Flotsam and Jetsam - You Can't Rename Lake Ontario Says the LatinX Birthing Person

Chris Martz @ChrisMartzWX "I think that Trump renaming Lake Ontario to Lake America is pointless and stupid. Wanna know what else I think is dumb? The fact left-wingers are triggered about this after they spent the last decade plus renaming sports teams, public schools and universities, streets and highways, food and condiment brands, and redefining half the dictionary altogether. Here’s a list of some in case you forgot: • Washington Redskins -> Commanders • Cleveland Indians -> Guardians • Stanford Indians -> Cardinals • Loudoun County Raiders -> Captains • Edmonton Eskimos -> Elks • Columbus Day -> Indigenous Peoples’ Day • Lee–Jackson Day -> eliminated • Robert E. Lee High School -> John Lewis High • Jefferson Davis Highway -> Richmond Highway • Mount McKinley -> Denali • Fort Bragg -> Fort Liberty • Fort Hood -> Fort Cavazos • Boy Scouts of America -> Scouting America • Aunt Jemima -> Pearl Milling Company • Uncle Ben’s Rice -> Ben’s Original • Eskimo Pie ice cream bars -> Edy’s Pie • Land O’Lakes -> removed the Indian, but kept the land • Illegal alien -> undocumented worker • Hispanic -> Latinx (a term Hispanics did not want and do not use) • Mother -> birthing person • Anchor baby -> child of noncitizens • black -> Black • Breastfeeding -> chest feeding • Inmate / prisoner / convict / felon -> justice-involved person • Ex-con / ex-felon -> returning citizen • “Gender” as a biological fact interchangeable with “sex” to being a social construct • Fat -> plus-sized • Master bedroom -> primary bedroom • Manhole -> utility hole And so on and so on. . ." Nick Arama at RedState, Bill Maher Hilariously Levels Criticism of 'Lake America,' Hoists Liberals With Their Own Petard. Eric Daugherty @EricLDaugh, "LMAO! BILL MAHER JUST DROPPED: "Trump [renamed] Lake Ontario to Lake America — liberals are VERY pissed at this. They say, 'you can't just go around renaming things to suit your agenda!'" "Just ask my LatinX birthing person!""

Matt Vespa at TownHall sees This MSNBC Contributor Tried to Slip This Anti-Trump Talking Point Past Bill Maher. It Didn't Work. Twitchy, Molly Jong-Fast's Clash With Byron Donalds Over Measles Gets Personal on Bill Maher’s Show. Hat Hair's Dave Strom sees Shapiro's Shame: The COVID Playbook, Lancaster Edition. Eric S. Raymond @esrtweet, "I live in Pennsylvania; Josh Shapiro is the governor of my state. Until this incident I thought he was one of the least bad Democrats - I believed he was above the kind of sleazy demogogic move that he just tried to pull. I didn't think his chances of being the Democratic nominee in '28 were very good even before this, because the ascendant Islamist/Palestinian faction in the party won't tolerate a Jewish nominee. But if he had any shot at all, it's gone now. Play stupid games, win stupid prizes." Quote Eric Daugherty @EricLDaugh, "BREAKING: Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro is running MAJOR DAMAGE CONTROL after he just got fully exposed fabricating "measles deaths" for two newborns RESIGN, NOW!"

Twitchy debunks WaPo: Historic Cherry Trees Are Coming Down by the Dozen Thanks to Trump. Just arborists removing sick trees.

LT Jonathan Kendrick @PlisskenPatriot, "President Trump is firing on all cylinders. Incredible work from this administration." Quote Unfiltered Artist @EmpireEnjoyer3, "It’s the end of Congress’ annual August Recess and Trump finally kicks it into overdrive for the midterms. - Iran War is over and oil is flowing through the Straight again, with fuel shortage lines across Iran and hyper inflation under Treasury Secretary Bessent’s crushing sanctions..." At 1945, 5 Reasons Trump’s Iran War Victory Will Make America Stronger. "After a week in which the story flipped from Tehran trouncing Trump to the Iranians being in serious trouble, it is time to look past the war to what it means for American power. There are five reasons the United States will emerge from the Iran War as a more formidable force than it was going in." John Lucas at Bravo Blue, on HOW NOT TO GUARANTEE STRATEGIC DEFEAT, “Don’t give up the ship!” Victory Girls are not sympathetic to Crybabies: Stars and Stripes Reporters Want Their Jobs Back. Insty sees AMERICA’S ENEMIES SYNCHRONIZE THEIR MESSAGING: Ezra Levant @ezralevant, "U.S. Democrats and Mark Carney are synchronizing their messages. Carney hired Maia Johnson, a staffer for Hillary Clinton, to run the trade negotiations. Pretty clear the reason Carney ripped up a done deal was to embarrass Trump and help Democrats in the mid-terms." Quote Scott Robertson @sarobertson_, "Fmr U.S. Ambassador Susan Rice: "If you're sitting in Canada, whether you're a farmer or a citizen or in the PM's office, the only rational conclusion is that Canada has to reduce its reliance on the US. It's got to diversify its economic partnerships, its security relationships." Brilyn Hollyhand @BrilynHollyhand, "When America had a disagreement with Canada, Democrats sided with Canada. When America had a disagreement with Iran, Democrats sided with Iran. When America had a disagreement with Venezuela, Democrats sided with Venezuela. Do Democrats ever side with America?"

Sundance at CTH throws cold water at those buoyed up by recent Ukrainian drone attacks in Russia, Moscow and Kiev Exchange Warehouse and Distribution Attacks, But Only One Side Feels Impact.

