Saturday, April 27, 2024

Apt Analogy


(Found on Diogenes’ Middle Finger blog)


Me amid Massachusetts lefties  ….



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Headlines

 


Trump on his high court hearing: ‘A president has to have immunity’

China’s Xi says the US needs to accept Beijing's rise for bilateral relations to improve

Biden endorses $2 trillion tax hike 

Hush trial erupts in shouting …

Gaza-based militants attack Israeli forces preparing for U.S. pier

Exxon’s earnings miss, hit by lower natural gas prices and squeezed refining margins

Trump attorneys clash with Justice Kagan on Trump presidential immunity

The Big Delay: Supreme Court poised to allow Trump sedition trial, but not immediately …

UK, U.S. and Canada impose new sanctions on Iran after Israel attack

NATO chief chides China; Pentagon says weapons will reach Ukraine ‘within days’

Stocks plunge after disasterous second quarter GDP report 

No Sale: TikTok prefers shutdown if legal options fail, sources say …


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Friday, April 26, 2024

Have You Noticed?

 

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Many old people don’t look old anymore!



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Mostly Cajun Pic

 




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Quotable Quote



Advice to God when designing humans: “Don’t put the reproductive organs too close to the excretory organs.” — Woody Allen 



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Headlines

 


Two big court dates for Donald Trump, but he can attend only one

GNP growth slows to 1,6% rate in second quarter, well below expectations

George Soros trying to fast track acquisition of radio giant Audacy through FCC

Biden swings: Mocks Trump’s hair!  ‘Don’t inject bleach’

Arizona grand jury indicts Meadows, Giuliani, other Trump allies for 2020 election interference

Russian strikes hit critical Ukraine infrastructure; UK finance minister visits Kyiv

Speaker Johnson  reportedly apologizes to Joe Biden for rolling his eyes at SOTU

Israel says it’s poised to move on Rafah …

Macron’s Olympics terror nightmare

Meta looses $200M in value as Zuckerberg focuses on all the ways company burns cash

Biden considers amnesty for over 1 million illegals married to U.S. citizens

Arizona House passes repeal of 1864 [abortion] kaw


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Thursday, April 25, 2024

Today’s Poser

 

The MAGA crowd

In what world would Biden and Mayorkas actually implement any border security package that the MAGA Republicans might have succeed in getting passed in the recent spate of foreign-aid bills in the House … have they learned nothing over the last 3 1/2 years?



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Democrat Party





Today’s Democrat party is populated primarily with Socialists, anti-semites and useful idiots.

Afterward: And greenie weenies …



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Sad but True



A few of the worst antisemites are Jewish.



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Headlines

 


Tennessee lawmakers pass bill allowing teachers to be armed

Tesla shares jump after Musk says company aims to start producing affordable EV by early 2025

SCOTUS to hear arguments in emergency abortion case

National Guard to protect Jews?

UK wants NATO defense target raised to 2.5 percent

Biden issues new rules for airlines to require automatic cash refunds, prohibit surprise fees

Judge dismisses riot charges for over 100 illegals who rushed border

Tesla to let go 20% staff …

Bird flu virus fragments detected in milk in the US

Relief in Kyiv as Biden set to sign US aid package; Russian defense official arrested on bribery charges

Media Research Center: Facebook meddled with US elections almost 40 times since 2008

Janie Dimon declares economy is booming …


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Wednesday, April 24, 2024

Violating the Hatch Act



Forgive me Pilgrim if the following sounds like an episode of the Perry Mason TV show.


This script centers around Matthew Colangelo … the former number three attorney at Biden’s Justice Department … who is “on loan” to Alvin Bragg’s ManhattanDA’s office to prosecute Donald Trump’s so-called hush money trial.


If I were a lawyer on the Trump defense team, I would call Prosecutor Colangelo to the witness stand … (I asked a lawyer friend if this can be done and he said it would be very unusual, but was do-able) …abd pursue the following line of questioning:


* When he was at the Justice Department, how come neither it … nor the Federal Election Commission … didn’t pursue such charges against Trump … but you are now doing so under a county DA, 8 years after the fact, despite overriding the statue of limitations?


* He should be also asked if he had given up his job at the DOJ or expects to return there after this trial is over… and if he was still being paid by the DOJ.? If either answer is yes, then it becomes a clear case of election interference by the DOJ … a violation of the Hatch Act.


Therefore this would be an illegal prosecution and must be dismissed immediately.



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Echo Chant

 


If I were young and daring, I would love to pick up a bull horn and lead the following echo chant:


ME: FROM THE RIVER TO THE LEVEE!

CROWD: FROM THE RIVER TO THE LEVEE!


ME : WE WANT MONEY FOR FREE!

CROWD: WE WANT MONEY FOR FREE!


