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Congress Subpoenas Ali

Posted on | October 8, 2021 | Comments Off on Congress Subpoenas Ali

The Sammy Davis Jr. lookalike is now world-famous:

The House select committee investigating the Jan. 6 assault on the Capitol on Thursday subpoenaed additional organizations connected to the “Stop the Steal” rally that occurred prior to the attack on Congress.
The committee sent the subpoenas to Ali Alexander, an organizer of the Stop the Steal rally and conservative provocateur, and Nathan Martin, both of whose names are linked to permit applications for the rally.
The move follows the committee late last month issuing 11 subpoenas to allies of former President Donald Trump who were also involved with organizing the Stop the Steal event that preceded thousands of Trump supporters storming the Capitol in an effort to prevent Congress from certifying Joe Biden as the 46th president of the United States.
Five people died in the siege and more than 140 Capitol Police officers were injured.
The select committee has been investigating the causes that led to the insurrection attempt with focus on those who organized the Stop the Steal rally on the Capitol grounds Jan. 6.
“The rally on the Capitol grounds on Jan. 6th, like the rally near the White House that day, immediately preceded the violent attack on the seat of our democracy,” committee chair Bennie Thompson, D-Miss., said in a statement. “Over the course of that day, demonstrations escalated to violence and protesters became rioters.”
The committee said its investigation found that an organization named One Nation Under God submitted a permit application to hold an event Jan. 6 on the Capitol grounds on “the election fraud in the swing states.”
The permit named Martin as a contact for the organization and the listed address was the same provided on Alexander’s website soliciting donations, the committee said, adding that a vendor also listed on the permit told Capitol Police that he was reporting to both Martin and Alexander and identified them as with the Stop the Steal event.
“However, the permit application did not disclose any connection between STS and the Capitol rally event,” the letter sent to Alexander reads. “Further, when a USCP official spoke by telephone with Mr. Martin on or about Dec. 28, 2020, Mr. Martin claimed not to have any information about the rally and directed the official to speak with the vendor.”
Capitol Police had granted the permit for the One Nation Under God rally, which had estimated there would be only 50 attendees, it said.
In its letter to Alexander, the committee said he repeated during Stop the Steal events in the weeks before the attack of the potential for violence to achieve their goals while stating he was in communication with the White House and members of Congress to organize an effort to coincide with the certification of the 2020 Electrical College results.
The committee on Thursday also subpoenaed records from Stop the Steal, LLC.
“The Select Committee needs to understand all the details about the events that came before the attack, including who was involved in planning and funding them,” Thompson said. “We expect these witnesses to cooperate fully with our probe.”
The announcement came as Trump has instructed former aides subpoenaed to testify before the committee to not comply, claiming the information sought is protected by executive privilege, and that the former president will defend them.

The usual suspects on left-wing Twitter were doing the happy dance about this Thursday because, in their minds, Ali is the key to linking congressional Republicans to the “insurrection.” But in fact — and this is what the Left refuses to acknowledge — the rally organized by Ali was entirely peaceful, while a separate group (some Proud Boys and Oath Keepers) were the ones who breached the Capitol building. The committee has subpoenaed Ali to testify in three weeks, and I don’t think the Left is going to be smiling after Ali — who has been banned from Twitter since January — gets his moment in the spotlight.

What this “investigation” is really about is a political strategy by Democrats to keep producing headlines about “insurrection” all the way to November 2022, with the idea of more or less permanently campaigning against Trump. Alas for the Democrats, this strategy is too clever by half. It was one thing, back in May, when Biden’s approval numbers were high, to make a big deal about the alleged threat to “our democracy” of right-wingers trying to “overturn” the election. Since the disaster in Afghanistan, however, Biden’s poll numbers have cratered, and “buyer’s remorse” has set in — like, maybe this guy really shouldn’t be president — and many voters now view the “Stop the Steal” movement more favorably than they did just four or five months ago.




 

Category: Congress

In The Mailbox: 10.07.21

Posted on | October 8, 2021 | Comments Off on In The Mailbox: 10.07.21

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Silicon Valley delenda est.

And that’s the way it is.

