D.C. Showdown

Plus: Showdown between mayor and attorney general, Zohran booed off Staten Island, and more...

Federal deployment in D.C. continues: Starting at around 9 p.m., FBI and Secret Service agents arrived in D.C.'s Foggy Bottom to remove a few tents from a homeless encampment. "We were told that there would be a list of sites that would receive closure activity from the National Park Service and other law enforcement officials, and we would support that effort by providing a connection to homeless services for those who are adversely impacted," said Wayne Turnage, Washington's deputy mayor for health and human services, to reporters assembled at the encampment clearing.

They ran into some thorny jurisdictional problems. A 34-year-old homeless woman named Meghann Abraham presented federal enforcement with a notice she'd received from the city saying she had until Monday to leave the area; federal agents acquiesced and stopped trying to force her and fellow trespassers to leave. But city officials and other law enforcement agents also worked earlier in the day to get homeless people who were camping to leave; shelters are reportedly not at capacity.

"Earlier in the week, White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt warned of prosecution or fines against people who refuse to leave encampments," reports Axios. "Leavitt said homeless individuals will be offered transportation to shelters or provided with mental health and addiction resources."

Using federal law enforcement might actually make sense here: "Many, but not all, of the encampments are in parks, traffic circles and medians in Washington that are federal government property," notes The New York Times. The executive order signed by President Donald Trump back on March 28 indicated that such cleanups would happen. None of this can come as a shock, and there appears to be decent collaboration between Turnage's department, the feds, and the White House to get this done in an orderly fashion that attempts to steer homeless people toward existing social services the city provides.

Showdown between Bondi and Bowser: U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi and D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser are at loggerheads over who has jurisdiction to do what when policing the city. "Bondi ordered the mayor and D.C. Police Chief Pamela A. Smith to recognize Terry Cole, the head of the Drug Enforcement Administration, as the District's 'emergency police commissioner,' empowering him to assume the full powers of the D.C. police chief and issue department policy," reports The Washington Post. Bondi "also ordered the immediate suspension of D.C. police policies limiting cooperation with federal immigration authorities."

Both Bowser, a Democrat, and D.C. Attorney General Brian Schwalb have said they will not follow Bondi's orders. "Let us be clear about what the law requires during a Presidential declared emergency: it requires the mayor of Washington, DC to provide the services of the Metropolitan Police Department for federal purposes at the request of the President," said Bowser. "We have followed the law." Schwalb is suing the Trump administration over this, reports Politico.

Let us be clear about what the law requires during a Presidential declared emergency: it requires the mayor of Washington, DC to provide the services of the Metropolitan Police Department for federal purposes at the request of the President.

We have followed the law.

In… pic.twitter.com/XfaNqLalFU

— Mayor Muriel Bowser (@MayorBowser) August 15, 2025

However, "the very law that gave D.C. the right to an elected local government also includes a provision allowing the president to 'direct' the D.C. mayor to provide police services for federal purposes if the president declares an emergency—the provision Trump triggered on Monday," notes the Post. 

Your tax dollars at work:

Iced out. ???? pic.twitter.com/xhexqgmbzS

— Homeland Security (@DHSgov) August 14, 2025

Though I appreciate the use of DaBaby, and think there's probably some segment of Trump voters this might play well with, both the new livery and the fact that they spent time filming and distributing this video (which goes pretty hard) just indicates that Trump really really cares about the show of it all, the spectacle, the illusion he can create: one of taking matters into his own hands, under his control, being tough on the bad guys. It's sort of a Bukele-esque playbook (though Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele's not the first to embrace this aesthetic, he's just one of the first to be so social media–forward with it), very strongman-coded.

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Scenes from New York: I kinda love Staten Island, booing Zohran Mamdani out of a restaurant with "there's the communist."

BREAKING: Zohran Mamdani get BOOED out of a restaurant in Staten Island.

