Monday, June 3, 2024

Dems Want You To Check Your Brain at the Door

  RealClearPolitics

“ 'Do you accept the verdict of the New York jury that found Donald Trump guilty on all 34 counts?” That will be the question asked of every Republican from now until the presidential election in November, and if Republicans don’t know how to answer, they will look like idiots, which is exactly what the left-leaning media wants." 


 "That will be the question asked of every Republican from now until the presidential election in November, and if Republicans don’t know how to answer, they will look like idiots, which is exactly what the left-leaning media wants.

"You can’t just say yes because the implied premise of the question is that the verdict was fair, and that could not be further from the truth. But you can’t just say no either, because the verdict is a fact, just like the O.J. verdict. It exists, and it has to be explained.

"Of course, what the media inquisitors will try to do is paint Trump supporters into a corner. If you say you don’t support the verdict, you will be “justice deniers,” in the term smartly coined by talk-show host Dan Bongino last week. But Republicans can’t let that be the final word.

"They have to explain that when you say you are accepting the verdict, it just means you are accepting that the verdict was the inevitable result of a corrupt New York legal system. Anyone who represents Trump or the MAGA movement has to be fully in command of the facts and be prepared to explain them. Start with the assignment of Judge Juan Merchan to the case and ask why this is the third Trump-related case he has been assigned to. Talk about the judge’s refusal to recuse himself despite his status as a Joe Biden donor and his daughter’s status as a multi-million dollar fund-raiser for Democrats.

"Then demand answers for the multiple reversible errors Merchan committed in creating the court record – the salacious and irrelevant testimony of porn star Stormy Daniels, the refusal to allow Trump to present an expert witness who could explain federal election law to the jury and why Trump didn’t violate it. How about the unconstitutional decision to withhold from Trump and his attorneys the exact nature of the underlying crime, which turned misdemeanor charges into felonies, and Merchan’s claim that the jury did not even have to be unanimous in identifying such an underlying crime?

"Of course, CNN, MSNBC, and the Sunday morning news shows won’t raise any of those troubling issues, so when a Trump supporter tries to explain the difference between a fair trial and a show trial, they will be shouted down by their interviewers." . . .

"But it’s not necessary to deflect; you just need to answer the question the way a smart person would answer any similar question:

No, I’m not going to accept the results no matter what. I’m going to accept them when it is obvious that the election was conducted in a free and fair manner. Do you really want me to pledge to accept the results of a rigged election? Or are you really so naive as to believe that neither political party would ever attempt to rig an election?

News in Brief

 Cracks Are Already Showing in the Trump Case (legalinsurrection.com)

. . ."The judge donated money — a tiny amount, $35, but in plain violation of a rule prohibiting New York judges from making political donations of any kind — to a pro-Biden, anti-Trump political operation, including funds that the judge earmarked for “resisting the Republican Party and Donald Trump’s radical right-wing legacy.” Would folks have been just fine with the judge staying on the case if he had donated a couple bucks to “Re-elect Donald Trump, MAGA forever!”? Absolutely not."


Standing Up for What’s Right Week in Education:  "Meanwhile, campus progressives are winning the approval of all the wrong people."

"Some people are handling this the right way. Others not so much."

NFL Team Hit with Major Backlash, Leaves Fans Disgusted by 'Pride Month' Post - 'This Is Embarrassing'   . . ."While of course some comments on the post were thrilled with having LGBT values forcibly pushed into football, the vast majority of comments were negative.

"And why shouldn’t they be?

“Pride month” has absolutely nothing to do with football.

"Imagine if every NFL team made a post about how they supported Israel and condemned Palestine and Hamas.

"Leftists would be up in arms, gathered outside headquarters with pitchforks and torches, repeating actions similar to what they’ve done on college campuses.

"But because this ad celebrates what they happen to like, it’s A-OK." . . .

Douglas Murray on the Hamas detailed planning of their attack

Arabs were given a state to govern. How did that work out?  A terrorist state dedicated to the murder of every Jew. TD

Iranian Leader Thanks College Students For Their Support And Says If Any Of Them Are Interested He Has A Few Wife Slots Open In His Harem

  Babylon Bee

"TEHRAN, IRAN — In a touching, romantic statement on X (formerly Twitter), the Supreme Leader of Iran Ali Khamenei let American college students know that he appreciates their anti-Semetic protests and support of his regime and that he also has a few open slots in the harem if any of the women might happen to be interested.