OVER THE TRANSOM
357 Magnum: Reporters Still Don’t Understand The Definition of Victim
EBL: Brian Stelter Is A Sad Potato, also, Dave Chappelle – The Closer
Twitchy: “So, Joe Biden’s Speech Went Well”, also, S.E. Cupp Complains Biden Isn’t “Neutralizing” Biggest Threat To America
Louder With Crowder: Hero Turns Classic Budweiser Super Bowl Ad Into F*** Joe Biden Commercial 
Vox Popoli: A Silent & Dutiful Massacre, Puppets In Politics, and Mailvox – Lockdown II Staff Shortage
Gab News: Pfizer Admits You Don’t Need The Vaccine

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
American Conservative: Joe Biden Becomes A Bernie Sanders Democrat
American Greatness: California Students Still Trapped Behind Enemy Lines In Afghanistan, also, GOP Lawmakers Demolish Democrats’ “Big Lie” That Arizona Audit Proved Biden Won The Election
American Thinker: People Notice When The Elites Lie, also, Another University Capitulates To The Mob
Animal Magnetism: Animal’s Daily State Of The States News
Babalu Blog: Communist Cuba’s Alternative Reality, also, Cuban Farmer Serving Five-Year Sentence For Complaining About Food Shortages
BattleSwarm: Is The Great Gun-Buying Boom Over?
Behind The Black: Today’s Blacklisted Americans, NASA Shifts Starliner Crew to Dragon To Get Them Into Space, and Indian Advocacy Group Calls For Prosecution Of Elon Musk & Starlink
Cafe Hayek: Quotation Of The Day
CDR Salamander: Diversity Thursday
Da Tech Guy: My Question To The AOC Crowd That Has No Trouble Chasing Women Into Bathrooms, also, The Biden Regime Is Siccing The FBI On Concerned Parents
Don Surber: Help Wanted – Coal Miners, also, Coldest Summer On Record
First Street Journal: Kroger & Masks, also, Self-Cleaning Oven
The Geller Report: Retired Officers Say Election Was Fraudulent, Question Biden’s Mental Health, also, Backlogged Cargo Ships Off American Coasts Face Four-Week Wait To Unload
Hogewash: Team Kimberlin Post Of The Day, Nothing To See Here – Move Along, and Messier 55 – Rotating Stars
Hollywood In Toto: Media Rush In To Save Fauci Documentary, Here’s What You didn’t Know About Halloween, and Skills Like This – The Indie Darling Time (And Audiences) Forgot
The Lid: Can’t Make This Up, also, Trump Tells Former Admin Members To Invoke Executive Privilege For 1/6 Subpoenas
Legal Insurrection: Rashida Tlaib Stars In Epic Performance Of COVID Theater, U. Tenn. Students Want Pro-Life Group’s Free Speech Limited, and Politifact Tries To Ride To The Rescue After Sen. Grassley Notes Broad Support For Photo ID Election Laws
Nebraska Energy Observer: But Wait! There’s More!
Outkick: Hendon Hooker Becoming The “Certifiable Dude” At Tennessee, Shirtless Scherzer After The Game – “Can’t Talk, I’m Drunk”, and NBA Suspends Marijuana Testing For 2021-2022 Season
Power Line: The Omarova Thesis, Are The Vaccines Failing? and Joe Biden’s Idea Of Healing America
Protein Wisdom: On Deaths & Dyings, also, What’s Really Inside The COVID “Vaccines”?
Shark Tank: Garcia’s Bipartisan Effort Expands College Tuition Waivers
Shot In The Dark: Campaign Advice, Confirmed, and Consent
The Political Hat: Deadly Harvest – Harvesting Organs From The Heathy & Denying Them To The Mentally Disabled
This Ain’t Hell: Afghan Gun Stores Selling American Military Weapons, More On The 82nd Airborne’s Taliban War Trophy, and FOIA Request Update
Victory Girls: Trust The Media – To Mock “The Other”, also, Frances Haugen To Meet With 1/6 Committee
Volokh Conspiracy: 28 Days Later, The Administration Has Still Not Released An OSHA Jab Mandate
Weasel Zippers: CNN On Biden’s New Poll Numbers – “Brutal”, Administration Reportedly Was Warned Of Illegal Surge But Did Nothing, and Marines Deployed To Taiwan – Red China Screeches “Expel The Invaders!”
The Federalist: Senate Minority Report Exonerates Trump Of Weaponizing DOJ Over 2020 Election Results, also, How To Stop The Entire World From Marching Across The U.S. Border
Mark Steyn: Live Around The Planet, also, Your Way Or The Norway

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Milwaukee Teen Killed by Racist System and High-Speed Head-On Collision, But …

Posted on | October 7, 2021 | Comments Off on Milwaukee Teen Killed by Racist System and High-Speed Head-On Collision, But …

. . . well, yeah, mainly it was the collision:

Dashcam video shows the crash that killed a 16-year-old and injured five other teens. It started with a police pursuit on Milwaukee’s northwest side, lasting around 6 minutes.
On June 15, when the crash happened, Milwaukee police said the pursuit ended before the deadly crash. Dashcam video reveals the time between the two was only a few seconds.
Officers first tried to pull over the silver Kia near Mariners Street and North 99th Street. Milwaukee police say the Kia was reported stolen the day before, and the pursuit began because of reckless driving, crossing into oncoming traffic about a minute and a half later on Good Hope Road – reaching speeds over 90. The video shows the Kia performing illegal U-turns multiple times.
The Kia again enters oncoming traffic on 76th Street. About 25 seconds later, the officers were told to cancel the pursuit.
The crash happened mere seconds later, just over 6 minutes after the chase started.
The 16-year-old driver of the Kia died that night at Children’s Wisconsin. He had two 12-year-old passengers who were seriously injured. There were three teens in the white Infiniti that was hit. . . .
An analysis of the Kia estimates the car was going over 100 miles per hour 5 seconds before the crash, slowing down to 65 miles on impact.

 

If you don’t have time to watch the whole seven-minute video now, you can click here to skip to the 6:08 mark where the teenage car thief makes the fatal decision to drive into oncoming traffic. Immediately after this deadly “accident” (a head-on collision isn’t really very accidental when you’re driving in the opposite lane at 100 mph) in June, local media produced the inevitable “Family Demands Answers” story:

The Milwaukee County Medical Examiner’s Office identified the 16-year-old boy who died in a horrific crash Tuesday night as Damantae Hambright. Five other young people were injured.
It happened just before 9 p.m. on North 76th Street, near Good Hope Road.
According to the Milwaukee Police Department, officers noticed a stolen Kia Sportage on Good Hope Road and attempted to pull it over. Rather than stopping, the 16-year-old driver, Damantae Hambright, took off. A police chase ensued.
Investigators say Hambright started driving the wrong way — into oncoming traffic — on 76th Street, ultimately crashing head-on into another car (an Infiniti M35).
The occupants of that car — two 18-year-olds and a 19-year-old — all suffered life-threatening injuries, but are stable at Froedtert Hospital.
Two 12-year-old girls who were in the stolen car with Hambright sustained very serious injuries. . . .
Police say none of the occupants in the stolen vehicle were wearing seatbelts.
Hambright’s mother, Pairresh Bond, sent TMJ4 a statement that reads in part, “my only son was a 16-year-old black male in Milwaukee, Wisconsin who made the wrong decision, and who hasn’t at that age? He didn’t deserve to pay with his life. I feel terrible about the whole incident and send my prayers to all involved.”

Excuse me if this seems insensitive to a grieving parent, but are you out of your freaking mind, lady? What kind of bizarre madness has seized hold of people in Milwaukee that stealing a car and driving it 100 mph into oncoming traffic is spoken of as merely the kind of “wrong decision” that anyone might make at age 16? And what does this “wrong decision” have to do with him being a “black male in Milwaukee”? Is the mother of the deceased car thief telling us that people of African descent have some sort of genetic tendency toward grand theft auto and high-speed driving? Or is this just some localized custom, specific to Milwaukee? A coming-of age ritual? Jewish boys get a bar mitzvah, WASP girls do the cotillion, Mexican girls have a quinceañera, and black kids steal cars?

Damantae just “made the wrong decision” when he stole that car. Damantae just “made the wrong decision” when he was riding around on a Tuesday with two 12-year-girls in that stolen car. When Damantae got blue-lighted by the cops, he just “made the wrong decision” to take off at 100 mph, cross the median and go head-on into oncoming traffic.

And why? Because he was a “black male in Milwaukee,” his mom says, as if that explains everything, or as if maybe she expects Ben Crump to show up and make her son a heroic martyr like George Floyd.

As someone who has spent a 35-year career finding the right words to describe all kinds of situations, I confess utter failure here, because there are no words adequate to express such intense stupidity. This astonishingly stupid quote — Damantae “made the the wrong decision, and who hasn’t at that age?” — expresses a pattern of belief and behavior that we might call the Zero Consequences Syndrome.

If people are encouraged to believe that it is unfair for them to suffer negative consequences for harmful behavior, and if social institutions like schools, courts and the news media are all committed to such beliefs, harmful behavior will become commonplace. Many black people apparently now believe that it is wrong for any black person to be arrested or imprisoned for crime, because the justice system is “racist.” And so this belief leads to an increase of harmful behaviors that the criminal justice system is supposed to deter. Mayhem and destruction ensue and when, inevitably, people die as a result, you get quotes like this from idiots who are shocked — shocked! — that somebody has to suffer the consequences of bad behavior. The perpetrator of a serious crime (and auto theft is serious, to say nothing of attempting to elude police at 100 mph) is depicted as a victim, who “didn’t deserve to pay with his life.”

