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Before we get to the main event, a word about these goddamn drones.

I have two main concerns. First is that asshole, Mayorkas. Remember he is the guy who told you your border was secure while your nation was being overrun by criminal diseased illegals – completely unchecked. Now he says the drones are not a problem.

Right there is when I get worried. When Mayorkas speaks, Mayorkas lies. So, the drones are now definitely a problem from where I sit.

Also, we have semi-autonomous gadgets flying unimpeded wherever they wish, and we can’t counter that? It is at times like this I realize this much vaunted, highly technical military we are supposed to have is really amateur hour. If you don’t believe me, consider the FACT that the Chinese have several times been caught living in our military computer networks for up to years before being busted. And in at least one of those busts, we find there is nothing the military computer geniuses could do about it, so the Chinese bug remains in our systems.

No worries, right?

And an update

As this show was being outlined, Judge “Pretty Hair” Merchan has ruled that the conviction he demanded from his jury in the hush money case will stand. Consider the fallout from this and then tell me honestly, who is crazier, the average Trump voter or people like “pretty hair” who intent to maintain the worst legal malpractice in this century and extra four years because ORANGE MAN BAD?

History and law schools will rip this jackass apart. But he’ll be the coolest douche at the next trans fad fund raiser.

For details on how the conviction was arrived at see this post.

On to the Krap.

I have been remiss in my duties. I promised to get back to my Kristol Krap series weeks ago. But I have been working to get guests and dealing with other subjects. In the meantime, I’ve allowed Willy Kristol, snooty girl of the first order, to run rampant on the Interwebs unchecked.

Please forgive me.

I have to admit, keeping up with Kristol’s reams of bullshit would be a full-time job if I wanted to do it. I don’t think he can get through a day without venting his TDS and bending truth at least four or five times.

My source for spanking him was he X posts. They are easier to pick apart than essays like to one I’ll ping on today. But he reared his silly head in my feed today, so here we are.

In today’s episode we feature an article he cowrote with Jim Swift in the Bulwark’s Morning Shots. So this was load of snarky, girl shit was a TEAM effort!

The title alone should take your breath away!

The Most Alarming Development Yet

ABC’s decision to settle a defamation suit with Trump represents a truly ominous moment.

So, the premise is that ABC settled a defamation case before they’d be left looking even more stupid than they have been, and THAT is something we should see as ominous.

Funnier still is premise here implied demonstrates “authoritarianism” on Trump’s part.

Do you see what I mean? There is so much to pull apart and we’ve only begun to ping on the title and subtitle.

For some reason, there is a second subtitle just above a byline for Kristol only. The Societal Guardrails are Crumbling Too

We may get to that before we hit 2700 words, but I doubt it.

Some of you are wondering why I like to slap Willy around. Isn’t this show about liberty? How is this germane?

A fair pair of questions. First, the show hinges on the theme of liberty. Primarily, that involves my liberty to discuss anything I want. It’s my show. If I thought she was interesting, I’d have a stripper come on and discuss her work.[1]

But, part of being a free society, if it is to remain free, it taking down butt hurt idiots like Bill, and their misleading rhetoric whenever we find it. Here, we have a man who made his name as an articulate commentator reputed to be coldly calculating in his assessments and assertions. With a rep like that, people tend to listen.

So, when someone like that is in the public square saying stupid things there is potential for him to do serious damage to public discourse. And that, by my lights, has been the biggest hinderance to regaining a healthy Republic. Such low-rent, phony intellectualism is the reason we have a trans epidemic. It’s why people actally believe Modern Monetary Theory is valid. It’s why our most unpopular VP in history went from being a punchline to a “great” presidential candidate overnight. It’s because of the same false intellectualism she had go back to being a punchline four months later, again overnight.

So, when people like Kristol and Swift conflate issues, and use emotion and hackery to muddy the political waters, anyone who spots it has an obligation to spank them.

And yes, I’ll admit it, I intensely dislike the snooty, ivy-league, elitist crybaby Willie has become. He was always snooty. But he used to be gutsy in a more manly way. Now he just desperate to be liked and accepted by the people he perceives as the cool kids. He’s like Liz Chaney, another butt-hurt neo con, without her manliness.

There was only one reason ABC settled their suit: depositions. The judge ruled last week that the Donald would have to be present during discovery. Hell, it was his lawsuit. The defendants were likely counting on Trump bailing at that point, getting the suit thrown out. Trump disappointed them. And that was the point where they knew they were going to lose – badly.

They would have looked stupid in court trying to say that calling Trump a rapist is okay because some people have a much wider view of rape than the statutory definition a court might use. I suspect they also had some texts and emails that would at least make Little Georgie Stephanopoulos look reckless or vindictive in his public insistence that Trump was declared guilty of rape. They may not have reflected well on Little Georgie’s staff.

Note: If you think I am being too cavalier, considering the subject, be patient, we’ll get to that.

Two paragraphs jump out at you from the start. Here’s one.

Carroll had alleged that Trump raped her in the mid-1990s and that he defamed her when he denied her claim. In 2023, a jury found that Trump had sexually abused Carroll, and ordered that Trump pay damages, though it did not find that Carroll proved the rape allegations according to the New York penal code.

Only in New York is such shit considered justice. And it’s only considered justice when the political whores on the bench and DA’s office really, really REALLY hate Trump. She claims he raped her. He says he didn’t. She sues him for defamation, unable to give a day, date, even a year of the allegation. She was even a bit fuzzy on the time of day. In any legit court, criminal or civil, that would have been enough to get tossed out.

We find the plaintiff is full of shit, but we find against DJT anyway. Neener neener! Amazing!

The nonsense carries through the next paragraph. This is the neener neener part.

Subsequently, when dismissing Trump’s countersuit against Carroll, U.S. District Judge Lewis Kaplan explained from the bench that the claim of rape was “substantially true,” noting that New York’s legal definition of “rape” was “far narrower” than how the word was commonly used.

Kaplan shows his TDS and bias in his own statement (Do these people even hear themselves talking?). In a court of law, any term expressed is restricted to statute. You can’t say a man committed murder, even though he described a fight with the term. “I murdered the guy.” But because people have a wider view of the term murder, I find the defendant guilty of murder for punching that guy sitting over there in the face.

One raped or one did not rape, and that is ALL you get to pass judgement on. And if Trump didn’t rape a woman based on the court’s specific definition of the term, and says he didn’t rape, the defendant in this case was speaking the truth.

But like when Judge Juan “Pretty Hair” Merchan instructed his jury to find Trump guilty, this was all seen as okay in New York.

So far, this is just being reported by Kristol. He wasn’t there. But this is what got Kristol’s panties in a bunch. Trump factually DID NOT rape anyone. But ABC settled because they said he did. And that according to Bill indicates that Trump is authoritarian? He says ABC settling indicated they were currying favor with an incoming president.

No, they weren’t. They were avoiding the embarrassment alluded to earlier. But Bill needs to create a false narrative.

Bill asks, What are corporate counsels are going to advise their clients to fight such lawsuits if mighty Disney won’t?

Well, Bill, I would HOPE lawyers would tell their media clients NOT TO LIE. There are standards that must be met when reporting. You have to be sure of what you are saying and that it is true. When in doubt, don’t say it. When your caught saying something careless, retract and apologize. That would be the minimum of what should be counseled.

What Bill is really asking is why can’t we just say bad things about the Donald and get away with it? It strikes me as I write the paragraph that perhaps Bill might be sweating some of the things he’s said about Trump. He should be.

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