In The Mailbox: 05.16.24 (Afternoon Edition)

Posted on | May 16, 2024 | No Comments

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OVER THE TRANSOM
357 Magnum: Journalism & Self-Defense
EBL: Emigrants Cross The Plains, also, The Tattooist of Auschwitz
Twitchy: Dopey Sara Haines Of “The View” Says Latin Mass Is Extremist & Doesn’t Know Where Christianity Begins, Darwin Award – Woman Charged By Bull On Baja Beach After Ignoring Warnings To Stay Away, and Moorpark Professor Charged With Murder In Death Of Pro-Israel Protester
Louder With Crowder: Joe Biden challenges Donald Trump to debate in a video that needs to be seen to be believed (UPDATED), “This guy sh*ts his pants every now and then”: Aaron Rodgers, Tucker Carlson take turns ROASTING Joe Biden, and New York says “no white men allowed” when it comes to bidding on new airport contract
Vox Popoli: The Consequences of Boomer Solipsism, Way Too Little, Way Too Late, Truth is Disinformation, An Accurate Review, and A Warning Shot
Upstream Reviews: Rebel Moon

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Baldilocks: Snapshot, also, Sitting Out The Flesh Wars
CDR Salamander: Not Your Grandfather’s Philippines
Dana Loesch: Not Everything Has To Be A Flex
Don Surber: How America came to hate Joe Biden
STUMP: Ohio State Teachers Pension Drama Continues!

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Six Weeks Until First Debate

Posted on | May 16, 2024 | No Comments

The earliest presidential debate, ever:

CNN is President Joe Biden’s preferred network to host at least one presidential debate, he said Wednesday.
CNN’s Jake Tapper and Dana Bash will host, according to Puck News. . . .
The Biden campaign said the president would debate Trump only in June and September, without live audiences present.
“I’ve received and accepted an invitation from @CNN for a debate on June 27th,” Biden posted on X. “Over to you, Donald. As you said: anywhere, any time, any place.”
Trump accepted Biden’s invitation and urged the president to debate him earlier and more often.
“I’m ready to go…The dates that they proposed are fine…Let’s see if Joe can make it to the stand-up podium,” Trump reportedly told Fox News Digital. “The proposed June and early September dates are fully acceptable to me. I will provide my own transportation.”
Trump also said he would debate Biden in October on Fox News.

Of course, everybody sees this setup as favoring Biden, who is trailing Trump in most polls and therefore will welcome the chance to reset the perceptions in a friendly media forum, knowing that CNN is completely controlled by partisan Democrats. As someone who routinely watches CNN (so you don’t have to), I can attest that Jake Tapper and Dana Bash are about as objective as Karine Jean-Pierre. Everybody sees this debate arrangement as proof of how desperate the Biden campaign is:

President Joe Biden’s decision to take Donald Trump up on his “anytime and anywhere” debate offer and propose June and September debates is a clear sign of worry among his reelection campaign team.
Two months ago, Biden cracked the door open to not having any debates, which hadn’t happened in a presidential race since 1972. Asked by a reporter if he would “commit to a debate with former President Trump,” Biden responded, “It depends on his behavior.”
Nothing has changed about Trump’s behavior since then. What also hasn’t changed is who is leading the polls. . . .
Recent polling suggests Biden only has a narrow path to 270. He would need a bigger recovery in the more diverse Sun Belt swing states of Arizona, Georgia, Nevada, and North Carolina—where his deficit is generally around 5 or 6 points—to recreate the multiple paths he had four years ago when he narrowly defeated Trump in several critical battlegrounds.

So we’re going to have a debate in June — more than four months before Election Day — and what happens if that doesn’t resurrect Biden’s poll numbers? Frank Lautenberg could not be reached for comment.

