Category: Uncategorized

US officials have ordered the evacuation of American government personnel working at the embassy in Khartoum, Sudan as the nation sinks further into anarchy as military factions vie for control of the nation, CBS News reports.

No plans have been made to evacuate civilians not employed by the government, although the State Department advised all Americans to leave Sudan by their own means.  Some records show that up to 16,000 American citizens are in Sudan, but the State Department says the number is closer to 500.

“I’ve met Vladimir Putin, told him things he didn’t want to hear.  I judged the man.  Let me tell all of my friends here in Iowa:  anyone that thinks that Vladimir Putin will stop at Ukraine, if he overtakes that country, has what we say in Indiana, another ‘think’ comin’.”

There was a lot more in this week’s Wall Street Journal survey than the finding than what we picked up that the GOP primary swung 27 points in the fat former President’s favor against heels-wearing Florida Governor Ron DeSantis since the last time they asked the question in December.

Of course Trump has no problem accepting that finding from the same survey (though to be fair it’s not like he’s cherry picking because that’s among Republican respondents in the sample). What Trump is crying about here is Biden’s 48 to 45 percent 2024 general election lead over him the survey found, and probably that it also found DeSantis leading Biden in a hypothetical matchup by the same numbers, 48 to 45 percent. An even more troubling finding that the fat idiot probably didn’t notice is Biden’s massive lead among the “both of them suck” respondents by a staggering 54 to 15 percent. Remember this was a huge, quite possibly even the determinative difference between Hillary 2016 and Biden 2020: That Trump crushed Hillary with voters who disapproved of both of them, while that edge was erased against Biden in pre-2020 election polling.

Though the best part about Trump’s reaction is that he’s calling it a “globalist-inspired Wall Street Journal” poll, which is true insomuch as the Journal commissioned the survey. It was actually conducted however by Fabrizio Lee, the Trump 2016 and 2020 campaign pollster who we would guess is going to work with him again in 2024 too. Unless Trump fires them.

Alabama Governor Kay Ivey on Friday fired the state’s director of early childhood education over her refusal to ban a teacher training manual that had “woke concepts” in it, Politico reports.

Barbara Cooper the now-former chief of the Alabama Department of Early Childhood Education wasn’t as concerned over the 881 page-long National Association for the Education of Young Children (NAEYC) Developmentally Appropriate Practice Book, 4th edition’s minor nods to racial and gender inclusiveness and had to go. “The education of Alabama’s children is my top priority as governor, and there is absolutely no room to distract or take away from this mission. Let me be crystal clear: Woke concepts that have zero to do with a proper education and that are divisive at the core have no place in Alabama classrooms at any age level, let alone with our youngest learners,” said Ivey in a statement, again owning the libs for teaching children to be kind.

At the current national average price of $3.67 per gallon as of April 22, 2023, you could buy 11.98 gallons for the $36 plus $8 in shipping, handling, and unspecified “fees” being charged for the “Joe Biden Owes Me Gas Money Cotton T-Shirt” being sold on the official Trump 2024 campaign merchandise store. That’s more than half the 21.4 gallon fuel tank capacity of a standard 2023 GMC Canyon pickup truck, a model perfect for flying a $43 Trump 2024 flag from the back of the bed while driving back and forth outside of Mar-a-Lago (pole and mount not included).

• It’s a sad day in America when a Supreme Court order that doesn’t immediately strip rights away from women is a pleasant surprise.  
• In the second largest defamation case in US history–after Alex Jones’s recent loss–Fox will pay Dominion $787 million to do two things:  First, prevent its top personalities from testifying live and second, not having to admit on its airwaves that it lied.  
• Soon, Mike Lindell’s $5 million loss is going to seem so quaint for him.
• Fox failures are hitting new lows weekly.  First, the dud of Tucker’s January 6th tapes, then the text messages showing they knowingly lied to their audience, and then a former producer releasing damning tapes of interviews with Trump associates.  And this on top of the tens of millions they have to pay out for sexual harassment settlements.  There is an inherent problem at that network that goes beyond its ideology.
  Read More ▶ “Random thoughts Friday, Volume CXVIII”

Democrats on the House Judiciary Committee on Friday exposed another bullshit lie by spandex-wearing grapple freak Chairman Jim Jordan, calling out a blatant misrepresentation of an interview transcript which Jordan claimed now-Secretary of State Antony Blinken had interfered in the 2020 election by getting a former CIA deputy director to write a letter describing the first news of the Hunter Biden laptop as possible Russian disinformation in October 2020.

