Hi-Ho ONT! Away! —WeirdDave Welcome to Thursday's ONT. I'm writing this Wednesday night, so I don't know for sure, but if everything went as planned the movers picked up everything I own today and I'm currently sitting in an empty house, huddled over a flickering iPad with only the warmth of a candle to sustain me. More on that in a minute, but meanwhile, as the Lone Ranger says, “ta dah dump, ta dah dump, ta dah picture dump”.



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Tonight's ONT brought to you by Morons: Usually there's a picture here, but I wanted to take a moment to highlight just how special this community is. Exhibit the First: Alberta Oil Peon My oldest son, Big, moved back to Alberta a few months ago. Unfortunately, his car wouldn't pass Alberta import inspection, so I sent him to AOP. AOP said something along the lines of “Yeah, I looked at his car and I've seen deer that were shot in the mountains and then dragged 10 miles behind an ATV that looked better. The only way he's going to get that thing to pass is if he gets 32 porn stars to fuck the inspector”. So, problem. The car is still licensed in the States, but he needs to get a Provincial licensed car. AOP goes out and finds a friend who is selling an old car. He wants aboot $35,000 Canadian for it, but since that works out to something like a nickel in real money, I tell him to buy it. Then I get an email from AOP, and if you know him from his posts, it goes something like this: “Got the car back to my place. It runs well, but the transmission oil registered about ½ a degree hot when I checked, so I dropped the tranny, tore it apart completely and fabbed a new one from raw ore I had lying around. The tires were a bit worn, so I chopped down a rubber tree and made new ones. The engine was good, all I had to do was strip it down, sandblast all of the parts, and put it back together. I also replaced the windshield wipers, but there's a dent in the driver's side door, I'm not sure what to do with that”. Exhibit the Second: Jim (Sunk New Dawn) When I announced that I was moving to Texas, I got an email from Jim offering the damndest thing. “Hey, I know you have 4 vehicles, I'd like to fly up and drive the RV down, towing the pickup, so that you and your wife can drive your two cars yourselves and make the move in 1 trip instead of 2”. What an offer. What an incredible offer. Words can't express how much easier that is going to make the whole move. That's it. That's all there is. Jim's taking a weekend out of his life, and driving 1300 miles in a big old pig of an RV, towing a pickup, just to make my life easier. I was floored when he offered, and I'm floored now. He'll be here tomorrow and Saturday morning we head out. What an incredible gesture. I made sure not to pack the bourbon. So there you have it. Two magnificent Morons, doing what Morons do, and my family is the beneficiary of both. I've profusely thanked both of them privately, but I felt they deserved this public acknowledgment of their generosity. God bless you both. That's it for the ONT, Next time I write one, it'll be from the Lone Star State of Texas. Peace! Close it up Comments







Posted by WeirdDave at 09:55 PM Quarantine Cafe: World's Shortest Parade Edition —Ace Sundown Joe's so hot right now. Continue reading

🚨Campaigning in 2020. Yard sign car parades with @DrBiden and @DouglasEmhoff. Beep Beep! 🚘 pic.twitter.com/kDu9nrzwyO — Michael LaRosa (@MichaelLaRosaDC) September 16, 2020 Close it up Comments





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The Lincoln Project�s @SteveSchmidtSES is the most sober, level-headed analyst in the annals of human history pic.twitter.com/fBSBDMvl9o — Tom Elliott (@tomselliott) September 17, 2020 This fat little spastic dicksuck says that every single lunatic thing that sprittles out of his mouth is 100% TRUTH, son! He is the worst President in American history. He knew how deadly Covid was and he lied to the country about it and wrecked the American way of life and killed more than 100,000 people unnecessarily. It�s not hyberbole, it�s the truth. You are an apologist and propagandist https://t.co/VHkqqQlbP0 — Steve Schmidt (@SteveSchmidtSES) September 17, 2020

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Of Course: Bail for Lancaster, PA BLM Rioters Reduced from $1 Million to $50-100,000 —Ace They had been held in jail for four days. There was no rioting while they were in jail. Wonder why. The bail for people arrested in relation to the Lancaster, Pennsylvania, rioting Sunday evening is set at $1,000,000, according to the Lancaster Bureau of Police. ... Several buildings sustained damage and rioters threw "water bottles, glass bottles, rocks, bricks, gallon jugs liquid and parts of plastic road barricades at Officers," police said. Officers deployed tear gas and several arrests were made both Sunday and Monday in connection with the rioting, with bail set at $1,000,000. Some people arrested have not yet had bail set, according to a press release from the police department. ...

"The police sent letters on each person and requested a high bail due to the multiple charges and the seriousness of everything," the clerk said. Now prosecutors have gotten the judge to reduce bail for the violent rioters. Most of them will now be right back out on the streets. Gee, I wonder if they'll rejoin the riots. Previously, Matt Walsh had written that it was easy for Lancaster to stop the riots. All it took was... a political desire to stop the riots. Something lacking in the Democrat party, from the most openly pro-antifa city council member up to Kamala the Cop and her junior partner Sundown Joe. Well, that political will to stop the riots is now gone. I guess Lancaster will burn tonight or this weekend. Comments Posted by Ace at 05:30 PM

The "Historic" Abraham Accords Are Exciting, But They Are Not Everything —CBD As much as I want to believe that this is the beginning of the end of the Arab world's vituperative mania and hatred of Israel, The Abraham Accords are more of a shift of geopolitical connections and enemies, rather than a meaningful decrease in the global threats against Israel. That does not diminish the significance of President Trump's astounding achievement. Hatred of Israel and demonization of Jews has been one of the cornerstones of Arab and Muslim foreign and domestic policies for generations, and the cold peace with Jordan and Egypt had more to do with immediate security needs and the realization that Israel's military and economic might was permanent. But countries that do not border Israel and have little to do with the intractable problem of the Palestinian Arabs were safe in their Israel HateTM. They could trot out "Our poor downtrodden Palestinian cousins" whenever a bit of distraction from their political or economic failures was needed. Bahrain and The United Arab Emirates had very little concern that they would wake up one morning to see Israeli tanks in their streets, so their motivation to sign a treaty normalizing relations is based on other things. And the question is: What are those things? Certainly Saudi Arabia's desire to have Israel part of its own strategy to confront, or at least blunt the Iranian threat is high on the list. KSA is pulling some of these strings, and Bahrain and UAE would not have done this without the approval of the Saudis. And oil prices certainly play a role; these countries can no longer rely on oceans of hard currency to prop up their welfare states. The entrepreneurial spirit of American frackers plus the full-throated support of President Trump for a rational domestic energy policy made sure of that. But the most important part of the agreements is who wasn't at the signing, but will be at the next one. This is a stabilizing trend in the Middle East, and while the mandarins in the beltway may scoff at its supposed lack of importance, the possibility of half of the Arab world moving from a state of war with Israel to a state of peace is an amazing and unexpected byproduct of the president's ability to make deals. He didn't solve the "Palestinian" problem, but he set the world on a course that may make the Palestinians simply irrelevant if they don't make peace with Israel...and they will never do that! Comments Posted by CBD at 04:31 PM

