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Friday Evening News Dump: Biden ‘Speaks Out’ (But Not Really) About Cokehead Son’s Arkansas Love Child

Posted on | July 29, 2023 | Comments Off on Friday Evening News Dump: Biden ‘Speaks Out’ (But Not Really) About Cokehead Son’s Arkansas Love Child

Does anyone besides me remember Mike McCurry? He was White House press secretary during the Clinton administration. Whenever someone in the press corps raised a subject that he had previously addressed, McCurry would reply: “Asked and answered.” It didn’t matter whether the reporter was asking about some new angle in the Paula Jones case or whatever, if McCurry wanted to avoid talking about it, he would say, “asked and answered,” endeavoring to make it seem like the reporter was being rude. Another favorite tactic of the Clinton White House was the Friday evening news dump. If there was something they didn’t want the press to report, they’d just release it at 7 p.m. ET on Friday — guaranteeing that it couldn’t make the network evening news, and making sure the press secretary wouldn’t have to address it until Monday, by which time McCurry could dismiss it as “old news.”

So, at 5:02 p.m. Friday, People magazine got an “exclusive”:

President Joe Biden has offered his first statement on 4-year-old grandchild Navy Joan Roberts, the daughter of Hunter Biden and Lunden Roberts, an Arkansas woman who filed a paternity suit against the president’s son in May 2019.
“Our son Hunter and Navy’s mother, Lunden, are working together to foster a relationship that is in the best interests of their daughter, preserving her privacy as much as possible going forward,” President Biden said in a statement provided exclusively to PEOPLE.
Navy, one of the president’s seven grandchildren, has recently been the subject of headlines as Republicans have criticized the president for previously touting his “six grandchildren.”
“This is not a political issue, it’s a family matter,” President Biden’s statement continues. “Jill and I only want what is best for all of our grandchildren, including Navy.”
A source familiar with the situation tells PEOPLE that the recently resolved child support dispute between Hunter and Lunden has dictated how the relationship has played out so far.
“You have to remember there were some fairly contentious legal proceedings between Navy’s parents happening until just a few weeks ago. As grandparents, the Bidens are following Hunter’s lead,” the source says, adding, “They are — and have been — giving Hunter and Lunden the space and time to figure things out.”
The legal dispute between Lunden and Hunter worked its way through Arkansas courts for more than four years and led to a November 2019 ruling that, despite his denials, Hunter did father the child (which was confirmed with a DNA test).
Speaking to PEOPLE, the source notes that the situation is a family issue.
“Thousands of families have faced similar circumstances, working it out in private, versus the spotlight,” the source says. “At the center is a 4-year-old girl and everyone wants what is best for her, including all of her grandparents.”

Oh, really? “Thousands of families” have had their crack-addicted son father a “love child” with a stripper from Arkansas? But the most deceptive thing in the article is the headline: “President Biden Speaks Out.” He did not actually say a word. The White House issued a written statement with Biden’s name attached, while he was already in Delaware for the weekend. The whole point of doing it this way is so that Biden does not have to “speak out” about it — in other words, so he can avoid being asked any questions about it and, if some reporter does shout a question to him? “Asked and answered.”

Also, as Karen Townsend points out at Hot Air, this not-so-coincidentally-timed release functions as a distraction from the (much more important) story about Hunter Biden’s sweetheart plea deal getting wrecked by a federal judge. The fact that the DOJ was clearly trying to give Hunter special treatment is not something the White House wants to talk about, so instead they steer the media with this heartwarming Hallmark card stuff about “giving Hunter and Lunden the space and time to figure things out.” No intelligent person is deceived by this, of course, but Democratic voters . . . Well, if it weren’t for stupid people, Democrats would never win any elections at all.



