PUNCH BACK TWICE AS HARD: Knights of Columbus Sue Joe Biden, Claim First Amendment Violation.
May 24, 2024
READER FAVORITE: 10-Minute Strength Training Exercises for Seniors. #CommissionEarned
MORE ON UCLA MEDICAL SCHOOL’S DEI DEBACLE: DEI Can Get You Killed.
SALAMI TACTICS:
BREAKING:
Last night, Russia removed the light buoys delineating the border between Russia and Estonia in the Narva river.
This happened after previous reports stating that Russia intends to unilaterally change its maritime borders with Finland and Estonia.
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— Visegrád 24 (@visegrad24) May 23, 2024
Earlier this week, a Russian paper published a report that the Kremlin was unilaterally “updating” the border but I didn’t do anything with it because the story got pulled too quickly.
I’m not sure why it got pulled, since it sure looks like Moscow was ready to go.
WHEN HE’S RIGHT, HE’S RIGHT: This GOP Governor Revealed the Truth About Newsom, Cuomo, and I Can’t Stop Laughing.
WHO ARE YOU GOING TO BELIEVE? ME, OR YOUR LYING EYES? An enormous trove of documents — 3.3 million pages of emails, bank records, and corporate memos — has been obtained by Just the News that prove what you already knew: Joe Biden flat-out lied repeatedly about never having met with his son’s business partners:
“Biden has consistently denied any involvement with Hunter’s Chinese business associates, and an incurious U.S. media refused to delve into it. For his part, Hunter Biden called the issue part of the “Trump attack machine.” Pro-Biden media outlets like Politico parroted the White House’s line that the laptop was part of a “Russian Disinformation” scheme.”
But the real news here is that the FBI knew about the meetings between President Biden and his son’s business partners as long ago as 2016. That knowledge came to their attention when the feds were investigating Hunter’s partner and his role in a fraudulent bond-selling racket:
“FBI, IRS, and Securities and Exchange Commission agents collected [the documents] in 2015 and 2016 with subpoenas during a criminal investigation into a fraudulent bond scheme involving a Native-American tribe.”
We keep hearing brainwashed deniers like Rep. Jamie Raskin, D-Md., bleat repeatedly that “there is no evidence” of the President knowing about Hunter’s deals, let alone meeting with Hunters partners.
We’ll see if the incurious mainstream media actually follow up on Just The News‘ reporting. Founder and Editor-in-Chief John Solomon has promised to assemble a data-diving team to find out what else is in the mountain of documents, which were not obtained from Hunter’s laptop. So, if you think this is an important issue, I’d suggest adding Just the News to your bookmark bar and make it part of your daily reading. They are doing some pretty darned fearless work.
Here’s the question I’m left with: Does Team Biden’s gaslighting actually work? His surrogates — in government and the media — constantly chant “no evidence, no evidence.” Do they really believe it? And more importantly, does the working class guy in a swing state who breaks his back in a warehouse or factory to put food on the table and being able to afford eyeglasses for his kids buy it?
It’s too easy to call Mophead Pierre and Jamie Raskin idiots. While that may be true, I guess the question that sticks with me is: “How can anybody adopt Biden’s lies” with a straight face? Are they truly brainwashed, or are they so hateful and disingenuous that they’ll say anything?
I know, I know: “Embrace the power of ‘and.'”
** DISCLOSURE: I act as an editorial and legal advisor to JTN.**
I REMEMBER WHEN HIGHER EDUCATION WAS SUPPOSED TO BE A BEACON OF REASON, TOLERANCE, AND GOOD JUDGMENT: Northwestern president says it would have been too ‘impractical’ to consult with Jewish students amid negotiations with pro-Hamas agitators.
Of course, he shouldn’t have been negotiating at all.
HE TREATS ANTI-SEMITES BETTER THAN HE WOULD TREAT REPUBLICANS: Northwestern President Won’t Commit To Excluding Anti-Semites From Anti-Semitism Task Force.
