Fox News Feeds Its Viewers More Junk Food -

But I'll stick with Harris Faulkner in spite of her Outnumbered panel cutting off Newt Gingrich after he points out George Soros role in electing prosecutors. TD

The American Spectator | USA News and Politics  "Fox News has shuffled its hosts to address the departure of Tucker Carlson.

"Sean Hannity stays at 9 p.m. Eastern. Laura Ingraham moves from 10 p.m. to 7 p.m. Jesse Watters shifts to 8 p.m. Greg Gutfeld dips into primetime in the 10 p.m. slot.

"Tucker Carlson offered viewers meat-and-potato viewing. They replaced that with candy in Jesse Watters.

"I like candy. I eat it. I cannot live on it.

"Gutfeld, even more outside of the news than Watters, brings more candy into the primetime lineup. Outnumbered and The Five also go down the light, breezy path.'

"Fox News needs these shows. They set it apart from CNN and MSNBC. But to flood your lineup with them turns serious viewers away. A host need not come across as a stern crusader or anything like that. But on a news channel, man-in-the-street interviews, comedy skits, and animal videos should not devour so much time.

"This isn’t a knock on Watters, who is a talented broadcaster — Bill O’Reilly plus a sense of humor and minus the peculiar vocabulary (pithy, counselor, what say you) — and Gutfeld, who, like a prime Howard Stern, attracts an audience not so much for what he says or does but for the cast surrounding him. It’s entertaining — right before midnight when the sandman sneaks up on you.

"Fox News erred in not finding new talent outside of the network. It feels all very stale with the same hosts bouncing around and the guests — often contributors on the payroll — mouthing cliches and talking points.

"Mostly, the fare does not fill. The sugar rush may boost ratings in the short run. They need something substantive around which to anchor their primetime lineup. Instead, they feed their viewers more junk food.

"Fox News executives do not know their audience, which explains its diminution." . .  .

Democrats want to bring America to her knees; morally and economically

Democrats want to bring America to her knees economically for the climate. Meanwhile: 

 Report: China emissions exceed all developed nations combined - BBC News

"China emits more greenhouse gas than the entire developed world combined, a new report has claimed.

"The research by Rhodium Group says China emitted 27% of the world's greenhouse gases in 2019.

"The US was the second-largest emitter at 11% while India was third with 6.6% of emissions, the think tank said.

"Scientists warn that without an agreement between the US and China it will be hard to avert dangerous climate change.

"China's emissions more than tripled over the previous three decades, the report from the US-based Rhodium Group added.

"The Asian giant has the world's largest population, so its per person emissions are still far behind the US, but the research said those emissions have increased too, tripling over the course of two decades.". . .

Two short videos perfectly sum up the climate change scam - American Thinker  . . ."In 1816, interrupting the warming period, there was a year without summer and mass starvation because of a single volcanic eruption: Mt. Tambora, in the Dutch East Indies, caused a worldwide temperature drop of 0.7-1 degrees Fahrenheit. The plume was so huge and filthy that it literally blocked the sun.

We are inconsequential—the climate changes due to its own rhythm. In the scheme of things, humans account for only a small percentage of CO2 in the atmosphere.

"What climatistas don’t acknowledge is that a slightly warmer world is human-friendly because it releases into the atmosphere water that’s usually trapped in ice. Water, not alcohol, is the true aqua vitae. No water; no life. When there’s drought or cold, people die. (For more on the risks from a coming natural cooling cycle, I recommend this and this.)

"For the climatistas, logic clouds reason and even the survival instinct. Their vision of paradise is a world unsullied by humans. I was reminded of this when I saw the following post on Facebook: . . ."

In 1816, interrupting the warming period, there was a year without summer and mass starvation because of a single volcanic eruption: Mt. Tambora, in the Dutch East Indies, caused a worldwide temperature drop of 0.7-1 degrees Fahrenheit. The plume was so huge and filthy that it literally blocked the sun.