From a press release by the House Judiciary Dems: “In an effort to smear Secretary Blinken and sensationalize a three-year-old tabloid story, Jim Jordan has released cherry-picked excerpts of a transcribed interview. To be clear, no part of that interview demonstrates that Tony Blinken or any other Biden campaign official asked Mike Morell to write a letter about Hunter Biden’s laptop. Mr Morell is a former CIA Deputy Director and a highly decorated veteran of the intelligence community. For years, he has advised leaders of both parties – including Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, who awarded Mr Morell a Director’s Award for distinguished service. At no point during his interview did Mr Morell testify that Secretary Blinken directed or asked him to write any letters.”

“Instead, Mr Morell testified that Mr Blinken sought his advice, as many others have. In response to questions posed by Chairman Jordan’s own lawyers, he testified that Mr Blinken did not ‘direct, suggest, or insinuate in any way’ that he should write a letter about Hunter Biden’s laptop. Nor did Mr Blinken – then a private citizen – try to get at the letter indirectly. Mr Morell testified that Mr Blinken did not hint that the Biden campaign ‘could use some help on this’ or suggest that Mr Morell should ‘cook up something’ that the campaign should use. Instead of focusing on issues that actually affect American families, Chairman Jordan is engaged in yet another political stunt.”

MyPillow assclown Mike Lindell wasn’t happy over losing at arbitration against the expert who debunked his stolen election bullshit at the “Cyber Symposium” back in 2021 and had to sue to collect the $5 million prize (the guy’s a Trump voter too), telling Steve Bannon the decision was rigged because the arbitrators were liberal Democrats. Normal stuff for Lindell and Bannon.

The US Supreme Court on Friday stayed two lower court rulings reversing FDA approval of the abortion drug mifepristone, preserving access while the litigation continues, the AP reports.

Claiming “we were on the verge of breakthroughs in the states and state legislatures,” Trump advisor and guy who’s not just a reverse mortgage salesman; he’s also a client Peter Navarro the aptitude of Trump election lawyer Sidney Powell, whom Donald Trump reportedly considered naming as a Special Counsel to look into non-existent election theft.  Navarro claims Powell’s “shit” dissuaded a lot of people who were starting to believe conspiracy theories away from supporting Trump’s effort to undermine the Constitution.

To my fellow elected officials serving in Tallahassee, your constituents voted you into those positions to represent them, not to kowtow to the presidential ambitions of a Governor! Be strong and courageous, the people of Florida will thank you. https://t.co/WP7kcjHCbO

— Greg Steube (@gregsteube) April 21, 2023

An estimated 1,160 Americans died from the coronavirus in the past week, data indicate, marking the lowest number of fatalities from the virus since March 2020, the nascent days of the pandemic, ABC News reports.

During the week of March 18, 2020, just 169 confirmed deaths to the coronavirus were reported, with the following week marking the 1,000th fatality in the US, and deaths jumping to 500 per day by March 27th.  The US dropped below the 300-fatalities per day in mid-March 2023 and has remained around or below 200 daily coronavirus deaths for most of April.

Super secret Deep State psy ops agent Ray Epps will reveal everything about how he single handedly initiated the Capitol riot to discredit Trump fans in an interview airing on CBS’s 60 Minutes this Sunday and there are definitely some fanboys who will believe the shit we just wrote.

MASK OFF: Florida @GovRonDeSantis roasts Fauci-ism, saying it bares some responsible for today's economic problems. pic.twitter.com/JphzBITImg

— Fox News (@FoxNews) April 21, 2023

Prosecutors in Fulton County, Georgia have obtained text messages sent between “Cyber Ninjas” CEO Doug Logan, Republican operatives tied to MAGA lawyer Sidney “Kraken” Powell, and others discussing using voter data they stole from the election clerk’s server in rural Coffee County to sell the Peach State’s legislature on decertifying the 2020 election results, CNN reports.

The breach happened the day after the Capitol riot, and these fuckers were still talking about overturning the presidential and Senate runoff elections the day before Biden’s inauguration even though Trump had said he would stop fighting the loss. “Here’s the plan. Let’s keep this close hold… We only have until Saturday to decide if we are going to use this report to try to decertify the Senate run-off election or if we hold it for a bigger moment,” former NSA spy Jim Penrose wrote to Doug Logan on January 19, 2021. “We only have until Saturday to decide if we are going to use this report to try to decertify the Senate run-off election or if we hold it for a bigger moment,” Penrose added.

