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May 21, 2025
TYLER O’NEIL: Democrats Compared Parental Rights Groups to the KKK While Passing a Transgender Law. Now, Those Groups Are Suing.
“HB 25-1312’s sponsors confirmed that the law’s speech prohibitions are designed to push those with traditional views about sex and gender out of the public conversation,” the lawsuit notes. It cites The Daily Signal’s previous coverage of state Rep. Yara Zokaie, a Democrat sponsor of the bill, comparing parental rights groups to the Ku Klux Klan. When Zokaie faced criticism over the comparison, she doubled down, citing the Southern Poverty Law Center.
The Southern Poverty Law Center brands parental rights groups “anti-government extremist groups” and puts them on a “hate map” with chapters of the Ku Klux Klan. The pro-transgender SPLC has long branded as “anti-LGBTQ hate groups” conservative and Christian organizations that oppose its activism on social issues.
Klan-admirer Woodrow Wilson (D-NJ) could not be reached for comment.
SARAH HOYT’S SHOCKED FACE IS ENJOYING A SPA DAY: ‘Manifesto’ of IVF Clinic Bomber Shows Him to Be an ‘Anti-Life’ Nihilist.
HMM: GOP hard-liners threatening late revolt over megabill.
House Speaker Mike Johnson is facing a last-minute rebellion from conservatives on Republicans’ megabill, with a deal on a key tax deduction with blue-state Republicans and a lack of progress on settling other key provisions frustrating hard-liners.
“I think actually we’re further away from a deal because that SALT cap increase, I think, upset a lot of conservatives,” Rep. Andy Harris (R-Md.), the House Freedom Caucus chair, said in an interview on Newsmax on Wednesday morning, referring to the state-and-local-tax deduction. “The conservatives are pushing for some balancing spending reductions.”
Johnson signaled Tuesday he wanted to call a vote on the bill as soon as Wednesday evening. A person with direct knowledge of the talks who was granted anonymity to describe them candidly said “there is currently a zero percent chance this thing moves today,” saying leaders “walked away from a deal last night and even rolled back progress made over the weekend.”
In a brief interview Wednesday morning, Johnson said “there is a chance for a vote today” when asked about the comments by Harris and other conservatives. He said he continues to talk with the conservative holdouts.
Johnson and a group of blue-state Republicans reached a critical but tentative deal Tuesday night to boost the cap on the state-and-local-tax deduction to $40,000 in the GOP domestic-policy bill that is at the center of President Donald Trump’s agenda on taxes, energy and the border. Conservatives have strongly opposed further increasing the SALT cap.
Trump — and congressional Republicans — need a win on Capitol Hill more than any single policy item.
DIDDY TOOK MOLLY SHAPED LIKE BARRY? Diddy’s Shocking Obama-Related Drug Habit Exposed at Trial.
Sean “Diddy” Combs’ trial revealed the alleged extent of the rapper’s drug habits on Tuesday, with his former assistant testifying that the ex-mogul preferred his ecstasy pills in the shape of President Barack Obama’s face.
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[Combs’ ex-assistant David James] testified that he didn’t see any violence between Combs and Ventura, but having worked as Combs’ personal assistant for two years, he could speak to the rapper’s extensive drug use. James said he witnessed his former boss take numerous pills “every day,” according to CNN.
He described some of the 25 to 30 pill bottles Combs kept with him as “Advil, Tylenol,” but others were “water pills to help him lose weight. He had Viagra in there. Some pills to help increase his sperm count. He had ecstasy and Percocet in there as well.” One particular pill stood out to him, however, he told the court.
“There were various pills but one was in the form of a former president’s face,” referring to the 44th president. Obama was not named as an attendee to any of Combs’ nefarious gatherings, but they do have a history.
In 2009, Newsweek’s Evan Thomas declared that Obama was “Sort of God,” and in 2021, anticipating who would be running the country again, far left Jacobin magazine published a similarly-themed cover:
Given how much of leftism functions as a substitute religion, no wonder Diddy wanted the ecstasy (pun intended) of a form of Holy Communion with “God.”
WELL, GOOD, BECAUSE I’VE NEVER HAD A COLD SORE: Cold sore viral infection implicated in development of Alzheimer’s disease. Good news for those who do have them, though: “treatment with antiviral therapy seems to be linked to a lower risk of this type of dementia, suggesting that treatment to quell HSV-1 symptoms may be protective”
HOW IT STARTED: Washington Post endorses Joe Biden for president.
