The Other McCain

"One should either write ruthlessly what one believes to be the truth, or else shut up." — Arthur Koestler

Living in Interesting Times

Posted on | July 25, 2024 | No Comments

Early this morning, I found myself researching the British industrialist and politician Joseph Chamberlain, whose son Neville became the Prime Minister ruined by appeasement. It was apparently from Joseph Chamberlain that his other son, Austen (Nevill[e’s half-brother) derived the idea of “may you live in interesting times” as being, as is often said, an ancient Chinese curse. Whatever the origins of the phrase may be, certainly we are now living in interesting times, although as Sarah Hoyt notes, bizarre and weird are suitable synonyms for “interesting.”

Wednesday night, our alleged president gave a prime time televised speech from the White House in which, amid much slurring and stumbling, he avowed his devotion to “the sacred cause of this country . . . the cause of American democracy itself.” Was this a tautology or a non sequitur? Forget it, Biden was rolling:

The cause of American democracy itself. We must unite to protect it.
In recent weeks, it has become clear to me that I need to unite my party in this critical endeavor. I believe my record as president, my leadership in the world, my vision for America’s future, all merited a second term. But nothing, nothing can come in the way of saving our democracy. That includes personal ambition.
So I’ve decided the best way forward is to pass the torch to a new generation. It’s the best way to unite our nation. I know there was a time and a place for long years of experience in public life. There’s also a time and a place for new voices, fresh voices, yes, younger voices. And that time and place is now.

What do you notice about that? First, that it’s an outright lie — Joe did not “decide to pass the torch.” That decision was imposed on him by the big-money donors and Democratic Party power brokers who, after his June 27 debate debacle, spent three weeks organizing a pressure campaign to boot Biden off the ticket. Second, at no point during this speech did Biden actually explain why this decision was made:

So, Biden has to drop out because his record is so good? His record is so good that the only way to unite everyone is for him to drop out.
The most popular, noble, and spectacular president ever just has to pass the torch to a new generation.
Um, what? That makes no sense. That does not explain why he had to drop out. .

Go through the whole transcript of the speech and see if you can find anything other than this vague “sacred cause of democracy itself” stuff as a justification for Biden’s withdrawal from the campaign. But giving the American people an honest explanation wasn’t really what this speech was about. It was actually a 10-minute campaign speech, and the TV time allotted to it ought to be counted as an in-kind contribution from the networks, none of which offered anything other than undiluted praise for the speech. The premise — that “American democracy itself” is at stake — is never questioned by the TV talking heads, all of whom apparently share Biden’s belief that “American democracy” will abruptly end the next time Republicans win an election. As for the “new generation” to whom Biden has “decided to pass the torch,” that would be 59-year-old Kamala Harris.

Since Biden ended his reelection bid on Sunday, as Matt Vespa says, there has been “a gaslighting operation, unlike anything we’ve seen, where the establishment media is re-writing history,” including the attempt to deny that Harris was ever appointed as Biden’s “border czar.” In fact, Harris “was tapped by President Biden to handle the migrant crisis” in March 2021 and while “border czar” was not her official title, it was widely used in media reports at the time.

It is truly Orwellian, the revisionism that the media are now doing in their effort to sell Kamala to a resistant electorate. By the way, MSNBC and CNN will tell you that it’s sexist and/or racist to refer to Kamala by her first name, even though such familiarity is commonplace — Bill, Joe, Bernie, Dubya, etc. — in political discussion. Furthermore, you will be told by the media, the way you pronounce her name may be racist, if you say “ku-MAH-luh” instead of the preferred “KAH-muh-luh.”

Be patient, my friends. After Nov. 5, you can just call her loser.



 

Shop Electronics at Amazon

Save on Groceries and Everyday Essentials

Shop Amazon Basics

Office & School Supplies

Category: Election, Joe Biden, Kamala Harris, Media Bias

In the Mailbox: 07.24.24

Posted on | July 25, 2024 | No Comments

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Silicon Valley et Hamas delenda sunt.

