Flotsam and Jetsam - More Primaries, Chinese Predict EV Bloodbath

Ho hum, a bunch of primaries happened yesterday. If you should happen to care about them, now that both Biden and Trump are shoo-ins for their nominations, you can find the results at PJM from Chris Queen, LIVE RESULTS: Primaries in Ohio, Arizona, Florida, Illinois, and Kansas. The only race that people seem to be seriously interested in was the Ohio Senatorial seat where Secretary of State Frank LaRose, state Senator Matt Dolan, and Trump-endorsed businessman Bernie Moreno were contending for the opportunity to take retiring Democrat Sherrod Brown's seat. Spencer Brown at TownHall, BREAKING: The Results Are in for Ohio's Senate Republican Primary. Moreno won convincingly with 50.5% of the vote. Ben Whedon at JTN, Trump-backed Bernie Moreno projected to win Ohio GOP Senate primary."The Ohio race is considered one of the Republican Party's best chances to flip a seat in the 2024 battle for the upper chamber." 

Breitbart reports a Chinese Auto Executive: ‘Bloodbath’ Coming for American Auto Industry "He Xiaopeng, the CEO of XPeng Motors, predicts a “bloodbath” against America’s auto industry with the help of cheap China-made electric vehicles (EVs) " and Experts, Executives, and Auto Workers Agree with Trump: China Hoping to Annihilate American Auto Industry in ‘Bloodbath’ on Joe Biden’s Watch. Althouse, "Former President Donald J. Trump says that his recent warning of a 'blood bath'.... was made in the context of electric vehicles..." "... and that he was not talking about political violence generally. But if discussing a type of automotive technology in bloody terms seems odd to some, it fits in the increasingly brutal language Mr. Trump has been applying to electric vehicles, one of his favorite foils. He has long claimed electric cars will 'kill' America’s auto industry. He has called them an 'assassination' of jobs." TNP, Biden Govt Set To Roll Out Industry Crippling Auto Emission Standards. "President Joe Biden is pushing forward with his green agenda, reportedly preparing to introduce strict emissions restrictions that could — in essence — compel electric vehicle (EV) sales. The Environmental Protection Agency looks set to implement regulations the Biden government surmises could propel EVs to account for roughly two-thirds of new car and light truck sales by 2032, a notable increase from less than 10 percent last year." Matt Schmidt at Compact, Trump Is Right About the Auto ‘Bloodbath’ At Am Think, Blaine L. Pardoe thinks about When a Bloodbath Isn’t. WaEx's Paul Bedard hears the Liberal Media Scream: ‘Bloodbath’ is what media are doing to Trump. PJM's Paula Bolyard would rather focus on Biden's Bloodbath. At TNP it's REVEALED: Epstein Island’s Reid Hoffman, Megadonor to E. Jean Carroll, Nikki Haley Funds MeidasTouch Group Behind ‘Bloodbath’ Hoax.    

At Hat Hair Larry has a video, Trump Says Voting for Dems Is Anti-Israel. Could This Be Why? "MSNBC guest Donny Deutsch was rather upset to hear Donald Trump say Jewish Democrats are voting against their religion and Israel. But has Deutsch listened to Chuck Schumer lately?" Twitchy is amused that Sen. Chuck Schumer is Upset That Donald Trump Is Making Israel a Partisan Issue. Hat Hair's Dave Strom notes that Nigel Farage Confirms the Obvious. "

Lara Logan@laralogan "URGENT Michigan Lawyer Stefanie Lambert Arrested by US Marshals in DC Following Court Appearance — After Submitting "Evidence of Numerous Crimes" Including Internal Emails from Dominion Voting Systems to Law Enforcement | The Gateway Pundit | by Jim Hᴏft". So now it's illegal to produce evidence of Democrat's tampering with election? At Am Spec Dave Catron wonders Will the 2024 Election Get Lost in the Mail? "The vast and rapid expansion of mail-in balloting facilitates election skulduggery." Yep, and that's why Democrats want more. Hayden Ludwig at ROA, BREAKING: Milwaukee Takes Arabella “Dark Money” to Count Your Ballots in Zuck Bucks Scandal Repeat.

