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Mystified Why Trump Keeps Criticizing Georgia Republicans? Here’s the Answer

Posted on | August 6, 2024 | Comments Off on Mystified Why Trump Keeps Criticizing Georgia Republicans? Here’s the Answer

Was the 2020 election stolen? That’s a yes or no question.

Were I called to testify under oath, I’d have to answer yes.

I’ve talked to friends in Georgia who tell stories of “ballot harvesting” there, and this is completely apart from the arguably unconstitutional rule change that allowed universal vote-by-mail in my native state. (The Constitution gives state legislatures the authority to establish election procedures. The Georgia legislature never changed the law; instead, Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger implemented universal vote-by-mail on his own authority, without legislative approval.) We know for a fact that Mark Zuckerberg poured millions into Georgia election activism, specifically in the metro Atlanta area — Clayton, DeKalb, Douglas, Fulton and Gwinnett counties — and every Republican who watched the way the official results were reported on Election Night said, “Shenanigans!”

So, yes, I sincerely believe Democrats stole the 2020 election, but that doesn’t make me a “conspiracy theorist,” because I don’t claim to have any detailed proof of how Democrats stole the election. There are people who do make such claims, however, and I have neither the time nor interest to investigate their claims. The media is quick to label any such claim as having been “debunked,” and I don’t care to investigate the alleged “debunking,” either, since it’s neither here nor there in terms of my own general belief about Democratic shenanigans in 2020.

While I have the luxury of being agnostic toward any specific detailed claims regarding 2020 election fraud, others are less fortunate. You see, the whole “J6 insurrection” controversy, including the federal prosecution of Capitol riot participants, as well as legal proceedings against Trump and his allies, are premised on two basic propositions: (a) that the 2020 election was entirely legitimate, and (b) that no reasonable person could believe otherwise. Whereas Trump’s supporters claim they were victims of a political crime, the prosecution of Trump’s supporters portrays them as perpetrators of such a crime, and it is crucial to the defense of anyone so accused to establish that they were acting on a sincere belief that the 2020 election was stolen.

All of this is necessary to understanding why, in his Atlanta rally Saturday, “Trump assailed [Gov. Brian] Kemp in a roughly 10-minute tirade,” as the Associated Press described it. Kemp denies that there is any reason to doubt Joe Biden won Georgia four years ago, and in doing so, effectively sides with Fani Willis in her argument that Trump and his allies were guilty of a crime in trying to prevent certification of that alleged Democratic victory. Some of my conservative friends are perplexed by Trump’s public criticisms of Kemp (and Raffensperger), and certainly it can be argued that airing such intra-party conflicts in the late stages of a crucial election campaign is, uh . . . less than optimal, strategically speaking. (I’m sure my friend Dianna Deeley in Valdosta can speak of less-than-optimal intra-party conflicts locally.)

Those of us who can afford to be agnostic about the specifics of election fraud in 2020 may be tempted to cast aspersions on those who are not so fortunately situated: Why are they so obsessed with this topic? Well, if a prosecutor was trying to put you in prison, you might be “obsessed,” too. And it’s not just Trump. His former spokeswoman and longtime “War Room” contributor Liz Harrington called attention to the ongoing battle between Trump’s supporters and the Georgia Election Board.

You can read the entire complaint, alleging “under the penalty of perjury that the evidence and records are conclusive — Fulton County’s 2020 General Election Recount was intentionally and fraudulently manipulated.” As I say, I don’t have any interest in such details — my eyes glaze over — but then again, no one is trying to put me in prison for my beliefs about election shenanigans. At least not yet, but if Democrats steal the next election, too, maybe we’ll all get locked up. Then we’ll have plenty of time, sitting in jail awaiting trial, to be “obsessed” about it.



