The Donald Trump New York City farce is on the way to being over. The prosecution (at least) rested after what would’ve been a disastrous performance by Michael Cohen in any other trial, but the standard rules don’t apply here because this is not actually a trial. This trial has nothing to do with law. It is a scummy attempt to frame a political opponent of the Democrats to keep him from winning an election against the desiccated old pervert in the White House. Normally, a jury would laugh this case out of court, except that it would never have been in court had the defendant been named Tronald Dump. Everything about it is a lie and a scam, and as soon as you understand that you will understand this disgraceful case.
The Democrats behind this charade are wearing the law like a skinsuit, presenting an exterior that makes this look like a real jury trial when, in fact, it is nothing of the sort. You see the forms and processes performed, but they mean nothing because the fix is already in. Let’s talk about what happens now in terms of procedure. In terms of legality, why bother? Again, this isn’t a legal matter. This is a joke.
The state must prove each of the elements of the charge beyond a reasonable doubt. Remember, in real trials, criminal charges have elements. For instance, fraud is typically a knowing misrepresentation intended to induce reliance that causes monetary damage to the victim. Each of those requirements is an element. Was there a misrepresentation? Was it knowingly false? Was it intended to induce reliance? Was someone who reasonably relied on it damaged in terms of losing money? Each of those elements must have substantial evidence in support of it. Remember, the state has to prove everything. The defendant can just sit there with his arms crossed like a late-80s rapper and say nothing, and if the state fails to provide evidence beyond a reasonable doubt proving each element, he must be acquitted. Others have discussed how the state has failed to prove any of the elements against Trump here — suffice it to say that, as a legal matter, the state has failed on every one of the elements. But again, this case isn’t a legal matter. This is a kangaroo court. We’re just talking about how the scam will proceed.
The defense could have chosen not to call any witnesses at all. If you think you’re winning because the state has failed to make its case, it’s often a good idea to send it to the jury right then. But I agree that Trump was right to try to put on a defense because that helps him in the court of public opinion. There’s no helping him with the jury – the jury is biased, and the majority of them will convict him regardless of the evidence or law. Defense is for the benefit of the voters.
The Democrat-donating judge severely limited some of Trump’s most important evidence. One witness was a former federal elections commissioner who is an expert on federal elections law and could testify as an expert witness as to how none of these alleged expenditures would violate federal campaign finance laws. Now, the judge excluded that testimony based on what is normally solid ground – an expert witness cannot testify as to what the law is. An expert witness provides factual evidence of matters outside the experience of a jury. But during the trial, the prosecution improperly elicited testimony regarding what is and isn’t a federal campaign finance violation from non-expert witnesses – including Michael Cohen. Typical with regard to Trump, there are apparently exceptions to the rules when it involves screwing him over. Allowing this expert witness to testify would be fair, so no surprise it did not happen.
Another witness the defense called was Michael Cohen’s former attorney, who you might think could not testify because of attorney-client privilege. Except Michael Cohen went behind his back and began talking about his discussions with his attorney to the Southern District of New York federal prosecutors when he was trying to sell out Trump to save his behind from jail. When you disclose attorney-client confidentialities, you waive your attorney-client privilege. Attorney Robert Costello, a respected criminal defense lawyer in New York, has already testified to a House committee that everything Michael Cohen said on the stand was a lie, not to convince the jurors because there’s no convincing the Democrat jurors, but to show America what a fiasco this is. On Monday, the judge blew up at Costello, who was disgusted by how the judge was limiting his testimony by sustaining the DA’s ridiculous objections.
As an aside, it is a disgrace that a prosecutor would ever put up on the stand as its key witness a convicted perjurer like Cohen, who has been publicly expressing how he wants to screw over the accused. On Monday, this centipede admitted stealing tens of thousands of dollars from Trump, something the NYDA knew about and failed to charge. I’m glad my mom, who was a judge and a prosecutor before that, doesn’t have to see this. Any decent past or present prosecutor with integrity would be appalled. Carefully note those who are not appalled.
Next week, the parties will do closing arguments. Look for the DA to try to convict Trump of “election interference” and “paying hush money,” neither of which is a crime. But again, this is not about the law; it is about pulling a jury of Democrat partisans who want to help stop a political opponent.
Then the case goes to the jury. The jury is instructed by the judge on the law to be applied. It’ll be interesting to see what jury instructions this judge gives since this completely unprecedented case will require many custom jury instructions. You see, there are standard jury instructions for routine cases. Murder, bank robbery, sex crimes, and the other things that Democratic constituents do all the time have standard jury instructions. Since this is an invented crime that has never been charged against anyone before, the parties will have to make up instructions and the judge will pick the DA’s version.
Then the case goes to the jury and the jurors will decide the case solely based on how much they hate Donald Trump. That is not how the law is supposed to work, but this isn’t about the law. This is about Democrat voters in Manhattan screwing over a political opponent. If twelve of them agree, they will convict him. If one or more jurors hold out for the truth and do not get kicked off the jury for “refusing to deliberate,” the jury will hang. This results in a mistrial, and the DA can retry the case. If twelve jurors reject the trumped-up Trump charges, Trump will be acquitted – but that will never happen because they’re Democrats, and it doesn’t matter what the facts are or the law is.
If you think I’m cynical, chalk that up to 30 years of experience.
There is a slight chance the jury will acquit Trump on some of the charges, but my guess is you’ll see him convicted on everything. Hopefully, at least one juror has the integrity and the guts to withstand the pressure to frame, but hope is not a plan.
