Flotsam and Jetsam From the Heat Wave

 It's hot here. Breitbart is pleased to report a Poll: Donald Trump up Double Digits on Joe Biden, "Former President Donald Trump is up double-digits on President Joe Biden in a national matchup, a Rasmussen Reports survey, released Friday, found. The survey shows Trump leading Biden with a ten-point advantage in a matchup that includes third-party candidates." Which contradicts a recent poll which gave Biden a slight edge. At CTH Sundance catches Bill Maher Questioning Media Constructed Pro Biden Polling "During his Friday broadcast on HBO, apparently Bill Maher started to catch on to the issue of fake media polling. Maher questions how Biden could be losing big percentages of his core constituency (by demographic), yet suddenly be polling ahead of Trump. It just doesn’t make sense." PM, Hispanics in battleground states trust Trump 41-38% more on immigration than Biden: Equis poll. Da Hill worries Trump erases Biden’s cash advantage: 5 takeaways. Ben Whedon at JTN, Soccer Politics: Biden scores first with Copa América ad buy as he vies with Trump for Hispanic vote "While both campaigns have planned a litany of traditional outreach efforts to those communities, their battle for votes has spilled over onto the soccer field as Biden floods the airwaves during the tournament, which began Thursday." Really? He's not a very convincing soccer fan. Michael Barone thinks The Numbers Show Voters Don't Want an Eight-Year Presidency, at least not with Biden. At Breitbart Gowdy thinks Republicans Set Debate Expectations Too Low for Biden. ". . . are Republicans in trouble because they’ve spent a lot of time in recent weeks talking about how President Biden can’t find his way off the stage? And we saw what happened in the State of the Union when he came in stronger than expected." WokeSpy hears a Washington Post Columnist Calls for Biden Replacing VP Harris With Hillary Clinton. I guess the WaPoo still has a few readers. From Twitchy, Bloomberg Columnist Was Wrong About Thinking Biden Couldn't Bring Down Crime Rates. Sure, just have the FBI gimmick the numbers for you. At Althouse, "The FBI crime statistics Biden is pushing are fake. They’re fake just like everything else in this administration." "Said Donald Trump, quoted in "Trump’s sledgehammer message to Philadelphia is light on facts, heavy on fear/The former president used his first rally in the city of brotherly love to tie violent crime with illegal immigration, despite the evidence against this." Why does Trump say the FBI is getting it wrong? I found this from last April in the Washington Examiner: "Bad data from the FBI mislead about crime.""

If you see any 'news' stories this election cycle claiming "murders" and "violent crime" are down this is likely why.

More and more democrat cities have just stopped reporting their crime data to the FBI since Biden has taken office. pic.twitter.com/ocOIkiRIIc

— Mrgunsngear (@Mrgunsngear) June 12, 2024

At JTN Feds report more than 241,000 illegal entries in May, 2.2 million in fiscal year. Jordan Boyd at Da Fed thinks the Supreme Court’s Immigration Rebuke Suggests Biden’s Border Order Is Unconstitutional. Breitbart hears Feds admit 30 Tons of Fentanyl Crossed Border During Biden Administration and Reports the Biden’s DHS Freed Illegal Aliens into U.S. Who are Now Accused of Murdering Jocelyn Nungaray. PM, Illegal immigrant pleads guilty to sexually assaulting 12-year-old girl in Iowa. Julio Rosas at Da Blaze, AP leaves out illegal immigration status of the two men accused of killing 12-year-old. As the Babylon Bee quips, the White House Asks Migrants To Hold Off On Raping And Murdering Any More Americans Until After Election. "Everyone likes to make summer plans," she said. "But we hope our incoming migrants can understand the importance of postponing their raping and murdering plans until the election is over. Otherwise, they may end up actually facing consequences for their actions, and none of us want that to happen."

