Trump and Abbott End Run Around Democrat 2026 Hopes, and a Total Freak-Out Ensues

 GOP map draws Texas Rep. Crockett's home outside her current district 

"A gerrymandered map proposed by the Texas GOP would kick firebrand Democratic Rep. Jasmine Crockett out of her own district and likely add more House seats to the Lone Star's Republican delegation.

"Last week, Texas House Republicans introduced a redistricting proposal that could net five new GOP seats. The draft congressional map, which is likely to change before approval by both state legislative chambers, aims to redraw district lines to include more Republican-leaning areas in Democratic strongholds like Dallas and Houston.

"Crockett, who serves Texas’ 30th Congressional District, which represents a large part of Dallas, has called the redistricting effort "a power grab to silence voters." . . .

Here We Go: Texas Dems Run to Illinois to Deny a Quorum for Redistricting, and Now the Real Fun Begins – RedState    "As expected, Texas Democratic legislators have fled the state to deny a quorum for Gov. Greg Abbott's redistricting push. The members flew to Illinois on Sunday, which qualifies as peak irony given that the blue state is arguably the most gerrymandered in the country. 

"This plan was reportedly hatched with Gov. JB Pritzker (D-IL), and the 30 odd Democrats will spend at least a week there. Given what we saw when they did this in 2021, denying a quorum for an election reform vote, there is no doubt a lot of grandstanding, dramatics, and cringe singing on the way. 

In an extraordinary move to counter Republican redistricting in Texas, dozens of Democrats in the state House of Representatives are heading here Sunday to deny a necessary quorum for the GOP to move forward with those efforts." . . . 

New: Texas Democrats Make an Even Dumber Move, and You Just Have to Laugh at This Point

Greg Abbott Drops Bombshell on TX Dems Who Fled State: Return Today or Be Removed, Face Felony Charges   . . . "Abbott, in his statement, cites a 2021 Attorney General opinion (KP-0382) that could let him petition a court to declare their seats vacant. On top of that, he’s dangling the sword of felony charges, alleging their fundraising to cover $500-a-day fines might violate bribery laws.

" 'Real Texans do not run from a fight," Abbott wrote. "But that’s exactly what most of the Texas House Democrats just did."

" 'Rather than doing their job and voting on urgent legislation affecting the lives of all Texans, they have fled Texas to deprive the House of the quorum necessary to meet and conduct business."

"His statement outlines the legal consequences that House Democrat members face for breaking quorum, including the potential loss of their seats and felony violations.

"Abbott further explains, as RedState's Bonchie reported Sunday evening, that the Texas state constitution allows for such actions - including tracking down and arresting House members - to combat their politically motivated stunt." . . .

Memo to All Demanding Palestinian Statehood: Hamas Still Has Hostages

  The American Spectator   "I can’t write about the issue without noting the failure of news organizations to pin the onus on Hamas."  Debra J. Saunders

How Shiri Bibas, sons Ariel and Kfir were 'brutally murdered' by Hamas in Gaza

. . . "First French President Emmanuel Macron announced that France would recognize the state of Palestine ahead of the General Assembly confab.

"Then British Prime Minister Keir Starmer announced the U.K. would recognize Palestine as a state — unless Israel takes substantive steps to end the “appalling situation in Gaza.”

"Then Canada climbed onto the bandwagon. “Wow! Canada has just announced that it is backing statehood for Palestine. That will make it very hard for us to make a Trade Deal with them. Oh’ Canada!!!” Trump cheekily responded.

"At Thursday’s White House briefing, of course, a reporter asked press secretary Karoline Leavitt if Trump would recognize a Palestinian state. Leavitt responded, “That’s rewarding Hamas at a time where Hamas is the true impediment to a ceasefire and to the release of all of the hostages.”

"Exactly right. I can’t write about the issue without noting the failure of many news organizations to pin the onus on Hamas, when they know Hamas is to blame.

"Cue the Wednesday New York Times editorial that opined, “Israel’s often reckless administration of its war and occupation has helped create this emergency, and Israel has a unique power to alleviate it. It must do so.”