Breitbart Bus Dig asserts Warsh and Bessent Are Not at Odds Over the Bond Market. Steve Moore at Hat Hair explores the question Is the USA Going Bankrupt? "Thank God, no, we aren't going bust as a nation, despite our gargantuan $40 trillion national debt. The rapid pileup of debt under Republicans and Democrats alike is certainly a disgrace and worrisome. When I came to Washington in the mid-1980s, our debt hit $1 trillion for the first time. It seemed like a tidal wave of red ink. Forty years later, we're at $40 trillion. That's a big and scary number. But our national wealth is roughly $180 trillion. So our debt-to-asset ratio, which has been rising, is still less than 25%, and much lower than at the end of World War II, when the debt hit 40% of wealth." From the Right Scoop, Democrats are attacking Republicans over sky high prices THEIR Big Pharma allies are CAUSING.

Stacy McCain thinks about How You Got Hasan Piker: It Started With Cowardice in the Public School System. At Twitchy, 'So, Like, a Normie D**che': Hasan Piker Gets Demolished ... by His HAIRDRESSER. Rolling Stone @RollingStone, "Rolling Stone names Hasan Piker as one of the most influential creators of 2026. The self-declared Marxist has found himself at the center of endless controversies, thanks to his criticism of Israel on his daily streams but also because he's become the face of a movement to push Dems to the left." Most influential doesn't mean good. PJM's Tim O'Brien says Yay, Sports! Abdul El-Sayed’s Unforgivable College Football Gaffe. Hat Hair's John Sexton thinks Mamdani's Universal Child Care Extension Turns Into 'an Absolute Disaster'. At Twitchy, Mamdani's 'Signature Childcare Program' Launch Provides a Preview of City-Owned Grocery Stores. Gooder and harder. Cory Franklin at John Kass says Et tu, David Axelrod? Krzysztof Szczawinski @Kristof_Poland, "You probably think the British Establishment is populated with conservative men – while in fact it is quite the opposite – it is full of guys like this ... Ignatieff asked the question every serious reader wanted asked. He asked it in the plainest possible form. Ignatieff's First Question. Ignatieff: "In 1934, millions of people are dying in the Soviet experiment. If you had known that, would it have made a difference to you at that time?" Hobsbawm: "Probably not." Ignatieff Pressed Him. Why? Hobsbawm: "Because in a period in which, as you might imagine, mass murder and mass suffering are absolutely universal, the chance of a new world being born in great suffering would still have been worth backing." Then Ignatieff Put a Number on It. Ignatieff: "That the loss of fifteen, twenty million people might have been justified?" Hobsbawm: "Yes." He Bet Twenty Million Dead on a World Revolution..." Josh Howerton @howertonjosh, "Muslims have a plan to make America a Muslim nation. Marxists have a plan to make America a Marxist nation. Secular Progressives have a plan to make America a Secular Progressive nation. Christians seem to always have a plan to keep Christianity from further influencing our nation by discipling people into political apathy (“we don’t get political”) or political ambiguity (“Jesus isn’t a Republican or Democrat, neither Right nor Left” = primary application of gospel to culture) ^^^this has had very predictable results for the last few decades."

Driscoll at Insty also says GOODER AND HARDER, LA: Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass orders cops to stop cracking down on illegal street vendors. Why bother with a business license? MAZE @mazemoore, "This clip perfectly embodies the uselessness of so many of our politicians. Senator Blumenthal (from my home state of Connecticut), holds a press conference on train safety. Blumenthal breaks the rules, walks too close to the edge, and almost gets hit by a train." Not close enough.

This is who Colorado Democrats have running against @bradleyforco ! Just wow!

From Douglas County Campaign Watch:

"This is unacceptable.

"Democrat Christian Schilder is asking voters to elect him to the Colorado House while video from the middle of his campaign shows him… pic.twitter.com/jeSGGC6gf6

— FreeStateColorado (@FreeStateColor1) August 28, 2026

Atop Da Hill, Jonathan Turley looks at Judge Talwani and why liberal complaints about the ‘shadow docket’ are so hollow. "Like her colleague in Boston, U.S. District Court Judge Brian Murphy, Talwani is viewed by many as a one-stop-shop judge for forum-shopping. Both have issued hair-trigger injunctions, and both have been repeatedly reversed."

The Magnificent Margot Cleveland at Da Fed says Fauci’s Egomania Destroyed Lives Both On A Large Scale And On A Personal Level. PJM's Matt Margolis is shocked by Dr. Fauci's Newly Revealed and Disturbing CIA Connection. "Fauci's ties to American intelligence run far deeper than anyone outside a handful of investigators realized."

Kyle Becker at RedState is happy to report President Trump's New Order on H-1B Visas Sends Shockwaves Through Immigrant Communities. Sundance enjoys his schadenfreude as Hamptons Yacht Club Cancels Restaurant Service After Staff Deported – Caviar and Economics. Tongue firmly in cheek, Jim Geraghty says Finally, ICE Catches and Detains the Worst of the Worst, Milo Yiannopoulos. Magills @magills_, "All laughs aside, I am genuinely worried what will happen to Milo, a homosexual, after he’s deported back to a Muslim country." (England), Quote Homeland Security @DHSgov, "On August 27, ICE arrested Milo Yiannopoulos, an illegal alien from the United Kingdom, at the Louis Armstrong New Orleans International Airport (MSY) in Kenner, Louisiana. Yiannopoulos legally entered the country on May 14, 2019, through New York City, New York. He chose to x.com/tmz/status/209…" Joe Chalfant asks a stupid question, The Washington Post Can't Be That Dumb, Right? "The Washington Post, in a baffling attempt to disparage the mass deportation agenda put forth by President Donald Trump, published data revealing that more than 60 percent of illegal aliens detained by ICE had criminal records other than being illegally present in the United States." Insty, RACIST? TERRORISM? THESE ARE INDIGENOUS PEOPLE RESISTING SETTLER COLONIALISM: "Translated: “A mob of racists is blowing up and burning the migrants’ cabins in Ceuta. Far-right terrorism live.”" Visegrád 24 @visegrad24, "Everybody loves decolonisation until Europeans start doing it."

