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In The Mailbox: 05.28.24 (Morning Edition)

Posted on | May 28, 2024 | Comments Off on In The Mailbox: 05.28.24 (Morning Edition)

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Silicon Valley et Hamas delenda sunt.

OVER THE TRANSOM
357 Magnum: He Literally Shot Himself In The Foot
EBL: Invasion of the Star Creatures, also, Taking Chance: A Memorial Day Tribute
Twitchy: What Judge Merchan Told Parties About “Not Going Into The Law” Before Trump Jury Sounds Shady AF, Robert De Niro’s Batshit Rant At Biden Campaign Presser Outside NYC Court Only Helps Trump, and Story Of Mentally Ill Troon Who Stabbed Six People (Four Girls) Just Gets Weirder
Vox Popoli: Will NATO Go All In? She Pines for the Fjords, Definitely on the List, Brainstorm on Darkstream, and China Warns Japan
Upstream Reviews: Memorial Day 2024
Stoic Observations: Memories of Crenshaw, The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes, Memorial Day Redux

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
CDR Salamander: Memorial Day In Halifax
Dana Loesch: Memorial Day
Don Surber: Trump train keeps a-rollin
STUMP: A Time To Remember – Drowning Doesn’t Look Like Drowning, Memorial Day – U.S. Civil War Death Statistics

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Why Memory Matters

Posted on | May 27, 2024 | Comments Off on Why Memory Matters

“People will not look forward to posterity who never look backward to their ancestors.”
Edmund Burke

Our Army son posted the photo above, showing his baby girl manning the machine gun, with the caption, “These gun teams get younger every day,” and I thought it was an appropriate illustration for this Memorial Day.

As Americans, we are the heirs of a tradition, profoundly indebted to earlier generations, and owing them a certain duty of gratitude. We must recall that “We the People” ordained the Constitution in order to “secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity.” If we are grateful for that inheritance — as we should be — then we ought to act in such a manner as to show ourselves worthy of our liberty, considering what tremendous sacrifices were required to obtain and keep it.

A few years ago, I told the story of my ancestor, Abraham Isham Bolt, who served in the South Carolina militia that defeated the British at the Battle of Cowpens, a crucial victory in the Revolutionary War, depicted in the climactic scene of the 2000 movie The Patriot. My ancestor was a mere teenager when he served in the militia, as I pointed out:

Every Fourth of July, we celebrate America’s independence, dating this to the anniversary of 1776, when the Declaration of Independence was made public. But it was not the fine phrases of the Declaration — those self-evident truths — that made the United States an independent nation. No, it was the soldiers who fought the war that won our freedom, and how many of those Patriot soldiers were just teenage farm boys like my ancestor?

Nine months of militia service for a 16-year-old is perhaps a small sum in the account balance of history, yet this is a priceless legacy of which I am immensely proud, and it is strange to me that so few Americans know anything about their ancestors, or care anything about history.

We had a little family gathering Sunday, with my son Jefferson in attendance. He’s just finished his second year of law school, and hasn’t been home since last Thanksgiving, so he brought with him a Christmas gift for me, delivered a few months belatedly: A family tree drawn by his girlfriend (who has a master’s degree in library science and does diligent research) showing five complete generations of my ancestors, going all the way back to my great-great-great-grandparents — all 32 of them!

How many people know the names of all 32 of their great-great-great-grandparents? And, I should point out, Abraham Bolt wasn’t among those; he was my great-great-great-great-grandfather, and his son James (b. 1783) was the earliest Bolt ancestor listed in the genealogy prepared by Jefferson’s girlfriend. An awareness of one’s ancestry provides a deeper appreciation of history, which is valuable to our sense of who we are, and gives us a perspective that we might not otherwise possess.

“To live for the moment is the prevailing passion — to live for yourself, not for your predecessors or posterity. We are fast losing the sense of historical continuity, the sense of belonging to a succession of generations originating in the past and stretching into the future. . . .
“Narcissism emerges as the typical form of character structure in a society that has lost interest in the future.”

