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BREAKING: NBA Coach, Player Arrested in DoJ Sports-Betting Probes

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For decades, professional sports leagues created firewalls to protect the integrity of their games from the corrosive nature of gambling. Starting several years ago, the leagues started linking arms with bettors and gambling platforms. especially on line. The money began rolling in to their coffers, but at what cost?

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The NBA may be discovering it this morning. Feds arrested the head coach of the Portland Trail Blazers and the Miami Heat’s point guard in unrelated investigations into gambling and corruption. And it may not end with these two, either:

Miami Heat guard Terry Rozier and Portland Trail Blazers head coach Chauncey Billups have been arrested in connection with a federal investigation into sports betting, people familiar with the matter told The Associated Press on Thursday.

The exact charge or charges they face were not immediately known. Two people spoke to the AP about Rozier on condition of anonymity because they couldn’t discuss details of the investigation publicly. One of these people also told the AP of Billups’ arrest. …

The case was brought by the same U.S. attorney’s office in Brooklyn that previously prosecuted ex-NBA player Jontay Porter. The former Toronto Raptors center pleaded guilty to charges that he withdrew early from games, claiming illness or injury, so that those in the know could win big by betting on him to underperform expectations.

The Rozier case first came to the attention of investigators after complaints from bettors on online sportsbooks, who smelled a rat:

Posts still online from March 23, 2023 show that some bettors were furious with sportsbooks that evening when it became evident that Rozier was not going to return to the Charlotte-New Orleans game after the first quarter, with many turning to social media to say that something “shady” had gone on regarding the prop bets involving his stats for that night.

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What does that have to do with Billups? Nothing directly. ABC reports that Billups got caught up in another probe into Mafia-related poker games:

Portland Trail Blazers head coach Chauncey Billups has been charged in an illegal poker operation tied to the Mafia, law enforcement sources told ABC News.

Billups, in his fifth season as head coach, was arrested in Oregon, where is expected to make an initial court appearance on Thursday, sources said.

The FBI will hold a presser later today to release more information about both arrests, and presumably, about the nature of their investigation. If it took the FBI and Department of Justice two years to finally arrest Rozier, one has to imagine that they have been taking a long and close look at the entire league and their connection to gambling-related corruption. 

The NBA, and the other professional leagues, have played with fire for years. The ur-text of the previous firewall between gambling and professional sports was the Black Sox Scandal in the 1919 World Series, where players threw games and the series in a convoluted series of connections and double-crosses with gamblers. Major League Baseball drew a thick red line between players, coaches, and gambling — and then ruthlessly enforced it, starting with ex post facto lifetime bans against the eight Black Sox players all the way through Pete Rose. The NFL repeatedly sidelined players for connections to casinos and gamblers. The NBA has been less successful, as the 2007 scandal with referee Tim Donaghy showed, in which he bet on games he officiated and skewed the results with his calls. 

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Rather than strengthen the firewalls, however, the leagues all climbed into bed with the gamblers to get the advertising money and promotional benefits. Should it come as any surprise that the newfound proximity to players and coaches resulted in more corruption of the games themselves? Everyone involved made greed their top priority rather than the integrity of the game, and that message understandably spread to the entire structure of professional sports. 

The result may well be that everyone will make more money in the short run. In the longer run, though, angry fans will question every injury, every substitution, and every missed score and wonder whether to chalk it up to human frailty on the field or human frailty of the pocketbook. Get ready for a lot more of these stories, because now that the league has married gamblers, they can’t exactly bar marital relations between them. 

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Scott Wiener to Challenge Nancy Pelosi for Congress

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Well, since Nancy Pelosi has yet to say whether she will run again, it is more accurate to say that Wiener has chosen to run for Congress regardless of whether Nancy Pelosi chooses to or not. I suspect he hopes his announcement will prompt Pelosi to retire after decades in Washington. 

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“This really isn’t about Nancy Pelosi,” Wiener told KQED. “Nancy Pelosi has moved mountains for the country and for San Francisco, and I think the world of her. She’s not said whether she’s running again and we’re now to the point where we’re just a few months out from the filing deadline. And so it was time to enter the race.”

I have written about Scott Wiener multiple times, calling him “the most dangerous state legislator in America.” 

On a scale of 0 to 10, with 0 being Mike Pence and Buffalo Bill of Silence of the Lambs fame, Wiener’s degeneracy falls around an 8 or 9. I’m fairly certain he doesn’t have a basement well where he keeps captives, but his policy preferences would likely result in Buffalo Bill receiving 1 to 4 years for his crimes, with time off for good behavior. 

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Wiener’s legislative record is something to behold. He is the driving force behind California’s lurch to the left on alphabet ideology, as well as the author of a bill that essentially legalized prostitution in San Francisco by repealing a “loitering” law. Prostitutes spread out into the neighborhoods, soliciting in front of children. Residents got fed up enough to sue the city. 

Wiener’s explanation for why prostitution should be tolerated? 

“If you are standing on the sidewalk with high heels, and you wear your hair a certain way, and you wear tight clothing, an officer can say, ‘I think you’re loitering with the intent to commit prostitution’ and arrest you,” Wiener said. “That is not how we should be doing things in the United States of America—arresting people for how they look,” he continued. “And when you do that, not surprisingly, it’s only certain kinds of people who actually get arrested: it’s trans women. It’s black women. . . . It’s an inherently profiling law,” he said. “Randomly arresting a bunch of black trans women for how they look is not protecting potential victims of human trafficking.”

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Wiener’s tolerance for prostitution goes much deeper than you might imagine. He opposed making the trafficking of children for sex a felony because it would disproportionately harm LGBTQ constituents, whom he thinks are more likely to seek out children for sex. 

The alphabet mob in California thinks punishing people for exploiting children is discriminatory. 

