Flotsam and Jetsam - Can Joe Win by 4.4 Percent?

Mary Chastian at LI is outraged by a Report that Biden Apologized to Muslim-American Leaders for Questioning Death Tolls Given by Hamas. “I’m sorry. I’m disappointed in myself. I will do better.” Matt Vespa at TownHall points out the Family of the First American Released By Hamas Bought Hunter Biden's Art. A really odd coincidence, or proof the fix was in? Remember, they slaughtered her parents in front of her. From PJM Rabbi Michael Barclay says Biden's Foreign Incompetency Is a Jimmy Carter Replay. Worse. Bruce Bawer at Front Page excoriates Antony Blinken, Iranian Tool "Is there a U.S. enemy that the Biden administration doesn't take orders from?"

At RedState Mike Miller cites Dr. Jackson, 'Happening Quickly': Former White House Doctor Goes Bottom Line About Biden's Deteriorating Mental State. Duane Patterson at Hat Hair VIP, Joe Biden's Only A Pawn In the Game Of Life. Ryan King at NYPo, Trump says he’s not ‘impaired’ after seemingly confusing Obama and Biden at campaign stops. Maybe he's just color-blind.

From the Wombat's In The Mailbox: 11.27.23 Jordan Boyd at Da Fed says The White House’s Black Friday Spin Can’t Blind Voters To Our Bad Economy. Capt. Ed comments "The bill is coming due, both literally and figuratively. And it will come due at the worst time for Biden — early in an election year. That’s one reason why Democrats want to frame 2024 as a referendum on Trump rather than Biden." And at The Federalist, House Republicans: Force Joe Biden To Explain Why Israel And Ukraine Are More Important Than America, Ace notes a Poll: Voters See The American Dream Dying Under Biden. "The American Dream is dying faster than Biden's frontal cortex. "Nate Silver advances The McDonald's theory of why everyone thinks the economy sucks. "Americans are spending as much of their paychecks as ever on fast food — and everything else." Chris Roach at Am Great asks Who You Gonna Believe: Your Wallet or Your Lying Eyes? "Biden thinks he can strongarm us into believing in Bidenomics." Jeff Anderson at CJ, Another Year, Another Trillion "America has racked up more inflation-adjusted deficit spending since 2009 than in the 220 years before then—with no end in sight." Breitbart Business Digest: Democrats Should Panic Over the Economy. Nick Pope at Da Caller noticed the Biden Admin Rolled Out A Massive Highway Emissions Rule On Thanksgiving Eve. Kim Strassel at WSJ (archive) opines on The Biden Energy Slush Fund "A $400 billion pile of cash dwarfing most private green investment vehicles." Mary Chastain again, Education Sec. Miguel Cardona Thinks Reagan Said, ‘We’re From the Government. We’re Here to Help!’ "Can we *please* destroy the department of education?" 

Am Spec's JT Young thinks For Victory in 2024, Biden Must Win by 4.4 Percent "Democrats fear that Biden's poll numbers are even worse than they appear." From Breitbart, Report: Young Americans Sour on Joe Biden, Threatening Reelection Chances. It doesn't mean many will vote for Trump, but they may sit it out, or go third party. At Althouse, "Could President Biden and Donald J. Trump really be locked in a close race among young voters — a group Democrats typically carry by double digits...?" Asks Nate Cohn (at the NYT). TownHall's Kurt Schlichter analyzes The Guy Who Can’t Win v. the Guy Who Will Lose "But someone has to win, and it will not be that RFK weirdo." At Am Con, liberals fear Apocalypse Trump "What to expect in the second term, per the fourth estate." Mostly sounds good to me. 

From the Wombat's In The Mailbox: 11.27.23 The Victory Girls see Nikki Haley Is Making Her Move. Paul Ingrassia at Am Great claims that By Debating Newsom, Ron DeSantis Proves He Is a Subversive Force on MAGA "If DeSantis were truly America First he'd be registering voters in Georgia." Hat Hair's Dave Strom says SeeUNextTuesday, Roger Stone. Not a fan. 

From TNP, PA Dem Admits No Way to ‘Restore Trust’ With Voting Machines. Hat Hair's Jazz Shaw wonders Are the Voting Machines in Pennsylvania Still Screwed Up? Probably. At Da Caller, Ashley Hayek dissects Michelle Obama’s Magical Turnout Machine. At HE Martin Baker thinks Black Americans are being led astray by politicized pastors.

At Da Caller, Federal Judge Tosses Trump 2024 Ballot Lawsuit In Rhode Island. There should be some kind of penalty attached for all these suits. Joy Pullman at Da Fed, Constitution Scholar: Lawfare Punishing Me For Advising Trump Will Cost Me $3 Million, John Eastman.

At WSJ (cited at Hat Hair) Instagram Panders to Pedos? Capt. Ed  "I’ve only been active on Instagram recently and don’t see a lot of weird content in the Reels, but I do find myself popular with accounts of barely-dressed women for some reason. I think it’s my scalp that turns them on. More seriously, it’s pretty clear that while Meta bars porn on its platforms, porn producers and honeypot scammers are very active on Instagram. This doesn’t surprise me, but it’s not clear what Meta will be able to do to tame it."

Mark Judge (remember him?) at Stream, WaPo Poster Girl Ruth Marcus Wrote a 500-Page Book on Brett Kavanaugh. It Took One Sentence to Implode. At Da Fed, Margot Cleveland notes NewsGuard Is Selling Its Government-Funded Censorship Tool To Private Companies. 'Bonchie' at RedState sees how Deadspin Tried to Destroy a Kid for Wearing 'Blackface,' Then the Real Story Came Out. 

At Da Caller, GOP Rep Demands Air Force Investigate Text Threatening Troops’ Careers For Attending Conservative Rally. Da Fed's Shawn Fleetwood claims Biden Air Force Nominee’s ‘Pride’ Antics Prove Leftists Have Ideologically Captured The Military.

