Flotsam and Jetsam - Jobs Down but Wages Up?

Capt. Ed at Hat Hair wonders how July Jobs Report Shows Stall -- But Wages Up? "The data tells us that wages are increasing by nearly 4% year-on-year and 0.3% month-on-month, both well above current inflation rates ... in the middle of a three-month stall in job creation. Is that possible? Perhaps wages lag a bit on job creation, but it's tough to believe that wages would still be going up at all if the economy had all but stopped producing jobs." zerohedge @zerohedge, "Today's jobs report is a consequence of the illegal alien labor purge: foreign-born workers down 4 months in a row, down 1.5 million since April. Native-born workers up 383K in July." JD Vance @JDVance, "I was told 6 months ago that Americans losing jobs and the foreign-born gaining jobs was an irreversible demographic fact. Turns out you just needed a new president and a new immigration policy." Quote Geiger Capital @Geiger_Capital, "Holy. Shit. I thought this was a typo… In the last 4 months, native-born Americans have gained 1.8 MILLION jobs." Sundance at CTH, President Trump Fires Commissioner of Labor Statistics, “In my opinion, today’s Jobs Numbers were RIGGED in order to make the Republicans, and ME, look bad — Just like when they had three great days around the 2024 Presidential Election, and then, those numbers were “taken away” on November 15, 2024, right after the Election, when the Jobs Numbers were massively revised DOWNWARD, making a correction of over 818,000 Jobs — A TOTAL SCAM. Jerome “Too Late” Powell is no better! But, the good news is, our Country is doing GREAT!” There has been something wrong with BLS for quite some time. If it wasn't political, it was just being an incompetent chief. 

AAA, Gas Prices Stay Cool As Demand Heats Up. From the Brussels Signal, In trade as in defence, the US is strong and the EU is weak. Hat Hair's Dave Strom asks if you Remember TACO? George @BehizyTweets "WATCH: Trump just hit a home run with his response to a reporter's snarky question. Reporter: "Wall Street analysts have a new term called the TACO trade.. Saying 'Trump Always Chickens Out on tariffs'" Trump: "You call that chickening out? Because we have $14 trillion now invested, committed to investing, when Biden didn't have practically anything." "You mean because I reduced China from 145% that I said down to 100%, and then down to another, and I said you have to open up your whole country, and because I gave the EU a 50% tax tariff and they called up and they said, please, let's meet right now?" That was spectacular." The high tariff rates were always a starting point for negotiations. From ET, Trump’s Tariff Revenues Smash Record With $28 Billion Haul in July, "Collections top $151 billion for the fiscal year to date as Trump’s trade policy enters a critical phase ahead of the Aug. 1 reciprocal tariff deadline." Sundance at CTH is gratified that Adriana D. Kugler Submits Resignation as Member of the Federal Reserve Board of Governors "President Trump will now get to appoint a replacement." Mark Tapscott at Wash Stand, GAO Budget Stand-Off: Why Is the House GOP Cutting Off Its Nose to Spite Its Face? It's what they do; I'm surprised any of them have noses at all.

Althouse was on a miscellaneous Trumpiania roll, with "Ms. Maxwell cannot risk further criminal exposure in a politically charged environment without formal immunity", "There is no precedent for politicians so aggressively raising money for their own entities when they do not have a campaign to use it for." "Writes Theodore Schleifer, in "Trump, Term-Limited, Amasses $200 Million War Chest for Political Ambitions/The money is meant to beat Democrats, but some Republicans worry it could be used to beat Republicans, too", "Elon Musk continued to bankroll Republican candidates after his public fallout with US President Donald Trump, donating millions of dollars to campaign groups gearing up for next year’s midterm elections," "Financial Times reports," and "[T]he White House is currently unable to host major functions honoring world leaders and other countries without having to install a large and unsightly tent approximately 100 yards away..." Regarding the last one, Katie Jerkovich at RedState elaborates Karoline Leavitt Reveals Details, Images About Upcoming Grand White House Expansion. "White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt finally revealed details and shared images about plans for a grand ballroom on the White House grounds complex, following President Donald Trump's announcement earlier this week about the upcoming expansion." From Lawrence Person's BattleSwarm Blog, Trump Halts Biden-Era Texas Land Grab. Ace, Trump Signs EO Reversing Obama's Ending of the Presidential Council on Sports, Fitness, and Nutrition, Marking the Beginning of Trump GAINZZZ, "America will no longer be celebrating weakness and slothfulness as some kind of special virtue of the very unhealthy," and The Climate Hoax Is Being Canceled with the EPA Terminating the “Endangerment Finding.” I'm sure courts will tie that up indefinitely. How dare Trump's EPA revoke an Obama EPA pronouncement? Is there anything Trump can't do in six months? From UPI, NOAA says Gulf of Mexico dead zone is smaller this year. "Area is about 30% smaller than last year, scientists say." That's the Gulf of America. 

From Sundance, President Trump Moves 2 Nuclear Subs Within Striking Distance of Russia, in response to Russian President Medvedev's saber rattling. I thought the point of nuclear subs was that they were always within striking range using long range ballistic missiles. 

Shipwreckedcrew on The Durham Report's Classified Annex -- What Did We Learn? "The details aren't firm, but it does confirm that the FBI ignored clear evidence of the Clinton Campaign's planning and execution of the worst "Dirty Trick" in U.S. political history." Sundance, DNI Tulsi Gabbard Breaks Down How the Declassified Documents Outline the Trump-Russia Hoax and thinks fn 109, Page 25 is particularly important. Vicky Taft at PJM, And There It Was — One Sentence in Declassified Docs Proves We All Were Censored to Protect Hillary Mike Benz @MikeBenzCyber, "HOLY FUCKING SHIT ***THIS*** IN THE GODDAMN CLASSIFIED INDEX THAT HAS BEEN CLASSIFIED FOR 9 GODDAMN YEARS **THIS** IS WHERE THEY COOKED UP THE 'CRITICAL INFRASTRUCTURE' HOAX THAT CREATED THE LEGAL PREDICATE COVER FOR THE ENTIRE CENSORSHIP INDUSTRIAL COMPLEX." At Da Fed The Marvelous Margot Cleveland outraged that the Clapper Crew Threatened Whistleblower Who Refused To Sign Off On Fabricated Intel Assessment and Shawn Fleetwood says the Docs show Soros Executive Predicted FBI Would ‘Put More Oil Into The Fire’ Of Russia Hoax. Matt Vespa notes Two of Obama's Most Prominent Russian Collusion Hoax Peddlers Penned an Op-Ed. It Got Blown Up Already. Matt Margolis at PJM thinks Brennan and Clapper Just Hit the Panic Button. Hat Hair's Beege Welborn looks at The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll Brennan and Mr John Hyde. At Ace, Angry Boxed-Wine Connoisseur AWFL Says She's Totally Proud to Have Written the ICA and the "Steele Dossier" Might Be True. "A Brennan stooge named Susan Miller was recruited to write up RussiaGate "reports" which ultimately served as the foundation of the ICA that kicked off RussiaGate. Actually she claims to have written the ICA itself, which seems to be, what's the word, a lie. But more on that later. She has now re-emerged to claim that all of her sexless partisan fantasies about Trump and Putin might have, maybe, been halfway true." PJM's Cathy Salgado reports Trump Says Russia Hoax Perpetrators Must ‘Pay a Big Price’. I'm not holding my breath. Matt Taibbi at Racket says The New York Times Can't Stop Sucking, in the context of Russiagate, but it's generally true.