Fox reports Alabama election official says Biden executive order gives illegal immigrants 'mechanism' to register to vote. "Welfare agencies are required by federal policy to give illegal immigrants voter registration forms, Alabama secretary of state says." At mrcTV, Biden Hiding Details of How His ‘Voter Access’ Executive Order Is Influencing the Election. 

mrcFreeSpeech, NYT Editorial Board Member BUZZES Around the ‘Queen Bee’ of Bidenomics. "The extent of the gaslighting polluting Stockman’s 1,513-word editorial was nothing short of unreal." FreightWaves warns Overseas shipping problems remain largely under consumers’ radar, "6-9 months from now, inflation from Red Sea conflict will hit consumers." Fox 11, Sen. Cruz introduces bill to make tips exempt from federal income taxes.

George@BehizyTweets "BREAKING: The former Democrat Governor of New York just admitted live on air that the Trump case would've never been brought if Trump wasn't running for President "I'm telling you, that case would have never been brought. And that's what's offensive to people. And it should be." Da Wire, Former NY Governor Cuomo: Criminal Case And Civil Case Against Trump Should’ve ‘Never Been Brought’. Matt Vespa at TownHall, Bill Maher and Cuomo Admit Something We've All Known About the Trump Hush Money Trial. 

Politico whines Judge Cannon wants to know whether Merrick Garland is supervising Jack Smith
"The judge in Donald Trump’s classified documents case asked lawyers how much independence the special counsel has." And the government doesn't want to answer, at least in public. From WokeSpy, Republican State AGs Unite to Oppose New Gag Order in Trump Documents Case. "The brief expressed its concerns that “fundamental” First Amendment rights are violated when one candidate’s “agents” seek a court order to silence debate on issues central to an election campaign. The group of state prosecutors, which was led by Iowa Attorney General Brenna Bird, stressed that all branches of government should be careful about censoring political speech on key issues, especially leading up to a presidential election." Breitbart reports Bannon Asks Supreme Court to Delay Four Month Prison Sentence. "Bannon has cast the case as politically motivated, and his attorney David Schoen has said the case raises “serious constitutional issues” that need to be examined by the Supreme Court. If Bannon goes to prison next month, he will likely have to serve his full sentence before the high court has the chance to review those questions, since the court is due to take its summer recess at the end of June, attorney Trent McCotter wrote in his emergency application."

WokeSpy has the evidence, Yes, LGBT(Whatever) is Coming For Your Children. Hat Hair's Dave Strom reports LEGO is Advertising Pride With Drag Queens and Furry Figures. We have enough LEGOs to last a few more grandkids. Matt Margolis hosts Sen. Kennedy Explaining Why Men Shouldn’t Play Women’s Sports in a Way Even Dems Can Understand. Hat Hair's KT sees Martina Navratilova Flame a Reporter after “Take Back Title IX” Tour Bus is Vandalized and Pediatric Trans Care Doc Turned Whistleblower Pleaded Not Guilty, Released on Bond. At ET, Paxton Warns Texas Schools Not to Comply With Title IX Transgender Rules or Face Legal Action. From the Telegraph, Museum withheld images of African mask that ‘must not be seen by women’. "Pitt Rivers curators applied warning to Igbo artefact in the interest of ‘cultural safety’"

Atop Da Hill, Firestorm erupts over requiring women to sign up for military draft, as drafted by Senate Democrats. "Conservatives led by Sen. Roger Wicker (R-Miss.) are certain to attempt to remove the provision requiring women to register for the draft, which could present a tough vote for Sens. Jon Tester (D-Mont.) and Jacky Rosen (D-Nev.) and other Democrats in tight reelection races." Da Mail reports on the Bizarre Pentagon plan to 'reduce military's carbon footprint' that soldiers are furious about, with lab-grown meat. Paul Bedard at WaEx, Pentagon sued over deletion of ‘Duty, Honor, Country’ from its mission statement. John Lucas at Bravo Blue decries The Continuing Politicization of the Military "Under the Biden administration, the military continues its march toward woke political enlightenment."

