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'We Two Kings' and the Art of Trolling – HotAir

Catch a cannonball now to take me down the line, my tab is sinkin’ low and I do believe it’s time …





Ed: I find it amusing to see Governor JazzHands McSnitchLine suddenly leap to take credit for a massive fraud he ignored and denied until it was too late. Kaah Patel finds it less amusing, to be sure. 

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Scott Johnson at Power Line: Federal prosecutors opened the window onto the Medicaid cases through the sprawling Feeding Our Future fraud cases. The cast of perpetrators overlapped to some extent. Again, the buck stops with Walz and Ellison. I sketched out the background of all these cases in the Imprimis essay “Learning From Minnesota’s Somali Fraud Scandal.”

Before noon Walz sought to horn in on the credit due federal law enforcement for the investigative work that culminated in today’s searches. This needs to be noted and called out. Walz deserves credit in the sense that the frauds could not have been committed without his gross negligence, willful blindness, nonfeasance, or outright misconduct. …

Walz is a compulsive liar. While he brags of cooperaton, I believe based on my reporting that federal prosecutors must have waited months for information from the Walz administration on the total of funds expended in the fourteen waivered Minnesota Medicaid programs.

Ed: Scott and the team at Power Line have been all over this story, even before Nick Shirley uncovered the “Quality Learing Center” and these tentacles of fraud. Scott attended the FOF trials and talked extensively with then-US Attorney Joe Thompson. I’d trust Scott more than 99% of all other journalists to know crap from Crisco on these cases, and Walz is clearly full of the former. 

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Ed: What was McSnitchLine just saying? 

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New Neo: The first was over the phone, and my long-time friend said that if she ever was given a terminal diagnosis she would try to kill Trump. This seemed only slightly tongue-in-cheek and deeply unfunny. She went on to vent quite a bit on how much she hated him. My response was that I hope she never receives a terminal diagnosis.





The most recent person to express this was even more disturbing. This was from an old friend who’s one of the most mild-mannered people I know – ordinarily. We were having lunch and catching up, since I hadn’t seen him in a long while, and towards the end of the meal he said that if he had a rifle (which he doesn’t) and if Trump came anywhere on his property (which Trump won’t) he would kill him. With the previous people saying this, they’d only given very general reasons why; I guess they thought his evil was so very obvious it needed no explanation. But this time I asked him why, and his answer stunned me: it was that Trump wasn’t even human. This was said with vehemence and a kind of fervor and certainty that indicated a very deeply held belief.

Again, I asked why he said that. I wish I could remember his exact words, but it was something to the effect that it was obvious just by looking at him – that he cared about no one and nothing but himself, and that he didn’t love America but hated it. He offered no particular evidence and I didn’t press it; to pursue the conversation was going to be counterproductive. This was a person who already knew my general politics, but I think he assumed that despite being on the right that I, as a moral and upright person, would be a Trump-hater too.

Ed: I’ve had this experience, too, and it’s as shocking as it is unpleasant. This is not some sort of sui generis phenomenon either, but the product of a concerted campaign of demagoguery and radicalism. People may not recall Madonna telling the crowd during the “resistance” event in DC on Trump’s 2017 Inauguration Day that she wanted to “blow up” the White House, but she did, and it was already normalizing at that point nine years ago. It’s not an accident that assassins are now popping up out of the woodwork, and it is to some extent mainstreamed by people like Jimmy Kimmel and Madonna, and a lot of others. 

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Regardless of what happened after the joke, which compounded by what happened, the whole idea of it is a bad idea. Who jokes about someone wishing the 1st lady become a widow and by inference that the president would be dead?

His explanation that it was about age differences does not cut it. He is implying that she is wishing him dead and while a humorist can and often will say and do outrageous things, this has no redeeming social value. It’s not even funny.

Ed: It’s not about comedy on late night. It’s about clapter from the indoctrinated. That’s true of every single late-night show on broadcast television, and why that genre is dying rapidly before our eyes. 

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CBS News: The Federal Communications Commission has directed Walt Disney Co. to file early license renewal applications for its ABC television stations, citing an ongoing investigation, a day after President Trump called on the company to fire comedian Jimmy Kimmel.

The FCC said in its order that it is investigating ABC stations for “possible violations” of the Communications Act of 1934 and the agency’s prohibition on unlawful discrimination. An FCC official told CBS News that the order is related to the agency’s investigation into Disney’s diversity, equity and inclusion practices, which the official said has been ongoing since March 2025.

