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Donald J. Trump will address the Libertarian Party National Convention on Saturday. The Libertarian Party should nominate Trump for president of the United States. The reasons for doing so — policy and politics — are as solid as the Hope Diamond. READ MORE from Deroy Murdock: Robert J. Costello, Esq., Should Be Trump’s Defense Witness No. 1 “Libertarians are some of the most independent and thoughtful thinkers in our Country, and I am honored to join them in Washington, DC,” Trump stated. “We must all work together to help advance freedom and liberty for every American, and a second Trump Administration will achieve that goal.” This event is unprecedented. As Cato Institute President Peter Goettler observed in Thursday’s Washington Post: “It will be the first time in U.S. history that a presidential candidate of a rival party will address the convention of a party that is presumably gathering to nominate its own candidate.” Trump turns conventional politics upside down every day. A Republican rallying thousands of adoring fans … in the Bronx? Inconceivable! And, yet, Trump did precisely this on Thursday evening. Trump should ask for the Libertarian Party’s endorsement based, largely, on his presidential record. Reminding his audience about the measures that he implemented should make their freedom-loving hearts soar: The $1.5 trillion Tax Cuts and Jobs Act was America’s largest infusion of tax relief. It sliced individual tax rates for all taxpayers and slashed the corporate tax rate from a punishing 35 percent to a globally competitive 21 percent. Immediate expensing of business equipment and other reductions fueled the best economy in 50 years. Black and Hispanic unemployment cratered to their historical nadirs. Female joblessness slid to levels unseen since the Eisenhower era. Black poverty collapsed to record lows. And, of all things, income inequality shrank, not by squeezing the rich but by lifting the poor. Between 2016 and 2019, before COVID-19 ruined everything, real median-household income grew 16.4 percent under Trump, up $9,664. Trump cut red tape as never before. He promised to kill two old regulations for every new one. In fact, he scrapped eight old rules for each fresh one. Trump restrained inflation. Prices were rising just 1.4 percent as he left office. This was a fraction of the “9 percent” inflation that lying Joe Biden repeatedly claims Trump handed him. Likewise, before Biden’s record-breaking post-COVID spending spree, the 30-year mortgage rate as Trump departed was 2.77 percent versus 6.94 percent today. Trump’s “Drill, baby, drill!” approach fostered energy independence. Low fuel and electricity prices helped moderate inflation and propel economic growth. Trump rescued America from the economically crippling Paris global-warming treaty. Instead, he amplified fracking and liquefied natural gas to provide abundant power with half of coal’s carbon dioxide — for those who fret about such things. Trump promoted parental rights and school choice and reauthorized and funded the Washington, D.C., school-voucher program. Trump’s Education Department repealed the so-called guidance letter that turned mere on-campus sexual harassment accusations into de facto criminal convictions. Trump restored due process to the he said/she said minefield. In a powerful blow, Trump required universities to respect the First Amendment, lest they lose their federal funds. While Trump and Republicans never repealed Obamacare, they torpedoed that hideous law’s individual mandate, junked several of its taxes, and sandblasted several of its rougher edges. Medical price transparency empowered consumers to shop for health care services and compare costs, as is routine in every other industry. This competition should slow ballooning health care expenses. Trump signed Right to Try: Terminally ill patients now can receive experimental and possibly life-saving treatments before those drugs win full FDA approval. When at death’s door, what do these suffering Americans have to lose? Trump nominated some 200 constitutionalist federal judges, including a seldom-seen three Supreme Court justices in one presidential term. Trump cancelled and defunded federal diversity, equity, and inclusion programs and other state-funded racism schemes. The VA Mission Act, which Trump signed, lets military veterans receive federally funded medical care in the private sector, if delays prevent their treatment in VA hospitals. Trump signed a measure that streamlined dismissals of federal bureaucrats who abuse America’s beloved veterans. Rather than burden U.S. taxpayers with the full cost of NATO, Trump pressured America’s NATO partners to obey their promises and dedicate at least 2 percent of GDP to the alliance’s collective defense. Trump named and shamed NATO’s deadbeats until they coughed up $100 billion in fresh funds from European treasuries, not American wallets. Trump brokered the Abraham Accords, namely, Israel’s four peace treaties with the United Arab Emirates, Bahrain, Sudan, and Morocco. Add unprecedented solidarity with Jerusalem, the obliteration of the ISIS caliphate, and the diplomatic and military isolation of Iran, and the Middle East began to resemble a safe neighborhood. Trump’s personal diplomacy with Kim Jong Un did not denuclearize the Korean Peninsula. However, Pyongyang’s underground atomic-bomb tests, which repeatedly rocked the Obama–Biden administration, stopped under Trump. Trump paired his overall national-security posture — Peace Through Strength — with a strategy that one might call: “Speak loudly and carry a big stick.” What critics decried as chaos and bullying yielded for Trump and the American people the first presidency since Jimmy Carter’s in which the United States did not enter a new war. Most libertarians would say that this non-exhaustive roster of accomplishments truly shines. But, many would ask, what about the areas in which Trump’s libertarian bona fides lacked luster? First, Trump should have reigned in federal spending. He can