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St. Crispin’s Day: ‘If We Are Mark’d to Die, We Are Enough to Do Our Country Loss’

Posted on | October 25, 2022 | 1 Comment

Great victories in warfare require great risk. Even if a commander has the numerical odds in his favor, the fortunes of war are always uncertain, and there is therefore danger in undertaking any offensive operation. Certainly, history affords many examples of battles where the attacking force had every advantage, and yet the troops in the vanguard suffered shocking casualties, as in Operation Overlord, where the Americans had to fight like hell to gain a foothold at Omaha Beach, to say nothing of the paratroopers killed in the airborne operations that preceded the D-Day landings. A wise commander must be reasonably cautious, but he cannot be too risk-averse, or else he would never take the calculated gambles necessary to obtain victory. Indeed, in the example of D-Day, Dwight Eisenhower had to roll the dice to order the landings under less-than-ideal weather conditions, or else postpone the invasion.

Speaking of military expeditions to northern France, Henry V’s adventures in 1415 demonstrated a courage that rings through the ages. It was on this day — October 25, St. Crispin’s Day — that Henry’s English army, outnumbered 2-to-1 by the French, achieved their memorable victory at Agincourt. The king’s famous pre-battle soliloquy by Shakespeare deserves a repetition on this occasion:

WESTMORLAND. O that we now had here
But one ten thousand of those men in England
That do no work to-day!

KING. What’s he that wishes so?
My cousin, Westmorland? No, my fair cousin;
If we are mark’d to die, we are enough
To do our country loss; and if to live,
The fewer men, the greater share of honour.
God’s will! I pray thee, wish not one man more.
By Jove, I am not covetous for gold,
Nor care I who doth feed upon my cost;
It yearns me not if men my garments wear;
Such outward things dwell not in my desires.
But if it be a sin to covet honour,
I am the most offending soul alive.
No, faith, my coz, wish not a man from England.
God’s peace! I would not lose so great an honour
As one man more methinks would share from me
For the best hope I have. O, do not wish one more!
Rather proclaim it, Westmorland, through my host,
That he which hath no stomach to this fight,
Let him depart; his passport shall be made,
And crowns for convoy put into his purse;
We would not die in that man’s company
That fears his fellowship to die with us.
This day is call’d the feast of Crispian.
He that outlives this day, and comes safe home,
Will stand a tip-toe when this day is nam’d,
And rouse him at the name of Crispian.
He that shall live this day, and see old age,
Will yearly on the vigil feast his neighbours,
And say “To-morrow is Saint Crispian.”
Then will he strip his sleeve and show his scars,
And say “These wounds I had on Crispin’s day.”
Old men forget; yet all shall be forgot,
But he’ll remember, with advantages,
What feats he did that day. Then shall our names,
Familiar in his mouth as household words—
Harry the King, Bedford and Exeter,
Warwick and Talbot, Salisbury and Gloucester—
Be in their flowing cups freshly rememb’red.
This story shall the good man teach his son;
And Crispin Crispian shall ne’er go by,
From this day to the ending of the world,
But we in it shall be rememberèd—
We few, we happy few, we band of brothers;
For he to-day that sheds his blood with me
Shall be my brother; be he ne’er so vile,
This day shall gentle his condition;
And gentlemen in England now a-bed
Shall think themselves accurs’d they were not here,
And hold their manhoods cheap whiles any speaks
That fought with us upon Saint Crispin’s day.

“The fewer men, the greater share of honour” — that’s the spirit! The English yeomanry did themselves proud on that St. Crispin’s Day:

The French had suffered a catastrophic defeat. In all, around 6,000 of their fighting men lay dead on the ground. The list of casualties, one historian has noted, “read like a roll call of the military and political leaders of the past generation”. Among them were 90–120 great lords and bannerets killed, including three dukes (Alençon, Bar and Brabant), nine counts (Blâmont, Dreux, Fauquembergue, Grandpré, Marle, Nevers, Roucy, Vaucourt, Vaudémont) and one viscount (Puisaye), also an archbishop. . . . According to the heralds, 3,069 knights and squires were killed, while at least 2,600 more corpses were found without coats of arms to identify them. Entire noble families were wiped out in the male line, and in some regions an entire generation of landed nobility was annihilated.

