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In The Mailbox: 10.21.22 (Evening Edition)

Posted on | October 22, 2022 | 1 Comment

— compiled by Wombat-socho

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

OVER THE TRANSOM
357 Magnum: Progressive Gets Mugged by Reality
EBL: Republican Candidates in Arizona Heading Into The Election, Lola, RIP, and Homunculus Horror
Twitchy: “Imagine Being This Broken”, also, Need Further Confirmation That This Administration Is Driven By Twitter?
Louder With Crowder: James Corden lashes out, claims it’s beneath him to care about how he treated workers, also, Watch and enjoy how this pizza bro and kosher Jew demonstrate how the real world gets along off of Twitter
Vox Popoli: Newsmax is Promethean, also, More Adventures in Bafflegarble
According To Hoyt: Kindle A Light For The Lost, also, Keeping the Faith
Monster Hunter Nation: An Illustrated Guide to AI Prompt Mastery, also, WriterDojo S3 E15: Working With an Editor with Toni Weisskopf
Stoic Observations: The Rabbit, Chapter 1

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
American Conservative: An American Rwanda, Courtesy Of The Left, also, Has Michigan Forgotten 2020?
American Greatness: Criminal Cartels Have More Control of Our Border Than Biden Does, Arizona Governor Defies Biden Demand to Remove Shipping Containers from Southern Border, and Federal Court Orders Depositions of Top Biden Officials–Including Fauci, Psaki, and Murthy–in State AGs’ Case
American Thinker: Unvaccinated Single Women Say ‘No’ To Vaccinated Single Men
Animal Magnetism: Rule Five Trump VP Friday
Babalu Blog: Cubans boldly protest in front of police station in Holguín, Los Angeles set to elect a mayor who was part of a Cuban communist propaganda and intel operation, Thanks mostly to Canada, Cuba expects a ‘robust’ tourist season, and Correspondent for Catholic EWTN Network, arrested, fined, & threatened by Cuban dictatorship
BattleSwarm: LinkSwarm for October 21
Behind The Black: Frozen lava flows around Martian hills, Chandrayaan-3 now scheduled for summer 2023, Ukraine officials in direct negotiations with Musk about Starlink, and Teachers fired and blacklisted for opposing the queer agenda in childcare and elementary schools
CDR Salamander: Fullbore Friday
Da Tech Guy: This Election Pivot is a Tad Early
Don Surber: 2022 brings seismic changes, also, War tourism
First Street Journal:  Journolism: media bias at its finest, also, Journolism: ignoring the “Five Ws + H” in reporting due to political correctness
Gates Of Vienna: Migrant Storm on the Balkan Route, Illiteracy ’R’ Us, The Silent War Against the Germans, and Eric Zemmour: The Government No Longer Has Any Legitimacy
The Geller Report: Texas Sues Google for Allegedly Collecting Biometric Data of MILLIONS of People Without Their Consent
Hogewash: Team Kimberlin Post of the Day, A Ground-Based View of a GRB, There May Be A Long Line Forming For This, and How to Peacefully Handle Protestors
Hollywood In Toto: Clooney, Roberts Punch Pleasing Ticket to Paradise, also, Dangerous Game Director: Jon Voight Is the Consummate Professional
The Lid: How Did Iran Become A Radical Islamist State? Thank Jimmy Carter
Legal Insurrection: Appeals Court Puts Temporary Hold On Biden’s $400+ Billion Student Loan Forgiveness Giveaway, Success of Republican Allan Fung is Forcing Democrats to Spend Money in Rhode Island, Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Statements Destroying Higher Education, and College and University Enrollment Drops Third Year in a Row
Nebraska Energy Observer: England Expects
Outkick: San José State Postpones Football Game After Freshman RB Tragically Dies In Scooter Accident, Jon Gruden’s Lawsuit Against The NFL Over His Leaked Emails Appears To Have The League Scrambling And Stressed, People Are Not Happy Al Michaels Stated A Fact About Taylor Swift, ESPN Fantasy Says Kyler Murray, Who Was On The Field For Thursday Night Football, Is On Bye This Week, and Drake Jackson Calls Christian McCaffrey ‘Little White Boy’ In Reaction To 49ers Trade
Power Line: Red Tide In a Blue State, Thoughts from the ammo line, and Beyond Soft on Crime
Protein Wisdom Reborn: The Age Of Boutique Authoritarianism
Shark Tank: Broward County Elections Supervisor Shuts Down Reporter For Asking About Illegal Voter’s Arrest
Shot In The Dark: Sixteen Years, also, Security
The Political Hat: Pure Distilled Scum
This Ain’t Hell: Tom Brady Likens Football Season to Military Deployment; Then Walks it Back, Valor Friday, Final Defendant Gets Two Years in Fake Military Clothing Scheme, and Political divide driven by “stupid, ignorant, feelings based” rural voter
Transterrestrial Musings: Critical Race Theory, also, “We Are No Longer Conservatives”
Victory Girls: AOC Represents Twitter, Not Her District
Volokh Conspiracy: Ninth Circuit Partly Affirms and Partly Reverses Judgment for Planned Parenthood Over Secret Recordings
Watts Up With That: Is Private Renewable Energy Investment Faltering in Australia?, also, Battery Airplanes? Nope!
Weasel Zippers: Nearly 80% Of Voters Oppose Castration & Mutilation Of Minors, Biden Claims “Mega MAGA Trickle-Down” Will Tank The Economy If GOP Wins Midterms, Fetterman: Murderers In Prison For Life Are “Like Your Grandfather”, and Poll: Only 31% Agree Biden Is Giving Attention To Most Important Issues Facing Americans
The Federalist: The DOJ Is Hiding Information About Biden’s Attempts To Interfere In U.S. Elections, Race-Obsessed ‘Diversity’ Ploys Distract The Salvation Army From Actually Helping People, Abortion Harms Fathers Too, and Virginia Teacher Reveals The Left’s Next Public School Quest
Mark Steyn: Next Week’s Prime Minister, also, Live Around the Planet: Friday October 21st


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In The Mailbox: 10.21.22 (Afternoon Edition)

Posted on | October 21, 2022 | Comments Off on In The Mailbox: 10.21.22 (Afternoon Edition)

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Silicon Valley delenda est.

