In The Mailbox: 05.17.24

Posted on | May 18, 2024 | 2 Comments

Usual weekend deadlines for the usual weekend posts.
Today is Friday in California.
A couple of our loyal readers submitted links to the Mad At The Internet post below. I cannot recommend it strongly enough.
Ceterum autem censeo Silicon Valley et Hamas delendam sunt.

OVER THE TRANSOM
Mad At The Internet: Online Censorship’s Institutional Power
347 Magnum: Australia Takes A Step Back From Censorship
EBL: St. Brendan The Navigator, also, MAGA – Dicks of Hazzard
Twitchy: Democrat Senator Tries Gaslighting Republicans & Swiping At Trump Instead Of Addressing Border Security, VALHALLA AWAITS – Scottie Scheffler Fought The Law & The Memes Won, and Epic Takedown! Baseball Crank Reminds Bill Kristol Of His Past Clarence Thomas Praise
Louder With Crowder: “I showed them my twin towers to save our city”
Vox Popoli: The Return of UATV, The Cost of Taking Sides, and Power > Influence
According To Hoyt: In Praise of Populism, diminished responsibility, and The Struggle, It Is Real
Upstream Reviews: Raven, Fandom Pulse Facebook Page Gets Pulled Down,
Jon Del Arroz: The New Doctor Who Pains Me