The number of French killed was equal to the entire size of Henry’s army! The French never really recovered the prestige they lost at Agincourt, and why this great defeat? Because Henry was willing to take the risk of fighting against the odds. Therefore truly, Oct. 25 “shall ne’er go by . . . to the ending of the world,” that we do not stop to recall the courageous feats of King Henry V and his “band of brothers.”




 

Category: History

Ted Cruz Schools ‘The View’

Posted on | October 25, 2022 | 1 Comment

Your reminder that Ted Cruz was a national debating champ, and got degrees from Princeton University and Harvard Law School:

Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) called out The View on Monday for alleged hypocrisy, claiming the hosts don’t pressure Democratic election deniers to explain themselves while routinely doing so to Republicans. He cited 2016 Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton and Georgia gubernatorial candidate Stacey Abrams as examples.
“There are a lot of folks in the media that try to, any time a Republican is in front of a TV camera, try to say, ‘The election was fair and square and legitimate.’ You know who y’all don’t do that to? You don’t do it to Hillary Clinton, who stood up and said, ‘Trump stole the election.’ Or Stacey Abrams, who said that the election was stolen. They sat here and said it was illegitimate,” Cruz unleashed on the hosts.
“And it was,” host Whoopi Goldberg told him.
“We may not like when Republicans win, but we don’t go, and we don’t storm,” she claimed.
A shocked Cruz asked, “Did I miss an entire year of Antifa riots where cities across this country were burning?”
“I don’t know what an Antifa riot is,” Goldberg responded.
“Your position is the Left doesn’t engage in violence? Really?” the senator asked.
An aggravated Goldberg then said, “You just accused us of doing something we didn’t do.”
“You were fine with [Clinton] saying it was illegitimate,” Cruz continued, pulling out notes of Clinton and Abrams’s statements on the program.

What was beautiful about this was that, while Cruz had gone to the trouble of bringing prepared notes, so he could quote verbatim, the hostesses were seemingly unprepared for his arguments.

“I don’t know what an Antifa riot is.”

The phrase to describe this is “willful ignorance.” If I said to you, for example, “I don’t know what a racist is,” you would either doubt my sincerity or be dismayed by my ignorance. The phenomenon Cruz termed “an entire year of Antifa riots” has been widely criticized and is the subject of a recent book, Fiery But Mostly Peaceful: The 2020 Riots and the Gaslighting of America by Julio Rojas. So, what are we to presume when Whoopi Goldberg says, “I don’t know what an Antifa riot is”?

Either she is lying — what, you didn’t notice when Antifa took over several city blocks in Seattle as an “autonomous zone”? — or else she has deliberately avoided any media that is critical of Antifa. Neither interpretation is flattering to Goldberg who, as the co-host of a daily show devoted to politics, ought to be reading widely as preparation for her job.

The phrase “Antifa riot” should not mystify her, any more than the phrase “structural racism” should not mystify any conservative in journalism. While I don’t own a copy of Ibram X. Kendi’s book How to Be an Anti-Racist or Robin DiAngelo’s White Fragility, I’m familiar enough with their arguments that I would not be caught flatfooted if, in a televised debate, a liberal cited these authors and their arguments.

In point of fact, Antifa violence didn’t begin in 2020, but had been going on for years, as for example the 2017 Berkeley riot, which came just weeks after Antifa rioted in D.C. during Trump’s inauguration.

“I don’t know what an Antifa riot is” — well, if you don’t, ma’am, it would behoove you to find out. Or else be thought an idiot.




 

Category: Media Bias, Ted Cruz

In The Mailbox: 10.24.22

Posted on | October 24, 2022 | 1 Comment

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Counting of ballots has begun in Nye County (a pox on early voting and mail-in ballots, seriously) which gets me out of the house a few days a week and gives me some extra pocket money for the next few weeks.
Silicon Valley delenda est.