Melissa Chen @MsMelChen, "There exists no person who could have exposed Jason Arday and not have their life turned upside down." Quote Jesse Singal @jessesingal, "The avowed antiracists defending Jason Arday (a con artist) are now weeks into a campaign against a black reporter at the Guardian who published one of the most important articles exposing him. The origin of that article was Arday reaching out to the journalist to lie to him." Timur Kuran @timurkuran, "The present carving up of the academy is a 19th-century invention, not a sacred settlement. If sociology disappeared, economics and political science would absorb most of its intellectual work. Sociology’s sister disciplines already produce much valuable scholarship on mass mobilization, the family, fertility, discrimination, and the social bases of religion, among its other traditional concerns. Setting aside the special case of hyper-politicized sociology, it is healthy for universities to wind down academic communities that have become corrupted." Quote Carlos Iván Moreno @carlosivanmoren, "Translated from Spanish
Universities Without Sociology? The idea is starting to sweep across U.S. campuses. if a discipline doesn't guarantee employability or good salaries, perhaps it should lose space."

Brigitte Gabriel @ACTBrigitte, "Three girls butchered at a dance class in Southport, England by a 2nd generation Rwandan immigrant and the streets exploded because people are done watching governments protect the system that keeps delivering this nightmare." Quote Mavica @mavica81, "Translated from Spanish. The mob in the United Kingdom after another little girl was stabbed by an asylum seeker..." Lauren Chen @TheLaurenChen, "The feud between Africans and black Americans has produced some of the funniest intra-race racist material I have ever seen. And I say that as an Asian." Quote Dom Lucre | Breaker of Narratives @dom_lucre, "LATEST: Africans with ancestors who sold Black Americans into slavery have started uploading videos mocking Black Americans for their culture."

Driscoll at Insty appreciates CONQUEST’S FIRST LAW OF POLITICS: Everyone is conservative about what he [or she] knows best.

🙄 https://t.co/qgbLJzJwWn pic.twitter.com/d2MXvI0zwA

— Planet Of Memes (@PlanetOfMemes) August 29, 2026

Jack Posobiec @JackPosobiec, "So, hormones are so dangerous they can make you crazy enough to kill your kids, but totally fine to give to anyone who wants to transition, including kids?" From NYPo, Sophie Cunningham sparked a revolt — and the WNBA bullies are floundering. 

Flotsam and Jetsam - Kamala Kameleon

Insty, SHE DON’T FEEL NO WAYS TAHR’D: Steve Guest@SteveGuest, "WATCH: Over 3 minutes of Kamala Harris using different phony accents throughout the years. Despite spending her childhood in Berkley, California and Montreal, Canada, Kamala uses what she thinks is a Detroit accent, what she thinks a southern accent in Georgia, a French accent, and more!" Matt Palumbo at Bongino, Kamala Harris Can't Stop Putting on Fake Accents When Pandering. OTP, ‘Foghorn Leghorn’: Kamala Harris Unveils 7th Fake Accent So Far. At Breitbart, Kamala Harris to Georgia Voter: I Washed My Collard Greens in a Bathtub. From the Wombats In The Mailbox: 09.03.24, Legal Insurrection, ‘Detroit Speak:’ Kamala Harris Cannot Stop With ‘Cringe’ Accents,  The Babylon Bee quips about 10 Ways Kamala Addresses Crowds Of Different Races "#6 "Tell Jewish voters 'Oy Vey! Trump And Vance Are Meshuggeneh!'": This might work as long as she remembers to not break into pro-Palestine chants right after." Hat Hair's Capt. Ed adds "Gotta say that #7 might actually work." Nick Arama at RedState relates Classic Gold: Doocy Grills WH About Kamala's Fake Accent and KJP Implodes. VOZ@ Voz_US, "#OPINION | Kamala has been known for years for her weak oratory. When she speaks she has a hard time keeping the thread of the conversation, and she also has a nervous laugh that not only gives her away easily, but also annoys many". VodkaPundit at PJM, Harris's New Trick to Avoid Reporters Backfires Spectacularly. "One detail does not pass the sniff test, though, and you can see it at about the eight-second mark. Harris, earbuds in her ears, lifts the phone up to her ear as if to talk to someone — that she isn't already talking to through her earbuds?"

From the Wombats In The Mailbox: 09.03.24, Twitchy, Tulsi Gabbard Expertly Reminds Dana Bash Who Should ACTUALLY Be The Focus Of The Arlington Story, and American Thinker: The Truth About Arlington. At WaEx Byron York discusses Kamala Harris, Donald Trump, and Arlington cemetery. Benny Johnson@bennyjohnson "Biden-Harris' Afghanistan withdrawal, marred by the tragic deaths of 13 American heroes presents a huge threat to Kamala's campaign. This weekend Kamala signal-boosted one of her all-time gravest failures. Good on the Gold Star families for speaking up against her like this— WOW." WaEx, “We invited Trump:” 8 Gold Star families send video messages to Kamala Harris. Ace, Gold Star Families Blast Kamala Harris for Her Part in Democrat Media Hoax About Arlington Wreath-Laying ". . . The Gold Star families resent being used in the latest Democrat-Media-Deep State Party op." Jeff Blehar at NRO thinks The Harris Campaign’s Stall in Momentum Is Reflected by the Non-Scandals It Promotes. Capt. Ed, "The media has gone all-in on carrying this particular scandal water, even as the Gold Star families push back. That tells you something about their desperation, too." 