Bob Hoge at RedState, Now It's His Turn: Jack Smith Reportedly Under Investigation for Violating Hatch Act, attempting to sabotage Trump's campaign. 

From ET, Judge Blocks DHS Bid to End Protected Status for Immigrants From Honduras, Nicaragua, Nepal, "The Homeland Security Department had argued that extending the immigrants’ protected status would undermine U.S. foreign policy and national interests." Randy Barnett @RandyEBarnett, “When a lower court’s order attempting to limit the executive is also an act of mutiny against the Supreme Court, the issue is not conflict between branches, but the legitimate hierarchy of authority within the judicial branch….” Quote Adrian Vermeule @Vermeullarmine, "On the mutiny by lower-court judges: https://nytimes.com/2025/07/31/opi."

At Da Caller, ‘RIP Democracy:’ Left-Wing Protesters Drop Coffin On Wisconsin GOP Rep’s Doorstep. John Sexton at Hat Hair reports Protesters Arrested at Offices for Sens. Schumer and Gillibrand, for not being left enough. Also, New Hampshire Bans Gender Affirming Care as Letitia James Sues Trump.

Jeff Charles at TownHall with at sad story, Cops Assault Disabled Veteran, Tase His Dog—a Federal Judge Just Gave Him a Chance to Fight Back. The dog died. 

VodkaPundit at PJM was not impressed by Kamala's Colbert Cringe-Fest. Mike Miller at RedState, hears Kamala 'Word Salad' Harris Announces Upcoming Book About Her Failed Campaign, and We Can't Wait! Capt. Ed at Hat Hair, Harris to Colbert: Trump Broke Me. Nick Sortor @nicksortor "In the MOST amount of words possible, Kamala Harris admits President Trump BROKE her, which is why she doesn’t want to run for Governor of California “The system’s broken… so I don’t wanna go back into the system.” She just GAVE UP"  Ace, Kamala Harris: I Lost Because "The System" Is "Broken;" "Democracy" Failed to Position Me For Success. "Before that: Of course she's writing a book to cash in on her Massive Historic Failure. The dollar figure of the deal is not yet known." Althouse, "And um recently I made the decision that I just for now I don't want to go back in the system. I think it's broken...."  "You are going into political oblivion." NYPo, Stephen Colbert needles Kamala Harris after she fails to answer simple question. Take me to your leader! Ace hears Mark Halperin: Biden's Inner Circle Is Threatening Kamala Harris That If She Dishes About His Cogntivie Impairment, They'll Start Admitting How Incompetent She Is "So now the very mean old man, the most absurdly thin-skinned moron narcissist on the planet -- whoops, except for Jasmine Ratchet -- is threatening Kamala Harris that if she discusses Biden's dementia in her stupid book, they'll open the vaults about her." Insty has A REMINDER THAT WE DODGED A BULLET: “Last night Joe Biden spoke before an event sponsored by a black lawyers’ association in Chicago. You can see him in the clip below. In terms of content, it was typical Biden: hateful and fact-free. Just one anti-Trump smear after another, “without evidence” as the papers like to say. But content aside, he was hardly able to read the teleprompter. He is feeble and barely functional. If he had been re-elected in 2024, he would now be just six months into a four-year term that he couldn’t possibly complete.”

A Larry video, CNN Reveals Shock Polls: Will Democrats Ever Recover? Defiant L’s @DefiantLs, "CNN: It keeps getting worse for Democrats." John Lucas at Bravo Blue, sees Juvenile Delinquents in the United States Senate "A snapshot of obstructionism and refusal to accept election results." Ruy Teixeira at the Liberal Patriot says Democrats Should Give Up on #Resistance 2.0 "It hasn’t worked and it won’t work." Capt. Ed takes note of Axios: Guess What Democrats Have Stopped Talking About? The Green Nude Eel. 

From LifeZette, JD Vance Cooks Gavin Newsom to a Crisp Over His ‘Outrageous’ Gerrymandering. At TNP, NYC’s Mamdani Bragged About Channeling Public Funds to Illegals. Shooting News Weekly, Chris Murphy Gives Gun Owners a Preview of What Dems Would Do to Gun Rights If and When They Regain Power.

John Sexton reports Border Apprehensions Hit Another Record Low in July, in a good way. Dave Manney at PJM, Not One More Number: Say Their Names or Admit You Don’t Care "We're told about the arrests in the cold newspeak spoken by the newsreader providing the voiceover as we watch footage accompanied by numbers, charts, and press statements. We learn so much, but not the most important part: What those men actually did before they were caught. . . " An example from Ace, A Cultural Enricher With 43 Prior Counts of Aggravated Cultural Enrichment Attempts to Kidnap a Child at a Virginia Mall, "This is in super-progressive, tyrannical Fairfax County, where they cover up "transgender" boys' forcible sodomization of girls in the bathroom so as not to upset The Bigots. Of course it's also a Sanctuary County." Tyler O'Neil at Da Signal finds an IMMIGRATION HOLD-OVER: Biden Political Appointee Still Holds Prominent DHS Position Under Trump. Roaches are so hard to eliminate entirely. From Twitchy, Fool Us Twice: Dem Neera Tanden Says Democrats Should Be Trusted on ‘New’ Immigration Reform Plan.

John Sexton reports The Corporation for Public Broadcasting is Shutting Down. “Despite the extraordinary efforts of millions of Americans who called, wrote, and petitioned Congress to preserve federal funding for CPB, we now face the difficult reality of closing our operations,” said CPB President and CEO Patricia Harrison. “CPB remains committed to fulfilling its fiduciary responsibilities and supporting our partners through this transition with transparency and care.” But we heard the feds only provided a fraction of their funding, am I right? "Say Goodbye to Sesame Street" Paula Bolyard at PJM, The CBP Is Closing Up Shop! Jim Thompson at RedState, This Week's Tsunami Scare Proved One Thing - No One Relies on NPR. From LifeZette, PBS and NPR Tied to Soros-Backed Fact-Checkers Through Taxpayer CPB Funding. Christopher F. Rufo @realchrisrufo, "Conservatives should not forget that there has been virtually no blowback to defunding NPR. In the past, the Left would claim that Republicans wanted to execute Big Bird, and Republicans would dutifully back down. Not anymore. Simple principle: stop sending cash to your enemies." From Twitchy, WaPo’s Glenn Kessler Squeezes Out Last Laughable ‘Fact-Check’ and X Rapidly Responds With the Truth. Ace, Exactly as Predicted, EU Law Supposedly Intended to Protect Children from Porn Is Immediately Deployed Against Its Real Target: Political Speech by Adults That is Critical of the Failing, Traitorous Regime "Trump is warning effeminate ponce Keir Starmer that if the EU continues using this law to stifle Americans' speech, there's going to be big trouble." The Babylon Bee @TheBabylonBee "Doctor Strange Reveals That Across 14 Million Universes, Colbert’s Show Bombs In Every Single One https://buff.ly/6lXfufR."

