The Cynical Observer

Support all 🇺🇸Vets esp Vietnam...Fiscal Conservative / Social Moderate in the poorest run State in the Union See you in Heaven if you make the list

[Brit Hume @brithume]

Correct: an example of the media acting dumb on purpose.

[Ari Fleischer @AriFleischer]

My beef with Abdul:

He says he’s a doctor. He’s not. He’s unlicensed.

He’s for abolishing the police. He deleted the tweet, but CNN found it.

His staff denied he’s a dual citizen w Egypt. Video shows Abdul saying he’s a dual citizen and he summered in Egypt.

He refuses to condemn the Muslim Brotherhood and Iran.

He blames terrorism on America’s policies.

He calls Israel bloodthirsty. Who uses that language?

He says he hasn’t taken a penny of corporate contributions, but his FEC report shows he received $1.9 million in contributions from 629 corporate executives, including from Nvidia, Google and Pfizer.

Abdul is a conman.

[The Cynical Observer @Hubes28]

@JBPritzker Gaslight much Gov ?

[The Cynical Observer @Hubes28]

@MarkWarner Gaslight much Senator ? Ill sit down and wait for my answer .

[Illinois Policy @illinoispolicy]

Despite @GovPritzker's self-congratulatory claims of financial recovery, Moody's officially confirmed that Illinois still has the worst credit rating in the nation.

Why is this still happening?

Because nearly 15% of state revenue is diverted toward pension debt.

And because taxes keep going up to cover the shortfall, Illinoisans keep moving out of state. Over 168,000 people have fled Illinois since 2018 alone.

State lawmakers keep raising taxes, but the state's fiscal health is not getting any better. In fact, it is clearly worsening.

This is what a doom loop looks like.

[Tim Murtaugh @TimMurtaugh]

All credibility gone.

When the legacy news organizations finally cease to exist for good, they will have stories like this one to thank.

Intentionally dishonest.

[Karol Markowicz @karol]

He's literally saying the opposite, that slightly higher gas prices are a small price to pay for preventing Iran weapons that could take out a city. If you had an argument you wouldn't have to lie.

[The Cynical Observer @Hubes28]

@CynicalPublius Perhaps the DNC Talking Point E -Mail was sent earlier today .

[The Cynical Observer @Hubes28]

@BernieSanders Gas Light much you buffoon ?

[Rand Paul @RandPaul]

“France is on the precipice of a dangerous financial spiral… France now pays more to borrow than former crisis hot spots like Greece and Italy. Its government is running a budget deficit surpassed only by the United States among its peers.”

This should be a warning to every member of Congress: we MUST pay down our deficit and stop borrowing against our children’s and grandchildren’s future.

https://t.co/QjNZs53Q2b

[Laura Ingraham @IngrahamAngle]

Disingenuous post. Next time listen to the entire clip.

[Marc Thiessen @marcthiessen]

Wins the internet today

[Rand Paul @RandPaul]

The last thing we need is amnesty for illegal aliens.

What we should be doing is passing my End Welfare Benefits for Non-Citizens Act, which prevents illegal immigrants, refugees, and asylees from receiving TANF, SNAP, and Medicaid.

[The Cynical Observer @Hubes28]

@CynicalPublius @Acosta As we know, Jim Acosta panders to "low information voters " time and time again .

[Ari Fleischer @AriFleischer]

I feel sorry for Haley Stevens. Abdul beat her in the Michigan D primary by attacking her supporter, AIPAC, as representative of a foreign government.

Now it turns out that Abdul is a walking, talking dual citizen of a foreign government, Egypt.

The guy is a con man.

[Never Forget Dailey @teamreal321]

October 2, 1944. Eisenhower did not send a new attack order. He sent his combat units a Surgeon General report.
The danger of being killed or maimed, it said, “imposes a strain so great that it causes men to break down.” Command judged the average soldier could last about 200 days in combat before serious psychiatric damage. A wound was often treated not as a misfortune, but as a way out.
They called it combat exhaustion. The old name was shell shock. That day the Army put it in writing.
Same fight, different year. If the strain is still on you: dial 988, press 1. Text 838255. Vet Centers: 1-877-927-8387. Free. Confidential. No enrollment required.

[The Cynical Observer @Hubes28]

@Libs_OfChicago More skin in the game =pay your fair share but for the progressives it is never enough , nor never defined.

[Mike Commito @mikecommito]

On this day in 1972, Paul Henderson scored the game-winning goal to give Canada a 4-3 victory over the Soviets in Game 7 of the Summit Series #Hockey365

[Jeanne Ives @JeanneIves]

Protesting Trump outside Medinah Country Club is Arab American Family Services, a non-profit raking it in from taxpayers.

In the last eight years AAFS has received $8,330,409 from Illinois taxpayers. In 2024, they received $2,614,756 which was 41% of their total revenues. Their IRS Form 990 from that year showed total revenue of $6,344,756.

They were given the money for a Welcoming Center, Partner Abuse Intervention Program and Domestic Violence Intervention and Prevention Program. Their Form 990 states their purpose as "ARAB AMERICAN FAMILY SERVICES IS A MULTI-SOCIAL SERVICE ORGANIZATION DEDICATED TO EMPOWERING AND ENHANCING THE LIVES OF ARAB AMERICANS BY PROVIDING THEM WITH EDUCATIONAL PROGRAMS AND SERVICES."

