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Is It Over Yet?

Posted on | January 22, 2021 | Comments Off on Is It Over Yet?

As we approach the end of Day Three of the Joe Biden presidency, I’m wondering how many voters are already experiencing buyer’s remorse:

President Joe Biden’s first day in office may have been historic in more ways than one: he may have set a single-day record for the number of jobs killed by an American president.
Biden revoked the permit for the Keystone XL pipeline, as promised. In so doing, he killed some 11,000 direct jobs that the pipeline’s construction was to have created, and an estimated 60,000 indirect jobs in secondary, related industries.
Over 1,000 workers already on the job — mostly union workers — will be laid off as a result of the decision, even if it is litigated, as many expect it will be, in the courts.
Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) confronted Secretary of Transportation nominee Pete Buttigieg over the Keystone XL decision on Thursday morning, during Buttigieg’s confirmation hearing. If the administration was serious about infrastructure, Cruz asked, why was it killing an infrastructure project with “good, paying union jobs”?
When Buttigieg said the idea was that “net” jobs created in more climate-friendly industries would be positive, Cruz retorted that that was little comfort to the Keystone XL workers who were being laid off: “So for those workers, the answer is somebody else will get a job?”
The Association of Oil Pipe Lines complained, as did the United Association of Union Plumbers and Pipefitters — though the union may only have itself to blame: it endorsed Biden in August, after he had promised to kill the pipeline in May.
Biden also halted the construction of the border wall on the U.S.-Mexico boundary on Wednesday. While the projections for jobs there are somewhat unclear, one analysis (by an opponent of the wall) in 2017 estimated that the wall, if fully constructed, would create 10,500 jobs.
Moreover, on Thursday, the Biden Administration announced that it had suspended oil and gas permits on federal land Wednesday. It is unclear how many jobs that will cost — but the outlook is not good.
Most presidents promise to create jobs. Biden killed up to 70,000 jobs in his first 24 hours — and the true total may be even higher.

What were people thinking? I mean, if we assume that people who vote for Democrats are capable of thinking at all. We know that the Democrats were engaged in “vote harvesting,” rounding up mail-in ballots by any means possible, so that if your grandma was comatose in a nursing home in Arizona, Georgia or Wisconsin, she probably “voted” for Biden. You’re not allowed to talk about how mail-in voting enabled this kind of fraud, even though everybody knows how Democrats operate. It’s not a secret that Democrats steal elections. They’ve been doing it for decades, but occasionally Republicans actually manage to win by margins large enough to cancel out the votes fraudulently obtained by Democrats, and then Democrats scream “RAAAAACISM!” But I digress . . .

Beyond the manufactured fake ballots, and votes cast by people who’ve been dead for 20 years, there were actual flesh-and-blood human beings who voted for Joe Biden, and why? Because they hate Trump? Because they watch CNN and don’t actually know anything about Joe Biden?

What policies were they voting for? Did these dimwit Democrat voters think Biden actually had some kind of plan?

President Joe Biden on Friday lowered expectations of his administration’s ability to affect the ongoing coronavirus pandemic in the coming months.
Biden made the remark during a press conference addressing the signage of two more executive orders: one aimed at increasing food stamp benefits and the other for workers’ rights.
“If we fail to act, there will be a wave of evictions and foreclosures in the coming months as this pandemic rages on,” Biden said. “There’s nothing we can do to change the trajectory of the pandemic in the next several months.” . . .
Earlier Wednesday, Biden said, “Wearing masks isn’t a partisan issue — it’s a patriotic act that can save countless lives.” When asked Thursday why the Biden family went maskless for a photo, White House press secretary Jen Psaki replied dismissively.
“He was surrounded by his family, we take a number of precautions but I think we have bigger issues to worry about at this moment in time,” Psaki explained. “I think he was celebrating in the evening of a historic day in our country and certainly he signed the mask mandate because it’s a way to send a message to the American public about the importance of wearing masks.”
When pressed on why Biden did not lead by the “power of his example” regarding masks, Paski shot back, “The power of his example is also the message he sends by signing 25 executive orders, including almost half of them related to COVID.”

See? He signed 25 executive orders! Problem solved!

If you think that’s not good enough, it’s probably because you’re a white supremacist who hates democracy. You’re banned from everything!

We only have to endure another 1,457 days of this.




