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Asses&Villains: Invasion by Design and Fake Evidence

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A few weeks after the armed FBI raid of Mar-a-Lago in August 2022, the Department of Justice released a stunning photograph depicting alleged contraband seized from Donald Trump’s Palm Beach estate that day; the image showed colored sheets representing scary classification levels attached to files purportedly discovered in Trump’s private office.

Included as a government exhibit to oppose Trump’s lawsuit requesting a special master to vet the 13,000 items taken from his residence, the crime scene pic immediately went viral—just as Attorney General Merrick Garland, who authorized the unprecedented raid, intended. 

However….

New court filings in Special Counsel Jack Smith’s espionage and obstruction case against Trump and two co-defendants conclusively demonstrate that the government used the cover sheets to deceive the public as well as the court. The photo was a stunt, and one that adds more fuel to this dumpster-fire case.

Jay Bratt, who was the lead DOJ prosecutor on the investigation at the time and now is assigned to Smith’s team, described the photo this way in his August 30, 2022 response to Trump’s special master lawsuit:

“[Thirteen] boxes or containers contained documents with classification markings, and in all, over one hundred unique documents with classification markings…were seized. Certain of the documents had colored cover sheets indicating their classification status. (Emphasis added.) See, e.g., Attachment F (redacted FBI photograph of certain documents and classified cover sheets recovered from a container in the ‘45 office’).”

The DOJ’s clever wordsmithing, however, did not accurately describe the origin of the cover sheets. In what must be considered not only an act of doctoring evidence but willfully misleading the American people into believing the former president is a criminal and threat to national security, agents involved in the raid attached the cover sheets to at least seven files to stage the photo.

Classified cover sheets were not “recovered” in the container, contrary to Bratt’s declaration to the court. In fact, after being busted recently by defense attorneys for mishandling evidence in the case, Bratt had to fess up about how the cover sheets actually ended up on the documents.  

Here is Bratt’s new version of the story, where he finally admits a critical detail that he failed to disclose in his August 2022 filing:

“[If] the investigative team found a document with classification markings, it removed the document, segregated it, and replaced it with a placeholder sheet. The investigative team used classified cover sheets for that purpose.”

But before the official cover sheets were used as placeholder, agents apparently used them as props. FBI agents took it upon themselves to paperclip the sheets to documents—something evident given the uniform nature of how each cover sheet is clipped to each file in the photo—laid them on the floor, and snapped a picture for political posterity.

That raises many troubling questions, to say the least, about the FBI’s handling of the alleged incriminating documents.

For example, who made the on-site determination as to the classification level appropriate for each document? Did agents have security clearance and expertise related to classification? Did the agents know whether the document had been declassified by Trump while still in office?

The hasty assessment also appears to contradict Bratt’s statements in court about the classification status of the seized documents. Bratt told Judge Aileen Cannon during a hearing last year that the records were undergoing a classification review, presumably conducted by the intelligence community, to determine the correct level of secrecy. 

Did the final analysis confirm or dispute the assessments by the field FBI agents who conducted the raid?

Missing Paper Trial and Messy Boxes

But Jack Smith might have bigger problems. During the raid, agents took a box in its entirety if it contained papers with classified markings; the box usually contained other items, which is how the FBI ended up with so many of Trump’s personal belongings.

So, in order to flag the location of the alleged classified record in the box, agents, as Bratt noted, used the cover sheets as placeholders. (The classified records were then placed in a separate secure file.)

But now defense attorneys claim, and the special counsel concedes, that some placeholders do not match the relevant document. “Following defense counsel’s review of the physical boxes…and the documents produced in classified discovery, defense counsel has learned that the cross-reference provided by the Special Counsel’s Office does not contain accurate information,” attorneys representing Trump’s co-defendant Waltine Nauta wrote in a May 1 motion.

The motion forced the special counsel to admit the error. “In many but not all instances, the FBI was able to determine which document with classification markings corresponded to a particular placeholder sheet,” Bratt wrote.

In other words, in their zeal to stage a phony photo using official classified cover sheets, FBI agents might have failed to accurately match the placeholder sheet with the appropriate document. This is a potentially case-blowing mistake, particularly if the document in question is one of the 34 records that represents the basis of espionage charges against Trump.

And there is another issue in connection with the cover sheets. Defense attorneys also noted that in at least one instance, the location of the cover sheet in the physical box didn’t match the FBI’s accounting. “[The] sheet…does not appear for several hundreds of pages later than the FBI Index indicated it would. Defense counsel’s review of these materials calls into question the likelihood that the contents of the physical boxes remains (sic) the same as when they were seized by the FBI on August 8, 2022.”