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
American Conservative: U.S.-Ukraine Security Entanglement Risks Forever War
American Greatness: Appeals Court: Parents Cannot Opt K-5 Children Out of Pro-LGBTQ Curriculum
American Power: Germany – A Nation In Its Time, also, How The Radical Left Conquered Everything
American Thinker: January 6 & Covid Stir the Fascist Soul of the Educated Liberal Female
Animal Magnetism: Rule Five Tenth Annual Commencement Speech Friday
Babalu Blog: Cuban dictatorship deploys military in Santiago to deter another mass protest, Cuban pro-democracy activist rebukes Biden for ‘whitewashing’ the Cuban dictatorship, and Apartheid in Cuba: Using poverty to politically segregate the Cuban people
BattleSwarm: Democratic Voting Rights Act Lawsuit Could Mean Less Democratic Seats, also, LinkSwarm for May 17
Behind The Black: Russia’s Soyuz-2 rocket launches classified payloads, NASA signs new agreement with ESA to partner on Franklin Mars rover, A really really big landslide on Mars, Starliner launch delayed again, to May 25, 2024, and A Catholic threatened with blacklisting because he gave an unapologetic Catholic speech at a Catholic university to a class of Catholics: How dare he!
Cafe Hayek: Hugh Macaulay, 1924-2005
CDR Salamander: Fullbore Friday
Chicago Boyz: Literary Imagination
Da Tech Guy: My Trump Running Mate List, Choice One: Ron DeSantis, A primer on Palestinian groups, My Trump Running Mate List, Choice Two: Ted Cruz, My Trump Running Mate List, Choice Three: Sarah Huckabee Sanders, There is only one weapon that is effective against liberals, and My Trump Running Mate List, My Dark Horse: John Kennedy
Don Surber: The Summer of Correction
First Street Journal: You in a heap o’ trouble, boy, How interesting that inclusive places like Haverford College allow discrimination against Jews on campus, and Noooo! It’s not #AntiSemitism at all, just opposition to Israeli government policies!
Gates Of Vienna: A Rightly Guided Caliphate in Hamburg, also, Culture-Enricher Tries to Burn Down a Synagogue in Rouen
The Geller Report: Philadelphia Muslim student: These days ‘the pinnacle of Islam is realized – jihad for the sake of Allah’
Hollywood In Toto: Devastated Is the Wake-Up Call We Need, If Is a Sweet, Well-Intentioned Debacle, Phelim McAleer’s Haunting October 7 Ignored by Press, Can Happy Gilmore 2 Avoid the Zoolander Curse? Here’s Why We Needed Judge and the Justice, Comedian Kyle Dunnigan: The Internet Saved My Career, The Powerful Lesson This Reagan Actor Learned on Set, and Does RFK Jr. Have Rebel Comedy Vote Locked Up?
The Lid: Biden’s Dept. of ‘Homeland Security’ Says Privacy of Terror List Illegals More Important than Public’s Right to Know
Legal Insurrection: California Democrats Push Union-Backed Anti-Self-Checkout Bill Under Guise of Fighting Crime, Racism, The Late Republic, Cause and Effect: Military Enshrines DEI While Recruiting Tanks, The Bureau of Labor Statistics Denies Removing Coffee from Consumer Price Index Review, Jewish Student at Reed College Struck in the Head by Rock Thrown Through Her Dorm Room Window, and IDF Discover Bodies of Three Hostages in Gaza
Nebraska Energy Observer: Seeing this, also, Scattershot Friday
Outkick: Harrison Butker Women’s Jerseys Sell Out After Viral Commencement Speech, Paul Skenes Jabbed Cubs, Then Toyed With Them In No-Hitter With 11 Ks For 1st MLB Win, Jimbo Fisher Proclaims “College Sports Is Not Fair”, Mid-Major Programs Have Turned Into Glorified JUCO Teams, Tiger Woods Puts In Brutal Performance, Set To Miss Cut At PGA Championship, Kansas City Newspaper Calls For Chiefs To ‘Fire’ Harrison Butker And Replace Him With A Female Kicker, Paul Skenes Threw 9 Of 10 Fastest Pitches In MLB In 1 Start – How Long Before Surgery? and SI Swimsuit Model Xandra Pohl Is Ready To Dominate The Next Decade
Power Line: The Times Threatens the Supreme Court, Great Moments In Democracy, Bring on the Harris Pole, and Thoughts from the ammo line
Shark Tank: State Senator Ingoglia Blasts “Activist” Judge Walker For Latest Blockage Of DeSantis-Backed Law
Shot In The Dark: A Stylish Little Stiletto Boot On Your Neck Forever – Apple Valley Edition, World War III Is Starting, and About That Henco District 6 Special Election
STUMP: More Ohio STRS Commentary
The Political Hat: Firing Line Friday: The Political Responsibility of Artists
This Ain’t Hell: Easy Calls, 18th Century Soldier Art Discovered on Castle Door, Valor Friday, Governor Greg Abbott pardons Daniel Perry, Two Jordanians attempted to breach Quantico Marine Corps Base, and We are not a vassal state of the United States!
Victory Girls: House Committee, Oh Baby Girls!
Volokh Conspiracy: Apparent Suspension of Student Groups at Wisconsin for Pro-Hamas Chalking
Watts Up With That: Compulsory smart meters crucial to fight ‘real and growing risk’ of drought, experts warn, The Carbon Capture Con, and Debunking the Cheap Renewables Myth
The Federalist: Covid Fearmongering Worked So Well, The Government Is Now Creating A Poultry Panic, Exclusive: Wisconsin Judge Stops Elections Commission From ‘Fomenting Election Fraud’, There’s No Such Thing As Good Masculine Male Characters In The Woke World Of Book Publishing, Former NIH Director Admits Government Was Top Source Of Covid Misinformation, ‘Zuckbucks’ Group Trains Election Offices On How To Put ‘Bidenbucks’ To Use, This Week In Lawfare Land: Bragg’s ‘Star Witness’ Blows Up His Own Credibility, and House Republicans Should Heed Texas’ Warning On The Dangers Of Democrat-Driven ‘Bipartisanship’
Mark Steyn: Diversity is Our Death, Political Violence, Here and There, Gone with the Wine and Roses, and America First?

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In The Mailbox: 05.16.24 (Evening Edition)

Posted on | May 17, 2024 | Comments Off on In The Mailbox: 05.16.24 (Evening Edition)

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Silicon Valley et Hamas delenda sunt.

