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‘Unexpectedly’!

Posted on | November 4, 2022 | Comments Off on ‘Unexpectedly’!

Because nobody could have seen this coming?

MSNBC Cuts Ties Unexpectedly
With Weekend Host Tiffany Cross

Who is Tiffany Cross? When and how did she become an MSNBC host?

In July 2020, her book Say It Louder: Black Voters, Our Voices, and the Shaping of American Democracy was published. That same month, Joy Reid’s new weekday show, The ReidOut, started, and Cross became one of a handful of rotating guest hosts of AM Joy. . . . In December, Cross was named host of a new two-hour show on MSNBC, Cross Connection . . . replacing Reid’s AM Joy Saturday slot.

Notice the timing? A few weeks after the George Floyd riots started, Joy Reid got promoted from her weekend slot to a five-day-a-week show and Cross, who had frequently been a guest on Reid’s show, became one of a rotating case of fill-in hosts, before finally getting her own show.

It would appear that MSNBC had a programming quota — basically, The Angry Black Woman Weekend Show — but after the George Floyd riots, they carved out another spot on their weekday schedule, and that created an opportunity for Tiffany Cross. What did she do with that opportunity? Well, she ranted against white people with such vehemence that, a couple of weeks ago, Tucker Carlson compared her to the militant Hutu radio broadcasts that incited the 1994 genocide in Rwanda.

 

You might have thought that would have gotten Tiffany Cross’s attention, and inspired her to tone down her rhetoric, but if that’s what you expected, your expectations would have been disappointed.

“Unexpectedly”! Did anybody at MSNBC bother to investigate Tiffany Cross’ background before they hired her? Were there no warning signs, no red flags, nothing to suggest she might be “problematic”?

Y’know, maybe the fact that she was past 40 and, despite all the “diversity” efforts by major media organizations, she wasn’t already working for a network? When she got her own MSNBC show in December 2020, Cross was “a resident fellow at the Harvard Kennedy School’s Institute of Politics, [and] previously worked as D.C. bureau chief for BET Networks and as a field producer for CNN.”

Hmmm. So she’d been a field producer for CNN about 20 years ago, but they didn’t keep her on staff? Reckon why that was? You think maybe somebody at CNN noticed she was a hate-filled lunatic?

But while we’re on the topic of utterly predictable media failures, CNBC has canceled Shepard Smith’s show — “unexpectedly”!




 

Category: MSNBC

In The Mailbox: 11.03.22 (Evening Edition)

Posted on | November 4, 2022 | Comments Off on In The Mailbox: 11.03.22 (Evening Edition)

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Silicon Valley delenda est.

OVER THE TRANSOM
357 Magnum: Uvalde 911 Tapes Being Released
EBL: You’re Fired ¯\_(?)_/¯
Twitchy: Oliver Willis – “At Least Rush Limbaugh Is Still Dead”, also, Alleged Comedian John Fugelsang Asks Kurt Schlichter To Leave Him Alone After Sending A Million DMs
Louder With Crowder: Elon Musk’s latest tweet dunking on AOC continues to make her look silly (and she keeps digging)
Vox Popoli: The UFO Disclosure Campaign, That Pretty Much Sums It Up, KABOOM!, and Pray for Daddy Warpig