 

Category: Joe Biden, Scandal

Mark Lamb for U.S. Senate: The Candidate the Left Fears the Most

Posted on | July 29, 2023 | Comments Off on Mark Lamb for U.S. Senate: The Candidate the Left Fears the Most

Sometimes politics is easy, and Republican voters in Arizona have a no-brainer in next year’s U.S. Senate race against “independent” Kyrsten Sinema. The Democrats are going to pick one of the various “progressive” kooks in their clown-car primary, and Sinema will run for re-election as an independent, creating a dream scenario for Republicans, who will probably need just 40% of the vote to win in the resulting three-way race. The candidate for Arizona Republicans is obviously Mark Lamb:

Sheriff Mark Lamb is a husband, father, grandfather, and God-fearing patriot. Lamb has served as Sheriff of Pinal County since 2017. Lamb serves on the frontlines at the Southern Border, fighting the criminal cartels to prevent the flow of deadly fentanyl and human trafficking. In 2020, Sheriff Lamb took a courageous stand against COVID lockdowns, as well as mask and vaccine mandates, ensuring that his people lived free, businesses remained open, and children stayed in school. Through this steadfast dedication to liberty, Lamb earned the nickname “America’s Sheriff”.
Now, Lamb is determined to take his fight to the U.S. Senate. Our Constitutional rights are under attack, the timeless values of our Republic are eroding, and America’s standing on the world stage has been imperiled by the failed leadership of Joe Biden and the Democrats. Lamb will fight to secure the border, stand up for Law and Order, protect the Second Amendment, bring fiscal sanity to Washington, and restore American strength on the world stage. Sheriff Mark Lamb is the conservative fighter Arizona needs to defend our values of God, family, and freedom.

“Gee, Stacy, what caused you to endorse this candidate?”

The answer: Research. Because of his frequent appearances on Live PD, I was already familiar with Sheriff Lamb, but it was while researching a completely unrelated topic that I came across this story:

Talk about a backhanded endorsement! Left-wing writer Matt Shuham has exactly one job at HuffPo, doing smear-jobs on Republicans, and if he’s attacking Lamb as “far right,” what more do you need to know?

He’s repeatedly referred to immigration at the southern border as an “invasion” and called for labeling drug cartels as terrorist groups “just like we did to ISIS.” As sheriff, he refused to enforce anti-COVID measures in his county — even saying at one anti-vaccine rally, “We’re going to find out who is willing to die for freedom.” He also teamed up with True the Vote, the conspiracy-theory-driven group that spent years fundraising on the lie that the 2020 election was stolen by Democrats.
On the morning of Jan. 6, 2021, Lamb blamed the mob in D.C. on Democrats, and on the Supreme Court not “hearing our voices.”
Lamb may still find willing ears in Arizona’s electorate, and his presence in the Senate would swing the relatively moderate caucus, at least compared to their House counterparts, sharply to the right. . . .

(Please, please, stop begging! I endorse him 100%!)

During an interview last October with Jack Posobiec — a far-right media personality who the Southern Poverty Law Center noted months prior had “extensive ties to white supremacists” — Lamb echoed the so-called “Great Replacement” theory, or the racist idea that Democrats are attempting to “replace” Americans (typically portrayed as white Americans) with immigrants. . . .

(Now you’re making me want to donate to his campaign.)

“He is very much both a mouthpiece for, and a creation of, the far-right movement in Arizona and nationally,” [left-wing activist Devin] Burghart said.

With endorsements like that, how can I resist?

MARK LAMB FOR U.S. SENATE
Because we want to see Democrats with their
heads exploding like that scene in ‘Scanners’


 

Category: Arizona, Election, Senate

In The Mailbox: 07.28.23

Posted on | July 28, 2023 | Comments Off on In The Mailbox: 07.28.23

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Usual weekend deadlines for the usual weekend posts.
Ceterum autem censeo Silicon Valley esse delendam.

Dystopia takes many forms.

OVER THE TRANSOM
357 Magnum: NY Post Editor Behind the Hunter Biden Laptop Story Testifies About Censorship
EBL: Corb Lund – Spanish Armada
Twitchy: Sleepy Joe Finally Acknowledges His 7th Grandchild, Miranda Devine Notes Who Has & Hasn’t Gotten Secret Service Protection, and “Off To Delaware!” Special K stammers
Louder With Crowder: Monster tries stealing 87-year-old woman’s purse, winds up eating pavement thanks to good samaritan, also, Hundreds of employees left unemployed after Bud Light’s latest attempt to recover from Dylan Mulvaney debacle
Vox Popoli: Neocons are Evil Hypocrites, also, Ticket-Taker Taken to Task
According To Hoyt: The Competency Crisis, The Antidote for the End of the World as We Know It, and Zafiil: A Review By Kermit Grenoille
Monster Hunter Nation: Small Town
Gab News: Restoring The Soul Of American Christianity