Hat Hair's Duane Patterson sees Kamala Harris Stumble Out of the Blocks of the Labor Day Sprint To November. Doug McKinnon at TownHall thinks The Kamala Harris Campaign Is Collapsing. Aop Da Hill, Carville Lists ‘Imperatives’ For Harris To Become ‘Certified Fresh Candidate’.From the Wombats In The Mailbox: 09.03.24, at Am Great, Can They Really Reinvent Kamala Harris in 70 Days?, Victory Girls, Imagine This – Kamala Harris Leading Our Military. At Twitchy, Kamala Claims to Have Always Had Only 'One Client' (LOL, Guess How THAT Went Over on Twitter). Althouse find "It's not the economy, stupid: Why Kamala Harris should focus on everything else." Well, she can't brag about the economy, stupid. AP, Harris opposes US Steel’s sale to a Japanese firm during joint Pennsylvania event with Biden, stealing another Trump idea. At JTN, John Solomon thinks Kamala Harris speech from 2023 on transgender rights risks boomerang with American voters, "“What Vice President Harris calls anti-equality laws are seen as common sense by most Americans,” pollster Scott Rasmussen says." Roger Simon thinks Obama, Not Trump, Is Kamala's "Dictator". So sad, at OTP, Hillary Clinton Got COVID At Democratic Convention, Bails Out Of Harris Fundraiser. At PJM Matt Margolis wonders Is Biden Trying to Help Kamala Lose? "Even Newsweek is wondering why Kamala is letting Joe campaign with her." She doesn't know how to say no. 

OTP, Walz Boasts He’s Not ‘In The Pocket’ Of Organized Labor: ‘I Am The Pocket!’ Restoration News reports on Pornography in Schools, Brought to You by Harris-Walz. When I was a kid we had to find it ourselves. Madeline Leesman at TownHall suspects, Did Tim Walz Lie About Getting Turned Away From a George W. Bush Rally? Looks like it. 

PJM's Stephen Kruiser reports Joe Biden Is Back From the Beach to Give His Hamas Buddies Some Love. NYPo ed board, Will Harris-Biden act to counter Iranian agents behind anti-Israel campus protests? Wanna bet? Ace, cites Nitwit Actor George Clooney: Biden Quitting Was the Most "Selfless Thing Since George Washington" "That must gladden Joe Biden's heart. He went to school with George Washington. Biden was a flankerback on George Washington's football team. George Clooney is the biggest jerkoff since Aaron Burr." From the Wombats In The Mailbox: 09.03.24, at Am Great, Biden, Back From 2-Week Vacation, Delivers Remarks on His ‘Accomplishments,’ Suffers Brain Fog, Refuses to Take Questions.

Mark Green at NYPo, Stats show the Biden-Harris administration just stopped caring if criminals crossed the border. From NewsMax, Convicted Murderer Deported 4 Times Arrested in Texas. At Da Caller, Teen Girl At Baseball Game Randomly Stabbed By Previously Deported Illegal Migrant, Police Allege. Da Blaze, Previously deported illegal alien stabs teen girl at a baseball game in the random attack: Police. Leak Barkoukis at TownHall, NYC Cops Estimate What Percentage of Crimes Were Committed by Illegal Immigrants  Hat Hair's Jazz Shaw reports Migrants Now Make Up 75% of Arrests in Manhattan. VodkaPundit at PJM quips Midtown 'Migrants' Are Just Doing 75% of the Crimes Americans Won't Do. Be fair, New Yorkers voted for it. Stephen Kruiser PJM, More Awful 'Migrant' Madness for Trump to Bury Harris With in Debate. Ace, Colonizers: Now Venezuelan Gangsters Take Over Apartment Building in Chicago. Well, they voted for it, too. Insurrection Barbie@DefiyantlyFree. "Michell Obama and Hillary Clinton and Laura Bush wrote a letter about the children that were being separated from their families at the border when Donald Trump was president. Do you notice the radio silence by all of these hypocrites and hacks that 320,000 children have gone missing under the Harris/Biden administration?" Elon Musk@elonmusk, "Most of Earth should move to California! Illegals get free medical care in California as of January and now get “payback optional” $150k loans, funded by California taxpayers, among many other benefits."

From Insty, MILTON FRIEDMAN LOOKS DOWN AND SAYS “I FUCKING TOLD YOU SO, YOU MORONS.” James Lavish@jameslavish, "The market is reacting negatively this morning to extremely poor ISM manufacturing data. The TL;DR: Demand fell, inventories rose (due to unsold stock), and prices *rose* (due to labor and shipping costs). This is the definition of stagflation. The Fed’s worst nightmare." VodkaPundit warns Tighten That Belt Even More Because Here Comes the Dreaded S-Word.  Worse than Carter. But Hat Hair's John Sexton warns Progressives Are Hopeful They Can Raise Your Taxes Next Year. OTP, CA Democrats Reject Tax-Free Tips. Hey, they got "migrants" to pay! From the Wombats In The Mailbox: 09.03.24, First Street Journal  Youts Have A Big Vote Decision: A Good Economy Or Climate (scam) Action, and Happy BidenHarrisflation Labor Day Weekend!

At NewsMax, Pollsters Who Called 2016, 2020 Say Harris Losing Steam and Jim McLaughlin to Newsmax: Media Is Under-Sampling Republicans in Polls. WaT, Pro-Democrat samples fuel Harris surge; unfavorable vice president closes gap with Trump in polls. Hat Hair's Dave Strom looks at Why Nate Silver  Is Showing Trump More Likely to Win. NYPo claims Latest swing state polls suggest Trump could score decisive victory against Kamala Harris. From the Wombats In The Mailbox: 09.03.24, Don Surber on Making it too big to rig. WSJ, cited at Hat Hair, Harris Is Still Trying to Rebuild Biden’s Winning 2020 Coalition and Capt. Ed says "Enthusiasm numbers among Democrats have gone up briefly with the change to Harris, but that probably won't last. "   Capt. Ed thinks it's Too Fun to Check: Walz Cost Harris 5 Points in ... Minnesota? Matt Margolis says Whoa! Tim Walz May Actually Be Hurting Kamala's Chances of Winning Minnesota. Matt Vespa wonders Based on This Minnesota Poll, Did Kamala Choose the Wrong Horse for a Running Mate? 

