Australian excess deaths spike. Media ignore the story.

It is no longer reasonable to assume good faith from garbage media…

MSNBC’s Mehdi Hasan Gets Basic Facts Wrong on DHS Content Moderation Partnership

Lee Fang reviews the Taibbi vs. MSNBC brouhaha:

“…MSNBC pundit Mehdi Hasan, in a series of tweets over the last five days, has repeatedly claimed that Matt Taibbi “deliberately & under oath misrepresented” the facts when he testified to Congress last month.

Hasan linked to a video of Taibbi’s testimony, in which the Racket News journalist noted that “Twitter executives did not distinguish between [the Department of Homeland Security] or [the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency] and this group [the Election Integrity Partnership]” and that emails show and EIP worked in concert with CISA to flag content for moderation. Hasan claimed this is a lie, that Taibbi conflated a private nonprofit with a government agency during his testimony, and that EIP only worked with the Center for Internet Security, or CIS, a private sector organization with a similar acronym, not CISA.

It’s a serious charge and federal crime to make false statements to Congress, one punishable with prison time.

But the record shows that CISA, the government agency, was involved in the very formation of EIP and was one of the most important government partners to the group in its bid to influence content moderation decisions at firms such as Facebook and Twitter. EIP’s own leaders have said as much, and there is endless documentation – from publicly available websites, to discovery from litigation, and from the “Twitter Files” – that all confirm this relationship and CISA’s role in assisting EIP.

In other words, Hasan is wrong and presents a deeply distorted view of the mechanics of this process. Taibbi’s testimony, especially the video excerpted by Hasan, is accurate.

Worse, after being presented with evidence of CISA working directly with EIP, Hasan doubled down, repeating his false allegation that Taibbi lied under oath. In this post, I’ll provide a quick overview of the evidence, including new Twitter emails that have not been published before, that conclusively show that Taibbi was correct to connect CISA and EIP as partner organizations. Hasan’s repeated allegation is simply a bizarre and defamatory smear…”

There is no organic market pressure to support EV expansion. It is Democrat politicians and bureaucrats forcing the issue. It is a solution in response to a bogus problem. It is perfect for Democrats because there is no way to determine if their “solutions” will work.

Even Biden’s Auto Union Allies Hate the Admin’s Plan To Kill Gas-Powered Cars

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New auto industry rules a disaster in the making

And:

US Unveils Toughest-Ever Car Emissions Rule in Bid to Force Surge in EV Purchases

Somehow I’m sure American tax dollars are funding this stupidity…

It’s hard to believe senior business people allowed something like this to happen to a major brand…

Anheuser-Busch sheds nearly $5 billion in value since Bud Light’s Dylan Mulvaney pact sparked outrage

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Leaked pics show Bud Light exec who wants to update company’s ‘fratty’ culture enjoying fratty party

Alissa Heinerscheid

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Harvard's ISIS Club.

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Glenn Greenwald calls out the garbage media…

Democrat bureaucracy does not like to be identified as Democrat bureaucracy…

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The NPR Emperor Has No Clothes

“…So, instead of pushing out its “editorial independence” on Twitter, NPR is asking listeners to follow it on TikTok — you know, the Chinese Communist spyware social media outlet…”

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The demand for racism far exceeds the supply…

Black FSU professor published false ‘racism studies’ for 16 years

So what does an experienced “professor” do?

Make it up.

“Professor”

Florida State University

All Blacks. Black and Tans. Same difference!

Oh no, Joe: Biden confuses ‘All Blacks’ rugby team with ‘Black and Tan’ military force

The politicization of the justice system has been occurring for years…

In 2014, Texas Gov. Rick Perry was indicted on trumped up charges by a liberal DA, fingerprinted, and forced to take a mugshot, destroying his presidential campaign.