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
American Conservative: Gosh, It Sure Keeps Happening!
American Greatness: The Left Hates Sound of Freedom Because They Hate Children, Biden’s Corruption Implicates the Entire Political Establishment, and What Israel’s Protests Are Really About
American Thinker: ‘It’s Murder’: Remdesivir Victims Decry FDA’s Shocking New Move, also, The Left’s War On Joy
Animal Magnetism: Rule Five Blackout Friday
Babalu Blog: Did communist Cuban entrepreneur really call for free market economy at island’s fake parliament?, Cuban dictatorship brags about abundant fish for tourists, tells Cubans ‘no fish for you’, and Costa Rica’s parliament condemns Cuban dictatorship, calls for release of political prisoners, return to democracy
Behind The Black: Argentina signs Artemis Accords, Rocket Lab revises design of its new Neutron rocket, NASA changes have cost Northrop Grumman $36 million on its Lunar Gateway module, Contact lost with Voyager 2, hopefully temporarily, NASA puts off planetary mission competition for budget reasons, and Black diversity administrator fired for demanding color-blind policies files lawsuit against university
Cafe Hayek: In Praise of Parking Lots, or Paradise Has A Price, also, An Law & Economic Center Event With the Great Bruce Yandle
CDR Salamander: Fullbore Friday
Da Tech Guy: Every Time I think the Culture Can’t Get Worse It Does
Don Surber: Count Floyd’s Monster Chiller Climate Change Theater
First Street Journal: Killadelphia: Another story I didn’t find in The Philadelphia Inquirer
Gates Of Vienna: Richard Jomshof: “We Should Talk About and Criticize the Muslim World”, also, Coup in the Heart of Darkness
The Geller Report: Senate Democrats Clear the Way for Boycott of the Jewish State, also, Biden Bribery Ignored But Trump And His Maintenance Guy Slapped With New Charges, Republicans Furious, ‘We Cannot Allow This to Stand’
Hogewash: Team Kimberlin Post of the Day, An Evaporating Planet?, also, The Gathering Storm
Hollywood In Toto: Deadline: Only Gavin Newsom Can Save Hollywood!, also, Tom MacDonald Doubles Down on Aldean’s ‘Small Town’ Rage
The Lid: Inmate on Death Row for Killing 2 Babies Now Getting Breast Implants Courtesy of Taxpayers
Legal Insurrection: Supreme Court Allows Mountain Valley Pipeline Construction to Continue, Rep. Chip Roy Reviving DeSantis Bill That Would Make Schools Pay for Bad Student Loans, Facebook Removed COVID Posts, Memes Due to Pressure From Biden Admin, Internal Polling Must Have Been Brutal: Biden Acknowledges Granddaughter For First Time, and Oakland NAACP: Declare State of Emergency After ‘Progressive Policies’ Like Defund the Police Cause ‘Public Safety Crisis’
Nebraska Energy Observer: Scattershot Friday
Outkick: FIFA President Leaves Women’s World Cup After Begging Fans To Buy Tickets, Attending Every Game Of Men’s Event, Colombia’s Linda Caicedo, 18, Collapses While Training For World Cup, Paige Spiranac Transforms Herself Into ‘Golf Barbie’ To Promote Her New Pink Shafts, Tick Tock: Pac-12 Fallout Continues While George Kliavkoff Tries To Salvage What’s Left, Public Scrutiny Growing Everyday, Ex-ESPN Reporter Allison Williams Shares Emotional Journey About Losing Job Over COVID Jab, and Oregon To The Big Ten? Now Is The Perfect Time
Power Line: A devious plea deal, Maybe Black Lives Matter After All, and Thoughts from the ammo line
Shark Tank: NRCC Targets Darren Soto After Controversial Vote On Veterans
Shot In The Dark: It’s A Wet Heat, also, The Progress Of Every Hot Button Social Issue
The Political Hat: Firing Line Friday: Do We Need a Federal Community Property Act?
This Ain’t Hell: We Love Admin Fatwas, Valor Friday, Trouble in Tuberville?, Senators pushing $1.1 billion of military aid for Taiwan, and Politicians get credit for green initiatives; constituents’ wallets get hammered
Victory Girls: Prayer Breakfasts Now Include A Side Of Sex
Volokh Conspiracy: Court Rejects First Amendment Challenge to School District’s Ban on Students “Misgendering” Classmates
Watts Up With That: Offshore Wind has a Cost Crisis, Global Boiling Has Arrived!, and Dumpster Diving NASA Climate Scientist Peter Kalmus: ‘Biden must declare a climate emergency’
The Federalist: Alone And Confused, A Majority Of Americans Ditch Free Speech, Question For Leftists: Why Do You Want To Rob Black Slaves Of Their Rich History?, Ken Makes The Patriarchy Look Awesome, Biden’s ‘My Son Has Not Made Money On China’ Debate Lie Isn’t Looking Too Good Right Now, and Expect Climate Alarmism To Heat Up In California This Wildfire Season
Mark Steyn: Live Around the Planet