OVER THE TRANSOM
357 Magnum: German Protesters Left In The Cold & Dark
EBL: Hey, Charlie Crist – When did your Campaign Manager stop beating his wife?, FBI and DOJ Abuses Continue, Pa. Dems Ready To Have Bogus Ballots Burst From Festerman’s Boil, and We Will All Die In The Stock Market Crash
Twitchy: Serial Liar Aaron Rupar Mocks Fox News For Its Focus On The Border Crisis, also, Journolism* Prof Claims NYT Attempt At Objective Journalism Will Destroy Democracy
Louder With Crowder: Influencer spends $11k for plastic surgery to look like boyfriend’s sex doll, ‘God will judge every last one of you’, and Touching photo of coal miner taking son to basketball game goes viral, and now the coach is getting involved
Vox Popoli: Satire or SJW?, A Succinct Summary, Boris is Back for Britain, and Warning: 115 Average IQ At Work Ahead
Gab News: Every Christian Is A Christian Nationalist

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
American Conservative: Satanic Drag Show – The Mask Slips, Washington’s Whoppers on the War in Ukraine, and, Where US and Ukrainian Aims Collide
American Greatness: Will  ‘Democracy Die in Darkness’ After November?, Judge Rules in Favor of California Baker Who Refused to Bake Same-Sex Wedding Cake, and RNC Launches 73 Election Integrity Lawsuits Across 20 States
American Power: 2022 May Come Down to Last Gust of Political Wind, Confessions of the Libs of TikTok, and Their America Is Vanishing. Like Trump, They Insist They Were Cheated.
American Thinker: Ol’ Man River is Not Rolling Along, When Your Family Members Cut Off Contact with You, and In Ukraine, The Democrats Have Locked Us Into A Pointless, Dangerous War
Animal Magnetism: Goodbye, Blue Monday!
Babalu Blog: Castro dictatorship continues building dozens of tourism projects as Cubans go without food or electricity, Unable to pay $260M debt to Canadian mining firm, Cuban dictatorship agrees to settle debt with cobalt, 72% of Cubans living below the poverty line, and Castro dictatorship issuing threats to stop Cubans from protesting
BattleSwarm: Watching The Red Wave Approach Shore, also, A Look At Red Chinese Artillery
Behind The Black: Russia’s Soyuz-2 rocket launches two military satellites, India’s GSLV-Mark3 rocket launches 36 OneWeb satellites, and Who and What to vote for in Arizona in 2022
Cafe Hayek: Government Is Largely Guesswork
CDR Salamander: The Case for a 600 Ship Navy: Now More than Ever, also, OK CNO, now then Break in to Open Revolt to Get the Forces we Need
Chicago Boyz: Trafalgar, 1805, and the USA, 2022
Da Tech Guy: DaTechGuy Interview with General Don Bolduc Now on Rumble, Inflation finally cuts deep, and Five Under the Fedora Thoughts Mays
Don Surber: Arrogance costs Democrats, Democrats panic, and Donald Trump, kingmaker
First Street Journal: The Lexington Herald-Leader makes another losing endorsement, also, There’s just no cure for stupid!
Gates Of Vienna: Fade Away and Radiate, Taking the Cross Out of Christmas, Culture-Enriching Rape of a Policewoman in Naples, and Somali Knife Jihadi Was From the Class of 2015
The Geller Report: Biden’s War on America: $200 DIESEL, The DOJ Is Hiding Information About Biden’s Attempts To Interfere In U.S. Elections, and Biden’s WWIII: US Military Forces ‘Fully Prepared’ to Cross into Ukraine
Hogewash: Team Kimberlin Post of the Day, The Pillars of Creation: Hubble v. Webb, An Ancient Galaxy, and I’m Not Making This Up, You Know
Hollywood In Toto: Why Christopher Reeve’s Superman Still Matters, Devil’s Advocate Delivered Sleaze, Scenery-Chewing and Devilish Delights, Terrifier 2 Channels Woke-Free ’80s Horror, and The Lair Makes Blood, Guts and Gore a Bore
The Lid: Red Chinese Company Buys US Land for Monkey-Breeding, also, Lawsuit Accuses Big Tech And Team Biden Of Uniting For Censorship
Legal Insurrection: Critical Race Theory Concepts Pervasive In K-12, “Each group is given its own reason to blame the Jews”, “You need to keep pushing and not give up”, Protests Hit Major German Cities as Thousands Demonstrate Against Surging Energy Costs, and Liz Cheney – We Will Not Allow Trump To Beclown Our J6 Clown Show
Nebraska Energy Observer: Change is good, also, A Liturgy for Almost 2/3 of the World
Outkick: Nick Saban Says Jermaine Burton ‘Was Scared’ Prior To On-Field Altercation With Tennessee Fan, Incredible Moment As Mississippi State QB Will Rogers Helps Elderly Staff Member After Getting Blown Out By Alabama, NFL Reporters Can’t Believe Dan Snyder’s Wife Said ‘Redskins’ At Alumni Celebration, Davante Adams Mocks His Cameraman Push With Overly Cautious, Extremely Dramatic Exit While Leaving Field, and John Calipari Shares Powerful Photo Of Coal Miner Who Rushed To Take His Son To Kentucky Basketball Game
Power Line: The RNC Sues Google, Speaking of disinformation, and Ramirez’s take
Shark Tank: DeSantis “Donkey Dunks” Crist During Gubernatorial Debate
Shot In The Dark: Signs Crime Is Polling Badly, also, Enthusiasm Gap
The Political Hat: Towards A Literal Parliament Of Whores
This Ain’t Hell: Volkswagen Gets It Right, The View hosts annoyed that voters are focused on the economy, Formerly Free Canada hits new low, Sunday Poser: Marie Cruz, and Rich Johnson – Stolen Valor Double Dipper
Transterrestrial Musings: The Coming Affirmative Action Cases
Victory Girls: Disloyal If Trump Cabinet Members Run In 2024?, Pastor Explodes Truth Bomb In Front Of School Board, and Student Test Scores Fall, So Narrative Changes
Volokh Conspiracy: I’ve Read Harvard’s Brief in the Pending Racial Preferences Case, and I Have a Question, also, Judge O’Connor Rules that Boeing 737 MAX Crash Victims’ Families Represent Protected “Crime Victims” and Can Seek Boeing’s Prosecution
Watts Up With That: “Farming Needs to Stop, That’s the Single Biggest Driver of Climate Change”, “Private investors could face being squeezed out”, The Briefing Begins In CHECC v. EPA, and “Blood on their Hands”: Two Women Die, including a Mother of Four, in Climate Protest Traffic Chaos
Weasel Zippers: Tucker Carlson: MSNBC’s Open Race Hate Should Worry You Deeply, Biden Has Bizarre Zone Out During MSNBC Interview, Biden Fails Miserably While Calling For More Gun Control: “No More Than 8 Bullets In A Round”, and Biden Says “It’s Wrong” For States To Ban Castration & Mutilation Of Children
The Federalist: DOD Is Forging A Woke K-12 Army With Race And Sex Indoctrination In Military Schools, Liz Cheney’s Plan To Divide The GOP Has Failed, Court Ruling On CFPB Is Another Blow For Unconstitutional Bureaucratic Agencies, New Hampshire’s Don Bolduc Is The Latest Casualty In McConnell’s Crusade Against ‘America First’ Candidates, and Kamala Harris Is Lying About Her Involvement In Bailing Out Violent Criminals
Mark Steyn: What You Can’t See Might Hurt You – The Innocents and the Ghost Story, A Canadian Takes Number Ten, and Truckers vs Trudeau