Now, if convicted on up to 34 felony charges, a typical defendant would be remanded immediately into custody. Of course, Alvin Bragg’s DA office is notoriously easy on actual criminals, but it will certainly demand jail time here. It is quite possible that the judge will hook Trump up and take him into the back in chains. If that happens, a lot of people are going to be really, really sorry down the road. That image would be a devastating blow to our teetering Jenga tower of a country. If they want to throw open the Overton window, they should remember that it is a long way down.
More likely, this Democrat judge will release Trump on bail and set a sentencing date. But who knows? This has been a blatant and unrepentant farce from the beginning, one that at least half of Americans see as an attempt to frame the political opposition with false charges over made-up crimes before a biased judge and jury. If you want to bet, bet that they do the most outrageous thing – and bet that they cry like little girls when they feel the full blowback of their new rules down the road.
Keep your fingers crossed for at least one juror with the integrity to refuse to play his part in this show trial.
Kansas City Chiefs kicker Harrison Butker gave a commencement address this month at Benedictine University in Kansas. Butker is a devout Catholic and was speaking at a Catholic institution. As such, many of his observations, such as his expressed preference for the traditional Latin Mass, were intended for a Catholic audience.
But other points Butker made had broader applicability, and quite a few of them provoked blowback, including his reference to the “tyranny of diversity, equity and inclusion.” The National Football League distanced itself immediately from Butker’s remarks. “[Butker’s] views are not those of the NFL as an organization,” said Jonathan Beane, NFL’s senior vice president and chief diversity and inclusion officer. “The NFL is steadfast in our commitment to inclusion, which only makes our league stronger.”
It’s worth noting that (a) the NFL is not a Catholic organization, and (b) the league has had its share of players arrested for domestic violence and convicted of wire fraud, forgery, money laundering, counterfeiting, tax evasion, drug trafficking, driving while intoxicated, burglary, armed robbery, aggravated assault, rape, manslaughter and even murder. Perhaps it’s a bad look to criticize a player calling for men to be God-fearing, responsible husbands and fathers.
But it’s also an opportunity to observe that the terms “diversity” and “inclusion,” like “choice” — another contemporary buzzword — have little meaning without context.
For example, to say I’m “pro-choice” explains nothing unless I denote the choices that I’m in favor of someone being able to make. Either the choices themselves have no moral significance (“Burgers or pasta for dinner tonight?”), or else the available choices conform to my own values in some way. Consider: Do I think someone should have the choice to smother Granny with a pillow because she has dementia? I can’t say “yes,” unless I believe killing someone with dementia is morally good — or at least morally neutral. Saying, “I wouldn’t kill my own grandmother, but I think anyone who wants to should be able to” makes the absurdity clearer.
The same is true of “diversity.” We hear constantly that “diversity is our strength.” But “diversity,” without more, is not necessarily a “strength” at all. If I were asked to put together a team to solve a complex problem, and I chose a 6-year-old child, a heroin addict, a comatose patient and a homeless person suffering from severe mental illness, that group would certainly be diverse. But it would not be “strong” — if by that we mean able to solve the problem. Nor would the group be any “stronger” if it consisted of men and women or people of different racial and ethnic backgrounds.
That hypothetical may seem extreme. But less extreme yet equally clear proof is available anywhere we look. In Europe, for example, hundreds of thousands of young men have emigrated from cultures where women are deprived of basic human rights, swathed head to toe in mandated coverings; those who object are targets for sexual assault, arrest and imprisonment. The presence of those men has transformed countries like Sweden, Germany and England; once known for their low crime rates, they now have skyrocketing numbers of rape and other violence.
Similarly, millions of migrants have been encouraged by the Biden administration to enter the United States illegally, despite the importation of drugs killing 100,000-plus Americans a year, or the human trafficking — including the trafficking of children (the government admitted it lost track of 85,000 children who entered the country illegally between 2021 and 2023), or the other crimes committed by illegal immigrants. (The murder of Georgia college student Laken Riley generated national outrage, as did a series of videos created by a Venezuelan migrant explaining how to exploit “squatting” laws to take possession of homes and sell them out from under their rightful owners.)
Thus, immigration per se is not our “strength,” any more than “diversity” is. It was, arguably, when we demanded that immigrants assimilate and live by American values. But that would mean defending our culture, which the powerful classes in America are loath to do, preferring instead to condemn it as “patriarchal,” “white supremacist” and “systemically racist.”
In fact, the attributes which have made the country peaceful and prosperous — initiative, industry, self-reliance, honesty, integrity, personal responsibility, respect for others, for property and the rule of law, protecting families and children — can be and have been the lived experience of people from nearly every race, ethnicity and culture on the planet.
However, the diverse experiences and perspectives that we aspire to bring together for the betterment of all do presuppose not only basic competence but a commitment to virtuous behavior and – more importantly – a set of common values and generalized agreement on what virtuous behavior is.
America was founded on explicitly Judeo-Christian principles and populated by people who believed in and lived by them. Furthermore, the existence of shared values and a common belief in the ultimate source of those values made it possible to appeal to that source when the country’s policies fell short of our ideals, as exemplified by calls for the abolition of slavery or the improvement of conditions for factory workers.
But those controlling today’s cultural messaging want the definition of “values” to be relative and dismiss “virtue” as antiquated. In place of substantive definitions, we now have empty platitudes like “diversity,” “inclusion” and “compassion”; catch-all phrases to be tossed out as accusations whenever anyone points out the painful realities associated with poor choices, or cultural attitudes and behaviors that are antithetical to human flourishing.
