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Who’s Afraid of President Crackpipe?

Posted on | February 12, 2022 | Comments Off on Who’s Afraid of President Crackpipe?

Our Commander-in-Chief never served in the military. He was never the sharpest tool in the shed, and his cognitive capacity has visibly declined in recent years. His chief foreign-policy accomplishment is surrendering Afghanistan to the Taliban, and he’s less popular than Jimmy Carter.

So, yeah, I’m sure Vladmir Putin is just scared to death:

President Joe Biden warned Russian President Vladimir Putin on Saturday that an invasion of Ukraine would result in “swift and severe costs for Russia” during a high-stakes hourlong phone call that failed to ease rising tensions.
A senior Biden administration official described the call as “professional” but said the dialogue resulted in “no fundamental change in the dynamics that have been unfolding now for several weeks.”
The call, which lasted a little over an hour, ended shortly after noon ET. It came as the White House says a Russian invasion of Ukraine could be imminent, perhaps before the conclusion of the Beijing Winter Olympics, which end Feb. 20.
Biden told Putin that “if Russia undertakes a further invasion of Ukraine, the United States together with our Allies and partners will respond decisively and impose swift and severe costs on Russia,” according to the White House.
“President Biden reiterated that a further Russian invasion of Ukraine would produce widespread human suffering and diminish Russia’s standing,” the White House said, adding that Biden was also clear the U.S., while committed to diplomacy, is “equally prepared for other scenarios.”
The talks came after the State Department late Friday directed most staff who remain in the U.S. Embassy in Kyiv to leave Ukraine immediately. The Pentagon also ordered the withdrawal of 160 National Guard troops from Ukraine.
Biden is in Camp David in Maryland for the weekend.
During a phone call earlier Saturday, Secretary of State Antony Blinken warned Russia’s foreign minister, Sergey Lavrov, that if Russia invades Ukraine, it would result in a “resolute, massive, and united Transatlantic response.”
This image provided by The White House via Twitter shows President Joe Biden at Camp David, Md., Saturday, Feb. 12, 2022. Biden on Saturday again called on President Vladimir Putin to pull back more than 100,000 Russian troops massed near Ukraine’s borders and warned that the U.S. and its allies would “respond decisively and impose swift and severe costs” if Russia invades, according to the White House.
Putin also spoke on Saturday with French President Emmanuel Macron, who has tried to serve as a chief European interlocutor in the crisis.
Macron told Putin that “sincere dialogue” is not compatible with military escalation, during a phone call that lasted more than an hour, according to French media.
Putin, meanwhile, suggested the United States was engaging in “provocative speculations” about a possible Russian investigation of Ukraine, according to a statement from the Kremlin on the Russian leader’s conversation with Macron. Putin also raised concerns about the “massive supplies of modern weaponry” the West is sending to Ukraine and suggested that would create conditions for a Ukrainian military assault in the eastern Donbass region of Ukraine where Russian-backed separatists have been operating.

If there’s anyone who scares Putin less than Joe Biden, it’s Emmanuel Macron. Even if France had the will to fight — which, of course, it doesn’t — it lacks the ability. The French army is a complete joke. France could not deploy so much as one infantry battalion to defend Urkraine, let alone armored units, and Putin knows this as well as Macron.

This, even more than the brain-addled ineptitude of Biden, is America’s basic strategic problem: Our so-called “allies” are useless. While the British still have some military capability, the rest of Western Europe is a collection of weak sisters, from a military standpoint. Even if we had a competent Commander-in-Chief (which we don’t), our European “allies” are unable to do anything that might cause Putin to pause before sending his troops marching toward Kiev. And considering that Biden has demonstrated an unwillingness to defend U.S. strategic interests in Afghanistan (or anywhere else, for that matter), would Putin be wrong to guess that this talk of “swift and severe costs” is just a lot of bluster?