“ 'If your ideology dictates that Israeli Jews are symbols of racism and colonialism, and Palestinians symbols of Third World innocence, then a story that makes Israelis seem constructive and Palestinians obstructive must be avoided even if it’s true, because it serves the wrong people,” observed Matti Friedman, a Jerusalem-based columnist for The Free Press." . . .

‘They are in the same state I was in’: Holocaust survivors ‘hurt and angered’ by latest hostage videos  . . ."Holocaust survivors have reacted with horror to Hamas' latest propaganda videos which showed starving hostages "near death".

"The images of Evyatar David, 24 and Rom Braslavski, 21, showed the captives visibly emaciated and in poor health. On Saturday, the first day of Tisha B'Av, N12 News showed the pictures to two Holocaust survivors.

"One of them was Naftaly Furst, 93, who survived the extermination camps and death marches. He was kept in the concentration camp block where "the dying men" were housed." . . .

Kamala and Colbert

 "My favorite part of the interview was that the former VP Harris now thinks that the system is broken. She even wrote a book about it. Why is it that the system always breaks down when the GOP wins? That’s what she thinks of the voters or the ones who broke the system."

When Kamala met Stephen  . . . "The two spoke about a lot of things but said little. In the end, neither one understands where the country is, no matter how often the crowd applauds them.

"This is from The New York Post:

Kamala Harris’ visit Thursday to Stephen Colbert’s “Late Show” was a fine reminder of why both of them are failures." . . .

 Stephen Colbert’s Costly Mistake   

Bear in mind that this is late-night TV. Americans are either getting ready to head to bed or already tucked in, slowly starting to doze off to dreamland. The last thing they want after a long day of work and kids is some humorless alleged comedian acting like a jack lecturing them on politics.

. . . "That problem? His obsession with President Donald Trump.

"One of the reasons for the continual success for the man known back in the day as “The King of Late Night” — that would be NBC’s Johnny Carson — was that he made sure that when he or his guests went after the president of the moment, it was always done for laughs. 

"Take a look here from this clip now on YouTube. Carson’s guest of the moment was the comedian/impressionist Rich Little — and, as you can see, Little’s Nixon routine was not some serious lecture on Nixon’s politics and issues of the day. To the contrary, Little did his best Nixon imitation, exaggerating Nixon’s mannerisms to the max and leaving both his audience and Carson in stitches. 

"Alas, Colbert is utterly unwilling or unable to go down the road of making humor out of a president. What Colbert is about is thinly veiled humor that is so obviously a stern, humorless lesson promoting far-left politics. And, in doing so, he usually includes a stern lecture about Trump. Or addresses the president directly, as just in the last few days when  Colbert looked into the camera and told Trump…

"Hmmm. This being a family publication, I will not print what he said." . . . 

After blacks in Cincinnati beat white adults, why was there no nationwide racial outrage?

 Victor Davis Hanson

"City leaders, the chief of police and the media variously blamed the mass black-on-white violence on 1) social media, 2) the original dispute, 3) alcohol, 4) the lack of civilian intervention to stop the violence and 5) a festival atmosphere — anything except endemic racial hatred shown toward whites from the crowd of black youths"

The woman, identified as “Holly,” was sucker-punched by a man in the disturbing attack that elicited “ooos” from a crowd of onlookers, some of whom filmed on their phones instead of coming to her aid.

"Recently, a large group of black youths began pummeling white adults in downtown Cincinnati.

"The original altercation apparently broke out between a black and white male in he-said/he-said fashion. But that dispute soon turned into a virtual free-for-all.

"Numerous male and female black youths sucker-punched a middle-aged woman. Others continued to kick or body-slam the victims.

"There were many disturbing aspects to the beatdowns.

One, the violence broke out along racial and age fault lines. After the initial dispute, groups of black youths swarmed solitary older white bystanders to pound them.

Two, the surrounding assembled group of black youths not only failed to intervene to restrain the bullies, they recorded the beatings for social media and were heard cheering on the one-sided violence.

"Three, there was neither a police presence nor any timely good Samaritan interventions.

