Cancel the 2028 L.A. Summer Olympics; an anti Trump California opinion

 San Francisco Comical    "Hosting an Olympic Games requires working with a lawless U.S. regime — and its rights-violating security apparatus — as they openly wage war against California."  Karen Bass and Gavin Newsom: a plague on both your houses!

"Sports officials worldwide would be furious. But if we drop the Games, we might refocus on our city. Longtime Los Angeles city government official Rick Cole asked: “If we can’t pave our streets, repair our sidewalks, trim our trees, house our homeless, light our bridges and fix our fire trucks, how can we host an Olympics in just three years?' ”

OC Register

"This show must not go on.

"It’s time, right now, for greater Los Angeles to halt all preparations to host the 2028 Summer Olympics. Let’s turn over these Games to a world city better positioned to host them.

"Not because Angelenos don’t love the Olympics. We are a proud Olympic city, shaped by the 1932 and 1984 Games. In normal times, the city’s incomparable international connections, entertainment assets and sports facilities would make us the perfect host for what LA 28 chair Casey Wasserman calls “the largest peacetime gathering in the history of the world.”

"But it’s no longer peacetime in Los Angeles.

"This event is now too dangerous for California. Hosting an Olympic Games requires us to work together with a lawless U.S. regime — and its rights-violating security apparatus — as it openly wages war against our city and state.

"National Special Security Events, like the Olympics, require host cities to let federal agencies take the lead during the Games.  For the 2028 Olympics, an agreement, which took effect last year, puts the U.S. Secret Service in charge of security, with support from the FBI and the Department of Homeland Security.

"All those agencies work for President Donald Trump, who has launched a war against California that includes deploying troops and secret federal police in our neighborhoods. California leaders have righteously demanded that immigration raids end and the troops leave. But those demands are incompatible with the Olympics agreement, which gives these agencies the power to surge security personnel into Los Angeles.

"Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy explicitly linked the current federal occupation of Los Angeles with the 2028 Olympics. He recently declared that Mayor Karen Bass and Gov. Gavin Newsom, by defending protesters instead of Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents, forced the feds to take over the city — and suggested they would do so again.

"“If this was a preview of their leadership ahead of next year’s World Cup games and the L.A. 2028 Olympics, we have bigger problems,” Duffy said." . . . More here

When Obama Began Strangling the Republic “By the Book” Part II

 John Kass

"If anyone wants to trace the Decline of Trust in Legacy Media, it begins with the media love showered upon Barack Obama. But he had a lot of help."

Obama with Brennan.

"I’ve been greatly honored to be asked to give a talk at Hillsdale College on “The Decline of Trust in Legacy Media.”

"I wouldn’t call it a lecture. Just a talk. But how should I begin?

"I thought I’d begin by calling Barack Obama up on the stage. He could lie down on a couch and begin pontificating, his favorite activity, and I’d sit nearby in a comfy overstuffed leather wing chair and take notes, asking some pertinent questions.

"Barack might consider this a sequel to my national column for johnkassnews.com on Sunday—it was carried by Real Clear Politics and by Powerline Blog titled “When Obama Began Strangling the Republic “By the Book” Part I.”

"Barack began strangling the republic years ago, just about the time the media began treating him as a mythological creature. They lost all credibility about him. And he took that journalistic adoration, turned it and killed legacy media, too.

"As some of you may know, I was a reporter and lead columnist at the Chicago Tribune for some 40 years, that is, until leftist billionaire George Soros showed the Tribune and me that Soros was boss.

"And I witnessed firsthand all the reporters wiggling like puppies, all but soiling the carpets at Obama’s approach. The media treated Barack Obama as something of a winged sea creature, a Pegasus up from the beaches of Hawaii as they smoked their Hopium in every newsroom in America. Their eyes were slits. And he was their wizard of a thousand kings.

"They wanted to ride him as if he were a unicorn. They wanted to love him too. He was their fantasy black politico. There was no way they could have been objective about him, any more than a child could be objective about their first pony.