This is where the “social justice” mentality leads. By the logic of BLM, police are always wrong and criminal suspects are always innocent, so long as the suspect is black. No matter what the black suspect has done, police are never justified in attempting to arrest him, and the conclusion of this syllogism is that the black suspect has a “right” to resist arrest or, as in the case of Damantae Hambright, to flee from police at 100 mph in a stolen car, going head-on into oncoming traffic. And the car thief does not “deserve” the consequences of his own felonious behavior.

The stupid acorn never falls far from the stupid oak.




 

Category: Crime, Wisconsin

In The Mailbox: 10.06.21

Posted on | October 7, 2021 | Comments Off on In The Mailbox: 10.06.21

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Silicon Valley delenda est.

From JimBob on Gab.

OVER THE TRANSOM
Ninety Miles From Tyranny: The 90 Miles Mystery Box, Episode #1497
357 Magnum: This Happens When You Put Bean Counters In Charge Of Tech
EBL: Why Victor Davis Hanson Left National Review
Twitchy: Gov. DeSantis’ Press Secretary Calls the AP “Activist Progressives”, also, “Amazing Words Of Wisdom”
Louder With Crowder: Joe Biden Responds To #FJB Chants, Proves Ignorance Of How One-Term Presidencies Work
Vox Popoli: Red China Beats The War Drums, Calling For The Green Light, and This Policy Should Age Well

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
Adam Piggott: Can You Prove That You’re Unvaxxed?
American Conservative: Building A Family-Friendly Country
American Greatness: The Left Can Finally Admit What It Wants, also, Judge Rules That Kansas City Can’t Defund Their Police Department
American Thinker: Biden Is Brewing A National Crisis, also, The Good News About The Federal Deficit
Animal Magnetism: Animal’s Hump Day News
Babalu Blog: Cuban National Baseball Team Stealing Home, also, Communist Indoctrination In Cuba Lauded As “Hispanic Heritage” By Axios
BattleSwarm: Austin Police/Jose Garza Roundup For October 6
Behind The Black: Today’s Blacklisted American, also, Millions Have Contracted COVID, Almost None Have Died
Cafe Hayek: Quotation Of The Day
CDR Salamander: Ships Should Fail To Sail More Often
Da Tech Guy: The Supremes Are Back, If You Lost A Job Or A Loved One Due To The Mandates Remember This, and Arson, Climate Change, & Wildfires
Don Surber: Bring Back Andrew Cuomo, Biden Official Wrote “How To Kill A Country”, and Amazon Leaves Seattle
First Street Journal: Many States have Decriminalized Marijuana. Now Trevor Burrus Wants To Legalize Smack. 
The Geller Report: Fraudulent Biden Responds To #FJB Signs – “81 Million People Voted For Me”, also, Pfizer Scientist Admits “Antibodies Are Probably Better” Than COVID Vaccine
Hogewash: Team Kimberlin Post of The Day, Nothing To See Here – Move Along, and I’ll Just Leave This Right Here
Hollywood In Toto: Oscar Season Beware – Adult-Minded Movies Are Dying At The Box Office, also, Why Vindication Is The Most Original Cop Show In Ages
The Lid: States Spent Almost NONE Of The $350 Billion “Emergency” COVID Funds Biden Sent
Legal Insurrection: Democrats & Media Deploy Same Eliminationist Rhetoric Against Parents As They Did Against The TEA Party, Emerson College Investigating Conservative Student Group Over Stickers Criticizing Red China, and Garland Memo Fallout In Rhode Island
Michelle Malkin: Comply Or Die – Vaxxpartheid In The Operating Room
Nebraska Energy Observer: Lupus Tenebrosis Chapter 9
Outkick: NBA Union Director Says Players Shouldn’t Lose Pay Because Of Jab Mandates, Urban Meyer’s Family Breaks Its Silence, and Wild Card Loss Could Be Boone’s Last Game As Yankees’ Skipper
Power Line: Andrew Yang, Former Democrat, Derek Chauvin Needs A Lawyer, and Clueless Joe Biden & The “Taiwan Agreement”
Protein Wisdom: Winning The War Against Therapeutic Nihilism – Trusted Treatments Vs. Untested Novel Therapies
Shark Tank: AG Moody Claps Back At Eskamani, Defends Lawsuit
Shot In The Dark: Offsetting, also, Already Gone
STUMP: U.S. COVID Mortality – Winter Is Coming 
The Political Hat: Shoelaces Of Wokeness
This Ain’t Hell: John Kerry Says Biden “Literally Had Not Been Aware” Of What Led To France/U.S. Dustup, also, Fixing The Federal Debt Problem – Just Mint a Trillion-Dollar Coin?
Transterrestrial Musings: And Jews Will Still Vote Democrat, Walmart But For Space, and Polarization
Victory Girls: Terry McAuliffe – School Choice For Me, Not For Thee
Volokh Conspiracy: Emerson College Suspends Student Group For Distributing “China Kinda Sus” Stickers
Weasel Zippers: FBI Creates Critical Race Theory-Based Training, also, Report – Biden Paying $5 Million A Day Not To Build A Border Wall
The Federalist: Financial Records Show Facebook “Whistleblower” Is Less Concerned Employee And More Radical Democrat Activist, also, Across America, Parents Refuse To Be Intimidated By Biden’s AG Calling Them Domestic Terrorists
Mark Steyn: The Shadow Of Your Stall