"There's the communist. You are not welcome, you Jew-hating piece of sh*t. You hate this country."

pic.twitter.com/59baUscwFW

— Eyal Yakoby (@EYakoby) August 14, 2025

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QUICK HITS

• President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin are meeting at a summit in Alaska to discuss an end to the war in Ukraine—with no Ukrainian leaders present. "The US president sees any kind of ceasefire in Ukraine as a key objective of the talks. For the Russian leader, getting face time with Trump on American soil without having made any concessions on the war is already a win," sums up Bloomberg. White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt oddly called the summit "a listening exercise for the president," while Trump said it was a "feel-out meeting" to understand where Putin's coming from. "The more important meeting will be the second meeting that we're having: We're going to have a meeting with President Putin, President [Volodymyr] Zelenskyy, myself, and maybe we'll bring some of the European leaders on. Maybe not," he added yesterday.
• "The final arguments in prominent Hong Kong activist Jimmy Lai's national security trial were postponed Friday after his lawyer said the former pro-democracy newspaper founder had experienced heart palpitations and the judges wanted him to receive medical treatment first," reports The Independent. "Lai, the 77-year-old founder of the now-defunct Apple Daily newspaper, was arrested in 2020 under a national security law imposed by Beijing following anti-government protests in 2019. He faces charges of colluding with foreign forces to endanger national security and conspiring with others to issue seditious publications. If convicted, he faces up to life imprisonment."
• More examples of the federal government attempting to get a stake in private companies:

The Trump administration is in talks with Intel to have the US government potentially take a stake in the beleaguered chipmaker, helping support the company's effort to expand domestic manufacturing https://t.co/destNZJX6R

— Bloomberg (@business) August 14, 2025

• "House Oversight and Government Reform Committee Chair James Comer (R-Ky.) on Monday said former President Clinton's alleged ties to convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein should be uncovered during his testimony before members of Congress," reports The Hill. "'Everybody in America wants to know what went on in Epstein Island, and we've all heard reports that Bill Clinton was a frequent visitor there, so he's a prime suspect to be deposed by the House Oversight Committee,' Comer said Monday during an interview on Newsmax."
• Dark:

Disappointing to hear that Finland, education's golden child, is on about the same trajectory of lowered standards - even for the brightest students - as apparently everywhere else. pic.twitter.com/CvL0eQiNma

— Pamela Hobart (@gtmom) August 14, 2025

• Pretty much:

pic.twitter.com/Mom7NcwEaC

— Chris Freiman (@cafreiman) August 15, 2025

Comments

[Chumby]

Supreme Leader Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin Invades US!

What happens when an assault bear in trunk springs free and teams up with VVP:

https://tenor.com/view/putin-bear-gif-24815854

[Randy Sax]

I'm more worried about the nukes that are triggered to go off when Vlad's heartbeat flatlines.

[Ajsloss]

I am the Walrus?

[Earth-based Human Skeptic]

Goo goo g'joob

[InsaneTrollLogic (Muting Sarc like he mutes us)]

I told you about the walrus and me, man
You know that we're as close as can be, man
Well, here's another clue for you all
The walrus was Paul

[Chumby]

Where fascists sits,
Putin on the blitz.
Dressed up like a million dollar trooper,
Portland needs a massive pooper scooper.

[Quicktown Brix]

As long as we're on the White Album, let me proselytize for the Beatles most underrated song: Long long long. I think George's song writing really started to shine in this era.

[Dillinger]

may be Ringo's finest example of perfect time.

[Minadin]

And in related news: Nancy Pelosi is still a senile old evil wine mom:

NEW: Nancy Pelosi says Ukraine is fighting for the world's democracy.

"Ukraine... in fighting for their democracy, are fighting for ours as well... I don't know what Putin has on the president... They shouldn't be going to Alaska. Russia claims Alaska."

https://x.com/ResisttheMS/status/1956157902399361474

[Earth-based Human Skeptic]

I guess a dried-up, wrinkled old cunt is still a cunt.

(Sorry for that morning image)

[Chumby]

When says DeMoCrAcY she means color revolutions, puppet dictators, wealth transfer, and suspension of elections then by all means. Perhaps Paul Prlosi could join her to help hammer home the idea.

[Fats of Fury]

Her Democracy means suspending elections, religious persecutions and kidnapping men off the street and forcing them into military conscription.

[Don't look at me! ( Is the war over yet?)]

I kinda love Staten Island, booing Zohran Mamdani out of a restaurant with "there's the communist."