Butker dared to say what too few will these days — that the source of America’s values and our definition of virtue is the Bible and Christianity. Those are our roots and they are our strength. People of diverse backgrounds who adhere to the principles derived from them do bring depth and richness to the American experience, and we should welcome them.
Conversely, we can already see what is wrought when we abandon those principles: discord, violence, societal breakdown.
How Israel May Curb Iran’s Nuclear Ambitions
Details of Israel’s recent limited retaliatory strike against Iran‘s antiaircraft missile batteries at Isfahan are still sketchy. But nonetheless, we can draw some conclusions.
Israel’s small volley
of missiles hit their intended targets, to the point of zeroing in on
the very launchers designed to stop such incoming ordnance. The target
was near the Natanz enrichment facility. That proximity was by design.
Israel showed Iran it could take out the very antimissile battery designed to thwart an attack on its nearby nuclear facility.
The
larger message sent to the world was that Israel could send a
retaliatory barrage at Iranian nuclear sites with reasonable assurances
that the incoming attacks could not be stopped.
By comparison, Iran’s earlier attack on Israel was much greater and
more indiscriminate. It was also a huge flop, with an estimated 99% of
the more than 320 drones, cruise missiles, and ballistic missiles
failing to hit their planned targets.
Moreover, it was reported
that more than 50% of Iran’s roughly 115 to 120 ballistic missiles
failed at launch or malfunctioned in flight.
Collate these facts,
and it presents a disturbing corrective to Iran’s nonstop boasts of
soon possessing a nuclear arsenal that will obliterate the Jewish state.
Consider further the following nightmarish scenarios: Were Iranian
nuclear-tipped missiles ever launched at Israel, they could pass over,
in addition to Syria and Iraq,
either Saudi Arabia, Jordan, the West Bank, Gaza, or all four. In the
cases of Jordan and Saudi Arabia, such trajectories would constitute an
act of war, especially considering that some of Iran’s recent aerial
barrages were intercepted and destroyed over Arab territory well before
they reached Israel.
Iran’s strike prompted Arab nations, the U.S., the U.K., and
France to work in concert to destroy almost all of Iran’s drones. For
Iran, that is a premonition of the sort of sophisticated aerial
opposition it might face if it ever decided to stage a nuclear version.
Even
if half of Iran’s ballistic missiles did launch successfully, only a
handful apparently neared their intended targets—in sharp contrast to
Israel’s successful attack on Iranian missile batteries. Is it thus
conceivable that any Iranian nuclear-tipped missile launched toward
Israel might pose as great a threat to Iran itself or its neighbors as
to Israel?
And even if such missiles made it into the air and
even if they successfully traversed Arab airspace, there is still an
overwhelming chance they would be neutralized before detonating above
Israel.
Any such launch would warrant an immediate Israeli
response. And the incoming bombs and missiles would likely have a 100%
certainty of evading Iran’s countermeasures and hitting their targets.
Now
that the soil of both Iran and Israel is no longer sacred and immune
from attack, the mystique of the Iranian nuclear threat has dissipated.
It
should be harder for the theocracy in Tehran to shake down Western
governments for hostage bribes, sanctions relief, and Iran-deal
giveaways on the implied threat of Iran’s successfully nuking the Jewish
state.
The new reality is that Iran has goaded an Israel that
has numerous nuclear weapons and dozens of nuclear-tipped missiles in
hardened silos and on submarines. Tehran has zero ability to stop any of
these missiles or sophisticated fifth-generation Israeli aircraft armed
with nuclear bombs and missiles.
Iran must now fear that if it
launched two or three nuclear missiles, there would be overwhelming odds
that they would either fail at launch, go awry in the air, implode
inside Iran, be taken down over Arab territory by Israel’s allies, or be
knocked down by Israel’s tripartite antimissile defense system.
Add
it all up and Iran’s attack on Israel seems a historic blunder. It
showed the world the impotence of an Iranian aerial assault at the very
time Iran threatens to go nuclear. It revealed that an incompetent Iran
may be as much a threat to itself as to its enemies. It opened up a new
chapter in which Iran’s own soil, thanks to its attack on Israel, is no
longer off limits to any Western power.
Its failure to stop a
much smaller Israel response, coupled with the overwhelming success of
Israel and its allies in stopping a much larger Iranian attack, reminds
the Iranian autocracy that its shrill rhetoric is designed to mask its
impotence and to hide its own vulnerabilities from its enemies.
And the long-suffering Iranian people?
The
truth will come out that Iran’s own theocracy hit the Israeli homeland
with negligible results and earned a successful, though merely
demonstrative, Israeli response in return.
So Iranians will learn their homeland is now vulnerable and, for the future, no longer off-limits.
And
Iranians will conclude that Israel has more effective allies than Iran
and that their own ballistic missiles may be more suicidal than
homicidal.
As a result, they may conclude that the real enemies
of the Iranian nation are not the Jewish people of Israel after all, but
their own unhinged Islamist theocrats.
Can the Current Universities Be Saved? Should They Be?
Elite higher education in America—long unquestioned as globally preeminent—is facing a perfect storm.
Fewer applicants, higher costs, impoverished students, collapsing standards, and increasingly politicized and mediocre faculty reflect a collapse of the university system.
The country is waking up to the reality that a bachelor’s degree no longer equates with graduates being broadly educated and analytical. Just as often, they are stereotyped as pampered, largely ignorant, and gratuitously opinionated.
No wonder polls show a drastic loss of public respect for higher education and, specifically, a growing lack of confidence in the professoriate.