"So, to get some distance, I called a wise colleague Steve Huntley, the retired editorial writer for the Chicago Sun Times. He spent 30 years there. And I worked across the street at the Trib.

"He explained that there are many reasons the American people have lost trust in legacy media. If you had a sharp enough scalpel, you might consider the shift to exclusive subscription models, increased where partisanship has greater leverage.

“ 'And COVID 19, and Fauci. Don’t forget Fauci,” said Huntley. “And what Obama did in that White House meeting you wrote about.” . . .

Hey

@NYTimes

@WashPost

, Did you not hear that DNI Gabbard exposed a story with historic implications yesterday? Why the media black out? Why are you afraid to tell the truth to the American people? Ignoring the culpability of Obama and your deep state sources will not change the fact that you aided them in lying to the American people.

John Kass spent decades as a political writer and news columnist in Chicago working at a major metropolitan newspaper. He is co-host of The Chicago Way podcast.

The Skeletons in Obama's Closet

 

AfterMath - Home

The Skeletons in Obama's Closet - NoisyRoom.net   "With Obama’s role in Russia-gate in the news, private investigator and Substack columnist Susan Daniels says this is the time to get to the bottom of the various Obama scandals, ranging from his stolen Social Security number to his fake draft registration card, to the mysterious handling of his passport file by John Brennan, later picked to be Obama’s CIA director. Daniels’ memoir, The Rubbish Hauler’s Wife versus Barack Obama, tells the story of her fight for the truth and the public’s right to know. She also discusses with host Cliff Kincaid Obama’s young life as an alleged drug-addled gay prostitute who was abused by his communist mentor, the pervert Frank Marshall Davis."

Obama White House, Deep Staters The Real Democracy Threats 

 Skeletons are exploding from the closet of team Obama in the wake of declassified and damning documents from the Russia collusion hoax.

. . ." As Federalist Editor-in-Chief Mollie Hemingway noted Tuesday on X, the same media that covered up the Hunter Biden laptop lie — driven by many of the same intelligence community players — and the Joe Biden senility cover-up now want you to believe that the Gabbard files and other document releases are a “war on career officials.” 

“It’s the opposite. New reporting shows top Obama officials overruled their expert career staff to push the hoax,” Hemingway wrote." . . . 

:Those words may come back to haunt Obama, as the declassified intelligence community docs show just how little “reverence for the democracy that was placed in his care” the former far-left president demonstrated. His apparent interference in the 2016 election and the consequences of that meddling were definitely a threat to representative democracy."

 Ann Coulter Finds Skeleton In Michelle Obama’s Closet, Ruthlessly Exposes It (2019) . . .

Devin Nunes on the Mar-a-Lago Raid's Possible Ties to Russia Hoax | The Gateway Pundit | by Margaret Flavin

Macron's Decision on Palestine Isn't Going Over Very Well

  Leah Barkoukis, Townhall

A separate state is what Palestinians had on Oct 7, 2023, and how did that work out? It was for years a launching pad for rockets to kill Jews in Israel; it was populated by Muslims who were and are dedicated to genocide against all living in Israel and the end of Israel as a nation. 

From my personal Facebook Page: "To all those who chant "From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free", there is this reminder from centuries before there were 'Palestinians' and trendy keffiyeh scarves worn by ignorant collegians, the writings of the Israeli prophet Amos, Chapter nine:

. . . "New wine will drip from the mountains

and flow from all the hills,

14 and I will bring my people Israel back from exile.[f]

“They will rebuild the ruined cities and live in them.

They will plant vineyards and drink their wine;

they will make gardens and eat their fruit.

15 I will plant Israel in their own land,

never again to be uprooted

from the land I have given them,” says the Lord your God."TD

"French President Emmanuel Macron announced Thursday that France will recognize Palestine as a state at the U.N. General Assembly in September. 

“Consistent with its historic commitment to a just and lasting peace in the Middle East, I have decided that France will recognize the State of Palestine,” he wrote in a statement on X. 

