Thursday, June 5, 2025

Take Bill's word for it.

Broc Smith

Bill Clinton insists Biden was in 'good shape' despite bombshell claims of decline from insiders  "Former President Bill Clinton denied explosive new claims that President Joe Biden’s cognitive decline left him unable to run the country — and insisted he was “never” worried about the 82-year-old’s competence.
" 'I saw President Biden not very long ago, and I thought he was in good shape,” Clinton, 78, told CBS Sunday Morning when pressed about recent allegations in the book “Original Sin,” which claimed Biden’s mental faculties were so poor that a council of confidants had to run the White House by the end of his term.
" 'I had never seen him and walked away thinking, he can’t do this anymore,” Clinton said, insisting there was never a moment he doubted Biden’s mental state." . . .


"Clinton also said he didn’t read the Jake Tapper and Alex Thompson book, and dismissed its alarming claims from White House insiders, according to Mediaite.
" 'I didn’t want to because he’s not president anymore, and I think he did a good job,” Clinton said. “I think we are facing challenges today with our president in our history. Some people are trying to use this as a way to blame him for the fact that Trump was reelected.”  . .  .


Biden Aides on KJP: "Grift'

 

. . ."They went on to say that "she had meltdowns after any interview..."

"She didn't know how to manage a team...created more problems than she solved..."

Others commented that her book release is nothing more than a grift: "It's difficult to see how this is anything but a bizarre cash grab."

Apparently her colleagues were spending more time "coddling and appeasing her" than doing actual work in the White House comms shop.

She just lost ALL of her friends & allies — if she had any in the first place.

One former White House adviser went as far as to plainly call her "dumb.

"BRUTAL.

The Knives Are Out for KJP

 Biden Aides on KJP: 'Everyone Thinks This Is a Grift'

. . ."I'm sure that Typhoid Mary also had some thoughts on health care and food preparation back in the day, too. Jean-Pierre is only an expert on "the torrent of disinformation and misinformation" because she worked in disseminating so much of it. From the beginning of her tenure to the very end, Jean-Pierre fronted the propaganda that Biden "ran rings around aides half his age," and was in full control of the presidency at all times, perhaps one of the greatest frauds against democracy in American history. And KJP was fully on board for Biden II: Dementia Boogaloo as well." . . . 

 Grifter - Political Dictionary  

 

Newsom's Money Pit

Legal Insurrection  

California’s high-speed rail is a money pit—billions over budget, five years behind schedule, and still not a single track or passenger. What was sold as a bold future is now a taxpayer-funded black hole. It’s 2025 and the only thing moving is the cost. Time to cut the funding,…


"The saga of California’s High Speed Train to Nowhere continues.

"Legal Insurrection readers with really long memories may recall that President Trump audited California’s high-speed rail project back in 2018, during his first term.

"At that point, the project had blasted through its budget and now may cost close to $100 billion. The subsequent inspector general report uncovered much that was..problematic.  Subsequently, this February, the Trump administration threatened an investigation into the project and how the money was being spent.

"In today’s update, a recent report reveals that California received $7 billion in federal funding for its high-speed rail project, but has failed to lay any actual track.

"Despite more than a decade of planning and spending, the ambitious project (intended to connect Los Angeles and San Francisco) has faced repeated delays, cost overruns, and bureaucratic hurdles. Secretary of Transportation Sean Duffy is threatening to cut the funding to the project.

Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy threatened Wednesday to pull federal grants for California’s High-Speed Rail Authority (CHSRA) after it spent nearly $7 billion in taxpayer funds over a decade and a half without laying a single foot of track.

In a 310-page report, Duffy detailed the missed deadlines and stretched budget for the long-running project — and gave the Golden State’s high-speed rail office until July 11 to respond or get around $4 billion in additional grants cut off." . . .

Map: Sanctuary Cities, Counties, and States

 Center for Immigration Studies  

The Center for Immigration Studies is an independent, non-partisan, non-profit research organization founded in 1985. It is the nation's only think tank devoted exclusively to research and policy analysis of the economic, social, demographic, fiscal, and other impacts of immigration on the United States.

Originally published July 2015. This report is frequently updated, if you have any tips, updates, or corrections, please email us at center@cis.org or use our webform.