Netflix's Chief Communications Officer Calls Ben Domenech to Yell At Him and Tell Him He's an Uncultured Conspiracy Theorist For Believing Cuties is Pedophilia —Ace From his Transom newsletter. To say this call was disturbing would minimize the content. First, it included an aggressive dismissal of any critiques as being indicative of backwards cultural tendencies and being out of touch with intelligent assumptions about child pornography. It indicated that someone whose literal job is communications for Netflix apparently thinks they have the power to badger people in how they cover the platform's content. And there was a moralizing tone to it which, frankly, came across as a pseudo-refined European insult to knuckle dragging Americans who fear what they do not comprehend. ... She expressed doubts whether I had seen the film. I said I had seen the trailer and the clip of the performance. She said I needed to see it in context. I said I don't need to see the context of a two minute sequence any pedophile could use as jack off material. She said I clearly didn't understand the point. I said people can like the film if they want, but that my wife and I had already talked about it and decided anyone who likes the film isn't welcome around our child. She said well under that standard then she wouldn't be welcome around our child. I said I didn't know her anyway, and this wasn't a first impression that would inspire me to reconsider. The conversation escalated quickly into a yelling match. She invoked "conspiracy theories" (I assume QAnon) as something driving negative opinions about the film, suggesting that was my motivation. I said that the fact Netflix CEO Reed Hastings would tweet out an article suggesting this is the source of critiques of the film showed how out of touch Netflix was on the subject, and raised the point that when Nancy Pelosi's daughter and Tulsi Gabbard are hitting you politically at the same time as Ted Cruz and Tom Cotton, it means you misjudged the moment. She said she wouldn't be judged by me on child trafficking and I had no clue what I was talking about. I have never had a call that was more insulting from any communications person in my entire life, and as you might expect, I get about a dozen calls from comms people in a week trying to influence coverage. If you thought Netflix was out of touch before, this should absolutely cement it. They view critiques of Cuties as nothing more than conspiratorial prudishness and the people who raise such critiques as backwards Americans who don't understand context. In other words, they're just as stupid and out of touch as Alyssa Rosenberg. Cancel Netflix. Seriously. They're bad people. PS: I saw a tweet being shared from Cathy Young that if you're in favor of cancelling Netflix over Cuties, it means you give up your right to complain about "cancel culture". Can someone explain to Cathy what "cancel culture" is? The entire point is "cancelling"-- threatening the livelihood -- of people over comments and positions that are well within the mainstream. Having sex with children is not included in that. You know Steve Hilton, the British populist that Fox News shows on the weekend? Alas, this CCO, Rachel Whestone, is Steve Hilton's wife. By the way: I watched Cuties. It's as bad as everyone says. There is no "context" that spares this film from being pedophilia spank material. I urge critics to see the movie, not because seeing the movie is necessary to evaluate whether or not it sexualizes children -- it does; you can see that in the clips -- but just to shut the fucking mouths of the people who claim "but you have to see the full context of child porn to decide if it's good child porn." If you've seen the clips -- and most have -- you've seen most of the really bad stuff anyway. Most. Most compilations do not include the "older girl" dance troop, ages unspecified but supposed to be teenagers, in the 15 year old range. One of them just straight up lowers her halter to fully expose a breast. I also urge Cuties Fake Libertarian defenders -- the ones who say they haven't seen the film, but think that criticizing it based on clips is "dumb" -- to see the movie, so they can see the CP they're defending. They're taking a calculated, cowardly position: They're making sure they don't admit they've watched the movie so that when they defend the movie they think they have some defense against accusations that they're themselves pedophiles. Nick Gillespie, Julian Sanchez, Megan McArdle, Sonny Bunch, Cathy Young -- all defending this pedophile bait and telling critics they shouldn't comment on a movie they haven't seen while also refusing to see the movie (or at least: refusing to admit they've seen it, and approve of it). "But I didn't even watch the movie! How would I know?!" That's their planned defense. They get to put up the ultimate Libertarian Virtue Signal -- normalizing sex with children -- while keeping plausible deniability so people aren't afraid to have them around their children. If you're interested enough to attack critics of the film, then you're interested enough to spend 90 minutes watching it. Below, the leftwing, socialist Bernie Girl Shoe On Head notes that it's only the typical Useless Idiots -- "the journos" -- who are denying that CP is CP.

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Princeton University Declared That It Was Thoroughly "Embedded" With Racism and White Supremacism.

So the DOJ Has Taken Them At Their Word and Opened a Civil Rights Investigation. —Ace Well, you did openly declare yourself to be an organization entirely given over to white supremacy, so... The Department of Education has informed Princeton University that it is under investigation following the school president's declaration that racism was "embedded" in the institution. President Christopher L. Eisgruber published an open letter earlier this month claiming that "[r]acism and the damage it does to people of color persist at Princeton" and that "racist assumptions" are "embedded in structures of the University itself." According to a letter the Department of Education sent to Princeton that was obtained by the Washington Examiner, such an admission from Eisgruber raises concerns that Princeton has been receiving tens of millions of dollars of federal funds in violation of Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, which declares that "no person in the United States shall, on the ground of race, color, or national origin, be excluded from participation in, be denied the benefits of, or be subjected to discrimination under any program or activity receiving Federal financial assistance."

Universities must certify that they are equal-opportunity institutions to qualify for federal loan assistance. Princeton made those assurances last in 2013. But Princeton is now admitting that it is a racist institution, despite previously certifying that it wasn't. That's perpetrating a fraud on the US government. "Based on its admitted racism, the U.S. Department of Education (�Department�) is concerned Princeton�s nondiscrimination and equal opportunity assurances in its Program Participation Agreements from at least 2013 to the present may have been false," the letter reads. "The Department is further concerned Princeton perhaps knew, or should have known, these assurances were false at the time they were made. Finally, the Department is further concerned Princeton's many nondiscrimination and equal opportunity claims to students, parents, and consumers in the market for education certificates may have been false, misleading, and actionable substantial misrepresentations in violation of 20 U.S.C. � 1094(c)(3)(B) and 34 CFR 668.71(c). Therefore, the Department�s Office of Postsecondary Education, in consultation with the Department's Office of the General Counsel, is opening this investigation." I mean: Did you mean it or not? You should welcome this very expensive and embarrassing and intrusive investigation, Princeton. You've admitted you are incapable of yourselves rooting out all this racism and white supremacy. So Uncle Government is here to help!!!!

(This is the most amazing, wonderful thing ever.) Comments Posted by Ace at 02:30 PM

RICK WILSON NOW TWEETING BLACKMAIL THREATS AGAINST FEDERALIST FOUNDER BEN DOMENECH —Ace This is the same asshole who was pushing the "Ted Cruz slept with six women" story, the one that Trump wound up getting his buddy at the National Enquirer to publish. Trump got attacked for pushing out that shit -- but Rick Wilson never did. Nor did his clients, Marco Rubio and/or Jeb Bush. He kept pushing the rumor he called "The Thing" when the only three candidates were Cruz, Rubio, and Trump -- and when Rubio was desperate to knock out Cruz to get a one on one with Trump -- so I'm going to go out on a limb and say that this repulsive toad was working for NeverTrump's beloved smoothbrain and credibly-alleged adulterer Marco Rubio. He's now threatening, if I can read between the lines, to reveal the rumors he's collected about Ben Domenech, if the Federalist does not do what he demands. This is blackmail. This is NeverTrump. You know -- the Principled, Virtuous Ones. Continue reading

The size, scope, and personal details of the oppo file on the head of a certain Trumpish website are hideous and vivid.



