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Joe Biden Can’t Even Walk Up Stairs

Posted on | March 19, 2021 | Comments Off on Joe Biden Can’t Even Walk Up Stairs

His Fraudulency is incapable of the simplest tasks:

President Biden on Friday fell while walking up the stairs of Air Force One.
The Democrat, who at 78 became the oldest president to assume the presidency, was caught on video repeatedly tripping on the staircase and catching himself ahead of a flight to Georgia. Biden was able to recover on his own and he continued toward the plane without assistance.
Biden offered a quick salute at the top of the stairs after recovering from his fall.
White House Communications Director Kate Bedingfield took to Twitter to say Biden “is fine,” adding the fall was “nothing more than a misstep on the stairs.” . . .
White House aides have taken great strides during his two months in office to downplay the 78-year-old president’s age. They have limited him to brief speeches that have not required him to stand for long periods and released pictures of him playing with his German Shepherds on the White House’s South Lawn.

POLL: Americans ‘Worried’
About Biden’s ‘Ability To Do The Job’




 

Gentle Reminder To Instapundit

Posted on | March 19, 2021 | Comments Off on Gentle Reminder To Instapundit

by Smitty

The mighty Instapundit makes the point:

The Pentagon’s swift and coordinated ‘smiting’ of Tucker Carlson, who had the gall to ‘diss’ the idea of sending pregnant women to war—an obviously absurd idea to all but the most politically correct officers grasping for a promotion—makes it very clear.”

This is what they do instead of winning wars, something they haven’t done even once this century despite nonstop combat.

It’s absolutely the case that the military hasn’t been impressive of late. I was bemoaning the current shambles with an active duty friend just two days ago.

Nevertheless, one must not lose sight of the truth that the military is mechanism, not policy. It’s not Oldsmobile’s fault that a Delmont 88 makes a terrible submarine. You’ll have to bring that up with the driver.

Here, the driver is “We the People”. I wouldn’t go fearing military death squads anytime soon. On the other hand, the method for correcting our course and steering clear of the Full Banana Republic Experience is unclear.

‘Level With the American People’: Tennessee Senator Slams Biden

Posted on | March 19, 2021 | Comments Off on ‘Level With the American People’: Tennessee Senator Slams Biden

Last year voters in Tennessee elected Sen. Bill Hagerty to kick ass and chew bubble gum — and he’s all out of bubble gum:

The Biden administration today is being urged to “level” with a nation growing anxious about the historic surge of illegal immigrants across the U.S.-Mexico border and the danger that they pose by spreading COVID-19 and taking jobs just as the nation recovers from the pandemic.
“It is time to level with the American people regarding the nature of this crisis,” said Tennessee Sen. Bill Hagerty in a letter delivered to President Biden this morning . . .
“Your administration has demonstrated a complete lack of transparency regarding this crisis, including failing to provide adequate information concerning the migrants who are entering communities throughout the United States as a result of your policies and repeatedly refusing to even acknowledge that a crisis exists,” he wrote in the sharply worded letter. . . .
Since Biden took office with promises to dismantle former President Donald Trump’s immigration policies and open the border, over 100,000 migrants have been apprehended, and estimates suggest that number could near 1 million this year.
Officials have said that many have COVID-19 but are being released into U.S. cities. The National Sheriffs’ Association said yesterday that up to 50% of the migrants are infected. . . .
“You criticize American state and local leaders for relaxing pandemic mandates on Americans to allow businesses to open and Americans to return to work, while simultaneously releasing unknown numbers of non-Americans — some of whom are currently COVID-positive — into American communities,” said Hagerty. . . .
“This is a crisis of your own making,” he wrote.

Democrats and the media (but I repeat myself) are promoting a dual messages: First, that there is no “crisis” at the border, and second, that even if there is a crisis, it’s entirely Donald Trump’s fault.

Orange Man Bad, semper aeternum.




 

In The Mailbox: 03.18.21

Posted on | March 18, 2021 | Comments Off on In The Mailbox: 03.18.21

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Silicon Valley delenda est.

“Howdy, pardner! Welcome to New Vegas!”

OVER THE TRANSOM
357 Magnum: Tesla Vs. Safety
EBL: Jordan Fuchs, Liar
Twitchy: “Too Late, Degenerate” – Candace Owens Wrecks Cardi B For Trying To Run Away From Posting False Tweets About Owens’ Husband
Louder With Crowder: Freudian Slip? Slow Joe Brainfarts, Calls Kamala “President Harris”
Vox Popoli: Surviving Civil Collapse, also, Tucker 1, U.S. Military 0
Gab News: Transhumanism & The Spiritual Battle For Humanity

