Roundup
(1) RFK Jr. is having his Congressional hearing, and apparently the Democrats are extremely angry with him: see this. They didn’t even like him very much when he was a Democrat, but once he supported Trump he because truly hated.
Also, this attack on RFK Jr. from his cousin Caroline Kennedy is just terribly sad. There is no question that both of them have known intense tragedy – having a father assassinated when they were young, growing up in the Kennedy spotlight, having siblings die as well – and that the family as a whole has known tremendous problems. Whatever complaints Caroline had about RFK Jr., she kept them quiet as far as I know until he left the Democrat reservation, and now it’s time to try to destroy him.
(2) The DOJ ends its case against Trump’s co-defendants in the documents matter. Good.
(3) The administration has rescinded the Office of Management and Budget memo that initiated the freeze that has been temporarily halted by a DC federal judge. The rescinding of the OMB memo seems to be merely a procedural thing that doesn’t represent a change in the administration’s intent regarding a funding freeze.
(4) New press secretary Karoline Leavitt did very well in her debut in the role. She’s the youngest presidential press secretary ever. Here’s an excerpt:
Zeke Miller of the Associated Press … asked whether Leavitt saw her role as purely an advocate for the president or whether she would provide “the unvarnished truth.” Replied the new press secretary, “I commit to telling the truth from this podium every single day.”
“But,” Leavitt continued, striking a tone that was less confrontational than business-like, “we ask that all of you hold yourselves to that same standard.”
“We know for a fact there have been lies that have been pushed by many legacy media outlets in this country about this president, about his family. And we will not accept that. We will call you out when we feel that your reporting is wrong or there is misinformation about this White House,” she continued. “So, yes, I will hold myself to the truth, and I expect everyone in this room to do the same.”
(5) In another test for the courts, Kristi Noem has attempted to take away the Temporary Protected Status of 600K Venezuelans who entered illegally and were given that protection by the outgoing Biden administration in its very last days, on January 17.
The personal attack from Caroline Kennedy is disgusting, considering the predatory personal behaviors of her father and her uncles Bobby and Teddy, and there was a cousin credibly accused as a murderer. The vicious nature of these Democrat attacks on RFK Jr. at this time is clearly because he’s a political apostate.
(2) speaking of the DoJ: Yeah, the Seditious Federal employees’ so-called “Resistance” movement needs to have some heads taken from it.
Trump DOJ appointee in DC lashes out after flurry of ‘personally insulting’ leaks in his first week
(4) Dressed in a ‘gorgeous, berry-colored two-piece suit with a belted back, which appeared to be from Zara‘ (a “$900 outfit” on first day!) – Karoline Leavitt will leave the MSM cur lapdogs w/o bark or bite before she’s done with them…
Over in the Yahoo News comments, those people are rabid anti- RFK Jr.
I view him with mixed feelings.
He is a ” racist” because he thought white and black people might need different vaccination schedules. I suggested that many of these people would call it ” racism” to simply observe that different races have different stats on different diseases – such as Sickle Cell Anemia and skin cancer. The Woke left goes straight to ” racism” like howling dogs.
@ Jon baker – yep, and not a peep from them when Jeremiah Wright talked about differences like ‘Black learning styles are different from European and European- American learning styles’.
I’m quoting from the NYT’s link w/ Epic browser passing paywall, but here’s another:
Reverend Jeremiah Wright – National Press Club Address delivered 28 April 2008
Not a peep about differences and/or racism in Rev. Jeremiah Wright Speech to Detroit NAACP Dinner – Aired April 27, 2008, where he mentioned ‘Dr. Janice Hale was the first writer whom I read who used that phrase. Different does not mean deficient.’ Dig this difference:
Was he saying black & white children have “different” brains? Imagine a white person saying such. He continued:
European and European- American children with left brained “learning” (?) were not climbing all over their desks, but African and African-American children with right brained “learning” (?) were climbing all over their desks…that’s a heck of a “difference,” IMHO, and still sounds racist after almost 17 years…
The news comes thick and fast now that a new sheriff is in town. It’s like drinking from a fire hose.