So educational services means not teaching them to beat their wife and kids, I guess.
In 2024, the Executive Director, ITEDAL SHALABI, paid himself $176,172 - according to the Form 990 published by ProPublica.

AAFS is not a service organization. It is a progressive anti-American activist organization and they should be investigated for misuse of taxpayer money.

[Victor Davis Hanson @VDHanson]

Trump Bans the Fake News. So Obama Thunders Down from Olympus

The White House Press corps and the liberal media have gone ballistic over President Trump’s recent banning of CNN, MS NOW, and Politico from the White House press room.

Apparently Trump had finally had it with their decade-long trail of “fake news” (e.g., CNN on the Steele dossier: the intelligence community had “corroborated all the details.”; MS(NBC): “All the supporting details in Steele's reports are checking out, even the really outrageous ones.”; and Politico (“Hunter Biden story is Russian disinfo, dozens of former intel officials say.”).

Or maybe it was Trump’s weariness that CNN and MS never learned from their serial untruth.

The former for years put on their news shows the admitted liar (“least most untruthful”) James Clapper; The latter likewise hired the twice-admitted-liar John Brennan (on his demonstrable spying on Senate computers, Brennan thundered under oath: “Nothing could be further from the truth. We wouldn't do that.”)

So after witnessing the fake news’s spreading lies about the “walls are closing in on Trump” Mueller Investigation, ginning up the “mostly peaceful” 2020 riots, running with the Jussie Smollett farce, demonizing the Covington Kids, iconizing the assailant Trayvon Martin, and promulgating the “Hands up, Don’t Shoot” Ferguson fable, and on and on—I suppose Trump finally had enough.

In reaction and as expected, a sanctimonious Barack Obama now has jetted out from one of his three mansions and into the expulsion controversy.

And also as his wont, Obama almost immediately on spec opened himself up to the usual charges of rank hypocrisy and empty, performance-art virtue-signaling.

So Obama thundered, “I’m trying to think what would have happened if I had said, ‘You know what, Fox News? You’re out of here.’ It’s unimaginable.”

Actually, it’s not “unimaginable”, if Obama would just look into the mirror.

So wait a minute.

In 2009 the Obama Treasury Department tried to ban a Fox reporter from a press pool interview.

Earlier during the 2008 campaign, Obama kicked out New York Post and Washington Times reporters from his campaign plane.

But Obama was most notorious not for just excluding politically incorrect reporters but for surveilling and spying on them.

Even liberal watchdog foundations blasted Obama in 2012-13 for grabbing the private records of some twenty phone lines used at home and on the job by Associated Press reporters.

Most notoriously, it was finally revealed in 2013 that Obama’s State Department secretly had bird-dogged Fox Reporter James Rosen relentlessly— tracking his movements, obtaining a search warrant to examined two days’ worth of his private emails, and getting access to his private phone records.

If Obama is still “trying to think what would have happened” when he surveilled and spied on a Fox reporter relentlessly, he can stop—since nothing as usual happened to the always exempt Obama.

And Obama did not just at times eject reporters and surveille them.

He also threatened to prosecute eight reporters and their sources (more than any administration before or since, including Richard Nixon’s). But he backed down when the AP and Rosen scandals surfaced and cooled down his Inspector Javert alter ego.

The hammer/stiletto difference between a loud Trump and a smooth Obama?

Trump blows up publicly, rails, and earns furor from “shocked”, sober and judicious journalists” who covet their White House billets—while he also earns the damnation of the liberal legacy media for his antics.

But far more egregiously Obama used the powers of the administrative state, secretly and quietly, to surveille, follow, and spy on reporters and their sources, while threatening to prosecute and jail others—and he disguised his vindictiveness by his lofty tone and polished demeanor.

As he anticipated, Obama’s victims and the media itself largely kept still, afraid to concede that their messianic “constitutional lawyer” possessed an Orwellian mean streak and was a far greater danger to the First Amendment.

Or as the Left taught us, the fundamental threat to our Constitution is when “democracy dies in darkness.”

Postscript:

Obama also could not resist his “clingers” like demonization of Trump supporters, in the fashion of Hillary’s “deplorables” and “irredeemables”, and Biden’s “garbage”, “chumps”, “semi-fascists”, and “dregs”.

So he also blasted not just Trump for the expulsions, but returned to his accustomed stereotype putdown of Neanderthal-like Trump supporters who are supposedly under-developed (e.g., “what that means is that we’ve have not developed the kind of understanding of what democracy requires”):

“If you have a certain cohort, let's call it 30 to 35 percent of the country right now, which thinks that's okay, well, what that means is we have not developed the kind of understanding of what democracy requires, and we've got to shore that back up.”

I wonder how Obama would do that shoring up of a third of America? Surveilling, tracking, and spying on them?

Note finally, that even Hillary’s deplorables were only half of Trump’s half of the nation, “You could put half of Trump's supporters into what I call the basket of deplorables”) whereas Obama writes off a third of the entire country!