An Assembly of Fools: Morning Joe on MSNBC

  The Lid (lidblog.com)

Not a single panel member spoke up about Scarborough’s illogical statements. Rather, they agreed with him wholeheartedly, nodded, and proceeded to discuss his points as if he had been accurate to the penny. It was sickening. WTH

Speaking nonsense to power

"In my quest to gain current political information from different sources, occasionally I force myself to watch MSNBC. One morning, I flipped on to Morning Joe, and gosh, is it abysmal. The panel of five is an echo chamber. A topic is tossed around and, in total agreement, the panel members offer their two cents. No one ever displays any critical thinking. 

The Ringleader of Nonsense

"Joe Scarborough is the ringleader of this political nonsense. During the show that I watched, they were discussing Tim Johnson, the Speaker of the House. The panelists all agreed that Johnson is difficult to work with, under-qualified for the job, and not good for the nation.

"One panelist called him an election denier, as if Hillary Clinton and countless Democrats did not deny the Republican victories for president in 2000, 2004, and 2016. How quickly they forget! 

"On this show, Scarborough went even further. He said that Johnson pushes for everything that Americans don’t want. He then ran through a series of issues and could not have been further off the mark. For example, he said that the Republicans want to dismantle the FBI. 

"Republicans might want to dismantle the top tier of the FBI, reorganize it, or reconsider the funding. Everyone recognizes that an effective, impartial law-abiding FBI is necessary. We have not had one for nearly a score. On almost any issue, Republicans who have sided with Donald Trump potentially find themselves in the cross hairs of FBI stings and planted information." . . . 

A Group of Female Athletes Boycotted an Event Against a 'Trans' Athlete. Here's What Happened Next.

States Beginning to Refuse to Abide by Joe Biden's Radical Title IX Trans Rules - The Lid 

 Led by the state of Florida, some states are beginning to line up pledging not to implement Joe Biden’s radical attempt to eliminate girl’s sports by forcing every school in the nation to admit boys pretending to be girls onto their girl’s sports teams.

 Madeline Leesman (townhall.com)   "Five middle school girls who protested the inclusion of a so-called “transgender” athlete in a track and field event have been banned from competing in future events, according to a report from the New York Post. 

Earlier this month, Townhall covered how several middle school girls who were forced to compete against a biological male who thinks he’s a woman “stepped out” during the shot put and discus competitions. Footage of the event obtained by Outkick went viral. 

🚨🚨FIVE middle school female athletes in West Virginia refuse to throw shot put against male, Becky Pepper-Jackson.
This comes just 2 days after the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals blocked the WV law that says you must compete in the category that matches your sex.

It's a… pic.twitter.com/RzMgh4jVRU

— Riley Gaines (@Riley_Gaines_) April 19, 2024

. . . Riley Gaines, a former NCAA athlete who competed against Will “Lia” Thomas, a so-called “transgender” athlete, reacted to the news on X.

“Rather than banning the boy from girls sports, they ban the girls from girls sports. You can't make this stuff up,” Gaines wrote."

One has to feel sorry for the trans child; wiser adults may have prevented this trial for the child. I would hate to think of the child as a trophy for "woke" parents.

Transgenderism as a Totalitarian Ideology - Moonbattery

 Moonbattery  

Employers are actually required by the government to refer to men as “her” and to allow male perverts to invade private facilities intended for women. Stalin himself never imagined a form of totalitarianism this intrusive. 

"The sick cult of transgenderism has metastasized into a truly totalitarian ideology, imposed by the government on every aspect of society.

Women’s sports are the most obvious example. We can’t have them anymore — because transgenderism:

The Biden administration’s pro-transgender rewrite of Title IX rules is hiding rule changes that could end single-sex K-12 sports as soon as August 2024.

Typically of totalitarian societies, we are required to explicitly reject objective reality in favor of the ideology being imposed:

At issue are the segments that seem to require schools to use the “pronouns” demanded by trans identifying kids in schools.

"Compelled speech is a violation of the First Amendment. But the US Constitution is easily dismissed as transphobic.

"Transgenderism is important to our ruling class because it can be used as a sledgehammer to smash Christianity and conscience:

In a wide-ranging final rule released Friday, the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) strengthened the Affordable Care Act’s (ACA) rules that prohibit discrimination on the basis of sex, including on the basis of sexual orientation and gender identity, in certain health programs and activities.

"By defining any resistance to transgender depravity as “discrimination on the basis of sex,” liberals can steamroll over religious objections to inflicting sex change atrocities on children:

The final rule comes at a time when GOP-led states are curtailing access to gender-affirming medical care.

"Note that this is from the liberal outlet The Hill and is therefore written in Orwellian Euphemese. “Gender-affirming medical care” means “gender-denying sex change procedures.” . . .