OVER THE TRANSOM
357 Magnum: More Democratic Party Violence
EBL: John Mayall RIP, Those About To Die, Disney Is Burning, and Did Illinois Deptuty Sheriff Sean Grayson Lawfully Defend Himself From Sonya Massey?
Twitchy: Send In The Clowns – Democrats Praise Joe Biden For Lying To America, Politico – “Republicans Pounce” On Pro-Hamas Demonstrators Burning U.S. Flags, Court Dismisses Defamation Suit By “Mary Poppins Of Disinformation”, and The Reason Barack & Michelle Obama Haven’t Endorsed Kamala
Louder With Crowder: Gen Z meme queen? Here’s what’s REALLY going on with the sudden “movement” around Kamala Harris, also, Swing state GOP candidate just dropped a FIRE anti-Kamala ad that needs to go up everywhere
Vox Popoli: The Fall Girl, He Never Had a Shot, The Wall of Silence Failed, Serfdom in the 21st Century, Stay Away From Psych Majors, More Bubbles in the Tub, and A Death Threat
Upstream Reviews: The Case of the Haunted Chapel
Gab: An Urgent Message From CEO Andrew Torba

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
American Conservative: Will Americans Stop Trying to ‘Run the World’?
American Greatness: Report: Anti-Israel Agitators Unleash Maggots and Crickets Inside Watergate Hotel Ahead of Netanyahu Speech
American Power: Barry Rubin, Silent Revolution, also, Christopher F. Rufo, How the Radical Left Conquered Everything
American Thinker: Congress Must Appoint An Independent Investigator For The Assassination Attempt
Animal Magnetism: Animal’s Hump Day News
Babalu Blog: Cubans find a peculiar yet ingenious way to boost weak cellphone signals, Cuban mercenary captured by Ukraine in its war against Russia prefers being a POW to returning to communism, and Why did Brazil’s Lula scold Maduro for threatening a ‘bloodbath and civil war’ in Venezuela?
BattleSwarm: Seven-Time Felon Opens Up On LA Cops With Machine Gun, Breaking: Biden Drops Out, Presidential Election Update for July 22, Grant For Social Justice Org For Illegal Aliens = Widespread Child Sex Abuse, and Has Josh Shapiro Already Been Anointed Kamala’s Veep Pick?
Behind The Black: Scientists find hydrogen molecules in Chang’e-5 lunar samples, Axiom hires British astronaut Tim Peake, SpaceX’s contract to de-orbit ISS reveals the inability of the older space companies to compete, Webb takes infrared image of exoplanet, The anti-Semitic Pro-Hamas Democratic Party shows its colors again, and Judge issues injunction against NLRB in favor of SpaceX
Cafe Hayek: The “Perfect Market” Man of Straw, Another Open Letter to Oren Cass, On Making the Case for Free Trade, On Trade and National Defense, Some GOPers’ Reflections on the Free Market, and On Americans’ “Trade Deficit” with the Chinese
CDR Salamander: Twenty Years of the Salamander Interview
Chicago Boyz: Automation and Ice Cream
Da Tech Guy: Ireland Gets The Post-Catholic Country It Deserves, Remember: The MSM Would Have Called You a Deep Fake Conspiracy Theorist if You Predicted Joe Biden Leaving #election2024 on June 26th or before, A fresh look at the movie Hillbilly Elegy, Biden Bye Bye Under the Fedora, We Now Return You to Our Unquestioning Press, and “Unquestioning” Media Isn’t Strong Enough, How About “Blatantly Lying to Your Face!” Media?
Dana Loesch: Everything We Know About The Trump Assassination Attempt – Separating Fact From Fiction, 
Don Surber: Cheatle rubbed our noses in her dirt
First Street Journal: The left are pro-choice on exactly one thing
Gates Of Vienna: Eyeball to Eyeball
The Geller Report: ELECTION INTERFERENCE: Biden/Harris Secret Service Threatens Trump Campaign, Demands He Stop Holding Rallies Outdoors
Hollywood In Toto: John Leguizamo’s Fake News Posts No Laughing Matter, Author Says Hollywood Makes Anti-White Sentiment Worse, Why Chuck Norris’ Delta Force Is Modern Hollywood Blasphemy, Top 10 Reasons Letterman Is Headlining Biden Fundraiser, Mean Girls Star Tim Meadows: ‘F*** RFK Jr.’, and Doctor Strange Director Compares Trump to Hitler, Stalin, Mao
The Lid: Black Lives Matter Blasts Democrats for Anti-Democracy Anointing of Kamala Harris
Legal Insurrection: Scientists Discover Cocaine Sharks in Brazil, Media’s Soviet-Style Airbrushing of Kamala Harris’ Problematic History, Secret Service Wants Trump to Stop Doing Large Outdoor Rallies, Biden Didn’t Tell Us Why He Withdrew From Presidential Race, Anti-Israel Protesters Threaten Netanyahu, Pro-Israel Counter Protesters Ahead Of Speech To Congress, After Trump Assassination Attempt, Rutgers Prof Wrote ‘Let’s Hope Today’s Events Inspire Others’, and Silicon Valley Billionaires Scrap Plan for Utopia City Ballot Initiative after Damning Report
Nebraska Energy Observer: Coup Coup for Cocoa Puffs
Outkick: Drag Queen Carries Olympic Torch In Paris, NBA Sticks With Amazon Prime Offer, Making 2024-25 Last Season For ‘NBA On TNT’, ESPN Finally Gets One Right As Pat McAfee Announces College GameDay Return In Electric Video, Lincoln Riley Lowers Expectations For USC: ‘I’m Not A Magician’, Team USA Men’s Soccer Needs To Wake Up After Getting Sucker-Punched By France, Mike Trout Gets Hurt Again In First Game Back From Injury, and Alvin Kamara Expected To Practice Amid Contract Dispute, Or Is This A Marshawn Lynch Move?
Power Line: Feeding our Fraud: A guilty plea in the bribery case, Mid-Week in Pictures: Bye-Bye Biden Special Edition, and The Napolitano Coverup Commission
Shark Tank: Rep. Wassermann-Schultz Predicts Harris Victory In Close Race
Shot In The Dark: Scene From A Twin Cities Kitchen Store, also, Springing Back From The Memory Hole
This Ain’t Hell: Collage students generally lack knowledge of American History and Civics
Transterrestrial Musings: Buyer’s Remorse
Victory Girls: Netanyahu Addresses Congress While Kamala And Dems Vanish
Volokh Conspiracy: En Banc Fifth Circuit Concludes FCC’s “Universal Service” Fee Is Unconstitutional
Watts Up With That: London Must Prepare for Climate Change–Says Green Blob, The SEC’s Climate Disclosure Rule Is a Dark Cloud Over Energy Abundance, and More Bad Good News: Nitrate Fertiliser is Cooling the Planet
The Federalist: Trump And Teddy Roosevelt Have More Than Courage In Common, Christopher Wray Claims FBI Does Not Target Peaceful Pro-Lifers, How Trump Can Win Over Black Families Whose Communities Democrats Decimated, Kamala Can’t Win On Policy Or Performance, So The Media Will Make This Campaign A Race War, 20 Questions Unanswered After Cheatle Resigns As Secret Service Director, and After Years Of Praising VP As Border Czar, Media Claim Harris Was Never In Charge Of The Invasion
Mark Steyn: Live Around the Planet – Nine Days In July, also, Unburdened by What Has-Been?

