Wednesday, October 18, 2023

Flotsam and Jetsam - The Best of the Wrack Line

I didn't keep up with the reading yesterday, I had better things to do, so today's post won't even pretend to be comprehensive, just the most interesting from what I did encounter. The pick of the litter, so to speak.

To absolutely no one's surprise, Jim Jordan failed to get enough votes on the first ballot in his attempt to become Speaker of the House. Ace, Jim Jordan Loses Vote to Become Speaker. "The odds of Byron Donald being nominated are increasing, because Republicans will be afraid to vote against a black guy (of course). He might be the only one who can get 217. Or is Kevin McCarthy coming back?" Hat Hair cites the NYT, BREAKING: House GOP Delays Speaker Vote to Tomorrow. Capt. Ed comments "Today’s vote turned out to be a brilliant strategy, eh? What an epic faceplant. Don’t be surprised if some of the 35 Jordan did manage to flip start to fall away after this embarrassment. One House Republican, Debbie Lesko of Arizona, announced her retirement in the middle of this nonsense rather than run for a fourth term next year, in part because this process is so broken that “it is hard to get anything done.”" Roll Call calls ‘Oh, come on!’ Groans, eye rolls and gritted teeth as Jordan loses first speaker round "This was, and wasn’t, planned, observers say." Sundance at CTH sets his sights on the defectors, 20 House Republicans Blocked Jim Jordan on First Ballot – Here’s Who They Are "Keep this list handy. These are the twenty Republicans who are stealth Democrats and voted against Jim Jordan. Yes, there are some surprises, including John James of Michigan." Don Surber believes the Speakership is the fight we need. "Republicans must choose between serving and being served." At Da Wire, House Dem Leader Wants Formal Talks For Bipartisan Speaker Deal. Screw 'em. I'm OK with the house getting nothing done. As Gideon Tucker once noted "No man's life, liberty or property are safe while the Legislature is in session."

In Biden Crime Family news, At the War Room, Natalie Winters reveals  Hunter Biden’s Chinese Firm Brokered Illicit Weapons Deals For Qatar And Libya, Which Fund & Arm Hamas. As Country Joe sang 
"there's plenty good money to be made, supplying the army with tools of the trade" even if it is the terrorist states. Hat Hair's KT, reports a Watchdog Group Exposes Biden Administration Skirting Law on Funding Terrorists. Matt Margolis at PJM wonders Is Biden’s Classified Docs Scandal Connected to the Biden Family Business? Almost certainly. Watch Merrick Garland's DOJ protect them from the Congressional inquiry.  Ace, Hunter Biden's "Business" Partner Says a $3 Million Payment From China Was a Gift -- a "Thank You" -- and that "Loans" Granted to Hunter Were Never Repaid, Making Them Also Disguised Gifts (and Unreported Income). "Money you get via a loan is not income and isn't declared on taxes, because you're supposed to repay it. Thus it's a zero-gain transaction. You get the loan, but then you repay the loan (almost always with interest) and hence you have no net income on the transaction. If you repay the loan, that is. If you never repay it, it is income. You're supposed to declare, retroactively, the income gained through a loan which is later forgiven or written off. Update: Joe Mannix corrects me. The giver of the fake loan could also declare it as a gift and pay taxes on it himself." Jonathan Turley has a Poll: Voters Increasingly View Both Biden and Trump As Criminal Actors. "As I wrote earlier, the most striking aspect of these polls is the disconnect with the mainstream media. Despite overwhelmingly protective coverage for the Bidens, the public is simply not buying it. While both the Democrats and the media have been unrelenting in opposing investigations into the Bidens, the public has long supported such efforts." From Twitchy, Trump posts 'PRESIDENTIAL OLYMPICS' video and it's quite hilarious (Biden won't laugh, but still...)

