A CRIMINAL ORGANIZATION MASQUERADING AS A POLITICAL PARTY: TX Democrat Colin Allred Attended Event Where Illegal Aliens Were Taught How To Evade Authorities: Report.
“Think of the Democratic Party as what it really is: a criminal organization masquerading as a political party,” Michael Walsh likes to say. Somebody appears to be taking that meme far too literally.
A COUPLE OF THEM, ACTUALLY: The Dirty Little Secret Behind Jen Psaki’s Memoir (and Most Every Other D.C. Book). “Books their authors didn’t write bought in bulk with other people’s money to end up in landfills is maybe the most Washington thing ever.”
HURRY UP, GUYS, THE ELECTION IS LESS THAN SIX MONTHS AWAY: Federal government announces new initiatives to monitor, prevent bird flu.
THE NEW SPACE RACE: SpaceX vying for 2 Starship launch sites in Florida, sealing Starbase’s fate as R&D, production site.
On Friday, the Federal Aviation Administration said it’s conducting an Environmental Impact Study of the effects of as many as 44 Starship launches per year from Florida’s Kennedy Space Center. It follows the U.S. Space Force earlier this year starting such a study of the potential effects of Starship operations at sites on Cape Canaveral Space Force Station.
During an update last month at Starbase, SpaceX CEO Musk reiterated his vision for Starbase as a research, development, test and production site — with operational launches from Florida.
“I think what we should probably expect is that we do the kind of the development launches here” at Starbase, he said. “Test anything new here, build the rockets and then most of the operational launches would be from the Cape.”
And speaking of tests: Musk sees fourth flight of SpaceX’s Starship in 3-5 weeks.
CBS’S ROBERT COSTA BEGS BILL MAHER TO STOP MOCKING LEFTIES, JUST MOCK REPUBLICANS:
CBS reporter Robert Costa put together a puffball interview for HBO Real Time host Bill Maher on their show Sunday Morning. They let him claim he’s not ideological and didn’t laugh when he said “I speak for the normies. I speak for that vast middle that is tired of the partisanship. I don’t want to hate half the country, and I don’t hate half the country.”
Bill Maher represents the “vast middle,” the “normies”? Conservatives across America would make a face at that. At bottom, Maher is a bit of shock jock, so that when Democrats are in power he’s going to mock them as well, just as he suggested on Friday night that the Democrats “blew it” in all their legal warfare on Trump.
What was amazing in this profile was Costa imploring Maher to lay off mockery of the Left, just shine the spotlight on the right-wingers!
COSTA: You write a lot of throughout this book that the left irritates you, frustrates you at times, but the right often alarms you.
MAHER: Yes. They’re very alarming. They’re extremely alarming. More alarming.
COSTA: What do you say to your critics, though, who say that you should just focus on them, Bill, if they’re more alarming to you than the Left. And why not shine the spotlight on them only?
MAHER: The truth isn’t one-sided like that. The Democrats constantly are,running against Trump with the idea ‘You people out there couldn’t possibly vote for this guy.’ And people are saying, ‘Watch me. Hold my beer. Watch me vote for him again.’
Costa got his start at NRO and the Wall Street Journal, and yet, like fellow Post employee Jennifer Rubin and her former colleague David Weigel, who also began at conservative or libertarian Websites, as the MSM likes say to about a politician who slowly begins to lean further and further hard left, he sure has grown in office!
WESTERN CIVILIZATION FACES A CHOICE:
HMM: China’s economy is headed for a ‘dead-end,’ and Beijing won’t do anything to stop it, scholar says.
“Years of erratic and irresponsible policies, excessive Communist Party control and undelivered promises of reform have created a dead-end Chinese economy of weak domestic consumer demand and slowing growth,” she wrote. “The only way that China’s leaders can see to pull themselves out of this hole is to fall back on pumping out exports.”
The result will be more tension with China’s trade partners as cheap manufactured goods continue to flood markets, while the Chinese people will turn gloomier, causing the government to get more repressive, Stevenson-Yang predicted.
The root cause of China’s economic problems is the Communist Party’s excessive control, which isn’t going away, while its strategies that focus on adding more industrial capacity are counterproductive, she said.
Most economists have recommended that Chinese leaders loosen their grip on the private sector and promote more consumption, which would entail reforming the government—” and that is unacceptable,” she added.
MEANWHILE IN SHANGHAI: China: Old And Busted: 1 Bed, 1 Bath. The New Hotness: 1 Bed In Bathroom.
FLASHBACK (From Ed) to November of 2019: How to Conduct Business with Chinese Companies That See a Dark Future.