The cabinet hearings are fascinating TV. If you want to see the worst side of human nature, just watch the Dems as they do their Schticks. Both revealing and sad.
I’m not a huge fan of RFK Jr. but Trump believes he has some good ideas. He’s not a captive of big pharma and that’s a plus. I hope he can find out why so many bad ideas gained favor during Covid. That would be a real service to the country.
Kristo Noem was on TV today explaining how taxpayer money has been funneled to NGOs that encourage and help illegal immigrants. That has to stop.
Karline Levitt is amazing. So young yet wise and courageous. Bravo!
Left brain is logical and analytical. Object oriented means the student learns from an object…
African and African-American children have a different way of learning. They are right brained, subject oriented in their learning style. Right brain that means creative and intuitive.
My logical left brain thinks, OK, if they need very different learning styles we should just create schools for left brain learners and for right brain learners.
I wonder where the rest of the world falls.
I think that left-brain right-brain thing has been somewhat – if you’ll pardon the expression – debunked, as too simplistic.
Ref the racist Rev Wright spouting the racist Dr. Hale’s research – it was racist back then and is racist today. Blacks, Democratic party, MSM, many whites, and possibly even the Republican party ignored his racist speeches back then.
Asked AI’s – has the European- American children left brained “learning” vs African-American children with right brained “learning” been proven true? Briefs:
Some went deeper – like Brain Lateralization Myths, Cultural Stereotyping, Neuroscience and Education, Critical Examination of Studies, Brain Function is Not Strictly Divided, Learning Styles Are Not Fixed by Race, and such…
Perhaps the ‘Dumbing Down‘ of America’s Public School systems explains the “differences” better…
Husband is an Assistant US Attorney doing criminal work after many years of experience as a local prosecutor. He’s a fair minded honorable man who leans conservative but has never been one to overcharge. Respects the Constitution.
Fortunately he hasn’t had any pressure to take assignments unfairly targeting Conservatives during the Biden and Obama years.
We have no idea what things will look like now. It is crazy that they are offering a nine month paid vacation if you resign effective September 30, and I am torn as to whether he should take it. We had planned for him to retire around May of next year, and I had a financial retirement picture based on us squirreling away extra retirement savings like mad before then. I personally don’t feel ready to give up on that dream—am I unreasonably afraid of not having quite the same amount in our nest egg?
“[Kennedy] cousin credibly accused as a murderer” Michael Skakel was convicted, imprisoned for 11 years, later re-tried and released; then his conviction was reinstated; later a new trial was ordered, and finally the State declined to re-try him. Now he is suing Greenwich, Connecticut and its police for withholding evidence in the case.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murder_of_Martha_Moxley
https://lawandcrime.com/high-profile/wrongful-and-malicious-prosecution-kennedy-cousin-imprisoned-for-more-than-a-decade-for-murder-files-lawsuit-after-conviction-overturned/
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“600K Venezuelans who entered illegally and were given [Temporary Protected Status] protection by the outgoing Biden administration”
If I read this in a bad novel I would shake my head in disbelief.
The Biden regime and its fellow travelers tried to overwhelm the country with their outrages. Now it seems that the Trump administration is trying to overwhelm the Bidenite neofascists with countermeasures.
“Also, this attack on RFK Jr. from his cousin Caroline Kennedy is just terribly sad. There is no question that both of them have known intense tragedy”
Could RFK have been a womanizer? not unlikely, he’s an effing Kennedy, but he’s not recommended for womens welfare he’s nominated for HHS. Also, any indiscretions he had are FAR superior to every single one of his family members who entered the political arena.
