Flotsam and Jetsam - Jimmy Carter Still Dead

Know your memes! Matt Vespa at TownHall calls it Unreal: Jimmy Carter Outlived His NYT Obituary Writer, if not the paper itself. At PJM, Stephen Kruiser has the Obligatory 'Say Something Nice About Jimmy Carter' Post. "It's the antisemitism that I remember more than Habitat for Humanity or any of the other fluffy post-presidency stuff. I've thought about it a lot while the Democrats have been turning blind eyes to all of the "Free Palestine" protests this past year. That's Jimmy Carter's legacy," and, Hope for America — We Survived Carter and Now (Almost) Biden. Twitchy has an Eye-Opening Thread that Takes Apart Media's Sugarcoated Narrative About Jimmy Carter's Post-Presidential Work. Ron Coleman@RonColeman, "Carter “INVENTED the jealous, manipulative ex-President model that Obama put on steroids in 2016”", Quote Cynical Publius@CynicalPublius, "I promised to myself that I would not comment further on Jimmy Carter’s death, but it bothers me to see so many otherwise sensible conservatives spouting the “Bad President, good man” line that the Democrat/Media Complex has been spinning for 40+ years. Thus, I feel the need to Show more." Althouse finds what her hero Bob Dylan, Said about Jimmy Carter, "He's a kindred spirit to me of a rare kind — the kind of man you don't meet every day and that you're lucky to meet if you ever do." So, he said a lot of nonsense, and expected people to take it seriously? Also, "Toward the end of their time in office, Mr. Mondale said he and Mr. Carter talked about how they wanted their tenure to be remembered." "'We came up with this sentence, which to me remains an important summary of what we were trying to do: "We told the truth, we obeyed the law, and we kept the peace,"' Mr. Mondale wrote. 'That we did, Mr. President.'"  Ace, being Ace, America's Worst Previous President, Jimmy Carter, Dead at 100 "America's current president is the worst. Jimmy Carter's passing opens an easy lane for Biden's entry into the Hall of Shame on the first ballot. "Jimmy Carter is a good Christian man" is a lie I've heard my whole life. He wasn't. He was a Terrorist Simp."

At PJM, VodkaPundit says Yes, Absolutely Biden Should Have Stayed in the Race. "Given the opportunity, Americans might have repudiated Biden's Cateresque single disaster of a term with a 344-194 drubbing. Or even 345-193 if Biden had failed to carry Nebraska's lone blue district." Insty, PERHAPS THESE “SOURCES” ARE NOT AS USEFUL AS YOU THINK:, "Bonchie @bonchieredstate, "In which Matt Yglesias admits he was incapable of assessing and investigating Biden’s condition on his own and needed “insiders” to feed him talking points so he could function as a “journalist.” What a thing to say out loud." 'Becca Downs at TownHall sees Biden Laughably Boasts About ‘Getting to Show Up for the American People’ 40% of time on vacation, and even when he was there he wasn't, if you know what I mean. Ward Clark at RedState lists Five 'Accomplishments' Joe Biden Touts As Successes - but Which Were Failures. Capt. Ed at Hat Hair notes even Politico Wonders: What Happened to $50 Billion in Biden's 'Green New Deal'? "A $42 billion expansion of broadband internet service has yet to connect a single household. . . . Back in May, Pete Buttigieg tried to explain the failure to build more than "seven or eight" stations in the three-plus years that his Department of Transportation had $7.5 billion:" They're up to 48. The money went somewhere. Buck Throckmorton at Ace's Morning Rant notes Government is Paying Manufacturers to Produce Electric School Buses, and Then Paying School Districts to Buy Them. At OTP, Biden To Bar Oil, Gas, Geothermal Development In Nevada Mountain Range For 20 Years. Beege Welborn at Hat Hair, Credit Card Delinquencies Doing the #Bidenomics 'Jump'. Just emulating the Feds. Wall Street Mav@WallStreetMav, "Another 653,000 fake jobs revised away by govt statisticians. They were faking the data during 2023 and 2024 to try to boost Joe Biden and Kamala Harris. In the revisions, they have also admitted to 818,000 fake jobs being removed from the 2023 data. Now the truth is coming out. Plus as soon as Trump takes office expect the entrenched left wing staff will start portraying the economic data has negative. We won't find out till much later during the revisions." OTP, US Electorate Now Has More Republicans Than Democrats: 2024 Exit Polls.