WokeSpy has an odd one, Clip From Canceled Show “New Amsterdam” Goes Viral After Astonishing Medical Claim – “Your Son’s Tumor Was Caused by Racism.” Mark Tapson at Front Page, says Teach Your Children Well, "What the push to federally “regulate” homeschooling really is. . . . the aim of the neo-Marxist Left is to break down the family unit by de-legitimizing parents’ legal and moral right to determine how their own children are raised. The Left wants to take your children and grandchildren and raise them as loyal, dependent subjects of the atheistic State, disconnected from their own history and culture, and devoid of critical thinking skills, intellectual independence, or a spiritual dimension." From Da Fetched, ‘Woke’ School APOLOGIZES for Telling Children ISIS is a Terrorist Group.

Twitchy, The Award for Best Comedic Response to Protest Punks Goes to Jake Tapper's Children. Stu @thestustustudio. "Code Pink is now targeting CNN's @jaketapper. In a hilarious development, Tapper's children waved to Code Pink from the porch and played the Star-Spangled Banner for the protestors." Da Caller, ‘Callous And Heartless’: Rep. Pramila Jayapal Blasted For Allegedly Laughing At Coverage Of Migrant’s Assault On Teen. John Sexton at Hat Hair, Jamaal Bowman Apologizes for Statement the NY Times Never Told Readers He Made. Daniel Lippman@dlippman, "SCOOP: In the weeks after Hamas’ Oct. 7 attack on Israel, Rep. Jamaal Bowman (D-NY) not only publicly cast doubt on reports that Israeli women were raped, but also called those accusations “propaganda,” according to a previously unreported post on TikTok. https://politico.com/live-updates/2." In other news about Jamaal, Da Wire reports Bowman’s Folly: New York Dem Appears To Have Plagiarized From ‘CRT: An Introduction’ For Dissertation. "Bowman's dissertation argues “Black, Latinx, and poor White children have been historically oppressed throughout American history”. I keep telling you, nobody was meant to read that shit!

From the Free Bacon, Three Columbia Deans Placed on Leave Pending Investigation. "Three of the Columbia University deans caught exchanging dismissive text messages during a May 31 panel on anti-Semitism have been placed on leave as the university investigates the incident." Columbia Spectator, Three Columbia College administrators placed on leave amid investigation into leaked texts sent during panel on Jewish life. At Campus Reform, Columbia SJP calls for alleged arsonist and firebomber Casey Goonan to be released from Jail: 'Resistance is Love'. Mike LaChance at LI reports Emerson College Laying Off Staff Amid Enrollment Decline Following Anti-Israel Protests, “in an email sent to faculty and staff Tuesday, announced that it will lay off staff and not fill some vacant positions in fiscal year 2025.”

John Sexton, Disney VP Takes Leave of Absence After Date with Undercover Reporter for James O'Keefe and said "There's no way we're hiring a white male."

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Cuomo Out!

The things you miss when you take a walk on the beach: Another torpedo circles back and attacks the fleet that loosed it. From Stacy McCain: CUOMO ANNOUNCES RESIGNATION

Wow! This just happened on live TV without any forewarning. First, the lawyer for New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo did a long defense presentation criticizing the investigation of him, and then the governor came on with a statement that began with him sounding like he was preparing to dig in and hold onto office. So I turned the sound down and went back to work, but then my brother Kirby walked in and looked at my office TV and said, “Cuomo resigns.” What the hell?

UPDATE: Brittany Bernstein reports at National Review:

Governor Andrew Cuomo announced his resignation Tuesday, saying he would like to spare New Yorkers the distraction of a protracted impeachment inquiry.
“I work for you and doing the right thing is doing the right thing for you because as we say, it’s not about me, it’s about we,” Cuomo said in a televised address, adding that his resignation would be effective in two weeks.
He said that fighting back against the “politically motivated” attack on him would throw New York into months of turmoil and “I cannot be the cause of that.”
“The best way I can help now is if I step aside and let government get back to government,” the 63-year-old three-term governor said.
Lt. Governor Kathy Hochul will become the state’s first female governor.
“I agree with Governor Cuomo’s decision to step down. It is the right thing to do and in the best interest of New Yorkers,” tweeted 62-year-old Hochul, who previously served as a member of Congress.
Ahead of his resignation on Tuesday, Cuomo said he takes “fully responsibility” for his actions, though he continued to defend himself, saying he had “never crossed the line with anyone.”
“I have slipped and called people ‘honey, ’sweetheart’ and ‘darling.’ I mean it to be endearing but women found it dated and offensive,” he said. “I take full responsibility for my actions. I have been too familiar with people. My sense of humor can be insensitive and off-putting.”
“In my mind, I’ve never crossed the line with anyone but I didn’t realize the extent to which the line has been redrawn,” Cuomo added. “There are generational and cultural shifts that I just didn’t fully appreciate and I should have — no excuses.”