He’s going to win.

[Chumby]

And it is going to be something wonderful.

[Rick James]

This x 100

[Earth-based Human Skeptic]

Like Lawrence Welk wunnerful?

[creech]

Staten Island can secede and become part of New Jersey. Not that that would solve anything for them.

[But SkyNet is a Private Company]

That could tip NJ red in some races

[Earth-based Human Skeptic]

Or become the 52nd state, to balance D.C.

[Red Rocks White Privilege]

"There's the communist. You are not welcome, you Jew-hating piece of sh*t. You hate this country."

Every single statement in that rant is true.

[Earth-based Human Skeptic]

But truth is racist.

[I, Woodchipper]

does he have a five year plan?

[Earth-based Human Skeptic]

Free shit and oppose Trump.

[Chumby]

Dems Not Sending Their Best

South Carolina D candidate for governor had a little incident.

https://wach.com/news/local/scdp-chair-releases-statement-on-arrest-video-of-gov-candidate-mullins-mcleod

[Don't look at me! ( Is the war over yet?)]

He will probably end up winning as well.

[JesseAz (Prime Meanster of Sarcasia)]

You did look like a Lex Luther voter and not a superman voter.

The best is him saying this incident is why he should be elected.

[Chumby]

Superman’s akita stopped respecting him.

[Earth-based Human Skeptic]

"An incident report from the Charleston Police Department stated that an officer was in the area of King Street and Murray Boulevard where they observed McLeod walking along the battery screaming,

"According to the report, he was wearing only his underwear and shoes during the incident."

Come on, man. That kind of thing happens all the time and could be anyone.

[Rick James]

After reviewing the transcript of the dash cam footage from his recent arrest, it is clear that Mr. McLeod is navigating profound challenges and should focus on his mental and emotional well-being instead of a campaign for governor.

Smells like a manic episode.

[Minadin]

What worries me: What if they are sending their best?

[Earth-based Human Skeptic]

Now you know why Democrats demand "equality".

[Don't look at me! ( Is the war over yet?)]

.. with no Ukrainian leaders present.

Good. Maybe now some progress can be made.

[Chumby]

There are none. By suspending their elections, the puppet regime in Kiev including the bandera dictator are operating extra-constitutionally. A few weeks ago, Putin gave a presser explaining the legal issues with this. I’m confident nobody at CUCLL Weekly bothered to review that. And it has precedent where Berlin made the treaty of Versailles null and void over the perceived illegitimacy of Germany signing that (stab in the back theory). Moscow avoided that later legal our by demanding that the national socialists also surrender to her at the end of the second world war when the nazis had already done so to (some of?) the western allies. I believe Mark Felton uploaded a video about this on YT.

[JesseAz (Prime Meanster of Sarcasia)]

Now you're going to make sarc defend big Z no elections while claiming he found out Trump was suspending elections from Maddow.

[Chumby]

That 4D chess given they got suspended in the spring of 2024, while Otto Penn the First was still reigning.

[Chumby]

Libertarians for a New Soviet?

https://www.lewrockwell.com/2025/08/ryan-mcmaken/the-libertarians-who-say-the-private-sector-is-the-real-threat-to-freedom/

[Social Justice is neither]

Their framing is a bit dishonest as they claim "He states that libertarians have been wrong for “ignoring threats to liberty posed by non-state institutions (“local bullies”) like corporations, churches, and schools" is a false claim because they don't see it with a recent backdrop of Visa and Mastercard forcing game distributors to drop thousands of titles (depriving the purchasers of those titles).

Dude may be a Marxist but they're retards if they cannot see that the private sector can pose risks to liberty too and if the force me to "educate myself" on their thesis to make it make sense.

[Randy Sax]

non-state institutions (“local bullies”) like corporations, churches, and schools"

Not sure that one counts.

[Moonrocks]

On the flip side, can you really consider the financial sector "private"?

[mamabug]

At this point, there is no economic sector in America or corporation with over 150ish people that is truly private.

[JesseAz (Prime Meanster of Sarcasia)]

March of the activist judges continued as injunction is placed on using government database to get addresses of illegal immigrants.

