THE POWER LINE WEEK IN PICTURES: Agony of Defeat Edition.
(If you’re wondering, of course it’s a real CNN story.)
Archive for 2025
May 31, 2025
JESSE SINGAL: It Doesn’t Matter if AI Is Just “Faking It.”
Certainly not in terms of human responses.
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STARRING HUNTER BIDEN AS THE NEW AQUAMAN: Dolphins ‘deliberately get high’ on puffer fish nerve toxins by carefully chewing and passing them around.
VERY BRAVE. NOW DO ISLAM. U. Nebraska student’s graduation project mocks Catholic Mass with drag performance.
IT’S AS ACCURATE AS BEAUCHAMP’S REPORT OF A BRIDGE BETWEEN THE WEST BANK AND GAZA:
"If this is accurate"
But it's not accurate. Its based of a model and that model is intentionally flawed in order to be as extreme and hyperbolic as possiblehttps://t.co/qWfDJUbloV
— PoIiMath (@politicalmath) May 30, 2025
Beauchamp is proof that you can have a career as a lefty “journalist”: while reporting the most outrageously obvious bullshit.
#JOURNALISM:
Every single time there’s a backstory that makes the regime media report a total lie.
I think it’s great that @KristiNoem is having her people fact check these lies https://t.co/cCDe3j18rg
— Kurt Schlichter (@KurtSchlichter) May 31, 2025
HAHA. BUT SMARMY WORDS ARE FREE AND THAT’S ALL THEY HAVE TO OFFER.
How about if France provides a guarantee of "disarmament of terrorist organizations" by paying Israel $100 million every time an Israeli is killed by terrorists from the "demilitarized state?" If the terrorist groups are really disarmed and the state demilitarized, France should… https://t.co/o3I7Kz79Si
— David Bernstein (@ProfDBernstein) May 31, 2025
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ANOTHER HIDEOUS HERO FROM HELL: Elias Rodriquez, murderer in cold blood in public of Yaron Lischinsky and Sarah Milgren, is not somebody who deserves a one-way trip to the electric chair.
No, according to an obviously astroturfed response to Rodriquez’ arrest, the man is a hero and a sign of worse things to come in America. As Richard Pollock explains in his latest Substack column, the hero movement’s origins are suspect:
“The Tariq El-Tahrir Youth and Student Network, an obscure Middle Eastern-based group created the ‘Free Elias Rodriguez Organizing Committee’ and sought American and international co-sponsors. Twenty-nine groups publicly signed onto its manifesto.
“Tariq El-Tahrir hails Elias Rodriguez as a ‘resistance’ fighter. And they warn of more killings to come. The ‘student’ group clearly is a creation of Middle Eastern terrorist organizations and sold to America as a homegrown organization. There is no actual physical address listed for the group.
“But that didn’t deter 29 groups, a number of them American, who enthusiastically signed on to the shameful manifesto. One of the most prominent signatories was the Maoist wing of the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA). Forty-six unnamed individuals also allegedly signed onto the document, according to their site. Quite a few of the signatories were from the Middle East.”
IF YOU READ NOTHING ELSE TODAY: I strongly encourage you to read Rod Martin’s The Counterrevolution, which is an excerpt from his forthcoming book on what must be done and who must do it to save the Republic. Here’s a sample:
“This is the moment when FDR’s long counterrevolution reaches its own reckoning. The Deep State is rotting. Its courts have become legislatures, its agencies have become sovereigns, its laws unread, its processes unknowable. Its schools no longer educate, its currency no longer holds value, its borders no longer exist. It cannot win wars, balance budgets, or tell a man from a woman. The revolution is eating itself. And its answer, in typical Marxist fashion, is to demand ever-increasing control.”
And next steps?
“It is the road of decentralization and rebirth: of a people taking back responsibility from the state, of institutions rooted once more in families, churches, communities, covenants, and crucially, elections. It is the digital reformation of a constitutional republic: where blockchain and AI are used to limit power, not entrench it; where space and energy abundance free man from the Malthusian lies of managed scarcity; where education is reclaimed from indoctrinators and returned to disciplers of truth. (emphasis added)
“And it is theological. All revolutions are religious. The American Revolution certainly was, its theological convictions the foundation of our liberty. The left’s deifies the state for the benefit of those who rule it, and abides no other God before it.
“The tide is turning. The façade of inevitability is cracking. Courts are rediscovering the separation of powers and the nondelegation doctrine. States are reclaiming their constitutional jurisdiction. Parents are standing. Young men and women, born into the ruins of postmodernity, are looking not for self-expression, but for meaning, duty, and roots. They are beginning again to build.”
Saddle up, folks.
IT’S CRAZY, THE EXPERTS WERE SURE IT WOULD GO THE OTHER WAY:
Oh really. Imagine that. Trump was right again. https://t.co/Xyhe6oZw7D
— Catturd ™ (@catturd2) May 30, 2025
Related:
This ranks up there as one of the biggest stories I’ve covered not just in the long term economic, emotional & cultural impact in PA but also the country; the car industry, appliances, roads & bridges as well supply chain—there is joy in Pittsburgh today https://t.co/mWovPL6Zrp
— ZitoSalena (@ZitoSalena) May 30, 2025
WELL, YES: Letitia James’s Former Colleague Says ‘Opportunistic’ NY AG Abused Her Power.
I mean she basically ran on the promise of abusing her power.
JIM TREACHER: Everybody Hates Jake.
Who is the audience for Jake Tapper’s new book, Original Sin? Apparently, there isn’t one.