Kind of a wild ride at SCOTUS yesterday, first, from TNP, SCOTUS Blocks Texas From Securing the Border. OTP, TX Gov. Abbott Says Buoys Will Stay In River Following Supreme Court Ruling. Then Capt. Ed at Hat Hair, SCOTUS Says Game on *Again*, Allows Texas Immigration Law to Take Effect. Greg Byrnes at PJM, Supreme Court Refuses to Block Texas From Arresting Illegal Immigrants. Ace, Supreme Court Lifts Stay on Enforcement of Texas Law Criminalizing Illegal Border-Crossing. Later, WaPoo whines Supreme Court clears way, for now, for Texas to arrest and deport migrants. Then the 5th Circuit promptly blocked it, "The U.S. Court of Appeals for the 5th Circuit blocked enforcement of the law, known as S.B. 4, ahead of oral arguments scheduled for Wednesday morning."

Fox reports a Judge rules illegal immigrants have gun rights protected by 2nd Amendment "Decision on gun rights for illegal immigrants has divided 2nd Amendment community." An Obama judge, who could ordinarily rule against gun rights. From Da Caller, Laken Riley’s Father Speaks Out For First Time, Accuses Biden Of Using His Daughter. At Da Wire, Dan Chaitin reports House Republicans Expand Laken Riley Probe Seeking Immigration Details On Alleged Murderer’s Brothers and African Illegal Alien On Terror Watchlist Arrested After Allegedly Opening Fire At Business. Rasmussen reports 62% OK With ‘Illegal’ to Describe Border-Crossers.

At WaEx, Biden campaign concedes race against Trump will be ‘tough’ before Southwest swing. Da Caller, ‘He G*ddamn Well Better’: Reality Finally Setting In For Democrats That Biden Could Lose To Trump. Da Blaze reports Biden is left 'seething,' outraged, and cursing when confronted with reality over re-election polls. Da Fetched Democrats Sound the Alarm: Biden Has No Chance of Beating Trump. At Front Page, Dan Greenfield hears Biden’s Staffers Want Him to Walk Faster to Convince Everyone He’s Not Old "That'll fix everything," and Watch Trump Troll Biden With ‘White House Senior Living’ Ad. "A place where anyone can feel like a president." Nick Arama at RedState, Joe and Jill Gaffe at WH Event, She Tries to Direct Joe Off Stage but It Goes South and Biden Loses to the Teleprompter and Steals Trump's Slogan, but Still Can't Get Things Right in Las Vegas.

Hat Hair's Dave Strom cites Larry Summers: Inflation Much Worse Than Government Says. The government is not very good at reporting facts not in their favor and Jazz Shaw exposes Joe Biden's 'Rent-Gouging Landlords' Fantasy. WaPoo, echoed at MSN worries that In Wisconsin, a vote for Biden or Trump could come down to grocery prices.

Ace, Biden Administration Plots to Save The Iranian Terror-Proxy Hamas By Refusing to Sell Israel Arms and Ammunition "The US is now a sponsor of terror, thanks to Obama/Biden." The TN Start reports Former U.S. Special Envoy for Haiti Dan Foote: Victoria Nuland and the U.S. Ambassador to Haiti Cut the 2021 Deal with Now Deposed Haiti Strongman Ariel Henry to Repatriate Del Rio Camp Migrants in Return for Scuttled Elections. Biden continues his unsullied reputation for being wrong about everything in foreign policy.

At NTD, Eric Schwerin Testifies Joe Biden and the Biden Family Used Alias Email Accounts During Vice Presidency. Bob Spencer at Front Page notes Hunter Refuses to Appear at House Hearing, Calls It a ‘Carnival Sideshow’ "Coming from a man whose entire life is a carnival sideshow." Meanwhile, former Trump advisor Peter Navarro reports to jail for defying a subpoena from the J6 committee, after asserting executive privilege. Sundance at CTH, Peter Navarro Delivers Remarks Before Reporting to Federal Prison for Contempt of a Congressional J6 Subpoena. Insty, AT THIS POINT, ANY HONORABLE CITIZEN SHOULD HOLD CONGRESS IN CONTEMPT: Ex-Trump adviser Peter Navarro reports to prison on contempt of Congress conviction. "I want a GOP president and a GOP congress who will feed this stuff right back to the Democrats. I suppose the statute of limitations has run on Eric Holder’s contempt of congress, but . . . And of course, despite what Judge Amit Mehta said, he is in fact the victim of a political persecution, and he’s not the only one. The perversion of the justice system — and the Department of Justice — is far advanced under this Administration." 