“The urgent priority today is to end the war in Gaza and to bring relief to the civilian population,” Macron continued. “Peace is possible. We need an immediate ceasefire, the release of all hostages, and massive humanitarian aid for the people of Gaza. We must also ensure the demilitarization of Hamas, secure, and rebuild Gaza. And finally, we must build the State of Palestine, guarantee its viability, and ensure that by accepting its demilitarization and fully recognizing Israel, it contributes to the security of all in the region.”

"While Macron claimed 'there is no alternative," the move was denounced by the U.S., Israel, and a host of others. 

“ 'The French people want peace in the Middle East,” he added. “It is our responsibility — as French citizens, alongside Israelis, Palestinians, and our European and international partners — to prove that peace is possible. In light of the commitments made to me by the President of the Palestinian Authority, I have written to him to express my determination to move forward. Trust, clarity, and resolve. We will achieve peace.”  . . .

Many ridicule France as a contemptible adversary for evil, forgetting that America now has to live down its surrender to the Taliban in Afghanistan and the equipping of their murderous,  unwashed army. First, we elect Democrats, then we surrender to evil. TD

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Hunter, how can we miss you if you won't go away?

 

Chuck Todd blasts podcasters for platforming Hunter Biden, 'spectacle' hurting Democrats   . . ." Hunter Biden was in the news again after he spoke on Andrew Callaghan's "Channel 5" podcast last weekend and Monday’s episode of former DNC chair Jaime Harrison's "At Our Table" podcast, making headlines for wild tirades defending his father and blasting his critics. 

"Todd responded on his own podcast by declaring, "I will never book Hunter Biden," and explained why. "Number one, he's not the candidate. He wasn't on the ballot. Anything he says in defense of his father, I don't know whether it's true or not, but it doesn't matter. He's a son defending his father," he said.". . . 

Joe Rogan STUNNED by Hunter Biden interview   Video. Hunter is no Barron Trump for sure.

Hunter Biden accuses George Clooney of undermining his father in 2024 | AP News. Screed against longtime Democratic advisers. "There were also weighty critiques of several longtime Democratic advisers.

"Anita Dunn, a longtime Biden senior adviser, has made “$40 to $50 million” off of work for the Democratic Party, Hunter Biden said. James Carville, adviser to former President Bill Clinton, “hasn’t run a race in 40 f——— years.”

"Former Obama strategist David Axelrod, Hunter Biden said, “had one success in his political life, and that was Barack Obama — and that was because of Barack Obama.” Other former Obama aides who now host “Pod Save America” are “four white millionaires that are dining out on their association with Barack Obama from 16 years ago,” he said.

"One of the four, Tommy Vietor, Monday on social media applauded Hunter Biden’s decision “to process the election, look inward, and hold himself accountable for how his family’s insular, dare I say arrogant at times, approach to politics led to this catastrophic outcome we’re all now living with.”

"In a message Tuesday, Axelrod told The Associated Press, “Never have the words ‘no comment’ felt more appropriate.” Dunn did not immediately return a message seeking comment." . . .

A look at Hunter Biden's recent interviews about his father and the Democratic Party : NPR

. . .PAGER: Right now, I think what we're hearing from Hunter Biden is a lot of personal grievance and score settling. Hunter and some other members of the former president's family and close allies feel very frustrated by what they feel like was disloyalty from members of the Democratic Party.

The Stare That Broke America; Rudeness is now revolutionary.

 There is an old saying “Courtesy is the grease of a civilized society.” It does indeed help to hold society together. We forget it at our peril.

The American Spectator  

"Previous generations understood something vital — courtesy wasn’t always heartfelt, but it held society together. You smiled. You nodded. You engaged. Not because it was authentic, but because it was necessary." 

Decoding Expressionless Gazes

"The internet has discovered that young people sometimes look blank when confused or bored. Panic ensues.

