#JOURNALISM:
9 straight minutes of the people who destroyed trust in media heralding Joe Biden as one of history's greatest men of honor for saying he would not pardon Hunter Biden.
Beyond the extreme ignorance needed to have believed Biden, look how these people operate as a mindless herd: https://t.co/eGwBulE07U
— Glenn Greenwald (@ggreenwald) December 2, 2024
WHEN THE LEFT SAID “POWER TO THE PEOPLE” THEY DIDN’T MEAN THOSE PEOPLE. Joel Kotkin: America’s working class is taking back control: Trump-voting blue-collar workers are re-discovering their political power.
NBC NEWS: Biden’s Lying About Pardoning Hunter Was Part of the Plan. As Charles Cooke writes:
In case you missed the key line, I’ll print it again:
They said it was decided at the time that he would publicly say he would not pardon his son even though doing so remained on the table.
Astonishing.
Karol Markowicz adds:
Ben Domenech writes: Hunter’s pardon is the legacy of Joe Biden’s weakness.
Democrats and their media cogs will write this off as the action of a loving father. But it isn’t. It’s doing the same thing that these partisans have always done — give Hunter Biden a pass, treating him like he’s a dysfunctional teenager instead of a pompous fifty-four-year-old prick whose day job is as a corrupt artist and night job is “sober-ish” in the mid-Atlantic sense. The Big Guy is cut from the same hypocritical cloth. He won’t even meet his granddaughter — I have. She’s lovely and polite — and I gave her a fruit snack. Joe should try it sometime.
Love sometimes requires you to be tough, to require honorable consequences, especially in the face of addiction of all forms. But Joe Biden is not tough or honorable. He just wears the aviators to make him look like he is. No one ever really bought it — and now we know for sure.
It’s also the legacy of a media that cheerfully defended Biden for years: Straight-FAFO! Scott Jennings Takes CNN Panelist Apart for Claiming Biden Didn’t Lie About Hunter Pardon.
🔥HOLY SMOKES: @ScottJenningsKY takes a blowtorch to DNC shill who says Biden 'wasn’t lying' when he said he wouldn't pardon Hunter.
This is four minutes of straight FIRE:
"It's all a lie. It is all a grift. Every American except the most partisan, brain-rotted people are going… pic.twitter.com/WbR2kgNomn
— Western Lensman (@WesternLensman) December 2, 2024
Former Hillary flack Karen Finney’s smirks and eye-rolls during this segment are telling, as he reminds her, “You don’t have to defend this. He’s leaving office. You don’t have to defend it. You don’t have to die on this hill. You can say this is wrong, because everybody knows that it is. It’s wrong.” Jennings asks, “Are you fine with the lying? Are you fine with him sitting before the election all year and lying to the American people? Are you fine with the lying about it?”
Yes, the entire DNC-MSM decided it’s perfectly fine with Biden’s lying, even as he’s headed out the door, and in their enabling of it over the last five years, ever since began his presidential run.
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THE KAVENAUGHING OF KASH PATEL HAS BEGUN:
Someone who went to high school with Kash Patel told me he regularly had big parties when his parents went out of town. Patel's family had a big dedicated prayer room in the house, and two boys bragged they had sex with girls in the prayer room during a party.
This is a very…
— Jacqueline Sweet (@JSweetLI) December 1, 2024
Fun!
If this is the best they’ve got on Patel, I like his chances.
UPDATE (FROM GLENN): This tweet appears to have been deleted. So I guess they don’t even have this on him.
THERE AIN’T NO GOOD GUYS, THERE AIN’T NO [CHECKS NOTES] GOOD GUYS…: Syria’s Civil War Reignites and the Bad Guys Are Winning (and Losing).
WELL, YES: Former Democratic lawmaker says party needs ‘rebrand’ post-Trump win.
Former Rep. Tim Ryan (D-Ohio) criticized the structure of his party during a Saturday appearance on MSNBC’s “The Weekend.”
“We need a rebrand. I think you and I have been talking about this since 2016,” Ryan said in the clip highlighted by Mediate. “Like, our brand is toxic in so many places and it is like, you are a Democrat? That’s the stuff we get like in Ohio.”
The lawmaker said Democrats need a complete “reboot” echoing other party leaders after a somewhat unexpected landslide loss in November where Republicans claimed the House, the Senate and the White House.