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FBI Now Targeting Parents as Terrorists

Posted on | October 6, 2021 | Comments Off on FBI Now Targeting Parents as Terrorists

The Justice Department has now decided that the real terrorists in America are parents upset about local public school policies:

Attorney General Merrick Garland called on the FBI to “use its authority” against parents who threaten or use violence against public school officials in a Monday memorandum.
Garland said there has been a “disturbing spike in harassment, intimidation, and threats of violence against school administrators, board members, teachers, and staff.” He said he is directing the FBI to work with each U.S. attorney and leaders “in each federal judicial district” to discuss strategy to address threats within 30 days of his statement.
The Department of Justice’s memorandum did not specify what it classifies as a crime and did not immediately respond to the Daily Caller News Foundation’s request for clarification on the matter.
Garland’s statement follows a letter from the National School Board Association (NSBA) that asked the federal government to get involved in the “immediate threat” of violence from parents faced by American public schools and its education officials. The NSBA said the incidents could be “the equivalent to a form of domestic terrorism and hate crimes.”
“It is shameful that activists are weaponizing the US Department of Justice against parents,” Nicole Neily, president of Parents Defending Education told the Daily Caller News Foundation in response to the memorandum. “This is a coordinated attempt to intimidate dissenting voices in the debates surrounding America’s underperforming K-12 education – and it will not succeed. We will not be silenced.”

Right — Antifa and BLM can engage in weeklong sprees of vandalism and looting, burn down police precincts and take over entire city blocks, and that’s just “mostly peaceful protests,” but let a few parents show up at the local school board meeting to complain about COVID-19 policy, transgenderism or Critical Race Theory, and the Justice Department will sic the FBI on them. The DOJ’s priorities are clear: Never mind the tens of thousands of illegal aliens streaming across the unprotected border, we’ve got to crack down on rowdiness at the PTA meeting.

(Hat-tip to Gina Carano on Twitter for the artwork.)




 

Category: Crime

In The Mailbox: 10.05.21

Posted on | October 5, 2021 | Comments Off on In The Mailbox: 10.05.21

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Silicon Valley delenda est.

What we should all be saying to this quack.

OVER THE TRANSOM
357 Magnum: Cybersecurity Awareness Month
EBL: The Return Of Protein Wisdom
Twitchy: “A Deliberate Attempt To [Intimidate] Parents From Showing Up At School Board Meetings”, also, Thousands Of Fired NYC Teachers Have Something To Say About Joe Biden
Louder With Crowder: About Facebook Whistleblower Frances Haugen…
Vox Popoli: Globohomo Fears The Tradwife, Red China’s New Nevsky Film, and Too Late To Shout “Stop!”

