—”Is Trump the Only Republican Who Can Handle the Media Onslaught?”, Matt Lewis, Roll Call, September 22, 2016.