I, for one, continue to relish "Sweeneygate!" Variety whines JD Vance Urges Democrats Angry Over Sydney Sweeney Jeans Ads to Keep It Up: ‘Continue to Tell Everybody’ Who Thinks She Is Attractive That They’re ‘a Nazi’ At USA Today, Sydney Sweeney's jeans ad triggers liberals. She looks good. They don't. Dave Strom wonders Why Do Statues of Fat Black Women Keep Popping Up? In random places. Stephen Kruiser at PJM sees Gender Sanity Is Slowly Returning to the World of Sports, but Da Wire reports a Virginia Dad was Suspended From Pool After Calling Out Boy In Girls’ Races. "Luis Fernandez wrote the word 'BOY' on a scoreboard next to the name of the young male swimmer, who won two girls' races." VodkaPundit at PJM, DOING THE 2028 PIVOT: Pete Buttigieg acknowledges ‘fairness issues’ with trans athletes in women’s sports. From Ace, CEO of Jaguar Steps Down After Disastrous Rebrand of Storied Car Company as Trans-Portation "He turned a man's brand into a trans brand. But men are 49% of the market (actually, more like 90% for a sportscar) and the trans market is.... slightly less than that, right?"

From the College Fix, ‘Race based scholarships’ are ‘unlawful’: DOJ memo. Insty, MAKE THEM PAY. MAKE THEM ALL PAY. Inez Stepman @InezFeltscher "There’s like 20 years of legally actionable material like this hanging like a sword of Damocles over every major corporation in America, we can drop it whenever we want against anyone." Quote David Decosimo @DavidDecosimo, "On my first day at BU, a colleague took me to lunch & said: “Do you know what the real miracle of your hire is? You’re a white male. Do you know how much better than every other candidate you have to be to get hired here as a white man?" I couldn't believe he'd said it out loud." And, THIS CALLS FOR, DARE I SAY IT, REPARATIONS: Melissa Chen @MsMelChen, "The anti-white bias in faculty hiring is pervasive. I spent way too much time in academia, and ended up getting to know many tenured professors who were grandfathered in long before the DEI madness. Many were serving on hiring committees where their job was to interview potential candidates for entry-level faculty jobs; some also served on tenure committees. At first it was a slow drip. Every now and then, a candidate would be denied purely because the administration prioritized a woman or a person of color for that position. By 2018, it was pretty much the conventional norm. Professor friends told me “I don’t even know why we are going through this show trial. . . ” Quote Colin Wright @SwipeWright, ANNOUNCEMENT: I’ve taken legal action against Cornell University for racial discrimination. Represented by @A1Policy, I’ve filed an EEOC complaint after leaked internal emails revealed Cornell secretly ran a faculty search in my exact field (evolutionary biology) specifically to make a “diversity hire.” The committee privately reached out to pre-selected "diverse" candidates, one at a time, to bypass open competition. Qualified white applicants like myself were excluded from even applying. This is a direct and egregious violation of my civil rights under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act.

Lotsa links left at the Wombat's In The Mailbox: 08.01.25 but it's a glorious cool August day, and I've got to get out. Linked at The Pirate's Cove in the weekly Sorta Blogless Sunday Pinup and links. The Wombat has Rule 5 Sunday: Doughnut Dolly and FMJRA 2.0: World Series ’73 Week Two up on time and under budget.on/supreme-court-trump-judges-defiance.html

Flotsam and Jetsam - Debt Deal Published

From Breitbart, Congress Releases Bill Text of Debt Deal. "House lawmakers will have three days to review the 99-page bill, called the Fiscal Responsibility Act, before they are set to vote for it as soon as Wednesday. The bill can be viewed here." Only 99 pages (double spaced with wide margins I assume? I'm impressed by their brevity. John Bresnahan@bresreports "New: A preliminary CBO estimate found that the Fiscal Response Act - the debt-limit package set to be voted on by Congress this week - could cut spending by $2.1T if proposed budget caps are left in place for full 6 years, per GOP sources."  As WaPoo notes, now McCarthy, Biden race to woo lawmakers to pass debt ceiling package. It seems to me from each parties perspective, the idea is to see how many defectors they can have, to help force the other side to contribute to the vote. Bipartisan in a negative sense. Yahoo! cites McCarthy: Student loan payment pause ‘gone’ under debt ceiling deal. At Based Politics, Fiscal conservatives blast debt ceiling ‘sell out’ 'Fake conservatives agree to fake spending cuts' according to Rand Paul. John Solomon at JTN reports DeSantis blasts McCarthy debt deal as inadequate when country ‘careening towards bankruptcy’, which can be true while still being the best deal McCarthy could swing. As PJM's Stephen Kruiser notes there is plenty of Blame to Go Around in Latest GOP Debt Deal Fizzle. Of course, Republicans aren't the only people upset. Breitbart cites the White House: Progressives Should Support Debt Bill Because of Items It Doesn’t Repeal, Avoiding Default. At WaEx, Liberal Rep. Pramila Jayapal denounces debt ceiling bill: 'Absolutely terrible policy' and Jim Himes says 'none of the things' in debt limit deal 'are Democratic priorities' and Debt limit: Joe Manchin snubs Biden and heaps praise on Republicans over pipeline approval  At NewsBusters, CNN Claims Work Requirements Are Offensive to Poor People. The City Journal considers The Debt Ceiling’s Geopolitical Stakes. "As the U.S. scrambles to shore up its position in the Indo-Pacific, unsound finances at home threaten its military readiness."

In economic news, Hat Hair's KT points out Bidenflation: Memorial Day barbecue staples cost more this year, they weren't bragging this year. At the Market Insider, Elon Musk warns house prices are set to plunge – and says commercial real estate is in meltdown. 

At Da Caller, ‘Nobody Wants Biden’: Wall Street Quietly Hopes Another Dem Wins The Party Nomination. From Da Wire, House Oversight Democrats Defend FBI Ahead Of Alleged Biden Bribery Scheme Document Subpoena. At his NYPo gig, Jonathan Turley points out Bidens offer ‘safe harbor’ to Hunter as he flails over scandalous reports. Varad Mehta@varadmehta "Is this the first time a mainstream outlet has called Biden out on his erasure of Hunter's lovechild?" Is Forbes really mainstream? At Am Think, Steve Young thinks 'It’s all about the money' -- The Dysfunctional Biden Family Legacy  and D. Parker wonders Is Michelle Obama going to replace Senator Feinstein to jumpstart a presidential run? At LI, Herr Professor Jacobsen hear Democrats: Save Us Michelle! "The fierce urgency of now may come into play if there is a realistic prospect of Trump returning to the White House or America becoming DeSantistan."