Which Bratt also admitted is an issue. After the boxes were transported from Florida to the hopelessly corrupt Washington FBI field office (another scandalous aspect of the case since the investigation should have been conducted in southern Florida not in another jurisdiction), a private company took scans of the inside of the boxes. But according to the defense team, the current condition of the boxes does not match the scans taken in August 2022. 

Bratt explained that “there are some boxes where the order of items within that box is not the same as in the associated scans.” He then offered a list of excuses including how some “boxes contain items smaller than standard paper such as index cards, books, and stationary, which shift easily when the boxes are carried, especially because many of the boxes are not full.”

It is safe to assume Judge Cannon will not take these new revelations lightly–particularly since Bratt also had to admit in the same filing that he did not tell her the truth when she asked about the condition of the boxes during a hearing last month. On April 12, Cannon directly asked Bratt, “are the boxes in their original, intact form as seized?” Bratt replied yes, but “with one exception, and that is that the classified documents have been removed and placeholders have been put in the documents [place.]”

In other places…

Why was climate change activist Gretta Thunberg at a Palestine protest you ask? Because the issue is never the issue, the issue is always the revolution – and both climate change and Palestine are issues the left uses to build support for their revolution.

NEW: Georgia Election Board dumbfounded after finding out that 3,000 ballots were scanned twice in the 2020 election recount in Fulton County. The board also revealed that 380,761 ballot images from machine count were “not available.” Q: Does Fulton County know why there are not 380,761 ballot images from election day? A: As with the investigators we have not been apprised of this allegation. This is the first I’m hearing about it. General counsel for the secretary of state’s office Charlene McGowan confirmed that Fulton County broke the law in their recount. “Fulton County used improper procedures during the recount of the presidential contest in 2020.” Despite this, the board refused to approve further investigation.

Also in Georgia…new voting reform bill in Georgia, just signed by Republican Gov. Brian Kemp, would require all absentee ballots to be tabulated and the results reported on Election Night.

On Monday, Kemp signed SB 189, which makes several significant changes to Georgia’s election procedures. The bill removed some possible conflicts of interest between the secretary of state, the state Board of Elections, and those involved with counting ballots; compels homeless residents to list their county register’s office as their mailing address; prevents voters from using a P.O. box or private mailbox service as proof of residency; and requires individuals who have voted or registered to vote in another state or district to re-register in their original district before they will be allowed to cast a ballot there, WSBTV.com reported.

In Washington….

House Dems just voted UNANIMOUSLY this week to give illegals representation in Congress AND the Electoral College. House Seats and Electoral College votes WILL BE added to areas with the most illegals (including all Biden illegals) unless Senate passes the bill. Invasion by design.

American citizenship means less and less. It take some folks 7 to 10 years to earn citizenship. Dems don’t hide their true colors anymore. They are importing voters for one-party control. This is not constitutional.

Asses&Villains: Hunger Strike for Hamas!

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Having fun watching idiots do idiotic things–Princeton students dressed in Islamic attire announce they are going on HUNGER STRIKE. “We will abstain from all food and drink except water until the following demands are met.” Demands: • Divest from Israel • Cultural Boycott • Complete Amnesty from all criminal charges.

The best thing about watching clueless cosplaying intersectional studies majors with masks and batons and helmets colonializing campuses with garbage-strewn barricaded shanty towns while policing Jew checkpoints in a $9.95 reflective vest and mindlessly repeating genocidal Hamas slogans from a professor with a bullhorn until they decide it’s time to smash the windows of the library and take that over too? When they start screaming “SHAME SHAME” as soon as somebody tries to stop them. Idiots.

One thing the 1960s got right is the idea that the personal is political. There’s a deep connection between mental depravity, covid hysteria, identity politics, and supporting Hamas.

What the frat boys get, but writers at the NYT and WAPO either don’t or pretend not to, is that these anti-Israel protests are also anti-America. The colonialism blah blah land back bullsh!t these leftists are pushing is specifically an anti-American line too. It’s just the latest Leftist/Progessive push and it’s very obvious. It could be any of their issues, they don’t *extra* care about this one. Could be Occupy Wall Street or George Floyd or Climate Change or whatever. The cause of the Palestinians could not matter less to these people, the point is a cultural revolution. That’s why the frat boys are waving American flags and singing the Star Spangled Banner. They get it. Most of us get it.