OVER THE TRANSOM
Director Blue: Biden’s Energy Depression Is Nigh
357 Magnum: Florida Man & Son
EBL: Can Lee Zeldin win in New York State?, also, Alone
Twitchy: “Think Of Them As Being Permanently Suspended”, also, Alrighty, Uncle Fester!
Louder With Crowder: Legend stands outside building with a lint roller to illustrate how conditioned Americans are to comply, also, Hero rottweiler saves old lady by fighting off a kangaroo for forty-five minutes
Vox Popoli: What The Actual, Literally Retarded, She Lived Up to Her Name, and Deep State UK’s Auto-Coup

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
American Conservative: Muslim Parents Lead The Way, also, ‘Diversity Is Our Strength,’ They Lied
American Greatness: Gen X to Democrats – Eat My Shorts!, also, State AGs Investigate Big Banks for Involvement in U.N. Carbon Emissions Pledge
American Power: Yorba Linda Public School District Bans Critical Race Theory. Cal State Fullerton Retaliates by Pulling Teacher-Trainees from the District’s Educational Programs
American Thinker: Trump Embarrasses the ‘Elites’, also, Activist Generals Are Transforming the Air Force Academy
Animal Magnetism: Animal’s Daily Citizen’s Arrest News
Babalu Blog: Bernie Sanders messes with Texas Latina congressional candidate, gets destroyed, Cuban dictatorship uses gay marriage to cover its crimes against humanity, and Cuba’s Foreign Minister lambasts U.S. after his government pockets $2 million in hurricane aid
BattleSwarm: A Perfect Storm Of Transportation Disaster?
Behind The Black: SpaceX launches 54 Starlink satellites, NASA approves use of American spacesuits for spacewalks after investigation, and Nurses fired and blacklisted for either being white or Christian
CDR Salamander: Diversity Thursday
Da Tech Guy: I Eagerly Await the Flagging of Moderna’s CEO by Twitter & YouTube for calling COVID the Flu, also, The unholy partnership between Democrats and Corporations is a direct threat to our constitutional republic
Don Surber: Democrats’ Kari Lake mistake, also, NYT: “Red October is here”
First Street Journal: Hold them accountable!
Gates Of Vienna: Vax Skeptics Must Be Beaten Until They Repent, Knife Jihad in Ludwigshafen, Raped, Tortured, and Murdered by a Culture-Enricher, and Decline and Fall
The Geller Report: Nike Co-Founder Phil Knight Declares War on Democrats in Oregon, Kari Lake Thrashes Media, Brings the Receipts When Confronted on ‘Election Denial’, and RINO Former RNC Chief Michael Steele Calls MAGA Republicans ‘Lice,’ ‘Fleas’ and ‘Blood-Sucking Ticks’
Hogewash: Team Kimberlin Post of the Day, JWST Looks At The Pillars of Creation, and Some Notes on Inflation
Hollywood In Toto: Critic Confessions: What Too Many Film Critics (Including Me) Forget, Adam Carolla & Dr. Drew Reveal Exactly Why We Mistrust Mainstream Media, and The Retaliators Upends the Death Wish Tradition (For a While)
The Lid: Constituents Mock Occasional Cortex – Chant ‘AOC Has Got To Go’
Legal Insurrection: Doctor Who Issued Letter Clearing Fetterman’s Health is Major Democrat Donor, California Bureaucrats Finally Approve Desalination Plant, British Prime Minister Liz Truss Resigns After Six Weeks in Office, and Pennsylvania? It Could be Nevada That Flips the Senate and Give Republicans Control
Nebraska Energy Observer: Ok; bear with me
Outkick: Tom Brady Apologizes For Ridiculously Comparing Playing In The NFL To Military Deployment, Another Absurdly Cringe Russell Wilson Subway Video Surfaces, Jason Kelce Reacts To Tom Brady Yelling At His O-Line: ‘I’ll Put You In That Trash Can’, Yankees Set Embarrassing Playoff Record During Game 1 ALCS Loss To Astros, and Shakira Gets Revenge By Putting Her Logo On Ex’s Barcelona Uniform
Power Line: The Dirty 51 revisited, Fact-checking Esme Murphy: With Jon Justice, and Breaking: Trussed
Shark Tank: Rick Scott Questions Energy Department Concerning Innovative Technology Going To Red China
Shot In The Dark: Whiffle, All The DFL’s Fault, and Connected
The Political Hat: Dictates Of Academia – Diversity Statement Required; Critical Race Theory Defended; BLM Protest Suggested
This Ain’t Hell: Fake Navy SEAL Scams Victims Out of $1.5 Million, A Hooters manager stops kids from selling chocolate bars, violence occurs, and Short takes – IRS, SF Toilet, El Paso and illegals, Stamp price hike, Foreigners hiring US Officers, New anti-gun group
Transterrestrial Musings: Space Solar Power, also, Condolences
Victory Girls: Tina Kotek Is The Original Defund The Police Candidate
Volokh Conspiracy: “When I Die and Go to Hell, I Want to See the Entire [Court of Appeal] Panel There to Greet Me!”
Watts Up With That: British PM Wins Pyrrhic Victory on Fracking, also, Biden to drain more oil from SPR… Expects oil industry refill it for $68-72/bbl
Weasel Zippers: Rep. Jim Clyburn (D-SC) Admits Democrats “Knew” Inflation Would Result From Their Big Spending, Kamala Harris Hires Third Chief Speechwriter Since Taking Office, Florida Democrat For Gov Charlie Crist Calls Biden “This Great President”, and Tina Kotek Lies When Pressed On Her Email That Called The 2020 Riots “Peaceful Protests”
The Federalist: Destroying America’s Energy Advantage To ‘Save Democracy’, Evan McMullin Is A Democrat And A Fraud, New Mexico Democrat Gabe Vasquez Deletes Tweets Slamming Oil To Masquerade As Moderate, and Democrats Are Already Telling Americans To Expect Delayed Election Results This Fall
Mark Steyn: Tip of the Evil Iceberg

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In The Mailbox: 10.20.22 (Evening Edition)

Posted on | October 21, 2022 | Comments Off on In The Mailbox: 10.20.22 (Evening Edition)

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Silicon Valley delenda est.