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/judge-orders-rfk-jrs-hhs-stop-sharing-medicaid-data-immigration-officials

The odd part is the continued claim that illegals dont qualify for government programs.

"Using CMS data for immigration enforcement threatens to significantly disrupt the operation of Medicaid—a program that Congress has deemed critical for the provision of health coverage to the nation’s most vulnerable residents," Chhabria wrote.

If illegals dont get government funded Healthcare, how is this possible?

Expecting another injunction to stop the 275k illegals already kicked off Social Security.

https://thepostmillennial.com/trump-admin-drops-275000-illegal-immigrants-from-social-security

[Michael Ejercito]

Nelson said illegals do not get welfare because it is illegal for them to do so.

[JesseAz (Prime Meanster of Sarcasia)]

What's funny about social security story is it says they knew they were sending checks even out of country.

[Minadin]

If I retired to Mexico, would I become ineligible for social security?

[JesseAz (Prime Meanster of Sarcasia)]

Are you here illegally?

[Rick James]

Unless I missed a recent discussion, I'm not sure if even the high-dudgeon, open borders 'tards continue to claim this. I think that debate was won, rode hard and put away wet. I mean, Reason literally wrote an article celebrating illegal immigrants receiving welfare and all other public services in Colorado. So anyone still making that claim is like Nick Gillespie on the trans question.

[Medulla Oblongata]

And felons don't have guns because it is illegal for them to do so.

[Earth-based Human Skeptic]

"If illegals dont get government funded Healthcare, how is this possible?"

It's not happening and it's good that it is.

[Medulla Oblongata]

https://americanmind.org/salvo/thats-not-happening-and-its-good-that-it-is/

The Law of Salutary Contradiction

Which brings us to the Law of Salutary Contradiction, whose formulation is: “That’s not happening and it’s good that it is.” While the Law of Merited Impossibility applies to the future, this one is about the present. It’s what the ruling class immediately switches to after what they insisted would “never” happen is happening before everyone’s eyes.

Is the NSA spying on Tucker Carlson? That’s an insane conspiracy theory … which is also warranted by Tucker’s treasonous contacts with Russian officials as he seeks an interview with Putin.

Is the Biden Administration inviting in illegal immigrants, then putting them on military planes and shipping them to the heartland? Absolutely not … and these future Nobel Prize winners deserve their shot at the American Dream.

Once you learn to recognize this pattern, you see it everywhere.

[Earth-based Human Skeptic]

A classic piece.

[JesseAz (Prime Meanster of Sarcasia)]

To save Boehm, STG, Mike, and Sarc some embarrassment when they start shouting PPI today... a look at the drivers of PPI. Majority is in services. A lot of it is in machining (reshoring of domestic manufacturing), while just a small part of it is for tariffed goods. The latter was only 0.4%, a yearly rate in line with the last decade.

https://www.zerohedge.com/economics/producer-prices-spike-most-3-years-july-services-costs-soar

Far cry from their tariffs are fully passed to consumers lie. Still shows producers, importers, and foreign suppliers eating the cost of consumers with minimal costs passed to consumers.

[But SkyNet is a Private Company]

The Obama and Biden Admins never put out social media. Only Trump cares about The Spectacle of a 1 minute video put together by low level employees.

At least they film themselves doing their jobs, as opposed to the Obama Era GSA making hype choreographed videos for their million dollar Vegas excursions

[But SkyNet is a Private Company]

Meant to be a separate comment on Subpar Liz’s ridiculous comment

[Quicktown Brix]

To save Boehm, STG, Mike, and Sarc some embarrassment when they start shouting PPI today...

Much appreciated!

Let me return the favor:

3 Things:
1 The increase in services price is due to mass deportation

2 from your link Final demand goods: Prices for final demand goods moved up 0.7% in July, the largest advance since rising 0.7% in January. Forty percent of the broad-based increase in July can be attributed to the index for final demand foods, which jumped 1.4%. This part is tariffs

3 It's Trumps economy and inflation is back

For tracerv: You'll see

[tracerv]

Ha! That's my man!

[Dillinger]

>> The increase in services price is due to mass deportation

negligible results from an event. kewl.