WYATT’S DIGITAL TORCH: The world’s top chipmakers can flip a ‘kill switch’ should China invade Taiwan.
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KRUISER’S MORNING BRIEFING: So Much for the Lawfare—Trump Rocks the Bronx. “The Democrats can’t run from the trainwreck that is Joe Biden or the failures of their other politicians since 2021. The noise around the Trump trial was meant to distract from all of that. All of the false narratives intended to keep Biden propped up aren’t going over with a lot of the voters.”
PREDICTION: That $2.8 billion settlement between NCAA and college players will effectively professionalize college sports, especially football. The deal includes revenue-sharing between the schools and players, but it won’t be long before the schools will be able to force revenue sharing with the players on their merchandise, commercials and appearance revenues. That will in turn pressure schools to drop eligibility limits, thus enabling popular (i.e. profitable) players to remain “enrolled” for years after their undergraduate “work” is completed in order to keep playing and producing revenue.
Anybody else remember the days when the college all-stars played the NFL champion each year?
ICYMI:
SCOOP: Whistleblowers at UCLA medical school say it has dramatically lowered admissions standards for minority applicants.
As a result, they say, 50% of some cohorts now fail basic tests of medical competence.
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— Aaron Sibarium (@aaronsibarium) May 23, 2024
MATTHEW CONTINETTI: Trump’s New New Majority: How to reward the new members of Trump’s coalition.
Related: Trump has a Republican problem: The public wants a winner. FJB and Republican senators are losers.
Plus: How the Republican Party could win the Black vote for a generation. ““It has been 70 years this month since Brown v. Board of Education ended official separate but equal schools. Democrats are proud of that achievement. What they won’t tell you is that two-thirds of Black kids still go to flailing segregated schools presided over by Democratic mayors who have no clue how to fix them and unions that see their role as job protectors for teachers more than advocates for children.”
I HOPE HE’S WRONG BUT WE’RE SITTING ON AN AWFUL LOT OF DEBT, PLUS BIDEN’S INNOVATION-CRUSHING REREGULATION SPREE: JPMorgan CEO Jamie Dimon says can’t rule out ‘hard landing’ for the U.S., stagflation will be ‘worst outcome.’
When asked by CNBC’s Sri Jegarajah about the prospect of a hard landing, Dimon replied: “Could we actually see one? Of course, how could anyone who reads history say there’s no chance?”
The CEO was speaking at the JPMorgan Global China Summit in Shanghai.
Dimon said the worst outcome for the U.S. economy will be a “stagflation” scenario, where inflation continues to rise, but growth slows amid high unemployment.
“I look at the range of outcomes and again, the worst outcome for all of us is what you call stagflation, higher rates, recession. That means corporate profits will go down and we’ll get through all of that. I mean, the world has survived that but I just think the odds have been higher than other people think.”
However, Dimon said that “the consumer is still in good shape” — even if the economy slips into recession.
Between rising credit card debt and tapped-out savings, I wonder if Dimon isn’t overestimating what kind of shape consumers are in.
WHO COULD HAVE SEEN THIS COMING? Biden economy marred by high cost of living driving voters back to Trump: Poll.
ROGER KIMBALL: Trump’s bumper Bronx rally is a bad omen for Biden: He promised to return to New York and sort out the anarchy.
Future historians, psephologists, and political analysts, searching for the day and time that Joe Biden’s 2024 campaign imploded beyond recovery, are likely to settle on Thursday May 23, 2024, at approximately 7 p.m. It was then that Trump’s surprising rally in Crotona Park in the South Bronx really got underway. I didn’t hear any actual bells tolling, but if you listened carefully you could discern the mournful obligato that signaled the end of Joe Biden’s hopes in New York — and therefore the country.