From the WH Press Briefing: REPORTER: “The president said he wants to let the Trump tax cuts expire. If that law expires, it does raise taxes on almost every American. Does he still support that expiring without anything else in place?” Biden Press Secretary: “The president is going to allow the Trump tax cut to expire. He was very clear. But he will not raise taxes on anyone making less than $400,000/year…It’s going to expire for the wealthy.” REPORTER: “The president can’t pick and choose which parts of the law sunsets. The entire law will sunset, and the Tax Foundation says that someone who’s married, two kids, making $85,000 would pay $1,700 more in taxes. That’s somebody under $400K—” Biden Press Secretary: BUT REPUBLICANS…..First of all, the sunset doesn’t take effect until the end of 2025. Let’s hope her boss is nowhere near the presidency by then. Second, she’s materially false. If the old rates take effect, the lowest brackets minus the very lowest bracket will see their taxes go up.

Asses&Villains: The Disintegration of Amerika

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The protests, which began at Columbia University, have expanded nationwide – with copycat tent cities erected at colleges including Harvard, Yale, Berkeley in California, the Ohio State University and Emory in Georgia, with organized branches of the Soros-funded Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) having organized them.

The parent organization of SJP has been funded by a constellation of nonprofits which all lead to Soros.

At three colleges, the protests are being encouraged by paid radicals who are “fellows” of a Soros-funded group called the US Campaign for Palestinian Rights (USCPR).

USCPR provides up to $7,800 for its community-based fellows and between $2,880 and $3,660 for its campus-based “fellows” in return for spending eight hours a week organizing “campaigns led by Palestinian organizations.”

They are trained to “rise up, to revolution.” The radical group received at least $300,000 from Soros’ Open Society Foundations since 2017 and also took in $355,000 from the Rockefeller Brothers Fund since 2019. -NY Post

The following are statements about the United States of America in 2024. These statements are not in any way hyperbolic, and they represent a stark reality that not even the most rabid Democrat can deny. Here they are:

1. The leader of the nation’s opposition party is currently defending himself in a series of contrived #lawfare criminal and civil suits reminiscent of fascist Hitlerian/Stalinesque show trials of the 20th Century, for the primary purpose of making it extremely difficult for him to be elected as President of the nation.

2. On campuses throughout the nation, Jewish students are being persecuted and attacked in a manner reminiscent of the German Nazi Party’s Kristallnacht of November 9 and 10, 1938.

3. In many states across the nation there are no voting laws enforced that effectively verify that ballots come from qualified citizen voters.

4. Individuals who peacefully protested the matter of #3 have been imprisoned by the federal government in inhumane conditions for literally years without trial.

5. The nation’s Southern Border is wide open to the point where any person who is capable of walking can cross into the nation AND receive free money and support necessary to survive. There is no mechanism to ensure that criminals and terrorists are not taking advantage of such a situation.

6. The current President constantly displays symptoms of advanced elder dementia.

7. The current President has repeatedly labeled the opposition party as a “threat to democracy,” often alongside visual imagery similar to that used by Hitler and other fascist leaders of the 20th Century.

8. The nation’s debt equals over 120% of its annual GDP.

9. As a consequence of inflation and interest rates, most middle-class citizens of the nation cannot afford to purchase a home.

10. The political party that controls the Presidency and the Senate has actively supported sending tens of billions of dollars to foreign governments who are credibly accused of money laundering funds provided to such party members, while not providing remotely similar assistance to the residents of the State of Hawaii who were burned out of their homes.

11. The nation’s military has equipment readiness rates making it incapable of fighting effectively, while instead focusing on “diversity” initiatives that promote race/gender/sexuality over war fighting skills and competency.

12. The overwhelming majority of the nation’s mass media refuses to report on any of the above matters, and in most cases, the people running such mass media have close familial and personal connections to the people directly responsible for the above matters.

These are symptoms of a nation on the verge of disintegration. Moreover, these are qualities consistent with failed regimes of the 20th Century.

Then there’s Harvy–Harvy Weinstein’s real crime was humiliating famous women when they were exposed for selling sex for fame and access. They’re good actresses though- they had to feign shock and horror that the oldest transactional contract in Hollywood – the casting couch – still exists. Who never complained? The ones that got what they wanted (fame and fortune) and kept their mouths shut.