 

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Crazy People Are Dangerous: Deranged Florida Family Murders Deputy

Posted on | August 6, 2024 | Comments Off on Crazy People Are Dangerous: Deranged Florida Family Murders Deputy

“She was talking about how she was . . . God’s wife, and we were all demons, and our dogs were hell hounds and all of this, and it was just a crazy and insane moment.”
— witness interviewed by WESH-TV

This story broke over the weekend, but I didn’t report on it immediately because there wasn’t much information on the suspects. A deputy was killed, and two others were wounded, when they were ambushed after responding to a situation that began with a woman attacking her neighbors on Brookside Drive in Lake County, Florida. The woman, subsequently identified as 48-year-old Julie Sulpizio, was under some sort of religious delusion, claiming to be acting on behalf of God against pedophiles and “dark souls.” She was taken into custody for psychiatric evaluation under the Baker Act, but not before encouraging deputies to go to her house. When they followed up, there was no response from the occupants of the residence and, because a screen on one of the windows had been disturbed, deputies suspected that there might have been some kind of home invasion. Lake County Sheriff Peyton Grinnell laid out the details of what happened at a Monday press conference:

“The [911 caller] stated [Julie Sulpizio] was acting religious, accusing them of being sinners, and she knows what they did…” Grinnell explained. “But Julie states that she is ‘Helen’ under God’s will.”
Just before 8 p.m., a deputy arrived at the scene, and despite being ordered otherwise, Sulpizio began to approach the deputy, according to the sheriff’s office. As a result, the deputy pointed his Taser at Sulpizio, prompting her to take a few steps back.
“During a calm verbal exchange, Julie Sulpizio states that ‘they’ — meaning the group of people that was present there — were involved in pedophilia. She again claims to be Helen, and she asked one of the victims that she had battered, ‘Who is your God?’
“Julie Sulpizio stated to them that ‘Julie is in heaven.’
“She then went on to state, ‘You see, the thing is, we needed to trick Lucy.’ And we later learned to be a name she calls Lucifer. She then points at (the deputy) and states, ‘You are one of them.’” . . .
[After Julie Sulpizio was taken into custody] Two deputies then went to Sulpizio’s home — a short walk away — to perform a well-being check on her husband and two daughters — Michael Sulpizio, 48; Cheyenne Sulpizio, 23; and Savannah Sulpizio, 22.
No one answered the door when the deputies arrived, though they saw three people running within the house, Grinnell said. Two small dogs were also found dead in the front yard.
According to investigators, the deputies then heard a “loud banging” and discovered an open window with the screen kicked out, which sparked concern over the well-being of Michael Sulpizio and the two daughters.
As a result, the deputies called for backup, believing some kind of home invasion or burglary had taken place.
In addition, investigators interviewing neighbors discovered that Michael Sulpizio a few days prior had allegedly threatened to shoot the neighbor’s children the next time he saw them, Grinnell said.
Just after 9 p.m., four deputies attempted to enter through the rear door at the driveway, announcing their entry, Grinnell added.
“As Master Deputy (Bradley) Link crossed the threshold into the hallway, his body-worn camera captures several frames of what appears to be a male in a black-sleeve T-shirt or body armor positioned with a rifle on the arm of a couch, waiting to ambush deputies,” the sheriff explained.
Investigators reported that the deputies were then met with heavy gunfire, which struck Link in the back. Someone also began shooting at the deputies outside, and another deputy — Master Deputy Sheriff Harold Howell, 41 — was also injured by the gunfire.
Link was immobilized, though the remaining deputies cleared out of the home, Grinnell explained. Investigators tried to negotiate with those inside the home to release Link, but they were refused.
“Master Deputy Link’s body-worn camera continuously recorded audio and video from within the residence facing up toward the ceiling, and at 9:24 p.m., a female yells from within the residence as she racks a firearm and states, ‘My king will kill all of you. You are Lucifer’s children,’” Grinnell said. “This was in response to deputies yelling for Master Deputy Link to crawl to them.”
Afterward, a plan was put in place to rescue Link. According to Grinnell, Deputy First Class Stefano Gargano, 28, led a rescue team inside while using a ballistic shield as cover.
However, Gargano was shot several times through the wall as he moved through the home, causing him to be incapacitated, according to the sheriff’s office. He was ultimately extracted from the home and taken to the hospital in critical condition.\
Eventually, a SWAT team was able to get into the home and rescue Link, though he later died from his wounds at the hospital.
Cheyenne Sulpizio and Savannah Sulpizio were also found dead inside the home, having shot themselves in the head, Grinnell said. Michael Sulpizio was also found with a self-inflicted gunshot wound to his head, and he died at the hospital afterward, Grinnell added. . . .
Inside the home, investigators found over 20 firearms, stockpiled ammunition, gas masks, body armor, ghillie suits, medical bags, MREs and bottled water, alongside “anti-government propaganda” and “conspiracy-theory-related media,” Grinnell said.
In a later interview with Julie Sulpizio, she told detectives that her name is actually “Helen” and that God speaks through her, Grinnell continued. He added that Julie Sulpizio told them her husband Michael Sulpizio was actually the biblical guardian angel Michael, who obeyed God’s commands through her.
“She stated that she was trying to lure the neighbors to her residence so that Michael could kill them,” Grinnell stated. “She was not successful because of our deputies.”
Sulpizio faces charges of premeditated first-degree murder on a law enforcement officer, seven counts of attempted murder, and four counts of battery.