Perfect symbolism for the current state of the Democrat/Media complex…

After Earning ‘State-Affiliated Media’ Label On Twitter, NPR Leaves For Chinese State-Affiliated TikTok

Democrats have politicized all aspects of the federal bureaucracy and use it to target political opponents…

Biden’s White House was up to its neck in the Mar-a-Lago raid

“…As a preliminary matter, Trump had an absolute right to possess any records he wanted, if he gained possession of them (as he did) while he was still president. It is black-letter law (that is, unquestioned, uncontested, absolute law) in America that the President of the United States is the last, best word when it comes to document classification:

In Navy v. Egan, 484 U.S. 518 (1988), the court examined whether a civil service board can review a “laborer’s” being denied national security clearance.  In that context, the Supreme Court was clear about the president’s plenary power, unimpeded by congressional acts:

The President, after all, is the “Commander in Chief of the Army and Navy of the United States.” U.S.Const., Art. II, § 2. His authority to classify and control access to information bearing on national security and to determine whether an individual is sufficiently trustworthy to occupy a position in the Executive Branch that will give that person access to such information flows primarily from this constitutional investment of power in the President, and exists quite apart from any explicit congressional grant. See Cafeteria Workers v. McElroy, 367 U. S. 886367 U. S. 890 (1961).

Some Trump supporters think they’re helping Trump by pointing to the fact that he was working with NARA in accordance with the Presidential Records Act. They’re not, because that still buys into the concept that there is some sort of limitation on the president’s declassification power. In fact, the President Records Act is a procedural device that is utterly irrelevant when it comes to the president’s plenary power over document classification status. Neither Congress, nor NARA, nor any other bureaucrat who stamps the word “classified” on a document can undo Trump’s ultimate presidential power to declassify documents at will, without following procedures, filling out forms, or making announcements…

…On August 8, 2022, the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) conducted an unprecedented raid of Mar-a-Lago on the ground that potentially classified records existed there. According to press reports, Biden Administration aides were “stunned” to hear of this development.

However, new NARA records obtained through America First Legal’s investigation into the circumstances surrounding the Mar-a-Lago raid further confirmed that the FBI obtained access to these records through a “special access request” from the Biden White House on behalf of the Department of Justice (DOJ).

What this effectively means is that there are substantial discrepancies between what the Archives has told Congress and what appears in its internal communications. For example, Acting Archivist Debra Wall told Rep. Mike Turner (R-OH) on August 16, 2022, that NARA “had not been involved in the DOJ investigation or any searches that it has conducted.”

This stunning revelation suggests that NARA was misleading Congress about the White House’s role in the shocking raid of President Trump’s home, and the fact that the Biden White House was acting “on behalf of” the DOJ raises significant legal concerns…

…In other words, the White House lied to the public, and NARA lied to Congress. In reality, the White House, ignoring controlling U.S. law, worked with the DOJ and FBI to raid the residence of Donald Trump, a former president and Biden’s most serious opponent in the 2024 election, to smear Trump (and, they hoped, arrest him) as someone who had violated National Security laws…”

I wish this woman the best. I can’t help but see her as a type case of the absurd woke stupidity that has gripped our country. Many irresponsible media figures and Democrats promote mentally disturbed ideas as if they are acceptable alternatives to traditional ideas. They are not.

AMANDA BYNES RELEASED FROM MENTAL HOSPITAL … Starting Outpatient Treatment

Sometimes the cover of the book is a cry for help.

Headline of the day…

Are leftist girlbosses becoming the intellectual Red Guard of American Maoism? Or are they the beginning of its end?

We live in the age of the absurd.

Politicization of the justice system…

Meet Radical Trump Prosecutor Matthew Colangelo

“…Colangelo was involved in some of the most ideologically driven election law decisions of the Eric Holder era – ranging from attacks on Voter ID laws to failing to enforce federal laws requiring states to maintain voter rolls.

In sum, Bragg has appointed a militant leftist attorney to prosecute Donald Trump in New York City.  A Harvard Law graduate, Colangelo has used his powers and position to advance far-left ideological aims. His abuse of power has cost taxpayers millions of dollars in one state…”

Tennessee Democrat that got booted from state house appears to make significant shift to the left between 2016 and 2023.

Are all politicians lying fakes? This guy could be an actor.

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I’d vote for Lamont. I’d vote for Fred Sanford before I’d vote for this guy.

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Euroweenies cave to reality…

European countries are building border walls

“…Building border walls is a racist, sexist, heteronormative evil capitalist pig thing to do.

At least if you are an American. Everybody else in the universe thinks it’s a good idea, and that perhaps the illegal immigrants should shuffle off to the Mexican border to enter the United States…”

Doug Santo