But why let a little thing like your country’s main adversary breaching the servers of a nuclear reactor company and one of its puppet companies coming up to buy that same company a year and a half later through your son get in the way of making money?
The Decline And Fall Of The American Empire
More: what’s the point of an Army that can’t operate overseas in war?
We Have Met The Enemy And He Is Us
I have long been wondering about Qatar’s willingness to host Hamas’ leadership post-10/7.
As non-Western as Qatar is, the Emirate has been working assiduously to court Western approval and is hardly a radical Islamist state. This is not to suggest the regime is liberal or Liberal, but rather that they aren’t exactly Iranian-style fanatics. The state is pretty much what you would expect in a country that is in a dangerous region filled with radicals but with an elite who are Western-educated and resolutely capitalist.
I had long suspected that Western governments had given implicit approval for Qatar’s hosting of the radical Islamist terrorist group’s leaders in order to use it as a back-channel to Hamas.
Maybe the US thought the Qatar/Hamas relationship would yield the release of the hostages. But it’s been more than five months and 134 Israelis are still held in Gaza. It’s time for Qatar — and Turkey — to stop harboring Hamas’s top terrorists.https://t.co/yjYw9M5N9s
— Israel War Room (@IsraelWarRoom) March 14, 2024Surprisingly, it turns out that I was right. […]
That this story leaked is likely due to Qatar’s frustration with the enduring criticism it has suffered since 10/7. The country has been accused of coddling Hamas’ leaders–and no doubt it sure looks that way–and given the country’s obvious efforts to court Westerners, it surely rankled.
Of course he did: Biden Embraces Schumer’s Speech Castigating Netanyahu
HAMAS must be running short of American funding: US frees up billions in sanctions relief to Iran as Tehran proxies wreak havoc in region
Margin Of Fraud
Hard to argue: The corruption in Fulton County, Georgia is some of the worst in the nation.
Rematch
It’s official: Trump clinches delegate majority for GOP presidential nomination, setting up Biden rematch
Scratch A Democrat
Biden makes the blunder of answering whether and why Hamas would want a ceasefire.
More: Embrace the stupid
“The law contains 19 sections aimed at helping minority groups”
https://thehill.com/opinion/4517470-dei-killed-the-chips-act/
The Biden administration recently promised it will finally loosen the purse strings on $39 billion of CHIPS Act grants to encourage semiconductor fabrication in the U.S. But less than a week later, Intel announced that it’s putting the brakes on its Columbus factory. The Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) has pushed back production at its second Arizona foundry. The remaining major chipmaker, Samsung, just delayed its first Texas fab.
This is not the way companies typically respond to multi-billion-dollar subsidies. So what explains chipmakers’ apparent ingratitude? In large part, frustration with DEI requirements embedded in the CHIPS Act.
Commentators have noted that CHIPS and Science Act money has been sluggish. What they haven’t noticed is that it’s because the CHIPS Act is so loaded with DEI pork that it can’t move.
Everything Is Fine
Everything Is Fine
Dementia Joe Gives A Speech
Not even Obama violated political norms the way Biden just did. – Daniel Greenfield
State Of The Truinnerashuvaduprezure! Bumped for DEMOCRACY!
REPORT: Biden’s motorcade route to the State of the Union BLOCKED by protesters demanding a cease-fire in Gaza..
Follow live on Timcast, unless I find something I like better.
Daily Wire coverage is here. (link fixed sorry!)
Collin Rugg: President Biden is running about 20 minutes behind schedule ahead of his State of the Union speech as reported by Fox News.
UH OH. Half an hour in, Biden starts talking about pruscrublushun drugs and get on Air Force One with him and go to Moscowcare and things are going south hard and fast.
AAND he wants to ensure every child learns to read by third grade.
LOL Trump is playing with Snapchat filters
Original post below.
Hate of the Union: Here are some things to look for
Awkward
Lawfare Is Lucrative
“It is bad enough yet?”
Fast talking Viva Frei: The latest in the Georgia investigation into the legal soap opera that is Fani Willis
Missed It By THAT Much
The Supreme Court on Monday handed a sweeping win to former President Donald Trump by ruling states cannot kick him off the ballot over his actions leading up to the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol — bringing a swift end to a case with huge implications for the 2024 election.
The court in an unsigned ruling with no dissents reversed the Colorado Supreme Court, which determined that Trump could not serve again as president under section 3 of the Constitution’s 14th Amendment.
The court said the Colorado Supreme Court had wrongly assumed that states can determine whether a presidential candidate is ineligible under a provision of the Constitution’s 14th Amendment.
The ruling makes it clear that Congress, not states, has to set rules on how the 14th Amendment provision can be enforced. As such the decision applies to all states, not just Colorado.
MSNBC hardest hit.
Glenn Reynolds:The Supreme Court rules, many pundits are fools.
Margin Of Fraud
Joe Biden’s Attorney General, Merrick Garland, has announced that they’ll try to end voter ID requirements.
Democrats are trying to get rid of voter ID laws at the same time they’re flooding our country with millions of illegal aliens.
We all know why.
Dementia Joe Versus Trump
Victor Davis Hanson on how to replace Biden.
Truinnerashuvaduprezure!
Video: Donald Trump and Joe Biden arrive at the border in Texas at the same time.
“Bad day for Jack Smith. “
HUGE: SCOTUS grants cert in presidential immunity appeal, orders appellate court to hold issuing its mandate (ruling that denied Trump’s immunity argument) until SCOTUS decides the matter. Oral arguments in April.
What does this mean?…
The Jan 6 case in Washington has been on hold since December—all pretrial deadlines were suspended pending resolution of immunity question. Chutkan vacated the March 4 trial date earlier this month.
In doing so, she indicated she would essentially roll back the clock and allow Trump to make up the time between December hold and SCOTUS opinion. So even if SCOTUS issues a decision in late May and upholds appellate court ruling denying immunity claims, that adds almost 6 months to trial schedule.
In short, the earliest a trial could begin in Washington with that timeframe would be late October. And considering a trial could go 2+ months, that means no conviction on this indictment before Election Day.
And VERY important—the week before, SCOTUS will hear oral arguments on 1512c2 appeal. That will give us some indication of how justices are leaning. If a majority sound skeptical as to DOJ’s application of 1512c2, it’s big trouble for Jack Smith’s DC indictment bc that count represents half of his J6 indictment against Trump.
If SCOTUS reverses how DOJ has used 1512c2, hard to see how he keeps it in indictment. Then Will he go to trial in late October on two vague and flimsy conspiracy charges?
Related: No matter how much you hate the media, it’s not enough.
O’Keefe Secretly Records Judge Engoron from Trump Case
The Abuse That Dare Not Speak Its Name
My latest at Newsweek:
“The leader of the free world is now an actual physical representation of the decline of American power and the American Republic. The President’s diminished capacity is being willfully and purposely ignored by those closest to him, something that is very well-appreciated by America’s enemies. As a result, the world is in chaos.”