Updated May 30, 2025

The sanctuary jurisdictions are listed below. These cities, counties, and states have laws, ordinances, regulations, resolutions, policies, or other practices that obstruct immigration enforcement and shield criminals from ICE — either by refusing to or prohibiting agencies from complying with ICE detainers, imposing unreasonable conditions on detainer acceptance, denying ICE access to interview incarcerated aliens, or otherwise impeding communication or information exchanges between their personnel and federal immigration officers.

A detainer is the primary tool used by ICE to gain custody of criminal aliens for deportation. It is a notice to another law enforcement agency that ICE intends to assume custody of an alien and includes information on the alien's previous criminal history, immigration violations, and potential threat to public safety or security." . . .

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Sanctuary Cities

"These cities, counties, and states have laws, ordinances, regulations, resolutions, policies, or other practices that obstruct immigration enforcement and shield criminals from ICE — either by refusing to or prohibiting agencies from complying with ICE detainers, imposing unreasonable conditions on detainer acceptance, denying ICE access to interview incarcerated aliens, or otherwise impeding communication or information exchanges between their personnel and federal immigration officers."

Jessica Vaughan, CIS Director of Policy Studies

Holocaust survivor burned in Colorado terror attack speaks out: ‘What the hell is going on in our country?’

Nice hair.

'Hate-fueled' madman launches 'targeted terror attack' at Israeli hostages' event in Boulder, Colorado  . . ."The attack occurred less than two weeks after a couple was shot dead outside an event at the Capital Jewish Museum by a suspect who shouted, “Free, free Palestine!” as he was taken into custody.

"The victims, Yaron Lischinsky, 28, and Sarah Milgrim, 26 — a pair of Israeli Embassy workers about to be engaged — were allegedly executed by hate-filled radical Elias Rodriguez, 31.

"Coming so soon after the cold-blooded murders of two Israeli Embassy staff members outside the Capital Jewish Museum in Washington, DC, the Boulder attack serves as yet another chilling indicator of the growing normalization of Jew-hatred worldwide and the failure of too many to draw clear moral lines against the perpetrators of antisemitic violence and those who incite them,” the organization Combat Antisemitism said in a statement.

"Rodriguez has been linked to a far-left group known for regularly spewing antisemitic remarks on social media." . . .

Lawyer For Boulder Suspect’s Family Was Banned From Practicing Law For Immigration Misconduct 

 Susanna Dvortsin, the attorney trying to prevent the family of Mohamed Soliman — the illegal alien charged with setting Jewish demonstrators on fire in Boulder, CO — from being deported, has an integrity problem.

Colorado Terror Suspect: ‘Jihad for Allah’s Sake [is] More Beloved to Me’ Than Family   

"Do Not forget: Allah Akbar. Do not forget that Allah is greater than everything. Not the Zionists, America, Britain, France, or Germany – only Allah has the right to be feared."

The Press Reach a New Low With Puff Pieces on Colorado 'Free Palestine' Terrorist and 'Islamophobia'   "A series of headlines surrounding the "free Palestine" terrorist who set elderly Jewish women on fire in Boulder, CO, are raising eyebrows. 

"As RedState reported, Mohamad Soliman threw Molotov cocktails at peaceful mourners silently walking to remember the hostages held by Hamas in Gaza. He could be seen on video screaming to "end Zionists," and evidence shows the attack was premeditated. 

"Given that, you'd think the press would take a step back and tread lightly when it comes to writing sympathetic pieces about Soliman and his family, all of whom abused the visa process. As this example from USA Today shows, though, you'd be wrong." . . .

Notably, both examples of "Islamophobia" cited in the article are two years old, taking place in 2023. Meanwhile, we've had multiple murders and attempted murders of Jews and Jewish allies in just the last month. Never mind the continual harassment and violence occurring at pro-Hamas rallies across the country. Federal hate crime data also shows antisemitic attacks are far more prevalent than anti-Muslim ones. They aren't even close. 

 Columbia U Protester, 'Jew-Hater,' Had Links to Terror Groups, Now Faces Years in Prison   . . ."On Wednesday, the New York Post presented some exclusive coverage of Bazrouk's hate, his support for terror groups, and his crimes. It's a shocking read.