"Four, oddly few of the usual black spokespeople who habitually comment on interracial violence were to be seen.

"During the fake Jussie Smollett attack, self-appointed leaders from Al Sharpton to Kamala Harris immediately issued warnings about so-called systemic white racism that had reared its ugly head to victimize Smollett.

"Yet when it was revealed that Smollett had concocted the entire charade — and even hired his own assaulters — there were few if any retractions from those once so eager to shout “Racist!”

"Such demagoguery is a well-known pattern dating back to the days of the Tawana Brawley rape hoax, the Duke Lacrosse charade, the Covington kids ruse, the Michael Ford “Hands Up Don’t Shoot” fabrication or the NASCAR noose fable." . . .

2019: Giving HIV On Purpose Should NOT Be Crime, Says Gay Candidate, Pete Buttigieg

 

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Giving HIV On Purpose Should NOT Be Crime, Says Gay Candidate, Pete Buttigieg   "U.S. Democratic presidential primary candidate, Pete Buttigieg – a homosexual man and mayor of Southbend, Indiana – says that giving someone HIV on purpose should not be a crime.

"Being asked by Anderson Cooper, a CNN pundit who also happens to be gay, asked Buttigieg about laws that penalize those who transmit HIV when they knowingly have the virus but choose not to disclose it. In doing so, Anderson said the laws were “antiquated.”"

Buttigieg agreed and said, “It’s not fair and it needs to change.”

"Laws requiring disclosure of HIV before sexual activity started to be passed in the 1990s after it was discovered that the deadly disease was being transmitted from one sexual partner to another, often when the already-diseased partner knew they were sick but would not notify the other party. In some cases, hundreds of individuals contracted HIV because a promiscuous and infected individual chose not to inform their partners of their contagious illness.

"According to the Centers for Disease Control, 19 states have laws penalizing sex without disclosure of HIV (other figures put the number at 26). The CDC championed such laws only a few years ago as necessary for public health. Additionally, federal law penalizes prostitutes and blood-donors for not disclosing their HIV status, although it leaves penalizing the intentional transmission of HIV in “casual” sexual encounters to the states.

"Elizabeth Warren also agreed with Buttigieg, who advised easing up on transmitting HIV. Corey Booker, a long-shot odds candidate claimed that there was “no scientific evidence” that an HIV-positive individual intentionally having unprotected sex without disclosing it has anything to do with the spread of HIV.

"Science, of course, demonstrates their opinions are as silly as fluid gender.

"Two-percent of men in the United States are homosexuals but account for 59% of new HIV infections and more than 60% of other venereal diseases. They also have four to five times the number of lifetime sexual partners and are more than twice as likely to have “unprotected sex.” Science matters."Facebook

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Tsunami Earthquake Explained: How It All Started?

 AI Telly #tsunami   "A tsunami earthquake usually starts when a large earthquake occurs beneath the ocean, especially in subduction zones where one tectonic plate is forced beneath another.

"In these zones, immense stress builds up as an oceanic plate pushes against and slowly slides underneath a continental plate. "When this stress becomes too great, the edge of the overriding plate snaps and moves suddenly, often causing vertical displacement of the seafloor—either lifting it up or pushing it down. "This sudden movement displaces a massive column of seawater, creating either a bulge or a dip on the ocean’s surface. "Gravity then pulls the water back to its normal state, which triggers powerful tsunami waves that travel rapidly away from the epicenter across the ocean. In the deep sea, these tsunami waves might be barely noticeable, appearing as small swells. "But as they approach shallow coastal waters, they slow down and increase dramatically in height, sometimes rising into walls of water that flood coastal areas." . . .

Take A Personal Guided Tour Of The B2 Spirit Stealth Bomber. Including Rare Cockpit Footage.

 It has a bed and a toilet.

Take A Personal Guided Tour Of The B2 Spirit Stealth Bomber. Including Rare Cockpit Footage.   Bing Videos

"For the past 20 years, the left has made heroes of some of the biggest drekh in the world." . . .

