TDS: Schumer Introducing Bill Stripping Trump Of Immunity

By William Teach July 9, 2024 – 10:30 am

It won’t pass the House. It might not pass the Senate. If, by some reason it did pass and made it to Biden’s desk and he signed it the Supreme Court would kill it. It is seriously deranged how much Trump has gotten into their heads, and really, isn’t it un-Constitutional to try and pass a law that targets exactly one person? If the law is more broad, well, Chuck should remember that it would leave Biden open to prosecution

Schumer pushing bill to strip Trump of court-granted immunity

Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) announced Monday that he and other Senate Democrats will work to advance legislation to strip former President Trump of the immunity he was granted under a recent Supreme Court ruling protecting a president’s official acts from criminal prosecution.

Schumer, invoking Congress’s powers to regulate the courts, said Democrats are working on legislation to classify Trump’s efforts to subvert the results of the 2020 election as “unofficial acts” so they do not merit immunity from criminal prosecution under the high court’s recent 6-3 decision.

“They incorrectly declared that former President Trump enjoys broad immunity from criminal prosecution for actions he took while in office. They incorrectly declared that all future presidents are entitled to a breathtaking level of immunity so long as their conduct is ostensibly carried out in their official capacity as president,” Schumer said on the Senate floor.

Schumer said the court’s conservative justices had “effectively placed a crown on Donald Trump’s head,” putting him above the law and making him “in many ways untouchable.”

“I will work with my colleagues on legislation classifying Trump’s election subversion acts as unofficial acts not subject to immunity,” he announced. “We’re doing this because we believe that in America no president should be free to overturn an election against the will of the people, no matter what the conservative justices may believe.”

Hmm, sounds like Chuck is trying to subvert Democracy! by refusing to comply with the rulings of the Judicial Branch, to use Democrat language. Regulating the courts does not allow the Senate to disregard/change a Supreme Court ruling, nor strip Constitutionally guaranteed immunity. The only way to change immunity is with an Amendment, and, you can bet if the People and States are voting on it they’ll remove immunity from Congress.

This is just straight up lawfare. And an attempt at talking points, since it will never get a vote in the House. Though, it could be interesting if the House would take the bill and change it to specifically add on that Joe Biden is no immune for his time in office, and see how Democrats vote.

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Your Fault: ‘Climate Change’ Is Messing With Semen Or Something

By William Teach July 9, 2024 – 7:00 am

Hey, now, we have a new one from the Cult of Climastrology

Your semen is not immune to climate change

climate change joke

The first piece of the puzzle was Gustavo Luis Verón’s research during his PhD studies, when he analyzed semen quality based on different factors in Argentina. Obesity, age and climatic factors were some of the variables that he investigated. At the end of 2021, the results showed that semen samples generated in the winter were noticeably better quality than those generated in the summer. This information got him obsessed with another question: Could increasing heat waves be putting male fertility in check? The latest findings by Verón and his colleagues seem to indicate so. According to a study published this year in Science Direct, semen samples obtained during heat waves presented 10% fewer motile sperm — the only ones capable of fertilizing an egg — than samples that were never exposed. The high temperatures also affected their morphology.

For Dr. Mónica Vázquez-Levin, principal researcher at the National Scientific and Technical Research Council (Conicet) and another one of the authors of the report, given the frequency and intensity of these weather events, “the climate will eventually be a variable for planning parenthood.” (snip)

“Historically there has been a very big burden on our shoulders. The inability to conceive had always been attributed to women,” says Vázquez-Levin. Science, once again, shows how wrong we were. About 17.5% of the world’s adults (one in six) will be infertile, according to the WHO. Half of these cases will be due to male infertility. “One of the causes that we already know is global warming. The heat waves are going to have an impact on the demographics of the world if we do nothing.”

Just another in a long line of scaremongering prognostications. It’s really all they have. According to their dogma, if all of them gave their own use of fossil fuels everything would be fine.