It’s bad enough for these shitheads to have implicated themselves in a breach of an election authority’s Dominion-branded computer system (though of course the traitor former clerk had let them in). What’s worse is that they just might have implicated Trump in it too, as CNN pieces it together with testimony from former Trump deputy White House counsel Derek Lyons to the House January 6th Committee about a December 2020 meeting with Rudy and the Kraken. According to Lyons, Rudy told Trump that if he wasn’t going to go through with the insane plan to seize voting machines (which he didn’t) then they could use evidence gathered from Dominion equipment in Georgia. “His point of view was that in some way the campaign, I believe, was going to be able to secure access to voting machines in Georgia through means other than seizure,” Lyons said.

During debate Thursday in the Texas state Senate over SB 990 – a bill banning the practice of all-county voting locations, meaning a voter can show up at any polling place within their county to cast a ballot on election day rather than their home precinct, which of course passed along party lines and went to the state House – the Texas Tribune reports that the bill’s author, state Senator Bob Hall, told Democrats the bill was necessary to prevent people from voting at more than one precinct before admitting there isn’t any evidence of that occurring on a widespread basis.

“The data is so carefully guarded and kept from the public it is almost impossible to get the information,” said Hall. Dem San Antonio state Senator Roland Gutierrez promptly lit into Hall, saying “You have no evidence to prove anything that you’re saying. There is not one article in any publication in the state of Texas that proves what you’re saying. There is not a law enforcement officer that can prove what you’re saying?” Hall responded with “Correct. I’m saying we don’t know, there’s nothing to be proven,” whatever the fuck that’s supposed to mean.

If the Biden campaign was so willing to ask former Intel officials to weaponize their former positions to spread a blatant lie for political purposes, imagine what the Biden admin is doing now.https://t.co/hf8nIs1ntR

— Ronna McDaniel (@RonnaMcDaniel) April 21, 2023

It’s been 1,481 days since fake news hustler John Solomon published an opinion piece titled “Joe Biden’s 2020 Ukrainian nightmare: A closed probe is revived” a piece that at the time The Hill labeled as “opinion” because he failed to meet their already not particularly high standards of journalistic ethics. Then after he was fired the next year, the Hill corrected the piece to add that Yuriy Lutsenko, the Ukrainian prosecutor Solomon was citing, had just a month later said he wasn’t investigating Hunter Biden. And that Lutsenko had been fired and indicted on corruption charges.

And this is what Jim Jordan and his buddies are barking at now: That Antony Blinken had gotten a bunch of intel experts to sign a letter saying that the Hunter Biden laptop story was probably Russian disinformation during the 2020 campaign, which… Well, so fucking what? How is that illegal?

The best part of this is that it’s coming the same week that NBC News is reporting that federal prosecutors have considered charging Hunter Biden with two misdemeanor tax crimes, one felony tax evasion count, and a federal weapons charge because he lied about having a drug problem while filling out a permit application. Then there’s the possibly less credible Wall Street Journal report that a whistleblower inside the IRS is alleging pressure to slow down their investigation into Hunter.

Scumbag Trump lawyer and backer of the failed $FJB crypto scam Boris Epshteyn will be questioned for the second day in a row by prosecutors on Justice Department special counsel Jack Smith’s team in their investigation of the post-2020 election coup attempt, ABC News reports.

Sources say Smith sat in on some of the questioning Thursday put did not personally participate as Epshteyn was grilled on his interactions with fellow fascist lawyers Rudy Giuliani, Kenneth Chesebro, and John Eastman, and the Orange God Emperor himself. Just going to throw this out there, but it would seem extremely bad for Trump and his minions that this guy’s getting questioned by prosecutors rather than testifying to the grand jury, which could indicate he’s a target.

BREAKING NOOSE: Former Vice President Mike Pence will stick his neck into the 2024 GOP presidential primary and announce his bid for the White House in June, the Dispatch reports.

From there he’ll put together a sturdy platform – one without a trap door and lever – to rope in support among Iowa delegates, as Pence hopes to hang high in the fast-paced, low-oxygen campaign environment. The former Veep will focus hard on abortion policy in his push to gain traction in the early primary states, but don’t count out a bold proposal to reinstitute hanging as an execution method in federal capital punishment cases. That could really swing things his way.