A “Jew-hater” who protested against Israel on Columbia University’s campus and contemplated setting a student on fire allegedly had a direct link to Hamas’ deadly al-Qassam Brigades militant group, The Post can reveal.

Tarek Bazrouk — awaiting trial after being indicted on three federal hate crimes against Jewish people — was “a member of a chat group that received regular updates from Abu Obeida,” the official spokesperson for the brigades, according to allegations in federal documents.

The accusation is the first evidence of an agitator receiving information directly from Hamas and taking action during protests on the university campus.   . . .

Jewish family with child harassed and sexually taunted by mob of MuslimJew-haters in Brooklyn. Antisemitic crowd surrounds (Orthodox Jewish) Chabad Headquarters while NYC police officers remove the Jewish victims instead of their attackers.   

Ex-WH press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre claims she’s no longer a Democrat while hyping memoir of ‘broken’ Biden admin

NY Post  

“She doesn’t have a grasp of the issues and doesn’t spend the time to learn,” an insider explained at the time of Dunn’s attempted coup.

https://rofcbybroc.com/

WASHINGTON — Joe Biden’s longtime White House press secretary, Karine Jean-Pierre, announced Wednesday she has left the Democratic Party and is writing a tell-all book about the “broken” administration she served.
"Jean-Pierre, 50, worked as Biden’s top spokeswoman for two years and eight months and stunned fellow White House alums by announcing her book “Independent: A Look Inside a Broken White House, Outside the Party Lines,” due out on Oct. 21.
" 'Jean-Pierre didn’t come to her decision to be an Independent lightly,” Hachette Book Group said in a promotional release, which hints that the former Biden spokesperson may focus her ire on figures aside from the 46th president in her account.
“ 'She has served two American presidents, [Barack] Obama and Biden … She takes us through the three weeks that led to Biden’s abandoning his bid for a second term and the betrayal by the Democratic Party that led to his decision,” the tease goes." . . .
Although Jean-Pierre was known for her friendly demeanor with reporters, fellow Biden aides said she offered a less-than-compelling defense of the aging president by haltingly reading directly from a binder during Q&As.

Some have given her the nickname "Binder".

UPDATE: Biden's Staff TRASH Karine Jean-Pierre's "Money Grab" Book and Attempted Rebrand, with Stu Burguiere   @schnarchei6572:  

"KJP's book is indispensable in every household where one table leg is too short."

Wednesday, June 4, 2025

The Maturing of Defense Secretary Hegseth

 The Maturing of Defense Secretary Hegseth 

 More proof that to deter China, Russia must be defeated in Ukraine to give credence to a “peace through strength” American policy and posture. Actions not only speak louder than words, they are usually the only things adversaries understand.

"On May 31, Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth spoke at the annual Shangri-La Dialogue in Singapore. This is the world’s highest profile international meeting of national security officials; and certainly the most watched, because it was the debut appearance of a key cabinet member of President Donald Trump’s second term. Hegseth’s appointment was controversial. He is a decorated combat veteran who stressed the “warrior ethos” against various “woke” notions that degraded the military profession. But as a Fox news anchor, he had expressed naïve strategic views that tended toward isolationism. His message in Singapore calmed these fears.

"His primary focus was on threats from China. “It has to be clear to all that Beijing is credibly preparing to potentially use military force to alter the balance of power in the Indo-Pacific. We know. It's public that Xi has ordered his military to be capable of invading Taiwan by 2027,” he warned. Then he pledged “Again, to be clear: any attempt by Communist China to conquer Taiwan by force would result in devastating consequences for the Indo-Pacific and the world. There's no reason to sugarcoat it. The threat China poses is real.” Hegseth also pointed out that Beijing has ambitions across the region, from the Philippines to Japan.

"America is responding by increasing the forward deployment of forces in the region, not just the Navy which President Trump started to expand in his first term and is accelerating in his second with a trillion-dollar defense budget, but also with units from all the services. The Marines just deployed a new anti-ship missile battery in Luzon that not only protects the Philippines but would also reach a Chinese Taiwan invasion force. “We must ensure that China cannot dominate us -- or our allies and partners. Maintaining the status quo requires strength. That's just a rational, common-sense goal that all should be able to live with” declared Hegseth." . . . 