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Category: Linkagery

If Trump Has Lost Ace of Spades …

Posted on | July 28, 2023 | Comments Off on If Trump Has Lost Ace of Spades …

It’s never been my habit to over-interpret anything — a Foucault-style textual analysis is just more work than it’s worth — but today I saw Ace of Spades take a shot at Donald Trump and thought, “Hmmmm.”

Yesterday the special counsel added new charges to his indictment of Trump over #DocumentGate (or whatever they’re calling it) and in his reaction to this news, Ace felt the need to add these comments:

So now comes my least favorite phase of every new Trump indictment, the ranting by Trump’s more passionate defenders that Ron DeSantis isn’t doing enough to defend the man who slurs him as a pedophile and homosexual!! His statements aren’t STRONG enough in swearing for the honor of a man who smears him dishonorably!!! and that Trump’s legal problems — almost all of which are self-inflicted– are a reason to elect him president to fuck up all over the place some more, rather than a reason to elect a strong president who will pardon Trump and let him live peacefully and free as a private citizen.
Every one of Trump’s problems gets weaponized against DeSantis, and then people wonder — Gee, why aren’t DeSantis’ supporters more interested in talking about Trump’s problems?
Tell you what: If Trump issues a STRONG statement clearing him from the previous lies that DeSantis is a pedophile, gay, cheats on his wife, killed more people with Covid than Democrat governors Newsom or Cuomo, then I’ll join you in your calls for STRONG statements clearing Trump of crimes which, let’s face it, he probably did commit.

To repeat myself: “Hmmmm.”

Something I realized long ago, sort of Rule Number One for survival in the conservative blogosphere: Never piss off Ace of Spades.

Ace has very good instincts about who is or is not Down For The Agenda. If he ever starts taking shots at somebody, you can bet that sooner or later that person will prove himself to be an unprincipled quisling.

But why bring up Allahpundit at this late date, eh?

If you look at the RCP average, Trump is beating DeSantis 3-1 and, quite frankly, DeSantis is starting to look like This Year’s Scott Walker. It is therefore remarkable that Ace would take this stance just now, when Trump looks like a shoo-in for the 2024 GOP nomination.

After my experience in 2011-2012, I stopped trying to influence Republican primaries because, despite what some people may imagine, the voters don’t seem to give a damn about the opinions of bloggers. If my herculean efforts to stop Mitt Romney from getting the GOP nomination were futile, why even bother commenting on primaries?

Basically, I’m agnostic on the matter of who gets the Republican nomination, as long as it’s not someone named “Bush,” or a useless blob of frustrated impotence like Chris Christie. Everything I’ve seen so far suggests to me that Trump is a lead-pipe cinch for the 2024 nomination, however much anyone may wish otherwise, or however much better DeSantis might be as a candidate in the general election.

Is there some way that could change? I don’t know, but maybe some of Trump’s more outspoken supporters should think about toning down their rhetoric just a wee bit, because they appear to be in danger of violating Rule Number One: Never piss off Ace of Spades.

Trust me. You never want to see an angry ewok.



 

Category: Ace of Spades, Donald Trump

Crazy People Are Dangerous (Special California Hate Crimes Edition)

Posted on | July 28, 2023 | Comments Off on Crazy People Are Dangerous (Special California Hate Crimes Edition)

Carl Chan (left); James Lee Ramsey (right)

In April 2021, the president of the Oakland Chinatown Chamber of Commerce was assaulted on the streets by a man who yelled, “F–k you Chinatown! F–k you Chinaman!” A week later, 25-year-old James Lee Ramsey was charged with felony assault and a hate crime against Carl Chan, and the case was scheduled for trial in August 2021.