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
American Conservative: NPR: Top 40 Radio For Satanists, A Bellwether For Australian Christians, and Will Biden Gamble on a Ukraine Coalition?
American Greatness: The Left Were the Mad Scientists, We Were Their Lab Rats, also, The Walls Are Closing In on Woke DAs
American Thinker: Now the Disgraced COVID ‘Experts’ Want ‘Amnesty’?
Animal Magnetism: Animal’s Daily Corvid News
Babalu Blog: Cuban dictatorship trying to silence family members of the Bahia Honda Massacre, Flour shortage leaves nuns in Cuba unable to produce hosts for the sacrament of Holy Communion, and Dengue epidemic rages uncontrolled in Cuba; children among the hardest hit
BattleSwarm: Bibi VI: The Bibing
Behind The Black:  American freedom sets a new yearly record for rocketry, Crash prediction for Long March 5B core stage narrows, FCC chief proposes agency reorganization of its space-related bureaucracy, and Today’s blacklisted American: Instagram bans pro-life student group at Auburn for being pro-life
Cafe Hayek: On Emily Oster’s Proposed ‘Pandemic Amnesty’, also, Southern Economic Journal: “The Resale Price Maintenance Policy Dilemma: Comment”
CDR Salamander: Diversity Thursday
Chicago Boyz: The Lightning Rod
Da Tech Guy: The Difference between a Fake Fact Check and a Real one, also, There is evidence that the Biden regime and social media corporations have entered into a partnership to censor Americans
Don Surber: Democrats die in an echo chamber, also, No one cares what Biden says
First Street Journal: Killadelphia: If your refuse to define the problem, then you can never find the solution!, also, Lies, damned lies, and statistics
Gates Of Vienna: Culture-Enriching Trick-or-Treat in Austria and Germany, Poison in my Bloodstream, Christianity Must Be Erased From Berlin, and When the Music Stops
The Geller Report: Biden – We Will Steal It and You Will Like It (Or Else), also, Biden Regime Openly Interfered With Brazil Presidential Election As Millions of Brazilians Protest Rigged Results
Hogewash: Team Kimberlin Post of the Day, What’s Up for November, 2022, It Ain’t Over Till It’s Over, and Nineteen Eighty Four and 1984
Hollywood In Toto: Can Top Gun: Maverick Save the 2023 Oscars?, NY Times: Hollywood Is Having Second Thoughts About Going Woke, and Armageddon Time Looks Back (Not So Fondly) at ’80s, President Reagan
The Lid: Tucker Carlson Shreds Biden Hate Speech — “The Guy Who Showered With His Daughter Is Telling You You’re a Bad Person”
Legal Insurrection: Coal is Back Due to Need of Energy Security, Jake Tapper’s Primetime Show is Latest Casualty at CNN, Morningstar Agrees to Eliminate Anti-Israel Bias In Investment Rating System, and Historian Michael Beschloss: If GOP Wins ‘Our Children Will be Arrested and Conceivably Killed’
Nebraska Energy Observer: There is no way
Outkick: Robert Griffin III Wants To Buy The Washington Commanders, Blind People Are Pissed At Jerry Jones’ Halloween Costume, NFL TV Ratings Are Destroying The World Series, Ray Guy, Only Punter in the NFL Hall of Fame, Dead At 72, and Houston Astros Complete Second World Series No-Hitter, Third In MLB Postseason History
Power Line: What If Biden Is the Best They’ve Got?, If he had a hammer, and What Are the Pollsters Missing?
Shark Tank: Casey DeSantis Announces 1.1 Committed “Moms For DeSantis”
Shot In The Dark: Denialists, also, Seer In The Headlights
STUMP: Memento Movember 2023: the Motivation – Stu and the Sex Mortality Gap
This Ain’t Hell: Study shows more attacks on pro-lifers than pro-choicers by huge margin, Another Politician Accused of Stolen Valor, and 2022 Veterans Day Deals and Discounts
Transterrestrial Musings: Lifelong Democrats In Portland, The Trust Thermocline, and “Journalism”
Victory Girls: Fetterman to Win in Pennsylvania? Not So Fast, also, Dems And Repubs Agree – Katie Hobbs Should Not Certify Arizona Election Results
Volokh Conspiracy: Colloquy on the Arbitrariness of Racial Classification in Monday’s Oral Argument
Watts Up With That: WSJ Editorial Board Mocks the COP27 Global Warming Flagellants, also, The Climate ‘Crisis’ Isn’t What it Used to Be
Weasel Zippers: Biden Chief Of Staff Threatens Americans Before The Midterms, Bill Clinton: GOP Wants Voters To Be “Miserable”, Fetterman Spews More Gibberish In Latest Campaign Rally, and The View – Americans Are Worried About Inflation Because They Are Stupid
The Federalist: There Can Be No ‘Amnesty’ On Lockdowns Without A Reckoning, What The Next Conservative Administration Can Learn About Personnel From Musk’s Twitter Takeover, Thought The Private Takeover Of Government Election Offices Was Just For 2020? Think Again, Panicky Texas Democrats Beg Biden DOJ To Interfere In The Midterms, and 3 Big Questions Elon Musk Should Answer About His Plans For Free Speech On Twitter
Mark Steyn: My Sharia Amour, Failures and Fairy Tales, and Just Say No

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In The Mailbox: 11.03.22

Posted on | November 3, 2022 | Comments Off on In The Mailbox: 11.03.22

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Drove two hours to Amargosa Springs for a groundwater open house yesterday, an hour back up the road to Beatty to my hotel, and was too pooped to blog last night. Well, at least schlepping the laptop around in my backpack is helping me get a little more exercise.