OVER THE TRANSOM
EBL: The Dam Busters, also, Is it a mistake for Trump to go to CNN to debate Biden?
Twitchy: NIH Official Brags He Knows How To Make Emails Disappear After FOIA Request, Anderson Cooper Says Michael Cohen Was Cornered In What Appeared To Be A Lie, and Biden’s Gaza Pier Project Moves Into Hamas Line Of Fire
Louder With Crowder: Influencer expects fat dude to simp for her, gets hilariously put in her place: “Maybe eat a burger and not be anorexic”
Vox Popoli: A Free Pass on Beating Children, Accountability is Unavoidable, Brave on Linux, and Crushing the Comics
Stoic Observations: Throwback Thursday
Gab: You Need To Be Babymaxxing

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
Adam Piggott: A Pox on Schooling, The Furnace of Humiliation, and Preserved for Posterity
American Conservative: The Maryland Senate Race Is a Test of Both Parties’ Viability
American Greatness: The Biden Reelection Strategy, Ohio Removes Illegal Aliens from State Voter Rolls, and Who’s Ready For President Kamala Harris?
American Power: Wannsee, also, Black Edelweiss
American Thinker: Biden’s Complicity in the Cancellation of Israel, Biden and His ‘Ironclad’ Support of Israel, The Biden Anti-American Legacy, and When Gasoline is $100 per Gallon
Animal Magnetism: Goodbye, Blue Monday, Animal’s Daily JBERBear News, Animal Magnetism LIVE Ep. 7 – Urban Women And Men v. Bears, Animal’s Hump Day News, and Animal’s Red Thursday News
Babalu Blog: Spanish Congress of Deputies passes resolution condemning human rights violations in Cuba, The Castro dictatorship’s long arm of repression even reaches Cuban dissidents in exile, Nicaraguan dictatorship drives Miss Universe out into ‘indefinite exile’, and Che Guevara’s daughter rails against rampant ‘capitalist anarchy’ in Cuba, calls for more aggressive repression
Baldilocks: The Battle Continues
BattleSwarm: China: Old And Busted: 1 Bed, 1 Bath. The New Hotness: 1 Bed In Bathroom, Police Flee High Crime California For Texas, Shoigu Out As Russia’s Defense Minister, Cuellar Aides Flip, and Texas Sues Biden Administration Over EV Trucking Mandates
Behind The Black: NASA versus Isaacman/SpaceX on upgrading Hubble, AST SpaceMobile makes deal with ATT to use its cell-to-satellite constellation, Scientists: No evidence of obvious changes on Europa, Potentially serious problem on BepiColombo Mercury mission, Congress passes new authorization bill for FAA that includes short extension of “learning period”, and Another “rightwing COVID conspiracy theory” proves to be true
Cafe Hayek: American Compass Is Broken, Benighted Lighthizer, Substitution Effects, Protectionism Is Topsy-Turvy Nonsense, and An Open Letter to Katherine Tai
CDR Salamander: Diversity Thursday
Chicago Boyz: RFK Jr, also, Subsidization, Regulation, and AI
Da Tech Guy: Under the Fedora Shocked SHOCKED edition, Volunteering as tribute, The Eurovision Protestors Unfair to Israel’s Entry and Unfair to all the other entries, Trump-ified A Man in Full on Netflix comes up empty, and Let’s Stop Pretending there is Any Doubt as to the NYC Trump Trial Verdict
Dana Loesch: Facebook Deleted All My Pictures With The Dallas Jewish Conservatives, NBC & DOJ Team Up To Wage War On School Board Parents,
Don Surber: Ukraine may be lost
First Street Journal: The muddled Methodists, Crazy people are dangerous, Holding their breath until they turn blue, Hamas delendum est, and This is what happens when prosecutors give out sweetheart plea deals!
Gates Of Vienna: The Head Spook in Thuringia Vows to Stop the AfD, Palestinian Culture-Enricher in Germany Sentenced to Life For Double Murder, Gendarmes Mobilized to Track Down “The Fly“, All Your Gold Are Belong To Us, and Exterminate the AfD!
The Geller Report: Jew Hater Assaults Jewish Children Playing Outside Jewish School in Williamsburg, Brooklyn in Random Attack
Glenn Reynolds: Harrison Butker, Harbinger?
