Russell J. DeFord

A crook that's going to get away with it because if we prosecute him we would have to prosecute every criminal in the government and that's virtually every elected official.

Proud. You are looking at: 5 National Qualifiers 5 Conference Medalists 10 Conference Finalists in multiple events 1 great group of people.

SEC schools are dominating the anti-Israel protests. I mean, just pure destruction of these woke morons. Beautiful to see. Proud to be an alum.

Anti-Israel campus protesters are fucking idiots. I’ve had it with them. Iran just executed a 16 year old girl for dancing without wearing a hijab. This is the world they’re protesting for:

Why the Epidemic of the Violent, Crybaby Protestors? After seven months of nonstop pro-Hamas protests on campuses and in our big cities, a certain predictable and monotonous pattern has emerged. The placards calling for the destruction of the Jewish state of Israel (“From the River to the Sea”) are now amplified with ever more venomous rhetoric and performance-art demonstrations—from “Death to Israel! Death to America!” shouts (vintage 1979-80 Tehran) to flag burning to chasing and assaulting Jewish students, to defacing iconic monuments (including veterans’ cemeteries), storming classrooms, and to interrupting congressional life on the Hill. Yet when a college president or government official on rare occasion calls the police and a few arrests or even suspensions follow, the fiery protestors melt. We were led to believe by their hateful sloganeering and disrespect for the law that they were the descendants of the do-or-die 1917 Bolsheviks, or the thuggish 1930s Mussolini black-shirted toughs. But on the slightest pushback by authorities, they metamorphosize into hot-house plants that whimper in “I can’t believe this is happening to me” undergraduate style. Last fall, we first saw glimpses of the fragility of the hate-Israel crowd at Harvard, where outrage followed when the names of violent protestors were spread among potential employers. At Vanderbilt, the thuggish demonstrators that broke into an administrative building when confronted with police removal descended into preteen whimpering—to the point of claiming it was so unfair because one protestor needed to change her tampon. During the near-day long pout, they further sobbed that the officers tasked to keep them away from university officials were treated with food from Panera Bread, but the poor protestors were not. When masked Pomona protestors swarmed the president’s office, they oddly found themselves subject to arrests and possible suspension. And then on spec their fury turned into self-pity and lamentation. At a Bakersfield, California city-council meeting, a fiery revolutionary, Ms. Riddhi Patel, screamed at the city council members in pro-Hamas fashion. And then she cowardly shouted out a murderous Parthian shot: “I hope one day somebody brings the guillotine and kills all you mother—…We’ll see you at your house. We’ll murder you.” Yet after throwing down the Maoist gauntlet, Patel was reduced to prepubescent sobbing at her hearing where she faced 18 felony counties. (Did she assume Bakersfield was Yale or San Francisco?). So questions arise: why do these fire-and-brimstone revolutionaries calling for death and destruction wear masks? What or whom are they afraid of? Why not show the world who they are and proudly advance their revolution? Why, after signaling their anti-establishment fides, do they fall into sobbing fetal positions when confronted with the possibility of being expelled from what we thought were their despised universities? Various explanations come to mind, none of them mutually exclusive: 1) This helicopter-parented generation is fragile and wilts when exposed to real consequences, since they have never really faced any—or much of anything beyond their sheltered lives; 2) Many sprout from mother-ship universities where their bullying of cowardly administrators means they are further coddled by protective DEI apparatchiks, convincing them they are gifted, special people; 3) They mostly come from upper-middle-class, well-off families, or the elite of the Middle East. Or they are on generous foreign student support and thus are used to having their way, given their parents have groomed them to go to elite schools, get cattle-branded degrees, and plug into lucrative jobs. Any interruption in that cursus creates hysteria; 4) They saw that the looters, arsonists, vandals, and assaulters of summer 2020 faced no consequences while the demonstrators of January 6 faced prison sentences. Thus they concluded that the leftwing administrative state would always exempt them (and it usually does) from all consequences; 5) They fear their coddling parents will be mad if their suspensions or arrests retard their oh so precious career paths; 6) Those on student visas and green cards who praise Hamas, trash the U.S. (literally and figuratively) in a manner that would get them jailed or killed in their romanticized birthplaces assume self-loathing Americans will always either appreciate or tolerate their hypocrisies. The more they show hatred toward the U.S., the more they are paranoid about being sent back to Gaza, the West Bank, Syria, Jordan, or any of the beloved homelands. What would end the street-theater violence, the student anti-Semitic bullying, the shut downs of bridges and freeways at commute hours, the mobbing of classrooms and lectures? 1) Arrest violent offenders and charge them with major felonies when they threaten lethal violence (i.e. the case of Ms. Patel), stop commuter traffic, break into a lecture hall, or disrupt Congress; 2) Expel all students who violate university rules; arrest those who commit violence; bar them from re-admission; 3) Put a simple hold on all student visas for 1 year to sort things out; 4) Deport all on student visa-holders who are suspended from universities; and deport all green-card holders who break federal or state laws; 5) File federal racketeering charges against the interstate organizers of violent protests that shut down or occupy public buildings, disrupt transportation, and endanger public safety. 6) Get the government out of the student loan business; tax university endowment income; reduce non-scientific government grants to campuses. Just a few expelled students or deported visa holders would work pour encourager les autres.