Each year, there are far fewer students entering college. Despite a U.S. population 40 million larger than 20 years ago, fertility rates have fallen in two decades by some 500,000 births per year.
Meanwhile, from 1980 to 2020, room, board, and tuition increased by 170%.
Skyrocketing costs cannot be explained by inflation alone, given that campuses have lightened faculty teaching loads while expanding administrative staff. At Stanford, there is nearly one staffer or administrative position for every student on campus.
At the same time, to vie for a shrinking number of students, colleges began offering costly in loco parentis counseling, Club Med-style dorms and accommodations, and extracurricular activities.
As applicants grew scarcer and expenses went up, universities began offering “full service” student-aid packages, heavily reliant on government-subsidized student loans. The collective indebtedness of more than 40 million student borrowers is nearing $2 trillion.
Worse still, an entire new array of therapeutic majors and minors appeared in the social sciences. Most of these gender/race/environmental courses did not emphasize analytical, mathematical, or oral and written skills. Such coursework did not impress employers.
Faculty hiring had become increasingly non-meritocratic based on diversity-equity-inclusion criteria. New faculty hires have sought to institutionalize self-serving DEI and recalibrate higher education to prepare a new generation for self-perpetuating radical ideologies.
At the more elite campuses, racial quotas vastly curtailed the number of Asian and white students. But that racialist social engineering project required dropping the SAT requirement and comparative ranking of high school grade-point averages.
As less well-prepared students entered college, faculty either inflated grades (80% are A/A- now at Yale), watered down their course requirements, or added new softball classes. To do otherwise while attempting to retain old standards earned targeted faculty charges of racism and worse.
Another way to square the circle of rising costs and fewer and poorer students was to attract foreign students. They pay the full costs of college, especially those on generous stipends from the Middle East and China. Nearly a million foreign nationals, the majority from illiberal regimes, are now here on full scholarships.
While here, many see their newfound freedoms as invitations to attack America. Once here, they too often romanticize the very autocratic governments and illiberal values of their homelands that they seemingly sought to escape by coming to America.
Most foreign students assume they are exempt from the consequences of violating campus rules or laws in general. After all, they pay the full cost of their education and thus partially subsidize those who do not.
Almost half of all those enrolled in college never graduate. Those who do, on average, require six years to do so.
All these realities explain why teenagers increasingly opt for trade schools, vocational education, and community colleges. They prefer to enter the workforce largely debt-free and in demand as skilled, sought-after tradespeople.
Most feel that if the old general education curriculum has been destroyed at weaponized universities, then there is no great loss in skipping the traditional bachelor’s degree. A far better selection of demanding and well-taught classes can be found online at a lower cost.
The result is a disaster for both higher education and a wake-up call for the country at large.
Entire generations are now suffering from prolonged adolescence as they drag out college to consume their early and mid-20s. The unfortunate result for the country is a radical delay in marriage, childbearing, and homeownership—all the time-honored catalysts for adulthood and the responsibilities that come with it.
Politicized faculty, infantilized students, and mediocre classes have combined to erode the prestige of college degrees, even at once elite colleges. A degree from Columbia no longer guarantees either maturity or preeminent knowledge, but is just as likely a warning to employers of a noisy, poorly educated graduate more eager to complain to Human Resources than to enhance a company’s productivity.
Yet it may not be all that unfortunate that much of higher education is going the way of malls, movie theaters, and CDs. The country needs far more skilled physical labor and less prolonged adolescence and debt.
STEM courses, professional schools, and traditional campuses are better insulated from mediocrity and should survive. Otherwise, millions more starting adulthood at 18 debt-free and fewer encumbered, ignorant, and entitled at 25 is not a bad thing for the country.
10 Most Common Pro-Hamas Lies About Israel
Scan news accounts of anti-Israel campus and street protesters. Read their demands and manifestos. Collate the confusion from the Biden administration after Hamas’ Oct. 7 terrorism in Israel.
Here are 10 of their most common untruths about Oct. 7 and the Israel-Hamas war that followed.
‘Progressive Hamas’
Gay and transgender student protesters in America would be in mortal
danger in Gaza under a fascistic Hamas, a terrorist organization that
has banned homosexual acts and lifestyles. Anyone protesting publicly
against Hamas or its allies would be arrested and severely punished.
Women
are segregated in most Hamas-run educational institutions. Under the
Hamas charter, women are valued mostly as child-bearers. By design,
there are almost no women in high positions in business or in government
under Hamas.
‘Colonists and Settlers’
Students scream that Israelis are “settlers” and “colonists” and sometimes yell at Jewish students to “go back to Poland.”
But
the Jewish presence in present-day Israel is deeply rooted in ancient
tradition. Dating back at least three millennia, the concept of “Israel”
as a distinct Jewish state, situated roughly in its current location,
is ingrained in history.
By contrast, the much later Arab
invasions of the Byzantine-controlled Levant and their arrival in
Palestine occurred about 1,800 years after the establishment of a Jewish
Israel.
‘Two-State Solution’
When student protesters scream “From the river to the sea,” that is not advocacy for a two-state solution.
It
is a call to eliminate the state of Israel—lying between the Jordan
River and the Mediterranean Sea—and its 10 million Jewish and Arab
citizens. The Hamas charter is a one-state/no-Israel agenda, which we
saw attempted on Oct. 7.
‘Occupied Gaza’
The Gaza Strip, adjacent Israel, was autonomous. The Israeli border
is closed, but so is the Egyptian border. There have not been any Jews
in Gaza for nearly two decades.
