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Rule 5 Sunday: Caitlin McSwain

Posted on | October 17, 2022 | 2 Comments

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Texas native Caitlin McSwain started as a model in her teens, was voted Playboy’s Cybergirl of the Month for January 2015, has posed for Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Edition, and has released her own calendar.
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NINETY MILES FROM TYRANNY: Hot Pick of the Late Night, The 90 Miles Mystery Box Episode #1869, Morning Mistress, and Girls With Guns. 

ANIMAL MAGNETISM: Rule Five World Ending Friday and the Saturday Gingermageddon. 

EBL: MAGA – Trump Subpoena, ABBA, William The Conqueror Bringing Sexy Back, Charissa Thompson, The Path, Angela Lansbury RIP, Maybe It’s Best To Stay Off Tinder?, Dinah Washington, Natalie Wood, Eraser: Reborn, and They/Them.

A VIEW FROM THE BEACH: Julia Rose Paul Unhinged, Fish Pic Friday – Aquagirl SA, Drinking Games, Gabbard Goes Off the Rez, Warnock Attempts to Evict Poor, Walker Offers to Pay, FBI Offered Steele Cool Million, Some Wednesday Wetness, Sleepy, Sloppy Joe’s Slouch To ‘Armageddon’, Vance and Ryan Rumble, Murky in Trouble, Tattoo Tuesday, Election Deniers?, The Monday Morning Stimulus and Sunday Sunrise

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How to Get Yourself Shot

Posted on | October 16, 2022 | Comments Off on How to Get Yourself Shot

Say hello to Steven Joaquin “Zhoie” Perez (a/k/a “Furry Potato”), a transgender YouTuber who specializes in “First Amendment audits.”

You may not have heard of this phenomenon: People who record videos in public places — post offices, municipal buildings, etc. — in order to test {“audit,” as they say) the police response. These self-declared “auditors” are deliberately non-cooperative when confronted by law enforcement, refusing to identify themselves and sometimes insulting the officers who usually show up in response to reports of “suspicious behavior.”

“First Amendment auditors” seemed to emerge into the news in 2017 when two Michigan men, James Baker and Brandon Vreeland, showed up armed at the Dearborn police station:

The two men wanted to file a complaint about being pulled over earlier by Dearborn police officers, but also saw it as an opportunity to test the suburban Detroit department to see if its officers “honored” the Constitution and their right to carry guns. . . .
“We audit police to see how well they honor the Constitution and people’s rights,” said Vreeland, who was free after posting $1,500 bond late Sunday night. “We showcase police abuse and abuse of police power in the totalitarian police state that we live in.”

Baker and Vreeland were subsequently sentenced to jail, but the “movement” which they represent has grown. I never heard of this until the other day when I saw a video by a guy named Abiyah Israel who calls his YouTube channel “We the People University.”

The doctrine being promoted — i.e., that you don’t have to cooperate with law enforcement when, for example, they ask to see identification — reminded me of so-called “sovereign citizens.” And as it turns out, I’m not the only one who sees this resemblance:

[C]ritics, including domestic terrorism experts, say the tactics are intimidating — sometimes downright scary — and that the “auditors” seem intent on inciting authorities. And they fear that it’s just a matter of time before one of the encounters turns violent.
“I am definitely concerned,” said Bob Paudert, former police chief of West Memphis, Ark., whose son and another officer were gunned down by anti-government sovereign citizens during a traffic stop in 2010. “These are the same tactics the sovereign citizens use. The language they use, going into city office buildings, refusing to give their names but demanding you give yours, videotaping everybody.
“They’re harassing city employees and government employees, and they’ve got no legitimate reason for being there other than just to film. They’re trying to provoke these people to make an arrest or hit them or whatever. The problem is, the employees don’t know how to handle it. They’re not sure what to do.”
Sovereign citizens believe the government is corrupt and out of control; therefore, they do not recognize local, state or federal authority or tax systems. Not all are violent, but in recent years they have come to be considered a top domestic terrorism threat by the FBI and other government agencies.