While the investigation is still ongoing, the sheriff and his lead detective said enough during the press conference that we know the family was socially isolated. The two daughters had reportedly been withdrawn from school when they were middle-school age, and did not have access to TV or other media. Despite the evidence of religious mania, there is no report of the family attending any church. The sheriff said the family were not “on the radar” of local law enforcement as any kind of extremist threat.

So there are still lots of unanswered questions, but this would seem to be what we might call “QAnon adjacent” insanity. How it got to the stage where deputies were ambushed in this manner, that’s the real puzzle. I mean, there’s lots of people out there with kooky ideas, without ever resorting to deadly violence. Three of the suspects in this case are dead, and the survivor in custody is so crazy that there’s a real chance she’ll be found incompetent to stand trial, which means that detectives face a difficult task of putting together a coherent narrative about how this family descended into dangerous lunacy. But as always, we know what the real lesson is: Crazy People Are Dangerous.



 

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In The Mailbox: 08.05.24

Posted on | August 6, 2024 | Comments Off on In The Mailbox: 08.05.24

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Silicon Valley et Hamas delenda sunt.

OVER THE TRANSOM
357 Magnum: F***book Didn’t Think The Law Applied To Them
EBL: Beach Volleyball, Taiwan beats Red China in Badminton, The British Government Vows To Destroy The White Racists of Southport, and Where’s Kamala?
Twitchy: UK Subject Films Arrest For “Facebook Crimes”, As Our Savings Vanish, At Least Twitter Had Fun With #KamalaExplainsThe Stock Market, and A Flashback To Potential VP Pick Gov. Klink & His Bad Choices
Louder With Crowder: YouTube has BANNED us until the election, also, A Black barbershop doesn’t doesn’t like Kamala Harris, so CNN’s white host goes on the attack
Vox Popoli: Sociopaths Play Nice Guys, The Sound of a Sea, Neocons are Back, Adieu, Old Friends, and More Rumors of War
Upstream Reviews: White Ops
Draw & Talk Comics: The Next 45 Days Of Life
Postcards From Barsoom: The Rebellion Of The Helots Against Liberalism’s Zimbabwean Telos, also, Who Speaks For The Children?
Stoic Observations: The Problem With Bitcoin