Of course, I don’t actually believe a Russian invasion of Ukraine is “imminent.” As previously explained, I don’t think Russia would launch an invasion in mid-February, when it makes more sense to wait until May. Were I asked to wager on this proposition, I’d bet that what we’re watching now is just a lot of “wag the dog” propaganda from the Biden administration, seeking to distract voters from the unmitigated disaster of Biden’s domestic policy: Free crackpipes!




 

Category: Joe Biden, Russia, Ukraine

Aspiring Rapper Update: NYC Mayor Mourns Jayquan ‘Chii Wvttz’ McKenley

Posted on | February 12, 2022 | Comments Off on Aspiring Rapper Update: NYC Mayor Mourns Jayquan ‘Chii Wvttz’ McKenley

Readers should remember the relevant definition:

Aspiring Rapper
North American euphemism for a member of the urban criminal class. This unusual occupation is usually mentioned in conjunction with the subject either being slain or being taken into custody for a violent or property-related crime. A relative of the subject usually points out that the subject’s demise or incarceration comes at an extremely inopportune moment, occurring just as the subject was “turning they(sic) life around.”

There was something truly weird about what happened this week:

New York’s Mayor, Eric Adams, paid an emotional tribute to the latest victim of the city’s gun violence, an 18-year-old aspiring rapper, Jayquan McKenley.
McKenley who went by the name Chii Wvttz, was shot dead outside a recording studio in Brooklyn’s Bedford-Stuyvesant neighborhood on Sunday.
Adams struggled to hold back tears as he blamed the shooting on a ‘broken system that ‘continually fails black and brown New Yorkers.’
The mayor detailed [Jayquan’s] life explaining how the city ‘betrayed’ him including being unable to secure stable housing from officials failing to intervene after he missed 250 days of high school.
‘I didn’t know Jayquan, but his death hit me hard because the more I found out about Jayquan’s story, the more I saw how many times he had been failed by a system that is supposed to help boys like him,’ Adams said.
McKenley grew up in the South Bronx, a neighborhood with high rates of poverty and unemployment.
Adams explained that by the time he was five, Jayquan’s family was living in a homeless shelter.
Adams told how McKenley was placed in a program for children with severe cognitive disabilities. After then moving into a mainstream program just a couple of years later, he was behind.
He was already at risk and though his mom begged for help, McKenley never got any, Adams said.
McKenley went to five different high schools and as a teenager missed hundreds of days of school.
‘Now, right there, our city should have done more,’ Adams said. ‘Over the next four years, Jayquan’s family lived in seven different shelters without stability or security.
‘To Jayquan’s mother and father, I want to say I’m sorry,’ Adams said with tears in his eyes. He had previously spoken with Jayquans’ grieving parents earlier in the week.
‘The story of Jayquan breaks my heart,’ Adams said. ‘His story tests my spirit, and we must do better for young people like him.
‘I’m sorry we betrayed him and so many others like him, but you have my word as your mayor that I will be looking out for the thousands of other Jayquans in our city because I was once a Jayquan, too.
‘I knew what it was like to worry about losing your apartment, your stability, what it’s like to live with a learning disorder, what it’s like to get on the wrong side of the law,’ he said. ‘I’ve been on that path of pain, and I know there’s a way out,’ Adams said.
‘He was a Drill rapper, part of a scene which involves using music as a challenge for social media posts — posts that bled out into violent real-world confrontations,’ he said. ‘It was right there, for all to see. Our city should have done more.’
Drill is a subgenre of rap which is dominated by themes of death and violence.
He had been arrested several times since 2017 including once for attempted murder, last year.
‘We had all the signs you can ever have that a young man’s life was in crisis, and with social media acting as an accelerant, that crisis was escalated,’ Adam’s said noting that red flags were ignored.
‘He was not just a victim now, but a perpetrator. But he was young, there was still time for him to turn the path of violence and move away from that,’ Adams said. ‘Our system and justice system should have done more, more to help him, rehabilitate him.’

He was a hoodlum, a gang-banger. Live by the gun, die by the gun.