The PM hears Trump campaign fundraises for ballot harvesting operations in battleground states. "We recently alerted you that a Soros-linked Super PAC has begun targeting 6 battleground states with a $75 MILLION spending blitz to buy Crooked Joe the White House." The only way it will ever get banned is if Republican exceed Democrats at it. Matt Boose at Am Great says Republican Voters Don’t Want a Trump Knockoff,  "It comes down to this: DeSantis is just not presidential material," but Dave Catron at Am Spec warns of Trump, DeSantis, and the Dangers of Blind Loyalty. "Too much is at stake in 2024 to allow emotion to affect our votes." Josh Hammer at Newsweek attempts to make The Case for Ron DeSantis. Charlie McCarthy at NewsMax claims Trump, DeSantis Tied in Florida as NY Daily News sees Trump and Ron DeSantis spar over GOP war on ‘woke’ Disney. Ed Driscoll at Insty, BETO O’ROURKE COULD NOT BE REACHED FOR COMMENT: Rolling Stone tries to paint Ron DeSantis as evil for “bringing the ax down on furries,” makes huge campaign contribution instead. Althouse reads the NYT and finds "The rapidly ballooning field, combined with Mr. Trump’s seemingly unbreakable core of support, represents a grave threat to Mr. DeSantis..." "It's a relentless dynamic: The more opposition Trump gets, the more dominant he becomes. His antagonists only dilute themselves. It's a matter of math."

At Breitbart, Dianne Feinstein Confused by Sight of VP Kamala Harris Presiding over Senate. Hat Hair's Capt. Ed points out "This is an unfortunate tradition in the Senate. Both Strom Thurmond and Robert Byrd were reportedly non compos mentis at the end of their long careers in the upper chamber. What is a bit non-traditional is the media attention about it for a Democrat. The national media seems surprisingly interested in pressuring Feinstein to resign and to force Gavin Newsom to replace her, something he reportedly would love to avoid if possible." At Front Page, Video: O’Keefe Catches Fetterman Staffer Admitting List of “Puppet” Journalists. "How Dems keep getting away with just about everything." I'm sure this is not unique to Fetterman or even Democrats, but since journolists mostly lean hard left, they get a better shake.

Ben Bartee at PJM hears Trump National Security Adviser: Deep State Will 'for Sure' Rig 2024 Election. KT McFarland, who has her own story of having the FBI try to intimidate her.  Why wouldn't they, none of them have been sanctioned for it yet.  At Front Page, Durham Believes FBI Should Have Never Conducted the Trump/Russia Investigation in 2016, "But why let them off easy over it?"   Britanny Sheen at Red State worries about The Rise of AI: How Artificial Intelligence Is Set to Transform the 2024 Presidential Race. ChatGPT is  a known liar, and therefore a perfect politician.

ET reports About 1 Million Viewers Stopped Watching Fox News After Tucker Carlson’s Exit. Jeff Dunetz at Da Lid, Fox Prime Down One Million Viewers Per Night Since Booting Tucker: OUCH! That’s Gonna Leave A Mark "It's Going To Cost Them $$$$" But, somehow, I'm not worried about the Murdochs going hungry.

In a very real way, the FBI jujitusing a rash of anarchist attacks against pro-lifers into a reason to investigate pro-lifers is very similar to the J6 situation & Russia Collusion Hoax before it. https://t.co/wjX8SkbtX5

— Kyle Shideler (@ShidelerK) March 3, 2023

At PM, House GOP investigates Bank of America for handing over customer banking records to FBI during Jan 6 probe.  At Am Great the redoubtable Julie Kellypoints out Three Years Later, No Justice for BLM Insurrection in D.C. "D.C.’s lead prosecutor has turned a blind eye to a six-month campaign of terror in the nation’s capital in 2020 so he could keep his sights on the mostly nonviolent protesters

of January 6, 2021,"and the great VDH,  says It Was Always Only About Power With the Left, "For the left-wing elites, the cause is but a means to personal and professional power." The TN Star hears Newt Gingrich wonder Where Are Woodward and Bernstein When America Needs Them? Covering up Democrats scandals, of course. 

Stacy McCain pretends to be  astonished at the audacity of CNN, Warning of Weather ‘Misinformation’. 'Hey, that's our job!' Red State's Nick Arams regales how Elon Levels Liberal Matt Yglesias With a Question About Free Speech He Can't Answer. But sundance at CTH interpretes it as Musk Admits He Doesn’t Control Platform Censorship Decisionmaking – Watch the Twitter Financials. Reuters reports China deletes 1.4 million social media posts in crack down on 'self-media' accounts. How far behind is the Biden administration?

The Little Mermaid's Halle Bailey

'Buck Throckmorton' at Ace's MORNING RANT: AB Distributor Abandons Bud Light to Promote Alternative Light Beer; Other Musings on Being a Franchisee/Distributor for a Woke Corporation. At Twitchy NBC News says conservatives are celebrating backing Bud Light and others into a corner. Damn right! Matt Margolis, Dylan Mulvaney Identifies as Author, Appears To Be Writing a Book. Will it admit to being a scam artist? The Victory Girls think Mulvaney Is Even Sicker Than We Thought. I don't thinks it's sick at all, just an opportunist using an opportunity. Dan Greenfield at Front Page examines The CEO Behind Target’s Corporate Culture War and concludes "CEO Brian Cornell has turned over the chain to criminals and perverts." At Da Wire, ‘Another Company Needing Bud-Lighting’: Kohl’s Ripped For Infant LGBT Merchandise. Breitbart reports Kohl’s Faces Boycott Calls Over Pride Onesie for Babies Following Target, Bud Light Backlash. PJM's Matt Margolis looks at 'The Little Mermaid': What the Media Isn’t Telling You About the Film's Box Office Performance "No one will say this was a bad performance, but a little context is necessary. Despite all the hype surrounding The Little Mermaid, and the benefit of a long weekend opening, it failed to top The Super Mario Bros. Movie’s opening weekend domestic box office of $204.6 million. Comparing apples to apples, The Little Mermaid made $95.5 million, excluding its Memorial Day take. Ouch." Town Hall's 'Becca Downs thinks People Are Not Buying LA Dodgers' 'Christian Faith' Event After Team to Honor Anti-Catholic Drag Queens.

Hat Hair's John Sexton reports Two trans athletes did not show up for California state finals “Adults have created this problem,” said Oaks Christian coach Wesley Smith. “Adults need to fix this problem.” From Da Caller, NV Dems Pass ‘Last-Minute’ Amendment To Fine School Boards For Bathroom, Sports Policies "which would fine school boards if they adopted policies restricting biological boys from entering girls’ bathrooms and locker rooms, as well as participating in girl’s sports." Brandon Drey at Da Wire recounts ‘I Was Attacked Because I Didn’t Want To Have Sex With Him’: New Jersey Female Inmate Details Alleged Assault From Trans-Identified Male Transfer. 