[JesseAz (Prime Meanster of Sarcasia)]

Note the Mike doesn't even register in his leftist brain that 1.5M citizens getting jobs reduces taxpayer welfare costs.

Mike's entire leftist belief is import poverty, export jobs, American taxpayers get taxed. That is the sum of his views.

[Chumby]

Who is going to pluck the feathers from the GMO turducken?

[InsaneTrollLogic (Muting Sarc like he mutes us)]

Maybe after the glass of HO2?

[JesseAz (Prime Meanster of Sarcasia)]

D.C. police DEI chief praises chain of command after learning what it means.

https://justthenews.com/government/local/dc-police-chief-praises-federal-assistance-after-trump-admin-helps-arrest-over-100

[Chumby]

Someone must have provided her a link.

[TrickyVic (old school)]

Even Morning Joe thinks the crime is bad in DC.

[Earth-based Human Skeptic]

Bad that D.C. crime is bad, or bad that bad people are talking about how bad D.C. crime is?

[JesseAz (Prime Meanster of Sarcasia)]

About that crime drop...

The District of Columbia has quietly settled a lawsuit from a sergeant who accused Metropolitan Police Department leaders of misclassifying offenses to deflate the district's crime statistics, court records obtained by the Washington Free Beacon show. Police brass repeatedly told officers to downgrade theft cases, knife attacks, and violent assaults to lesser offenses, according to internal MPD emails, depositions, and phone call transcripts the Free Beacon reviewed.

https://freebeacon.com/crime/a-dc-police-sergeant-exposed-her-superiors-for-misclassifying-crimes-to-make-stats-look-low-the-city-just-quietly-settled-her-lawsuit/?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email

[Don't look at me! ( Is the war over yet?)]

I was told government data was pure as the driven snow.

[Longtobefree]

Ever seen the snow in DC after it is driven over?

[Randy Sax]

Brown to black, half ice-half slush, stays on the ground for a week.

[Quicktown Brix]

With a fentanyl coma zombie on it.

[creech]

You mean (D)riven snow?

[JesseAz (Prime Meanster of Sarcasia)]

(though Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele's not the first to embrace this aesthetic, he's just one of the first to be so social media–forward with it), very strongman-coded.

Lol. God damn Liz. Just stop.

[Quicktown Brix]

It goes with the soldiers and cops in masks on the streets.

[JesseAz (Prime Meanster of Sarcasia)]

Lol. Fucking Mike. Doesn't even understand the argument.

Mike, I know you're not well read in libertarian essays and what not... but do you know why people like Hoppes wrote essays about not conceding language to the left? Now as you're from the left this concept confuses you.

And I'm also glad to you shouting similar to your cries of unmarked vans.

Are you honest enough to admit to why they wear masks? Admit the doxxing and threats to their family? Are you honest enough to admit the 1000% increase in attacks on them? Are ya buddy?

Just yesterday an illegal seemingly intentionally crashed into CBP. We've had ambushed set up. We've had antifa sending threats to their homes.

Can you admit to that Mike?

[Quicktown Brix]

There's nothing leftist about keeping soldiers off the streets...unless you think the American revolution was leftist. This is completely consistent with not wanting a powerful federal government using martial law to rule over individuals for the welfare of the state.

Yes, I admit the feds are masking to protect themselves from doxing...which indicates a major problem. When the state declares people the enemy, agents of the state face pushback from the people.

Antifa has active for decades, but it's only recently that this huge uptick in masked agents has arisen. Why is that?

[Z Crazy]

I just want peace and order.

Look at what this illegal alien did.

https://x.com/John_Kass/status/1955587928626745826

Fuck due process!

Screw freedumb!

[Quicktown Brix]

That's understandable.

We all choose our desired balance between freedom/risk and law and order/oppression.

My issue is about that law and order being used against ever increasing targets, especially if the original problem is resolved.

So if Trump floods the streets with police/soldiers and successfully removes all illegal aliens we're left with an underemployed, unionized, voting domestic army. Surely the next target is waiting in the wings...perhaps conservatives...again.

[JesseAz (Prime Meanster of Sarcasia)]

Increasing targets being more than the conservatives it seems.

Again. Fuck the victims of crimes.