I am remiss in not noting sooner that Sam Jacobs of Libertas Bella has a new shop, Second Amendment Shirts.
Silicon Valley delenda est.
OVER THE TRANSOM
Ninety Miles From Tyranny: The 90 Miles Mystery Box Episode #1889 (No connection to Space:1889)
357 Magnum: Another Victim Of Criminal Justice Reform
Director Blue: Don’t Cry For Me, America
EBL: Capital Police Monitoring Pelosi House on Video Missed DePape Breaking In
Twitchy: Rex Chapman Tries To Shame Elon Musk For Being “Mean” To Paul Pelosi, Trips Over His Own Rand Paul Neighbor Tweets
Louder With Crowder: Move over David Hogg, Occasional Cortex now has the dumbest take on Musk charging for blue checkmarks
Vox Popoli: NFL Coach, 38, Dies of Suddenly, Dr. Doom Confirms WWIII, and Trust Not in Ticket-Takers

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
American Conservative: No Amnesty for Pandemic Tyranny
American Greatness: Twitter Will Survive Longer Than the Washed-Up Celebrities Who Are Quitting It
American Power: Maitland Ward, How Porn Liberated Me from Hollywood
American Thinker: You’d Better Be Prepared for the Perfect Transportation Storm
Animal Magnetism: Animal’s Hump Day News
Babalu Blog: Cuban boxer competing for the Castro dictatorship in Mexico defects, Surprise! Cuba’s sugar industry in free fall towards inevitable total collapse, and Cuban dictatorship ecstatic over Lula’s win in Brazil
BattleSwarm: Dare To Question The Flu Manchu Narrative? Get Your Medical Certification Yanked
Behind The Black: Russian Soyuz-2 rocket launches military early warning satellite, The crash of Red China’s Long March 5B core stage: first rough prediction, and Vermont news outlet blacklists its own story to protect the queer agenda at a local school
Cafe Hayek: What Protectionists Get Wrong Is the Economics, also, Progressivism and Public Health
CDR Salamander: The Existential Requirement to Maintain a Broad Defense Industrial Base
Da Tech Guy: Let’s Go to the Film, also, Democrats Spinning Pelosi Like it’s 1983 not 2022
Don Surber: Trumpenfreude hits late-night hosts, Will Hochul win the Terry McAuliffe Award?, and 538 lied and raised cash for Democrats
First Street Journal: Killadelphia: the problem is the culture!, Neocon off the deep end!, and The Fed finally admits it: they don’t know what they are doing!
Gates Of Vienna: Culture-Enriching Gang Rape at a Malmö Playground, Vax Mandate Lifted in Italy, Nightmare in the Bundesallee, and Culture-Enriching Stabbing at the Central Station
The Geller Report: Pa. Supremes Say Illegal Mail In Ballots Will Not Be Counted, also, As COVID Hit, Leftist and RINO Elites Traded Stocks ‘With Exquisite Timing’
Hogewash: An Infrared View of M33, Joe Biden’s Speech, and Team Kimberlin Post of the Day
Hollywood In Toto: Did Maya Rudolph Win the Victimhood Olympics (with the Media’s Help)?, Why Call Jane Box Office Woes Spell Trouble for Democrats, and TheWrap.com & Trump Agree – Cancel ‘SNL’
The Lid: Joe Biden: The Lyin King, also, Biden Diesel Fuel Shortage Is On Verge of Shutting Economy Down
Legal Insurrection: IL Man Faces Felony Charges for Allegedly Threatening GOP Gubernatorial Candidate Darren Bailey, An Empty Union Station Due to Crime is Perfect for Biden’s Speech on ‘Democracy’, We Need Pandemic Accountability, Not “Pandemic Amnesty”, and ‘Failure of Leadership’: Oregon’s Lifelong Democrats Explain Why They’re Voting GOP
Nebraska Energy Observer: It’s not us, also, Big Lies, The Shining, Free Bird, and Lost Small Towns
Outkick: Reggie Miller Calls Out NBA Players For Lack Of Kyrie Irving Criticism: ‘Crickets’, Tim McGraw Rocks His Dad’s Jersey During The World Series, Astros Fan Mattress Mack Launches F-Bombs At Phillies Fans As Emotions Boil Over, Bomani Jones Is Whining About Elon Musk Taking Over Twitter, and Stephen A. Smith Asks The NFL To Make Sure The Next Washington Commanders Owner Is Black
Power Line: Thought for the Day: Milton on (Monetary) Paradise Lost, Biden’s leadership revealed!, and “The tweet was not complete”
Shark Tank: Eskamani Praises Crist’s Stance On Weed
Shot In The Dark: Assault, Peaking? and Unconditional Surrender
The Political Hat: The Injustice Of Intelligence : Being Smart In Academia Is Ableist: Reading And Writing Is Sexist; Reading And Writing Requirements For A Diploma Is Oppressive
This Ain’t Hell: Poland 1939 Redux: Russia threatens UK, gets froggy WW, President Biden Repeats Claim that His Son Died in Iraq, US Troops in Ukraine, and Republicans’ retaking the House and Senate poses a threat to our way of life
Transterrestrial Musings: Training Journalists To Lie, Emily Oster, Why I’m Voting Republican, and Free Bird
Victory Girls: Pennsylvania Supreme Court Says Don’t Count Undated Ballots, Free Speech Confuses AOC/Musk Wins Again, and Newsom: Democrat Messaging Isn’t Working
Volokh Conspiracy: A Remarkable Moment at Oral Argument in the UNC Affirmative Action Case, also, Beauty Pageants Have First Amendment Right to Limit Contestants to “Natural Born Females”
Watts Up With That: King Charles & David Attenborough parrot WWF activist nonsense they naively accept as ‘science’, also, Bloomberg Don’t Understand Why China Needs Coal
Weasel Zippers: Biden Claims He Spoke To The Man Who Invented Insulin, Biden Asks God To “Enlighten” Republicans, Bombshell Documents Show How DHS Colluded With Big Tech To Censor Social Media, and Teachers Union Boss Backs Call For “Pandemic Amnesty”
The Federalist: The Supreme Court Has A Chance To Save The Economy From The FTC’s Wrecking Ball, Having 5 Kids Is Real Diversity, But The Left Hates It, Big Tech Isn’t A Victim In The Biden Regime’s Speech Crackdown, It’s An Eager Collaborator, White House Deletes Tweet After Twitter Placed Fact Check Disclaimer On It, and Public Health Elites Who Pushed Anti-Science Policies Deserve Accountability, Not ‘Amnesty’
Mark Steyn: Meeting Your Rapist at the Supermarket, The Politics of Violence, and Albanians Everywhere