The “auditors” deny any connection to “sovereign citizens,” but their apparent intent to provoke confrontation with law enforcement is dangerous. Certainly, I value my First Amendment rights as much as any American, but I also value not getting shot by cops. Which brings us to the case of Steven Joaquin “Zhoie” Perez:

[In February 2019], Perez got into an altercation that provoked a security guard at a Los Angeles synagogue to fire a shot that grazed her leg.
It was a bizarre cultural clash between a social media provocateur and a community on edge since the Pittsburgh synagogue mass shooting in October and rising incidents of anti-Semitism.
Perez filmed for 40 minutes outside the gates of the Etz Jacob Congregation/Ohel Chana High School building in the Fairfax District. As the security guard grew angrier, he filmed Perez in return, then pulled out his handgun.
“Get away from the door,” the guard said in one of two videos Perez posted to her “Furry Potato Live” YouTube channel. “You try one more time and I shoot you.”
The gun fired, and Perez repeatedly shouted that he shot her in the leg.
Police arrested the guard, Edduin Zelayagrunfeld on suspicion of assault with a deadly weapon. He could not be reached for comment Friday.
Perez was treated for her injury and gave a news conference later.
She is a self-proclaimed “1st Amendment auditor” — a phenomenon that started in the last two years. According to Brian Levin, director of Cal State San Bernardino’s Center on Hate and Extremism, the “audits” usually involve people provoking police or others near sensitive locations who might challenge their right to assemble or film in a public space.

Prosecutors declined to file charges against the security guard, perhaps because if you’re hired to guard a synagogue, you get a lot of leeway when dealing with suspicious strangers:

Videos that Perez posted to her YouTube channel, where she is better known as “Furry Potato,” show the guard repeatedly telling Perez to leave the area and constantly moving his hand toward his firearm, even though she is standing on a public sidewalk.
At one point in the video, Zelayagrunfeld threatens to shoot Perez if she does not move away from an entrance. The guard appears to have his weapon pointed toward the ground when a gunshot is heard in the video.
Before the shooting, Zelayagrunfeld had asked school staff to move students to a safe location, triggering a lockdown, according to the memo filed by the district attorney’s office. Taken together with recent surges in anti-Semitic hate crimes and the mass shooting at the Tree of Life synagogue in Pittsburgh roughly four months earlier, prosecutors believed the guard’s “perception of Perez’s behavior as dangerous was reasonable.”
“Perez went to a Jewish school, and place of worship, dressed in all black and with a backpack secured to her body by a harness,” the document read. “As Zelaya told detectives, Perez’s backpack could have contained a bomb, and her attire could have concealed a firearm or other deadly weapon.”

See what I mean? The guard’s actions were “reasonable,” considering the circumstances. Perez is lucky to have been only grazed by a bullet.

Sooner or later, one of these “auditors” is likely to be a lot less lucky. Generally speaking, if a cop is going to shoot you, he’ll keep pulling the trigger until the magazine’s empty. Your “rights” don’t do you much good after you bleed to death. Your family might get a lawsuit settlement payoff, but you won’t be around to spend that money.




 

Category: Constitution, Crime

There Is No Joy in ’Bamaland

Posted on | October 16, 2022 | Comments Off on There Is No Joy in ’Bamaland

The headline at ESPN says, “Tennessee tops Alabama in epic back-and-forth thriller,” but please, spare me such “thrills.” Pardon my lifelong preference for the boring, easy, lopsided Alabama victories.

O, Lord, keep your “thrillers” far away from the Crimson Tide!

’Bama spotted Tennessee a 28-10 first-half lead, but then Heisman Trophy quarterback Bryce Young led the Tide back to tie it 28-28 early in the third quarter. Alabama only punted once in the second half, scoring touchdowns on three of its five possessions, and adding a defensive touchdown when linebacker Dallas Turner scooped up a Tennessee fumble and ran it in. That gave ’Bama a 49-42 lead with less than eight minutes remaining, but Tennessee quarterback Hendon Hooker then led the Volunteers on a 75-yard touchdown drive that included two pass interference penalties against Alabama. The second penalty saved Tennessee after a fourth-down interception that would have — should have? — clinched the victory with four minutes left to play.