All this woe-is-me stuff about how the “system failed him” — who failed? Isn’t this rhetoric just a way to exonerate Jayquan for his own deadly choices, by saying “society” in general was somehow at fault? Jayquan “had been arrested several times,” so why wasn’t he in jail or prison? Isn’t this because of the turn-’em-loose liberal bail policies in New York?

Leave enough gang-bangers out on the streets, don’t be surprised when they shoot each other. Hoodlums have a tendency to become dead hoodlums that way, and if the “system should have done more,” well, more what? More time behind bars for young hoodlums?

The death of “Chii Wvttz” is perhaps symbolic of what’s wrong with New York City, but probably not in the way the mayor imagines.

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Category: Aspiring Rapper Update, New York

In The Mailbox: 02.11.22

Posted on | February 12, 2022 | Comments Off on In The Mailbox: 02.11.22

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Ceterum autem censeo Silicon Valley esse delendam.

OVER THE TRANSOM
357 Magnum: How Is That Bail Reform Working Out?
EBL: Ozarks Season 4
Twitchy: “You’re The Expert, Professor Tow Truck”
Louder With Crowder: Joe Rogan Takes Another Dump All Over CNN, also, GiveSendGo Gives Canadian Government The Finger
Vox Popoli: This Bodes Well For The Future, Reflections On Organizational Success, and And Morgoth Smiled
According To Hoyt: It’s A Long Long Way To Fall, also, Fisking Anton
Monster Hunter Nation: Analyzing My Royalties, also, It Came From Facebook

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
Adam Piggott: Two Articles I Wrote In 2017 On Vaccinations
American Conservative: Are Your Emojis Racist?
American Greatness: Judge Blasts DOJ For Lies About Kamala’s Whereabouts On January 6, also, Joe Biden Rejects Army Report Detailing Failures Of Afghanistan Bugout
American Power: The Unbearable Bleakness Of American Schoooling, also, The Unbearable Pressure Of Winning The Olympics
American Thinker: If DC Fears Trump, He Deserves Four More Years
Animal Magnetism: Rule Five Return To Prosperity Friday
Babalu Blog: “Commander Ostrich”, Survivor Of Latest Military Purges, Turns 94, also, Extrajudicial Killings Continue In Communist Cuba
BattleSwarm: LinkSwarm For February 11
Behind The Black: Judge Blocks Camden Spaceport Land Purchase Pending Vote, First Image From Webb Released, and Global Image Of Mars From UAE’s Al-Amal Orbiter
Cafe Hayek: “Children Erupt Into Cheers After Learning They No Longer Have To Wear Masks”
CDR Salamander: Fullbore Friday
Da Tech Guy: Five “Are We The Baddies?” Indicators For The Opponents Of The Canadian Trucker Convoy
Don Surber: Creeping Socialism Finally Creeped People Out, also, The Boston Convoy
First Street Journal: Larry Krasner Won’t Put Criminals In Jail, So Philadelphians Lock Themselves Up, also, Lexington Killer Will Be Out Of Jail By Age 39 If Not Earlier
Gates Of Vienna: Forget The Tinfoil Hat – Time To Mask The Brain!, It’s As Simple As That, and “This Is Your Moment To Be A Hero”
The Geller Report: Judge Blocks Schools From Enforcing Gov. Pritzker’s Mask & Vaccine Mandates, also, Watch Gov. DeSantis Destroy Democrats On Masks
Hogewash: Team Kimberlin Post Of The Day, Science!, and Everything Is Proceeding As I Have Foreseen
Hollywood In Toto: Move Over Gigli, Here Comes Marry Me, also, Death On The Nile – A Return To Glamour, Epic Storytelling
The Lid: Beta Backtracks On Grabbing Guns
Legal Insurrection: Beta O’Rourke Now Has “No Interest In Taking” Your AR-15, Biden Calls NBC’s Lester Holt A “Wise Guy” Over Inflation Question, and The False Choice Between Academic Freedom And CRT Bans
Nebraska Energy Observer: Scattershot Friday, Genocide Olympics, and Free Men Arise
Outkick: Bama Hires LSU QB It Struggled To Stop Before Joe Burrow, Wait – Did A Stripper Break The James Harden News? and UFC’s “Stylebender” Gives Expletive-Laden Defense Of Joe Rogan
Power Line: Thoughts From The Ammo Line, Common Sense & Gutlessness At Harvard, and Bidenflation Year One
Shark Tank: DeSantis Doesn’t Budge On Redistricting
Shot In The Dark: We Are, Apparently, The New Revolutionaries, also, Mayor Carter/Frey’s Perilous Tightrope
The Political Hat: Firing Line Friday – Is NYC Out From Under?
This Ain’t Hell: Analysis Of Stolen Valor, Valor Friday, and 3000 More Paratroopers Headed For Europe As Biden Warns Ukraine War Is Imminent
Transterrestrial Musings: What The Truckers Want, Biden’s Afghanistan Debacle, and Defenders Of Free Speech
Victory Girls: School Board President Says The Quiet Part Out Loud, also, Biden Blames Army For HIS Afghanistan Blunders
Volokh Conspiracy: Funny Oral Argument Moments
Weasel Zippers: Biden – “That’s Not What I Was Told”, Meet Biden’s New DOE Appointee, and Oil Spikes To $95/Barrel Over Fears Of Russo-Ukraine War
The Federalist: College Championship Illustrates Jeopardy‘s Post-Trebek Shifts, Like A Case Gone Cold, Murderville Drags On Too Long, and Why Do 15% Of Voters Still Believe The Corporate Media Tells The Truth?
Mark Steyn: Canadian Stand-Off