be excused for many of the massive outlays due to the unforeseen COVID-19 catastrophe that plunged onto America like a giant asteroid. However, Trump must take responsibility for his fulsome pre-pandemic outlays. Priority No. 1 for Trump was to rebuild the Armed Forces, which had withered under Obama–Biden. The price for those defense dollars, Trump has said, was his acquiescence in Democrat social expenditures. This rationale is hardly riveting, but it’s easy to understand. While a tougher line on spending was the better policy, Peace Through Strength ain’t free. Second, Trumps’ tariffs violated the free-trade orthodoxy that drove the GOP since at least the 1980s. Most libertarians, including me, dislike tariffs as jumped up import taxes. That said, most libertarians, including me, dislike the Chinese Communist Party. Trump’s tariffs provided the blunt-instrument trauma needed to teach the CCP some manners. Beijing eventually signed a free-trade agreement with America and agreed to end intellectual-property theft and other abuses. Alas, COVID-19 soon erupted, and this trade treaty drowned in a sea of masks and respirators. Trump also threatened tariffs to achieve non-trade goals. When Mexico was not helping America stop illegal aliens, Trump warned that steep tariffs were coming. The very next day, Mexico’s foreign minister was in Washington, scrambling to scuttle Trump’s potential trade restrictions. Mexico felt the heat, saw the light, and began helping America seal the U.S.–Mexico boundary. Mexico even placed soldiers on its side of the line to keep illegal aliens far from the frontier. On the plus side, Trump replaced NAFTA with the U.S.–Canada–Mexico Agreement. He also signed a free-trade deal with South Korea and negotiated a commercial agreement between Kosovo and Serbia to start cooling centuries of intra-Balkan hatred. Trump proposes reciprocal tariffs, or what I call a Golden Rule trade system: America should do unto our trading partners as they do unto us. If, say, Germany slaps 25 percent tariffs on U.S.-vehicle imports, then America should apply 25 percent tariffs on German automobiles. Fair is fair. If Berlin dislikes 25 percent tariffs, then it can cut them to, say, 5 percent or ditch them outright, and America will do likewise. Trump also proposed radical free trade to major U.S. financial partners: 0 percent tariffs across the board so long as these nations greeted American goods with equally open arms. They replied: “No!” “Non!” “Nein!“ So, the old system of varied import taxes survived. Third, some libertarian purists believe that borders hinder the human right to waltz into and out of nations at will. While they might bristle at Trump’s big, beautiful border wall, most libertarians down here on Earth accept the right of nation states to exist, delineate themselves with borders, and defend their boundaries against those who invade with neither permission nor papers. Hardcore libertarians who favor virtually unfettered immigration cherish the rule of law and understand the need to make even generous immigration legal and orderly. Biden’s border bloodbath is no libertarian’s vision of immigration policy. So much for policy. What about politics? As Trump said: “We all have to remember that our goal is to defeat the Worst President in the History of the United States, BY FAR, Crooked Joe Biden. If Libertarians join me and the Republican Party, where we have many Libertarian views, the election won’t even be close. We cannot have another four years of death, destruction, and incompetence. WE WILL WORK TOGETHER AND WIN!” The Libertarian Party should give Donald J. Trump its nomination and run him on its line on ballots across America. While Trump spends little time quoting Murray Rothbard and Milton Friedman, he has turned more libertarian ideas into public policy than have all the Libertarian Party nominees combined who have run for president and lost. Trump will incarnate even more libertarian concepts as America’s 47th president, especially if the Libertarian Party nominates him rather than a spoiler who will siphon votes from Trump and, thus, reelect Joe Biden — the biggest socialist in the White House since at least FDR. Election data from 2020 confirm the dangers of Libertarian spoilers. As the nearby chart illustrates, Libertarian nominee Jo Jorgensen’s votes in Arizona, Georgia, and Wisconsin exceeded Biden’s margin of victory. In Pennsylvania, Jorgensen’s 79,380 votes trail Biden’s 80,555-ballot margin by just 1,175 — a deficit that just a bit more GOP campaigning could erase. Assuming that the Libertarian nominee’s votes in these four states had gone to the Republican standard bearer in 2020, he would have eclipsed Biden and scored 289 Electoral College votes, and Donald J. Trump would be in the Oval Office right now. If Trump had lost Pennsylvania but won Arizona, Georgia, and Wisconsin, the electoral vote total would have been — brace yourself — 269 to 269! With the Electoral College deadlocked, the U.S. House would have decided the race. Each state delegation would have had one vote based on its members’ party affiliation. The just-seated 117th Congress included two tied delegations, Georgia and Pennsylvania. If party loyalty prevailed among the other 48 states, Biden would have scored 22 Democrat-dominated state delegations. Trump would have scored 26 Republican-majority delegations and, with them, the White House. In reality, such a retrospective intellectual exercise is mere adult entertainment for political junkies. And, alas, the time machine that could animate this scenario remains maddeningly uninvented. Still, 2020’s theoretical lesson remains exceedingly relevant in November 2024: In skin-tight swing-state elections, a Libertarian Party spoiler could drain just enough votes from Trump to hand Biden four more years to Make America Tyrannical Again. As Crooked Joe likes to say: Don’t. Deroy Murdock is a Manhattan-based Fox News contributor. The post The Libertarian Case for Donald J. Trump appeared first on The American Spectator | USA News and Politics.

