Archive for 2025
May 20, 2025
AT LEAST IT’S NOT MONKEYPOX: Genomic analysis shows widespread mpox transmission in West Africa prior to 2022 global outbreak.
THE NEW SPACE RACE (VIDEO AT THE LINK): Starship Flight 9 will NOT Catch the Booster. “SpaceX is not attempting to catch the Super Heavy Booster for Starship Flight 9 due to a strategic decision to prioritize other mission objectives and reduce risks. The booster, Booster 14-2, previously flew on Flight 7 and is set to perform a landing burn in the Gulf of Mexico instead of returning to the launch tower for a catch. This choice likely stems from the need to focus on resolving ongoing issues with the Starship upper stage, which has failed in the last two flights (Flights 7 and 8) due to engine-related anomalies. By opting for a simpler booster landing profile, SpaceX can concentrate on testing and refining the Block 2 Starship design, particularly its heat shield and reentry capabilities, without the added complexity of a tower catch. Additionally, posts on X suggest that SpaceX may be avoiding unnecessary risks to the launch infrastructure while iterating on fixes for the upper stage’s ‘harmonic response’ problem, which could delay the program if a catch attempt fails.”
SPOILER: THEY ARE NOT KIDDING HER WITH THIS HORSE SHIT.
You have got to be kidding me with this horse shit.
Gosh, USA Today, NOW you're wondering? https://t.co/kmjeeVzyqN
— The🐰FOO (@PolitiBunny) May 20, 2025
GREAT MOMENTS IN MULTICULTURALISM: 80% Of French Women Want The Army Deployed In French Cities To Protect Them.
ANNALS OF LEFTIST AUTOPHAGY: Jon Stewart Flays Mercenary Jake Tapper for Hawking Biden Health News He Denied for Years.
The Daily Show’s Jon Stewart committed some glorious blue-on-blue violence against disgraced Jake Tapper in a brutal eight-minute segment that would have left anyone other than the shameless Jake Tapper hiding under a rock.
After ridiculing Tapper and CNN for selling in book form breaking news that respectable journalists used to report when that news was actually breaking (and not for $27.00 a week from now), it’s at the seven-minute mark where Stewart lays bare everything sleazy about all this in a single sentence…
“…how fucking weird it is that the news is selling you a book about news they should’ve told you was news a year ago … for free.”
.@jonstewart is getting whiplash watching CNN pivot from promoting Jake Tapper's "bombshell" book to lamenting Joe Biden's cancer diagnosis pic.twitter.com/pShybi5F6e
— The Daily Show (@TheDailyShow) May 20, 2025
Emmy-winning actress Patricia Heaton linked to Stewart’s segment in an X post and also made an excellent point: “It’s unfathomable how far @jaketapper and @cnn have fallen,” she wrote. “Can you imagine Walter Cronkite constantly hawking a book?! And having all his colleagues join in?! Especially one about news they should have been reporting on all year?! Good job @jonstewart!”
Give Stewart some credit; he was one of very few leftists pointing out Biden’s decline early in 2024: Jon Stewart shrugs off backlash for Joe Biden criticism during his Daily Show return.
The Trump family made video clip appearances during a segment about Biden’s questionable memory, with the former president saying during a deposition that he couldn’t remember whether he said he had a good memory. Cue that wide-eyed Stewart “my-head-is-exploding” look.
But Biden also came in for withering facial expressions, notably when he, during a recent press conference, went back to the podium to talk about Gaza’s nonexistent neighbor, Mexico.
Did Biden have a chance to address the nation on his 2024 platform as part of a pre-Super Bowl interview? “Well, no,” Stewart explained. Instead, he released a TikTok video where he proclaimed his preference for “Mama Kelce” over her football player sons. “I understand she makes great chocolate chip cookies.”
Stewart deployed a blank look for what seemed like hours before blurting out his suggestion to the president: “Fire. Everyone. How do you go on TikTok, and end up looking older?”
In a discussion of aged candidates, he said, “What’s crazy is thinking that we’re the ones as voters who must silence concerns and criticisms. It is the candidates’ jobs to assuage concerns, not the voters’ jobs not to mention them.”
Then, to make his point, Stewart employed another signature move and turned to the camera right and asked for a closeup. “Look at me; look what time hath wrought. Give the kids a look at the lunar surface here,” he said of his craggy features. “And I’m 20 years younger” than the presidential contenders.
Chris D. Jackson, an election commissioner in Tennessee, tweeted in response, “Wow. So you basically say because Biden is old, he is basically as bad as Trump. Why th(e) F do we never learn in this country? Sorry, but I won’t be watching you either.”
Former MSNBC host and political podcaster Keith Olbermann added on X, “Well after nine years away, there’s nothing else to say to the bothsidesist fraud Jon Stewart bashing Biden, except: Please make it another nine years.”