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Category: Linkagery

Ukraine Freakout: Is This for Real?

Posted on | February 11, 2022 | Comments Off on Ukraine Freakout: Is This for Real?

While on the one hand, I’m not a paranoid conspiracy theorist, on the other hand I am very cynical about politics, which is why I am somewhat hesitant to accept that all this media noise about Ukraine is legit:

President Joe Biden plans to speak with Russian President Vladimir Putin on Saturday, a person familiar with the matter said, as the US warns Russia could attack Ukraine using bombs and missiles at any moment.
The high-stakes talks come at what US officials describe as a critical juncture in the ongoing crisis. A significant increase of Russian ground forces and military assets have surrounded Ukraine, and Putin could decide at any moment to activate them into a deadly invasion.
He hasn’t decided whether to act, the White House said Friday. But that has not stopped American officials from dramatically increasing their warnings an attack is now a “distinct possibility” and could occur swiftly.
Biden’s phone conversation with Putin — scheduled for 11 a.m. ET Saturday, according to the Kremlin — will be his first since the end of December. Since then, the number of Russian troops near Ukraine has increased and the prospects of an invasion have increased, according to American intelligence assessments. . . .
The Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs Friday accused Western countries and the media is spreading a “large-scale disinformation campaign,” which promotes the thesis about an allegedly impending Russian invasion of Ukraine.

As I say, I don’t want to get too paranoid about a “Wag the Dog” scenario here, and do not wish to minimize the possibility that Putin does indeed plan military aggression toward Ukraine . . . but in February? Hello?

The forecast in Kiev calls for an overnight low of 19ºF with a high Saturday of 35ºF and, while the week ahead is expected to be comparatively balmy — with temperatures reaching as high as 44ºF Wednesday — mid-February is certainly not an idea time for military operations in Ukraine. Why wouldn’t Putin wait until spring?

Nonetheless, the White House and the media are sounding the alarms — invasion is imminent! 48 hours to evacuate Ukraine! — and the question that occurs is, if the threat is not real, why are they faking it?

If I had to guess, what’s happening is that Team Biden is trying to manufacture a “win” for Joe, hyping up the invasion threat so that the old guy can then claim he stopped Putin from invading Ukraine. And maybe also, at the same time, what we’re seeing is how “the ongoing crisis” is allowing Putin to play a sneaky game with the American “intelligence community,” sending out fake invasion signals and then watching how they react. That way, the Russians discover which information channels the NSA/CIA are monitoring, which will enable Russia to manipulate perceptions in any future scenario, including a real Ukraine invasion.

