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In Which Scott Johnson… Cannot Accept That Free Expression Is A Core US Value…

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Johnson doesn’t bother to make a rational counter argument — just like Billings-puss, he fecklessly demonizes the speaker (rehashing Clapton’s losing his mother, and other odd lot life events — most of over a half century ago, now — as a supposed argument against his minority viewpoint — today).

Cool. That’s Scott’s right. [Stoopid; but his right… to make an a$$ of himself.]

I’d listen to Clapton on foreign policy about as carefully… as I’d listen to Scott… trying to play that immortal “Layla” riff. Which is to say… almost not at all.

[First, above is the first time I heard Clapton’s riff, in the movie theatre that year. Smile… then the second one was decades later, but same basic theme.] And, in truth, I won’t listen to Johnson on Israel (at all), either. He’s a hate-filled tool, hell bent on repressing student speech he disfavors [even after his time at Dartmouth in 1969 or ’70… when he did the exact same thing, and didn’t suffer a long-term scratch].

The guy is a feckless… putz. But you knew that, already.

So… “Pop-Pop” Said Some Stoopid Ish, Over The Weekend — In Music City…

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And Bitcoin will be buoyed for about a week… then it will start falling back toward… $50,000… then $40,000.

Y A W N.

His Fail-Son has convinced him that ones and zeros are the same as mined Au, or actual gold.

And… since the US Government holds about one-sixth of the known mined, and refined gold in its strategic reserves at Ft. Knox, the Team Tangerine has hit upon its latest grift: sell four (or five, if one counts the Shkreli / Baron pseudo-one!) coins/NFTs, while touting a stack of ones and zeros — as being the same as titanium and silver and palladium and… real gold.

[That will support the price of his NFTs until he can “rug-pull” a few hundred million fiat dollars out of his lemming’ wallets in November. Same notion, as his actual “DJT” stock, the Truth Social holding company. He will dump large chunks of his 67% interest in mid September, when his lockup expires — leaving his minions holding the bag. That’s a $0.30 stock trading at $30, today.]

Bitcoin is not a strategic asset. There is no danger to “letting” China become the world’s foremost miner of Bitcoin (at the moment, mining it is punishable by long, hard labor prison sentences in country — under Xi’s legal regime). We will never “need” a supply of Bitcoin, and if we do — all the government need do… is decide to hold (not sell, on the spot markets) the various stacks of forfeited Bitcoin (from crime proceeds) it seizes every dang day.

Me? I advocate the US’s selling it off, as the price spikes — like now.

Oh. And, do stay tuned for Wednesday night, when Riot discloses (AGAIN!) vast losses per share from operating activities.

Hilarious!

In Hinderaker’s Deluded Brain, Being Asked Questions (He Refused To Answer) Was “Censorship”?!

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So NewsGuard asked Hinderaker some questions over the last seven or so years.

Ones he didn’t ever answer.

Except as to funding — he refused to admit that he regularly asserts material “facts” about our 46th President, without a shred of evidence.

And his refusal… he transmogrifies into NewsGuard “censoring” him.

I think what he means… is that he’s bugged that Powerline is rated a far right racist / hate site, by several independent bodies — and is rated as “unreliable” for news value, by other independent bodies.

Suck it, John.

It DOES NOT MATTER Who Broke It — It Is Well-Past Time… To FIX IT! C’mon People.

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I am loathe to have to talk about this, again. This litigation has simmered since… 1985. Yes, since when Edwin Meese was the US AG. Under Reagan — last millennium.

We as a nation have sworn to be better than this, by treaty. The lady in new york harbor promised the huddled masses… better than this. We need to treat people… as people, when they come to us, seeking asylum. Here is the lastest status report, where it is alleged that individual agents at the border are directly (even tonight) violating the USDC Judge’s orders, out of LA:

…[T]he guidance CBP issued to ensure compliance is plainly insufficient. Plaintiffs respectfully request the Court order further remedial measures to protect children’s safety. Specifically, Plaintiffs request the Court order Defendants issue new guidance requiring that: (1) CBP immediately begin arranging transport for class members who are directed to proceed to and/or remain at an open-air site; (2) CBP ensure class members have immediate access to drinking water and that their other immediate medical and safety needs are met; and (3) CBP document a child’s length of stay at open-air sites beginning at the time CBP first encounters and directs a child to proceed to and/or remain in an open-air site….

This same pattern has persisted throughout this litigation—CBP consistently claims that it does not direct or transport noncitizens to open-air sites while the evidence on the ground plainly demonstrates otherwise. See April 3 Order at 8; Pls. Response at 3-4; cf. Declaration of Brent L. Schwerdtfeger ¶ 15, March 15, 2024 [Doc. # 1398-1] (“Schwerdtfeger Dec.”).