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
Adam Piggott: State Of The Zoomers
American Conservative: The Political Economy Of Dystopia
American Greatness: Canadian Doctor – “Something Malicious Is Going On”, also, Hundreds Protest Against Joe Biden In Michigan
American Power: Kyle Seager’s Last Game With The Mariners, also, Illegals Terrorize Sen. Sinema
American Thinker: Politics In The Case of LTC Scheller, also, Sopranos Sequel Goes Squishy On The Sixties
Animal Magnetism: Animal’s Daily Climate Change News
Babalu Blog: The Abundance & Prosperity That Oppressed Cuba Before Socialism, also, Cuban Baseball Team Returns From Mexico With Half Its Players & No Medal
BattleSwarm: The System Is Down…The System Is Down…, also, Is Red China Getting Ready To Invade Taiwan?
Behind The Black: Today’s Blacklisted American, Russia Imposes New Restrictions On Roscosmos Reporting, and 2018 Blue Origin Review Suggested Changes That Weren’t Adopted
Cafe Hayek: Behind & Beyond Even Accurate Statistics
CDR Salamander: Japan Back In The Carrier Game
Da Tech Guy: Report From Louisiana – Bare Shelves, Cui Bono, Black America? and One Sentence On The Social Media Crash 
Don Surber: Red China Takes Over Bagram, Democrats Succeed In Making $3 Trillion Spending Bill Look Small, and “I Am Not An Oppressor”
First Street Journal: The Blood Keeps Flowing In The City Of Brotherly Love, also, They Can’t Handle The Truth!
The Geller Report: NIH Director Frances Collins Resigns After Gain Of Function Lies Exposed, also, George Soros Is Behind Harassment & Intimidation Of Senator Sinema
Hogewash: Team Kimberlin Post Of The Day, I’m So Old, and Buchanan’s Second Term?
Hollywood In Toto: Could David Chase Crush That Perfect Sopranos Legacy? also, Pitbull & Tom McDonald Shred Rising Anti-American Voices
The Lid: Biden’s Nominee For U.S. Attorney Rachel Rollins Lets Criminals Walk & Wants To Override The Law
Legal Insurrection: Bad Orange Woman Lies Again That Massive Spending Bill’s Cost Is Zero, Red China Hit By Worst Power Crisis In A Decade, also, Facebook & Leftist “Whistleblower” Want Congress To Censor & Regulate Online Speech
Nebraska Energy Observer: COVID, SCOTUS, & Nebraska Neighborliness, also, A Murderous B***h Gets Confirmed
Outkick: Video Shows WNBA Players Involved In Wild Parking Lot Fight, Sage Steele Won’t Listen & The Media Doesn’t Scare Her, also, MSNBC In More Trouble Than CNN
Power Line: Merrick Garland Threatens America’s Parents, also, Stalking Sinema – The Biden Variations
Protein Wisdom: On COVID-19 mRNA Vaccines & Shedding
Shark Tank: DeSantis Condemns Administration For Targeting Parents
Shot In The Dark: This Oughta Be Good, also, Damn You, Ron DeSantis!
The Political Hat: Mind Your Own Business Act – Government Wades Into The Woke Work Wars
This Ain’t Hell: Thief Steals American, German Flags, Hoists Confederate Battle Flag Over 2nd ACR, Negligent Discharge Navy Style, and LTC Scheller Freed
Transterrestrial Musings: MIT Abandons Its Mission, also, The Aging ISS
Victory Girls: FB Whistleblower Is Not Your Friend – You Know That, Right? also, Sonic Employee Berated By Trans Activist
Volokh Conspiracy: The Trillion Dollar Platinum Coin Can Be Minted “Within Hours”, also, A Disinvitation At MIT
Weasel Zippers: Minnesota Middle School Stops Handing Out F Grades To Fight Systemic Racism, also, FBI Conducts Early Morning Raid On NYPD Union HQ
The Federalist: Private Employers’ Jab Mandates Are Destroying American Lives, also, “We Will Remember What They Try To Cancel”
Mark Steyn: A Hero & A Hoot, also, Haram Beard Trimming

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In The Mailbox: 10.04.21

Posted on | October 4, 2021 | Comments Off on In The Mailbox: 10.04.21

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Silicon Valley delenda est.

I grow weary of posting memes. Have some Komi for your Monday.

OVER THE TRANSOM
Red Pilled Jew: Monday Memes
357 Magnum: A Flaw Microsoft Wouldn’t Fix
EBL: LTC Scheller Rejects Trump’s Help
Twitchy: AG Merrick Garland Mobilizes FBI Against Parents, also, Kirsten Powers Doubles Down On Defending Jerks Who Harassed Senator Sinema In The Ladies’ Room
Louder With Crowder: F*** Joe Biden Week 5 In College Football, And Dave Portnoy Enters The Chat
Vox Popoli: About Time, Sajid Should Get Another Job, and Hiding The Body Count
Stoic Observations: Deep Blues