Remember, Putin is ex-KGB so he knows this Spy-vs.-Spy stuff inside and out, while the Biden administration is run by a bunch of progressive “social justice” clowns who couldn’t organize a Cub Scout camping trip. As to how all this works out, my guess would be that Biden will do a Chamberlain-at-Munich stunt, claiming he’s negotiated “peace for our time,” and then a couple months later — mid-April to early May — he’ll be blindsided when Putin sends the tanks rolling into Ukraine.




 

Category: Joe Biden, Russia, Ukraine

How to Die in Philadelphia

Posted on | February 11, 2022 | Comments Off on How to Die in Philadelphia

Even though Philadelphia set an all-time record for homicides last year, nearly twice as many people died of drug overdoses as died of gunshot wounds in “Killadelphia” in 2021.

Dana Pico notes that Philadelphia wanted to open a “supervised injection site” where junkies could presumably shoot up more safely than where they would otherwise shoot up, but the city ran up against the problem that such a site would violate federal law that makes it a felony to operate such a place. And the city’s lenient attitude toward junkies is not unrelated to the surge of deadly violence in “Killadelphia”:

Drug users are not somehow ‘not criminals’, no matter what District Attorney Krasner likes to think. To obtain their recreational pharmaceuticals, they have to buy them from a drug dealer, and Philadelphia’s record-setting 562 murders in 2021 were largely fueled by gang warfare, mostly drug gang warfare. Junkies buying heroin and fentanyl are a captive market which keeps the dealers in operation, and that endangers all Philadelphians.

Heroin, meth and cocaine are soul-destroying addictions, even among those who don’t die of overdoses, and drug abuse is highly correlated to other criminal activity, including not only the gang violence by drug dealers, but also the theft and burglary committed by dopeheads trying to get money to feed their habits. If it were possible to solve that problem with “social justice” approaches, wouldn’t progressives be able to point to successful programs somewhere? Instead, everywhere the progressives are in charge, these problems have skyrocketed out of control.




 

Category: Crime, Pennsylvania

Aspiring Rapper Update: Bloods Gangster Arrested for Shooting Atlanta Cop 6 Times

Posted on | February 11, 2022 | Comments Off on Aspiring Rapper Update: Bloods Gangster Arrested for Shooting Atlanta Cop 6 Times

We’re going to disregard standard journalistic practice in this case by omitting the customary “alleged” about the felony charges against aspiring Atlanta rapper Christian Eppinger, a/k/a “Big Bhris”:

A 22-year-old rapper who goes by the moniker Big Bhris was reportedly arrested for shooting an Atlanta Police Department officer six times on Monday (February 7). According to 11 Alive, Big Bhris (real name Christian Eppinger) is a member of the Bloods sect Young Slime Life and now faces attempted murder and street gang activity charges in relation to the shooting.
As noted in the warrant, Officer David Rodgers was attempting to take Eppinger into custody on an armed robbery warrant from 2021 when the shooting occurred. Rodgers caught four bullets to the shoulder, one to the knee and another in the side of his head. He was rushed to the Emergency Room at Grady Hospital in serious condition. . . .
Young Slime Life reportedly operates out of strongholds along Cleveland Avenue and the APD says the gang is known for its “ruthless pedestrian and home invasion style robberies” as well as “drive-by shootings resulting in death and serious injury.” Members are also “known to sell and possess illegal narcotics ranging from marijuana, cocaine, ecstasy and liquid promethazine/codeine cough syrup.”
Eppinger appeared in court on Tuesday (February 8) and was denied bond on charges related to the shooting as well as the original armed robbery charges. A judge ruled he was likely to reoffend if out on the street and imposed a flight risk. . . .
A quick search of the Big Bhris YouTube channel pulls up videos with titles such as “Homicide” and “Murder On My Mind.”
The warrant states, “Numerous videos featuring ‘Big Bhris’ have been posted on YouTube of which Mr. Eppinger and other documented YSL gang members wearing YSL clothing can be observed displaying firearms and throwing up YSL gang hand signs pledging their allegiance to the gang and taunting rival gang members.”

