TACO — "Trump Always Chickens Out" (I had to look it up, because I'm not on the same websites as these traitors)

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Ceasefire announced, and Murphy doesn’t lose a beat:

CNN’s right there with the rest of them. First, reporting as legitimate news the same fraudulent Nigerian press release Murphy relies on.

CNN Fell for Fake Iran 'Victory' Claim

…. The left-wing network blasted out a headline claiming Iran had scored a “great victory” over the United States. The network attributed the claim to Iran’s Supreme National Security Council and reported that Tehran had forced the U.S. into accepting a sweeping 10-point plan.

There was just one problem: The statement wasn’t real.

President Donald Trump wasted no time calling it out.

“The alleged Statement put out by CNN World News is a FRAUD, as CNN well knows,” Trump wrote on Truth Social. To really drive the point further, he even pointed out where the fake statement came from. “The false Statement was linked to a Fake News site (from Nigeria) and, of course, immediately picked up by CNN, and blared out as a ‘legitimate’ headline.”

(Here’s the CNN “news”):

Iran says it forced US to accept 10-point plan

Iran says it has achieved a great victory and forced the United States to accept its 10-point plan, according to a statement from Iran’s Supreme National Security Council.

Not done yet, it published this “expert” opinion this morning:

Iran emerges from the war with an unprecedented strategic advantage

Analysis by Abbas Al Lawati

The Iranian regime was at the weakest point in its history on the eve of the US-Israeli war in late February, with most of its leverage wiped out by adversaries over the preceding two years. Six weeks later, it emerged battered but with strategic gains not seen even during the era of the powerful Western-allied shah.

The two-week ceasefire announced by Iran and the United States may leave Tehran in effective control of the world’s most important maritime chokepoint. When US President Donald Trump ordered Iran to reopen the Strait of Hormuz, he didn’t demand that it relinquish that position. Instead, he amplified a letter from Iran’s foreign minister affirming Tehran’s authority over the waterway.

Previously, Iran’s status as a nuclear-threshold state and its network of regional proxy groups allowed it to project power. Now, Hormuz has effectively replaced both as its biggest source of leverage – even as its reopening is hailed by Trump as a major achievement, despite the fact that shipping had flowed freely through the strait before the war, without any state asserting control over it.

But wait, there’s more!

Rabid Neocon Bill Kristol has joined with Murphy and his new ally Nick Fuentes to denounce the failure of Trump to blast Iran back to the stone age.

UPDATE

Not so Hard to Swalwell, Really

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Start with this note: REPORT: Eric Swalwell About to Be Hit With ‘Shocking’ Number of Sexual Harassment Allegations.

Cheyenne Hunt, a lawyer, former congressional candidate and executive director of the left-wing nonprofit Gen-Z for Change, revealed on X Sunday, that she has been working with a number of women who are in the process of sharing their accusations with major news outlets. Hunt said she knew of a separate and “much larger group” of women who are also currently in the process of sharing their stories.

Swalwell’s alleged inappropriate sexual behavior is apparently an “open secret” in Washington DC, as is his practice of forcing underlings to sign nondisclosure agreements.

And now, David Strom gives you the rest of the story:

What the Swalwell Allegations Tell Us About How Politics Works

Now, because the California governor race has become a fiasco that might actually lead to a Republican winning unless a couple of Dems drop out to consolidate the vote, he needs to go. And like clockwork, here comes the orchestrated campaign of sexual harassment claims to end his career.

To be sure, Swalwell is garbage and deserves everything bad that's coming to him. But it's just amazing how the Democrats can just push a button and the machinery of the media and legal system just springs into action to eject someone from the party.

This is a guy who was caught sleeping with a Chinese spy for years, with actual evidence that he compromised national security in the process, and he remained completely protected and elevated as a major national figure. But as soon as the math stops working on the CA governor race, it all collapses underneath him.

Strum:

This is 100% right, as is the analysis. Eric Swalwell is suddenly getting savaged in the media, not because some new revelation has come out, but because a political hit was put out on him, and the reporters pulled out their research files and dumped on him. 

There is not one thing in the accusations that was not known to the people who are writing these stories, at least in broad strokes. For years, Eric Swalwell has been one of the designated liars to whom the media runs when they need a ridiculous anti-Trump quote. He regularly said things that were disproved, but the media always came back for more. 