OVER THE TRANSOM
Ninety Miles From Tyranny: The 90 Miles Mystery Box Episode #1875
A Bad American: Drag Brunch? (NSFW)
357 Magnum:  State’s Attorney’s Office for Cook County and Chicago in Shambles
EBL: Durham Loses Again: Mission Accomplished, also, Georgia Senate Update: Walker and Warnock Tied
Twitchy: Waukesha Massacre Perp – “I’m Not A Person, I’m A Human Being”, also, HuffPo Declares Rapper Big Mike More Dangerous Than Ye
Louder With Crowder: Kari Lake needs only her 20-year-old volunteer to illustrate how horrible the media is at their jobs, Author finds driving electric vehicle across state ‘very difficult,’ it took him 15 HOURS to go 178 miles, and Independent voters now view DEMOCRATS as more of a ‘threat to democracy’ than the GOP
Vox Popoli: Yes, And?, When Dialectic Exceeds Rhetoric, Hollywood is Never an Option, and How Did THAT Ever Happen
Gab News: Stop Killing Christians

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
American Conservative: War and Regrets in Ukraine, also, The Racial Masochism Of The Left
American Greatness: Who Denies Election Results?, Why the Left Hates Conservatism, and Stacey Abrams Suggests that the Cure For Economic Woes Is More Abortions
American Power: Vote for Peace, not Perpetual War, on Election Day, also, Voters Overwhelmingly believe American Democracy is Under Threat, But No One Wants to Lift a Finger to Save It
American Thinker: What Happens When Democrats Lose Bigly?,  also, End of the Line for #BLM?
Animal Magnetism: Animal’s Hump Day News
Babalu Blog: Biden admin announces $2 million in hurricane aid to communist Cuba, While Cubans starve, the country’s fat Prime Minister and its fake “First Lady” enjoy food festival, and It’s getting nasty in TX-34
BattleSwarm: Three Republican House Candidates to Consider Backing, also, The War Against Wokeness In Round Rock ISD
Behind The Black: SpaceX simplifies smallsat rideshare program, effectively slashing prices, October 19, 2022 Quick space links, and Moderna CEO admits to past lies: “COVID is simply the flu, harmless to the healthy.”
Cafe Hayek: Evidence That Time Makes Demand More Elastic, also, More on Some Difficult Questions of Trade Policy
CDR Salamander: What Does Sending a Firm Signal to Red China Look Like?
Chicago Boyz: Known Knowns, Known Unknowns, Et Cetera
Da Tech Guy: Jezebel and the Democrats, also, A Reminder If/When the Rolling Blackouts Come to Massachusetts, and other New England States
Don Surber: 538’s con, also, Coal state taking down BlackRock
First Street Journal: Some people would rather be less safe than cooperate with and support the police, also, The Democrats are running on everything except what matters
Gates Of Vienna: A Call for the Blue Mosque to Become Gay-Friendly, Let ’Em In!, “Since it Doesn’t Prevent Contagion, What Was the Vax For?”, and German Nursing Homes Will Be Packed With Refugees
The Geller Report: Interesting Prediction: Ex-Dem Tulsi Gabbard Will Be Trump’s VP, also, Biden To Release at Least 10 Million More Barrels from the Strategic Petroleum Reserve In In Order To Fool Mid-Term Voters
Hogewash: Team Kimberlin Post of the Day, As A Language Evolves, and NEOWISE Scans The Whole Sky
Hollywood In Toto: Friday the 13th Part III – Jason Gets His Iconic Hockey Mask, Netflix Rejects Woke, Stages Stunning Comeback, and Black Adam Recycles Superior Superhero Beats
The Lid: Is China Fast Tracking A Taiwan Takeover, Or Reacting To Biden Gaffes?, also, As COVID Hit, Some Fed Officials “Coincidently” Traded Involved Stocks
Legal Insurrection: Has The Democrat Dam Holding Back The Red Wave Finally Broken?, Biden Claims Dipping Into Oil Reserve Isn’t Politically Motivated, Penn State Rethinking Construction of New ‘Racial Justice Center’ Due to Budget Deficit, and “Experts” Now Warning about ‘Severe Flu Season’ and ‘Very Contagious’ Rhinovirus
Michelle Malkin: Fists of Furry
Nebraska Energy Observer: Closer, also, The Theology of American Foreign Policy
Outkick: Washington Commanders Sent A $14,000 Bounced Check To A 50/50 Raffle Winner, Mississippi State Player Sam Westmoreland Dead At 18, Nick Saban Comments On Video Showing Alabama Player Allegedly Striking Female Tennessee Fan, and ESPN Analyst, Who Said Josh Allen Deserves To Fail Because Of Dogs And American Flag, Says Lamar Jackson Criticism Must Be ‘Careful’
Power Line: A Star Is Born, Stacey Abrams explains, and Dems Hitting the Panic Button
Shark Tank: 2016 Election Denier & J6 Committee Member Stephanie Murphy Warns Of 2020 GOP Election Deniers Running For Office
Shot In The Dark: Self-Destruction, also, Dirty Harry Meets Batman
The Political Hat: Maoist Struggle Sessions Come To Reddit, also, Aktion T4 Comes To Australia…And Beyond
This Ain’t Hell: FEMA scandals post-Maria, Heritage Foundation assigns its weakest rating for U.S. Military strength,  Investigation Finds Black Airman Faked Racist Tweets, and The pussification of the Army drill sergeant
Transterrestrial Musings: Kari Lake, also, Addressing Putin’s Nuclear Threat
Victory Girls: Florida Senate Debate Sees Democrat Strategy, also, A Look At New York’s ‘Adams Tent City’ Migrant Shelter
Volokh Conspiracy: Ohio Supremes Indefinitely Suspend Judge Pinkey Suzanne Carr from Judicial Office and Law Practice
Watts Up With That: Green Energy Fail: New England Facing Rolling Blackouts this Winter, Cost Of Public Charging an EV Is Now More Expensive Than Filling Up with Diesel, and Attenborough Laments Demise of 800 Penguins “Because Climate Change”, But…
Weasel Zippers: Kamala Harris: Biden Admin’s “Real Intentionality” Is To “Re-Shift Industries” On Energy, Cosmetic Company Ulta Video Features Two Biological Men To Explain “Girlhood” To Women, Fetterman Compares January 6th To 9/11, and Activists Erupt At Occasional Cortex, Call Her A Coward
The Federalist: Lawsuit Offers SCOTUS A Chance To Smack Down Biden’s ‘Unconstitutional’ Student Loan Bailout, RNC Sues Pennsylvania For Telling Counties To Break Election Law, Amazon Spoiled Rings Of Power By Trading Tolkien For Lame Hollywood Tropes, Biden Shamelessly Depletes Our Strategic Petroleum Reserve To Buy Midterm Votes For Democrats, and Hyperventilating About Kanye Can’t Hide The Left’s Antisemitism Double Standard
Mark Steyn: Why Can’t These Jim Crow Fascists Be More Civil?, also, A Globalist Coup

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In The Mailbox: 10.20.22 (Afternoon Edition)

Posted on | October 20, 2022 | Comments Off on In The Mailbox: 10.20.22 (Afternoon Edition)

— compiled by Wombat-socho

It’s a blast.