Asses&Villains: Cannibals Ate Joe Biden’s Uncle

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“A generation of the unteachable is hanging upon us like a necklace of corpses.” — George Orwell

The White House admits Joe Biden was lying when he suggested that his uncle was eaten by cannibals in New Guinea during WW2. Wow, I thought this was a true story. Karine Jean-Pierre tried deflecting by saying Biden was simply just expressing how “incredibly proud” he was of his uncle before admitting the story was false. “You saw the president, he was incredibly proud of his uncle’s service in uniform.” Jean-Pierre then admitted that his uncle Ambrose Finnegan died by crashing into the Pacific. “You saw him respond to all of you when asked about the moment yesterday and his uncle who lost his life when the military aircraft he was on crashed in the Pacific after taking off near New Guinea.”

I’ve never heard of “expressing you’re proud” of a relative by claiming they were eaten by cannibals. What about Corn Pop…is that story made up too?

House Democrats finally found a nation’s flag they believe is worth waiving. Not yours…Ukraine’s dummy. Instead of outlining a long-term plan for addressing the war in Ukraine, we’re hastily throwing billions of taxpayer dollars at a problem without a clear solution or exit strategy.

Google Fires Pro-Palestinian Protestors

Google’s dismissal of 28 protesting employees on Wednesday has exposed the tech giant’s evolution from its idealistic origins into a more conventional company, a significant shift from its initial pledges. Silicon Valley’s leading firms, including Google, have long encouraged talented employees to regard the office as a campus, where they could “bring their whole selves” to work and change the world for the better. However, workers who bought into those promises are now facing a moment of truth.

The 28 firings came in the wake of sit-in protests on Tuesday at Google offices in Silicon Valley and New York City. The demonstrators opposed a $1.2 billion 2021 Google Cloud contract with the Israeli government, contending that Google’s support for the effort — known as Project Nimbus — was harming Palestinians in Gaza. Nine employees were arrested during the sit-ins.

In a note to employees, CEO Sundar Pichai wrote, “This is a business, and not a place to act in a way that disrupts coworkers or makes them feel unsafe, to attempt to use the company as a personal platform, or to fight over disruptive issues or debate politics.” Google also stated that the Project Nimbus contract is “not directed at highly sensitive, classified, or military workloads relevant to weapons or intelligence services.”

Google, from its early days, prided itself on creating a university-like atmosphere for the elite engineers it hired. Dissent was encouraged in the belief that open discourse fostered innovation. “A lot of Google is organized around the fact that people still think they’re in college when they work here,” then-CEO Eric Schmidt told “In the Plex” author Steven Levy in the 2000s. However, what worked for an organization with a few thousand employees is harder to maintain among nearly 200,000 workers. Generational shifts in political and social expectations also mean that Google’s leadership and its rank-and-file aren’t always aligned.

Google has already faced several waves of employee protest over its programs. In 2018, thousands of Google workers protested its participation in a Defense Department effort called Project Maven that attempted to apply AI to the Pentagon’s image-recognition needs. Some employees quit, arguing that their research should not be used to help target drones. The company has also previously undertaken high-profile firings or quasi-firings, like those of AI researchers Margaret Mitchell and Timnit Gebru. (Google maintains Gebru resigned.) With this week’s dismissals, the company made it clear that it views the current protests not as a form of intellectual disagreement but as a matter of rules enforcement and security.

Social media posts and reports of the debate on internal Google message boards show a deep split in thinking on the firings. One group of observers — often older or more conservative in perspective, and including many business leaders or investors — applauds Google, saying the protesters got what they deserved and were deluded for thinking that the workplace was an appropriate forum for political action. Another group — often younger, more progressive and more friendly to labor — sees the protests as an act of conscience and the firings as a betrayal of Google’s founding values.

It’s a Vindman Thing – Eugene Vindman, who already has been accused of being a carpetbagger, posed with a Confederate-era Virginia flag over the weekend, was forced to apologize… then bizarrely called for Virginia to change its state flag. Somehow his “apology” made both Democrats and Republicans even more upset.

Vindman was attacked by local legislators and his primary opponents, who said it was “disheartening” and “ignorant” and even called him “out of state grifter.”

