UNEXPECTEDLY: California’s Adam Schiff Has Picked Up Dianne Feinstein’s Ban-The-Guns Torch. “Sen. Schiff introduced S. 1531, the Assault Weapon Ban of 2025, and made the announcement through a video he posted to social media. Usurpingly, his claims about the previous federal ban are false. His video message immediately received a brutal Community Note, tagging the first-term senator’s message as ‘incorrect.’ Companion legislation was also introduced in the House of Representatives by Congresswoman Lucy McBath (D-Ga.) as H.R. 3115, with the same title.”
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May 16, 2025
WHEN TWO-TIERED JUSTICE COMES TO AN END. UNEXPECTEDLY!
🚨BREAKING: President Trump goes scorched earth on James Comey for the assassination threat, says he knew exactly what “8647” meant:
“You're the FBI director.. You know that meant assassination. He wasn't very competent, but he’s competent enough to know what that meant..” pic.twitter.com/sFwoRHRFMw
— Benny Johnson (@bennyjohnson) May 16, 2025
🚨BREAKING: Associate Deputy AG Ed Martin says James Comey is going to prison over Trump assassination threat — Either lie to the jury or admit he knew what "8647" meant:
“He knew… He’s got a problem. Perjury traps are next. Going to jail on one or the other.” pic.twitter.com/VYA6cYe2dM
— Benny Johnson (@bennyjohnson) May 16, 2025
🚨BREAKING: The DOJ set to announce charges against Democrat Rep. LaMonica McIver as early as today for assaulting law enforcement at a New Jersey ICE facility, according to New Jersey Globe.pic.twitter.com/v6KdaJgp88
— Benny Johnson (@bennyjohnson) May 16, 2025
I don’t understand why anyone feels that they have to default to assuming either good intentions by Comey or that they must somehow explain that we are overreacting to his childish, wink, wink, nudge, nudge, murder the president post.
It is essential that we treat this creep,…
— Kurt Schlichter (@KurtSchlichter) May 16, 2025
As science has proven, “tit for tat” is the only way to ensure honesty in repeat-player interactions.
FRIDAY AT 3PM EASTERN: ‘Five O’Clock Somewhere’ 5th Anniversary Extravaganza.
DEVELOPING: Kash Patel to shut down FBI HQ, move 1500 agents out of DC.
FBI Director Kash Patel announced that the FBI will be closing down its headquarters and moving 1,500 agents out of the Washington, DC area.
Patel said on Fox Business, “The FBI is 38,000 when we’re fully manned, which we’re not. In the National Capital Region, in the 50-mile radius around Washington, DC, there were 11,000 FBI employees. That’s like a third of the workforce. A third of the crime doesn’t happen here. So, we’re taking 1,500 of those folks and moving them out.”
“Every state’s getting a plus up,” Patel later added. He said that the process to move the agents will take around next nine months or so and then added, “I didn’t know that I was going to do this, but I’m going to announce it on your show anyway, this FBI is leaving the Hoover Building because this building is unsafe for our workforce.”
But gosh, it’s such a handsome building:
Flashback to 2018, when Slate was defending this style of architecture, purely because Trump hates it: “Of Course Trump Hates Brutalism —Buildings like the FBI headquarters are everything Trump is not.”
JUST SAW THIS AND IT’S KINDA PROFOUND:
A lot of being “trans” has to do with males wishing they were the objects of sexual desire, and females wishing they weren’t.
— J🇺🇸 (@The_Feminist_TM) July 7, 2024
I DUNNO, I’M ENJOYING IT: Democrat Men Are Trying To Fake Masculinity And It’s Painful To Watch.
Among the ways Democrats are trying to stop hemorrhaging men voters is apparently by elevating guys who exhibit some comically stereotypical sense of “masculinity,” but who otherwise champion all the effete Democrat policies that the party loves and real men hate. Who knows! Maybe it’ll work!
Three such strapping lads come to mind of late, first and foremost being David Hogg, the lithe twink who is currently a vice chairman of the Democrat National Committee. (Though, some party officials are challenging his election on the grounds that he’s not DEI eligible — he’s apparently not gay). In an interview last week on HBO’s Real Time with Bill Maher, Hogg proposed that Democrats are losing the support of young men, who “would rather vote for somebody who, even if they don’t completely agree with, they don’t feel judged by, than somebody who they do agree with, that they feel like they have to walk on eggshells around constantly because they’re going to be judged or ostracized or excommunicated.” He said young people more generally “should be able to focus on what young people should be focused on, which is how to get laid and how to go and have fun.”
True, Democrats have long-since been the party of nags, their chief mascots being perpetually offended black women — the “heart” and “backbone” of the Democrat Party — and “transgenders” forcing ladies to shave their scrotums. But Hogg’s assertion that men and young voters would be far more susceptible to the Democrat platform if party leaders were a little less menstrual ignores the problem: The two go hand in hand.
Exit quote: “The things Democrats want aren’t popular, so there is no natural appeal among the people who advocate for them; there is only admonishing and lecturing into compliance.”
HOW OUT-OF-TOUCH ARE DEMS? So far out they might as well be on another planet, according to the results of the latest Cygnal National Voting Trends poll. Turns out that 43 percent of swing voters want Congress to make inflation, spending and waste its top priorities, compared to only eight percent who see “threats to democracy” as the number one issue. And that’s just for starters!
WAIT, WHAT? BIDEN’S ADMINISTRATION? Here’s What The Left Won’t Tell You About the Qatar Plane Deal.