At Hat Hair Beege Welborn wants to tell you About That Manhattan Bridge Hamas Supporters Shut Down Yesterday. From NYPo, Two women arrested in NYC attack on Jewish victim who confronted them for tearing down hostage posters: cops. Madeleine Hubbard at JTN reports New York City Mayor Adams slams 'vile show of antisemitism' at Queens high school. "One student was arrested and charged with aggravated harassment for allegedly making threats over a group chat." Capt. Ed says "Kudos to Adams for speaking out about this. I’m not sure that the NYC public schools are “better than this,” though. Or for that matter, most public schools these days. We already know that Academia isn’t." At Campus Reform, As Dept. of Ed launches investigation into Cornell, still no word on consequences for prof 'exhilarated' by Hamas terrorism. From the Wombat's In The Mailbox: 11.27.23  Louder With Crowder hears Susan Sarandon's son wants you to stop sharing this video of his mom with her boobs out in support of her anti-Israel remarks. I hadn't seen this before, but here it is:

susan sarandon uncompromised and absolutely thriving https://t.co/k1S7u3N2T0 pic.twitter.com/fTND4gjAMM

— gato fumador (@KweenInYellow) November 21, 2023

At YaHoo! Suspect charged over shooting of Palestinian students in US "Vermont state attorney Sarah George said there was not yet sufficient evidence to support a hate crime enhancement of the charges against the suspect, identified as Jason Eaton, 48. But "I do want to be clear," George told reporters in Burlington, the northeastern US city where the shooting occurred. "There is no question this was a hateful act."

From Da Signal, Tyler O'Neil, Atlanta Rioter: ‘My Gender Is a Loaded Gun Pointed at Capitalism’s Heart’. PJM's Ben Bartee wants you to WATCH: Trans Discovers the Quran, Soon to Be Tossed From Rooftop. 

RedState hosts Jordan Peterson Schooling Bill Maher Panel on What’s Really Happening on College Campuses. "Jordan Peterson was invited on Bill Maher’s show to discuss the problem with higher education and offered up a harsh lesson to the rest of the panel and the audience." From Da Caller, Businesses Ditch ‘Diversity’ Initiatives In Droves Amid Economic Uncertainty. Ace, New Jersey Teachers Union: Not Only Do We Not Want Basic Skills Test For the Children We Supposedly Teach, We Want An End to Basic Skills Tests for Teachers, Too. "You can always tell who the good employees are. They're the ones crying out, "We demand an end to objective evaluation of our job qualifications and job performance!" Joanne Jacobs, Lonely on campus: "Students are siloed, silenced" by DEI. At Am Think, Bob Kingsley tries to figure out How the Liberal Mind Views Book-banning, fails. 

Ryan Grim at Slow Boring examines The implosion of the climate left. Great (and appropriate) name for the blog, by the way, if this is an example. I fear their demise may be overestimated. 

Flotsam and Jetsam - A Light Smattering

A little light today, probably a result of a four day holiday. Still working, Paul Bedard at WaEx observes the Trump lead grows as 84% say Bidenomics hurting them. A word of warning here though, inflation is slowly going down, and political memories tend to be short; people will slowly grow to accept the enormous price hikes of the first Biden years. You probably can't count on that as your primary issue. FX Hedge, Powell Says the Quiet Part Out Loud "The Fed Is Making It Up on the Fly." But isn't that what we all do as adults? It doesn't come with an instruction manual, and economics isn't physics.  From Fox, GREG GUTFELD rants Western civilization is on the brink of collapse under Biden's divided nation

Here's the sports analogy: The U.S. is like a football team up by 35 points in the second half, and they start putting in scrubs and playing that damn prevent defense and suddenly, they're losing. Our elites don't have to worry about enough food or a warm bed, as they've replaced patriotism with a punitive ideology directed inward. We have a generation that sees everything through the lens of power, and it's infecting everything. Each relationship is now seen through the filter of the oppressed versus the oppressor. And you know which side they put you on.

-At Althouse, "He is up to his wattle in criminal indictments, and even if none land him in prison, the grinding stress and his advanced age look to be taking a toll on his mental acuity," writes Michelle Cottle, in "Why the Next Seven Weeks Are So Critical in the Race for President" (NYT):

Are Trump's rants increasingly disjointed? I had not noticed, and I am able to help thinking "Something ain’t right." For one thing, I don't use "ain't," especially in my thoughts. For another, I think the question about his "disjointed rants" has always only been do you want a President who speaks in that style? Can you understand him? To my ear, it's conversational, and I enjoy the lively spontaneity. It doesn't feel like mental derangement to me. It feels like a strength. Other politicians don't speak like that because they're more scripted and risk averse.

Jonathan Turley is disturbed when Roger Stone and Others Come for Casey DeSantis and Her Children "Mike Crispi posted a statement objecting to the following: “Casey Desantis campaigning: ‘I have a 6, 5 and a 3 year old’ ‘I have a 6, 5 and a 3 year old’ ‘I have a 6, 5 and a 3 year old’ ‘I have a 6, 5 and a 3 year old’ ‘Did you know I have a 6, 5 and a 3 year old?’” Stone then reportedly responded “SeeUNextTuesday,”using the common slang for the vulgar word (it is meant as a type of acronym beginning C-U). Stone has denied that he used the slur." Well, at least it was a little subtle. Political wives need thick skins. I don't see this as an attack on the children, just an attack on the overuse of children by the DeSantises. But Stone is kind of scummy. Beege Welborn at Hat Hair comments "The man is a pig. and this was one of the scummiest moves by one of the scummier Trump surrogates so far, and that’s saying a LOT. This isn’t winning any converts there, geniuses, and could well be turning off fence sitters. Is it so hard to be civilized? That campaign needs to wrangle these mouths and duck tape them shut along with taping their nasty little fingers together."

At Behind the Black, Did the Capitol police instigate violence by firing on peaceful January 6th demonstrators?

The video at the second link above ties together police bodycam footage with surveillance footage and smart phone footage — all time-stamped — and shows the Capitol security police firing on the demonstrators, who until that moment were doing nothing wrong and were simply standing in front of the Capitol in a crowd, chanting “USA! USA!”

Furthermore, the firing began at about 1:07 pm, eight minutes before Trump had finished giving his speech blocks away. The audience to his speech didn’t begin arriving at the Capitol until more than an hour later, when they found doors to the building open and security police welcoming them in. Thus, the violence, set off by the police, had nothing to do with anything Trump said.

It is quite possible that the officers in charge had panicked. They were undermanned (by order of Speaker Nancy Pelosi), and faced a large crowd of people with emotions running high. It is also possible they acted under orders to fire, working in tandem with the large cadre of undercover police agents (also revealed by this new footage) who were acting to spur the demonstrators toward violence, so as to create the impression of a violent “insurrection” that could be used by the Democrats subsequently for political purposes.

