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Complete Disaster in Afghanistan Doesn’t Interrupt Senile Joe Biden’s Vacation

Posted on | August 15, 2021 | Comments Off on Complete Disaster in Afghanistan Doesn’t Interrupt Senile Joe Biden’s Vacation

There is no way to alleviate the political damage Joe Biden has suffered as the Taliban captured Kabul today except, perhaps, by keeping Biden hidden away at Camp David, while the administration’s various spin doctors are deployed to major media outlets to make excuses:

President Joe Biden remained hidden at the presidential retreat at Camp David on Sunday as the Taliban swiftly seized control of Afghanistan.
But a senior administration official indicated to reporters Sunday evening that Biden might address the country “in the next few days,” according to reports.
It remains unclear whether Biden will speak from Camp David or return to the White House to deliver his speech, the reports noted.
The president was previously scheduled to return to the White House on Wednesday.
Biden has not spoken publicly on Afghanistan since Tuesday after expressing optimism that the leaders of the Afghan government would rally to defend their country. . . .
Biden told reporters Tuesday he did not regret his decisions on Afghanistan, leaving the following day for the rest of his August vacation in Delaware before he shifted his vacation to Camp David on Friday. . . .
On Saturday, the White House released a 600-word statement from Biden defending his decision to leave Afghanistan and blaming former President Donald Trump for empowering the Taliban.
On Sunday, the White House sent Secretary of State Tony Blinken to speak about the crisis on the Sunday cable and network news shows.
But Biden has remained off-camera as images and footage of the Taliban entering Kabul flooded onto various forms of media.

Gosh, if they can’t blame Trump for this debacle, who will they blame?

Great job you’re doing there, Kamala.

Even liberal journalists like Mike Allen can’t hide the truth:

Rarely has an American president’s predictions been so wrong, so fast, so convincingly as President Biden on Afghanistan. . . .
Just five weeks ago, President Biden assured Americans: “[T]he likelihood there’s going to be the Taliban overrunning everything and owning the whole country is highly unlikely.”
In April, Biden said: “We will not conduct a hasty rush to the exit. We’ll do it responsibly, deliberately, and safely.”
This morning, the Taliban is entering the Afghanistan capital, Kabul, “from all sides,” a senior Afghan official told Reuters. Jalalabad, the last major city besides the capital not held by the Taliban, fell earlier today.
Afghan forces today surrendered Bagram Air Base, the Grand Central of America’s longest war, to the Taliban.
CNN showed video of choppers over Kabul — believed to be ferrying U.S. diplomats to the airport. . . .
Ryan Crocker, a U.S. ambassador to Afghanistan under President Obama, said last weekend on ABC’s “This Week”: “I think it is already an indelible stain on his presidency.”

A few quick headlines:

Final Failure in Afghanistan Is Biden’s to Own
— David E. Singer, New York Times

Biden Ordered Afghanistan Withdrawal Against Warnings From Top Generals: Report
— Mike Miller, Red State

Biden’s Betrayal of Afghans Will Live in Infamy
— George Packer, The Atlantic

All Biden Had to Do Was … Nothing
— John Podhoretz, Commentary

All of those stories are worth reading in their entirety, but the last one from Podhoretz captures how unnecessary this disaster was:

Had Joe Biden done nothing, Afghanistan would not have fallen to the Taliban today. Had he just let the status quo continue, the status quo would have continued. Afghanistan would have plodded along and we would have kept the Taliban from power with a small force of American military personnel among whose ranks there had not been a single fatality since March 2020—17 months without a death. Keep that in mind as you listen to and watch people try to analyze away the horror that has befallen the Afghan people. The idea being retailed by the increasingly defeatist left and the increasingly isolationist right is that what has happened was inevitable. It was the opposite of inevitable. It wouldn’t have happened if Biden hadn’t acted.

Look, a U.S. Army infantry company is about 150 men. At no time in the three or four years prior to Biden becoming president had the Taliban been willing to fight even a company-size action against U.S. troops. Earlier today (“Afghanistan and Chicago”), I explained that in the worst year in Afghanistan, U.S. forces suffered a total of 440 troops killed in action, which is less than the number shot and killed so far this year in Chicago. But the Biden administration is not abandoning Chicago, are they? And I’m willing to shrug off Podhoretz’s jab at the “increasingly isolationist right” because the point he’s making is absolutely correct — our forces in Afghanistan weren’t actually fighting a war, because the Taliban were afraid to fight them. Instead, our troops in Afghanistan were just keeping the peace, and with as much or more success as the police in Chicago. While keeping our troops deployed over there may have been expensive, what the hell do we have a military for, anyway? I mean, if we’re not occasionally gonna bust some heads, why even have a military? Whatever else you might say about Afghanistan, it was an excellent training ground, a chance for our forces to engage in firefights with actual enemies every once in a while. Maybe that wasn’t a “vital U.S. national interest,” but it was not entirely without value, either.