GOOD LORD: Canada’s Peanut the Squirrel Moment. “Not long after Judicial Watch exposed New York bureaucrats’ disturbing plan to seize and kill Mark Longo’s pets, Peanut the Squirrel and Free the Raccoon, Canada is looking to outdo New York in killing beloved pets for no good reason.”
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“MR. GORBACHEV, TEAR DOWN THIS WALL” SEEMS LIKE AN AWFULLY LONG TIME AGO:
So after the implementation of exit-taxes by many European countries, dissuading people from leaving, Germany is now the first to give people exit-bans, effectively preventing them from leaving.
You don't need a crystal ball to see where this is going. The borders will be closed…
— Dries Van Langenhove (@DVanLangenhove) May 16, 2025
DECOUPLING: What’s the Real Story on Trump’s ‘Deal’ with China?
Remember four years ago, during what they named “the supply chain crisis,” when Chairman Xi Jinping kept shutting down whole cities for a month at a time, allegedly due to COVID-19 outbreaks? Huge manufacturing centers like Shanghai and Shenzhen, Wuhan and Chengdu were locked down, with manufacturing and shipping banned, in some cases multiple times.
Because of those distant lockdowns, our American automakers were shut down, too — not of their own choice, but because a vehicle that’s 95% finished still can’t roll off the lot if it’s waiting for a dashboard, or a starter, or a printed circuit board to be shipped from a city that’s been frozen by a distant dictator.
People started to realize then that it wasn’t just American retailers that are too dependent on China; it’s American manufacturers as well. But the Biden-Harris regime tamped down such talk and blamed the containership lines or the seaports, saying the problem was unorganized transportation. The political party that had long been bankrolled by Chinese interests could never allow the message to stand that America is dangerously addicted to Chinese components.
That mistake won’t happen this time. The Trump-Vance administration is making sure Americans understand that our industrial dependence on China isn’t healthy. It may have taken a month of 145% punitive tariffs to drive home the point, but now it’s undeniable.
What if it weren’t a tariff that we could just turn on and off at will? What if the holdup were a Chinese blockade, or another series of Chinese urban lockdowns? Or the worst of all: What if the holdup were a shooting war?
Read the whole thing.
ANOTHER WAY OF SAYING “UNFOUNDED:” Racial slur charges dropped against Yale conservative leader – ‘cannot be proven.’
It’s not 2020 anymore.
DAVID MANNEY: Si Vis Pacem: The Fear That Keeps Tyrants Awake
OH, CANADA: ‘If we’re going to play the independence game, we play to win’: Derek Fildebrandt on Alberta separatism.
On last night’s episode of The Ezra Levant Show, Derek Fildebrandt from the Western Standard discussed Alberta’s rising independence movement as separatist sentiment heats up following another Liberal victory in the federal election.
Fildebrandt explained that while some people in the province want to use the idea of independence simply as a tool in negotiations with the federal government, he doesn’t believe in that approach.
“Some in Alberta want to use it as leverage, I think that’s a failing strategy. If we’re going to play the independence game, we play to win because we want an independent country,” he said.
The Western Standard publisher also discussed whether he sees Alberta’s current independence movement as “revolutionary.”
“I think if we do achieve independence, then retroactively we get to call this a revolutionary period. If we don’t, then perhaps not,” he said.
Fildebrandt went on: “But Alberta and Saskatchewan — there is something very different happening right now. And no one’s talking about a radically new form of government, it’s in large measure keeping our form of government, keeping our institutions, but decentralizing them from a distant imperial government in Ottawa and repatriating the constitution to a local level.”
We should try more of that here in the US.
WHO WAS DRIVING: Biden’s Autopen Pardons May Just Get Invalidated.
Honestly, I’d bet an actual 58¢ American cash money that Biden comes out to say “of course I meant to pardon those people,” and that will be the end of it. But the shrieking should be fun.
KRUISER’S MORNING BRIEFING: James Comey Has Crawled Out of His Hole to Stink Up the Place. “It’s sad what depths those afflicted with TDS will sink to. The former head of the FBI is now a garden variety lunatic social media troll, and completely comfortable with egging on violence against President Trump. This is a 64-year-old man we’re talking about, not some Adderall-ridden kid in his 20s.”
I’M BAACK! Returned home last night. Regular service will gradually resume today, with help from my loyal team. Thanks to them for keeping the lights on while I got some much needed R&R.
DEI HIRE:
No way Ketanji Brown Jackson is actually this clueless
But she is… pic.twitter.com/ougPMKCeOw
— Jack Poso 🇺🇸 (@JackPosobiec) May 16, 2025
THIS SEEMS RIGHT:
The entire federal bureaucracy in DC was built to elevate unimpressive but impeccably credentialed sociopaths like Comey. These are products of elite institutions who mistake conformity for wisdom & status for merit. The system is rigged to exclude those with courage, conviction,… https://t.co/GzCqCcCEWX
— Gavin M. Wax (@GavinWax) May 16, 2025
WAIT… THIS IS CNN? From free planes to crypto meme coins, Democrats seize on Trump’s deals to raise corruption concerns.
CNN just went with a “Democrats Seize!” angle on a Trump “corruption” report? Really?
Next thing you know, they’ll have Democrats pouncing.
DON SURBER: No one is above the law, but.
MAYBE DELIBERATELY BREAKING THE LAW AND LYING ABOUT IT WAS A BAD APPROACH:
Harvard officials now fear that their discrimination machine might expose them to criminal liability. Justice is coming. https://t.co/Yok54vyyDl
— Christopher F. Rufo ⚔️ (@realchrisrufo) May 16, 2025