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
Adam Piggott: Off The Grid Communities, also, Detailed Information On The Poison Jab
American Conservative: Shots & Being Fired
American Greatness: Heroes Of The Pandemic, also, Our Woke National Icons
American Power: Democrat Clashes Hold Up Biden’s Agenda After Rocky Month, also, Mob Justice is Trampling Democracy
American Thinker: Life In Centrifugal USA, also, LTC Scheller is The 21st Century Billy Mitchell
Animal Magnetism: Goodbye, Blue Monday
Babalu Blog: More Than 300 Protests For Freedom In Cuba During September, 12th Player Defects From Cuban National Baseball Team In Mexico, and  Fidel’s Buddy Diego Maradona Enjoyed Life In Cuba As A Coke-Addled Pedophile
BattleSwarm: George Soros Just Dropped Half A Million Dollars To Oppose Hiring More Austin Police, also, Profane Meditations On Current Vexations 
Behind The Black: Today’s Blacklisted American, William Shatner To Fly On Next Blue Origin Suborbital Launch, and Italy Switches From Arianespace To SpaceX For Launch Contract 
Cafe Hayek: Quotation Of The Day
CDR Salamander: Fat Leonard II – Electric Boogaloo?
Da Tech Guy: The Left’s Dirty Little Secret, The Military Still Doesn’t Understand Social Media, and Five Sports Thoughts Under The Fedora
Don Surber: Afghanistan, Not Manchin, Blocks Biden, The $4 Trillion Infrastructure We Need, and Media Must Back Trump’s Lawsuit Against Twitter
First Street Journal: Killadelphia, also, The Internet Is Forever…And So Is Stupidity
The Geller Report: Majority Of Trump Voters Want Red States To Secede, also, Biden’s Democrats Preparing For Another 350-400,000 Illegals At The Mexico Border In October
Hogewash: Team Kimberlin Post Of The Day, Cosmic Leftovers, and Nothing To See Here, Move Along
Hollywood In Toto: How A Serial Killer’s Capture Unfairly Stained Body Parts, also, Cancel Culture Isn’t Done With Morgan Wallen
The Lid: No, Bad Orange Woman, Trump NEVER Told People To Inject Bleach
Legal Insurrection: Fauxcahontas Praises Afghan Withdrawal – “An Amazing Undertaking”, Penn State To Work With Schools To “Reimagine” K-12 Education With Social Justice & Climate Change, and NASA Shoots Down Petition To Rename “Homophobic” Space Telescope
Nebraska Energy Observer: Random Observations, also, Movie Music
Outkick: Tennessee Wins First SEC Game, Womens’ Pro Soccer League A Mess, and Urban Meyer Seems To Be Taking The Jags’ 0-4 Start Just Fine
Power Line: That Was The Week That Was, The Week In Pictures – Biden’s Terrible No Good Weak Edition, and Our Under-Incarceration Problem (Northern Virginia Edition)
Protein Wisdom: The Return Of Protein Wisdom
Shark Tank: Nikki Fried Vows To Veto All Abortion Bills As Governor
Shot In The Dark: Urban Progressive Privilege – Boundaries, also, Peak Minnesota
The Political Hat: Genderfae Or Genderfloret
This Ain’t Hell: Stupid People Of The Week, Another Seven Are Known, and RedState Reports MG Donahue Kicked Up To 100 People Off The Last Flight From Kabul To Make Room For War Trophy 
Transterrestrial Musings: The New Secession Movement, The Insurrection Hoax, and A Bad Day For Facebook
Victory Girls: Sotomayor Denies NY Teachers’ Appeal Of Jab Mandate, also, Alyssa Milano’s Off Her Meds Again
Volokh Conspiracy: “White Racial Consciousness” As A Dangerous Progressive Product
Weasel Zippers: Harris In Frantic Damage Control Mode After Applauding Student Who Accused Israel Of “Ethnic Genocide”, also, TikTok “Celebrity” Dies In High-Speed Crash While Transporting Illegals
The Federalist: If Occasional Cortex Wants To “Tax The Rich”, Why Not Start With Joe Biden? also, As The Christian Cold War Heats Up, The Faithful Prepare For Battle
Mark Steyn: Truth & Consequences, The Triumph Of The Feel, and Alexander’s Ragtime Band

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$3.5 Trillion = Zero-Point-Zero Dollars?

Posted on | October 4, 2021 | Comments Off on $3.5 Trillion = Zero-Point-Zero Dollars?