The Travesties of the Trump Trials; Victor Davis Hanson

 Victor Davis Hanson › American Greatness (amgreatness.com)

Tragically for the country, to stop this left-wing madness, the Trump travesties may not be the end, but the beginning of precisely what the Founders feared.

Bragg had to torture the law to fabricate a federal campaign finance indictment against Trump. But Hillary Clinton clearly violated federal campaign statutes—and was variously fined—when she tried to hide her “opposition research” payments to Christopher Steele as “legal expenses.” 

"Do not believe the White House/mainstream media-concocted narrative that the four criminal court cases—prosecuted by Alvin Bragg, Letitia James, Jack Smith, and Fani Willis—were not in part coordinated, synchronized, and timed to reach their courtroom psychodramatic finales right during the 2024 campaign season.

"These local, state, and federal Lilliputian agendas were designed to tie down, gag, confine, bankrupt, and destroy Trump psychologically and physically. They are the final lawfare denouement to years of extra-legal efforts to emasculate him.

"Indeed, the nation is by now worn out by these serial assaults on constitutional norms: the Hillary-funded Steele dossier subterfuge; the pre-election Russian laptop disinformation campaign; the two impeachments without special counsel reports; the impeachment Senate trial of a private citizen; the effort to remove Trump’s name from state ballots; the ongoing attempt to emasculate the Electoral College; or the radical opportune changes in state election laws to ensure massive mail-in balloting.

"Recently, Andrew McCarthy has reviewed in depth this coordination between White House personnel and prosecutors, long known and long denied by the left. Biden, for example, had complained to aides about Attorney General Merrick Garland’s tardiness in getting special federal prosecutor Smith appointed—and thus apparently ensuring Trump was convicted before the election.

"Nathan Wade, Fani Willis’s now-fired paramour prosecutor, visited and consulted with the White House counsel’s office when he was acting supposedly as a purely local county prosecutor. The January 6th left-wing-dominated congressional committee consulted with the Biden administration in sending forth its criminal referrals about Trump’s purported role in the protests. And to handle his pseudo-indictment against Trump, Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg hired Biden Justice Department official Vincent Colangeio.

"Two, the prosecutors’ delayed criminal indictments and E. Jean Carroll’s civil suit were predicated only on Donald Trump running for reelection. After his 2020 defeat, the loss of the two Republican senate seats in Georgia, and the January 6 demonstrations/riot, Trump was written off by pundits as politically toxic." . . .

The lesson from Columbia; The protest is not getting much traction for several reasons.

 Don Surber (substack.com)

"Times have changed. In the 1960s, colleges were seen as places of scholarship. People revered the Ivy League schools. Over time, the schools shed their reputations in favor of promoting bad science (climate change) and bad policy (DEI) and outright racism (critical race theory)." DS

. . ."The first reason is nobody cares. Jim Carville had a rant on Twitter and he said of 15 issues people under 30 were asked to rank, young people listed the Palestinian war as No. 15.

Rep.Tlaib, Democrat.

"I am pretty sure Vietnam was the No. 1 issue among young people from 1965 to 1973, when our participation ended. A generation of young men had draft cards which meant we had skin in that game. History says the protests worked but history is written by idiots. Nixon carried 49 states while the antiwar George McGovern carried Massachusetts and DC in 1972.

"We do not have 500,000 troops stationed in Jerusalem. We do not have 5,000. American involvement is all CIA and a few menacing ships at this point. This is not our war. The well-funded communists who organize these protests may as well be talking about the Armenia-Azerbaijan Conflict.

"Unlike the Vietnam protests,
these protesters are siding with the bad guys, Hamas, the people who raped, tortured, murdered and then mutilated the bodies of 1,400 people on October 7 — taking another 240 people hostage. You cannot say you are antiwar if you take a side.

"Which leads to the third reason the protesters turn people off: anti-Semitism. America may be the last nation in the world that’s not named Israel that still opposes the hating of Jews. The Holocaust still bothers many Americans and swastikas remain evil in our country.

"Indeed, polls show Americans overwhelmingly side with Israel." . . .

The reality is the protesters are indoctrinated and misled [and financed by George Soros to name one. TD]. Jews do not occupy Gaza; Palestinians do. The cruelty of the Palestinians — whose numbers increase at the highest rate in Arabia — is that they now have the people who were nearly wiped out by the Holocaust portrayed as genocidal Nazis.

In this photo: While Jews demonstrate on behalf of the young woman lying dead in this truck, those with "Palestinian" flags chant and wave to support the men around her body.

The Aspen beat   "Speaking to German news programme ‘Hard But Fair’, Roni recalled: “We saw her bleeding, we saw that she had a head injury. We saw these people around her being happy and cheering and singing that she was hurting.”