Wiener is radical on all things alphabet, and most of everything else. Unfortunately for us, he is no AOC—all show and no dough. He is really good at what he does; it’s just that what he does is promote evil. 

… in a political era defined by legislative gridlock in Washington, Wiener stands out as one of the nation’s most effective lawmakers. In the six years since the Harvard Law grad took office, he has managed to author, and get passed, a series of radical gender- and sex-related bills. The measures have allowed biological male felons to self-ID their way into women’s prisons; assigned criminal penalties to health-care workers who fail to provide gender-affirming care; made California a “sanctuary state” for LGBTQ youth; expanded access to “gender-affirming care” for LGBTQ-identified youth, with and without parental approval; proposed jail time for health-care workers who “willfully and repeatedly” misgender a patient (i.e., refer to them in a way at odds with their gender identity); decriminalized the intentional exposure of a sexual partner to HIV; and reduced criminal penalties for sex offenders.

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Very evil.

But in a few short years, he has become one of the most effective legislators in the country, and in many ways the de facto leader of the Democratic Party in the state. Not as a symbol, like Newsom, but as an inside player who shapes the agenda. 

Weiner will almost certainly be the next Congressman from San Francisco, whether it is next year or not. He is smart, effective, and degenerate enough for the left on alphabet issues. Surely somebody will challenge him from further left, but that will only solidify his hold on liberal tech donors who fear a radical socialist. Wiener almost counts as moderate in California, as long as you are fine with kids getting abused by their elders. 

The younger, radical left sees this moment as their time. The socialists are flocking to AOC and Mamdani, and Wiener is perfect for the sexual degenerates. 

We may look back on Nancy Pelosi as the moderate Congresswoman from San Francisco. 


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Wednesday’s tabs are full of ooops — it’s Wednesday, not Thursday! Corrected …

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Ed: Looks like the Rubio-Lavrov talks failed. And it appears that Trump has had enough of Putin’s intransigence. You know what that means …

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The Telegraph: Vladimir Putin has carried out nuclear missile tests and large-scale drills a day after his summit with Donald Trump was cancelled.

A Yars intercontinental ballistic missile was test-fired from the Plesetsk launch facility in northwestern Russia, and a Sineva ICBM was launched by a submarine in the Barents Sea.

Strategic bomber forces also took part, with Tu‑95 aircraft launching long‑range cruise missiles, the Kremlin added in a statement.

Ed: Putin’s trying another round of “escalate to de-escalate.” Will that bother Trump? The last time Putin tried that via his toady Medvedev, Trump threatened to escalate weapons transfers to Ukraine, and the Kremlin walked back Medvedev’s comments. With Tomahawks on the table, this seems like a bad idea for Putin. And sure enough …

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Ed: Trump’s not going to back down when Putin plays this game. Trump wants the war to end, but not on Putin’s terms. What I find fascinating is how the mainstream media is ignoring how Trump is getting tough with Putin — tougher than Biden ever was — after nearly a decade of accusing Trump of being Putin’s crony. 

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Ed: That is a non-denial denial. Read this very carefully. Trump is saying that the US does not restrict Ukraine on the use of missiles, which is in fact a change of policy from the Biden administration. Trump is just taking US fingerprints off of how Ukraine chooses to use these missiles. 

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Mediaite: Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) gave a short and sweet beatdown to former Vice President Kamala Harris’s 2024 presidential campaign during a visit to Tim Dillon’s podcast. …

[“]I think the reason that she lost that election gets back to the point we discussed at the beginning of this podcast and that is money in politics. Kamala did not run a campaign focused on the needs of the working class, didn’t run a campaign focused on healthcare, on economics, and raising the minimum wage, on paid family and medical leave, on housing, on all of the issues that working people are struggling with right now. And I think her not focused on those issues allowed Trump to win, in my view.[“]

Ed: Mediaite sold this as a “nuke” on Kamala. It’s more of a light slap in the face, with apologies. Sanders set this up by calling Harris “an incredibly intelligent, focused person,” which argues facts not in evidence, to be kind about it. And Sanders is only partly correct in this; Harris didn’t run on ANY issues other than Trump himself. 

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Ed: Might I suggest that MSNOW, née MSNBC, rethink their association with such a misogynist and bigot like Jen Psaki? Besides, this isn’t even original. Remember the Julia Roberts ad for Kamala Harris last year that assumed women who vote Republican only did so out of fear of their husbands? How well did that messaging work out in 2024, Ms. Psaki? Maybe this is one message that Democrats shouldn’t circle back on, eh?

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Politico: Nancy Pelosi, who has come under increasing pressure from fellow Democrats here to retire, will make an announcement about her plans after California’s election on a redistricting measure early next month, according to an adviser.

And if Pelosi, who is 85, does leave office, she has been publicly elevating one Democrat who could run to succeed her: San Francisco Supervisor Connie Chan — who has emerged as a progressive force inside City Hall and who, much like Pelosi, is closely aligned with the city’s powerful labor movement.

At last weekend’s “No Kings” protest in downtown San Francisco, Chan was the only local elected official to speak alongside Pelosi at a related labor event to rally support for Democrats’ gerrymandering proposal. 

Ed: Pelosi should have retired when Hakeem Jeffries became the House Dem caucus leader. She’s lurked in the background of leadership ever since, encroaching on Jeffries’ authority at some level. However, given the fundraising woes of the DNC in this cycle, don’t be surprised if the party convinces Pelosi to stick around for at least another term, because she has a grip on donors that may not survive her retirement. 

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Ed: Good to see that the Bidenistas are still consistent in their determination to lie as brazenly as ever. And this was in a FRIENDLY interview! They spent four years micturating on voters’ heads while calling it rain, and Karine Jean-Pierre was easily the most dishonest hack involved in the Sharp As A Tack™ fraud at the White House. She hasn’t changed a thing, not even when selling her 192-page memoir. 