Hey, aspiring rappers: Please keep recording these videos to provide police with conclusive evidence of your gang membership. Between this evidence and the bodycam video when you shoot a cop, your attempted murder conviction will be a cinch. That’s why I’m not even bothering to use “alleged” in describing this aspiring rapper’s crimes, because (a) there’s not any real doubt about his guilt, besides which (b) he’s got too many problems to even be thinking about a libel suit.

Atlanta Police Officer David Rodgers

I mean, obviously Atlanta’s a lot more liberal than most of Georgia, but when you shoot a black cop in Atlanta? Oh, you’ll be a very old aspiring rapper before you can ever hope to get out of prison.

By the way, the October robbery that “Big Bhris” Eppinger was being sought for when he shot Officer Rodgers? Quite a caper:

According to the warrants, Eppinger had been originally wanted for allegedly robbing someone who’d been filming a rap video at the park behind Cleveland Avenue Library in October. In that incident, Eppinger and another man allegedly stole someone’s Rolex watch, iPhone, Gucci wallet and diamond earrings, then later posted about it on social media.

So you were robbing other rappers and bragging about your crimes on social media? Way to go, “aspiring rapper”! This is an agenda I fully support: Criminals ripping off other criminals, then making evidence of their crimes publicly available on Facebook and Instagram. Just next time, don’t shoot the cops when they show up to arrest your stupid ass.




 

Category: Aspiring Rapper Update, Georgia

In The Mailbox: 02.10.22

Posted on | February 11, 2022 | Comments Off on In The Mailbox: 02.10.22

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Turns out I’m working both Saturday and Sunday in the tax mines this weekend, so that promised book post may not emerge until I’m home in Tonopah next weekend.
Silicon Valley delenda est.

Col. Walter E. Kurtz contemplates the choice between a senile old fool and an utterly incompetent whore as CinC.

OVER THE TRANSOM
EBL: Appleton, Wisconsin – Dump Lee Snodgrass!
Twitchy: “Never EVER Just Let It Go”, also, “As He Has Another Aneurysm”
Louder With Crowder: Couple Goes To Freedom Convoy To See For Themselves, Discover Media Narrative Is Complete Garbage
Vox Popoli: Killshot Is Cancer Shot, How We Succeed, and We Wuz Alfs
Gab News: The Parallel Economy Takes Off!