Pete Hegseth orders the Navy’s Harvey Milk to be renamed   "Would anyone ever suggest naming a ship after Alfred Kinsey? Jimmy Savile? (Well we wouldn’t, but leftists clearly would.) Then why Harvey Milk? Call me “old-fashioned” and “anti-progress” all you like, but naming ships after prolific pedophiles is always going to be a he** no for me.


"According to a report at Military.com, the U.S. Navy will be renaming the USNS Harvey Milk, an oiler ship that’s been sailing under the disgraceful name since the Obama years. Per the same report, the order is directly from Pete Hegseth, with the decision being “intentional” in its timing. It’s a fantastic message to the perverts who are used to “celebrating” this month as “Pride”: Your sexual perversions and your “icons” do not deserve recognition, honor, or memorialization.

. . ."Speaking of disturbed—back to Milk. Milk was a known predator and pederast who had a sexual appetite for young boys: at the age of 33, Milk was engaged in sexual relations with a young runaway teenager, who was just 16 or 17 years old at the time. If you’re like me, you consider that…rape." . . .  Olivia Murray



‘I’m Shocked! Shocked, I Say!’

 Issues & Insights  

. . ."Maybe parents arguing that boys ought not to be robbing their daughters of sporting opportunities might, sort of, have a point? Possibly letting any man who says ‘I’m a woman’ into the locker room with twelve-year-old girls could have a downside, after all?" . . .   

"Even Jill Biden’s press secretary is turning against the Bidens in indignation — now that it is safe and even fashionable."


"By now, you must know a book is coming out written by one of the components of the media hivemind revealing a “secret” that was no secret to anyone who was not a liberal, to wit, that Joe Biden did not have his wits about him. Essentially, he was witless.

"The CNN “journalist” who wrote the book states that the White House kept this “secret” from everyone, including the media hivemind, and he is shocked that it occurred. Shocked!

"Except that even before Biden became president, it was evident to anyone who was not a true believer that the man had dementia. He was just a sock puppet for the secret Politburo that was running the country. Each instance was suppressed (i.e., censored) by the media hivemind, a routine tactic.

"His numerous public lies during the presidency apparently were not lies, but rather things he thought in his dementia were true, like claims that he went to Israel during the Six Day War, that his grandfather was an All-American football player, the Mexican president was calling the shots in Gaza, that he was raised in a synagogue or a Puerto Rican community, that America has 54 states, etc. Equally ignored by the media — which now pretends to be indignant at being kept in the dark — were his frequent mumbling words in mid-sentence, his shaking hands with air.

"Then there was the time he walked off into the jungle after a speech.

"And even though they were from the hivemind, the White House staff was terrified to present him to reporters should one of them decide to become a real journalist (no worries there)Even though some of these disasters occurred in public, during ceremonies, the hivemind knew better than to report news.

"No wonder Biden spent 40% of his presidency on vacation.

"Nevertheless, well-deserved ridicule has been a result, both here and abroad. TikTok has been burning up with compilations of journalists and Democrats enthusiastically proclaiming the walking cadaver to be mentally sharp and involved in national and international matters.

"If there was something as disgraceful as to what the media hivemind did, it must be pointed out that Republican politicians said nothing. They all did what was easy instead of what was right." . . .


Israel Under Attack: Uncovering the TRUTH About the October 7th Attack;

The Israel Guys  How ridiculous when "skulls full of mush" think Jews trying to protect themselves from being annihilated are called "Nazis".


"Under the wings of Almighty the Jewish nation dwells. Surely He is their defender and is with the warriors when they go into battles against the enemies. The world has taken the side of the enemy, and will be punished for the hatred of Israel. And He is going to deliver the nation from those who come against it. The Holy Land has the Lord's signature over it, and He is the Sovereign." Comment to this post.

Washington Post corrects story claiming aid site shooting . . ."The newspaper has repeatedly faced accusations of bias and faulty reporting in its coverage of the war and the families of hostages. It has repeatedly been forced to issue corrections to high-profile stories accusing Israel of misconduct." . . .

The Boulder Attack Didn’t Come Out of Nowhere  
"When demonstrators wave the flags of terrorist organizations, wear headbands celebrating those same groups, and publicly commemorate the martyrdom of terrorist leaders such as Hamas’s Yahya Sinwar and Hezbollah’s Hassan Nasrallah, they’re not throwing the bomb, but their message can light the fuse."