Reuters, US announces $5.9 billion in military and budget aid to Ukraine. But at least the Biden family stays bought.Alex Langlois at Am Great says Biden Is Wrong to Double Down on Syria, "The Pentagon's revelation of a significantly higher troop count in Syria underscores the perils of unchecked mission creep and the erosion of transparency in U.S. foreign policy."

Insty, at his NYPo gig, Merrick Garland corrupted the Justice Department with political persecutions. Ace, Washington Post: Biden and Democrats Blame Election Loss on Merrick Garland, Believing He Wasn't Partisan Enough In His Lawfare Against Trump. "Mollie Hemingway had a reason for championing Trump over any of his primary rivals: We had to show that the left's lawfare and politics of personal destruction would not be allowed to work. The left had to be repudiated in the worst way possible, and for the left, that meant the re-election of Trump. The left, meanwhile, grumbles that what they really needed was MOAR LAWFARE." Pop Times has Sources: Federal Prosecutors in Trump Witchhunts Fleeing in Droves, Afraid of Bankruptcy and Defending Themselves in Court. Ron Filipkowski@RonFilipkowski "Trump: “Doing what they did - using the DOJ & FBI to go after their political opponent .. that means that I can do it too. In other words, the Pandora’s box is open, and that means that I can do it too.”" Dave Strom says Blackball Them, At Least.  Bob Moffitt at RCP thinks Pardoning Fauci Would Be Disservice to Him and Americans. Ben Bartee at PJM, Help Get This Simple Fauci Prosecution Playbook to Trump, Please.

'Becca Downs warns We've Been Warned: We May Not Have Seen the Last of Kamala Harris. Nick Arama says Scott Jennings and Other Americans Have Thoughts When Tim Walz and Wife Post About a Box. "Here's a thought: You can throw out a box without making a video about it." Scott Jennings @ScottJenningsKY, "The fact that this absolute buffoon was Kamala Harris’s first major decision as “nominee” really was the biggest red flag of all." Jester Politics asks Democrats: The 2024 Election And Where To Go? Ross Barkan bemoans the Twilight of the Liberal Left. "An era decisively ends." Don't turn your back on them. Ace read "The Twilight of the Liberal Left:" A Liberal Bemoans the Catastrophic Failure of the Anti-Trump "Resistance" "I'm just here for the gloating."

At NewsMax John Gizzi opines Conservatives Must Back Mike Johnson for Speaker. Ace reports Trump Gives Mike Johnson His "Complete and Total Endorsement" to Remain Speaker, "I guess it's the expected action." Dave Strom at Hat Hair VIP has an Unpopular Take: With Such a Slim Majority It Doesn't Matter Who the Speaker Is. Cat herder in-chief. Cutie Pavlich at TownHall wonders Are You Ready for Acting President Chuck Grassley? "With a non-functioning House, Trump, Vance and the House Speaker are out of the chain-of-command, which puts the Senate pro tempore in as acting president. On January 20, 2025, that will be Republican Senator Chuck Grassley." PJM's Paula Bolyard also looks at Acting President Grassley?. C'mon Republicans, get your shit together.