 

Category: Joe Biden

In The Mailbox: 01.21.21

Posted on | January 21, 2021 | Comments Off on In The Mailbox: 01.21.21

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Regular deadlines for the usual weekend posts are in effect. The first busy part of tax season starts next week, and I badly need to stay in a regular groove if I want to keep the posts flowing. (Yes, I know this is a day early.)
Ceterum autem censeo Silicon Valley esse delendam.

h/t Amie Gibbons, from today’s post at According To Hoyt

OVER THE TRANSOM
357 Magnum: Carjacking Is Off To A Great Start In Chicago
EBL: Joe Biden Got All The Best Endorsements
Twitchy: Drew Holden Rounds Up The Usual Suspects Who Passed Along CNN’s Story About There Being No Vaccination Plan
Louder With Crowder: Jordan Peterson Slams Kamala Harris’ Claim That America Is United 
Vox Popoli: If They Want Hopium & Copium, also, Waking Up From Libertarianism
According To Hoyt: Not Today! (Guest Post By Amie Gibbons)
Monster Hunter Nation: Book Giveaway From Seven Different Authors, also, A Farewell To Facebook

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
American Greatness: Federal Court Blocks Obamacare Mandate Requiring Doctors To Perform Transgender Surgeries
American Power: Biden Inauguration Brings Back “American Carnage”
American Thinker: Now We’ve Got Them Right Where We Want Them
Animal Magnetism: Animal’s Daily White Pill News
Babalu Blog: Cuba’s Dissident San Isidro Movement Calls On Canada To Support Freedom
BattleSwarm: Change!
Behind The Black: The Slowly Disappearing Dry Ice Cap At Mars’ South Pole, also, Today’s Blacklisted Conservative
Cafe Hayek: Jerry Ellig, RIP, also, Thought Experiments About The Minimum Wage
CDR Salamander: Africa – Let The Pictures Give You The Answer
Da Tech Guy: The Perfect Starting Metaphor For An Illegitimate Administration, also, The United States Is No Longer A Constitutional Republic
Don Surber: Primary & Purge
First Street Journal: Speaking Truth To Power Means Telling The Truth, also, Gauleiter Beshear Vetoes Bills Limiting His Power
The Geller Report: President Pedo Declares Little Girls Have To Share Their Bathrooms With Boys, also, KY Republicans Censure Mitch McConnell After His Attack On President Trump
Hogewash: Team Kimberlin Post Of The Day, also, LARPing At Leadership
Hollywood In Toto: How Night Of The Creeps Leans Into Its B-Movie Roots
The Lid: Antifa Riots In Portland & Seattle On Inauguration Day
Legal Insurrection: Mexican President Says Trump Helped Mexico, also, Biden’s Transgender EO Could Doom Womens’ Sports
Nebraska Energy Observer: Rowan’s Way – 7 Evensong, also, Losing A Friend
Power Line: A Note On The Inauguration, also, “Multiracial Whiteness”
Shark Tank: Will Puerto Rico Gain Statehood Under Biden?
Shot In The Dark: Let The Orgy Of Overreach Begin! also, President Of Convenience
STUMP: Mortality Nuggets
The Political Hat: Green Totalitarianism – Gaia Jugend, Climate Emergency As Medicine, Slave Labor For Gaia
This Ain’t Hell: I Am Spartacus & I Am Still Living The Dream, also, What Do You Do When You Expect An Insurrection & Nobody Shows Up?
Transterrestrial Musings: Words Of Division
Victory Girls: Amazon Plays Political Games With Vaccine
Volokh Conspiracy: New Administration “Moving In Laser-Like Fashion” To Uncover “Even Libertarians” In “An Unholy Alliance”
Weasel Zippers: Buttigieg – Keystone XL Workers “Will Just Have To Get New Jobs”, also, Joe Biden – “Salute The Marines”
The Federalist: Twitter Fumes Over Biden EO With #BidenErasesWomen, also, Google-Funded “Conservative” Groups Tell Congress To Leave Big Tech Alone
Mark Steyn: President Harris & Her Sidekick Joe, also, Hate Week Highlights

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‘Resident Biden

Posted on | January 21, 2021 | Comments Off on ‘Resident Biden

by Smitty


I’ve been calling him Purported President Potted Plant for a while, but he has received a FICUS upgrade, as provided by Victory Girls. Click the photo and read the whole thing.
Confirmation of our utter degradation was provided immdiately. Again, click the image and read the whole thing.
It’s not to my taste to wish harm on anyone, but this year’s total economic crash is going to be precisely what the country has deserved. Hopefully we repent and reclaim our elections from the Commies.