Christopher Lasch, The Culture of Narcissism: American Life in an Age of Diminishing Expectations (1979)

What could be more narcissistic than the impudence of the soft-handed intelligentsia who think themselves superior to that heroic generation of Patriots who fought for American independence? Patrick O’Donnell at Breitbart tells the history of the “Appeal to Heaven” flag about which liberals have recently become indignant. One suspects that none of those outraged at Justice Alito’s display of that flag could name even one of their ancestors as having served the Patriot cause.

“These gun teams get younger every day,” as my son says, and let’s hope our grandchildren will do better at remembering their heroic ancestors than most of the members of our generation have done.

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Rule 5 Sunday: Pool’s Open

Posted on | May 27, 2024 | 3 Comments

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When I was a young spud growing up in the suburbs of DC, my father used to haul me along on his weekend trips to the Knights of Columbus; in addition to the usual council hall with bar, this council had a swimming pool, which always opened on Memorial Day weekend and closed after Labor Day – never mind that it was usually hot and humid enough to open the pool at the beginning of May and keep it open until early October. So if you were wondering why I eschew swimsuit pics until this time of year, now you know. This week’s pic is courtesy of @kbdabear on X, he that linketh every post that falls from the keyboard of the Ewok and posteth copious quantities of attractive scantily-clad babes besides.
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ANIMAL MAGNETISM: Rule Five Neanderthal Language Friday, and the Saturday Gingermageddon.

EBL: Saturday Night Girls With Guns, Memorial Day, Scarlett Johannson & OpenAI, MAGA Margo Martin, Hayek Is Right, Red Lobster In Hot Water, The Harrison Butker Speech, Happy Birthday Roadhouse, and Happy Birthday Mr. President

A VIEW FROM THE BEACH: Allie DunnFish Pic Friday – The Pluff Mud PrincessHappy World Turtle Day!Thursday TanlinesWednesday WetnessNonsenseThe Monday Morning StimulusMore Random Celebrity NewsPalm Sunday and Here’s Soap in Your Eyes

FLAPPR: T.I.T.S. for May 24, and Sundress Season

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FMJRA 2.0: There Must Be Some Kind Of Way Out Of Here

Posted on | May 26, 2024 | Comments Off on FMJRA 2.0: There Must Be Some Kind Of Way Out Of Here

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SOTD
It was Blowout Week for my Senators, who lost two out of three to the Hated Yankees 4-11 and 2-9 after staking Reggie Cleveland to a 9-2 win against Skip Lockwood in the first game; on Friday, Pat Dobson won the first game against the Twins 8-2 before we got pounded 3-15…well, maybe we could have beaten Dick Woodson in Game Three, which was a 1-2 loss, but the hitters weren’t hitting, even with John Lowenstein and Cookie Rojas back in the lineup after five days on the DL. Somehow the A’s did even worse, which means we’re two games out of the cellar in the Beta Division. People are after me for Pat Dobson, offering draft picks for ’73, but it’s way too early in the season to be throwing in the towel. This week we’re facing the Cardinals on Tuesday and the Tribe on Friday, and I’m hoping for at least a .500 week.
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A week in the ruts

‘Get Trump’ Show Trial Continues
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Boomers, Millennials and Stereotypes
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Isn’t It Time We Discuss the Leading Cause of Antisemitism in America?
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Biden Administration Loses Key Ally
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FMJRA 2.0: Beatings Will Continue Until Morale Improves
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Early Morning Rule 5 Monday: Smokin’ Blonde
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In The Mailbox: 05.21.24 (Morning Edition)
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I’d Call This a Kangaroo Court, But That Would Be an Insult to Honest Kangaroos
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In The Mailbox: 05.21.24 (Evening Edition)
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Cognitive Decline as a Policy Principle: Understanding Biden’s Confused Agenda
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In The Mailbox: 05.22.24
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In The Mailbox: 05.23.24
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In The Mailbox: 05.24.24
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In The Mailbox: 05.24.24