Now the game was tied, but Young led the Tide downfield again, reaching the Tennessee 32-yard line with 34 seconds left. Alabama still had one timeout left, and you might think they could have RUN THE DAMNED BALL at least once, but instead they threw three passes, all of them incomplete. With 15 seconds on the clock, Will Reichard came on to kick what would have been the game-winning field goal, but it went wide right, and it seemed we were headed to overtime.

Alas, Hendon Hooker may be the best quarterback Tennessee’s had since Peyton Manning. He connected on two passes that put the Vols at the Alabama 23 with two seconds left and Tennessee won on a field goal.

It was the first time Tennessee has beat ’Bama since 2006. Their fans tore down the goal posts and, of course, UT alumnus Glenn Reynolds was celebrating. Someone in the comments at Instapundit said, “Imagine scoring 49 points and losing!” To which I replied, “Unfortunately, we don’t have to imagine it.” A dreadful nightmare. “Thriller,” my ass.

Much of the blame for this defeat will fall on Bryce Young, perhaps unfairly. He threw for 455 yards with two touchdowns and no interceptions, spreading the ball around to nine different receivers. The real problem for Alabama was that they got 17 penalties for 130 yards.

And where the hell was the defense, huh? Since when does Alabama’s defense give up 52 points to anybody, let alone Tennessee? The last time the Crimson Tide gave up this many points was 1907.

If Bear Bryant was alive, he’d have them boys running wind sprints until they died. Fifty-two points! That’s not a defeat, it’s a humiliation!

One of the problems with being America’s Greatest College Football Team is that there are really only two kinds of seasons for ’Bama: National Championships and failures. Since Nick Saban became the coach in 2007, the Crimson Tide has won six National Championships and, in all but two of those years, they did so with at least one regular-season loss on their record. So it is too early to say the Tide can’t come back this year, although they face a difficult schedule down the stretch, with the Nov. 12 game at Ole Miss looking especially tough.

’Bama fans will therefore remain hopeful that somehow Saban can get the team back to the SEC title game and we’ll see how it goes from here. For now, however, a dark cloud looms above Tuscaloosa, and in the hearts of Crimson Tide fans everywhere. There is no joy in ’Bamaland.




 

Category: Alabama, Football

FMJRA 2.0: Out of The Blue & Into The Black

Posted on | October 16, 2022 | Comments Off on FMJRA 2.0: Out of The Blue & Into The Black

— compiled by Wombat-socho

A decent week for the Senators. True, we lost two out of three to the Twins, who have a disgusting number of left-handed hitters and pitchers, but we began the week with two wins against the Yankees. So we’re .500 for the week.
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In The Mailbox: 10.14.22
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The J6 Committee Tantrum

Posted on | October 15, 2022 | 1 Comment

This week marked the beginning of the end of “The United States House Select Committee to Investigate the January 6th Attack on the United States Capitol, more commonly known as the January 6th Committee.”

Congress has now adjourned until after the election, which Democrats will lose, and so, while we might see some further theatrics during the lame-duck sessions before the 118th Congress convenes in January, this was their big finale: “Let’s subpoena Trump!”

It so happened that I decided to switch my home-office TV to MSNBC on Friday (I watch MSNBC so you don’t have to), and on Morning Joe, they featured this interview with Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-Maryland):

 

“… the terrible violence … scrambling to get more police and military reinforcements on the scene … the Proud Boys and Oath Keepers and insurrectionists … the attempted political coup and violent insurrection … the mobilizing of a domestic violent extremist movement …”

Listening to that, I was struck by how easily these hyperbolic phrases tumbled out of Raskin’s mouth, as evidence of how insulated inside the echo chamber Democrats have become and, of course, the “journalist” Willie Geist is part of that echo chamber. He is as objective about the J6 Committee as my teenage daughter is objective about Harry Styles.