So on Oct. 7, Gaza was not
occupied by Israel. It was under the control of Hamas, designated by the
U.S. government as a terrorist organization.
After being elected
to power in 2006, Hamas canceled all subsequent elections and ruled as a
dictatorship. Gaza forbids Jews from entering Gaza and has driven out
most Christians.
Israel hosts 2 million Arabs, both as Israeli citizens and residents.
‘Netanyahu Is the Problem’
The U.S. and Europe claim that the conservative government of Israeli
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is alone behind Israel’s tough
response in Gaza to the Oct. 7 attacks. Thus, both the EU and the U.S.
are doing their best to undermine or even overthrow the elected
Netanyahu administration.
Yet, most Israelis support Netanyahu’s coalition government’s agenda of destroying Hamas in Gaza.
There is no evidence that any other alternative Israeli government would do anything differently from the present policies toward Hamas.
‘Targeting Civilians’
After murdering nearly 1,200 Israelis on Oct. 7, Hamas scurried back
to Gaza and hid in tunnels and bases beneath hospitals, schools, and
mosques.
Its preplanned strategy was to survive by ensuring Gaza
civilians would be killed. Hamas has indiscriminately launched more than
7,000 rockets at Israel, all designed to kill Jewish civilians.
Outside
assessors have concluded that Israel has not inadvertently killed a
greater ratio of civilians to terrorists compared to most other urban
fighting conflicts elsewhere, and perhaps even fewer than American
engagements in Mosul and Fallujah.
‘Protesters Are Pro-Palestine’
Increasingly, protesters make no distinction between supporting “Palestine” and Hamas.
Their chants often echo the original Hamas eliminationist charter and recent genocidal ravings of its leadership.
Some protesters wear Hamas logos and wave the terrorist organization’s flag. Many cheered the Hamas massacre of Oct. 7.
‘Anti-Israel Is Not Antisemitic’
When protesters scream to Jewish students to “go back to Poland” or
call for the “Final Solution,” or assault them or bar them from campus
facilities, they do not ask the Jewish students whether they are
pro-Israel.
For protesters, anyone identifiable as Jewish becomes a target of their antisemitic invective and violence.
‘Genocide’
Israel has not tried to wipe out the Palestinian people in the fashion of Hamas’ one-state solution plan for Jews.
Before
Oct. 7, some 20,000 Gazans a day requested to work in Israel—on the
correct expectation of much higher wages and humane treatment.
If
Hamas had come out of its tunnels, separated from its impressed
civilian shields, released its surviving Israeli hostages, and either
openly fought the Israel Defense Forces or surrendered the organizers of
the Oct. 7 massacre, no Gaza civilians would have died.
According
to Hamas’ questionable “genocide” figures, roughly 4% of the Gazan
population died during the Israeli military response to Oct. 7. At least
a third to almost half of those deaths, according to various
international observers, were Hamas terrorists.
‘Disproportionate Response’
Iran tried to send 320 missiles and rockets into Israel. Israel replied with three.
Hamas
launched 7,000 rockets into Israel and slaughtered 1,200 Israelis
before the Israel Defense Forces responded in Gaza, often dropping
leaflets and sending texts to forewarn citizens.
Israel has been
disproportionate only in the effectiveness of its response. Hamas and
its Iranian benefactor intended disproportionately to hurt Israel, but
utterly failed.
So Israel proved to be competent and Hamas incompetent in their similar efforts to use disproportionate force.
wanted to renounce American citizenship and move to British commonwealth (Australia).
Before, I said I wanted to move to a British commonwealth country like New Zealand or Australia or Canada. I am closer to pick Australia, because of Canadian weather. I watched Brisbane, Sydney and Melbourne nightclubs and night life videos on youtube. Then I started watching the Australian Broadcast Channel news on youtube back in Wisconsin and continued in Minnesota. Australian cities don’t look like the public domain disasters like Los Angeles, San Francisco, San Diego, and Vancouver ( British Columbia), New York City, Chicago, with the druggies and fentanyl, garbage, poop in the streets. Druggies half dressed and bent over walking.
These thoughts started when I played Diablo 2 Lord of Destruction on battlenet in 2001. I noticed my cousin David Hartmon would come over less often. Then in 2004, I was playing Neverwinter Nights and Guild Wars online multiplayer. Those are massive multiplayer role playing games. I had it right in 2001-2004 over 56k. David Hartmon joined the US navy in 2003 and never left. He fixes helicopter engines. I had nobody for pillow forts, no Nickelodeon or Cartoon Network partner. He was also a NES, Genesis, SNES, Nintendo 64, Saturn, Dreamcast, PS2, and Gamecube multiplayer partner. In 2010, I had like Uli Winzer, but he only came over 10 times and we eventually went to Como zoo and Mall of America in the 2010s. In the 2020s neither family members visit. In 2024, I met Mason, but he never visits. Mason is 23. I met Mason at Walgreens. He likes Switch and Xbox One. He played all the first person shooters and horror games. I played Goldeneye and Perfect Dark on N64 and Unreal Tournament, Unreal, Quake 2, Duke Nukem 3D, Doom and Quake 3 on pc with David Hartmon. Latter, it was Unreal Tournament 2004 and Unreal Tournament 3, and Diablo 2 with David Hartmon. Yes, even the Pierce county fair visits with David Hartmon and Uli Winzer.
