Jerusalem Post: “In a dramatic turn of events, with his back to the wall, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has offered to let Defense Minister Benny Gantz go first in a rotation as prime minister, Blue and White Party officials said Sunday/ Netanyahu initiated last month’s election to avoid implementing his coalition agreement with Gantz, which required him to hand Gantz the premiership in November. But Netanyahu’s bloc failed to obtain a majority in the new Knesset, leaving him searching for options that could enable him at least to rotate as prime minister.”

“Elon Musk has admitted that ‘a bunch of people will probably die’ in the race to get to Mars. The SpaceX pioneer made his blunt prediction as he laughed at how his planned Mars mission was being seen as ‘some escape hatch for rich people.’ ‘You might die, it’s going to be uncomfortable and probably won’t have good food,’ Musk told Peter Diamandis, the founder and chairman of the X Prize Foundation for scientific discovery. Advertisements for the journey should note how it will be an ‘arduous and dangerous journey where you may not come back alive,’ Musk said with a chuckle. ‘Honestly, a bunch of people will probably die in the beginning,’ he said, while insisting it will also be ‘a glorious adventure and it will be an amazing experience.’ It’s ‘not for everyone,’ he stressed – adding with another chuckle, ‘Volunteers only!'” – New York Post.

During an extended rant in the above clip (beginning at 0:55 and continuing well past the minute and a half mark) Larry Kudlow (while speaking oddly and having trouble pronouncing his words like he’s already half in the bag) warned lovers of fossil fuel and ethylene glycol based malt beverages that under the Biden Administration, they will only be able to drink “plant based beer”.  Americans will no doubt be outraged at the idea that under a Biden Administration, their tippling will be limited to ethyl alcohol, and petroleum based intoxicants will no longer be available at their local grocery or liquor store.

The Hamburglar.

“No burgers for thee, but just for me.” pic.twitter.com/vXb4gCGsgW

— Marjorie Taylor Greene 🇺🇸 (@mtgreenee) April 25, 2021

Daily Beast: “Pro-Trump attorney L. Lin Wood would like you to open your hymnals to the first book of COVID, Chapter Q(Anon), verse 2 (Conspiracy Prophets). Wood raised eyebrows recently at the Health and Freedom (as in ‘COVID denialism’) Conference in Oklahoma, when his appearance picked up some attention for its stream of unfiltered crazy as he raved about how the Clintons, the Obamas, the Bidens, and the Bushes are all supposedly involved in sex trafficking, while insisting that Donald Trump is still the president. But I was most struck by how the speech, held at Rhema Bible College, almost exactly mirrored a revivalist sermon.”

“‘Every lie will be revealed. They are killing our children; send them to jail. Put them in front of the firing squad. They are committing acts against humanity. The penalty for an act against humanity is death. Take them out,’ he said. In another section of the speech, Wood declared: ‘He [God] is going to rebirth you into the spirit world, and create exactly the person that he intended you to be,’ before adding, ‘There’s your Q.’ He then appeared to draw the ‘Q’ symbol for QAnon with his index finger. As the Christian conservative writer David French told me, ‘one reason why Q has taken hold in parts of the church’ is that it ‘mimics revivalist/prophetic style/content.’ Indeed, there is plenty of evidence that this mimicry is working. ‘The name of God was everywhere during [the Jan. 6] insurrection against the American government,’ according to the Atlantic’s Emma Green. ‘The mob carried signs and [a] flag declaring JESUS SAVES!… Some were participants in the Jericho March, a gathering of Christians to ‘pray, march, fast, and rally for election integrity.’'”

See, I clicked where it says “W.House” thinking it was going to be an AFP article so I could clip the text here, since this is an important development. It’s not an AFP article. Do not go to W.House.

“Everyone knows that Democrats want to raise taxes on the rich, but what hasn’t gotten nearly as much notice is how much they’ve cut them for most everyone else – substantially more than Republicans did in the first year of their 2017 tax overhaul. New estimates by Congress’s official forecasters show Dems’ tax cuts – included in their March stimulus package – will drive down tax rates on low- and middle-income people so much this year that those earning less than $75,000, on average, will owe nothing in federal income taxes. Those making between $75,000 and $100,000 will pay a scant 1.8 percent average tax rate this year, the nonpartisan Joint Committee on Taxation predicts. That will shift the relative burden to the wealthy, at least temporarily, with those earning more than $500,000 expected to pay more than 2/3rds of all income taxes this year” – Politico.