*Not a typo. Cf. Dana Pico @First Street Journal. 

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Category: Linkagery

All Your Base Are Belong to Us (Belated MLK Day ‘White Supremacy’ Edition)

Posted on | October 24, 2022 | 2 Comments

Say hello to Jessica Schwinn, a candidate for school board in Minnesota’s Centennial School District in Anoka County, a suburb of Minneapolis. A few days before MLK Day this year, she uploaded a video to TikTok in which she “suggested white people who quote Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. are racist and accused them of advocating for white supremacy”:

The text introducing the video reads: “ATTN: white people: Family meeting time. How are we going to call out our ‘cousins’ who misrepresent and/or misconstrue Dr. Martin Luther King’s words and memory on Monday?”
The video, which is just over a minute long, opens with Schwinn saying, “Hey white people, yeah, you. You’re white.” . . .
In the TikTok video, Schwinn says to white people, “We need to have a little chat. So Monday there’s about to be a lot of wild tweets and wild posts quoting Dr. Martin Luther King and the people who are posting these are … mmm … not informed and racist and trying to uphold white supremacy.”
She encouraged others to join her in “calling out” other white people who quote King.
“So it is on us, as white people, to call out our cousins, fellow white people … call ’em out … call ’em out,” Schwinn says in the video.
She concludes the video by saying, “We [white people] cannot put this on people of color and black people. It’s not on them. It’s our turn. We need to take this on. We need to call out … call them out. And we’ll be busy on Monday but it’s what we need to do.”

