It’s Monday, April 10th, 2023…but before we begin, consider that the Biden administration is weighing an aggressive proposal to implement the tightest-ever federal regulations governing tailpipe emissions in an effort to boost electric vehicles.
Then realize these are machines, the batteries for which America’s power grid lacks the electricity to charge, whose manufacture creates far more environmental hazards, pollutants and greenhouse gasses than the vehicles themselves save and assuming the world could produce the quantities of raw materials necessary for their production, which it CAN’T. California’s most endangered species, Republican Congressman Tom McClintock, couldn’t say it any clearer.
Details, details, don’t bother us with details!
Now, here’s The Gouge!
Since we’re on the subject of Socialist-inspired insanity, 12-time All-American swimmer and biological female…
“Record-setting swimmer Riley Gaines, an outspoken critic of transgender athletes being permitted to compete in divisions they self-identify with, was violently assaulted at San Francisco State University following a speech on Thursday.
Turning Point USA and Leadership Institute invited Gaines to speak at an event on the SFSU campus exploring women’s athletics and the inequalities that female competitors could face against transgender opponents. Gaines, a former NCAA swimmer from the University of Kentucky, was reportedly forced to barricade herself in a room for three hours for her own safety when student protesters became violent and unruly.
“She told me she was hit multiple times by a guy in a dress. I was shaking. It made me that mad. It makes me sick to feel so helpless about it,” Gaines’s husband, Louis Barker, told Fox News. “She was under police protection and was still hit by a man wearing a dress.”
Footage of the campus chaos was shared by Gaines on Twitter in the early hours of Friday morning showing trans activists berating her as security tries to escort the 12-time All-America swimmer to safety…”
“…The suspect allegedly targeted Timberview Middle School, Prairie Hills Elementary, Pine Creek High School, and “other targets were churches,” KRDO reported.
A family member turned the suspect into police, telling 911 that they had threatened to shoot up schools and had severe anger issues…”
When questioned, the 19-year-old man told police he had been planning to shoot up a school for “a month or two”, and was “about a third of the way from doing it”.
Angry transgenders. Think about it: When confronted by anyone who doesn’t actively affirm their psychosis…
…do they come any other way?!?
Here’s the juice in meme form courtesy of Ed Hickey:
For more on the subject, as well as the very real danger Progressive political support for this psychosis poses, we highly recommend Tucker’s Friday opening featured below:
Here’s a second shot of the juice: As Paul Giamatti stated on behalf of John Adams:
Since we’re on the subject of John Adams, here’s some sage advice he received from Ben Franklin Donald Trump would do well to heed:
But he can’t, so he won’t.
Speaking of The Donald, Andy McCarthy details precisely what’s going down, as he warns the…
“…The New York indictment may be the most historic thing that happened in Trump news this week, but it wasn’t the most significant. That distinction belongs to what’s gone mostly unnoticed: Smith’s decision to subpoena agents from Trump’s Secret Service detail to testify before his Mar-a-Lago grand jury.
Understand: The executive branch and the Secret Service especially abhor the specter of security officials testifying against their protectees. It eviscerates the bond of trust the Secret Service must maintain to guard people effectively, which requires their cooperation. Prosecutors do not summon Secret Service agents to a grand jury unless they are very serious about indicting.
Nor does the executive branch typically waive executive privilege, as the Biden administration has done regarding not only the former president but top Trump officials as well — up to and including the vice president and chief of staff. By taking that position, the Justice Department, which is usually in court advocating for robust executive privileges and immunities, is instead eroding them to the detriment of Biden and future presidents.
This makes no sense . . . unless this executive branch and its prosecutors have made nailing Donald Trump at some politically propitious moment their highest priority. Plainly, they are willing to take their chances with slimmer protection, willing to compromise the confidentiality that security officials need in order to convey frank advice and make good decisions for what they see as the greater good of getting Trump first nominated, then beaten in November, and finally convicted in court.
As I’ve pointed out ever since it was discovered that President Biden was guilty of illegally hoarding classified documents, the prosecutor — with the support of the media–Democratic complex — was sure to reframe the Mar-a-Lago probe into a grand-jury-obstruction case, rather than a classified-documents-retention case. That, Biden apologists will argue, is the rationale for prosecuting the former president but not the incumbent president.