If I had any brains, I would be taking a long nap right now, but since I have three days of posting to catch up on…Huge thanks to my little brother (I have all the education in the family, but he makes all the $$$) and Stacy for helping me out this week when my finances got f’d up in Vegas; thanks to them, I didn’t have to sleep in my car Tuesday and Wednesday nights.
Silicon Valley delenda est.

OVER THE TRANSOM
357 Magnum:  Sanctuary Is Great As Long As Northern Cities Don’t Have to Deal With the Issues
EBL: Double Threat
Twitchy: “Shut The Hell Up”, also, “Off The Charts Cringe”
Louder With Crowder: LOL: Fancy restaurant bans ‘tiny cretin of a man’ James Corden for life over being an entitled douche, also, Whoa: Former Democrat presidential candidate endorses Kari Lake for governor, will campaign with her
Vox Popoli: Excellence + Time = Greatness, Avoid Like the Plague, Chinese Flee Ukraine, and Meme of the Week

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
American Conservative: Our Mercenary Retired Generals, also, Trans Propaganda, Blue And Red
American Greatness: Biden Regime Told El Paso Mayor to Not Declare State of Emergency Over City’s Migrant Crisis Ahead of Midterms, also, BlackRock Stock Downgraded Over Investments in ESG
American Power: Russia Nationalizes ExxonMobil’s Holdings in Sakhalin-2 Oil and Gas Project at Sakhalin Island, Russia, also, Kari Lake Pushes Back Hard on Leftist ‘Election Denier’ Smear
American Thinker: What You Need to Know About Fentanyl, also, Lee Zeldin and the Empire State Exodus: Is Sane Government Still Possible in New York?
Animal Magnetism: Animal’s Daily Sardine Tin News
Babalu Blog: Another building collapse in Havana takes the life of a 5-year-old girl, Anti-government protests in Cuba continued Monday night, and Surprise! Cuban dictatorship sacks ministers in charge of energy, appoints new ones
BattleSwarm: Semiconductors: China Is Fucked
Behind The Black: Gemini/Apollo astronaut Jim McDivitt passes away at 93, Both the Pentagon and Europe are looking for ways to fund Starlink for the Ukraine, and Today’s blacklisted American: Students demand professor be fired for stating a fact
Cafe Hayek: Rue Britannia
CDR Salamander: The Baltic Nations are Subject Matter Experts Here, we Should Listen
Chicago Boyz: Worthwhile Reading & Viewing
Da Tech Guy:  The Tell on Democrats/Media/Tech and Stolen Elections, Report from Louisiana: 2023 Gubernatorial Election Early Outlook, and Five Patriots Thoughts Under the Fedora
Don Surber: Democrat coalition melting, 10 governorships that could flip red, and What they mean by democracy
First Street Journal: Credentialed media are finally starting to see the problems with plug-in electric vehicles, also, If you’re scared, say you’re scared!
Gates Of Vienna: Let Them Wear Sweaters, France: Culture-Enriching Child Murder in the Furtherance of Organ Trafficking, and The Greens Embrace Bans on Speaking
The Geller Report: MASS PROTESTS ACROSS EUROPE Against Food, Energy Prices, EU Green Edicts, Ukraine War, also, French General: People who resisted COVID jabs are ‘superheroes’ who ‘embody the best of humanity’
Hogewash: Don’t Get Cocky, But…, The Warm-Hot Intergalactic Medium, and Team Kimberlin Post of the Day
Hollywood In Toto: Dear George Clooney: Hollywood Is Coarsening Our Discourse, also, What Issa Rae Misses About Ezra Miller’s MeToo Pass
The Lid: They’re Ba-a-a-a-ck: COVID Public Health Emergency Programs
Legal Insurrection: Alaska’s Bering Sea Snow Crab Season Canceled, Conservative Students at University of Iowa Complain of Repeated Harassment, America’s Next Supply Chain Crisis, and The Democratic Coalition Attempt to Smear GOP Rep. Dave Schweikert Backfires
Nebraska Energy Observer: What’s in a Name
Outkick: Chargers Kicker Proudly Shares Pro-Jesus Message After Beating The Broncos, Even Mike Francesca Is Calling Out Bob Costas, Tennesee Fan Tears ACL Celebrating Vols Win Over Bama – ‘I’ve Been Waiting On That Win For 15 Years’, and Bubba Wallace Suspended One Race For Pushing Kyle Larson
Power Line: The Daily Chart: Bidenflation, Biden Wrestles Teleprompter, Loses, and Dear Esme Murphy: Fact-check this [updated]
Shark Tank: Rubio Brutally Smacks Down Demings’ Voter Suppression Accusation During Debate
Shot In The Dark: That’s Saar, Folks, also, But Why Is Keith Ellison Running All Those Ads Portraying Him As Tougher On Crime Than Dirty Harry? 
The Political Hat: Public Schools: Where Public Masturbation Is Considered Normal
This Ain’t Hell: USAR Maj make porn to fuel his congressional campaign, also, List of 195 veterans running for Congress this year
Transterrestrial Musings: In Which Scott Dworkin Is An idiot (Again), also, Crushing The Gig Economy
Victory Girls: Eric Swalwell Airs Despicable Abortion Ad, also, Tim Ryan Race-Baiting JD Vance Backfires
Volokh Conspiracy: Tiananmen Square: An enduring symbol of the Chinese Communist Party’s illegitimacy
Watts Up With That: Why The Woke Create the Disasters They Warn Of, also, They Can’t Make Green Energy Using Only Green Energy
Weasel Zippers: PayPal’s Plan To Fine Users For “Misinformation” Tied To Chinese Contractor, This Is What Happens When Democrats Run A City For Too Long, Pelosi Officially Loses Her Marbles, and Trainwreck: Biden Says He “Pushed Hard” For Right “To Marry Couples In The Privacy Of Their Bedroom”
The Federalist: Va. Democrat Plotting To Take Kids From Parents Who Won’t Trans Them Just Saying The Quiet Part Out Loud, We Need The ‘Protect Children’s Innocence’ Bill, Here’s The Truth About Criminals Pouring Over The Southern Border That CNN Is Trying To Hide, and Leftist Dark Money Group Advises Volunteers On How To Target Voters In ‘Deeply Racist South’
Mark Steyn: Autumn Leaves, Hunt’s Red October, and Case Closed