“Eugene Vindman isn’t ready for primetime. Should Vindman somehow squeak out of the primary, Republicans are ready to pounce on him and flip this seat in November.” — NRCC Spokeswoman Delanie Bomar

Asses&Villains: Biden’s Inflation Stranglehold

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A good summary of the moment we find ourselves in from Matt Continetti: “A global movement sympathetic to Hamas is fighting an information war with the objective of isolating Israel diplomatically and undermining its right to exist. We have learned that the United States, our universities, and our social media platforms are fronts in this campaign. And we have learned that anti-Semitism has returned with shocking power to demonize, harass, intimidate, and assault Jews throughout the diaspora. What Jewish immigrants to America in the beginning of the 20th century called the ‘Golden Land’ is no exception.”

It is utterly meaningless to tell Israel it “has a right to defend itself” then deny it the weapons to do so, condemn every action it takes, and scream for a ceasefire. The world is making clear that there are no consequences for terrorism. What course is left to us but to reluctantly conclude that the administration’s preferred policy now is that Hamas should win the war it started on October 7?

Biden’s Inflation is Strangling America.

The younger generation needs to start understanding that elections have consequences. TRUMP: Mortgage loan 3.72%, Inflation 1.4, % Gas per gal $2.17. BIDEN Mortgage loan 7.5%, Inflation 3.5%, Gas per gal $3.48.

Most people think that an improved and even repaired inflation would restore prices to their 2020 level. That’s not going to happen. Many people are only coming around now to the realization that what happened to us has done permanent damage to purchasing power.

The latest from the official CPI (consumer price index) shows that inflation is going up higher than it did in June 2023. By some measures, inflation is worsening at a faster pace. Anyone who shops for groceries already knows this. Food prices are up 35–50 percent since 2019 and still rising.

Look at prices in general. We are daily slammed with sticker shock. Remember that people do not buy all the products and services in the CPI daily. It has been nothing but bad news every time you take out your wallet.

The job market is still bad. Despite what the experts at the White House try to put out, the jobs data has already experienced a major debunking. Full-time positions are giving way to part-time positions, much of it held by immigrant populations. This is a major factor as to why the establishment and household surveys have diverged so much over the last several years. The job market is not healthy, with a continued lack of labor participation and worsening conditions for professional workers.

From the Wall Street Journal in a separate piece: “the household employment figures haven’t just shown slowing job growth in recent months, but outright deterioration.”

Another corrective comes from the Philadelphia Fed: “In the aggregate, 10,500 net new jobs were added during the period rather than the 1,121,500 jobs estimated by the sum of the states; the U.S. CES estimated net growth of 1,047,000 jobs for the period.”

The interest-based cost of borrowing puts last year’s inflation rate at 18 percent, which is far worse than the 1970s. If we add a correct estimate of health insurance costs, we could be looking at 20-plus percent on an annualized basis.

With the election upcoming, the liberal media and Democrats will continue to work hand in hand to push the propaganda that everything is just fine. But you know it isn’t.

Asses&Villains: Did the Dali Need Tugs?

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With the 95,000-ton cargo ship Dali powerless and hurtling helplessly toward the Francis Scott Key Bridge, the harbor pilot commanding the vessel had just minutes to make his last, desperate attempts to avoid disaster. He declared distress, dropped anchor and, notably, called for help from nearby tugboats.

Two 5,000-horsepower tugs, which only minutes earlier had helped guide the ship out of its berth at the Port of Baltimore and peeled off, quickly turned back and raced toward the Dali. But it was too late. But maritime experts interviewed by The Associated Press say they could have made a difference if the tugs had stuck by the ship longer, escorting it on its 18-minute trip through the port’s deep-water channel, in a position to see it drifting off course and potentially nudge or tow it back in line.

Tugboat escorts aren’t required or even customary in Baltimore or at many other U.S. ports, mostly because of the costs they would add for shippers. But with the increasing size of cargo ships and the threat they pose to bridges and other critical infrastructure, some are questioning whether they should be.

Baltimore’s port, operated by the state of Maryland, ordinarily uses tugboats to help maneuver big ships out of their docks and doesn’t require extended tugboat escorts into the port’s channel and broader Chesapeake Bay unless ordered by local harbor pilots or the U.S. Coast Guard over safety concerns tied to weather, traffic, cargo or mechanical issues.

The National Transportation Safety Board, which is investigating the crash, said a review of the ship’s voyage data recorder showed the pilot’s 1:26 a.m. call for help from nearby tugs came about four minutes before impact.

“One of the things that was hard for me to believe is that they didn’t require tugs on the vessel as it was traversing towards the bridge,” said David Heindel, president of the Seafarers International Union, which represents U.S. merchant mariners.