Voila! Smith got the court to compel testimony from Trump’s private lawyer, Evan Corcoran, about the misrepresentations that were made under oath to the grand jury and investigators in June 2022 — when Trump’s attorneys falsely claimed that the package of 38 classified documents that they’d surrendered that day were the only remaining ones at Trump’s estate. Two months later, a hundred more such documents were seized by the FBI in its Mar-a-Lago search.
If Corcoran is testifying, it must be because the prosecutors have decided that he didn’t lie; he merely passed on to the investigators what he’d been told by his client. That, clearly, is why Smith forced him to testify about his conversations with Trump — which he was permitted to do because a judge invoked the “crime–fraud exception” to attorney–client privilege, finding that Trump had probably carried out a criminal obstruction scheme. Like the Mar-a-Lago employees who were also questioned, the Secret Service agents are being called to testify about Trump’s activities and the movement of various documents in the weeks after the June meeting. That is, if Trump was handling documents marked classified after his lawyers had told the grand jury that he didn’t have any such documents, then the grand jury was intentionally misled.
The noose is tightening. Smith is going full bore on January 6, too. That’s why he’s getting testimony from Pence, just as he did from other top Trump officials. It will be tougher, for legal reasons, to prove a conspiracy to obstruct Congress’s ratification of Biden’s Electoral College victory, but Smith is pushing hard to make that case.
He won’t have to push that hard on Mar-a-Lago. Comparatively, it’s a slam dunk. If Democrats have decided that they can ride out the political firestorm of indicting Trump while insulating Biden — and the obstruction scheme, they believe, is their solution to that challenge — then an indictment is coming. Bank on it. If Trump supporters become enraged by the double standard, they’ll push even harder for his nomination. See how this works?
Trump made lemonade out of this week’s lemons. He got indicted, but it’s an abominable case. That rallied not only supporters who claim he should now be the party’s nominee by acclamation, but even fair-minded detractors who are enraged about the Democrats’ two-tiered justice system. His candidacy got a boost — a sign of the times, since the unsavory conduct underlying Bragg’s flawed charges used to be disqualifying in Republican politics. But, of course, so did serial public lying, false claims of stolen elections, whipping up violent mobs to pressure lawmakers, recklessly mishandling national-defense secrets, misleading grand juries, and so on.
A few months from now, ironically, Donald Trump will remember the week of his first indictment as the good old days. The accumulated weight of his legal woes — at least the ones we know of, so far — would eventually sink him even if Smith wasn’t preparing a torpedo. The question is whether he’ll take the GOP down with him. Are Republicans going to let Democrats provoke them into nominating the one candidate who is sure to lose to Biden?”
Here’s a third shot of the juice, courtesy of reader Andy Meyers description of The Donald: “I’d like to buy him for what he’s worth, sell him for what he THINKS he’s worth, and retire on the difference!”
As we said when discussing Trump with TLJ Saturday evening, you have to compartmentalize the innumerable injustices Trump’s faced since coming down that golden escalator back in June of 2015, up to and including his recent indictment, from the prospect of him running for a second term.
Retirement is an option we’d suggest Trump seriously consider, not for his benefit and certainly not for his boundless ego and narcissism, but for the country, which cannot afford another four years of whoever is pulling Joe Biden’s strings.
Moving on, here’s an octet of items sure to pique the interest of inquiring Conservative minds:
“No one calling for a “national conversation on reparations,” for instance, has ever conceded any ground on what they believe about racism in America. They just want you to hear what they know to be the correct answer.”
(3). As detailed in an article from Scientific American forwarded by Nick, the dark side of LED lights has forced some scientists to finally realize life is a series of trade-offs.
(5). Kristi Noem: She’s all for protecting women’s sports…AFTERshe was against it.
(6). Again courtesy of Nick, here’s the NEA’s plan making schools safe and “just”, which is completely counterproductive to both the education and physical safety of America’s public school students. Read the following and then guess what she’s talking about:
“Cameo Kendrick remembers the uneasy feeling of seeing police officers walk the halls of her high school. The same feeling came over her recently as she visited schools in her hometown of Lexington, Ky., where she plans to teach and send her two children. “It is frightening, especially for a Person of Color,” Kendrick says. “And, as I’ve grown to understand this issue, I also know that it has deep roots in racial injustice and is a cog in a system that unfairly and more severely disciplines minority students.”