No Republican has taken New York since Ronald Reagan’s great landslide in 1984. Why then would Trump waste time coming to the South Bronx? Because, to adapt Bob Dylan, “The Times They Are A Changin’.” Joe Biden won New York in 2020 by twenty-three points. A recent poll had Donald Trump trailing by only nine points. After the Bronx rally, who knows what the polls will say? As Trump himself put it, “You live in a blue city, but it is going red very, very quickly.”
I haven’t seen definitive numbers yet, but Trump’s rally was was planned to accommodate up to 3,500 people. As the event got underway, many outlets were reporting that the crowd numbered 25,000 or more.
Whatever the tally, the love was palpable. One brilliant moment occurred when Trump called former City Councilman Ruben Diaz Sr., a black Puerto Rican Democrat, up to the stage. In broken but heartfelt English, Diaz enthusiastically endorsed Trump for president. I didn’t note the exact time, but I’d wager that was the moment that Trump sealed the deal for New York for 2024.
It was a masterly speech. Trump hit all the sore spots: the migrant crime wave, the transsexual insanity, Biden’s economic chaos, the insecurity of American elections. In what is sure to be a major new slogan, Trump reminded the crowd that his victory in 2024 must be “too big to rig.”
“Too big to rig.” Nice.
STATE SPONSORED CENSORSHIP AND INTIMIDATION: The Overlooked Twitter Files Scandal: How the Intelligence Community Wore Down the Platform.
ROBERT SPENCER: The Human Cost of the Left’s Obsession With Victimhood: One Woman’s Story. “For the left, to be accused is to be convicted: if someone is charged with transgressing against one of the left’s dogmas, he or she must be destroyed.”
LOUISVILLE-BRANDEIS LAW CHOSE . . . POORLY: Activism Over Education? Law School Embraced Drag Shows And Social Justice Amid Rankings Free Fall.
Students at the University of Louisville Louis D. Brandeis School of Law were shocked in February to learn their school was hosting a “Drag Story Hour,” in which one of their professors dressed as a woman and told a story about a gay rabbit with a member of the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence.
The event was part of the university’s “Drag Me to Class” fundraiser to raise money for students to attend the LGBT-focused Lavender Law Conference in the nation’s capital. But while the school leaned into drag, students were fuming over projections that the law school could be taking a massive dive in the US News & World Report’s upcoming law school rankings.
Those fears were confirmed on April 9, when the rankings saw Brandeis drop from 99 to 136 in the rankings. The 37 spot drop was the largest of any school on the list, and has left both faculty and students pointing fingers. School administrators blamed the drop in rankings on leadership changes, a lagging job market due to the COVID pandemic, and a new methodological ranking system by US News & World Report.
Current students aren’t buying it, and told The Daily Wire that the drop came as they witnessed the school pivot towards activism, and away from academics. The school’s total first-time bar passage rates have been in a free fall since 2020, when the rate sat at 89%, to just 75% last year. And the pass rate was just 65% in 2022, according to the most recent data available on the school’s website.
Instapundit has been covering Louisville’s decline since 2016 and before.
Flashback: “Apparently the University of Louisville law school has decided to meet declining enrollments and dwindling funds not by upping their game, but by ‘branding’ itself as a ‘progressive’ institution committed to ‘social justice.'” Plus: “Ultimately, of course, this is why U of L’s branding effort will fail miserably.” Called it!
HE’S FINE: Biden Implodes at Reporter During Embarrassing Presser, Reveals ‘Deal’ Around Questions. “Apparently the reporter crossed him up by saying he wanted to ask two questions. Biden snapped at him and said, ‘One.’ He probably only has one answer in his notes to read from and doesn’t want to have to deal with anything else.”
LOL: Dems Release Damning Photo of Alito Reading the Constitution.
I love the — non-parody — recasting of the 1775 Pine Tree Flag into a symbol of “white supremacy,” including assiduous Wikipedia-editing in support of that absurdity.
Related: Democrats’ Alito ramblings are about delegitimizing the Supreme Court.
