The jurors in the trial of Daniel Penny have been in deliberations since Tuesday. Today the jury informed the judge they are deadlocked and unable to come to a verdict.

The 12-person jury sent a note Friday morning saying they are having trouble reaching a consensus on whether to convict Penny, 26, of “recklessly” causing Neely’s death by placing him in a six-minute chokehold back in May 2023. If the jury continues to be unable to reach a verdict, Manhattan Supreme Court Justice Maxwell Wiley would be required to give them what’s known as an “Allen” charge, urging them to reach a unanimous verdict.

NEW YORK – Jurors are deadlocked in the case of marine veteran Daniel Penny, 24, who pled not guilty to manslaughter charges brought on after he held street performer Jordan Neely in a fatal chokehold on a New York City subway train last year.

Jurors began deliberations on Tuesday in the trial of a military veteran accused of causing the death of a man with a chokehold on a New York subway, and ended with uncertainty this morning as the jury failed to come to a decision.

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When asked if Democrat Senator Chris Murphy knows how he will vote on Kash Patel, if nominated, Senator Murphy says not only is he a “no,” but he will also organize and lead the upper chamber effort against President Trump’s nominees.  WATCH:

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It’s more than a little funny all things considered. Particularly funny if you know the full background {GO DEEP}.  However, as the story is now told, George Clooney is furious that he listened to his good friend Barack Obama when Clooney led the charge against Joe Biden in July.

RadarOnline – […] “Obama and Clooney have been tight for years, and George became Barack’s surrogate in leading the charge for Joe to step away”, explained the source. “Barack knew he would look like a traitor if he publicly called for Joe to be cut loose. And now, he’s trying to walk away from it all. “George feels duped and vows he’s not going to be anyone’s political water boy anymore.” Read More.

Please do read the entire short article.  The key point is the part about Obama being the driver of the op-ed letter written by Clooney that demanded Joe Biden step aside.

In an absolute repeat of the way Obama operates, Barack now disappears -saves his own ego- and leaves his friends carrying the egg on their faces.  That’s Obama in a nutshell.

However, George Clooney’s current motive is not just about his own drop in influence or affluence, George’s personal problem is the impact on his wife, Amal Clooney, the actual author of the letter who finds herself in a strange position of lost purpose while the leftist world retreats and the era of Trump dawns.

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In the background of other interesting matters, it’s worthwhile taking a glance into the TikTok battle every once in a while.  While I retain a slight ambivalence to the issue of TikTok and social media control mechanisms, it is also true that TikTok is currently the only larger used platform that is not directly under the wing of the U.S. Intelligence Community.

As we noted in the recent Romanian election outcome, the winner of round #1, a nationalist-minded Romania First candidate named Călin Georgescu, strongly directed his campaign message to the Romanian people, via TikTok. Georgescu campaigned on an anti-EU, anti-NATO and anti-war with Russia platform; simultaneously supporting domestic farmers, domestic energy production and advocating for a Romania that is free from foreign influence.

Suddenly, the Romanian officials who lost the election are asking the EU to investigate TikTok for allowing the organic message of Georgescu to flourish and generate support.

(Via Politico) […] TikTok is under mounting pressure to explain how it handled political content in Romania after a first round presidential vote on Sunday propelled the ultranationalist, pro-Russian firebrand Călin Georgescu to a shock victory, in part thanks to his sudden surge on TikTok. A top EU lawmaker demanded on Tuesday that TikTok’s chief executive appear before the European Parliament to answer questions, and Romanian NGOs have urged the Commission to look into whether TikTok and other platforms complied with Europe’s social media laws.

The European Commission oversees TikTok’s compliance with the bloc’s new DSA rulebook, which sets the rules for how large online platforms moderate content, including in political campaigns.

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There is that moment in the final minutes of the hockey game’s third period, when the score is 3-2 and the coach of the losing team signals to pull the goalie.  We are in the political equivalent of that moment.

Ignore all the push polling that will surface today and in the next 48 hours.  Everything you see, read, hear and view on the electronic devices is now part of an influence operation that has reached its desperate apex.  The pull the goalie phase of the manipulation effort to influence the 2024 presidential election is upon us.

The USA Today poll by Ann Selzer, recorded in the official declarations pushed by the Des Moines Register, published late yesterday, was part of the design.  In essence, the scripted play was to set up a Sunday blitz of polling from the New York Times/Sienna to outline the 2024 presidential contest as a tossup, anyone’s’ race.

Corporate media practice and repeat this script just like the forementioned hockey team.  It is as predictable as all other UniParty moves.