"It’s the latest “phenomenon” rattling the internet: the so-called Gen Z stare — the earth-shattering discovery that 20-year-olds sometimes zone out. Millions of TikTok views later, we’re treating blank expressions and dead-eyed customer service like they’re some anthropological breakthrough.

"This is what passes for cultural analysis in 2025: dissecting teenage facial expressions like we’re studying alien life forms. The same media apparatus that gave us think pieces on “soft launching” (not oversharing) has now discovered that young waitresses look annoyed when customers ramble.

"Revolutionary stuff.

"The “Gen Z stare” joins a proud tradition of transforming mundane human behavior into complex sociological phenomena. We’ve become a society that needs trendy labels for basic rudeness and social failings.

"Consider “ghosting” — the fascinating discovery that some people don’t return calls or texts. Previous generations called this “being an ass” or “having no manners.” Now it’s a dating phenomenon worthy of academic study. “Breadcrumbing” is the equally groundbreaking concept of stringing someone along, a practice documented since humans first figured out courtship. “Love bombing” is showering someone with excessive attention early in a relationship, which your grandmother would have recognized as “coming on too strong.”

" 'Doom scrolling” elevated “reading too much depressing news” into a clinical-sounding condition. “Phone stacking” is putting phones in a pile during dinner. Previous generations accomplished this by simply not bringing electronics to the table." . . .

Ghislaine Maxwell granted limited immunity while giving DOJ '100 different people' linked to Jeffrey Epstein

 NY Post  

"Epstein counted influential politicians and businessmen as his associates — including former President Bill Clinton, Microsoft founder Bill Gates and Trump. The 47th president had a falling out with Epstein in 2004 — and reportedly later banned him from Mar-a-Lago for acting inappropriately with a club member’s daughter"  

Notorious sex criminal Ghislaine Maxwell answered questions from Justice Department officials about “100 different people” linked to late pedophile Jeffrey Epstein, an attorney for the disgraced socialite claimed Friday following two days of interrogation led by Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche during which she was reportedly granted limited immunity. 

"David Oscar Markus told reporters that his client, currently serving a 20-year sentence after being convicted in Manhattan of federal sex trafficking and conspiracy charges in December 2021, was “asked about every possible thing you could imagine – everything.”

" 'This was the first opportunity she’s ever been given to answer questions about what happened,” Markus added. “The truth will come out about what happened with Mr. Epstein and she’s the person who’s answering those questions.” . . .   More...

House panel votes to subpoena Bill and Hillary Clinton over possible links to Ghislaine Maxwell

   "The Clintons and several former top Justice Department officials — ex-FBI Director James Comey, one-time special counsel Robert Mueller and former Attorneys General Loretta Lynch, Eric Holder, Merrick Garland, Bill Barr, Jeff Sessions and Alberto Gonzales — were included in the list of subpoenas sought by Perry in order to “expand the full committee’s investigation into Ms. Maxwell.”

More...

New DNI Docs Reveal Washington Post's Role In Russiagate Hoax

 The Federalist  

The media did not simply report on Russiagate — it helped create Russiagate. And no outlet played a bigger role in manufacturing this false reality than Ellen Nakashima and The Washington Post.

"Newly released documents from Director of National Intelligence (DNI) Tulsi Gabbard have shattered the official narrative surrounding Russian interference in the 2016 election. A previously classified draft of the Presidential Daily Briefing (PDB), prepared for President Barack Obama on Dec. 8, 2016, shows that the formal intelligence assessment was that Russia had neither influenced the outcome of the election nor shown any preference for Donald Trump over Hillary Clinton. It was also revealed that the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and the National Security Agency (NSA) determined there was insufficient evidence to assert that Russia had hacked the Democratic National Committee (DNC).

"Yet these candid assessments were immediately overturned. The narrative was flipped entirely, now claiming that Russia had interfered specifically to help Trump win. To lend this reversal an air of legitimacy, Obama ordered an Intelligence Community Assessment explicitly designed to support the new storyline. This dramatic about-face was immediately echoed in the press, with The Washington Post at the center of the disinformation campaign.

