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ANIMAL MAGNETISM: Rule Five Border Crisis Friday, and the Saturday Gingermageddon.

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Joe Biden’s Punch Line Presidency

Posted on | February 11, 2024 | Comments Off on Joe Biden’s Punch Line Presidency

It’s hard not to laugh at the reaction to Special Counsel Robert Hur’s final report about Joe Biden’s classified document case. The main finding of Hur’s investigation is briefly summarized:

Our investigation uncovered evidence that President Biden willfully retained and disclosed classified materials after his vice presidency when he was a private citizen. These materials included (1) marked classified documents about military and foreign policy in Afghanistan, and (2) notebooks containing Mr. Biden’s handwritten entries about issues of national security and foreign policy implicating sensitive intelligence sources and methods. FBI agents recovered these materials from the garage, offices, and basement den in Mr. Biden’s Wilmington, Delaware home.

In other words, Biden is GUILTY! GUILTY! GUILTY!

As several commentators have noted, this finding — and the fact that Hur recommended no criminal charges, despite the clear evidence of Biden’s guilt — raises questions about the federal effort to prosecute former President Donald Trump for very similar offenses. When you consider the extent to which “get Trump” has been the organizing principle of the Biden administration since Day One, this is a significant setback to that aspect of their agenda. But that wasn’t the worst of it:

The report’s summation of Biden’s mental fitness will likely be highly damaging to an electorate that overwhelmingly — 76% — has concerns about the 81-year-old’s mental and physical health.
“Mr. Biden’s memory was significantly limited, both during his recorded interviews with the ghostwriter in 2017 [with whom he shared classified materials], and in his interview with our office in 2023,” the report said in its executive summary. “We have also considered that, at trial, Mr. Biden would likely present himself to a jury, as he did during our interview of him, as a sympathetic, well-meaning, elderly man with a poor memory.”
Prosecutors said that based on the way that Biden presents, jurors will “want to identify reasonable doubt” and that it would be “difficult to convince a jury that they should convict him — by then a former president well into his eighties — of a serious felony that requires a mental state of willfulness.”
Recordings from when Biden was interviewed by the ghostwriter in 2017 showed that even then, he was “struggling to remember events and straining at times to read and relay his own notebook entries,” the special counsel said, adding that even back then he was showing signs of “diminished faculties and faulty memory.”
“In his interview with our office, Mr. Biden’s memory was worse,” Hur said. “He did not remember when he was vice president, forgetting on the first day of the interview when his term ended (“if it was 2013 – when did I stop being Vice President?”), and forgetting on the second day of the interview when his term began (“in 2009, am I still Vice President?”).”
“He did not remember, even within several years, when his son Beau died,” the report continued. “And his memory appeared hazy when describing the Afghanistan debate that was once so important to him. Among other things, he mistakenly said he ‘had a real difference’ of opinion with General Karl Eikenberry, when, in fact, Eikenberry was an ally whom Mr. Biden cited approvingly in his Thanksgiving memo to President Obama.”

That Biden has “diminished faculties and faulty memory” is not really news to anyone who’s been paying attention, but having it stated so clearly in a Special Counsel’s report? “Republicans pounce!”

President Dimished Faculties yells at a reporter

But the way the White House reacted — sending out Biden to “rebut” the Special Counsel’s report — was ill-considered, and even the docile sheep in the White House press corps weren’t playing along:

Journalists pressed Biden on what the report and questions about his mental fitness mean for the November election in which he faces a likely rematch against Trump.
“Many American people have been watching and they have expressed concerns about your age,” a female reporter began, citing “public polling.”
“That is your judgment. That is your judgment,” Biden barked, raising his voice and pointing at the woman, adding, “That is not the judgment of the press.”
The journalist continued, “In December, you told me you believed there were many other Democrats who could defeat Donald Trump. So why does it have to be you now?”
“Because I am the most qualified person in this country to be president of the United States,” Biden shot back, “and finish the job I started.”

“[The] American people have been watching and they have expressed concerns about your age…”

BIDEN (confused and angry): “That is YOUR JUDGMENT!” pic.twitter.com/1Jd0R70uy8

— RNC Research (@RNCResearch) February 9, 2024

Even though most of the media continue trying to defend Biden, the past three days of coverage — even on CNN (I watch, so you don’t have to) — has been more negative toward Biden than at any time in the past three years. Many of these “Democratic operatives with bylines” now realize that Biden’s cognitive decline makes his reelection impossible. No matter what else happens, no matter what Trump does, Biden can’t win because his brain’s gone soft and everybody can see it now. Sure, he’ll get the 40% or so of voters who would vote for a turnip if the turnip had a (D) beside it on the ballot, but there’s no way he gets to a majority on that basis. Democrats can’t even steal enough votes to overcome the problem of trying to reelect President Diminished Faculties.