 Alan Joseph Bauer 

. . . "Not the left. They embraced Hamas from day one of the pogrom against the Jews. When clear evidence of mass rape, murder, torture, theft, and kidnapping became indisputable, the left never abandoned their new heroes. They wore their keffiyehs and demanded their goals: the death of Jews and the destruction of the state of Israel." . . . 

"There was a time long ago when the Democrats found their heroes in people who were at least on the surface somewhat inspiring: JFK, RFK (Sr.), Martin Luther King and others were at least in their public personae people of hope and positive approach to life. That has gone. For quite some time now, the left/Democrats have thrown their lot with human garbage. The question is why.

"I started to notice that the Democrats turned losers into heroes with the story of Michael Brown in 2014. Brown was a small-time criminal in Ferguson, Missouri. The actual events on the day he died seem to be as follows: he went to a store where he was recorded on camera stealing a box of cigars. When confronted by police who found him and a friend walking down the middle of the street and interfering with traffic, he attacked an officer and tried to take his gun. After he ran away from the squad car, he charged at the officer who went after him. The officer shot Brown dead. The multiple autopsies disappointed the left when the “Hands up, don’t shoot” narrative died with the bullets having entered the criminal’s front as he faced the policeman whom he charged.

"So you have a criminal who was involved in criminal activity. No, he did not kill a dozen people or walk off with the Mona Lisa. But he was a criminal and the police—the same police on whom we rely for order in our society—came to deal with him. He tried to take a policeman’s gun and he turned to attack the policeman for a second time when neutralized. Though the aggressive federal investigation into the actions of the cop could not find that he did anything wrong, the policeman had to change his name and move away from his home in Ferguson.

"Why would the left tie their wagon to such a horrible horse? The fellow had little redeeming in his life and the only factor that they could try to hang on to was police brutality. The autopsy and multiple state and federal investigations showed that the cops did no wrong. That should have been the end of it with everyone praising the cops. But the left had bought into the story and could not give it up. Their hero was a local criminal when the real hero should have been the cop who stopped him." . . .

Propaganda Puts Us All on the Front Lines

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This latest video lays bare the depravity of Hamas, revealing once again that the terror group has no regard for human life—Israeli or Palestinian. By showcasing such horrific abuse, Hamas is not only committing war crimes but also revealing the depths to which it will sink in its campaign of terror and manipulation."  Townhall

Used as a tool of Hamas...

"As Victor Davis Hanson recently pointed out again in a recent podcast, the war in Vietnam was lost in the politics in America, not on the battlefields of Vietnam. Despite decades of evidence that Communist victory results in death, immiseration, and the forced flight of millions, Americans had wide-spread optimism that a new age of democracy and peace would dawn, the impatiently awaited Aquarian Age. 

"The waves of boat people who chose to throw themselves on the mercy of the seas rather than stay under their new overlords changed my own mind about the war that I had opposed. 

"Those who, like the Communists, worship at the altar of power, learned a different lesson: in a conflict with Western democracy, a superior military can be overcome by astute manipulation of the democratic politics.

"The Vietnam War was also the time when what we now call the Palestinian cause was adopted by the Soviets as their own. We exited the Vietnam War into the chaos of the energy crisis and oil boycott, the rough wake of the Yom Kippur War. This was the beginning of the spawning of the Left’s OmniCause—all of their disparate issues rolled into one juggernaut designed to roll over and crush any discussion or debate on the whole agenda.

"Most of those Arab states that took part in the oil embargo are no longer supporting the goal of pushing the Jews into the sea. A growing number have made peace with Israel or are planning it, and feel free to explore the merits of peaceful, even cooperative, relations.

"However, among those who remain enamored with the idol violent power — Hamas, Hezbollah, the Houthis, et al, have upped their proficiency in the art of manipulating the democracies to their advantage. Over the years of the Hamas regime, every Israeli response to their endless attacks has resulted in the emission of a frothy bilge of false data, manipulated and mislabeled photos, and major staged melodramas, all aimed at dominating Western media. And as the devotees of OmniCause have a hand on the controls of major swaths of Western culture, the fabrications are given all the sophisticated packaging that modern media are capable of. They sell these repackaged crude lies as debate-ending Powerful Truths.