Amazon Warehouse Deals
The Case of the Haunted Chapel
Silent Revolution
America’s Cultural Revolution
Best Sellers – Food & Beverage Gifts
Best Sellers – Snacks & Sweets



 

Category: Linkagery

FMJRA 2.0: The Regrettably Necessary Midweek FMJRA

Posted on | July 24, 2024 | No Comments

— compiled by Wombat-socho

The less said about the Senators’ miserable week, the better.
Son of Silvercon II was a lot of fun, even if we didn’t get the attendance we hoped for. Going to do a longer writeup on the Friends of Fission-chan blog later and link it up. I cannot for the life of me remember why I didn’t mention it last week and give people a heads-up that the FMJRA and Rule 5 Sunday would be omitted/delayed.
Silicon Valley et Hamas delenda sunt.

Trump Rally Gunman ID’d as 20-Year-Old Math Geek Thomas Matthew Crooks
Vulture of Critique
Sigma Frame
A View From The Beach
EBL
357 Magnum

‘Don’t Get Cocky’
The Pirate’s Cove
EBL
357 Magnum

SHOTS FIRED AT TRUMP PA. RALLY; UPDATE: ‘Assassination Attempt’? UPDATE: Shooter Dead, DA Says
EBL

FMJRA 2.0: The Beatings Continue
A View From The Beach
EBL
357 Magnum

‘Violence Was Inevitable’
Vulture of Critique
A View From The Beach
EBL
357 Magnum

Rule 5 Sunday: Outstanding In Her Field
Animal Magnetism
Flappr
A View From The Beach
EBL

Trump #Winning Again
Flappr
A View From The Beach
EBL
357 Magnum

In The Mailbox: 07.15.24
Flappr
EBL
A View From The Beach
357 Magnum

GUILTY! GUILTY! GUILTY! Jury Convicts Corrupt Democrat Senator Menendez
A View From The Beach
EBL
357 Magnum

Dueling Paranoias
A View From The Beach
EBL
357 Magnum

In The Mailbox 07.17.24 (Morning Edition)
A View From The Beach
EBL
357 Magnum

Adam Schiff Joins Dump-Biden Coup
First Street Journal
A View From The Beach
EBL
357 Magnum

Never Trumper Max Boot’s Ex-CIA Wife Arrested as Illegal Foreign Agent
A View From The Beach
EBL
357 Magnum

Exit Strategy? Biden Tests Positive for COVID, Retreats to Delaware
Battleswarm Blog
A View From The Beach
EBL
357 Magnum

FAFO Hall of Fame Nominee
EBL
357 Magnum

Top linkers for the week ending July 20:

  1.  EBL (15)
  2.  357 Magnum (13)
  3.  A View From The Beach (12)

 

Amazon Warehouse Deals
Best Sellers – RV Parts & Accessories
New Releases – RV Parts & Accessories
Amazon Outlet



 

Category: FMJRA Award

In The Mailbox: 07.23.24 (Evening Edition)

Posted on | July 24, 2024 | No Comments

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Silicon Valley et Hamas delenda sunt.