Also, “Ambassador” Caroline, who still has never had an actual job, did the one thing that I get angry about with my extended family. I married late in life, and my wife’s side of the family has a number of kids, who are my nieces and nephews, and most of them have lived with us at one time or another. There are a lot of problems I have with them because I think I’m better than them, of course, generational shit, but I never say that, I let most of it wash off while just tolerating it and defining rules. I don’t yell, almost ever.
The two situations that makes me raise my voice is when they tried to get involved and sabotage my relationship with my wife (most of the nieces and nephews were adults by the time I moved to Australia) or when they started to engage in self preservation in a way that I find unforgivable.
My brother, actual brother, and I have issues, but there is one thing we will never do with outsiders. We will NEVER burn family. NEVER burn your family. Hate them all you want as a mother, father, brother, sister, aunt, uncle even first cousins. You NEVER BURN YOUR FAMILY.
Caroline is a complete piece of shit, because she’s obviously lying and making shit up, or even it’s it the truth, she’s an opportunistic twat, but you don’t get conditional respite. She burned family, You NEVER burn family. Any issues you have you take care of within the family.
The only left brain – right brain idea having any staying power is the joke all we left-handers know. If the right side of the brain controls the left side of the body, and the left brain controls the right side, then we left-handers are the only people in our right minds. It’s lame. The quotes about African children being uncontrollable because of their brain orientation is nonsense and straight-up racism. Why would someone would be asking AI programs about this?
Medical offices are the only place where I will specify my race, because there are some conditions which are more prevalent depending upon geographic origin.
The personal attack from Caroline Kennedy is disgusting, considering the predatory personal behaviors of her father and her uncles Bobby and Teddy, and there was a cousin credibly accused as a murderer. The vicious nature of these Democrat attacks on RFK Jr. at this time is clearly because he’s a political apostate.
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A quibble here. The ‘cousin(s) credibly accused’ were Thomas and Michael Skakel (with Michael eventually convicted, though his conviction was overturned). The Skakels are shirt tail relations of Robert Kennedy’s widow and are collateral relatives only of her children, not Caroline or the rest of the Kennedys. (I’m a paternal side cousin of an engineer living in Cincinnati. I’ve met one of his maternal side cousins. Once.).
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There’s a bill of particulars in re Robert Kennedy, but the man was not a sexual transgressor.
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Joseph Kennedy had 29 grandchildren who survived infancy. Eight of them have been embroiled in scandals that made the papers. (One supposes their has been dirt successfully suppressed which may implicate the others). Liquor, street drugs, sex, reckless conduct. My grandmother could point to a similar proportion among her grandchildren. They’re not achievers though. One of them runs the family real estate business (Sergeant Shriver’s old job), one works for some sort of private equity firm outside the nexus of family enterprises, one is a physician (who has been embroiled in scandal). The rest are either apparatchiks in the nexus of Kennedy enterprises (some commercial, most philanthropic), or they have a media berth, or they have some sort of arty diversion like ‘documentary filmmaker’, or they clip coupons. Caroline Kennedy was granted a handsome patronage plum by BO; her previous employment history was a half-dozen years as a museum curator. Good job for someone like her, but not optimal preparation to be ambassador to Japan.
Caroline is a complete piece of shit, because she’s obviously lying and making shit up, or even it’s it the truth, she’s an opportunistic twat, but you don’t get conditional respite. She burned family, You NEVER burn family. Any issues you have you take care of within the family.
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Poor form though it be, I think you have to do something more transgressive than slice up your cousin in social media to be a ‘complete piece of shit’. (It’s not news that Robert Kennedy Jr has a scandalous past; what’s new is that one of his relatives calls attention to it explicitly).
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She left the workforce in 1986, passed the bar exam but never practiced law, began jonesing for patronage positions in 2008 (Gov. Patterson of New York told her she had to pay her dues, Barack Obama did not), and two of her three children would not do you proud. Plenty of failure in her life for which to cut her up (if that’s what you want to do).