Do progressives not realize how tired people are of this stuff? Like, do you need a lecture about “white supremacy” from Jessica Schwinn (or anyone else, for that matter)? Where is the evidence that Ms. Schwinn is our moral superior in this regard? And while we’re at it, how much of a “white supremacy” problem is there in Anoka County, Minnesota?

Questions like this could be multiplied almost infinitely, whenever any white person appoints themselves as a sort of civil-rights hall monitor, claiming the authority to judge other white people on their alleged failings vis-à-vis racial equality. There is not, so far as I am aware, any widespread agreement on what credentials are required for this sort of Civil Rights Hall Monitor gig, but “progressives” generally think they’re so damned much better than the rest of us, and never expect to be asked to justify their standing as moral arbiters. Because, of course, if you object to their lectures, they regard your objections as proof that you are “racist and trying to uphold white supremacy.”

It’s Kafkatrapping all the way down, you see.

The bottom line is this: I plead not guilty, your honor.

My knee wasn’t on George Floyd’s neck, nor did I shoot Breonna Taylor, and any self-appointed “progressive” Civil Rights Hall Monitor looking to guilt-trip white people for their alleged complicity in racial oppression had better look somewhere else, because I ain’t oppressed nobody.

Is it possible that I have offended some people? Sure, my habitual sarcasm is more or less intentionally offensive, but hurt feelings are not synonymous with oppression. If the worst problem you’ve got is “emotional trauma” caused by something I said, congratulations — you’re doing better than me. You don’t even want to know about my problems, so just take your little Civil Rights Hall Monitor act somewhere else. To quote Travis Tritt: “Here’s a quarter. Call someone who cares.”

Anyway, to explain the perhaps-too-cryptic headline: “All your base are belong to us,” is a meme that came out of Something Awful forums nearly 20 years ago. It derives from a badly translated Japanese video game, the same game that produced the phrase “somebody set up us the bomb,” which Ed Driscoll used as the tagline to link this story, without bothering to explain it. Because some of y’all kids may not get the joke, these phrases are deployed to suggest that the rhetoric used by one’s online antagonist is incoherent, and/or that they are not in touch with reality.

Zero Wing CATS could not be reached for comment.




 

Category: Education, Racism

Rule 5 Sunday: Viktoriia Aliko

Posted on | October 24, 2022 | 4 Comments

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Miss Aliko is a freelance Ukrainian model currently working out of Milan.
Ceterum autem censeo Silicon Valley esse delendam.


NINETY MILES FROM TYRANNY: Hot Pick of the Late Night, The 90 Miles Mystery Box Episode #1876, Morning Mistress, and Girls With Guns.



ANIMAL MAGNETISM: Rule Five Trump VP Friday, also, the Saturday Gingermageddon. 

EBL: MAGA – FBI & DOJ Abuses Continue, The Peripheral, The Sound Of 007, Republican Candidates In Arizona, Alone, Double Threat, North To Alaska, The Bear, The Bangles, and Frieda Pinto. 

A VIEW FROM THE BEACH: Mariana Paskins, Fish Pic Friday – DWD Outdoor Adventures, Maryland Striped Bass Continue to Underperform, Tattoo Thursday, Danchenko Skates, Biden Taps Oil Reserves for Midterm Boost, Tulsi Endorses Lake, Wednesday Wetness, Who Says There’s No Such Thing as Bad Publicity?, Tuesday Tanlines, The Monday Morning Stimulus, Palm Sunday,  Eastern Shore Salmon Farm Cancelled, and Biden “What Planet Is This Guy On?”

Thanks to everyone for all the luscious links!

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Category: Rule 5

FMJRA 2.0: Sudno

Posted on | October 23, 2022 | Comments Off on FMJRA 2.0: Sudno

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Another week of .500 baseball for the Senators, losing two out of three games to the A’s and winning two of three from the Expos. One of the losses to the A’s was truly infuriating, an eighteen-inning ordeal in which he A’s closer Darold Knowles pitched nine innings in relief with no apparent loss of effectiveness and was finally relieved by emergency pitcher Tom Tischinski, who pitched just like Knowles for two innings, which was just enough to scrape out a win.
This week’s music is from a Byelorussian band called Molchat Doma (Silent Homes) which sounds a lot like Joy Division, only in Russian. I became aware of them thanks to a video of a Mexican kid dancing his butt off to their song “Sudno”, which was actually an overdub of the same kid dancing to Joy Division’s “Transmission”. Pretty cool stuff.
Ceterum autem censeo Silicon Valley esse delendam.