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New Poll Has Trump Leading In Every Swing State

By William Teach July 9, 2024 – 6:45 am

Here’s the question: can Trump ignore his normal instincts and say the things that will help get him elected again?

Emerson Poll: Donald Trump Leads Biden in Every Key Swing State

Former President Donald Trump leads President Joe Biden in six swing states, an Emerson/DemNextGen poll found Monday, further fueling fears among Democrats about Biden’s political viability.

Trump leads in every swing state by at least three points, except in Michigan, where he leads by one:

Pennsylvania – Trump: 48% (+5) Biden: 43%

Wisconsin – Trump: 47% (+3) Biden: 44% 

Michigan – Trump: 45% (+1) Biden: 44%

Nevada – Trump: 47% (+6) Biden: 41%

Arizona – Trump: 46% (+4) Biden: 42% 

Georgia – Trump: 47% (+5) Biden: 42%

Trump increased his lead over Biden in Georgia (+1), Nevada (+4), and Pennsylvania (+3), the July Emerson poll shows compared to June’s poll.

Has Trump learned anything over the years? Will he continue to allow Biden to make mistakes, and do things like just talk about policy? Or will he do the things that drive people away? The election is 4 months away.

House and Senate races draw renewed focus for Democrats after Biden’s bad debate

President Joe Biden’s shaky debate performance has turned more attention in the Democratic Party on races further down the ballot, with donors, candidates and strategists looking for ways to shore up a congressional firewall against the chance of another Donald Trump presidency.

One major liberal fundraising group said it has seen a big uptick in donor interest in its down-ballot efforts. Battleground candidates are largely keeping their heads down amid intraparty handwringing about whether Biden should stay in the race. And Democratic strategists involved in House and Senate races are noting that their candidates have long been running far ahead of Biden in public and private polling, as the president has struggled to consolidate the party’s base, including Black voters and young voters.

The big concern now is that those voters, unenthusiastic about their choices at the top of the ticket and perhaps newly concerned about Biden after the debate, decide not to show up in November, depriving other Democrats of their votes.

And see, this is a huge concern. It really will come down to the notion that if Trump wins, the GOP will keep the House and most likely the Senate, and state elections will trend towards Republicans. If Biden wins, it will most likely mean Dems take the House, keep the Senate, and there could be bad news in the states. Trump needs to do the wise things politically. Will he?

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June Was Hottest In Human History Or Something

By William Teach July 8, 2024 – 3:52 pm

It’s a cute little headline from WION, and the “human history” is supposed to capture your attention over “recorded”, which is their cop-out

Hottest June in human history recorded as Earth continues to bake, data shows

European Union’s climate monitor on Monday (Jul 8) revealed that last month was the hottest June on record across the globe. The global average temperature recorded last month broke the previous June record set in 2023.

Since June last year, the world has baked for 12 consecutive months, setting a streak of unprecedented global heat, as per the Copernicus Climate Change Service (C3S). The data suggests that 2024 could pip 2023 as the hottest year since record-keeping began.

See, they tried to play a game with the headline, but

Humanity has been around for 7 million years, so, no. That’s from climate.gov. Again, they play a shell game and switch to recorded, which really doesn’t go back that far. It was clearly warmer during several previous Holocene warm periods. Regardless, this is all your fault, so, you need to give your money and freedom to government so they can do nothing but redistribute your money and control your life. Even if it is the hottest, that doesn’t prove it is mostly/solely caused by Mankind. Just that the Earth is in a warm period.

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If All You See…

By William Teach July 8, 2024 – 1:00 pm

…is a lake that’s drying up from carbon pollution, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is Ace Of Spades, with a post on your tech news.