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‘President of United Earth’ Stacey Abrams Insults Georgia Sheriffs in TV Debate

Posted on | November 3, 2022 | 2 Comments

Liberals in Hollywood decided that election denier Stacey Abrams (who lost to Brian Kemp by 55,000 votes in 2018) would be perfect for the role of “President of United Earth” in the Star Trek Discovery series, but without explaining exactly how she might obtain such a lofty position. Fortunately, politics in the real world is nothing like science fiction, and Abrams more or less guaranteed her own defeat in Sunday’s debate:

Democrat Stacey Abrams said in the final Georgia gubernatorial debate that state sheriffs want to “take Black people off the streets,” handing Republicans a talking point on a pivotal issue a little over a week before the election.
During the Sunday debate on WSB-TV in Atlanta, Ms. Abrams fired back after Republican Gov. Brian Kemp touted his support from law enforcement, saying that he had been endorsed by 107 state sheriffs.
“As I pointed out before, I’m not a member of the good ol’ boys club. So, no, I don’t have 107 sheriffs who want to be able to take Black people off the streets, who want to be able to go without accountability,” said Ms. Abrams. . . .

She immediately tried to walk it back, saying she didn’t mean every sheriff in Georgia, but guess who’s not buying that excuse?

Effingham County Sheriff Jimmy McDuffie, president of the Georgia Sheriffs Association, said he was “incredibly disappointed to hear what Ms. Abrams had to say about the sheriffs of our state.”
“Stacey Abrams‘ comments about Georgia sheriffs in Sunday night’s debate are exactly the type of false, demoralizing, and offensive accusations that have driven good men and women away from the law enforcement profession,” said Mr. McDuffie in a statement.
Police and sheriffs “put their lives on the line for everyone in their community — no matter their race, background, or walk of life. To suggest otherwise is insulting and outrageous,” he said.
He also called on her to “immediately apologize to Georgia’s law enforcement community.”

Being a native of Atlanta myself, I have direct experience with sheriffs in the state, and I don’t care who you are, don’t eff around in Georgia.

Polls indicate Abrams might lose by double digits this time. She can’t lose by a big enough margin to suit my tastes. Let her go campaign among the Klingons, but please get her the hell out of Georgia.