Fly the Curly W flag!

Rule 5 Sunday: Caitlin McSwain
Animal Magnetism
The DaleyGator
Ninety Miles From Tyranny
A View From The Beach
EBL

Denial Is Not a Strategy
The DaleyGator
First Street Journal
A View From The Beach
357 Magnum
EBL

The J6 Committee Tantrum
A View From The Beach
357 Magnum
EBL

How to Get Yourself Shot
First Street Journal
357 Magnum
EBL
Proof Positive

FMJRA 2.0: Out of The Blue & Into The Black
A Bad American
A View From The Beach
EBL

There Is No Joy in ’Bamaland
A Bad American
EBL

More Signs of a Midterm ‘Red Wave’?
The DaleyGator
A View From The Beach
EBL

In The Mailbox: 10.17.22
A View From The Beach
357 Magnum
EBL
Proof Positive

What Radicalized Ace of Spades? (And Notes on the History of ‘Browderism’)
The DaleyGator
357 Magnum
EBL

In The Mailbox: 10.20.22 (Afternoon Edition)
A View From The Beach
357 Magnum
EBL
Proof Positive

In The Mailbox: 10.20.22 (Evening Edition)
A View From The Beach
357 Magnum
EBL
Proof Positive

In The Mailbox: 10.21.22 (Afternoon Edition)
357 Magnum
EBL
A View From The Beach
Proof Positive

In The Mailbox: 10.21.22 (Evening Edition)
357 Magnum
EBL
Proof Positive

Top linkers for the week ending October 21:

  1.  EBL (13)
  2.  (tied) 357 Magnum and  A View From The Beach (9)
  3.  Proof Positive (6)

Thanks to everyone for all the links!

HALLOWEEN MUSIC!
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Category: FMJRA Award

Joe Biden Lies About the Economy

Posted on | October 22, 2022 | 1 Comment

Of course, the headline could have been simplified — “Joe Biden Lies” — because every word out of his mouth is false, no matter the topic, but his lies Friday at Delaware State University were about the economy specifically. The official topic, “Remarks by President Biden on Student Loan Forgiveness,” as the White House web site phrases it, was just a pretext for Biden to engage in electioneering ahead of the midterms. But while we’re on the subject of “Student Loan Forgiveness,” let me remind you that in August, I explained (“Biden’s Illegal Boondoggle Giveaway”) that the President of the United States does not have the authority to order the cancellation of student loan debt, and that the Biden administration is falsely claiming such authority under the 2003 HEROES Act, a measure intended to provide assistance to military personnel deployed overseas during the War on Terror.

Biden himself admitted he doesn’t have this authority, and was against student loan “forgiveness” during the 2020 campaign (when it was part of Bernie Sanders’ socialist agenda), so why did he pivot suddenly in 2022 to claim this authority, which he does not actually have?

One word: Politics. Democrats who couldn’t muster enough votes in Congress to pass student loan “forgiveness” legislation were looking ahead to the midterm election campaign and, desirous of energizing “the youth vote,” seized upon the notion of having Biden cancel student debt by executive order, with the HEROES Act as pretext. Last month, six states sued the administration, arguing that the president acted unconstitutionally, and Friday an appeals court granted an injunction to halt the “forgiveness” program while the case is appealed to the Supreme Court (where, God willing, it will be permanently voided).

Anyway, that’s the background on Biden’s trip to Delaware State University which is, not coincidentally, in the category of HBCU (Historically Black College or University), allowing Biden to kill two political birds with one stone, (a) energizing the youth vote and (b) energizing the black vote, because why pander to just one Democratic Party constituency at a time, eh? Of course, the bill for this pandering — the $400 billion that Biden’s “forgiveness” is expected to cost — will be sent to the taxpayers, who are expected to be happy about going to work every day and paying taxes to fund a benefit for other people’s lazy kids who took out a bunch of student loans they don’t want to repay.