From Fox, Illinois Gov. Pritzker says nobody should 'underestimate' Trump in debate against Harris. Da Caller, Renowned Pollster Says Trump Can Trounce Harris In Debate With These Key Questions.  “Why did inflation get so high under your administration? What exactly are you going to do if your policies caused it? What can you do to solve it?” “And most importantly, are you better off today than you were four years ago?" That was four question, but what the heck. At PM, BREAKING: Trump says he would have 'no problem' releasing full Epstein list. Althouse hosts Jordan Peterson, "Yeah, well, Trump has that unvarnished element, and that's also something that's very appealing to working-class people...." ""He doesn't talk down to people.... He's very good at that.... Yeah, well and he's got that gift of spontaneity." And Lex Fridman does a distinctive interview with Donald Trump.... Sundance at CTH likes it too, President Trump Podcast Interview with Lex Fridman. From PM, Secret Service failed to prevent juvenile from trespassing Mar-a-Lago for hour, jumping in pool in 2023.

OTP, 63 Days Until Election Day, But Voting Starts On Friday; 57% Will Cast Ballots Early. From the Free Bacon, Do You Like NASCAR? This 'Non-partisan' Voter Registration Group Doesn’t Want To Help You "The Voter Participation Center excludes NASCAR fans, golf aficionados from its voter registration efforts."  At Hat Hair Jazz Shaw, Cornel West: Harris Tried to Bribe Me to Drop Out and Dave Strom has a Prediction: The Return of Students to Campus Will Have a Big Impact on Presidential Race. From the Wombats In The Mailbox: 09.03.24, The Federalist: RNC Alleges Pennsylvania Dems Recruited Out-Of-State Poll Watchers In Defiance Of Election Law, The Now-Forgotten ‘Climate Crisis’ Was Just A Cynical Ploy For Democrats To Gain Power, Pennsylvania Court Says Improperly Dated Mail Ballots Must Be Counted, In ‘Untethered And Unprecedented’ Ruling, Democrat-Controlled States Refuse To Clean Voter Rolls And Fix Election Problems, and CBS News Present Leftists As ‘Experts’ To Smear Opponents As Spreading ‘Disinformation’.

At NewsMax, Federal Judge Rejects Trump Request to Intervene in Wake of N.Y. Conviction. Capt. Ed comments It would have been an extraordinary intervention at this stage, certainly. Trump's attorneys must have known that too, but it doesn't hurt to try. From Da Wire, Andy McCarthy On Trump’s New Legal Peril And Jack Smith’s Next Move. "Special Counsel Jack Smith has revised the federal charges against Donald Trump, responding to the Supreme Court's ruling on presidential immunity." Josh Hammer at Da Caller on Jack Smith, Democrat Lawfare Complex Hit Man "No one should have been under any preexisting illusions that Smith was a noble lawman dedicated to upholding a neutral rule of law." Matt Vespa points out Here's Where FBI Officials Realized What Could Be the DOJ's Goal in Raiding Mar-a-Lago. "There’s another theory: The DOJ felt that the comprehensive binder on the Russian collusion investigation, all the dirty laundry about this probe that House investigators compiled in 2019-2020 was at Mar-a-Lago. This binder reportedly went missing before the COVID pandemic, and the usual Deep State subjects were fearful that Trump had a copy of the original file on the property." They can have multiple motives. 

Linda Sun

Hat Hair cites NYT, Hmmm: Feds Arrest Former Hochul Deputy Chief of Staff, Capt. Ed, Feds: Former Aide to Hochul, Cuomo a Spy for China. Nicholas Ballasy at JTN reports Former aide to NY Democrat Gov. Hochul charged with acting as agent of Chinese government "Her husband, Chris Hu, was also arrested at the couple's $3.5 million home located on Long Island." AP,  Former aide to New York's governor is charged with being an agent of the Chinese government. "Linda Sun, who held numerous posts in New York state government before rising to the rank of deputy chief of staff for Hochul, was arrested Tuesday morning along with her husband at their $3.5 million home on Long Island." From NYPo, Ex-Hochul and Cuomo aide enjoyed $4M mansion, salted ducks, ballet performances and other luxury gifts from double life as Chinese agent: feds.

At Hat Hair, Victor Joecks, How Democrats Undermined Democracy, Dave Strom, Suddenly the Constitution is 'Dangerous', and The Third Reich (Robert). Walter Kirn@walterkirn, "The last few days have seen an almost symphonic surge of attacks on our most fundamental rights, by officials, newspapers, politicians, celebrities, & academics. It's not rhetoric anymore, it's an organized massing of institutional forces prior to big moves which seem imminent.." Quotes Jonathan Turley @JonathanTurley "Robert Reich, Clinton's labor secretary, is calling for the arrest of Elon Musk for his refusal to censor speech. https://foxnews.com/media/ex-labor-secretary-robert-reich-claims-elon-musk-out-control-says-regulators-should-threaten-arrest… Reich has long been a staunch ally of the anti-free speech movement..." The Populist notes Brazilian President Calls Elon “Far Right” because supporting free speech is now "far right."  Chris Bray at Tell Me How This Ends calls them Jackbooted Paste Eaters "it's illegal for you to notice that i pick my nose, you fascist, so you have to go to prison." Insty, WHEN THEY TELL YOU WHO THEY ARE AND WHAT THEY WANT, BELIEVE THEM: and a bunch of videos including:

“They are directly speaking to millions & millions of people without oversight.”