""Dear university students in the United States of America, you are standing on the right side of history," Khamenei wrote in his X post. "Thank you for all the effort you put into hating the Jews. Also, if any of you women over there happen to be into wearing hijabs, having no freedom, and genocidal psychopaths in their 70s, a few slots in the presidential harem have opened up ;)"

" 'Applicants can apply for a visa through the Iranian government website," Khamenei wrote in a follow-up post.

"While Khamenei's post has been well-received by college protesters, most of the female college students have decided "swipe left" on the Supreme Leader of Iran, citing the lack of Starbucks in Iran and the fact that they could be executed for showing a bit too much nose.

"At publishing time, Khamenei had retracted his offer after all of the students who responded to his offer turned out to be gay men or transgender women."

Masked protester hoists ‘Kill Hostages Now’ sign during Israel Day parade in NYC (msn.com)    "The Israel Day parade in New York City turned heated Sunday as pro-Israel demonstrators squared off with counterprotesters, including one who held up a sign that read, "Kill Hostages Now." 

"The counterprotester wore a black mask and a Palestinian flag as he held up the incendiary sign. Police officers nudged him back onto his side of the protest so as not to escalate an already tense situation. " . . .


Looks like one of those wretches who tore down photos of hostages; those who will not show their faces. TD



Never, never forget the sexual violence committed by Hamas

 Members of the Congressional "squad", you have defended and flown the flag of those who committed these acts! 

RealityBites by Broc Smith

Released hostage recounts being raped by Hamas (youtube.com)
"Executive Director of the Association of Rape Crisis Centers in Israel, Orit Sulitzeanu, speaks to i24NEWS on the first time a released hostage has publicly spoken about their treatment in captivity."


Israeli doctors suspect female hostages being raped, may return from Gaza pregnant   Comment to this post: "And Western feminists still remain silent about the violence against the Israeli women. Their silence is disgusting."

From the river to the sea, this will happen to Israelis living there if pro-Palestine killers dominate and the ignorant sheep on campuses cheer them on. TD


"Israeli investigators say there’s growing evidence Hamas unleashed repeated rapes and sexual assaults against women during their October 7 attack. Hamas has denied committing sexual crimes against women. NBC News’ Hala Gorani reports on the chilling eyewitness accounts and the investigation."



"The terror attack on Israel by Hamas has been a divisive—if clarifying—moment for the left. The test that it presented was simple: Can you condemn the slaughter of civilians, in massacres that now appear to have been calculatedly sadistic and outrageous, without equivocation or whataboutism? Can you lay down, for a moment, your legitimate criticisms of Benjamin Netanyahu’s government, West Bank settlements, and the conditions in Gaza, and express horror at the mass murder of civilians?. . .


"In corners of academia and social-justice activism where the identity of the oppressor and the oppressed are never in doubt, many people failed that test. In response to a fellow progressive who argued that targeting civilians is always wrong, the Yale professor Zareena Grewal replied: “Settlers are not civilians. This is not hard.” (She has since locked her X account.) Chicago’s Black Lives Matter chapter posted a picture of a paraglider, referencing the gunmen who descended on civilians at a music festival near the Gaza border from the air." . . . 
Our Antifa generation, if I may refer to the campus youth, employed by wealthy leftists and guided by professional instigators, who appear to have no original thoughts and appear grossly ignorant of why they do what they do.TD


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Sunday, June 2, 2024

Biden's evil smirk and the left dancing like demons about Trump's punishment, their imaginations afire

 M. Walter - American Thinker  

Today, Saturday, my stomach is turning at the heavy, pervasive evil we’ve seen emanating like a poisonous fog from the progressives on television — and I don’t even have cable! 

 "By now, we’ve had a couple of days to absorb what happened in lower Manhattan on Thursday.  Many of us were unsurprised at the verdict, but if you are like me, you are surprised at your reaction to it.

"To be clear: I, like most capital-C conservatives, do not fall in love with my candidates. I regard them as dispensers of policy.  That’s it. If I like their policy, their personal peccadilloes mean very little to me. They affect me only to the extent they may affect policy. So this isn’t a lament that one Donald John Trump got a railroading. It’s a lament that a former American president — albeit the most conservative of my lifetime (yes, more than Reagan), whom I’d like very much to win in November — was so clearly lawfared by the sitting president into facing over a hundred years in prison for … something.

"We’re still not sure what the predicate crime to the expired misdemeanors was. It wasn’t even on the verdict form the jurors returned! We’ve got 34 expired misdemeanors which required a predicate crime in order to be alive again like Frankenstein’s monster and we’re left with a whole lot of thunder but absolutely no animating lightning! 