Category: Uncategorized

The TV Show You Didn’t Watch

Posted on | January 21, 2021 | Comments Off on The TV Show You Didn’t Watch

Yesterday my brother and I went to Denney’s for a late breakfast. They have TV screens around the restaurant, and the Biden inauguration was on every screen, but without sound. So you could say I watched the ceremony — that is to say, I glanced up and saw Joe raise his right hand with his left hand on the Bible — but mainly, I ignored it.

“Few people in our nation’s history have been more challenged or found a time more challenging or difficult than the time we are in now. . . .
“The cry for survival comes from the planet itself. A cry that can’t be any more desperate or any more clear. And now a rise of political extremism, white supremacy, domestic terrorism that we must confront and we will defeat. . . .
“We need all of our strength to persevere through this dark winter. We are entering what may be the toughest and deadliest period of the virus. . . .
“We face an attack on our democracy and on truth, a raging virus, growing inequity, the sting of systemic racism, a climate in crisis.”

So it’s a “crisis,” which will be used to justify whatever Democrats want to do, and anyone who disagrees with Biden’s agenda will be accused of “political extremism, white supremacy [and] domestic terrorism.”

The Great Amnesia has begun. Everything that was said or done in the past four years will be shoved down the Memory Hole, lest anyone should be able to compare and contrast the actions of Biden’s administration with what actually happened during Trump’s presidency. Likewise, liberals will now demand respect for all the institutions we were told — just a few short months ago — were instruments of “systemic racism”:

It is with great pleasure that we can report that the national anthem is apparently no longer controversial.
As Lady Gaga belted out our nation’s song with some theatrics but relatively few deviations from the traditional anthem performance, a look at the assembled crowd showed something very interesting, no one appeared to be kneeling.
One of the main features of anthem performances over the last four years was kneeling. A protest that began with the NFL’s Colin Kaepernick as a statement against police violence, but then seemingly transformed into a general protest against the state of the country that was copied by entertainers, politicians, and others.
However, with a change in regime in Washington, it appears that “patriotism” is back in style. . . .
Vice President Kamala Harris, an Oakland native and supporter of Colin Kaepernick and the anthem protests he began, once said that the “backlash” against Kaepernick’s protests was the fault of “Russian bots.”
Harris also said that the anthem protests were an act of “free speech” and meant to draw attention to “racial injustice.”

Pretend you don’t notice these things. That’s the main challenge of the next four years, to ignore all these deliberate insults to our intelligence.

Also, whatever you do, don’t mention that our new Democrat overlords are shape-shifting alien reptiles. We’re not supposed to notice that.




 

Category: Joe Biden

In The Mailbox: 01.20.21

Posted on | January 21, 2021 | Comments Off on In The Mailbox: 01.20.21

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Silicon Valley delenda est.

Komi’s mom has got it going on.

OVER THE TRANSOM
Ninety Miles From Tyranny: The 90 Miles Mystery Box, Episode #1238
357 Magnum: Kidnapping Foiled By Armed Citizen
EBL: The Bridge – A Review
Twitchy: “We Don’t Want Biden – We Want Revenge!”
Louder With Crowder: Steve Deace Offers Three Words Of Advice To Conservatives
Vox Popoli: They Speak In Symbols, also, The Actual Results
Stoic Observations: Let The Purge Begin