No one was surprised either, when Judge Dread Chutkan issued a gag order against President Trump, forbidding him from publicly criticizing herself, the prosecutor, or any court officials. At least she left open the possibility of criticizing Joe Biden, which the prosecutor also sought. Shawn Fleetwood at Da Fed, Banana Republic: Corrupt Left-Wing Judges Now Decide What Republicans Can Say While Campaigning. "At the Department of Justice’s (DOJ) request, U.S. District Court Judge Tanya Chutkan — an Obama appointee — partially granted the department’s motion to institute a gag order on Trump ahead of the 2024 election. According to The Daily Caller, the order prohibits Trump — the leading contender for the GOP presidential nomination — from issuing statements about Special Counsel Jack Smith, “[Smith’s] staff, witnesses and court personnel,” while permitting the former president “to make statements about the Biden administration and DOJ.”" Sundance, In one of the most disingenuously undefined judicial rulings in recent memory, U.S. District Court Judge Tanya Chutkan says President Trump may not “target” a member of the court or prosecution in his rebuke of their official offices against him.  Vicky Taft at PJM, DEMOCRACY DIES IN DARKNESS: D.C. Judge Strikes Out Against 2024 Frontrunner Donald Trump With a Gag Order. Sundance again, President Trump and NYC Legal Team Outline the Farce in New York Case Against Trump’s Business. "President Trump again reiterates the construct of the case against him as a political effort with no foundational premise in legal statute.  The lending institutions did their own due diligence; there are no victims, all the banks and finance offices were repaid with interest and ahead of schedule; there were no defaults and all lenders were satisfied with the terms, conditions and results."



ET reports that the EU Issues Warning to Elon Musk Over 'Illegal Content'. "Elon Musk's platform needs to take action against so-called 'illegal content' and 'misinformation' related to the Israel-Hamas war, an EU official wrote." Musk and TwitterX have been a target ever since he broke it away from control by the "progressives." Newsbusters, YouTube Takes Down Hamas Anti-Semitic Video After MRC Inquiry. Capt. Ed comments "At least they did finally do the right thing. But why did it take so much effort to quash a call for genocidal attacks after the suppression of mundane dissenting views in American politics?" At Da Caller, Reading ‘Lord Of The Rings’ And ‘1984’ Could Lead To Right-Wing Extremism, Gov’t Report Warns. It is the UK, but c'mon man, let's be serious. 

Steve Hayward at Power Line says It Has Come to This: The Hamas Lockdown. "On Friday Stanford Law School canceled in-person classes and moved all classes back to Zoom as they did during the COVID lockdown." Capt. Ed notes "Only one side has come out and endorsed terrorism as a means to achieve their political goals, in this case ‘decolonization’. We all know where the threat actually originates. If universities and colleges are concerned about ACTUAL ‘safe spaces,’ they will start ejecting these terrorist cheerleaders from their campuses. If they don’t, then those campuses should be defunded." RedState's Jen Van Laar reports the ASU President Defends a Lefty Professor Who Assaulted TPUSA Journo, Ignores pro-Hamas Agitators on Campus. Hat Hair cites WSJ, Berkeley Law Prof: Don't Hire My Anti-Semitic Students and Jazz Shaw sees Jon Huntsman ends donations to UPenn over antisemitism. Ace, The Wealthy Liberal Huntsman Family Closes Its Checkbook on the University of Pennsylvania, Citing Anti-Semitism. Update: Les Wexner Closes Checkbook to Harvard. "Could this be the start of the long prayed-for rollback of the radical left? John Huntsman was a liberal fake Republican who left the party to join the Obama Administration. His father pushed the hoax that Mitt Romney hadn't paid taxes in ten years -- he's the "source" for this lie, then pushed by Harry Reid. So this is a family of leftwing c*cksuckers. But even leftwing c*cksuckers are beginning to find the radical left too egregious to tolerate." At the Babylon Bee, Hamas Disappointed Liberals Don't Believe They Massacred Jews After They Went To All The Trouble To Livestream It.
Despite the live video evidence from Hamas itself, documents from Hamas showing elementary schools as intended targets, thousands of photographs, and eyewitness testimony from both sides of the massacre, many liberals in the United States remain unconvinced that Hamas committed mass murder. "Sounds like a Jewish trick to me," said proud Democrat Dean Stinson. "Sure, it looks like Hamas is shooting women live on the internet, but I've seen movies where it looks like people get shot, and of course the Jews run Hollywood - so yeah. Plus, I heard someone say Hamas decapitated a baby, and while I've seen pictures of several babies shot to death by Hamas, I have yet to see a decapitated baby. So it's all Jewish propaganda."

Treading dangerously close to NotTheBee territory. 

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