Biden official: It's going to cost trillions of dollars. There's no doubt about it.⁰⁰

Me: So, if the U.S. spent $50T to become carbon neutral by 2050, how much is that going to reduce world temperatures?⁰⁰

Biden official: *No answer* pic.twitter.com/6u8QmeJRdq

— John Kennedy (@SenJohnKennedy) May 4, 2023

For the climatistas, logic clouds reason and even the survival instinct. Their vision of paradise is a world unsullied by humans. I was reminded of this when I saw the following post on Facebook:

Peter Schweizer: ‘The Dam Is Starting to Break’ on Biden Family Corruption

 Exclusive -- Peter Schweizer: 'The Dam Is Starting to Break' on Biden Family Corruption (breitbart.com)

We've heard this before on other politicians; including "The walls are closing in".

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“ 'The dam is starting to break” on the Biden family corruption, multiple New York Times best-seller author Peter Schweizer said during an appearance on Breitbart News Saturday.

"Schweizer, a senior contributor at Breitbart News and president of the Government Accountability Institute, spoke about the recent Hunter Biden whistleblower revelations.

“'This is really, really important. The dam is starting to break — truly the first time you’ve had somebody from inside the government who has said, ‘Wait a minute, the way this is being handled is wrong,'” he said, praising the whistleblowers who could otherwise retire and have comfortable lives.

“ 'Based on what they’ve told us, is that under ordinary circumstances, Hunter Biden would, right now, be facing indictments not only for tax evasion charges, which are felonies,” but also for violation of the Foreign Agents Registration Act (FARA), Schweizer explained.

“ 'The U.S. Attorney in Delaware wanted to bring charges in both of those areas and was blocked by the Department of Justice (DOJ),” he said, explaining that the revelations also reveal that the DOJ not only failed to do its job but applied a different set of standards to Hunter.". . .

The Biden Banana Republic Wrist-Slap

 "Fact? Hillary Clinton broke the law in handling her emails. No indictment."  'By any means necessary' is not just a slogan with these fascists. A clear message has been sent that any true leader who emerges on the traditional conservative side will now be subject to similar blowtorch scorched earth tactics, including unfettered 'flood-the-zone' legal warfare, to destroy them and their families. The govt has been usurped by thugs, lunatics, incompetents and criminals. Unless and until Traditional Americans/ conservatives wake up and realize they have to 'fight fire with fire', we will lose.

Biden’s Banana Republic - The American Spectator | USA News and Politics

 Biden’s Banana Republic - The American Spectator | USA News and Politics

"It was amazing to see Attorney General Merrick Garland’s appointed special counsel, Jack Smith, step in front of the cameras and say of the indictment of former President Donald Trump: “No one is above the law.” Which is to say, Jack Smith looked the American people in the eye and straight up lied."

Another reason to vote Trump

 Don Surber

Trump is showing leadership in trying to rally the country behind the flag. Not the Pride one. Not the BLM one. Not the Ukrainian one. No, the real American flag.

"British newspapers reported this weekend that President Donald John Trump plans to throw the biggest party ever on July 4, 2026, to celebrate the 250th anniversary — the semiquincentennial — of the founding of the United States.

The American press ignored the announcement as reporters were too busy showing their expertise on Kremlin politics, just days after showing their similar ignorance about deep sea submersibles.

The Mirror reported, “President Donald Trump has vowed to throw a year-long party to mark the country's 250th birthday — also referred to as the semiquincentennial — should he be elected to serve a second term of office next November.

“July 4, 2026, will mark the 250th anniversary of the signing of the United States Declaration of Independence in 1776, with Trump promising a big celebration ‘for everything we've gone through.’

“The 77-year-old made the pledge on Saturday during a speech at the Faith & Freedom Coalition’s Conference in Washington, D.C.”

"This was the same conference that booed Chris Christie. He’s most famous for closing the beaches as governor over a July 4th holiday — and then parking his fat ass on the beach. (Eye wash alert for the photo in the link.)

"Trump respects Independence Day.

"He told the conference that such an event will “restore pride in our history and confidence in our future." . . .

Riley Gaines dares ‘left-leaning’ media to interview her: ‘You know where to find me’

 Intelligent voices must resist the sheer silliness of leftist movements; Biden is not one to be that voice, should people not be aware of this. TD

AfterMath - Home (terrellaftermath.com)

Riley Gaines dares ‘left-leaning’ media to interview her: ‘You know where to find me’ (bizpacreview.com)   "Fresh from delivering powerful testimony against trans athletes before the U.S. Senate during a hearing on LGTBQ+ rights, former college swimmer turned women’s advocate Riley Gaines dared members of the “left-leaning” mainstream media to interview her.