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What Radicalized Ace of Spades? (And Notes on the History of ‘Browderism’)

Posted on | October 19, 2022 | Comments Off on What Radicalized Ace of Spades? (And Notes on the History of ‘Browderism’)

We were in the car today and my brother Kirby was ranting about Putin and the war in Ukraine, but my mind was a million miles away, as I scrolled through an item at Ace of Spades HQ. Kirby kept ranting, and after a while, I interjected my thoughts, which involved the earliest dawn of the Cold War — Earl Browder and the “Duclos Letter.”

Students of the erstwhile Soviet Union (including our good friend Dianna Deeley) will immediately recognize this. During World War II, the West was more or less compelled into an alliance with Stalin, in order to defeat Hitler. Winston Churchill was always clear-eyed about the nature of this alliance — he was never deluded about Communism’s long-term menace — and it was he who described the new reality in March 1946:

“A shadow has fallen upon the scenes so lately lighted by the Allied victory. . . . From Stettin in the Baltic to Trieste in the Adriatic, an iron curtain has descended across the Continent. Behind that line lie all the capitals of the ancient states of Central and Eastern Europe.”

This new reality had become apparent, to those who knew where to look for the clues, even before World War II ended. The American Communist Party (CPUSA) was, from the moment of its founding, an instrument of Soviet policy, answerable to its masters in Moscow through the mechanism of the Comintern. During World War II, when Stalin sought help from the West, CPUSA became an enthusiastic booster of Franklin Roosevelt and sought to portray Communism as wholly compatible with American democratic ideals. In a speech to the CPUSA’s national committee in January 1944, the party’s General Secretary Earl Browder proclaimed: “Capitalism and Socialism have begun to find their way to peaceful coexistence and collaboration in the same world.” Browder, who had been the CPUSA’s presidential candidate in 1936 and 1940, renamed the party as “Communist Political Association,” endorsed FDR’s reelection in 1944, and purged critics who disagreed with this stance.

A few months after FDR was reelected, however, there came a clear signal that “peaceful coexistence and collaboration” were not the postwar path being charted by Stalin. This signal took the form of an article in the April 1945 issue of the French Communist Party journal Cahiers du Communisme, which appeared under the byline of Jacques Duclos, a senior official of the French party who had also been a leading Comintern operative. The crucial paragraph of the so-called “Duclos letter” was this:

In truth, nothing justifies the dissolution of the American Communist Party, in our opinion. Browder’s analysis of capitalism in the United States is not distinguished by a judicious application of Marxism-Leninism. The predictions regarding a sort of disappearance of class contradictions in the US correspond in no wise to a Marxist-Leninist understanding of the situation.

Duclos did not write this article. Rather, it was written in Moscow and issued through the French party journal as a way of communicating Moscow’s repudiation of “Browderisim,” a deviation from party doctrine. Browder was booted from CPUSA leadership, replaced by William Z. Foster, and this episode in 1945 — before World War II ended — marked the true beginning of what became known as the Cold War.

This episode is crucial to understanding what happened in the postwar era. Leftists (including such CPUSA alumni as Howard Zinn) would blame the United States for the Cold War, but the “Duclos letter” and the repudiation of “Browderism” make clear that it was Stalin who dictated the anti-American party line taken by the Soviets and their Communist allies after WWII, a direction determined in Moscow before the war had even ended. Documenting the Russian origin of the “Duclos letter” in their 1998 book The Soviet World of American Communism, authors Harvey Klehr, John Earl Haynes and Kyrill M. Anderson write:

Why did the Soviets publish this article secretly in Moscow [in January 1945] and then send it to Paris for open publication as an ostensibly French essay? Perhaps they feared that publication in a Soviet source would be too blatant a signal that Stalin was preparing for a confrontation with the West. By arranging for French Communists to deliver the rejection of Browder’s policy of Soviet-American cooperation, the Soviets may have hoped to avoid alerting American leaders prematurely to the anticipated change in Soviet policy.

Exactly — the signal from Moscow was clear enough to American Communist leaders, and the subsequent replacement of Browder with Foster as CPUSA general secretary made it even clearer to any who had missed the signal transmitted by the “Duclos letter.” The era of Soviet-American cooperation had been merely a short-term tactical alliance, necessary to defeating Hitler and by early 1945, with Nazi Germany clearly on the brink of collapse, that era was over. Yet Stalin was canny enough to realize that he couldn’t announce this policy shift openly until he had secured the conquest of Eastern Europe which was described so famously in Churchill’s 1946 “Iron Curtain speech.”

As I was recounting this to Kirby, it occurred to me that the history of the “Duclos letter” was actually quite relevant to the post I had been reading at Ace of Spades. Opening with a shot at the latest idiotic utterance from Stacey Abrams, Ace then swerves his rhetorical steamroller over onto the sidewalk to flatten National Review‘s Dan McLaughlin:

NeverTrump has long lied about not knowing that the Democrat Party had radicalized into socialist, anti-human totalitarians, because that, of course, is the only way to justify their frequent alliance with them and their sabotage of the Republican Party. They have to continue to pretend it’s 2003 and the most radical Democrat in Congress is corrupt Harry Reid — people “we can do business with.”
Either they’re lying, or they’re willfully blind to the fast pace of radicalization the left has gone through since 2008, or they’re just, as I say, forever frozen in The Last Year When Everything Made Sense of 2003, or they’re just fucking terminally stupid.
Or maybe NeverTrump never notices the radicalization of their Very Good Friends on the Left because they’re busy aggressively monitoring the truly dangerous radicalizing forces… on the right. Gotta “patrol the right.” Gotta purge ’em for anyone coloring outside the permitted neocon lines.
It doesn’t matter which — NeverTrump has forfeited any claim of leadership. They are stupid blunderers and fools at best, and nasty liars and traitors at worst.