In September 2021, however, Ramsey got a plea deal:

Ramsey, 25, pleaded no contest to assault with force likely to produce great bodily injury in exchange for the hate crime allegation being dismissed.
“As long as he’s receiving help and not going out into the community hurting people. I think that’s the important thing,” says Chan.
The district attorney’s office has the option to ask the judge to sentence Ramsey to serve his time in a secured mental health facility. He faces up to four years in state prison.

It was at this point that “activists” got involved:

On April 29th, James Ramsey, a 25-year-old Black Oakland resident with a documented history of serious mental illness, allegedly knocked over, potentially by accident, 62-year-old Chinatown Chamber of Commerce President Carl Chan.
Mr. Ramsey has been diagnosed with schizophrenia and bipolar disorder and told officers he had been off of his medication for about a month when he was arrested for the alleged assault. Instead of being provided sufficient treatment, James is potentially facing years in prison.
[The Oakland Police Department] is using this alleged assault as justification to get more money from the City, and Carl Chan, in his role as Chinatown Chamber of Commerce President, is pushing for more policing.
The Anti Police-Terror Project condemns anti-Asian hate and stands in solidarity with Asian people and oppressed people everywhere. However, in this case, we see a man with disabilities in need of intensive care, not someone committing a hate crime.
James Ramsey’s sentencing hearing was rescheduled for Thursday, November 18th at 9:30am.
Join us at the Rene C. Davidson Courthouse at 1225 Fallon St, Oakland, CA 94612 to demand the charges be dropped!

Whoa! It’s one thing to give the guy a plea bargain — proving “hate crime” charges can be difficult — but it’s something else entirely to “demand the charges be dropped.” Crazy is as crazy does. The state cannot be in the business of policing people’s delusions and fantasies, so whatever was going through Ramsey’s mind while he was off his meds is between him and whatever psychiatrist may be assigned to treat him. But assault? We’re going to just give crazy people a free pass on assault?

And just who is this “Anti Police-Terror Project”?

The Anti-Police Terror Project is a radical-left anti-police activist organization based in Oakland, California. The organization advocates defunding the police, supporting cutting half of the budget of the Oakland Police Department and redirecting those funds towards various social welfare programs including mental health and wellness services.
The group has alleged that the police have caused “community trauma” in the Black community and other communities of color. It has demanded more resources to research “police-related trauma” and the use of any research to shape the policies of the police. . . .
Cat Brooks is the co-founder of the organization. . . .
According to its 2021 tax return, the organization the organization had $5,709,289 in revenue and $313,631 in expenses. It had $5,403,517 in assets.

So, what do we know about Cat Brooks? Conn Carroll explains, “In June [2021], the Oakland City Council voted to cut $18 million from the city’s police budget and spend that money instead on a variety of social programs.” Cat Brooks actually organized a protest at the home of one of the two council members who voted against this measure:

Foremost among those advocates [of defunding the police] is Cat Brooks, the co-founder of the Anti Police-Terror Project, one of the main groups pushing for defunding the Oakland Police Department. She was brought up in Las Vegas by a white mother who was an anti-domestic violence activist. Her father, a black man, struggled with substance abuse and ended up in prison. “I watched him be terrorized and traumatized by law enforcement,” she recalled.
While pursuing a career in acting in Los Angeles, Brooks stumbled into political activism, which eventually brought her to Oakland. In 2018, she ran for mayor, coming in second with about a quarter of the vote.
When I asked Brooks about the two Council members — both black — who voted against the reduction in the police budget she was unambiguous in her contempt. They are “representing the interests of the police, and they’re representing the interests of development,” she said. “If they were representing the interests of the people, then they, too, should want black bodies to stop falling.” . . .
When I asked Brooks if she supports the abolition of police, she said, “Absolutely. Unapologetically.” Describing the role of the police in society, she said, “Their job is to maintain the status quo. And the status quo is race-based capitalism. And so they are the front line soldiers of the larger system of white supremacy, which is the engine of this country, both here locally and globally.”