Ed: I certainly hope this isn’t a response to Kimmel’s comments, which were reprehensible but not actionable in a regulatory sense. We went through all this last year, and it’s not the FCC’s role to regulate content on broadcast airwaves related to political points of view (although obscenity is an exception). All this does is make Kimmel into a First Amendment martyr again, while distracting from the fact that he’s just a terrible human being and cheering on assassination from the cushy environs of Disney Inc.

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I realize there is some enforcement latitude for FCC due to the broadcast license, but Kimmel’s garbage is not the place to make this stand.

There are plenty of politicians, pundits and general loudmouths inciting real violence and calling for criminal acts. Let’s find one of them who crossed the line and make a painful example.

Ed: I agree with my friend Jim here about keeping the FCC out of this, but I disagree a little bit with his assessment of the comment. Jim’s certainly correct in the legal sense that this is not incitement in any actionable sense. However, what he and other TV hosts and news channels are doing is normalizing the idea of political violence and inspiring people to commit it. In a moral sense, this is only just a little short of incitement.

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Ed: Gee, I wonder why it got so unsafe? Let us remember that reporters go into war zones, such as Todd’s former colleague Richard Engel, among many others. Salena Zito had bullets whipping past her and her daughter in Butler, and she still covers Trump and his events. It’s amazing that Todd went this far out of his way to make himself the real victim of what happened Saturday night. And not in a good way. 

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Ace of Spades: The sheer narcissism, offered without an atom of self-awareness.

They keep sending their fellow shitlibs to shoot rifles at Trump, and then whine that they’re in danger when shitlib bullets start flying, and it’s Trump’s fault because the Secret Service focuses on protecting the President of the United States rather than shitlib “journalists” who might be in the vicinity (and egging on the assassin). …





Number of assassination attempts on Chris Cilizza and Chuck Todd, combined: Zero

Number of assassination attempts on anyone in the antifa press corps: Zero, though antifa routinely beats conservative reporters hard enough to give them bleeding concussions.

Ed: Exactly. 

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Ed: Don’t laugh. This isn’t satire; it’s prophecy. 

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Ed: Click through on this and read the whole thing. I may incorporate this into a post tomorrow, but it connects to my point earlier today about strategic patience. Well worth reading now; let me know your thoughts in the comments.

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Glenn Reynolds in the NY Post: Republicans may soon need to write a thank-you note to Connecticut Sen. Chris Murphy. 

By convincing American business that a Democrat-controlled government is an existential threat, Murphy could be the guy who wins the midterms for the GOP. …

I’m sure it’s playing well with the Democratic peanut gallery — but what the information oligarchs are hearing is that a Democrat-controlled government is a deadly threat to their very existence. 

If I were them, I’d be thinking hard about how to do to the Democrats what was done to Trump in 2020:  Make sure the other side wins.

Ed: These days, I’d be less concerned about business infringement than about actual violence directed at these oligarchs. These same people, such as Hasan Piker, are prog-splaining the murder of industrialists already with the assassination of United Healthcare’s CEO Brian Thompson. They’re turning Luigi Mangione into a hero, and they’ll likely do the same with Cole Allen as well. Glenn is more right, and more literal, than he knows. 





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But the first lady put her feelings on display three times recently: anger at the strange Epstein press conference and in her Jimmy Kimmel attack. And in the wake of an alleged assassination attempt at the WHCD—fear

Ed: Does VF really think it’s news to be seen as worried and fearful IN THE MIDDLE OF AN ASSASSINATION ATTEMPT ON YOUR SPOUSE? What’s next, a deconstruction of Jackie Kennedy in the back of the limousine on the way to the hospital? Ghouls, all of them. 

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Ed: Another good reason to defund the UN and serve them an eviction notice for Turtle Bay. If you need another reason, they just chose Iran for a leadership role for their nuclear non-proliferation conference. I am not kidding. 

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Politico: Lawmakers across the aisle praised King Charles III for his historic speech before Congress on Tuesday. …

Throughout his speech, Charles received applause and at least one standing ovation. Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) called the speech a “much-needed morale booster.”

“Simply put: The King nailed it,” Graham wrote. “The speech was a terrific combo of wit, humor, history and appreciation. I believe most members of Congress feel better after the speech than they did before. Though I will admit it was a bit odd that the unifying feeling had to come from the King of England… but so be it!”

Ed: I’m glad it went well, even though I’m not a fan of the monarchy or this monarch specifically. I wish Charles and Camilla Windsor a very safe and enjoyable visit to the US and hope they can come back in good health again in the future. However, His Majesty’s government is still being run by a weak-kneed wanker who won’t stand up for Britishness when it counts. Also, it’s amusing to see all of the effusive praise today coming from politicians who were last seen publicly at “No Kings” rallies. Sheesh. 





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Ed: Perfect troll from the White House crew. 10/10, no notes.

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