Capt. Ed is looking forward to The fight for Virginia -- and for parents and children -- in November 2023. At the College Fix, Boston University students must take writing class with ‘social justice emphasis’. Capt. Ed says "It’s not education. It’s indoctrination. And as one former English professor tells the Fix, any time you go from education to ideological indoctrination, “intellectual standards deteriorate.” That’s because intellectual standards are no longer valued, and are in fact an obstacle." I figure, like most open propaganda efforts, at some point, it will lead to rebellion. At Da Wire, ‘Sinister, Nefarious, And Dangerous’: Federal Government Watchdog Slammed For Memo Urging Woke Language

Billie Eilish

From Fox, Billie Eilish eviscerates trolls labeling her a 'sellout' for embracing femininity: 'F---ing bozos'

"I spent the first 5 years of my career getting absolutely OBLITERATED by you fools for being boy ish and dressing how I did & constantly being told I’d be hotter if I acted like a woman," she explained in a since expired Instagram story. "And now when I feel comfortable enough to wear anything remotely feminine or flirting, I CHANGED and am a sellout," she lamented, calling out haters who comment on her appearance.


"‘What happened to her’ oMg iT’s nOt thE sAmE biLlie she’s just like the rest bla blah…You guys are true idiots. LOL I can be BOTH you f---ing bozos. LET WOMEN EXIST," she wrote, mocking her critics.

Jewel Kilcher

Also at Fox,  Jewel's twist on national anthem at Indianapolis 500 fails to resonate with fans, panned as 'disrespectful' I listened, and it's weird, but not even close to Hendrix level weird. Relax, it's not really sacred.

Ace, Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin and Chair of the Joint Chiefs General Milley Both Lie to Congress, Claiming the Military Doesn't Support Drag Queen Story Hours

This is perjury. There are drag shows announced on the regular at military bases.

This story is from March 29th. I'm not sure what brought it to the attention of David Strom on Wednesday, but I'm glad he highlighted it.

Lying to Congress is only a prosecutable offense when Republicans or conservatives do it. 

The Wombat came through with Late Night With Rule 5 Sunday: Double-Scoop Swimsuit Edition! and FMJRA 2.0: Das Herz Von Groenland.

Flotsam and Jetsam - Memorial Weekend Marks Beginning of Campaign Season

Breitbart reports  Ron DeSantis Campaign Raised $8.2 Million on Launch Day, not bad for a "glitch." Insty, THERE ARE LEFTIES WHO THINK, THEY’RE JUST NOT EMPLOYED IN THE MSM: Left-wing Breakfast Club slams Dems over DeSantis Twitter launch criticism. "The notion that being popular enough to overload the servers and raise record money is somehow a failure seems odd to me." But at I&I, Governor Ron’s Twitter Misadventure: Failure To Launch, Times Three. Scott McKay at Am Spec, see DeSantis Dive Into the Muck. "Now that Florida’s governor is in the 2024 race, we’ll find out how tough he is." Eddie Scarry at Da Fed,warns DeSantis Introducing Himself To People Who Already Love Him Is Not A Winning Strategy. Keith Rothfus at Am Spec asks Can We Ditch the Detached DeSantis Narrative? "The attacks on his character are not only untrue but also irrelevant, given his record in Florida and the House." There was a detached DeSantis narrative? I missed that. Never DeSantis sundance at CTH is just winding up, with DeSantis 103 – Jack’s Magic Coffee Shop Continues, Elon Musk Makes Election Interference More Visible, DeSantis 104 – Pay to Play, Florida Govt Officials Asking Tallahassee Lobbyists to Donate to Ron DeSantis Election Effort and Donald Trump’s America First -vs- Ron DeSantis and the Multinationals. Jon Gabriel at AZ Central opines DeSantis or Trump? The choice is clear if Republicans actually want the White House. "Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis is the only GOP candidate taking the fight to Biden - with the credentials to back it up." Tom Jackson at Hat Hair VIP thinks There's plenty of time to tell tales of Florida's DeSantis boom. Also at Hat Hair VIP Matt Vespa wonders Could This Prevent a DeSantis-Trump Primary Bloodbath? Better staffing by DeSantis? Doug Murray at NYPo suggests hopefully that DeSantis vs. Newsom would be a ‘24 battle of ideas — not a Biden-Trump clownshow. Breitbart, has a Poll: Donald Trump’s Net Favorability Rating Reaches All-Time High, but then, that's a low bar. Also, Vivek Ramaswamy Says LinkedIn ‘Locked’ His Account: ‘Big Tech Election Interference Has Begun’, like it ever really stopped. I&I editorializes, The Republican Primary Is Wide Open — And That’s A Good Thing.

 Da Caller has a POLL: Majority Of Americans Think Biden Second Term Would Be ‘Disaster’ Or ‘Setback’. Ben Whedon at JTN, Biden primary bid limping as RFK Jr., Williamson gain footing: CNN poll, but do they seriously believe the Democrats will allow their own voters to decide? However, Hat Hair's Capt. Ed speculates "Neither of these fringe candidates will get anywhere near the nomination. However, if they’re still doing this well by December and make it onto the New Hampshire ballot, we may be looking at an LBJ 1968 event — an embarrassment that could force Biden to withdraw, with all sorts of chaos following among Democrats." Joshua Mitchell at Am Great worries about The Formidable Candidacy of Joe Biden. "Who can weaken the identity politics spell that makes an otherwise weak incumbent into a truly formidable contender for reelection?" At Am Think, Steve Young thinks about Entropy, Joe Biden, and the Progressive Left. "Joe Biden’s decline into incompetence is more than a personal journey towards life’s end, it is an allegory for the likely collapse of the Progressive Left and the Democrat Party now under its rule."

WaPoo reports that Yellin has refined the estimate of the "drop dead" date of the debt ceiling crisis to June 5, Debt ceiling negotiators race to cement deal before June 5 deadline. Meanwhile, Slow Joe went on vacation, Breitbart, House Democrat Expressed Disbelief as Biden Heads Back to Delaware for Memorial Day Weekend. At Am Con, The Gamblers, "Democrats bet big on Republican incompetence in the debt ceiling fight. Republicans called their bluff." Jim Geraghty at NRO hears House Democrats Worry That President Ice Cream Is Botching the Debt-Ceiling Fight. Capt. Ed, "I’d be surprised if we don’t have a deal by now or later tonight, just because Biden’s not going to win this one anyway. May as well throw in the towel altogether and move on. But the complaints about Biden’s lack of communication and competence from Democrats at this stage are absolutely hilarious. They foisted President Ice Cream on us, and they’re stuck with him just as much as we are." From Da Caller, Congress Goes On Vacation Days Away From Financial Meltdown. I'll believe it's a crisis when they start acting like it's a crisis. AEIR wonders Has the Disinflation Process Stalled? "The latest inflation data is not what Federal Reserve officials were hoping for." Capt. Ed comments "In other words … grab your shorts. I don’t the stall is too dramatic, but monetary policy alone clearly isn’t working. We need a strong agenda of supply-side policies, but we’ll never get them from the Biden administration and the Democrats."