Posted on | May 25, 2024 | Comments Off on In The Mailbox: 05.24.24

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Usual weekend deadlines fo rthe usual weekend posts.
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OVER THE TRANSOM
357 Magnum: How Should A Woman Defend Herself & Her Family?
EBL: Prosecutor Jack Smith’s Team Is Throwing Temper Tantrums, Scarlett Johansson and Open AI, and Trump Event In The Bronx
Twitchy: Conservatives Pounce On Viral Hashtag For “Pansexual/Panromantic Visibility Day” And Hilarity Ensues, “YOU SHALL NOT PASS!” Robot Food Delivery To UCLA Pro-Hamas Protesters Hilariously Denied, and Rep. Ritchie Torres (D-NY) Tries To Play The Race Card On Trump’s Bronx Rally & Gets Buried By The Receipts
Louder With Crowder: Turns out Asian women only like white men due to their “internalized raaaaaacism,” according to these woke professors
Vox Popoli: Epstein and the New Atheists, also, There’s More Than One Way
According To Hoyt: We Are Not Alone, Masquerade, and What Comes After
Monster Hunter Nation: The End is Near
Upstream Reviews: Monster Hunter Bloodlines
Stoic Observations: The Myth Of Trumpism
Gab: Why Are We Consuming Engine Lubricant?

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
American Conservative: To Fix the FBI, Abolish It
American Greatness: Media Matters Fires a Dozen Staffers Amidst Federal Probe and Lawsuit, also, Most House Democrats Vote Against Repeal of Law that Allows Illegal Aliens to Vote in D.C.
American Thinker: Redesigning Social Security
Animal Magnetism: Rule Five Neanderthal Language Friday
Babalu Blog: Privileged son of Cuban ‘Prime Minister’ tries to immigrate to the U.S., is denied parole, Cuban purge update: Minister of Foreign Commerce gets sacked, and Elections in Mexico and more with Richard Fortin
BattleSwarm: LinkSwarm for May 24
Behind The Black: SpaceX launches more Starlink satellites, SpaceX tentatively announces a June 5, 2024 Starship/Superheavy launch date, NASA/Boeing/ULA confirm new June 1st launch date for Starliner, Democratic Party voters fire Soros-backed DA in Portland, and Harvard Corporation overides its pro-Hamas faculty; denies graduation to pro-Hamas rioters
Cafe Hayek: Samuel Gregg’s Bradley Prize Acceptance Speech
Don Surber: Trump has a Republican problem
First Street Journal: Lies, damned lies, and statistics
Gates Of Vienna: Iran’s Mullahs Quake at the Sight of Strong Independent Women, also, Sauce for the Gander
The Geller Report: Trump Storms the Bronx, Draws Over 30K To Bronx Rally In NY’s Bluest County, also, Why Democrats Want to Forget George Floyd
Hollywood In Toto: Reagan Trailer: What Leadership Looks Like, also, War on Truth Should Shock Every American
The Lid: Illinois Dems Approve Kidnapping of Out of State Minors by Planned Parenthood for Abortions at Taxpayer Expense
Legal Insurrection: At Connecticut Event, Anti-Woke Veterans Group Decries Destruction of U.S. Military, Data Analysis Confirms That Anti-Israel Protests “are overwhelmingly an elite college phenomenon”, IDF Recovers Bodies of Three More Israelis Murdered by Palestinians on October 7 and Taken To Gaza, “Pro-Palestine” Protester’s Disgusting Taunt of Rep. Brian Mast: “What happened to your legs?”, “Congress Should Boycott, Divest, and Sanction the Ivy League”, and Media and Dems Contrive Fake Outrage Over “Appeal To Heaven” Flag At Alito Home
Nebraska Energy Observer: Scattershot Friday
Outkick: WNBA Still Ungrateful: Angel Reese Throws Nasty Jab At Caitlin Clark After Win, Welcome To The NFL’s Happiest Time Of The Year When Everything Is Awesome, Travis Kelce Weighs In On Harrison Butker’s Speech With Reasonable Comments, Social Media Drags Angel Reese For Stupid Shot At Caitlin Clark, The A’s Already Have A Built-In Exit Clause To Leave Las Vegas, Commanders Marcus Mariota Has An Interesting Reason Why He’s Becoming The First QB To Wear The Number 0, and Heidi Klum Cures Jet Lag In Her Bikini Before Torching The Red Carpet At Cannes
Power Line: Not dark yet, Jane, It Isn’t Going to Work, In Rafah and Times Square, and Thoughts from the ammo line
Shark Tank: Miami Rep. Carlos Giminez (R) Vows Investigation Of TSA Over Cuban Officials’ Visit
Shot In The Dark: Perspective Needed, also, America’s Abusive Spouse 
The Political Hat: Firing Line Friday: The Nixon Experience and American Conservatism
This Ain’t Hell: Thank Kerry & Co for Iran Nukes, Valor Friday, Air Force promotions influenced by completion of DEI related training, Five Fat Leonard related felony convictions dismissed, and Hacked data exposes more Fast and Furious related information
Transterrestrial Musings: Light Posting
Victory Girls: UN Court Demands Israel Stop In Rafah, Silent On Dead Hostages
Volokh Conspiracy: Justice Thomas’s Concurrence in Alexander v. SC NAACP
Watts Up With That: No, WaPo, Houston’s Mosquito Problem Isn’t New or Driven by Climate Change, Trump’s Anti-Science Climate Denial Allegedly Threatens the Foundations of Prosperity, and Red States Ask Supreme Court to Stop Blue States from Forcing Climate Agenda on Rest of Country
The Federalist: The Top 11 Flags You Should Fly To Trigger Communist Enemies Of The People, New Yorkers Slam Bidenflation, Border Crisis, And Lawfare At Bronx Rally, Biden’s Border Invasion Is Putting U.S. Service Members’ Lives At Risk, Yes, Democrats Want Aliens To Vote In U.S. Elections. Take Jamie Raskin’s Word For It, Facebook Censors Media Who Criticize FBI’s ‘Deadly Force’ Raid Against Trump, Trump’s Multiracial Working-Man Optimism Beats Biden’s Corrosive Anger And Resentment, and Will The Censorship Regime Transform America Into Soviet Russia?