All other polling has President Trump beating KamalObama by around 8 to 10 points in Iowa.  The USA Today/DMR poll of Kamala +3 is nonsense.  As Richard Baris said funnily, “it’s like Selzer polled the Starbucks line in Manhattan.”

Yup, the whistle for the final minute time-out call was transparent and purposeful, eh.  The Sunday ‘talks’ need an alignment of polling narrative; the whistle gives them that signal.

Here’s the current game disposition and overly general historic landscape as it appears.

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Despite Donald Trump’s campaign managers in 2016 and 2024 being women, and despite many of the top executives in the Trump organization being women, and despite most of the spokespeople for President Trump being women, Kamala Harris campaign surrogate Mark Cuban said yesterday, “you never see him around strong, intelligent women. Ever. It’s just that simple. They’re intimidating to him. He doesn’t like to be challenged by them.”

This set off a firestorm of pushback against the insufferable sexist Mark Cuban, a billionaire who spews hatred and vitriolic nonsense on an almost daily basis.  “More of the same condescending rhetoric from Harris allies,” said Sen. Joni Ernst, R-Iowa. “This strong, intelligent woman voted for Donald J. Trump — and I’ve been proud to be on the road across this great country with @TeamTrump!”

“Trying to think of a response to sissy man @mcuban but I’m too dumb and weak to do so,” quipped conservative columnist Julie Kelly. “Just when you think the Kamala camp can’t possibly alienate and divide people any more than they already have, now they attack women who support Trump. Nice job, Mark,” added Republican National Committee co-chair Lara Trump. Wyoming congressional representative Harriet Hageman had this video response:

I am traveling across Wyoming but had to pull over to respond to Mark Cuban’s weak and unintelligent remarks about women who support Trump. pic.twitter.com/xVmU2ha4BX

— Harriet Hageman (@HagemanforWY) October 31, 2024

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Speaking to a CNN Townhall, Kamala Harris was asked to describe her weakness.  She replied:

“I may not have the answer as soon as you ask it about a specific policy sometimes because I’m gonna wanna research it; I’m going to wanna study it, I’m kind of a nerd sometimes ha ha ha ha ha! I confess!”

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Kamala Harris: “I may not have the answer as soon as you ask it about a specific policy sometimes because I’m gonna want to research it…I’m kind of a nerd sometimes ha ha ha ha ha! I confess!” pic.twitter.com/Rsa7zRQJvn

— Townhall.com (@townhallcom) October 24, 2024

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One very upset person responded via social media with an extremely salty explosion.

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Speaking from Duluth, Georgia, Tucker Carlson delivers a resounding speech at Turning Point USA in advance of President Trump arrival.

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It has been reasonably stated before.  It is the one constant in an ever-changing universe when the political desperation reaches a certain point in the debate, leftists always use the “Hitler” card.  The worn-out and overused pattern always repeats.

Earlier today, a desperate and diminished Democrat candidate for the office of the presidency reached the final phase of campaign futility. Taking to the podium directly outside the residence of the vice president, Kamala Harris said Donald Trump was Hitler.  WATCH:

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Trying to disprove a negative assertion framed as a wrap-up smear is futile.  Pointing out that leftists are desperately trying to stimulate the worst violence is akin to noticing that water is lacking dryness.  No energy needs to be exhausted in defense.

It is better to retain purpose, remain focused and just eyeroll ridicule toward the visible desperation of it all.

That’s it?  That’s the closing argument to support her affirmative intent?

Those who script the strategy for Democrats feel their best policy shot is to call President Trump, “Hitler.”

That’s what they’ve got, projection.  That’s where we are.

Kamala Harris, “Donald Trump is out for unchecked power. He wants a military like Adolf Hitler had, who will be loyal to him.”  Meanwhile, in the real world, it was the Biden/Harris administration who demanded military loyalty via acceptance of an untested, experimental COVID-19 vaccine or get kicked out of service.  Who exactly is the harbinger of “unchecked power“?

I digress.

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It’s been a good little while since we featured a Bill Whittle segment; however, considering that Whittle accurately described what the next successful Republican president would look like in 2012, describing Donald Trump without even knowing him, this one is a great segment to catch up with him.

“Those that don’t understand him say that Donald Trump manned the fry station and the drive-through window at McDonald’s merely in order to troll Kamala Harris and her unsubstantiated claims to have worked at Mickey D’s during her perfectly normal middle-class upbringing. But in this episode of Hot Mic, Bill points out that Trump has done something much deeper than that, and that strangely enough, the image of a President in a fast-food drive-through window offers all regular people a sublime sense of pure HOPE.”  WATCH:

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