Perhaps the link between this and the “Duclos letter” is obvious enough, but I’ll belabor the point in case you missed it: Like Earl Browder in 1945, the NeverTrump crowd has failed to realize that times have changed, and that there is no future use for the politics of the past. As Ace says, there was a time — and indeed, 2003 was about the peak of that rally-’round-the-flag moment of Patriotic Unity — when it seemed that Republicans might find some reasonable basis for bipartisan cooperation with the kind of Democrats “we can do business with.” But to turn this analogy to “Browderism” the other way around, the NeverTrumpers are more like the naÏve American liberals who, seduced by the “Popular Front” wartime rhetoric of Browder-era Communists, imagined that the Reds weren’t really so bad, an illusion that evaporated with the rise of the “Iron Curtain” in Europe, and postwar revelations about Communist espionage, the Rosenberg case and the unmasking of Alger Hiss.

Turn the TV channel and watch CNN or MSNBC for a while, and you see that from the liberal perspective, the problem in our current politics is that Republicans have become “far-right extremists.” But speaking for myself, and the Republican voters of my direct acquaintance, we are no further right than we were 25 years ago. The real problem — what has actually changed in the past two decades — is that the Democrats have become left-wing “extremists.” This is why Republicans can no longer play the “bipartisan” game, as if Democrats were still the party of Tom Harkin, Max Baucus and Daniel Patrick Moynihan.

Really, why do you think Hillary Clinton lost in 2016? Because she had to rig the party machinery to cheat Bernie Sanders out of the Democrat nomination, and lots of the Sanders voters either stayed home on Election Day or else voted for Trump out of pure spite. The idea that an avowed socialist like Sanders very nearly won the Democratic Party presidential nomination in 2016, and put a helluva scare into the establishment before the Democrat powers that be orchestrated Biden’s nomination, tells you all you need to know about which party has been taken over by fringe “extremists.” The fact that the alleged “moderate” Biden has been pursuing such a radical left-wing agenda confirms the fact that, although Bernie didn’t win the nomination, it’s his “progressive” wing of the party that’s really calling the shots now.

The question in the headline — “What Radicalized Ace of Spades?” — is not merely rhetorical. If you went back to 2005 or 2006, Ace was a regular ol’ post-9/11 conservative, who had fun making sport of liberal silliness, and certainly didn’t spend much time criticizing neocons, RINOS and other treacherous GOP sellouts. He was a mild-mannered Ewok with a mischievous sense of humor, but the past 15 years have been a serious of battles that have hardened him. Well do I recall how Ace stood tough during the Charles Johnson/LGF Meltdown of 2009, and he fought fiercely during the Weinergate War of 2011, which was followed in 2012 by the Brett Kimberlin Crisis. Being in a few combats like that will teach you who your real friends are, and how many of those Professional Conservative™ types even noticed when Kimberlin came after Ace?

The elite class of Professional Conservatives™ are not much help when the going gets tough, and the defection of the NeverTrumpers from 2015 onward was therefore not really surprising to those of us (obviously including Ace) who had been paying attention to the modus operandi of Conservatism, Inc. Whatever the faults of Donald Trump, his ascent certainly helped clarify who could be trusted as a Team Player during an existential crisis for the Right. Because that’s what we were facing in 2016. If Hillary Clinton had won “Obama’s Third Term” — if the Democratic Party’s hold on the White House had been extended to 12 years, or maybe even 16 years — where would the GOP be now? And it is my belief that none of the other Republicans who sought the 2016 nomination — not Ted Cruz, not Marco Rubio, certainly not Jeb Bush — could have beaten Hillary. The GOP needed something different from its predictable Chamber of Commerce-approved brand of “conservatism” to beat Hillary, and Trump provided that crucial difference.

Times change, and circumstances change, and you can’t expect to keep winning by mindless repetition of the political formulas of the past.

How many more presidential elections were we supposed to let the Republican Party lose before they finally got the Travis Tritt message that The Whiskey Ain’t Workin’ Anymore? But the stubborn fools of NeverTrump didn’t want to sober up and hear that message, to let go of their commitment to Principles of Civility long enough to win an election.

That’s the damned thing about politics. It doesn’t matter how splendid your policy ideas may be, if you can’t win an election, and the GOP Establishment has been 0-for-3 since 2004. John McCain lost in 2008, Mitt Romney lost in 2012, and every possible alternative to Trump lost in the 2016 Republican primaries. Whose fault was that?

NeverTrump lost and, incapable of accepting responsibility for their defeat, instead declared war on the millions of Americans who elected the man who had beaten them. They endorse the liberal claim that the Republican Party has somehow been taken over by a dangerous cabal “extremists,” but in fact Trump expanded the Republican Party coalition — adding nearly 15 million more voters than John McCain got in 2008. How does a party become more “extreme” by adding voters?

They have no answers to these objections. They’re firmly committed to the idea of Making 2003 Great Again — a nostalgia for “bipartisanship” (and endlessly invading Middle Eastern countries). NeverTrump chose to become irrelevant (they’re just waterboys for the Democrats now) and I try my best to ignore them, a task made easier by my knowledge that Ace of Spades will keep mashing ’em flat with his rhetorical steamroller. He owns them. They’re his bitches now, and he’ll keep slapping them around on a regular basis, whenever it suits his fancy. God knows, they deserve it.




 

Category: Republicans

Denial Is Not a Strategy

Posted on | October 19, 2022 | Comments Off on Denial Is Not a Strategy

“I dismiss that,” Nancy Pelosi said Tuesday on MSNBC, when Andrea Mitchell asked about polls showing “rising inflation concerns along with crime, giving . . . new momentum to Republicans”:

PELOSI: First of all, let me say that I think much of what you have said I don’t agree with. That is to say, the New York Times poll, I think, is an outlier poll. You cited one poll.
ANDREA MITCHELL: It’s the RealClearPolitics average showing similar issues.
NANCY PELOSI: But that was one that brought down the average — it was an outlier. It wasn’t that big a sample. So I dismiss that.
I have been — since Congress adjourned, I have been in an average of five states a week. And I can tell you that women’s concerns about their freedom are very, very much still very significant in terms of how they will vote.
In fact, 80% of people who care about a woman’s right to choose say they will vote — it will determine who they vote for. . . .
I track these campaigns very carefully. I believe that we will have the mobilization on the ground to turn out the vote, the clear message we want to give women freedom of choice. [Republicans] want to have a ban on abortion.
We want to support and strengthen Medicare and Social Security, etc. They want to use a debt ceiling to cut that.
We want to — we have lowered the cost of prescription drugs for seniors. They want to reverse that.
We want to save the planet for our children and the future. [Republicans] say that [climate change] is a hoax and that’s the argument they used on the floor to oppose the Inflation Reduction Act, which made historic gains for fighting the climate.