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In The Mailbox: 05.23.24

Posted on | May 24, 2024 | Comments Off on In The Mailbox: 05.23.24

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Silicon Valley et Hamas delenda sunt.

OVER THE TRANSOM
357 Magnum: Store Your Data On The Cloud, They Said
EBL: MAGA Margo Martin
Twitchy: CNN Looked Sad To Be Covering Trump’s Massive Rally In “One of the Bluest Counties In The Country”, Media Matters For America Layoffs Bring Schadenfreudeliciousness To Twitter, and Sociology Prof Gets Ratioed Into Oblivion For Telling People To “Deal With” Higher Food Prices
Louder With Crowder: Catholic Group Sues Biden Administration For Religious Discrimination After Being Denied Permit For Longstanding Memorial Day Mass
Vox Popoli: The Shameless Hypocrisy of Clown World, Three Simple Steps to Sigma, The End of an Era, and Nick Rekieta Arrested
Ammo.com: Children & Firearms
Postcards From Barsoom: Imperial Space Catholicism

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
Adam Piggott: Obscured by Clouds
American Conservative: The ‘Global Struggle For Democracy’ is Nothing of the Sort
American Greatness: CNN Sees Lowest Primetime Ratings in Three Decades
American Thinker: An Effective Trump Presidency Requires Republican Control of Congress
Animal Magnetism: Animal’s Red Thursday News, also, Guest Spot – Gen-X News
Babalu Blog: Chronic power outages leaves 700,000 Cubans without water, The culprit behind the chronic power outages in Cuba is found, and Thousands of Cubans enter U.S. illegally at southern border, but rafters get sent back to Cuba immediately
BattleSwarm: The Veepstakes Silly Season
Behind The Black: SpaceX launches more Starlink satellites, SpaceX to FAA: Let us launch Starship/Superheavy before you complete the red-tape for the previous flight, Boeing/NASA now targeting a June 1, 2024 launch of Starliner, Astronomers discover nearby Earth-sized exoplanet only slightly hotter than Earth, Two of Voyager-1’s four instruments resume science operations, and North Carolina university system repeals DEI policies
CDR Salamander: Diversity Thursday
Da Tech Guy: What kind of dark magic do you think they’ll use to animate Biden for the debates? History Repeats Itself Dems Can’t Outdraw Trump in a +60 Biden City of 8 Million, and Who are you Going to Believe, My Tweet or Your Own Eyes?
Dana Loesch: Last Week In Legal – Cohen Testimony Special
Don Surber: Be kind to libs because they’re losing [Nah.]
First Street Journal: If someone was out to destroy transgender acceptance, what would he be doing differently?
Gates Of Vienna: Crook County Passes Greater Idaho Measure, It’s No Laughing Matter, and An Extremely Rare Mohammed Coefficient of 300% Has Been Recorded in Sweden
The Geller Report: “My father raped her, then I did and then my cousin did and then my father killed the woman after we finished raping her.”
