Soros-backed prosecutor mired in scandal resigns from office

  Fox News   "An embattled George Soros-bankrolled prosecutor in St. Louis resigned Thursday amid a legal effort by Missouri's attorney general to fire her for allegedly neglecting her duties.

St. Louis Circuit Attorney Kimberly Gardner, the city's top prosecutor, is stepping down following repeated, bipartisan calls for her resignation from officials across the state.

"Gardner's office tweeted her resignation letter, which was addressed to the people of St. Louis.

"Gardner is one of the first progressive prosecutors whom Soros, a liberal billionaire and Democrat mega-donor, bankrolled in 2016 and again for her re-election in 2020. She announced last month that she would seek a third term. Her resignation is effective June 1.

"For years, Gardner's office has faced criticism for mishandling cases and office dysfunction. The final straw for Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey came in February, when a teenage volleyball player visiting St. Louis with her team was struck by a car and lost both of her legs.

"A man was charged in the crash with assault, armed criminal action and operating a motor vehicle without a valid license. He was out on bond awaiting trial for a separate armed robbery case despite violating the terms of his bond several dozen times.". . .

Charging Decision in Hunter Biden Case Reportedly Imminent, Major Concerns Arise Amidst News

That entire arrangement is cause for major concern. It makes no sense, and one would suspect that Morris has been promised (or is actively receiving) something in return. Wealthy people don’t normally dump millions of dollars into degenerate drug addicts for no reason. 

 RedState  "Could there finally be light at the end of the tunnel regarding the federal criminal investigation into Hunter Biden? According to a new report from The Washington Post, citing numerous sources, a charging decision is now imminent and the investigation itself is essentially complete. "That news comes after four years of rumors and speculation surrounding the probe, including lots of questions about why it has taken this long to near its culmination.

Prosecutors are nearing a decision on whether to charge President Biden’s son Hunter with tax– and gun-related violations, according to people familiar with the matter, the culmination of a four-year investigation that Republicans have sought to portray as evidence the Biden family is corrupt.

Biden’s attorneys met at Justice Department headquarters in downtown Washington last week to discuss the case with U.S. Attorney David Weiss of Delaware, according to the people familiar with the matter, who spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss an ongoing criminal investigation. Typically, that sort of meeting — in which defense lawyers urge prosecutors not to seek an indictment of their client, or to seek reduced charges —comes toward the end of an investigation.

"According to the same sources, law enforcement officials have been frustrated by the painfully slow pace of the investigation. Taking four years to prepare a case involving tax fraud and a cut-and-dry gun crime charge against a single person is not typical, and it’s led many to rightfully speculate that politics has played a role in how the situation has been handled.". . .

WATCH: KJP Refuses To Say Why The Bidens Don't Acknowledge Their 7th Grandchild

 (trendingpoliticsnews.com)  "During Tuesday’s White House briefing, Karine Jean-Pierre declined to comment on the ongoing child support trial in Arkansas involving Hunter Biden, the President’s son. Despite being asked about why the Bidens have not acknowledged the child, KJP refused to answer any questions on the matter.

"When asked if the President and First Lady were monitoring the trial, KJP simply replied, “I’m not going to speak to that from here.”

When pressed further about why the Bidens have not publicly acknowledged their seventh grandchild, KJP responded, “I’m not going to speak to that.”  WATCH:

"Hunter has been in an ongoing legal battle with Lunden Roberts over child support payments for their daughter. During a hearing in an Arkansas court, Hunter’s lawyers argued that he could not continue to pay the current amount of $20,000 per month and is financially strapped. 

"However, Roberts’ lawyer argued that Hunter is living lavishly and has not provided complete financial details, particularly regarding his art sales. The judge criticized Hunter’s legal team for concealing financial details and ordered them to refile papers, suggesting that a subpoena could be issued to force the gallery to reveal the names of buyers and prices of the art. The judge also ordered both parties to appear for all future court dates and expressed her desire to see the case resolved soon.". . . What would daddy do, Hunter?