"The challenge came in response to a tweet from USA Today Sports columnist Nancy Amour, who claimed those women who speak out against allowing biological men to compete against them and invade their personal spaces, such as the women’s locker room, are “using” the issue to gain celebrity status.

“ 'There is a growing cottage industry of women using transgender athletes to become right-wing media celebrities,” Amour wrote.

"Her tweet was promptly ratioed into oblivion by Gaines’s response.

“ 'Right-wing?” Gaines tweeted. “I’d love to be interviewed by you, Nancy. Anytime! You know where to find me as does CNN, MSNBC, and every other left leaning outlet that has failed to reach out and consider the perspective of those who are actually impacted by this.”. . .

. . ."“The left has to label any dissent as ‘right wing’ to attempt to delegitimize that dissent without ever addressing the substance of the dissent,” stated another. “It is far from ‘settled’ that the correct path is to allow biological males to compete with biological females.”

“ 'Waiting for 1 million women to rally and march on Washington DC in a unified effort to stand up for women’s rights,” noted a third. “This isn’t about being partisan but rather coming out against the idea that men are women.' ” . . .

No Laughing Jesters in Biden's Banana Republic -

 John Kass (johnkassnews.com)   

We’ve lost the law.  We’ve lost our most precious traditions, We are a Banana Republic. We use criminal indictments to get rid of people like any Banana Republic. We traded the American republic that kept us free for centuries because the bureaucrats of our unelected Kemalist administrative state didn’t like the immaturity of a boastful man who dared defeat Hillary Clinton in 2016.

. . ."Some jesters, like the famous and heroic Stanczyk shown at the top of this column dressed in red, is rather silent and glum. He is depicted as the only person at a royal ball who is bothered by the news that the Muscovites captured the Polish city of Smolensk in 1514. The others danced and enjoyed themselves, but not our glum Stanczyk. He served three kings and was no fool chattering what his masters wanted to hear. So, he was no Chuck Todd.". . .

  . . ."But these days modern jesters prefer to caper about singing show-tunes at the Gridiron Dinner in Washington, where journalists greet men who wear sashes, and none of them take things seriously, except their own ambition. So why aren’t they singing “Banana Boat?”

"Because they’re afraid. Oh they were excited and pleased that Democrat Biden, although doddering, and senile to the point of drooling in public, is still vicious enough to remake the United States as a Banana Republic.

"Because it was Biden who ordered that his chief political rival–former Republican President Donald Trump–be criminally indicted in the hopes of removing him as a political candidate in the 2024 election. Isn’t that election interference? Isn’t that what third-world nations do to their politics?

"And now that former President Donald Trump has been criminally indicted as Biden wanted, more news crashed against the calm demeanor of jesterdom: Iowa Republican Senator Chuck Grassley said that the FBI source who reported President Biden’s alleged role in a multi-million dollar bribery plot is claiming to have 17 audio recordings of Joe Biden and his son, Hunter Biden.

"The source kept the recordings for “insurance.”

"And the jesters, including Biden himself, have retreated into stunned silence.". . .

Welcome to the United States-World’s Newest Banana Republic-AFNN

‘Banana republic’: US looks after its ‘protected class’ with politicised institutions | news.com.au — Australia’s leading news site   "Author Douglas Murray says the protected class in the United States can get away with an awful lot in what has become a “banana republic”.

“There’s nothing more worrying than the way in which in America at the moment it seems that institutions can be used as political weapons,” Mr Murray told Sky News host Rita Panahi.

“For years, politicians have said to the electorate, send me to Washington and I’ll drain the swamp – but it turns out in most cases the swamp has drained them.”. . .

