Flotsam and Jetsam - Iran 'Kinetic Action' Reheating

For lack of anything else new and exciting, the revived Iran conflict gets top billing. Ace, After Iran Downs Apache Helicopter, Trump Threatens New Round of Airstrikes "Is he serious this time or is it more, you know, twitter bullshit?" At Althouse, "If we need to negotiate with bombs, we’ll negotiate with bombs. And we’re very good at it. Nobody better in the world." "Said Pete Hegseth, quoted in "Iran War Live Updates: U.S. Will Strike Iran Again Tonight, Hegseth Says/The secretary of defense, Pete Hegseth, said a new American attack would be launched on Wednesday night. Earlier, President Trump said more attacks were coming, a day after he predicted peace" (NYT)." And Trump posts a "West Wing" clip decrying the notion of a "proportional response." Capt. Ed at Hat Hair hears Trump say to Iran: Bridge and Power Day May Be Back, Baby; UPDATE: On Like Donkey Kong? Airstrikes starting against radar and other air defense type sites, like they're getting ready for a big air operation. From the Scuttlebutt, Pardon, Your Bias is Showing. How the media always stops the chain of causation on the US, particularly if they can blame Trump.

Sundance at CTH reports President Trump Signs the Secure America Act. Ace, Trump Signs Bill to Fund DHS and ICE Throughout the Rest of His Term, "The 80-day long (IIRC) Democrat shutdown resulted in chaos and disruption but ultimately failed. They're the party of chaos and disruption, riots and "teen takeovers," subway knife attacks and women having their throats slashed open by infinitely-indulged homeless maniacs." Sundance also notes President Trump Delivers Shocking Response to Question About USMCA Renewal "President Donald Trump responded to a question about the current status of the USMCA trade agreement, or what Canada calls CUSMA. Watch and listen to how President Trump points out that he has no intention of renewing the USMCA." unseen1 @unseen1_unseen, "Like Tillis, this idiot admits he lied to voters for the last 10 years." Quote The Calvin Coolidge Project @TheCalvinCooli1, "New: Texas Republican Senator John Cornyn tells CNN’s Manu Raju that he has much more freedom to go against President Trump now: “Are you kidding? Of course. Absolutely. My liberation day: May 26.”" At Insty, NANCY MACE IS OUT, ENDORSES OPPONENT FOR S.C. GOVERNOR. "“Buried the hatchet.” She started out promising but has been kind of erratic." Hat Hair's Beege Welborn says it Looks Like Daffy Kathy Done Broke 'the Deal' on a pipeline she had agreed to as part of the price for an ocean wind farm. Starve NY of power. See if I care. WaEx introduces The man leading Trump’s nuclear renaissance.

Hat Hair's Capt. Ed Gulps: Consumer Price Index Inflation Soars to 4.2%, Core to 2.9%. At CNBC, Social Security retirement trust fund may be depleted in 2032, new trustees report finds.

Twitchy laughs at the notion that Americans Will Be So Triggered When the Whole Planet Cheers Every Goal Against Them at the World Cup. Elijah the Middleborne @TheMiddleborne, "My brother in Christ, Americans barely know we even have a team." RedStates Jen O'Connell finds a group of Europeans who Fall in Love With America While Touring the Country; Americans Need to Take Lessons. "Thank goodness a German X user named Freddy, and several other European visitors touring the U.S. ahead of the World Cup events, are paying no attention to the Debbie Downers at NPR and on the left." Right over Left Everytime @RightSide_Uk, "Elon Musk just exposed the EU’s biggest lie. Ursula von der Leyen was lecturing about “democracy” when Musk hit her with the truth: “If democracy is the foundation of freedom, surely your position as leader of the EU should be elected directly by the people?” The EU is run by unelected bureaucrats who impose mass migration, net zero madness and speech controls on 450 million people — with zero accountability. This isn’t democracy. It’s a dictatorship in slow motion. The people are waking up. The EU’s days are numbered."

TownHall's Scott McLallen hears a Democrat Calls Republicans Fascists, Wishes He Could 'Run Over' Trump at Congressional Baseball Game. At Althouse a Great catch, by U.S. Senator Eric Schmitt. Eric Schmitt @Eric_Schmitt, "Left it all on the field. Republicans win 11-2 Honored to be named MVP."

Hat Hair's John Sexton notices Politico's Senior Political Columnist is Clueless. Jonathan Martin @jmart, "The most interesting part about this is not the actual rehab, which is fine and in some cases needed, it’s the impulse to be for whatever Trump is for. His passion is renovation and buildings and grounds? OK that’s what we’re into, also" Quote Steve Guest @SteveGuest, "It’s undeniable: President Trump improved the Reflecting Pool ahead of America’s 250th by light-years. Anyone who denies that fact has an incurable case of TDS." "So the story here is not that people adopt whatever Trump likes. The story is that the media automatically attacks whatever he does. But Martin can't see it." At Althouse, Can we not all love the new pool? Howard Lutnick @howardlutnick, "I stopped by the new Reflecting Pool. It is simply glorious. There were a thousand people, everywhere, taking pictures and just enjoying its beauty. Thank you President Trump for restoring our city’s national treasure." No, we must hate it, because Trump!

Much hay is still being made over Nazi adjacent, woman beating communist Graham Platner's run for the Maine Senate seat currently occupied by RINO Susan Collins. Capt. Ed hears DSCC Chair Gillibrand: Oysterführer Uber Alles, or Tomorrow Belongs to Dems and Free Press: Dem Response to Platner Astonishing After #MeToo Posturing. Jonathan Turley notes On the Kavanaugh Anniversary, Democratic Leaders Swap Me Too for Maine. Batya Ungar-Sargon claims The Democrats Have Officially Ceded the Moral High Ground "In electing Graham Platner, they have chosen winning over being the party of "Believe All Women" and "Fight Fascism."" At Twitchy, The View's Sunny Hostin Declares Days of Dems Taking the Moral High Ground OVER. PJM's Rick Moran has a Poll: Democrats Willing to Throw Black Voters Under the Bus to Gain Power. Cynical Publius @CynicalPublius, "Consider the possibility that the DNC saw Graham Platner’s Nazi affiliation to be a PLUS. Maine is a swing state and Collins is practically a Democrat. They can’t run to the left of Collins, not really. So maybe they want to run to the RIGHT of Collins, and since these idiots ACTUALLY BELIEVE we are all actual Nazis, maybe they saw Platner as the ideal candidate. Because they are stupidly brainwashed. Just a theory…" Nick Arama at RedState thinks Platner's Reply When Asked If More Might Be Coming Should Worry Dems. At Fox, Platner’s ‘living on the sea’ claim dismantled by critics as financial docs paint a different picture. "Platner's disclosures show he earned little from oyster farming and harbor duties versus $4,800 monthly in disability." Twitchy, 'Scum Attracts Scum': Data Republican Delivers a Truth Bomb Ratio to Graham Platner. DataRepublican (small r) @DataRepublican, "Hello Mr. Platner, Ratio. That's it. That's the whole rebuttal. You are someone who, by the virtue of his Reddit posts, manages to be simultaneously a filthy-literal-Communist and anti-Semite. That in itself is an egregious sin, because literal, card-carrying Communists are fundamentally at odds with America's norms. But if that weren't enough, you have voluminous Reddit posts defending the Nazi Totenkopf symbol. You clearly knew the tattoo you got and you defended it publicly. There's no either/or way about it. Scum attracts scum. Which is why you can comfortably swim in both literal-Communist and literal-antisemitic far-right circles. I am no fan of Sue Collins. But the fact you are running against her, that you have even the smallest chance of defeating her --..." PJM's Matt Margolis hears Democrats Are Literally Blaming Trump for Their Support of Graham Platner. Don Surber observes Democrats don’t vet, "Woman who called Epstein “Uncle Jeffrey” screened Obama’s Cabinet appointees." Josh Kraushaar @JoshKraushaar, "Klain is a former U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum board member..." Quote Josh Kraushaar @JoshKraushaar, "BREAKING @jewishinsider via @marcrod97: "Ex-Biden chief Ron Klain defends Graham Platner’s Nazi tattoo" Klain: "The tattoo was a skull and crossbones to remember his fallen comrades from his service in Afghanistan"" Drew Holden @DrewHolden360, "Thread: A quick side by side of things legacy media outlets will describe as Nazi-adjacent when they’re about Trump vs. how these outlets talk about Graham Platner’s Nazi tattoo, which an ex-gf of his confirmed to the NYT was deliberate." At SpliceToday, Mark Judge want to know Will NPR Reported David Folkenflik Do His Job on Platner? Not very likely. Nick Arama likes Trump's Surprising, Hilarious Endorsement of Maine Senate Candidate ""She does because she's a sane woman. She's not my best friend at all," Trump said. "But she's a sane person. She's a person that's never missed a vote in many years. I mean, she's like 10,000 votes. She had 10,000 votes. She never missed a vote. Unfortunately, because sometimes she voted against me! "You know, look, she's a sane woman, and she's a respected person. Maybe a little different ideology than me. "But this guy is a thug. He's a fake thug. He's a phony. I made a lot of money picking out phonies. He's a real phony. He's a bad person."