Hollywood In Toto: Why The Strangers: Chapter 1 Isn’t the Comeback We Craved, Gutfeld! Crushes Colbert and Co. (with Some Help from Bill Maher), Sight Delivers Safe but Satisfying Fact-Based Yarn, and Jon Stewart Denies We’re Being Silenced. Here’s the Proof
The Lid: Biden’s Approval Rating Keeps Falling
Legal Insurrection: Fake Science Proves Problematic for Academic Publishing as Journals Close From Research Fraud, The DEIcline and Fall Of Medical Education at UCLA, Dickinson College Caves to the Mob and Cancels Commencement Speech by Right-Leaning Pundit, DOJ, EPA Settle With Norfolk Southern Over East Palestine, OH, Train Disaster, Cruz Rebukes Biden Judicial Nominee Who Put Male Rapist in Female Prison, and Harvard Corporation Ignores Faculty Opinion and Blocks 13 Students From Graduating Over Participation in Anti-Israel Encampment
Nebraska Energy Observer: Fighting for Equal Justice
Outkick: Jim Harbaugh Left Michigan Over Major Trust Issues, New Book Claims, Former NFL Player Antonio Brown Backs Donald Trump, Cites Pardons For Hip-Hop Figures, Caitlin Clark Improving, Fever Losing Closer Amid Record Ratings And Crowds, But Still 0-5, Yankees May Cut Payroll In Upcoming Seasons Because Hal Steinbrenner Says Current Spending ‘Not Sustainable’, Kansas City ‘Separates’ With Employee Who Doxxed Harrison Butker Over Earth-Shattering Commencement Speech, and Indiana Beauty Queen Arrested In Mexican Cartel Drug Bust
Power Line: Enter the CIA, Trans.Gov.Con [With Comment by John], and DEI Can Get You Killed
Shark Tank: CCIA Condemns Florida, Texas Censorship Bills
Shot In The Dark: Our Banana RepublicA Tale Of Two Years, and Short Drive From A Long Pier
The Political Hat: Quick Takes – Canada Killing: Specialized In Killing; Plethora Of Killing; Hidden Killing
This Ain’t Hell: Last Triple Ace dies at 102, Without a Navy, Ukraine Halts the Black Sea Fleet, and Beards for Airmen and Guardians
Victory Girls: Nikki Haley Will Vote For Donald Trump – Please Clap
Volokh Conspiracy: A Family Affair for President Biden’s Nominees To First and Sixth Circuits
Watts Up With That: Unattainable Sustainability, Coal’s Importance For Solar Panel Manufacturing, and Net Zero Cargo Ships? International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea Demands Climate Action
The Federalist: Why All Christians Should Care About The Left’s Latin Mass Phobia, How The Media Are Lying Right Now – Getting Poorer Under Biden’s Economy Is All In Your Head, 10 Times Biden’s White House Tried To Clean Up His Disastrous NAACP Speech, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Deserves To Be On The Presidential Debate Stage, Black People Can Still Be Black If They Don’t Vote For Joe Biden (Or At All), Lawsuit: Fulton County Election Board Wrongfully Withholding Records From GOP Member, Top Republican Senators Reveal That John Kerry Blocked FBI Arrests Of Iranian Terrorists, and Georgia Voters Reject Radical Pro-Abortion State Supreme Court Candidate
Mark Steyn: Flying Again