She’s attacking the validity of a New York Times poll, arguing about sample size, and pretending that her anecdotal information — women who turn out at the Democratic campaign events she’s attended — is more useful in predicting what issues will motivate swing voters in the midterms. By the way, does anyone else remember that Pelosi’s last tenure as Speaker of the House only lasted four years, until the next midterm election in 2010, which produced a Republican landslide? There followed another eight years of Republican control, until 2018, but now, four years later . . . Well, good-bye, Nancy. Enjoy retirement with your “clear message” and “historic gains for fighting the climate.”




 

Category: Congress, Election, Nancy Pelosi, Polls

In The Mailbox: 10.17.22

Posted on | October 18, 2022 | 1 Comment

— compiled by Wombat-socho

This is going to be a busy week for me. Going to be down in Vegas for a couple of days doing the National Security Site (was Nevada Test Site) tour Wednesday and getting some tests in connection with a medical study on Thursday before I come home. All of this means I have to go down the day before the tour, so blogging may not be daily.
Silicon Valley delenda est.

…and the downside of this is what, exactly?

OVER THE TRANSOM
357 Magnum:  Hate Doesn’t Take the Sabbath Off
EBL: So who is next to get the boot at CNN?, Let’s Get Ready To Bumble!, and Russia Has Problems
Twitchy: Tim Allen Asks “Who Is The Face Of Woke?”, also, FBI Tweet Encourages People To Report Election Shenanigans, And Then It Gets Awkward
Louder With Crowder: Notorious ‘Defund the Police’ councilwoman demands police catch whoever is throwing poop on her house, also, Silly liberals glue their hands to the street in protest, cry when police aren’t gentle removing them
Vox Popoli: Boosted and Triggered, You Were Right, The Next Step for Red China, and Vaxx = Cervical Malignancies
Stoic Observations: Notes On Woke Racism

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
American Conservative: In UK, Cross Yourself & Go To Jail, The Dysfunction of Big Education, and Viktor Orban, Keeping It Realist
American Greatness: ‘Being an Eagles Fan Didn’t Save Her’, Hiding Hunter’s Laptop, and The Establishment is Still Terrified of Donald Trump
American Power: The Democrats’ Willie Horton Problem, also, Meet the Temporary Republicans Saving U.S. From the Left
American Thinker: Score One for True the Vote, also, The COVID Cult Proved How Desperate Westerners Are for Meaning
Animal Magnetism: Goodbye, Blue Monday
Babalu Blog: The religious in communist Cuba protest in Havana, launch campaign for freedom, Half the population of Cuba’s Pinar del Rio province still without electricity or water, and Democrats vehemently deny their party sympathizes with socialism, but a new poll says otherwise
BattleSwarm: Why Hasn’t Isopropyl Alcohol Gone Back Down In Price?, also, Drop Drones And A Blinding Flash Of The Obvious
Behind The Black: SpaceX successfully launches communications satellite, “Nice business you got here, shame if something happened to it.”, Red China launches military satellite, and Blacklisting in academia has been going on for decades unseen
Cafe Hayek: It’s Difficult to Believe That an Economist Can be So Terribly Clueless about Basic Economics
CDR Salamander: Can You be Realistic About the Real World?, also, So, we Have a National Security Strategy
Da Tech Guy: We won’t have quotas in the Navy…oh wait, I Guess We Skeptics Were Right, The Chosen Season 3 Disciple Pairings Some Thoughts, and Democrats’ inflation attacks ordinary Americans as Washington insiders are unaffected
Don Surber: Save the nation – MDTPA, “Trump is the first Hispanic president”, and The Dancing Vax media mocks the truth
First Street Journal:  2022 wins the Gold Medal in Lexington!, and Bad causes attract bad people
Gates Of Vienna: Pimpin’ for the New World Order, Losing Their Heads Over the Motoons (Again), A Vivarium for Jihad, and OSCE: An Organization on the Ropes After Failing at Its Primary Mission
The Geller Report: Vaccinated Suffering Strange, Terrifying New Illness, The ‘Best Friend Israel Ever Had in the White House’, and Obama Threatened Netanyahu With SLITTING THE THROAT Gesture
Hogewash: Team Kimberlin Post of the Day, Falling Into A Black Hole, and Which Side Is He On?
Hollywood In Toto: Shroud Doc to Merge Religion, Science, Is Tom Macdonald’s ‘Sheeple’ His Best Protest Song Yet? (Yes!), and Why Has Pop Culture Forgotten Dead of Winter?
The Lid: If Biden Cared About High Oil Prices, He’d Prioritize Additional Oil Drilling, also, We Are VERY Powerful- Ye Says So
Legal Insurrection: Gettysburg College Officials Organize ‘Solidarity’ Protest Ahead of Talk Critical of Transgenderism, Time To ‘Rebrand’ – Enthusiasm for ESG Crashing and Burning, Researchers at Boston U. Supposedly Claim They Developed a COVID Strain With ‘80% Kill Rate’, and Potential Candy Shortage Haunts This Halloween
Nebraska Energy Observer: Change is good, also, Prayer
Outkick: Tennessee Was Never Going To Lose After Vols Lineman Turned Mid-Game Vomit Into Savage Intimidation Tactic, Tennessee Finally Breaks The Curse And Beats Alabama For The First Time Since 2006, Bubba Wallace and Kyle Larson Get Into It After Crashing Out In Vegas, and  Boo Birds: Eagles Fans Let Jill Biden Have It
Power Line: Four Cheers for Tulsi, Truth & no consequences, and The Daily Chart: Long, Cold, Expensive Winter Ahead
Shark Tank: Parkland Dad Shames “Jerkoff” David Hogg & Other Antigun Activists
Shot In The Dark: Rochelle Olson – Still A DFL Flack After All These Years, also, Fake News
The Political Hat: Mandatory Racial Discrimination In Canadian Courts
This Ain’t Hell: Herky Bird update, Portland politician back in the news for Stolen Valor accusation, Raptor bites Army personnel, and DoD “Woke” School Administrator
Transterrestrial Musings: Our Mad Aristos, also, Getting Ready For Static Fire
Victory Girls: VA Democrat Wants To Criminalize Parents Opposed To Child Gender Transition, Democrats Realize Future Is Grim Post-Biden, and Boycott Ulta Trends After Trans “Girl” Podcast
Volokh Conspiracy: Sixth Circuit Rules Government Cannot Seize $300,000 in Home Equity to Pay $22,000 Tax Debt
Watts Up With That: Green British Academics Blast Politicians for Allowing Consumer Choice, Some Banks and Energy Companies Finally Starting to Get Some Backbone, and Robbing Grandma to Pay Gaia
Weasel Zippers: Biden Creeps On Another Young Girl, Fetterman Is Still A Mess, DeSantis Plans To Ship Illegals Off To Biden’s Hometown, Obama Rips Dems For Being “Buzzkills,” and California School District Fires Teacher For Refusing To Read LGBTQ Book To Children
The Federalist: Alaska Republicans Call On Kentucky GOP To Censure Mitch McConnell Over Party Interference, How Much Porn Do Libraries And Schools Have To Sponsor To Get Defunded?, WaPo ‘Journalists’ – The ‘Public Interest’ Isn’t The Same Thing As Your Political Preference, Fauci Can’t Whitewash His Disastrous Legacy, and Here’s A List Of Election Integrity Ballot Initiatives You Should Know
Mark Steyn: The Eagle Has Landed (in a Department Store), Low Dishonest Decade: Robert Aldrich, Hustle and the ’70s, and Naomi Wolf on Covid and Control