The predicate of the J6 “investigation,” the fundamental tenet of the belief system in which the Capitol riot was an “attempted political coup,” is that there is no reason to believe that the 2020 election was fraudulent. If no reasonable person could suspect that the election was stolen, then what happened on J6 was an illegal “insurrection,” an attempt to overthrow the legitimate government. Democrats and the media (but I repeat myself) are unwilling to hear the arguments made or to examine the evidence cited by those who claim that Biden was not legitimately elected. The bedrock assumption of Democrats is that Biden was elected in a landslide — 81 million votes! the most popular presidential candidate in history! — and thus they view any expression of doubt about Biden’s legitimacy as “insurrectionist” crazy-talk.

This is not how discourse in a democratic society is supposed to operate. Controversies over public policy would never occur, if we all shared the same set of beliefs, and so the fact that there is controversy about any subject (in this case, the legitimacy of the 2020 presidential election) requires a public hearing of arguments on both sides of the dispute, so that the electorate may be fully informed. The J6 Committee deliberately avoided such a discussion. Indeed, the whole purpose of this committee (which, by the way, lacks legitimacy under the normal rules of House procedure) was to criminalize doubt about the 2020 election.

It is one thing, when partisans on either side of dispute are seeking to rally their supporters, to make a one-sided argument in favor of a particular policy. This is entirely normal in politics. Yet the proceedings of a congressional committee are not supposed to be partisan rallies. Pelosi’s charade of phony “bipartisanship” — handpicking Trump-haters Liz Cheney and Adam Kinzinger as “Republican” members of the select committee, over the objections of Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy — cannot disguise the one-sided nature of the J6 Committee’s business. At no time in the operations of this committee has there been any fair consideration of the views of 74 million Americans who voted to reelect President Trump, 77% of whom think cheating affected the 2020 election.

Now, it may be that, after hearing everything that election skeptics had to say on this subject, most Americans would still conclude that Biden was legitimately elected, and therefore would believe that the protest of the January 6 certification of Biden’s election — which is what the rally at the Capitol was supposed to be, a peaceful protest — was inspired by erroneous (but sincere) beliefs. There is a world of difference between a protest motivated by a sincere sense of grievance and an “attempted political coup,” and yet at no time did the J6 Committee ever allow any consideration of the election doubts that inspired the events of J6.

Furthermore, and this is equally crucial, Democrats and the media absolutely refuse to recognize that the outbreak of violence at the Capitol in January 2021 was clearly inspired by the months of “Black Lives Matter” riots that broke out in May 2020 — riots that the Democrats enthusiastically applauded. Many millions of dollars of damage were inflicted, and many people killed or injured, during the weeks of arson, vandalism and looting which CNN reporter Omar Jimenez infamously described as “fiery but most peaceful” protests.

By applauding this destruction, Democrats thereby legitimized violent “protests,” and if the Capitol rioters believed there would be no repercussions for their actions on January 6 — well, why shouldn’t they believe that? Antifa thugs and mobs of urban looters had gotten away with criminal activity which everybody saw happening live on television throughout the summer of 2020, and Democrats never objected to those “mostly peaceful” protests. Yet here was Jamie Raskin on MSNBC Friday morning, speaking of Republican voters as “a domestic violent extremist movement,” and Willie Geist did not object to this partisan smear.

Well, this will all be fading in our rearview mirror soon enough. Anyone who looks at the poll numbers can see that Democrats are going to get wiped out in the midterms, and the proceedings of the J6 Committee will be remembered as symptomatic of Orange Man Bad Syndrome.

All we have to do is Keep Calm and Vote Republican.