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In The Mailbox: 05.22.24

Posted on | May 23, 2024 | 1 Comment

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Silicon Valley et Hamas delenda sunt.

OVER THE TRANSOM
EBL: The $320 Million Epic Fail Pier in Gaza, also, Hayek is right
Twitchy: Kurdish Migrants Hurl Abuse At Japanese During Patriotic Parade, OH SecState Says Biden Won’t Be On The November Ballot, and Beyond Parody – MSNBC Wonders How Red Lobster’s Demise Will Affect Black Communities
Louder With Crowder: School Counselor Is Horrified At New Trend Where Students Claim Their Pronouns Are “USA”
Vox Popoli: Sometimes Tropes are True, Marvel Comics on the Chopping Block, European States Recognize Palestine, and There’s Always One
Upstream Reviews: Brother, Frank
Stoic Observations: The Stoic Speaks Black

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
American Conservative: The Politically and Morally Bankrupt Tories Deserve to Lose
American Greatness: Kansas City Chiefs Coach Andy Reid and Quarterback Patrick Mahomes Defend Butker’s Right To Free Speech
American Thinker: A Forensic Analysis Of The X-Rays of JFK’s Skull Yields Surprising Results
Animal Magnetism: Animal Magnetism LIVE Ep. 8 – Gun Safes, also, Animal’s Hump Day News
Babalu Blog: New poll in communist Cuba shows only 3% of Cubans consider themselves ‘firmly socialist’, Cuban oppressor fighting as mercenary in Ukraine killed in action, and Things go bad for the Catholic Church in Cuba
Baldilocks: Guys Talking
BattleSwarm: Hollywood’s War on Dwarves
Behind The Black: Starliner manned launch delayed again; no new launch announced, SpaceX launches NRO reconnaissance satellite(s), ESA awards contracts to two companies to build unmanned orbital freighters, and Emails prove NIH officials engineered coverup of COVID origins in 2020
CDR Salamander: SSNs At Horse Latitudes
Chicago Boyz: Norms
Da Tech Guy: Never Forget that the Same People Who Insist that Election 2020 Was on the Up and Up…
Dana Loesch: Vapid, Hollywood, & The ICC
Don Surber: Billionaires for Trump grows
First Street Journal: Some deluded American leftists might think that they are organizing the pro-‘Palestinian’ protests, but much of it comes from the professional agitators
Gates Of Vienna: Help Me, Information, Habemus Pap, Enemy of the State, and Covid-19: All Lies. All Crime. — Chapter 2
The Geller Report: Antisemitic Countries REWARD TERRORISM: Ireland, Norway, and Spain to Recognize “Palestinian” Terror State on May 28th, A Day That Will Live in Infamy
Glenn Reynolds: This Is How You Get More Ants
Hollywood In Toto: Social Media Schools Bette Midler on Unhinged Hillary Claim, The Heartbreaking Tales Behind The Longest Month, Why Furiosa Should End Mad Max  Franchise, Ex-Disney Animator: Stop Putting ‘The Message’ First, Revealed: Kevin Sorbo Joins Dennis Quaid in Reagan, and Hollywood Refuses to ‘Believe All Women’…Again
The Lid: Report: 65% of Americans Say They Are Worse Off than Last Year Thanks to Bidenflation
Legal Insurrection: DOJ Threatens Oklahoma With Lawsuit Over Immigration Law, Rand Paul Demands DOJ Investigate Top Fauci Aide for Allegedly Destroying COVID Origin Emails, U. North Carolina Spending $90 Million on Hundreds of DEI Related Staffers, Biden Admin Cancels $7.7 Million in Federal Student Loans, Oberlin College Settles With Insurers Over Gibson’s Bakery Payout, and ‘MAGA Court Majority’: Former Obama Staffers Terrified Trump Could Potentially Appoint Two More SCOTUS Justices