Exactly. That’s free speech. No oversight by government bureaucrats. @jaketapper looks genuinely dumbfounded that this could possibly be her actual position. pic.twitter.com/yOSMq0rMfx

— Jennifer Sey (@JenniferSey) September 3, 2024

Mia Cathell at TownHall, More of the Nashville Trans Shooter's Manifesto Just Dropped. Twitchy reports it's Absolutely Left-Wing TERRORISM: Covenant School Trans Shooter Audrey Hale's Manifesto Writings RELEASED. 'Bonchie' at RedState, NEW: Nashville Trans Shooter's Full Manifesto Released, and It Makes the Cover-Up So Much Worse. 

Insty, FOLLOW THE “SCIENCE:” "Women have more strokes than men, but new European Guidelines remove ‘women’ bc it omits ‘non-binary’ & transgendered people." JTN, 26 states have blocked Title IX, nearly 700 schools won’t comply. "Biden’s new gender-affirming Title IX rules redefine sexual discrimination to include sexual orientation."

Insty, HIGHER EDUCATION BUBBLE UPDATE: "Anti-Israel activists kick off new school year vandalizing Cornell buildings. 44% of Jewish students don’t feel safe on their own campus: Poll. Pro-Palestinian protesters ‘shut down’ Pomona College convocation. Senior Hamas official encourages U.S. students to ‘escalate’ anti-Israel protests on campuses. Flashback: Jewish students, come here to the South — where you’ll be safe."

The Wombat has Rule 5 Sunday: Sunday Morning Coffee and FMJRA 2.0: Is It October Yet? up and garnering clicks at The Other McCain.

You May No Longer Say Someone is Outstanding in their Field

She's outstanding in her field

 It offends the easily offended. At the Free Bacon, Michigan Cites Racism in Decision To Ban Term 'Field Worker' ‘While the widespread use of this term is not intended to be harmful, we cannot ignore the impact its use has on our employees’

Michigan’s Department of Health and Human Services says it will no longer use the words "field worker" in agency communications, citing the term's "implication for descendants of enslaved Black and Brown individuals."

The department said "staff and stakeholders have raised concerns" about the term’s allegedly racist connotations, according to a January 4 memo obtained by the Washington Free Beacon.

"While the widespread use of this term is not intended to be harmful, we cannot ignore the impact its use has on our employees," the memo reads. "Establishing shared language is essential to our collective progress."

 

The memo came from Demetrius Starling, the director of the department’s Children’s Services Agency, and Dwayne Haywood, the director of the department’s Economic Stability Administration, neither of whom responded to requests for comment. Its letterhead includes Michigan governor Gretchen Whitmer (D.), who in 2021 mandated "implicit bias training" for all health professionals in the state.

 

The government of Michigan is not the only progressive body to put "field" out to pasture. On Monday, the University of Southern California’s school of social work announced that it had removed the term from its curriculum, citing the need to "reject white supremacy."

"This change supports anti-racist social work practice by replacing language that could be considered anti-Black or anti-immigrant," an email from the university’s education department said. "Phrases such as ‘going into the field’ or ‘field work’ may have connotations for descendants of slavery and immigrant workers that are not benign."

Formerly known as the "field education department," the school’s education program will now be called the "practicum education department."

Sheer lunacy. Back when I was an active scientist, "field work" was the best part.

The Wombat has Rule 5 Sunday: 2B or not 2B up on time and under budget at The Other McCain.

That Wasn't a Mugging, It was an "Interaction"

NYPo, Shark advocates call for rebranding violent attacks as ‘interactions’

Marine experts and advocates in Australia are urging the public to refrain from using the word “attack” in reference to sharks, declaring that the majestic predatory fish has been unfairly stigmatized as a deliberate killer.

Instead, officials have suggested that violent run-ins with sharks be dubbed with more neutral words — such as “interactions.”

Others have suggested swapping the word with the terms “negative encounter,” “incident” or simply “bites,” the Sydney Morning Herald recently reported.

Oh, Lord, please don't let me be misunderstood.   

” ‘Shark attack’ is a lie,” said University of Sydney language researcher Christopher Pepin-Neff, who argued that a majority of what people call “attacks” are merely nips and minor injuries from smaller sharks.

He also told the Aussie outlet that such phenomena were once called “shark accidents,” prior to the 1930s when prominent Sydney surgeon Victor Coppleson began calling them “attacks.” 

The change marked a shift in mood as shark nets were also being implemented on Australian beaches at that time.

Government agencies have also begun to adopt new language, including the Department of Primary Industries in New South Wales (NSW DPI), which has worked with a shark-survivors support group, Bite Club, to identify more sensitive vocabulary to describe an audience with a shark.

Which reminds me of a song my Dad used to sing:

The Wombat has Rule 5 Sunday: Bunny Girl Senpai ready for your digital delight.

How Much Did He Know and When Did He Know It?

Stacy McCain on the 'Hilaria' Baldwin "scandal" ‘Mi Casa en Beacon Hill’

It was discovered that Alec Baldwin’s wife, who pretended to be a Spaniard named “Hilaria,” is in fact a New England WASP of colonial stock who was known as Hillary Hayward-Thomas to her private-school classmates at the Cambridge School of Weston, growing up in a five-bedroom home in the prestigious Beacon Hill neighborhood of Boston.

The most interesting aspect of this fraud is how Alec Baldwin himself has acted as an accomplice in his fake-Spanish wife’s hoax. Ace of Spades pointed out that there are video clips of Baldwin making media appearances in which he mocked his wife’s “Spanish” accent . . . 