“Some ports require tugs, depending on the vessel, usually tankers. You see where tugs have to escort ships in and out of port, especially narrow ports,” Heindel said. “In the end, I think that that may be exactly what happens in the Port of Baltimore.”

From John Konrad- Of the pilots I interviewed this is the most conservative response: “A strong z drive or voith or any tractor tug tethered astern of the ship would have made a difference. Not on the bow so much since the pivot point with headway is so far forward. An escort tug made up to the deck aft to a strong bitt could either back full for those five minutes or go indirect mode sideways and have even more pull. Especially if fitted with a large skeg as most have. I’ve met with all powers that be in my port over the last 48 hours and pro-actively initiated a tug escort requirement under our bridge. Ships will go 8 knots with one 5,000 hp / 50 ton pollard pull tug on stern. We will test its stopping capacity soon. I’m hoping for two to three ship lengths. But even if they don’t completely stop the ship they can cut speed dramatically. Plus shift to 45 degree angles to pull for steering at the same time reducing speed.” Two other pilots I interviewed said even though the pivot point is so far forward a tugboat forward still could have provided enough lateral pressure so the bow didn’t hit directly into the column but possibly would have sideswiped it (which still might have toppled the bridge). Both agreed that 5,000 HP pull tug astern could have prevented this disaster. All that said, it’s great to learn that at least one pilot association will be testing this scenario on the water.

A darker note from Laura Logan posted on X — Multiple intel sources: Baltimore bridge collapse was an “absolutely brilliant strategic attack” on US critical infrastructure – most likely cyber – & our intel agencies know it. In information warfare terms, they just divided the US along the Mason-Dixon line. The second busiest strategic roadway in the nation for hazardous material is now down for 4-5 years – which is how long they say it will take to recover. Bridge was built specifically to move hazardous material – fuel, diesel, propane gas, nitrogen, highly flammable materials, chemicals, and oversized cargo that cannot fit in the tunnels – that supply chain now crippled. If true, this was an extraordinary attack in terms of planning, timing & execution. The two critical components on that bridge are the two load-bearing pylons on each end, closest to the shore. They are bigger, thicker, and deeper than anything else. These are the anchor points and they knew that hitting either one of them would be a fatal wound to the integrity of the bridge. Half a mile of bridge went in the river – likely you will have to build a new one. Also caused so much damage to the structural integrity of the bottom concrete part that you cannot see & won’t know until they take the wreckage apart. Structural destruction is likely absolute. We are in a free-fall ride on a roller coaster right now – no brakes – just picking up speed.” The footage shows the cargo ship never got in the approach lane in the channel. You have to be in the channel before you get into that turn. Location was precise/deliberate: chose a bend in the river where you have to slow down and commit yourself – once you are committed in that area there is not enough room to maneuver. Should have had a harbor pilot to pilot the boat. You are not supposed to traverse any obstacles without the harbor pilot. They chose a full moon so they would have maximum tidal shift – rise and fall. Brisk flow in that river on a normal day & have had a lot of rain recently so water was already moving along at a good pace. Hit it with enough kinetic energy to knock the load-bearing pylon out from under the highway – which fatally weakens the span and then 50 percent of the bridge fell into the water. All these factors when you look at it – this is how you teach people how to do this type of attack and there are so few people left in the system who know this. We have a Junior varsity team on the field. Tremendous navigational obstruction. Huge logistical nightmare to clean this up. Number of dead is tragic but not the whole measure of the attack. That kind-of bridge constantly under repair – always at night because there is so much traffic and they cannot obstruct that during the day. So concern is for repair guys who were on foot (out of their vehicles) working who may now be in the water – 48 degrees at most at this time of year. When you choke off Baltimore you have cut the main north-south hazardous corridor (I95) in half. Now has to go around the city – or go somewhere else. To move some of that cargo through the tunnel you may be able to get a permit but those are slow to get and require an escort system that is expensive and has to be done at night. For every $100 dollars that goes into the city, $12 comes from shipping. Believe this will cripple the city of Baltimore at a time when they do not have the resources to recover.

Asses&Villains: Republicans Will Be Crushed in November

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Republicans voted to fund Biden’s agenda and a due-process destroying “red flag center.” As of now, I do not believe that the GOP wants to win in November. The GOP just set the table for a democrat feast. And a lot of them are bailing out of office before November. They know what they’re done and what will happen. The only thing that spending bill did was plunge us further into our problems and demoralize the GOP base. Why would people turn out to vote for more of the same?

