In The Shadow Of Mt Hollywood

Mike Benz draws an interesting connection with the alleged January 6 pipe bomber in the video embedded above. At 3:20: The guy in chgarge of the FBI at the time was the one who sold fake pipe bombs three months earlier in the Whitmer fednapping case. Steve D'Antuono was how did they bust them on the Whitmer fednapping case, where over half of the co-conspirators turned out to be federal assets or informants. It was two FBI agents, this is the Detroiit FBI Field Office, Steve D'Antuono these guys were under, who went to a bunch of Three Percenters, that was one of the militia groups, the big three militia groups, the Proud Boys and Oath Keepers on January 6, went to the exact miltia group that was involved in January 6, infiltrated them, convinced them, trained them on how to build homemade pipe bombx, and then busted them buying pipe bomb parts and chaged them with attempted possession of weapons of mass destruction. According to Wikipedia , On October 8, 2020, the ...

So the Democrats caved last evening, and there's a leadership crisis in the party. I was on this Thursday and Saturday . It happened, as I discussed then, because they allowed Trump to back them into a structured choice in which the alternatives to caving would be seeing the filibuster nuked or abandoning their key constituencies of federal workers and welfare recipients. Trump knew this would happen when he flew Air Force One on a victory flight over the Lions-Commanders game yesterday afternoon, even befiore they caved. Nothing new here. What I do think is a more interesting topic is the alleged January 6 pipe bomber. As a good contrarian, I note that this topic, which even many alt sites wouldn't touch when the story broke, has now completely disappeared from any news at all. That means it's got to be worth pursuing. On November 1 , I posted about the two prevailing theories of the case, that the individual in loose clothes, a hoodie, and face mask seen in ...

Blaze Media published a lengthy, detailed story yesterday that alleges that the figure who appears in surveillance footage planting pipe bombs on the evening of January 5 in loose clothing, face covered with a mask and hoodie, was then-Capitol Police officer Shauni Rae Kerkhoff. A forensic analysis of a female former U.S. Capitol Police officer’s gait is a 94%-98% match to the unique stride of the long-sought Jan. 6 pipe-bomb suspect, according to a Blaze News investigation confirmed by several intelligence sources. A source close to a congressional investigation of Jan. 6 additionally told Blaze News evidence has emerged recently that pointed toward law enforcement possibly being involved in the planting of the pipe bombs. A software algorithm that analyzes walking parameters including flexion (knee bend), hip extension, speed, step length, cadence, and variance rated Shauni Rae Kerkhoff, 31, of Alexandria, Va., as a 94% match to the bomb suspect shown on video from Jan....

There were two long and contentious Senate Democrat caucus lunches this week, from which participants emerged "tight-lipped" but "unified". What they were apparently "unified" about was a Friday offer from Minority Leader Schumer: "I've spoken with my caucus, and Democrats are offering a very simple compromise," Schumer said during a Friday speech on the Senate floor. "Democrats are ready to clear the way to quickly pass a government funding bill that includes health care affordability. Leader Thune just needs to add a clean, one-year extension of the ACA tax credits to the CR so that we can immediately address rising health care costs." "Now, the ball is in the Republicans' court. We need Republicans to just say yes," he continued. Schumer is also demanding a bipartisan commission to negotiate the subsidies. Schumer is demanding a negotiation, but what he doesn't seem to underatand is that the ne...

This is a key question that nobody's asking. The Real Clear Politics average for the New Jersey governor's race had Sherrill ahead by 2.7%, and many commentators had this within the margin of error. She won by 56.3% to Ciattarelli's 43.2%, a 13.1% margin. The RCP average for the Virginia governor's race had Spanberger ahead by 8.5%. She won by 57.2% to Earle Sears's 43.6%, a 13.5% margin. I asked Chrome AI mode, "What is considered an accurate poll election prediction?" It answered, An accurate poll election prediction is one where the actual election outcome falls within the poll's stated margin of error and confidence interval. However, polls often understate the full range of potential error, meaning the reported margin of error may need to be wider in practice to be truly accurate. The RCP poll averages don't have a stated margin of error, because they are just a composite of individual polls with differing margins of error. ...

The current government shutdown, whatever else it may be, is a negotiation. Whatever rhe conventional wisdom may say about Trump's current situation, it's unwise to forget that Trump is a skilled negotiator. In the current shutdown crisis, I think he's following an established pattern. His call to nuke the filibuster is a good example. At 4:15 in the video above, he says, I've been saying for the last 30 days, we've had four or five different points, "Yes, sir, they're going to get it right now, we should have it done in a day." I've heard that about four times. I heard it after [No] Kings. . . I heard it after a couple of other moments in time. And I said, "No, I don't believe so." And now I heard it's after the election. I don't believe so. I think they're kamikaze pilots. . . . They'll take down the country if they have to. His argument is that the Democrats, althougn in the minority, will use the filibus...

Because I'm on the other side of the country, and we have enougn problems of our own in LA, I wasn't following the New York mayoral election very closely. But this piece at the Manhattan Contrarian blog provides another examination of what amounts to an alliance between the upper class and Marx's Lumpenproletariat , traditionally the urban underclass of street criminals, vagabonds, pimps, and prostitutes, which is too unrelaible to be an ally of the working class, and the upper class, the 1%. As things have been falling out in the 21st century, it see3ms to me that Marx's Lumpenroletariat has expanded beyond street criminals and other traditional riff-raff to include the homeless, whose ranks have been swelled by the easy availability of addictive drugs; illegal migrants; and sexual deviants, who form a powewrful interest group. This certainly seems to be the group whose electoral power gave Zohran Mamdani the victory in New York's mayoral election, which the ...