In order to expel the worst president of modern times, many voters might be willing to vote for almost anybody.
Fortunately, to oust President Trump in 2020, voters do not have to lower their standards. The Democratic nominee, former vice president Joe Biden, is exceptionally well-qualified, by character and experience, to meet the daunting challenges that the nation will face over the coming four years.
Those challenges have been, to varying degrees, created, exacerbated or neglected by the incumbent: the covid-19 pandemic, which has claimed more lives in this country than anywhere else in the world; rising inequality and racial disparities; a 21st-century, high-tech authoritarianism ascendant in the world, with democracy in retreat; a planet at risk due to human-caused climate change.
—The WaPo Editorial Board, September 28th, 2020.
How it’s going: Was Biden too frail for the job? Voters should have been informed.
It now seems that, for a considerable time, Biden might have lacked the stamina and cognitive capacity the job demands — and that his family and closest aides concealed this from the public. Their apparent decision to put personal loyalties ahead of their duty to the country must be reckoned with. A legal mechanism should be considered to ensure that this doesn’t happen again.
The people closest to Biden could hardly have avoided observing his infirmity — indeed, the actions they took to hide it indicate that they knew all too well. Early issues surfaced in the 2020 campaign, when he had memory lapses, including forgetting the name of one of his closest advisers and the opening lines to the Declaration of Independence. A Democrat interviewed by Tapper and Thompson who was involved in making Zoom videos of Biden speaking to constituents during the pandemic lockdown said that, after watching hours of mostly unusable footage, they concluded he was incapable of doing the job.
Such observations then became more frequent. “Since at least 2022,” Tapper and Thompson write, “he has had moments where he cannot recall the names of top aides whom he sees every day. He can sometimes seem incoherent. He is increasingly prone to losing his train of thought.”
“By late 2023,” the authors say, “Biden’s staff was pushing as much of his schedule as possible to midday, when Biden was at his best.” Even in small groups, the president often read from notes or a teleprompter.
This suggests that Biden might have been too impaired to responsibly lead the United States. The country was fortunate not to have experienced a late-night crisis that he would have had trouble handling. It would be folly to count on such luck in the future.
The situation might have been prevented had the president and his team been open with the public about his condition. Transparency is a crucial element in the political marketplace. If Biden had admitted his difficulties and stepped out of the running for the 2024 election, the Democratic Party would have been able to select a stronger candidate via competitive primaries. This is the way the system is designed to work. Covering up reality undermines it.
—The WaPo Editorial Board, today.
If only the WaPo had journalists who, oh, I don’t know, could report on the president’s ongoing health, not least of which through the power of observation. And was a newspaper that made its bones on aggressively reporting on a presidential administration’s various scandals. And whose emo motto for the past 8 years has been “Democracy dies in darkness.”
OPTIMUS: Musk’s ‘Biggest Product of All Time’ Will Do Your Dishes. “A new humanoid robot demo just dropped — and the most impressive part is how boring it is. Following verbal, natural-language instructions, Tesla’s battery-powered Optimus can take out the trash, sweep up a mess, and even tear a single paper towel off the roll with eerily human precision.”
OUR CORRUPT ESTABLISHMENT (CONT’D):
No one mistakenly does anything in loan documents, much less claim the wrong residency while holding elected office in another state. The process is too thorough for that to mistakenly happen.
She’s toast. https://t.co/ZEqLNcuJmy
— Bonchie (@bonchieredstate) May 21, 2025
OUR CORRUPT ESTABLISHMENT:
The message for the public could not be worse this week. In a case involving a Democratic judge accused of discarding basic judicial principles, a random selection produced a Democratic judge reversed for discarding basic judicial principles… https://t.co/J5BAbbmRhf
— Jonathan Turley (@JonathanTurley) May 21, 2025
NEWS YOU CAN USE: Recovering from heart attack? Here’s what you shouldn’t do.
STANDING UP TO HATE, BIGOTRY, AND MURDER:
Omg. HAPPENING NOW: Trump is making the South African president watch the video of black South Africans calling for the genocide of white farmers. He had a tv brought in. Turned down the lights and played the video 😮😮😮😮😮 pic.twitter.com/NCeAZjp9e7
— Kira (@RealKiraDavis) May 21, 2025
WHEN EXECUTIVE POWER IS USURPED:
Shorter: Biden wasn't in favor of open borders, but his autopen sure was. https://t.co/7fkkSaiDdk
— Scott Adams (@ScottAdamsSays) May 21, 2025
CDR SALAMANDER: Preparation of the Seabed Battlefield.