They know he lies. He knows he is lying. It's the same with Adam Schiff, John Brennan, or any number of other liars. The press knows the liars, the scandals; they gossip among themselves and with the politicians, and as long as it is convenient, they go along and cover for them. 

But when there is Dem on Dem violence, they pick a side. Not always the same side, of course, because of internal divisions in the Party, but whenever a Democrat gets slagged like this, it's because another Democrat wants it done. 

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"Shocking new revelations!" are, more often than not, only shocking and new for outsiders. 

For two straight years, Democratic officials, White House staffers, and media figures went on camera and said Joe Biden had a photographic memory, limitless energy, and zero signs of cognitive decline.

These are the actual quotes:

“He works us all under the table.”

“I can’t even keep up with him.”

“I never, ever, ever felt like I saw anything that was decline.”

These weren’t random supporters. These were people who rode Air Force One with him. People who walked into the Oval Office and sat across the desk.

Not one of them expressed a single concern on camera.

Then came the debate.

Within days, the same party that spent two years calling him the most accomplished president of their lifetime removed him from the ticket.

Not one person who said those things has been asked publicly to explain the difference between what they told America and what they knew.

It's the "sharp as a tack" phenomenon. Does anybody believe that the reporters didn't know they were being lied to? Or, more correctly, who doesn't believe that they were in on it? If Biden's dementia were genuinely shocking to them, they would never go back to any of the people who lied to them. But all the liars are still featured by reporters, because everybody was in on it. 

After the debate, a hit was put out on Joe Biden, which is why suddenly everybody in the media and all the Democrats piled on, forcing Joe out. 

>>>>

When you see negative stories about Democrats in the media, the most likely reason is that another Democrat put a hit out on them, not that a reporter discovered something genuinely new. 

Fun Read on (about) the NYT

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(The times still refuses to return the pulitzer prize it was awarded for walter duranty’s coverup of stalin and the ukrainian holodomor)

Bad News, Guys: The New York Times Says We Lost the War — and Iran Is Now a ‘Major World Power’

Scott Pinsker does a fine job dissecting and discarding the Time’s “expert” from the University of Chicago, but first he discusses some of the paper’s earlier attempts at reporting news.

Running in the April 7 edition of The New York Times: “The Iran War Is Turning Iran Into a Major World Power.” The author, Professor Robert Pape of the University of Chicago, offers the following thesis:

  1. Iran will keep control of the Strait of Hormuz for “months or years,” and there’s nothing militarily we can do about it. (Sorry, guys.)

  2. The U.S. and Europe are now in decline — and the axis of China, Russia, and Iran is ascending.

  3. Iran will emerge as a “new major world power” and the “fourth center of global power” (the other three: America, China, Russia). 

But before we pulverize Professor Pape’s preposterously pessimistic proposal, here’s an earlier example of The New York Times’ piercing wisdom, courtesy of author Hans Mahncke:

The New York Times did not dismiss the possibility of powered flight at random. There was a very specific reason behind it. At the time, America’s most prominent scientific authority, Smithsonian Secretary Samuel Langley, had been showered with large amounts of taxpayer funding to build an aircraft, the Langley Aerodrome. Despite all the money, institutional backing, and elite prestige, Langley and his team could not get it to fly, culminating in a series of very public failures, the last on December 8, 1903.

So when the New York Times declared that flight was millions of years away, what it was really saying was that if the most credentialed and well-funded “experts” cannot do it, then it cannot be done.

A mere nine days later, the elites’ proclamation of impossibility lay in ruins. Two totally unknown bicycle mechanics from Ohio achieved the first powered flight using improvised parts, a few hundred dollars of their own money, and sheer persistence.

In fact, in honor of Artemis, there’s also this doozy from Jan. 13, 1920, when The New York Times insisted that rockets cannot function in space:

That professor [Robert] Goddard, with his ‘chair’ in Clark College and the countenancing of the Smithsonian Institution [from which Goddard held a grant to research rocket flight], does not know the relation of action to reaction, and of the need to have something better than a vacuum against which to react — to say that would be absurd. Of course he only seems to lack the knowledge ladled out daily in high schools. [emphasis added]

It was only AFTER Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin, and Michael Collins left the surly bonds of earth — on a rocket, by the way — that the Times offered a correction:

Further investigation and experimentation have confirmed the findings of Isaac Newton in the 17th century, and it is now definitely established that a rocket can function in a vacuum as well as in an atmosphere.