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In The Mailbox: 05.15.24

Posted on | May 16, 2024 | No Comments

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OVER THE TRANSOM
357 Magnum: The FBI Has Truly Become The Stasi, Gun Free Zones Do Not Make You Safe,
EBL: Jamestown, also, Winston Marshall Debates That Populism Is Democracy at Oxford Union
Twitchy: President Biden’s Aides Reportedly Worry About His “Psychological Torment” Over Hunter, The Day The Music Died – Chuck E. Cheese Pulls The Plug On Animatronic Band, and Gov. Hairgel Claims That His State Has A “National Model” To Address Homelessness
Louder With Crowder: Enjoy this cat slapping the virtue signaling out of their human’s mouth when she declares her pronouns, Thug who slashed 11-year-old girl needs police to save him from angry (and sweet) street justice, Grown man (who thinks he’s a girl) goes to Disneyland to explain how he got his “cake pops” chopped off, and Super Bowl champion WRECKS Joe Biden at college commencement for being a pro-abortion fake “Catholic”
Vox Popoli: Lenin and the Art of the Impossible, An Inept Defense, Two Years in the Making, Clown World’s Best Intellectuals are Retarded, and History is Incomplete
Upstream Reviews: Project Hail Mary, Stargate Atlantis, and The Dream of the Iron Dragon
L’Ombre de L’Olivier: Faith & Ritual,
Draw & Talk: The Manga Debacle I’m Experiencing & Going To Try To Be The Solution For,
Tessellations: Prediction Is Compression,
Defending The Wood Perilous: Wanted – Gatekeepers,
Ammo.com: Florida Candidates’ 2A Grades For The 2024 Election,

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
Baldilocks: Goal of Fundamental Disconnection, also, Lock Your Doors
CDR Salamander: Japan’s Renaissance,
Dana Loesch: Last Week In Legal – All Hell Broke Loose,
Don Surber: Even Obama won’t speak at Harvard, and LGBT went a bridge too far
STUMP: Happy Mothers Day – Art, Sumo, & Sainted Mothers! also, The Problem of Pain & Drugs

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Houston Psycho Tranny Killer Proves Yet Again That Crazy People Are Dangerous

Posted on | May 14, 2024 | No Comments

The category “psycho tranny” is not listed in the latest Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, despite the existence of the Houston murder suspect known as “Karon Fisher”:

A transgender-identifying male reportedly murdered a man in Houston, Texas, late last week, running him over with a car before kissing him and then repeatedly stabbing him.
The suspect, 20-year-old Karon Fisher, allegedly mowed down 64-year-old Steven Anderson as he was on his way to the mailbox.
Video of the incident appeared to show the car driving at a high rate of speed for a residential neighborhood and intentionally swerving to hit Anderson. After hitting him, Fisher allegedly hit him again, backing over him with the car.
The New York Post reported that Fisher allegedly “flipped Anderson’s body over, straddled him, and kissed him before stabbing him nine times.”
Harris County records showed that Fisher was charged with murder, evading arrest with a vehicle, and assaulting hospital personnel.
Fisher was previously charged with prostitution and has been on community supervision for evading a prior arrest.

Am I the only one annoyed by journalists using “allegedly” in reporting on crimes recorded on video? It’s all right there for anyone to see, caught on the neighbors’ surveillance camera:

NEW: Man killed by transgender driver who plowed into him, backed over him and stabbed him 9 times before kissing him and prancing over his body.

Absolutely horrific.

20-year-old suspect Karon Fisher is a man according to court papers.

After trying to flee the scene in a car,… pic.twitter.com/XuG8KcPIZw

— Collin Rugg (@CollinRugg) May 11, 2024

There is a way to avoid using words like “reportedly” or “allegedly,” namely to use the word “accused,” or phrases like “charged with,” “police said,” etc. Authorities in Houston have charged Karon Fisher with murdering a man, and so forth. (Whether you use the phrase “psycho tranny” in the headline is optional, but highly recommended.)

Believe it or not, I was not going to write about Karon Fisher, but my blog buddy Dana Pico did an extensive post about this incident:

If you watch the video, you’ll see that the alleged killer is not wearing normal clothing, but was “dressed in a black bra and high-waisted black shorts,” ‘booty’ shorts to be more precise. Mr Fisher was dressed as a prostitute. . . .
So, dressed like a prostitute, and previously charged with prostitution. Yes, I know: the past prostitution charge was dismissed, but we as observers can draw our own conclusions.

Indeed, we can draw our own conclusions, and among the conclusions we can draw: Crazy People Are Dangerous.