 

Category: Democrats, Election, Georgia

Democrats and Media (But I Repeat Myself) Begin Midterm Pre-Mortems

Posted on | November 2, 2022 | 5 Comments

After a few weeks of false hope — a late-summer poll bump that peaked in September and has now collapsed — Democrats and their media allies are beginning to come to grips with the fact that their congressional majority is going to get wiped out in next week’s midterm election.

The bottom is dropping out
of the 2022 election for Democrats

That’s the headline on a CNN column by Chris Cillizza, in which he cites the latest Cook Report and Gallup numbers to conclude, “it appears as though Republicans are on the verge of a major national victory.”

When even CNN is forced to admit things look bad for Democrats, you know that things look very bad for Democrats. Yet nobody at CNN will admit that they are part of the problem. For most of the past year, CNN has led every hour, 24 hours a day, with breathless updates from Nancy Pelosi’s J6 witchhunt committee’s “investigation” of the January 2021 Capitol riot — “a threat to our democracy!” — as if nothing else in the world was nearly as newsworthy. Hyping up this “get Trump” narrative was part of a political propaganda operation intended to distract from the Biden administration’s multitudinous failures by making Donald Trump the Emmanuel Goldstein of the midterm campaign.

And guess what? Nobody fucking cares anymore.

Did any substantial number of people outside the DC media/political bubble ever really care about the J6 “investigation”? I don’t think so.

Gas prices are still at least 75% higher than when Biden was elected, prices for many other commodities are sky-high, there may be a shortage of home heating oil this winter, and the generally catastrophic effects of “Bidenflation” have completely overwhelmed every other issue that might have mattered. Given what an awful president Biden has been, a lot of voters are thinking the Capitol rioters had a point. If they had known he was going to be this bad, everybody else would have rioted, too.

Failure has consequences, and Democrats can’t escape the verdict that voters will deliver next Tuesday. So now the question is, who to blame?

Top Democrats Question Their Party’s
Strategy as Midterm Worries Grow

Leading lawmakers and strategists are openly doubting
the party’s kitchen-sink approach, saying Democrats
have failed to unite around one central message.

That’s the headline on a 1,500-word New York Times story which is the latest reiteration of the familiar excuse whenever Democrats lose:

“WE DIDN’T GET OUR MESSAGE OUT!”

My old buddy Pete Parisi used to laugh at this habit of Democrats, who never see a problem with their own policies, but despite the fact that 95% of the media are completely in the tank for them, choose to believe that their inability to deliver a “message” is their real problem.

Here’s a sweet taste of delusion from the NYT story:

“The truth is, Democrats have done a poor job of communicating our approach to the economy,” said Representative Elissa Slotkin, a Democrat from Michigan who is in one of this year’s most competitive races. “I have no idea if I’m going to win my election — it’s going to be a nail biter. But if you can’t speak directly to people’s pocketbook and talk about our vision for the economy, you’re just having half a conversation.”

Keep in mind that the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee has spent nearly $5 million trying to save Slotkin’s seat. She is the New York-born heiress to a meatpacking fortune, who attended a posh private school, got a sociology degree from Cornell and a master’s degree in international affairs from Columbia before going to work for the CIA.

Slotkin’s idea that she’s on the verge of losing her congressional seat because Democrats failed to “talk about our vision for the economy” — well, as Orwell said, “One has to belong to the intelligentsia to believe things like that: no ordinary man could be such a fool.”

Because they’re so wrapped up in their bubble of delusions, Democrats don’t seem to notice that anything has gone wrong on Biden’s watch, never mind trying to understand why it’s gone wrong. So tonight, in one final Hail Mary pass with the clock running out, Biden is speaking at Union Station about how voting for Republicans is a “threat to democracy” or whatever. And it’s on live TV, because having the media give one more free TV spot to Joe Biden will save Democrats.

Never has a party deserved to lose as much as they do.

UPDATE: Welcome, Instapundit readers!




 

Category: Democrats, Election, Media Bias

Dana Pico Schools Jen Rubin (But Trump Derangement Syndrome Is Incurable)

Posted on | November 2, 2022 | 2 Comments

My general stance toward Jennifer Rubin is to ignore her as much as possible, which is quite easy, because she’s become so predictable that no intelligent person takes her seriously. Recall that she was hired by the Washington Post as a “conservative” columnist, but good luck finding any controversial topic on which she takes the conservative position, and since the rise of Donald Trump in 2015, Rubin has been shrieking in unison with all the other #NeverTrump True Conservative Principles™ types who lost their minds from Trump Derangement Syndrome.