There may be an “increasingly isolationist right” that fails to appreciate that assessment, but I’m not trying to win any popularity contests, and nobody at the Pentagon has ever sought my advice, so anyone who wants to criticize me is wasting their time. Certainly, it’s not as if I have any influence over the Biden administration, and do not let anyone deceive you — Biden 100% owns this catastrophe:

Was it inevitable that it had to end up this way? Having this happen in this disastrously humiliating way was not inevitable. That’s completely all on Joe Biden, the guy who has been wrong about everything for the past forty years.
Early in July, when Joe Biden still had the opportunity to do things but was sitting on his hands acting as though he had all the time in the world, he claimed it wasn’t inevitable that the Taliban would take over again, despite the fact the U.S. intelligence was predicting it would happen.
“There’s going to be no circumstance where you’ll see people being lifted off the roof of an embassy of the United States from Afghanistan,” Biden said when asked about the possibility of an airlift off as happened in 1975 during the fall of Saigon at the end of the Vietnam War.

Joe Biden is already The Worst President Ever. As has been said, comparing Biden to Jimmy Carter is an insult — to Jimmy Carter.

Remember: 81 million people allegedly voted for this senile fool. If you don’t want to blame Biden, blame the idiots who elected him.




 

Category: Democrats, Foreigners, Military

‘Mostly Peaceful’ Stabbing: Antifa Attacks Demonstration Against Vaccine Mandate

Posted on | August 15, 2021 | Comments Off on ‘Mostly Peaceful’ Stabbing: Antifa Attacks Demonstration Against Vaccine Mandate

The news media playing their “both sides” game:

One man was stabbed Saturday during dueling demonstrations in downtown Los Angeles over the contentious issue of mandatory vaccinations against the coronavirus, according to Los Angeles police.
At least 500 demonstrators protesting against mandatory vaccinations and counterprotesters had gathered at the south lawn of Los Angeles City Hall at 2 p.m., said LAPD Lt. Raul Jovel, spokesman for the department.
Around 2:30 p.m., a fight broke out among 20 to 30 protesters and counter-protesters in front of the LAPD headquarters, across the street from City Hall, leading to the stabbing, Jovel said. The victim, a man in his 20s, was stabbed at least once in the chest.
The man was taken to a nearby hospital, where he was in serious condition, LAPD Officer Mike Lopez said.
Witnesses told police the assailant was a man dressed in all black, police said.
The department said no arrests had been made but officers were in the process of taking a large number of reports from those involved in the melee or were witnesses, Jovel said. A number of people were battered in the fight, including one news reporter, he said. . . .
Police were still sorting out what led to the fight and the role the assailant and victim played in the opposing demonstrations.
Most of the crowds had cleared from the area by 5 p.m.
The organizers of the “choose freedom march” called out against “medical tyranny, mandatory vaccinations and vaccine passports.”
One hour earlier, an opposing group staged a counter-protest at the same location that organizers are calling “no safe space for fascists.”
The opposing rallies came as vaccine mandates continue to proliferate across California.
The Los Angeles City Council voted earlier this week to have the city attorney draw up an ordinance requiring proof of at least partial vaccination to enter many public indoor spaces in the city, including restaurants, bars, gyms, concert venues, movie theaters and even retail establishments.

You would not know, from reading that article, what really happened: The peaceful protesters — the ones who are against the mandates — were attacked by the violent Antifa mob, including one guy who jumped into the melee and stabbed one of the anti-vax protesters. But this is portrayed neutrally — “a fight broke out” — as if it were impossible to determine who the aggressors were in this violence.

The media and Antifa are on the same side, and thus it behooves the media to obscure the fact that their allies caused the violence.




 

Category: California, Crime, Media Bias

Afghanistan and Chicago

Posted on | August 15, 2021 | Comments Off on Afghanistan and Chicago

“I don’t know what everybody thought would happen. It’s literally history repeating itself. . . . No foresight in what enemy was being fought. Conventional war doesn’t beat an insurgency, period.”