From Lawrence Person's BattleSwarm Blog, California Election Fraud Update For June 9, 2026. Dave Strom at Hat Hair hears from Homeless Addicts in L.A.: They Paid Us to Vote. Ace, Surprise! Democrat "Ballot Harvesters" Were Illegally Paying Skid Row Homeless Drug Addicts $5 to "Vote" for Nithya Raman. "Isn't odd that these meth-addicted morons knew, in advance, that it was Nithya Raman who would need the bulk of their "votes" and not the current communist mayor? It's almost as if most of these votes were cast after Election Day, with Democrat "ballot harversters" knowing they needed many more votes for Nithya Raman to eliminate the one person they needed out of the race, Spencer Pratt." From Da Caller, ‘They’re Crooked’: Spencer Pratt’s Bruising Mayoral Loss Raises Election Integrity Concerns. Dmitri Bolt sees Spencer Pratt Responds to His Crushing Defeat in LA With a Mysterious Image. PJM's Stephen Kruiser has a Friendly Reminder That California Is the DNC's Testing Ground. 

From the Free Bacon, 'Weak Link' Gavin Newsom Took $50K From Chinese EV Exec of Now-Blacklisted 'Chinese Military Company,' According to New Pentagon Classification, 'The Department of War has blacklisted BYD for a reason,' a former US ambassador says.
 'It means that there is a threat to the national security of the United States.' Chris Rufo et al at CJ observes Gavin Newsom Broke His Promise About California’s Fire Management Work. "Starting last year, the governor “fast-tracked” land, now totaling nearly 100,000 acres, for fire management. So far, state-approved groups have completed projects covering less than 1 percent."

Ace, Trump Orders the Postal Service to Not Deliver Mail-In Ballots to States That Refuse to Turn Over Their Voter Lists. "CNN is so mad. States' rights! States' rights! States' rights!" The News and Observer has news and observes a Judge rules voters known as ‘never residents’ can’t participate in any NC election. 

Dave Strom sees The Insanity of Karmelo Anthony's Defenders. From Ace, Jasmine Ratchett: "Black Women Live in Agony" Daily that Murdered Athlate Austin Metcalf "Never Lived Through" (Except The Day He Was Murdered by a Jasmine Ratchet Supporter) "Was she ever murdered? No? So Austen Metcalf did actually experience agony of a kind that this fat donut disposal unit and sloppy whore can only imagine. She also blacksplains that the knife used to lethally stab him through the heart is not really a deadly weapon at all. She says that in her opinion as a Real DEI Lawyer, she would have argued that the knife was not a deadly weapon, thus sparing Karmelo Anthony the death penalty, even though the knife is a weapon which was used to inflict an almost-instantly deadly wound. She's a good lawyer, she really earned that J.D." TMZ @TMZ, "Exclusive: Austin Metcalf's family is receiving death threats after the Karmelo Anthony verdict. Read more: https://tmz.me/43rnK6w"

At PJM Sarah Anderson thinks This Classy Clapback From Alveda King to Jasmine Crockett Is a Must-Watch. Matt Margolis sees Jesse Watters Make a Fool Out of Jessica Tarlov Over the SPLC Case. "Watters then made that point with a comparison aimed squarely at Tarlov: "Say Turning Point was funding Antifa … that we thought was going to young conservatives and they were sending it to people to buy all black and they were busing them to Portland to commit crimes. And then they were raising money off this crazy Antifa stuff." Believe me, the camera caught Tarlov's face, and it was priceless."

Sundance reports President Trump Navigates Speaker Mike Johnson on FISA Reauthorization and sees Interesting Names Being Floated for Permanent DNI Role.

CNBC whines White House border czar Tom Homan blames New York Gov. Hochul for promised ICE surge. Beege Welborn says When ICE Visits Your Plant and Your Employees Drop From 100 to 24? That's All on You. QThestorm @17QStorm, "BREAKING: Marco Rubio just said the quiet part out loud. Americans work 40+ years… Pay taxes. Follow the rules. Build the country. Then retire on $800, $900, maybe $1,000 a month. Meanwhile, new arrivals can allegedly receive more support from the same system they never paid into. Read that again. The people who built America are being pushed to the back of the line. This is not compassion. This is a government priority problem. America First was never just a slogan. It was a warning. Who comes first? The taxpayer… or the system?" Libs of TikTok @libsoftiktok, "Somalis stomp on the American Flag while holding a photo of the referee who was denied entry to the U.S. for alleged ties to a terrorist organization at a protest in Somalia."

And Another Thing, Press martyrdom and the state of legacy media. "Between the constant leaks, backbiting, and endless meetings, does anyone at CBS News do any work?" Mary Katharine Ham @mkhammer, "Having lost a job and lost a spouse in my lifetime, they are very, very, so much not the same." Quote Townhall.com @townhallcom "NYTimes: I can hear how much this has hurt you. Scott Pelley: Yes. It's like your spouse being murdered." PJM's VodkaPundit has hopes that Bari Weiss Prepares to Do to CNN What She's Doing to '60 Minutes'. "But here's why you should absolutely positively get your hopes up that somebody at CNN is about to Pelley themselves into irrelevancy, courtesy of the New York Post. The paper reported late Tuesday that "CBS News boss Bari Weiss is likely to gain editorial oversight of CNN if and when Paramount Skydance’s acquisition of Warner Bros. Discovery is approved.""