Because CBP’s guidance fails to acknowledge the reality that CBP agents are directing noncitizens to open-air sites, it does not include directives necessary to comply with the Court’s order. In other words, if a CBP agent encounters a noncitizen child suspected to be inadmissible and is unable to immediately transport the child, the current guidance tells the agent what not to do but does not provide affirmative instructions as to what the agent must do. As a result, children are left in unsafe conditions while CBP attempts to avoid responsibility….

[W]hile the Court ordered that statistical information be “inclusive of the amount of time any Class Member spends in the open-air sites,” April 3 Order at 12 ¶ 4, CBP’s guidance indicates that length of time in custody begins at the time of apprehension. As just discussed, CBP appears to define apprehension much more narrowly than the Court’s order and thus the CBP guidance does not count the time a child is held at an open-air site toward the child’s length of stay. The CBP Juvenile Coordinator’s report indicated that length of time in custody is calculated from the time of the field interview, which may occur long after a child is first directed to an open-air site….

Alarmingly, the guidance indicates that sectors may provide limited humanitarian aid but does not require agents to take any steps to ensure that class members are safe and are treated “with special concern for their particular vulnerability as minors.” FSA ¶¶ 11-12. In recent weeks CBP agents have directed children to walk for miles to open-air sites in extremely hot temperatures without offering water or taking other minimal steps to ensure the child’s immediate safety. See Pinheiro Dec. ¶¶ 9, 11. CBP agents have also directed injured children to walk to open-air sites without providing any medical assistance….

Please — let us no longer make this a sound-bite issue. Children are not… sound bites. Ever. We owe them… protection — all of us do. None of us are exempt from this responsibility. Onward, to Simone… tonight.

नमस्ते

Hinderaker Thinks He Is The Arbiter — Of What The French See On TV. And… He Put Air-Quotes — Around A Felon.

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John had a busy, if utterly stoopid Sunday afternoon. He started by complaining about what the French see as artistic expression. Welcome to the larger world, John — not everyone thinks in your hopelessly pedestrian, deeply repressed, 19th Century, puritanical cramped mind-box. [Thank Goddesses!] We can see something… odd, and perhaps even offensive or new, to our way of thinking… from a culture far older and richer than America’s… and not lose our tiny minds over it.

Here’s a clue, John — the French don’t care what you think. Feel free to change the channel — but it played just fine on the Continent. They understand free expression. You don’t. Oh well. Based on your review of Paris last year (the first time you were ever there, overnight!), I’m pretty sure you won’t be a consumer there of all that is wonderful about the city. In sum, they don’t want your dollars, either. Cheers.

Second, and of even less moment… John tried to explain how Kamala is going to be “in trouble” on her record — as a prosecutor. [Oddly enough, her opponent is a 34-time convicted felon, and over ~$500 million judgment fraudster. Don’t think that projection will sell, Hondo.]

That is, good luck with that utterly specious narrative, son.

I note it primarily to say that Hinderaker here insults the fine federal petit jury that found him guilty of 34 felonies, after a grand jury indictment, and full trial on the merits — where he refused to take the stand in his own defense.

He insults their service to the judicial system he had sworn to uphold — by marking Tangerine’s 34 felonies with… air quotes.

This is cowardly dogsh!t, John. Defend him on the facts, post conviction (pre sentencing in a few weeks), or sit the f- down.

What a loser. The jury was not the problem — the walking Tangerine crime spree was the problem. Own him, and your misanthrope JD Vance, on your ticket.

If you can. You are going to suffer a landslide loss.

Out.

Let’s Talk About These Rocks — With “Leopard Spots”… Could Be… Might Be… We Shall See…

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We can be patient… and I still do not think this retrieval should mean that we need humans to land on Barsoom. [And some in the MSM are wildly overselling the evidence adduced thus far (in favor of Martian biological processes, in the distant past), here — to be sure.]

I do think we could send less costly, smaller-population tube collecting missions (just concentrating on bring a few — like this one — back, first!) to Mars, prior to 2040 — the current projected return date. But as ever, the budget to go to Mars, and land, even in a small footprint, is tens of billions of dollars, beyond what’s built to date. So… it becomes a question of how soon / how many? Here’s the encouraging news, in any event, from NASA’s JPL:

…The six-wheeled geologist found a fascinating rock that has some indications it may have hosted microbial life billions of years ago, but further research is needed.

A vein-filled rock is catching the eye of the science team of NASA’s Perseverance rover. Nicknamed “Cheyava Falls” by the team, the arrowhead-shaped rock contains fascinating traits that may bear on the question of whether Mars was home to microscopic life in the distant past.

Analysis by instruments aboard the rover indicates the rock possesses qualities that fit the definition of a possible indicator of ancient life. The rock exhibits chemical signatures and structures that could possibly have been formed by life billions of years ago when the area being explored by the rover contained running water. Other explanations for the observed features are being considered by the science team, and future research steps will be required to determine whether ancient life is a valid explanation….

“This trip through the Neretva Vallis riverbed paid off as we found something we’ve never seen before, which will give our scientists so much to study.”