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Fred Bauer at NRO: For weeks now, progressive influencers have been calling on Republicans to nuke the filibuster and end the government shutdown. They want that to happen for a variety of reasons. In 2021 and 2022, Joe Manchin and Kyrsten Sinema took the heat for blocking the nuclear option. That spared those Democratic senators with some institutionalist impulses (such as Delaware Senator Chris Coons) from having to disappoint progressive activists by opposing the nuclear option themselves. In a future Democratic Senate majority, the Manchin–Sinema heat shield would be gone. Maine independent Angus King would probably very much like not to be the deciding vote on nuking the filibuster. If Republicans nuke the filibuster now and create that precedent, they end up sparing the Democratic caucus from facing that uncomfortable discussion. A post-nuclear Senate would toss the keys to “the groups.” If there’s any uncertainty about whether every Senate Democrat is really on board with that agenda, it’s far better from progressive activists’ perspectives that Republicans nuke the Senate for them. (And, as Joe Manchin recognized years ago, there is no such thing as a limited “carve-out” via the nuclear option — any “carve-out” puts the whole bird on the table.)

Further, Republicans’ nuking of the filibuster would also be a tactical win for Senate Democrats. Right now, the government remains shut down until enough Senate Democrats come to the table to negotiate. However, the activist base of the party does not want any negotiations with Republicans; they want full-spectrum opposition. This puts Senate Democrats in a tough position: Either keep the government shut down (and thus give the White House increased leverage in determining federal spending), or frustrate the inflatable-clad legions. Seen in that light, the nuclear option on the filibuster would allow Democrats to have their cake and eat it, too. They would get to both engage in performative opposition to Republican governance and see the government reopen.

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Ed: Fred makes a great argument on other grounds as well, but these are compelling on their own. I argued yesterday against changing the filibuster for other reasons. I believe Duane will have a post soon rebutting both of us so stay tuned. 

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Ed: Doubling down on stupid, it seems. 

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Free Beacon: Northwestern University can strip students’ financial aid, access to on-campus housing, and even their student status for refusing to complete a mandatory anti-Semitism training, a federal judge ruled Monday.

The ruling represents an early blow to the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) in the lawsuit it filed against Northwestern on behalf of the school’s Graduate Workers for Palestine, alleging the training violates federal civil rights law and bans “expressions of Palestinian identity.” The plaintiffs had asked the court for a temporary restraining order to stop the school from punishing students who boycotted the training while the case played out, but Judge Georgia Alexakis rejected that request.

Ed: This is not a final ruling, but the denial of a stay is still meaningful. The video makes the argument that the anti-Israel activists use the same arguments as the Klan did about Jews in earlier decades, and … well, CAIR is not happy about that, at all. Truth is an absolute defense, however. 

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Ed: Celebrating the shakedown of taxpayers? As I told Cam Edwards on our VIP Gold chat today, this is the dumbest non-troversey yet in the Trump administration — in either term. 

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Lanny Davis at American Greatness: So here is the compromise plan for Democrats to publicly propose to Republican congressional leaders to place the onus on them of a continuing shutdown if they ignore the proposal:

We Democrats will vote for a continuing resolution to reopen the government and will commit to adding a “work requirement” in the future to Medicaid if you Republicans commit to an up-or-down vote in both chambers within 60 days to restore all the pre-“BBB” Medicaid cuts and enact an extension of Obamacare insurance subsidies and support.

Democrats will also commit to supporting a bipartisan commission to frame the work requirement for Medicaid, similar to the Clinton welfare reform plan, and agree to an up-or-down vote on the commission’s recommendations within six months.

Ed: I appreciate Davis’ effort to find some compromise, but this is a bad deal, and perhaps even a Wimpy deal: Davis will gladly offer a vote in six months on Republican priorities for a vote in sixty days on Democrat priorities. Meh. If the trade is workfare requirements for an extension of ObamaCare subsidies, then do them both in the same package and commit to a floor vote in both chambers on the one bill. 

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Ed: MK hit the nail on the head, of course, but what if the skeleton were … a Twinkie?

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A Special Prosecutor Has Been Appointed to Investigate Jay Jones’ Reckless Driving Case

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One of the many problems facing Jay Jones’ campaign this month has been a story about reckless driving. Back in 2022 Jones went driving on the I-64 freeway east of Richmond, VA and got pulled over for speeding. The speed limit on this stretch of freeway is 70 mph. Jones was caught driving 116 mph, which works out to 46 mph over the limit. Any speed more than 20 mph over the limit is automatically classified as reckless driving and usually results in more than a fine. But not for Jay Jones. He got a sweetheart deal from the court.

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If you were caught driving 46 miles per hour over the speed limit in Virginia, would you expect to serve jail time or at least have your license suspended or driving privileges restricted? Those are the kinds of consequences many Virginia drivers have had to face but Jay Jones did not…

Court records show, one man was found guilty of driving 115 mph in a 70 in New Kent County. He got 10 days in jail, his license was suspended for six months, he was fined $2,000, and once he got his license back, he could only drive to and from work.

On the same day Jones received his sentence, a Woodbridge man was sentenced to 30 days in jail for driving 115 mph in a 70-mph zone. The Prince William County man’s sentence was suspended as long as he didn’t speed again. The Woodbridge man’s license was suspended for six months, then restricted, and he was fined $1,500…

Jones, a former Virginia lawmaker, got no jail time for driving 116 mph in a 70 on I-64. He paid a $1,500 fine, his driving privileges were not impacted and he got 1,000 hours of community service.

