Mayorkas: Man, Somebody Shoulda Done Sumpthin' About That Border

HotAir  

"Now we know he was just another dumb cluck ideologue dutifully carrying out the orders of the glitterati who ruled over him. Technically, he was the Director of the Department of Homeland Security. We just know him as Ray; Ray Mayorkas."

"So, I always feel heartened when I can end the evening on either a high note or one so insanely ridiculous that you can't help but laugh.

This is one of those.

And please don't cry.

Once upon a time in the legendary years of the reign of POTATUS, there was a man. As we now know, he was a very, very simple man.

At the time, we were all convinced he was a super ee-ville genius.

Now we know he was just another dumb cluck ideologue dutifully carrying out the orders of the glitterati who ruled over him.

Technically, he was the Director of the Department of Homeland Security.

We just know him as Ray. Ray Mayorkas.

He was perpetually beaten up once Republicans gained the House back.

Kash Patel Called Out This Sheriff Over the Nancy Guthrie DNA as Investigation Hits Critical 100-Day Mark

 Patriot Pulse 

Kash Patel Says the Sheriff Blocked the FBI From Nancy Guthrie Evidence

Kash Patel publicly embarrassed a sitting county sheriff over botched DNA evidence in a kidnapping case watched by the entire nation.

Now the FBI has the evidence the sheriff's office sat on for weeks – and 100 days later, Nancy Guthrie is still missing.

The question isn't whether the DNA will crack this case open.

Patel went on Sean Hannity's podcast May 5 and didn't mince words about Democrat Sheriff Chris Nanos' handling of the Nancy Guthrie abduction.

For the first four days after Guthrie vanished from her Tucson home on February 1, Patel said the FBI was shut out entirely.

"For four days we were kept out of the investigation," Patel told Hannity. "The first 48 hours of anyone's disappearance are the most critical."

When federal agents were finally let in, they immediately delivered – recovering doorbell camera footage by working directly with Google that showed a masked, armed man tampering with the camera the morning of the abduction.

"We could have gotten it days before," Patel said.

Then came the DNA.

Investigators recovered a strand from Guthrie's home that doesn't match her or anyone known to have been there – a potential gold-standard lead in a case that has produced virtually none.

Patel said the FBI offered to fly it to Quantico immediately.

"I had a fixed-wing aircraft on the ground ready to move it immediately through the night," Patel said. "And they said we're sending it to Florida."

The Florida lab held the evidence for weeks before it was finally transferred to the FBI." . . .

A RedState Photo Odyssey: The Devastation of the Pacific Palisades Is America's Wake-Up Call

 Bob Hoge

"The California Dream has turned into a dystopian nightmare. Karen Bass, Gavin Newsom, Kamala Harris, Nancy Pelosi, Adam Schiff, Xavier Becerra, Tom Steyer, and all their union cronies want to bring this socialist hallucination to you, the American people." 

. . . "We here at RedState have extensively documented the disastrous failures of the one-party Democrat rule here in the Golden State, helmed by the governor with the worst record of failure arguably in the history of the United States, Gavin Newsom. Meanwhile, LA Mayor Karen Bass jetted off to Ghana despite being warned that a looming catastrophe was on the way, a key reservoir above the Palisades was left empty by highly-paid, inept Department of Water and Power (DWP) officials, the LA Fire Department was more concerned with DEI and LGBTQ than fire prevention, the forestry service told firefighters to stand down because they cared more about plants than people… the list goes on, and on… and on.

"The notable increase in construction gave me hope, but there’s a caveat: there are many stories and rumors about foreign interests and investment bros snapping up properties and planning on radically changing what once were leafy, family-friendly neighborhoods. Some theorize that the real “progressive” plan is to turn the whole area into high-density urban housing — nothing like it once was.

"I’d say all that they were all just tinfoil hat conspiracy theories, except that the two links I provided in the above paragraph show that they are most certainly not. Meanwhile, I’ve lived in the formerly Golden State long enough to know that, however devilish you think the Left’s plans are for the failing West Coast progressive juggernaut, the reality is always worse. My fear is that the Palisades will never again be the idyllic, wonderful area that mayoral candidate Spencer Pratt grew up in. He watched as his own house and his parents' were incinerated beyond recognition, and that trauma has inspired his once unlikely but now increasingly viable run for mayor."

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Spencer Pratt ad brilliantly trolls LA’s lefty leaders with hilarious City Hall stunt

Jamie Paige  "The viral anti-Mayor Karen Bass video that lit up social media is rolling through the streets of downtown Los Angeles in what may be one of the boldest political stunts yet in the city’s increasingly chaotic mayoral race.

"Two massive billboard trucks circled City Hall for hours Tuesday carrying the now-famous “Spencer, take out the trash” campaign message tied to Pratt and his rapidly growing online political movement.

"The phrase plays off the Spanish word “basura,” meaning “trash,” while taking direct aim at Bass and her administration." . . .

"Supporters behind the campaign have used the slogan to frame City Hall as bloated, corrupt and failing on homelessness, crime and basic city services.

"The trucks looped around government buildings and busy downtown streets while displaying graphics tied to the viral campaign that has already spread nationwide across TikTok, Instagram and X.

"The campaign’s videos have leaned heavily into aggressive internet-style political messaging, mixing AI-generated imagery, animation and rapid-fire attacks on City Hall leadership.

"Several clips depict dystopian scenes of Los Angeles collapsing under homelessness, graffiti, trash and crime while portraying Pratt as an anti-establishment outsider promising to clean up the city." . . .  More...