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His minions there might want to consider whether they want to join the "Fuck Around and Find Out" Club.#FAFO — Rick Wilson (@TheRickWilson) September 17, 2020 Is blackmail part of being a "pirate," you fat, dumpy Confederate scumbag? BTW, Wilson has been reported to Twitter for making threats. Twitter will, of course, take no action. The leftwing can make threats all day on Twitter. 153 kinda assholish to attack John MacCain's son in law during the funeral Posted by: x Close it up Comments Posted by Ace at 01:50 PM

After 24 Hours of Contemptuous Silence, Neoliberal Media Organization Interrupts "Outnumbered" Show to Issue a Hastily-Scribbled Corporate PR Statement —Ace As I said in the sidebar: Harris Faulkner offered a canned statement about the censorship incident without mentioning George Soros or explaining WHY FoxNews now has a policy of censoring mention of him. She avoided the controversy by pretending this was only about showing respect to the 'beloved" Newt Gingrich, and dishonestly spins a controversy about censorship and protecting a hard leftwing communist subversive billionaire as one about mere politeness to Newt Gingrich. Melissa Francis, the one who actually demanded Newt shut up did not comment and was not even on screen when Harris Faulkner read the Corporate PR message.

Does she disagree? Does she continue to insist "we don't have to talk about George Soros"? Was this about an overzealous "fact-checker" whispering in this dummy's ear? If so, why do they refuse to say so? Do they not want to admit they are constantly being told what to say by less telegenic progressive producers and fact-checkers? This isn't about "being mean to Newt Gingrich," assholes. This is about the hard left turn daytime Fox has taken since the Li'l Murdochs came into power. And since Paul Ryan was put on the board. Continue reading

🤦‍♀️ pic.twitter.com/WyndtqS6uI — Karli 🇺🇸 (@KarluskaP) September 17, 2020 Fox News finally broke its silence to offer this pablum for the same reason Joe Biden finally addressed violent rioting -- because it was starting to hurt the bottom line. Fox News has gotten nothing but questions about this for twenty-four hours; they only scrambled to put out a statement mid-show because their preferred plan of contemptuously ignoring their audience wasn't working. We weren't forgetting. We weren't just Moving On dot org. And just like Joe Biden, they refused to mention the people at the actual center of the policy, pretending it's all about something else. Biden would only condemn violence -- not BLM or antifa. And FoxNews corporate PR statement would only discuss the matters of politeness and decorum.

Good luck attracting that new leftwing audience you'd obviously prefer. Ask the NFL and DC comics about how that goes. Without respect, we reject.

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In Secret Audio Received by the Daily Mail, Michael Cohen Laughs While His Friend Drools Over Cohen's Own 18-Year-Old Daughter and Guessing Her Breast Size —Ace Must be a Netflix investor. EXCLUSIVE: 'Look at this body man.' Listen to Michael Cohen laugh while his friend drools over his teen daughter Samantha and tries to guess size of her breasts, prompting Trump's ex lawyer to whip out her Victoria's Secret modeling photos Michael Cohen is heard laughing while a friend praises his daughter Samantha's body, audio obtained exclusively by DailyMail.com reveals Trump's former personal lawyer chats at length with the unknown friend over the course of the five-minute recording, agreeing Samantha is 'something' The audio appears to have been recorded in late 2013 or early 2014; Samantha would have been aged 18 at the time Upon seeing a photo of Samantha, the man exclaimed: 'What the f**k is that? Holy s**t. My god. Holy s**t, she's gorgeous' He continues: 'What is she B-cup, C-cup? She's a good looking girl, man. Gorgeous. Look at this body, man' Cohen, 54, then digs out pictures from a shoot Samantha had done with a Victoria's Secret photographer Russell James A photo from Samantha's Instagram account posted on December 13, 2013, shows her posing with James, who sheepishly blocks out her cleavage ... The audio comes on the heels of Samantha supporting her father's claims that Trump made creepy comments towards her when she was just 15 years old Well, I guess we know who's releasing these audiotapes. Comments Posted by Ace at 11:56 AM

The Morning Rant: Minimalist Edition —CBD As much as I support and admire the stance of Pastor John MacArthur in his fight against the thugs and fascists of California state government, he (and others who use similar arguments) are accepting the government's position that religious worship threatens the health and well being of the people, and therefore can be controlled by government edict. Their arguments boil down to, "well, it isn't nearly as bad as you say, so the risk is minimal and we should be allowed to worship as we see fit." Pastor to officials threatening jail: 'Bring it on!' He insisted the level of infection does not support the cancellation of constitutional rights to worship for the entire state, with "1/100th of 1%" of the residents having been infected. So what level of infection would justify violating natural law and the United States Constitution's first amendment? Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the government for a redress of grievances. That's pretty clear. And the Founders knew their religious history quite well, and understood that people would be willing to die to defend the right to worship as they see fit. The relative risk of Wuhan Flu has nothing to do with our right to worship, and even were it as bad as the hysterics in the media want it to be, we as a free people have the right to worship. So what level of infectionjustify violating natural law and the United States Constitution's first amendment?That's pretty clear. And the Founders knew their religious history quite well, and understood that people would be willing to die to defend the right to worship as they see fit. The relative risk of Wuhan Flu has nothing to do with our right to worship, and even were it as bad as the hysterics in the media want it to be, we as a free people have the right to worship. Rabbi Akiva, perhaps the greatest martyr in Jewish history, was ordered by the Romans to stop studying the Torah. He declined to stop, and the Romans flayed him. And as he was flayed to death, in unimaginable agony, he recited the Shemah. That's sticking your thumb in the eye of your oppressors. 1,400 years later, the Oxford Martyrs Hugh Latimer, Nicholas Ridley and Thomas Cranmer, the Archbishop of Canterbury, were burned at the stake for refusing to stop worshiping God as they saw fit. Supposedly Latimer said to Ridley just before they were burned alive, "Be of good cheer Master Ridley, for tonight we sup with the angels!" I am not suggesting that Pastor MacArthur martyr himself, but accepting the argument of the jack-booted thugs of government and simply arguing that Sino-Lung-Rot isn't all that bad cedes the basis of the argument to the enemies of religion. We have a right to worship as we see fit. We have a right to free assembly. Those rights are unequivocal, and government has no authority to prevent us from exercising those rights using the flimsy argument that violating our natural rights is for our own good. We decide what is for our own good; not the authoritarian hacks in Sacramento. Comments Posted by CBD at 11:00 AM

Mid-Morning Art Thread —CBD The Ambassadors

Hans Holbein the Younger here is a clue to that weird thing on the bottom: Anamorphosis Comments Posted by CBD at 09:30 AM