Liberal SCOTUS Justice Caught in Scandal That Blows up Recent Left-Wing Attacks

 RedState   "There’s one certainty in politics. If a Democrat is accusing a Republican of doing something, it is the Democrat who is inevitably actually doing it.

"That dynamic played out again Wednesday after a major revelation about Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor called into question all the recent left-wing attacks on Justices Clarence Thomas and Neil Gorsuch.

"For the last few weeks, a coordinated assault on the court’s conservatives has taken place, with numerous press outlets releasing reports supposedly detailing corruption. In reality, essentially everything charged amounted to nothing legally or ethically. In the case of Thomas, he was not required to report the free travel he received from long-time friend Harlan Crow. A secondary charge that Thomas misreported income also turned out to be nothing more than a simple technical mistake involving two entities with nearly identical names.

"As for Neil Gorsuch, he was accused of selling land to the executive of a law firm that had business before the Supreme Court. Once again reality got in the way of the far-left hysteria, though, after it was revealed that Gorsuch sold the property just nine days after being confirmed and that the person he sold it to had no business at all before the court at the time.

"You get the idea. These attacks have been absolutely ridiculous, but that didn’t stop Senate Democrats from calling a hearing to furiously wag their fingers. Well, they are going to have to call another hearing because it’s been revealed that Sotomayor took $3.6 million from a book company that did have business before the court at the time (The Daily Wire).". . .

Sonia Sotomayor received over $3 million for her books from Penguin Random House publishing and then didn't recuse herself from a case in which they were involved before SCOTUS where the company stood to lose money.

What did Clarence Thomas do again? https://t.co/PQxF53RmC1

— Greg Price (@greg_price11) May 4, 2023

The Wages Of Woke Are Death

 Issues & Insights

"One win for the woke insurgency is the American Medical Association’s “Organizational Strategic Plan to Embed Racial Justice and Advance Health Equity.” Goldfarb says that “unlike other social justice programs, this program is lethal” and “will tangibly reduce the quality of medical care, and almost every American will suffer its side effects' ”. . .

"Going woke means more than, as the saying says, going broke. It also means the ultimate loss of life. The grip of wokeness on our society will eventually kill Americans.

"Let’s begin with health care. Medical school students, whose learning should be focused on the healing arts, are being taught social justice ideology. Apparently, white supremacy, oppression, and structural racism must be addressed by America’s doctors-to-be, as well asthe sin of being white.

"Diversity, equity, and inclusion studies are being required at some schools, which of course crowds out time used in the past to acquire the knowledge and develop the skills needed to be a good doctor. Politics have no place in medical schools, but there they are.

"At the same time, some schools, as many as 40, are dropping standardized testing for diversity’s sake, reports the Daily Caller. The Medical College Admission Test, which “determines an individual’s ability to problem solve, think critically, and understand concepts about medical study,” does not serve the purposes of the social justice mafia. Now there are other legitimate academic avenues to medical school outside the MCAT. But as we’ve seen in other institutions of higher learning, standards designed to demonstrate and ensure competence are being killed off.". . .

Book Review: Take Two Aspirin and Call Me By My Pronouns: Why Turning Doctors into Social Justice Warriors is Destroying American Medicine (substack.com)  . . ."In a nutshell, and this is something I assume most of my readers as well as everyone with an ounce of common sense already knows, you should avoid black and mestizo doctors under the age of 50 or so. They might be great doctors but they are more likely to be people accepted and pushed through medical school because of their race. This is increasingly true the younger the doctor. You can't tell so the safest route is to avoid them. There are crappy White and Asian doctors as well but at least most of them got into and then graduated from medical school on their own merit and in spite of the barriers erected because of their race. 