Ben Bartee at PJM wants you to WATCH: Nancy Pelosi’s Daughter Caught on Hidden Camera Admitting January 6 Was a Hoax. 

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On January 6, 2021, Nancy Pelosi's daughter, Alexandra Pelosi, was filming the events surrounding her mother for a documentary.
The following video was filmed during a meeting with a January 6 defendant whom she wanted desperately to be in her documentary.
Alexandra Pelosi… pic.twitter.com/Xh2aWUBJoN

— CitizenLenz (@CitizenLenz) July 18, 2023

At Althouse again, "The world is in a permacrisis currently with the COVID-19 aftermath, the war in Ukraine, climate change issues, political instability, the energy crisis in Europe, recession and the cost-of-living crisis." "That's a quote that appeared in the Millennium Post Newspaper (Nexis) on 18 December 18, 2022 and that is one of 3 quotes the OED chose to exemplify the word "permacrisis," which, it announces today, it has just added to its dictionary. . . .  I think of "permacrisis" as as a political strategy to make people feel that we are always in special dire circumstances, justifying unusual emergency measures, and warranting the sacrifice of our personal pleasure and freedom. I can't help thinking: "Barack will never allow you to go back to your lives as usual, uninvolved, uninformed.""

NYPo reports on a Pro-Israel teacher who hides in Queens high school as ‘radicalized’ students riot: ‘They want her fired’. Nick Arama at Red State finds it Frightening: Students Rampage Thru High School to Hunt Down Teacher for Going to Pro-Israel Rally. Althouse  "Hundreds of 'radicalized' kids rampaged through the halls of a Queens high school this week for nearly two hours after they discovered a teacher had attended a pro-Israel rally..." They need to find some ringleaders and put them in jail. Campus Reform wonders Will the med school prof who helped remove posters of kidnapped Israelis be held to UPenn's nondiscrimination policy? "Canary Mission shared footage of UPenn Assistant Professor Mohammed Alghamdi wielding scissors as students took down images of Israelis who have been kidnapped by Hamas terrorists. Alghamdi is still listed as a professor on the university web page." As Insty notes MEANWHILE THEY’RE TRYING TO FIRE AMY WAX FOR INSENSITIVITY.

At RedState  Teri Christoph claims Woke Christmas Tree Farm in Virginia Posts Shameful Antisemitic Message on Welcome Sign, "Ceasefire now." Sorry, I don't see it as antisemitic, just mililtarily a very bad idea to impose on the Israelis. Insty at his NYPo gig, In red America, standing up for Israel isn’t controversial. Arnold Kling at In My Tribe wonders Is the Overton Window Moving to the Right? "It seems ok to criticize the social justice movement; will it become ok to criticize Islam?" "The Overton Window has clearly moved for many American Jews. The Ivy League is now disgraced. Imagine if on college campuses there were students marching around in Ku Klux Klan hoods shouting racist slogans. And imagine they were doing this right after the death of George Floyd. That is what the pro-Hamas demonstrations feel like to Jewish students." 

Smitty at The Other McCain says The Swampeoisie are the Colonial Occupiers. 

So, if Michael Hayden is equating armed, religiously faithful Americans with Hamas, does that mean that Hayden and the Swampeoisie are the Colonial Occupiers? While I reject General Hayden in general (heh) and his cheap smear in particular, if he’s stipulating a false equivalence between patriots and terrorists, at some point, it could become needful to move the accusation a bit closer to reality.

Just because we lack even the tiniest interest in fomenting violence does not mean that violence mirrors that disinterest in us. Peace sells, but who’s buying? The well-prepared purchase that peace. I wonder if Hayden has the self-awareness to grasp that he and the Swampeoisie are the baddies?

MSN,  Employers Are Fed Up With College ‘Waste’ — Here’s Who They’re Hiring Instead  "The study, involving 70,000 small businesses, revealed that 67% of employers believe higher education institutions are not graduating students with relevant skills needed in today’s business community." At Twitchy, 'Constitution Says No.' The Left is FURIOUS Conservatives Are Suing to Stop Racial Discrimination. Florida's Voice says Florida bill bans pronoun requirements, penalties at the workplace. "The bill, HB 599, also prevents non-profit organizations that receive state funding from requiring, as a condition of employment, any “training, instruction, or activity on sexual orientation.”"

At Am Wire, ‘Sore loser’: Lefty Loudon County prosecutor slammed for prolonged public tantrum since humiliating loss, per Conan, "What is best in life?" . . . "To crush your enemies, see them driven before you, and hear the lamentations of their women."

Saturday Politics "It's the "Big One" Elizabeth!"

Im paying for stuff I ignored yesterday

Stacey Matthews at the North State Journal thinks 2022 is likely to be a brutal year for Joe Biden and Democrats. AMAC calls wonder if Biden is The Most Dangerous Lame Duck in History? Casey Chalk at Da Fed warns Faced With The Horrific Results Of Their Ideas, Leftists Are Backpedaling With All Their Might, but don't trust them, they're lying. At the Center Square, Critics pan Biden's plan to fight inflation, going after "big meat." In his usual erudite way, Victor Davis Hanson explains how The Biden Inflation Octopus is damaging the county. 

Americans know the inflation octopus was willfully birthed. They are confused only whether Team Biden unleashed it out of incompetence - or a neo-socialist idea of eroding the value of money for those who had it while gifting cash to those who didn't.

Wapoo shilling worries that Biden struggles to improve Americans’ views of the economy. Insty, BUT NO MEAN TWEETS: $5/Gallon Gas Is Coming, Experts Say. "Related: Nation’s Average Gas Prices Jump Over 20 Cents In Less Than a Week. “But don’t expect for the Biden administration to do anything soon to get those prices lowered. Labor Secretary Marty Walsh told Fox Business more domestic drilling is not on the table.”"  Also, WELL, HE SHOULDN’T BE: Biden not trusted on secret Iran deal: Poll. Featuring a picture of Hunter Biden, Kevin Downey at PM Media asks Gee, What Could Putin Possibly Have on Biden That Would Make Joe Keep Buying Russian Oil?. 