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In The Mailbox: 10.14.22

Posted on | October 14, 2022 | Comments Off on In The Mailbox: 10.14.22

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Usual weekend deadlines for the usual weekend posts.
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Me, most of this week

OVER THE TRANSOM
357 Magnum:  Texas Man Seems to be Related to Florida Man
A Bad American: Groomers In The Classroom? (NSFW)
EBL: Wait, Why No Impeachment For Biden For Election Interference?, also, Fetterman and Biden in Pennsylvania
Twitchy: Is Jim Acosta Out At CNN? Twitter Reacts! also, Fetterman’s Wife Says NBC Journo Should “Face Consequences” For Revealing Her Husband The Senate Candidate Is Brain-Damaged
Louder With Crowder: JK Rowling savages all her haters with a single tweet, also, Add Mark Wahlberg to the list of people fleeing California ‘to give my kids a better life’
Vox Popoli: Every Conversation Ever, also, Human Handgrenade Confirmed
According To Hoyt: Roll Left And Die, also, Ring The Bell
Monster Hunter Nation: WriterDojo S3 E14: Worldbuilding with Chuck Gannon
Stoic Observations: Stewards Of Humanity – This Is Why We Fight

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
American Conservative: Woke Vandals Trash A Van Gogh, Today In Soft Totalitarianism, also, Sifting Through the Wreckage of Modernism
American Greatness: The Broken Promises of the January 6 Committee, also, Why Ron DeSantis Should Run in 2024
American Power: Gideon Rachman, The Age of the Strongman
American Thinker: GOP: Lead, Follow, or Get Out of the Way!
Animal Magnetism: Rule Five World Ending Friday
Babalu Blog: Castro dictatorship has no answers as another night of protests shakes Cuba, The Mariel refugees who settled in Wisconsin, and German jewelry store apologizes for its use of Fidel Castro image, removes and destroys it
BattleSwarm: LinkSwarm for October 14
Behind The Black: Skyrora’s first suborbital rocket launch fails shortly after liftoff, Freedom successfully splashes down in the Atlantic, and Pushback: Central Florida U forced to end censorship and blacklisting
CDR Salamander: Fullbore Friday
Chicago Boyz: Where Have All the Flowers Gone?*, also, KC Meetup After-Action Review
Da Tech Guy: Well my Tom Hagen Prediction is Coming True Faster than I thought
Don Surber: Judge rules guns do not need a serial number, also, NYT worries NY will flip red
First Street Journal: Is this why Central Bucks schools have been pushing back against LGBTQ+ agenda?, He had a second chance, and he blew it, and Seth Williams missed the point
Gates Of Vienna: Freeloading in the Canaries, Jihad Terror is a Now a Mental Disorder in Hungarabia, The Progressive Islamization of Germany, Sweden Throws the Book at Koran Rioters, and Towards a Sustainable Armageddon
The Geller Report: J6 – IT WAS ALL STAGED! , also, NYC Protest Against Children’s Drag Story Hour
