Sunday, October 22, 2023

Flotsam and Jetsam - The Men Who Would be Speaker

If you haven't heard already, Jim Jordan Fails To Become Speaker Of The House In Third Round Of Votes (Henry Rogers at Da Caller) and helpfully Here Are The 25 Republicans Who Voted Against Jim Jordan For Speaker In Third Ballot Vote. Sundance at CTH says The Big Ugly Continues – After 3rd Round House Vote, Representative Jim Jordan Loses Internal Secret Ballot 122 Nay, 86 Yea.   Nick Arama RedState thinks Matt Gaetz Made an Offer to Help Jordan and the Response From CA Rep. Is Something Else. "We truly don't deserve you. But your sacrifice is not in vain. You have succeeded in replacing the outdated concept of majority rule with an exciting new standard that a Speaker must be elected by 98.2 percent of the Republican conference. Someday, a messiah will be born unto us who can achieve this miraculous threshold, and on that day your judgment will be vindicated and you will be hailed as the geniuses that you are. " At Da Wire, Multiple Republicans Throw Hat In The Ring For Speaker After Failed Jordan Bid. "At least 10 House Republicans declared their candidacies or expressed interest in the speaker race by Friday evening after Ohio Rep. Jim Jordan’s three failed attempts to win a majority." From Fox, Meet Tom Emmer, the GOP majority whip running for House speaker with McCarthy's endorsement "Emmer is endorsed by former House Speaker Kevin McCarthy," so he automatically starts 8 votes down? At WaEx, Byron Donalds announces he will run for House. I like it! Make every Democrat vote against the first Black Speaker! Also, make the Black guy do all the heavy lifting. 

Never-anybody-but-Trump sundance is also pleased to point out the Latest Emerson Polling – Trump Beating Biden and Dominating GOP Primary, DeSantis Collapse Continues. At WaEx, Trump to appear at Florida rally on night of third GOP debate. Let the B-team fight it out. 

Stacy McCain takes on The Biden Crime Family "For months now, Joe Biden’s defenders have claimed there is “no evidence” of his corruption. That can no longer be claimed . . ." Fox, Comer raises questions about $200k 'direct payment' from James Biden to Joe Biden in 2018. "Comer subpoenaed personal and business bank records belonging to Hunter and James Biden." Breitbart cites Comer: ‘We Found a Lot of Suspicious Checks’ Written to Joe Biden from Brother Jim Biden. To be fair, I once loaned a younger brother enough money to buy a car, at a better interest rate that he could get at the banks. He payed it back. Across da pond at Da Mail, Joe Biden paid nearly $2.75million CASH for Rehoboth Beach house within weeks of Hunter sending 'threatening' text to Chinese business partner demanding to close $10million deal. Matt Margolis at PJM, Biden Paid $2.75 Million in Cash for Beach House After Chinese Shakedown. Hat Hair's Beege Welborn snarks These public servants sure are financial whiz kids like no other “public servant” I’ve ever been around. Well, it COULD be a coincidence... NewsBusters notices After Crying ‘No Evidence,’ ABC/CBS/NBC Ignore Direct Payment to Biden

Hat Hair's KT hears Biden's 100B Aid Package Is 'Dead on Arrival' Says Senator Cotton. Sundance, Hamas Releases Two Hostages – Biden Takes Victory Lap.  The Peacock, "Former Israel-based NBC correspondent Martin Fletcher revealed Thursday on MSNBC that he is distantly related to Judith and Natalie Raanan on his wife's side. He said he had met them in passing at family events but didn't know them well."

NYPo notes Foreclosures continue to surge: Are they a threat to the housing market? NewMax observes US Budget Deficit Doubles to $1.7 Trillion. Thanks, Brandon!

Sundance sees the NYC Activist Judge Fines President Donald Trump $5,000 For Visibility of Tweet Made Prior to Gag Order. Threatens jail. Althouse finds "The Gag Order violates virtually every fundamental principle of our First Amendment jurisprudence. It imposes an overbroad, content-based prior restraint on the leading Presidential candidate’s core political speech...." "Wrote Trump's lawyers, quoted in The Hill, which says . . ." At PM, Judge temporarily halts gag order on Trump in Jan 6 case,  "By restricting President Trump’s speech, the Gag Order eviscerates the rights of his audiences." At Da Caller, Georgia Prosecutor Is Offering Plea Deals To Trump Co-Defendants To Bag The ‘Real Target,’ Experts Say. A common tactic. 

