PAST PERFORMANCE IS NO GUARANTEE OF FUTURE RESULTS: Noam Chomsky’s Lame Excuses for His Years of Friendship with Jeffrey Epstein.

Back in 2023, Noam Chomsky confirmed to the Wall Street Journal that he received a March 2018 transfer of roughly $270,000 from an Epstein-linked account. That too was just an innocent favor, Valeria Chomsky insists.

Regarding the reported transfer of approximately $270,000, I must clarify that these were entirely Noam’s own funds. At the time, Noam had identified inconsistencies in his retirement resources that threatened his economic independence and caused him great distress. Epstein offered technical assistance to resolve this specific situation. On this matter, Epstein acted accordingly, recovering the funds for Noam, in a display of help and very likely as part of a machination to gain greater access to Noam. Epstein acted solely as a financial advisor for this specific matter. To the best of my knowledge, Epstein never had access to our bank or investment accounts.

Now, keep in mind, for just about all his intellectual career, Noam Chomsky has been a furious critic of American capitalism (“a grotesque catastrophe”), the wealthy elites of the U.S., and corporate influence over politics. He has written, “in this world there happen to be huge concentrations of private power that are as close to tyranny and as close to totalitarian as anything humans have devised… The corporations are just as totalitarian as Bolshevism and fascism.”

Recall that Epstein ran a financial management firm that catered to billionaire clients.

So just the longtime friendship with a person who had the public persona of Epstein, never mind his horrific private acts, seems like an abrogation of his stated values. The not-all-that-well hidden revelation that Epstein was a notorious sex trafficker suggests that at best Chomsky was astonishingly oblivious to a man he spent considerable time with… or he didn’t look and didn’t want to know. He was all too happy to believe that his friend was being accused by “publicity seekers or cranks.”

For what it’s worth, some big former fans of Chomsky are disgusted.

Earlier: Ben Sixsmith on “The very strange downfall of Noam Chomsky.” “If you’re younger​​ than ​​35, you might have no idea how much of the internet used to be occupied by people arguing about Noam Chomsky. Left-wingers used to fight with liberals and conservatives at insane length over the merits — or lack thereof — of the ageing linguist and anti-war commentator.” As for Chomsky’s numerous enemies on the right, “These poor souls would have had no idea that all their work undermining Chomsky’s political reputation would become unnecessary when, at a grand old age, the man himself formed a friendship with Jeffrey Epstein.”

PAST PERFORMANCE IS NO GUARANTEE OF FUTURE POLITICO: 

Got what I asked for award https://t.co/p3VUtl8CwV pic.twitter.com/zzCrHoMyEs

— Enguerrand VII de Coucy (@ingelramdecoucy) February 7, 2026

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2003: MSNBC host Joe Scarborough worries California may start issuing driver’s licenses to illegal aliens.

“By giving these criminals the most accepted form of identification in America, the California Democrats buy votes for themselves.”

“This plan seems to me to legitimize… pic.twitter.com/wm8EfSKWyg

— Bill D'Agostino (@Banned_Bill) February 4, 2026

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Shot:

Let's talk about the opening part of this statement: "nobody is illegal on stolen land." We can break it down, but we should also know what it is. What we are looking at is Chinese-style political sloganeering called "tifa" (提法).

Communist communications ever since Mao took… https://t.co/OPEfOnL9FI

— James Lindsay, anti-Communist (@ConceptualJames) February 2, 2026

Chaser: Billie Eilish gets permanent restraining order against man who repeatedly turned up to her home.

—Metro News, June 19^th, 2020.

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UPDATE:

That was before your friends started trying to murder them. https://t.co/WXzAQ4W37E

— Kurt Schlichter (@KurtSchlichter) January 14, 2026

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…so now they have a problem with kidnapping? pic.twitter.com/gJW01Jo3It

— Hen Mazzig (@HenMazzig) January 3, 2026

PAST PERFORMANCE IS NO GUARANTEE OF FUTURE RESULTS BEING UNBURDENED BY WHAT HAS BEEN: Kamala Harris Humiliates Herself Condemning Capture of Maduro.

“Donald Trump’s actions in Venezuela do not make America safer, stronger, or more affordable,” [Harris] claimed. “That Maduro is a brutal, illegitimate dictator does not change the fact that this action was both unlawful and unwise. We’ve seen this movie before. Wars for regime change or oil that are sold as strength but turn into chaos, and American families pay the price.”

Her post continued:

The American people do not want this, and they are tired of being lied to.

This is not about drugs or democracy. It is about oil and Donald Trump’s desire to play the regional strongman. If he cared about either, he wouldn’t pardon a convicted drug trafficker or sideline Venezuela’s legitimate opposition while pursuing deals with Maduro’s cronies.

