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Over the past decade, there’s one truth that liberals have been loath to admit: Donald Trump is funny. This aspect of his appeal prompts far less commentary than his far-right positions, his venality or his mogul’s bravado. But when you watch him at a rally, you can see he’s playing for laughs: jabbing at his opponents, doing crowd work, even being self-deprecating, sort of. Cicero could write a treatise on Mr. Trump’s use of irony, as he’s proved himself a master of humorous misdirection. Liberals tend to think that irony is a type of wit that is aligned with progressivism....

We are just over one month since a smelly, pimply-faced incel tried to assassinate Donald Trump. The FBI immediately began its "investigation," and that's when I knew we were in trouble. Not only have we learned next to nothing about the shooter, 20-year-old Thomas Matthew Crooks, but the mockingbird media mudpuppies have also memory-holed the shooting like it never happened. Related: The Shot Ignored Around the World: It's Been One Month Since Trump Was Shot Let's list what we know have been told by the vanilla, mainstream news yobbos about Crooks and his attempt to kill President Trump:

The number of suicides committed by Border Patrol agents in 2024 has neared the number set in 2023, with four months to go, the New York Post reported on Friday. At least seven U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) employees ended their own lives in 2024; eight died last year by their own hand. Kent Corso, CBP's former "suicidolgist" and behavior analyst, told the outlet that agents on the front line are witnesses to more of life's grim realities than the average citizen.

Germany has halted future aid to Ukraine amid Berlin’s budget struggles, the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung newspaper reports. According to the FAZ report, all future requests from the Ministry of Defence for Ukraine aid will not be approved by German Chancellor Olaf Scholz as his leftist government seeks to cut costs to address the 12 billion euro budget shortfall. The paper said, however, that most of the money and physical aid already allocated to be sent to Ukraine will continue to be sent. This year, some 8 billion euros have been earmarked for Kyiv, while next year an additional 4 billion...

Vladimir Putin is feeling the stress from Russia's invasion of Ukraine - as he is seen wringing his hands in a meeting with his top officials after Volodymyr Zelenskyy's troops bit back and made a counter-incursion into the country. The dictator, 71, was in a security council session on the crisis he faces due to Ukraine's dramatic invasion of the border areas of Kursk region. His very public hand-wringing and fidgeting came as he was told earlier this week about how Russia had lost territory to Kyiv troops and - at the time - more than two dozen settlements, a...

Roche and Viola (Dicastery for Divine Worship) Forbid Latin Mass in Helsinki Cathedral (Finland) - celebrated (for the moment) in another Church Finland. A land lost by the Church to Lutheranism.In that beautiful and peaceful land, those who are Catholic are a tiny minority, but very conscious of their rights and filled with conviction regarding their Faith. Some of them are, like so many of us, attached to the Traditional Latin Mass -- which was, of course, the Mass of Finland before the Reformation.One would think the Vatican would be happy to have such faithful Catholics in a land of...

Ousted NY Rep. Jamaal Bowman now begging for cash to pay off campaign debts (fire alarm commie) [08/17/2024]'Squad' member Rep. Jamaal Bowman gushes over Harris-Walz ticket: 'Real freedom [08/07/2024]BREAKING: Far-Left Squad Member Cori Bush Loses By Landslide in Missouri Primary [08/06/2024]'Squad' Members Face Lawsuit Over 'Inciting' Columbia (University) Riots [08/04/2024]AOC, Jamaal Bowman, Ilhan Omar face class action lawsuit for Columbia encampment support [08/04/2024]JD Vance was born James Donald Bowman in Middletown, Ohio. He then changed his name to James David Bowman. He then changed his name to James David Hamel. [07/19/2024]First Squad member Jamaal Bowman ousted from Congress despite AOC's...

[Catholic Caucus] Potholes on the road to Synod 2024 The ecclesiastical propaganda machine created for last October’s Synod on Synodality for a Synodal Church is still grinding away, and it’s getting both tiresome and worrisome.As for tiresome: Cardinal Jean-Claude Hollerich, SJ, the General Rapporteur of Synods 2023 and 2024, informed us in a June 14 “news” release from the Vatican’s Synod office that “the Holy People of God has been set in motion for mission thanks to the synodal experience.” Well, no, Your Eminence, that’s not quite right.God’s holy people were set in motion for mission by the Lord Jesus...

Media sources claim that Germany has suspended new military aid to Ukraine due to budget constraints. While existing commitments will continue, future support remains uncertain as Germany considers using frozen Russian assets under a G7 plan, as per FAS.

Officials at Joint Base San Antonio-Lackland (JBSA) said its security officers returned fire on multiple active shooters who fired upon the main gate at the JBSA Chapman Training Annex early Saturday. The incident occurred Saturday morning around 4:30 am when at least once suspect in a sedan fired at security officers. . San Antonio police were also on the scene, according to local news outlet KSAT 12. Authorities did not say if anyone was hurt or how many individuals were involved in the exchange of gunfire. Officials did indicate that the shooters were not known to have any military connections.

