Flotsam and Jetsam - Manchin Bows Out, and In?

I never got back to you yesterday with the rest, so it will be interesting to see how far I get today.

The most interesting bit of news, with the greatest implications for the future, is that Joe Manchin, the Senator from West-by-God-Virginia, losing badly in the polls to the Governor of WbGV Jim Justice, just announced he will not run for Senator in 2024. Although he didn't say it in so many words, his announcement left little doubt he's thinking about running for President, perhaps on the so-called "no labels" ticket. Make room on the bench, Gov. Hogan! At Da Caller, Joe Manchin Announces He Will Not Seek Reelection In 2024. Althouse, "Manchin, 76, had previously flirted with the idea of running on a third-party presidential ticket, an idea pushed by the group No Labels." ""When reached after the announcement, Manchin spokeswoman Sam Runyon declined to comment on whether Manchin planned to pursue a presidential run." I'm reading "Democratic Sen. Joe Manchin says he will not seek reelection" (WaPo). Somehow, on the same day, "Jill Stein launches 2024 bid as Green Party candidate" (The Hill)."

Getting back to the results of Tuesday's off year elections, CJ calls it A (Pretty) Bad Night for Republicans. "The GOP took some major losses Tuesday, but the results were more mixed than Democratic partisans suggest." NYPo thinks Ed Romaine’s victory, locking up LI for the GOP, shows why NY Dems plan to illegally gerrymander for ‘24. This year Long Island, next year, the world! PJM's Kevin Downy lists Four Important Election Day Wins the Media Doesn't Want You to Know About—the Last Will Make You Cheer. Am Great's Matt Boose thinks Abortion, Not Trump, is the GOP’s Albatross "Republicans should restrict abortion wherever and whenever it is prudent to do so." Abortion is not my issue. On the other hand, Da Fed's Dave Harsanyi thinks The Populist Right Is Leading The GOP Into Irrelevancy. From Da Caller,‘ Vacate’ Her: Republicans Call on Ronna McDaniel to Resign Following Tuesday’s Elections and Angry Liberal Who Threatened GOP Poll Greeter Identified As Federal Employee.  "The Arlington liberal who went viral after losing it on a Republican poll greeter was identified Wednesday as “long-time federal contractor” Brendan Anthony Martin." In NoVa! Gee, what are the chances?

Stacy McCain sees NBC ‘News’ Hosts ‘Republican’ ‘Debate.’ "Excuse me for overloading on the scare-quotes in the headline, but let’s not kid ourselves: None of the five “candidates” (there I go again) on the stage in Miami is likely to be the 2024 Republican nominee." Althouse, On the occasion of Nikki Haley's calling Vivek Ramaswamy "scum," I look into the history of "scum" in my archive and "The more time Vivek spends around the GOP establishment, the more contempt he harbors for them, and rightfully so" say Gleen Grenwalt to Tuckah! At Liberty and Prosperity, GOP debate winners & losers "Winners: Nikki Haley, NBC moderators, Ron DeSantis." Ari Kaufman at Da Lid, Debate Night in South Florida, thinks Haley stood out. Harold Hutchinson at Da Caller ‘He Needs A Headline’: Ronna McDaniel Blasts Vivek Ramaswamy’s Call For Her Resignation, but he's right. Capt. Ed, "McDaniel needs to explain more of her record, especially given the losses over the last two national cycles and now the off-year issues as well. However, that’s accountability that should get demanded by the state party orgs, who are McDaniel’s clients. It’s dumb to make McDaniel a primary issue, and yes, Ramaswamy seems a lot more interested in publicity than policy."

Breitbart touts a CNN Poll: Donald Trump Beats Joe Biden Among ‘Men of Color,’ 49-46 Percent. PJM's Stephen Kruiser boosts Trump/Tucker 2024 Because YOLO and Why Not? "This idea is just ridiculous enough to get me on board. I don't for a moment think that Tucker would be interested in the gig. He strikes me as far too intelligent to give up what he's got for the slog of being Trump's VEEP. He genuinely seems to be having fun doing what he's doing. In fact, one of Carlson's biggest draws for me is that he isn't a stereotypical constipated conservative talking head — he always looks like he's having a blast."

From Behind the Black, The Democratic Party and its voters endorse bigots and murderers. I&I calls it a SHOCK — One In Five Democrats Side With Hamas: I&I/TIPP Poll. I guess they haven't been paying attention.