At Spiked! The barbarism in Belfast. Right Angle News Network @Rightanglenews, "It has now been revealed that the Belfast man who was nearly beheaded by an African migrant, Stephen Ogilvie, was helping the same man who attacked him move in as a next door neighbor just four days before the attack." A Driscoll post at Insty, WHEN THE LAW OF THE LAW OF MERITED IMPOSSIBILITY REBOUNDS TO EUROPE: Here Come the Riots. GB News @GBNEWS, "'There's a genuine feeling that what happened last night would not have happened if everything was in place to stop people like the alleged perpetrator getting in here.' Night Editor at Belfast Telegraph, John Laverty conveys the anger of Belfast locals over the knife attack." Kevin Sorbo @ksorbs, "You seem more upset over the protest than you do the beheading that took place." Quote Keir Starmer @Keir_Starmer, "The scenes in Belfast last night were shocking and completely unacceptable. There is no justification for the violence and disorder that we saw threatening our communities, nor for those who encouraged it, online or elsewhere." Ace, After Single Night of Fiery But Mostly Peaceful Protests, Two-Tier Keir Starmer, Who Did Not Mention Henry Nowak Until the Video of His Police-Assisted Murder Was Released, Is Johnny-on-the-Spot in Condemning Riots. "Belfast experienced some rioting last night. The riots were, as the US media described the BLM riots, "fiery but mostly peaceful." There was disorder, Some People Set Fire to Some Vehicles, a house was burned, but they were "mostly peaceful," meaning no one was killed." Sundance thinks The Irish, Scots and English are at The End of the “first follower” phase in Cultural Survival. From the Independent UK, As I watch Belfast burn in violent protests, I think of the far right in England and the US spreading poison. "People who know nothing of my city and have probably never been here are using what’s happening to their own advantage, writes Amanda Ferguson in Belfast." Drew Pavlou @DrewPavlou, "BREAKING NEWS: Australia's public broadcaster ABC News just accused @elonmusk of ''inciting racial tension'' in Belfast because he did not censor footage showing a Sudanese refugee attempting to behead someone. They're angrier at Elon than at the stabber." EducatëdHillbilly™ @RobProvince, "Amazing how these were never used against Floyd protestors." Quote BRITAIN IS BROKEN @BROKENBRITAIN0, "BREAKING: Police are now using WATER CANNONS against protesters in Belfast Footage shows a group of protesters using a wheelie bin as cover against the water cannons as widespread unrest continues to break out ..."

Dave Strom hears the Feds Uncover a Michigan Conspiracy to Attack U of Michigan Officials to Force Cutting Ties to Israel. Libs of TikTok @libsoftiktok, "BREAKING UPDATE: The @okstate administrator who threatened a Conservative student for honoring Charlie Kirk in a speech was REMOVED from her position." Quote Libs of TikTok @libsoftiktok, "EXCLUSIVE: @JoshuaW4145, a conservative Oklahoma State University student, spoke with us after he was reprimanded by his university for giving a speech honoring the death of Charlie Kirk and promoting free speech. A faculty member allegedly told him that his speech was "triggering" and "partisan," and that his year was going to be "difficult" for him. He encourages others to stand up for their rights in order to "spark the flames of positive change on your campus and community that will never be put out."" At Campus Reform, Princeton ends 133-year anti-proctoring tradition amid AI cheating fears. "Princeton University will require instructors to supervise all in-person examinations beginning July 1 to respond to growing concerns about AI-assisted cheating and academic integrity violations."

And more! at The Wombat's In The Mailbox: 06.10.26. The Wombat has FMJRA 2.0: Keepers & Discards up and garnering clicks at The Other McCain.

Flotsam and Jetsam - Did Democrats Set Zelenskyy Up to Fail?

Stacy McCain, Ain’t I Done Told Y’all? Democrats Pushed Zelenskyy to Sabotage White House Deal. "Note the time and date on that, please — shortly after 5 p.m. ET on Friday, I shared my suspicion that the real reason why that White House meeting with Volodymyr Zelenskyy turned into a s***show was that Zelenskyy had been encouraged by Democrats to “pull that stunt,” and now my hunch has been validated . . ." Phil Holloway @PhilHollowayEsq, "Oh … the democrats sabotaged it I’m shocked. Shocked! “Before meeting Trump, Zelensky met with anti-Trump Democrats who advised him to reject the terms of the mineral deal the president was offering, according to Sen. Chris Murphy (D-Conn).”" Michael Goodwin at NYPo, Disaster in the Oval Office: Dems lead Zelensky, Ukraine off a cliff with pressure to reject mineral deal. Dave Strom at Hat Hair hears Democrats Encouraged Zelenskyy to Confront Trump, too. At RCP, Vindman: "I Demand" Trump Apologize To Zelensky, JD Vance Should Resign. I have the sense that the Vindman brothers loyalties lie with Ukraine first, and the US second, as long as a Democrat is President. Matt Margolis at PJM remembers Joe Biden Lost His Temper With Zelenskyy in 2022. Can You Guess Why? "Biden had barely finished telling Zelenskyy he’d just greenlighted another $1 billion in U.S. military assistance for Ukraine when Zelenskyy started listing all the additional help he needed and wasn’t getting. Biden lost his temper, the people familiar with the call said. The American people were being quite generous, and his administration and the U.S. military were working hard to help Ukraine, he said, raising his voice, and Zelenskyy could show a little more gratitude." Roger Kimball at Am Great on Dressing for the Role: Zelensky, Polonius, and the Theater of Politics, "Zelensky’s refusal to wear a suit in the Oval Office wasn’t just a fashion choice—it was theater, signaling defiance, playing to his audience, and raising questions about respect and diplomacy." John Kass, Zelensky the Fool. At RedState, Becca Lower has a SHOCK POLL: Frank Luntz Shares the (Albeit Unscientific) Results on Zelensky Freakout--Trump Will Love It. At Althouse, "It feels worth noting that in this moment, Zelensky decides to call the vice President JD, not Vice President Vance." "Observes Peter Baker in this morning's episode of the NYT "Daily" podcast — "The Fallout From Zelensky and Trump’s Oval Office Meltdown" (audio and transcript at Podscribe). We hear the recording of Zelensky, with new focus on the dismissive "JD": "What kind of diplomacy, JD, you are speaking about? What? What you, what you, what do you mean?" Baker continues: "Perhaps history will not note this as an important moment. I noted it." Yes, the re-listen affected me. I felt that Zelensky was hoping to get under the young Vice President's skin and cause him to take it personally and react childishly. And, as we can tell from his subsequent interruptions, Zelensky wanted to talk about how the war must continue because Russia can't be trusted to keep a peace agreement."

RedState's Mike Miller, ABC's Stephanopoulos Tries to Match Wits With Rubio Over Zelensky Implosion — Any Guesses Who Won? 'Becca Downs at TownHall, Ted Cruz Warns of Far-Reaching Consequences for Zelenskyy After That White House Meeting. From Fox, Treasury sec reveals Zelenskyy nixed Trump's mineral deal twice prior to Oval Office blowup. "Appearing on ‘The Ingraham Angle,’ Scott Bessent told Laura Ingraham, ‘This has to be one of the greatest diplomatic mishaps of all time by President Zelenskyy.’" Twitchy, J.D. Vance Points Out 'Bitter Irony' of Lefties Demanding Endless Arms Shipments to Ukraine: JD Vance@JDVance, "The bitter irony of America’s present predicament is that the very people who cheer for permanent arms shipments to Ukraine also supported the de-industrialization of America. The very things you want us to send are things we don’t make enough of." Drew Berquist notes the NATO Chief is Not Pleased with Zelensky’s Trainwreck with Trump, Issues Warning. “It is important that President Zelensky finds a way to restore his relationship with the American President and with the senior American leadership team,” Rutte told the BBC on Saturday, revealing details of his call with Zelensky after the meeting. Rutte described the Oval Office exchange as “unfortunate.” Breitbart, ‘Absolute Idiocy’ — Zelensky Blasted by Ukrainian Lawmaker for ‘Arguing’ With President Trump in Front of the World. Sundance at CTH hosts Sunday Talks: NSA Mike Waltz Says Zelenskyy is Going to Need to Make Territorial Concessions, Sunday Talks: DNI Tulsi Gabbard Notes the EU/NATO Hypocrisy President Trump will Not Support and Sunday Talks: Secretary of State Marco Rubio Outlines Reality of Peace Deal Zelenskyy Refutes. CDB at Ace's on Propriety, Politeness, Knowing One's Place, And Other Lessons From Our So-Called "Elites."

Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald, "Hilarious: The unpopular Sir Keir Starmer says he will assemble a "coalition of the willing" in Ukraine: the phrase his Labour Party and Bush used to invade Iraq. He also boasts the UK will puts "boots on the ground" in Ukraine: but can only do so with "strong US backing."
Quote BRICS News@BRICSinfo, "JUST IN: Prime Minister Keir Starmer says the UK is ready to put "boots on the ground and planes in the air" to defend a peace deal in Ukraine." Catturd ™@catturd2, "Again, British PM Keir Starmer put on a huge dog and pony show with Zelensky yesterday, but when it came time to write a check, he gave 1/100th of what we've paid. Good luck with that. Zelensky is your problem now." Althouse, "Prime Minister Keir Starmer of Britain said Sunday that he would work with the leaders of Ukraine and France on a cease-fire plan to end Russia’s war in Ukraine...." ""Mr. Starmer told the BBC on Sunday that he had spoken to President Trump by phone a day earlier. 'I’m clear in my mind he does want lasting peace, he does want an end to the fighting in Ukraine'.... The prime minister said that he, Mr. Zelensky and President Emmanuel Macron of France had agreed they 'would work on a plan for stopping the fighting and then discuss that plan with the U.S.' Any peace agreement 'is going to need a U.S. backstop,' Mr. Starmer added, saying that British and U.S. teams were discussing the idea...." Best comment at Althouse, "Seen at Instapundit: Polish PM Donald Tusk: “500 million Europeans are asking 300 million Americans to defend them against 140 million Russians.”" Sundance, British Prime Minister Keir Starmer Announces U.K. Troops Will be “Boots on the Ground in Ukraine” Leading a European “Coalition of the Willing.” "Prime Minister Starmer and this EU ‘coalition of the willing’ are only willing to put their military into Ukraine if the USA will be guaranteed to come into the conflict if the ceasefire falls apart." Also at Althouse, "I'm kidding. I'm kidding. Maybe not. Maybe not. Awesome. Awesome, awesome. You've got to make a joke. You know... legalize comedy! Legalize comedy! Come on, legalize it!" At NYPo, Why Trump still has a grand plan to solve the Ukraine crisis — even after booting Zelensky.

At Hat Hair, Distinguished Journalist John Harwood Has Deep Thoughts on JD. John Harwood @JohnJHarwood "Vance's rise from the Appalachian underclass is somewhat less impressive when you consider what a wretched person it produced." Auron MacIntyre @AuronMacintyre, "It can’t be overstated how central hatred of low-caste whites is to the identity and status of the left The idea of being ruled by one of the untouchables causes them to drop all pretense." Quote captive dreamer @captivedreamer7 "What is it about JD Vance that makes these soylennial types absolutely lose their mind? Filled with hatred."

Politico notes hopefully, 23 Dem AGs think they’ve cracked the code to fighting Trump "Democratic state attorneys general have been planning their lawsuits for a year." Fox, Federal judge rules Trump’s firing of head of special counsel was unlawful, will maintain his job, "Hampton Dellinger sued the Trump administration after his Feb. 7 firing." Obama judge Amy Berman Jackson.

Sarah Arnold at TownHall reports Pete Hegseth Just Obliterated Hillary Clinton. Hillary Clinton @HillaryClinton "Wouldn’t want to hurt Putin’s feelings." Also, February Border Numbers Are In – And They’re Looking Strong. Cathy Salgado at PJM, Bessent Calls Out Media for Hiding Economic Crisis Until Trump Took Office. NewsMax opines President Trump Chooses the Best and Brightest, and It Shows.

Bob Hoge at RedState, English Is Spoken Here: We Finally Have a National Language Thanks to Trump Executive Order.

Althouse, "Legally, the lifetime ban is over. His lifetime is over." "Said Jeffrey Lenkov, Pete Rose's lawyer, quoted in an ESPN report that says, "Commissioner Rob Manfred is considering a petition filed on Jan. 8 by Pete Rose's family to have Major League Baseball's all-time hit leader posthumously removed from baseball's ineligible list...." Here's yesterday's post about Trump's plan to pardon Rose and his statement that "Baseball, which is dying all over the place, should get off its fat, lazy ass, and elect Pete Rose, even though far too late, into the Baseball Hall of Fame!"

At Hat Hair, Capt. Ed wonders Time's Up on Gaza Cease-Fire. Now What? More death and destruction.

From ZeroHedge, Federal Employees Hate DOGE Because They Fear Meritocracy. "As Dan Aykroyd's character Ray Stantz notes in the movie Ghostbusters: "Personally, I liked working for the university. They gave us money and facilities. We didn't have to produce anything. You've never been out of college. You don't know what it's like out there! I've worked in the private sector ... they expect results!" At ET, Federal Workers Get 2nd Round of ‘Pulse Check’ Emails Requesting List of Accomplishments,

"Roughly 1 million of the 2.3 million federal workers responded to the first email" and Musk Is a Special Government Employee—What Is That?, "Because of special government employee allowances, specialized experts such as doctors, scientists, and business leaders have contributed to national policy." "This allowance, signed into law by President John F. Kennedy in 1962, gives permission for the government to temporarily employ experts without aggressive conflict of interest restrictions." At Insty, CHANGE: Department of Education announces launch of ‘End DEI’ portal. Related: DOGE reveals most savings at Dept. of Education with nearly $1B cut.

Matt Margolis, So That's Why We Haven't Seen the Real Epstein List. "Levin bluntly suggested a partisan motive behind the Southern District's suspicious stonewalling. "I assume the Southern District of New York is or has been holding this information for a reason," he mused sharply, indicating he believes left-wing political interests may be shielding high-profile Democrats potentially implicated by the documents. Levin didn’t mince words about his suspicion, reminding Bondi—and America—that "New York is a hotbed of the Democrat Party—that includes in legal circles." Bondi did not dispute Levin's theory. "As a lawyer, as a prosecutor, I want to review everything before I make a firm conclusion," Bondi carefully stated, leaving open the possibility of liberal obstructionism. "But I think it's very interesting that they withheld that from us.""

WokeSpy reports Trump Drops a Bombshell: Hints at New Investigation into Joe and Hunter Biden, just whose cocaine was that in the White House?

The NYPo ed board opines, The fight to fix higher ed is just beginning — here’s the hard road forward. Start with the money. Education runs on money. They'll do almost anything to get it. At the Freep, Deborah Lipstadt: Why I Won’t Teach at Columbia "I was Biden’s antisemitism envoy. I had been considering an academic appointment at the Ivy League institution. Not anymore." Nick Freitas @NickJFreitas, "NATO was originally established to combat communist aggression. Which means at this point its primary threat is Western universities."

'Sadie' Schreiner

From Fox, Women athletes don't compete vs. transgender in Team USA track event, giving default victory to trans athlete "The trans athlete then competed against multiple teenage opponents in another event, taking first place from a 14-year-old." "Transgender track and field athlete Sadie Schreiner took first place at the USA Track and Field (USATF) Open Masters Championships in the women's 400-meter dash in New York Saturday. The other participants in the event, Anna Vidolova and Amaris Hiatt, have no recorded times and are listed as DNS, did not start. Schreiner is 21 years old, while Vidolova is just 17, and Hiatt is 16." Twitchy sees a BACKPEDAL! Lefties Now Say They Never Demanded We Accept Trans Women As Real Women.