At Wa Free Bee, Youngkin Doing a Better Job Than Biden, Virginians Say. You mean doing what the citizens asked you to do works? Politico whines about Barbershop Confrontations, Profane Signs and Despair: Pro-Biden and Alone in Rural America, "Rural Democrats suffer in silence, abandoned by a party that they fear has stopped fighting to win the places where they live." Poor folk condemned to see Trump signs everywhere they go. How do they think a conservative feels in Manhattan? 

From the Wombat's In The Mailbox: 03.04.22, at Louder With Crowder: Loser Stacey Abrams Compares herself To Ukraine’s Zelensky and Shark Tank: DeSantis Flexes, Vows To Veto GOPe Redistricting Map. At JTN, Michigan failed to properly update voting rolls prior to 2020 election, audit finds an Audit of the Bureau of Elections concludes Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson’s office did not adhere to state election law. But if there are never any repercussions was it ever really a law, or just a "guideline." At Wa Ex, Navy SEAL Morgan Luttrell wins in Texas House primary that was GOP proxy war.

From atop Da Hill, Trump lashes out at Barr: 'He was weak, ineffective' In some respects true. The entire DOJ was an enemy camp, and Barr was skillful to get what he did. At WaPoo, George Will opines  Donald Trump looks increasingly like a stray orange hair to be flicked off the nation’s sleeve, pining for the days Republicans would vote for who they were told to, who would promptly betray them in office, while offering comforting words.

I let the "culture war" bin slide yesterday, so it's double stuffed today. Of note, Morgan Fox at PJ media sees Ron DeSantis Makes Teen Rebellion Great Again, by telling a crowd of student to take off their masks if they want. 

"You do not have to wear those masks. Please take them off. Honestly, it's not doing anything. We've gotta stop with this Covid theater. So if you wanna wear it, fine, but this is ridiculous."

Liberals were outraged. Jordan Boyd at Da Fed details Corrupt Media Hysterical Again After DeSantis Undermines The Left’s Covid Hierarchy. "“DeSantis scolds students for wearing face masks,” headlines blared on Wednesday." John Sexton at Haut Hair, DeSantis pushes back on criticism of his statement to students about 'COVID theater'. At CNN, CDC director rebukes DeSantis for scolding high school students over masks: 'It is absolutely their choice', and AllahPundit at Haut Hair echoes CDC chief scolds DeSantis: You should have respected those kids' choice to wear masks. He did, he actually gave them the choice. 

Capt. Ed at Haut Hair, Science officially changing: Federal agencies dropping mask mandates. Robby Soave at Reason, If COVID-19 Is Over for Congress, It Should Be Over for School Children Too. Kids have the most to lose and the least to gain from masks. But, from PM NYC mask mandates lifted for all but children under 5. That's just child abuse. Ace catches The Atlantic admitting Schools' Masking Policy Has Imposed a Serious, Possibly Permanent, Devolopmental (sic) Delay On Many Students. At the Stamford Advocate, Peer pressure is ending mask usage in schools, and boy are they pissed. At the Babylon Bee, Progressive Christians Sad They Have No Way To Love Their Neighbors Now That Mask Mandates Are Gone. Emotional Fairfax School Board Chair Reluctantly Yields to VA Mask Law

At HE, Senate Republicans Vote to Strike Down Biden Vaccine Mandate for Healthcare Workers, and at Da Caller, Senate Passes Joint Resolution To End National COVID-19 Emergency. At the NYT, cited by Haut Hair, Biden's new COVID plan: Avoiding shutdowns and preparing for new variants. At Breitbart, Joe Biden Pitches Four-Point Plan to ‘Move Forward’ with Coronavirus. William Teach at Pirate's Cove thinks Brandon’s New(ish) Wuhan Flu Panic Plan Seems Mostly Divorced From Reality. At ET, CDC No Longer Recommends Universal Contact Tracing, Case Investigation, which never made much sense for a disease where about half the cases are asymptomatic. From the Wombat's In The Mailbox: 03.04.22, At Am Great, Nice Deb notices that  Once A Cable News Darling, Dr. Fauci Now Relegated To Local TV & YouTube. Capt. Ed, Say, has anyone heard from Anthony Fauci lately?  The Michael Avenatti of WuFlu. "Has Anyone Seen Science? Is He Missing? I'm Starting To Get Worried..."

At Da Caller, ‘Where Is That Coming From?’: Gov. DeSantis Pushes Back After Reporter Confronts Him Over So-Called ‘Don’t Say Gay’ Bill "The governor said the media has gotten “spun up” and incorrectly interpreted the legislation. He then argued the opposition needs to be “honest” about what is actually in the bill rather than following false political narratives." They didn't "incorrectly interpret" the legislation, they deliberately lied about it. At the Floridian, 'Don't Say Gay' School Children Protest in Florida Capitol. It's astroturf. Note that the picture was a gray haired harridan holding a sign. 

At Town Hall, Salena Zito says It's the Culture, Stupid. Jazz Shaw at Haut Hair reports  Youngkin vetoes police "oversight" bill, while Nick Bell at Da Fed sees Republicans Thwart Pro-Life, Pro-Woman, Anti-Racist Bills In Virginia’s Legislature.  Ace, The Man Whose Child Was Taken Away From Him To Be "Transitioned" Into a Girl Runs for Texas House to Outlaw Gender Reassignments and Northwest Missouri State University Announces "Womynx History Month, "I'm announcing "Defund the Universities Year.""

Campus Reform tells how a Student loses government position for going on Fox News. No conservatives allowed. As 13 states sue Biden admin for any communications on FBI surveillance of parents protesting school boards (Fox), the Weasel Zippers catches Clyburn Justifying DOJ Targeting Parents (via the Wombat).

Kevin Downy at PJ Media catches J6 Defendant Facing Absurd Sentence Kills Himself, the Left Rejoices. Sick puppies. Scott McKay at Am Spec, It’s Time for a Jan. 6 Amnesty, Mr. President

What happened to Matthew Perna must not be allowed to happen again. From Sophie Mann at JTN, Son testifies against father charged with storming the Capitol on January 6, "Guy Reffitt's son tipped off the FBI about his presence at the January 6 Capitol breach." Althouse reads the NYT, "The first witness in the trial, Shauni Kerkhoff, a former Capitol Police officer... told the jury that after he moved toward her up the staircase, disobeying her commands, she used a Tippmann PepperBall Launcher to fire 40 to 50 projectiles."  At Da Mail, Biden falsely suggests Capitol rioters killed FIVE cops as he says Putin's actions were inspired by January 6 because Russian president thought he could divide the West and NYPo, Biden uses false claim on Capitol riot deaths to blame it for Ukraine invasion. Jim Hoft at the Gateway Pundit Biden claims the DOJ Leaks Information on Non-Violent J6 Defendant to Media Before It is Sent to His Attorneys — DOJ Furious That he Confronted likely Fed Operative who Was Carrying a Gun on Jan. 6 "Ginger Gun." 