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
Adam Piggott: The Battle Between The Physical & The Spiritual
American Conservative: The Uses And Abuses Of “Woke Capital”
American Greatness: Poll Shows Overwhelming Majority Want Voter ID Laws
American Power: 75-Year-Old Asian Woman Deals Out Street Justice To Would-Be Attacker
American Thinker: Joe BIden – More Heel Than Healer
Animal Magnetism: Animal’s Daily Lockdown News
Babalu Blog: Cuba’s Economy Is Shifting…Toward Barter
BattleSwarm: TX Lieutenant Governor Dan Patrick On Biden’s Border Crisis
Behind The Black: Today’s Blacklisted American, also, The Changing Seasons Of Saturn
Cafe Hayek: Scaring Us into The Grip Of Tyrants
CDR Salamander: Diversity Thursday
Da Tech Guy: Flash! The Catholic Church & Its Pope Are Still Catholic, also, Report From Louisiana – Stubborn People, Spring Break, & Shreveport Violence
Don Surber: Sellout’s Remorse
First Street Journal: His Holiness Attempts To Be Catholic, also, I Wonder If King Henry VIII Is Smiling About This Someplace
Hogewash: Team Kimberlin Post Of The Day, also, Black Holes & Star Formation
Hollywood In Toto: Yes, Zack Snyder’s Version Of Justice League Was Worth The Wait, also, Falcon & The Winter Soldier – Woke Work Under Construction
The Lid: 75% Of Likely Voters (Including Democrats) Support Voter ID Laws
Legal Insurrection: Conservative Student Group Strikes Back At Prof Who Accused Them Of Racism, also, DiBlasio Wants NYPD To Scold People For Saying Things That Are Legal But “Not Appropriate”
Nebraska Energy Observer: Do This Now!
Outkick: Deshaun Watson Up To Three Sexual Assault Lawsuits, also, Yankees Say Yankee Stadium Will Allow 20% Of Fans in 2021
Power Line: Battle Lines Being Drawn, also, Chauvin Trial Day 8
Shark Tank: Fried Praises Biden, Says Administration Really Understands The Climate Crisis
Shot In The Dark: Make The Case, also, For Conservative Reasons
The Political Hat: Segregation As Social Justice In Florida
This Ain’t Hell: Army Denies Medals & Insignia To Pardoned Soldier, also, Dancing In The Blood Of Innocents
Transterrestrial Musings: Read It And Weep
Victory Girls: White House Claims Trump To Blame For Atlanta Massage Parlor Shootings
Volokh Conspiracy: Chauvin Jury Selection Process Highlights Need To Stop Dumbing Down Juries
Weasel Zippers: Four People On FBI Terror Watchlist Arrested While Trying To Sneak In With Illegals, also, Rand Paul Goes Off On Fauci
The Federalist: The Biden Administration Is Imposing A Media Blackout At The Border, also, OR Health Officials Propose Making Mask Mandates Permanent
Mark Steyn: Racist Hiking & Wokestapo Psychology, also, Testicles Still On Hold

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Atlanta: The ‘Yellow Fever’ Theory

Posted on | March 18, 2021 | Comments Off on Atlanta: The ‘Yellow Fever’ Theory

Of the many kinks, fetishes and perversions with which I’m familiar, the one I’m sure I never suffered is “yellow fever.” It is true that some guys are into that whole “exotic Orient” trip, obsessed with the idea of allegedly “docile” Asian women, but I was never one of those guys.

De gustibus non est disputandum, of course, and whatever floats your boat, but I guess I’m just a regular vanilla kind of guy, and never really understood that kind of racial fetishism. Inevitably, however, in the wake of the Atlanta massage parlor massacre, we get takes like this:

Asian Women Have Always Been
a Deadly Obsession of White Men

Notice the lack of qualifiers there. “Always” white men everywhere have universally been guilty of this “deadly obsession” — or so we are expected to believe because this one guy in Atlanta, who police confirmed frequented Asian massage parlors, went on a murderous rampage.

Your honor, I plead not guilty.

This idea of collective blame is the essence of racism. It is also the negation of the core concept of individual responsibility.

However much benefit so-called “progressives” imagine they can derive from promoting group guilt in the name of Critical Race Theory, I can assure you that the costs will ultimately outweigh whatever short-term political gains are to be made by playing this racial blame-game.

Does it not occur to our friends on the Left that two can play that game, and that the resentments stirred up by identity politics will not always be limited to their intended purpose of “energizing” various ethnic groups to vote for Democrats? If the potential for backlash frightens me — a white guy whose reputation as a right-winger is rather notorious — then how much more should it frighten liberals? Yet they’re like children playing with matches, never thinking they’ll get burned.

As it turns out, we now have extensive testimony that Robert Aaron Long, who killed eight people in his Atlanta rampage, was not motivated by racial hatred and the reason he patronized Asian massage parlors wasn’t “yellow fever.” Rather, his former roommate says, Long considered these venues the “safest” way to cope with his sexual cravings:

Long told his roommates that he’d chosen to go to the Asian massage parlors “not because of the employees’ race, but because he thought the spas were safer than paying for sex elsewhere.”

In other words, if there had been massage parlors with white women offering “happy endings” for the right price, Long might have patronized those establishments but . . . Well, it is what it is.