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
Adam Piggott: A Clear Example Of The Government Using The Media To Lie To Us About The Jab
American Conservative: How Lefty Urbanists Quash Housing Supply
American Greatness: Biden Taps Drag Queen Pup Fetishist For HIgh-Level Energy Department Post
American Power: Joe Rogan Experience – Stephen Pinker On What Has Happened To Being Rational
American Thinker: A Color Map Of The Fronts Of WWIII
Animal Magnetism: Animal’s Daily Toxic Skwerls News
Babalu Blog: Price Of Food Skyrockets In Communist Cuba, also, How Red China & Russia Are Trying To Save Communism In Cuba
BattleSwarm: Ben Shapiro On Biden’s Pivot Dilemma
Behind The Black: Today’s Blacklisted Americans – Private School Makes Enemies List Of Parents, ArianeSpace Launches 34 OneWeb Satellites, and “We Need To Seize The Opportunity And Do It As Quickly As Possible”
Cafe Hayek: J.P. Sears Reports On The Recent March Against The Mandates
CDR Salamander: Diversity Thursday
Da Tech Guy: The Impossible 9th Inning – Yanks At Twins Game 2 With An Ironic Twist, also, Doing Hard Time In Facebook Jail
Don Surber: Occasional Cortex Starts Democrat Catfight In Texas, also, Manchin May Save The Democrats
First Street Journal: Voting With Their Faces, also, Bidenomics
Gates Of Vienna: Terror Roundup In Antwerp, Death To The Unvaxxed! and Germany Plans To Secure Its Future Energy Supply With Phlogiston
The Geller Report: Biden’s Average Approval Rating Drops To 39%, also, Inflation Explodes
Hogewash: New Views Of Venus, Deja Vu All Over Again, and Team Kimberlin Post of The Day
Hollywood In Toto: Neeson’s Blacklight Scrapes The Bottom Of The Taken Barrel, also, A Terrible, Awful, No Good Week For The Oscars
The Lid: Mayor Claims Ice Fishing Could Lead To Prostitution
Legal Insurrection: NC Elections Board Claims It Can Prevent Madison Cawthorn From Running Over J6, Jill Biden Announces “Free” Community College No Longer In Spending Bill, and NPR Wants You To Be Concerned About What Skin Color Emoji You Should Use
Nebraska Energy Observer: Long Green – The Dark Kind
Outkick: Tennessee’s Heupel Has A Plan For The Transfer Portal, Jemele Hill Signs With CNN’s Streaming Service, and LA Hosts Glitz Of Super Bowl Amid Homeless Epidemic 
Power Line: Today In Race Obsession, Blue Governors Retreat On Mandates, and Trump Responds To Document Mishandling Allegations
Shark Tank: Mills Draws First Blood Against “No Show” Sabatini In Contentious Race To Replace Murphy
Shot In The Dark: The Next Battle, also, Who’s Not There?
The Political Hat: Diagnosis Woke – AMA Embraces “Equity”, Anti-Racism Mandate For Pharmacists, & Medical Meritocracy Ban, also, What Does America Look Like?
This Ain’t Hell: Nurse Trying To Become First Pre-Service Amputee To Join The Navy, Braxton Anderson – Still Rocking The Lies For Imaginary Internet Points, and San Francisco Solves The Homeless Crisis
Transterrestrial Musings: The Gun Grabbers, The Trucker Rebellion, and The Revolution Isn’t Over 
Victory Girls: DHS – “The Truckers Ae Coming! The Truckers Are Coming!”
Volokh Conspiracy: NY Appellate Court Stays (Pending Appeal) Injunction Against NYT In Project Veritas Case
Weasel Zippers: Biden Promises To Bring Down Gas Prices, Bad Orange Woman Defends Masking Toddlers, and Red China Imports Ringers For Its Hockey Team, Still Gets Ass Kicked By America
The Federalist: Oregon Dems Want To Bar School Boards From Firing Far-Left Superintendents, Biden Fed Nominee Raked In $1.5 Million From Startup She Pulled Strings For, and How Vax Discrimination Caused Dangerous Care Shortages In Wisconsin
Mark Steyn: The Beginning Of The End Of The COVID Era, also, Fun With Dick & Khan

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Category: Linkagery

President Crack-Pipe’s Very Bad Week

Posted on | February 10, 2022 | Comments Off on President Crack-Pipe’s Very Bad Week

First of all, Jen Psaki wants you to know that “inaccurate reporting” is to blame for all those stories about Joe Biden wanting to spend $30 million to give crack pipes to drug addicts:

The original request for funding proposals from the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration had listed “safe smoking kits/supplies” among the items that could be purchased with taxpayer money. They were among a dozen categories that included overdose prevention drugs, medication lockboxes, test kits for infectious diseases, and syringe disposal containers. The grant solicitation did not specifically mention pipes, although they can be a part of safe smoking kits.
Daniel Raymond, director of policy for the National Viral Hepatitis Roundtable, said only a few programs in the U.S. have handed out safe smoking kits.
“None of this was being done with federal funds,” Raymond said. “I feel very confident in saying that. I would have been aware if that were true.”
Nonetheless reports that the Biden administration was using federal dollars to pay for “crack pipes” took off. Some Republican senators piled on, castigating the administration.
Misleading claims about the HHS program dominated social media early Wednesday, many of them from conservative commentators and Republican politicians sharing memes and tweets that received tens of thousands of likes.