Now this is amusing, from Hat Hair, Blackburn: How About We Also Subpoena Sotomayor About Her Book Deals? “But since we’re talking about Justices’ conduct, Mr. Chairman, let’s talk about Justice Sotomayor. This summer, we learned that—over the years— Justice Sotomayor’s staff have pressured public institutions where she has spoken to buy her books. Books, by the way, that have earned her nearly $4 million. I haven’t heard you talk about that. Nor have I heard you mention the fact that she refused to recuse herself in two copyright infringement cases concerning her book publisher. You clearly don’t want to talk about that. So that’s why I’ve filed an amendment issuing a subpoena to Justice Sotomayor’s staff who helped sell her books, as well as her book publisher—so that we can fully understand the backstory of her book deals.”

PJM's VodkaPundit Does Joe Biden Understand He Did Anything Wrong? Probably not, his brain is pretty mushy theses days. At RedState Nick Arama thinks this is Hilarious: Glenn Beck Explains How Forrest Gump Ripped Off the Fabulous Life of Joe Biden

President Biden has made a LOT of wild claims over the years. When you look at all of them together, he has lived an UNBELIEVABLE life. I make the case that President Biden IS the modern-day Forrest Gump. pic.twitter.com/ltTsOR2zwm

— Glenn Beck (@glennbeck) November 9, 2023

'Bonchie' at RedState, Biden Speech in Illinois Has a Heckler, Senility, and Wardrobe Issues. Dick Morris to Newsmax: Biden Will Drop Out Before Convention. Ace, White House Aides "Simply Cannot Stomach" Biden's (Weak) Support for Israel; Revolt at State Department. "At Zero Hedge. A revolt is brewing within the Biden administration over how the White House is handling the Israel-Gaza war, as the civilian death toll and mass Palestinian displacement soars, and as Biden's top officials continue to say "no conditions" have been placed on how Israel uses US-supplied weapons. Pressure from the press pool is also piling on, with near daily spats and antagonistic back-and-forth exchanges on display in the State Department and White House briefing rooms." Hat Hair's Jazz Shaw, Biden Isn't Worried About Dem Approval of Israel Stance and Duanne Patterson, Joe Biden's FAFO After Iran Proxy Tests His Deterrence Of "Don't". "Simply put, the foreign policy side of Joe Biden’s administration has been an unmitigated disaster, in part because it’s not so much Biden making bad foreign policy decisions as what we’re seeing unfold to date is what Barack Obama’s third term would look like."

Jordan Boyd at Da Fed fears Biden’s HHS Wants To Nuke The Definition Of Nuclear Family From Its Regulations. 

A pair from TNP, NY Judge Engoron Praised Far Left Club Which Helped Illegal, Sham-Marriage Migrant Get Elected and Judge Engoron’s Wife Has Been Tweeting Anti-Trump Memes Throughout the Trial. From Breitbart, Trump Lawyer Alina Habba claims NY Case Is ‘Sideshow’ for Letitia James’s Politics. I think it's the first ring of the circus. Da Fed's Jordan Boyd thinks Chutkan Refuses Trump’s Requested Deadline Delay Because It Would Hamper Her Election Interference. At the NY Sun, Jack Smith Gambles That the January 6 Riot Will Convict Trump, Even Though He Didn’t Charge the Former President With Insurrection. "The prosecutor wants it in the case, even though he passed on charging the former president with insurrection. Could it be a forbidden fruit of attainder?" At Am Think, Mark J. Fitzgibbons thinks John Eastman’s bar trial exposes Democrats’ process-rigging ignominy.

At HE Dave Krayden wonders Why isn't the FBI trying to stop Hamas supporters' 'intifada' insurrection? At Hat Hair John Sexton reports Pro-Palestinian Protesters Demand NY Times be Shut Down, Vandalize NYPD Vehicle. I was with them half way... Also, Dave Strom reports Washington State Vote Counting Stopped by Antifa Threats. Fentanyl laced letters, 

A Pierce County elections office in Tacoma, Wash. was evacuated on Nov. 8 after receiving the following letter with a white substance. The letter features an anarchist message and symbols of Antifa, the trans pride progress flag, and the occult. All three symbols are used… https://t.co/Gv40nKOOUd

— Andy Ngô 🏳️‍🌈 (@MrAndyNgo) November 9, 2023

Joy Pullman at Da Fed, Family FBI Raided For Dad’s Pro-Life Advocacy Seeks $4.3 Million From ‘Corrupt’ DOJ, Mark Houck. A taste:

Mark Houck and Ryan-Marie Houck say in their legal filings obtained by The Federalist that their seven children continue to suffer as a result of the FBI raiding — with battering rams, ballistic shields, armor, and long rifles — the home of a nonviolent pro-lifer who didn’t own any guns and whose seven children were just waking for breakfast.

The Houcks “have lost three babies from miscarriages due to the stress of the FBI’s conduct and resulting prosecution” and subsequently been diagnosed with infertility, Ryan-Marie Houck’s filing says. She says she still cries for hours and the family’s high anxiety provoked by the raid has caused them to install security cameras and rarely leave home.