It’s always easier to deal with facts rather than theories. Speaking of facts, in 2019 (the most recent year for which federal statistics are available), there were 16,425 homicides in the U.S. Do the math, and that’s 45 homicides on an average day, so that these eight murders in Atlanta were less than 20% of the daily total. On the same day, there were more than 35 murders that didn’t get nationwide attention. And yesterday, there another 45 murders, and 45 murders today, and there will be 45 murders tomorrow — on average, I say. There will probably be more than 300 Americans murdered this week, and yet nearly all of those murders will be strictly “local news.” CNN won’t even notice them, and pundits won’t write columns interpreting the political meaning of these deaths.

There is a remarkable selectivity involved in the process of deciding which murders deserve national attention, and you should question the motives of the media in the process of making those choices.

If you’ve got a “deadly obsession” with Asian women, seek psychiatric help, but as for me? Nope. Not guilty, your honor. I rest my case.




 

NYPD to Combat Thought Crimes?

Posted on | March 18, 2021 | Comments Off on NYPD to Combat Thought Crimes?

Last year, New York City experienced a 45% increase in murders, and the number of shooting victims doubled. Despite the manifest inability of NYPD to prevent violent crime, however, Mayor Bill De Blasio now wants cops to have “an educating impact on people”:

“I assure you, if an NYPD officer calls you or shows up at your door to ask about something you did, that makes people think twice, and we need that. . . .
“Even if something is not a criminal case, a perpetrator being confronted by the city, whether it’s NYPD or another agency, and being told that what they’ve done was very hurtful to another person — and could, if ever repeated, lead to criminal charges — that’s another important piece of the puzzle,” de Blasio said.
De Blasio went on to say the NYPD was uniquely equipped to handle such a mission, adding, “One of the things officers are trained to do is to give warnings. If someone has done something wrong, but not rising to a criminal level, it’s perfectly appropriate for an NYPD officer to talk to them to say, ‘that was not appropriate, and if you did that on a higher level, that would be a crime.’ I think that has an educating impact on people, I think that has a sobering impact that we need.”

Hey, Mayor, you know what has an “educating impact on people”? Putting them in prison when they commit actual crimes. Maybe focus on that, instead of having cops warn people about being “hurtful.”

Your administration has made it a priority to turn criminals loose — because “social justice” or whatever — with the result that everybody who can afford to rent a U-Haul is leaving New York. You are unquestionably the worst mayor in the history of the city, having accomplished the impossible task of actually being worse than David Dinkins.

(Hat-tip: Ace of Spades.)




 

Wokies Ruin Everything

Posted on | March 18, 2021 | Comments Off on Wokies Ruin Everything

The U.S. military, for example, can’t win wars and its current strategic priorities are transgender troops, maternity flight suits and attacking Tucker Carlson (not necessarily in that order). Meanwhile . . .

“Apparently the concept of ‘take pictures of pretty women in swimsuits’ is now beyond the ability of the converged Sports Illustrated organization.”




 

Milwaukee: Sarah Hoyt’s Shocked Face Could Not Be Reached for Comment

Posted on | March 18, 2021 | Comments Off on Milwaukee: Sarah Hoyt’s Shocked Face Could Not Be Reached for Comment

Gosh, who could possibly have foreseen this?

A Milwaukee County Children’s Court judge and former president and CEO of the Cream City Foundation, which runs the city’s drag queen story hour program, has been arrested on seven counts of child pornography.
Brett Blomme, 38, was arrested on Tuesday for allegedly uploading 27 images and videos of children being sexually abused on the messaging app Kik.
Blomme was held overnight and released with a signature. He has been ordered to stay off social media and file-sharing services and is not allowed near any children except the two that he adopted with his husband.

More on the case against Judge Blomme:

A 44-page search warrant filed Friday by a DCI special agent said investigators found Blomme, using the name “dommasterbb,” uploaded 27 videos and images containing child pornography. Two of the files were uploaded at a Milwaukee County government building, the search warrant said.
The special agent sought permission to search Blomme’s courtroom, chambers, houses in Milwaukee and Dane counties and his 2017 Audi. Blomme is currently assigned to Milwaukee County Children’s Court. . . .
Blomme was elected to the court in the spring 2020 election, defeating incumbent Milwaukee County Circuit Judge Paul Dedinsky, an appointee of former Republican Gov. Scott Walker.
Before being elected, Blomme was the head of the board of zoning appeals for the City of Milwaukee, appointed to the post by Milwaukee Mayor Tom Barrett, and head of the Cream City Foundation, which provides grant money to LGBTQ groups in the Milwaukee area.
A longtime LGBTQ activist, Blomme previously was director of major gifts at the AIDS Resource Center of Wisconsin for 18 months, following a stint at the Madison City Attorney’s Office. . . .
He ran as a liberal challenger to a conservative Walker appointee.
“I’m the progressive alternative,” he said during the campaign.

We’ll see if Sarah Hoyt’s shocked face has any comment on this case.




 

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