So what was the vegetable in the White House up to this week?
Margin Of Fraud
California DA Dropped Bombshell Election Data Case Because It Might Help Trump
L.A. County District Attorney George Gascon improperly — and for political reasons — dismissed the criminal charges against the CEO of election software services company Konnech, a governmental tort complaint filed Wednesday by the lead prosecutor on the case claims. That eight-page complaint against Gascon with the county Board of Supervisors further alleges the DA retaliated against his lead prosecutor for opposing the dismissal of the charges — and reveals many more previously unknown and troubling details about the entire case.
On Oct. 4, 2022, the L.A. County district attorney’s office announced Eugene Yu, the CEO of the Michigan-based Konnech, had been arrested in conjunction with criminal charges pending in California. In announcing Yu’s arrest, the DA’s office stated that “under its $2.9 million, five-year contract with the county, Konnech was supposed to securely maintain the data and that only United States citizens and permanent residents have access to it.” However, in violation of the contract, “information was stored on servers in the People’s Republic of China,” according to the press release.
Yu was later arrested and extradited to California, where the far-left Gascon eventually dismissed the criminal charges against Yu. L.A. County later also approved a $5 million payout to Yu to settle a civil lawsuit the Konnech CEO had filed against the government.
From a legal perspective, the dismissal of the criminal charges was baffling, as the criminal complaint filed against Yu stated that during the execution of a search warrant at Konnech, the government recovered evidence that employees had “sent personal identifying information of Los Angeles County election workers to third-party software developers who assisted with the creating and fixing [of] Konnech’s internal ‘PollChief’ software.” The criminal complaint further stated that a project manager for Konnech’s contract with L.A. County “confirmed via the messaging app DingTalk that any employee for Chinese contractors working on PollChief software had
‘superadministrative’ privileges for all PollChief clients.”
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RFK Jr. Didn’t Kill Himself
He’s on the Michigan ballot.
The news was confirmed by the Michigan Secretary of State’s office. The Natural Law Party has filed its documents with the Bureau of Elections. Kennedy will appear on the ballot in November.
The Decline And Fall Of The American Empire
Via John Conrad: I was skeptical of Biden’s Gaza Pier plan but wasn’t expecting it to go this bad
Truinnerashuvaduprezure!
From the always perceptive Associated Press: Biden is off on details of his uncle’s WWII death as he calls Trump unfit to lead the military
Truinnerashuvaduprezure!
“I made it clear to the Israelis — don’t move on Haifa!“
You Are What You Vote
How on earth could we have seen St. Louis’ collapse coming?
Don’t Worry, It’s Transitory
Updated to add the source link! My apologies.
For months and even years, the mainstream news has sought to spin terrible inflation news. It’s not so bad, it’s just transitional, it’s getting better, it’s not really a problem, and all your gloom about the value of the dollar is in your head. Truly, in the past fortnight, we have been inundated with articles suggesting that the public is dumb as rocks for thinking that inflation is still a problem.
Yesterday morning: boom! The upward trend for the entire first quarter was solidly confirmed. We could be entering a second wave. It was so bad that not even the two most influential venues could deny it. The New York Times reported, “Inflation Stronger Than Expected.” The Wall Street Journal reported, “Hot Inflation Report Weakens Case for Fed’s June Rate Cut.” The accompanying editorial is even better: “The Inflation Thief Rises Again.”
Truly, I’m stunned by the highly unusual and rather brazen truthfulness of these headlines. I don’t think we’ve seen that in three years. Which makes me wonder: Maybe the problem is even worse! […]
In the 1970s, the devastation occurred in three distinct waves. Each time the trend improved, elites declared victory and the Federal Reserve moved in with rate cuts, thereby causing yet another round. Absolutely no one in charge anticipated the next wave. It came anyway.
Truinnerashuvaduprezure…
“It’s 3am and your children are safe and asleep”. *
The White House has called a press lid just before 5:13 PM today, indicating that President Biden will not be seen or heard from for the rest of the day making no statements tonight.
Al Jazeera live. NBC live. FoxNews latest.
Richard Fernandez (Facebook link);
The reality is that Israel has decided to retaliate, in my view with the goal of creating the maximum destabilization in Iran. Biden has no option but to go along, kicking and screaming. By temporizing and crisis managing, Joe gave up all strategic initiative.
In trying to have it both ways Biden got nothing. Now a wider war is inevitable. Blinken’s policy is in shambles. The failure was from the top. We need a new strategy. The old one is dead.
Vanity Fair Is Afraid
Very, very afraid: Inside the Terrifyingly Competent Trump 2024 Campaign
Your Moral And Intellectual Superiors
I’m offering three examples of widely followed stories where I believe we faltered. Our coverage is out there in the public domain. Anyone can read or listen for themselves and make their own judgment. But to truly understand how independent journalism suffered at NPR, you need to step inside the organization.
O’Keefe: Inside The Federal Reserve
Hidden Camera captures Principal Economist @federalreserve talking about Jerome Powell’s legacy as “somebody who held the line against like, Trump.” The influential agency responsible for maintaining a stable monetary system appears to not just be establishing interest rates, but to be setting policies for desired social outcomes.
Related: Stop going on dates with this man. (h/t marc in calgary)
The World Is Being Run By Crazy People
Ms.Jackson-Lee is a graduate of Yale University.
The Great Fundamental Transformation
In many ways he could be writing about Canada.
The long-awaited-Great Fundamental Transformation finally got its moment, crashed, and now has torched the nation-middle class Americans most of all. – Victor Davis Hanson
Your Moral And Intellectual Superiors
Like dogs returning to their vomit;
After endlessly accusing Donald Trump and his supporters of trying to steal the 2020 election, the leftist legacy media is laying the groundwork for muddying the waters of the 2024 election in the event that the polls prove to be accurate and Joe Biden manages to lose. The closer we get to November, the more of this you are likely to see. And if a large number of non-citizen migrants wind up being caught voting, you can rest assured that the Democrats will point to articles like this one in an attempt to claim that it didn’t happen.
Some Men Just Want To Watch The World Burn
We pretend our president’s not deep-fried; our deficit’s not a ticking time-bomb; and it’s OK that our kids can’t really read…
The Oyster Bunny
Your Moral And Intellectual Superiors
Potemkin Presidency: She with a script, he with a teleprompter
Former ESPN host Sage Steele revealed that her 2021 interview with President Biden was “scripted” by network executives.
In an interview with Fox News Digital, Steele recalled the “structured” nature of the pre-taped interview, so much so that her ESPN bosses handed her a “script” to go off of.
“That was an interesting experience in its own right because it was so structured,” Steele said. “And I was told, ‘You will say every word that we write out, you will not deviate from the script and go.’”
Margin Of Fraud
Testimony from the disbarment hearing for Jeffrey Clark;
Mark Wingate, a Fulton County Elections Board member, testifies that he voted against certifying the 2020 election because the county did not verify the signatures on 147,000 mail-in ballots.
“I asked what did we do for signature verification? And the comment I got back frankly floored me, ‘We didn’t do any.'”
Additionally, the county could not provide any chain of custody documentation or surveillance footage for mail-in ballots or ballot drop boxes.
“I and other board members had requested that we obtain the chain of custody documentation from the department and none of that was ever delivered.”
“There was never any surveillance tape, an inch of footage delivered to the board.”
The Libranos: Party Rules
When Canadians won’t vote for you, import new voters.