So the only person with a gun that day was dropped from the FBI list? How did that happen? And why was the left not in an uproar? Luke Robinson was ONE of only THREE individuals who was later removed from the FBI’s most-wanted list along with Ray Epps and one other.

Kimberly Guilfoyle

Breaking 911, Jan. 6 Committee Issues Fresh Batch of Subpoenas. At JTN, Jan. 6 committee subpoenas six people hours before State of the Union address, "The committee is facing pressure to conclude its investigation within the next year," because they don't want the Repblicans to take control before they issue they're "report." Mostly they're accused of  "promoting claims of election fraud to lawmakers." Clearly a free speech issue. Go before the committee, say you did nothing wrong, and then refuse to answer any questions. From WaEx, Jan. 6 select committee subpoenas Kimberly Guilfoyle. Pure harassment. At WaEx, 'Things ... matter,' Cheney says of Jan. 6, Ukraine invasion. That was deep. No wonder she's a Senator and not me. WaPoo whines New evidence shows Trump was told many times there was no voter fraud — but he kept saying it anyway, "The House Jan. 6 panel aims to prove that Trump was acting corruptly by continuing to spread misinformation about the election long after he had reason to know he had legitimately lost." But, of course, other 'experts' were telling him the opposite. That's the thing about 'experts.' ICYMI: Statement by Donald J. Trump on the Unselect Committee. You suck. Victory Girls on Trump’s Grand Criminal Conspiracy

WaPoo touts the Roger Stone tapes: Video shows efforts to overturn 2020 election, seek pardons. On Da Hill, New evidence details Roger Stone's efforts against 2020 election. They like him when he says something they like. 

John Sexton at Haut Hair, Seattle woman gets 5 years for torching police cars during 2020 riot, PM, BLM, Antifa activists convicted of arson after attempting to frame Proud Boys for their own crimes in Atlanta. 

The suspects tried to frame the Proud Boys by leaving notes near the sites of vandalism that read "Stand By," a reference to when former President Donald Trump told the right-wing group to "stand back and stand by" after he was asked to condemn white supremacist militias during the first 2020 presidential debate.

At NewsBusters cites Joyless Reid: Tucker Is Racist for Asking to See Judge Jackson's Test Scores and Althouse dutifully echoes "'Patently racist': Tucker Carlson under fire for questioning Ketanji Brown Jackson’s LSAT scores /The Fox News host’s call for Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson’s LSAT score is ‘patently racist,’ says one Harvard Law School graduate.". "The Independent reports. I don't know about "patently," but it is racist. I considered saying "insidiously racist," but, on reflection, I'll say it's somewhere on the insidiously-to-patently continuum." It is, of course, no such thing. Newsweek wishcasts SCOTUS Nominee Ketanji Brown Jackson Gets Support From Conservative Leaders, but she'll probably get some. 

At WaPoo, ‘Freedom Convoy’ spinoff aims for D.C. region this weekend. Here’s what you need to know. Stoking fear. Aaron Ginn@aginnt "America’s Freedom Convoy will arrive in DC this weekend." At Da Mail, 'Keep on truckin'! People's Convoy enters its final push of 11-day, 2,600 mile journey as eight-mile-long caravan of trucks reaches Maryland before entering Washington DC tomorrow  From  the Wombat, Don Surber reminds us 246 Years Ago Today, A Convoy Saved Boston. I predict a whole lot of nothing. 

Via Ace, something worth breaking my no-tweet guideline for, The State of the Union is...

SUPERCUT!@POTUS: The State of the Union is ... [indecipherable] pic.twitter.com/PWbZ8yMa7U

— Tom Elliott (@tomselliott) March 3, 2022

Capt. Ed NPR/PBS poll: A Biden bounce from the SOTU? A dead cat bounce? "For now, this one looks outlier-ish, and potentially an artifact of wishful thinking."

Elections - Somethings Old, Somethings New

Somethings "borrowed" and somethings blue. So, has anything exciting happened in the news while I was off in California mourning the loss of my brother? Just kidding, I got the news; I just didn't react to it so much. Anyway, this is a hodge podge of new stuff, and stuff that caught my eye over the last few days. 

Ryan Grim at the Intercept has a grim warning for Democrats, It’s Not Just White People: Democrats Are Losing Normal Voters of All Races. What happens when your party caters to the abnormals? Politico whines that Trump poll tests his 2024 comeback map, "The former president is targeting five swing states that are pivotal to his hopes of winning back the White House."

Trump’s shadow campaign also recently polled Trump-Biden matchups in the five states, all of which were decided in 2020 by fewer than 3 percentage points. According to the poll, a memo of which was obtained by POLITICO, the former president led Biden in Arizona by 8 percentage points, Georgia by 3 points, Michigan by 12 points, Pennsylvania by 6 points and Wisconsin by 10 points.

From the Wombat's In The Mailbox: 11.22.21, Tristan Justice at Da Fed thinks it's amusing that SNL portrays Liz Cheney As The Rachel Dolezal Of The Republican Party

WaPoo has an article on redistricting, focusing, as usual, on Republicans trying to take advantage of their electoral advantage in many states, Competitive House districts are getting wiped off the map, but as Chris Queen at PJ Media notes, Democrats Only Hate Gerrymandering When the GOP Does It. A reminder, Democrat politicians in MD have every intention of Gerrymandering the congressional delegation to remove the only Republican seat. Da Hill, Maryland Democrats target lone Republican in redistricting scheme. No taxation without representation!

Also at WaPoo, Judge orders two lawyers who filed suit challenging 2020 election to pay hefty fees: ‘They need to take responsibility’ Punishment for not accepting the process. 