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
Adam Piggott: Little Men
American Conservative: The Dystopian Hellscape Of Online Learning
American Greatness: Stabbing Hector’s Corpse, also, Two Wyoming Republicans Announce Primary Challenges To Liz Cheney
American Thinker: America, A Country Of Victorious Socialism
Animal Magnetism: Animal’s Hump Day News
Babalu Blog: Wife Of NFL’s Most famous Quarterback Models Notorious Racist Che Guevara
BattleSwarm: Trump Administration Designates Red China’s Treatment Of Uighurs As Genocide
Behind The Black: An Empty Inauguration For A False Victory, also, Curiosity Checks Out Its Wheels
Cafe Hayek: A Truly Terrible Analogy
CDR Salamander: Red China Updates Their Military Law
Da Tech Guy: A Sad Day, also, Ranking President Trump
Don Surber: Trumpenfreude – Fox Axes Its Election Staff, also, Politico Puff Piece Backfires Bigly
First Street Journal: Joe Biden Wants To Normalize Transgenderism
The Geller Report: A Nation In Mourning, also, Left-Wing Provocateurs Caught Changing Into Trump Gear To Blend In, Incite Riots At Capitol
Hogewash: Team Kimberlin Post of The Day, also, Why I Was Quiet Today
Hollywood In Toto: The Good, Bad, And The Bizarre – Four Years Of Trump Cinema, also, The Big Tech War For Hearts & Minds
The Lid: First Declassified Russiagate Docs – Steele Admits Dossier Was All Political
Legal Insurrection: Trump Bids Farewell – “We Will be Back In Some Form”, also, Sen. Hawley Nixes Quick Confirmation Of BIden’s Pick For Homeland Security
Michelle Malkin: Why A Biden Crony Wanted To Punch Me In The Face
Nebraska Energy Observer: What Is It About Women?
Power Line: Trump Fought The Swamp, And The Swamp Won, also, Resist Joe Biden?
Shark Tank: DeSantis Partners With Publix For Vaccine Distribution
Shot In The Dark: Planet Of The Humans, part 5 – Fizzle On The Launchpad
STUMP: Meep’s Leftovers
The Political Hat: A Conservative Model State Constitution?
This Ain’t Hell: Gee, What A Surprise, also, Oath Keepers Are Back
Transterrestrial Musings: The Tragedy Of Trump’s Presidency
Victory Girls: Inauguration Of FICUS Biden – Citizenry Not Invited
Volokh Conspiracy: Is The President An “Officer Of The United States” For Purposes Of Section 3 Of The 14th Amendment?
Weasel Zippers: Biden Team Accidentally Made Display Of Russian Flag At Reflecting Pool Last Night, also, Portland Antifa Attacking Democratic Party HQ
The Federalist: Rand Paul – I’m Not Listening To Comey; He Should Be In Prison. also, Pope Muzzles American Bishops Preaching Against Biden’s Anti-Catholic Agenda
Mark Steyn: For The Record, also, Unpardoned

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In The Mailbox: 01.19.21 (Evening Edition)

Posted on | January 19, 2021 | Comments Off on In The Mailbox: 01.19.21 (Evening Edition)

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Silicon Valley delenda est.

FRAGO incoming

OVER THE TRANSOM
357 Magnum: So What Did Draconian Lockdowns Do For California?
EBL: King Fishers – A Review
Twitchy: DC Mayor Bowser Wants A Political Purge Of The National Guard
Louder With Crowder: Occasional Cortex DEMANDS Resignations Of Ted Cruz, Josh Hawley
Vox Popoli: The Sicilian Defense, also, “A Peaceful Transition”