Incident has locals calling for the officer to be removed from duty Bodycam video captured the moment a police officer in Sturgeon, Missouri, shot and killed a small blind and deaf dog for no apparent reason last week. Responding to a call about a loose animal, the officer can be seen lazily trying to place a lasso around the canine’s neck before choosing to shoot it in the head instead of continuing to make attempts at leashing the animal. GRAPHIC: Sturgeon, Missouri police officer kills small blind and deaf dog who wandered from yard. The city says it "believes that the officer acted within his authority based on the information available to him at the time to protect against possible injury to citizens…" pic.twitter.com/TvhAnJJgOF— Breaking911 (@Breaking911) May 24, 2024 Later in the video, the dog’s owner approaches the officer and confronts him over the unnecessary shooting. When the sobbing owner tries getting answers, the cop is defensive and offers half-assed apologies.Save 10% on ALL storable food and Alexapure Pro Water Filtration Systems! Secure your independence with our delicious kits TODAY to beat the coming demand! The officer bizarrely argues the dog may have been hit by a car and therefore suffering from internal bleeding, so he may have put the canine out of its misery. Overall, the owner maintains the shooting was uncalled for since the dog was never aggressive or putting anyone in harm’s way. The cop actually threw the situation back in the dog owner’s face, asking why it was loose in the first place. The City of Sturgeon issued a statement defending the officer, Myron Woodson, on the town’s official Facebook page, writing, “The City has reviewed the dispatch report and body camera footage regarding the recent dog at large incident. The City believes that the officer acted within his authority based on the information available to him at the time to protect against possible injury to citizens from what appeared to be an injured, sick, and abandoned dog.” Despite maintaining the law enforcement officer “acted within his authority,” the city of Sturgeon says it will be sending all officers to Boone County Animal Control for training and education, “in hopes that this unfortunate situation does not occur again.”  Over 1,700 signatures have been produced in a petition calling for the police department to remove Officer Woodson from service. 

AI has unprecedented power to influence the prices of currency and stocks, and by connection, the prices of bonds. Artificial Intelligence has already had an incredibly disruptive effect on many industries. It has allowed inexperienced workers the ability to increase their productivity and outpace older workers with less tech-savvy. It has begun to help some companies make efficient decisions that they would have been blinded to if they had only considered their own industry conventions. AI is different from many other tools because it can shift the direction of industry rather than merely being a tool used towards a predetermined end. Because of its ability to make decisions objectively and create unpredictable objectives, AI will throw a great deal of uncertainty into the prices of money, stocks, and bonds.  In many industries convention and tradition hold a powerful role in determining evaluation of past performance and also preparing future plans. If an industry as a whole has been seeing lackluster performance, the operators of various firms will not be sensitive to their own poor performance as strongly as they would in a more profitable industry. Many analysts and business owners will be numbed to their own inefficiency as they believe that their industry conventions are allowing for the fastest progress they can hope for, given their circumstances. Humans thrive on patterns and routines and both investors, consumers, and business owners are often slower to accept change than would be effective. AI overcomes these human barriers by being able to constantly reevaluate past performance and create innovative solutions that go outside of traditional conventions. AI can recognize a fundamental shift in underlying data and effectively advise a firm to make a rapid switch into an unrelated industry. Human resistance to change can be broken down by AI’s constant monitoring of opportunity cost. Its analytical capability allows it to point people toward opportunities that would otherwise be impossible to see. The opinions of stockholders will also hold less power over a company’s actions. AI can discover and research profitable opportunities that would mortify a traditional CEO or stockholder in terms of their disruptiveness. The disruptive and creative force of AI can greatly destabilize stock prices. If businesses act much more unpredictably to the human eye, stock prices will be a much less stable asset than they were in the past. Even their current instability will be overshadowed by a new era of constant restrategizing and analysis. Businesses will be more efficient in the long run but their present stability will be much less appealing to shareholders. Some will be self-disciplined enough to continue holding stocks but demand overall will be less constant.Save 40% on our limited edition Brain Force Ultra that’s loaded with proprietary super ingredients! AI can also greatly influence international trade by allowing poorer countries access to innovative strategies tailored to their needs and resources. Many small countries will be allowed to pivot what they export and also change their production strategies. Just as with business, past practices will be put under closer scrutiny and their inefficiencies will not be maintained. AI could bring some small countries to international financial prominence. Apparently insignificant skills can be exploited to allow new opportunities to arise. The national paradigms of the past can be rearranged more quickly as they face rapid analysis and scrutiny from a creative and analytical force. AI’s ability to promote wise national strategy will make exchange rates unstable. As different countries make radical strategy shifts, the demand of other countries for their currency will change to an extent not seen before. While the default strategy for many countries is to maintain a constant national strategy, in particular to maintain the confidence of other countries, the powerful strategic advice of AI could outweigh the reputational effects of a more radical strategy. While