Multiple scans of Cheyava Falls by the rover’s SHERLOC (Scanning Habitable Environments with Raman & Luminescence for Organics & Chemicals) instrument indicate it contains organic compounds. While such carbon-based molecules are considered the building blocks of life, they also can be formed by non-biological processes.

“Cheyava Falls is the most puzzling, complex, and potentially important rock yet investigated by Perseverance,” said Ken Farley,Perseverance project scientist of Caltech in Pasadena. “On the one hand, we have our first compelling detection of organic material, distinctive colorful spots indicative of chemical reactions that microbial life could use as an energy source, and clear evidence that water — necessary for life — once passed through the rock. On the other hand, we have been unable to determine exactly how the rock formed and to what extent nearby rocks may have heated Cheyava Falls and contributed to these features….”

When Perseverance took a closer look at these red regions, it found dozens of irregularly shaped, millimeter-size off-white splotches, each ringed with black material, akin to leopard spots. Perseverance’s PIXL (Planetary Instrument for X-ray Lithochemistry) instrument has determined these black halos contain both iron and phosphate. “These spots are a big surprise,” said David Flannery, an astrobiologist and member of the Perseverance science team from the Queensland University of Technology in Australia. “On Earth, these types of features in rocks are often associated with the fossilized record of microbes living in the subsurface….”

Do stay tuned, more to come for certain — but we await “the ride home” (circa 2040), to be sure. Smile.

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Johnson Falsely Repeats Claims That Tangerine Sent Nat’l Guard To Minn. No, It Was Governor Walz.

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The thing Scott is mostly mad about, it seems… is that Tangerine didn’t fill the small suburban MN hockey arena, last night.

But it leads him to… mislead, as Tangerine does, about the law enforcement response, to the murder of George Floyd in Minneapolis in 2020. Tangerine regularly claims he put down the protests, alone. This is completely false.

Gov. Walz did — in the form of the National Guard contingent…about 48 hours AFTER Gov.
Tim Walz had mostly peaceably resolved the more violent parts of the protests / riots / fires… but needed to avoid a re-igniting of the violence, so he staged the Guard on street corners in the affected areas.

That is what happened.

Trump was… golfing that afternoon, then repaired to the underground WH bunker, as crowds swelled in DC, proper.

That is a fact. Scott could look it up — but he won’t.

Out.

Previously… “Asked, And Answered, John.”

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Hinderaker’s at it again, this afternoon.

We’ve been over this. So I’ll just sum up; click the below link.

His “tribe” likes being dead last in educational attainment; very near the bottom on health care; at the bottom on protecting civil rights; but leading in attempts to reinstall Jim Crow….

As well as leading in infant mortality, and paying less than 10 per cent of a prior wage, if you’re laid off.

Sure… it’s a great sort… but not in the fashion he imagines.

What a putz.

Out.

Exhibit A Now Filed; When A Judge Orders All “RIGHT, TITLE AND INTEREST” In The Wu- Forfeited… No Prior Contract Can Change That.

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Let us review.

No; let us sum up:

Martin Shkreli’s contract with the three parties (Wu- related parties) in 2015, under which he “bought” the Wu- (for “an undisclosed number of millions“) is now on file in federal court in Brooklyn — it is entertaining, as they say. But it is… meaningless. Because whatever / however, whenever Martin got under that 2015 contract — after he was convicted in 2018, of multiple financial fraud felonies, and a USDC Judge entered a final, now non-appealable felony forfeiture order (in favor of the US DoJ), to at least begin to pay-off the debts he had caused by his felonious behavior, Martin was DOA on the Wu-.

That March 2018 order, at the bottom of page 7, by operation of law says “whatever you ever had, related to the Wu-, or the Picasso or the Lil’ Wayne / Carter6“… is now forfeit. It belongs to the US Government, for resale — to realize on, due the fact that both he refused to pay his debts, and refused to fully-disclose his financial holdings, to allow the government to seize his other assets and accounts.

In sum, Martin CHOSE to obscure, after conviction, his finances — and so he lost the right to the collateral the government was previously holding, effectively as bail money.

Anything he tried to do after March of 2018, in or out of prison (2018 to 2024), was a nullity — as to the Wu-, specifically.

Even if (improbably) he gave away copies pre 2018 to friends, and then the friends gave it back to him, after 2018 — in say 2021, 2022 or 2023… the 2021 agreement with PleasrDAO specifically says Martin cannot benefit in any way from anything related to the Wu- property. He acknowledged there (again) that he had forfeited “all right, title and interest” in and to the Wu- in the first paragraph.

The sum up, then?

Martin loses — his actions after 2018 were all… thefts, thefts from the US government, and after 2021, also thefts from PleasrDAO.

[And so — some of this weekend’s MSM reporting is inaccurate. Most say “Martin says” he had the rights — but fail to note that a prior federal court order, in his felonies, prevented him EVER getting those rights. So it goes — a minor point, but it will ultimately matter, to the able USDC Judge Chen, in her decision, in Brooklyn’s federal trial courts.]

Out.