(Hat-tip: Ed Driscoll at Instapundit.) Most guys our age — I’m a couple of years younger than Cuomo — could actually sympathize if (and it’s a big “if,” so big as to be a farfetched speculation) all Cuomo did was make jokes or behave in ways that could be politely deemed “flirtatious.”

Once upon a time, perhaps as recently as 20 or 25 years ago, men and women were allowed to joke around in the workplace in ways that now seem to be automatically construed as “harassment” — at least when men do it. I suppose women are still allowed to joke around, but apparently an “insensitive” joke is now grounds for immediate termination, if a guy does it. It’s been a dozen years since I had a regular office job, so my understanding of workplace protocol may be obsolete, but judging from news coverage of “harassment” in the #MeToo era, any young man would be best advised never to speak to any woman in the office, if he could possibly avoid it, and certainly no man should ever make a joke at work, if a woman is within earshot. Be a serious as a 17th-century Puritan in Salem — that’s the only way for a man to survive the contemporary workplace climate. Keep your mouth shut and never make eye contact with a woman at the office. Strive to be invisible.

I certainly expected this morality play to take longer to conclude, but I was fine with the outcome however it came it. It's New York's problem. They vote poorly. 

And Him Too! Cuomo Guilty x 3

Stacy McCain, CUOMO: GUILTY! GUILTY! GUILTY!

The governor of New York is a criminal:

New York Attorney General Letitia James (D) announced on Tuesday that Gov. Andrew Cuomo (D) sexually harassed current and former state employees, violating both federal and state law, as determined by the months-long investigation.
“The independent investigation has concluded that Governor Andrew Cuomo sexually harassed multiple women and in doing so violated federal and state law,” James announced on Tuesday.
The investigation found that the governor specifically “sexually harassed current and former New York State employees by engaging in unwelcome and nonconsensual touching and making numerous offensive comments of a suggestive and sexual nature that created a hostile work environment for women.”
The investigators, the attorney general continued, independently “corroborated and substantiated” the facts through interviews, evidence, including contemporaneous notes and communications, which will be made available to the public . . .
The probe included interviews with 179 people and over 74,000 pieces of evidence . . .

 Blah, blah, blah.

You want to talk about a “climate of fear”? He killed thousands of grannies! So while I feel sorry for the government employees Cuomo groped, they should be grateful that at least he didn’t send them to die alone in disease-infested nursing homes. Ed Driscoll reminds us that in March, President Biden said, if the accusations were proven true, Cuomo should resign and “I think he’ll probably end up being prosecuted, too.”

Well, who’s going to prosecute him, Joe? The state attorney general just declared that Cuomo violated federal law, so maybe the guy in charge of the federal government needs to make that prosecution happen.

(Click here if you didn’t get the headline reference from 1973.)

I'm having trouble getting exercised about this. I don't doubt he's guilty, and no doubt in deep denial that anything he did was actionable. How else is a powerful politician supposed to get laid? He doesn't have time for romance or drawn out foreplay! 

I suppose I should be more sympathetic to the women involved, but for the most part, they are Democrat camp followers, who have long known about and excused the proclivities their leaders, from Bill Clinton to Ralph York Northam. Few, if any, came forward at the time, suggesting they might be OK with a little creepy quid pro quo to get along with their careers, or potentially land a big fish, but once those prospects faded, they were more than content to help another career bully, Laetitia James, take him down in hopes of getting his seat.

Prosecute him or not, impeach him, or don't, I care not. Either way he stands as an exemplar in the Democrat war on decency, and a reminder that sometimes you get what you vote for, good and hard.