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Even CNN Has to Admit Biden’s Losing

Posted on | May 13, 2024 | No Comments

Speaking as “someone worried about the prospects of a second Trump term,” Fareed Zarkaria yesterday told his viewers on CNN, “I think it’s best to be honest about reality,” i.e., Biden’s losing:

“The shift here is stark,” Zakaria pointed out. “On the question of whom voters trust more to deal with the economy, Trump has a 22-point lead over Biden, according to an NBC poll from January. This marks of a 15-point bump for Trump compared to the same poll in 2020.”
“Perhaps this is because inflation is a far more pervasive problem than unemployment, affecting all Americans every day,” he pondered.
You think?
Zakaria then admitted that even when it comes to cultural issues, Biden still can’t catch a break. Even though he thinks Democrats can benefit from the Republican Party’s position on abortion, Biden lags far behind on the issue of immigration, which polls indicate is a more concerning issue. Zakaria even doubts that abortion will be a significant issue in the race because the issue of regulating abortion has been brought back to the states.
But Zakaria is most worried about the lack of unity in the Democratic Party over the Israel-Hamas war, while Republicans “seem to be uniting behind Trump.”
“Whatever opposition he faced in the primaries has largely melted away,” he observed.
And then came Zakaria’s most significant admission.
“And the trials against him keep him in the spotlight, infuriate his base who sees him as a martyr, and even may serve to make him the object of some sympathy among people in general who believed that his prosecutors are politically motivated,” he said. “This happens to be true in my opinion. I doubt the New York indictment would have been brought against a defendant whose name was not Donald Trump.” . . .
Ultimately, Zakaria conceded that the “trendlines are not working in Biden’s favor.”
“He needs to do something bold and dramatic to seize the initiative, on asylum policy, for example, and reverse these numbers,” he suggests, but in light of the dramatic shift in the numbers since 2020, he believes “there’s very little that Joe Biden can do now to change that perception.”

Understand that Fareed Zakaria is not just a liberal, but a liberal who works at CNN, an echo-chamber/bubble/hivemind of Democrat partisanship, a media organization with zero balance. So if things look so gloomy for Biden that Zakaria is not only able to see it, but is allowed to say it on the air at CNN? Yeah, it’s very bad for Biden.

We are now 25 weeks — 176 days, to be exact — away from November 5. A lot could happen between now and then, so you can’t say that Trump’s got this in the bag. However, the possibility of a Biden rebound grows more and more unlikely, the longer the current polling picture continues. What I expect to happen (and I’ve predicted this recently in a memo to some well-connected acquaintances) is for the Democrats to do something like the 2002 Torricelli/Lautenberg switch.

Who will they pick to replace Biden? How and when will they make the switch? These are mere details. The point is that Biden increasingly looks like a guaranteed loser in November, and I can’t see Democrats just throwing away the election, which is what they would be doing if they keep Biden as their candidate. Therefore, expect some kind of medical emergency that will require Biden to step aside, and Democrats will slip Gavin Newsom in as their substitute 2024 candidate.

When the ’24 race began to take shape, I thought Pres. Biden had a strong pitch to voters: a rebounding economy and a return to normalcy after the chaos of Covid & Trump.

Things haven’t played out that way.

My take: pic.twitter.com/WAwifAZjfB

— Fareed Zakaria (@FareedZakaria) May 12, 2024

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Media Monday: Does Joe Biden Really Have a ‘Brand as an Empathetic Leader’?

Posted on | May 13, 2024 | No Comments

There are days when I read things in the mainstream media that just boggle my mind. Today was one of those days:

Former White House press secretary Jen Psaki claims in her new book that President Biden never looked at his watch during the ceremony for soldiers killed during the U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan in 2021 — contradicting news photos and firsthand accounts of Gold Star families.
Why it matters: In TV ads and social media posts, Donald Trump and his allies repeatedly have used images of Biden checking his watch during the ceremony to try to undermine the president’s brand as an empathetic leader. . . .

Now, everybody is reacting to the main subject of this story — i.e., that Jen Psaki is lying about what happened at Dover Air Force Base when the bodies of service members killed during Biden’s botched Afghanistan withdrawal were returned. Grant that this is important, but what caught my eye was the assertion about “the president’s brand as an empathetic leader.” Really? Do Democrats (or anyone else) actually think Biden is somehow widely admired because of how “empathetic” he is?

To borrow a phrase, what a load of malarkey!

Throughout his career, Joe Biden certainly has tried to seem “empathetic,” but what kind of fools were deceived by this charade? The kind of fools who vote for Democrats, I suppose, but any intelligent person who’s actually paid attention to Biden over the years knows that he has always been a complete phony, the kind of politician who poor-mouths his own family to make it seem like he’s “blue collar.”