ME: WE’RE AN ECHO CHAMBER … I AGREE!

CROWD: WE’RE AN ECHO CHAMBER … I AGREE!


Repeat over and over …


STAND UP TO ECHO CHANTS!


Headlines

 


Patriots owner Robert Kraft pulls support for Columbia amid ‘virulent hate’ on campus

General Motors to raise 2024 guidance after big first-quarter earnings beat

Trump’s $175 million bond allowed to stand despite attacks from Letitia James

Anti-Israel protesters arrested at NYU

Dems to Biden: Go big on IVF

World’s largest wealth fund says there is clearly a lot of froth in tech sector righr now

House rejects another border security bill

Musk slams Australia ban on church stabbing videos … PM calls out ‘arrogant billionaire’ …

Supreme Court to take up Buden crackdown on ‘gun rights’

Russia warns its ready to retaliate if the West seizes frozen assets, says Europe wil be hurt worst

New York Stock Exchange polls market participants on 24/7 stock trading

Silent and brooding, Trump enters courtroom ordeal … Has to be ‘jolted awake’ again …


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Tuesday, April 23, 2024

Big Brother

 


With its subsidies, tariffs, contracts, regulations and taxing system, the federal government has the ability to jerk U.S. companies in directions they might prefer not going … and the oppressive Biden administration has a disturbing talent to do so … over and over and over.


“Please, just get out of the way!”



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Uncle Bosey



Pilgrim, sorry but I can’t  help but to draw this rude comparison to Joe Biden’s Uncle Bosey being eaten by a New Guinea cannibal:


Donald Trump being put in the cook pot by Manhattan DA Alvin Bragg.




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Headlines

 


Prosecutors say Trump’s hush money was ‘election interference:’ Will jurors - and voters  - believe it?

Pro-China party wins big in the Maldives accelerating its drift away from India

In historic first, Biden admin to announce first sanctions against an IDF unit over actions in West Bank

Voter interest in election re-run hits 20-year low …

Conservative Brazilians laud Elon Musk at rally in support of ex-president

Ukraine is given a reprieve by the U.S., but faces a race against the clock over weapons supplies

Florida Rep. to introduce bill prohibiting foreign flags on House floor after Democrats wave Ukraine flag

Biden now commanding lead in online betting …

‘National security suicide’: Alaska senator slams Biden admin’s restrictions on drilling and mining

China is years behind the U.S. despite Huawei’s breakthrough chiips, Raimondo tells ‘60 Minutes’

U.S. House passes landmark TikTok ban

Musk scrambles to save Tesla … Inventory glut … Robotaxi to rescue?


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Monday, April 22, 2024

Earth Day



The founder of today’s Earth Day, Ira Einhorn, is celebrating this day in prison … serving a life sentence for killing and composting his girlfriend.



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More Cute Animals


From daily timewaster blog


Gotta be a female …



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Interesting Irony

 

Pack of pampered pukes

The Left calls Donald Trump Hitler while chanting “We are Hamas!”


Afterward: I looked hard but could find no MAGA caps among these radicals …



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Fractured Definition



Mandate, singular noun — In a normal world, a woman.



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Headlines

 


Man who set himself afire outside Trump’s trial dies of injuries, police say

Tesla cuts prices nearly $2000 in China, in line with U.S. cuts

RNC and Trump campaign to hire 100,000 Election Integrity operatives for election day

Iran downplays Israel’s latest attack as one done by ‘toys’ …

Green groups call on voters to oppose RFK Jr.

Russia says deeper U.S. hybrid war using Ukraine will end in Vietnam-style humiliation

KJP has no comment on any developments about Iran’s attack on Israel

Netanyahu asks USA for more ammunition …

After stormy week in court, storm cancels Trump’s North Carolina rally

Taiwan to discuss new funding with U.S. as Chinese warplanes get close to island

Matt Gaetz files amendment to fund border wall construction with Ukraine loan repayments

Volcano blows gold!


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Sunday, April 21, 2024

Barr’s Backhanded Endorsement



Pilgrim, did you see Bill Barr’s endorsement for president?

Donald Trump … yes, DJT!! See above …

He was like cool … but an endorsement nonetheless.

Said he liked his policies … but didn’t like his contesting the election. Come on … over the last three years, has been revealed multiple instances where Barr’s direct reports engaged in duplicitous insubordination to this man he now supports … kinda.

Barr’s endorsement shows some fast footwork … but he didn’t actually hold his nose.

Perhaps another book?


Afterward: Can I assume former-AG Barr does not deem Trump guilty of inciting an insurrection?



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Climate Change




Assembling evidence to justify climate-change hysteria is not hard because … ta-daa!…  climate changes … and has for milenia.


Afterward: It’s a lot less foolish … and cheaper … to adjust to climate change than to try stopping it from happening.