Hollywood In Toto: Arcadian Delivers Scares Atop Conservative Values, The War on Jerry Seinfeld, Explained (UPDATED), Winston Marshall Shreds Pelosi in Epic Smackdown, These Maligned Movies Deserve a Second Chance, and Winehouse Biopic Back to Black Puts Camera Where It Belongs
The Lid: Survey: Most Car Dealership Owners Doubt Electric Cars are the Future of Auto Industry, Biden Polls Still Crashing: More Say Economy Will Improve if Trump is Elected, and Why Are Western Countries Committing National Suicide?
Legal Insurrection: Pelican Island Bridge in Texas Slammed by Barge, Causing Portion to Collapse, Stockholm Syndrome: Outgoing Cornell President Expresses “Gratitude” To Anti-Israel Encampment Protesters, Sonoma State Univ. President Placed on Leave After Going Rogue Under Protest Pressure And Agreeing To Academic Boycott of Israel, Daniel Perry Gets Full Pardon From Texas Governor Abbott, Iowa Governor Signs Bill Banning DEI Policies at Public Institutions, and Eighteen States Sue EEOC Over Guidelines That Force Employers to Allow Men in Women’s Bathrooms, Prohibit “Misgendering”
Nebraska Energy Observer: Saturday – just for you, Exaudi, Crusade for Rights, Ending Equal Justice Under Law, and Summer is Coming
Outkick: Harrison Butker’s Jersey Among The Most Popular Selling Following College Address, NFL Games Are Boring And Overrated, ACC’s Jim Phillips Calls Florida State, Clemson Lawsuit ‘Disruptive And Harmful’, Leaders Are NCAA Focused, The Iron Claw Is An Incredible And Unbelievably Sad Movie, Caitlin Clark’s Debut Turned Over WNBA TV History With Highest Ratings In Decades, and Paige Spiranac Finds Happy Place In White Lingerie, NBA Wife Posts Thirst Trap & Ohio Realtor Turns On America
Power Line: Another Look at Energy and the Environment, An Alpha News Trump exclusive, and America’s Next Vice President?
Shark Tank: A Tale Of Two Resolutions
Shot In The Dark: Not To Be Left Behind, Manners, Everything’s Just Fine, and We’ve Got Good News And Bad News
The Political Hat: Nature Rights In Colorado — Gaia Strikes Back, also, Quick Takes – DEI Must DIE: Ending Diversity Statements At MIT; Axing Mandatory DEI Statements In Kansas; Scrapping DEI Requirements In Virginia
This Ain’t Hell: Sergeant Shields Student from Grenade Blast, Air Force Vet Cyril Wecht dies at 91, Pro-Palestine Major Resigns, VA’s MDMA Clinical Trials for PTSD, Hard Call, and Alvin Bragg offers plea deal to six illegal aliens accused of attacking two police officers
Transterrestrial Musings: Hubble Trouble, The Pace Of Vulcan Rockets, Campus Anti-Semitism, Mars Sample Return, and Spaceport Vegas?
Victory Girls: Hunter Biden Is About To Run Out Of Other People’s Money, RNC Chair, Lara Trump, With Non Breaking News, The Niceness Offensive: Trans Tone Policing, and Marines Covered Up Attempted “Migrants” Breach At Quantico Base
Volokh Conspiracy: Congress is Preparing to Restore Quotas in College Admissions, also, Can Nonprofits That Help Organize Protests Lose Their Tax Exemptions?
Watts Up With That: Michigan Government Is Stacked Top to Bottom with Donor-provided Climate Activist “Staff”, DeSantis signs laws slashing climate agenda directives, targeting adversary investments, Biden China Tariffs Infuriate Climate Activists, and Many of the ‘Climate Experts’ Surveyed by the Guardian in Recent Propaganda Blitz Turn Out to be Emotionally-Unstable Hysterics
The Federalist: Jerry Seinfeld Laughs Off The Haters, The NFL’s Condemnation Of Harrison Butker Exemplifies The Left’s Anti-Christian Bigotry, Whatever U.S. Elites Are Defending In Ukraine, It Isn’t Democracy, HHS Secretary Admits The Feds Will Punish Hospitals That Resist Trans Mutilation, Russia Hoaxer Jake Tapper Is The Perfect Partisan Hack To Give Biden A Debate Edge, Air Force Celebrates ‘Pride Month’ Amidst ‘Worst’ Recruiting Crisis In Modern History, and MIT Breaks With DEI Insanity In Faculty Hiring, But Is It Too Late?
Mark Steyn: Down in the Depths: Destination Tokyo and the Submarine Movie, M-O-T-H-E-R, McIntyre vs Ofcom, The Mountain Comes To Mohammed, and Malmö and Me