Shades of the backlash NBC’s Dasha Burns received from her fellow Democrats for pointing out John Fetterman’s stroke in 2022.
Evergreen:
GET THEE BEHIND ME, CHAT GPT: ChatGPT shown to be more persuasive than people in online debates.
STEPHEN MILLER: Why Biden’s cancer diagnosis has been greeted by a dose of skepticism.
Through the Covid-19 pandemic any dissent from the official medical story told by the CDC, Deborah Birx and Anthony Fauci would land you in detention. Other medical experts who went against the recommendations, no matter how they were being presented, found themselves censored by the government, demonetized by social media platforms and vilified by their colleagues. This did enormous damage to the idea of “expertise.”
We are still coming to grips with the effects of Joe Biden’s office’s announcement this past Sunday that the former president had just been diagnosed with stage-four prostate cancer. The revelation grabbed the attention of not only the usual political and media pundits, but of medical professionals as well.
Several physicians and experts took to Twitter/X to cast aspersions, stating that the timing of the announcement, as well as the seriousness of the diagnosis of the former president, simply didn’t add up. They weren’t swallowing the official story coming from a politician, hook, line and sinker, as they may have done in the past.
How could an easily detectable and treatable form of cancer reach such a grave state without anyone catching it, in the most medically monitored human being on the planet?
“If there’s no diagnosis, there’s nothing to disclose:”
COVERUP: CBS News medical contributor and former Biden transition official claims White House doctors didn’t do PSA tests on the president to save money due to his advanced age. As a result, they missed the cancer. 🤣 pic.twitter.com/ysITZDgXbX
— @amuse (@amuse) May 20, 2025
I LOST AN EX-GIRLFRIEND TO “THE NONSMOKER’S LUNG CANCER.” Lung cancer risk in never-smokers predicted by AI tool ‘Sybil:’ An estimated 57% of Asian-American women diagnosed with lung cancer have never smoked, compared to only about 15% of all other women. She was Japanese.
NOTHING TO SEE HERE, MOVE ALONG: Joe Biden’s WH doctor was a longtime family friend who once worked with his shady brother — as cancer ‘cover-up’ speculation mounts.
ALL IN THE FAMILY: Joe Biden’s WH doctor was a longtime family friend who once worked with his shady brother — as cancer ‘cover-up’ speculation mounts.
The White House doctor who previously gave President Joe Biden a clean bill of health is a longtime family friend — as speculation of a cover-up over his new cancer diagnosis continues to ramp up.
Dr. Kevin O’Connor served as the 82-year-old’s official physician during his White House stint — and repeatedly insisted for years that Biden was in top mental shape despite his obvious cognitive decline.
Now, in the wake of Biden’s prostate cancer diagnosis, O’Connor’s longstanding relationship with the Biden clan has come under renewed scrutiny.
O’Connor — a former Army surgeon who Biden affectionately refers to as “Doc” — has been caring for the former president and other members of his family for more than a decade.
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Critics have, in the past, criticized the close relationship between the doctor and former prez — with Rep. Ronny Jackson (R-Texas) telling The Post just last month that “he’s part of the Biden family.”
“He would do or say anything to cover up and protect that family, regardless of what it meant professionally for him,” Jackson said at the time.
President Trump, for his part, honed in on O’Connor’s prior positive health assessments just after the cancer diagnosis came to light.
Trump pointed to how the doctor had given Biden the all-clear during their last physical in February 2024 — just months before the public saw his diminished capabilities on full display during their first presidential debate.
“If it’s the same doctor that said there’s nothing wrong there, and that’s being proven to be a very sad situation,” Trump said Monday.
In yesterday’s edition of the Commentary newsletter, Abe Greenwald wrote:
The Tapper and Thompson book, Original Sin, details how the Biden family and his closest aides colluded to illness-proof the day-to-day job of the presidency and keep outsiders in the dark. On the prospect of getting Biden diagnosed and treated, they get this telling quote from a physician who worked with the White House Medical Unit: “If there’s no diagnosis, there’s nothing to disclose.” The doctor was referring to a potential cognitive diagnosis, but the quote is only more resonant in the wake of Biden’s prostate cancer revelation.
In other words, for those on the case, it’s now time to dig deeper—not retreat.
But not for the DNC-MSM; they’d much rather demonize Republicans than investigate their own party: Amid Serious Questions About Biden’s Cancer Diagnosis, the Press Has Learned Absolutely Nothing.
LIGHTNING DEAL: BougeRV 12 Volt Refrigerator, CRPRO 30 Quart 12V Car Fridge. #CommissionEarned
WOW:
Waymo now does more rides than Lyft in SF.
There are only 300 Waymos. Lyft has 45,000 drivers. Every Waymo is doing more rides than 150 human drivers.