a certain strategy is being tested for efficacy a currency will be valued lower, but it will bounce back to higher heights after the effects of the strategy are proven. Any currency will have great potential to be far more unstable than was possible in the past. AI has unprecedented power to influence the prices of currency and stocks, and by connection, the prices of bonds. As demand for currency and stocks fluctuates powerfully, the demand for bonds will also adjust chaotically. The traditional safe harbors of value will face a new challenge. Short-term investing will become a much more difficult task and more reliable assets will take center stage. Gold and Silver will allow extreme safety in comparison to the constantly fluctuating other assets. While the other assets may see more long-term growth, their present volatility may make them a less appealing asset. POWERFUL — MUST WATCH: The Globalist System Is Collapsing In Real Time, Warns Bilderberg Expert Daniel Estulin

Watch The X22 Report On Video 2 videos found Ep 3361b – Narrative Begins For Change Of Batter,Kenya,Trump:”We Are Going To Make It To Big To Rig” Ep 3361a – Fake News Begins The Recession Narrative, Biden/Fed Will Make An Economic Move To Counter Click On Picture To See Larger Picture The green new scam is falling apart just like the economy. EV makers are now laying people, it’s all falling apart. The people are now reporting that they are worse off now than when Trump was in the WH. The [CB] has failed and the fake news is now reporting that we are in a selective recession, Biden/Fed ready to counter. The [DS] cannot stop the great awakening, once the people started to wake there was not stopping it. Trump hints at a change of batter and the fake news begins the narrative that Kamala can step into Biden’s shoes. Kenya delegates are in DC, Obama is in the WH, coincidence? Trump is making the election to big to rig, this will force the [DS] to abandon their cheating system. No matter which way the [DS] turns they are trapped.   Economy Luxury Electric Vehicle Maker Becomes Latest In Industry To Announce Huge Layoffs Electric vehicle (EV) maker Lucid Motors announced that the company would be laying off staff in a bid to lower expenses amid a slowdown in the market. The layoffs will affect 6% of its workforce, equating to around 400 employees, and will trim from all employee levels, including leadership and mid-level management, according to a filing submitted Friday with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). Lucid is one of several EV makers to announce layoffs in recent months as consumers decline to adopt the product at the rate expected.   The company estimates that it will have to pay out between $21 million and $25 million in severance pay and benefits in connection with the layoffs, according to the filing. The planned terminations are expected to be done by the end of the third quarter.   Source: dailycaller.com Durable Goods Orders Suffer Yet Another Downward Revision  Following yesterday’s ‘good’ news from PMIs, this morning we get ‘hard’ data confirming that ‘good’ news with preliminary April Durable Goods orders surging 0.7% MoM (vs -0.8% MoM expected). However, as is the way with Bidenomics, March’s +2.6% MoM surge in orders was revised down to a +0.8% MoM rise. This is the third month in a row of MoM gains for durable goods new orders and lifts the nominal YoY move to +1.3%… Source: Bloomberg Over the last 14 months, durable goods orders have been revised lower 9 times (and the downward revisions are considerably larger than the upward revisions)… Source: zerohedge.com Bidenomics means more spending, which leads to higher deficits, which leads to more inflation, which they try to make up for with more handouts (but only some people get them), then higher deficits, more inflation, and on and on… https://t.co/yTJSHZTydH — FXHedge (@Fxhedgers) May 23, 2024 Americans SLAM The Disastrous Biden Economy: "It's totally different than it was 4 years ago" "Everything is more expensive, and it's only getting worse" "We're always talking about finances; I think any married couple will tell you that" pic.twitter.com/ygY2QIFExp — Wall Street Silver (@WallStreetSilv) May 23, 2024 TAKE A LISTEN New Fed data highlights consumer weakness: 52% of US adults could not handle a surprise bill of at least $2,000 using savings in 2023, the highest share since 2020. 42% of these people could not even cover a $1,000 surprise expense, according to a Fed survey. Shockingly,… pic.twitter.com/ywGL0uWFQH — The Kobeissi Letter (@KobeissiLetter) May 24, 2024   FDIC Chair Martin Gruenberg is out.Morgan Stanley Executive Chairman is stepping down.WEF Chair Klaus Schwab is stepping down.HSBC's executive Chair Noel Quinn is stepping down.JP Morgan Chase's Jamie Dimon considers retirement. Probably nothing. pic.twitter.com/uVSQJI7rVo — Praying Medic (@prayingmedic) May 23, 2024 JUST IN: UK’s oldest news magazine, The Spectator publishes “#Bitcoin is now a threat to us all.” Imagine calling freedom tech a threat pic.twitter.com/4FELXVo79k — Bitcoin Magazine (@BitcoinMagazine) May 24, 2024 House passes bill to ban the Fed from creating a Central Bank Digital Currency (CBDC). It also bans the Fed from allowing a 3rd party contractor, such as commercial banks. An early version of the bill allowed commercial banks to do a CBDC for the Fed, we helped stop it by… pic.twitter.com/q5q9H5gfFd — Wall Street Silver (@WallStreetSilv) May 23, 2024  applying pressure earlier this year with tweets and getting people to call the co-sponsors to change it to a complete 100% ban.   JUST IN: SEC approves spot Ethereum ETFs. pic.twitter.com/t7KLtcaMNg — Bitcoin Magazine (@BitcoinMagazine) May 23, 2024   The US economy is in a ‘selective recession’ as lower-income consumers can’t cover the cost of living, JPMorgan says   Lower-income Americans are already in a recession, according to JPMorgan’s Matthew Boss. The analyst said the US was in a “selective” recession as some consumers . 67% of middle-class Americans said they believed their income wasn’t keeping up with the cost of living.  The US economy is in a “selective recession,” as lower-income Americans are struggling to get by while upper-income consumers are doing just fine, according to JPMorgan analyst Matthew Boss. Source: businessinsider.com Political/Rights Garland’s Ultimate Test Of Principle: Will DOJ Send The Hunter Biden Perjury Allegations To A Grand Jury?  