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
Adam Piggott: Women are not Warriors
American Conservative: Johnny Cash to be Memorialized in U.S. Capitol
American Greatness: Kamala Harris and the Masque of Magical Thinking, The Most Effective Way to Brand Kamala, The Trump Assassination Attempt and the Kennedy Connection, Black Conservative CEO: Kamala’s Statement on Reparations Shows She is the ‘New Poster Child for Socialism’, and Kamala Can’t Win
American Power: Sloane Crosley, Grief is for People
American Thinker: Kamala Harris and the Great Democrat Cheat Machine, The Stranglehold of Censorship, and Everything in Moderation — Especially Government Power
Animal Magnetism: Goodbye, Blue Monday
Babalu Blog: The 30th anniversary of Cuba’s ‘Maleconazo’, Maduro intensifies arbitrary arrests, killings, threatens to obliterate opposition as proof of Venezuelan election fraud becomes evident, Father Alberto Reyes denounces Cuban dictatorship as “an infernal nightmare,” calls on Cuban people to fight for their freedom, and Cuban dictatorship cozies up to Iran, intensifies military & economic alliance
BattleSwarm: Texas Declares Victory In Border Wall Lawsuit, Anarchy In The UK, and How Are So Many Democrat Leaders The Spawn Of Marxist Professors?
Behind The Black: SpaceX launches 20 Starlink satellites, SpaceX launches Cygnus cargo freighter to ISS, and Sunspot update: In July the Sun produced the most sunspots in almost a quarter century
Cafe Hayek: On American Trade With China, also, Again, How Do They Know?
CDR Salamander: The Natsec Gods Of The Copybook Headings Have A Reminder, also, Cleo Pascal & The PRC In The Pacific Islands – On Midrats
Chicago Boyz: “Whole of Society”, also, The Coming Deluge?
Da Tech Guy: Review, Van Morrison’s Live at Orangefield, also, I Invoke the Planet of Tara Rule For Yesterday
Dana Loesch: If It’s Walz, Why?
Don Surber: Nixon got boned
First Street Journal: Don’t blame Other People if your neighborhood is a mess, Hoist by their own petard, and Nooo, not anti-Semitism at all!
Gates Of Vienna: Here Comes Another One, Those Blasted Germans Again, Algeria Celebrates Its New Heroine, A Beheading Craze in València, and The Chinese Connection
The Geller Report: 48 Republican Senators Protest Biden Regime’s Arms Embargo on Israel
Hollywood In Toto: Derek Richards Says Here’s Why Cancel Culture Is on the Run, Blood Simple – Blood-Stained Poetry That Left a Mark, Dennis Quaid on Oscar DEI Quotas, and Vince Vaughn Tees Off on Cancel Culture Scolds
The Lid: Here are the Never Trump Traitors Who Joined ‘Republicans for Harris’
Legal Insurrection: David Axelrod: ‘It is absolutely Trump’s race to lose’, Rep. Raskin in February: It’s Up to Congress to Disqualify Trump if He Wins, UW-Milwaukee Suspends ‘Pro-Palestinian’ Groups for Saying Israel Supporters ‘Not Welcome’ on Campus, Several Injured in Rocket Attack on Iraq Base Housing U.S. Personnel, With the World in Complete Chaos, Biden Focuses on Single-Use Utensil Ban, Biden-Harris Admin Released at Least 99 Potential Terrorists, and Cori Bush Doesn’t Know if Hamas is a Terrorist Organization
Michele Catalano: week in joy
Nebraska Energy Observer: Saturday – just for you, also, The Cousins Arise
Outkick: Olympic Boxers Khelif & Lin Might Be Victims, But That Doesn’t Mean They Should Get To Compete, Former Colorado Player Shares Concerning Comment About Guns And Fights Within Program, Ozzie Guillen Rips White Sox Manager Over Nightmare 20-Game Losing Streak, Gold Medalist Swimmer Spotted Sleeping Under Bench In The Park After Complaining About Olympic Village, A’s Fans Pummel Giants Fans In A Prison Yard-Like Beatdown, Olympic Pole Vaulter Anthony Ammirati Speaks After His Dong Costs Him Gold, and NFL Analyst Trey Wingo Slammed For Saying Harrison Butker’s Conservative Views Bring ‘Baggage’ To Chiefs
Power Line: Harris’s basement campaign, Sen. Cotton speaks for me, and The Daily Chart: Greens Against Green Energy
Shark Tank: Bipartisan Letter Requests Declaration Of Emergency Assistance
Shot In The Dark: Klink, also, Nothing Wrong Here 
STUMP: The Week In Meep
The Political Hat: The New Opium War
This Ain’t Hell: Recruiting goals look to be met, Army expanding BCT, The killing of three little girls in the UK leads to immigration related protests and riots, Miss USA title goes to Army officer, Joe’s Consolation Prize, and Kamala HQ mocked Donald Trump for predicting market crash under Joe Biden
Transterrestrial Musings: Judith Curry, Spaceport Las Vegas, Starliner Woes Continue, and Muscle Growth And Strength
Victory Girls: Buttigieg’s Vile Abortion Sermon, also, About Those “Republicans For Harris”
Volokh Conspiracy: Justice Gorsuch Explains What Collegiality Means
Watts Up With That: ‘A disaster’: Paris Olympics’ lack of ‘meat-based protein’ to lower ‘carbon footprint’ creates havoc, Role of Humans in the Global Water Cycle and Impacts on Climate Change, and Weighing N.Y.’s Climate Statute
The Federalist: AZ School Choice Program Makes Homeschoolers Jump Through Absurd Bureaucratic Hoops, Local Democrats Urge Georgia To Return To Hand-Marked Ballots, Echoing Conservatives’ Concerns, Media Are Waging An All-Out War On J.D. Vance Because Of His Pro-Family Policies, In Major Antitrust Case, Judge Finds Google’s Search And Ads Monopolies Illegal, Kamala Harris Always Planned To Take Away Your Health Coverage, Trump Did Not Have Secret Service Counter-Snipers Until Pennsylvania Rally, and WI City At Center Of ‘Zuckbucks’ Scandal Looks To Tap Leftist Lawfare Groups Ahead of Election
Mark Steyn: Mad About the Boy: Britain’s Sixties Begin with Tom Jones, Under an August Moon, Live Around the Planet – Imagine There’s No Pushback, Edelweiss, He Fought the Law…And He Won, and Diversity in the Gullet