Here, let me quote Wikipedia:

Biden’s father had been wealthy and the family purchased a home in the affluent Long Island suburb of Garden City in the fall of 1946, but he suffered business setbacks around the time Biden was seven years old, and for several years the family lived with Biden’s maternal grandparents in Scranton. Scranton fell into economic decline during the 1950s and Biden’s father could not find steady work. Beginning in 1953 when Biden was ten, the family lived in an apartment in Claymont, Delaware, before moving to a house in nearby Mayfield. Biden Sr. later became a successful used-car salesman, maintaining the family in a middle-class lifestyle.

At no point was Biden’s father ever a “blue-collar” worker; he wasn’t a union-card employee, but a businessman who, for a few years (circa 1949-53) struggled because of “setbacks.” Biden has repeatedly claimed his ancestors were coal miners, but good luck trying to verify that claim. Instead, what can actually be verified is this:

His maternal great-grandfather, Edward Francis Blewitt, was a Pennsylvania state senator. His maternal grandfather was a graduate of Santa Clara University in California . . . before returning to Scranton to work for local oil and gas companies, then as a newspaper librarian for the remainder of his career.
Biden’s father led an affluent lifestyle as a young adult, “sailing yachts off the New England coast, riding to the hounds, driving fast cars, flying airplanes” while working as an executive for, and experiencing the largess of, the Sheen Company. The Sheen Company was founded and owned by Bill Sheen, Biden’s paternal great-uncle.

Yachts and “riding to the hounds”? A state senator for a great-grandfather? Where are the grubby coal-miners amid all these fancy affluent ancestors? Has anyone ever found so much as one AFL-CIO member in Biden’s allegedly “blue-collar” background?

Excuse my outrage over this, but my father was a member of the machinists union (IAM) during his 37 years working at the Lockheed plant in Marietta, and while none of my ancestors were coal miners, they weren’t sailing yachts or “riding to the hounds.” In terms of authentic blue-collar credentials, you see, I’ve got Joe Biden beat all to hell, and his phony “empathetic” act never fooled me. But apparently, members of our national media are under the impression that this is a valuable aspect of Biden’s “brand,” and expect us to believe this, too.

Do they really think we’re that stupid?

(Hat-tip: Ed Driscoll at Instapundit.)

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Rule 5 Sunday: Low Effort Komiposting

Posted on | May 12, 2024 | No Comments

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Sad, lonely, and far from home is no way to do a Rule 5 post, but here we are.
Ceterum autem censeo Silicon Valley et Hamas delendam sunt.

Lewding the God-Empress is strictly prohibited!

ANIMAL MAGNETISM: Rule Five Cow Cuddling Friday and the Saturday Gingermageddon.

EBL: Saturday Night Girls With Guns, Monty Python Does Oliver Cromwell, Hamlet, The Idea Of You, Eurovision 2024 – Israel’s Eden Golan, Glenarvon, MAGA – Indefinite Postponement Of Trump Documents Trial, Penelope Cruz, “Exodus”, Centennial, That Hamilton Woman, and “Cinco De Mayo”

A VIEW FROM THE BEACH: Skyler Simpson, Fish Pic Friday – Brittany Ruskowski, Mason Jar, The Wednesday Wetness, Tattoo Tuesday, The Monday Morning Stimulus, and Palm Sunday.

FLAPPR: T.I.T.S. for May 10

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FMJRA 2.0: A Winning Week

Posted on | May 12, 2024 | No Comments

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My Senators had a good week last week, taking two of three from the Atlanta Bananas and surprisingly enough, two out of three from Pete’s Brewers. We’re 22-28, tied with the Twins for last place in the division and eleven games in back of the Brewers. We’re scheduled to play the Angels Tuesday, but since I’m going to be in the air most of Tuesday, I’m hoping to postpone the series until I get home on Wednesday.
Had been thinking about buying Albert Bouchard’s Re:Imaginos albums (if you aren’t familiar with the story behind those, read this) but I decided to listen to the middle album of the trilogy, Bombs Over Germany (Minus Zero & Counting) on YouTube. This was a wise decision. I had hoped that the album, largely made of remixes of BOC songs, would mostly be in the style of BOC’s music from their third through sixth albums (Secret Treaties through Fire of Unknown Origin), but it was not, and I generally found the songs annoying and dissonant. Your mileage may vary.
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