Ace thinks Elon Musk and Vivek Appear to Step Back From Foreigner Triumphalism im Fight Over Immigration "David Marcus has the same reaction to the MAGA fight over immigration that I did: At least we're finally able to discuss policies that impact our lives." Jim Hoft at GatewayPundit hears Elon Musk Calls for Major Reform of Broken H-1B Visa Program — Proposes to Make it More Expensive to Hire Overseas Than Domestically. At Da Fetched, Steve Bannon Torches H1-B Visa Program: “It’s a Total Scam!” Aesthetica@Anc_Aesthetics, "Just got a dm from someone who works in recruiting at one of big tech companies. He said it's internal policy within the team he works for to reserve roles for what they call “outside talent”. They are not allowed to recruit Americans for these roles but must go through the motions of setting up interviews with Americans. He said he and his colleagues try to keep these calls short 10-15min or some of them just ghost the call completely. . . " From TNP, DATA: H1-B Visa ‘Caps’ Exceeded, 99.9% Approval Rate, Chain Migration Increasing. An eye-opening thread from Robert Sterling@RobertMSterling, H-1B DATA MEGA-THREAD "To start with, this program is MASSIVELY popular with employers. The program has a statutory limit of 85,000 visas per year, but employers routinely receive approval for more than 800k applications per year (868k, or 10x the limit, in 2024)." Sundance dons his tin foil hat and asserts Elon Musk Changes Twitter Algorithm to Diminish MAGA Opposition to Silicon Valley Group and Support Influence Over Trump Policy.

BrownStone decries Congress’ Shield against Trump’s Hammer of Justice "Somewhere amid the 1,500+ pages of legislative clutter in the latest Continuing Resolution—the bill apparently killed by public exposure alone—lies a provision so audacious, so shameless, I can only assume it was drafted by a cabal of Congressional career criminals. Section 605—a sterile title masking its true intent—amounts to nothing less than a legislative fortress erected to shield Congress from the Justice Department, the FBI, and, most troubling of all, accountability."

At Da Caller, Trump Driving Foreign Policy Blob Crazy By Daring To Put America First and Why Trump’s Right On Panama Canal And Greenland. Liz Mair at WaEx opines that To make America great, Trump can enable the Nippon Steel acquisition. "It should surprise exactly no one that an economically illiterate administration, which is headed by a barely compos mentis individual and has gravely mismanaged America’s relationships around the globe, might have failed to notice that Japan is a key U.S. ally and we’re 80 years on from World War II."

The Great Victor Davis Hanson at Am Great sees Devin Nunes Reemerges. "2024 marked the comeback of figures once dismissed, with Elon Musk and Donald Trump reclaiming dominance and Devin Nunes solidifying his role as a stalwart in intelligence oversight."

Ward Clark, Rachel Maddow 'Thought People Would Be More Unnerved by JD Vance' and Both of Her Viewers Agree. Matt Taibbi@mtaibbi "JD Vance was born to “immense privilege”?" Quote, Current Affairs@curaffairs, "Right-wing populism usually consists of men who were born to immense privilege and went to elite schools railing against people who are, in fact, many times less powerful and influential than they are. https://currentaffairs.org/news/2022/04/r" Rusty Weiss at RedState, Jasmine Crockett Tried to Pick a Fight With Tom Homan Only to Get Nuked Back to Reality: 'Not Real Smart'. Department of Decline@LeoMars75 "Sweden has now turned its immigration into a net outflow. They did this very complicated trick. 1, Stop letting people in 2. Stop giving any money to the ones already there. So hard, I doubt any developed nation could copy it."

Althouse, "The 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals issued a written opinion upholding the $5 million award that the Manhattan jury granted to E. Jean Carroll for defamation and sexual abuse...." ABC, Special counsel Jack Smith withdraws from appeal of classified docs case against Trump's co-defendants. "The special counsel has referred the case to federal prosecutors in Florida." Where the judge ruled Smith was illegally appointed. 

Just Facts Daily has 50 Examples of Fake News in 2024. Da Fetched, CBS Reporter Admits Joe Biden’s Mental Decline Was Covered Up by Media and Don Lemon Suffers Another Anti-Trump Meltdown: “You Dumb MAGA Idiots, You F**king Deserve It”. The NewsBusters note ZERO Airtime to Just-Released Pics Showing Biden Lied About Hunter Biz. Jonathan Turley calls it the Silence of the Labs: How a Censorship Campaign Failed to Kill a COVID Origin Theory. Twitchy wants you to WATCH: Wikipedia Co-Founder Describes How the Site Turned to Leftist Garbage. OK, here it is.