Not Just Colleges, but Mayors Abandoned Jewish Students to Hamas Rioters | Frontpage Mag  

Shame on @UCLA. Today masked pro-Hamas vandals bludgeoned and bloodied a Jewish girl and fired chemical solution into the eyes of peaceful pro-Israel protestors, all while UCPD watched and took no action. These extremists have learned well from the Hamas terrorists they idolize. pic.twitter.com/JTau1NfGDs

— Sam Yebri (@samyebri) April 28, 2024

Why Chinese Nationals Are Crossing Southern Border

 6 Reasons (dailysignal.com)

When illegal aliens are released in San Diego, the city offers “this massive nongovernmental organizational network system that’s going to provide free bus tickets [and] shelter,” he said. 

Chinese nationals are crossing America’s southern border at a rapid rate. On Wednesday alone, the U.S. Border Patrol encountered 206 Chinese nationals crossing into the San Diego sector, Fox News correspondent Bill Melugin reported.  

But the illegal entry of Chinese nationals into America through the Border Patrol’s San Diego sector isn’t new. Chinese individuals long have worked with criminal cartels to get into the U.S., former Border Patrol Chief Rodney Scott says, but the numbers have shot up.  

"In January, U.S. Customs and Border Protection reported over 3,700 encounters with Chinese nationals on the southern border, nearly all in the San Diego sector.

"But back up to January 2021, when Joe Biden became president, and CBP encountered only 17 Chinese nationals at the southern border. So what changed? 

"To find out why so many Chinese nationals are crossing the U.S.-Mexico border in the San Diego sector, The Daily Signal spoke to Scott as well as to Derek Maltz, a 28-year veteran of the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration, and to Michael Cunningham, a research fellow in The Heritage Foundation’s Asian Studies Center. (Heritage founded The Daily Signal in 2014.) 

"They point to six main reason

The Left Wants to Play Stupid Games

 Derek Hunter (townhall.com)

. . ."The problem isn’t that so many on the left set up these dumb paradigms, it’s that the ripple effect of their stupidity ruins so many things for normal people who just want to be left the hell alone. They’re the fat kid cannonballing into the hotel pool while everyone else is simply relaxing in the sun. One dumbass can make a whole of people wet. It’s what Democrats do.

"That’s why I love the idea of making every single one of these campus mutants as famous as possible. They wear their little masks, possibly because they’re immunodeficient – life in the basement between riot seasons – which just so happens to coincide with election years when Democrats need help motivating their drone army leads to a serious vitamin D deficiency – or because they’re hoping their faces will be covered to prevent them from being identified by any potential future employers. 

"If it’s the former, that explains a lot. If it’s the latter, that explains almost everything else, with the remaining slice of the possibility pie being they are simply so physically repugnant to the naked eye that not to cover as much of is as possible with an N95 mask or a “Yasser Arafat Doily” (technically called a keffiyeh, it is commonly used in civilized countries to indicate involuntary virginity) would violate the decency of even the people who have no decency." . . . 

 OnlyFans star Farha Khalidi claims she was paid by Biden administration to spread 'political propaganda' to her thousands of social media followers | Daily Mail Online 

Farha Khalidi on how surrogates for the Biden administration tried to pay her to engage in identity politics and sell their message.

A case of racial division as a top-down phenomenon. They're literally buying the TikTok influencers. pic.twitter.com/nJWGvsLlMu

— Richard Hanania (@RichardHanania) April 26, 2024

 "OnlyFans star Farha Khalidi said President Joe Biden's team paid her to spread 'political propaganda' on her platforms.

"Specifically, the social media personality said that by the time she graduated college she was doing paid posts for everyone from Planned Parenthood to the Biden administration to dating apps.

" 'I was doing full-on political propaganda,' Khalidi told commentator Richard Hanania of working with a team commissioning an ad with her for Biden. 

"Khalidi said that Biden's team didn't want her to disclose to her hundreds of thousands of followers that they were paying her for the content." . . .

Biden's Walter Mitty interview with a sycophantic Howard Stern

Howard Stern TONGUE BATHES Biden In Interview - Bing video

'NO EVIDENCE': Biden mocked for stretching the truth on shock jock Howard Stern's show (msn.com)

. . .Another suspected "lie" was Biden's claim that he was "runner-up in state scoring" in football during his high school years.

The original interview here with material from - surprise!- CNN!  'NO EVIDENCE': Biden mocked for stretching the truth on shock jock Howard Stern's show | Fox News

Biden has support from Maddow of MSNBC

On the - at that time -upcoming interview: If Howard Stern's not a coward, he should ask Biden these 7 questions (msn.com) . . .   7. Millions of people have entered the country illegally since you took office. House Republicans passed H.R. 2 last year, but it died in the Senate. The three main points in the bill include resumption of border wall construction, reinstating the Remain in Mexico policy and imposing limits on asylum eligibility, among other things. Specifically, why do you reject border wall construction, the Remain in Mexico policy and imposing limits on asylum eligibility?