Republicans are mad at Tapper for pretending he had nothing to do with the cover-up of Joe Biden’s senility.1 Democrats are mad at him for admitting there was a cover-up of Joe Biden’s senility. He’s taking a drubbing from pretty much everybody.
Tee-hee!
Maybe that’s why his dumb book sold a mere 53,737 copies in its first week. Is that despite Tapper’s endless media tour promoting the book, or because of it? Is everybody else as sick of that insufferable bonehead as I am?
Well, even if his book is a flop, at least he’s still a big hit on cable news, right?
Right?
CNN host Jake Tapper had his lowest-rated month in nearly a decade in May despite a whirlwind publicity tour giving him an onslaught of attention…
“The Lead with Jake Tapper” averaged 525,000 total viewers from April 28 through May 25, shedding 25% of CNN’s audience in its timeslot from the same period last year in the process…
It was Tapper’s lowest-rated month since August 2015.
Ouch! His ratings are back down to pre-Trump levels.
Ace of Spades writes, “I actually know Jake Tapper’s real defense for covering up Biden’s dementia:”
If he were being honest — which he never is — he’d say, “Look, my audience consists entirely of Trump-deranged liberals. I cannot report the truth without losing my entire career. CNN wouldn’t even allow it. If I reported any of this before 2024 CNN would have had a ‘talk’ with me with the threat of suspension made clear. I’m showing ‘bravery’ [by Jake Tapper standards, at least] by just reporting a slim slice of the truth five years after it was obvious to all non-Trump-deranged liberals.”
So Jake Tapper’s Trump-deranged audience — the only audience remaining after ten years of groteqesque leftwing propaganda from Jake Tapper and his fellow communists at CNN — is abandoning him, and I am, as forty-two-year=old Millennials on Twitter say, here for it.
John Nolte adds: Original Sin Authors Change Their Story … Again.
Of course, the media knew Biden was brain-dead. Of course, the media lied to us. You think we’re stupid? And what is groupthink if not something worse than a conspiracy, but The Way Things Are? We all saw it. All of us. There it was, the biggest scandal in presidential history and also the most blatantly obvious, and you serial liars still chose to gaslight and bully us. You whored out your credibility for the same reason you always whore out your credibility: to benefit Democrats.
But now it’s over, y’all.We see you.
We all do.
We all know how the fake media operate.
The regime media have spent the last decades serially lying to us, getting crucial story after crucial story deliberately wrong, all to the benefit of their fascist, leftist agenda. And now no one listens to them anymore, and these two jokers aren’t moving many books.
The best part of the video comes at the end, when Bari Weiss sticks it in both their asses:
I think that one of the things that is kind of baffling about this story, is it’s so much, in the end, about groupthink and cowardice. Because normal, ordinary Americans who will watch the clip of him—you remember, when he was in the field with Georgia Meloni and those other people and he’s sort of stumbling and doesn’t know where to go—anyone can watch those 15-second clips—they don’t need any sources in Washington to know that person is infirm and certainly not capable of being the president of the United States.
We could also have years and years of seeing how Tapper treats people with an (R) after their name versus a (D):
Jake Tapper in 2018 on a NY Times report on Trump's mental fitness versus Tapper on a 2024 WSJ report on Biden's mental fitness.
One report is "stunning." The other is partisan. pic.twitter.com/fxxMLztFHI
— MAZE (@mazemoore) May 19, 2025
YES:
Jamie Dimon is right https://t.co/dgaNnc7Sxr
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) May 30, 2025
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THE PARDONS ARE NICE, BUT THERE NEED TO BE CONSEQUENCES FOR THOSE WHO BROUGHT A LOT OF THESE CASES: President Trump Uses the Pardon to Undo Deep State Damage–This Time for Gov. John Rowland.
THIS IS THE WAY: Watch: Absolutely Must-See Exchange Between CA Attorney and Defiant CNN Host on ‘Transgender’ Athlete.
California Attorney Julie Hamill became all of us on CNN on Friday after a truly incredible exchange with host Brianna Keilar. The argument at hand was over high-school student Junior AB Hernandez, a “transgender” athlete who “identifies” as a female but is a male. He is currently set to compete in several competitions at the state championship on Saturday.
What made Hamill’s appearance on CNN so noteworthy, though, was her dogged pursuit of the truth in the face of Keilar’s attempted enforcement of transgender ideology. It was one of those rare moments on a mainstream press network where a guest didn’t just roll over in the face of scrutiny over stating biological reality. A fair warning that you may find yourself feeling extremely satisfied after watching this.
NEW: California attorney Julie Hamill corrects CNN's Brianna Keilar after she tried calling biological male track athlete AB Hernandez a girl.
Keilar was very confused during the interview & struggled to keep up.
Keilar: What would make this fair for her to compete?
Hamill:… pic.twitter.com/gNdmkI6BkM
— Collin Rugg (@CollinRugg) May 30, 2025
Exit quote: “All the praise in the world for Hamill speaking the hard truth to a CNN hack who has gotten way too comfortable having her priors confirmed. AB Hernandez is a male. He is not a girl. He can not become a girl. California can do without federal funding if it would like to place his delusions over the well-being of female athletes in the state.”
THE “RIGHT WING FEVER SWAMP” HAS A PRETTY GOOD TRACK RECORD AT THIS POINT: “But I think the meta text of why it was so shocking was all of the people that were waved off as conspiracy theorists. Right wing fever swamp people were completely right.”
May 30, 2025
OPEN THREAD: Ring in the weekend.
CRAZY. WHERE DID THEY THINK OF THAT? China’s Astronstone raises early funding for stainless steel rocket with “chopstick” recovery.
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