The President is putting troops at risk, spending billions, destabilizing a region, and offering no legal authority, no exit plan, and no benefit at home.

America needs leadership whose priorities are lowering costs for working families, enforcing the rule of law, strengthening alliances, and — most importantly — putting the American people first.

As I pointed out yesterday, Trump has not gotten us into another war. This was a surgical strike that accomplished its objective without a hitch. The statement is curiously similar to pretty much every other Democrats’ statement on the successful mission.

But what makes her statement even more absurd and hypocritical than those of other Democrats is that the Biden-Harris administration approved a $25 million bounty for information leading to Maduro’s arrest just days before Joe Biden and Kamala Harris left office.

Oceania has never been at war with Nicolás Maduro:

The Biden-Harris administration made available a $25,000,000 reward for information that would have lead to the arrest of Nicolas Maduro.

Now you're saying capturing him was unlawful? Did you just entirely forget your administration's policy? pic.twitter.com/fbXSDzPZ68

— Will Chamberlain (@willchamberlain) January 4, 2026

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Mother fuck. It’s painful how awful the Lincoln Bulwark thing has become.

— Ole Dad (@TheOleDad) January 3, 2026

Besides, I don’t see what people are so upset about.

Look, Maduro got a free helicopter ride AND a landing, so I don’t want to hear any complaints from the rest of the Commies.

— Stephen Green (@VodkaPundit) January 3, 2026

PAST PERFORMANCE IS NO GUARANTEE OF FUTURE RESULTS: CBS Saturday Morning Concludes With German Author Comparing US To East Germany.

Before CBS Saturday Morning officially headed off into its uncertain future, co-host Michelle Miller used her final episode to interview German author Daniel Kehlmann about his recent novel about G.W. Pabst, the silent film director who originally fled the Nazis only to return and make propaganda movies. Naturally, much of the conversation was about life in a dictatorship, but unnaturally, towards the end of their conversation, Kehlmann would compare the current United States to the East Germany his wife grew up in, and Miller offered up little resistance to the crazy idea.

I’m so old, I can remember as far back as February, when CBS News hosts exclaimed that East German-levels of censorship were the knees of the bee. Europeans Don’t Get Free Speech, and Neither Does CBS News, Apparently.

No wonder the Germans were weeping by the end of it all. Vance had called everybody in the audience on their bluff. “You’re not afraid of your own people, are you?” Of course they are. (And also, let’s not kid ourselves, either: They have their reasons, especially if they’re Germans.)

You know who also is terrified of the people? CBS News. Yes, CBS had a true banner Sunday for itself this weekend by tagging along with Vance to Munich. And they made it clear they were on the side of the Europeans weeping about having to listen to the angry voices of their constituents. Margaret Brennan made headlines pontificating about the origins of the Holocaust from too much “free speech” — a topic for tomorrow’s Carnival of Fools because few in the media have more willingly donned clown makeup in recent weeks — but really it was 60 Minutes’ remarkable praise of Germany’s anti-free-speech laws that took the cake for me.

Including this incredible quote:

PAST PERFORMANCE IS NO GUARANTEE OF FUTURE RESULTS: Harrison Ford Whines That Trump’s Climate Policy ‘Scares The Sh**’ Out Of Him.

Actor Harrison Ford is not happy that President Trump won’t buy into climate change alarmism.

The 83-year-old “Indiana Jones” star ripped into the president while speaking to The Guardian this week as he prepared to receive a conservation leadership award at Chicago’s Field Museum.

“[Trump] doesn’t have any policies, he has whims. It scares the sh** out of me,” Ford told the outlet. “The ignorance, the hubris, the lies, the perfidy. [Trump] knows better, but he’s an instrument of the status quo and he’s making money, hand over fist, while the world goes to hell in a hand basket. It’s unbelievable. I don’t know of a greater criminal in history.”

“I knew it was coming, I have been preaching this stuff for 30 years,” the actor said. “Everything we’ve said about climate change has come true. Why is that not sufficient that it alarms people that they change behaviors? Because of the entrenched status quo.”

Ford may have “preaching this stuff” for 30 years, but certainly not practicing his own advice:

Environmental activists have blasted Harrison Ford for making “unnecessary” trips by air, following revelations he once made a jet journey to buy a cheeseburger. The “Indiana Jones” star began flying when he was 52. After receiving his license, he went on to purchase several aircraft, which he keeps at Santa Monica Airport in California. He recently revealed in an interview the extent of his love for piloting, telling Britain’s Live magazine, “Learning to fly was a work of art. I’m so passionate about flying I often fly up the coast for a cheeseburger. Flying is like good music; it elevates the spirit and it’s an exhilarating freedom.” But the 67-year-old has come under fire from experts at Carbonfootprint.com over the comments, who are outraged he would make an airplane journey for such an “unnecessary” trip.