Such is the sober assessment of what’s happening in Afghanistan from one military source who has seen that particular s***hole country. There seems to be a general feeling in the military that after achieving the original objective of the mission in Afghanistan — chasing al-Qaeda out of the country — the objective was then changed to something that was never going to happen, i.e., creating a modern “democracy” there.

Longtime national security adviser K.T. McFarland says:

The truth is the Afghan war was lost 19 years ago when we switched from our original mission of destroying Al Qaeda to a new mission – nation building a modern Afghanistan.
Our leaders wanted to turn one of the most backward, corrupt, illiterate, desolate, tribal countries in the world into a democracy that would rebuff Al Qaeda.
Our military efforts were doomed from the start when we tried to create a sophisticated Afghan military that relied on American forces, air support and intelligence.
Our original goal in Afghanistan was straightforward – kill those who killed our people. We sent a small contingent of American special forces in right after the Sept. 11 attacks and they succeeded brilliantly.
Within three months our troops, working alongside Afghan tribal leaders, destroyed most of Al Qaeda. They had the few hundred remaining fighters surrounded, including Usama Bin Laden, huddled in the caves of the Hindu Kush mountains separating Afghanistan from Pakistan.
Instead of finishing them off then and there or pursuing them through the mountains and into the tribal regions of Pakistan to destroy them, we inexplicably let them slip away.
We paid Pakistan handsomely, year after year, to finish off Al Qaeda for us. While they happily pocketed our aid, they never went after Bin Laden, and let his organization survive and even grow.
Instead, we stuck around Afghanistan consumed by Mission Impossible. We lost over 2,000 Americans, tens of thousands of Americans were injured, and over a trillion dollars wasted.

Remember the elections in Afghanistan? All those women voters with purple ink on their fingers? That was a very bad omen. Given all the misery caused by “women’s rights” in America, why did anyone think it was a good idea to impose “women’s rights” on Afghanistan?

K.T. McFarland mentions the casualties. In the worst year in Afghanistan, 2010, the U.S. suffered 440 troops killed in action.

So far this year in Chicago, 480 people have been shot to death.

When will the U.S. begin its withdrawal from Chicago?

UPDATE: Welcome, Instapundit readers!

And perhaps I should point out that Chicago is known to harbor anti-American terrorists. But why bring up Bill Ayers at this late date?




 

Category: Foreigners, Joe Biden, Military

Biden’s Afghanistan Disaster

Posted on | August 15, 2021 | Comments Off on Biden’s Afghanistan Disaster

Of course, anyone could have predicted his excuse: “Orange Man Bad!”

President Joe Biden issued a statement Saturday blaming former President Donald Trump after the Taliban rapidly took control of the majority of Afghanistan’s major cities.
“When I came to office, I inherited a deal cut by my predecessor,” Biden wrote, complaining that Trump negotiated a deal “that left the Taliban in the strongest position militarily since 2001.”
Biden also noted that Trump had set the troop withdrawal date of May 1 and reduced troop levels to 2,500.
The president said he had the choice of either following through with Trump’s withdrawal plan or sending more troops back into Afghanistan to secure the country.
But Biden set a later date for withdrawal, choosing a new deadline of September 11th before walking it back to August 31.
“I was the fourth President to preside over an American troop presence in Afghanistan—two Republicans, two Democrats,” he said. “I would not, and will not, pass this war onto a fifth.”
On Saturday, Biden announced his decision to surge 5,000 American troops into Afghanistan to help ensure the safe evacuation of American personal.
Despite the president blaming his predecessor, Biden signaled he was disillusioned by the Afghanistan conflict:

One more year, or five more years, of U.S. military presence, would not have made a difference if the Afghan military cannot or will not hold its own country. An endless American presence in the middle of another country’s civil conflict was not acceptable to me.

Biden’s remarks were sharply different from his tone just a month ago when he indicated the Taliban takeover of the country was not inevitable.
“So the question now is, where do they go from here?” Biden said in July about the Taliban’s failure to negotiate a deal with the Afghan government. “The jury is still out. But the likelihood there’s going to be the Taliban overrunning everything and owning the whole country is highly unlikely.”

Why did he think it was “highly unlikely”? Probably because he was listening to the Deep State “experts” of the intelligence community.