You have massive white savior syndrome. All at the expense of taxpayers and citizens. Bet you donate zero time or money for your virtue signaling.

[JesseAz (Prime Meanster of Sarcasia)]

Because your allies on the left are failing hard working Americans by allowing and ignoring crime dumbfuck.

When you say you dont want soldiers on the streets you just mean you want violaters of the law to not be held accountable.

You want citizens to be impacted by your reformative justice desires.

Criminals over non criminals.

Every argument you make is a sloppily crafted libertarian argument for leftist policy.

You don't have 2 fucks about the victims of criminals. You care about the narrative and protection of criminals. You, jeff, sarc are all the same.

And your desire is political. You defended attacks against anti abortion protestors by the doj. You defended use of IC against conservatives including their lawyers. What you actually want is for federal and state powers to be fully controlled by the left.

Youre fooling nobody Mike. You dont criticize the left for their abuses. Even with all the examples now declassified you've been absolutely quiet.

Fuck off.

[Quicktown Brix]

This comment and the previous comment is 100% attack on me; 0% rebuttal of my argument.

We discussed me 2 days ago. That's done now.

[Medulla Oblongata]

The sandwich chucker has been arrested, charged with felony assault of a police officer and fired from his job...as a DOJ lawyer.

I guess he can count himself lucky he was not shot in the face be an officer fearing for his life.

[Bubba Jones]

Did the homeless person have a court order demanding she leave by Monday, or did she have a court order authorizing her to stay until Monday?

These are different things.

[Earth-based Human Skeptic]

Is this that due process stuff?

[JesseAz (Prime Meanster of Sarcasia)]

President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin are meeting at a summit in Alaska to discuss an end to the war in Ukraine—with no Ukrainian leaders present.

Big Z was launching attacks just yesterday. He doesn't want peace. He wants continued graft.

[Michael Ejercito]

How is he different than the mujahedeen?

[JesseAz (Prime Meanster of Sarcasia)]

His game plan is very similar to Hamas.

[Social Justice is neither]

I have been assured that Z's winning strategy is to kill a few 10k Russians at 10x the cost in Ukrainian lives so he and his cronies can disappear with maximum Western money.

[Earth-based Human Skeptic]

Is Hunter still on the distribution list?

[Mickey Rat]

And how does Putin want peace?

[JesseAz (Prime Meanster of Sarcasia)]

His actual goals have been fairly clear from the outset. Stopping NATO expansion east while securing a path to the black Sea. The initial targets in Ukraine had voted for succession to Russia. It could have likely ended there and the Donna's region if not for NATO and Ukraine allowing the succession.

[Earth-based Human Skeptic]

But if local people vote for the wrong thing, they threaten Democracy.

[sarcasmic]

"May you live in interesting times." -Ancient Chinese curse

[InsaneTrollLogic (Muting Sarc like he mutes us)]

“You went full retard, man. Never go full retard.”
- Kirk Lazarus

[Randy Sax]

Confucius say;
Wise man never play leapfrog with unicorn

[InsaneTrollLogic (Muting Sarc like he mutes us)]

But Sarc is not a wise man.

[But SkyNet is a Private Company]

The Obama and Biden Admins never put out social media. Only Trump cares about The Spectacle of a 1 minute video put together by low level employees.

At least they film themselves doing their jobs, as opposed to the Obama Era GSA making hype choreographed videos for their million dollar Vegas excursions

[Earth-based Human Skeptic]

"Leavitt said homeless individuals will be offered transportation to shelters or provided with mental health and addiction resources."

Like on Martha's Vineyard?

[Mickey Rat]

"...while Trump said it was a "feel-out meeting" to understand where Putin's coming from."

Putin is coming from the desire to have a Russian jackboot stamping on a Ukrainian face, forever.

[Z Crazy]

I heard the much more powerful Soviets had trouble in Afghanistan.

[Earth-based Human Skeptic]

What if the District of Columbia was not a legal residence for anyone, in a tent or in a brownstone? People can still live there but must be a legal resident of some actual US state (or other nation). Would that simplify governance? At the very least, no legal residents mean no "domestic" D.C. city government.