Here’s an obvious question: If your Mama and Daddy don’t want to help you repay your student loans, why should anyone else want to do it? Like, if one of my kids got into a desperate financial situation, I’m sure my wife and I would find some way to help them, and I expect most other parents would do the same, because we love our kids, right? So who are these college kids whose parents don’t love them? And why are the rest of us — going to work and paying our taxes — expected to pick up the tab for the irresponsible financial decisions of these unloved kids?

As obvious as these questions are, nobody in the national media ever asks Joe Biden or other Democrats to answer them. Student loan “forgiveness” simply doesn’t make sense, from a logical or moral perspective, but because it is a policy favored by one party, the fundamental deficiency of the policy is ignored by Democratic Operatives With Bylines.

So there is Biden at Delaware State, pandering to his party’s constituents, telling them to go to the government “Free Money” website where they can apply for his student loan forgiveness program (which he knows damned well the Supreme Court is going to strike down). And after he gets done promoting his unconstitutional giveaway, Biden then switches to an attack on Republicans and starts talking about deficits:

I will never apologize for helping working- and middle-class Americans as they recover from the pandemic, especially not to the same Republicans officials who voted for a $2 trillion tax cut that mainly benefited the wealthy Americans and the biggest corporations that wasn’t paid for and racked up our deficit.
I don’t want to hear it from MAGA Republicans — officials who had hundreds of thousands of dollars of debts, even millions of dollars in pandemic relief loans forgiven who now are attacking — attack me for helping working-class and middle-class Americans. . . .

(What, exactly, is he talking about here? Democrats voted for “pandemic relief” the same as Republicans did, and exactly how is it that opposition to an unconstitutional taxpayer-funded boondoggle is an attack on “working- and middle-class Americans”? But the real Big Lie here is the claim that the “$2 trillion tax cut” only benefited wealthy corporations, because I’m sure as heck not a wealthy big corporation, and I got a nice refund check, thank you very much, President Trump. I could write a few thousand words about the mythology behind Democratic rhetoric against “tax cuts for the rich,” but this is just parenthetical snark, so I’ll save that essay for some other occasion.)

But despite what Republican officials say, we can afford student relief. That’s because the first two years of my administration — that’s because of the historic deficit reduction, the very deficit reduction the Republicans voted against.
This morning, my administration announced that this year the deficit fell — the federal deficit fell by one trillion four hundred billion dollars just this year. The largest one-year drop in all of American history: one trillion four hundred billion.
And it follows last year’s historic drop on the deficit of $350 billion.
And we’re going to reduce the deficit by another $250 billion over the next decade. And the reason for that is because of what — Medicare is going to be able to negotiate drug prices and lower the costs.
We pay the highest drug prices of any nation in the world for the same drug. You can buy the same exact drug in a drugstore here in Dover or Wilmington, and if you go over to Paris, France, or anywhere in Europe, it can be as much as 40 percent to 60 percent less. Same exact drug.
So, folks, I don’t want to hear any weeping and gnashing of teeth from pharma — the big companies.
Folks, in just 20 months since I’ve been in office, we cut the deficit in half.

What word shall I use to describe this? Bullshit will do.

Brian Riedl of the Manhattan Institute has a few more words than that in a column at the New York Post explaining the shell game that Biden is playing with “deficit reduction.” When the pandemic hit in early 2020, Congress voted for hundreds of billions of dollars in “pandemic relief” which, of course, was not spent all at once, but instead involved funding for programs that continued into 2021. These programs expired in 2022 — the emergency had ended, and the funding ended with it — and Biden is falsely claiming credit for this as something he did to reduce the deficit. In fact, Biden and Democrats in Congress increased deficit spending for years to come, so that the truth is the exact opposite of what Biden said.

So now I’ve written 1,200 words explaining what most of you already knew — Biden is lying, as always — and most days I just let it slide by me, but this particular steaming pile of bollocks, delivered at Delaware State University, was aired live Friday on Fox News. At the time, I was busy with my day job and couldn’t take time to write anything about it, but I made a note to get back to it on Saturday morning, so that tonight I can discuss it with my friends John Hoge and Dianna Deeley on The Other Podcast, which airs live at 7 p.m. ET. Tune in, OK?