Jim Jordan Lays Waste To Democrat Conspiracists |

  John Durham | Religio-Political Talk  "What did Barack Obama, Joe Biden, Loretta Lynch, and James Comey know about Russia collusion — and when did they know it? John Durham dropped a bombshell in his testimony today at House Oversight, which will go on for at least a couple of hours or more, but this part wasn’t the bombshell. In his special-counsel report, Durham had already revealed that CIA Director John Brennan briefed these four in August 2016 that Hillary Clinton planned to paint Donald Trump as linked to Russian intelligence, presumably to shift attention away from her own e-mail scandal.

"That briefing resulted in a “referral memorandum,” and one of its recipients was then-FBI director James Comey. Oversight chair Jim Jordan asks Durham whether Comey ever bothered to share that with the agents assigned to the newly launched Operation Crossfire Hurricane or ever presented to the FISA court when applications were made for domestic surveillance of Trump campaign officials."...

Representative Troy Nehls (R-TX) questioned Special Counsel John Durham in the House Judiciary Committee today, spending his time dismantling the absurd claims made by Democrats about the existence of an alleged “Trump Pee Tape.”

Hank Johnson shames John Durham for failing to indict Hunter Biden (but there's a good reason for that) – Twitchy   "The competition for Dumbest Member of Congress is about as stiff as it gets, but dammit if Georgia Democratic Rep. Hank Johnson isn't determined to snag the top spot every single time he opens his mouth.

"At today's House Judiciary Committee hearing featuring Special Counsel John Durham's testimony on his probe into the FBI's role in the Russia collusion hoax, when it was Johnson's turn to ask questions, the hearing took a brief but valuable turn, giving the viewing public some important insight into where Johnson's head is at:". . .

Comment: "Isn’t Hank Johnson the same guy who expressed fears that putting too much equipment on one end of an island might make it capsize??"

Confirmed: Intel Top Dogs Knowingly Lied When They Said Hunter's Laptop Was Russian Disinformation

 PJ Media

This is the apex of political corruption. These people should be formally barred from holding any position in the American government ever again. But their friends and cronies are still in power, so expect them to be given awards instead.

"It was bad enough that 51 of the nation’s top intelligence officials declared in Oct. 2020, at the height of the presidential campaign, that Hunter Biden’s laptop “has all the classic earmarks of a Russian information operation.” But now the flagrant dishonesty of the whole affair has gotten exponentially worse, for any lingering doubt that these officials had access to adequate information when they published their assessment has been put to rest: it has now come to light that the FBI found the laptop to be authentic months before the intelligence officials told the world that it wasn’t. The last doubt that the 51 officials were brazenly lying to the American people has been removed.

"It’s important to remember exactly who it was who lied to us. The chief signatory was James Clapper, who is listed on the letter as the former Director of National Intelligence, former Under Secretary of Defense for Intelligence, former Director of the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency, and former Director of the Defense Intelligence Agency.

"You can’t get more of a U.S. intelligence insider than James Clapper. Clapper, 82, has spent practically his entire life in the intelligence field; he has been working in intelligence since he commanded a signals intelligence detachment in Thailand during the Vietnam War. To be sure, he has previously shown his willingness to sacrifice the truth to political expediency. Back in 2011, he notoriously labeled the Muslim Brotherhood, which has repeatedly stated its goal of imposing Sharia (Islamic law) over the entire world, as “largely secular.”

"That was right around the time that the Obama administration was selling Muslim Brotherhood uprisings in the Middle East and North Africa as a secular “Arab Spring” flowering of democracy, so Clapper was doubtless reflecting his boss’ agenda. Still, he showed himself to be either clueless or craven and only confirmed that by becoming the chief signatory to the Biden laptop letter even when he must have known that it itself was disinformation." . . .

Another Woke Reboot Dies a Horrible Death –

Please! No more remakes of classics!

PJ Media

"We’ve long been critical of Hollywood’s lack of fresh, new ideas and its apparent fascination with rebooting past films or giving us a sequel decades later. Sadly, merely paying homage to the original material is insufficient. Instead, producers opt to incorporate “wokeness,” believing it will be more appealing to modern viewers, but in the process, they end up taking something beloved and turning it into garbage that the masses don’t want to see.