New York Times: “Responding to angry voters who echoed former President Donald J. Trump’s false claims of a stolen election, Arizona Republicans promised a detailed review of the vote that showed Mr. Trump to have been the first Republican presidential nominee to lose the state since 1996. ‘We hold an audit,’ State Senator Eddie Farnsworth said at a Judiciary Committee hearing. ‘And then we can put this to rest.’ But when a parade of flatbed trucks last week hauled boxes of voting equipment and 78 pallets containing the 2.1 million ballots of Arizona’s largest county to a decrepit local coliseum, it kicked off a seat-of-the-pants audit process that seemed more likely to amplify Republican grievances than to put them to rest. Almost half a year after the election Mr. Trump lost, the promised audit has become a snipe hunt for skulduggery that has spanned a court battle, death threats and calls to arrest the elected leadership of Maricopa County, which includes Phoenix.”

“The head of Cyber Ninjas, the Florida-based firm that Republican senators hired to oversee the audit, has embraced Mr. Trump’s baseless theories of election theft and has suggested, contrary to available evidence, that Mr. Trump actually won Arizona by 200,000 votes. The pro-Trump cable channel One America News Network has started a fund-raiser to finance the venture and has been named one of the nonpartisan observers that will keep the audit on the straight and narrow. In fact, three previous reviews showed no sign of significant fraud or any reason to doubt President Biden’s victory. But the senators now plan to recount – by hand – all 2.1 million ballots cast in Maricopa County, two-thirds of the entire vote statewide. Critics in both parties charge that an effort that began as a way to placate angry Trump voters has become a political embarrassment and another blow to the once-inviolable democratic norm that losers and winners alike honor the results of elections. ‘You know the dog that caught the car?’ said Steve Gallardo, the lone Democrat on the Republican-dominated Maricopa Board of Supervisors. ‘The dog doesn’t know what to do with it.'”

Times of India: “Social micro-blogging platform Twitter is understood to have removed over four dozen tweets allegedly criticising the central government’s handling of the Covid-19 pandemic on instructions from the IT ministry. The tweets are now inaccessible to the users of the platform.”

“Officials at the IT ministry did not respond to calls on the matter. When contacted, a spokesperson for Twitter said: ‘When we receive a valid legal request, we review it under both the Twitter Rules and local law. If the content violates Twitter’s Rules, it will be removed from the service. If it is determined to be illegal in a particular jurisdiction, but not in violation of the Twitter Rules, we may withhold access to the content in India only. In all cases, we notify the account holder directly so they’re aware that we’ve received a legal order pertaining to the account. We notify the user(s) by sending a message to the email address associated with the account(s), if available’. Twitter notifies account holders ahead of withholding content so that they’re aware that the action has been taken in response to a legal request from the Indian government.”

Unmentioned in the Times of India article is that Twitter only complied under threat of having its workforce in the country tossed in jail, effectively making them hostages to Modi’s regime.

“So the police prove he was right about everything he said”

– The current top comment on the Gateway Pundit article “WATCH: Canadian Police Bring SWAT Team to Church Where Polish Pastor Went Viral for Shaming ‘Nazi’ Police on Easter“, posted Sunday morning. Unmentioned in the article is that the reason cops paid the church a visit on Easter was to make sure the congregation was adhering to local Coronavirus restrictions.

“Outrage over the police killing of George Floyd 11 months ago has ushered in a historic pace for removals of Confederate symbols from public spaces. At least 167 Confederate symbols around the U.S. have been removed or renamed since Floyd’s death last May, Southern Poverty Law Center data shows. That includes one symbol stolen from public property in Arizona, sparing Gov. Doug Ducey from having to make the call himself. Tuesday’s jury verdict against former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin triggered both positive and negative predictions about the prospects of passing racial justice reforms with teeth” Axios reports.

“But regardless of what Congress does around policing, the dismantlement and replacement of racist symbols has taken on a new momentum at the local, state and national level after decades of efforts. SPLC said 94 Confederate monuments were removed in 2020 – compared with a total of 58 removed between 2015 and 2019. Virginia and North Carolina have led states overall in removing Confederate symbols. Virginia on Friday celebrated the 70th anniversary of 16-year-old Barbara Johns leading a Black student strike protesting the deplorable conditions in the state’s segregated schools. Those students later joined as plaintiffs in Brown vs. Board of Education. Johns, a librarian who died in obscurity in 1991, was recently chosen as a figure to replace the Robert E. Lee statue that was removed from the U.S. Capitol.”