Banker's wife Zamira Hajiyeva spent £16m shopping at Harrods over a decade Husband Jahangir was chair of the International Bank of Azerbaijan's board He is serving 16 years in Baku for fraud, abuse of office and embezzlement The wife of a jailed 'McMafia' banker has agreed to give up a golf club in Ascot and a £14million Knightsbridge mansion following an investigation into fraud and embezzlement. Zamira Hajiyeva spent £16million shopping at Harrods in a decade, and the Supreme Court upheld two unexplained wealth orders against her. Known as 'McMafia orders' – after the BBC gangland drama – the seizures...

They were like gods. John L. Sullivan. Jack Dempsey. Joe Louis. Rocky Marciano. Muhammad Ali. Joe Frazier. George Foreman. Larry Holmes. Mike Tyson. Evander Holyfield. There was a time when the heavyweight champion was the most famous man on the planet. They were bigger than kings and more instantly recognizable than presidents. At the peak of his fame, Muhammad Ali could’ve traveled to the farthest corners of the world — some remote hut in the middle of nowhere — and somehow, every villager would know his name: “Ali boma ye!” Today? Do you even know who the heavyweight boxing champion...

First came the guns — the Mausers from Germany, the Carcanos from Italy — and then came the moral pretexts. These days, the American right is forever touting firearms as matters of principle or heralding them as hallmarks of a certain sort of rugged identity. But guns, before fetishists succeeded in converting them into symbols, were simply commodities, as unglamorous as washing machines. In his crisply written and incisive new book, “,” historian Andrew C. McKevitt chronicles the transformation of guns from tangible weapons to ideological ammunition. Sharp, fascinating, devastating, exhaustively researched and often wryly funny, this indispensable book —...

Elon Musk announced on Saturday that the social media platform X would close its operations in Brazil “effective immediately” due to what it called “censorship orders” from the Brazilian judge Alexandre de Moraes. X claims Moraes secretly threatened one of its legal representatives in the South American country with arrest if it did not comply with legal orders to take down some content from its platform. Brazil’s supreme court, where Moraes has a seat, did not immediately respond to a request for comment. TheX service remains available to the people of Brazil, the billionaire Elon Musk’s platform said on Saturday....

Retired Staff Sgt. Ryan Marti enlisted in the Army National Guard before he even graduated high school, just like his football coach and teacher, future Minnesota governor Tim Walz. Another of Walz’s former students, Lt. Col. Jonathon Jaqua, also joined the Guard after graduating from Mankato West High School in southern Minnesota. Both told CNN that the example Walz set in the classroom and on the football field was influential in their decision to join him as a soldier in the National Guard. “As a teacher, I would say he definitely inspired me,” said Marti, who retired from the Guard...

The US Supreme Court has already ruled that President Biden lacks the authority to cancel student debt. Former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif) also acknowledged "the president of the United States does not have the power for debt forgiveness. That has to be an act of Congress." Nevertheless, the Biden/Harris Administration plans to announce a massive cancellation of $147 billion of student debt between now and election day. Secretary of Education Miguel Cardona said "let me be clear, President Biden and I are determined to lower costs for student loan borrowers. Technically, we don't have the specific legal authority to...

Some of the ways I feel myself aging are obvious. Half of my hairs are white now. I can’t stay up past midnight. I hate loud restaurants and bars. I feel a deep urge to read long biographies of generals. But other signs of aging are subtler. For example: I am now worried about the US budget deficit. Coming of age as an economics reporter in the 2010s, there was no clearer generational divide than the one about government debt. Older reporters, who came of age during the exploding deficits of the 1980s and the balanced budget battles of the...

On Friday these two ladies on my team at work we're comparing work ethics between the United States and Europe. They have 2 hours siestas everyday! They have free health insurance! They Take2 months off! United States sucks! We need all the workers protections Europe has! You can't get fired in Europe!! I almost lost my #$#$ but I can't tell at work. There is no place like the United States. I'm proud of my country and can stick it. Nothing's perfect.

The coin mining feature of crypto currencies, particularly bitcoin, is basically hare brained and could be gotten rid of.

Germany has frozen its military aid to Ukraine, claiming that a domestic budgetary crisis means it can no longer afford to supply Kyiv with new weapons.Olaf Scholz, the German chancellor, told his defence minister this month that there would be no money available for further military aid, according to a new report in the Frankfurter Allgemeine newspaper.Boris Pistorius, the defence minister, had written up a wish list for €4 billion (£3.4 billion) in additional military supplies to Ukraine, but a letter sent to him by the finance ministry made clear that no extra money would be freed up because of...