UPenn doctor: ‘Anti-racist’ policies are wrecking American medicine (nypost.com) "Goldfarb is fighting back through Do No Harm, an organization he founded this year that helps protect doctors, patients and health care itself from “discriminatory, divisive ideologies.” In March, he doubled down with the new book “Take Two Aspirin and Call Me by My Pronouns: Why Turning Doctors into Social Justice Warriors Is Destroying American Medicine.”   And sure enough, this is what you knew would happen:  

"As a result of his remarks, he has been publicly censured by UPenn Medical School’s chairman, Dr. Michael Parmacek. A minority advocacy group run by Dr. Ashley Denmark, a black female doctor, also started a petition earlier this year demanding Goldfarb’s removal from the college."

What We’re Learning From Pushing Back Against the Trans Crowd

  The American Spectator | USA News and Politics

The Left gins up oodles of freaks to descend on the capitols and make things as openly, obnoxiously unpleasant as they can.

A transgender activist speaks before the Louisiana House of Representatives

 "You already know what’s happening. In Tennessee, the Legislature passed a bill that puts a stop to transgender surgeries for minors, and the Left went crazy. Not long after the bill passed, a biological female still living at home at 28 snapped, descending on a Christian school in a psychotic rage and killing three school staffers and three 9-year-olds before law enforcement gave her the suicide-by-cop she wanted. The shooter wrote a manifesto explaining the crime, which the police still refuse to release — a telltale sign that trans politics played a role.

"The news media picked up on the Nashville massacre and immediately blamed it on the state Legislature, which led to a riot in the state capitol for … gun control.

The shooter in the Nashville massacre was in illegal possession of the guns used to kill those six people, an ironic fact that escaped the demonstrators completely.

"Tennessee has been reported as a black eye for conservatives. It wasn’t. Tennessee was a battle, not immaculately won, in the war to stop transgenderism from being imposed on the American people as so many other faux “civil rights” aggressions have been.

""One of the themes in this week’s episode of The Spectacle podcast gets clearer and clearer as this fight deepens in state legislatures — namely, that, as Tucker Carlson noted in that outstanding Heritage Foundation speech two Fridays ago before the doddering Rupert Murdoch fired him from his Fox News post in a fit of pique, this is no longer Right vs. Left but good vs. evil.". . .  Full article

The New Ugly Americans

  Victor Davis Hanson

How odd that those on the Left who in the past decried "American imperialism" are now proving the greatest imperialists of all.

"The old cultural imperialism was supposedly greedy corporatism like Disneyland, McDonald's, and Starbucks sprouting up worldwide to supplant local competitors.
"But these businesses spread because they appealed to free-will consumer demand abroad. They were not imposed top down.
"The U.S. presence in Afghanistan collapsed in August 2021 amid the greatest American military humiliation in modern history. A billion-dollar new embassy was abandoned. Hundreds of millions of dollars' worth of new infrastructure at the huge Bagram Airbase was dumped.
"We still do not know how many billions of dollars of sophisticated new weapons were left to the Taliban and now are making their way through global terrorists' marts.
"Yet, in our skedaddle, the LGBTQ flag still flew high from our new Kabul embassy. A George Floyd mural was prominent on city streets.
"And gender studies programs - to the tune of $787 million in American subsidies - were showcased at Kabul University, in one of the most conservative Islamic countries in the world.
"Rainbow flags and Black Lives Matter banners have hung from our embassy in South Korea.
"Such partisan cultural activism is a diplomatic first.
"The woke Left has now weaponized the country's diplomatic missions abroad to advance highly partisan and controversial agendas that can offend their hosts, and do not represent the majority of American voters at home.". . .

. . .American foreign policy toward other nations seems now to hinge on their positions on transgender people, LGBTQ promotion, abortion, climate change, and an array of woke issues from using multiple pronouns on passports to showcasing transgender ambassadors. . .