I would always want a girlfriend in Australia. The women in the current soft guy era in Minnesota and Wisconsin never paid attention to me. In the previous era, I was in the River Falls, Wisconsin bars from the the 2000s and 2010s and nobody invited me to tables or was a true partner. I was in bars with Randy Peterson (boy scout troop 161) in the 2000s and 2010s. Minnesotans are really mean. Minnesota nice doesn’t exist. I bet Australians or Canadian are really nice group to know for relationships. Those countries don’t have American public debt. ~ 40 trillion and the social chaos on the brink of American Civil War 2. It’s gross!
I went to Rasmussen University for a 4 year college degree over 8 years, but no student became my friend. This tutor called Brian Sager at the learning center who also was school staff who sometimes talked to me, but was my closest college friend. I thought I had friends in college, but they all disappeared and apparently not good honest people except Brian Sager is still my facebook friend . Brian likes horror movies and wrestling. Brian Sager said he’d meet me if I trade him Earthbound for super nintendo for money. I brought a generic copy of Earthbound to his meeting place/swap meet, but never could find him there. That’s bad and made me mad!
The Corruption of Rep. Adam Schiff is Reaching a Tipping Point
It is no secret that far left Democratic Rep. Adam Schiff uses sleazy tactics to go after his political opponents. While most members of Congress usually skate on ethics charges, or receive light penalties, once in a great while their behavior is so overtly criminal that they end up prosecuted. Although Democrats are far more likely to use lawfare against Republicans than vice versa, when the behavior is so criminal, even Democrats — such as New Jersey Sen. Bob Menendez who is being prosecuted for bribery — can’t escape justice.
Schiff is getting dangerously close to this stage. When he became chair of the House Intelligence Committee in 2019, he made it a personal mission to investigate Donald Trump’s supposed connections to Russia, completely separate from and in addition to Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation.
When Mueller concluded there was no collusion between Trump and Russia, Schiff dismissively blew off the exoneration, hinting that he would continue his own investigation. “[T]here may be, for example, evidence of collusion or conspiracy that is clear and convincing, but not proof beyond a reasonable doubt,” he said during an interview in February 2019.
The nine Republican members of the House Intelligence Committee called for Schiff to resign in March 2019 due to his false claims of collusion. The Center for Renewing America sent a letter to the Office of Congressional Ethics in June 2023, outlining Schiff’s improper actions, including his attempts to get X to censure unfavorable posts and claiming the Hunter Biden collusion in Ukraine was a product of Russian disinformation. The letter asked for discipline up to expulsion.
That same month, the House of Representatives censured Schiff over the Russia collusion hoax. They listed specific instances of wrongdoing. First, they cited his memo that falsely claimed that the warrant application for the FISA wiretap of Trump associate Carter Page was accurate. The application was “later found by Inspector General Horowitz to have 17 major mistakes and omissions, provoking FISA Court Presiding Judge Rosemary Collyer to state unequivocally that the Federal Bureau of Investigation ‘misled the FISC,’” the censure said.
Next, the censure accused Schiff of “publicly, falsely denying that his staff communicated with a whistleblower to launch the first impeachment of President Trump.” Finally, the censure stated that “Schiff misled the public by reading a false retelling of a phone call between President Trump and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky.”
Now it’s come out that Schiff paid the daughter of the judge handling New York DA Alvin Bragg’s prosecution of Trump $4 million to push the Russia collusion hoax. Loren Merchan’s hatred of Trump is so extreme that she used a photo of Trump behind bars as her profile picture on X. She runs a digital marketing agency that works with Democrats and progressive groups.
Yet New York Judge Juan Merchan’s gag order against Trump prohibits him talking about his daughter. Merchan has not slapped a gag order on the prosecution or their witnesses, so Trump’s turncoat former attorney Michael Cohen has been blabbing endlessly about him, posting rants about the trial on TikTok every evening.
I would predict that any guilty verdict will be overturned based on this obvious bias by the judge, but after former Trump associate Hope Hicks surprised the politically motivated prosecutors by exonerating Trump last week, there is unlikely to be a conviction. Hicks said the money allegedly paid to porn star and liar Stormy Daniels was to protect Trump’s wife Melania, not to protect the campaign. The crux of the case against Trump is that it was an illegal campaign contribution.
An ethics complaint was filed against Schiff recently, alleging election fraud and mortgage fraud. Schiff is running for the U.S. Senate in California, but has been living in Maryland while voting in California. Former Oklahoma Rep. Steve Watkins was prosecuted for allegedly voting in the wrong Topeka City Council race after listing a UPS Store as his voting address.
While running for the U.S. Senate, Schiff has brazenly engaged in sleazy tactics. He spent $10 million promoting his Republican opponent during the primary. Since California uses “top 2” voting, which means the top two vote getters in the primary move on to the general, he wanted to ensure that Republican Steve Garvey ended up with the second most votes instead of his two Democratic challengers. On the campaign trail, Schiff brags about his political persecution of Trump as a campaign platform.
Schiff isn’t a principled leftist. In the late 1990s, he sponsored bills in the California Legislature which would have made it a felony to hire an illegal immigrant, and to allow minors 14 or older accused of serious crimes to be tried as adults.
If the roles were reversed, and Schiff had engaged in this corruption as a Republican, aggressive progressive DAs put in their positions by left-wing billionaire George Soros would have begun multiple prosecutions. His law license is safe, however, since it has been inactive since 2001.
Hinting at guilt, Schiff admitted he feared that a Trump administration might prosecute him. Trump has said that Schiff and other members of the January 6th committee, whom he labeled as corrupt, should face prosecution and imprisonment.