So, her father was a dopehead who went to prison and therefore, the cops are the bad guys, “front line soldiers . . . of white supremacy.” And rich people gave her $5.7 million to promote this lunatic idea.

Well, how’s that working out for James Lee Ramsey?

James Lee Ramsey, a 27-year-old Oakland resident, was arrested on July 21 after kicking and assaulting an 88-year-old Asian woman and reportedly attacking a witness at the scene, NBC News reported. Ramsey avoided prison in 2021 after having hate crime charges against him dropped by former Alameda County District Attorney Nancy O’Malley.
The elderly woman was rushed to the hospital and is currently in stable condition, according to NBC News.
Ramsey is now in police custody and is being charged with elder abuse, assault by means likely to produce great bodily injury, and battery causing serious bodily injury. He pleaded not guilty to all charges and is being held without bail.
San Fransisco District Attorney Brooke Jenkins called the crime “horrific” and promised Ramsey would finally face proper justice, according to NBC.
“The crimes that Mr. Ramsey is accused of are horrific. I am grateful to the witness who was able to detain him until police arrived ensuring that he did not flee,” Jenkins said in a statement. “My office, on behalf of the victims, and every San Franciscan who is fed up with brazen violence like this, will stand for justice and seek to hold him accountable for his crimes.”
O’Malley previously dropped hate crime charges against Ramsey in 2021 after he assaulted Carl Chan, president of the Chinatown Chamber of Commerce. Ramsey plead no contest and walked free after his public defender cited mental health challenges, the San Fransico Chronicle reported.

It is not mercy to let crazy people run around the streets attacking innocent strangers, and certainly it is not justice. It is folly to permit our sympathy for those afflicted with mental illness to override the need to protect public safety, which is the first duty of any government.



 

Category: California, Crime, Racism

Judge Wrecks Hunter’s Sweetheart Deal

Posted on | July 28, 2023 | Comments Off on Judge Wrecks Hunter’s Sweetheart Deal

A thing of beauty is a joy forever:

Hunter Biden pled not guilty on Wednesday to gun and tax charges, refusing to accept a new plea deal laid out by prosecutors.
The original plea deal fell apart after the judge questioned if it covered future potential charges of the Justice Department’s ongoing investigation. The prosecution reportedly said the deal did not include any alleged Foreign Agents Registration Act (FARA) violations.
MSNBC reported the court took a ten-minute recess to determine if the two parties could quickly come to an agreement. When the deal got back on track, reports indicated it would “be more limited in scope,” only including specific charges related to tax and gun wronging. “The two sides have agreed that this deal does not shield him from potential future charges,” CNN reported.
But the judge said she was not ready to accept the plea deal and asked both the prosecutor and Hunter Biden to submit additional briefs, according to reporters inside the courthouse. The parties will have to return to court in the future.
The hearing ended with Hunter Biden pleading not guilty.
Sen. Josh Hawley told CNN the high court drama shows the plea “sweetheart” deal was flawed, and additional charges could be brought:

It’s very telling that the judge intervened here and said basically, ‘No, I’m not going to approve some sweeping blanket deal.’ … I mean, that tells you the court has serious concerns about other potential charges here, and also the scope of the deal, which has seemed outrageous from the beginning.

“This, I think, signals that they’re [sic] still very much potential for prosecution forward,” he added.
U.S. prosecutor David Weiss admitted in July that the FBI informant form alleging the Biden family bribes is part of an ongoing investigation.

Will Scharf at The Federalist has more:

Hunter Biden arrived in a Delaware federal court on Wednesday morning expecting that, in a few short hours, he would walk out a free man with full immunity from prosecution for an exceedingly wide range of alleged criminal conduct, ranging from gun and drug charges to foreign influence peddling. His expectation was that his deal would be insulated from challenges from the presiding judge, or from a prosecutorial change of heart under a future administration. His expectation was that his legal ordeals were coming to a close.
Instead, U.S. District Court Judge Maryellen Noreika picked apart his plea deal with surgical precision, exposing its legal contradictions, and upbraiding both defense counsel and the Department of Justice for structuring an unprecedented deal that in her view — and mine — was illegal and unconstitutional. . . .

Read the whole thing.

Need a bonus? Guess who appointed the judge?

After all these years, still #winning!