—As spotted by Tim Blair in a 2010 post succinctly titled, “Burgers Are Necessary.”

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Obama criticized men for not supporting a Black woman in the last election—now he’s heading to Virginia to urge people NOT to vote for a Black woman.

— Topher (@topheronx) October 24, 2025

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Shot: The ‘No Kings’ protests, like the tea party of 2009, are a warning to Trump.

—MSNBC, today.

Chaser: Rachel Maddow Shows Video of Man Being Teabagged in Gay Bar.

Rachel Maddow on Friday played a video of a man in underwear banging his genitals against another man’s forehead in a gay bar.

This was done to explain to her MSNBC audience the derivation of the term “teabagger,” the sexually-charged double entendre that sadly became popular this spring and summer as Tea Parties swept the nation.

According to Maddow, “This is where “teabag” comes from. This is a clip from a 1998 film by John Waters that`s called ‘Pecker.'”

As the dancer in the fictional gay bar squats to bang his genitals against a customer’s forehead, the emcee played by Martha Plimpton says, “Hey, Larry, no teabagging. You know the rules. No balls on foreheads.”

—NewsBusters, December 5^th, 2009.

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Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison claims that Antifa doesn't really exist and cracking down on left-wing terrorism is a way to "suppres[s] speech."

ELLISON: "There really is no Antifa as an institutional organization…Nobody even knows what it is." pic.twitter.com/ZWle4zYqdG

— RNC Research (@RNCResearch) October 11, 2025

Really? Not even after posing with this? Ellison Posts Photo of Himself Posing With ‘Antifa’ Handbook, Says It Will ‘Strike Fear’ in Trump.

Flashback: What could have been, unburdened by what has been:

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Went to pull up a 2021 Vox article about deplatforming conservatives — and this is the promo banner they're currently running at the top of their website. Amazing. pic.twitter.com/RSSf1wkNwA

— Nate Hochman (@njhochman) September 23, 2025

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Dems last week: It’s time to go to war against Republicans!

Dems this week: Can you believe all this political violence!? pic.twitter.com/pAUjzl87Ll

— Tom Elliott (@tomselliott) September 15, 2025

PAST PERFORMANCE IS NO GUARANTEE OF FUTURE RESULTS: The View Once Erroneously Claimed Kirk Palled With Nazis, Now Mourn.

Behar chimed in again to note that she lived through the 1960s, during a very fraught period of American history filled with political assassinations. “You know, I’d like to be positive about it. I think we did get out of it. The country survived it. We got better. I think we will again. We’re having a traumatic period right now,” she tried to give comfort.

Following their 9/11 segment, moderator Whoopi Goldberg attempted to marry the two subjects by pushing for America to show the same kind of post-9/11 unity for Kirk’s assassination.

“[I]t goes to show that when we put our minds to it, we did figure out what to do. We can figure out what to do…These things are not outside of our reach. And we have to get back to that,” [Whoopi] pleaded. “These are things we cannot forget that we actually have the ability to do. If we do forget it, I don’t know what will become of the country. My fingers are crossed. I’m betting on human beings.”

But The View’s niceties rang a little hollow. In July 2022, Goldberg erroneously claimed Kirk “invited” neo-Nazis into a TurningPoint USA event in Florida. Two days later, The View had to issue a formal on-air apology after Kirk’s organization threatened to file a defamation suit against them.

Shades of the classic Babylon Bee headline from last November: Sunny Hostin Forced To Read Legal Notice Acknowledging Nothing Said On ‘The View’ In Its Entire History Has Ever Been Remotely True.

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Hello Mr. Eisen,

I have to say, your statement in support of John Bolton is one of the most audacious things I've ever read, and I read your playbook on color revolutions.

You yourself filed a DOJ complaint urging a criminal investigation into Bolton's Super PAC. You argued… pic.twitter.com/fVwdZjLeXO

— DataRepublican (small r) (@DataRepublican) August 23, 2025

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Does anybody else find it bizarre that people with the greatest amount of support for locking down lawful citizens during Covid, and taking away guns from law abiding citizens now are also the most upset that Trump’s gonna try bringing a little bit of heat to criminals in DC?

— Marc J. Randazza 🇺🇸 🇮🇹 🇧🇷 (@marcorandazza) August 12, 2025

PAST PERFORMANCE IS NO GUARANTEE OF FUTURE RESULTS: The media has such a bad case of TDS that they are defending high fructose corn syrup now.