Attorney General Merrick Garland has long maintained that he is a completely apolitical figure who only follows the law. Critics have challenged that claim on key cases, including those related to Hunter Biden. However, Garland may now face one of the clearest tests of his claim in his tenure. The House committees have issued a public report alleging three different instances where Hunter Biden allegedly committed perjury. The question is now what Garland is prepared to do about it. When Hunter testified, I wrote columns suggesting that he might take the Fifth Amendment to remain silent because the risk was too great that he might lie or mislead investigators in his answers. With months of preparation, he decided to run the gauntlet and now appears to have exposed himself to the possibility of additional criminal charges. Hunter Biden has still not responded to the specific allegations, but on their face they appear strong. Notably, the Justice Department spent considerable time and money to pursue false statements against figures like Michael Flynn over just one statement describing a meeting with Russian diplomats. These are instances where Hunter was under oath, prepared for months, and had counsel present. One of the instances concerns the controversial WhatsApp message where Hunter not only threatened a Chinese businessman to send him massive amounts of money but said that his father was sitting next to him at the time. Millions were later sent to the Bidens. The infamous WhatsApp message stated in part: “I am sitting here with my father and we would like to understand why the commitment made has not been fulfilled. Tell the director that I would like to resolve this now before it gets out of hand, and now means tonight. And, Z, if I get a call or text from anyone involved in this other than you, Zhang, or the chairman, I will make certain that between the man sitting next to me and every person he knows and my ability to forever hold a grudge that you will regret not following my direction. I am sitting here waiting for the call with my father.” The response of Hunter to questions about the message was curious and evasive. Hunter said that he had only two things to say about that message. He denied that his father was sitting next to him despite saying that he had no memory of sending the message.  Second, and most importantly, he stated “the Zhao that this is sent to is not the Zhao connected to CEFC” who “had no understanding or even remotely knew what the hell I was even Goddamn talking about.” The Committee staff maintains that Biden’s WhatsApp account show that he only ever communicated with one Zhao – Raymond Zhao – and that he most certainly did not what he was “talking about.”   Now Garland faces an unavoidable choice in treating this referral as he did Trump cases (in sending this to a grand jury) or scuttling alleged perjury made by the son of the President before Congress. It is far less challenging legally than it is politically for Merrick Garland. If the rule of law still governs at the Justice Department, Hunter Biden could be facing a third front in his ongoing legal struggles. Source: zerohedge.com JUST IN: Trudeau Liberals announce that people born outside Canada will get automatic citizenship if one parent has been Canadian for 3 years. How to try and win the next election 101. Trudeau is facing a massive election loss in 2025 and is desperate to find new voters. pic.twitter.com/Icpn5b3X2o — Wall Street Silver (@WallStreetSilv) May 23, 2024 Geopolitical/Police State What you sow: A bunch of far-left writers are whining after being fired from leftist nonprofit blog Media Matters. (@mmfa publishes misleading and deceptive content to lead campaigns to shut down conservative media and get conservatives fired.) Some of those who were fired mocked… pic.twitter.com/hd0l26e22f — Andy Ngô (@MrAndyNgo) May 23, 2024  me when I was in the hospital after being beaten by Antifa in 2019 and suffering through a brain bleed. The jobless Antifa-allied propaganda writers are blaming @elonmuskfor being fired. Musk is suing MM for allegedly using dishonest and illegal practices to try to shut down X. Those fired are now seeking work via posts on X. This media matters employee who made this video celebrating “Tucker-Got-Firedversary” was fired today pic.twitter.com/hAy4Gh06K0 — Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) May 23, 2024 BREAKING@ATFHQ Director Dettelbach ADMITS that there is not, and never was, a gun show loophole! Maybe one day they will admit there's no such thing as an "assault" weapon either… pic.twitter.com/k7JuXb97D7 — Gun Owners of America (@GunOwners) May 23, 2024   War Russia Passes Decree To Allow Seizure Of US Assets A new decree will give Russian companies, organisations & individuals hit by sanctions the right to apply for compensation from the Russian government. The compensation would come in the form of US-owned assets (real estate, companies, bank accounts or shares) based in Russia. The West froze around $300 billion of Russian financial assets, mostly its central bank reserves, after Moscow ordered troops into Ukraine in February 2022. And the US Congress last month passed a bill that would allow President Joe Biden to use frozen Russian assets in the United States for a special fund to support Ukraine. The Russian decree will give Russian companies, organisations and individuals that have been hit by sanctions the right to apply for compensation from the Russian government. The compensation would come in the form of US-owned assets — such as real estate, companies, bank accounts or shares — based in Russia. Many Western companies have left Russia since it launched its offensive on Ukraine. Source: barrons.com Ukrainian Frontline Colonel Admits Country Will Have To Cede Territories to Russia in Peace Negotiations – Calls It ‘A Victory’ Now, slowly but surely, the MSM has had to face the fact that the outmanned, outgunned and outmaneuvered Ukrainian forces will not win this war on the battlefield, will not get back to pre-war borders, much less reincorporate the Crimean peninsula.   But now, that exact same unavoidable fact has been splashed on ABC News, and voiced by a frontline leader from the Ukrainian army – someone who can’t be shaded as a ‘Vladimir Putin’s shill’.  