After afterward: Climate change is not swift and necessarily malignant … it is glacial and can be benign.



STAND UP TO HYSTERIA!


Feral Irishman Pic





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Headlines

 


Biden to deliver abortion-focused speech in Florida

The Bitcoin network completes the fourth-ever ‘halving’ of rewards to miners

Senate passes renewal of Section 702 of serveillance authority in 60-34 vote

Bibi has done what the world warned him not to  … War cabinet splinters as minister calls response ‘lame’ …

Trump’s New York trial is knocking him off balance

VW workers in Tennessee overwhelmingly vote to join UAW in historic win for Detroit union

Shocker: Protesters who shut down Golden Gate bridge may actually face consequences

Pentagon parades 12 nuclear bombers …

Appeals court upholds conviction of GOP operative who steered Russian money to Trump’s campaign

Nasdaq falls more than 2% to post sixth straight loosing day as Nvidia craters 20%

Trump trial opening arguments starting next week after full jury selected

Dems at war with RFK Jr. … Fears in Michigan …


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Saturday, April 20, 2024

Apt Analogy

 


American elections are like a game of Monopoly with the Democrats stacking the Chance and Community Chest decks, loading the dice and acting as banker dispensing Zuckerbucks.



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Apt Analogy




The slim majority of Republicans in the House … with their power of the purse and impeachment prerogatives … have as much leverage as Ilhan Omar would sway in the Freedom Caucus.




STAND UP FIR LEVERAGE!


Powerline Pic

 





STAND UP TO SNIFFERS!


Mostly Cajun Pic

 




STAND UP FOR POPULARITY!


The Biden Touch

 


King Midas had the “Midas Toich” where everything he handled turned to gold. President Biden, similarly, has the “Biden Touch” wherein everything he decrees turns to cow pies.



STAND UP TO THE BUDEN TOUCH!


Headlines

 


Trump is misleading with COVID-era statistics. So is Biden.

Israel carries out limited strike against Iran, sources say

Biden weighs national climate emergency

Iran and Israel’s open warfare …

How Johnson and Biden locked arms on Ukraine

Mortgage rates are now at the highest level of the year, and could still climb

Alleged Israeli strikes reported on Iran, Syria and Iraq

Iran threatens strike on Israeli nuke sites if attacked …

Iran fires air defense batteries in provinces as sound of explosions heard near Isfahan

Ukraine says it downed Tu-22m3 bomber for the first time; 8 killed in major attack by Russia

18-year-old female trans student charged with plotting two Maryland school shootings

Pentagon speeding up work on first new nuclear warhead in 40 years …


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Friday, April 19, 2024

Mostly Cajun Pic





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Wednesday Break?

 


Why was the day off in the Trump improper business booking entry trial in New York set as Wednesday … when it is traditionally designated as Friday?


The answer Pilgrim is as insidious as the trial itself … and it is twofold:

1) A Friday break would give Trump a long weekend to campaign in … so it is now cut short

2) A Friday break would better allow Hasidic Jews to serve as jurors … who likely would be more sympathetic to Trump. This way they are discouraged.


Afterward: Notice I didn’t use the lefty smear  “hush money” … pre-assuming guilt!



STAND UP TO INSIDIOUS!


Somewhat Obvioues Truth

 


The fact that the internet allows you to communicate around the world … even with live images … for no extra charge … suggests that long-distance charges back when AT&T was a monopoly were an extremely profitable ripoff.


It also suggests to me that monopolies are not the innovators.


Afterward; Do we have any Ma Bell equivalents today?



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Headlines

 


2 of Trump’s jurors are lawyers. Would they acquit on a technicality?

World’s largest sovereign wealth fund posts $100 billion firsts-quarter profits as tech stocks soar

Senate kills Mayorkas impeachment articles

Some Biden aides refer to Trump as ‘Hitler pig’

UK signals potential curbs on Chinese investment amid ‘de-risking’ push

TMSC beats first quarter revenue and profit expectations on strong AI chip demand

Lindsey Graham: DHS says Laken Riley’s alleged murderer was paroled into US illegally 

Iran taunts Israel: You want more?

Russia is bombing Ukraine into darkness — and leaving Europe short of power

China slams U.S. probe into its shipbuilding industry, says move is ‘a mistake on top of a mistake’

Attorneys struggle to find jurors without opinions on Trump for hush money trial

Foreign holdings of U.S. Treasuries hit record high …


STAND UP FOR AMERICA!


Thursday, April 18, 2024

Babylon Wasp



Awarding the Nobel Peace Prize. Or as KJP prefers  … the Noble Prize. The committee that awards this very prestigious prize is seriously considering Joe Biden for this award … instead of a repeat to Obama.


Why?