“We need a complete reboot. We need a complete reboot with the DNC. We need a complete rebranding. We got to get back established into our values,” Ryan said.
“What does it mean to be a Democrat? People want to trust us. They don’t want to go to Donald Trump.”
“Not Trump” was pretty much the party’s brand this year, Mr. Ryan. How’d that work out for you?
PUSHBACK WORKS: After uproar, Georgetown law delays pregnant student’s exam so she can give birth.“Initially, the law school refused to grant Brittany Lovely’s request, telling her ‘Motherhood is not for the Faint of Heart,’ according to a petition created by her classmates.”
This is the same university that was setting up a “self-care suite” with legos, crayons, and milk and cookies for students traumatized by Trump’s win. Faint of heart indeed.
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Gotta know how to ask: pic.twitter.com/Erd5KGUKVv
— Grand Admiral Nemo (@GrandAdmNemo) November 22, 2024
IT SURE LOOKS THAT WAY: Are Baltimore Elementary Schools Prioritizing Gender Identity Over Math and Reading?
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SCIENCE MARCHES ON: Loving the Brine Shrimp: Exploring Queer Feminist Blue Posthumanities to Reimagine the ‘America’s Dead Sea.’ “The article aims to transform narratives surrounding Utah’s Great Salt Lake, often referred to as “America’s Dead Sea,” by reimagining how brine shrimp (Artemia franciscana) are perceived in science, culture, and art. It introduces the concept of hydrosexuality to bridge these realms, thereby enriching feminist blue posthumanities and feminist biology through art-based practices and queer advocacy. By navigating the environmental narrative of the GSL, the hydrosexual perspective challenges settler science by exploring the connections between the reproductive system of brine shrimp and the economy, ecology and culture.”
NEWS YOU CAN USE: How you can help ‘de-wokify’ your campus.
I QUESTION THE FUTURE OF THE UK, PERIOD: Man arrested for ‘kapo’ slur questions Jewish future in Britain. The UK is prosecuting one person for referring to Jew haters as … “Jew haters,” and another for referring to a leftist rabbi as a “fake rabbi” and “kapo.” Meanwhile, mobs of antisemites shout genocidal slogans in the street unmolested. Thank goodness for the First Amendment…
“ETHICS”:
This is the New York Times…
They're now essentially calling for civil war…
I'm so sick of this. pic.twitter.com/q2gbLJEB7h
— Tim Young (@TimRunsHisMouth) November 30, 2024
Vote for the correct candidate — or else.
OUR TWO-TIER JUSTICE SYSTEM: How the Trump administration and congressional Republicans may crack down on pro-Palestinian protesters. Ignore the tendentious headline, which should be, “how the Trump administration may start enforcing the law.” To wit: “Biden administration officials have told NBC News that prosecuting speech-related crimes related to the anti-war protests is not a high priority for the current Justice Department, nor is seeking out student protesters on foreign visas [who violated their visas by supporting designated terrorist groups] a top concern for U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement.” This is nuts. There is no such thing, legally speaking, as “speech-related crimes.” It’s either a crime, or it’s not. Fraud and threats are “speech-related,” but we still prosecute them.
More pointedly, every crime charged against January 6 defendants was also “speech-related,” as the underlying motivation was protesting the official election results. Basically, Biden Justice Department officials are acknowledging that they intentionally went easy on criminals who engaged in their crimes while expressing pro-Hamas, anti-Israel sentiments. As one commenter on X stated, they are admitting “that combatting antisemitic campus and street harassment of the American Jewish community was not a high priority for the outgoing administration,” nor, obviously, was excluding students who openly violating their visa terms by supporting Hamas and Hezbollah. Trump appointees will need to a do a major housecleaning.
KRUISER’S MORNING BRIEFING: Kash Patel’s Nomination Sets Off a Mass Dem Triggering Effect. “While we are waiting for the Biden-Harris nightmare to come to an end, however, Donald Trump sure is making the transition period entertaining, isn’t he? The time between now and January 20 is going to fly by while we’re watching the Democrats have new hissy fits every day.”
UPDATE (FROM GLENN): All is proceeding as I have foreseen.
WELL, GUN LAWS ARE ALL MALUM PROHIBITUM: In Pardoning Hunter, Joe Biden Declares Lying on a Form 4473 a Minor Infraction.