All these State Department and CIA geniuses with their degrees in international relations from Georgetown, Harvard, Yale — if you want to blame someone, put the blame where it really belongs.




 

Category: Foreigners, Joe Biden, Military

In The Mailbox: 08.14.21 (Saturday Night Special Edition)

Posted on | August 15, 2021 | Comments Off on In The Mailbox: 08.14.21 (Saturday Night Special Edition)

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Too much good(sic) stuff to wait until Monday.
Ceterum autem censeo Silicon Valley esse delendam.

IT’S NOT OVER UNTIL WE SAY IT’S OVER!

OVER THE TRANSOM
357 Magnum: The Crime Surge In San Francisco & The Prosecutor Who Made It Happen
Red Pilled Jew: The Avalanche Has Already Started
EBL: The Fall Of Afghanistan, also, Leaving Afghanistan
Twitchy: Liz Cheney Calls Fall Of Afghanistan a “Trump/Biden Calamity” And People Have Thoughts, also, “Now Every Taliban Fighter Gets His Own Humvee”
Louder With Crowder: Project Veritas Scores Major Court Victory Against NYT
Vox Popoli: Mr. Buchanan’s Questions, Another Day, Another Gatekeeper, and A Rapid & Unexpected Collapse
According To Hoyt: Death & Absence
Monster Hunter Nation: Back From The Book Tour, also, Gun Runner Is Up For A Dragon Award
Stoic Observations: Cultural Appropriation & Privilege – Obligatory Seriousness
Gab News: A Response To Dan Bongino

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
Adam Piggott: On The David Hiscox Show, also, End Of Empire
American Conservative: The Crisis Of Confidence In America’s Military
American Greatness: DOJ’s “Troubling” Discovery Delays, also, Their Collective Comes For Our Republic
American Power: Biden’s Failure In Afghanistan
American Thinker: The Agenda For Serfdom In The Land Of The Free
Animal Magnetism: Rule Five Mileage Tax Friday
Babalu Blog: The Inhumane Conditions Of Cuba’s “Revolutionary” Healthcare, also, Seventh High-Ranking Cuban Officer Dies In Less Than A Month
BattleSwarm: LinkSwarm For August 13
Behind The Black: Today’s Blacklisted Americans, also, Boeing Returning Starliner To Factory
Cafe Hayek: Unmasking GMU Officials’ COVID Hypocrisy
CDR Salamander: Disrupt The Navy’s Operational Model To Counter Red China
Da Tech Guy: Nineteen Senate Republicans Proved That Our Two-Party System Is Now Completely Dysfunctional, also, Democrats Nostalgic For The Jim Crow Era & Occasional Cortex As Turk
Don Surber: Dealing With The Dan Crenshaws, also, The Racism Of Diversity
First Street Journal: So Much For Andy Beshear Asking, also, Killadelphia
The Geller Report: Majority Of Registered Democrats Now Prefer Socialism To Capitalism, also, Marine Commandant Says “No Mandatory Vaccination For My Marines”
Hogewash: False Charge Against Christina Pushaw Dropped, also, Team Kimberlin Post Of The Day
Hollywood In Toto: It’s Official – Woke Elites Bullied Brooklyn Nine-Nine To Pander To #BLM, also, Andrew “Dice” Clay Says What We’re All Thinking About Him
The Lid: Thirty Years Ago, Al Sharpton Incited The Crown Heights Pogrom
Legal Insurrection: Lincoln Project’s Latest Ad Targeting Abbott & DeSantis Hits Home Run – With Their Leftist Base, also, Panic Porn – Media Buried Key Detail About Florida Teachers Dying Of COVID
Michelle Malkin: COVID, Catholics, & Illegal Alien Charities, also, The Worst O-Limp-Ics Ever
Nebraska Energy Observer: Synchronicity & History
Outkick: Jay Cutler Dropped From Uber Promo Over His Stance Against Masking Kids, also, No Fans For Little League World Series Because COVID
Power Line: The Disaster Of Green Energy, also, Biden’s Shameful Afghanistan Retreat
Shark Tank: Nikki Fried Masks Up, Then Masks Down
Shot In The Dark: This Is Not How Ephraim Zimbalist Jr. Did It, also, Nationwrecking
The Political Hat: Firing Line Friday – Dirty Rock Lyrics
This Ain’t Hell: Valor Friday, also, House Democrats Urge Lifting Venezuela Sanctions
Transterrestrial Musings: The “Infrastructure” Bill, also, Haiti
Victory Girls: Administration Begs, Taliban Swarms, & Americans Deploy, also, Judge Rules Remain In Mexico Policy Must Resume
Volokh Conspiracy: Avenatti’s Libel Suit Against Fox Thrown Out Of Court
Weasel Zippers: “This Is Unsustainable…These Numbers Cannot Continue”, also, West Point Indoctrinating Cadets With Marxism?
The Federalist: Hunter Biden’s Russian Whore Videos Indict Both His Father And The Intelligence Community, also, Biden Begs The Arabs For Oil While Halting Alaska Oil Production
Mark Steyn: We Have Met The Enemy, Part XVI, also, Up The Khyber