And sometimes it’s the same thing.

OVER THE TRANSOM
357 Magnum: You Are Not Protected By Your ZIP Code
EBL: Biden: Bitter and Betrayed, Kamala Harris Is A Terrible Leader, Illinois Deputy Sean Grayson Charged With 1st Degree Murder of Woman In Her Home, and Did Biden have a “medical emergency” in Las Vegas last week?
Twitchy: NYT Accuses “Far Right” Of Spreading Baseless Claims About Sleepy Joe’s Whereabouts, Alyssa Milano Shares A Weird Pic Of Her Crying Over Kamala, and Kamala Harris Cackles Her Way Into Wisconsin On A Real Life Episode Of “Veep”
Louder With Crowder: “My son is dead:” Musk gives heartbreaking testimony about how the “woke mind virus” killed his son, also, These Kamala Harris polls show maybe Dems yeeted Biden off the ticket “to save democracy” too soon
Vox Popoli: 26 Minutes, The Unaccountable Executive, Free Press in the “Democracies”, RIP Bob Newhart, A Tale of Two Crowdfunds, When Puppies Become Wolves, and Speaking of Cancellations
Jon Del Arroz: The Hidden Emperor Kickstarter Is On!
Stoic Observations: Black Paranoia & Jewish Paranoia

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
Adam Piggott: Do You Use Your Real Name on the Internet?
American Conservative: CA Republicans Warn the Nation About a Harris Presidency
American Greatness: Chuck Schumer Endorses Kamala Harris During DC Press Conference, Asks For Applause, Doesn’t Get Any, Department of Defense to Give Troops ‘Economic Hardship’ Bonus of $20 Per Month, and The Tide Has Turned
American Power: White Rural Rage, Mapping Political Violence, and The Death of a President
American Thinker: The Biden Campaign and the Knives in the Senate, also, Who’s in Charge: Pelosi, Obama, or the Clintons? 
Animal Magnetism: Goodbye, Blue Monday, also, Animal’s Daily OH HOLY CRAP News
Babalu Blog: Cuba is on the brink of collapse, Power outage leaves half of Havana without running water, Venezuelan dictator Maduro threatens bloodbath and civil war if he loses election, Brazil’s Lula claims to be ‘shocked’, and Is Russia planning to drill for oil in Cuba and build a refinery?
BattleSwarm: Feds Want To Eat 700,000 Acres of Texas/New Mexico Land, Elon Musk News Roundup For July 17, Demolition Ranch’s Matt Carriker on The Would-Be Trump Assassin Wearing His Shirt: “It Sucks”, Trump Assassination/Election Roundup for July 18, and LinkSwarm For July 19
Behind The Black: NASA suspends all U.S. spacewalks on ISS due to water leak, UK distributes cash to space sector to keep them in the UK, Astroscale wins contract to deorbit OneWeb satellite, Russia releases timeline for its Russian Orbital Station to replace its ISS operations, More great hiking on Mars, and Everything connected to Washington and the Democratic Party stinks like a rotting corpse
Cafe Hayek: The ‘Logic’ Cuts Both Ways, Mitch Daniels Speaks with Philip Hamburger, Rare-Earth Materials Aren’t So Rare After All, Trade Has No Losers. Seriously, and Trade and Patriotism
CDR Salamander: So how is the Red Sea fight going?
Chicago Boyz: Best Eaten Cold, Why Johnny Doesn’t Want to Read, Freedom, the Village, and Social Media (updated), Technology, Work, and Society — The Age of Transition (rerun), and Movies Featuring Courage
Da Tech Guy: Lives and other things Saved and Lost Under the Fedora, Trying to Assassinate Trump was the Logical Progression For The Left, Tonight is A Moment of Truth on Loan From God To Donald Trump and the Nation, I’m Sure This Headline is Just Coincidence, and Was the Secret Service’s gross negligence orchestrated?
Dana Loesch: Meet Wick. John Wick. 
Don Surber: To survive, news media must be more like Twitter
First Street Journal: When he says we must listen to students, it needs to be all that the students say!
Gates Of Vienna: Here It Comes Again, Send ’Em Back, and Covid-19: All Lies. All Crime. — Chapter 13
The Geller Report: Anti-Israel Kamala Harris Refuses to Preside over the Senate for Benjamin Netanyahu’s Address to Congress this week, also, Failed Secret Service Director Kimberly Cheatle Finally Resigns