"How is this possible?

"But putting that minor (bitter sarcasm) detail aside, the following video reactions to the verdict made me sick. 

"Physically nauseous." . . .

"This morning. I wasn’t this way yesterday. Thursday I was angry. Friday I was sad." . . . 

I guess the only thing to do is congratulate the teachers' unions for producing half a country full of people who have absolutely no idea what the Constitution is or what it means to be an American and who have no healthy fear of government having too much power.  And also to congratulate the garbage media for keeping that half and who knows how many more well-meaning Americans in the dark about what’s actually going on.  It’s a one-two punch that made me feel sick this morning and well, misery loves company.

Hillary Clinton Condemns Trump For Paying Hush Money To Political Liabilities Instead Of Just Killing Them | Babylon Bee

. . .As of publishing time, Clinton had called her friend Guido to see if he could do anything about Trump.



Cryin' Adam Kinzinger Reminds Us Why He Is a Laughingstock

 Jeff Charles – RedState  

What Kinzinger and his ilk don’t want to confront is that, regardless of their criticisms of the former president, the Democrats are clearly trying to leverage the state to influence the outcome of the presidential election. 

"Cryin’ Adam Kinzinger is at it again. After former President Donald Trump was convicted, Democrats and their anti-Trump Republican comrades have been making the rounds, trying desperately to convince the nation that the politically motivated prosecution effort has nothing to do with politics. In essence, they are begging the public to ignore what their eyes and ears are telling them.

"During a recent appearance on CNN, the former Illinois representative said he was “very disappointed” in House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) for speaking out against the verdict in the Manhattan trial.

"After the verdict was announced, Johnson, along with other Republicans, issued a scathing rebuke against the decision.

Today is a shameful day in American history. Democrats cheered as they convicted the leader of the opposing party on ridiculous charges, predicated on the testimony of a disbarred, convicted felon. This was a purely political exercise, not a legal one.   

The weaponization of our justice system has been a hallmark of the Biden Administration, and the decision today is further evidence that Democrats will stop at nothing to silence dissent and crush their political opponents.   

The American people see this as lawfare, and they know it is wrong—and dangerous. President Trump will rightfully appeal this absurd verdict—and he WILL WIN!

Johnson also said the verdict “will probably guarantee” that Trump wins reelection in November, which seemed to rankle Kinzinger’s feathers.

Scarborough Makes Doomsday Prediction for Trump Second Term: Trump Will ‘Execute’ Anyone ‘He is Allowed To’

 MSNBC (msn.com) 

“He will imprison, he will execute whoever he is allowed to imprison, execute, drive from the country.” Scarborough said. “Just look at his past! It’s not really hard to read. Again, the only thing that stood between him and the destruction of American democracy was the federal judiciary.”


 "After mocking the political victimhood behind Donald Trump’s 2024 campaign, Joe Scarborough used ominous terms to predict how the former president’s reelection would look.

"Morning Joe started Tuesday off by focusing on the vengeful motivators driving Trump forward, and why it’s fair to compare his politics to fascism. Scarborough wound up taking the conversation up a notch by saying the media cannot treat Trump like a normal political candidate because “He is running to end American democracy as we know it.”

He’s an authoritarian who a court in Colorado two days ago ruled that he led an insurrection against the United States government. He is charged with leading schemes to help overthrow the United States government.

So if they want to frame it that way, that’s fine. If you want to be fair, if you want to be fair, you will frame this as Joe Biden being the candidate that supports American democracy and Donald Trump, a candidate who supports a new form of government here that’s authoritarian. It’s really that simple.

By the way, when people yell ‘Oh, you can’t compare him to past Nazi leaders or that past fascist leader, because he hasn’t done that.’ Well, what hasn’t he done? He hasn’t done the things that the American judicial system did not allow him to do last time, but may very well allow him to do this time, or a judicial system that will be ignored by Donald Trump and ran over by Donald Trump to create the greatest constitutional crisis of our lifetimes.

"This led to Scarborough’s point “Just because [Trump] hasn’t done it yet doesn’t mean he won’t do it when he gets a chance to do it.” That’s when Scarborough darkly predicted what Trump will do to his political foes if he has his way." . . .

Our Revolutionary Times; Victor Davis Hanson

  Victor Davis Hanson (townhall.com) 

The shenanigans of prosecutors like Fani Willis, Letitia James, and Alvin Bragg, along with overtly biased judges like Juan Merchant and Arthur Engoron, only reinforced the reality that the American legal system has descended into third-world-like tit-for-tat vendettas. 