Obvious question: How could Baldwin not know the truth?

Obvious answer: It’s impossible. We must assume that Baldwin has met his wife’s parents, Dr. Kathryn Hayward and attorney David Thomas Jr. Since her parents are entirely American — they retired to the Mediterranean resort of Mallorca, but living on a Spanish island doesn’t make you a Spaniard — Baldwin must know his wife’s accent is phony.

Just FYI: My oldest daughter’s husband is Argentine, and she spent a full year in a Spanish-language immersion program in Argentina. She is fluent in Spanish, and they use both languages in their home, but my daughter doesn’t speak English with an accent. Do you see the point?

 

No matter how fluent in Spanish one might become, a native speaker of English doesn’t lose the ability to speak English, yet “Hilaria” Baldwin pretends she doesn’t know the English word for “cucumber.”

So what’s this about? We know that “Hilaria” owned a chain of yoga studios in New York. Is it possible that there is some sort of government program in New York that grants favorable treatment to minority-owned businesses, and that she was taking advantage of that? Because otherwise I cannot think of any other reason why this Yankee WASP would pretend to be Hispanic, except perhaps that she might be mentally ill.

Well, she did marry Alec Baldwin . . .

A phony in Hollywood? Scandalum magnatum! Besides, she's clearly a better actor than Alec.

The Wombat has Rule 5 Sunday: Rep. Lauren Boebert up and running. 

Hilarious!

Megan Fox at PJ Media, Cultural Appropriation Alert: Alec Baldwin's Wife Torched for Faking Spanish Accent and Heritage

Hilaria Baldwin is married to Alec Baldwin, the mouthy star who does a terrible impression of Donald Trump for Saturday Night Live. Hilaria, or Hillary Hayward Thomas as she was known growing up in Boston, is on the receiving end of internet sleuths who seem to be out to cancel her for faking a Spanish accent and lying about where she was born. Page Six has the story.

Hilaria Baldwin has been forced to defend her fluctuating Spanish accent — and admitted that her name is “Hillary.”

 

The wife of Alec Baldwin took to Instagram Sunday morning after a Twitter storm erupted following a tweet which read: “You have to admire Hilaria Baldwin’s commitment to her decade long grift where she impersonates a Spanish person.”

Baldwin’s own bio on her agency’s speakers site states that she was born on the island of Mallorca, Spain, and raised in Boston. Her 2016 interview with Hola! magazine also stated: “Hilaria, who was born in Spain, has made certain to raise her children with her native language, Spanish.”

 

During TV appearances, she has spoken with a pronounced Spanish accent, and on one occasion during a cooking segment she even seemingly forgot the English word for “cucumber.”

Here’s an ABC video of her with a strong accent describing married life, and another of her “forgetting” how to say cucumber.

Here she is pretending not to know how to say cucumber in English 😭 pic.twitter.com/g8xYNktsNY

— elena ilana alana alina elana (not) (@lenibriscoe) December 21, 2020

Twitter is having a lot of fun digging up the inconsistencies in her constantly-changing stories.

A minor crime. Let's stone her! 

I'm Not So Sure This Is a Good Idea

World’s first talking killer whale: Wikie the orca learns to say ‘hello’ and ‘bye bye’

Scientists say they have recorded a killer whale named Wikie repeating the words ‘hello’ and ‘bye bye’, counting up to three, and even saying the name of her trainer ‘Amy.’

The 14-year-old orca lives in Marineland at Antibes, France, and is the first in the world ever recorded by scientists allegedly saying human words.

The achievement is even more remarkable because whales do not have the same vocal ability as humans having evolved to make their own sounds underwater. While humans use the larynx to speak, whales produce sounds through their nasal passages using bursts of air.

Recently scientists have discovered that whales have different ‘accents’ or ‘cultures’ and the new study suggests that those differences are picked up when young through imitation of adults, in a similar way to how children learn to speak through copying.

In the new trial, Wikie was trained to understand a ‘copy’ signal then invited to repeat 11 completely new sounds given by her trainer. They included words and also noises such as an elephant call, a wolf howl and a creaking door.

Wikie was given a fish or an affectionate pat when she achieved the sound to reinforce the learning. Six judges were then asked to rate whether the vocalisation matched the original word or noise.

The researchers concluded: “In sum, Wikie made recognizable copies of the demonstrated sound judged in real time by two observers, Wikie’s trainer and one experimenter, later confirmed by both after listening to the recordings.

“The subject’s matching accuracy is all the more remarkable as she was able to accomplish it in response to sounds presented in-air and not in-water, the species’ usual medium for acoustic communication.

“It is conceivable that our data represent a conservative estimate of the killer whale’s capacity for vocal imitation.”

The whale words were also analysed in waveform and matched the human words when the acoustical recordings were compared.

Are we sure that teaching the world's largest and strongest predator our language is such a good idea?

Reason #5561 That Trump Was Elected

This is CNN: FakeNews CNN's Alisyn (What?) Camarotta Asks Spelling Bee Champion to Spell "Covfefe," Then Says That Maybe She Got It Wrong Because It's Not Sanskrit

It's remarkable how some rules just don't seem to apply to the Ruling Class, isn't it?
For starters, she and her Mentally Retarded Male Mansplainer Chris Cuomo marginalized the achievement of a marginalized non-white female, pushing aside the news of her victory in the national spelling bee in order to foreground, get this, a minor tweet made by a White Male.

Then, feeling it wasn't enough to tell this Girl of Color "We don't care about how many hours you studied for this, we just want to talk about the White Man Who Makes Us Feel Alive," Alisyn Camarotta Otherized the girl by assuming that she was somehow familiar with the Sansrit language -- a language that while technically still in use, is primarily in use for religious and philosophical purposes (as Latin is still technically in use in the West), assuming that a girl from America must be a practicing (and, indeed, advanced) scholar of the Vedas just because her parents are Indian.

