The corrupt Biden Admin has weaponized the so called Justice Dept to... wait, WHAT?

Nevermind

Kids, remember, when driving on the highway, you *gotta* stay woke

You can't be woke all the time; it'll exhaust you. But when you're in the driver's seat, it's necessary.

This has been your PSA for today.

D-Day Vet, 100, marries bride, 96.

Wanna go crazy? You ain't seen maga crazy till you've seen this video!

This is a viral hit among the red crowd. It is not, repeat not, satire

Bob Jr.'s Running Mate Says She and Tucker Carlson Are 'So On the Same Page In Every Single Way'

Y'know, Camelot shows used to end in tragedy, not farce.

RFK Jr.’s Running Mate Says She and Tucker Carlson Are ‘So On the Same Page In Every Single Way’

Nicole Shanahan praised former Fox News host Tucker Carlson at a recent campaign event, even going so far as to say that she and Carlson “are so on the same page in every single way.”

“I’ve spent the last four days here in Maine and I’ve had some really incredible experiences,” began Shanahan at an event in Kittery, Maine. “I, and actually I was chatting with Tucker Carlson and I have a funny Tucker Carlson story, which I’ll start with. And, when I was 18, I saved up all of my money from three different jobs because I was dying to see Tucker Carlson debate James Carville in New York on Crossfire. And so I flew out there and, you know, being young, idealistic Democrat, I really thought Tucker Carlson was the bad guy. And so I went out there and I stared at him in his red bow tie, and I was like, ‘You are not it! You know, you’re gonna lose this!'”

“And here we are in 2024,” she continued, “And I’m sitting across from Tucker, and he and I are so on the same page in every single way. Yeah! We are on the same page because we have left establishment thinking once and for all.”

Kennedy, Shanahan, and Carlson are anti-vaccine activists who have embraced fringe conspiracy theories. In 2021, Carlson described Kennedy as one of the smartest and most articulate chroniclers of the erosion of our civil liberties.

How Helping Ukraine Deters Beijing: Inside the Politics of Political Signaling

for people not familiar with William Spaniel, he's a professor and geopolitical analyst. He's fair non-partisan but is a mainstream foreign policy thinker. His analyses are based on the balance-of-power view that the world is safer if the US contains Russian and Chinese aggression and maintains open seas navigation to build global trade and reduce incentives for major powers to start wars.

Anyway, he's good at tying all the threads together and this is an informative video essay

PN: A brief primer on why Clarence Thomas doesn't give a damn about ethics

Revelations about Thomas being in the pocket of a billionaire point up the highest court's complete lack of guardrails.
AARON RUPAR AND LISA NEEDHAM
APR 12, 2023

...But at the Supreme Court level, justices are excepted from all but the most cursory of oversight. Justices must file financial disclosure reports, but they are barebones affairs. The justices must state any external jobs like teaching, gifts or reimbursements received, and investments held. They must also disclose their spouse’s place of employment, though not their income.

...This lack of guardrails has led to a lot of problematic behavior. In 2004, the late Justice Antonin Scalia and then-Vice President Dick Cheney went duck hunting together just a few weeks after the Court said it would hear a case over Cheney’s energy task force. Cheney, a former energy industry executive, wanted to keep secret whether task force members had contacts with energy industry leaders. There were calls for Scalia to recuse, but he stated, “I do not think my impartiality could reasonably be questioned,” and went on to complain that if a duck hunting trip could swing his vote, “the nation is in deeper trouble than I had imagined.”

In 2021, Amy Coney Barrett refused to recuse when the Americans for Prosperity Foundation (AFPF) was the plaintiff in a case arguing that California shouldn’t be allowed to require charitable organizations to disclose names of major donors. AFPF is the nonprofit wing of Americans for Prosperity (AFP), a conservative organization funded by the Koch brothers. AFP threw $1 million behind getting Barrett confirmed, an effort which included a national ad campaign and a network of activists that pumped out 750,000 calls and letters to senators. Barrett joined the conservative majority in holding California couldn’t require disclosure.

Earlier this year, a former colleague of Chief Justice John Roberts’ wife, Jane, raised concerns about her attorney recruitment job, which pays her large sums to place lawyers with high-profile law firms that may have cases before the Supreme Court. A Supreme Court spokeswoman said that the justices were “attentive to ethical constraints.” However, none of that attentiveness led to Roberts providing greater transparency into his wife’s work.

...To be fair, it isn’t always conservative justices with ethical lapses. In 2022, Justice Sonia Sotomayor amended her 2016 disclosure to add six trips she had failed to report. Her trips, however, were all visits to universities where she participated in educational events like giving a commencement address or doing a Q&A with law students.

But none of these missteps hold a candle to Thomas. In 2004, the Los Angeles Times reported Thomas had disclosed accepting over $42,000 in gifts, far more than any of his colleagues. Thomas reported everything from $100 worth of cigars from Rush Limbaugh to $1,200 worth of tires. He also reported receiving a $19,000 Bible and a ride on a private jet. The latter two gifts came from Harlan Crow, the conservative billionaire at the heart of the ProPublica story. In the 18 years since the 2004 story, Thomas reported only two gifts, making it look like the scrutiny didn’t lead him to be more cautious about what gifts he received but rather more cautious about telling anyone.

In 2011, Thomas had to amend 20 years' worth of reports because he’d failed to disclose where his wife, Ginni Thomas, worked, including her five years at the conservative Heritage Foundation. Thomas stated that her employment was “inadvertently omitted due to a misunderstanding of the filing instructions.”

15 year old lad

Reminder: 187 minutes 3 years ago. Dereliction of duty (and worse)

Not "Four More Years"... just "4 years"

Three with good behavior