Ace is upset that "QAnon Shaman" Sentenced to Nearly Four Years in Jail -- For... Trespassing

They also claim he "obstructed" the functioning of Congress -- a charge that has never before been laid against any protester disrupting a congressional vote or hearing.

And he "obstructed" Congress for like, what, an hour and a half?

Non-violently, of course.

Though they're apparently charging him with... other people's violence.

Because he made himself "emblematic" of the whole event, by being a striking, photogenic person that the media loved putting on the front page.

While most antifa who attacked people at the RNC weren't even charged, and those who were charged were sentenced to time served.

He's been rotting in solitary confinement for 10 months. And now he'll spend 31 months more in jail.

For... "parading in a public place."

The stalwart Julie Kelly at Am Great, Select Committee Covering Up Police Brutality on January 6, and possibly cover up the death of Rosanne Boyland by beating. 

In April, the D.C. Medical Examiner’s office claimed Boyland died of “accidental acute amphetamine intoxication.” Boyland reportedly used Adderall, a drug commonly used to treat attention deficit disorders that contains amphetamines. Fatal Adderall overdoses are rare; Boyland would have had to ingest roughly 25 times her standard dose to die from it.

Aside from the unlikelihood Boyland overdosed on her daily medicine while actively participating in a day-long political rally, recently released footage and firsthand accounts contradict the coroner’s report. “There are still many questions about exactly what happened to her,” Rosanne’s aunt, Cheryl Boyland, wrote in a GiveSendGo post.

Videos show her being beaten by a female officer after being crushed by protesters pushed by police. Yet the D.C. Medical Examiner said Rosanne’s body showed no signs of trauma, and attributed her death to the prescription medication she took every day for years. According to videos and statements, Rosanne was dragged unconscious through the west tunnel by the police at 4:31 PM. Then she was taken to the crypt and to the House Majority Leader’s office before EMTs arrived at 5:45 PM, finding her inside the rotunda being given CPR by Capitol police.

WaPoo,  Roger Stone and Alex Jones subpoenaed by House committee investigating Jan. 6 attack. Just walk in, say you're innocent and take the 5th, like Lois Lerner. 

Ace responds to reports that Steve Hayes and Jonah Goldberg quit Fox News over his Jan. 6 documentary, The Grifter Bros.

So their contracts were up for renewal in 2022 and they hadn't been renewed yet.

And then, based on "principle," Hayes and Goldberg said they didn't want to sign the contracts not offered to them anyway.

Okay.  Okay. I don't really trust Fox's word but I also don't believe a single word that comes out of these liars' mouths.

I bet you they'll continue appearing on the conspiracy-promoting, riot-inciting, racebaitings-for-ratings CNN and MSNBC, right?

Also from the Wombat's In The Mailbox: 11.22.21, Da Tech Guy: What Didn’t Go Well In Virginia and Legal Insurrection: U. Texas Plan To Teach CRT To 4-Year-Olds On Hold, Former NYT Reporter Says Paper Held Article On Kenosha Riots Until After 2020 Election, and Va. School Board Assn. Cuts Ties With NSBA After “Domestic Terrorist” Letter

Matt Margolis at PJ Media reminds us a WHISTLEBLOWER reports that the FBI Is Tracking Parents for Alleged ‘Threats’ Against School Officials, and at Da Lid, Whistleblower Says AG Merrick Garland Lied, FBI Targeting Parents as ‘Threats’ "Should Garland Be Impeached For Perjury" Yes he should. But he won't be. Sundance at CTH, FBI Jackboots Break Down Door and Raid Home of America’s Mom.

First of two very scary videos.

Election: A Hodge Podge of Links

A bit of the Youngkin/McAuliffe race to whet the appetite. From NYPo, Salena Zito says Virginia election proves voters are sick of hearing about Donald Trump

McAuliffe’s strategy of focusing on COVID, Trump, Trump and Trump was wildly out of touch. He and his fellow Democrats missed the most fundamental thing about human behavior, which is that people always vote looking forward. What matters is their lives, their children’s lives, their grandchildren’s lives and their community — not what happened yesterday.

Monica Cline at Town Hall, Families Were the Reason Virginia Turned Red, Hence, the Democrat war on the family. AllahPundit at Haut Hair has the sads as Suburban moms in Virginia tell CNN why they flipped from Biden to Youngkin

As grim as this clip is for Democrats, it might reassure them to learn that all of these women were single-issue voters last week. If Dems can pivot on that issue — school closures — then in theory these votes are back in play.

But I don't trust CNN to assemble a representative panel. 

Bernard Goldberg on Da Hill calls Winsome Sears The latest Black conservative to make liberals nervous. I would point out that she has nothing to do with education. 

WaPoo, Virginia Gov.-elect Youngkin’s underaged son tried to vote in Tuesday’s election, elections officials said, but admitted he didn't vote, and no crime was committed. Well, they admire kids who get active in politics, right?  This all prompted Dick Hall-Sizemore at Bacon's Rebellion to write Election Integrity? Not a Problem Now. We Won.

Nicholas Ballasy at JTN sees Biden, Democratic leaders continue moving left despite Virginia election loss. Salena Zito again, this time at WaEx, The voters revolt against our cultural curators, again. The people are revolting! Althouse cites her approvingly in "I have argued for years that the conservative-populist coalition was born in 2008 when John McCain became the Republican nominee."

 At NYT, (cited at Haut Hair), worries Dems thought they had bottomed out in rural white America. They hadn't while David French, What Virginia taught America about "the new politics of abortion". Very little, I suspect. 

Regarding the New Jersey races, Dem Who Lost to NJ Truck Driver Shows Just What a Sore Loser He Is, He's still hoping for enough ballots to fall of the back of a truck to win. It's New Jersey; it might happen. And at Da Mail, Gov. Phil Murphy claims Dems 'might've been swept away' if it wasn't for his progressive NJ agenda and says he's 'screaming out' for DC to pass Build Back Better Act after narrow election win over GOP challenger

From Mediaite, Chuck Todd Warns Democrats Are in ‘Grave Danger’ of Losing Congress in 2022. I hope so. Seeing the handwriting on the wall, Nearly a dozen House Democrats won't run for re-election, signaling midterm fears. Yahoo! And at USA Today, a Gloomy landscape for Democrats in midterms as Biden's approval drops to 38% in USA TODAY/Suffolk poll. They say that like it's a bad thing. 