Hollywood In Toto: SHOCK: Twisters Doesn’t Give Climate Change a Close-Up, Adam Carolla Shreds DEI Poster Child Kimberly Cheatle, Twisters– A Blockbuster for Heartland USA, UGLY: Hollywood Bares Its Fangs Post-Trump Assassination Attempt, and Did Jack Black Cancel Himself?
The Lid: Fox News Scores Legal Victory Over Biden’s Fascist ‘Disinformation Board’ Chief’s Defamation Lawsuit
Legal Insurrection: Newsom Jumps on Kamala Presidential Bandwagon With Endorsement, Puts Own Ambition on Pause, Michigan Man Suspected of Driving Over Elderly Trump Supporter Commits Suicide After Identified, Dave Portnoy: Democrats ‘Hijacked Democracy’ By Forcing Biden Out and Installing Kamala, The Campaign to Make Kamala Harris the New Barack Obama is Doomed, Higher Education is Bracing for the Impact of Trump Being Reelected, Media Conveniently Trots Out Woman/Sexism Cards to Ward Off Kamala’s Critics in Advance, and Exclusive: Imprisoned 9/11 Terrorist Zacarias Moussaoui Fears Execution If Trump Wins, Requests Transfer to France
Nebraska Energy Observer: Round and Round We Go, also, JD Vance’s tech policy
Outkick: Ryan Day Running From Expectations At Big Ten Media Days, Jazz Chisholm Asks For Robot Umps After Brutal Missed Call, Mets Overcome Major Travel Chaos To Beat Yankees In Game 1 of Subway Series, Tampa Bay Rays’ Taylor Walls Speaks Out On Viral Trump-Inspired Home Run Celebration, Shohei Ohtani’s Endorsement Income Is Higher Than Some MLB Team Payrolls, This Guy Gets It: Flyers Prospect Matvei Michkov Arrives In Town Wearing Phillies Hat, The WNBA All-Star Game Was What The Kids Call ‘A Banger’ And The Ratings Show It, and Keith Olbermann Accuses MLB Team Of Being Nazis, Gets Basic Facts Wrong
Power Line: Annals of self-delusion, Not Exactly a Household Name [Updated], and Exclusive: How to End the Green New Deal & Fix the Border
Shark Tank: Donalds Says VP Harris Skipping Netanyahu Address Is Antisemitic
Shot In The Dark: Walk Like A Belorussian, Deja Vu Vu Vu Vu, Meet The New Boss Same As The Old Boss, and Biden Gets The Full Torricelli
The Political Hat: Violence & Escalation, Quick Takes – DEI In Academia: Banned In Iowa; Slashed In North Carolina; Running Amok In The Armed Forces, and Elitists vs. Anti-Elitists
This Ain’t Hell: Project 2025 and the VA, Gary Sinise loses son Mac, and Secret Service Director resigns in aftermath of failed assassination attempt against Donald Trump
Transterrestrial Musings: The New Girl Disorder, The Democrat Party, The Weirdest Generation, Challenger, Commercial Space Conundrum, That’s A Shame, and Peace In Palestine
Victory Girls: Cheatle Resigns The Day After Her Brutal Committee Testimony
Volokh Conspiracy: Biden’s Withdrawal From the Presidential Race Is Not Anti-Democratic
Watts Up With That: Grauniad Claims Tackling Climate Change in Films is an Ethical Responsibility, Like Ending Slavery, Forbes is Wrong, Agriculture is Doing Well Amid Modest Warming, and The Offshore Wind Energy Scandal Is Even Worse Than You Think
The Federalist: CNN: It’s ‘Wildly Irresponsible’ For Trump — Who Was Shot In The Head — To Say Secret Service Didn’t Protect Him, Kamala Harris Can’t Hide Her History Of Abortion Extremism, Dems Who Called For Biden’s Removal Fail To Address How Voters’ Voices Will Now Be Heard, With Joe Biden Out Of Sight, We Effectively Have No President Right Now, Utah Certifies Primary Despite Claims Its All-Mail Voting System Disenfranchised Hundreds, 92 Percent Of Kamala Harris’ Staff Left In Her First Three Years As VP, and Secret Service Director Kimberly Cheatle Resigns In Disgrace More Than A Week After Attempt On Trump’s Life
Mark Steyn: General Malaise at the Helm, The Merry Widow Waltz, Something in the Bank, on the Congo, with a Percolator, The Coming of Kamala, and  Nothing Human: John Huston’s The Night of the Iguana

Amazon Warehouse Deals
White Rural Rage
Radical American Partisanship
The Death of a President
Today’s Deals
New Releases – Patio, Lawn & Garden




    

Category: Linkagery

The Coronation of Queen Kamala: Why Are You Peasants Such Racist Sexists?