We are talking about the leader of Ukraine’s 57th Motorized Brigade, an infantry unit battling the new Russian offensive North of Kharkov. Colonel Oleksandr Bakulin was interviewed by ABC News in the presence of a ‘senior Army leader’ at a secret location. Furthermore, Bakulin said that the Russians still have reserves [in Belgorod near Kharkov] and are poised to bring these reserves into the battle when the time is ripe. ABC News reported:   Source: thegatewaypundit.com Pentagon Says No Food Aid Moved Through Gaza Pier Has Made It to Palestinians  The pier, erected by the U.S. Army to ease the humanitarian crisis amid the Israel-Hamas war, was secured to the Gaza shoreline Thursday, and trucks began dropping off pallets of food ashore on Friday. But the United Nations reported difficulties moving the aid once it reached the shore, including an apparent ambush that reportedly turned deadly. Pentagon spokesman Maj. Gen. Pat Ryder told reporters Tuesday that more than 569 metric tons of aid had been delivered to Gaza via the pier, called a Joint Logistics Over-the-Shore operation, or JLOTS, but that it did not appear that any of it had actually been delivered to the starving residents of Gaza.   Source:  military.com  Taiwan puts military on high alert Taiwan has scrambled fighter jets and put its naval and ground forces on high alert in response to Chinese military exercises that were billed as punishing the self-governing island for “separatist acts” following Monday’s inauguration of an anti-Beijing president. “We seek no conflicts, but we will not shy away from one to ensure our nation’s safety and protect our beautiful homeland,” the Taiwanese Defense Ministry said in a statement on Thursday. The ministry condemned China’s People’s Liberation Army (PLA) for launching two days of war games around Taiwan, a move it called an “irrational provocation.” Source:rt.com Chinese state TV primes the public for war with Taiwan pic.twitter.com/UJRnc29QbJ — Samuel Ramani (@SamRamani2) May 24, 2024 False Flags Whistleblower Claims Race-Based Admissions Have Turned UCLA into a ‘Failed Medical School’ — Elon Musk Warns of Risking Patient Lives with Incompetent Doctors A whistleblower has come forward with explosive claims that race-based admissions policies at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) have severely degraded the quality of its medical school, prompting a stern warning from tech mogul Elon Musk about the potential for patient deaths due to medical incompetence. Long hailed as a premier institution, UCLA’s David Geffen School of Medicine has seen a precipitous drop in its standards, according to damning evidence and interviews conducted by the Washington Free Beacon. The institution, which annually attracts up to 14,000 applicants, accepted just 173 in 2023, a record-low acceptance rate of 1.3 percent. The median matriculant took difficult science courses in college, earned a 3.8 GPA, and scored in the 88th percentile on the Medical College Admissions Test (MCAT). Jennifer Lucero, the dean of admissions, vehemently argued that the candidate’s lower scores were inconsequential given the need for doctors who represent diverse backgrounds. Source: thegatewaypundit.com BREAKING: In a landmark 9-0 ruling on Wednesday that you will never hear about in the media, the US Supreme Court has undercut all DEI-based discrimination, sending the Marxists into a tizzy. The US Supreme Court's ruling that a St. Louis police sergeant can sue over a… pic.twitter.com/h5Vp4FkdG6 — Freedom Piper (@FreeThinkerInc) April 20, 2024  a job transfer she claims was discriminatory lays the foundation for legal action against employers who push discrimination against white people in job hiring, work assignment and promotion. That’s right, those “diversity-preferred” job postings, the practice of passing over whites for promotions, discriminatory job transfers, pushing unfair diversity trainings, etc…all of these are now legally actionable. The ruling was championed by human rights groups as “an enormous win for workers,” but has lawyers for companies like Disney warning that it could have a chilling effect on employers’ diversity initiatives. Disney’s “Pale and Male is Stale” policy is a prime example. Disney has allegedly used it to drive out white animators by giving them the worst assignments, even though they them have the most experience, skill, and seniority, in order to make the job humiliating enough that they quit…which many of them have done. The same companies argue that there is ‘good discrimination’ and “bad discrimination’, that white people should be purposely disadvantaged to pave the way for diversity. The lawyers stated that the decision will ‘complicate’ DEI programs and limit their ability to discriminate against white men. The Supreme Court torpedoed these claims, re-asserting that everyone is equal in the eyes of the law. Further, the court has established a relatively ‘low standard’ for bringing discrimination cases. The victim need not suffer ‘actual harm’. An employee only must show “some harm” under the terms of their employment, AND that harm need not be “material,” “substantial” or “serious.” The decision makes it much easier for workers to sue over discriminatory practices. This is a big win for equality! The Ronald Reagan movie looks good. And it is timed perfectly on August 30th to hopefully energize conservative voters to be active. The woke liberals are likely going to hate this. https://t.co/1mnW2TuMhM — Wall Street Silver (@WallStreetSilv) May 24, 2024   The rioter in the video screaming abuse at the female officer is Amanda Siebe @SiebeforORD1. She was a regular at the 2020 BLM-Antifa riots, where she brought her dog and endangered it repeatedly. She ran as an Oregon Democrat for Congress in 2020. A livestream recording of the… pic.twitter.com/iNcuEOZG61 — Andy Ngô (@MrAndyNgo) May 24, 2024  he @Portland_State far-left Gaza riot on May 23, 2024 caught her walking around on her own while looking for cigarettes.   