When the Marginalized Girl, whose victory was de-focused to foreground a White Male's spelling error, got the spelling of "covfefe" wrong, Alisyn Camarotta tried to comfort her: "We're not sure its root is Sanskrit, which is probably what you're used to using."

Um, she's American and speaks English as a first language. Why would you claim she's "used to using" a language primarily used in liturgical contexts?

Though, in a small corner of India, it's used as a primary language -- but I do mean "a small corner." 14,000 people, primarily in Uttarakhand, speak it as a primary language.

Bear in mind, India's population is 1.3 billion.

India's main language is of course Hindi, not Sanskrit, and it has 122 main languages, and over 1300 other languages spoken there.

Via Wombat-socho's  "In The Mailbox: 06.05.17" Don Surber has 929,000 News Stories About Covfefe

When Is Bullying Based on National Origin Appropriate?

Why, when it's done to a Republican, or at least a Republican's wife. Gigi Hadid Faces Major Backlash Over Her ‘Racist’ Melania Trump Impression During AMAs Hosting Gig.

Wow, that was clever . . . Not.

The new supermodel war? Gigi Hadid is under fire for her Melania Trumpimpression while cohosting the 2016 American Music Awards at L.A.’s Microsoft Theater on Sunday, November 20. Watch the talked-about moment in the video above!

The 21-year-old supermodel mocked Donald Trump’s former model wife and poked fun at her RNC speech that was plagiarized from Michelle Obama’s address at the 2008 Democratic National Convention.

Many viewers weren’t too happy with Hadid’s snarky impersonation of the 46-year-old Slovenia native. “Gigi Hadid’s frankly racist impression of Melania Trump is really unacceptable,” one tweeter wrote, while another added, “Making fun of Melania’s English accent is overdone, rude, and kinda racist. Gigi could’ve done better.”

I wouldn't be expecting her to get any White House or Mar-a-Lago invitations for a while.

Others pointed out that people should be proud that the first lady–elect is multilingual. “@GigiHadid Melania Trump speaks 5 languages… I’m not a Trump supporter in any way but publicly humiliating her for having an accent? #NOTOK.”

Meanwhile, some were confused by the joke since both of Hadid’s parents are immigrants and have accents. Her mom, Yolanda Hadid, is from the Netherlands and her father, Mohamed Hadid, is from Israel. “Disappointed Gigi Hadid ridiculed first lady elect Melania Trump. Mean spirited and in poor taste. For record, Hadid’s mom has an accent,” one tweeter wrote.

Major backlash, my ass. A few conservative sites (like this) got mad, or made fun of her. Big deal, it won't cost her a dime and will only make her more popular in the "in" crowd.

Actually, impression sucks bad, the accent isn't even a good try, but I have to give the baby faced supermodel props for the physical impression; I didn't think she could suck her cheeks in that far.

So, Gigi or Melania?

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Network Anchor is Easily Amused

News Anchor Cracking Up Over Indian Womans Name "Dikshit"!

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What the ... Why everyone and your mother started using ellipses ... everywhere.

On the surface, the rise of ellipses doesn’t make much sense. They don’t generally provide any sort of typing shortcut. Aside from when the shift or alt keys are involved—or when a new character screen must be accessed to type a mark using one’s phone—ellipses often require more key strikes and time than the alternative punctuation they are intended to replace. Plus, in most instances, we tend to prefer punctuation that is, first and foremost, clear. Ellipses, at least as they are used in text messages and emails and other forms of online communication (Twitter comes to mind) appear to offer the opposite of clarity.

So if ellipses aren’t shortcuts, and they aren’t especially clear, what’s going on here?
For Clay Shirky, an author, scholar, and New York University professor who studies the effects of the Internet and technology on society, the flood of ellipses is one signifier of a unique and interesting moment in the history of written language. He suggests ellipses are most often used as replacements for pause words such as umand uh. So, he says, “people are communicating like they are talking, but encoding that talk in writing.” For the majority of history, he adds, written words were drafted to be read much later, which led people to compose their thoughts in the form of full sentences.

“Now, though, much of what is typed is for swift delivery and has more the character of speech, where whole, unbroken sentences are a rarity,” Shirky says. “Speech is instead characterized by continuous flow, with lots of pauses, repeats, false starts ... and pauses to indicate changes in direction. We’re living in a moment a bit like Alexander the Great’s time, when he adopted the altogether remarkable habit (or so Plutarch reported) of reading silently. The relationship between the alphabet and talking was progressively broken as people learned to sound things out in their heads. Now we’re seeing a moment of reversal, where people are trying to use alphabets like we’re talking, and it’s ... hard. So we reach for the ellipsis.”

When queried about his ellipsis overuse, my friend on the terrible softball team—who is also a professor in the communications department at a large Midwestern university—went even further in connecting the dots to speech. He said he uses ellipses mainly because they help him feel as though he’s engaged in a more dynamic written conversation—with the ellipses serving mostly as intentional, meaningful pauses. “It’s largely a preference for what seems like a more dramatic way of presenting something,” he says. “When I’m writing my friends, I see that writing more as I would in conversation with them: more intimately, more expressively, usually with pauses for facial contortions and intentional negative spaces. On the phone, enough of the elements of in-person conversation are present that we can imagine what the person looks like on the other end. But email, and even texts, are so cold this way.”

For Sicha, there was something else at play when he was typing all those dots, though. “It was a way to write lazy emails, honestly, without having to think about syntax or relation of each sentence to the next,” he says.

I noticed a few years ago on message boards that ellipses were being abused ... and promptly adopted the habit.