Posted on | July 23, 2024 | No Comments

While I usually watch CNN (so you don’t have to), the past couple of days I’ve tuned into MSNBC to see what the real Kool-Aid drinkers are saying, and oh, boy, let me tell you it’s exciting!

New York Times journalist and “Morning Joe” panelist Mara Gay added that the Republicans “first instinct is just to be racist and sexist. I guess that’s, like, a tick that they’ve developed at this point.”
“What they’re actually doing is they are motivating every Democratic voter, every fence sitter, every independent voter, and people who are just disgusted with racism and sexism and want a multi-racial democracy to continue to the polls,” Gay continued.
Gay added that calling for Harris to be more grateful for this country is a “dog whistle, calling her uppity,” and “every Black voter in America knows that.”
“This is really not helping his case, but I guess that’s just their go-to line. When all else fails, just try racism,” Gay said.

It’s difficult for me to describe what’s on MSNBC except to say that there is zero skepticism being expressed toward the idea that Kamala Harris is eminently qualified — nay, perhaps uniquely qualified — to be President of the United States. It’s wall-to-wall enthusiasm and exuberant confidence. Recalling the lyrics of the old cowboy ballad “Home on the Range,” MSNBC is a place where, for Democrats, never is heard a discouraging word, and the skies are not cloudy all day.

Donny Deutsch is lovestruck for His Queen:

MSNBC commentator Donny Deutsch said Monday on “Deadline” after Vice President Kamala Harris spoke to campaign staff he was falling in love with her.
Deutsch said, “Wow. You know, there was a twinkle in her eye, there was a kick in her step that, you know, when you’re vice president, you know, you’re not loose. you can’t , there’s somebody above you, somebody you don’t want to overshadow them. So this was quite the coming out. I got chills when she said Donald Trump, I know your type. That was like, wow, she’s going to prosecute this case. And you know, this is going to, she only mentioned the abortion issue once, that wasn’t a big part of the speech, but this is going to be.”
He added, “I said this on the show before women are going to save this country. We have a choice between an assault on women, assault on their bodies and their freedoms and the first female president. And I think women are going to drive the ship. And i was blown away. I was like I kind of fell in love with her. I thought she was smart, engaging. She’s funny, feisty, twinkle in your eye, punch you in the gut. I mean, everything you kind of want. I just thought it was a great, great opening act.”

“There were bells on a hill, but I never heard them ringing. No, I never heard them at all, ’til there was you.” Suffice it to say that it will be difficult for much of the public to form an accurate opinion of Her Highness so long as this media tongue-bath continues, and Republicans should not be surprised that, at this point, polls show Harris doing better against Trump than Biden was doing before the coup d’etat.

Do not sweat it, my friends. History shows that Kamala’s popularity tends to wane as her exposure increases. The more attention people pay to her, the less they like her. After the first Democratic primary debate in 2019, Kamala was the New “It” Girl, surging to second place (at 17%) in the CNN poll, behind Biden (at 22%), and ahead of Elizabeth Warren (15%) and Bernie Sanders (14%). But then came the second debate, where Harris got carved up by Tulsi Gabbard, and the bottom fell out. The next CNN poll had her at just 5%, in a tie for fourth place with Pete Buttigieg. She quit the race barely three months later, before a single primary vote was cast. To know her is to hate her: “Kamala Harris’ office has had a staggering 91.5 percent turnover rate since she became vice president.”

So, right now, while Kamala is getting her media honeymoon, being bombarded with love notes from her admirers, everything is “music and wonderful roses . . . in sweet fragrant meadows” on MSNBC.

Don’t expect this to last. Be patient, my racist sexist friends.



 

Shop Electronics at Amazon

Save on Groceries and Everyday Essentials

Shop Amazon Basics

Office & School Supplies

Category: Kamala Harris, MSNBC

In The Mailbox: 07.23.24 (Afternoon Edition)

Posted on | July 23, 2024 | No Comments

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Back from Son of Silvercon II, which was a good time. We’re going to do it again next year – hope to see you there!
Boy howdy, this was an eventful weekend.
Silicon Valley et Hamas delenda sunt.