Hogewash:  Team Kimberlin Post of the Day, Watching a Pair of Neutron Stars Merge, and Now Those Are Spicy Pumpkins
Hollywood In Toto: Hollywood Propaganda Demands a Warning Label, also, Halloween: Resurrection Marked Tragic Low for Beloved Franchise
The Lid: Joe Biden On Beau Biden: Is He Senile Or A Liar?
Legal Insurrection: Parents Blast Cal. School Board for Halloween Party Featuring Drag Queen Show, Va. State Delegate Wants Parents to Face Abuse Charges if They Don’t Affirm Their LGBTQ Child, Wawa Closing Two Philadelphia Stores Due to ‘Continued Safety and Security Challenges, Business Factors’, and Protesters Outside Jewish Student Center at George Washington U. Chant ‘There is Only One Solution’
Nebraska Energy Observer: Scattershot Friday – Election Season
Outkick: ESPN’s Kimberley Martin Called Out For Tweet That Highlights Ryan Fitzpatrick’s Justin Fields-Cam Newton Comparison, Man Davante Adams Pushed Was A College Student At His First Day On The Job, Brian Robinson Solidifies Miraculous Comeback With Game-Winning TD, Chad Johnson Has Troubling Experience In Qatar Ahead Of The World Cup, and Spanish Model Reveals That She Has Sex Every Day With Her Soccer Player Husband
Power Line: Head-On Crash at the Intersection, Rampant Inflation Dims Dems’ Hopes, and Thoughts from the ammo line
Shark Tank: Demings Looking For Credit After Hurricane Ian
Shot In The Dark: Can You Feel The Pain? also, Singular
The Political Hat: Concerning Titles & Pronouns, also, Firing Line Friday: Revenue Sharing
This Ain’t Hell: Tulsi Gabbard provides her observations of key Democrat leaders, Valor Friday, Joe Biden describes report on 8.2% inflation rise as improvement, and Supersonic Flight 75 Years Ago
Transterrestrial Musings: The FBI, also, New Worlds
Victory Girls: Biden Extends Covid Public Health Emergency For No Reason Whatsoever, Nancy Pelosi Conveniently Has Daughter Filming On J6, and How DARE SHE?! Gisele Fetterman Wants NBC’s Dasha Burns Fired
Volokh Conspiracy: Chemerinsky and Marcus Go Another Round Re Antisemitism at Berkeley Law
Watts Up With That: Green Insanity: Governor Gretchen Whitmer Shutting Down Home Propane Supplies?, also, White House “Desperate… Panicking” Over Saudis and Oil
Weasel Zippers:  Kamala Harris Dodges Whether There’ll Be A Biden-Harris Ticket In 2024 Election, As Violent Crime Soars, Minnesota Democrat AG Keith Ellison Says Crime “Getting Better Every Day”, and Fifth Circuit Blocks Texas “Free Speech” Law
The Federalist: Corporate Media Laugh At FBI Meddling With GOP Control Of Senate In Attempted Entrapment Of Ron Johnson, From Jeffrey Dahmer To Mass Shooters, Media Are Glamorizing Killers And It Needs To Stop, Yahoo! Finance: We Could Ease Diaper Shortage If Pregnancy Centers Would Quit Convincing Women To Keep Their Babies, A Plan To Make ‘Diversity, Equity, And Inclusion’ Die, and The Same Day SCOTUS Squashes PA’s Illegal Ballots, Secretary Of State Tells Counties To Break The Law
Mark Steyn: Live Around the Planet: Friday October 14th