 

Category: Corruption, Crime, Joe Biden

In The Mailbox: 07.27.23 (Evening Edition)

Posted on | July 28, 2023 | Comments Off on In The Mailbox: 07.27.23 (Evening Edition)

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Silicon Valley delenda est.

OVER THE TRANSOM
EBL: Sinéad O’Connor RIP, Critical Drinker – Oppenheimer, and Why the Ukraine-Russia War probably should not go on indefinitely
Twitchy: Eric Holder’s Anti-Racist Advice To Starbucks Got Them Sued, Anheuser-Busch Laying Off 350 Employees, and Man Who Didn’t Get Sweetheart Plea Deal Examines The Two Tiers Of Justice
Louder With Crowder: MSNBC lady swears Joe Biden did nothing wrong but love Hunter Biden…to Biden’s former spokeswoman, Ice Cube uncensored with Tucker Carlson: Says he’s banned from ‘The View,’ compares trans people to pigeons, and David Hogg sticks his head out for a Mitch McConnell tweet, gets run over by Roseanne Barr
Vox Popoli: The Shadow Can Only Mock, The Capital That Was Lost, Babymetal is Back, It’s Just Greed, Right?, and SSH with Stew Peters
Stoic Observations: Broken
Flappr: Torts Illustrated – The Hunter Biden Plea Deal

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
American Conservative: The Myth of the ‘Underfunded School’
American Greatness: Watchdog Group Claims China is Funding Indoctrination Efforts in American Schools
American Thinker: Our Government Has Been Covering Up Its Crimes For A Very Long Time, Biden: Hiding in Plain Sight, and Bidenomics: Controlling Inflation by Making Us Poorer
Animal Magnetism: Animal’s Daily Free Market News
Babalu Blog: Belarusian Dictator Lukashenko wishes Cuba’s fake president good health and inexhaustible strength, Surprise! Cuban peso continues to lose value in exchange rate versus dollar and euro, and Cuban mother of severely ill girl begs for help from diaspora exiles
Baldilocks: Lucking Out
BattleSwarm: Mark Zuckerberg Has Been A Very Bad Robot Boy
Behind The Black: FAA: No Starship/Superheavy launch until we say so!, Boeing’s total losses due to Starliner now equal $1.5 billion, FTC will not block the purchase of Aerojet Rocketdyne by L3Harris, Scientists think they have finally discovered what makes the Sun’s corona so hot, Juno’s next fly-by of Io coming on July 30, and Pushback: City in Georgia forced to rescind a law that required permits for any protest
Cafe Hayek: Some Links
CDR Salamander: A Good Game Of Catchup In The SW Pacific
Chicago Boyz: What Happened in 2012?, also, Will There Ever Be an Apology for Covid Overreaction?
Da Tech Guy: The Biden Regime’s ban on portable gas generators is going to have a very negative impact on emergency communications
Dana Loesch: Byron Donalds & Kamala Harris Finally Agree On Something 
Don Surber: Someone Finally Told Hunter No
First Street Journal: Editorial cartoonists gobsmacked by reality, also, Killadelphia: How many extra have died?
Gates Of Vienna: Verdicts in the Trial of the Brussels Ten, Albatross Generation, The Truth About Climate Change, and Moloch Must Be Appeased
The Geller Report: DOJ Drops Campaign Finance Charge Against DEMOCRAT MEGA DONOR Sam Bankman-Fried, also, Biden Regime Being Sued For Concealing FBI Background Investigation Into Mayorkas
Hogewash: Team Kimberlin Post of the Day, Hunter Draws A Card, Imagine, If You Will, and Juno Flies Past Io and Jupiter
Hollywood In Toto: Journalists Torch ‘Anti-Vax’ Ice Cube, also, Is Depp v. Heard the Next Tiger King?
The Lid: Dropping The Atomic Bombs Remains The Right Call
Legal Insurrection: Conditions of Release: Hunter Biden Must Look for a Job, Not Use Controlled Substances, and Consume No Alcohol, Feds File Superseding Indictment Adding Charges Against Trump And Additional Defendant in Florida Case, RFK Jr. Deserves the Benefit of the Doubt On Antisemitism Accusations, Hot Mic Catches Sen. Feinstein Confused Over Roll Call Voting During Committee Hearing, Political Scientist Suggests Higher Ed Can Win Back Public Trust by Dismantling DEI Policies, and Newsweek Tries Riding to Joe Biden’s Rescue After Strange ‘Cancer Cure’ Claim
Nebraska Energy Observer: Organization is everything
Outkick: Colorado Officially Announces Intentions For Big 12 Move, ESPN To Test All-Female ‘SportsCenter’ To Spotlight Women’s Sports Instead Of The NFL, Gardner Minshew Is Very Frugal, Slept On A Mattress He Found In The Garbage, Ohio State Player Says He Wants To Be Paid In Tractors, and Buffs Called The Pac-12’s Bluff: Report
Power Line: America’s decline follows a familiar arc: ‘gradually, then suddenly’, The Facebook Files: More Censorship Revealed, and Judge Noreika to Hunter Biden: Get a Job, Stay Sober
Shark Tank: Rubio & Scot Leverage Congressional Power To Block Biden EV Rule
Shot In The Dark: One Day In The Theme Park, 
The Political Hat: The Monomania Of The Woke Worldview
This Ain’t Hell: Bidens, Bidens, we got Bidens, even Bitin’ Bidens, Biden’s Dog, Commander, Terrorizing the Secret Service, Navy Centenarian Flys Again, Nigerian Soldiers Stage Coup, Need Account For Trapped Funds, and Charles Adams, hard time getting out of bed, easy time doing exertion exercises
Victory Girls: Long Knives Out For Joe and DOCTOR Jill Biden?
Volokh Conspiracy: UK Banks Commit to “the Principle of Non-Discrimination Based on Lawful Freedom of Expression” as to Clients
Watts Up With That: Climate Shock: An anti ULEZ Candidate Just Won a London Election, Intrusive ‘smart meters’ threaten to turn UK homes into Net Zero Panopticon, Polar bear habitat around Svalbard Norway above average despite high temps in N. Atlantic, and Aussie Green Hydrogen Project Scrapped, “Not Viable”
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The Science Is Settled!