The Wombat has FMJRA 2.0: Return to Mediocrity ready and willing at The Other McCain.

Maryland, My Maryland

Balmer Sun, After child’s bounce house death, Southern Maryland Blue Crabs issued over $4K in citations, sued by parents. Not real crabs, a local minor league baseball team.

The company that owns the Southern Maryland Blue Crabs was issued over $4,000 in citations last month by labor regulators who alleged that the club’s employees failed to properly secure a bounce house last August when wind swept the inflatable away, killing a child and injuring another.

The citations issued Jan. 31 come alongside a negligence lawsuit filed by the family of the 5-year-old who died, Declan Hicks, against the Waldorf-based minor league baseball team and the manufacturer of the bounce house.

The Maryland Department of Labor released the preliminary citations last week in response to a public records request from The Baltimore Sun but had not released its full investigative file, which was also requested.

The citations from the Labor Department’s Safety Inspection Unit accuse the Blue Crabs’ owners, Crabs on Deck LLC, of:

• Failing to follow restrictions on wind speeds.
• Only anchoring the bounce house using four of its eight tether points.
• Failing to properly train staff who operated the bounce house.

Winds swept the bounce house 20 feet into the air during the bottom of the sixth inning as the Blue Crabs hosted the York Revolution on the evening of Aug. 2, and the children inside fell to the field as the amusement landed.

Hicks, of La Plata, dropped 20 to 30 feet onto the field, according to his family’s lawsuit. He was taken to Children’s Hospital, where he died. Another child was airlifted after suffering non-life-threatening injuries.
. . .
The amusement’s manufacturer, Inflatable Design Group, had included in its specifications that the bounce house should not be operated if the wind speed exceeds 15 mph, the citations say. The National Weather Service measured steady winds of 15 mph, with gusts in the low 20s, near Regency Furniture Stadium that evening.

The Hicks family’s lawsuit, which names the inflatable firm as a defendant, notes that the manufacturer’s instructions were “unclear”; they say to “take down the inflatable in winds up to 15 MPH” but don’t explain what that means or why it’s necessary.

The lawsuit says that wind-related dangers were “known for many years” by the inflatable amusement industry. The suit alleges that the bounce house was defective and “unreasonably dangerous,” not including technology that would have made the amusement safer.

The suit says that that Blue Crabs’ staff was ultimately responsible for safely operating the bounce house and that the company should have understood those risks, as the same bounce house, or a similar one, had been blown onto the field during a Charles County Youth League event “several years” prior to Hicks’ death.

I'm surprised there's not a criminal charge in there somewhere. 

Forget It Jake, It's Baltimore

 mrcTV, Pro-Hamas Protestors 'Strike Out' At Orioles Game

Wednesday night, thousands of fans were at the Baltimore Orioles vs. Cleveland Guardians game at Camden Yards, just minding their business and enjoying the ol’ ball game.

But leftists must ruin everything. Three activists started waving “Free Palestine” flags right behind home plate, completely ruining the enjoyment of sport for everyone.

Here’s a clip of these idiots in action:

Orioles fans with a Free Palestine flag are removed from the front rows at Camden Yards pic.twitter.com/qkjJkbLaav

— Jacob Calvin Meyer (@jcalvinmeyer) June 26, 2024

Not exactly what you want to see at a ballpark for a variety of reasons, not the least of which is because Palestine is the home of Hamas, one of the most brutal terrorist organizations in that part of the world.

Thankfully, two things happened right as the activists started their moronic demonstration.

The first is that most - if not all - of the fans around the protestors started booing and jeering them. Good for the fans, as they showed that they have a solid amount of common sense.

Second, the pro-Hamas demonstrators were removed from the stadium by security, and the fans were allowed to resume enjoying the game in peace. Ivy League schools should take notes on how to deal with these whack jobs.

Rare, good news from Baltimore. 

Flotsam and Jetsam - $30M for 'The Big Guy'?

But first, PJM's Matt Margolis with yesterday's news, FBI Source: Bidens ‘Coerced’ Burisma Exec to Pay $10 Million in Bribes. But wait, there's more! From PM, James Comer estimates Biden's bribery tally could top $30 MILLION, "Comer explained that the committee has "more bank records coming in ... to exceed $10 million this week," adding, "I think we will get between $20 and 30 million." At Am think Monica Showalter calls it a Banana Republic: Thirty million for the Big Guy? Well, him, and his family, and some of them need a steady stream of cash for their cocaine habits. At Breitbart, Democrat Rep. Dan Goldman Says Republicans Won’t Find Joe Biden’s Alleged Bribery Tapes. They're hidden with Epstein's client list. Da Caller has Biden's response, ‘Such A Dumb Question’: Biden Dismisses Question About FBI Informant File. From the Wombat's In The Mailbox: 06.16.23 (Punditocracy Edition) EBL notes Biden's Response to Difficult Questions... Nick Arama at Red State reports a Top Biden Aide's Husband Came to Hunter Biden's 'Rapid Response' Rescue When Burisma Controversy Hit, keeping it in la familia. Jazz Shaw at Hat Hair has an interesting one, Obama official claims to have the goods on Biden

The Biden family is getting hit by an unlikely source as a former official in the Obama administration has come forward to allege that then-Vice President Joe Biden was involved in a “kickback scheme” with his son Hunter Biden’s overseas business dealings.

Mike McCormick, who served as a stenographer for 15 years in the White House said that the FBI has been ignoring him even though he is willing to testify under oath before the federal grand jury investigating Biden’s son.

“In February, I went to the FBI and filed one of their tips on their website. If you do that, and you’re lying to them, you go to jail. I’m not lying. I’m telling the truth, and I’m not going to jail,” he said. “Joe Biden is a criminal. He was conducting malfeasance in office to enrich his family. Jake Sullivan is a conspirator in that, and there’s more… Obama officials involved in it, I believe.”

Laura Hollis at Creator's says There Is No 'Moving On' From Corruption. "To wave it away is to embolden the corrupt. If we as a people do not care enough about the integrity of our laws and the proper limits of our government to enforce both, those who flagrantly disregard those laws and those limits will not stop until they destroy everything we hold dear." At mrcTV, Rep. Comer says ‘Eventually, the Mainstream Media Will Turn on Joe Biden’ and Start Asking about Millions in Foreign Money, but I'm not holding my breath. 

At Breitbart, Rep. Lauren Boebert Files Articles of Impeachment Against Joe Biden: ‘Not Capable’ of Being President. At the Right Scoop,  “Joe Biden better start sizing up for an orange jumpsuit” – Ted Cruz explains where prosecutors should look for Biden’s Burisma bribes  but Capt. Ed snarks "Well, that’s the way it *should* work. The DoJ has other priorities than investigating corruption when it involves a Democrat. They have made that painfully obvious over the last seven years, as I wrote yesterday."   Althouse only wonders Why did Ted Cruz drag Pat Benatar into this? The Intellectualist @highbrow_nobrow, "Ted Cruz: “I don’t think Senate Democrats, if you had video of Joe Biden murdering children dressed as the devil under a full moon while singing Pat Benatar, they still wouldn’t vote to convict.”"

From the Western Journal, Hollywood Star Eva Longoria Recoils, Pushes Biden's Wandering Hands Away at White House Event. At Trending Politics,  Biden Appears To ‘Grope’ Eva Longoria After Making Creepy Remark About Her: ‘She Was 17, I Was 40’

Joe Biden living up to his predatory history yesterday by groping Eva Longoria at the White House.

Share it for everyone to see in slow motion because the leftist media won’t touch it.