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They’re Calling It the ‘Kamala Crash’

Posted on | August 5, 2024 | Comments Off on They’re Calling It the ‘Kamala Crash’

Stocks tanked today, with the Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJIA) falling more than a thousand points (down 2.6%) while both the S&P 500 and NASDAQ recorded their worst days since September 2022. There is no reason to panic over this one-day loss, of course, since the long-term trend is still upward, no matter the short-term hit to your 401(k) account.

It’s being called the “Kamala crash” because one of the things that may have triggered the sell-off was that investors believe there is an increased likelihood of Kamala Harris becoming the next president. To help explain what’s going on here, look at these charts:

On June 27, the DJIA closed at 39,164.06. That evening, however, Joe Biden suffered a catastrophic debate performance and within a few days, the markets started surging. About two weeks later, it broke 40,000 for the first time in history, and on July 17 reached a peak of 41,198.08, having gained 2,034.02 points (+5.2%) in three weeks.

Of course, many things can affect the stock markets, but it’s hard to avoid the obvious interpretation here: As the polls began showing Joe Biden losing ground in the election, confidence rose as investors believed that Trump was likely to be the next president, bringing a pro-business policy agenda back to the White House. In the 10 days after Biden announced he would quit his reelection bid, the Dow dipped, then climbed again, but the media was busy cranking out a lot of pro-Kamala hype, and doubts began to shadow the market. By last week, Democrats had circled the wagons and organized a “virtual roll call” to officially anoint Harris as their nominee, and the bottom has now fallen out of the market, with the DJIA losing a total of 2,494.81 points (-6.1%) since its July 17 peak.

Maybe the stock markets are right. Maybe the chances of Kamala Harris getting elected have increased in the past two weeks. On the other hand, she’s never been really popular with voters, her 2020 campaign was a flop, and I see no reason to believe that she’s learned anything from that experience. Harris is a bad candidate, and once this “honeymoon” phase is over, I expect America to reject her. We can then look forward to a new economic boom beginning on Wednesday, November 6.



 

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Rule 5 Sunday: Redheads – Threat or Menace?

Posted on | August 4, 2024 | Comments Off on Rule 5 Sunday: Redheads – Threat or Menace?

— compiled by Wombat-socho

I kid, I kid. Some of the best times of my life have been spent in the company of redheads. This particular redhead comes to us courtesy of @Rule5Texan on X.
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ANIMAL MAGNETISM: Rule Five DEI Hire Friday, and the Saturday Gingermageddon.

EBL: Vespa Girls, Saturday Night Girls With Guns, Simone Biles, Giorgia Villa, Angela Carini, MAGA Not So Crazy Cat Girls For Trump, Israel KIlls Two Hamas Leaders, Knox Goes Away, and Lady Deadpool & Elektra. 

A VIEW FROM THE BEACH: Sarah Alkhoury, Fish Pic Friday – Stephanie Marie, Thursday Tanlines, Global Warming Hits the Reef, The Wednesday Wetness, Sick Like Me, Manatees Visit The Hague, The Monday Morning Stimulus, Random Celebrity News, Palm Sunday and MD Angler Doubts Snakehead Peril 

FLAPPR: T.I.T.S. For August 2

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Donald Trump Had an Agreement to Debate Joe Biden, Not to Debate ‘Whoever Democrats Pick to Replace Joe Biden’

Posted on | August 4, 2024 | Comments Off on Donald Trump Had an Agreement to Debate Joe Biden, Not to Debate ‘Whoever Democrats Pick to Replace Joe Biden’

Hey, remember when it was a “right-wing conspiracy theory” if you thought Democrats were going to pull a Torricelli-Lautenberg switch and run some other presidential candidate instead of Joe Biden?