Antifa unmasked: Portland 2020 serial Antifa riot arrestee Alexa Grafera @Grafera, who uses the aliases "Luka" and "Sparrow," has come forward to unmask a fellow Portland Antifa extremist who she accuses of serious abuse. Grafera accuses "Cassandra," a bearded male who claims to… pic.twitter.com/5SFqqkFsY2 — Andy Ngô (@MrAndyNgo) May 24, 2024  be a woman, of s—xual and psychological abuse. “Cassandra” is active in militancy training for Antifa involving firearms and tries to recruit among students at Lewis & Clark College, according to Grafera. https://cryptpad.fr/pad/#/2/pad/view/rJIXnUKGqQxgozTfhRO95J4tO4ZQ7ceYJvldCkQpVa0/… “Cassandra” is known by at least five aliases and has, in turn, accused Grafera of being involved in r—pe. “Cassandra” runs @thornycassandrand praised the home arson attack on centrist Portland city council member Rene Gonzales   Q So basically every major Democrat official in Washington DC is sending money toJudge Merchan's daughter. https://t.co/p87Twc8Vw4 — Joe Dan Gorman (@JoeDanMedia) May 24, 2024    charges THROWN OUT, because everything was done right, with Legal Expenses being reported as Legal Expenses! The Judge CANNOT be allowed to do further damage to Justice in New York and our Nation, and every Legal Scholar and Expert agrees with this. The whole Sham is a disgusting Political Witch Hunt by Crooked Joe Biden’s White House. ELECTION INTERFERENCE! Never-Before-Seen Memo Reveals Secret Obama-Era Program that Blows Up the Stated Reason Behind the Biden Regime’s Fascist Raid on Trump’s Mar-A-Lago Home A never-before-seen memo has exposed a secret Obama administration program that blows up the pretext behind the Biden regime’s sinister raid on President Trump’s Mar-a-Lago home back in 2022. DS authorized the unwarranted storming of the Mar-A-Lago supposedly because Trump had taken classified documents from the White House and was refusing to hand them over. They were even willing to assassinate the 45th president to obtain the materials. But America First Legal has exposed the Regime’s claim as a lie. They released a Department of Defense (DOD) memo on Thursday from the White House unveiling that the DOD has been “operating and maintaining the information resources and information systems provided to the President, Vice President, and Executive Office of the President (EOP).” The White House created and very likely maintains information technology that enforces Obama’s executive order so presidents can store their records on DOD servers without them getting exposed. According to America First Legal, the Biden regime has preserved and retained all EOP records on its servers. Thus, it almost certainly has most, if not all, of Trump’s classified documents.   LOOK:   Section 2.01 of the memo shows that the White House Communications Agency provides core services related to unclassified records, while section 2.06 shows that the National Security Council offers classified services. Credit: America First Legal   Section 2.04 of the memo says that all “records created, stored, used, or transmitted by, on, or through the information resources and information systems provided to the President” were stored at the Department of Defense (DOD). As America First Legal notes, this means the White House Communications Agency and the National Security Council at the White House must provide services related to records at the DOD.   Read the full memo aflf-v-dod-final-response. America First Legal Vice President Dan Epstein released the following statement: What America First Legal has uncovered after months of investigative work paints an unfortunate picture of the rule of law in Washington. A former President of the United States – the most democratically accountable officer under our Constitution – was subject to a politicized referral concocted by the Biden White House that led to an armed FBI raid of his home – where his wife and youngest child live – and is now subject to prosecution. And to now realize that the Biden Administration could have avoided an illegal referral process to recover records the government already possessed, that it could have used normal means to ensure that records the former president believed should be housed in his presidential library (not yet built because of the hordes of investigations aimed at silencing him) were subject to a temporary hold for purposes of Archives’ review — yet didn’t — speaks loudly to America: the law protects only those who follow the norms of one party.   So what was the Regime’s real reason for the raid? Source: thegatewaypundit.com /1EXPLOSIVE LITIGATION DOCS: We sued DOD and uncovered a secret Obama memo on presidential records which shows that Jack Smith is the one subverting the law.  The directive, which legally binds DOJ, vests POTUS with sole authority to determine which records are his.   More… pic.twitter.com/tvIRlPn6PR — America First Legal (@America1stLegal) May 23, 2024 Republican Governor Calls Special Session To Help Ensure Biden Is On State’s Ballot Republican Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine announced on Thursday that the state Legislature would hold a special session to help ensure President Joe Biden will be on the state’s ballot after the secretary of state’s office warned he might not be. GOP Secretary of State Frank LaRose’s office informed the state Democratic Party in early April that the national nominating convention takes place after Ohio’s deadline to certify presidential candidates for the ballot, according to The Washington Post. After state lawmakers failed to pass legislation amending the issue, DeWine planned a special session to begin on Tuesday for the purpose of “ensuring that both major party presidential candidates will be on the Ohio ballot in November.” “Ohio is running out of time to get the sitting President of the United States on the ballot this Fall. Failing to do so is unacceptable,” DeWine said in a statement. “It is important that when Ohioans cast their vote for President of the United States, United States Senator, and many other offices this fall, they have the opportunity to cast a vote for either of the major party candidates for those offices.”   Source: dailycaller.com Ohio Gov. @GovMikeDeWine is a coward Democrats are filing lawsuits and indicting Trump to keep him off state ballots and this guy is calling a legislative session to get Biden *on* the ballot Even though it was the Biden who screwed up the registration Backstabbing RINO! pic.twitter.com/0yfr6nzBAb — DC_Draino (@DC_Draino) May 24, 2024 Trump Reveals Biden’s Request to Sit Down During Debate (LISTEN) President Trump, in his latest appearance on the “Cats & Cosby Show,” revealed Biden requested a chair for their upcoming debate. Trump told the hosts of the Cats & Cosby Show, “I hear now we’re sitting at tables. I don’t want to sit at a table.” “I said, ‘No, let’s stand.’ But they want to sit at a table,” added Trump. Trump, later in the interview, said he accepted the format in order to call out Biden on the horrific Afghanistan withdrawal.   