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Gary Gulman made his (brief) career on cookies. I saw this guy in comedy clubs three times just to hear him continue noodling about cookies. Close it up Comments Posted by Ace at 07:47 PM

Trump Releases Brutal Ad Attacking Sundown Joe's Complete Dependency on the Teleprompter for "Live Interviews" —Ace Thanks to CBD and Archer. Wow. Great ad. More please! And please -- hit Sundown Joe on the eight or nine women who have alleged inappropriate touching, including Tara Reade, who alleged actual penetrative sexual assault (or r@pe, in many jurisdictions). Continue reading

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Kaleigh McEnany: Since No One In the Press Asked Me About the Historic Abraham Accords, I'll Answer My Own Question For You —Ace Badass. Continue reading

Kayleigh McEnany: "If Obama and Biden had achieved this... you wouldn't have Nancy Pelosi calling it a distraction. Maybe it's a distraction from her visits to the hair salon." pic.twitter.com/b5BeTpBMTa — The Hill (@thehill) September 16, 2020

So is this just a Big Nothing? Let's ask Saudi Arabia's top imam, who has previously called for war against "Jewish invaders." Now, the day after the peace accord? He says it's time to "treat Jews well." The sermon by Abdulrahman al-Sudais, imam of the Grand Mosque in Mecca, broadcast on Saudi state television on Sept. 5, came three weeks after the United Arab Emirates agreed a historic deal to normalise relations with Israel and days before the Gulf state of Bahrain, a close Saudi ally, followed suit. Sudais, who in past sermons prayed for Palestinians to have victory over the "invader and aggressor" Jews, spoke about how the Prophet Mohammad was good to his Jewish neighbour and argued the best way to persuade Jews to convert to Islam was to "treat them well". "Distraction?" A distraction from the Democrat-Media Conspiracy's Color Revolution scheme, perhaps. But not for the world. Let's take a look back at what some NeverTrumpers/Obamabots (but I repeat myself!) said about the prospects of Middle East peace accords just half a year ago:

Kushner hoped that other Arab states, which he had cultivated as one crown prince to another, would pressure the Palestinians. But the most he got were a few polite statements of encouragement followed by emphatic rejection from the Arab League and OIC. https://t.co/aofBcWsi66 — Max Boot (@MaxBoot) February 3, 2020 If you could liquify unwarranted smugness and use it as a fuel, these m***erf***ers could melt the sun.

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FoxNews' "Outnumbered" Panel Forbids Any Mention of the Fact That George Soros Donated Millions to Elect the Communist DAs Who Refuse to Prosecute Antifa/BLM Rioters —Ace I believe it was Melissa Francis who first declares mention of George Soros illegal, to be seconded by a beaming Marie Harf, the former Obama thot who can't believe she now runs an allegedly "conservative" news network. "So it's verboten," Gingrich concludes. This is not a conspiracy theory -- this is a documented fact, reported in the actual media when it could be spun as a positive thing. Now that the communist DAs are acting as political protectors of the rioters and arsonists, it's "verboten" to mention it on Fox News. Even though it's been reported on...Fox News! District attorneys and current candidates whose campaigns benefited from the work of left-wing organizations -- including ones backed by liberal billionaire George Soros -- are now pushing for new practices that could see sharp reductions in prosecutions and incarcerations. Soros, through the Justice & Public Safety PAC and other groups, has been spending millions of dollars on prosecutorial races in recent years, with a number of beneficiaries making headlines since their elections. St. Louis Circuit Attorney Kim Gardner, who was boosted by Soros in her campaign, drew controversy when she announced her office was bringing felony charges against Mark and Patricia McCloskey, the couple who brandished guns outside their home as protesters marched by in June. ... Another high-profile prosecutor who has been backed by Soros in the past is Cook County, Ill. State's Attorney Kim Foxx. Foxx drew national attention when she dismissed the case against actor Jussie Smollett, who had been accused of faking a hate crime attack against himself. The case was later taken over by a special prosecutor who filed new charges. ... San Francisco District Attorney Chesa Boudin, another beneficiary of Soros-tied contributions, recently defended the movement to defund police. In a discussion with Rep. Ayanna Pressley, D-Mass., earlier in July, Boudin questioned whether money going to police was �the most effective� use of taxpayer dollars.

That was July 30. But George Soros has put out the word to his minions that it is an "antisemitic conspiracy theory" to connect him with the communist DAs he did in fact pay for. Are they trying to make some think distinction between Soros funding these DAs, versus the organizations he bankrolls financing them? If that's the thin distinction they're making, why don't they just make that tiny (meaningless) distinction? If they're making such a narrow distinction, they should say so, instead of this just forbidding any mention of Soros and filling the studio with this weird, pregnant silence, suggesting some Dark Mystery that cannot even be alluded to. Why is FoxNews attempting to "Voldemort" any mention of George Soros? Why are they acting on Soros' behalf? Is he an investor in the company now?

Or does FoxNews conceive of its own audience as so virulently antisemitic that mere mention of Soros' political activities (he converted to Christianity when he was working with the Nazis and now says he's an atheist) will send them all into violent pogroms? Even though Soros is not Jewish -- he converted to Christianity when he was partnered up with the Nazis, and now says he's fully an atheist. If so -- if Fox imagines its audience as monsters -- then Fox should say that, too.

If that's what Fox Fucking News thinks of its audience -- then tell us.

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Fox News panel melts down when Gingrich calls out Soros pic.twitter.com/fntofzyMh4 — Jewish Deplorable 🇺🇸 (@TrumpJew) September 16, 2020 Had enough yet? Close it up Comments Posted by Ace at 04:51 PM

US CENTCOM Commander: There Isn't Proof of the Democrat-Media Conspiracy's Info Op Last Month About Russians Paying Bounties to the Taliban to Kill Americans;