COME SEE THE EUGENICS INHERENT IN THE LEFTISM: Climate Professor Thinks We Should ‘Cull’ the Human Population to Reach Emissions Targets.
PEPPERMINT PSAKI ATTEMPTS TO MEMORY HOLE HISTORY, and even Axios is calling her out: Psaki’s new book falsely recounts Biden’s watch check in troop ceremony.
Many family members of the 13 soldiers killed during the explosion at the Abbey Gate base in Kabul have consistently said in interviews and appearances before Congress that Biden checked his watch as the caskets went by.
- Mark Schmitz, the father of Marine Lance Cpl. Jared Schmitz, told Congress in August of 2023 that “while I stood there on the tarmac watching you check your watch over and over again, all I wanted to do was shout out, ‘It’s two f***ing thirty, asshole.’ “
- The day after the ceremony on Aug. 29, 2021, Shana Chappell, the mother of Marine Lance Cpl. Kareem Nikoui, wrote on Facebook: “I watched you disrespect us all 5 different times by checking your watch!!! What the f*** was so important that you had to keep looking at your watch????”
What they’re saying: [Jen] Psaki initially declined to comment, but after this story was published she said in a statement that the “detail in a few lines of the book about the exact number of times he looked at his watch will be removed in future reprints and the ebook.”
- She added: “The story on Afghanistan is really about the importance of delivering feedback even when it is difficult told through my own experience of telling President Biden that his own story of loss was not well received by the families who were grieving their sons and daughters”
- Psaki’s publisher, Scribner, did not respond to a request for comment.
Zoom out: Psaki’s account is part of a larger pattern of Biden officials trying to recast the administration’s handling of the Afghanistan withdrawal.
The gaslighting will continue — even after Biden’s officials go through the revolving door to the MSM side of the DNC.
UPDATE:
If you think Jen Psaki barking about disinformation about over Biden meeting with Gold Star parents is bad, wait until you remember this one. https://t.co/CJSb6fqIb6
— Stephen L. Miller (@redsteeze) May 13, 2024
The latest is Griffin, who founded the $63 billion hedge fund Citadel. In an interview Saturday, Griffin told the Financial Times that Harvard needs to embrace “Western values.” The school’s major donor said the campus crisis is a byproduct of a “cultural revolution.”
He said the US had “lost sight of education as the means of pursuing truth and acquiring knowledge” over the past decade.
“The narrative on some of our college campuses has devolved to the level that the system is rigged and unfair, and that America is plagued by systemic racism and systemic injustice,” he noted.
Griffin continued, “What you’re seeing now is the end-product of this cultural revolution in American education playing out on American campuses, in particular, using the paradigm of the oppressor and the oppressed.”
“The protests on college campuses are almost like performative art, and we’re not actually helping Palestinians or Israelis with these surreal protests,” the billionaire said, adding that in previous humanitarian crises, Americans would focus on practical aid.
As we’ve pointed out, the campus riots have nothing to do with helping the poor Palestinians. Similarly, adjacent pro-Palestinian protests, shutting critical infrastructure, such as highways, bridges, and airport terminals nationwide, have zero to do with helping these folks and everything to do with collapsing America.
As always.
WHY IS HIGHER EDUCATION SUCH A CESSPIT OF HATE AND BIGOTRY? Far-left U. Wisconsin student groups suspended after antisemitic chalkings.
THE COUNTRY’S IN THE VERY BEST OF HANDS:
Well, um, the – er – so the – I mean – again, some of the stuff gets – some of the language that the – erm – some of the language and concepts are just confusing. I mean, the government definitely prints money, and it definitely lends that money, which is why – erm, er – the government definitely prints money, and then it lends that money by – er – by selling bonds – er – is that what they do? They, they – erm – they – yeah, they, they – erm – they sell bonds – yeah, they sell bonds, right, so as they sell bonds and people buy bonds and lend them the money – yup – so a lot of times, a lot of times – at least to my ear – with [Modern Monetary Theory] the language and the concepts can be kind of unnecessarily confusing, but there is no question that the government prints money and then it uses that money to – um, er, uh – er – so – um – yeah, I – I – I guess I’m just – I don’t – I can’t really talk – eh, I don’t – I don’t get it – I don’t know what they’re talking about, like, ’cos – it’s like – the government clearly prints money, it does it all the time, and it clearly borrows, otherwise we wouldn’t be having this that ’n’ defic – conversation, so I don’t think there’s anything confusing there.