Nebraska Energy Observer: Battling for Liberty
Outkick: Women’s Tennis Star Coco Gauff Takes Aim at Ron DeSantis, Urges Young Voters To Go Out And Vote Lib, Josh Allen Gets A New Team In Buffalo To Chase Success His Previous Bills Squad Didn’t Reach, Oregon Columnist Furious With People Who Think Boys Winning Girls’ Races Is Unfair, LeBron James Crushes Caitlin Clark’s Haters, Explains Blunt Reality, NBA Playoffs Ratings Down Big As New Media Rights Deal Looms, Charles Barkley Mocks Jealous Women Complaining About Caitlin Clark’s Popularity, NHL Is Seeing Some Of Its Best Stanley Cup Playoff Ratings Ever, and Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Model Brooks Nader Continues Her Cowgirl Divorce Celebration At Miami Beach
Power Line: CFPB Meets DSM, Was great in Minneapolis, and AI and “Green” on Collision Course
Shark Tank: Florida House Delegation Issues Bipartisan Condemnation Of Cuban Visit To Miami Airport
Shot In The Dark: The Reason Why
STUMP: Finalized 1999-2022 U.S. Cause Of Death Spreadsheet 
This Ain’t Hell: You’d swear the protesters are pros – they are, Gaza Pier Problems, and Federal agents prepared to use deadly force at Mar-a-Lago raid
Transterrestrial Musings: Lunar Lander Problems, also, The “Impossible” Burger
Victory Girls: Elvis Presley’s Graceland
Volokh Conspiracy: Free Speech Unmuted: Free Speech, TikTok (and Bills of Attainder!), with Prof. Alan Rozenshtein (Minnesota Law)
Watts Up With That: Massive Utility Trade Group Reportedly Taking Biden Admin to Court Over Green Power Plant Rules, Wash Post’s ‘climate solutions’ reporter touts taking ‘cold showers’, and EPA’s Clean Power Plan Rule Prioritizes Net-Zero Over Grid Reliability
The Federalist: National Women’s Law Center Sides Against The Female Athletes Suing NCAA For Trans Insanity, Occasional Cortex Admits Lawfare Is An ‘Ankle Bracelet’ Keeping Trump From Campaign Trail, There’s Nothing Pro-Life About Ted Cruz And Katie Britt’s IVF Bill, Pentagon Tacitly Admits Biden’s Gaza Pier Stunt Is A Total Failure, AP Admits Noncitizens Vote In U.S. Elections While Insisting It’s No Big Deal, Trump Can’t ‘Drain The Swamp’ If He Keeps Endorsing Its Worst Offenders, and Why Is Indiana’s Secretary Of State Partnering With ‘Nerve Center’ Of Federal Censorship?
Mark Steyn: Dam-Busted, Live Around the Planet: Too Klaus For Comfort, and Wigging Out

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Cognitive Decline as a Policy Principle: Understanding Biden’s Confused Agenda

Posted on | May 22, 2024 | Comments Off on Cognitive Decline as a Policy Principle: Understanding Biden’s Confused Agenda

Ed Driscoll at Instapundit had two posts today that, when juxtaposed, tell us a lot about the effect of having a senile president. First, Ed had a post about Bill Maher. Appearing on The View, Maher described Biden as “cadaver-like.” Appearing on Gutfeld, Maher contrasted Biden’s nearly-dead condition with the much more vigorous condition of Donald Trump, even though Trump is just four years younger than Biden.