‘The jokes write themselves’: Buttigieg mocked for response to future run for Transportation secretary

 ‘The jokes write themselves’: Buttigieg mocked for response to future run for Transportation secretary (bizpacreview.com)  

"Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg’s tenure as the head of one of the nation’s most important federal agencies has been marked by what many feel has been his lackadaisical if not outright incompetent responses to a series of crises, including ongoing air traffic snafus, unprecedented supply chain disruptions and a spate of train derailments, the worst of which occurred in East Palestine, Ohio where the town was poisoned by a hazardous chemical spill and subsequent “burn off” that sent plumes of poison into the local air.

"Many have suggested that the former mayor of the smallish college town of South Bend, Indiana was in over his head from the onset, having been tabbed as another of President Joe Biden’s diversity hires for being openly gay with no real experience that would otherwise qualify him for the job and his less than impressive performance review marked by his focus on ridiculous non-issues like renaming “racist” roads and racial disparities in traffic fatalities would seem to bolster the case of his critics.

"Now “Mayor Pete” is being ridiculed for remarks made during an interview when he responded to a question of whether he plans to re-up for another term as the nation’s top infrastructure official if Biden is reelected for a second term next November.

" 'Well you know right now I’ve got my head down seeking to deliver on all of the historic opportunities that are in front of us,” Buttigieg said. “It’s demanding work but it’s rewarding work, I’m very glad to be doing it and the future is … we’ll find out what’s next but right now we’ve got a lot to be proud of and a lot more to do.' ” . . .

Why the bombshell Joe Biden bribery allegation matters

"It does matter, because Biden is the most corrupt and least punished president in history, with a full family of accomplices." 

Monica Showalter; American Thinker  "Sen. Charles Grassley's and Rep. James Comer's subpoena to the FBI to release an unclassified document it holds about a whistleblower allegation of a "criminal scheme" involving Joe Biden, is nominally about whether the FBI ever bothers to investigate allegations of crime involving Democrats.

"And that's a well and worthy aim, given that Comer is the chairman of the House Committee on Oversight and Accountability, and Republicans are casting a spotlight on the illegal politicization seen in that law enforcement agency. 

"We believe the FBI possesses an unclassified internal document that includes very serious and detailed allegations implicating the current President of the United States. What we don't know is what, if anything, the FBI has done to verify these claims or investigate further. The FBI's recent history of botching politically charged investigations demands close congressional oversight," Grassley said.

"Did they do anything? Bribery, which is what Comer suggested the matter involved, is an explicitly impeachable offense. Did the bureau act on an actual bribery allegation by a whistleblower? Or did they kick back and yawn, focusing on pro-life activists, angry parents at school board meetings, Latin mass enthusiasts, and President Trump's disputes with the National Archives instead?

"That's their job." . . .

How do we know for sure that the Bidens are sinister? - American Thinker . . ."Everyone paying attention knows by now that Hunter Biden fathered a child with a woman with whom he met in D.C. and had a month-long affair.  

"Hunter is a known pervert, according to the information and photographs on his laptop. The man is pond scum, an addict, a pedophile (some of the young girls he filmed himself with were clearly under-age), and a foreign agent.

"He had an affair with his brother’s widow then next, with the then-D.C. stripper with whom he fathered the child in question, Navy, now four year old.  Hunter has never laid eyes on the girl.  He tried to deny she was his, but a DNA test proved that he is indeed the girl’s father.  He and his despicable parents refuse to acknowledge her existence.  They deny her as their grandchild!

"Who does this?  What kind of people do this?  Grandchildren are one of life’s greatest blessings, whether they are expected or not, born into a marriage or not."

Poll: Generation Z are the Worst, Dumbest, Most Useless Employees in U.S. History

 Warner Todd Huston; The Lid (lidblog.com)   He said it, not me.

They can’t self-start, either. They have no capacity to pick things up on their own and need to be handheld; all the while as they whine and cry about being handheld. Worse, they are so full of themselves that they are often insubordinate and willing to tell managers that they don’t know how things should work. 

"According to a recent survey of employers, Gen Z is the worst, dumbest, least-skilled, most arrogant, privileged, and laziest generation to ever enter the workforce.