"I predict that none of these perfectly fair and germane questions will be asked by Stern, of course. His interest, as it is with other activists with national platforms like Stephen Colbert and Seth Meyers, is to make Joe Biden look good and Donald Trump look bad. 

"So don't look at this as an interview that should be remotely taken seriously. Instead, treat it for what it surely will be: PR for the president. And nothing more." 

Joe Biden Saying Women Sent Him 'Salacious Pictures' Raises Eyebrows (newsweek.com)

Biden’s obsession with the sycophantic ‘Morning Joe’ | The Hill   . . ."No matter — Scarborough is smitten with this particular version Biden. Or at least he says so, rather convincingly, on television. But is it Biden himself, or the job Biden holds that so enamors the MSNBC host?

"Biden has an “obsession” with “Morning Joe,” according to an Axios report last month. “Biden’s years-long love of MSNBC’s staple morning show affects how the White House runs — and who Biden listens to,” Alex Thompson wrote. “The president often calls co-host Joe Scarborough … to get Scarborough’s take on issues and sometimes vent about media coverage, according to people familiar with the relationship.” . . .

Howard Stern lost any remaining edge with Joe Biden interview (nypost.com)

Ex-CNN Reporter Slammed On HBO Talk Show For Using Race Card

 WLT Report

"And so we see Bill Maher on his show, Real Time with Bill Maher, calling out guest Don Lemon for using his dual special privilege card, he’s a just sweet lil’ poor gay man that’s always scared and feels so unsafe (I’m paraphrasing) and he’s a black man."

"The point of this short story is to show that the special bubble that the protected classes have, that gives them special privileges and has let them get away with so much for far too long, due to people being afraid of being called a name, is going away." . . .

New York Post reports:

Former CNN host Don Lemon was humbled after bringing up his race and sexual orientation during a segment on “Real Time with Bill Maher” on Friday.

Lemon spoke to Maher on a panel with New York University professor Scott Galloway about the ongoing anti-Israel protests taking place on several college campuses nationwide.

However, Lemon suggested that the protests could be a learning experience for the students.

“I’m not minimizing what’s going on, but it teaches some of these students to deal with discomfort,” Lemon said.

Lemon said, “I’m often the only person of color in the room.”

“There’s only three of us here. Come on,” Maher said as the audience began laughing and cheering.

. . . "Tell me again about your oppression, Don. "It’s so hard having a month celebrating your sexuality, with the roads painted with your flags, isn’t it?

"And what happens if someone drives over it and leaves tire tracks, Lemon?

"Do they get they get a slap on the hand?". . . 

Jonathan Turley: NY v Trump case is 'collapsing' under its own weight

Fox News "Legal panelists Jonathan Turley, Andy McCarthy and Katie Cherkasky provide analysis on former President Trump's New York criminal trial on 'Your World.' "

Free Speech Crushed on Campus while Corporate Journalists Celebrate

 KATIE HALPER AND AARON MATÉ (usefulidiotspodcast.com)

"The elitist White House Correspondents' Dinner comes in stark contrast to the muffled cries against genocide"

Walter Cronkite and Eric Severeid are no longer with us, but there will always be CNN's Jim Acosta. Count the times the name Jim Acosta appears below. TD

Jim Acosta Awards Self ‘The Jim Acosta Award For Courageous And Handsome Journalism’ | Babylon Bee

"Standing before a massive crowd of cardboard cutouts of Jim Acosta, Jim Acosta humbly accepted 'The Jim Acosta Award For Courageous And Handsome Journalism' from himself.

The award ceremony lasted over thirty minutes due to the multiple components of the award Jim Acosta accepted from Jim Acosta:

• The Jim Acosta Trophy of Distinguished Journalism adorned with an engraved image of Jim Acosta.
• The Jim Acosta Medal of Journalistic Valor, also engraved with Jim Acosta's likeness.
• The Jim Acosta Commemorative T-Shirt, which lists, in 12-point font, the numerous risks taken by Jim Acosta on the front lines as CNN's Chief White House correspondent.
• The Jim Acosta Collector's Plate, with a watercolor portrait of Jim Acosta.
• An autographed copy of Jim Acosta's book, "The Enemy of the People." The autograph reads, "To my biggest fan, from your biggest fan. Love, Jim Acosta."

"During Jim Acosta's acceptance speech, which was printed on the back of The Jim Acosta Commemorative T-Shirt, Jim Acosta recounted being the first-hand witness to some of the most pivotal moments in the history of the United States, like when Jim Acosta yelled super loud at the President of the United States, and that other time when he was called mean names by the President of the United States.

"At press time, Jim Acosta was seen filling out a job application for Wendy's."

Acosta Yells At Trump During Press Briefing - YouTube

Jim Acosta Loves Jim Acosta - YouTube