Claim Comes from the CIA, Who Are "Very Emotional" About the Argument —Ace I'm not kidding. I know people sometimes say these things off-handedly, but the CIA has been turned inside-out into an agency whose goal is not to defend America but to subvert and defeat it. It must be disbanded. Enough of these government-paid insurrectionists. The commander of U.S. Central Command, Gen. Frank McKenzie, said Monday that after two months of looking into a widely reported claim that Russia paid bounties to the Taliban for the killing of U.S. troops still has not been verified... There's a bit more in the story including the fact that it's apparently the CIA that is largely convinced this happened or is happening. Gen. McKenzie, without naming anyone in particular, said the people involved in the ongoing argument over this are "very emotional" but that he can't afford to be. That makes sense because obviously if this were confirmed then the U.S. would have no choice but to urge the president to act. But "All 17 Intelligence agencies" agree with the CIA's assessment, right? Wrong: The hesitation over this story isn't solely a matter of the military not being convinced of what the intel agencies are saying. Previous reporting from the Wall Street Journal stated that the NSA had "strongly dissented" from other intel agencies about the bounties claim. So even within the intel community there has been some doubt about this. The fact that the CIA leaked this -- to Adam Schiff, no less! -- is proof that they must be disbanded. In previous years, under previous presidents, the intelligence community was very careful about leaking claims like this. Claims like this put the president in an impossible bind: either he can argue on behalf of Russia's innocence, or he can launch a nuclear attack on Russia. There's really no middle path here. If Russia is killing US troops, we go to war. So usually these things were handled secretly. Russia would be punished, but not in some high-profile way that would stir the public into demanding a nuclear retaliation on Russia. But that's not how the Obama-ized CIA rolls, now. Now, each and every unverified suspicion they have, each bit of Hot Goss collected from Igor "Iggy" Danchenko's alcoholic friends at his local DC rum mill, is fit for immediate leaking to Adam Fucking Schiff and the whole of the GPSFusion-paid Black Ops Press. Why, it's almost as if elements of the Deep State, with a leadership cadre infiltrated into the highest positions of the CIA, are attempting a "color revolution" coup d'etat against their own (supposed) country. This rolling campaign of anti-police street violence is killing Biden�s bid for the presidency -- just look at private polling in crucial swing states such as Michigan, Wisconsin and Pennsylvania, where law and order has become a decisive issue. So why don't Democratic leaders do more to condemn the violence and call for calm? To understand their inaction, you need to step back and see street violence as one element of a coordinated "playbook" to dislodge President Trump, regardless of the outcome of the election. This is the thesis of political theorist Dr. Darren Beattie, a former Duke University professor and White House official. The playbook is straight from the strategies the US government has deployed in so-called "Color Revolutions" in Eastern European countries, such as Ukraine or Belarus, to remove "authoritarian" leaders deemed hostile to American interests. In a series of articles at Revolver.news, Beattie's thesis provides a compelling comparison between Deep State efforts to remove President Trump and techniques used by the State Department, covert agencies and allied NGOs to influence, or overturn, elections in foreign countries. BLM-Antifa�s "mostly peaceful protests" are America's version of Ukraine's Orange Revolution, where civil unrest was fomented on the streets to oust a Kremlin-backed authoritarian. In an interview, Beattie noted "strong parallels" between "color revolutions" overseas and the "sustained coordinated coup against Trump" -- from the Russia collusion hoax to his impeachment over Ukraine. "The very same regime change professionals � assigned to overthrow 'authoritarians' in Eastern Europe are the ones running this operation against Trump. It is the same playbook run by the same people." The Color Revolution playbook starts by creating the narrative of an authoritarian, illegitimate leader. Then you foment unrest on the streets, aimed at provoking an authoritarian crackdown that can be used to mobilize further unrest. You undermine people's faith in the election process, setting up a contested outcome that turns into street fighting. At the same time, you wage relentless "lawfare" to contest ballots. Ultimately the military may be called upon to dislodge the incumbent.



Sound familiar? As the article notes, the Establishment "Transition Integrity Group," featuring Jon Podesta and Bill Kristol, actually wargamed out scenarios for contesting a real, inarguable Trump win, including the whole west coast seceding unless the coup they demanded was allowed to run to completion. Continue reading

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Barr Instructs Prosecutors: Be Aggressive In Charging Rioters and Do Consider Bringing Sedition Charges —Ace Nice. Attorney General William Barr told the nation's federal prosecutors to be aggressive when charging violent demonstrators with crimes, including potentially prosecuting protesters for plotting to overthrow the U.S. government, people familiar with the conversation said. In a conference call with U.S. attorneys across the country last week, Mr. Barr warned that sometimes violent demonstrations across the U.S. could worsen as the November presidential election approaches. He encouraged the prosecutors to seek a number federal charges, including under a rarely used sedition law, even when state charges could apply, the people said. ... Federal prosecutors have charged more than 200 people with violent crimes related to the protests, most of whom face counts of arson, assaulting federal officers, or gun crimes... In the call last week, Mr. Barr urged prosecutors to seek federal charges whenever possible, two of the people said. He listed a number of additional statutes they could potentially use, including one addressing conspiracies or plots to overthrow the government. Legal experts say the rarely used statute could be difficult to prove in court and potentially run up against First Amendment protections. There is no First Amendment protection for setting a building on fire, assholes. The left is ghastly and is forever praising terrorist acts as "Revolutionary Speech." Remember the glorification of the 9/11 attacks as a work of "art"? Comments Posted by Ace at 03:00 PM

Rasmussen: Trump Approval Rate Hits 52%;

Trump Takes Lead in National Head-to-Head Poll —Ace Trump has only hit 52% or 53% a few times before on Rasmussen, and has rarely hit 50%. Meanwhile, he's taken his very first lead over Biden on Rasmussen, 47-46. That's within the margin of error and a statistical tie, but hey, it's something. The race has narrowed over the past two weeks. Biden had a two-point lead last week, but that survey also marked the first time Trump had edged above 45% over the past two-and-a-half months. Prior to this week, Biden has bested Trump in every weekly survey since White House Watch began at the beginning of July.

A couple of days ago, a NeverTrumper named Danielle Pletka wrote in the Washington Post that the left's embrace of rioting and revolution had driven her into Trump's arms. n 2016, I never considered voting for Donald Trump. The Johnny-come-lately Republican and his nasty schoolyard jibes seemed to me the worst degradation of American politics. But in 2020, I may be forced to vote for the man. Hear me out. Her bona-fides as a Karen Wine Aunt are omitted. It's the typical Ritual Malediction these idiots teach each other on Twitter as tribal shibboleths.

... But I fear the leftward lurch of the Democratic Party even more. What is there to be afraid of? I fear that former vice president Joe Biden would be a figurehead president, incapable of focus or leadership, who would run a teleprompter presidency with the words drafted by his party'a hard-left ideologues. I fear that a Congress with Democrats controlling both houses -- almost certainly ensured by a Biden victory in November -- would begin an assault on the institutions of government that preserve the nation's small "d" democracy. That could include the abolition of the filibuster, creating an executive-legislative monolith of unlimited political power; an increase in the number of Supreme Court seats to ensure a liberal supermajority; passage of devastating economic measures such as the Green New Deal; nationalized health care; the dismantling of U.S. borders and the introduction of socialist-inspired measures that will wreck an economy still recovering from the pandemic shutdown. ... I fear the grip of Manhattan-San Francisco progressive mores that increasingly permeate my daily newspapers, my children's curriculums and my local government. I fear the virtue-signaling bullies who increasingly try to dominate or silence public discourse -- and encourage my children to think that their being White is intrinsically evil, that America's founding is akin to original sin. I fear the growing self-censorship that guides many people's every utterance, and the leftist vigilantes who view every personal choice -- from recipes to hairdos -- through their twisted prisms of politics and culture. An entirely Democratic-run Washington, urged on by progressives' media allies, would no doubt only accelerate these trends. Are there problems on the right -- horrible nasties on a par with the violent protesters who have lately inflicted untold damage on many U.S. cities, businesses and lives? You bet. Really? Where? On Twitter? Did a Big Trumpian Meanie call you Karen on Twitter, Karen? The left are burning cities down and murdering people, Karen. What are the "gun toting racists" actually doing, besides making you feel vaguely icky, Karen? Anyway: These execrable gun-toting racists have received too much tacit encouragement from Trump. But they do not represent the mainstream of the Republican Party or guide the choices of the vast mass of Republican members of Congress. A year ago, I thought the Democratic Party was similarly insulated from the extreme left. But I don't anymore, not when so much of the party's thinking is driven by Sens. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) and Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.), and Reps. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) and Rashida Tlaib (D-Mich.) -- all of whom were once on the fringes. With Donald Trump, I know what I am getting. He wears his sins on the outside. For good and ill, he runs his administration. I worry more about his incompetence and vacillation than I do about any dictatorial tendencies. On the other side, however, I am increasingly persuaded that what I see in Joe Biden -- whom I first met in 1992, and whom I believe to be a decent person -- would merely be the facade for an administration, fully backed by both houses of Congress, with an agenda that would seriously damage the nation. The corrosive left-wing extremism of 2020 would be ascendant, while a smiling President Biden assures the country that everything is fine. Trump, for all his flaws, could be all that stands between our imperfect democracy and the tyranny of the woke left.