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In The Mailbox: 05.16.24 (Afternoon Edition)

Posted on | May 16, 2024 | Comments Off on In The Mailbox: 05.16.24 (Afternoon Edition)

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Silicon Valley et Hamas delenda sunt.

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OVER THE TRANSOM
357 Magnum: Journalism & Self-Defense
EBL: Emigrants Cross The Plains, also, The Tattooist of Auschwitz
Twitchy: Dopey Sara Haines Of “The View” Says Latin Mass Is Extremist & Doesn’t Know Where Christianity Begins, Darwin Award – Woman Charged By Bull On Baja Beach After Ignoring Warnings To Stay Away, and Moorpark Professor Charged With Murder In Death Of Pro-Israel Protester
Louder With Crowder: Joe Biden challenges Donald Trump to debate in a video that needs to be seen to be believed (UPDATED), “This guy sh*ts his pants every now and then”: Aaron Rodgers, Tucker Carlson take turns ROASTING Joe Biden, and New York says “no white men allowed” when it comes to bidding on new airport contract
Vox Popoli: The Consequences of Boomer Solipsism, Way Too Little, Way Too Late, Truth is Disinformation, An Accurate Review, and A Warning Shot
Upstream Reviews: Rebel Moon

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
Baldilocks: Snapshot, also, Sitting Out The Flesh Wars
CDR Salamander: Not Your Grandfather’s Philippines
Dana Loesch: Not Everything Has To Be A Flex
Don Surber: How America came to hate Joe Biden
STUMP: Ohio State Teachers Pension Drama Continues!

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Six Weeks Until First Debate

Posted on | May 16, 2024 | Comments Off on Six Weeks Until First Debate

The earliest presidential debate, ever:

CNN is President Joe Biden’s preferred network to host at least one presidential debate, he said Wednesday.
CNN’s Jake Tapper and Dana Bash will host, according to Puck News. . . .
The Biden campaign said the president would debate Trump only in June and September, without live audiences present.
“I’ve received and accepted an invitation from @CNN for a debate on June 27th,” Biden posted on X. “Over to you, Donald. As you said: anywhere, any time, any place.”
Trump accepted Biden’s invitation and urged the president to debate him earlier and more often.
“I’m ready to go…The dates that they proposed are fine…Let’s see if Joe can make it to the stand-up podium,” Trump reportedly told Fox News Digital. “The proposed June and early September dates are fully acceptable to me. I will provide my own transportation.”
Trump also said he would debate Biden in October on Fox News.

Of course, everybody sees this setup as favoring Biden, who is trailing Trump in most polls and therefore will welcome the chance to reset the perceptions in a friendly media forum, knowing that CNN is completely controlled by partisan Democrats. As someone who routinely watches CNN (so you don’t have to), I can attest that Jake Tapper and Dana Bash are about as objective as Karine Jean-Pierre. Everybody sees this debate arrangement as proof of how desperate the Biden campaign is:

President Joe Biden’s decision to take Donald Trump up on his “anytime and anywhere” debate offer and propose June and September debates is a clear sign of worry among his reelection campaign team.
Two months ago, Biden cracked the door open to not having any debates, which hadn’t happened in a presidential race since 1972. Asked by a reporter if he would “commit to a debate with former President Trump,” Biden responded, “It depends on his behavior.”
Nothing has changed about Trump’s behavior since then. What also hasn’t changed is who is leading the polls. . . .
Recent polling suggests Biden only has a narrow path to 270. He would need a bigger recovery in the more diverse Sun Belt swing states of Arizona, Georgia, Nevada, and North Carolina—where his deficit is generally around 5 or 6 points—to recreate the multiple paths he had four years ago when he narrowly defeated Trump in several critical battlegrounds.