Shawn Fleetwood at Da Fed notices that Republicans Use House Committee Hearing To Demolish Democrats’ Bogus Election Lies. At UncoverDC, Catastrophic “Loss of Control” Data Breach in NY Elections, just how Democrats wanted it.

PJM's Matt Margolis hears Comer Says Biden Linked to $5 Million Bribe While VP, But FBI Is Obstructing Investigation. Ace, Comer: Joe Biden Is Part of a $5 Million Bribe Scheme, and I'll Charge Wray with Contempt of Congress if He Continues Hiding the Documents Establishing This  "The FBI claims that they can't find the document, because searching for "biden" brings up too many results. Comer wrote them back, telling them to search for "biden," "june 30, 2020" (the date of the document) and "5 million" -- the amount of the bribe. Wray won't do that, of course. CRIMINALS NEED TO GO TO PRISON." Comer has the document, of course, he just needs the FBI to produce it to prove it was really theirs. Breitbart cites Marjorie Taylor Greene: FBI Director Actively ‘Protecting’ Bidens by Stonewalling Congressional Subpoena. True. Da Caller highlights Oversight Could ‘Destroy’ Biden’s 2024 Campaign, MTG Says. In the IRS branch of Biden Crime Family saga, Mary Chastain at LI notes the  IRS Whistleblower ‘Saw Deviations From the Normal Process’ in Hunter Biden Investigation. “There were multiple steps that were slow-walked — were just completely not done — at the direction of the Department of Justice.” Margot Cleveland at Da Fed is incensed that Emails Show Ron Wyden’s Office Lied About IRS Whistleblower ‘Backing Out’ Of Senate Meeting.

Bob Maistros at Am Great, Durham to Conservatives: Fuhgeddaboudit, "John Durham delivered the wronged Right an unmistakable punch to the gut." Tristan Justice at Da Fed sees that The FBI Knows What Car Was Used In J6 DNC Pipe Bomb, But Refuses To Identify Prime Suspect. Very, very fishy. At MRC TV, Whistleblower: Bank of America Provided FBI with List of Customers’ Purchases – Republicans Launch Probe, anybody near J6 who purchased a gun using BOA cards etc. Chose your banking accordingly. Nick Arama at Red State astounded that the FBI Raided Home of Media Consultant, Dem Politician Over 'Embarrassing' Tucker Carlson Videos. Jack Cashill at Am Think finds it odd, 18 years for J6er, wrist slap for wannabe Nazi assassin "Curious, too, is that authorities took no precautions before searching the truck.  The last time a U-Haul was involved in an attack on federal property, 168 people were killed.  Timothy McVeigh and his accomplice blew up the Murrah Building in Oklahoma City with 2,000 pounds of ammonium nitrate." Did they know something ahead of time?

 Bob Spencer at PJM, Corrupt Bedfellows: SPLC and FBI Working Together to Frame Catholics as Terrorists. SPLC has been discredited for a long time, but the FBI, and other fed agencies continue to use them as the key to identifying hate groups, just because they only identify hate from the right, and they continually exaggerate. At HE, Biden’s DHS used taxpayer-funded 'anti-terrorism’ program to demonize conservatives using Antifa propaganda. Ace, Media Research Center Exposes DHS' Funding of Radical Leftwing Groups Which Label Right-Leaning Organizations As Linked to Naziism and Domestic Terrorism. "And why would they do that? To lay a predicate for siccing Merrick Garland's DoJ on any political enemies of The Regime."

At Pop Mech, This Stanford Professor With CIA Ties Says Aliens Are ‘100 Percent’ Already Here "Extraterrestrial intelligence hasn’t just visited us, he says: “it’s been here a long time, and it’s still here.”" He may be right, but he may be crazy.

From Breitbart, After Cooperating With Feds at Twitter, Jack Dorsey Invokes JFK Call to Destroy CIA, FBI, NSA. jack@jack "Splinter the CIA, NSA, and FBI into a thousand pieces and scatter them into the winds. https://i.natgeofe.com/k/263f6ee3-a2ec-42e1-b589-69e2ec103075/jfk-portrait_square.jpg… Joe Pags Pagliarulo@JoeTalkShow "says the guy who was in charge when the alphabet organizations were using @twitter to do all sorts of dastardly deeds. Tell us the one again about how you had nothing to do with censoring all info about Hunter Biden's laptop. Cmon!" Atop Da Summit, Greenwald: Regime Journalists Promote The ‘Right’ Conspiracy Theories To Be Successful, “Journalists who spread conspiracy theories that the CIA wants them to spread get promoted, and the journalists who question the conspiracy theories of the CIA get destroyed.”

At Da Fed, Sam Mangold-Lenett calls Pride Month A Cynical Exercise In State-Enforced Homosexuality. PJM's Lincoln Brown wonders, rhetorically, Why Is the Indy Youth Carnival Barring Parents? Elizabeth M. Economou at Am Think thinks about Washington State vs. Parents on Gender Transitioning. Hat Hair's Beege Wellborn San Fran progs went to war over "family" - how'd that go? 
Jason Rantz on KTTH Radio @jasonrantz "Activists pushed the San Francisco Democratic Party to not recognize the Westside Family Democratic Club. A vulgar activist said the word "family" is a "common dog whistle on the right" & one claimed it's a racist & fascist organization that's secretly a Republican group." The video is amazing. 

At Am Spec, On Drag Queens and the Methodist Breakup "Churches lately have gone all in on these drag shows."  Twitchy, Nun too soon: You’ll never guess who was a member of the Dodgers drag nun group, luggage thief Sam Brinton.

Ace, "Nobody Expected It To Go On This Long:" Entire Beer Industry Is Shocked at Dylan Mulvaney Backlash. "Yes, conservatives have been well-behaved little corporate sheep until now. But no longer. 
Now we are wolves that pack-attack corporations and tear them into little wet pieces." Mess with our kids, mess with our wives, just don't mess with our beer. Even if it is weak, bland beer. Hat Hair's John Sexton thinks The left is doing to CNN what the right is doing to Bud Light. From Da Wire, Conservative Journalist Calls AP’s Bluff On Claim About ‘Violent Confrontations’ Against Target. From Breitbart, AP Claims, Without Evidence, Target Boycotts Became ‘Violent’ — Then Stealth-Edits Story. Capt. Ed. "That’s not the only false claim that AP has been stealth editing this week. Yesterday, they began stealth-editing the false claim that a Florida school had “banned” Amanda Gorman’s book of poetry." At Da Caller, The Media’s Latest ‘Book Ban’ Story Appears To Be Completely Unfounded. Meanwhile, from Fox, Target partners with org pushing for kids' genders to be secretly changed in schools without parental consent. "'We... continue to support their mission,' Target Corporation said about GLSEN" Breitbart, North Face Slammed over Ad Featuring Drag Queen Urging Viewers to ‘Come Out’ in Nature. Ace, The Walt Disney Company is Partnering with a Gay Group Called "EqualPride" to Provide "Diverse Content" for Its Failing Streaming Service. 