—“So who was that? A trans sociology major at Columbia? One of the hosts of The View? No. It was Jared Bernstein, the Chairman of Joe Biden’s Council of Economic Advisers.”
If that name rings a bell, here’s a flashback from Bernstein: “One thing we learned in the 1990s was that a surefire way to reconnect the fortunes of working people at all skill levels, immigrant and native-born alike, to the growing economy is to let the job market tighten up. A tight job market pressures employers to boost wage offers to get and keep the workers they need. One equally surefire way to sort-circuit this useful dynamic is to turn on the immigrant spigot every time some group’s wages go up.”
Biden warned voters on the 2020 campaign trail that if he’s elected president, “Milton Friedman isn’t running the show anymore.” (Sadly, not that he ever was in America.) But nobody in the MSM-DNC deigned to ask who would be replacing him.
Related: Why Team Biden might be purposefully grinding down the middle class.
‘THAT’ BUS AND ‘THAT’ GUY ‘THAT’ DAY: Aussie history teacher Frank Frederico grew up in a thoroughly secularized family and was a confident atheist by the time he graduated university. But then several years into a satisfying teaching career some stuff just happened to occur in a certain way and that changed everything.
PERSONNEL IS POLICY: Meet the Jihadi Inside the White House. “What do Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP), the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA), and Presidentish Joe Biden’s National Security Council all have in common?”
UNIVERSITIES NEED TO CHANGE THEIR ADMISSIONS PRIORITIES: Universities await the arrival of 2024’s freshman class.
WHITES NEED NOT APPLY: The Department of Veterans Affairs offers multiple training classes and workshops that are closed to Caucasian vets, reports the Washington Free Beacon’s Peter Hasson. Like the man said, some animals are more equal than others.
DON’T GET COCKY: Trump Leads in 5 Key States, as Young and Nonwhite Voters Express Discontent With Biden. “The surveys by The New York Times, Siena College and The Philadelphia Inquirer found that Mr. Trump was ahead among registered voters in a head-to-head matchup against Mr. Biden in five of six key states: Michigan, Arizona, Nevada, Georgia and Pennsylvania. Mr. Biden led among registered voters in only one battleground state, Wisconsin.”
This is when pollsters should be narrowing their focus to likely voters but with widespread mail-in balloting, I’m not sure what the difference is any longer between likely voters, registered voters, and ballots that went out wherever and came back in at a convenient time.
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KRUISER’S MORNING BRIEFING: A Veritable Buffet of Conservative Delights. “To devoted Morning Briefing readers hoping for Kruiser’s usual serving of Polish Name + Random Action + Equally Random and Ornate Object – Expected Outcome, I, too, feel the sting of disappointment at learning I’m filling in today. Kruiser is in New York City celebrating his daughter’s graduation, and we should all say a Hail Mary that he return to his desert hermitage relatively soon, lest he be swept away by The Big Apple’s current of bright lights and raw sewage into the abyss of comedy clubs and bad politics.”
PEOPLE TEND TO GO WHERE THEY’RE WANTED: Police Flee High Crime California For Texas. “Sounds like there’s a grand bargain to be had: California sends Texas all it’s good law enforcement officers, and in return Texas sends California all the homeless drug addicts and illegal aliens so beloved by the Democratic Party over ordinary, law-abiding citizens.”
THE WORLD IS RUN, BADLY, BY AUTHORITARIAN MORONS: House Committee Report Exposes Global Social Media Censorship Regime.
YEP:
Small, cheap, and numerous Drones are the way 21st Century Wars are fought.
And China's DJI makes more drones in that class than every other manufacturer in the world, combined.
And 2023 drone flight hours reflect this fact.https://t.co/5HpCJSg39u https://t.co/heUdJdoyVa pic.twitter.com/pBzDT753zx
— Trent Telenko (@TrentTelenko) May 12, 2024
Related:
Princeton Galaxy Brain: People worry too much about China as a national security risk. Just relax
Actual China: We assign intelligence service operatives to illegally being back to China foreign nationals writing cartoons about our leader https://t.co/vS93ZFbOjD
— Met Gala Loser Balding 大老板 (@BaldingsWorld) May 13, 2024
Also:
#SouthChinaSea Report – May 13-2024
Signs of #Chinese land reclamation in Sabina (Escoda) Shoal just 75 nautical miles (140 Km) from Palawan Island, #Philippines
If Sabina Shoal becomes another Chinese artificial island aka military base, it would help China to block the… pic.twitter.com/IA0UcQEPaZ
— Indo-Pacific News – Geo-Politics & Defense (@IndoPac_Info) May 13, 2024
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