Every Democrat voted to continue flying at least 320,000 illegal aliens per year into the U.S. to be resettled. Under Biden, there’s no need to cross the border anymore – just call his travel agents at DHS and book a flight…..So they call us “American Voters”? Really? They’re importing people for the census, so they can grow their number of seats. We’re being replaced. This is more of a “selection” process that USED to belong to We the Citizens of the USA. The ONE “Special benefit”. Gone! The entire position is that democracy can’t survive American voters — which is to say, Americans’ pursuit of our interests threatens the Government’s interests. It is willing to destroy the republic to protect its power and privilege.

Democrats in New York City and their allies in leftist corporate media are keeping a massive migrant shelter hidden from the public, located at a previously operational airfield in southern Brooklyn. This comes as the metro area has been flooded with upwards of 175,000 illegals in just a few short years. 

According to a recent AFP News report, large white tents full of Central and South Americans, Africans, Chinese, and Russians are packed like cattle on one of the runways at Floyd Bennett Field. It’s hard to say how many migrants are in the tent city, but some figures put it at nearly 2,000. 

SCOOP: TX Guard confiscated knives from migrants who rushed the border, one tried to grab a gun. We’re also told that TX authorities are reviewing the video to determine which migrants were involved and are weighing state charges.

Pork City — With just hours to go before a shutdown, the House has passed the $1.2 trillion minibus bill, which will now head to the Senate.

As usual, Democrats slipped in as much pork as possible, including:

– $850k for a gay senior home
– $15 million to pay for Egyptian’s college tuitions
– $400k for a gay activist group to teach elementary kids about being trans
– $500k for a DEI zoo
– $400k for a group to gives clothes to teens to help them hide their gender

For the terrorists, there is only retribution and oblivion; they have no future. – Putin

Terror for Terror’s sake –– Some have compared today’s Krasnogorsk terrorist attack to one of the worst acts of terrorism in modern Russia, Nord Ost (Dubrovka theater) in 2002, because both took place in a theater. In the latter attack, terrorists held almost a thousand people hostage in Moscow, killed over a hundred, and wounded several hundred. But this comparison is inaccurate because in today’s attack the terrorists had no specific demands, unlike Nord Ost. It was a massacre for the purpose of causing maximum terror.

Meanwhile, back in America…Defending “democracy” by stripping Americans of their due process and Second Amendment rights using a unilateral federal decree.

Asses&Villains: Biden’s Bad Idea Fairy Strikes Again

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The Biden Bad Idea Fairy continues to work overtime.

Why is the concept of a Gaza Pier not a viable option? This needs an acronym. How about GMAFB for Gaza’s Moronic Army Floating Base?

(Seriously, there are better way to do this, the problem is the DoD divested most of the equipment and the Navy hates asking industry for help)

First, Gaza is a flat strip of coast with no protected harbors or coves. Thus means that any ‘pier’ would be completely open to the elements and seas.

Second, there are two ports just a few miles away. Ashdod in Israel is a large port and could handle the cargo, but it would require transport and delivery through Israeli territory. Al Arish in Egypt is smaller but protected by a breakwater and only a few miles from Gaza and avoids having to traverse Israeli territory. If the US wants to deliver aid over the beach, this would be akin to a Joint Logistics Over the Shore operations (JLOTS). This lighterage system is on prepositioning ships in the Indian and Pacific oceans or would need to be transported from the US. Lighterage would have to take the cargo from ships at anchor, meaning the ships would need to be self-sustaining (mount the cranes).

Another option would be to activate one of the ESDs to serve as a floating pier, but you would need lighterage of LCACs to shuttle cargo.We can do the Vietnam War model and build piers, which were barges with Jack-up legs, connected to shore by barges.

There were built in Cam Rahn and Da Nang, but these were protected harbors and the US had done this a few years earlier in the Arctic.Of course, the best group out there right now building piers and ports in China, as recently demonstrated with a new pier in Djibouti and base in Cambodia.The delivery of food aid and relief to Gaza is crucial.

However, it would have been better to undertake this effort in conjunction with Op Prosperity Guardian against the #Houthi, vice months later.

It could have undercut the Houthi effort while rounding out the US operation.

I don’t know what better sums up the modern American progressive establishment than this: Apologizing to the murderer, for calling him an illegal immigrant rather than “undocumented” with no thought of apologizing to the girl who was murdered for getting her actual name wrong.

Stupid–The fact they’re illegal immigrants means they literally could not have been here to build this country.