Schiff wants the prosecutions against Trump to occur quickly, obviously in order to influence the voters. He complained about Trump’s immunity claim, “The claim is borderline frivolous … they’re drawing it out just enough to make it almost infeasible to try [the cases] before the election,” he said. “It’s still possible to get it done. And I think voters deserve to have that information.”
Will anything be done to Schiff other than the House censure, which is meaningless in practical terms? Maybe eventually. He shows no sign of slowing down the corruption. He’s gotten so brazen about it, since no one has intervened to stop him, that he may finally engage in criminal activity so outrageous that even compromised judges draw the line.
Will anything be done to Schiff other than the House censure, which is meaningless in practical terms? Maybe eventually. He shows no sign of slowing down the corruption. He’s gotten so brazen about it, since no one has intervened to stop him, that he may finally engage in criminal activity so outrageous that even compromised judges draw the line.
Thank God for Straight White Men
That headline is highly unfashionable and will not get me any job offers to be president of any university, but it’s true – straight, white men kick ass. It doesn’t hurt that I’m one of them, and it is incomplete to think ONLY people like me kick ass, we awesome people come in every flavor. But no group of people has been more demonized by the left than the people who, if we’re being honest, have done more for our species than any other.
It’s probably a hate crime at any of those “martyrs camps” on campuses to point that out, just as it’s probably a hate crime to point out just how much of the good things in life people enjoy – technology, medicine, clothes, various delicious foods – were the fruits of evil whitey’s colonization and work. True story, look it up.
That’s the reason no one on the left, while screaming bloody murder about some Kardashian sister braiding their hair being “CULTURAL APPROPRIATOR,” never bothers to hate the “colonizers” who invented antibiotics or the awful privileged monsters who created the cell phones they’re using to inform the world of just how oppressed they are as they wait in line at Starbucks to pay $10 for a cup of flavored warm water.
If you play stupid games, you win stupid prizes.
Instead, these entitled mutants run around college campuses while personifying the best argument possible for abortion as soon as ultrasound technology can be coupled with the ability to see what their baby will turn out to be. I know, that’s a horrible joke, but that’s only if you think it’s a joke.
Those people are terrible. Anyone removing an American flag to fly that of a terrorist state isn’t worthy of American citizenship. If they were born that way there isn’t much that can be done, but if they weren’t or aren’t, measures should be taken to make it clear they are invited to leave.
Our fences and walls are not meant to keep people in, they are meant to keep people out, despite the way our mentally underdeveloped President sees it. Go the f*ck out, you will not be missed.
At this point, I can’t imagine how any of their parents would miss them.
Thank God for straight white men. As these idiots parade around the country, claiming to be victims, it was a bunch of fraternity brothers who rallied to protect the flag. First time was a UNC, then it spread like wildfire. Now groups of normal people, men and women of all different configurations, are stepping up to tell these post-digested food exit ports what they can do with their demands and terrorist sympathies.
For many, it’s probably the first time they’ve ever heard anyone tell them “No,” or where it is they can go, blow it out, or do before dying. They’ll call it “bullying” because they’re weak, spoiled little brats, but the average 7-year-old would learn from it that what they’re doing isn’t good and would investigate as to why.
These demand-heavy boobs, unburdened by intelligence or self-awareness, have likely spent their lives to this point getting what they want (aside from being smart, attractive, fun to be around, not smell like feel or not look like a justification for a burqa and a ball gag). But the pendulum has swung as far to the left as it’s going to, now is the time for snap-back.
It’s not going to be fun for them, but it will be good, provided they are capable of learning the lessons from it. If they can’t, screw them. In fact, if they can’t, that’s about as close to getting screwed as they’re likely to get, which is probably why so many of them are such miserable douches in the first place. The rest just come by their miserable douchiness naturally.
Whatever the case, and should any of them ever pull their lives together and become productive, happy members of society, they will have a whole host of people to thank for it. All those people, and the many more to come, who have and will stand up to them, tell them no, tell them off, and hold up a big, metaphorical mirror to them so one day they might realize what little disgraces to the human species they are. Imagine a few years down the road, once their brains start fully working and they get some actual experience in life – the point after you realize you do not, in fact, know everything – when they realize what they wasted a good chunk of their youth on; what they were actually fighting for and against.
What a horrible moment it will be to realize that you were the Nazi, that you called for the extermination of the Jews simply because some terrorists propagandized you into embracing your stupid; for some likes on social media. How do you live with yourself?
If that ever happens to any of them, they will likely embrace the furniture, the style of government, all the creature comforts afforded them as humans by those evil, colonizing white men they so desperately hated when they were younger. Back when, in the name of enlightenment, they embraced the philosophies and tactics of likes of Hitler, Lenin and Stalin. All white colonizers…
Wait, you mean they’re…yep. These people are that stupid.
So, keep defending the flag, straight white men, it has not gone unnoticed or unappreciated. At a certain point, when Democratic Party politicians refuse to do their jobs to restore order, normal people will step up and do it for them, then toss their asses out of office. You guys defending the flag are the tip of that spear. And wouldn’t you know it, the spear is another thing invented by evil whitey.
None of this matters, of course, I point it out to illustrate the absurdity of the left. I do, however, hope to at least see videos of these people when they do realize what they were when they were young, and how they wasted much of their lives. Not just to say “I told you so,” but to…ok, it’s just to say that. Screw them all.