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Crazy Michael Cohen Says Trump Will Run America Like A Fuhrer

By William Teach July 8, 2024 – 10:30 am

This is not an unusual position from the Never Trumpers, who all seem to believe that Trump is a Bad Man and is the next coming of Adolph Hitler

Michael Cohen warns Trump will run US ‘like the Führer’ if reelected after Supreme Court immunity ruling

Donald Trump’s former lawyer and one-time fixer Michael Cohen has warned that his ex-boss will run the country “like the Führer” if he is re-elected in November, thanks to the recent Supreme Court ruling on presidential immunity.

On Monday, the Supreme Court ruled that Trump, and other presidents, have absolute immunity from prosecution for actions that fall under a president’s “core” powers – or those directly given by the US Constitution.

The majority of justices also ruled that presidents have broad immunity from criminal prosecution for “official acts” but not for “unofficial acts” – though the court did not specify what these acts could be.

Citing theTrump vs US ruling, Cohen told The Daily Beast that the former president could now wield his power in whatever way he wants if he takes back the White House this November.

“He’ll run the country like a king, like a supreme leader, like a monarch, like a dictator, like the Führer,” Cohen said, invoking the German word strongly associated with Nazi leader Adolf Hitler.

Even with the ruling, Trump understands there are limits. Regardless, what evidence is there that he will do be Hitler 2.0? Did he do this during his first term? Other than 15 days to end the pandemic, which wasn’t his idea, did he take away people’s freedoms? Start imprisoning Americans for minor offenses or nothing? Start killing them? Did he ban the Democratic Party? It’s not Trump who hates Jews, Gypsies, and others. He worked to end wars, not see them started. He didn’t build death camps. He sure didn’t tell people what they can and can’t drive. Seriously, what evidence is there?

Cohen went on to claim that Trump plans to dismantle parts of the government to consolidate power to the executive branch in which he now has immunity from criminal prosecution.

“Members of the Supreme Court and federal judges will similarly become neutered as Donald fulfills his promise to dismantle our tripartite system of government, stripping the legislative and judicial branches of their coequal power and conferring all power to the executive branch; meaning himself,” Cohen said.

Oh, lord. Cohen is using the insane Project 2025 stuff, which, if real and not a Democrat false flag, is simply bad politics. It’s throwing lots of different red meat to all different beliefs within the Republican Party. But, none of it would lead to Trump being a dictator. Some of it overlaps Trumps Agenda47. If Trump wins, he’ll do pretty much what he did during his first term, which was working to reduce federal regulations on US citizens, sort of working to stop illegal immigration, decreasing the burden of federal government on citizens, reducing taxation on all, increasing freedom and freedom from government. We sure won’t get a “mandate” forcing citizens to switch to EVs and a DOJ that tries to put citizens in jail for 20 years for wandering around the Congressional building.

But, the wacko Never Trumpers and some Democrats have actually convinced themselves that Trump is Hitler 2.0. That’s how crazy they are. Trump is not a good person, just like most politicians. But, his policies are a darned sight better than Biden and any Democrat, so, I’d rather he be in office.

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NASCAR Unveils EV Race Car Or Something

By William Teach July 8, 2024 – 7:00 am

Do they actually think this will excite fans? From the link

Part of the experience of a NASCAR race is hearing the engine roar, the rumble of each car’s approach and the zip when it whizzes past at more than 150 mph.

NASCAR unveiled its first electric racecar Saturday in downtown Chicago, but it doesn’t thunder when the grand marshal says “drivers, start your engines.”

It hums.

The top motorsports series in North America partnered with Chevrolet, Ford, Toyota and electrification company ABB to demonstrate a high-performance electric vehicle and gauge fan interest in electric racing.

They want to represent electric vehicles, and more broadly electrification, in racing as cool, fun and accessible, said Riley Nelson, NASCAR’s head of sustainability.

Is this what the fans want?

It accelerates almost twice as fast as top gas-powered racecars and can stop almost immediately. But its lap time at Martinsville Speedway in Virginia was two-tenths of a second slower because it takes the corners slower due to being heavier. Ragan said it may go even faster; he wasn’t pushing the one-of-a-kind vehicle to its limits. Risk-taking is for racing, not testing, he said.