LISTEN:   Per The New York Post:   Source: thegatewaypundit.com Trump Casts Doubt on Biden’s 2024 Candidacy, Claims Biden Unlikely to Run in November Election President Donald Trump expressed severe doubts about Joe Biden’s capability to serve, let alone run in the 2024 November presidential election. Speaking on WABC 770 AM’s “Cats & Cosby Show,” Trump launched a vehement attack on Biden’s mental acuity and leadership, suggesting that Biden is not only unfit to govern but also unlikely to be the Democratic contender this November. “He’s shot, and he doesn’t understand it either,” Trump said. Trump suggested that Biden is merely a puppet in the hands of more radical elements within his administration.  he’s surrounded by a bunch of Marxists, a bunch of fascists, and they want to keep their jobs, and they want to destroy our country. But he has no clue, he doesn’t, if you look at him, he doesn’t know where he is,” Trump said. Source: thegatewaypundit.com Kamala Harris Is Gaining Swing-State Voters’ Trust to Step In for Biden The vice president also was the top choice among Democratic rising stars to run for the White House should Biden be unable to continue his campaign. Vice President Kamala Harris is increasingly endearing herself to swing-state voters, a development that if it persists, stands to neutralize Republican attacks around Joe Biden’s age. Nearly half of swing-state voters, 48%, say they trust Harris to fulfill the duties of the presidency if Biden were no longer able to serve, according to a Bloomberg News/Morning Consult poll conducted in early May. The reading marks the highest level of confidence since the survey was first conducted in October. source: bloomberg.com Biden Joint Presser with Kenyan President a Total Mess: Biden Reads Answers from Binder, Forgets Questions, Jump Scares Reporters (VIDEO) Joe Biden   held a joint press conference with President William Ruto of Kenya in the East Room. The Kenyan president arrived at the White House on Wednesday for a three-day visit. “President Joe Biden welcomed Kenyan President William Ruto to the White House for a three-day state visit and designating the East African nation a major non-NATO ally as it prepares to deploy forces to Haiti as part of U.N.-led effort to address the security crisis in the Caribbean country.” ABC News said. The greeting ceremony on the South Lawn earlier Thursday was a disaster. Biden struggled with simple directions and could barely walk. The joint presser was also a mess.  WATCH:   A reporter asked Joe Biden a question about Haiti. Biden forgot the reporter’s question right after she asked it. WATCH:   Close-up of the jump scare: Source: thegatewaypundit.com 947 Q !UW.yye1fxo ID: 26e3a8 No.678119 Mar 15 2018 18:36:51 (EST) Iran next []. RT days after. RT Kenya. No coincidences. Track. Important. MB. BOOM!!!!!!!!!!!! Q 4027 Q !!Hs1Jq13jV6 ID: 4997c0 No.8981568 Apr 30 2020 21:19:13 (EST) ec57b77051a90b6fe7de45d255746627.jpg https://twitter.com/GregKotseos/status/1256035453721030657 Q 894 Q !UW.yye1fxo ID: afa548 No.598581 Mar 9 2018 02:41:10 (EST) Anonymous ID: 853fdd No.598223 Mar 9 2018 01:48:18 (EST) 0d4caa14a93088e923034ab749….jpg CC1B1FD7-8B70-4CEB-A4F7-F5….png >>598223 When we’re done he’ll claim Kenyan citizenship as a way to escape. Q Obama just "dropped by" the White House tonight even though he wasn't on the official State Dinner list. It is as if he thinks he owns the place. https://t.co/lOe7eSOMwh — Tom Fitton (@TomFitton) May 24, 2024 @BarackObama is in the house tonight for the State Dinner for Kenya! Three presidents tonight under one roof! Not bad! pic.twitter.com/kyK8OQ4Epd — Chris D. Jackson (@ChrisDJackson) May 24, 2024 Trump is going to Win New York by a landslide. MAGA! pic.twitter.com/3u4o1yq73r — Freedom (@PU28453638) May 23, 2024 WOAH. This is line to get into the Trump rally in the Bronx, 2+ hours before.pic.twitter.com/YCGMUrTc7g — End Wokeness (@EndWokeness) May 23, 2024 pic.twitter.com/o16gntR5gE — Donald J. Trump Posts From His Truth Social (@TrumpDailyPosts) May 23, 2024 BREAKING: Local Bronx officials already estimate the crowd at Trump's rally to be between 25K – 30K. The number is growing exponentially. The capacity was 3,500 This is supposedly a Democrat stronghold pic.twitter.com/77yvxwFF2b — George (@BehizyTweets) May 23, 2024 Isn't she a peach?! https://t.co/9trMcQewlk — Lisa Mei (@TheNotoriousLMC) May 24, 2024 Notes from Trump rally in the Bronx: — unusually diverse crowd for a rally, w hispanics, asians, orthodox jews — very NY-centric speech, touching on Wollman rink, grocery prices — clearly higher attendance than the permit allowed — Hugo Lowell (@hugolowell) May 24, 2024 Poor, poor AOC…MY God is GREAT!https://t.co/ngkUkmJf8e — Lisa Mei (@TheNotoriousLMC) May 24, 2024 4964 Nov 27, 2022 7:58:52 PM EST Q !!Hs1Jq13jV6 ID: 000000 No. 17830238  Be aware of false PROPHETS. I am not a prophet. You are not a prophet. We are not PROPHETS. Focus on the mission. Q I can't think of a better contrast between the candidates for president than these two clips from the last week. Joe Biden went to a commencement at a historically black college. He told them they're victims and that America is an evil place that will always keep them down.… pic.twitter.com/S7vqSX3G0y — Greg Price (@greg_price11) May 24, 2024  Donald Trump by comparison went to a rally in the South Bronx, a predominantly black and hispanic community, and told them that it doesn’t matter what race you are, “we’re going to pull together as Americans.” Unity vs. division.  TAKE A LISTEN        pic.twitter.com/M8CpbofBjr — Eric Trump (@EricTrump) May 23, 2024 4775 Q !!Hs1Jq13jV6 ID: 1f5514 No.10802779 Sep 26 2020 18:43:50 (EST) 28ab688943b227b8c9593f45436ca357493eef3b3febd2501642c74f7dc5ff86.png   Voting is a pillar of American democracy and a constitutional right that undeniably needs to be protected and preserved for citizens of this country. Read my full statement on this legislation.https://t.co/bXPM2uvHZ1 — Rep. James Comer (@RepJamesComer) May 23, 2024 5/23/24 | BRONX, NY… pic.twitter.com/bi3AiEyWwt — Dan Scavino Jr. (@DanScavino) May 24, 2024 1172 Apr 17, 2018 7:16:34 AM EDT Q !xowAT4Z3VQ ID: 551e62 No. 1074956  Apr 17, 2018 7:15:26 AM EDT Anonymous ID: d0dcfd No. 1074952  Apr 17, 2018 6:48:15 AM EDT Q !xowAT4Z3VQ ID: 551e62 No. 1074761  RR. Boom. Q >>1074761 GOOD MORNING Q >>1074952 WRAYS OF LIGHT. Q  

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