Everybody's tabbing for the weekend ....
BREAKING: CNN shows footage from inside Iran, where Islamic Republic loyalists are chanting “Death to America” in the streets, burning American flags, and saluting Hitler.pic.twitter.com/gb9m6vOs71
— Eyal Yakoby (@EYakoby) June 20, 2025
Ed: If the Iranians love death as much as that woman claims, why are all of the important Iranians scrambling for bunkers? Why isn't Ali Khamenei among the people to share their martyrdom? Methinks this is a slogan without too much commitment behind it. Let the regime toadies jump onto a few pyres to set the example.
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Earlier this week, the Iranian-American Democrats of California held an emergency meeting to discuss the organization’s next steps as President Donald Trump weighs whether to join Israeli strikes against Iran.
Leaders of the group had already hit the phones in the hours and days after Israel launched its first strikes June 12, calling all the members of the state’s congressional delegation, including California Sens. Adam Schiff and Alex Padilla, and urging them to prevent U.S. involvement in the attacks.
Ed: Bwa-hahahahahahahaha. They want to exercise some influence on the decision-making of Donald Trump and they're asking Schiff to intercede? Padilla? Why not ask Hillary Clinton, James Comey, Merrick Garland, and Alvin Bragg to give him a call too?
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Seems to be a natural event. https://t.co/1w6eve9wAj
— Kassy Akiva (@KassyAkiva) June 20, 2025
Ed: Sometimes a banana is just a banana, Anna. Iran is prone to earthquakes, although they are not terribly prone to build with that in mind. The Israelis may take some interest in Semnan soon, however, which may provide more aftershocks than Mother Nature has in mind.
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The Supreme Court on Friday ruled that victims of terrorism can sue Palestinian entities in U.S. courts, upholding a law passed by Congress that allows such claims to be brought.
The court held unanimously that the 2019 law, called the Promoting Security and Justice for Victims of Terrorism Act, does not violate the due process rights of the Palestine Liberation Organization and the Palestinian Authority.
Ed: Violate the what-what? Congress made them liable for terrorism claims. They can hire lawyers to defend their assets like any other people in the US. What other "due process rights" did they think they could claim? Maybe they should focus their efforts on, Y"KNOW, not doing terrorism so much.
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WATCH: NBC clarifies days later that the people they claimed were killed at a Gaza Humanitarian Foundation food distribution site in Gaza were actually killed at a United Nations food distribution site.
— Hen Mazzig (@HenMazzig) June 20, 2025
Media are repeating verbatim bogus Hamas claims that people are getting… pic.twitter.com/fLHixYgdH5
Media are repeating verbatim bogus Hamas claims that people are getting killed seeking aid. These claims are clear examples of Hamas propaganda meant to discredit the GHF, the new source of aid being delivered directly to Gazan civilians.
Hamas relies on its income from hoarding and selling aid to innocent people. It's their lifeline. That's exactly why the US has funded an alternative.
Mainstream media must stop reporting Hamas propaganda as fact. The future of Gaza and the safety of its citizens depends on it.
Ed: NBC does not have a 'news' organization. It has a propaganda amplification service for the Left. I'm surprised they ran the correction, frankly.
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Driving the news: The new policy requires members of Congress to request visits to their facilities with 72 business hours' notice.
- Members of Congress are not required to provide advance notice for site visits to ICE detention facilities but the new policy blocks them from unannounced visits to ICE field offices, which are hubs for immigration enforcement.
- Congressional office staffers are required to provide 24 hours' notice to enter ICE detention facilities.
Ed: As I've written before, members of Congress do not become Super Inspectors of executive branch facilities. Access is a courtesy, arranged by the relevant authority. Democrats are conducting these stunts to push the "Trump is an authoritarian" narrative on the basis of being denied instant and unconditional access that has never ever existed in the first place.
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🚨NEW: Veteran Dem Strategist Patti Solis Doyle gives *BRUTAL* take on current state of her party on @MarkHalperin's @NextUpHalperin🚨
— Jason Cohen 🇺🇸 (@JasonJournoDC) June 20, 2025
"Right now we're leaderless, we're messageless, we're agendaless. We don't have any alternative ideas to the president's and the Republicans'… pic.twitter.com/seAq8hTqyS
Ed: Hadn't heard her name in a while. Sounds as though Solis Doyle was happy to not be in the mix.