On the other hand, NYT (cited at Haut Hair) whines that Republicans, basking in victories, diverge on what comes next. At Fox, Dan Bongino provides roadmap for Republican candidates in Democrat-leaning states

Step one: Run up the score in rural counties. Listen, if you live in a rural county, they don’t respect you, the left. They call you the smelly Walmart people. You’ve seen it. But you’re the real Americans putting food on the table – the farmers, the truckers. It’s you.
…
Second, stay laser-focused on local issues, in swing counties. … While Youngkin was laser-focused on local issues that mattered, like education, mattered to real people on the ground, [Terry] McAuliffe was focused on what? He was focused on Mar-a-Lago or something.
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Third, you have to highlight the Democrats' failures and minimize the damage in urban areas, many that lean Democrat. … Folks, it matters. We’ve got to win. The strategy is crystal clear.

And lastly, when your enemy is destroying itself, please, please don’t get in the way.

Similar advice from Newt,  2021 Lessons for Republicans. 

Run everywhere . . . Focus on real life . . . The 30/70 Imperative

Republicans must spend no more than 30 percent of their time discrediting and repudiating Big Government Socialism. At least 70 percent of their time must be spent advocating positive solutions – in terms people understand – that will improve Americans’ lives and their family’s lives.

Be not afraid . . . They are still wrong about Donald Trump

Benjamin Yount at JTN reports Wisconsin election commissioners to respond to stinging audit in December, "Commission chairman vows to correct “some misconceptions and misunderstandings” in recent audit." Din't do nuffin'!

The audit found 30 areas of concern for the WEC, and made 18 suggestions for lawmakers to pursue in the future.

The audit pointed to new voter registrations that didn’t match Wisconsin’s driver license information, old and out-of-date voter roll audits, and thousands of voters who were registered at least twice in the state.

Wolfe said commissioners will decide which issue they want to take-on first.

“We plan to present our analysis to Commissioners at their Dec. 1 meeting in order for them to decide which of the report’s recommendations we should address, which ones should take priority and which ones deserve an official correction,” Wolfe said.

The audit prompted dozens of Republican lawmakers to call for Wolfe to resign.

The Texas Trib, Justice Department sues Texas over new voting law, targeting restrictions on mail-in ballots and voter assistance. At Am Think, Rebecca Behrends, reports a GOP Poll Worker in 2020 Detroit: 'They Treated Me Like a Criminal!' and also at Am Think, James Arlenson, The Big Truth: Election 2020 Really Was Rigged

Mary Papenfuss at HuffPo, Trump Ally Roger Stone Issues Threat To Ron DeSantis If He Tries Running For President. Awe, c'mon Roger, lighten up!

The Election Post - Virginia Postmortem Continues

 A few reactions to Glenn Younkin, Winsome Sear and Jason Miyares sweeping to the top jobs in Virginia. Democrats took it about as well as you might expect. Stacy McCain has a media roundup, ‘These Republicans Are Dangerous’ and Other Stupid Media Election Reactions

It’s official — everybody is now Hitler, or at least the 1.7 million or so Virginians who voted for Glenn Youngkin are “white supremacists,” according to the trauma-induced reactions of the liberal media, who responded to Tuesday’s results with predictable insanity.

and The Weird Logic of Wajahat Ali,  "Got that message, Democrats? White women are the enemy! . . . That’s your 2022 midterm campaign platform. Good luck." And as long as I'm claiming my FMJRAs, the Wombat's In The Mailbox: 11.05.21  has Legal Insurrection: Progressives Rage At “White Women” In Wake Of Virginia Drubbing and Don Surber: Lefties Get Racist & Sexist After Losing On Tuesday. From Mediaite, ‘A Black Mouth Moving’ That ‘Justifies and Legitimates’ White Supremacy: MSNBC Guest Says Winsome Sears Win Doesn’t Make GOP Racially Progressive. I certainly hope not. Insty responds THESE PEOPLE NEED THORAZINE. At PJ Media, Stephen Kruiser thinks the Virginia Election Broke Democrats Worse Than Trump Did.

A black woman and child of segregation became the first-ever black woman Lt. Gov of Virginia, and a Latino became the first-ever AG, but they too are maligned as *symbols of white supremacy* because they don't pledge DNC loyalty. What you do & who you are in life doesn't count. https://t.co/I9amISbrFm

— Glenn Greenwald (@ggreenwald) November 3, 2021

Kurt Schlichter at Town Hall, After Being Humiliated in VA, Democrats Tell the Voters to Kiss-Off. I'm sure that will help them next time. "As Napoleon supposedly said, never interrupt and enemy when he is making a mistake."

FiveThirtyEight pretends to understand How Virginia’s Electorate Shifted Toward Republicans. John Sexton at Haut Hair examines competing theories on Who won the Latino vote in Virginia? "So the bad news is that we don’t really know for certain right now how Youngkin did with Latinos in Virginia. But again, there is some evidence that Trump’s 2020 improvement with these voters didn’t just evaporate." Also, Glenn Youngkin's top strategists: 'It wasn't just CRT,' it was 'parents matter'

A paragraph or two of caution from OregonMuse's The Morning Rant at Ace's:

I'm glad that Glenn Youngkin won, primarily because just about anyone would be better than that loathsome reptile Terry McAuliffe. But who is Glenn Youngkin, really? Is he more like Ron DeSantis or Mitt Romney? We don't know, but I suspect the latter. We'll need to how he actually governs, actions speak louder than words and all, but given his background in business and finance, I think he's probably one of those moderate, Chamber-of-Commerce type Republicans. You know, the kind the establishment/Deep State just loves, so he's probably not going to be rocking any boats.

But, with much of Virginia being a bedroom community for Washington DC, he's probably the best we can do there. A competent manager is a reasonable hope. Just don't expect any Reagan revolutions or tea parties to erupt.

Also from Wombat's In The Mailbox: 11.05.21  Joy Pullman at Da Fed, Democrats Are Right To Be Scared About Losing The Parent Vote and Legal Insurrection,  Indiana Educator Explains How CRT Is Taught Under The Radar. Ace, CRT Is a Racist Republican Lie and Is Not Taught In Schools, Claim Leftist Political Activist and Education Bureaucrats "Oh Hell Yes We Do Teach CRT -- And We Lie to Parents About Teaching It, Says Indiana Teacher and School Administrator."  Gail Heriot at Insty, AFTER THE VIRGINIA ELECTIONS: I’m still a little giddy about Tuesday’s elections (though Glenn is right about not getting cocky).