So we’re going to have a debate in June — more than four months before Election Day — and what happens if that doesn’t resurrect Biden’s poll numbers? Frank Lautenberg could not be reached for comment.

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In The Mailbox: 05.15.24

Posted on | May 16, 2024 | Comments Off on In The Mailbox: 05.15.24

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Silicon Valley et Hamas delenda sunt.

OVER THE TRANSOM
357 Magnum: The FBI Has Truly Become The Stasi, Gun Free Zones Do Not Make You Safe,
EBL: Jamestown, also, Winston Marshall Debates That Populism Is Democracy at Oxford Union
Twitchy: President Biden’s Aides Reportedly Worry About His “Psychological Torment” Over Hunter, The Day The Music Died – Chuck E. Cheese Pulls The Plug On Animatronic Band, and Gov. Hairgel Claims That His State Has A “National Model” To Address Homelessness
Louder With Crowder: Enjoy this cat slapping the virtue signaling out of their human’s mouth when she declares her pronouns, Thug who slashed 11-year-old girl needs police to save him from angry (and sweet) street justice, Grown man (who thinks he’s a girl) goes to Disneyland to explain how he got his “cake pops” chopped off, and Super Bowl champion WRECKS Joe Biden at college commencement for being a pro-abortion fake “Catholic”
Vox Popoli: Lenin and the Art of the Impossible, An Inept Defense, Two Years in the Making, Clown World’s Best Intellectuals are Retarded, and History is Incomplete
Upstream Reviews: Project Hail Mary, Stargate Atlantis, and The Dream of the Iron Dragon
L’Ombre de L’Olivier: Faith & Ritual,
Draw & Talk: The Manga Debacle I’m Experiencing & Going To Try To Be The Solution For,
Tessellations: Prediction Is Compression,
Defending The Wood Perilous: Wanted – Gatekeepers,
Ammo.com: Florida Candidates’ 2A Grades For The 2024 Election,

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
Baldilocks: Goal of Fundamental Disconnection, also, Lock Your Doors
CDR Salamander: Japan’s Renaissance,
Dana Loesch: Last Week In Legal – All Hell Broke Loose,
Don Surber: Even Obama won’t speak at Harvard, and LGBT went a bridge too far
STUMP: Happy Mothers Day – Art, Sumo, & Sainted Mothers! also, The Problem of Pain & Drugs

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Houston Psycho Tranny Killer Proves Yet Again That Crazy People Are Dangerous

Posted on | May 14, 2024 | 1 Comment

The category “psycho tranny” is not listed in the latest Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, despite the existence of the Houston murder suspect known as “Karon Fisher”:

A transgender-identifying male reportedly murdered a man in Houston, Texas, late last week, running him over with a car before kissing him and then repeatedly stabbing him.
The suspect, 20-year-old Karon Fisher, allegedly mowed down 64-year-old Steven Anderson as he was on his way to the mailbox.
Video of the incident appeared to show the car driving at a high rate of speed for a residential neighborhood and intentionally swerving to hit Anderson. After hitting him, Fisher allegedly hit him again, backing over him with the car.
The New York Post reported that Fisher allegedly “flipped Anderson’s body over, straddled him, and kissed him before stabbing him nine times.”
Harris County records showed that Fisher was charged with murder, evading arrest with a vehicle, and assaulting hospital personnel.
Fisher was previously charged with prostitution and has been on community supervision for evading a prior arrest.

Am I the only one annoyed by journalists using “allegedly” in reporting on crimes recorded on video? It’s all right there for anyone to see, caught on the neighbors’ surveillance camera:

NEW: Man killed by transgender driver who plowed into him, backed over him and stabbed him 9 times before kissing him and prancing over his body.

Absolutely horrific.

20-year-old suspect Karon Fisher is a man according to court papers.