Tuesday, June 3, 2025

New Titanic Discovery at 3800m Depth Changes Everything We Thought We Knew

The Secret   "For over one hundred years, the story of the Titanic seemed set in stone, a tragic tale carved into history, retold in movies, museums, and whispered legends. But in the icy darkness nearly four thousand meters below the Atlantic, a team of scientists has just changed the script. Using jaw-dropping three-dimensional scanning technology, they have created a complete digital twin of the Titanic’s wreck. What they found at those depths shatters what we thought we knew and reveals secrets that turn history upside down. If you thought every Titanic mystery had been solved, think again."

How the ‘Pravda-Like’ Press Distorts the News

 Victor Davis Hanson  "This is a pattern. And it won’t stop with this. And the result is you wonder why, whether when you look at liberal polls or liberal media, nobody has any confidence anymore, nobody trusts you."

. . "So much has been said about the media, the mainstream media, the legacy media. There’s not really much to add because we all know that it’s not really a disinterested media but it’s kind of a Pravda-like propaganda organ. I’ll give you a few examples.

"More recently, when Cyril Ramaphosa came to the White House, the president of South Africa, did you see the word “ambush”? It was in every mainstream paper, every left-wing website, every radio—NPR, PBS, CBS, MSNBC. It’s like the Democratic operatives issue a Pravda-like order and then these mindless people just say, “Okay, today’s talking points are…”

"He met President Donald Trump. He wasn’t really surprised that Trump was going to confront him because he bragged that he was gonna confront Trump. There was no secret place. It wasn’t a sudden, unexpected attack from a secret place—the definition of an ambush. Yet, it was ”ambush,” “ambush,” “ambush,” “ambush.”

"And when some questions arose about the visit, it was just typical. The White House press secretary, Karoline Leavitt, fielded a question from an NBC journalist. She was very angry because Donald Trump mentioned to President Ramaphosa, “See this picture of a thousand graves.” She said, “Well, he was lying. There weren’t graves.” And the press secretary replied back, “They were commemorations.” Each one of those crosses represents a dead South African who was murdered by virtue of his race. And she said, “Yes, but it’s not…”

Victor Davis Hanson, a senior contributor for The Daily Signal, is a classicist and historian at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University and host of "The Victor Davis Hanson Show."

Eric Swalwell's Attempt to Troll Donald Trump Goes All Kinds of Wrong

 Bonchie; RedState   

In a very ill-advised TikTok video, Swalwell can be seen trying to troll President Donald Trump by eating a taco. I'll explain the background on that "joke" momentarily, but even without it, one can admire the sheer level of social awkwardness on display.


"Few things are more pathetic than an irrelevant House member desperately vying for attention, and Rep. Eric Swalwell (D-CALIFORNIA Emphasis mine, TD) painted his masterpiece of cringe on Monday while doing just that. 

"In a very ill-advised TikTok video, Swalwell can be seen trying to troll President Donald Trump by eating a taco. I'll explain the background on that "joke" momentarily, but even without it, one can admire the sheer level of social awkwardness on display. 

"Imagine being the staffer who had to film this."  (Warning: Language)

"Once again, we see a Congressional member who got the focus group memo that they need to cuss a lot to seem relatable and cool. That aside, though, when the person behind the camera asks, "Why the **** is Trump always chickening out on tariffs," Swawell tries to pick up his taco, but it sticks to the paper. After he works through that dilemma, he takes a large bite, at which point tomatoes start falling out of the backend. He then takes another bite, and the entire taco falls apart in his hands. All of this is set to weird 1950s-era sitcom music just to make sure it's as mock-worthy as possible. 

"So what's this about? There was a report that some Wall Street types were calling Trump "TACO" as an acronym for "Trump always chickens out" regarding tariffs. A reporter then asked the president about it, and he didn't appreciate the question, to put it lightly. 

"Regardless, I thought Democrats were against Trump's tariff regime? Shouldn't his taking down of the temperature in some of the negotiations make them happy? I mean, when Joe Biden folded on trying to use the Department of Education to force schools to let "transgender" athletes play against girls, I didn't think to make a TikTok video goading him about it. I was just glad he backed down." . . .