"Sometimes unexpected but dramatic events tear off the thin veneer of respectability and convention. What follows is the exposure and repudiation of long-existing but previously covered-up pathologies.

"Events like the destruction of the southern border over the last three years, the October 7 massacre and ensuing Gaza war, the campus protests, the COVID-19 epidemic and lockdown, and the systematic efforts to weaponize our bureaucracies and courts have all led to radical reappraisals of American culture and civilization.

"Since the 1960s, universities have always been hotbeds of left-wing protests, sometimes violently so.

"But the post-October 7 campus eruptions marked a watershed difference.

"Masked left-wing protesters were unashamedly and virulently antisemitic. Students on elite campuses especially showed contempt for both middle-class police officers tasked with preventing their violence and vandalism as well as the maintenance workers who had to clean up their garbage.

"Mobs took over buildings, assaulted Jewish students, called for the destruction of Israel, and defaced American monuments and commentaries.

"When pressed by journalists to explain their protests, most students knew nothing of the politics or geography of Palestine, for which they were protesting.

"The public concluded that the more elite the campus, the more ignorant, arrogant, and hateful the students seemed.

"The Biden administration destroyed the southern border. Ten million illegal aliens swarmed into the U.S. without audit. Almost daily, news accounts detail violent acts committed by illegal aliens or their surreal demands for more free lodging and support." . . .

Jonathan Turley Explains Why the Trump Verdict Is Ripe for Appeal

 Matt Margolis – PJ Media

"They are the reason why many of us view this case is likely to be reversed in either the state or federal systems,” he says.


"While the radical left is celebrating a guilty verdict for Trump for a non-crime, George Washington University Law School professor Jonathan Turley is throwing cold water on their celebrations because, as he points out, the Trump trial was "a target-rich environment for an appeal, with multiple layers of reversible error."

" 'The problem was not the jury,” he insists, "but the prosecutors and the judge."

"According to Turley, "the most compelling problems” are the judge, the charges, the evidence, and the instructions.

"First, there’s Judge Juan Merchan, who was specifically chosen for this case, continuing a pattern of tough rulings against Trump and his organization. Merchan, as we’ve noted before, has not only donated to Joe Biden’s campaign, but to anti-Trump and anti-GOP groups. His bias has long been established. His daughter is a Democratic organizer who raises funds against Trump and the GOP. Legal experts repeatedly observed that Merchan's rulings were pro-prosecution. Turley, who got to observe Merchan in court, noted that his decisions often seemed incomprehensible and conflicted.

"Of course, the next problem was the charges."The Justice Department declined any criminal charges against Trump under federal election law over the alleged 'hush money’ payments,” Turley writes. "The Federal Election Commission likewise found no basis for a civil fine. With no federal prosecution, Bragg decided to use an unprecedented criminal theory not only to zap a dead misdemeanor into life (after the expiration of the statute of limitation) but to allow him to try violations of not only federal election law but also federal taxation violations.' " . . .

(resistthemainstream.com) : What's your response to Alex Soros saying that Dems should call Trump a "convicted felon" every chance they get? *Reply to this email to share your thoughts*

The Soros family’s considerable financial clout continues to wield significant influence over the political landscape, ensuring that their vision remains a formidable force in shaping contemporary American politics. 


Some answers from 'Biden infamously smirked after being asked if Trump was a political prisoner. What did you get from that?'

Ken G: 'That Biden knows how to push the Republicans button.'

Mary T: 'The Biden smirk just shows that he's the senile idiot that all thinking Americans have known he was for years. He thinks he can continue to be a puppet for the Democrats and those who seek to destroy this country because of this illegal trial and verdict. The American people on the street are FINALLY getting the picture and have started to rise up against him and his communist/socialist puppet masters. I pray they're not too late with too little.'

Pat C: 'That smirk simply showed me how proud he was of himself. I’m praying that the November 5th election wipes that smirk off his face.'


Saturday, June 1, 2024

Alvin Bragg's Office Accused of Leaking Trump's Potential Sentence to 'The View' — Likely to Recommend a Year Behind Bars for Trump at Rikers Island

  (VIDEO) | The Gateway Pundit | by Jim Hᴏft

"The office of Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg, who is backed by Soros, is now under fire for allegedly leaking sensitive sentencing information about former President Donald Trump to the far-left media.

In the wake of a trial widely criticized as a sham, where Trump was convicted on all 34 felony charges in a ‘hush money’ scandal, sources suggest that DA Bragg’s office may recommend Trump serve a year at the notorious Rikers Island.