Kendrick, who is chair of NEA’s Aspiring Educators (AE), says she and other new educators believe this is a critical social justice issue. “We’ve chosen to teach so that we can educate and guide young people. [Racial injustice] is antithetical to that,” she says.”
School Resource Officers; Why, one might ask?
“…research shows that SROs do little to reduce on-campus violence or mass shootings, and their presence is often damaging to students of color and students with disabilities. Having SROs in schools can actually create higher rates of behavioral incidents and spikes in suspensions, expulsions, and arrests.
While limited research suggests that SROs diminish bad behavior and are more likely to spot illegal activity in schools, other data show that students in vulnerable groups are more likely to be harshly punished.
Two thoughts immediately came to mind: (i) So, there’s “research” and “limited research”, the definitions of which the NEA doesn’t bother to explain, likely because its members won’t discern the disparagement; and (ii)…
…the “minority students” being disciplined had committed more numerous and/or serious offenses than their, we have to assume, White counterparts? You know, the same reason more Black males as a percentage of the population are in prison because Black males commit a HUGELY disproportionate percentage of crimes!!!
And THESE are the braindeads who are educating our future.
(7). Evidently MSDNC has a new host, one Mehdi Hasan, who accused Matt Taibbi of “doing PR work for the world’s richest man“. When Taibbi responded by pointing out, “The hilarity of this coming from MSNBC, which did nothing but vomit up fake Russian hit stories that came straight from the FBI for six consecutive years, you guys still haven’t apologized for it”, Hasan defended himself by saying that he was not working at MSNBC then, so he has nothing to apologize for.
We found this particularly rich in light of the fact Hasan and his network actively advocate for not only apologies, but cash reparations from people who never owned slaves nor have in any way repressed a single minority of any complexion or ethnicity.
“We have large corporations. Seventy percent of large corporations in the city of Chicago — in the state of Illinois, did not pay a corporate tax. And it’s that type of restraint on our budget that has caused the type of disinvestment that has led to poverty, of course that has led to violence.”
Then again, what should one expect from someone who suggested looters were acting out of desperation:
Yeah, they were desperate, alright: Desperate for Coach, Timberland, Ugg, Zara, Ralph Lauren, Louis Vuitton, AllSaints, Saint Laurent and Gucci.
Which brings us, appropriately enough, to The Lighter Side:
Then there’s these from Ed Hickey…
…and G. Trevor…
…along with some age-related bon mots from Balls Cotton…
…and this instant classic from Speed:
Finally, we’ll call it a day with yet another sordid story straight from the pages of The Crime Blotter, courtesy today of NRO‘s Charlie Cooke, who tells us…
An incident report released Thursday afternoon by the Santa Rosa Sheriff’s Office allege that the 13-year-old made repeated threats to shoot up Holley Navarre Middle School and to stab students who angered him.
Investigators interviewed multiple students who spoke with the teenager, as well as those who saw messages he posted on social media. In the messages to his friends, the teenager made the following statements, among others:
“I want to shoot up the school.”
“If I get a gun I’m gonna shoot up hnms lol.”
“I’m getting a wrath and natural selection shirt so maybe but I don’t think many ppl know what the columbine shooters look like.”
“Okay so it’s been like 3-4 weeks since I got on my new antidepressants and they aren’t working but they’re suppose to by now so I have no hope in getting better so why not kill the losers at school.”
The teenager told one of his friends that he planned to shoot up the school the Thursday before Spring Break but there were too many things going on so he postponed it until March 31. The students reported the claims to the school prior to that date and the investigation was launched.
As is her habit, Jones immediately started lying about the case:
“My family is not safe,” Rebekah Jones tweeted. “My son has been taken on the gov’s orders, and I’ve had to send my husband and daughter out of state for their safety. THIS is the reality of living in DeSantis’ Florida. There is no freedom here. Only retaliatory rule by a fascist who wishes to be king.”
A new GoFundMe is imminent, no doubt.”
As the meme above suggests, like Hunter Biden, that’s one apple that didn’t fall far from the tree.
Magoo
P.S. Business and personal commitments will prevent us publishing on Wednesday, so ’til Friday…
Video of the Day
Matt Walsh dismantles the specious assertions of another psychologically-impaired individual.
Tales of The Darkside
All you need to know about the transgenderism hoax in just under three minutes.
On the Lighter Side
Dave Rubin records Dan Crenshaw putting Dana Basha back on her hypocritical heels.
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