[Earth-based Human Skeptic]

'Though I appreciate the use of DaBaby, and think there's probably some segment of Trump voters this might play well with, both the new livery and the fact that they spent time filming and distributing this video (which goes pretty hard) just indicates that Trump really really cares about the show of it all, the spectacle, the illusion he can create'

Jesus Christ, Liz, can you point to any US President (or any politician) that does not work to broadcast an image and put on a show? Or are you, and the other Reasonistas, upset that the Tump Show is overt and sometimes crude (and that it appeals to Those People in fly-over country)?

[Earth-based Human Skeptic]

'I kinda love Staten Island, booing Zohran Mamdani out of a restaurant with "there's the communist."'

Damned deplorables!

[Earth-based Human Skeptic]

'"The more important meeting will be the second meeting that we're having: We're going to have a meeting with President Putin, President [Volodymyr] Zelenskyy, myself, and maybe we'll bring some of the European leaders on. Maybe not," he added yesterday.'

POST THE LIST!

[Earth-based Human Skeptic]

'More examples of the federal government attempting to get a stake in private companies'

True, not very libertarian, but a better deal than the Democrat approach of staking private companies to billions of dollars in free money.

[Earth-based Human Skeptic]

"'Everybody in America wants to know what went on in Epstein Island, and we've all heard reports that Bill Clinton was a frequent visitor there, so he's a prime suspect to be deposed by the House Oversight Committee,' Comer said Monday during an interview on Newsmax."

Uh oh. Bill might end up on the Clinton Foundation suicide list.

[Z Crazy]

This is why we need Alligator Alcatraz!

This is why we need Dade County Dachau!

Fuck their due process and screw their freedumbs!

https://x.com/John_Kass/status/1955587928626745826

[Rick James]

Though I appreciate the use of DaBaby, and think there's probably some segment of Trump voters this might play well with,

*cough* black people.

[Earth-based Human Skeptic]

"If they vote for Trump, they ain't black."
- Biden or Sharpton or some (all) left wing shill

[InsaneTrollLogic (Muting Sarc like he mutes us)]

“They're gonna put y'all back in chains."
- Joe Biden

[Rick James]

. "We were told that there would be a list of sites that would receive closure activity from the National Park Service and other law enforcement officials, and we would support that effort by providing a connection to homeless services for those who are adversely impacted," said Wayne Turnage, Washington's deputy mayor for health and human services, to reporters assembled at the encampment clearing.

How do you tell me this is working without telling me it's working.

[Rick James]

They ran into some thorny jurisdictional problems. A 34-year-old homeless woman named Meghann Abraham presented federal enforcement with a notice she'd received from the city saying she had until Monday to leave the area;

How do you tell me this is working without telling me it's working.

[Rick James]

None of this can come as a shock, and there appears to be decent collaboration between Turnage's department, the feds, and the White House to get this done in an orderly fashion that attempts to steer homeless people toward existing social services the city provides.

How do you tell me this is working, without telling me it's working.

[Z Crazy]

I heard of proposals for gun owners to have insurance in order to compensate the victims of gun crimes.

I wonder if all immigrants be required to have insurance (on pain of deportation) that would compensate victims of crimes committed by illegal aliens.

[Rick James]

With Colorado, New York, Chicago and California providing free insurance to all, regardless of citizenship.

[Earth-based Human Skeptic]

Given that much gun crime is committed by young black males (and mostly on other black folk) perhaps we could require gangs to have liability insurance.

[I, Woodchipper]

Trump really really cares about the show of it all, the spectacle, the illusion he can create

The man is a tv star first and foremost.

[Dillinger]

D.C. is Hollywood for the Ugly.

edit: and seriously Liz all politics is an illusory spectacle

[Earth-based Human Skeptic]

BUT TRUMP!

[Chumby]

BUT TRUMP is an anagram for BUTT RUMP

[Dillinger]

>>Attorney General Pam Bondi and D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser are at loggerheads over who has jurisdiction to do what when policing the city.

zero question exists.

[Earth-based Human Skeptic]

"Loggerheads"?

The 19th century called and wants its word back.

[Dillinger]

>>President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin are meeting at a summit in Alaska to discuss an end to the war in Ukraine—with no Ukrainian leaders present.

the gnat running Ukraine into the ground fucks things up every time.