"On the morning of Dec. 9, 2016 — just one day after the draft PDB was circulated among Obama officials — The Washington Post published an article co-authored by Ellen Nakashima reporting that President Obama had ordered a review of Russia’s role in the election. The article stated that Russia had “attempted through cyber means to interfere in, if not actively influence, the outcome” of the 2016 race.

"Citing this article, the report accompanying the DNI’s new document release concludes that “Deep State officials in the IC [intelligence community]” had begun “leaking blatantly false intelligence to the Washington Post.” The DNI report goes on to state that later that same day, another leak to the Post falsely claimed the CIA had “concluded in a secret assessment that Russia intervened” in the election to help Trump."   

The Washington Post’s Dishonesty

"In truth, the DNI report understates just how dishonest the episode really was. While the report cites two separate leaks to the Post, suggesting two different articles, they were in fact the same story — heavily rewritten after publication. The original version, which merely claimed that Russia had attempted to interfere, was already a serious departure from the previous day’s draft PDB. But that version apparently wasn’t strong enough for the “Deep State” officials feeding Nakashima the story. Within hours, that version mysteriously vanished." . . .

Hans Mahncke is in-house counsel at a global business advisory firm. He holds LL.B., LL.M. and Ph.D. degrees in law. He is the author of "Swiftboating America: Exposing the Russiagate Fraud, from the Steele Dossier to the FBI's Crossfire Hurricane Investigation."

American Kids Aren't Alright If They Like Socialism

 Gabriella Hoffman

 "Contrast what’s happening here in the U.S. with formerly oppressed countries in Central and Eastern Europe: Younger people are rejecting socialism and communism since the horrors are still raw there."

"Liberals don't want anarchy. Far from it. They want totalitarian socialism, the complete opposite of anarchy."

"American kids aren’t alright. 

"According to a recent Cato Institute/YouGov survey, a majority (64%) of America’s Generation Z members say they have a favorable view of socialism, while 34% of them view communism positively. 

"Imagine this: GenZers who’ve grown up in the freest, most prosperous time imaginable, with first-world luxuries, SmartPhones, and relatively few hardships, want central planning in their lives. Do they know what they’re asking for? Do they think socialism will work this go-around, despite its bloody track record? 

"This trend, sadly, tracks with other polls showing troubling, growing support for these deadly ideologies. That’s why an increasing number of GenZers are fawning over radical New York City Mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani. 

"Mamdani is the new shiny object for the cause of “democratic” socialism–socialism you foolishly vote in, but still end up miserable under. I wasn’t surprised when an unearthed clip of him endorsing the abolition of private property– a communist tenet, mind you– recently circulated on social media. The 1917 Bolshevik Decree on Land that first argued for the same “reform,” stating, “Landed proprietorship is abolished forthwith without any compensation.” Ironically, per ethics documents he filed as a New York State Assemblyman, Mamdani owns a four-acre land parcel in Uganda. Private property for me, not for thee? That’s so Bolshie!" . . .

. . ."To any young disillusioned person out there reading this: socialism and communism aren’t the answer to your woes. The Mamdani’s of the world are deceiving you. Promises of “free” things come with steep costs—higher taxes, less autonomy, and fewer grocery store options. Kiss your bougie Starbucks orders and Labubu dolls goodbye if he wins.

Columbia finally pays fines and punishes student protestors

  Susan Quinn   

"Let’s hope that other elite universities will come to their senses and recognize that providing a balanced environment is the way to ensure the benefits and integrity of higher education for the future." 

Dressed as Gazans who murdered jews and burned babies alive.

"The elite universities of this country have become notorious for their discrimination, arrogance, and poor priorities. Near the top of the list was Columbia University, which demonstrated a striking disregard for basic civility and particularly, its Jewish students.