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In The Mailbox: 10.13.22

Posted on | October 13, 2022 | Comments Off on In The Mailbox: 10.13.22

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Silicon Valley delenda est.

OVER THE TRANSOM
357 Magnum: Seven Days Of Mayhem, also, California’s High Speed Cash Sink
A Bad American: Don’t Mess With Mama Bear
EBL: Rapid Electricity Recovery in Florida: DeSantis Delivers 
Twitchy: Anybody shocked by the final dramatic move of the J6 Commission? also, Steve Schmidt having a nervous breakdown on Twitter?
Louder With Crowder: Watch this mother GO OFF challenging her school board to explain what’s ‘family friendly’ about drag shows, also, JP Morgan Chase cancels Ye from using their bank with no reason given (but you can guess)
Vox Popoli: This is Fine, Meme of the Week, and Thou Shalt Trust the Narrative

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
American Conservative: Allies that Hurt America, Beavis And The Catholic Priest, and Board Of Education, Board Of Groomers
American Greatness: Things Are Much Worse Than They Seem for Democrats, also, Saudi Arabia Releases Statement Confirming That Biden Pressured Kingdom to Delay Cuts in Oil Production Until After Election
American Thinker: Non-Partisan Elections Are Non-Existent, also, Is This the Beginning of the End for George Soros?
Animal Magnetism: Animal’s Daily Testosterone News
Babalu Blog: With chants of ‘Freedom, Freedom,’ another night of protests in communist Cuba, Growing discontent with the government in Cuba sets the stage for a collapse of the Castro regime, and Plagued by four epidemics at once, Cuba reels from health crisis
BattleSwarm: Are You Prepping For Food Insecurity?
Behind The Black: Japan’s Epsilon rocket fails during launch, The known near Earth asteroid catalog now tops 30,000, Final decision: Arecibo will not be rebuilt, and Pushback: Chants of “Vote them out!” overwhelm school board meeting
Cafe Hayek: Jay Bhattacharya and Jenin Younes on the Case Against Fauci, Pittsburgh Tribune-Review: “Big government’s impossible task”, and Resisting the Woke Doesn’t Require Rejecting Free Markets
CDR Salamander: Diversity Thursday
Da Tech Guy: Education as a commodity, PA’s Dems Need to know How many Votes to Steal, and The Biden Regime is neutering the M1 Abrams Main Battle Tank
Don Surber: Even Bernie knows abortion won’t save Democrats, The Party of Fetterman, and Races that could surprise
First Street Journal: Killadelphia: another 13-year-old (probable) gang-banger wannabe bites the dust * Updated! *, The Philadelphia Inquirer really, really hates cops!, and Danielle Outlaw is disgusted, and Larry Krasner is disgusting
Gates Of Vienna: Bullets for Ukraine But None for Germany, Run Me Out in the Cold Rain and Snow, Culture-Enriching Decapitation in Luxembourg, and “They Are a Criminal Government That Has Betrayed Their Own People”
The Geller Report: IMPEACHABLE: Biden Regime Urged Saudi Arabia to Wait Until After Midterms to Cut Oil Production
Hogewash:  Team Kimberlin Post of the Day, also, Rings of Powder
Hollywood In Toto: Trump Was Right – He Destroyed Late Night TV, Halloween Ends Gives Short Shrift to Iconic Monster, Franchise Essentials, and Greatest Lie Ever Sold Skewers Media Narratives on BLM, George Floyd
The Lid: Is Fauci Trying For A New Pandemic?
Legal Insurrection: Pfizer Executive Admits mRNA Vaccine Was Not Tested for Virus Transmissibility, U. Illinois Paid Ibram Kendi $35,000, Including $10,000 for Travel Expenses, for a One-Hour Q&A Session, Leftists at U. Alabama Sign Petition Demanding School Cancel Screening of Matt Walsh Film, and ‘Kill All Christian Nationalists’: Vandals Trash Michigan Catholic Church With Pro-Abortion Graffiti
Nebraska Energy Observer: Danger deepens
Outkick: Dan Snyder Reportedly Has Dirt On Other NFL Owners, Roger Goodell, College Football Game At Baseball Stadium To Be Played In Only One Direction On Saturday, ESPN’s Kimberley Martin Gives Ridiculous Advice To 4-1 New York Giants, and Troy Aikman Bends Knee To Woke Mob, Walks Back ‘Dresses’ Comment
Power Line: Whip this, Dementia Joe recalls Beau, and Media Discovers Vote Fraud After All
Shark Tank: DeSantis Destroys Democrat Voting Narrative, Expands Voting Opportunities After Hurricane
Shot In The Dark: Darn Those Redneck MAGA Fascists, also, Didn’t See This Coming
The Political Hat: Concerning Titles & Pronouns
This Ain’t Hell: Biden’s admin and the law, Happy Birthday Navy- 247 Years Young, and Biden Claims His Son “Lost His Life in Iraq”
Transterrestrial Musings: Stoke Space, The Feminization Of Academia, and The Media’s Addiction Problem
Victory Girls: New Venezuelan Migrant Policy is a Gimmick, also, Did Biden Try A Quid Pro Quo On The Saudis?
Volokh Conspiracy: Requirement of Serial Numbers on Guns Violates Second Amendment, also, Renaissance Faire King & Queen are Limited-Purpose Publick Figures
Watts Up With That: Dear Neighbour, Please “Roster Ration” Your Electricity Use so our EVs can Charge, also, UK Über Conservative Jacob Rees-Mogg Outed as a Guardian Loving Big Government Green?
Weasel Zippers: WH Says Economy “Doesn’t Define What A Recession Would Look Like”, A Paltry 36% Approve of How Biden Is Handling The Economy, Inflation Stays Sky-High As Core Prices Soar Above Expectations To 40-Year-High, and Biden Bizarrely Claims Inflation Will Get “Worse” If Republicans Win Midterm Elections
The Federalist: Unending ‘Emergency Powers’ Enable Authoritarian Behavior Such As Suspending Elections, As Energy Interests Clash, Corporate America’s Green Dream Is Stuck Between BlackRock And A Hard Place, Nevada Asks Snitches To Rat Out Crisis Pregnancy Centers So The State Can Shut Them Down, and Doctor Who Mutilates Kids Goes On Campaign Trail For North Carolina Democrat
Mark Steyn: A Low-Grade Ministry of Truth, Blunt Force Hate, and Coming Unglued