That kind of two-tiered justice, where a member of the political class gets a lesser sentence than regular people caught doing the same thing ought to be a scandal, but in this case that’s not even the part of this that is under investigation.

Jones was given 1,000 hours of community service. Community service is intended to benefit the entire community, i.e. things like picking up garbage along the freeway. But Jones never got his hands dirty. Instead, he fulfilled all 1,000 hours in a single year (2023) while also working full time and campaigning for office. And half of those hours were served working for his own political PAC.

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It’s never been clear how that was possible and now a special prosecutor has been created to find out. National Review has the scoop.

Jones was convicted of reckless driving in New Kent County after being pulled over driving 116mph in a 70mph zone in 2022. He was ordered to pay a $1,500 fine and serve 1,000 community service hours. The New Kent County general district court received signed certificates of completion in January 2024 attesting that Jones had served 500 of those community service hours for his own political action committee, Meet Our Moment (MOM PAC), and the remaining 500 hours for the Virginia chapter of the NAACP…

On October 9, ABC7 News reported that Renick, the New Kent County Commonwealth’s Attorney, was investigating how exactly Jones had cleared his community service hours.

The certificates signed by representatives of the NAACP and MOM PAC attest that Jones completed more than 500 hours of community service for each organization within the 2023 calendar year. In order to complete that number of hours within one year, Jones would have had to dedicate ten hours of every week to MOM PAC and ten hours to the NAACP, all while working at the law firm Hogan Lovells full time. Social media posts show Jones also traveled the state campaigning for fellow Democrats throughout that year.

Working for a partisan PAC probably should not be an option for a community service requirement. That’s why county attorney Scott Renick started looking into this.

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“It’s supposed to be something where you’re giving back to the community,” New Kent County Commonwealth’s Attorney Scott Renick said.

Last week, 7News asked Jones’ campaign exactly what he did for those 500 hours at his PAC. We never got a response.

Yesterday, Renick asked a judge to recuse him and the judge agreed and put another county attorney in place as a special prosecutor to continue the investigation into Jones.

On Tuesday, roughly two weeks after the ABC7 report, Judge Bondurant signed an order granting Renick’s request to recuse himself from the probe and have a special prosecutor appointed in “the matter currently pending in the General District Court in New Kent County.” The order names Jerrauld C. Jones as defendant and references the case number of his reckless driving conviction.

Jason Miyares, Jones’ opponent in the race, just released a statement about the special prosecutor. He’s calling on Jones to drop out.

From Fox News:

“It is not possible for Jay Jones to fulfill the duties of the attorney general while under an open criminal investigation,” Miyares told Fox News Digital after learning of the document, first reported by National Review.

“If Jay stays in the race, it shows a contempt for voters never seen in modern Virginia political history.”…

“Now we learn that he may have misled the courts to avoid jail time for recklessly driving 116mph. He has not taken accountability for his words or actions,” Miyares said.

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Here’s Miyares reacting in a local news interview. 

Stay tuned. Maybe this will finally convince Virginia Democrats to abandon this guy.

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Future for Woke Cincinnati Police Chief Suddenly Looking Chilly

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You might almost say she’s damn near a ‘has bean’…if you wanted to get your pun on…which, of course, I do.

We first were introduced to Anne Ramsay look-alike (only people adored actress Ms Ramsay), Cincinnati Police Chief Teresa Theetge, back at the end of July. What had been, by all accounts, a very successful Jazz Festival weekend was marred by the most horrific videos of black revelers attacking small groups of white festival goers in the city’s downtown in the early morning hours and seriously injuring some of them.

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‘Nothing good happens after midnight’ holds true again. 

The videos were damn disturbing and hard to watch.

Above is only one of the incidents, and it turned out the fellow throwing the punches already had multiple felony charges pending. He shouldn’t have been out partying to begin with. 

Another victim was a young woman who stepped in to try to break the fight up, only to be punched viciously in the face and drop like a stone. She would spend days in the hospital.

Chief Theetge’s reaction?

It wasn’t so bad. Besides, the fights were all the fault of social media making it look awful, and bars overserving patrons.

Why can’t everybody just calm down?

…“I think by the irresponsibility with social media is it just shows one side of the equation quite frequently without context, without factual context, and then people run with that and then it grows legs and it becomes something bigger that we then have to try to manage as part of the investigation.” 

“Social media and mainstream media and their commentaries are misrepresentation of the circumstances surrounding any given event.”

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At the time I wrote:

…Cincinnati Police Chief Teresa Theetge, the first woman to lead the police department (and a good argument for why she should be the last), spent yesterday not excoriating the roving gang of thugs who felt perfectly within their rights to gleefully gang-stomp folks just out for a late evening event.

It was, the chief insisted, a matter of social media amplifying a situation before she had a chance to get out in front of it and make excuses for the wilding in the wee hours on her streets.

Contrary to the chief’s oblivious assertions that it was fine and all overblown for TikTok, the downtown merchants were up to their eyeballs and started rattling cages, demanding change. Enough was enough.

But it sure wasn’t for Chief Theetge.

The headline from the Cincinnati Enquirer for Oct 14 read as follows:

Summer violence spike continues with Fountain Square shooting

A shooting at Fountain Square the night of Oct. 13 comes less than a week after another shooting in Downtown and highlights the struggle to bring crime down in Cincinnati’s urban core.

Late Monday, two people, age 16 and 19, were injured when gunfire exploded near the restaurants in the city’s center.

A ‘summer violence spike’ would imply the chief and her department hadn’t gotten much of a handle on the violence in the downtown in the interim months after the racially motivated attacks.

But, oooh. Chief Theetge was talking so tough the night of the double shooting, it’s amazing to me that every criminal for miles didn’t hustle themselves downtown to have a good time. It was a female version of the famous POTATUS, ‘Don’t. Just don’t.’