[…]

The Times regrets the error.

Want more?

How about the Times’ 1922 insistence that Adolf Hitler’s antisemitism was overhyped:

But several reliable, well-informed sources confirmed the idea that Hitler’s anti-Semitism was not so genuine or violent as it sounded, and he was merely using anti-Semitic propaganda as a bait to catch messes of followers and keep them aroused, enthusiastic and in line for the time when his organization is perfected and sufficiently powerful to be employed effectively for political purposes. 

Or its 1939 prediction that television would lose to radio:

The problem with television is that the people must sit and keep their eyes glued on a screen; the average American family hasn’t time for it. Therefore, the showmen are convinced that for this reason, if for no other, television will never be a serious competitor of broadcasting.

Or its 1985 screed that computers had limited mainstream appeal because we’d rather read newspapers:

On the whole, people don’t want to lug a computer with them to the beach or on a train to while away hours they would rather spend reading the sports or business section of the newspaper… the real future of the laptop computer will remain in the specialized niche markets. Because no matter how inexpensive the machines become, and no matter how sophisticated their software, I still can’t imagine the average user taking one along when going fishing.

Pinsker:

The colorful moral of our story: Most of the Gray Lady’s white lies come from brown-nosing silver-spoon liberal elites. 

So keep that in mind as we ply apart Professor Pape’s pointless paper:

(His takedown of Pape can be found at the link)

Market cool-down?

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I’ve previously written about 56 Winthrop Drive in Riverside that was listed for $8.395 million last month and went pending in 5 days. Now, Brother Gideon sends along this update:

“a broker I know bid $9.2M for this place and later learned she was in 4th place.”

That such a low-ball bid could still rank as high as fourth in a contest for this property is sure evidence that prices are weakening, finally.

Nutmeg Pride

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dumber, dumb & Hopeless, llc

Connecticut’s own, 77-year-old House Dem facing younger primary challengers seeks to impeach Donald Trump

Larson charged Trump with 'murder, war crimes and piracy' over Venezuela military intervention and naval blockade

Rep. John Larson, D-Conn., is mounting a long-shot bid to impeach President Donald Trump as he stares down a primary threat from younger challengers, who seek to thwart his bid for a 15th House term. 

Larson, 77, introduced 13 articles of impeachment against Trump on Monday, citing the president’s military intervention in Venezuela, the deployment of National Guard troops to cities across the country and his executive order to curtail birthright citizenship, among other charges.

Larson also charged Trump with "murder, war crimes and piracy" for ordering a naval blockade around Venezuela targeting U.S.-sanctioned oil tankers ahead of the U.S. capture of Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro in January and for launching dozens of strikes against alleged drug trafficking vessels in the Eastern Pacific and the Caribbean.

Larson’s impeachment push comes as the septuagenarian congressman faces a heated primary challenge from several younger candidates running on a mantle of generational change.

Certainly, this ridiculous media stunt is intended to show the Democrat Socialist crowd that, “ by golly, I can be as tough on Trump as any of the whippersnappers coming after my seat”, but there may be another explanation for this pathetic old man’s delusion that he can go as far left as the new Democrat base:

Larson, a senior member of the powerful House Ways and Means Committee, notably suffered a complex partial seizure while delivering a speech on the House floor in February 2025.

His own stroke appears to have vastly improved Pennsylvania’s senator John Fetterman’s thinking skills, but Larson’s been a political hack for most of his life, and the neural damage has been sustained and, by now, irreversible.

Like bombing Iran's power plants, I hope this threat is acted on

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Mullin Drops a Bombshell on Sanctuary Cities

“Considering” pulling Customs and Border Protection officers out of international airports in sanctuary cities. 

In fact, I don’t know why it wasn’t done immediately after the Democrats defunded the DHS.

“…. [Without CBP, there can be no customs clearance. Without customs clearance, you can’t accept international arrivals.”

That would include the airports of Los Angeles, New York, Chicago, San Francisco, Boston, Seattle, Denver, Philadelphia, Newark, and New Orleans.