this afternoon’s status

OVER THE TRANSOM
357 Magnum: CISA Publishes Review Of Red Team (Hacker) Probe, Quantum Computing Bullshit Is Everywhere, and Friday’s Blue Screen Of Death Insanity
EBL: Kamala Harris is ready to meet Biden’s performance standard, Tedious Harry Sisson sings a song for Joe Biden, The Media and Democrats Reunite, and Who will be Kamala Harris’s Running Mate?
Twitchy: Chuck U. Schumer Has Jeb Bush Moment Trying To Push Kamala and it’s GOLD, Jerry, GOLD!, Joy Reid Threatening People Of Color To Fall In Line & Vote As They’re Told Does NOT Go Well, and Biden Finally Appears In Public!
Louder With Crowder: Dave Portnoy goes scorched Earth on anti-Democracy Democrats, WNBA star Brittney Griner stops interviewer from calling her a mother, These four lowlights from Kamala’s first presidential run should TERRIFY Americans, and Joy Behar is UNHINGED because Donald Trump thanked God for saving his life
Vox Popoli: The Most Alpha Thing Ever, RIP Heather #2, Aware of the Risks, Antagonizing China, A Plot Against the Princess, and Vance is VP
Stoic Observations: Stoic Bites #2 – Floods v. Infrastructure, Growing Up Black Nationalist, On Crowdstrike, and Stoic Bites #3 – No Guns On YouTube, 
Postcards From Barsoom: Right-Wing Cancel Squads, 
Gab: A Pivotal Moment
Upstream Reviews: The Wisdom Of Walt Disney, also, A Princess of Mars
Defending The Wood Perilous: The Effie Logs, also, Are You Paddling Too Hard?
L’Ombre de L’Olivier: Biden is not home free
Draw & Talk Comics: This Comic Story is TOO PERSONAL!
Toni Airaksinen: Lawsuit – Princeton Student Suing After Kangaroo Court Led To Suspension

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
Baldilocks: Short Take, Never Let Them Get Away With It, The List, and Painting 
CDR Salamander: Assassination Attempts, Spin, Accountability, & A Culture Of Untruth, Fullbore Friday, European Naval Power With Jeremy Stöhs On Midrats, and Twenty Years of the Salamander
Dana Loesch: Last Week In Legal – Mar-A-Lago Case Dismissed, Joe Biden Drops Out, and Last Week In Legal – Fani Gets A Date Edition
Don Surber: It almost was a funeral, I won’t call this a struggle between good & evil…, and The Testosterone Ticket
Glenn Reynolds: When Things Go Wrong
michele catalano: the week in joy
STUMP: Ohio STRS – Tradeoffs, Alternative Assets, & More, RIP Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee – An Update On Pancreatic Cancer Death Trends, and The Week In Meep – Sumo & Geometry Book Recommendations

Amazon Warehouse Deals
The Wisdom of Walt Disney
A Princess of Mars
John Carter
Today’s Deals

 

Category: Linkagery

Secret Service Boss Resigns After Disastrous Congressional Testimony

Posted on | July 23, 2024 | No Comments

Well, that was quick:

Embattled Secret Service chief Kimberly Cheatle has announced she will resign from her post less than two weeks after the agency’s calamitous failure at Donald Trump’s July 13 campaign rally led to him being wounded by an assassin’s bullet.
Cheatle, a 28-year veteran of the agency, faced mounting pressure to step down in recent days but insisted all along she would remain on the job. She announced her resignation in a letter to agency staffers on Tuesday morning.
“I have, and will always put the needs of this agency first. In light of recent events, it is with a heavy heart that I have made the difficult decision to step down as your Director,” Cheatle wrote in the letter, which was obtain by The Post.
She said she didn’t want the growing calls for her resignation to be “a distraction from the great work each and every one of you do towards our vital mission.”
Following the rally shooting — which left the former president nicked in the ear, two supporters badly wounded and a volunteer fire fighter dead — Cheatle made a series of missteps that did little to reassure lawmakers or the American public that she was fit to remain in the role.
Among her baffling remarks was an admission to ABC News that the reason Secret Service agents weren’t posted on the roof from which Thomas Matthew Crooks fired on the rally crowd was because it was too “sloped,” creating an unacceptable “safety factor” for the agents.
The agency’s failure to adequately secure the roof gave the 20-year-old an unobstructed line of sight to the GOP standard bearer, leading to the first assassination attempt against a sitting or former US president since 1981.
At a House Oversight Committee meeting yesterday, Cheatle admitted the agency’s rally response was a “failure” but still gave her agents an “A” grade for the job they did that day.

Her testimony to the Oversight Committee was a wall-to-wall catastrophe, and it’s not at all surprising she has decided to quit.

(Hat-tip: Instapundit.)