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Seriously. You have to listen – it’s beyond parody.

LEARN HOW TO BEHAVE, ESPECIALLY IN OUR DOWNTOWN, WHIPPERSNAPPERS

Someone, at long last, had had enough of the bloviating bag of police puffery, and they have yanked her chain. Since she wouldn’t resign gracefully, she’s been suspended pending an investigation over the ‘effectiveness’ of her ‘leadership.’

There’s a shakeup in the Cincinnati police department.

Chief Teresa Theetge is now on administrative leave. City manager Sheryl Long is the one making the change. Local 12 was first to break the story today at six. Chief Theetge has retained employment attorney Stephen Imm, who was scheduled to hold a news conference Tuesday at 10 a.m. to address the situation

The move follows a series of events that began last week when Long recalled Theetge from a conference in Denver, reportedly to request her resignation. Council Member Jeff Cramdering expressed a desire for clarity.

“We just want to understand why. We want to talk about public safety and how this move is going to make the city feel and be more safe,” said Cramdering

Well, that’s gonna be a bag of worms there, as word of a lawsuit against Theetge filed by four of her officers back in May surfaced under the spotlight of the racial attacks.

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They accused the chief of being racially biased against *checks notes* white males and using a racial quota system.

Well, that certainly could cast a different and unflattering light on her statements during the Jazz Fest attacks.

Embattled Cincinnati Police Chief Teresa Theetge was being sued by four high-ranking officers claiming she discriminated against white lieutenants while doling out promotions and assignments using a “race-based quota system.”

The lawsuit, filed in May, resurfaced as Theetge faces scrutiny amid her department’s investigation into the high-profile vicious street beatdown of a defenseless white woman in the Ohio city last weekend.

Capt. Robert Wilson and Lieutenants Patrick Caton, Gerald Hodges and Andrew Mitchell claimed in the suit that the police chief bypassed them for positions they deserved — and instead gave minority and female lieutenants preferential treatment, Newsweek reported.

Maybe the woman is simply incompetent and racist. 

Chief Theetge says she’s a victim.

The attorney for Cincinnati Police Chief Teresa Theetge, who was put on leave pending an investigation, said she’s being used as a “political scapegoat” by Mayor Aftab Pureval and City Manager Sheryl Long.

Of course she is. Every DEI hire who faceplants always is.

The downtown business owners don’t care what she calls herself. They just want the city to get its frickin’ act together, ensuring a safe downtown and some of them have a feeling an election two weeks away had more to do with dumping Theetge than the crime rate.

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Which, when you think about it, is a pretty sad reflection on the city.

…Many business owners declined to speak on-camera because they say this issue has become too political.

“The election is 14 days away; it doesn’t take a genius to figure out what’s going on. All of this makes it glaringly obvious we do need to separate police work and politics in this city if we ever want to see anything change,” said Sebastian.

However, they maintain there’s still a need for solutions, and getting rid of the chief is not the answer.

“It seems that the police don’t have the authority to make the decisions that are needed,” said Louis. “So it’s not really who is in charge. It’s the structure in which the police are operating within the city, and we, as the citizens and business owners, we have no clear direction as to who’s in charge and what is being done.

The incumbent mayor is up against a candidate with a higher-than-usual profile, as Corey Bowman is the vice-president’s half-brother. That would only get Bowman so far in a normal year in deep-blue Cincinnati, but things are a mess, so who knows.

This chaos right before the election doesn’t make Pureval’s miserable tenure look any better.

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ICE Raided Canal Street in NYC Yesterday and the Left is Not Happy

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Yesterday afternoon, ICE agents showed up in force and arrested a bunch of people selling counterfeit merchandise on Canal Street in New York City. The operation was immediately surrounded by a bunch of New Yorkers chanting things like “ICE out now!” and a lot of worse things. [emphasis added]

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U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents raided Chinatown’s Canal Street on Tuesday afternoon, detaining several street vendors in an operation that drew immediate and fierce backlash from bystanders and immigrant advocates.

The operation began at about 3 p.m. in the area of Centre and Canal Streets where ICE agents showed up to question street vendors as part of an alleged operation to tackle counterfeit goods, according to a Homeland Security official…

When the agents went to arrest a vendor, who appeared to be African, members of the crowd became incensed. Some became enraged to the point of yelling in ICE agents’ faces, comparing them to Nazis and calling them fascists.

As ICE agents went to their vehicles, New Yorkers ran into the streets. The agents then began pushing people and tackling some to the ground. That led to more enraged bystanders joining the mob and lashing out at the ICE agents.

There are quite a few video clips of the operation but it’s difficult to put them in any sort of order. One thing I notice in this clip is that nearly all of the people screeching at ICE are women.

It looks like amNewYork got those clips from here. This includes an additional clip with some shoving between protesters and ICE as vehicles were trying to leave the area.

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Later, as the sun was going down, the protesters gathered at a nearby ICE facility to chant and shout some more.

They blocked the street and tried to stop traffic.

Some Antifa goon got arrested and other members of the crowd (dressed in black with faces covered) tried to de-arrest him. They were not successful.

Yet another member of the goon squad got arrested.

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The general consensus seems to be that the raid happened because a couple days earlier a reporter with connections to TPUSA did a video showing all of the migrants selling illegally on the street. Here’s that video from Savannah Hernandez which was published Sunday.

The entire sidewalk is filled with illegals who state they are from Senegal and I watched as they fled police. 

This corner looks exactly like the streets of Paris and the migrants even became angry and tried to tell me I couldn’t film (similar to Paris). 

As I was reporting, the migrants began scrambling to pick up their items before fleeing into vehicles or on foot due to police presence in the area. 

One of the migrants explained to me that they’re operating “without a license” and if the police catch them, they’ll confiscate all of their items.  