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
American Conservative: Our Mail-In Elective Dictator
American Greatness: Biden Taps “Rachel” Levine, Who Sent COVID-Infected Patients To Nursing Homes (While Yanking Her Own Mother Out) As Assistant HHS Secretary
American Power: Gavin Newsom’s Botched Coronavirus Updates Going From Bad To Worse
Animal Magnetism: Animal’s Daily Insane & Wrongheaded News
Babalu Blog: After A Dark Winter In Communist Cuba,  A New Black Spring May Be On Its Way
BattleSwarm: “How I Switched From NeverTrump To NeverBiden”, also, NRA’s Texas Bankruptcy Ploy Is No Slam-Dunk
Behind The Black: Red China Completes First Launch For 2021, also, Today’s Blacklisted Conservative
Cafe Hayek: “Above Subsistence”
CDR Salamander: Keeping An Eye On The Long Game, Part LXXXVII
Da Tech Guy: Report From Louisiana – COVID Fatigue, also, Our Last Day of Assured Freedom
Don Surber: Stopping Trump From Defending Himself, also, National Review Is Blue
First Street Journal: Selling Our Birthrights For A Mess Of Pottage, also, Something I Never Thought I Would See
The Geller Report: Mitch McConnell Claims Capitol Rioters Were “Provoked By The President”, also, $50 Billion In Federal Money Going To Rescue NYC From Failed Democrat Policies
Hogewash: Where Are Their Blues? also, Hunter, Burisma, & Corruption
Hollywood In Toto: Denver Critics Hail Sorkin’s Trial Of The Chicago 7 As Year’s Best, also, Why Hasn’t Cancel Culture Come For Alec Baldwin?
The Lid: Dem Rep Cohen Suggests White Male Servicemen Are Seditious Conspirators Against Biden
Legal Insurrection: NBC Poll – Trump Retains Overwhelming GOP Support, also, Biden To Cancel Keystone XL Pipeline On First Day, Immediately Damaging Canadian Relations
Nebraska Energy Observer: Inauguration Week, Or Something
Power Line: Who’s The Hatemonger? also, The Casino Exception – And How To Get It
Shark Tank: Rep Gaetz – “Leftists Want To Control ALL Media”
Shot In The Dark: Planet of The Humans, Part 4 – Red On Red
STUMP: Other Pension News
The Political Hat: Pronoun Madness In British Columbia Courts
This Ain’t Hell: DAV To Purge Insurrectionists, also, It’s Tanker Tuesday Time
Transterrestrial Musings: Refuse To Be Silenced, also, The SLS Green Run
Victory Girls: PsyOps In The War Against The Right
Volokh Conspiracy: Dominion Seeks To Beach The Kraken, Prompts Pillow Fight
Weasel Zippers: Incoming WH Climate Team Blames “Systemic Racism” For Climate Change, also, Twelve National Guardsmen Removed From Biden Detail For Connections To “Right Wing Groups”
The Federalist: After A Week Of Leftist Hysteria, Rioters Were No-Shows At State Capitols, also, NYT Says Deadly BLM Rots Were “Isolated Instances Of Property Destruction” Exaggerated By GOP
Mark Steyn: Bette Davis Eyes, also, The Absence Of Opposition

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Sports News From Wokeville, USA

Posted on | January 19, 2021 | Comments Off on Sports News From Wokeville, USA

What do NFL players think their anti-white message will produce? Because to accuse someone of thinking in stereotypes is a deliberate insult. What such an accusation really means is, “You are ignorant. You are morally and intellectually inferior, and therefore in need of tutelage.”

NFL players are saying this to their own audience. They are accusing NFL fans of racial prejudice. So the people whose patronage pays the bills are treated like grade-school children, lectured by a bunch of multi-millionaire athletes, accusing NFL fans of being racial bigots.

It’s a short trip from Wokeville to Brokeville, I’m told.




 

Category: Football, Racism, Sports

FNC Fires Scapegoat Chris Stirewalt — and Their VP for News ‘Retires’

Posted on | January 19, 2021 | Comments Off on FNC Fires Scapegoat Chris Stirewalt — and Their VP for News ‘Retires’

You’ve got to hand it to Trump — he’s like Obi-Wan Kenobi. Strike him down, and he becomes more powerful than ever. We all remember the catastrophic moment on Election Night, when Chris Stirewalt called Arizona for Biden, and Bret Baier was like, “WTF, Fat Boy?”

Bret Baier: “But Chris, we haven’t called Texas yet. Why haven’t we called Texas?”
Chris Stirewalt: “Because it’s too close to call.”

That was what poker players would call a “tell.” When all the votes were counted (and I don’t mean to say that these numbers are entirely legit), the official tallies for Arizona and Texas looked like this:

Arizona …. 3.4 million total votes …… margin 10,457 (0.3%)
Texas …… 11.3 million total votes …. margin 631,221 (5.6%)

You see what I’m saying? Trump won Texas by nearly 6% — a margin of more than 600,000 votes — but Texas was “too close to call,” according to Chris Stirewalt who, at the same time, claimed to know that Biden would win Arizona, where the margin proved to be microscopic.

So now Chris Stirewalt has been “laid off” by Fox in a “restructuring” of their staff — did you see me roll my eyes at that? Meanwhile, the vice-president in charge of the news division at Fox has decided now is a good time to “retire” (my eyes just rolled completely out of my head).

Don’t look now, but Ace of Spades is dancing like the Ewoks in the final scene of Return of the Jedi. Shizzle done got fo’ real, bro.

UPDATE: Not to take pleasure in the misfortune of others, but Emerald Robinson just called Stirewalt “the Liz Cheney of Chuck Todds” and that there’s funny, I don’t care who you are.




 

Category: Fox News
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