Wikipedia co-founder Larry Sanger on how his site went woke pic.twitter.com/vGTp97OIRm

— End Wokeness (@EndWokeness) December 31, 2024

At NYPo, Charles Gasparino says Wokeness is in retreat, but Nasdaq’s ‘diversity rules’ show its awful stench will be hard to eliminate. At Behind the Black, Bob Zimmerman warns Beware the DEI shell game. Victory Girls on Liberal Fires: Time To Put Them Out. General Mike Flynn@GenFlynn, "How much more convincing do we need to demonstrate that our military is not a trained and ready force for WAR? Our U.S. Navy has “insufficient gender experts?” I’ll tell you what, how about ensuring our ships don’t crash into each other at sea or not shooting our own damn planes out of the sky?. . ." Matt Margolis at PJM says J.K. Rowling Is Right: There Are No Trans Kids. J.K. Rowling@jk_rowling, "There are no trans kids. No child is 'born in the wrong body'. There are only adults like you, prepared to sacrifice the health of minors to bolster your belief in an ideology that will end up wreaking more harm than lobotomies and false memory syndrome combined." John Sexton at Hat Hair has another example of why Putting Trans Women in Women's Prisons is a Terrible Idea. 

The Wombat has FMJRA 2.0: Giant Killers up and garnering clicks at The Other McCain.

Biden and the Bomb, Dems In Danger, Shots Fired at Zeldin's House, Hobbs Won't Debate Lake

We're still discussing Sleep Joe's attempt to scare the bejeezus out of the American public with the prospect of nuclear war. At the Right Scoop, White House walks back Biden saying we are on the brink of nuclear war… ABC, Biden's warning of nuclear 'Armageddon' reflects the 'stakes' with Russia, not an imminent threat: Kirby. At Mediaite, ‘What’s Biden Talking About?’ Tapper Confronts Dem Senator on President’s ‘Stunning’ Nuclear Armageddon Warning. Eddy Scary at Da Fed points out It’s Biden Threatening Nuclear Armageddon After Six Years of Media Freakout Over Trump Tweets. Not the guy I want "in charge" if a nuclear holocaust looms. But then, I didn't vote for him. Frank Schell at Am Spec points to All the President’s Disconnects, "The best that can be said about him is that he’s consistently wrong."

Matt Margolis at PJ Media say They've Completely Lost It: Biden White House Claims GOP 'Attempted to Defund the Police'. They haven't lost it; it's a deliberate attempt to divert attention from the effects of their policies. At Da Wire, Democrat Rep. Calls For ‘New Blood’ In Her Party When Asked If She Would Support Biden’s Re-Election, Slotkin. At the Wa Free Bee, Biden’s Day One Actions Haunt Him Still, "Column: The president blunders from one self-inflicted crisis to the next." Beege Wellborn at Haut Hair notes that even SNL is starting in on him, Went there: SNL bonked on Biden -- twice

Nick Arama remarks on how liberals went crazy because Ron DeSantis' wife wore a green dress, Liberals Go Over the Edge With Unhinged Take on Casey DeSantis and 'Handmaid's Tale'. 

At Da Wire, Trafalgar Pollster Signals Republican Voters Will Be Undercounted Again Ahead Of Midterms. Fletch Daniels at Am Think thinks The Polls are Lying: Dems in Deep Trouble. From Da Caller, ABC News Correspondent Says Democrats Are Doomed For Midterms As Voters Disapprove Of Biden. Nick Arama sees Exciting Movement for GOP in House Races, as Even ABC Admits Biden Is Albatross for Dems. At Town Hall, Kurt Schlichter confidently predicts Democrat Senate Disaster Ahead. At Da Caller Michael McKenna explains The Stars Will Align For Republicans In November. Here’s Why. Larry Thornberry at Am Spec reminds us Florida Is Not Purple — Regardless of the Dems’ Wishful Thinking . 