After trying to flee the scene in a car,… pic.twitter.com/XuG8KcPIZw

— Collin Rugg (@CollinRugg) May 11, 2024

There is a way to avoid using words like “reportedly” or “allegedly,” namely to use the word “accused,” or phrases like “charged with,” “police said,” etc. Authorities in Houston have charged Karon Fisher with murdering a man, and so forth. (Whether you use the phrase “psycho tranny” in the headline is optional, but highly recommended.)

Believe it or not, I was not going to write about Karon Fisher, but my blog buddy Dana Pico did an extensive post about this incident:

If you watch the video, you’ll see that the alleged killer is not wearing normal clothing, but was “dressed in a black bra and high-waisted black shorts,” ‘booty’ shorts to be more precise. Mr Fisher was dressed as a prostitute. . . .
So, dressed like a prostitute, and previously charged with prostitution. Yes, I know: the past prostitution charge was dismissed, but we as observers can draw our own conclusions.

Indeed, we can draw our own conclusions, and among the conclusions we can draw: Crazy People Are Dangerous.

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Even CNN Has to Admit Biden’s Losing

Posted on | May 13, 2024 | 1 Comment

Speaking as “someone worried about the prospects of a second Trump term,” Fareed Zarkaria yesterday told his viewers on CNN, “I think it’s best to be honest about reality,” i.e., Biden’s losing:

“The shift here is stark,” Zakaria pointed out. “On the question of whom voters trust more to deal with the economy, Trump has a 22-point lead over Biden, according to an NBC poll from January. This marks of a 15-point bump for Trump compared to the same poll in 2020.”
“Perhaps this is because inflation is a far more pervasive problem than unemployment, affecting all Americans every day,” he pondered.
You think?
Zakaria then admitted that even when it comes to cultural issues, Biden still can’t catch a break. Even though he thinks Democrats can benefit from the Republican Party’s position on abortion, Biden lags far behind on the issue of immigration, which polls indicate is a more concerning issue. Zakaria even doubts that abortion will be a significant issue in the race because the issue of regulating abortion has been brought back to the states.
But Zakaria is most worried about the lack of unity in the Democratic Party over the Israel-Hamas war, while Republicans “seem to be uniting behind Trump.”
“Whatever opposition he faced in the primaries has largely melted away,” he observed.
And then came Zakaria’s most significant admission.
“And the trials against him keep him in the spotlight, infuriate his base who sees him as a martyr, and even may serve to make him the object of some sympathy among people in general who believed that his prosecutors are politically motivated,” he said. “This happens to be true in my opinion. I doubt the New York indictment would have been brought against a defendant whose name was not Donald Trump.” . . .
Ultimately, Zakaria conceded that the “trendlines are not working in Biden’s favor.”
“He needs to do something bold and dramatic to seize the initiative, on asylum policy, for example, and reverse these numbers,” he suggests, but in light of the dramatic shift in the numbers since 2020, he believes “there’s very little that Joe Biden can do now to change that perception.”

Understand that Fareed Zakaria is not just a liberal, but a liberal who works at CNN, an echo-chamber/bubble/hivemind of Democrat partisanship, a media organization with zero balance. So if things look so gloomy for Biden that Zakaria is not only able to see it, but is allowed to say it on the air at CNN? Yeah, it’s very bad for Biden.

We are now 25 weeks — 176 days, to be exact — away from November 5. A lot could happen between now and then, so you can’t say that Trump’s got this in the bag. However, the possibility of a Biden rebound grows more and more unlikely, the longer the current polling picture continues. What I expect to happen (and I’ve predicted this recently in a memo to some well-connected acquaintances) is for the Democrats to do something like the 2002 Torricelli/Lautenberg switch.

Who will they pick to replace Biden? How and when will they make the switch? These are mere details. The point is that Biden increasingly looks like a guaranteed loser in November, and I can’t see Democrats just throwing away the election, which is what they would be doing if they keep Biden as their candidate. Therefore, expect some kind of medical emergency that will require Biden to step aside, and Democrats will slip Gavin Newsom in as their substitute 2024 candidate.