Progressive Democrats who try to tell you that it’s important to support Biden even though he’s committing a genocide because he might do some nice things for Americans domestically are actually giving you a useful insight into exactly what’s so evil about western liberalism.

Asses&Villains: Joseph K. in America

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“Somebody must have made a false accusation against Joseph K., for he was arrested one morning without having done anything wrong.” This is the first sentence of Kafka’s The Trial. On his 30th birthday, Joseph K. is arrested, but not locked up. The “guards,” who relay his arrest to him with unapologetic politeness, send him off to his regular job as a bank cashier. Yet from this point on, Joseph is no longer a normal employee — he has been transformed into the accused. K. never discovered why he was arrested or what he was charged with, and he was never able to understand the principles governing the system of justice in which he found himself ensnared. In the end, he did not resist his inevitable execution.

JUST IN: Blaze Media Investigative Journalist Steve Baker has been taken into FBI custody, allegedly for his J6 reporting. Baker previously said he didn’t know what the charges were against him but was told they were non-violent misdemeanors. “The prosecutor informed my attorney that I am to arrive at the FBI field office wearing ‘shorts and sandals,’” Baker said. “They didn’t have to go this route, as we’ve been told that my charges are non-violent misdemeanors.” “They seem to feel the need to give me a dose of the personal humiliation treatment.” Baker was reportedly present at the J6 riot as an independent journalist.

From the don’t believe the hype or buy into the CYOPS file:

Is it time to face the fact that so-called liberal institutions are breeding grounds of Jewish Hate? The US Government is failing its Jewish citizens. It must immediately cut off funding from every academic institution that facilitates Jew hatred on campus. These institutions don’t care enough to solve the problem — they won’t care until it hits their already bloated budgets.

Asses&Villains: Border Crisis in KGB America

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The Hunter Laptop Story has legs. A bombshell report from the NY Post dropped this week, stating that reporter Catherine Herridge of CBS had “her personal files seized by the network” in what is being called an “unprecedented” move. Herridge was investigating the Hunter Biden laptop story prior to her firing. 

Last week she was one of about 20 staffers fired from CBS as part of cuts at parent company Paramount, according to the NY Post. 

“It’s so extraordinary,” one source told The Post. 

“They never seize documents [when you’re let go],” a second source close to the network said. They added: “They want to see what damaging documents she has.”

The Post reported that a CBS spokesperson said: “We have respected her request to not go through the files, and out of our concern for confidential sources, the office she occupied has remained secure since her departure.”

“We are prepared to pack up the rest of her files immediately on her behalf – with her representative present as she requested,” they added. 

The network’s decision to retain her personal items and work laptop, leaving staff unsettled, was further complicated by the withholding of Herridge’s notes and files, raising concerns over potential impacts on her First Amendment rights.

Jonathan Turley commented in an opinion piece for The Hill: “She was pursuing stories that were unwelcomed by the Biden White House and many Democratic powerhouses, including the Hur report on Joe Biden’s diminished mental capacity, the Biden corruption scandal and the Hunter Biden laptop.”

Retaining Catherine Herridge’s notes and files raises concerns over the security of her confidential sources and the potential violation of HIPAA laws, given the inclusion of personal medical records.

Insiders worry this could affect her legal battles, including a case where she’s at risk of contempt for not revealing a source. Herridge’s troubles extend to disputes over coverage and conflicts with CBS News leadership, fueling speculation that her dismissal might lead to legal action for wrongful termination.

Herridge is defending a source’s identity in a First Amendment case, amidst criticism of CBS’s handling of the situation. Critics and SAG-AFTRA, the representing union, have voiced alarm, arguing CBS’s actions undermine media freedoms and set a troubling precedent. The union is actively engaging with CBS News, aiming for a swift resolution.

ON THE BORDER

It was revealed this week that a record 7.3 million illegal aliens have crossed the southwest border under President Biden’s watch. This data was sourced from the US Customs and Border Protection. 

Elon Musk expressed his hope that the masses are waking up to the migrant invasion facilitated by radicals in the Biden administration. He wrote on X, “I hope the public is waking up to this.” 

One uncomfortable reality of the invasion is that millions of unvetted folks from third-world countries are on US city streets. Some of these “asylum seekers” have deep connections with street gangs around the world, known for drug smuggling, human trafficking, and killings. 

New Yorkers saw firsthand the turmoil caused by some migrants when a 15-year-old undocumented male was charged with shooting a Brazilian tourist in the leg in the center of Times Square.