After the husband of Speaker Nancy Pelosi was attacked Friday in the couple’s San Francisco mansion by a deranged Canadian nudist, Jennifer Rubin immediately jumped onto the left-wing media bandwagon — did I mention she’s predictable? — trying to blame this incident on “extremist” rhetoric from Republicans. Jeff Goldstein explains what’s wrong with that narrative (i.e., everything), sparing me the trouble of composing a thorough fisking of Rubin’s Oct. 31 column:

Republicans have made
violence part of their brand

Is it really my duty, as a mere blogger, to dismantle Rubin’s nonsense paragraph by paragraph, sentence by sentence? Is there anything in there that deserves so much of my attention? (Quick scan: nope.)

The unfavorable work-to-annoyance ratio, however, did not discourage Dana Pico at First Street Journal. After a late-night tweet on Sunday when Rubin, perhaps three-quarters of the way through her nightly half-gallon of wine, declared, “if Republicans would stop inciting violence crime might go down,” Dana sprang into action and cited the case of “Killadelphia” as disproving Rubin’s hypothesis:

In 2020, there were 1,009 murders in the Keystone State, 499, or 49.45%, of which occurred in Philadelphia. According to the 2020 Census, Pennsylvania’s population was 13,002,700 while Philadelphia’s alone was 1,603,797, just 12.33% of Pennsylvania’s totals.
It got worse last year: with 562 homicides in Philly, out of 1027 total for Pennsylvania, 54.72% of all homicides in the Keystone State occurred in Philadelphia. Allegheny County, where Pittsburgh is located, was second, with 123 killings, 11.98% of the state’s total, but only 9.52% of Pennsylvania’s population.
The other 65 counties, with 78.11% of the state’s total population, had 33.30% of total murders.
In 2020, Philadelphians gave 81.44% of their votes to Joe Biden. The Mayor, Jim Kenney, is a Democrat, as have been every Mayor since Harry Truman was President. The George Soros-sponsored District Attorney, let ’em loose Larry Krasner, is a Democrat, and won re-election in 2021, by a landslide. Philadelphia is by every possible measure, a heavily Democratic city.
It’s more than that. Those 65 counties other than Philadelphia and Allegheny? They gave 54.98% of their two-party votes — meaning: third party candidates excluded — to President Trump! It seems as though those evil, reich-wing Republicans whom Mrs Rubin claims are “inciting violence” are inciting it in heavily Democratic areas!
I’m far less familiar with our other murder capitals, like Baltimore (87.28% of vote in Baltimore City to Mr Biden) and St Louis (80.85% of vote in St Louis city to Mr Biden) and New Orleans (83.15% of Orleans Parish to Mr Biden) and Chicago (74.35% of vote in Cook County to Mr Biden), but it seems like most them are not exactly Republican strongholds.
It’s clear: Mrs Rubin somehow sees the assault on Mr Pelosi as somehow a far, far, far worse thing than the 441 murders in Philadelphia so far this year, or the 562 who were killed in 2021. I suppose I can only fault her partially for that, because that’s pretty much the way the Democrats as a whole see things.

These statistics are insuperable proof that Jen Rubin is an idiot and, to repeat what I’ve often said before: Crime is a people problem.

Democrats want us to believe crime is caused by guns, or poverty, or racism, but in fact crime is caused by — wait for it — criminals.

Democrats don’t want to put criminals in prison, because — once again, wait for it — Democrats are the pro-crime party. When people elect Democrats, they are voting for more crime, so the people of Philadelphia are actually choosing the daily bloodbath that is destroying their city.

Jennifer Rubin doesn’t care how many people get murdered in Philadelphia (or St. Louis, or New Orleans, or Baltimore, or any other Democrat-controlled urban hellhole) as long as the survivors keep electing Democrats. This is the sum and essence of her politics — Democrats good, Republicans bad — and no amount of evidence will change her mind. Trump Derangement Syndrome is incurable.




 

Category: Crime

In The Mailbox: 11.01.22

Posted on | November 1, 2022 | Comments Off on In The Mailbox: 11.01.22

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Thanks to everyone who bought stuff through my Amazon links in October.
Silicon Valley delenda est.