At Flopping Aces, The Trump persecution is the standard for how dems will use lawfare as a means to eliminate political opposition "Imagine your complete personal financial destruction. All it takes is a deranged District Attorney and a deranged judge who hold a different political view, i.e. the democrat view. We have." At Am Con, An Open Letter to Lawfare-Loving Democrats, "You’re going to have to win this one the old-fashioned way." Da Caller, Jonathan Turley Says Prosecutions Of Trump Prove Him ‘Right’ About Weaponization Of Government

“It’s becoming increasingly difficult to deny that we have a legal system now that is being heavily distorted by politics and you cannot look at all of these cases and see blind justice, you see the opposite,” Turley told Fox Business host Larry Kudlow, a former Trump administration official. “You see a justice that is being weaponized, and in many ways the Democrats fulfill the narrative of President Trump. He is now right. No matter what they thought about it at the beginning, they proved him to be right with this pile-on from Florida to Georgia, to Washington, D.C., to New York and most of the public gets it.”

Margot Cleveland at Da Fed thinks It’s A Miscarriage Of Justice To Let Fani Willis Keep Prosecuting Trump. At NYPo, Attorney who blew whistle on Fani Willis affair blasts DA over speech claiming ‘Jesus’ told her to prosecute Trump. Capt. Ed comments "Some politicians will claim to have been called to pursue office, but even that raises eyebrows these days. It's quite another for a prosecutor to claim that Jesus told her to indict a political opponent, especially in a venue where the jury pool is listening." From Da Fetched Joe Rogan States the Obvious on Trump Indictments: ‘Looks Like You’re Trying to Prosecute Your Political Opponents.’ At Da Blaze, Fani Willis isn't out of the woods yet: Trump's attorney seeks to appeal judge's disqualification ruling. Liz Stauffer at WaEx finds The Left turns on Fani Willis after judge finds ‘an odor of mendacity remains’ in her case against Trump.

Hat Hair's KT reports Defamation: Trump Sues ABC News and George Stephanopoulos "Trump was found guilty of sexual assault of Carroll by a jury, not of rape. He was also found guilty of defaming her. The key here is that Trump was not found guilty of rape. Stephanopoulos repeatedly said that Trump was found guilty of rape and Nancy Mace pushed back to correct him. She said it was a case of sexual assault, not rape, with Trump. Nonetheless, Stephanopoulos persisted." Ace, Trump Files Suit Against George Stephanopolous and Disney Frontgroup ABC "News," "This is the way." Althouse, "Trump sues ABC and Stephanopoulos, alleging defamation over Mace interview." "The Hill reports. ... Stephanopoulos... said Trump had been found “liable for rape.” The jury had found Trump liable for sexual abuse under New York law, but not rape.... The complaint quotes 12 times that Stephanopoulos said "rape," so he really leaned into what he had to know was wrong. . . " The bar to leap to accuse one public figure of defaming another is quite high, and correctly so, but I think that showing actual malice here should be quite easy, given all of Stuffinenvelope's public statements on Trump. However, getting a jury in any big city to agree is quite difficult. I do think $84 million ought to cover it, though.

Isabella DeLuca

From TNP, Feds Charge MAGA Influencer Isabella DeLuca for TOUCHING A TABLE on Jan 6. "According to the FBI, DeLuca touched a table as it was being passed from office within the Capitol to rioters outside through a shattered window. The bureau alleges the table was later used to assault law enforcement officers." At the TN Star, Wife of Unjustly Imprisoned J6 Defendant and Former Williamson County Deputy Sheriff Ronald McAbee Incarcerated Since 2021 Says Tennessee Congressional Delegation Is Ignoring His Case. Law and Crime, Judge Disqualifies New Mexico County Commissioner and ‘Cowboys for Trump’ Founder for Having ‘Engaged in’ the Jan. 6 ‘Insurrection’. Jeff Charles, Supreme Court Decides Whether It Will Hear 14th Amendment Case Against Former New Mexico Commissioner, and . . . "However, it appears that Democrats seeking to leverage the amendment’s “insurrection clause” against their political opposition can still use it against those running at the state level. The Supreme Court declined to take up the case of Couy Griffin, former Otero County, New Mexico Commissioner and the founder of Cowboys for Trump. He was barred from holding public office again after he was convicted of trespassing on U.S. Capitol grounds."