Remember when the MAHA agenda used to be considered a lefty agenda? Organic whole foods and crunchy lifestyles were considered hippie fads.

My, how things change.

Trump made them defend high fructose corn syrup in coke. https://t.co/zvtCwBKQoH

— Chad Felix Greene 🇮🇱 (@chadfelixg) July 18, 2025

Yes, we’ve got NBC and the New York Times writing hit pieces on Coca-Cola because Trump is pushing to [checks notes] replace high fructose corn syrup with pure cane sugar.

(Also known as “Mexican Coke.”)

Which seems odd, considering their former boss’s take on it in 2007, long before his brain turned to high fructose applesauce:

PAST PERFORMANCE IS NO GUARANTEE OF FUTURE RESULTS: This is the real doom loop. It will change everything about life in the Bay Area.

The Bay Area is facing a doom loop. It’s just not the one we usually think about.

For years we’ve heard of the potential economic doom spiral circling San Francisco, where a massive city budget deficit fueled by remote work leads to poorer services and even more residents fleeing. But another threat has been building in relative silence.

The Bay Area is getting old fast, and it’s accelerating. Though aging is a global trend, the San Francisco metro area — which includes San Francisco, Alameda, Contra Costa, San Mateo and Marin counties — is already the third-oldest among 20 of the largest regions in the U.S., trailing only two places in Florida. And no other region is growing older at a quicker pace.

That means fewer children, more elderly people and a declining number of 20-somethings. The confluence of demographic shifts will profoundly impact every aspect of life in the San Francisco area. Combined with rising housing costs and growing hostility toward immigration, the graying of cities and towns means the region’s continued prosperity is in doubt.

—The San Francisco Chronicle, yesterday.

Perhaps that’s because Chronicle readers took the newspaper’s advice on the topic. In 2008, the paper was complaining that “There is nothing more bacchanalian than a kid’s birthday party,” and how those bacchanalian birthday parties lead to increased global warming, from their perspective, those declining numbers were good news, right?

In 2013, the San Francisco Chronicle reported that San Francisco has the lowest percentage of children of any major American city:

Just 13.4 percent of San Francisco’s 805,235 residents are younger than 18, the smallest percentage of any major city in the country. By contrast, San Jose’s percentage of children is 24.8 percent, Oakland’s is 21.3 percent, Boston’s is 16.8 percent and Seattle’s is 15.4 percent, according to Brian Cheu, director of community development for the Mayor’s Office of Housing. Even Manhattan is composed of roughly 15 percent children, according to Dan Kelly, director of planning for San Francisco’s Human Services Agency.

In 1970, children made up 22 percent of San Francisco. In 1960, they constituted 25 percent.

I’d say there is a glimmer of hope for the city based on this Wall Street Journal headline, “Mayor Daniel Lurie: ‘San Francisco Needs to Save Itself.’” But “unexpectedly” the word “homeless” doesn’t appear until the comments section.

(San Francisco’s last Republican mayor left office at the beginning of 1964.)

PAST PERFORMANCE IS NO GUARANTEE OF FUTURE RESULTS:

Happy 4th of July! pic.twitter.com/lJPe38kh28

— Tim Young (@TimRunsHisMouth) July 4, 2025

“Freedom from fascism.” Some exceptions do apply:

PAST PERFORMANCE IS NO GUARANTEE OF FUTURE RESULTS:

Back in December 2008, the face of NBC News begged the leader of the Democratic Party to raise gasoline prices: Tom Brokaw suggested that then-President Elect Obama tank the economy even more than it was by the end of the year, by sticking it to commuters’ wallets:

Let’s talk for a moment about consumer responsibility when it comes to the auto industries. As soon as gas prices dropped, consumers moved back to the larger cars once again. The SUVs are the big gas consumers. Why not take this opportunity to put a tax on gasoline, bump it back up to $4 a gallon where people were prepared to pay for that, and use that revenue for alternative energy and as a signal to the consumers: “Those days are gone. We’re not going to have gasoline that you could just fill up your tank for 20 bucks anymore.”

The New York Times and the Washington Post were also fine with this idea back then, when it might have been implemented on a national scale. Now that it could — pardon the pun — tank a potential Democrat front runner in 2028, omertà.

PAST PERFORMANCE IS NO GUARANTEE OF FUTURE RESULTS: Liberal Justice Kagan Explained Why District Courts Can’t Be Allowed to Constrain Presidents… in 2022.

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After 10 years of telling everyone the gym makes you a far-right white supremacist fascist asshole, the Democrats are now trying to get in on gym culture https://t.co/j50toECDs3 pic.twitter.com/9e1vyT4714

— Mike Benz (@MikeBenzCyber) June 1, 2025