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Category: Linkagery

FMJRA 2.0: Sweet Jane

Posted on | August 15, 2021 | Comments Off on FMJRA 2.0: Sweet Jane

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Normally I’d just blow off a missed Friday night link post, but a lot of people sent stuff in, which you deserve to see tonight and not on Monday morning. So there’ll be a rare Saturday Night In The Mailbox after I get done with this.
Ceterum autem censeo Silicon Valley esse delendam.

Violence Against Women Update
First Street Journal
Bacon Time
The Political Hat
EBL
357 Magnum

Rule 5 Sunday: Crossing The Streams
Animal Magnetism
A View From The Beach
Ninety Miles From Tyranny
EBL
Proof Positive

FMJRA 2.0: Will You Stay Down On Your Knees?
A View From The Beach
EBL

Mass Murder in Texas: Can You Guess Why National Media Have Ignored This?
EBL
Proof Positive

The Magic ‘D’
EBL

In The Mailbox: 08.09.21
A View From The Beach
EBL
357 Magnum
Proof Positive

CUOMO ANNOUNCES RESIGNATION
A View From The Beach
EBL
357 Magnum

In The Mailbox: 08.10.21
A View From The Beach
EBL
357 Magnum
Proof Positive

Number 10 for the Win
EBL

Rebekah Jones: Still Lying
EBL
357 Magnum

In The Mailbox: 08.13.21 (Afternoon Edition)
A View From The Beach
EBL
357 Magnum
Proof Positive

Top linkers for the week ending August 13:

  1.  EBL (11)
  2.  (tied) A View From The Beach and 357 Magnum (6)
  3.  Proof Positive (5)

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Category: FMJRA Award

In The Mailbox: 08.13.21 (Afternoon Edition)

Posted on | August 13, 2021 | Comments Off on In The Mailbox: 08.13.21 (Afternoon Edition)

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Home after being delayed by a surprise case of pancreatitis; going to get this out the door and a Late Night edition as well, if all goes well. 

Silicon Valley delenda est.

It was time for Operator-chan to go. She had seen everything.

OVER THE TRANSOM
Ninety Miles From Tyranny: The 90 Miles Mystery Box Episode #1441
357 Magnum: Your Papers, Please, also, Self-Defense In The Windy City
Red Pilled Jew: The Great Reset – Sacrifices Must Be Made
EBL: Noor Inayat Khan, also, 1829% Spike In Martha’s Vineyard COVID Cases
Twitchy: “You Can Smell Their Fear”, also, Blue-Checks Joyously Dunking On Christina Pushaw Over Rebekah Jones Case Get Rekt
Louder With Crowder: Texas Senate Passes Voter ID Bill After Futile 15-Hour Democrat Filibuster
Vox Popoli: Fred Reed Buys The Lies, also, Run, Run Away