This debate should not turn on whether you agree with the slant of NPR programming. NPR clearly wants to maintain a liberal advocacy in its programming, and it has every right to do so. It does not have a right to federal funding. jonathanturley.org/2024/04/1…

Thank You, Hunter; These 5 minutes were GOOSEBUMPS... xitter.cf/i/status/1777162840631…

THE UNDERTAKER IS HERE #WrestleMania

Matt Taibbi was asked "why doesn't he pay much attention to the sins (or threats) from "the right"?" He gave a great answer: Why I don’t spend a lot of time on the Republicans: 1) There is a enormous army of MSM reporters already going after them from every angle, with most major news organizations little more than proxies for the DNC, to the point where stations hire Biden spokespeople as anchors; 2) The Republicans have very little institutional power nationally. It’s not their point of view prevailing in schools, on campuses, in newsrooms (where over 90% of working reporters vote blue), and especially in the intelligence and military apparatus, which has openly aligned itself with Democrats. Even if Donald Trump were a “threat to Democracy” he lacks the institutional pull to do much damage, which can’t be said of Democrats; 3) The Democrats’ ambitions are significantly more dangerous than those of the Republicans. From digital surveillance to censorship to making Intel and enforcement agencies central players in domestic governance — all plans being executed globally as well as in our one country — they are thinking on a much bigger and more dangerous scale than Republicans. I lived in third world countries and the endless criminal indictments of people like Trump and ongoing lawfare efforts to prevent even third party challenges are classic authoritarian symptoms. The Republicans aren’t near this kind of capability; 4) Last and most important, the Democrats are being organized around a more potent but also much dumber, more cultlike ideology. People like Yuval Harari and his Transhumanist “divinity” concept scare me a lot more than the Rs, and I was once undercover in an apocalyptic church in Texas. Ask your average Russian or Cuban what overempowered pseudo-intellectuals are capable of. I have a pretty good record of picking dangerous phenomena ahead of time. I feel confident on this one, and that’s before we get to the demographic/class shifts in the parties.

Congrats to Mitch on his PR and new School Record! He threw 17.83 meters to finish 4th at the Bearcat Open!

From what I can tell, we are now governed by an extra-Constitutional system of political parties and their powerbrokers who make decisions in their best financial interests, but not ours-- and we're cut out.

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Metamora's Ashton Grieves had his first high school dunk in last night's win over Morton. Toepke Gym went nuts, but no one was cheering with more pride than Ashton's Grandpa, Metamora Coach Danny Grieves

Congratulations to Natalie on her LIFETIME PR in Shot on Saturday. In her 3rd meet as a freshmen and after switching to the spin, she blew past her high school PR! Congrats Natalie!