If this was Trump, it would be all over and the White House be giving a speech. pic.twitter.com/yrdURiSYjz

— The Tank (@RickTheTank) June 16, 2023

Eva  Longoria

Hey, it's hard to fault the old guy for trying. At News Week, Joe Biden Slammed for Making 'Creepy' Joke About Eva Longoria's Age "As he spoke with the crowd gathered outside the executive mansion, the president said of Longoria: "We've known each other a long time. She was 17, I was 40." . . . It appeared as though the president was attempting to jokingly pass himself off as younger, as Longoria would have been seven when he turned 40." Or he's just bad at math, like most Democrats. Hat Hair Beege Wellborn asks Does Biden hate women or is he just a sleezy snek? Embrace the healing power of 'and.'

At Da Mail, Hunter Biden FINALLY answers questions about his shady finances in Arkansas as baby mama Lunden Roberts surprises First Son by showing up to hear him be deposed in battle over child support.

Althouse finds "6 Reasons DOJ’s 'Get Trump' Documents Case Is Seriously Flawed." "This is a concise article at The Federalist, written by Will Scharf who is a former federal prosecutor and currently a Republican candidate for Missouri Attorney General." Dan Greenfield at Front Page, says Trump is Charged Under a Law Meant to Suppress Political Opposition. "Democrats have used the ‘Espionage Act’ to silence opponents for over 100 years." Jonathan Turley is not a fan of the Espionage Act, Trump Card: The Use of the Espionage Act Revives Long-Standing Concerns. Capt. Ed, Yes, this is a good time to revisit the problems with the Espionage Act. At Am Think, Dan Brown thinks the Trump Indictment a Violation of Federal Law. At Breitbart, ‘Edge Case’: Tom Cotton Says Trump Shouldn’t Be Indicted on ‘Novel Legal Theories’. 

Speaking of novel legal theories, at Da Wire Dan Chaitin reports how Bob McDonnell, A Past Jack Smith Target, Rips ‘Overzealous’ Trump Prosecutor, Former Virginia Republican Governor Bob McDonnell, who was convicted in one unanimously overturned at the Supreme Court, which is where I fear this is headed and Virginia Kruta says Lawyer For Trump’s Co-Defendant Says Biden DOJ Offered Him Quid Pro Quo. Help us convict your client, and we'll let you become a judge. What could possibly be wrong with that? "Attorney Stanley Woodward has alleged that someone in President Joe Biden’s Justice Department had offered him a quid pro quo — in the form of a potentially fast-tracked judicial appointment — if he and his client were to cooperate against former President Donald Trump." At ABC, Special counsel asks judge to keep Trump from disclosing evidence in classified documents case, "The motion said it includes "information pertaining to ongoing investigations." They don't want you to know. At TNP, Jack Smith’s Spokesman Previously Worked Comms for Robert Mueller. Yeah, DC is a cozy place, for those on the inside. Also, REVEALED: The Secret, D.C. Uniparty Summit to Stop Donald Trump.  From Da Caller, No Matter How Your Life Is Going, Just Be Thankful You Aren’t Judge Aileen Cannon. 

Andy McCarthy at NRO, says The Real Beneficiary of a Trump Pardon Would Be Biden, Not a GOP Candidate, I can see that, he might need one too. At Breitbart, E. Jean Carroll 2nd Defamation Trial Against Trump Set for Start of GOP Primary in January 2024.

Breitbart, Dem Rep. Krishnamoorthi: ‘Nuts’ for GOP to Call For Defunding FBI and DOJ. It's nuts to fund an organization trying to kill you, too. I&I has a reminder for liberals, If You’re Going To Use The Word ‘Fascism,’ Learn What It Means.

Beege Wellborn, Fox fires senior producer for guerilla chyron during Trump speech "If you wanted to extinguish your career in Blistering Flames of Rebel Glory, this is the way to do it. *scribbles notes madly*" Via the Wombat's In The Mailbox: 06.16.23 (Punditocracy Edition), Louder with Crowder,  Fox News producer responsible for Biden “wannabe dictator” chryon speaks out: “Today was my last day at FOX”. "There is an above-average chance the producer had decided Fox News was no longer a good fit for him and already knew he was going to quit. If that is the case, "Wannabe dictator speaks at the White House after having his political rival arrested" will go down as an all-time "middle-fingers in the air as you tell you boss to suck it" moment in the history of corporate America." Ace,  Fox Fires Producer For Running Chyron Calling Biden a "Wannabe Dictator" Who Arrests His Political Opponents. At Da Wire, Sen. Mike Lee Warns Matt Walsh Revelations Could Prove ‘Devastating’ To Fox. Capt. Ed has the background, Glory-hole 'diversity' from Fox Corp?

America's First Legal, 1/🚨🗣️ EXPOSED — A secret list of journalists pushing propaganda on behalf of the US govt has been revealed as a result of our litigation against the State Dept to uncover the dark truth about the Global Engagement Center (GEC). "Read on to see the secret list below:" Gabe Kaminsky at WaEx, Biden White House threatened with subpoena from Jim Jordan for 'censorship' records

At NYPo, Anheuser-Busch whistleblower alleges Dylan Mulvaney fiasco ‘planned’: ‘Strategic destruction of Bud Light’. Capt. Ed, "Naaah, but it’s fun to contemplate. It’s clear that A-B/InBev wanted to broaden the market for Bud Light, but that their execs bungled it by insulting their existing customer base. No one in their right mind would destroy a valuable brand like this on purpose. They just had no idea how their consumers think." Also from Capt. Ed, Axios: Bud Light launching new "listening tour" comeback effort. "Alternate headline: Anheuser-Busch CEO Arrives at “Bargaining” Stage of Kubler-Ross Scale." Spencer Brown at Town Hall has More Terrible News for Bud Light As It Tries to Turn Things Around, people ain't buying it, and there's plenty of other cheap, bland beer to buy. Virginia Kruta at Da Wire sees WaPo Desperately Try To Spin Bud Light’s Massive Plummet In Sales. On Fox Business, posted at Hat Hair, Puzder to Anheuser-Busch: Either apologize or write off Bud Light. Capt. Ed, It’s not difficult to figure out. They’re either being willfully obtuse or they’re dumber than a box of rocks. At this point, I’m not sure which it is.

From the Wombat's In The Mailbox: 06.16.23 (Punditocracy Edition),Twitchy: LA Dodgers Face Protests From Christians For Honoring Phony Drag Nuns, LGBT Clown Tries Picking A Fight With MI Muslims Who Banned Pride Flags And YIKES, and Louder With Crowder: “Doing awful things to The Cross”: MLB pitcher obliterates Los Angeles Dodgers for honoring anti-Catholic drag nuns. Matt Vespa at Town Hall, sees Dodgers' Decision to Re-Invite Anti-Catholic Drag Nuns Backfires Massively. At Red State, WATCH: Empty Stadium as LA Dodgers Honor Anti-Catholic Group 'Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence' Amid Protests. Atop da Summit, LGBTBacklash As Sesame Street Tweets Pride Flag. And just for convenience, Jordan Boyd at Da Fed has a link Consumer Group Exposes Deluge Of Corporate Money Going To Dangerous ‘Pride’ Group. 

Althouse, There may be a genuine apology somewhere in this 3-minute video, which is maddeningly verbose. "I gave up halfway through. Too much excess material. See for yourself, at "White House flasher Rose Montoya apologizes for whipping out breasts, defends ‘disrespectful’ stunt a moment of ‘trans joy'" (NY Post)." Hat Hair's John Sexton takes note of the Washington Post on Biden 'tricky path' on trans issues. At Da Fed, Evita Alfonso-Duffy thinks Biden’s Complete Reversal On LGBT Issues Proves He’s In It For The Money. 