There were at least 20-30 illegals in the area conducting business that they know is against the law, however, this seems to be a common occurrence on this street and business is booming. 

Canal street is more-or-less famous for this activity which has been going on there for decades. The NYPD occasionally raids the area and scoops up the illegal merch but what does not usually happen is that ICE gets involved.

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DHS posted a list of migrants who were arrested yesterday, some of whom are criminals or have final deportation orders.

This is who all those screaming NYC women are eager to protect.

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So all nine of these guys plus a handful of Antifa leftists. Today, Canal street is clear.

Naturally, the left is outraged by this and vowing to keep NYC a sanctuary city.

Today, Letitia James is asking New Yorkers to submit video so her office can review it for any violations of the law.

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But at least some New Yorkers think it’s about time.

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Insane: Democrats to Create ‘Master ICE Tracker’ to Warn Illegals About ICE Activity

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Senate Democrats aren’t satisfied yet with the amount of violence directed at ICE and CBP agents, so they are planning to create what they call a “Master ICE Tracker to warn illegal aliens about ICE activity, and give Antifa militants more information about where exactly to position themselves for ambushes. 

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Assaults on ICE agents have skyrocketed by 1000%, and the violence directed at them has escalated from throwing Subway sandwiches to taking potshots at them and ramming cars into agents. 

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But, to Democrats, ICE is the modern Gestapo; it seems like this level of violence and resistance to law enforcement officers is not nearly enough. 

Ethically, this is appalling. Morally, it is an implicit aid to people committing violence. Politically, it seems like it wouldn’t make sense until you dig a little deeper. 

Democrats have been trying to escape the accusation that they have shut down the government because they want to provide health insurance to illegal aliens, and in polls, the Democrats are on the losing side of the illegal immigration issue. On its face, you would think that going so far out on a limb—choosing the side of the illegal aliens over law enforcement—would not be where they want to go. 

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But…with their base, which in this case is mainly the AWFLs, illegal immigration is a big issue because the stories being told tug at their heartstrings. I have seen this up close and personal, where otherwise smart and rational people get teary-eyed over stories designed to hit them where their emotions are rawest. 

It’s a short-term strategy for Democrats, since policies like this won’t help them in national elections. But the hope is that in purple districts with large numbers of professionals who generally aren’t hurt by illegal immigration, it will motivate people just enough to help. Blue-collar people may be disgusted, but an AWFL will cheer them on. 

Democrats are in deep trouble as a party, and clearly, they are not trying to moderate their message. They are moving in the other direction, hoping to gin up the base for the midterms. 

It’s not a great strategy, but moderate Democrats are checked out and disgusted, so lurching left may motivate the hard core. 

Will it work? I have no idea. The economy will dominate the next election cycle. But Democrats may be underestimating how damaging their extremism on issues like immigration and alphabet ideology are, and overestimating how much their talk of funding for education and health care will help. Americans are souring on public schools, and while health care costs matter a lot, I am not certain that they benefit as much from middle-class dissatisfaction with the system as they think they will. 

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Democrats have no real leadership or unified messaging, and it shows. “Moderate” Democrats are bending the knee to the left, who have the most enthusiastic support from the base. 

The Mamdani wing of the party is ascendant, and it shows. 


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The Anti-Communist Film Festival: George Clooney and ‘Solaris’

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    We’re circling back to where we began. A month ago, I started a series on Hot Air about the Anti-Communist Film Festival, which is being planned for the fall of 2026. I think the festival could have a huge cultural impact, inoculating young people against communism while letting people get together and have a big party and watch some cool movies.

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    The response has been enthusiastic. I’ve heard from foundations, journalists, and even people in Hollywood who want to get involved. We have a GoFundMe and a GiveSendGo for donations. A publisher is interested in compiling my articles on the topic into a small book to be given to donors and available for purchase. A theater location in Washington, D.C. has been scouted and the owners and managers are on board.

    The first piece I wrote about the festival for Hot Air introduced the movies I want to screen (the list has since expanded) and talked about George Clooney. Clooney was in the news for his Broadway production of Good Night and Good Luck. Clooney is still congratulating the corrupt media on covering up communist infiltration into the United States in the 1950s. Yes, Senator Joe McCarthy made mistakes, but liberals have been using him as a piñata for more than seventy years. You’d think that they could at least admit that Alger Hiss was guilty.

    Still, I would like to invite George Clooney to the Anti-Communist Film Festival based on what I consider one of his best movies. I speak of Solaris, a 2002 science fiction vehicle, directed by Steven Soderbergh. Solaris tanked upon release, but I saw it a few years ago at the American Film Institute series on Stanislaw Lem. Lem (1921-2006) was a great Polish science fiction writer. His 1961 novel Solaris, on which the film is based, is considered his masterpiece. There is also a 1972 Soviet version of Solaris directed by Andrei Tarkovsky, which won a Special Jury Prize at the Cannes Film Festival. Poland named 2001 the year of Stanislaw Lem.

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    Both Stanislaw Lem and Andrei Tarkovsky were artists who irritated the Soviets, who tried to censor both men. As a Polish author who lived under communism, Lem saw what happens when societies try to play God. As science fiction scholar Carl Tighe noted in an essay about Lem: “Virtually all of Lem’s novels can be read as parables about what happens to societies and people when channels of communication are blocked, about the difficulty of making a revolutionary society or fundamentally changing human nature by social or political engineering on the slender basis of the knowledge of humanity at our disposal. As such, his novels are profoundly humanistic, a coded criticism of the kind of society that developed under Stalin.” Tarkovsky got so tired of communist harassment that he came to America.