Hat Hair's Beege Wellborn is highly amused that a Female NYT op-ed writer perfectly cool boxing a trans in "her weight class" Let's get this one set up ASAP. 

John Sexton, Tennessee judge says families can object to release of Nashville shooter's manifesto, but he's not sure why. "Wednesday, a judge ruled that those parents have standing to object to the release of the manifesto and set a hearing to argue whether these documents will ever see the light of day."

At NYPo, Shellyne Rodriguez released by Bronx judge over Post machete threat on OR. It's New York, of course. Campus Reform reports UConn to require students to pass ‘Anti-Black Racism’ course in order to graduate "The mandatory one-credit class will be included as part of the university's core curriculum at the start of the 2024-2025 academic year." So you need to go the UConn to learn how to practice Anti-Black Racism. From the Martin Center, How Our College Leaders “Cull the Herd” "A firing at Bakersfield College shows that tenure is no match for leftist orthodoxy."

Flotsam and Jetsam - DeSantis Still In

Yesterday we announce DeSantis' official announcement, with glitches on Twitter. More today. From Da Wire, DeSantis Event ‘By Far The Biggest Ever’ Held On Twitter Spaces, $1+ Million Raised In First Hour. At Hat Hair VIP Duane Patterson thinks Even with Twitter Spaces glitches, regime media proves DeSantis made the right campaign launch decision but Roger Kimball at Da Spec claims it was A disastrous DeSantis 2024 ‘launch’ on Twitter Spaces, "It was like one of SpaceX’s rapid unscheduled disassemblies." Ace, Axios: DeSantis' Decision to Make His Announcement on Twitter Is a Sign That Fox News Is Not the Conservative King-Maker Any Longer. At Da Caller, Biden Mocks DeSantis’ Campaign Announcement For Having Technical Difficulties. Matt Margolis at PJM notes Trump Accuses DeSantis of Plagiarism. There’s Just One Problem.... Ace, DeSantis Signs Law That Strips Illegal Aliens of Their Drivers Licenses; Leftwing #Resistance Media Shrieks That Minorities Are Terrified of DeSantis. "So let's get this out of the way. DeSantis just signed a law that has illegals worried and the leftwing #ResistanceMedia shrieking." Virginia Kruta at Da Wire, Ron DeSantis Responds To RFK Jr. Claim He’d Burn CDC/NIH ‘To The Ground.’  From TNP, DeSantis’s Own Spokesman’s Daughter Just Endorsed Donald Trump, While Ron Was Launching His Campaign. Althouse, The Lincoln Project to Ron DeSantis: "[Y]ou’re going to get absolutely destroyed.... We’re sure going to love watching you crash and burn." "What the phrase "will all be fair game to Trump" really means is that it's completely fair game to The Lincoln Project. They're the ones saying these things, but they'd like us to imagine that the bad orange man will be saying them and they're only predicting it." At least he makes the right enemies.  Never DeSantis sundance, at CTH, DeSantis 101 and DeSantis 102 – Floridians Are Furious – How to Have Fun with The Great Pretending Campaign of 2024. PJM's Ben Bartee, wants you to WATCH: Whoopi Goldberg Suffers Incoherent Meltdown Over Ron DeSantis and Twitter Spaces, Fantasizes About Coming Race War. No thanks!  At the Babylon Bee, Adolf Hitler Announces Run For President.

PJM's Stephen Kruiser thinks  DeSantis vs. Trump Is the Heavyweight Fight We've Been Waiting For. I&I worries whether Trump Can Escape The ‘MAGA Extremist’ Label? I&I/TIPP Poll "There’s little question that it is a strategy of Democratic Party and White House strategists, who have made no secret of their fear of Trump going head-to-head with the highly unpopular Joe Biden." Atop the Summit, Video: Hillary Is STILL Whining About LOSING 2016 Election, "Says Trump winning in 2024 would be “the end of democracy in America”Insty says RUN ALL THE CANDIDATES! as CNN Sets Mike Pence for Third Republican Primary Town Hall, With Dana Bash as Moderator.

At 1945, A Donald Trump Classified Documents ‘Smoking Gun’? "The Washington Post reported Thursday that two employees of former President Donald Trump moved boxes of papers at Mar-a-Lago the day before FBI agents and a prosecutor were set to visit." Matt Vespa at Town Hall, The Trump Classified Document Circus Is About to Get a New Shot of Life. "Okay, I’m sorry, they might have moved documents from one room to another in preparation for the agents’ arrival? Were these files destroyed? Of course, the article doesn’t delve into that, only that someone might have moved some boxes on the property, and there were dress rehearsals on how to move sensitive materials, which doesn’t sound all that unorthodox. It’s better than Joe Biden and his crew neglecting protocol and carelessly leaving state secrets at multiple locations." 

As the nation edges ever closer to default, whatever than mean (and people do differ, What Exactly Is a "Default"?) MRC TV reports Biden Wants ‘Clean’ Debt Limit Hike – Americans Want Spending Cuts, Say He’s Being Irresponsible, Mishandling Budget. Nick Arama at Red State, Biden Has No Idea Who He Is Calling for at Event, as He Ditches Debt Deadline for Vacation. At Breitbart McCarthy Moves in for the Kill on Debt Ceiling but Da Caller claims AOC Demands McCarthy Surrender On Debt Ceiling Talks. That should do it! 

John Sexton at Hat Hair, says it's 'Horrible for Joe Biden': CNN poll shows Biden with 35% favorability. At I&I again, Many Of Our Elected Officials Are Unfit To Serve — Medical Problems Are Sometimes The Cause. 

PJM's VodkaPundit MAGIC! Presto-Chango, See Which Democrat Attack Transforms Into 'Republicans Pounce!' Gas stoves, this time. 

So it’s a neat trick Politico is trying to perform here. The MSM has gone from claiming that the gas stove ban:

• Is just a figment of paranoid Republican imaginations.
• Is maybe a good idea, ackshully.
• Is needed because gas stoves are literally killing children.
• Is still just a figment of paranoid Republican imaginations because, pinky swear, we’re just trying to make gas stoves safer.

Left unsaid is that the new and improved gas stoves will be improved so much that the only people who will still have them are the rich and celebrity chefs with special carve-outs from the law.

At Am Great, Matt Boose on illegal immigration, Send Them Back. "We are witnessing the most malicious voter registration campaign in human history." Am Think's Jay Valentine thinks he knows why Why Kari Lake Couldn't Close the Deal

Kari lost because she is naturally gifted and could upend established order. The leftists pulled out all the stops — just like 2020 and, soon, 2024.

Her team's outstanding testimony in several court cases showed that elected officials changed printer settings, mostly in Republican areas, so printers would not process a ballot.