Ben Weingarten at NYPo worries The Supreme Court hints it may give away our free-speech rights in social-media-censorship case. I do too. Tristan Justice at Da Fed, Federal Government Claims ‘Once-In-A-Lifetime Pandemic’ Excuses First Amendment Violations. At Da Caller, SCOTUS Must Protect The 1st Amendment. The Biden Admin Certainly Won’t. Stephen Kruiser at PJM, Now More Than Ever, the Left Is Terrified of Free Speech.NewsBusters, OLD GRAY KAREN: NYT Publishes 3,984-Word Eulogy Decrying Death of Gov’t-Big Tech Collusion. Dan O'Donnell at Da Fed, CNN’s Aaron Rodgers Hit Piece Proves Corporate Media Works For Democrats.

Ace, Ex-Google Employees: The Brain-Damaged Woke AI Is No Mistake. The AI Is Accurately Promoting the Mentally-Ill Worldview of the Google Megacorporation. "The Free Press . . ." Tom Knighton at Tilting At Windmills thinks Heads. Should. Roll. I&I, hope for a Media Bloodbath: Elon Musk Is Now More Trustworthy Than Every Major News Outlet.

James Nault at LI sees a Groundswell of Second Amendment Cases Seems Destined for the Supreme Court "Federal courts in blue states seem to be upholding the majority of gun control laws, even after landmark Supreme Court decisions upholding the fundamental right to keep and bear arms."

From the Free Bacon, TikTok Supporters Blame Jews for Congressional Ban "'There is 0 doubt in my mind pro-Israel lobbying groups are behind the pressure.'" At Da Wire, a Principal Lied To Punish Jewish Teacher Who Reported Muslim Student For Praising Hitler. From Campus Reform, Anti-DEI movement mirrors rise of societal pushback to leftism: ANALYSIS. PJM's VodkaPundit finds SCIENCE! to show The Woke Are Just Trying to Inflict Their Misery on Everyone Else. It's working, at least in part. The James Martin Center notes “Kangaroo Courts” Aren’t Dead at UNC "Chapel Hill has blundered into a lawsuit by trampling on the rights of a professor." From the College Fix, Outrage erupts over Kyle Rittenhouse campus tour.

"Shangela"

Lou Aguilar at Da Spec calls it Midway in the Culture War "Transgenderism may be the hill the Left has chosen to die on." As in the Battle of Midway. Da Caller,  Blue State Dems Soundly Lost Debate On Radical Trans Bill — So Now They Want To Sneak It Past You. At Hat Hair Dave Strom wonders If An Illegal Alien Shoots a Trans Illegal Sexworker, Is It a Crime? Liberals Say No. Da Wire, EXCLUSIVE: 82-Year-Old Woman Threatens Lawsuit After Trans Incident At YMCA Pool. "An 82-year-old woman is demanding access to a local YMCA-operated pool after being banned from the facility for speaking out against a man using the women’s locker room, according to a letter obtained exclusively by The Daily Wire." Capt. Ed says "Let's hope they get shellacked. Only severe financial penalties will incentivize a change to the insanity adopted by government officials and their partners in the embrace of trans-queer ideology." At Da Fetched, Trans Medical Association Scrubs Child Sex Change Guidelines from Website. "The World Professional Association for Transgender Health (WPATH) removed its transgender medical guidelines from its website following criticism over child sex changes."  Does this auger anything, or is it just a glitch? mrcTV reports Media’s Favorite Drag Queen Accused of Multiple Sexual Assaults "Darius Pierce, also known as Shangela from "RuPaul's Drag Race."

At Da Wire, Biden’s Top Intelligence Agency Says Crossdressing Makes Man ‘Better Intelligence Officer,’ Internal Docs Show "DW INVESTIGATES: 'I am an intelligence officer, and I am a man who likes to wear women’s clothes sometimes,' reads testimony from inside intel community." 'Citizen Soldier' at RCP, Duty, Honor, Nothing West Point is dropping “Duty, Honor, Country” from its mission statement, to be replaced with the nebulous phrase, “Army Values.” 

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Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito extended an order Monday blocking Texas officials from executing a new state immigration law authorized by Governor Greg Abbott.