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FMJRA 2.0: The Giant Wombats of Gor

Posted on | February 11, 2024 | Comments Off on FMJRA 2.0: The Giant Wombats of Gor

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Apologies for the lack of posting yesterday; after a week in the tax mines, I was pretty wiped out after getting home from the office and went straight to bed.
Alas, the title is a lie; I thought I had a pic of said wombats from the epic Gorean parody Numismatist of Gor, but you’ll have to make do with Dante Rossetti’s appreciation of Oz’s favorite burrowing marsupial, and this link to another Gor parody, “Houseplants of Gor”.
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Foxes, Henhouses, Crime and Oakland

Posted on | February 9, 2024 | Comments Off on Foxes, Henhouses, Crime and Oakland

The first thing you have to know about Alameda County District Attorney Pamela Price is that the first time she ran for the office, she got $130,000 for her campaign from George Soros. Price lost that 2018 race to the incumbent, who chose not to seek reelection in 2022. Price ran again and won with 53% of the vote, “defeating a veteran local prosecutor and making history as the first Black person to hold the office.”

The second thing you need to know about Price is that Alameda County is one of the most left-wing places in the country. Biden got 80% of the vote there. Whites are less than a third of the county’s population, which is about 32% Asian, 23% Hispanic and 10% black. Whatever is wrong in Alameda County, you can’t blame it on white people or Republicans, who have no meaningful political influence in the county. And, even by the low standards of California, there are an awful lot of things wrong in Alameda County, which is why District Attorney Pamela Price is already facing a recall effort, and the governor had to step in:

California governor Gavin Newsom (D.) will dispatch state prosecutors to go after criminals in Oakland and the surrounding area, as local momentum builds to oust the county’s George Soros-backed prosecutor for her lenient policies.
“An arrest isn’t enough,” Newsom said in a Thursday statement announcing the deployment. “Justice demands that suspects are appropriately prosecuted.”
Oakland-area district attorney Pamela Price, who is trying to fend off a voter-backed recall after just a year in office, said she welcomed the support “in this fight against organized retail crime and the scourge of Fentanyl in our community.”
The governor’s move comes as Oakland deals with a skyrocketing crime crisis. On Tuesday, Newsom sent 120 state troopers to Oakland and the surrounding county. The crime surge is driving the recall effort against Price — who ran on an anti-incarceration platform and a pledge to “evaluate unfair prosecutions and excessive sentencing practices.” As DA, she gave a teen linked to three murders just seven years in prison and made the gang members who murdered a toddler eligible for parole. A poll from last fall showed that a majority of Oakland residents would vote to replace her as DA and that just 28 percent have a favorable view of her — while 92 percent listed reducing crime as a top priority.
According to the governor’s office, the state attorneys’ job will be “increasing the prosecutions” of criminals who have committed violence, property crimes, and “serious” drug-related felonies. Last year, Oakland saw its violent crime rate increase by 21 percent, while robberies rose 38 percent and vehicle theft spiked 44 percent.
Meanwhile, a local voter coalition called Save Alameda for Everyone is gathering signatures to recall Price. Its lead organizers are a mother whose son was shot and killed in Oakland in 2010 and the former president of the local Chinatown Chamber of Commerce. The group, which needs to collect more than 73,000 signatures by mid-March to qualify the recall for the November ballot, says Price “is failing us in her responsibility to enforce the law, prosecute criminals and keep violent offenders off our streets.”

Did you catch that? Price “ran on an anti-incarceration platform,” which is to say, she is against putting criminals in jail, and she got 53% of the vote based on that platform. What did voters in Alameda County think would happen with a Soros-funded fox guarding the local henhouse?

Basically any place where Democrats get 80% of the vote is going to be the kind of crime-ridden hellhole that most people would prefer to avoid, and did I mention that California has basically legalized theft?

Prop 47 made drug possession a misdemeanor, raised the threshold for prosecuting shoplifting, grand theft and other property crimes as a felony from $400 to $950 in value stolen, and allowed resentencing for those already serving sentences under the tougher penalties.

Limit your thefts to $949 per outing and it’s a slap on the wrist in California. If you’re stealing five days a week, that’s a weekly income of $4,745 from your (misdemeanor) criminal activity.

Between this insane “criminal justice reform” and the fact that the local prosecutor is a Soros-funded leftist who got elected on “an anti-incarceration platform,” it has become practically impossible to operate any kind of retail business in Alameda County. Denny’s and In-and-Out both closed their Oakland locations in recent weeks, citing the out-of-control crime that jeopardized the safety of restaurant employees.

Think about that. Here you have a community so dangerous that they don’t even have burger joints and diners because the city is overrun by criminals stealing everything they can get their hands on. And this is the kind of place where Joe Biden got 80% of the vote.

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