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‘Demented Liar Joe Biden’

Posted on | October 13, 2022 | Comments Off on ‘Demented Liar Joe Biden’

Ace of Spades knows how to coin a phrase, writing about the umpteen-millionth reiteration of Our Alleged President’s habit of . . . Well, lying:

Joe Biden has often invoked his late son Beau Biden.
For example, after his botched withdrawal from Afghanistan he evoked his late son in a shameless effort to avoid criticism of his actions. . . .
It was grossly inappropriate for him to constantly invoke his son who died of brain cancer as though it was the same thing as if he had lost his life while serving our country. But on Wednesday while giving a speech in Colorado, Biden claimed that Beau actually lost his life in Iraq. . . .
Biden’s brain might be Swiss-cheesed, but it’s hard to wrap my head around the idea that he would have forgotten how his own son died. So this naturally begs the question as to whether Biden was confused because of how often he brings up Beau as though he was a war casualty or whether he just thinks it makes him look better to say he was.
And frankly I don’t know which answer is worse.

Ace compiles other examples of Biden’s less-than-truthful habits, including the false claim — which he made repeatedly, even after he was criticized for it — that the truck driver involved in his wife’s fatal auto accident was driving drunk. Biden deliberately slandered Curtis Dunn: “Not only was he not drunk, he wasn’t even at fault in the collision — Biden’s wife blew through a stop sign at an intersection, precipitating the collision, which the truck driver tried to avoid.”

Do you need me to repeat that? Can I make it any clearer? The truck driver was sober, Biden’s wife was at fault and yet Biden — WHO CERTAINLY KNOWS THESE FACTS, WHICH HAVE BEEN WIDELY REPORTED — continued to defame Curtis Dunn.

This was not an innocent mistake. It wasn’t stuttering, or a momentary lapse of memory. It was straight-out deliberate slander.

A powerful politician deliberately endeavored to smear the reputation of an honest, hard-working citizen, and why? Because Biden was seeking pity. He wanted people to feel sorry for him, to view him as a disadvantaged victim, so that he could posture (as he always does) as courageous — BRAVE JOE BIDEN, HERO OF THE COMMON MAN!

The man craves admiration so desperately that this craving has warped his entire personality, leading him to tell falsehoods — blatant lies that he knows to be false — in his pathetic efforts to make himself seem virtuous and deserving of admiration. And the weirdest part of it all is that Biden apparently expects to be admired for his honesty:

So deeply convinced is Joe Biden of his own honesty that he thinks his very name is synonymous with truth-telling:

“I give you my word as a Biden: I will never stoop to President Trump’s level.”
— Nov. 20, 2019

“I give you my word as a Biden: If I am elected president I will do everything in my power to protect our children from gun violence.”
— March 10, 2020

“I give you my word as a Biden: When I’m president, I will lead with science, listen to the experts and heed their advice, and always tell you the truth.”
— March 18, 2020

When I first noticed him using this “my word as a Biden” phrase during the 2020 campaign, I was puzzled. Has the Biden family been so prominently associated with honesty that when Joe says this, most Americans say, “Well, that settles it”? Of course not. In fact, Biden’s first presidential campaign, in 1988, collapsed in disgrace specifically because of Joe’s dishonesty, when he was caught plagiarizing others — most notably British Labour leader Neil Kinnock — in his speeches . . .

The lack of self-awareness expressed by that phrase “my word as a Biden” is remarkable, and yet the “Democratic operatives with bylines” simply don’t wish to acknowledge what an infamous liar Biden is.

(Hat-tip: Ed Driscoll at Instapundit.)




 

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