PJM's Matt Margolis reports Dem Expert Witness Couldn’t Cite Evidence of Benefits of Trans Procedures for Children, because there aren't any. Nevertheless, as Da Caller points out, The Trans Lobby Is Campaigning To Make It Illegal To Talk A Child Out Of A Sex Change. Joe Klein at Front Page, America’s Largest LGBTQ+ Advocacy Group Declares National Emergency for not getting their way in all things. "Pushing the trans agenda to transform America." Dave Harsanyi at Da Fed says No, Democrats, These Are Not Your Kids. This one is, though, at Da Caller, Law Firm Demands Investigation After Grown Man Allegedly Showered With Freshman Girls At School and this one Prominent Trans Activist Jailed For Murdering Entire Family: ‘Most Depraved Crime I Ever Handled.’ As Stacy McCain likes to say, crazy people are dangerous, and many trans people are crazy. 

Virginia Kruta at Da Wire reports a Space Force General Admits She’d Prioritize Gender Surgery Access Over Qualified Officers. Da Signal counts 21 Federal Agencies that Promote Pride Month With Taxpayer Dollars. At TNP, A Nude, ‘Ecosex’ Group Performing for Kids Is Getting Taxpayer Subsidy, in France. ET reports Texas Gov. Abbott Signs Bill Banning Biological Males From Competing in Women’s Intercollegiate Athletics. At Twitchy, Twitter reacts to realtor helping gay Texans move through 'rainbow Underground Railroad' "You know they can openly leave, right?" Rick Moran at PJM, Michigan TV News Director Orders Reporters to Lighten Up on Pride Stories. It Didn't Go Well. Hat Hair's Dave Strom finds Affirm alphabet ideology or no paint for you "A British home improvement store has declared that customers who don’t embrace alphabet ideology are not welcome in their stores."

From the Wombat's In The Mailbox: 06.16.23 (Punditocracy Edition), Louder With Crowder, South Korean dude rejects being called racist for hating Little Mermaid: “You keep asking us to watch sh*tty movies”, and Vox Popoli: Not Even Hot Girls "Should talk to the media. The Cavinder Twins discover that the media lies before it even puts its lies into print."

Campus Reform informs Springfield College tells students to avoid using terms 'mother' and 'father,' "Springfield College in Massachusetts offers pronoun guidelines that discourage students from using the words 'mother,' 'father,' and other 'gender specific' terms. At The College Fix, American flag causes ‘anxiety’ for Marquette professor. 

Linked at The Pirate's Cove in the weekly Sorta Blogless Sunday Pinup and links. 

The Election Post - Virginia Running Hot

The Virginia gubernator election is almost upon us, and I can hardly wait to get back to Geico and Progressive insurance ads on TV. It's especially bad here because, while we don't get to vote, we're still in the splash zone for the media coverage. Stacy McCain feels the the same, Virginia, Brace Yourselves

The best way to react to this is to ignore it. Just go vote, and encourage your neighbors to do the same, and do your best to tune out the frantic chatter from the desperate Democrats. Read a book. Watch a movie. Do whatever it takes to calm your mind amid the campaign madness.

At They Daley Gator, in Virginia, the center of everything political………… Doug echoes that: 

Solid advice my friends. I used to REALLY get into looking at polls, national averages of polls, etc. It only served to stress me out, and, did not one thing to change any results. In short, the stress IS NOT worth it.

 From The Morning Rant at Aces, 

This is very depressing. Because we're not going to win. And if we do win, we'll still lose.

The seeds of our defeat can be seen in the difference between how the Left and Right view politics. The Right wants to do politics and be done with it so they can get on with life, while the Left wants to do politics all the time.

Haut Hair cites Michelle Cottle at the NYT on Why the Virginia election is freaking Democrats out. Because they think they own the seat and it would bode ill for other elections to lose. AllahPundit at Haut Hair is concerned about No-mentum: Crowd for McAuliffe event is ... sparse. Ace, Biden Stumbles into DC-Adjacent Virginia to Speak Incoherently to Sparse and Dejected Gathering.  Althouse reads the NYT so you don't have to and laughs at the notion "As is often noted, the essence of the modern Republican Party has been boiled down to: Own the libs. The impulse on the other side is not parallel." Democrat motives are always pure. /sarc. At the Wombat's In The Mailbox: 10.27.21, Scott Johnson sums up The Case for Terry McAuliffe, Karen Townsend at Haut Hair, Biden invokes Trump's name 24 times during stump speech for McAuliffe. Also via the Wombat's In The Mailbox: 10.27.21,, the Victory Girls, Biden Shows Up For Democracy And You Know The Thing

Even Da Beast observes Terry McAuliffe Said More Than 1,100 Kids Were Hospitalized With COVID. There Were 35. Ace fact checks the fact checkers, Washington Post and Leftist Media Repeatedly Gives Terry McAuliffe a Pass on His Serial Lies About Covid.

AllahPundit whines "See you soon": Wait, is Trump going to Virginia to campaign for Youngkin? At Da Wire, Trump’s Power As Kingmaker Faces Major Test In Virginia Gubernatorial Election.  'Bonchie' at Red State, Trump Interjects Himself Into the Virginia Gubernatorial Race and Panic Follows He has a shockingly good record. Is it because he knows who to back, or because of his star power? Why choose, when it can be both.

And miscellaneous Virginia stuff, PJ Media, McAuliffe Ads Point to 'Fake News' Sites on the Campaign Homestretch. WSJ, Election-Rigging Claims Fuel Virginia Governor’s Race "Candidates Terry McAuliffe and Glenn Youngkin accuse each other of reinforcing election fraud theories." Da Mail reports a Cringe-worthy moment Terry McAuliffe breaks his own 'cardinal rule' and dances onstage next to Biden in Virginia. From Old Dominion News, a reminder that Zuckerberg money flowed to Virginia suburbs in ’20, and Democrat vote margins spiked "Virginia's largest county is still spending Zuckerberg-provided funds left over from 2020, according to a grant report filed by its director of elections." And a reminder from Da Caller, Terry McAuliffe Appoints Activist At Center Of Rolling Stone Rape Article To Crime Commission

So yesterday, AG Merrick Garland had his turn in the Senate barrel. As you can imagine things got testy with Replicans over the expected topics. At Ace's Morning Report JJ Sefton gave a good link/text summary:

"It's wrong, unprecedented in the history of this country, and I call on you to resign." Sen. Josh Hawley Tells Moloch Garland to Resign for "Weaponizing" DOJ Against Parents. "Here are the top four moments from Wednesday's hearing that make Garland's role in authorizing the DOJ to investigate parents for alleged violence and terrorism even clearer." Top Four Must-See Moments From The Senate Judiciary's Questioning of AG Moloch Garland, "Garland still cannot cite one specific example of violence or threat of violence: 'I said, again, at the time, that they were news reports that had been published. And I think some of the other senators here have described some of those news reports.'"
Garland Defiantly Pledges Feds Will Continue Monitoring Parents Protesting at School Boards, "Thank G-d you are not on the Supreme Court!", Tom Cotton Blasts Garland Over FBI Probe Into "Domestic Terrorists" Parents, "If critical race theory is taught in more schools does your son-in-law make more money? Yes or no?" Ted Cruz Grills Moloch Garland Over Alleged Conflict Of Interest Regarding His Son-In-Law's Education Company, "Garland told the Senate Judiciary Committee on Wednesday that the apology letter had no bearing on the Justice Department's stance.", Garland Clenches Onto Justice Department Memo Despite School Board Apology