OVER THE TRANSOM
357 Magnum: Self-Defense Is Legal In Pennsylvania
EBL: Democrats and Media Are Fine When Republicans Are The Target of Violence, also, Paul Pelosi’s Nephew Governor Hairgel and the Biden Administration could have arrested and deported depraved DePape
Twitchy: Aaron Rupar Big Mad That Lee Fang Went On Tucker Carlson, also, Elon Musk Has A Way To Get Rid Of twitter’s “Lords & Peasants” System – For A Price
Louder With Crowder: Oh no! These celebrities are leaving Twitter because of Elon Musk, also, Leave it to David Hogg to have the DUMBEST response to Elon Musk charging influencers for their blue checkmark
Vox Popoli: Scott Adams Death Watch, It is Good to Hate the Gamma, Never to Forgive, Never to Forget, and Meme of the Week
Stoic Observations: Getting Through It
Gab News: Why You Must Read The Case For Christian Nationalism

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
American Conservative: Our Soviet Blue-Check Media, also, Bacha Bazi Groomers Of Denver
American Greatness: Scandal-Ridden San Francisco FBI Field Office Involved in Pelosi Investigation
American Thinker: Pelosi Got Hammered, also, Democrats Show Desperation In The Home Stretch
Animal Magnetism: Animal’s Daily Twitter News
Babalu Blog: Brazil’s Lula: A partner in crime with Cuba’s and Venezuela’s crime bosses, Cuban press suffers ‘constant repression,’ says Inter-American Press Association, and Orlando Gutierrez-Boronat’s latest book delves deep into the true nature of totalitarianism in Cuba
BattleSwarm: Now That Elon Musk Owns Twitter, Who Should He Unban?, also, RRISD: Radicals In Reformer Drag
Behind The Black: Mengtian module docks with Red China’s Tiangong-3 space station, Astronomers discover a large, new, potentially dangerous near-Earth asteroid, Lockheed Martin invests $100 million in startup satellite maker Terran Orbital, and Today’s blacklisted American: Amazon blacklists book because it says something someone at Amazon doesn’t like
Cafe Hayek: Inframarginal Consumers and the Per Se Legality of Vertical Restraints
CDR Salamander: A Review of the 2022 National Defense Strategy
Chicago Boyz: Retrotech Event – West Coast Edition
Da Tech Guy: Solid support by Democrats for Biden and Fetterman betrays their biggest fault, Five Quick Under the Fedora Thoughts, November Indulgence Calendar a Big Eight Days, and Fetterman’s follies
Don Surber: Crime emerges as issue, also, Covidians want amnesty
First Street Journal:  Killadelphia: the numbers are slightly better! also, If a private business did its accounting the way the Fed does, in which federal prison would the business’ chief financial officer serve his sentence?
Gates Of Vienna: The Bill Comes Due, Knife Jihad on the Bus in Dresden, and Germans Are Shocked — Shocked! — to Learn That the Greens Lied
The Geller Report: AZ SENATE RACE SHAKE-UP, also, Exit polls show Netanyahu’s bloc winning parliamentary majority
Hogewash: Sowing and Reaping, How Things Change, and Team Kimberlin Post of the Day
Hollywood In Toto: What We’re All Missing About HBO’s House of the Dragon, Romero’s Creepshow Paved the Way for Our Comic-Con Cravings, and Far-Left TheWrap.com Calls Out Gina Carano-Susan Sarandon Double Standard
The Lid: Hold Your Horses, Bibi Didn’t Win Yet
Legal Insurrection: Pennsylvania Supremes Say Undated Absentee and Mail-In Ballots Can’t Be Counted, NY Times/Siena Poll Gives Dems Edge in Key Senate Races but Notoriously Underestimates Republicans, Cook Political Moves 10 House Races in Blue Districts in Favor of the GOP, and UMass Dartmouth Demands $357,400 From Campus Reform to Fulfill a Public Records Request
Nebraska Energy Observer: Time and Hobbyhorses
Outkick: Mel Tucker Offers Powerful Apology After Michigan Players Get Beaten, Jerry Jones’ Blind Ref Halloween Costume Could Lead To A Fine, Brooklyn Nets Fire Head Coach Steve Nash, Deion Sanders Has New Rules For JSU Players In Wake Of Takeoff’s Death, and Former USWNT Goalie Hope Solo’s DWI Arrest Footage Released
Power Line: A Transition to Fossil Fuels Is Under Way, Tea leaf of the day, and The Daily Chart: Public School Spending by Race
Protein Wisdom Reborn: Anatomy Of A Smear – Democrats & Legacy Media Collaborate On A Narrative That Makes No Sense
Shark Tank: DeSantis Closes Out Campaign With “Keeping Florida Free” Ad
Shot In The Dark: Straws, also, Never Forget
This Ain’t Hell: Election week update – Dems funding conservative candidates, Government tells SCOTUS colleges have to stay racist to bolster national security, and Pentagon says UFOs are either spies or airborne trash
Transterrestrial Musings: Fighting Fascism With Fascism, America’s Parents Are Revolting, and Space Solar Power
Victory Girls: Salon – Denial Is Not Just A River In Egypt, also,  Starbucks Employee Cries Because Work
Volokh Conspiracy: In Memoriam: Dmitry Karshtedt (1977-2022)
Watts Up With That: UK Trapped in The Green Energy Cul-de-Sac, also, Climate Litigators are Riding a Dead Horse II – Platkin v Exxon Mobil Corp.
Weasel Zippers: The View Harpies Claim “Crime Is Not On The Rise, It’s Actually Going Down Under Joe Biden”, Fetterman Tries To Explain Inflation, Hilarity Ensues, Joy Reid Claims “Insidious” GOP Conspiracy Is Releasing “Junk Polls” To Create Red Wave False Narrative, and Palestinian Authority Receives Billions In US Aid, Calls America The “Enemy”
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Red Wave Hits New Hampshire?