Nicole Silvero at Da Caller reports Two Shot Outside New York Gov. Nominee Lee Zeldin’s Home While His Children Were Inside. He's running on lawn order. John Hinderacker at Power Line calls it Bringing the War Home. "This was not an assassination attempt inspired by liberal attacks on Zeldin. Apparently the fact that the shootings occurred in front of his house was coincidental. But it will be fodder for Zeldin’s anti-crime stump speeches from now until November."  Miranda Devine at NYPo says After the shooting outside his home, Rep. Lee Zeldin’s fight is clearer than ever, and Carl Campaneli points out his opponent, Hochul slammed for appointing bail-reform advocate as one of her top legal aides. Sauron's Eye is concerned that Ron Johnson and Mandela Barnes in tight Senate race in Wisconsin — CBS News Battleground Tracker poll. The Wa Free Bee notes Johnson Blames Deadly Kenosha Riots On Barnes’s Anti-Police Rhetoric. Fair enough. Also, ‘The Man Is Brilliant’: Mandela Barnes Praised Rev. Jeremiah Wright After Speech Accusing Israel of ‘Ethnic Cleansing.’  At Am Great, Matt Boose rhetorically questions Why Does John Fetterman Have Convicted Murderers on His Payroll? "They are only free now because a political hack who wants to break our justice system found it expedient to let them out." NYPo's Salina Zito gets Inside Dr. Oz’s miracle comeback against John Fetterman in US Senate race.

Jennifer-Ruth Green

KT at Haut Hair, Female House GOP candidate comes out swinging after her sexual assault info is released.  At Fox News, Jennifer-Ruth Green takes aim at political opposition after Politico publishes records of her sexual assault "Green tells Fox News Digital that Politico ran the information about her assault after she pleaded with them not to do so." Probably illegally obtained, too. 

"I'm surprised because Adam Wren spent time in this article focusing on every single detail down to the skirt I was wearing, down to the color of the skirt I was wearing, down to every single knob I touched, all of those things, but yet he writes clinically about one of the worst days of my life," Green added. "He has no idea the concept of being forced to be in a four by four, round circular area, 30 feet in the ground in a tower where you only have windows and a 30-foot drop on the other side, 30-foot drop to escape somebody who was blocking your path [with] somebody who has a clear intent with a weapon in hand, who is focused on trying to take advantage of you, and you're able to escape that with minimal physical harm. And he wants to reduce that to 50 characters."

Following the assault, Green said she was told to keep quiet about the incident by her superiors in the Air Force, as detailed in the Politico report. Green wrote a letter on Oct. 3 to the relevant U.S. attorney, the Air Force Inspector General and the Department of Defense to request a criminal investigation into how the documents were provided to Politico.

"I write to request an investigation into the unauthorized, unlawful release of my Air Force personnel file," Green wrote in the letter, which was obtained by Fox News Digital. "The fact that my file has been leaked in the course of my campaign for United States Congress leads me to believe that it was politically motivated."

Breitbart reports that in Arizona, Democrat Katie Hobbs Says No to Debate with GOP Opponent Kari Lake – ‘No Desire to Be a Part of the Spectacle’. ABC approves, Some leading Democrats won't debate their election-denying opponents, "Candidates in Arizona and elsewhere say they want to avoid combative spectacles." Althouse takes on the controversy in How is sitting in the audience trying to make a debate happen?

I'm trying to read the NBC News article, "Kari Lake was booted from Arizona town hall audience before Hobbs took the stage/The scene, which took place a forum that has yet to air, is emblematic of the contrasting styles of the two candidates in Arizona's tight race for governor."

I have no quarrel with the headline — other than that "booted" suggests physical resistance to removal — but the text is slanted. It begins:

Democrat Katie Hobbs won’t debate her opponent in Arizona’s race for governor, yet Republican Kari Lake tried to make it happen at a candidate town hall that organizers say she disrupted.

Before describing exactly what Lake did, we're pushed to regard it as disruption. And we're told Lake "tried to make [a debate] happen," so I'm picturing Lake getting on the stage and attempting to argue with Hobbs.

Under the agreed-upon rules for the pre-recorded event, which was taped Monday and airs at 7 p.m. Saturday Arizona time, the candidates were not supposed to be onstage at the same time and Hobbs was supposed to go first.