Mia Cathell at TownHall wants you to Look Who's Funding Islamist Extremism in America, the same people funding Antifa. 

The Grumpy Economist hosts Bhattacharya on Covid censorship. Cathy Salgado at PJM catches Democrat Senator Following European Union Lead, Demanding Big Tech Censor MORE.

At Insty, CHANGE: After It Lied About Israel, New York Times’ Verification Badge Removed By X. "In the wake of The New York Times’ false reporting , claiming the Israel Defense Forces bombed a hospital in Gaza, a report which was later totally debunked, X, formerly known as Twitter, removed the Times’ verification badge." At Da Wire, After It Lied About Israel, New York Times’ Verification Badge Removed By X. Maybe, maybe not. The Babylon Bee snarks New York Times Patiently Awaiting Zoom Call From Hamas To See What They Should Print Today. Or should this be NotTheBee?

The Daily Fetched features Former Israeli PM Flips Out on Anderson Cooper: ‘Do Your Godd*mn Job’ – WATCH

Tara Strong

 Bounding into Comics, Tara Strong Claims She Was Fired From ‘Boxtown’ For Being Jewish, Studio Clarifies Decision Made Over Her Comments Regarding Israel-Hamas Conflict

At the Crimson, Hundreds Disrupt Classes, March Through Harvard Law School, Kennedy School in Support of Palestine. From the KS Sentinel a KU graduate teaching assistant union calls Israel ‘settler colonial project.’ From the Upper Lip, cited at Hat Hair, Lefty Students Offended by Everything Except Baby Beheadings. Beege Welborn notes "It’s a Brit satire site…but too close to actual reporting." Herr Professor Jacobsen at LI, takes on the Leftist Campus Embrace Of Hamas Barbarism: “We’re in the ‘suddenly’ phase” of Higher Ed collapse "My appearance on Breibart News Daily: “There’s that saying that collapse happens slowly, then suddenly. We’re in the ‘suddenly’ phase.” Hat Hair's Jazz Shaw cites a Columbia Prof: I Would Never Send My Daughter to This School. At Breitbart, Maher: Don’t Go to an Elite College Like I Did, They’re Bigoted North Korean Re-Education Camps That Make You Dumb. Althouse notes that in Bill Maher: "Don't go to college." And: "If you absolutely have to go, don't go to an elite college" "Watch the whole thing so you see that Maher somehow ends up lashing out at right-wing politicians and Supreme Court Justices — displaying photos of of 15 of them and declaring these faces "utterly punchable." We see Paul Begala guffawing. No one seems to notice the embrace of violence here, even as Maher just got done lambasting students for endorsing/accepting the massacre in Israel." He knows his audience. At NYPo, Comedian Sarah Silverman claims she was ‘stoned’ when she endorsed Israeli move to shut off Gaza’s water, electricity. So does she. Twitchy is amused when Delusion Meets Reality: 'Pride' Flag Suffers Not-At-All Surprising Fate in London.

Tom Knighton of Tilting At Windmills says Victoria's Secret offers a lesson for others. Get woke, go broke. 

The truth of the matter is that the progressive extremists out there see “diversity” as all that matters. Victoria’s Secret started bringing in transgender and obese models because that was more diverse and that’s all that mattered to anyone.

Maybe someone thought it would make the lingerie feel more accessible or something, but that’s kind of the point. They didn’t understand the brand or why people bought that brand.

They didn’t need to be shown overweight women wearing the same lingerie. That kind of killed the fantasy for many women. They could wear those products and envision themselves as a supermodel. No one was interested in feeling fat wearing expensive underwear that was supposed to make them feel sexy.
And let’s be real here, for all of Megan Rapinoe’s “misogyny” claims, do you know who buys an awful lot of lingerie? Dudes. They buy it because they want to see their ladies in that.

Yet it seemed that in their desire to appease the mob, Victoria’s Secret forgot what made their brand what it was.

The problem with the extreme progressives isn’t that they make demands. We’ve always had people with demands and we always will.

No, the issue is that they have captured just the right audience to magnify their views to the point that many believe that extreme progressivism is the mainstream opinion.

The Wombat has Rule 5 Sunday: Pre-Halloween Treats and FMJRA 2.0: Dinosaur Tales up on time and under budget.

 

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