Here’s a question I’m not seeing being asked: EVs are much heavier, so, what happens when they crash? What happens if they go over the wall or wipe out in the infield? Or, into the pit?

Burning gas pollutes the air and produces carbon dioxide, which warms the atmosphere and leads to more extreme weather. Burning one gallon produces about 19 pounds of carbon dioxide, according to the U.S. Energy Information Administration. Racing events consume thousands of gallons in a weekend.

And almost no NASCAR fans give a damn.

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Surprise: SCNY Is Putting Most Illegals In Mostly Poor Neighborhoods

By William Teach July 8, 2024 – 6:45 am

No one really thought the high and might citizens of the Sanctuary City Of New York who advocate for unfettered illegal immigration would actually allow them in their own neighborhoods, right?

NYC’s poorest ZIP codes forced to bear brunt of migrant crisis, confidential docs reveal

Some of the Big Apple’s poorest ZIP codes are being forced to bear the greatest brunt of the city’s migrant crisis — including a Queens neighborhood saddled with more shelters than any other part of the five boroughs, internal data kept from the public but obtained by The Post reveal.

Long Island City is home to a staggering 23 government-run migrant shelters — 12% of the 193 operating in New York City, according to data tallied off a confidential list of shelter sites used by city agencies.

“The city dropped a bomb on us,” said Queensbridge Houses resident Danny Beauford, whose 11101 ZIP code includes a 24th shelter in neighboring Astoria. “The [migrants] are taking over. They’re taking over all the parking with their 8,000 scooters. They’re disrespectful — peeing in front of everybody. We do that one time, and we’re going to jail for a long time.”

Three of the top five most shelter-saturated ZIP codes — which cover parts of the Jamaica, Queens and East New York, Brooklyn— are among the poorest areas in New York City, with median incomes below $37,300, according to Data Commons.

I’m sure AOC and Chuck Schumer, and, hey, how about the mayor, will allow illegals in their neighborhoods, eh?

Mayor Eric Adams’ office on Saturday told The Post the number of city shelters is now up to 217, but declined to reveal the additional locations.

None of the city’s 193 migrant shelters reviewed by The Post are located in the top five ZIPs by median income in New York City, which covers Tribeca, Battery Park City and other parts of Lower Manhattan, as well as Lincoln Square, records show.

In LIC, the divide is especially stark, where the nearly two dozen shelters are clustered around two public housing projects.

Yet the adjacent 11109 ZIP code in LIC – a skyscraper-filled community that offers spectacular waterfront views of Manhattan’s skyline and has among the NYC’s priciest real estate – doesn’t have a single shelter.

I bet this same thing is occurring in Boston, Denver, and Chicago, among other sanctuary cities being overrun with illegals. At what point do poor and working class liberals, heck, even middle class liberals, start realizing that their beliefs in Democrat policies is actually bad for their lives and well being? Ever?

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Weird: Biden Admin Doesn’t Like Biden To Speak Off The Cuff

By William Teach July 7, 2024 – 9:07 pm

I wonder if this White House correspondant and her Comrades have considered doing their jobs and all demanding answers?

Here’s the full tweet

No – I said there are a number of reasons why the media hasn’t been allowed access to Biden, and it’s not all because he’s been secretly declining behind closed doors.

This admin has NEVER liked when Biden speaks off the cuff, so they try to limit it – ie. when he called Laken Riley’s killer “an illegal”, which he first defended when asked about it – and then retracted after pressure from certain parts of the base, in an arranged sit-down with MSNBC.

Also this administration values constituency media, not the ‘legacy’ outlets. They are very data-oriented and calculated long ago that they are best served getting their message out via friendly outlets that serve voters they want to reach, like podcasters and Black radio.