[Dillinger]

>>Everybody in America wants to know what went on in Epstein Island

not true, James Comer

[InsaneTrollLogic (Muting Sarc like he mutes us)]

Just for our friends J(ew)free, misconstrueman, Misek, Sarc, and others, including Mr. Open Society himself, Shrike.

https://x.com/datarepublican/status/1956367671051846027?s=46&t=qeA47-JjK6vq0pfnxg60dA

FOLLOW THE MONEY: PALESTINIAN “KIDS’ SHOWS”

For years, children’s programming in Palestinian territories has doubled as political indoctrination, often bankrolled through foreign donors ... but also our own taxpayer dollars.

Over the next posts, I’ll trace how entertainment for kids became propaganda for war, and how we ended up bankrolling that.

Patience as I pull the thread together.

The most infamous show was Tomorrow's Pioneers, which aired in 2007-2009, with a revival in 2013. In one of its episodes, a Mickey Mouse look-alike was "safeguarded" with the trust of getting Tel Al-Rabi land back (Tel Aviv).

After being safeguarded with the trust to get the land back, Farfour's grandfather died and Farfour is in agony about how to get the land back for him.

Farfour is approached by investors and refuses to give the land over. He is also approached with peace deals, saying that he can co-exist in the land. He rejects them all - the only acceptable condition is that Farfour's people own all the land.

At the end of the program, Farfour is martyred in defending his land.

This was just one episode of Tomorrow's Pioneers. Many of its episodes echoed similar sentiments, including a bunny mascot that declared "I, Assud, will get rid of the Jews, and I will eat them up, Allah willing!"

The show was produced by Al-Aqsa TV, strictly controlled by Hamas and designated a terrorist group by US Treasury in 2010.

The director of Al-Aqsa TV at the time of the production was Fathi Hammad, a longtime member of the Muslim Brotherhood and a member of the now-defunct Palestinian Legislative Council (PLC) which had been the legislative body of Palestinian Authority.

I have to take back a step here and explain a little about how Palestine government works (my understanding is limited, so please correct).

Palestinian Authority (PA) was created under the 1994 Oslo Accords and gets foreign aid. It governs part of the West Bank along with Israel. Hamas controls Gaza Strip.

PA can coordinate some foreign aid to Gaza, but UNRWA runs most of the foreign aid operation.

Hamas Political Bureau (Politburo) is Hamas' main decision-making body.

Fathi Hammad, who oversaw the Al-Aqsa TV network during the run of Tomorrow's Pioneers, ia a member of Hamas Politburo, positioning him as one of the most powerful Hamas politicians.

The overlap between Hamas and UNRWA goes deep. For example, Suheil Al-Hindi is a member of Hamas Politburo -- while being a principal of UNRWA school and head of the UNRWA Palestinian worker's union.

Another infamous instance of overlap was when Fateh al-Sharif, UNRWA school teacher, was found to have been responsible for Hamas' political and military actions in Lebanon and was working with Hezbelloah to attack Israel.

Under Obama and Biden administrations, UNRWA received heavy funding from the United States. 19 UNRWA members were alleged to have participated in Oct 7th attacks and even an internal UNRWA investigation concluded that nine "may" have participated.

One of UNRWA's partner organizations is Open Society Foundations.

The official broadcaster of the Palestinian Authority is Palestinain Broadcasting Corporation (PBC). They, too, have hosted kids' shows celebrating martyrdom.

A 2016 Congressional report shows the extent of the US support for Palestine. In it, the US is the single largest state donor to UNRWA. The US also provided money directly to Palestinian Authority, although it was well aware that PA funded questionable activities.

These children's TV shows have been recurring subjects of Israeli media outrage. Palestine accused them of "double standards" due to as Israel's own occupation of Palestine.

Note the name of the Palestinian Information Minister below who denounced the criticism - Mustafa Barghouti.

Barghouti is a regular participant in UNRWA conferences, including their "Engaging Youth" project which aims to improve the well-being of children.

A declassified Israel report found that 12% of UNRWA members were members of Hamas or other terrorist factions. The vast majority were employed in education and teaching.