Again, we're pushed to think that Lake got on the stage with Hobbs, and we're told that would violate the specific rules that Lake had agreed to.

But a problem arose before Hobbs even took the stage...

You can't violate the rule against being on stage with the other person if that other person isn't even on the stage. But, more importantly....

Lake was sitting in the front row, in a direct line of sight at where her opponent would sit.

Lake wasn't even on the stage! That should have been revealed in the first paragraph: Lake wasn't on the stage and there was no agreed-upon rule that Lake violated. Lake sat in the audience. Or had they agreed to a rule against sitting in the audience? . . .

At Twitchy,  One more time: Super compilation of leftist blue checks missing Lauren Boebert’s ‘two words’ joke. Mike LaChance at LI on how The Democrat/Media Smear Machine Comes for Herschel Walker in Georgia Senate Race. They should approve of a candidate who pays for abortions! Don Boldouc at Da Caller, The Walls Are Closing In On My Democrat Opponent And Her Campaign Knows It. Sen. Maggie Hassan. Tristan Justice at Da Fed warns Mark Kelly Can’t Hide From His Embrace Of Joe Biden’s Awful Agenda. "There’s one statistic Sen. Mark Kelly can’t run from: The Arizona Democrat has voted with President Joe Biden’s radical agenda more than 94 percent of the time."

PJ Media's Stephen Kruiser calls the Delaware Court overturning of universal mail-in ballots A Victory for Sanity in the Battle Against Mail-In Ballot Madness. Sarah Mantalbano at Am Spec asserts Alaska’s Ranked-Choice Voting Was a Fiasco. Nevada Should Take Note. "It forces voters to strategize like game theorists." Murky got what she wanted out of it. Shawn Fleetwood at Da Fed reports an Arizona County Packed Polls With Democrat Workers And Wants To Bury The Paper Trail, Lawsuits Allege. 

Cathy Salgado at PJ Media sends Democrats Run 50+ 'Local' News Sites in Swing States to Spread 'Fact-Based' Propaganda. Volokh at the Volokh Report corrects media reports of PayPal's censorship climbdown, PayPal Still Threatens $2500 Fines for Promoting "Discriminatory" "Intolerance" (Even if Not "Misinformation")

From Da Caller, ‘It Was Terrifying’: Pro-Life Activist’s Wife Shares How FBI Agents, Guns Drawn, Arrested Her Husband In Front Of Kids “Mark says, ‘Please, I have seven babies in the house. I’m going to open the door, but please, I have seven babies,'” she said. “He opens the door and immediately there’s guns pointed at him, a gun pointed at me on the staircase and another gun over our threshold and scanning the home. Our children were right there … essentially they had guns pointed at them.” Thomas Lifson at Am Think challenges you to Spot the insurrectionists

SNL Second Stringer Offers BJs for Beatings

SNL Writer Offers Oral Sex for Anyone Who Punches MAGA Kid

A Saturday Night Live comedy writer responded to the media’s false story about the Covington High kids by offering oral sex to anyone who punches them in the face.

“I will blow whoever manages to punch that MAGA kid in the face,” tweeted Sarah Beattie.

 Whoever? Boy, does that open the  door to mischief.

“Interesting,” Matt Crouch responded, “so you’re willing to offer fellatio to someone who punches a minor in the face?” “Madonna offered the same thing to guys who voted for Obama… Guess it’s part of that “me too” thing. The women on the left are seriously messed up,” said another respondent.

The tweet was quickly deleted after a backlash, although others about the same issue remain up, including one which states, “oh yes the kid who was marching against women’s reproductive rights while wearing a hat promoting an evil homophobic racist misogynistic sociopath was TOTALLY misrepresented.”

Beattie’s Twitter bio reads, “writer. comedy person. I hate your ex boyfriend. Sorry I meant mine. I have big tits.”

At last she has one thing right.

One of his high school buddies should arrange to punch him consensually, and then try to collect on the bet.

The Wombat was a little late with Rule 5 Monday: Elizabeth Pipko this week.