"The survey found that Gen Z employees have these most endearing qualities:

• Least tech skills
• Worst work ethic
• No motivation
• Can’t be counted on to produce
• Are easily distracted
• Have poor communication skills
• Are easily offended
• Are dishonest and lie
• Feel entitled despite their uselessness

“ 'ResumeBuilder surveyed 1,344 people in managerial positions across different industries in the US earlier this month, asking them about their experiences working with those born in 1997 or later,” the New York Post recently reported.

"Almost half (49%) of respondents declared it challenging to work with Gen Z “all or most of the time,” while a staggering 79% said they find them the most challenging generation to have in the workplace." . . .

China creates a new world order as Biden ignores the threats

"Traditionally, Riyadh would have looked to Washington for support as Tehran wields its Russian bayonet, but the Biden administration has shown little interest in deterring Iran. With war in Europe, it has little appetite for another hard-power competition in a second theater. . .

AfterMath - Home (terrellaftermath.com)

China creates a new world order as Biden ignores the threats (nypost.com)  In the opening weeks of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, European Union foreign-policy chief Josep Borrell placed his hopes in China to resolve the conflict.

"“There is no alternative,” Borrell said. “We cannot be the mediators, that is clear. And it cannot be the US either. Who else? It has to be China, I trust in that.”

"A year later, Borrell’s faith has proven misplaced, as China has only disappointed Western policymakers. Once the repository of American and European hopes, Beijing has shown no interest in restraining Russia and restoring the pre-war European order.

"Instead, it has leveraged the Ukraine war to begin building an alternative, Sino-centric system.

"Its efforts are bearing fruit: As Chinese President Xi Jinping told Russian President Vladimir Putin at the end of their three-day summit in Moscow last week, “Right now we’re seeing a change we haven’t seen for 100 years, and we’re driving this change together.”

"The change Xi references is most evident in the Middle East, where Russia’s war on Ukraine is driving America’s Gulf ally Saudi Arabia into the embrace of China.

"China this month brokered the normalization of ties between Riyadh and Tehran in a diplomatic coup that shocked Washington." . . .

How to Bribe the Supreme Court (townhall.com)

 Ann Coulter

Adored: Anthony Fauci, BLM, Michelle Obama, Trevor Noah, transgenders, Ukraine, black people, pot, Elon Musk (pre-Twitter), Ruth Bader Ginsburg.  Hated: Ron DeSantis, the Proud Boys, Melania Trump, Dave Chappelle, Christians, Russia, white people, cigarettes, Elon Musk (post-Twitter), Clarence Thomas.

Having failed to destroy Clarence Thomas 32 years ago with preposterous sexual harassment charges (disbelieved at the time by 60% of Americans), now the left is resorting to attacking the ethics of a man vastly more honorable than the collection of degenerates reviling him.

The sole purpose of the media's sudden fixation on the Supreme Court's "ethics" is to morally intimidate conservative justices by reminding them that the left controls the culture. Since they lost abortion, liberals have been in a panic that the court will junk other liberal sacraments, like gay marriage and affirmative action, too. That's the reason for the stream of calumnies directed at the justices.

As usual, the main target of the left's rage is Thomas. We're supposed to be appalled that Thomas' billionaire friend Harlan Crow took the justice and his wife on a vacation that (the media claim) would have cost Thomas more than $500,000!!!

Well, yeah, but Thomas and his wife, Ginny, weren't going alone. They hadn't just won a cruise sweepstakes. They were joining Crow on a vacation he was taking anyway. Cost to donor: a few extra chicken cutlets and string beans.

Crow sounds like a great guy, but when you're going on vacation with a benefactor, it isn't like he's handing you an expensive bauble. You are the expensive bauble.

We went on a cruise on my private yacht in Indonesia and served Jeroboam of Chateau Mouton Rothschild 1945. [Meh.]

We went on a cruise on my private yacht in Indonesia and Justice Clarence Thomas was our guest. WINNER!!!!