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Joe Biden and the ‘Path to Chaos’ (He’s Living Underground Like a Wild Potato)

Posted on | November 5, 2022 | 2 Comments

No sooner had I finished posting about election denier Stacey Abrams, who falsely accused Republicans of stealing the 2018 Georgia gubernatorial election (which she lost by a 55,000-vote margin), than I glanced at the transcript of Joe Biden’s speech from Wednesday night:

This is also the first election since the events of January 6th, when the armed angry mob stormed the US Capitol. I wish I could say the assault on our democracy ended that day, but I cannot. As I stand here today, there are candidates running for every level of office in America, for governor, congress, attorney general, secretary of state, who won’t commit, that will not commit to accepting the results of the election that they’re running in. This is a path to chaos in America. It’s unprecedented. It’s unlawful, and it’s un-American.

THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY NEVER ACCEPTED THE RESULTS OF HILLARY CLINTON’S DEFEAT IN 2016, WHICH IS HOW WE GOT HERE IN THE FIRST PLACE, YOU BRAIN-ADDLED OLD FOOL!

“You can run the best campaign, you can even become the nominee, and you can have the election stolen from you.”
— Hillary Clinton, May 4, 2019

It would be wrong to accuse Biden of having “forgotten” how Hillary’s campaign deliberately smeared Donald Trump with the “Russian collusion” hoax, which was the basis of her subsequent claim that Trump didn’t really win the election because Putin somehow “interfered” in the results. It would be wrong to accuse Biden of forgetting this, I say, because Biden is suffering from such debilitating cognitive dysfunction that he can barely read the words that his script writers put on the teleprompter, and I don’t think he was sufficiently sentient in 2016 that he was even aware of what was happening. So, no, he didn’t “forget.” He’s living in his own private Idaho, underground like a wild potato.

The “events of January 6th” were a direct result of the Democratic Party’s four-year-long attack on the legitimacy of Trump’s presidency. If the rioters at the Capitol knew nothing else, they knew that the Clinton campaign had used the bogus Steele dossier to convince the FBI to open an investigation of Trump that continued for months after the election, including surveillance of Trump campaign staff. This led to the firing of the FBI director and the appointment of Robert Mueller as special counsel to lead another investigation that continued for 22 months, generating endless cable-TV news talk of how the walls were closing in, but ultimately admitting there was no evidence of the endlessly hyped claims of “Russian collusion.” And that was not a “path to chaos”?

Charles Cooke asks the question, “Is Biden Senile or a Pathological Liar?” To which Ed Driscoll responds, “Embrace the healing power of ‘and,’” but beyond the dishonesty and senility of Biden, we have to deal with the fact that somebody on the White House wrote that speech, which means that Joe is not the only one living in this delusional private Idaho.

Craziness inspires more craziness, and the Oath Keepers and Proud Boys who thought they could do something — what? — inside the Capitol that would prevent Congress from certifying the Electoral College results were, in a way, a consequence of five years of craziness from Trump’s enemies. Has everyone forgotten how the #Resistance wrecked D.C. during Trump’s inauguration? Talk about a “path to chaos”!

More than anything, I’m offended by the effrontery of Democrats in accusing Trump supporters of “unprecedented . . . unlawful . . . un-American” activities, when I think back on the summer of destructive violence Democrats applauded in 2020 as “mostly peaceful protests.” Why were they protesting? Because a suspect died in police custody in Minneapolis? How does that justify tearing down statues and looting stores and all the other nationwide mayhem that began in May 2020?

No intelligent person expects logic from Democrats, whether it’s the mobs of deranged Democratic voters who saw George Floyd’s death as an excuse to riot or the Democrats who write Biden’s speeches.