Republicans float a quiet conspiracy theory
that Biden won’t be on the ballot
— NBC News, Oct. 26, 2023

Get Used to It: Biden Isn’t Going Anywhere
— Politico, Feb. 13, 2024

It’s time to end the conspiracy theories
about Biden being replaced as a candidate
— Washington Examiner, May 16, 2024

It’s important not to forget this recent history, which is being memory-holed by the same media voices who told you that you were crazy for thinking Democrats would do what, in fact, they have now done.

And why did Democrats dump Biden? Because the befuddled incumbent got his ass kicked in an early debate that Team Biden demanded. Remember that ridiculous “make my day” video from Joe?

So what happened? Many people were surprised when Trump immediately accepted the debates (first on CNN, then on ABC) with rules dictated by Team Biden. Lots of us right-wingers thought this was a bad idea. CNN was blatantly in the tank for Biden, but Trump didn’t seem to care. With the benefit of hindsight, we now see that Trump was smarter than all of us — he knew Biden couldn’t handle a debate, no matter how in-the-tank the moderators might be. (To be more anti-Trump than Jake Tapper and Dana Bash, you’d have to be Thomas Crooks).

Biden’s cognitively impaired performance in the June 27 debate proved to be a fatal wound to his reelection campaign, and Joe announced he was quitting 24 days later, designating Kamala Harris as his chosen replacement. This was ratified by a “virtual roll call” of DNC delegates — because thus does Our Democracy™ proceed — and Team Biden was thereby magically transformed into Team Harris. Despite the utterly unprecedented nature of this process, Team Harris seemed to assume that Trump was obligated to debate Harris under the same agreement he’d made when Biden was the candidate. Why? How is it that Democrats think they can pull such shenanigans and never experience any negative consequences as a result? Now Trump is playing hardball.

Trump offers to debate Sept. 4 on Fox in front of a live audience in Pennsylvania, and Team Harris perversely claims Trump is breaching his prior agreement with ABC when, in fact, it is Democrats who have rendered that agreement void by switching candidates.

And you know something? Harris needs the debate more than Trump does. He is a known commodity, with a solid grassroots base, so why should he do her any favors? It was one thing, when Biden was an incumbent seeking reelection, and Trump needed to counter the weight of the “bully pulpit.” But Kamala Harris? What has she got?

Recall that Trump did not deign to debate the Republican rivals who challenged him for the nomination. He let them debate amongst themselves, then beat them all in the primaries, without much effort. It may seem crazy to think that Trump has made a similar calculation about Harris, but his previous hunch proved accurate, didn’t it?

So, Trump decides that having no debate at all would be better than debating on ABC, and makes a take-it-or-leave-it offer for the Fox debate. And what if Team Harris says “no”? Fine with me, says Trump, and then turns all her complaints into an opportunity to talk about the shenanigans by which Democrats switched candidates.

“It’s a bold strategy, Cotton. Let’s see if it pays off.”



 

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FMJRA 2.0: An Inoffensive Offense

Posted on | August 4, 2024 | Comments Off on FMJRA 2.0: An Inoffensive Offense

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Well, that was a miserable week. The Senators scored a total of nine runs in our six games against the Twins and Expos, with the result being that we went 1-5 on the week to finish at 48-70, four games behind the A’s in our division and not too far ahead of the cellar-dwelling O’s. Next week we have games against the Tribe, who we are 4-2 against, and Kansas Shitty, 3-4. So we might get a .500 week, or maybe not.
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‘Sundown Joe’ and World War III

Posted on | August 3, 2024 | Comments Off on ‘Sundown Joe’ and World War III

Everybody got a laugh Friday when, after an airport photo-op with hostages recently returned from Russia, Joe Biden wandered away and climbed the steps of the empty plane. Media “fact-checkers” instantly went into spin mode, claiming that what we saw with our own two eyes — an old man exhibiting dementia symptoms — didn’t really happen.