"I Disagree With Her:" Jonah Goldberg finally admits what he's long concealed -- he's actually supporting the Democrat.

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I disagree with her, but I think the attacks from Never Trump folks on @dpletka over her Post piece are often unfair and over the top. They�re also misguided if the point is to convince others her views are wrong � because they�re widely held these days. — Jonah Goldberg (@JonahDispatch) September 16, 2020 All of these guys supported Hillary Clinton in fact in 2016, though they almost all lied about it -- to preserve their viability as Fake Conservative Pundits when the moderate/liberal corporatists took back the party they had rented with their billions. I guess they realize they're not going to be leaders of actual conservatives again, so they're dropping the masks.

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Morning Rant - Special Guest Ranter [Weasel] —Open Blogger With distance comes perspective, and when you are too close to a situation it's often difficult to understand how bad it really is. This is especially true when you have arrived at your current position slowly and incrementally, only to suddenly realize you have a problem. That is the sociopolitical landscape in which we stand today. To borrow a quote from Hemingway; "How do you go bankrupt? Gradually and then suddenly." Gone today and perhaps forever is anything even remotely resembling polite discourse, and we find ourselves in a stark black and white world, with precious little gray in between. One side is openly seditious and has adopted a manifesto of rebellion, insurrection and destruction. That side plays for keeps. The other side, our side, unfortunately, acts as though the old rules still apply, and that somehow magically with hope and good intentions the old order will be restored. Continue reading

To understand the depth of our predicament, one has to look no further than our excitement when from nowhere, a figure emerges, political or otherwise, who fights for what we believe in. Someone who calls it like it is, and who shares our sense of right, wrong, and the rule of law. Someone who is willing to go toe-to-toe against overwhelming odds, and who has put aside personal considerations because it's the right thing to do. The fact that these individuals are now so uncommon tells you all you need to know regarding the scale of our problem. These people should be the rule rather than the exception. The reality is our side is largely comprised of weak, career-minded political operatives whose commitment to fundamentals lasts no longer than the next election, and whose core principle is self-enrichment. This is where we stand today. This is our predicament, and anyone not understanding the seriousness of it has not been paying attention and needs to quickly gain the needed perspective. ************* AoSHQ Weekly Prayer List Prayer Requests:

8/6 - Jordan61 asks for prayers for Mom, who is in remission from multiple myeloma, and she is having a bone biopsy on Wednesday, 8/12, to make sure it isn't returning. (She's had some red flags in her routine bloodwork.) Prayers for a negative result and continuing remission.

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9/6 Update - Cheriebebe sends an update and thanks the horde for prayers. Her father passed peacefully on Saturday.

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ABC Has One Democrat Plant After Another "Ask" Trump About the Democrat Attack Line of the Week —Ace These are "undecided voters," who just happen to be au courrant with Rachel Maddow's talking points from last night. The first "undecided" voter declared himself to be a Diabetic-American and then asked, in an undecided way, why Trump decided to "throw him under the bus," that is, sacrifice his life. Very undecided! I just saw a young black woman (well known to be a demographic filled with "undecided voters") demand Trump explain why he had "downplayed" the virus. So much indecision!

I blame Trump for this. He never, ever learns. He always thinks he's going to charm them. His yearning for respect from these fucking evil monsters puts our very lives at risk. Update: RUFKM? Is this real? This seems plausible, given the other obvious leftist plants.

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. @GStephanopoulos: �Our next question comes from Diane, she�s the president of the Delaware Valley Young Socialists Club and is an undecided voter...� — Greg Pollowitz (@GPollowitz) September 16, 2020

it's like he was reading that question for the first time — Matt (@msw141) September 16, 2020

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McConnell’s Principles Demand That Chuck Schumer Will Control The Senate No Matter Which Party Is In Majority [Buck Throckmorton] —Open Blogger Here is an unsurprising development, Mitch McConnell has taken a very principled stand, publicly proclaiming that only Democrats are allowed to change Senate rules, and that Chuck Schumer will be in control of the 2021-2022 Senate no matter which party wins a Senate majority. To be fair, he didn’t word it exactly like that, but that is the effect. Democratic insiders set up war room to quickly kill the filibuster Schumer: Senate Democrats would ditch filibuster if needed to push Biden’s agenda through Barack Obama and Harry Reid are openly calling for the end of the filibuster if the Democrats take control of the Senate. (Obama calls it racist, of course.) Schumer is openly hinting that he’ll eliminate the filibuster if Biden is elected. So in response, McConnell boldly announces that a Republican majority means the filibuster stays in place. McConnell: Democrats would disfigure Senate by nixing filibuster Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) ripped Democrats on Monday over talk of nixing the legislative filibuster if they win back the majority even as they've used the procedural tactic to block recent GOP legislation. "This threat to permanently disfigure, to disfigure the Senate, has been the latest growing drumbeat in the modern Democratic Party's war against our governing institutions," McConnell said from the Senate floor. In other words, McConnell has announced that if Republicans hold the Senate, Schumer will have the ability to block any GOP legislation with only 40 Democrat Senators. But If the Democrats win control, then Schumer can pass any legislation with only 50 Senators. Heads Schumer wins. Tails Schumer wins. This type of pre-planned and orchestrated failure is what the GOPe calls “principles.” Comments Posted by Open Blogger at 05:41 PM

Rasmussen: In Communities That Have Seen Violent "Protests," Likely Voters Approve of Trump by a 2:1 Margin, and 76% Say the Violence is Important to How They'll Be Voting —Ace Voters don't like thugs, murderers, arsonists and bandits attacking them and their businesses, or the Democrat/Media Conspiracy that protects and promotes them. Who would have thought!

Three-out-of-four voters who've had violent anti-police protests in their community rate those protests important to their vote in the presidential election. Among these voters, a sizable majority like the job President Trump is doing. The latest Rasmussen Reports national telephone and online survey finds that 42% of Likely U.S. Voters have had anti-police protests in their community this summer. Nearly half (48%) of these voters say the protests in their community have turned violent. Among all voters, 65% say the violent protests are important to their vote in the presidential election this fall, with 41% who say it�s Very Important. Among those who have had violent protests in their community, even more (76%) rate them important to their vote, including 54% who say they are Very Important. Sixty-three percent (63%) of these voters Strongly Approve of the job Trump is doing versus 35% who Strongly Disapprove. Note that those who fit the category of having seen violent "protests" in their communities is low-ish, around 20% of all likely voters. (41% say they've seen protests, and of those, 48% say they've seen "protests" turn violent.) Still. And of course BLM just launched another round of Punching Whitey in Pennsylvania. Where the GOP has already seen a net +24,262 increase in voter registration. (Net meaning "GOP gains minus Dem gains.") In just a month. A month ago, the Democratic margin statewide was 783,116. It currently stands at 758,854. ...