Then, Ed had a post about the anti-Israel actions of European governments, in which he quoted Jim Treacher:

Biden is currently coddling the Jew-haters in his own party because he desperately needs their votes.
And yet he’s still moaning about Charlottesville in 2017. “Oh, can you believe those Nazis? Look how much they hate the Jews!”
Which is true. What’s also true is that you never saw any of those idiots again.

Seriously, who even are those dumb hillbillies? What are they doing now? It’s been seven years. Who are they influencing? Why should I care?

At the end of that post, Ed linked to a post at Hot Air: “Of Course: Biden Was Plotting With Iran Against Israel”:

Secret talks between Iran and the United States in Oman were making good progress, but have now been jeopardised by the sudden death of Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi and his foreign minister.
Brett McGurk, US President Joe Biden’s senior Middle East adviser, held indirect negotiations earlier this month with Ali Bagheri Kani, Iran’s point man for negotiations with the West, according to three Iranian sources close to the talks. . . .
The talks focused on three subjects: a shared desire for a change in government in Israel; ending Israel’s war on Gaza; and preventing the conflict from spreading elsewhere in the region.

Stabbing Israel in the back to appease the mullahs in Tehran? As outrageous as that is, it is entirely consistent with the Biden administration’s policy of loudly proclaiming to be pro-Israel while at the same time doing everything possible to aid Israel’s enemies, both in the U.S. and around the world. And notice how Biden’s personal grudge against Netanyahu gets played out as a matter of official policy.

Just in case you forgot about this grudge:

In March 2010, Biden traveled to Jerusalem to push President Barack Obama’s ambitious peace plans on Netanyahu — the prime minister whom the then-vice president, upon landing, called his “close, personal friend of over 33 years.” Obama wanted a freeze on construction of Israeli settlements in the West Bank to avoid depriving the Palestinians of land for a future state as U.S. special envoy George Mitchell restarted Israeli-Palestinian negotiations. But upon Biden’s arrival, Netanyahu’s government suddenly announced the construction of 1,600 new Israeli apartments in the disputed territory. This humiliated and enraged Biden, who retaliated by keeping his close personal friend “Bibi” waiting for an hour and a half at dinner that night.

“Close personal friend”? Probably just more Biden malarkey, I suspect, but if it were actually true that Biden and Netanyahu had been “friends” since the 1970s, that didn’t give Biden the right to dictate policy to Netanyahu, and the announcement of the expanded Israeli settlements in the West Bank was a necessary signal, both to the people of Israel and their enemies: “Don’t get any ideas. We’re not going to let this Obama guy bulldoze us into any bad deals.” Anyone who genuinely sympathizes with Israel (as Biden claims he does) would understand Netanyahu’s motives.

When you combine Biden’s personal grudge against Netanyahu with the pro-Hamas sympathies of the Democratic Party’s left-wing grassroots, you have a situation where Biden (who, as Treacher notes, has a habit of smearing Republicans as Nazis) becomes a de facto ally of anti-Semites, and the elderly occupant of the White House is too feeble-minded to find a way to extricate himself from this situation. Why do you think the White House staff is always having to “walk back” things that Biden says? Because he doesn’t even understand his own administration’s policies. Which is a problem I can relate to, because they don’t make any sense at all to me, but shouldn’t the man who is allegedly in charge of the Biden administration be able to understand them?

Would the policies be better if Joe Biden wasn’t senile? I don’t know — Democrats are Democrats, and their policies are always bad — but there might be more coherence to the administration’s policies if it were not for the blatantly obvious mental decline of the Geezer-in-Chief.

The good news is that we might only have a few more months to endure this catastrophic regime. Trump is currently leading the Real Clear Politics poll average, and is also leading in all the battleground states, which means Our Long National Nightmare may soon be over.

The bad news is, 45.8% will vote for Biden, according to the RCP average, and we don’t have enough mental health facilities to treat all these people, so crazy that they would vote to reelect Joe Biden.



 

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