Look, I’m no expert in math, but you’re never going to convince me that the cost of a $3.5 trillion legislative package is zero:

In recent weeks, the Biden administration has been slammed for claiming the $3.5 budget reconciliation packages “costs zero dollars.”
On Monday, the president said once again that the $1.2 trillion infrastructure bill as well as reconciliation are both somehow paid for.
Hours later, during her daily press briefing, White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki made a similar point when pressed on whether the president admitted the bill didn’t cost zero when he said it would be less than he initially proposed.
“What we’re talking about is how much the top line investments are — which are all paid for,” Psaki said, referencing the $3.5 price tag. “So therefore, it costs zero, no matter what the cost or size of the top line investments are, we have ways to pay for it.”
Psaki added that the plan will be paid for by asking corporations and people of the highest incomes to “cover the cost of these necessary investments” through higher tax rates.
When asked one more time if the reconciliation budget costs zero dollars, Psaki admitted “the plan costs nothing for the American people who make less than $400,000.”

“Necessary investments” = a flaming dumpster full of socialist crap.

The speech that Biden read from his TelePrompter today was a gigantic stack of lies, which could not deceive anyone with the most rudimentary understanding of congressional procedure and the federal budget. Biden (or rather, his speechwriters) insisted that Republicans are to blame for Congress failing to raise the debt ceiling. In fact, Democrats could do this without a single GOP vote, using the same “reconciliation process” they’re trying to use to ram their $3.5 trillion — excuse me, I actually meant to say, zero dollar — spending package through Congress.

Mitch McConnell has made this clear, and he’s got the Republican Senate caucus lined up in solidarity, so that even the weakest RINOs aren’t flinching in the face of criticism from Biden, Chuck Schumer, Nancy Pelosi and all their media henchpeople. Cocaine Mitch to Sleepy Joe:

“Dear President Biden:
“For many years, our working relationship has been defined not only by our strong disagreements, but also by mutual transparency and respectful candor. I write in that spirit to express concern that our nation is sleepwalking toward significant and avoidable danger because of confusion and inaction from the Speaker of the House and the Senate Democratic Leader concerning basic governing duties.
“Since mid-July, Republicans have clearly stated that Democrats will need to raise the debt limit on their own. All year, your party has chosen to pursue staggering, “transformational” spending through unprecedented use of the party-line reconciliation process. Democrats inherited bipartisan trends from COVID relief to appropriations but have chosen to govern alone. Even now, with Americans already facing painful inflation, Democrats are preparing another staggering taxing and spending spree without any Republican input or support.
“Bipartisanship is not a light switch that Speaker Pelosi and Leader Schumer may flip on to borrow money and flip off to spend it. Republicans’ position is simple. We have no list of demands. For two and a half months, we have simply warned that since your party wishes to govern alone, it must handle the debt limit alone as well.
“As you and I know from shared Senate experience, this is not unusual. The debt limit is often a partisan vote during times of unified government. In 2003, 2004, and 2006, Mr. President, you joined Senate Democrats in opposing debt limit increases and made Republicans do it ourselves. You explained on the Senate floor that your ‘no’ votes did not mean you wanted the majority to let the country default, but rather that the President’s party had to take responsibility for a policy agenda which you opposed. Your view then is our view now.
“There is one difference between then and now: Leader Schumer requested and won new powers to repeatedly reuse the fast-track, party-line reconciliation process. As a result, Senate Democrats do not need Republican cooperation in any shape or form to do their job. Democrats do not need our consent to set a vote at 51 instead of 60. Nonpartisan experts confirm that Senate Democrats have every necessary tool to pass a standalone debt limit increase through reconciliation and enough time to do it before late October. As I have warned for months, this is the path they will need to take.
“Congressional Democrats have wasted weeks complaining that this relatively brief process would inconvenience their floor schedules. Mr. President, as you know as a Senate veteran, that is not an excuse; it is just a complaint. Republicans will not build Speaker Pelosi and Leader Schumer a shortcut around procedural hurdles they can clear on their own so they have a more convenient path to jam us with a partisan taxing and spending spree.
“Mr. President, I have relayed this reality to your Democratic lieutenants for two and a half months. My concern for our country is that Leader Schumer and Speaker Pelosi have done nothing. Either the Democratic leaders simply cannot govern or they would rather play chicken with the U.S. economy than accept reality.
“Your Democratic majorities have no plan of their own to avoid default. On Thursday, we narrowly avoided a shutdown by a few hours because Senate Democrats wasted weeks on theatrics before accepting reality. The American people cannot afford the same rudderless drift toward danger with respect to the full faith and credit of our nation.
“Mr. President, I respectfully submit that it is time for you to engage directly with congressional Democrats on this matter. Your lieutenants in Congress must understand that you do not want your unified Democratic government to sleepwalk toward an avoidable catastrophe when they have had nearly three months’ notice to do their job.”

Translation: “You’re on your own, pal.”




 

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