Fiery But Mostly Peaceful: The 2020 Riots and the Gaslighting of America is a book worth reading, for anyone who may have forgotten the senseless violence that Democrats fomented in 2020. Certainly I have not forgotten, which is why I was so insulted when I read Biden’s assertion that it is Republicans who are leading America into “chaos” that is “unprecedented.” Just as Democrats expect us to forget how they cried “stolen election” when Trump won in 2016, likewise they expect us to forget the deadly chaos they unleashed in America’s streets two years ago.

We are expected to forget how Democrats stoked paranoia and racial hatred, how Kamala Harris encouraged donations to bail out the rioters, and yet for Democrats, “the events of January 6th” are an eternal grievance, the basis of their assertion that “democracy is on the ballot.”

University of Wisconsin Law School professor emerita Ann Althouse undertook a thorough fisking of Biden’s Wednesday speech:

“We the people must decide whether we’re going to sustain a republic where reality is accepted, the law is obeyed, and your vote is truly sacred.” . . .

I’m reading the transcript. He’s talking about the midterm elections and he’s saying the main issue is — not the economy, not crime, not abortion — but democracy itself, as if we can vote for democracy.
We participate in democracy when we vote. But how do you vote for democracy? Is he trying to say a vote for a Democrat is a vote for democracy, and a vote for a Republican is a vote against democracy?

We the people must decide whether the rule of law will prevail or whether we will allow the dark forces and thirst for power put ahead of the principles that have long guided us.

Is that on the ballot? I’d like “a republic where reality is accepted,” but my President is raving about “dark forces.” I presume he means that anyone who questions the accuracy of the voting procedures and vote counts is failing to “accept reality” and maybe also that people who think like that are part of the “dark forces.” . . .
Biden proceeds to blame Trump: “American democracy is under attack because the defeated former president of the United States refused to accept the results of the 2020 election.” . . .
If Biden really wanted to call us to sanity and calm reasonableness, would he speak to us this way?

With democracy on the ballot, we have to remember these first principles. Democracy means the rule of the people…. Autocracy… means the rule of one, one person, one interest, one ideology, one party…. Make no mistake, democracy is on the ballot for all of us…. Because democracy is on the ballot….

He keeps saying it, “democracy is on the ballot.” It’s not true, but I guess his people liked the sound of it. It would make more sense to say “democracy is the ballot.”
“Democracy is on the ballot” is a way to say — without saying — that you ought to vote for the Democratic Party candidate. . . . .
And don’t be violent:

There’s an alarming rise in the number of our people in this country condoning political violence, or simply remain silent because silence is complicity…. All of us who reject political violence and voter intimidation, and I believe that’s the overwhelming majority of the American people, all of us must unite to make it absolutely clear that violence and intimidation have no place in America…..

I agree, of course. But questioning the announced results of elections is not violence. It is part of freedom of speech, and active, non-violent protesting is part of the American tradition. I lived through an especially vivid example of that here in Wisconsin in 2011, when protesters stormed the state capitol and chanted “This is what democracy looks like.” Democracy wasn’t just the election and the announced legal result, it was all the pressure the losing side could exert.

You can read the whole thing. Althouse witnessed the 2011 storming of the Wisconsin capitol in protest of . . . balancing the state budget?

The Democrats were rioting in Wisconsin because a Republican, Scott Walker, had been elected governor in the 2010 election, which also put Republicans in charge of the state legislature, which then proposed budget-cutting measures opposed by the unions representing government employees. The unions subsequently tried and failed to recall Walker, who served two successful terms as governor.

Government employee unions are a conspiracy against taxpayers, and when the people of Wisconsin elected Walker to fight these unions, Democrats refused to accept the legislative consequences.

Ann Althouse has not forgotten the unprecedented chaos that Democrats unleashed on Wisconsin in 2011. When Biden says “democracy is on the ballot,” what he’s really defending is not democracy, but bureaucracy — the rule of unelected government employees, particularly those in the national security apparatus (i.e., “The Deep State”) who spent the entirety of the Trump administration undermining the president’s authority to implement policy changes. Well, elections still have consequences, and when Republicans win control of Congress next week, they’ve already teed up an investigation of the FBI’s role in this conspiracy.