"But Columbia is on the road to changing its ways and is making amends with the community, as well as in its relationship with the United States:

Columbia University has disciplined over 70 students for participating in two student-led protests, a source familiar with the matter said.

The university confirmed in a statement Tuesday that it was punishing students who participated in the protest at the school’s Butler Library, where at least 80 people were detained, as well as a similar demonstration during its annual alumni weekend last year.

"In response to the university’s offenses, the federal government had cut hundreds of millions of dollars, leverage which brought Columbia to heel:

Columbia has agreed to implement a series of policy reforms in an attempt to regain the federal funding.

That included overhauling the student disciplinary process and adopting a new definition of antisemitism.

"Columbia has taken substantive and serious steps to meet the expectations of the Trump Administration. One of those steps is responding to the Supreme Court’s banning the application of affirmative action and paying penalties for their past decisions:"...

The biggest scandal in American history. Consider the harm done to our nation.

Who can forget those nightmarish, vitriolic speeches at Freedom Hall, the final Biden SOTU, and the Democrat convention by a medically(?) jacked-up Joe Biden that practically begged someone, anyone, to assassinate Mr. Trump? The Tunnel Dweller

Eric Utter - American Thinker  

"The crux of the matter is this: if, yet again, there is no real accountability for elite lawbreakers and evildoers, whether it be those who perpetrated this scandal or those who aided and abetted — or covered up — Epstein’s, if there really is a two-tier justice system, Americans will soon lose any and all faith in their institutions, leaders … and country."

 "This is, inarguably, the biggest scandal in American history, and by far the most consequential. Period.

"If you know not of which I speak, you must largely consume mainstream media. (Which means it is very unlikely you’d be reading posts at the American Thinker, rendering the previous two sentences rather moot.)

"It does a monumental disservice to justice to simply call it the Russia-Russia-Russia Collusion Hoax.

"It now seems clear that an outgoing president worked with a former first lady Macbeth (and then presidential candidate), a future president, and the country’s intelligence community to make up something out of whole cloth -- specifically to take down a freshly and duly elected president and negate the will of the people.

"Tragically, those involved in these efforts to subvert the election/will of the people were largely successful.

"The Deep State, the intelligence agencies, and the most prominent members of the Democrat party, including the outgoing president, hatched and effectuated a scheme to oust, destroy, or render ineffective the democratically elected president from their rival party.

"Smooth transition of power? No, unprecedented duplicity and high treason. The kind that, if proven, caused folks in days of yore to be hung from the highest yardarm … or at least given the death penalty."

"Of course, these days, the perpetrators are zealously protected by those in the wildly corrupt and disingenuous corporate media." Emphases mine, TD

It was horrible for the country 

Again, these people were willing to destroy the country because they couldn’t accept election results.  And then they told us that Trump was a threat to democracy!

"Back in 2017–18, it was “Russia, Russia, Russia.”  Today, it’s “hoax, hoax, hoax.”  For me, the worst part of the story is that it hurt the country incredibly.  It poisoned the well, and we are still recovering.

"Why did it happen?

"First, the Democrats could not accept Mrs. Clinton’s defeat.  They had to explain it but couldn’t say the truth.  Like VP Harris, Secretary Clinton was a horrible candidate who did not connect with voters.  So the Democrats had to blame somebody, and Russia, Russia, Russia was an easy scapegoat.

Second, the extent to which the Obama team went to destroy President Trump is alarming.  This is an excellent summary from Professor Victor Davis Hanson:" . . .

Five Quick Things: Remembering How Terrible Hillary Actually Is | The American Spectator | USA News and Politics

  . . . "It’s not like we don’t know the answer. We’ve known it all along. Hillary Clinton was soliciting bribes on behalf of the Clinton Foundation grift engine as well as others, using her position as secretary of state in Barack Obama’s first term.

"And she was doing it openly. Do you think everyone else in the Obama administration was unaware that her email address was not an official one?

"Obama was in on everything Hillary was doing. If he wasn’t, he’d have put a stop to it." . . .