And, of course, sundance at CTH has the videos at  Recap of Attorney General Questions During Senate Hearing From Senators Cruz, Grassley, Hawley, Lee, Cornyn. And there's plenty more links like that, depending on your choice of flavor:

Tom Cotton Goes Nuclear After Merrick Garland Has No Answer for Targeting Parents Over 'Domestic Terrorism' – RedState, Tom Cotton eviscerates Merrick Garland on memo involving the FBI in policing school board meetings - Daily Mail Online, MUST WATCH: Tom Cotton slams AG Garland for DOJ memo: 'You should resign in disgrace' - The Post Millennial, Tom Cotton tears into Merrick Garland - Power Line, Senator Tom Cotton Confronts Attorney General Merrick Garland Over Using The National Security Division of DOJ to Investigate Parents Attending School Board Meetings - The Last Refuge, Sen. Ted Cruz renders a cornered AG Merrick Garland almost speechless during questioning about son-in-law’s CRT interests – twitchy.com, Ted Cruz EVISCERATES Merrick Garland Over Targeting Parents - Louder With Crowder, Garland defends DOJ memo despite NSBA letter being withdrawn - Washington Examiner, Ace of Spades HQ Moderate Centrist Unimpeachably-Ethical Attorney General Vouched for by National Review's Andy McCarthy Stands Behind His "Domestic Terrorism" Investigation Into Concerned Parents, Dismisses the Letter of Apology from the National School Board Association, Garland Grilled Over Why an FBI Agent Fired For Lying is Getting Millions of Dollars

Ashe Schow at Da Wire, Washington Post Reporter Frames Loudoun County Sexual Assault In Way Paper Would Not Frame Other Accusations.  Ace, "Boy in a Skirt" Convicted on All Counts in First Trial for Sexual Assault; Still Awaits Trial for His Second Attack

The Washington Post would never, ever suggest that prior consent makes a girl fair game for violent sexual assault -- but they make a special dispensation for Boys In Skirts now, I guess.

The Washington Post "journalist's"] tweet about the article generated a backlash online, with conservative comedian Tim Young wrote: "Oh look... the Washington Post victim blames teens who were raped now.� Gov. Ron DeSantis' press secretary, Christina Pushaw, wrote: "So what you're saying is 'she asked for it'?"

This new detail may be why the AP claimed the sexual assault was "murky."

Insty,  BECAUSE THEY KNEW THEY WERE DOING SOMETHING WRONG: 

“Why Didn’t Anybody Tell Us?”: Angry Loudoun County Students Stage Walk Outs Over Sexual Assaults in Their Schools. Plus: “Every student that participated in today’s walkouts should take their activism directly to the next school board meeting and demand answers and mass resignations.”

In fact, they should protest at board members’ homes, since the left has explained to us that that sort of thing is just part of the political process.

Insty, THE LEFT DOESN’T GIVE A DAMN ABOUT ACTUAL WOMEN, EXHIBIT #1,000,006:

A few dozen weirdos protested at Netflix because of some jokes that made their tummies hurt and it was headline news. Right now hundreds of students in Loudoun County are protesting the rape of a student and subsequent cover up, and the media is all but ignoring it.

— Matt Walsh (@MattWalshBlog) October 26, 2021

From Carol Markowicz at Fox, The war on parents is real, and CNN’s Cuomo attacks concerned parent, defends CRT and sounds alarm for McAuliffe in jam-packed segment. "'Smart kid. The parent? Maybe not so much,' Cuomo said of a concerned mother". At Grabien, Noah on School Board Moms: Helicopter Parenting Is the Most Dangerous Ideology in America. From the Wombat's In The Mailbox: 10.27.21, Lawrence Person's BattleSwarm Blog is Fighting Critical Race Theory in Texas Schools and Weasel Zippers, WaPo Says Parents Don’t Have The Right To Shape What Teachers Teach Their Kids and from Elle Reynold  at Da Fed, Why These Parents, Students, & Protesters Are Standing Up To The Loudoun County School Board,  Joanne Jacobs reports Woke SF school board faces recall. Scott McCay at Am Spec, The Coming Collapse of the Public Education Lobby ,"Yes, Virginia, change is in the air."

These are the current left-wing narratives on education:

–Critical race theory isn't in schools.
–The bathroom rape didn't happen.
–Parent protestors are domestic terrorists.
–Families should not be involved in education.

All of them are lies.

— Christopher F. Rufo ⚔️ (@realchrisrufo) October 26, 2021

From the Wombat's In The Mailbox: 10.27.21, Victory Girls: Ray Epps, Jayden X, And The Insurrection., and from both Mollie Hemingway and Tristan Justice at Da Fed Biden’s FBI Joins Nancy Pelosi In Blocking Republicans From Investigating January 6, and at Hollywood In Toto, ‘United States of Insanity’ Doc Nails FBI Overreach (Sound Familiar?)

Worries atop Da Hill as NRCC poll shows GOP in the lead over Democrats to retake House. Capt. Ed at Haut Hair reports a Midterm meltdown? New poll puts GOP *up* three in generic ballot. Breitbart reports a Poll: Voters Have ‘Biden Remorse,’ Republicans Lead in 85 Battleground Congressional Districts . AllahPundit expresses dismay that Huh: Republicans who doubt 2022 midterms will be fair are *more* excited to vote next year “It may be illogical to try to get people excited to vote by convincing them that their votes might not count but an angry base is a motivated base. And the obvious outlet for that motivation is to vote.” At Town Hall, Salena Zito thinks Virginia Delegate Races Could Reflect National Anti-Democratic Mood.  Sundance reports a BIG SHIFT – Top Two Decepticons Take a Knee to MAGA Power and Endorse Herschel Walker in Georgia Senate Race

Althouse discourses on the WSJ, "In your editorial 'The Election for Pennsylvania’s High Court' (Oct. 25), you state the fact that a court wrongly said mail-in ballots could be counted after Election Day. 'This didn’t matter,' you add..."

Newt Gingrich, on the Atlanta/Houston World Series, God Has a Sense of Humor – And Must Like Baseball

Remember when the woke left decided to punish all of Georgia for passing election reform? They forced Major League Baseball to move the All-Star Game out of Atlanta, which cost Georgia businesses an estimated $100 million in revenue. The hit was especially hard on Black owned small businesses, which were just recovering from the COVID-19 shutdowns. The power of the woke, Big Government Socialists is such that even Sen. Raphael Warnock favored moving the game and hurting his own constituents.

According to the leftwing Puritans, Georgia had been defined as an evil state. President Joe Biden lied consistently about the Georgia election law, and Democrats were overjoyed at the opportunity to smear Georgia (the state which produced civil rights icons such as Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., Mayor Andrew Young, and Congressman John Lewis).

Possibly the only state which rivaled Georgia in incurring the loathing and fear of the rabid left was Texas. Its pro-gun, pro-life, low tax, secure borders, pro-work mentality assaulted virtually every sensitivity of the Big Government Socialists. From their Ivy League and West Coast bastions, they had always despised Texans on the general principle that Texans were not adequately sensitive and liberal.

What a wonderful irony that God decided to give the Big Government Socialists the spectacle of the Atlanta Braves playing the Houston Astros in the World Series.

Jordan Davidson on Da Hill,  Host of Trump social media platform expecting more than 75M users, bypassing big tech censorship. Gab’s Statement on President Trump’s Social Network

We support the President participating in the marketplace and building up a community in the growing balkanized internet landscape. We wish him all the best as we know full well the consequences and many challenges that come with taking on the wicked and fallen people in Silicon Valley.