...just like simple Greta

"One typical example is from a familiar delinquent, the NY Times. A steady retailer of the lies of the Hamas rump regime, they within the week featured a photo of a small boy whose misshapen body spoke unmistakably of severe ill-health. It was meant to awaken disgust and anger for what the article portrayed as the cause of this boy’s misery — Israel’s supposed starvation of the Gazan populace. Revulsion is pay dirt for propagandists. Overwhelmed by disgust, the rational mind turns it all over to emotion, the goal of all hucksters, whether of used cars or of a repackaged terrorist regime desperately trying to make its way to a future of endless October 7’s. Legacy media runs cover, keeping that goal out of sight until the disgust is so great that extermination will be embraced as the only fit response.  

"The particular photo at the head of the Times article was speedily revealed as anything but shut-up proof of Israeli-run starvation. Aside from the fact that the family members shown in the photo showed no signs of starvation, it turns out the child was dealing with a tragic disease, information easily available for those vaguely interested, if not in the whole truth, at least of maintaining the appearance of objectivity. This was so egregious that it forced the Times to make a public retraction, albeit late and minimalist. Sadly, it gives no evidence of rethinking of the Times’ long-established role as an eager purveyor of the lies of the Destroy Israel front." . . .

Douglas Murray Has Finally Had ENOUGH With Greta Thunberg & Her Trip To Gaza!

Meanwhile in America....

When Western youth chant "Death to Israel" one assumes that is precisely what they mean

 Whatever happened to "our best and brightest"

But their anger is directed primarily at Hamas, which they hold responsible for putting the people of Gaza in this position, and for its continued refusal to end the war that it started. 

Hamas Releases Video of Israeli Hostage Evyatar David  "Hamas has released a propaganda video showing a severely emaciated Israeli hostage being held in what appears to be an underground tunnel in Gaza, the first video of its kind in months.

Evyatar David, 24, was kidnapped at the Nova Music Festival on Oct. 7, 2023, during the terrorist attack by Hamas in which 1,200 people were killed and 250 taken hostage.

"The video shows David looking visibly gaunt as he ticks off days on a calendar in a narrow tunnel. Another section of the video shows him being forced to dig a hole in the ground that he says will be his grave." . . .

"This is the real famine in Gaza - captured in one image.

"While Evyatar David, kidnapped by Hamas, looks like a walking skeleton, terrorists from Palestinian "Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad feast just meters away.
"The hostages are STARVING. TORTURED. ABUSED.
"Where is the outrage?
"Evyatar and all the hostages must be freed IMMEDIATELY and given urgent medical care and proper food." . . .

Hamas Wants Gaza to Starve  . . ."Despite the surge of hundreds of trucks into Gaza over the past four days, very few supplies have made it into warehouses to be distributed to the population. Aid shipments are being seized by a combination of desperate civilians, lawless gangs, clan-affiliated thugs, and merchants of death. Chaos and apocalyptic scenery are the norm, not the exception. There is no denying the reality of the widespread malnutrition and hunger in the Gaza Strip." . . .  Ahmed Fouad Alkhatib

Hamas Kicks Sand in the Face of Its Eurotrash Supporters, Releases Grotesque Video of Hostage

No, Israel is not starving poor Gazan children. Don't buy the fake news lies

"A recent and glaring example involves a picture of a sick child in Gaza, falsely portrayed as a victim of starvation caused by Israel. It’s egregious that photos of the 5-year-old boy have been misused to blame Israel for his condition, buffering claims that Israel is starving children.

"The fact is that this child suffers from a serious genetic illness. But had Hamas not pilfered billions in financial aid to build up a network of terror, perhaps today there would have been medical facilities in Gaza in which he could be treated. On June 12, Israeli troops coordinated his evacuation from Gaza, along with his mother and brother.