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Category: Linkagery

More Signs of a Midterm ‘Red Wave’?

Posted on | October 17, 2022 | 1 Comment

Ann Althouse captures Frank Bruni of the New York Times worrying that Joe Biden’s unpopularity may sink Raphael Warnock’s Senate reelection bid in Georgia. (Hat-tip: Instapundit.) The other big problem for Warnock is that the Democratic candidate for governor is Stacey Abrams, who is losing very badly to Gov. Brian Kemp.

Bruni is apparently trying to warn readers of the Times — trapped inside their liberal media echo chamber — that November 8 is starting to look like a complete wipeout for Democrats. Did I mention that Republican Kari Lake, a dreaded pro-Trump “election denier” is leading the governor’s race in Arizona? Although some polls in Arizona have shown the race a tie, or with a lead for Democrat Katie Hobbs, the RCP average has been in Lake’s favor for the past month. And if Lake is winning the governor’s race, isn’t it likely that Republican Blake Masters will upset Democrat Sen. Mark Kelly in Arizona? Masters is scarcely more “extremist” than Lake, and how many split-ticket voters will there be in Arizona? If we are looking at a genuine “wave” election, the fact that Kelly has an enormous money advantage and has led all the polls won’t save him from defeat. And hey, what about Connecticut?

Yes, Connecticut — a state that Joe Biden won by a 20-point margin two years ago — may be in play on November 8. The latest Connecticut poll shows Democrat Gov. Ned Lamont with just a 6-point lead over GOP challenger Bob Stefanowski, and Sen. Richard Blumenthal is leading Republican Leora Levy by only 5 points. While I doubt that Republicans are on the verge of upset victories in Connecticut, the mere fact that the polls are this close speaks volumes about the general anti-Democrat mood of the nationwide electorate as the midterms approach.

Democrats are now sweating elections in places where Republicans haven’t won in years. Republican Lee Zeldin’s challenge to New York Gov. Kathy Hochul is now rated a “toss-up,” in large measure because crime in New York has gotten completely out of control, and the blame goes directly to Democrats for passing “bail reform” laws.

If Democrats are fighting to keep their jobs in New York and Connecticut, how do you think the midterms are shaping up for Democratic congressional candidates in crucial “swing” districts?

There are 36 House races currently rated as “toss-ups” by Real Clear Politics. Thirty of those seats are held by Democrats. Five of them are in New York (the 3rd, 4th, 17th, 18th and 19th districts) and one is in Connecticut (5th District), so the fact that statewide races are unusually close in those states points toward the likelihood that at least some of those seats will end up in Republican hands. This is even more true for toss-up seats in the Heartland, like OH-9, TX-28, NC-1, MN-2 and MI-8. Keep in mind that Nancy Pelosi’s grip on the Speaker’s gavel rests on a razor-thin 222-213 majority, so that Republicans only need to flip five seats to take control of the House. Rick Moran breaks down the latest numbers from the CBS Battleground poll, which estimates the GOP gaining 11 seats — and that’s likely a lowball estimate.

CBS frames the story as Democratic “momentum has stalled, at least for now” — the Republican lead has “stabilized” after two months in which the Democrats had gained ground in the CBS poll. However, polls are a lagging indicator; what this actually reflects is that the Democrats got a bump in June because of the Supreme Court’s Dobbs decision overturning Roe v. Wade, but that boost was only temporary. Economic reality has proven to have a more enduring impact, as might be expected.

The nationwide average price of a gallon of regular gasoline peaked at $4.84 in mid-June, then slid down all the way to $3.51 in mid-September, but it’s now back up to $3.72 and can be expected to continue rising, as the demand for home heating oil impacts petroleum prices. Meanwhile, the Dow Jones Industrial Average, which was near $36,800 in January, closed Friday at $29,635 — nearly a 20% decline, which translates to a loss of more than $30,000 for the average 401(k) account.

Democrats have spent the past seven years chasing delusions — first the “Orange Man Bad” bogeyman, then the “Black Lives Matter” crusade, and now the belief that endless deficit spending and “Green energy” boondoggles can be sold as “inflation reduction” — and all those fantasies will collapse into a heap of futility once the midterms end Pelosi’s tenure as Speaker of the House. Frank Bruni’s column is his way of nudging the elbows of New York Times readers, telling them the jig will soon be up, so when the “Red Wave” hits on November 8, they won’t be so shocked.




 

Category: Congress, Election, Polls
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