The problem with the media’s political make-believe games is that the president’s duties as Commander-in-Chief cannot be wished away, at a time when events in the Middle East are at a perilous turn:

The U.S. military is repositioning assets and moving additional forces into the Middle East and Europe to defend against a potential attack on Israel by Iran, U.S. officials said.
Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin ordered the deployment of additional Navy destroyers and cruisers, both with offensive and defensive ballistic missile capabilities, as the Pentagon also takes steps to beef up land-based missile defense, Sabrina Singh, a Pentagon spokeswoman, said in a statement Friday evening. An additional squadron of fighter jets also will be deployed to the Middle East to reinforce defensive air support, she said.
The statement did not identify which vessels and units will be involved, but says they will be added to the “broad range of capabilities the U.S. military maintains in the region.”
Austin also has ordered the deployment of the USS Abraham Lincoln, an aircraft carrier, and its associated escort ships to ensure that an aircraft carrier remains in the region, Singh said. Another carrier, the USS Theodore Roosevelt, was in the Gulf of Oman on Friday and accompanied by several other warships after they recently moved out of the Persian Gulf, a U.S. official said, speaking on the condition of anonymity because of the sensitivity of the issue. The shift leaves open the possibility that they will move to Israel if they sail west around Yemen toward the Red Sea.
The moves come after Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Iran’s supreme leader, and Hezbollah leader Hasan Nasrallah vowed to retaliate after the killing this week of Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh and a senior Hezbollah commander, Fuad Shukr. . . .
The events have brought the region closer to full-blown conflict than perhaps at any point since the Gaza war began 10 months ago with a bloody cross-border attack by Hamas.
Hamas in Gaza, Hezbollah in Lebanon, the Houthis in Yemen, and a group of militias in Iraq and Syria all receive weapons and training from Iran, part of a vast anti-Israel, anti-U.S. network Tehran has supported for years.
U.S. officials had revealed little until Friday evening about how they were preparing for the possibility of an attack, but the White House said Thursday night that President Biden had spoken to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and affirmed his commitment to Israeli security “against all threats from Iran, including its proxy terrorist groups Hamas, Hezbollah, and the Houthis.”
“The President discussed efforts to support Israel’s defense against threats, including against ballistic missiles and drones, to include new defensive U.S. military deployments,” said a brief statement summarizing the two leaders’ call.
The recent bloodshed follows a sprawling drone and missile attack by Iran on Israel in April in which the U.S. military intervened, taking down numerous drones and missiles as Israeli forces intercepted others. Iran launched that attack after an Israeli airstrike on an Iranian diplomatic compound in Syria killed two Iranian generals and other Iranian military personnel.
“As we have demonstrated since October and again in April, the United States’ global defense is dynamic and the Department of Defense retains the capability to deploy on short notice to meet evolving national security threats,” Singh said in her statement on Friday. “The United States also remains intently focused on de-escalating tensions in the region and pushing for a ceasefire as part of a hostage deal to bring the hostages home and end the war in Gaza.”

Is it necessary for the U.S. to deploy aircraft carriers, etc., “to defend against a potential attack on Israel by Iran”? Isn’t Israel capable of handling its own defense? Haven’t they shown themselves self-sufficient in this regard, in many conflicts over the past seven decades?

Excuse me if I get annoyed by American political leaders — not just Joe Biden and the Democrats, but also many Republicans — who seem to think they are obliged to be constantly meddling in the Middle East, as if the Israelis are incapable of self-defense and thus require the U.S. to act as Big Brother to protect them from bullies. This attitude is actually harmful to Israel, since it feeds into a perception widespread among Israel’s enemies that Israel is essentially a U.S.-controlled puppet.

As for the Biden administration’s avowed focus on “de-escalating tensions in the region,” Noah Pollak has relevant thoughts:

All year, Biden, [Secretary of State Anthony] Blinken, and [National Security Advisor Jake] Sullivan lectured and threatened Israel that the only acceptable way to prosecute the war was precision targeting of terrorist leaders that avoided civilian casualties. This week, Israel eliminated two terror leaders in precision strikes. And now Biden is lecturing and threatening Israel for “escalating.” This is a game Israel cannot win, because every time Israel acts, the Democrats change the rules so they can accuse Netanyahu of breaking them. This is Calvinball as foreign policy, fueled by the left’s hatred of the Jewish state. Anything short of national suicide earns the condemnation of the Democrats.

Where is the evidence that Blinken or Sullivan (or anybody else in the Biden administration) are better qualified to judge Israel’s interests than the Israelis themselves? Where is the proof of their superior wisdom on Middle East policy as compared to, e.g., Benjamin Netanyahu?

So here we are, on the brink of a potentially apocalyptic war, with the President of the United States in a mentally-impaired condition while decision-making authority is being exercised by a bunch of arrogant “experts” who never won an election — not even to a county commission seat, much less to any position of executive authority — and we’re just supposed to accept this as normal? Hurry up, November 5!



 

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