When the ’24 race began to take shape, I thought Pres. Biden had a strong pitch to voters: a rebounding economy and a return to normalcy after the chaos of Covid & Trump.

Things haven’t played out that way.

My take: pic.twitter.com/WAwifAZjfB

— Fareed Zakaria (@FareedZakaria) May 12, 2024

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Media Monday: Does Joe Biden Really Have a ‘Brand as an Empathetic Leader’?

Posted on | May 13, 2024 | Comments Off on Media Monday: Does Joe Biden Really Have a ‘Brand as an Empathetic Leader’?

There are days when I read things in the mainstream media that just boggle my mind. Today was one of those days:

Former White House press secretary Jen Psaki claims in her new book that President Biden never looked at his watch during the ceremony for soldiers killed during the U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan in 2021 — contradicting news photos and firsthand accounts of Gold Star families.
Why it matters: In TV ads and social media posts, Donald Trump and his allies repeatedly have used images of Biden checking his watch during the ceremony to try to undermine the president’s brand as an empathetic leader. . . .

Now, everybody is reacting to the main subject of this story — i.e., that Jen Psaki is lying about what happened at Dover Air Force Base when the bodies of service members killed during Biden’s botched Afghanistan withdrawal were returned. Grant that this is important, but what caught my eye was the assertion about “the president’s brand as an empathetic leader.” Really? Do Democrats (or anyone else) actually think Biden is somehow widely admired because of how “empathetic” he is?

To borrow a phrase, what a load of malarkey!

Throughout his career, Joe Biden certainly has tried to seem “empathetic,” but what kind of fools were deceived by this charade? The kind of fools who vote for Democrats, I suppose, but any intelligent person who’s actually paid attention to Biden over the years knows that he has always been a complete phony, the kind of politician who poor-mouths his own family to make it seem like he’s “blue collar.”

Here, let me quote Wikipedia:

Biden’s father had been wealthy and the family purchased a home in the affluent Long Island suburb of Garden City in the fall of 1946, but he suffered business setbacks around the time Biden was seven years old, and for several years the family lived with Biden’s maternal grandparents in Scranton. Scranton fell into economic decline during the 1950s and Biden’s father could not find steady work. Beginning in 1953 when Biden was ten, the family lived in an apartment in Claymont, Delaware, before moving to a house in nearby Mayfield. Biden Sr. later became a successful used-car salesman, maintaining the family in a middle-class lifestyle.

At no point was Biden’s father ever a “blue-collar” worker; he wasn’t a union-card employee, but a businessman who, for a few years (circa 1949-53) struggled because of “setbacks.” Biden has repeatedly claimed his ancestors were coal miners, but good luck trying to verify that claim. Instead, what can actually be verified is this:

His maternal great-grandfather, Edward Francis Blewitt, was a Pennsylvania state senator. His maternal grandfather was a graduate of Santa Clara University in California . . . before returning to Scranton to work for local oil and gas companies, then as a newspaper librarian for the remainder of his career.
Biden’s father led an affluent lifestyle as a young adult, “sailing yachts off the New England coast, riding to the hounds, driving fast cars, flying airplanes” while working as an executive for, and experiencing the largess of, the Sheen Company. The Sheen Company was founded and owned by Bill Sheen, Biden’s paternal great-uncle.

Yachts and “riding to the hounds”? A state senator for a great-grandfather? Where are the grubby coal-miners amid all these fancy affluent ancestors? Has anyone ever found so much as one AFL-CIO member in Biden’s allegedly “blue-collar” background?

Excuse my outrage over this, but my father was a member of the machinists union (IAM) during his 37 years working at the Lockheed plant in Marietta, and while none of my ancestors were coal miners, they weren’t sailing yachts or “riding to the hounds.” In terms of authentic blue-collar credentials, you see, I’ve got Joe Biden beat all to hell, and his phony “empathetic” act never fooled me. But apparently, members of our national media are under the impression that this is a valuable aspect of Biden’s “brand,” and expect us to believe this, too.

Do they really think we’re that stupid?

(Hat-tip: Ed Driscoll at Instapundit.)

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