— Sam (@futurenomics) May 19, 2025
THE CALIFORNIA LEGISLATURE DOESN’T LOVE STAND-YOUR-GROUND LAWS: I missed this when it came out: California is apparently considering an anti-Stand-Your-Ground law.
The Commission on Civil Rights undertook a study of the racial impact of Stand-Your-Ground laws a little while ago. When the research indicated that Florida’s SYG law didn’t have the anti-black effect that my progressive colleagues thought, they threw out the research. I had fun writing about it.
SUSTAINABILITY: Ray Dalio says the risk to U.S. Treasurys is even greater than what Moody’s is saying.
Bridgewater Associates founder and billionaire Ray Dalio warned Monday that Moody’s downgrade of the U.S. sovereign credit rating understates the threat to U.S. Treasurys, saying the credit agency isn’t taking into account the risk of the federal government simply printing money to pay its debt.
“You should know that credit ratings understate credit risks because they only rate the risk of the government not paying its debt,” Dalio said in a post on social media platform X.
“They don’t include the greater risk that the countries in debt will print money to pay their debts thus causing holders of the bonds to suffer losses from the decreased value of the money they’re getting (rather than from the decreased quantity of money they’re getting),” the Bridgewater founder said.
Moody’s on Friday cut the U.S. credit rating one notch to Aa1 from Aaa, citing the federal government’s ballooning budget deficit and soaring interest payments on the debt. It was the last of the three major credit agencies to downgrade the U.S. from the highest possible rating.
U.S. stocks fell Monday as the 30-year Treasury bond yield jumped to 4.995% and the 10-year note yield climbed to 4.521% in response to Moody’s downgrade.
“Said differently, for those who care about the value of their money, the risks for U.S. government debt are greater than the rating agencies are conveying,” Dalio said.
Well, we’re still in the “gradually” phase of going broke. The “suddenly” will catch a lot of supposedly very smart people completely off-guard.
“BUT IT WASN’T ME, HONEST!” : White House Insiders Break Silence on Biden Cancer Cover Up.
COLORADO: Defending Education Sues Colorado Over Sick Trans Law. “You might remember the recently passed Colorado legislation to fund castration of “trans” kids with taxpayer dollars and in spite of parents’ wishes, to mandate pro-trans policies in schools, to criminalize ‘deadnaming,’ and to take supposed ‘misgendering’ into account in custody cases. Defending Education, an organization that stands for parents and against woke indoctrination in schools, is suing the Democrat-run state over the extremely harmful legislation. Colorado Parent Advocacy Network, Protect Kids Colorado, Do No Harm, and Dr. Travis Morrell also joined Defending Education in the suit.”
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CHANGE YOU CAN BELIEVE IN: Secret Service, DOD, Coast Guard, Border Patrol applications surge under Trump.
In the first four months of the administration, U.S. Border Patrol received 34,650 applications, representing a 44% increase over the same four-month period in 2024, The Center Square reported. Under U.S. Border Patrol Chief Mike Banks, Texas’ first border czar, the first quarter of 2025 marks “the most successful four-month recruitment stretch in the agency’s history.”
The U.S. Coast Guard also saw a massive spike of applications after failing to meet recruiting targets every year under the Biden administration.
Since January, the Coast Guard is on track to exceed its recruitment goals by 110%, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security says. So far this fiscal year, the Coast Guard has already recruited more than 4,700 new members, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security said. Under Trump, the Coast Guard has surged resources to secure U.S. borders and is seizing record amounts of illicit drugs, The Center Square reported.
The U.S. Department of Defense is also seeing a record number of recruits. After failing to meet recruitment goals every year during the Biden administration, in February 2025, all five military services met their recruiting goals.
During an April 30, 2025, cabinet meeting, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth described what was happening as a “recruiting renaissance.”
Leadership matters.
THE THREE CONSERVATIVE PROFESSORS ON YOUR FACULTY LAUGH AT THE TURNABOUT: ‘New McCarthyism:’ Professors investigated by their own universities speak out. But this book tells the story about conservatives who were “investigated,” too.
MIDDLE EAST: Resuming Control of Gaza Is a Terrible Idea. But What the Hell Else Can Israel Do? “No nation can be expected to accept anything less and Israel certainly won’t.”
LIMITED TIME DEAL: COOFANDY Men’s Linen Shirts Short Sleeve Casual Shirts. #CommissionEarned
WE ARE NOT LED BY THE BEST AND THE BRIGHTEST:
These people truly believe they are entitled to permanent power, wealth, and job security via federal government employment. After reading this ridiculous article, the only logical conclusion you can reach is that fed layoffs need to be way higher. https://t.co/xusLtXV7NS
— Sean Davis (@seanmdav) May 20, 2025