In the Sept. 23, 2022 raid, “Government agents aimed rifles and handguns at Mr. Houck from his porch and from behind vehicles in his yard and driveway,” Ryan-Marie Houcks’ complaint says. “They also aimed their weapons at Mrs. Houck, who slowly walked down a staircase to approach the Houcks’ front door. Mrs. Houck approached after Mr. Houck had already walked peacefully outside with his hands up. Any bullet that missed Mr. Houck could have struck Mrs. Houck or her children, who were stirring throughout the house and had gathered behind her on the staircase. The entire family was located directly downrange.”

Shawn Fleetwood at Da Fed is incensed that Government Censorship Op Targeted The Federalist’s Mollie Hemingway, Sean Davis During 2020 Election, and wonders why he wasn't. NYPo editorializes on Exposing the 2020 fed-ordered, academic-run, corporate-censorship extortion racket. 

Dave Strom, Propaganda Works. Noting 2/3 of youth unaware of holocaust. Of course it does, that's why there's so much of it. Insty, CNN CUTS TIES WITH FREELANCER AFTER PHOTO EMERGES OF HIM SHARING A KISS WITH HAMAS LEADER: "CNN cut ties with a freelance photojournalist based in Gaza hours after a photo emerged purportedly showing a top Hamas leader kissing the photographer on the cheek." Dave Strom tells us all About Those Hamas "Journalists" the MSM Uses... Ace, CNN Suspends Ties With Hamas-Collaborator "Journalist" "Aren't they all Hamas-collaborators, though? I mean except for Jake Tapper. Jake Tapper Supports the Troops (TM)."

Jordan Boyd at Da Fed worries Media Erase Killing Of Jewish Man Like They Erased The Violence Of 2020’s Race Riots, because it doesn't fit the narrative. Nicole Silverio at Da Caller sees NBC News Quietly Stealth-Edits Headline After Downplaying Death Of Jewish Man Killed In Pro-Palestinian Protest. Jen Van Laar at RedState say it's CONFIRMED: Man Suspected of Killing Jewish Man Paul Kessler Is Loay Alnaji, a Computer Science Professor. Appears to be a classic case of involuntary homicide. He pushed him down in the protest because he was mad people dared speak against Palestinians, the man hid his head and died of a brain bleed. He didn't mean to kill him, but he acted with malice and unnecessary force. If it weren't for the political angle it would be an open and shut case. 

From the Free Bacon, Left-Wing School Board President Goes Full Farrakhan, Says Jews Ran the Slave Trade "'No one's hands are clean,' Rochester City School District's Cynthia Elliott says in response to Hamas attack." John Sexton finds even the NY Times is coming around to the conclusion Anti-Semitism on Campus Seems Problematic. At CJ, One-Party States. "The left-wing college monoculture helps explain why students support Hamas."

More from John Sexton, Seven Nashville Police Officers Suspended After Partial Release of Manifesto. Da Caller points out YouTube Censors Nashville Shooter’s Manifesto After Allowing Others On The Site For Years. Atop Da Summit, You Can’t Talk About It, "The cover-up never ended. . . . There’s more outrage at Steven Crowder for leaking the manifesto than the contents of the manifesto itself. " Althouse, "I don’t need to read a single word this shooter wrote to know that there are no answers to be found." "Said a parent of one of the murdered schoolchildren, quoted in "Who should see a shooter’s journal? In Nashville, a leak heightens debate" (WaPo). The right question is not Who should see? — it's Who should have the power to suppress?" HE says Joe Biden's Democrats must answer for Audrey Hale, was she radicalized by leftist cant enhanced by testosterone poisoning? 

mrc-TV reports Psycho Freak Complains About Being Deadnamed in Court Documents. “Some women have penises. If you’re bothered by this, you can suck my dick,” he once tweeted on International Women’s Day." Sarah Arnold at TownHall, Olympic Champion: My 'Testicles Don’t Make Me Less of a Woman' "Caster Semenya claimed that being "born with internal testicles doesn't make her less of a woman," accusing athletic leaders of "turning women against women." Caster is one of those cases of real transgenders. She has XY chromosomes but female external appearance physique (sort of),  internal testicles, and a high level of testosterone. It's a tough case. At CJ, Medicine with a “Transgender Bias”

"A new lawsuit raises the question of whether “gender-affirming care” constitutes gay conversion therapy and violated the civil rights of a gay man." That would be an interesting twist!

Kevin Downey at PJM has hopes, Wake Up America: The Left Is Crumbling Under the Weight of Their Own Hatred, but they can still do a lot of damage. At Hat Hair, John Stossel writes of Canceling Cancel Culture

The Wombat has FMJRA 2.0: Electric Eye up at The Other McCain.