Got that? Anything about this program that looks bad for Biden is because of “misleading claims,” despite the fact that “safe smoking kits” are indeed part of what the federal government is proposing to provide dopeheads at taxpayer expense. So, as far as official White House policy is concerned, Hunter Biden is the only drug addict that the president is helping get high. And Hunter’s drug habit is being funded by Chinese “investors,” not taxpayers, so don’t worry about it.

Alas, this fiasco, bad as it was, wasn’t the worst news for Biden this week:

U.S. consumer prices jumped by the most in nearly four decades as the new year started, sapping the savings of American families, diminishing the purchasing power of worker paychecks, and putting pressure on the Federal Reserve to hike interest rates beginning in March.
The consumer price index climbed 0.6 percent from a month before, the Department of Labor said Thursday. Compared with January of last year, consumer prices are up 7.5 percent. . . .
Polls show the public’s rating of Biden’s handling of the economy is at a record low. Biden’s overall approval rating has plummeted. Forty-five percent of Americans say inflation has put a strain on household finances.

Wait, there’s more:

Rising inflation is eating away at strong wage gains that American workers have seen in recent months: Real average hourly earnings rose just 0.1% in January from the previous month, as the 0.6% inflation increase eroded the 0.7% total wage gain, according to the Labor Department. On an annual basis, real earnings actually declined 1.7% in January.
Price increases were widespread: Although energy prices rose just 0.9% in January from the previous month, they’re still up 27% from last year. Gasoline, on average, costs 40% than it did last year. Food prices have also climbed 7% higher over the year, while used car and truck prices – a major component of the inflation increase – are up 40.5%. Shelter costs jumped 0.3% for the month and 4% year-over-year.
The inflation spike has been bad news for President Biden, who has seen his approval rating tumble as consumer prices rise. The White House has blamed the price spike on supply-chain bottlenecks and other pandemic-induced disruptions in the economy, while Republicans have pinned it on the president’s massive spending agenda and his energy policies targeting the oil and gas industries.

Biden shut down the Keystone XL pipeline on Day One of his presidency — so he’s anti-pipeline, but pro-crackpipe. However, you can’t use wind mills and solar panels to deliver food to grocery stores, so the 40% spike in fuel prices is driving prices up across the board. And speaking of “across the board,” let’s talk about Biden’s plummeting poll numbers:

The good news for Joe Biden in today’s CNN poll: his job approval got above 40%. The bad news is that there are nearly no undecideds when it comes to his performance as president. Biden hits a high of 58% disapproval in the latest CNN survey and gets a -17 gap in approval that manages to outstrip his already-pathetic RCP aggregate gap.
CNN’s data provides the real takeaway, which is that Biden’s confidence-crisis cascade has accelerated rather than slowed:

Nearly 6 in 10 Americans disapprove of how Joe Biden is handling his presidency, with most of that group saying there’s literally nothing Biden has done since taking office that they approve of. The finding, from a CNN Poll conducted by SSRS in January and February, highlights the entrenched politics driving the nation at the start of the midterm year, with little agreement across party lines on priorities for the government or how to handle the coronavirus pandemic.
The President’s ratings have fallen across the board, the survey found. Just 41% approved of the way he’s handling his job while 58% disapproved, a significant drop from his approval numbers in CNN polling last year. Just 36% of independents and 9% of Republicans approved. Although his approval rating still stood at 83% among Democrats, that was down from 94% late last summer. Biden also continues to have more strong detractors than he does fervent supporters: 41% of Americans disapproved strongly of his performance as President versus 15% who strongly approved. Some of the shift in Biden’s numbers comes from a change in Americans’ partisan tilt: Republicans and Democrats were about at parity in the new poll, with fewer identifying as Democrats than in other recent CNN polling.

Biden is so unpopular, Democrats are ashamed to admit they voted for him. They don’t even want to call themselves Democrats anymore.

Except the crackheads. They love Biden. Next time you see a poll and wonder how anyone could possibly approve of the job Biden’s doing as president, that’s your answer — the crackheads are now Biden’s “base.”




 

Category: Joe Biden, Polls
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