Officials ran signatures through a nonexistent verification process, counting several hundred thousand ballots that were clearly sketchy.

Our team did the expert witness report on Kari Lake election data showing elected officials jacked with voter rolls days before the election — as in 22,000 new voters and 107,000 changes to the rolls, and thousands of address changes. We suspect that those voter roll manipulations were not to help Kari.

This is the reality of important elections in America today.

Ace, Founder of the Oath Keepers, Stuart Rhodes, Who Committed No Violence on January 6 and Did Not Even Enter the Capitol, Sentenced to 18 Years in Prison By Corrupt Evil Regime. "Another fake "seditious conspiracy" conviction. We must pass a law giving both defendants and prosecutors the right to change venues in politically-charged cases where the local... inhabitants and Regime Enforcers of the judiciary are strongly biased to one side or another. In fact, it's an absolute scandal that this law doesn't already exist." David Zukerman at Am Think thinks The Republican presidential candidates must unite in defense of fairness for the Jan. 6 political prisoners — and one another. Dan Chaitin at Da Wire, GOP Lawmakers Demand FBI Share Findings In D.C. Pipe Bomb Probe. The fact that they won't is suspicious. Matt Margolis, not without reason wonders Why Did the DOJ Downgrade Charges Against the ‘White Supremacist’ Who Rammed White House Barricade?  Sai Varshith Kandula.

Hat Hair's Dave Strom has More FBI coverups and corruption. Joy Pullman at Da Fed says Here’s A Big Tell Democrats Believe The FBI Works For Them. They want to defund police, but fund the FBI more. Paul Bedard at WaEx, Six in 10 want FBI officials in Russiagate prosecuted. Hollywood in Toto finds Adam Carolla on CIA, FBI, DOJ and CDC: ‘I Do Not Trust Them Anymore.’ "Podcaster, Dr. Drew Pinsky claim groups shredded decades of trust, respect"

George Parry at Am Spec wonders about The Durham Report’s Missing Piece, "Did Durham simply throw up his hands in surrender?" Why didn't he subpoena Comey, McCabe, Strzok, Page, etc, etc? He asked, they said no. Wayne Root at Front Page on The Real Revelation of the Durham Report. "Who's the real "Big Guy"? The real criminal mastermind?" He thinks it's Obama. Chris Roach at Am Great  notes Mere Words Won’t Deter Corrupt Officials. "The Durham report shores up the image of a government characterized by the rule of law and fidelity to high principle but conceals the reality of bipartisan addictions to graft and self-dealing."  Also at Front Page, Dave Harsanyi, John Brennan, Enemy of the People "Will he ever be held accountable?" No, he has more blackmail material than Jeffrey Epstein. 

Ace, The IRS Whistleblower Goes Public and Goes On Camera; The IRS Kept Changing the Rules On His Investigation of Hunter Biden -- "Each and Every Time, It Seemed to Always Benefit the Subject [of the Investigation]" "He has not publicly said this concerns Hunter Biden, but sources have confirmed it is about Hunter Biden, and the mobbed-up DoJ and IRS running interference for him." At Da Caller, Matt Taibbi Says the IRS Investigation Into His Tax Returns Appears To Be ‘Politically Motivated’ They ended up owing him money.

A newly released Harris-Harvard poll conclusively demonstrates how radically out of touch is liberal corporate media with the views of Americans.

It's not just that corporate media rejects Americans' views. They don't permit those views to be heard.https://t.co/Lor6QSUnl6

— Glenn Greenwald (@ggreenwald) May 21, 2023

At OutKick, Troy Aikman Teaches Bud Light How To Market Beer, "Just great bleep beer." Capt. Ed snarks "To be fair, Anheuser-Busch never got around to making “great f*****g beer” in the first place. They made passable industrial swill, completely unremarkable from several other brands of passable industrial swill, and entirely replaceable. If they had made “great f*****g beer,” they wouldn’t have been so dispensable." Dave Strom, Beer industry "in shock" from Bud Light boycott, 'It could have been us!' Leah Barkoukis at Town Hall, Despite Boycott, Here's What Bud Light, Anheuser-Busch Are Doing in June 

Bud Light and its parent company Anheuser-Busch are sponsoring several “pride” events, according to The Daily Wire, including the Cincinnati Pride event on June 24 and the Pride St. Louis festival on June 24-25. Bud Light is also a Diamond corporate partner for Stonewall Columbus, which hosts several “pride” events in Columbus, Ohio, throughout June. Companies must donate $20,000 to be included in this sponsorship level as well as "affirm Stonewall’s diversity, equity, and inclusion policies AND agree to donate no less than 8 hours of volunteer time during a calendar year," according to a document from the organization. But that's not all:

Large institutions have incredible inertia, and they learn slowly. To wit, at PM, Internal email to Target employees reveals $9 BILLION in losses for one week, pivot to George Floyd anniversary. Matt Margolis, Target Loses $9 Billion in Market Value After Boycott. At the Free Bacon, Disney Stock Down 33 Percent Since CEO Instigated Feud with DeSantis. Instyquip, TO BE FAIR, THIS PROBABLY HAS MORE TO DO WITH WOKE DISNEY’S WORSENING BOX-OFFICE PERFORMANCE AND MONEY-LOSING STREAMING SERVICE:  NRO editors are upset that The Dodgers Promote Anti-Catholicism.

Da Caller reports a Major Journal Retracts Study On ‘Socially Contagious’ Transgenderism Among Kids Following Activist Threats. 'The journal claimed the retraction was due to issues with informed consent, but Dr. Michael Bailey, one of the study’s authors, has disputed this explanation and argued the journal is caving to the demands of activists who object to his conclusions about ROGD." Da Blaze, Texas Children’s Hospital announces ‘heart-wrenching,’ ‘painful’ plan to end sex-change program for minors — CEO vows to refer patients out of state. At The Stream, (they haven't earned the coveted Da, yet), Parents Take School Board to Court for Assigning LGBTQ Books Without Their Consent. Capt. Ed, That’s one way to make this kind of grooming costly. A better way is to pass school-choice legislation and force school boards to compete for students. Let’s hope this approach works, too. Don Surber thinks T-girls may tip the election. "Oh it is, dear readers. Oh it is. It is the Next Big Thing for Republicans because trannies are now ballot box poison."

Ace woke up and found the Machete-Wielding Art Profesor (sic) Fired. "I'm sure you're well aware of this "educator's" prior work. Update: From Deplorable Ian Galt, her website says she doesn't even teach actual art. She teaches Oppression Science." NYPo reports Shellyne Rodriguez smirks, sports ‘FTP’ tattoo after being charged over machete threat. At Life News, School Denies Church a Lease When it Finds Out the Church is Pro-Life. Capt. Ed, "Whatever happened to “bake the cake” and supposed “public accommodation”? I’d bet that this school ends up forking over some cash and some space to settle this fairly soon. Voters should boot the school board out of office, but … probably won’t."