    In Solaris, which takes place in the future, a psychologist named Kris Kelvin (Clooney) is called to a space station that has been orbiting a planet called Solaris. The entire planet is a gigantic and sentient ocean of a mysterious plasma substance. Weird things have been happening on the space station. Each of the two remaining astronauts on board (a third has committed suicide) talks about their “visitor.” They are being visited by a person in their life who they thought was dead. The person is fully formed, with a body, intelligence, and the ability to communicate. They seem alive.

    In Kelvin’s case, the visitor is Rheya (Natascha McElhone), his wife who committed suicide several years ago.  Rheya had been suffering from depression, then had an abortion, and she tried to hide from her husband. This sets Kelvin off as he rips through their house, lost in despair that the baby “that could have brought some life to this place” has been killed. It’s a powerful scene, not the kind of thing you usually see from Hollywood, never mind a liberal Democrat like Clooney.

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    Now Rheya, or a copy of her, is back and standing in front of Kelvin. It is an opportunity for a second chance. However, Kelvin soon discovers that Rheya is not a free-thinking creature of God, a soul, but the manufactured being of an alien consciousness. She is based entirely on Kelvin’s memories of her. This means the good memories as well as the bad. As Kelvin not only remembers Rheya as beautiful and intelligent but depressed and suicidal, her replacement also becomes depressed and suicidal.

    Solaris offers a dramatic warning about the danger of trying to play God. Going back to the original Frankenstein novel, written by Mary Shelley and published in 1818, some of the best horror, science fiction, and fantasy works have preached the same message: we are not God, and when we act like it, refusing to accept natural life (Rheya’s pregnancy) and death, bad things happen. It’s a theme that can be found in everything from Star Trek to Solaris.

    In Solaris, a poem that Kelvin admires in “And Death Shall Have No Dominion” by Dylan Thomas. As the title suggests, it is about the end of mortality:

And death shall have no dominion.
Dead men naked they shall be one
With the man in the wind and the west moon;
When their bones are picked clean and the clean bones gone,
They shall have stars at elbow and foot;
Though they go mad they shall be sane,
Though they sink through the sea they shall rise again;
Though lovers be lost love shall not;
And death shall have no dominion.

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    Of course, human beings and an alien consciousness cannot offer final reconciliation for our failures, brokenness, and sins. Only God can. Despite lukewarm reviews and terrible box office, I always liked Clooney’s science fiction movie. I’ll ask him about it when he comes to the Anti-Communist Film Festival, which we’re hoping to have next fall.

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Obama Worked Behind the Scenes to Support California’s Redistricting Effort

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Today the Washington Post has a tale as old as time, a story of outright hypocrisy by partisan actors. What makes this story noteworthy is that the partisans in question are Barack Obama and his former Attorney General Eric Holder.

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Because this is a story about democrats published by the Washington Post, the hypocrisy angle is really buried. That word never appears in the story, but it’s there just beneath the surface. 

Back in 2016, Eric Holder founded a group called the National Democratic Redistricting Committee (NDRC). The whole purpose of the NDRC was to gain control of the redistricting process in a way that would benefit democrats. Specifically, Holder wanted the group to fight the scourge of gerrymandering by Republicans. Their mantra was that they would help ensure fair maps were drawn so Republicans didn’t have an unfair advantage. [emphasis added]

Former Attorney General Eric Holder on Thursday officially launched the National Democratic Redistricting Committee, billing it in a speech to the Center for American Progress Action Fund as the center of Democratic rebuilding in the era of President-elect Donald Trump and as Democrats’ main hope to roll back Republican gains in state legislatures and prepare for redistricting in 2020…

“We heard a lot in this past election about rigged systems, but I want to say the biggest rigged system in America is gerrymandering,” Holder said. “A system where the lines are drawn not to represent American communities, but benefit politicians. A system where politicians pick their voters.”

President Barack Obama will now take on a major role in the effort to rebuild the party’s presence in local offices with the NDRC, elevating its work from his post-presidency platform.

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So since 2016, Obama and Holder have been behind this group which pushes for fair maps, using lawsuits against states when necessary to challenge maps they didn’t like.

And then President Trump pushed for Texas to redistrict prior to the midterms and all of that went right out the window. Obama and Holder immediately flipped from being the defenders of fair, impartial maps to conspiring with Gavin Newsom on how California could redistrict its own maps.

In late July, Barack Obama spoke with his former attorney general, Eric Holder, about how Democrats should respond to President Donald Trump’s unprecedented mid-decade push to add five favorable U.S. House seats to protect the Republican majority. They had each spent days conflicted about what to do.

Both had previously championed nonpartisan redistricting. But they agreed that letting Trump’s effort in Texas go unanswered wasn’t an option. They kept coming back to a plan from California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) that would offset the move with five new Democratic-leaning seats. Within days, Holder drafted a statement endorsing the proposal and ran it by the former president, who quickly signed off. It marked a stark shift that, in their view, was a sign of the emergency measures they believed were required.

“We’re doing things that kind of go against what we talked about,” Holder said. But they decided, “we have to preserve our democracy if ultimately we’re going to heal it.”

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California had already passed a law which made non-partisan redistricting part of its constitution, something Obama and Holder had supported. Now the game became how to bypass the rules they had previously supported.

Endorsing Newsom’s proposal ran counter to what the National Democratic Redistricting Committee — the Holder-founded group backed by Obama, which is focused on drawing nonpartisan maps — stood for…

By mid-August, Obama began lending his voice to the redistricting fight to ensure it received national attention. When Texas Democrats left the state for two weeks to temporarily block a GOP vote on the new map — prompting threats from Republicans, civil arrest and removal from office — Obama called in to one of their meetings at a secret location in Illinois to commend their stance.

Days later he announced his support for Prop. 50, California’s effort to gain 5 seats for Democrats.