But here’s something that I can add: Don’t think electing a governor (or even a conservative state legislature) is going to solve the problem of critical race theory being taught at the K-12 level. The Virginia legislature would be spinning its wheels to pass a statute that says “Don’t teach CRT.” It might as well pass a statute that says “Don’t teach stupid stuff.” Nobody agrees on what constitutes CRT. And we are dealing in part with ideologues who don’t want to agree. They want to teach what they want to teach, and they’ll find a way to say that their chosen curriculum isn’t CRT, no matter how CRT is defined.

 And this explains a lot. The "birthing person" of the gender non-binary convicted of raping a girl is the Loudoun County high school girls bathroom using "they's" penis. 

Of course. And of course it looks like this. pic.twitter.com/eZWEMz4Mtk

— John Cardillo (@johncardillo) November 5, 2021

Atop Da Hill, Democrats scramble for path forward after election setbacks. "The enthusiasm of Republican voters and a decisive shift among independents toward the GOP are troubling developments for Democrats who now see their congressional majorities in real danger." At Ace's Quick Hits

Update: Not just a red wave, a red tsunami. At Haut Hair, Capt. Ed reports Sounding the retreat: Democrat campaign committee abandons Florida to DeSantis. 

Karen Townsend at Haut Hair reports Here we go: DOJ sues Texas over new voting law. Because the Biden/Garlend DOJ believes in stealing elections. In one of the interesting bits in Tuesday's elections, a truck driver with a minimal budget apparently ousted a powerful Democrat from NJ Senate seat. But Wait! Powerful New Jersey Senate Democrat says '12,000 ballots recently found' support refusal to concede to truck driver (Dan Chaitin, WaEx). Funny how that happens, isn't it? A state should know exactly how many ballots exist an hour after the poll close. Kevin Downey at PJ Media, Public Interest Legal Foundation Sues Over 26,000 Dead People on Michigan Voter Rolls, but dead people wouldn't vote in Michigan, would they? 

And in election comedy, 'Fuzzy Slippers' at LI reports Roger Stone Threatens To Run Against Gov. DeSantis Over Election Audit In State Trump Won and Ace reports Adam Kinzinger Is, Get This, Considering Running for President, He Tells His Friends At, Get This, CNN. Good luck!

At Da Wire, Judge Orders Release Of January 6 Defendant After Inspection Shows ‘Mistreatment Of Detainees’ “Does no one care? Does no one follow up?”

Following an impromptu inspection of the D.C. jail, a federal judge has ordered the release of January 6 defendant, Christopher Worrell, over the mistreatment of detainees.

The surprise inspection of the jail by U.S. Marshals took place last month, but the report from the inspection was not made public until Wednesday.

Due to the findings, U.S. District Judge Royce Lamberth said he has “‘zero confidence that the D.C. jail’ will provide the treatment correctly and not retaliate against Worrell,” who has cancer, CNN reported Wednesday.

Lamberth called the jail conditions “deplorable” and “beyond belief,” ordering Worrell transferred immediately to another jail and then released home to start cancer treatment, the report outlined.

Some 400 prisoners are being moved out of the jail after the “deplorable” conditions were uncovered. According to CNN, the Marshals’ report found that water was being shutoff in many cells “for punitive reasons” for days at a time, toilets were clogged, and an inmate who had been pepper-sprayed was “unable to wash the spray off for days, leading to an infection.”

The D.C. Department of Corrections staff were “antagonizing detainees” and “directing detainees to not cooperate with” U.S. Marshals during the inspection, the agency said, and “[o]ne DOC staffer was observed telling a detainee to ‘stop snitching.’”

Paul Bedard at WaEx,  Marjorie Taylor Greene gets into J6 jail, inmates sing national anthem. Newsweek reports Jenna Ryan, Jailed Over January 6, Tells Critics: 'I'm Going to Prison…Pop Champagne'

ATexas-based real estate agent who said she would "definitely not" go to jail for her actions in the Capitol riots because she is white and blonde has hit back at people mocking her after she was handed a 60-day prison term.

Jenna Ryan, 50, was sentenced by U.S. District Judge Christopher Cooper after she pleaded guilty to one count of parading, demonstrating or picketing in the Capitol.

Ryan, who flew in a private jet to attend the January 6 protests in Washington D.C., has become notorious for her social media posts and comments about the riots.

Her rea crime? Althouse,  Federal judge, sentencing a woman to jail, takes her to task for believing in Critical Race Theory.

I'm reading "She said she wasn’t going to jail for Jan. 6, citing ‘blonde hair white skin.’ A judge sentenced her to 60 days behind bars" (WaPo).

“For better or worse, you’ve become one of the faces of January 6,” U.S. District Judge Christopher R. Cooper of D.C. told Jenna Ryan, 50.... “You suggested antifa was somehow involved. And perhaps most famously, you said that because you had blonde hair and white skin, you wouldn’t be going to jail.”

He was referring to a tweet Ryan posted in March saying, “Sorry I have blonde hair white skin a great job a great future and I’m not going to jail. . . . I did nothing wrong.”

But I'm going to stick with Critical Race Theory. Ryan made her belief in white privilege so overt that it threatened white privilege. Attacking her openly stated expectation helps maintain the privilege.

Complicating the analysis: The judge is black.

 from the comments.

gilbar said...

So just to be Clear.... the black judge SENT her to jail... BECAUSE she was white? AND! there's NO SUCH THING as critical race theory???? got it!

Across da pond Da Mail reports Trump CANNOT claim executive privilege to stop the House Select Committee investigating the January 6 riots from getting more than 770 files from his administration, federal judge says

• Trump cannot claim executive privilege to prevent the House Select Committee from accessing documents related to January 6, a federal judge said Thursday
• The former president sued the National Archives on October 15 to prevent it from giving the House committee 770 sensitive files
• District Court Judge Tanya Chutkan said he doesn't have the authority to do that
• She said Thursday, 'There is only one executive,' referring to President Joe Biden
• She also cracked down on the committee's request for being overly vague in their requests for information

I can hardly wait for the Biden administration's turn in the barrel.  

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