Last month I laid out three questions to gauge what the voter registration trends we�re telling us. Well, all three favored the Republicans in August. We also saw a new Monmouth Poll this week, which had Biden�s lead in the Keystone State narrow from 13 down to four points. It appears then that Republicans are coming home in two ways. First, disaffected Democrats are finally officially joining the GOP. Second, soft Trump voters are now resolved to show up and vote. Neither of these events is particularly surprising, yet they underscore just how challenging flipping Pennsylvania will ultimately prove for the Democratic Party. By the way, the Democrat Jake Tapper was trying to protect, fellow liberal Democrat Conor Lamb, represents the 17th District, which is made up of Beaver County and half of Allegheny County. Both saw GOP net vote registration gains this year. In addition, Trump easily carried the district after Obama won it in both 2008 and 2012. Does Jake Tapper really expect us to believe he just wanted to find Sean Parnell a nicer, safer district to run in? Meanwhile, in Florida, only 5% of the public is undecided, but those undecideds are breaking for Trump 4:1. After falling behind Democratic nominee Joe Biden in May, U.S. President Donald Trump has surged back into a virtual dead heat in the battleground Sunshine State, according to a statewide survey of registered Florida voters by the Florida Atlantic University Business and Economics Polling Initiative (FAU BEPI). Biden holds a 49 percent to 46 percent lead, with 5 percent undecided, but those undecideds are breaking for Trump 4:1, resulting in a statistical tie at 50 percent for each candidate.

Trump voters are more certain of their vote: Roughly 9 percent of Florida voters surveyed said there is a chance they will change their minds, while 97 percent of Trump voters and 94 percent of Biden voters insist they will stick with their choices. And Trump voters say they're more enthusiastic about voting: Among Trump voters, 72 percent said they are extremely excited for the election, while 60 percent of Biden supporters expressed the same sentiment. Meanwhile, in purple North Carolina, Trump just pulled ahead, albeit within the margin of error, 49-48. Continue reading

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Trump 49% (+1)

Biden 48%@Rasmussen_Poll — Political Polls (@PpollingNumbers) September 11, 2020 Close it up Comments Posted by Ace at 04:46 PM

Atlantic Writer Admits That Liberals Have Not Reacted Well to Trump's Win and Still Haven't Gotten Over It, and Predicts (Safely) They're Resort to Further Lunacies, Including Violence, When He Wins Again —Ace You don't say. Yesterday the Atlantic published a piece by Shadi Hamid which makes the argument that if Trump wins the 2020 election, Democrats are not going to handle it well. The basis of his argument is pretty simple. Democrats didn�t handled the 2016 loss very well: Liberals had enough trouble accepting the results of the 2016 election. In some sense, they never really came to terms with it. The past four years have witnessed the continuous urge to explain away the inexplicable, to find solace in the fact that the voters betrayed them. How could so many of their fellow Americans side with a racist and a fabulist, someone so callous and seemingly without empathy? It was easier to think that those Americans had been lackeys, manipulated and deceived, or that they simply hadn�t understood what was best for them. Moreover, the Russians had interfered, and tipped the balance in an extremely close election through propaganda, fake news, and collusion with the Trump campaign. Perhaps, as former Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid suggested, the Russians had even tampered with the vote itself. You don't say. Why, I hardly noticed. Still quoting from Hamid: In presidential elections, once is a fluke; twice is a pattern. I struggle to imagine how, beyond utter shock, millions of Democrats will process a Trump victory. A loss for Biden, after having been the clear favorite all summer, would provoke mass disillusion with electoral politics as a means of change--at a time when disillusion is already dangerously high....

A certain kind of cognitive dissonance--the gap between what is and what should be--can fuel revolutionary sentiment, and not just in a fluffy, radical-chic kind of way. In such situations, acting outside the political process, including through nonpeaceful means, becomes more attractive, not necessarily out of hope but out of despair. This distance between what a society should be and the tragedy of what it actually becomes is less of a problem in democracies, because democracies are supposed to be responsive to voters� demands and grievances. But they aren�t always. The gap will grow larger under a Trump presidency than a Biden one, and this has implications for mass unrest and political violence across American cities. Really, Nostradamus? You don't say. You know why I suspect that Democrats may resort to violence, looting, arson, rioting, and targeted assassinations after the election? Because they've been doing it for 110 days straight, with the left's leaders -- not fringe people, but actual elected political leaders and high-paid media mouthpieces -- defending and justifying the violence and cheering the murderers. Comments Posted by Ace at 02:44 PM

When Peter Stzrok Proposed the Crossfire Hurricane Investigation To Attack Trump, His Proposal Was Approved By an Interesting Superior: Peter Strzok Himself. —Ace This sounds a lot like a higher-up saying, "I don't want my name attached to it. Sign the approval yourself." Catherine Herridge obtained an Electronic Communication (EC) via Judicial Watch which announced the launch of the Crossfire Hurricane investigation. The memo was drafted by Trump-hating FBI agent Peter Strzok and also states it was approved by Strzok. Herridge suggests that may be a problem. Well, yeah. The whole point of requiring approval is to get a second opinion saying "Yes" to a probe, from a higher-up. Instead, Peter Strzok got a second opinion from himself. And that opinion was: "I really hate Trump and really want to impress my Lanky Beaver sidepiece." "Former senior FBI agent tells @CBSNews that same person drafting + signing off on an 'EC' is unusual + may violate the 'DIOG' or Domestic Investigations Operations Guide which is the roadmap/rule book for FBI agents. Based on "DIOG, Crossfire Hurricane appears to fall under 'Sensitive Investigative Matter' because it involved a political candidate/organization � DIOG states these cases should be brought to attention 'FBI HQ + other DOJ officials' Remember when I said this sounds like a higher-up wanting to keep his name off of it? I give you the FBI. Specifically, disgraced Counterintelligence Assistant Director Bill Priestap: It's worth noting that there�s no need to intuit that this was a "Sensitive Investigative Matter" because the front page of the EC clearly labels it as such. But NY Times reporter Charlie Savage argued that while it�s true a "Sensitive Investigative Matter" has to be approved by higher ups, in this case it was. He highlighted this bit of the IG report which says that Counterintelligence Division Assistant Director Bill Priestap approved the investigation. Comments Posted by Ace at 01:53 PM

Biden and Harris Both Confused About Who Is Running for President and Vice President —Ace Before getting to that: Rush Limbaugh talked about Sundown Joe's sundown syndrome for 20 minutes yesterday. I've never been prouder. RUSH: This is Wes in Philadelphia. Great to have you. Welcome. CALLER: Rush, mega prayers from Philadelphia, PA. RUSH: Thank you, sir. CALLER: If you could indulge me one moment to comment on Biden, Plugs, in a debate because I, too, do not believe the debates will happen. I think, as someone who�s seen dementia, he suffers sundown syndrome. So when the lights go down in the evening, his cognitive -- RUSH: Well, now, you�re jumping ahead, but you're exactly right about this. There is something about people who suffer dementia and the 8 o'clock p.m. hour and later. There�s something about it, their functionality decreases. So that was gonna be one of the two support stories I was going to use. And you�ve come in here as a caller, attempted to horn in on what I was gonna make a point about by going off topic about what you promised -- you wanted to talk about the absurdity of masks on the sideline. Now you come and steal my thunder on Plugs not doing a debate. But I'll forgive you because I'm a nice guy and actually you're right, so I can't be critical of you.