Hilarious viral AI ad depicts Karen Bass as Darth Vader

"Sky News host Rita Panahi claims Spencer Pratt has gained momentum in the Los Angeles mayoral race after supporters released a viral AI-generated campaign ad. “The Spencer Pratt campaign to be Mayor of LA got another book when supporters put together this latest ad,” Ms Panahi said. “He seems to be closing the gap very quickly with the incumbent Karen Bass.” "The AI artists turned Spencer Pratt into a Jedi sent to save a destroyed and burning city run by an AI depiction of Karen Bass as Darth Vader." . . .

Douglas Murray: Tech firms must crack down on mad conspiracy theories destroying society

 Douglas Murray  

"The traditional media would be in a whole world of legal pain if we ran and boosted claims that were knowingly untrue. Yet Meta, Facebook, X, YouTube, TikTok and the rest of them actually make money off this model. They incentivize people by rewarding those who advance the wackiest claims imaginable."

"If you need more proof of how deranging our times have become, just consider this: the number of times the word “staged” was used in the hours after the White House Correspondents’ Association Dinner shooting last Saturday.

"This isn´t only a problem for social media companies. It is a problem for our democracy. And it is one we need to tackle.

"While hundreds of journalists were sheltering in place on Saturday evening, and the entire chain of command of the United States was being raced out of the room in DC, social media platforms were having a field day.

"Analysis shows that in the hours after Saturday´s attack, the term “staged” (as in that the latest attempt on the life of President Trump was “staged”) appeared in more than 300,000 posts on X (formerly Twitter). Other platforms like Facebook, TikTok, Instagram and YouTube were filled with the same claims. Many of these claims were unnaturally boosted — some by foreign accounts.

"In case there’s anyone reading this who does think that the most recent attempt on Trump´s life was “staged,” let me try to nip that in the bud. If anyone was going to try to fake an assassination attempt on the president, where would be worst place to do it? I would think it would be in a ballroom literally filled with the world´s media: outlets that compete with each other, vehemently disagree with each other, and that come from every spot on the political spectrum. All of which couldn’t wait to let their readers know if there was something suspicious going on." . . .More...

One is amazed at the professionalism of the plotters at Butler, Pa. Trump needed a shooter so skilled that he knew the gunman could come so close to his head yet only skin the ear, missing the head. Then he told Crooks after that to just shoot anywhere for effect. "I don't care if you hit someone else". You need good professionals to fake an assassination. TD

How Biden and Obama Failed in the Middle East

Democrats have been the wimpy kid who gave their lunch money to the school bully every morning so he wouldn't disturb them. TD

Victor Davis Hanson

" . . .Ten, the Obama and Biden teams -- Hillary Clinton, John Kerry, Susan Rice, Leon Panetta, Jake Sullivan, Antony Blinken, and Lloyd Austin -- were force multipliers of their presidents' naivete and incompetence."

"The short answer to why both the Biden and Obama administrations failed to achieve peace in the Middle East is that they took actions opposite to President Donald Trump's current efforts, which have led to a ceasefire.

"First, consider Iran.

"Iran was flush with cash, on a trajectory toward a nuclear weapon, and arming Israel's "ring of fire" enemies: Hamas, Hezbollah, and the Houthis.

"The radical Islamic world of the Middle East was convinced that Israel would be doomed eventually.

"Yet both Democratic administrations let Iran profit from oil sales.

"They talked of delaying, but not ending, Iran's nuclear program. And they feared that Hezbollah, Hamas, and the Houthis were indomitable terrorist threats.

"Thus, the disruptors of peace were appeased rather than deterred.

"Two, both former Presidents Barack Obama and Joe Biden pressured Israel in general and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in particular to make constant concessions.

"But neither offered any plan for how Israel was to survive when Iran sought its destruction, and Tehran's terrorist triad aimed to bombard it with missiles, rockets, and drones.

"Worse, once the larger Middle East saw Democratic presidents appeasing Iran and its terrorist appendages, they concluded it was unsafe to take risks by allying with a delusional United States.

"Three, both Obama and Biden despised and personally insulted Netanyahu, Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi, and the Saudi royal family." . . .  More...

The Thing That Works

 John Stossel

They listen to people like Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, who says, "Capitalism ... is the absolute pursuit of profit at all human, environmental and social cost. That is not a redeemable system."

. . . "For thousands of years, everyone but the nobility was poor. Then, when some countries tried capitalism, wealth skyrocketed.

"When people are allowed to buy and sell things freely, everyone is better off.

"Socialists don't get that. AOC insists: "No one ever makes a billion dollars. You take a billion."

"But no billionaire showed up at my door demanding I give them money. Under capitalism, they can only get rich by offering people something we think is better than what we bought before.

"Yes, Amazon's founder is now absurdly rich, but consumers didn't lose. Jeff Bezos got rich by inventing a way for us to shop efficiently and pay less.

"And as Forbes points out, most billionaires weren't born rich.

                 Video: AOC "is why there are directions on a shampoo bottle"

. . .  "Maybe, but capitalism also lifted more people out of poverty, created more opportunities and improved more lives than any other system.

"Economist Thomas Sowell said, "I don't ask, 'What is the cause of poverty?' Everybody is born poor and ignorant. The question is, what factors allow some groups to get from that position?"

"'Sowell put it well," concludes Forbes. "What is the difference between people today and people in the Stone Age? Difference is -- we know more. That's how you get a higher standard of living, from experiments in the marketplace, the laboratory, always trying to find new things. That's why planning doesn't work, because if we already knew it, we'd already be doing it!"

"Only capitalism allows the experiments that create better lives." . . . More...

Humor: How many Democrats does it take … - Eric Utter

"How many Democrats does it take to screw in a lightbulb?

(Trick question. Many Democrats don’t know how to screw in a lightbulb and most have their servants do it. It should be noted, however, that hundreds of them in Washington, D.C. will debate what kind of bulbs should be legal, their maximum wattage, etc., etc.)" . . .