The (Communist) Nerds Are the Bad Guys in This Movie
For those of us who came of age in the greatest of decades, the 80s, it’s a bitter pill to swallow to realize that we have been sold the lie by movies like “Revenge of the Nerds” that frat boys are the eternal bad guys. On college campuses today, the nerds are the bad guys, a communist collection of weirdos, losers, and mutations of heft who cry about Palestine, whine that the cops are mean to them for breaking the law and scream that they are being literally murdered by people who won’t honor their myriad food allergies. The 80s nerds were courageous rebels. Today’s nerds are pathetic conformists – they all look the same, they all sound the same, and they all smell the same. They’re not amusing nerds like Pointdexter and Booger. They don’t rock out like the ROTN nerds. These are garbage nerds, spoiled commies with stupid masks, stupid piercings, and stupid hair.
Today, the heroes fighting back on campuses are labeled frat boys, whether they’re in fraternities or not, but what they really are is a bunch of normal dudes. It’s obvious at first glance. They are mostly (but not all) straight white males, in shape, well-dressed, and free of stupid masks, stupid piercings, and stupid hair. They guzzle Coors Light instead of gulping SSRIs. They protect the Old Glory and proudly wave it. And they mock the pinko losers.
They don’t give a damn about the gentle feelz of the commie nerds. They’re rough and insensitive, cruel and hilarious. When a gigantic commie waddled up and waved her chubby finger at them, they chanted “Lizzo” and worse. It was hilarious and cathartic. It was liberating. Sure, some of it was obnoxious. Some of it was in bad taste. Some of it got called racist, but here’s the thing – these white boys are going to get called racist no matter what. They have been all their lives, so I doubt they care about one more epithet.
America’s normal young men are fed up. They’re done. They grew up in educational institutions dominated by communist females who despised them. They were always hated because of the race of the majority of them – this pushback by normal guys is multiethnic – and they were always hated because of their gender and unapologetic devotion to cisgenderism. They are told they are the problem and their oppression the solution. Their mere existence is claimed to be proof of a devotion to “white supremacy.” Their heritage is proof of their moral bankruptcy, an original sin that they can never scrub away. They are the oppressors, even though there’s no one more oppressed on a college campus than a frat boy, targeted by an administration that hates him, subjected to a double-track justice system that nukes him if he’s caught sneaking a Dos Equis, but that kisses the collective booty – the enormous booty – of the communist terror fans who take over chunks of the campuses. The normal guys are the designated villains, by the left and Hollywood too, and the rest of us are supposed to hate them.
But they’re not hated now. They’re loved. They’re loved by normal people everywhere because they’re the ones fighting back. They refuse to cede the moral high ground to these pretentious jerks. They have nothing but contempt for the leftist ruling class, and they have nothing to lose. For their entire lives, they’ve been told that they are the heavies in our cultural script, and they are sick of it. They’re done. Finished. This is only the start of the pushback.
The pushback is going to be impolite. It’s going to be mean. It’s going to lack decorum. But hey, aren’t those are the new rules, you Hamas-kissing psychopaths? As I’ve said many times before, be careful about the new rules you enact. The communists wanted to put a new rule into effect that says you can be openly hated because of your race and despised because of your immutable characteristics. They wanted a new rule that allowed the brutal exercise of power against their opponents. Well, welcome to the new rules. I hope they hurt going in hard.
The statistics tell the story – young men are sick of this crap and are turning right. Some of them have checked out of society, retreating into a haze of pot smoke and the glare of video games as an escape from an adulthood where they see the deck stacked against them. If this is privilege, you can have it. The only privilege they have is to pay taxes, die in stupid wars, and take crap from fugly commie mediocrities. But others are fighting back. And it’s glorious.
It’s toxic masculinity unbound, and the more toxic the better. Women dominate the current Kampus for Krusade Kommunism, as leftist activism is in large part a reaction by unattractive women to the fact normal men don’t want them. Their pinko male comrades are pretty much indistinguishable from the female-identifying ones. These campus trolls embody the radical version of the feminist vibe one experiences in most of the institutions in American society. Our educational institutions are feminized from kindergarten to grad school. Boys are wild and rambunctious and have a lot of energy, yet we see teachers suppressing them, shaming them, demanding they sit still, and eliminating recess and PE – things boys need and thrive in. They are bombarded with weird gender creepiness by the lefty wine women teaching them. There are few masculine role models left in the schools. The kind of ex-Marine shop teacher and the PE instructor who stormed ashore at Guadalcanal that we boomer/Gen Xers grew up with are gone. The male instructors today are anything but traditional – again, you’ve got the stupid masks, stupid piercings, and stupid hair problem. You can’t teach boys to be men if you aren’t a man yourself. And that’s just the ones who aren’t outright perverts
No, these boys grew up in a milieu that women created and dominate, and this is an overdue male rebellion. They’re saying “No,” and they’re saying it loudly and laced with profanity. In campus videos of the confrontations, you can see the communists don’t know how to react to these young men. They’ve never had anyone get in their faces before. They’ve never had anyone tell them that they’re useless, that they’re trash, that they’re worthless – all of which is true. But the frat boys have had that happen to them all their lives – and it was a lie.
They’re not the bad guys. The paradigm of the 80s movies has changed. Those nerds were just cool people trying to get along. Today’s nerds are trying to help the people who want to kill all the Jews in Israel. That’s not cute, and that’s not funny. Thank goodness the frat boys know their enemies and thank goodness their masculinity hasn’t been so suppressed that they have forgotten their instinctive desire to destroy their foes. That is what men do. The communist trash people better hope that this remains on the level of shouting insults across the lines of cops. The stinky campus commies of 2024 won’t stand a chance when today’s Ogres sound their war cry, “Nerds!”