True. But just a reminder: Biden gave Hunter a blanket pardon for any crimes he may have committed over a ten year period, charged or uncharged, known or unknown.
That includes tax evasion.
Americans are burdened with heavy taxes in a time when the cost of living is already crippling. But the president has pardoned his son of the $1.35 million he owed for tax evasion based on lucrative business deals he got from access to his father.
The corruption of the Biden… https://t.co/V9VKd3zt3r
— Andy Ngo 🏳️🌈 (@MrAndyNgo) December 2, 2024
This is a crock of shit by Joe Biden btw. Hunter Biden was not unfairly prosecuted, & he was rightly convicted of felony tax charges & gun charges. Hunter Biden’s sweetheart deal only unraveled because of brave whistleblowers. And he should’ve been charged with foreign lobbying. https://t.co/eXheBvPGPA
— Jerry Dunleavy IV 🇺🇸 (@JerryDunleavy) December 2, 2024
And by claiming that Hunter was singled out because he was Biden’s son, the pardon announcement also comes right out and says that Justice Department prosecutions are politicized and unfair. Not that we didn’t know that, but still.
ROGER SIMON: Kash Patel and the New Republican ‘Cool.’
HMM: Elon Musk Sues to Stop OpenAI’s For-Profit Transformation.
Attorneys for Musk argue in their filing that OpenAI should be blocked from “benefitting from wrongfully obtained competitively sensitive information or coordination via the Microsoft-OpenAI board interlocks.”
As the report noted, this new filing is the latest battle in a legal war between OpenAI and Musk, who was involved in the company’s early days. OpenAI was founded in 2015 as a nonprofit AI research organization, and four years later added a for-profit entity called OpenAI LP as a subsidiary of the nonprofit unit.
In February, Musk filed a complaint alleging that OpenAI and CEO Sam Altman violated the company’s founding principles by emphasizing profits over benefiting humanity, and by establishing close ties to Microsoft.
Musk withdrew that suit in June but refiled it two months later, adding claims of unfair business practices and allegations that, as someone involved in the launch of OpenAI, he was manipulated into believing the company would be a nonprofit.
And last month, Musk added antitrust claims against OpenAI and Microsoft to the suit, claiming the two companies colluded to remove competition in AI.
Musk accused Altman of “rampant self-dealing” between OpenAI and other companies, and alleged that Altman pushed the company into a “de facto merger” with Microsoft.
Is Microsoft back to its old “embrace, extend, and extinguish” tricks with AI?
SO DON’T VOTE FOR ANY DEMOCRAT? GOT IT.
Don't vote for any Democrat in 2028 who doesn't repudiate the pardon within 48 hours.
— Nate Silver (@NateSilver538) December 2, 2024
I’m enjoying this maybe a little too much, but after the past four years, I don’t care.
Nate Silver is losing it. Must be hard to pretend for 4 years that Biden represents the forces of good only to have the illusion shattered so closely after a publicly humiliating election defeat pic.twitter.com/mD33aauwqq
— Alex Corrino (@AlexCorrino) December 2, 2024
THEY'RE RED PILLING NATE SILVER!! pic.twitter.com/1GsBFobLp0
— Wattus Maximus (@WattusMaximus) December 2, 2024
Reminder:
In 1994, a crime bill authored by @JoeBiden locked Black men up for years for the same gun charge he just pardoned Hunter Biden for today.
This is the Democrat Party.
Again, why any Black person would want to be associated with the democrats is beyond me.
— Kimberly Klacik (@kimKBaltimore) December 2, 2024
VINAY PRASAD: Sabotaging RFK Jr’s confirmation will increase vaccine hesitancy: Scott Gottlieb, as usual, only advocates for himself. “At this point, the best way to curb vaccine hesitancy is to approve RFK Jr, and redirect his energies to generating more data. More data will answer the key questions that remain unanswered: which childhood immunization program is optimal. The worse thing we can do is tank his nomination. Then vaccine hesitancy will explode.”
If you want to be trusted, be trustworthy and transparent. Shutting down critics — who mostly turned out to be right — is how they got into this mess.
MAKING A LIST, CHECKING IT TWICE: Which, if any or all, of these things (most) helped to elect Trump?
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