“Not subtle,” he writes:
If the PRC wants to pressure Taiwan economically, it needs to be able to threaten its undersea infrastructure as much as that on the surface. To do that, you need to locate it so you can put it in a target set.
If you need to one day defend the approaches to Taiwan, you need detailed knowledge of the seafloor topography in the approaches to Taiwan, as you do for the beaches and roads on Taiwan.
That is what she is doing.
It appears that there are still some China Doves out there, so put this in your growing stack of evidence that—regardless of how much you wish it were not true—the PRC is doing all it can for conflict over Taiwan.
More at the link.
FIRST, THEY’D HAVE TO GIVE UP THEIR CRAZY CAT LADY DEMO: Ya Know, Things Would Be a Lot Better if Dems Would Just Stop Electing Lunatics.
YOU CAN’T MAKE THE OCEAN MORE WET: Democrats Don’t Need More Scandals Now, but Here Comes One,
I’m actually pretty sure I’ve seen Buzz Patterson telling that story before, but hell, maybe it was another Clinton Air Force One scandal.
THE EV BUBBLE CONTINUES DEFLATING: Honda Bucks Trend And Rolls Back EV Plans In Favor Of Hybrids. “Earlier this week, Honda said in Japan that it will abandon its goal of having 30% of its vehicles go electric by 2030, citing a ‘slowdown in the expansion of the EV market due to several factors, including changes in environmental regulations.’ As I mentioned above, that so-called slowdown is just a perceived slowdown being made by Honda to serve its purposes.”
I’m not sure what writer Peter Lyon means by that. Honda’s purpose is to manufacture vehicles people want to buy, correct?
ABOUT THOSE MEDICAID ‘CUTS:’ We’ve all heard a thousand times in the media in recent weeks all about how those evil House Republicans are going to destroy Medicaid by slashing $625 billion. As usual with the mainstream media when it comes to reporting on proposals to limit federal spending in any way, there’s a whole lot more to this story than is being reported, according to Issues & Insights (I&I).
“First, let’s dispense with the claim of ‘devastating’ cuts to Medicaid. The House reconciliation bill would reduce Medicaid spending by $625 billion. That might sound like a lot, but it’s stretched out over 10 years, at a time when Medicaid is on track to spend $8.6 trillion. Medicaid spending will still go up every year under the House bill, just a tiny bit more slowly,” according to I&I.
Second, there is a tax-and-spending scam whereby state governments can shift much of the costs of their official share of Medicaid spending back on to the shoulders of federal taxpayers. It’s such a scam that even Joe Biden called it that way back in 2011. Just fixing this regulatory scheme would save virtually of the money on which GOPers are focused.
But there’s more, much more. Go here for the rest of this story.
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THE NEW TEAM IN BUREAUCRAT WRESTLING: Two Kennedys Tag Team to Expose Billion-Dollar Health Funding Scam.
HOWEVER MUCH YOU DESPISE THE MEDIA…: NBC News Is Quietly Rewriting Its Own Reporting on the Gaza War to Vilify Israel.
The most recent example came buried in a news report that casually claimed Israel had unilaterally broken a ceasefire with Hamas — a striking departure from what the same outlet had previously reported.
This is part of NBC’s increasingly disturbing trend: a pattern in which its journalists appear to be reshaping the facts in Gaza — not because new evidence has emerged, but because the old facts no longer serve the narrative.
And these aren’t obscure details NBC somehow missed. These are facts the news outlet had already acknowledged. Now, they’re being walked back — replaced with a storyline that casts Israel as the aggressor and Hamas as the victim, resulting in some of the most distorted coverage of the conflict in recent months.
Among the issues NBC has fumbled most egregiously is the temporary ceasefire agreement between Israel and Hamas, struck in January 2025 and that expired in March — after Hamas refused to move forward with the next stage of the deal, which would have required it to release the remaining Israeli hostages kidnapped on October 7.
At the time, NBC got it right. On March 1, its headline declared the “Gaza ceasefire [was] in doubt,” citing the expiration of the deal and the lack of ongoing negotiations. The subheading noted that Israel wanted to extend the truce — though, tellingly, NBC left out that Hamas’ refusal stemmed from the hostage issue.
But within weeks, that reporting had been scrubbed from memory.
…it isn’t enough.