They don’t “need” us, according to their analysis, so they often feed us workshopped answers and keep us at an arms length. Now they’re seeing it backfire.

Remember, Biden first took office as a Senator in 1973, meaning he had to campaign before that. Then he spent 8 years as VP. Speaking off the cuff is a requirement for anyone running for office and in office. And this guy can no longer speak off the cuff? An elected politician that cannot answer questions without cue cards and feeding outlets the questions? That is one hell of a big red flag for Biden’s mental health.

And, seriously, who the hell is stopping the POTUS from speaking off the cuff? He’s the POTUS, right?

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Random Non-Political Thoughts

By William Teach July 7, 2024 – 3:40 pm

So, McDonald’s now his it’s own $5 meal, with a small drink, small fries, 4 piece nuggets, and either a McDouble or McChicken. But, how does this stack up to the Wendy’s meals? To get the same for the burger you need to get the $6 biggie bag.

  • Fries: when they’re done right, McDonald’s is the best. But, they’re cooking is off and on, while Wendy’s fries are damned good, too, and seem to be way more consistent. Lean Wendy’s
  • Nuggets: Wendy’s straight up beats McDonald’s, since McD’s changed their formula a few years ago, and just aren’t that good anymore
  • Drink: even
  • Burgers: usually a McDouble is good. Lately, it seems all their burgers are rather dry and overcooked. Usually a McDouble is a greaseburger. Last two times, not pleasant (from 2 different stores. Also had this with a quarter pounder). The Wendy’s Doubestack always seems to be on point. When it comes to the chicken sandwich, I’d rather have Wendy’s. Large advantage Wendy’s.

I’d rather pay $1 more for the Wendy’s deal than McDonald’s. Even if you get the $5 biggie bag with the Jr. Bacon Cheeseburger, still better.

Now, on to the movie Pearl. It came on free for Amazon Prime last month. I started watching it then, but, gave up around 40 minutes in. I tried to watch it this morning, and gave up with 46 minutes left. It’s supposed to be horror/suspense/comedy. It’s not funny at all. There is zero suspense. Horror? Where? Maybe she goes on a killing spree at the end? That would make it a slasher. What it is is really just drama, and bad drama at that. It’s dull, especially when it is not original. How many movies are about a young girl living on a farm wanting to escape and do something? Big aspirations? In this case, be an actress. Fights with her parents. There was nothing that made it stand out. Oh, except for when she takes a scarecrow down and pretends to have intercourse with it. That was weird.

I have no idea why Pearl is rated 7.0 by IMDB and 83% audience score on Rotten Tomatoes. The cast has zero chemistry. The scenery isn’t even that good, though, it is period specific. Reading the Wikipedia explanation of what happens after I gave up makes me glad I gave up. Not even a good slasher. And entirely predictable.

Then there’s Manifest. I’ve made it up to season 1 episode 14, but, I’m not sure. It really doesn’t seem to be going very far. Just something something happened, being perused by some secret agency, there’s some The Major lady. And it is overly dramatic, something I hate in so many of today’s drama shows. No one smiles. No one really has fun. There’s always something deep to talk about. You can have two people having a nice dinner or sex or something and it MUST go to something Deep, something that happened in the past that was Bad, drove them from love, something. There needs to be a break.

Finally, the 2004 Battlestar Galactica. I watch it originally back when it was on, thought I’d give it a shot. I liked the latter seasons better this time, though, the ending still was silly. How do somewhere between 40K-50K humans populate the world, even with all the humans that were on the planet at the time, if they all spread out? What did Starbuck become? Why was she called the harbinger of death? How about fake-Number 6 and fake-Gaius? The ones only Caprica and Gaius could see? Angels? The problem with the show in the latter seasons is it got all into religion and stuff, but, still was worth watching again.

I am giving Evil a shot. The first episode was great. We’ll see how that goes. Also working my way through Burn Notice, up to season 5, where I originally started watching it.

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