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If Joe Biden finds himself in the maximalists’ camp, that is more a reflection on him than us.
It is also indicative of why his administration was a little-loved and short-lived. The president and those around him made a sport of antagonizing their political adversaries, robbing themselves of the ability to craft a broader political coalition in the process. They thought they occupied the culture’s commanding heights and could dictate terms to everyone else — precisely the sort of delusion that convinces its sufferers that compromise is both pusillanimous and unnecessary.
Biden is still fighting those old fights, but his opponents long ago abandoned the field in pursuit of grander objectives. Biden’s remarks are a sad reflection on his own inability to comprehend the country he once led. They certainly reveal a level of contempt for his neighbors that is, at the very least, unbecoming in a president. It’s no wonder he isn’t one anymore.
Ed: His only relevance now is when his cognitive decline crossed the line into functional incapacity.
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Hitler finds out Iran is bombing Israel pic.twitter.com/B17BO9kqiT
— David Keyes (@DavidMKeyes) June 20, 2025
Ed: I was waiting for this! By the way, Hitler was played in "Downfall" (this film) by legendary actor Bruno Ganz. He did a lot of work in German and Italian films, but did some English language films too. He had a smaller role in "The Reader" as the law professor who acted as a kind of moral center for the film. He passed away in 2019, but left us one of the greatest memes of all time. RIP, Mr. Ganz.
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However, because the “Kamala is for They/Them, Trump is For You” commercial is widely credited with helping swing last year’s election, the usual Internet goon squads have gone mute of late, even after this week’s ruling. The Times even ran a think piece about the “new discomfort” yesterday.
If we’re really at freakout’s end, let me be first to say, Ding, Dong, the Language-Policing Witch is Dead! This episode should be an object lesson in what happens when you try to tell people what they should think about things they can see with their own eyes, like a 6’4” biological male flashing the victory sign after double-lapping an NCAA pool full of bewildered young women. Awesome quantities of PR capital were expended denouncing those who booed as bigots. Still, the public wouldn’t budge, on that or related concerns, like the extant question of whether or not minors who can’t vote or drive have an absolute right to Lupron prescriptions. There were ways to talk sensibly and with sensitivity about all this, but no room was left to do so, and this is the result.
Unfortunately, it’s already clear no lesson will be learned, as was also made clear in The Times this week[.]
Ed: The Weirdo Party finds itself shocked, shocked that the normies have rejected them. Have fun pandering to the fringe, Democrats. Speaking of weirdos ...
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Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs kept his precious baby oil stash in climate-controlled storage, new evidence pics from inside his mansion reveal https://t.co/tfuxRBmOvb pic.twitter.com/BHsJuZEIUI
— New York Post (@nypost) June 20, 2025
Ed: I haven't followed this story closely, but it seems to me that Johnson & Johnson's parent company might have to inform stockholders of the negative financial impact of a Diddy prison sentence. Yecch.
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“I have an iota of sympathy for somebody whose life hadn’t turned out right and the brilliant thing about MAGA is it gives you an explanation other than yourself of why your life didn’t turn out the way you wanted it,” he said. “And we should say to these people, we kind of understand what you were trying to say, but you were betrayed. Let’s also face it — Democrats acted like these people didn’t exist.” ...
“Don’t come back and say we acted like working-class, particularly working-class non-college whites, were not part of our too-cool-for-school group. There were some real, and some real high end people, that kind of bought into that shit,” he said. “And, you know, I can see it, but the best thing to do is not punch him in the mouth, but to say, ‘You know, man, I could hear where you’re coming from, and you just got betrayed. And we betrayed you somewhat and we now have learned our lesson.’ I think that’s the best way.”
Ed: I have respect for James Carville, but he's missing the point. Democrats these days are less of a political party and more of a commissariat intending to impose The Received Wisdom on a subjugated population. This party is not responding to incentives AT ALL. It's one reason Patti Solis Doyle is happy to be out of the mix, as she says above.
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Professor of Psychology and of Music Dr. Dianna T Kenny: “I've watched hundreds of children destroy their own lives, and their families, through being captured by this cultish ideology” pic.twitter.com/OY1DJD77IT
— Genspect (@genspect) June 20, 2025
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