Regaining a congressional majority for the first time since 2018, Republicans will find lots of things to investigate in the Biden administration, and this is what Democrats fear most, that the American people will discover just what sort of corruption has taken hold since Biden won the 2020 election — allegedly, I hasten to add.




 

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In The Mailbox: 11.04.22

Posted on | November 4, 2022 | Comments Off on In The Mailbox: 11.04.22

— compiled by Wombat-socho

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

Anything to avoid paying $8, eh, Occasional Cortex?

OVER THE TRANSOM
357 Magnum: “Rules Only Apply To Little People:, LAPD Edition
EBL: GOP NH Senate Candidate Don Bolduc Gets Tulsi Gabbard’s Endorsement
Twitchy: Atlantic Does Piece On Why Dems Are Losing Latinos, David Reaboi Demolishes It, also, Allow Joy Reid To Explain The Only Reason People Know What Inflation Is
Louder With Crowder: NYC man with 25 priors sexually assaults a jogger as Hillary Clinton campaigns for crime-denier Kathy Hochul
Vox Popoli: Cry Me A River, Duly Noted, and Midwit, Confirmed
According To Hoyt: A Friendly Letter To The Foes of the Republic, also, I don’t Believe In Aliens
Monster Hunter Nation: WriterDojo S3 E17 – Intro To Marketing (with Jack Wylder)
Stoic Observations: What Manner Of Black Science?