 

Category: Economics, Joe Biden

SOROS-FUNDED PHILLY D.A. BLAMES G.O.P. ‘RACISM’ FOR IMPEACHMENT

Posted on | October 22, 2022 | 2 Comments

Before we get to the latest news from Pennsylvania, I’d like to begin by congratulating Dana Pico for his success in spotlighting the dangerous lunacy of District Attorney Larry Krasner, who has turned loose so many criminals that “Killadelphia” has well and truly earned its infamy. There are more dangerous cities in America — St. Louis, for example — but none of them are as big as Philadelphia, America’s fourth-largest city, so that when the homicide rate goes up there (and it’s increased 78% since Krasner took office), it’s kind of difficult to ignore the death toll. Of course, the national media have tried to ignore the violence in “Killadelphia,” but Dana kept hammering away and now the floodgates have opened, so that Krasner felt compelled to hold a press conference Friday on the steps of the state capitol where he says Pennsylvania’s GOP-controlled legislature is getting ready to impeach him:

The Pennsylvania House committee looking to impeach Democratic Philadelphia District Attorney Larry Krasner canceled a hearing with the city’s top prosecutor after he requested a public forum.
Krasner still showed up at the state Capitol on Friday morning, condemning the select committee’s investigation and telling reporters that he expects the Republican-controlled chamber will start the impeachment process as early as next week. . . .
Krasner said the committee has no legal grounds for impeachment. Instead, he accused the committee of targeting him for his ideas and policies during a “super-heated election cycle” and attempting to blame large and diverse cities as being “lawless.”
“What we see here is the same old playbook, which is about coded and racist messaging,” Krasner said. “It’s about blaming the biggest city in Pennsylvania with the most diverse population for having the same national struggle that we have with gun violence everywhere.”

Well, the city may be “diverse,” but there is a decidedly monochromatic aspect to the daily bloodshed in “Killadelphia,” where more than 80% of the murders are black criminals shooting black victims. There were an all-time record 562 murders in Philadelphia last year, which means that roughly 450 black people were killed, but according to Krasner, the Republicans who want to end the city’s bloodbath are “racist.”

Whereas the Democrat D.A. who keeps letting criminals out of jail, well, he’s anti-racist, you see. Such is the contorted logic of Larry Krasner’s “social justice” agenda. The results have been disastrous.

Republicans are blasting Pennsylvania’s Democrat nominee for U.S. Senate, Lt. Gov. John Fetterman because a man — exonerated of a murder conviction and released from prison through Philadelphia District Attorney Larry Krasner’s Conviction Integrity Unit (CIU), which Fetterman supports — was allegedly involved in another murder in September.
On Thursday, Fox 29 Philadelphia reported that Jahmir Harris, 32, who was released from prison last year, is wanted for his alleged role in the murder of 50-year-old Charles Gossett in September.
“Prosecutors say Harris was identified by security footage as the driver of a vehicle that two gunman exited before shooting 50-year-old Charles Gossett in the back of the head around 2 a.m.,” Fox 29’s Steve Keeley and Kelly Rule reported. . . .
Harris was convicted of the December 2012 murder of Louis Porter, who was shot in the head in front of his own five-year-old son. He was sentenced to life without parole in 2015 but was exonerated and released through Krasner’s CIU last year, which Fetterman lauded earlier this week . . .

Do you think maybe this “exoneration” was a mistake? Like, maybe Harris actually did commit the murder for which a jury convicted him?

Nor is the case of Jahmir Harris an isolated incident. Over and over again, the criminals charged with murder in Philadelphia turn out to have been let loose in accordance with Krasner’s “social justice” agenda.

Say hello to Yaaseen Bivins, 21, who was convicted in August “of plowing his car into a pregnant woman and killing her unborn baby while drag racing,” but set free on bail while awaiting sentencing. Then in September, according to police, Bivins “shot five teens outside Roxborough High School.” One of the teenagers died: “Homicide Capt. Jason Smith said the teen who was killed — Nicolas Elizalde, 14, of Havertown, Delaware County — appeared to be ‘a totally innocent victim,’ fatally struck in the chest during the hail of gunfire.”

Krasner’s reaction? “Obviously, with hindsight, it is a truly awful situation.” Oh, as if you needed hindsight to realize that turning loose violent criminals is a dangerous idea.

But if you call attention to such horrible incidents, and think that the anti-police/pro-criminal District Attorney should be held accountable for the results of his policy, that means you must be a “racist” Republican!




 

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