Because of his one word … “don’t.”





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The Path to Truth




 🗝️ Ferreting out the relevant data


🗝️  Verifying this data’s veracity


  🗝️ Analyzing data in all standard ways


 🗝️ Forming conclusions


 🗝️  Testing conclusions


 🗝️  Finalizing conclusions


   🗝️ Effectively communicating conclusions


 🗝️   Monitoring results


Pilgrim … can you itemize how seekers of artifice thwart this effort at each step?



Afterward: Do AI chatbots follow this script?




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Iran Kowtowing



The Obama/Biden policy of kowtowing to Iran has an inertia that defies physics!


You can throw Kerry in there too.



STAND UP TO KOWTOWING!


Whole Lot

 

Tesla Texas headquarters — a whole lot of building


Elon Musk made a whole lot of fame and fortune catering to a whole lot of global warming believers who had a whole lot of disposable income but not a whole lot of common sense.



STAND UP A WHOLE LOT!


Headlines

 


The White House is monitoring Mayorkas impeachment — but not actively working the trial

Biden wants to triple tariffs on China steel, aluminum imports

At least 90% of TV news fails to identify Trump prosecutors as Democrats

Don in hell … Opening statements Monday … Melania to testify?

Senate leaders haggle over Mayorkas impeachment deal as trial begins

Bitcoin halving is likely this week — here’s what you need to know

DHS monitoring 677k illegals with criminal records … but not deporting them

Storm dumps heaviest rain ever recorded in desert nation of UAE

Tax debt shadows Steve Garvey as he runs for Senate

Kremlin won’t say if it was forewarned of Iran’s attack; Russia closing in on battlefield target

Soros-backed NGO is distributing flyers in Mexico telling illegals to vote for Biden

Kari Lake suggests supporters ‘strap on Glocks’ to be ready for ‘24 …


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Wednesday, April 17, 2024

Today’s Poser



Has China provided the Biden family with W-2 forms for the $25 million it has paid them?  No? Maybe this is why there has been no taxes paid on these moneys?



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Mostly Cajun Pic





STAND UP TO GOVEENMENT BLOAT!


Headlones



Senate Democrats plan $79M advertising onslaught to hold on in November

Fire engulfs Denmark’s historic stock exchange building, iconic spire collapses

Revealed: Biden gave Iran the go-ahead to strike Israel   

Iran threatens 1,500 missiles … Was strike DECOY? 

A tax mystery: Why are fewer people getting refunds?

Oil prices fall for second day as U.S. expects limited Israel response to Iran attack 

Trump’s hush money payment trial gets underway

Tehran’s growing partnership with Moscow …

Johnson plans separate House votes on Israel and Ukraine this week

Russia steps up offense in East Ukraine as forces look to take key town by May 9, Ukraine says

Biden expands supposed temporary amnesty to 1.2 million foreign nationals 

Drowsy Donald falls asleep in courtroom …


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Tuesday, April 16, 2024

Today’s Poser



For Elon Musk: Do you believe global warming is an existential threat to humanity?


Afterward: Difficult answer due to Tesla.



STAND UP TO HYPE!


Quotable Quote



Generative AI is a parlor game played by high-tech shysters on internet rubes. — Fletcher



STAND UP TO SHYSTERS!


Headlines

 


AI chatbots spread false information about the EU elections, report finds

Apple CEO Tim Cook visits Viet Nam — one of the iPhone giant’s most important manufacturing hubs

Israel: 99% of Iran’s attack was shot down

World holds breath … Israel vows revenge … USA warns …

U.S. warns Iran, calls on Security Council to condemn attack on Israel

Israel vows to ‘extract a price’ after Iran’s attack.

Shareholders approve nearly $15 billion acquisition of U.S. Steel to Nippon Steel 

Russia deploys supersonic missiles …

India’s Modi vows to increase social spending, make country into manufacturing hub

Biden administration agrees to provide $6.4 billion to Samsung for making computer chips in Texas

How Trump is looking to win Pennsylvania

Trump’s first criminal trial is historic and solemn moment for America 


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Monday, April 15, 2024

Perplexed



I’m at 6s and 7s … why do so many meatheads want to “fundamentally change” America? It seems that  we have been doing pretty well since our founding … with a few exceptions, mostly already remedied … and have molded the United States into an economical, military, technological and moral powerhouse … an example of the purchase of free-market capitalism’s superiority.


So, you dolts ,who think that we need a new formula, must not like America very much … and letting people who don’t love America run America makes no sense whatsoever.



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More Cute Animals

 


Tortoise Taxi



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Babylon Wasp

 


Suspected terrorist stabs, kills seven at Sydney shopping mall … wounding many others … causing Australia to ban all knives sharper than a butter knife.





STAND UP TO TYRANNY!