Posted on | November 1, 2022 | Comments Off on Red Wave Hits New Hampshire?

This would almost certainly flip the Senate to GOP control:

New Hampshire Republican Senate candidate Gen. Don Bolduc has taken the lead for the first time over Democrat Sen. Maggie Hassan (D-NH) in New Hampshire’s Senate race, a Tuesday Saint Anselm poll revealed.
Forty-eight percent of voters selected Gen. Bolduc, while Hassan only garnered 47 percent, well below the coveted 50 percent threshold for an incumbent. Three percent were unsure.
The poll surveyed 1,541 New Hampshire likely voters from October 28-29 with a 2.5 margin of error.
Campaign spokeswoman Kate Constantini told Breitbart News the result of the polls shows the Bolduc campaign’s grassroots initiatives are producing results.
“This result is not surprising since General Bolduc has spent this entire campaign speaking directly with New Hampshire voters about the important issues facing our country,” Constantini said. “Momentum is hard to get and even harder to stop, and we are taking nothing for granted this last week of the campaign.”
Gen. Bolduc has clawed his way into the one-point lead, a gain of 12 points in just six weeks, when Hassan had an 11 point lead. A Suffolk University/Boston Globe poll four weeks ago showed Hassan with a nine point lead (50-41 percent) over Gen. Bolduc.
That lead was cut to seven points (52-45 percent) in an October 12 AARP poll. Both polls showed Hassan with majority support.
On October 21, a Fabrizio, Lee & Associates poll showed Gen. Bolduc had tied the race (45-45 percent) with seven percent undecided.
During the campaign, Gen. Bolduc has highlighted four issues: inflation, gas prices, crime, and open borders. According to third quarter fundraising totals, Bolduc has been outspent by $9 million dollars.

So it’s not just one poll — there is a trend of polls showing that the race has shifted toward Bolduc since late September, and this picture of increasing GOP momentum is a nationwide phenomenon. Democrats got a summer poll bump from the Supreme Court abortion decision, but that began fading in September and, over the course of October, the signs of an approaching “red wave” began to multiply. Crucially, Democrats started shifting resources away from defending House seats in districts that Biden had won in 2020 by a few points, toward districts where Biden had won by eight, nine, 10 points. In other words, the Democrats’ own internal polling shows a shift from D to R on a scale similar to the way Virginia flipped last year. Real Clear Politics now projects Bolduc winning in New Hampshire, and FiveThirtyEight is now projecting a GOP Senate majority, based mainly on Adam Laxalt’s strong Senate race in Nevada.

We’re planning a special Election Night edition of The Other Podcast, starting next Tuesday at 7 p.m. ET and running until 1 a.m. The outcome in New Hampshire will be one of the earliest indicators of how the night is shaping up, but I anticipate that nearly every key Senate race will be deemed “too close to call” by the media until midnight or later. Because you’ve got to wait on those mysterious 2 a.m. ballot dumps, am I right?

OK, sorry, didn’t mean to stoke your paranoia — and possibly incite political violence — by suggesting that Democrats might steal the election again, but we all know that Democrats will always cheat enough to win any close election, which means that in order for Republicans to win, they must beat “the margin of theft.” If it’s not close, they can’t steal it.

I am not an “election denier.” I am an election realist.




 

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