"This case exemplifies how fake news is crafted and disseminated to vilify Israel and fuel anti-Israel narratives. The manipulation of this image as demonstrating allegations of famine in Gaza made headlines in major outlets like The New York Times, CNN, Sky News, The Guardian, Daily Mail, Daily Express and others (just in English). It reveals a troubling pattern of media bias, and the distortion of truth to demonize a nation. Even worse, it depicts a lie.

"The picture depicts a frail child, seemingly on the brink of death, being comforted by his mother. Widely circulated, it was presented as evidence of a famine in Gaza, with Israel cast as the perpetrator. Far from being the cause of his suffering, Israel facilitated his medical evacuation for treatment. The image, while real, was stripped of its context and repurposed to fit a narrative that falsely accused Israel of causing famine in Gaza."...

Remember when President Obama threatened to shoot down Israeli jets in 2014?

 President Obama threatened to shoot down Israeli jets | Daily Mail Online

"If Iran gets a nuclear weapon ISIS is just a prelude. Obama lacks the guts to confront the inevitable. He will pass the hot potato to the next guy if he can while the enemies of civilized humanity grow stronger. Your children will pay the price a few years down the road if his appeasement plan prevails." Comment to the post below.

"President Obama is alleged to have stopped an Israeli military attack against Iran's nuclear facilities in 2014 by threatening to shoot down Israeli jets before they could reach their targets, according to reports to emerge from the Middle East at the weekend

"The threat from the U.S. forced Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu to abort a planned attack on Iraq, reported Kuwaiti newspaper Al-Jarida.

"Netanyahu will be in Washington for an address to Congress on Tuesday aimed squarely at derailing Obama's cherished bid for a diplomatic deal with Tehran." . . .

. . ."Within months of taking office, Obama irritated Israel when, in an address to the Arab world, he challenged the legitimacy of Jewish settlements on Palestinian-claimed land and cited the Holocaust as the justification for Israel's existence, not any historical Jewish tie to the land.

"The White House was furious when Netanyahu's government defied Obama and announced plans to construct new housing units in East Jerusalem while Biden was visiting Israel in 2010. 

"Additional housing plans that year upended U.S. efforts to restart peace talks between the Israelis and Palestinians.

"The tension between Obama and Netanyahu was laid bare in an unusually public manner during an Oval Office meeting in 2011. In front of a crowd of journalists, the prime minister lectured Obama at length on Israel's history and dismissed the president's conditions for restarting peace talks.

"Later that year, a microphone caught Obama telling his then-French counterpart in a private conversation that while he may be fed up with Netanyahu, 'You are sick of him, but I have to work with him every day.' " . . .

The Contemptible Jeb Boasberg

 Declassified with Julie Kelly 

"Who will pay the price for such brazen contempt for the president and his policies?"

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"Jeb Boasberg is not giving up.

"Undeterred by recent smackdowns by the Supreme Court and the D.C. appellate court, Boasberg, the Obama-appointed chief judge of the D.C. district court, is preparing to mete out some sort of punishment against the Trump administration for allegedly defying one of his court orders back in March.

"During a hearing last week in the ACLU’s lawsuit related to the Alien Enemies Act, President Trump’s signature deportation policy that ordered the immediate removal of illegal Venezuelans tied to Tren de Aragua, Boasberg expressed frustration that his colleagues on the D.C. appellate court are dragging out a hold on Boasberg’s contempt findings; in April, Boasberg determined “probable cause exists to find the Government in criminal contempt” for allegedly ignoring what he describes as an “oral command” to return planes already out of U.S. airspace carrying AEA subjects on the evening of March 15.

" 'The Constitution does not tolerate willful disobedience of judicial orders—especially by officials of a coordinate branch who have sworn an oath to uphold it,” Boasberg lectured in his 46-page order. (As I wrote here, it appears Boasberg set the contempt trap from the start.)

"But a three-judge panel of the D.C. appellate court quickly halted his contempt proceedings—and Boasberg is not happy. “As everyone knows, the proceedings here have been moving, or to be more accurate, right now not moving (emphasis added) on two separate tracks, the contempt track and the merits track,” an exasperated Boasberg said on July 24. He further noted that “such a lengthy stay has been frustrating to plaintiffs,” referring to the ACLU." . . .

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