Posted on | July 27, 2023 | Comments Off on The Science Is Settled!

Liberalism is the disease, craziness is just a symptom:

In 2021, Scott McGreal, writing in Psychology Today, reported that an American study demonstrated  a link between high levels of neuroticism and liberal politics. Additional findings from a British study later that same year indicated a similar link between left-wing political views on economics and the environment (among other issues) and the occurrence of generalized anxiety disorder, panic disorder, and phobias. One interesting aspect of these findings is that they run counter to the hypothesis that persons expressing generally conservative political views hold their views due to “increased threat sensitivity.” Another is that the researchers presenting these findings had no axe to grind against political liberals or leftists. Quite the reverse, in fact, and they were startled by their own findings.
These findings are of a piece with those of a much larger longitudinal study of the mental health of American adolescents over the years 2005 to 2018. That study showed both a marked increase of “internalized symptoms” of poor mental health and a consistent disparity between the mental health of self-reported teenage “liberals,” who consistently evinced greater levels of these internalized symptoms, and “conservatives,” who consistently evinced lower levels, even as mental health deteriorated for the entire age cohort as an aggregate. The study broke the subjects down by socioeconomic group, sex, race, and their parents’ educational level. The findings generally indicated that these social factors, along with parental ideology, had significant though differing influences driving the increase in anxiety, depression, and loneliness among those with “internalized symptoms.” The results showed white, liberal adolescent girls faring the worst in mental health. The findings of that study were buttressed by a 2020 Pew Research Center study that demonstrated, yet again, a correlation between liberal politics and mental health problems, prompting headlines to the effect of “white liberal girls in mental health crisis.” . . .

(Hat-tip: Instapundit.) Also see, “Progressivism Is Aggravating America’s Mental Health Crisis” in The American Spectator. We didn’t actually need any scientific studies to prove liberals are crazy. I mean, almost 43% of voters approve of the job that Joe Biden’s doing as president — clearly, these people have lost touch with reality. Quod erat demonstrandum.

People who elect Democrats are self-evidently daft, demented, deranged, bonkers, berserk, off their rockers, nuttier than a Snickers bar, a few fries short of a Happy Meal, and cuckoo for Cocoa Puffs.

And like I say, Crazy People Are Dangerous.



 

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