“I want to see as a long-term goal that we do not have political gerrymandering in America. That would be my preference,” Obama said. “But I want to be very clear: Given that Texas is taking direction from a partisan White House … I have tremendous respect for how Governor Newsom has approached this.”

Obama and Holder are pretending they still care about non-partisan redistricting in the abstract but at this moment they’ve thrown all of that out the window. Right now they just care about winning, the same as President Trump.

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Longer term, the Democrats are going to lose this fight because it’s likely the Supreme Court is going to put an end to Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act and that is going to result in a dozen or more GOP seats in southern states that, prior to this, haven’t been allowed to redraw their maps in ways that would take seats away from Democrats. No doubt if that happens, Obama and Holder will suddenly be against partisan redistricting once again.

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21 Year-Old Semi Driver Kills at Least 3 in Horrific SoCal Crash

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Yesterday afternoon, in the Southwestern portion of San Bernardino County, CA, where the I-10 and the I-15 meet near the city of Ontario, there was a horrific freeway accident. 

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I mean, the kind that simply takes your breath away and is the nightmare lurking at the back of every driver’s brain as he passes those massive semi-trucks moving at warp speed on the interstates. In California and western states, it’s especially nerve-wracking if you’ve got a vehicle that loves to shake, rattle, and roll in semi-truck-air-wash as they roar by, because they allow those piggyback trailers, which nearly double the size of the rigs.

Coming from the East Coast to SoCal in the early ’80s, I can remember that being one of the big signs that I wasn’t in New Jersey anymore.

Interchanges where two major interstates come together are always places to stay especially frosty, with people looking to change lanes, realizing they missed their lane,s and doing a panicked dive across multiple ones to get to their exit, drivers who won’t yield to a turn signal for love nor money, and the classic completely oblivious driver you can meet on any street.

When roads and destinations collide at freeway speeds, it’s a trip.

On the I-10 yesterday, it was particularly dangerous because there was already a slowdown and traffic was coming to a complete stop, so eyes were focused on brake lights ahead.

That’s when a red semi truck blew into and through the line of stopped vehicles like a tornado.

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It never slowed down as it approached the traffic in front of it.

A gruesome crash involving several tractor-trailers and passenger vehicles on the 10 Freeway in Ontario, California, left at least three people dead and two hospitalized Tuesday afternoon.

The crash happened shortly after 1 p.m. in the westbound lanes of the freeway near the junction with Interstate 15, according to the California Highway Patrol.

A man who witnessed the pileup told KTLA 5’s Jillian Smukler that a big rig with a red cab went barreling into bumper-to-bumper traffic, apparently without braking.

The driver is a 21-year-old who was arrested for being under the influence of drugs.

…CHP officials said the big rig driver who didn’t brake was later arrested for driving under the influence of drugs. He was only identified as a 21-year-old man.

Later reports have identified him as being from ‘Yuba City’, but even twenty-four hours later, we still do not have a name or know anything further about him.

…Three people were confirmed dead at the scene, and four others were taken to a hospital for treatment. Two of those individuals suffered major injuries, according to Jimenez.

The driver of the semi-truck that caused the crash, a 21-year-old man from Yuba City, was arrested on suspicion of DUI later in the day.

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However, the dashboard camera from the big-rig has been released, and it is so God awful, it defies description.

The eyewitness accounts were absolutely correct. He plows into the first cars he hits at full speed and goes through them like they were butter.

…The crash caused an eight-vehicle pileup, involving four semitrucks and four passenger cars, one of which was engulfed in flames. Three people were pronounced dead at the scene and four were transported to local hospitals for treatment, Garcia said. No information was available Tuesday night on their condition.

…Jason Calmelat witnessed the crash and told KTLA that his first reaction was “somebody just died.”

“The red truck was traveling at a high rate of speed when everyone else was stopped,” Calmelat told the station. “He didn’t hit his brakes, he didn’t try to slow down, he just went full force into the back of another truck, crushing two other cars.”

One of the passenger vehicles “exploded on impact,” sending a “massive fireball” into the air, he said.

Oh, my God, those poor people.

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Twenty-one years old, driving a massive freeway machine, and he was stoned.

Gobsmacking.

The fact that the state has not released the driver’s name yet is also leading to increased speculation that there may be an issue with residency here. California and the Trump administration are at war over Gov Gavin Newsom’s dangerous, relaxed standards for the state-issued Commercial Driver’s Licenses (CDL), which is what truck drivers need to have.

Gov Ron DeSantis is suing Newsom over the illegal truck driver licensed in CA who caused a ghastly fatal crash in Florida recently.

Florida Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis dispatched his top deputy to California to oversee the handover of a truck driver accused of making an illegal U-turn that killed three people in Florida last week.

Sending Florida’s new Lt. Gov. Jay Collins underscores Republicans’ push to crack down on illegal immigration. It also revs up a political rivalry between DeSantis and California Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom, both of whom aspire to higher office.

The U.S. Department of Homeland Security said Monday that truck driver Harjinder Singh, a native of India, was in the country illegally.

“Three lives lost because of Gavin Newsom. Because of California’s failed policies,” Collins said Thursday at a press conference near an airport in Stockton, California.

“We’re done with that,” Collins added, using an expletive.

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And Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy has just pulled $40M in funding from CA over the state’s refusal to force CDL applicants to be proficient in English.

It doesn’t matter either way if this young driver was also an illegal – he’s already killed these poor folks. But it would be another insult to hideous injury after driving in the impaired, inexcusable condition he was, and another righteous log on the deportation justification fire.

And another well-earned nail in the coffin of oleaginous Randall Flagg Lite’s political aspirations.

I’ll be curious to see how long it takes before we find out who this person is. The longer they take, the worse the wild speculation and conspiracies will be.

Prayers up to families who lost loved ones, and may those who were injured heal ever so quickly.

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