 

Shop Electronics at Amazon

Save on Groceries and Everyday Essentials

Shop Amazon Basics

Office & School Supplies

Category: Donald Trump, Pennsylvania

Snopes Attacks ‘Unfounded Rumor’ of Biden’s Medical Emergency in Vegas

Posted on | July 23, 2024 | No Comments

Last Wednesday, I reported (“Exit Strategy? Biden Tests Positive for COVID, Retreats to Delaware”) about the official reason given when Joe Biden abruptly canceled an event in Las Vegas. He was seen boarding Air Force One and hasn’t been seen in public since then. What happened instead was that on Sunday afternoon, the Biden campaign issued a statement from Biden stating that he was ending his reelection campaign and endorsing Kamala Harris. That was more than 36 hours ago, and there has still been no public appearance by Biden, although he did phone into a meeting with Kamala on Monday afternoon:

The president called into the meeting from his home in Rehoboth Beach, Delaware, where he is recovering from COVID-19, to lend his support to Harris. He planned to talk about his decision to step aside in an address to the nation later this week.
“The name has changed at the top of the ticket, but the mission hasn’t changed at all,” Biden said in his first public remarks since announcing his decision to step aside, promising he was “not going anywhere” and plans to campaign on Harris’ behalf.
Biden said of his decision, “It was the right thing to do.”
As he handed off the mantle of leadership to Harris, Biden added: “I’m watching you kid. I love you.”

Yet Americans have not seen the president since last Wednesday, and on Monday, Charlie Kirk of Turning Point USA posted this:

Got a weird lead on a story that people should look into. I got a call from a source close to Las Vegas Metro. The official story was that Joe Biden’s trip was cut short last week due to COVID. However, according to this source, US Secret Service informed LV Metro that there was an emergency situation involving Joe Biden and to close necessary streets so that POTUS could be transported immediately to University Medical, which they began to do in earnest. Then, mysteriously, there was a stand down order and the USSS informed local Vegas PD that they were going to “medivac” POTUS to Johns Hopkins, which they presumed meant fly him back east ASAP. Apparently the rumor mill in the police department was that Joe Biden was dying or possibly already dead.
I didn’t think too much about this lead, seemed too wild to be true, but given that Joe Biden has been out of public sight for days and dropped out of the race via an X post, and his brother James indicated health was a factor, I’m beginning to grow more curious if COVID or something else has been more serious than reported.

Within a few hours, Jordan Schachtel claimed to have confirmed Kirk’s account of the incident. In addition to saying police sources in Vegas stood by this version of events, Schachtel noted that (a) the local NBC affiliate in Vegas, KSNV-TV, reported: “Law enforcement and medical teams gathered outside the University Medical Center trauma room entrance” Wednesday in anticipation that Biden would be brought there; and (b) “Emily Goodin, the senior White House correspondent for The Daily Mail, reported that on the journey back east, Air Force One ‘flew so fast the plane shook,’ arriving in Dover in just 3 hours and 48 minutes.”

But now comes the headline from “fact-checker” Snopes:

Unfounded Rumor Says Biden
Had Undisclosed Medical Emergency
in Vegas Mid-July 2024

And . . . they got nothing. Which is to say, Snopes has in no way debunked or refuted anything said by Charlie Kirk or Jordan Schachtel. All they have done is to apply the pejorative label “unfounded rumor” to the story, as if this were sufficient to disprove it. As “journalism,” what Snopes does is so shoddy that no reputable reporter would work there.

You don’t have to be a “conspiracy theorist” to believe what people are telling Charlie Kirk and Jordan Schachtel about what happened in Vegas. The verifiable facts — emergency preparations at the hospital and the unusually fast Air Force One flight back to Delaware — can be interpreted as White House staff acting “with an abundance of caution” in regard to a health problem for the 81-year-old president. Joe gets a case of sniffles, the doctor is called in, the staff initiates “standard protocols,” and what do you think that looks like? Exactly what Kirk and Schachtel reported.

What editor at Snopes decided that this needed to be “fact-checked,” and why? Isn’t it simply an attempt to smear “right wing” sources, an effort to discredit those outside the media establishment who dare to point out facts that don’t fit the official Democrat-approved narrative?

We are supposed to just smile and nod amiably, to accept without question whatever we are told by Approved Media Outlets, and never even wonder if maybe there are some things they’re not telling us. That’s why they have “fact-checkers” constantly monitoring the Internet to make sure that nobody posts an “unfounded rumor” which might undermine or contradict the (apparently fragile) version of reality promoted by Approved Media Outlets, as if the world might collapse into confusion were any doubt permitted to go un-fact-checked.

Yeah, fact-check that, you assholes.



 

Shop Electronics at Amazon

Save on Groceries and Everyday Essentials

Shop Amazon Basics

Office & School Supplies

Category: Joe Biden
keep looking »