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
Adam Piggott: As Men We Must Be Leaders
American Conservative: After Fast Food
American Greatness: American Armageddon, also, Trouble Ahead For Massive $3 Trillion Porky Budget Plan
American Power: LAUSD Struggles To Fill Thousands Of Positions, also, U.S. Prepares To Evacuate Afghanistan
American Thinker: Climate Scientists Admit They Exaggerated Warming, also, A Racial Reckoning For The Democrats
Animal Magnetism: Animal’s Hump Day News, also, Animal’s Daily Bacon Shortage News
Babalu Blog: Cuba’s Black Communities Bear The Brunt Of The Regime’s Crackdown, also, Unanimous Senate Vote Approves Internet Access For Cuba
BattleSwarm: Doctor Says We’re Doing Everything Wrong, also, Two Unwarranted. Unspoken Assumptions Conor Friedersdorf Has About “Defund The Police”
Behind The Black: Today’s Blacklisted Senator, Today’s Blacklisted Network, and A Chain Of Martian Sinkholes
Cafe Hayek: Some Non-COVID Links
CDR Salamander: What If The Future Can’t Be Unmanned? also, Diversity Thursday
Da Tech Guy: A Proud Slice Of Americana, also, Five Cuomo’s Out Thoughts Under The Fedora
Don Surber: Cuomo Was Sacrificed To Hide Democrat Corruption, also, The Worst Century Of My Life
First Street Journal: Store Owner Goes Off On Abusive Gender-Confused  – “You’re Not A Chick”
Fred On Everything: For Whom The Bell Curves
The Geller Report: LET FREEDOM RING – Sturgis Rally One Of The Largest In Years – Maybe Ever, also, Articles Of Impeachment Coming For DHS Chief Mayorkas
Hogewash: Team Kimberlin Post Of The Day, also, Above Average Performance
Hollywood In Toto: Why Is Hollywood Obsessed With Hit Man Movies? also, Why I Created A Conservative Board Game
The Lid: Left Angry That Ted Cruz Using Their Own Tactics Against Them, also, Biden’s Afghanistan Plan Unravels In Just One Month
Legal Insurrection: California College Professor Accused Of Arson, also, Parents Want ADL’s Leftist Partisanship Out Of San Diego Public Schools
Nebraska Energy Observer: Lupus Tenebrosis, Chapter 1, also, This Is How We Do It!
Outkick: Tom Cotton Wins First Victory In Battle Against CRT, also, Art Briles Cleared In NCAA’s Baylor Investigation
Power Line: Gavin Newsom Goes Captain Queeg, also, Washington Post Attacks Facebook For Not Censoring Conservatives Enough
Shark Tank: New Poll Has Fried Surging Past Crist For Democrat Nomination
Shot In The Dark: Veni Vidi Vittorio, also, Ideas
The Political Hat: Love Your Thetan Headmates, also, Unethical Medicine – Woke Activism, World Medical Conference Vs. Medical Conscience, and A Rare Reversal
This Ain’t Hell: AF Captain Earns Accolades For Cleaning The Toilet, also, Troops Refusing The Jab Can Expect…
Transterrestrial Musings: The Teachers Unions, also, The Prosecution Of The 1/6 Defendants
Victory Girls: American Parents Waking Up To Classroom Takeover
Volokh Conspiracy: ATF Says FFL Must Follow Federal Law, State Laws Notwithstanding
Weasel Zippers: Virginia Teacher Resigns Over Being Forced To Teach CRT, also, Britney Spears’ Father Agrees To Step Down As Conservator After Over Ten Years
The Federalist: Oregon School Board Bans #BLM, Gay Pride Flags From Classrooms, also, Time To Impeach Texas Judges Enabling State Democrats To Flout The Law
Mark Steyn: In Need Of Treatment, also, The Last Laugh

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Category: Linkagery

Rebekah Jones: Still Lying

Posted on | August 13, 2021 | Comments Off on Rebekah Jones: Still Lying

Today my podcast partner John Hoge was in Montgomery County court for the final dismissal of the fake criminal charges that disgraced former Florida health department employee Rebekah Jones filed against Christina Pushaw, who wrote a brutal takedown of Jones and has since become press secretary for Gov. Ron DeSantis.

Because there was never any factual basis for the charges against Pushaw, the case was nolle prosequi, and the hearing today was a formality.

Alas, some Trump-hating clown in Miami named Grant Stern, who is trying to play “investigative reporter” with a Substack blog, decided that because (a) Christina Pushaw works for DeSantis then (b) any charges against her must have merit, and therefore (c) believe Rebekah Jones! Or such would seem to be Stern’s syllogism, anyway. Lots of amateurs out there playing “investigative journalist” don’t know any more about logic than they do about journalism, much less libel law, so it should be noted that I am merely expressing an opinion when I characterize Stern’s thinking process, but as for the fact that Stern is a clown, I think his big red nose and floppy shoes are sufficient evidence.

Charles C.W. Cooke rips Stern and Jones to tatters here.

Never believe a word Rebekah Jones says. If she say it’s up, it is almost certainly down. She is not only dishonest, she is crazy.

In short, Rebekah Jones is the Deb Frisch of Michael Avenattis.




 

Category: Crime
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