... Speaking of -- and I was just joking with the caller accusing him of stealing from me, folks. He knew it. He understood it. That's why he was laughing along with me. But he is right. He is right that people who suffer from dementia, there is something about the 8 o'clock hour, 8 p.m. and later, that makes the circumstance deteriorate and worsen. And when you learn that, when you are first exposed to it and you read about it, you yourself would conclude, there can't possibly be any debates. There just can't. Now, I have that story, and I have another one here. And this is in the Spectator.org. It's by Rob Crisell. The headline: "Why Biden Will Withdraw From the Debates -- It's the only way for Joe�s handlers to save him from himself." It's the American Spectator. Now, the aspect of this I was referring to is, in addition to the points made in this story, it�s called sundowning. People with dementia often, not always, but often get more confused and nervous in the late afternoon and the evening. If you have had someone in your family suffer from dementia or Parkinson's -- not Parkinson's, but Alzheimer's to one degree or another, you probably have seen this. You've seen it with family members who had dementia. That as the day went on, as the afternoon grew later and then shifted into evening, you could see an obvious deterioration in the mental acuity of the family member who had dementia or Alzheimer's. I know people who have seen it with their own parents and grandparents. You'd have an average day where you would think, "Hey, grandma doing great today. Grandma�s really cool today." And families are filled with hope when those days happen, and then on those same days, when you get to sundown and later, the deterioration picks up, and you can see it, and you get depressed because earlier in the day you thought, "Okay. This is gonna be a good day." I have heard Jill Biden say that her husband Joe was up early every morning on the phone with all sorts of people. And she says this as a way, "Hey, don�t believe this stuff about Joe having mental problems. He's up, he's up every morning early, he�s talking to countless people on the phone." That�s not the time to look. You need to look at Joe Biden at sunset. In fact, on Saturday Joe Biden sent word to the media that he was shutting the campaign down at 9 a.m. 9 a.m. Saturday, the word went out that the campaign was shutting down. Here it is. A reporter for NBC-MSNBC got word from the Biden camp-- the reporter�s name is Jake Sherman -- that they put a lid on the campaign Saturday at 9 a.m. So a Saturday, weeks away from the election, Biden shut down the campaign at 9 a.m. on Saturday. So that prompted a CBS White House reporter named Kathryn Watson to tweet that she couldn't understand why Joe was not out proving that he can outwork Trump. Kathryn Watson's tweet: "Not sure why Biden isn�t doing more to show that he can outwork Trump." That's after she saw the Jake Sherman tweet claiming a lid has been called in Wilmington, meaning Biden's not expected to have any public events today. Campaign is shut down. She tweets that she doesn�t understand why Biden's not out doing more to show that he can outwork Trump. She doesn't have a clue, folks, just to show you the Drive-By Media may not even understand the depths of the problem. You shut the campaign down at 9 a.m. on a Saturday, well, let's see the campaign at 5 p.m. Let's see the campaign at 7 p.m. This is when debates are gonna happen. And I'm just telling you. Sundowning can be controlled -- you know, you minimize symptoms somehow, but being on a stage with bright lights, clapping, pressure, that's not among the ways that you minimize the symptoms. I've been looking at this. I can�t recall when Biden is out in public at night, save for the Democrat debates which were way earlier this year. You gotta go back to January, February, March, and even then there weren't very many. But of recent campaign appearances, I can't recall, I can't remember Biden out in public at night. And certainly not after a full day of negotiating world peace and having a helicopter ride to the hangar, two-hour speech and banter with 15,000 people and then going out and doing a debate. I haven't seen Biden engage in that kind of rigorous schedule. Is Joe Biden Sundowning? You be the judge: What the f�- is @JoeBiden *trying* to say here 🙄 pic.twitter.com/Br8wNvieEV — Jon Nicosia (@NewsPolitics) September 15, 2020 Now, on to the confusion: First, Biden thinks it's 2012, and that he's campaigning for Obama's second term. Continue reading

This is not the first time that Joe Biden has appeared to believe it is still 2012...https://t.co/RD0SZnbKFL — Trump War Room - Text TRUMP to 88022 (@TrumpWarRoom) September 14, 2020 Next, Kamala Harris is confused and thinks she's running to be president.



Vote early and often with your mail-in ballots and turn this dream into reality: �the Harris administration.� pic.twitter.com/6GYxD0dDUe — Fiery but peaceful Mike (@Doranimated) September 15, 2020 Report: Kamala Harris Already Vetting VP Picks https://t.co/DziDXaUCM9 — The Babylon Bee (@TheBabylonBee) September 11, 2020 But maybe she's not confused. Maybe she sees Biden's rapid deterioration up close and knows for a fact that the position she's really running for is president.

Bonus confusion: "Do I do it now? Do you want me on now?" wonders a very confused Joe Biden. pic.twitter.com/pEjksmnVbM — Abigail Marone (@abigailmarone) September 14, 2020 Close it up Comments Posted by Ace at 12:03 PM

The Morning Rant: Minimalist Edition —CBD "No Math!" is a meme on these august pages, but in the real world of NEA and AFT approved science and math curricula, it is a sad fact of life that many Americans are innumerate and incapable of any rational analysis of the wild claims of the Democrat Party and its amen choirs in every environmental group in the country. It is nowhere more obvious in their ridiculous claims that green energy sources will replace more traditional (meaning robust and fully functioning) sources for the vast quantities of energy we require to run modern society. Just take a look at what is going on in California, with their psychotic devotion to all things "green," and their even more insane hatred of all things Western and practical. Rolling blackouts, permanent conservation rules, outrageous energy prices, and that is just for starters. In a few years, when California shuts down even more fossil fuel plants and begins to rely more heavily on ephemeral solar and wind energy, today's restrictions will look positively delightful. Here is a Prager University video that in a few minutes absolutely destroys the idea that solar panels, propellers and a few unicorns will power our wolrd. What's Wrong with Wind and Solar? It also suggests the important but overlooked point that manufacturing and disposing of these monuments to progressive hubris will cost our economy and our environment far more than even the claimed savings. And a little treat below the fold... Continue reading

Too much virtue signaling leads to brain damage pic.twitter.com/qrlYMwq5df — Steve Inman (@SteveInmanUIC) September 14, 2020 Close it up Comments Posted by CBD at 11:00 AM