Judge Merchan told jurors they did not have to agree on a crime—a practice unheard of in US history. The jury only had to agree that something bad happened.

This, of course, is completely unconstitutional. This was clearly the greatest travesty of justice in American history.

So now we have a convicted US President with 34 felony counts, and NO ONE knows what crime President Trump committed!

The sentencing was set for July 11—three days before the Republican convention!

Now, ‘The View’ co-host Sunny Hostin, who seemed quite pleased with the developments, shared on the air that she had spoken with someone from Bragg’s office.

She described them as ‘street fighters,’ who indicated that Bragg might push for a tough one-year imprisonment, primarily to ensure Trump faces the daunting conditions of Rikers Island.

“I spent this morning speaking to someone from the Manhattan District Attorney’s Office. They’re called street fighters. He believes that they will recommend a one-year term in prison. And that is because when you spend a year in prison in New York or under, you serve in Rikers Island,” Austin said.

"According to Hostin, this recommendation serves not just as punishment but as a stern message to society that such conduct will not be tolerated again." . . .

The View's Sunny Hostin Thinks This Voter Bloc Will Save Biden (townhall.com)  . . ."Specifically, black men are hopping on the MAGA train. It kills people like Hostin to rage against Trump daily, only to find that Donald Trump is gearing up to clinch the largest share of the non-white for a Republican presidential candidate ever. It kills them inside, which is why she’s coping hard, thinking that black women are going to bail out Biden and bring their sons, grandsons, and husbands with them. In what world is that going to happen, lady:" . . .

Democrat world: Soros-Backed DA’s Office Gave Free Consultations to Illegal Aliens Charged With Violent Crimes

 Daily Signal

  “ 'Essentially, DA Krasner is rewarding foreign nationals for committing crimes in the United States.” “And he is doing so at the expense of the city he is sworn to protect,” O’Brien said." Jason Hopkins


"Philadelphia District Attorney Larry Krasner’s office provided free consultations and legal assistance to illegal aliens charged with violent felonies in 2023, documents reveal.

"The taxpayer-funded consultations were provided to migrants charged with various heinous crimes—including rape, robbery, strangulation, aggravated assault, and homicide by vehicle—in an ostensible effort to help them avoid convictions that would lead to their deportation, documents obtained by the Immigration Reform Law Institute reveal.

"Krasner created the position of immigration counsel in 2018 to provide consultations and work on cases involving illegal aliens.

" 'He is directly contradicting the purpose of a district attorney—to prosecute crimes—and using his office to help immigration violators evade the law,” Dale Wilcox, executive director and general counsel of the Immigration Reform Law Institute, said of Krasner. “The last thing the city needs is to keep criminal aliens there who may have earned deportation.”

"The Immigration Reform Law Institute outlined issues with the case list and questioned the objectives of the immigration counsel position in an investigative report published Thursday.

"Krasner first won election as Philadelphia’s district attorney in 2017, after left-wing billionaire George Soros dropped well over $1 million to fund a super PAC to support him in the Democratic primary. Like all Soros-backed prosecutors, Krasner ran on a left-wing approach to criminal justice, which calls for ending mass incarceration and shielding illegal aliens from deportation by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement." . . .

Celebrity Supporters Abandon Biden Quickly As True Colors Are Shown

 RedState

. . ."Even people who don’t support Trump see this as blatant election interference. Even Mike Pence, the former fallen-from-grace Vice President, announced his disapproval of the court’s decision.

"The conviction of former President Trump on politically motivated charges is an outrage and disservice to the nation," Pence told Fox News. "No one is above the law, but our courts must not become a tool to be used against political opponents . . . To millions of Americans, this was nothing more than a political prosecution driven by a Manhattan DA who ran for office on a pledge to indict the former president and this conviction undermines confidence in our system of justice.". . .

. . ."These voices are just a few of the rapid loss of support for the Biden administration.

"Douglas Murray recently said in a great analogy that sometimes “a flare goes up, and you see exactly where everyone is.” That is what has happened with this trial. Biden and the Democrats have shown their true colors. They have shown that they desire dominance, not democracy. And there is no way to unsee what we have seen.

"Hollywood has historically backed the left in a unified front. Like so much that has changed this year, the pulling away from the Democrats is a signal of the historic and changing times we are living in. If Trump’s win in November was still up in the air, the left’s attempt to defeat him by dishonest means has only pushed many over the edge. This trial has made this election one of the most important in our nation’s history. We will see if democracy will win or not, and it’s in the hands of the people who are starting to sober up."