WHSV: “The Waynesboro community is mourning the loss of a political leader as a Chesapeake man sits in jail in connection to a hit-and-run crash in Augusta County. Virginia State Police was called to a hit-and-run crash on Jefferson Hwy. at Nottingham Ln. in Augusta County just before 10:30 Friday night. A Hyundai had been hit by another vehicle that fled the scene. The driver of the Hyundai was not injured. Minutes later, Waynesboro Police were called to the area of W. Main St. and Lew Dewitt Blvd. for a two-vehicle crash. The vehicles were in the CVS parking lot.”

“While investigating both crashes, police determined that the vehicle involved in the alleged hit and run on Jefferson Hwy. had traveled into Waynesboro and hit another vehicle at the intersection of Lew Dewitt Blvd. and W. Main St. The drivers involved in the crash were identified as 49-year-old Anne M. Seaton, of Waynesboro. She was pronounced dead at the scene. The driver of the other vehicle was identified as 22-year-old Sean B. Webster, from Chesapeake. Webster was arrested in Waynesboro for suspicion of Virginia code §18.2-266: Misdemeanor Driving Under the Influence.”

“He was also charged by VSP for the incident in Augusta County with one count of §46.2-894: Felony Hit and Run. Anne Seaton was the Augusta County Republican Party Vice-Chair, founder of Republican Women’s Club and the wife of Augusta County Supervisor, Scott Seaton.”

“A woman says she didn’t know she had a felony charge for over two decades for not returning a VHS rental. Caron McBride says she found out she was charged with a felony when she changed her name on her driver’s license in Texas after getting married. ‘I about had a heart attack,’ she said. Court records show the charges were filed in 2000, saying she ‘feloniously embezzled’ the video cassette tape ‘Sabrina the Teenage Witch’ from a store called ‘Movie Place’ in 1999. The store was on Lindsey Street in [Norman, Oklahoma]. According to the county assessor, that business has been closed since 2009. The case has now been dismissed” – KFOR.

Bemidji Pioneer: “A dinner hosted by the Wabasha County Republican Party last month featured keynote speaker Trevor Loudon, a far-right conspiracy theorist who told the GOP faithful that more than a hundred members of Congress should be investigated for espionage, that the killing of George Floyd and the unrest that followed ‘was planned since 2016,’ and suggested that voting machines were rigged in last year’s presidential election. Loudon spoke at a GOP ‘Wabasha County BPOU: Minnesota On the Rise’ banquet held March 27 at the Zumbro Community Church. It was attended by an estimated 400 people, according to a YouTube comment beneath a video of Loudon’s speech. Described by the Southern Poverty Law Center as a ‘far-right conspiracy theorist,’ Loudon has a history of making toxic statements. He is a ‘birther’ who has spread the discredited notion that President Barack Obama is not a U.S. citizen. The event was promoted on Facebook by Beverly C. Roche-Snow, Wabasha County GOP chairwoman. When contacted by Forum News Service, she hung up the phone.”

“Rep. Steve Drazkowski, a Republican from Mazeppa whose district covers parts of Wabasha County, did not attend the event. But he was dismissive of the Southern Poverty Law Center’s labeling of Loudon as ‘far right-wing.’ ‘The Southern Poverty Law Center is a left-wing group, very far left,’ Drazkowski said. ‘If they have problems with this Trevor Loudon guy, I will tell you that Republicans, conservatives have equal problems with the Southern Poverty Law Center.’ GOP state Sen. Michael Goggin of Red Wing attended the banquet, and a video showed him posing for a photograph with Loudon. Goggin did not return email or a call seeking comment.”

My guess is someone in the FOX graphics department gave their two weeks notice and now they’re just fucking with the hosts.

https://youtu.be/tWvXsSkpO7c

Curt Schilling, a former baseball player who ended up forming a company that defrauded the state of Rhode Island out of $75 million and ended up in bankruptcy during which all his personal possessions were auctioned off, claims that Lebron James tweets are the “worst, stupidest, most ignorant takes” on Twitter.

In an interview with the Pennsylvania Capital-Star newspaper, Pennsylvania State Representative Seth Grove, an ardent supporter of former guy Donald Trump, who actively opposed the certification of the state’s 2020 election results and called for a legislative audit of the election, admitted that the state found “a little” bit of election fraud in their analysis of the 2020 election, and that it was all done by Republicans.

A fire at a hospital designated to treat COVID-19 patients in Baghdad caught fire on Saturday, killing 27 and injuring 46, Reuters reports.  The fire reportedly started when an accident ignited an oxygen tank, causing it to explode.

The head of Iraqi civil defense unit reported that the fire broke out on a floor of the hospital used for pulmonary intensive care unit, where a number of patients were on ventilators.  Ninety people out of the 120 patients in the hospital were rescued.