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
Adam Piggott: Not One Bishop, Based Swedish Nonagenarian, and Our Masculine Strength
American Conservative: Racial Identity Politics: A Warning From Sarajevo
American Greatness: Biden Administration Sells Last of Released Oil from Strategic Reserve, also, Trump Will  Reportedly Announce 2024 Campaign For President on November 14
American Power: Twitter Turmoil Poses Risks to the Company’s Brand
American Thinker:  Angry, Creepy, Cowardly Joe, also, Democrats Declared War on Democracy Through COVID Tyranny
Animal Magnetism: Rule Five Barn Burner Friday
Babalu Blog: UN once again votes to condemn U.S. sanctions against Cuba’s dictatorship, A socialist love affair -Colombia’s Petro meets with Venezuela’s Maduro, Apartheid exposed: Cuban luxury hotels use bogus excuses to ban Cubans from their premises, and Latest building collapse in Havana leaves three Cuban families homeless
BattleSwarm: Internet Out
Behind The Black: Long March 5B core stage crashes in Pacific, Remains or DNA samples of numerous Star Trek actors/creators to be sent into space, A short one week fund-raising campaign for Behind the Black, and Pushback: “I do not consent to your attempt to blacklist me.”
Cafe Hayek: Marian Tupy Talks With Deirdre McCloskey
CDR Salamander: Fullbore Friday
Da Tech Guy: Two things anyone Voting in Massachusetts should consider before voting in Election 2022
Don Surber: Liz versus Tulsi, also, Dems chose LGBT over Muslims and Hispanics
Gates Of Vienna: Halloween in Vienna: Firearms and “Allahu Akhbar”, The Abacus Broke, Giorgia Meloni in the Belly of the Beast, and The Unmentioned Surge in Excess Deaths
The Geller Report: Snubbing Bibi – Anti-Semitic Biden Hasn’t Congratulated Newly Elected Israeli Leader On Landslide Victory, also, Deputy Director of Milwaukee Election Commission, Kimberly Zapata, Has Been Fired and CHARGED WITH ELECTION FRAUD
Hogewash: Team Kimberlin Post of the Day, The N44 Superbubble, and Signs and Portents?
Hollywood In Toto: My Dinner with Trump – He’s Running, also, The Blazing Hypocrisy of Jimmy Kimmel’s Trump Attacks
The Lid: MSNBC ‘Historian’ Claims Free Press Would End, Our Children Will Be Killed If GOP Wins
Legal Insurrection: Gunshot Into NC GOP House Candidate Pat Harrigan’s Parent’s House Lands Close to His Sleeping Children, Dallas Baptist U. Bans YAL Texas State Chair, Who is an Alumnus, From Campus for Trying to Recruit Libertarian Students, Columbia University Prof Defends Affirmative Action, Bias Against Asian Students, and Shock: Fact Checkers Call out Joe Biden for Social Security Lie, White House Deletes Tweet
Nebraska Energy Observer: Flop Sweat
Outkick: Skip Bayless Defends Tom Brady, Says He’d Choose Work Over His Wife, Rob Manfred Was Heckled By A Reddit User During The World Series And It Was Awesome, Cole Beasley Defends Kyrie Irving, Takes Shot At Buffalo Bills And All Professional Sports, Nike Suspends Relationship With Kyrie Irving After “Promotion” Of Anti-Semitic Movie, and Fans React To ‘Unhinged’ Al Michaels During Eagles-Texans Broadcast
Power Line: Thoughts from the ammo line, Oh Nooo…He’s Back!, and Thought for the Day: Rorty Making Sense
Shark Tank: Demings Exhumes 2016 Trump Criticism To Attack Rubio
Shot In The Dark: Degüello, If We Take An Originalist View, Property Rights, and Rhetoric
STUMP: Simpson’s Paradox: Election Day Edition
The Political Hat: Firing Line Friday: The Election: A View from New York
This Ain’t Hell: Valor Friday, FBI plagued by abuse, manipulation, rampant corruption, bias, When articles pre-address election “misinformation”, expect election day shenanigans, and Quick takes – Kim threats, VA screening, Uniform kerfluffle
Transterrestrial Musings: Biden’s Speech About “Democracy”, also, The Left Were The Mad Scientists
Victory Girls: Oprah Endorses Fetterman Over Oz, also, Democrats Begin To Consider Life After Pelosi
Volokh Conspiracy: $1 Compensatory Damages + $52K Punitives in Doula Porn Broker Defamation Trial
Watts Up With That: Scotland In the Little Ice Age, also, New York Times prediction BUST: 1995 article cited climate ‘experts’ warning ‘most of the beaches on the East Coast of the U.S. could be gone in 25 years’
Weasel Zippers: The View Calls White Women “Roaches” For Voting GOP, Fetterman Declares Himself “Absolutely Sit To Serve”, and MSNBC Fires Host After She Calls Florida The “Dick Of The Country”
The Federalist: Without Their Precious ZuckBucks Democrats Won’t Win Georgia In 2022, After Destroying Your Kids’ Education, Teachers Unions Think We Should All Just Hug It Out, Complaint Alleges NBC Reporter Yamiche Alcindor Is Fraudulently Voting In Florida, and If Republicans Win On Tuesday, Thank The Election Integrity Movement
Mark Steyn: When the System Infects You, also, The Road from Oz

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‘Unexpectedly’!

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

Because nobody could have seen this coming?

MSNBC Cuts Ties Unexpectedly
With Weekend Host Tiffany Cross

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

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

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

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

 

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

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

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

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

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




 

Category: MSNBC

In The Mailbox: 11.03.22 (Evening Edition)

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

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Silicon Valley delenda est.

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

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

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In The Mailbox: 11.03.22

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

— compiled by Wombat-socho

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

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

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

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

Posted on | November 3, 2022 | 2 Comments

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

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

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

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

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

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




 

Category: Democrats, Election, Georgia

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

Posted on | November 2, 2022 | 5 Comments

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

The bottom is dropping out
of the 2022 election for Democrats

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

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

And guess what? Nobody fucking cares anymore.

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

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

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

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

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

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

“WE DIDN’T GET OUR MESSAGE OUT!”

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Category: Democrats, Election, Media Bias

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

Posted on | November 2, 2022 | 2 Comments

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

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

Republicans have made
violence part of their brand

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

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

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

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

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

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

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




 

Category: Crime
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