"The latest example is Grease: Rise of the Pink Ladies, the prequel series to the 1978 hit film Grease. I’m not sure who wanted this — it’s bad enough to hear any of the original songs and get them stuck in your head — but once again, the effort seemed less about telling a compelling story, and more about making it an anachronistically diverse, LGBTQ story, flaunting same-sex romances and obsession with racial identity.

"Woke reboots, sequels, and prequels don’t have a stellar track record, and it’s hard to understand how Hollywood hasn’t gotten the hint. It’s bad enough that Hollywood doesn’t have enough new ideas it constantly has to borrow from past works, but it’s particularly bad when woke writers take period pieces and shamelessly insert LGBTQ ideology into them or diversify the cast in a way that makes them grossly inaccurate to the point where they’re arguably rewriting history. For example, Disney’s live-action reboot of Lady and The Tramp portrayed interracial relationships and race relations in a way that was grossly unrealistic for the era it took place in. The characters Jim Dear and Darling were made an interracial couple even though interracial marriage was illegal at the time and place the movie was set.

"After premiering on April 6, the cancellation of Grease: Rise of the Pink Ladies was announced last week. Apparently, the show was so poorly received that it will also be permanently removed from the Paramount+ platform. Though this is being done reportedly as a cost-saving measure, the move essentially memory-holes the movie out of existence." . . .

Can America Survive as a Self-Governing People? -

  American Thinker "A series of tests by the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP), better known as the Nation's Report Card, show that fifty years of student academic progress have been wiped out.  Unless this is reversed, America as a free nation faces a grim future." . . .

. . ."Student mental health is a "national emergency," with "youth suicides closely tied with in-person school attendance." 

"With billions of dollars wasted on government schools, we have severely dumbed down, mentally destabililzed political activists who hate America and the Christian faith.

"Illiteracy brings a heavy price.  It is devastating not only to personal lives, but to our society as a whole.  The U.S. has gone from being the world's best educated workforce to the least well educated in the industrial world.  Illiteracy is costing our national economy $2.2 trillion each and every year — that's 10% of our gross domestic product.

"Our founding fathers understood that self-government can survive only with an educated and a moral people who understand the responsibilities and privileges of citizenship.

"The solution is to throw the bums out of government schools and return to ideology-free classical education.  Since that is decidedly unlikely to happen in the near future or even ever, parents should remove their children from harm's way and opt for one or more of the free-market education choices. "

The Wit and Wisdom of John Kennedy, R-La. -

 Don Surber (substack.com)

"When I was 7, America elected a fellow named John Kennedy president. He had been a senator and he was witty. His daddy was rich as he made money the way John Hancock did, by smuggling. Hancock smuggled tea. Kennedy’s dad smuggled hooch.

"In 1958, Kennedy began a speech to the Gridiron Club — a journalist organization when newspapers ruled the land — by saying, “I have just received the following wire from my generous daddy: ‘Dear Jack — Don’t buy a single vote more than necessary — I’ll be damned if I am going to pay for a landslide.’”

"Looking back as an adult, I realize he was not joking. He was bragging. But he was so charming that I secretly have wished for a Republican John Kennedy. Ronald Reagan came close. Donald Trump too. Maybe the John Kennedy we need is the senator by that very name from Louisiana. He uses humor and common sense to make his point and his points are always good ones.

"Early in his days in the Senate, the Republican John Kennedy said, “This is Washington, D.C. Politics is in everybody’s blood, kind of like herpes.”

"He was a Louisiana Democrat until he decided he wanted to win election to an office bigger than state treasurer. He converted to Republican but skipped the testicle-removal ceremony. In 2016, his state sent him to the Senate. He wound up on a boring committee that overlooks banks and the like.

"At a hearing on October 9, 2017, he said something that shocked the Advocate, Louisiana’s biggest newspaper.

"It reported, “During a Senate Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs Committee hearing last week, members of Congress expressed bewilderment that credit reporting company Equifax, under siege after a data breach affecting more than 145 million people, has received a $7.25 million contract with the IRS to validate the identity of taxpayers communicating with the agency on the telephone or through its website.”

"At the hearing, Kennedy said to former Equifax CEO Richard Smith of that contract, “You realize, to many Americans right now, that looks like we're giving Lindsay Lohan the keys to the mini-bar.' ”. . .