December 2, 2024

BIDEN’S TWO-TIERED JUSTICE:

No reason for Trump not to pardon the Jan. 6 “offenders” on January 20.

Posted at 1:44 pm by Stephen Green

JIM GERAGHTY: The Biden Crime Family Gets Away with It.

This was predictable, and predicted, because no matter how many times Joe Biden looked you in the eye or television camera and gave you his “word as a Biden,” the overwhelming majority of us knew it was — to use one of the president’s terms — “malarkey.” To be a Biden is to be above the law, and that’s been clear for a long time.

You know whose life got a lot easier late last night after news of the Hunter Biden pardon broke? Trump’s choice to be the next FBI director, Kash Patel. Because Senate Democrats are going to argue that the country can’t have partisan politics and personal loyalties and connections to the president mucking around in the justice system. And Senate Republicans are just going to laugh.

Hey, look at the bright side, you probably didn’t stick your neck out arguing, “People who insist Biden will pardon Hunter after specifically ruling it out are telling on themselves. . . . They can’t imagine someone acting on principle and keeping his word.”

And thus Team Biden comes full circle:

Posted at 1:35 pm by Ed Driscoll

TRUE, AND SENATORS NEED TO HEAR FROM CONSTITUENTS:

Posted at 1:30 pm by Glenn Reynolds

NEW JAAAAAAG DESIGN LEAKED: Jaguar’s ‘Barbie pink’ electric car leaked online. Images appearing to show the concept vehicle draw comparisons with Thunderbirds and Pink Panther.

Jaguar’s controversial new concept electric car has been leaked online – showing the vehicle in Barbie pink.

Images appearing to show the new model have been posted on X by Autocar magazine showing the sleek, low-slung vehicle with a long bonnet and wide grille.

The car, which will be officially unveiled at Miami Art Week tonight, is shown in bold pink and metallic blue.

The hot pink vehicle has drawn comparisons with the FAB 1 car driven by Lady Penelope in Thunderbirds and the Barbie car. Others have suggested that Jaguar should be renamed Pink Panther in light of the overhaul.

My immediate take is that the new Jag is hideous — it looks like someone mated Elon Musk’s Cybertruck with the 1990s-era Batman: The Animated Series Batmobile:

When Jag’s new ad campaign dropped, many people speculated as to who the heretofore unseen new car would be aimed at — and now we know. Remember the “Ambiguously Gay Duo” from the 1996-2011-era of Saturday Night Live? Gentlemen of the crime fighting world, your new “bold pink” electric steed awaits!

Exit quote:

Related: Periodic Roundup of the EV Follies. “A fool and his money are soon parted, and there are a lot of credentialed fools who bought into the EV hype.”

Posted at 1:22 pm by Ed Driscoll

HMM: Study finds widespread use of unregulated molecular urine tests in older adults. “Although urine culture is the traditional test for UTI, multiplex panels produce faster results, are more analytically sensitive, and can simultaneously detect multiple pathogens and some antibiotic-resistance genes. While the Food and Drug Administration has approved multiplex molecular syndromic panels for bloodstream, respiratory, and other types of infections, it has not approved any such test for UTI diagnosis. However, the panels exist as laboratory-developed tests, and they can be used in labs certified under the Clinical Laboratory Improvement Amendments of 1988.”

Posted at 1:00 pm by Glenn Reynolds

CHANGE: Costco to stop selling books year-round at most stores starting in January.

Membership warehouse chain Costco is axing most of its book sections, ending year-round sales of books at most of its over 600 U.S. locations starting in January.

The first rumblings of the move came last summer when the retailer told publishers that books would be stocked during only the holiday season from September to December starting in 2025, unnamed publishing executives told The New York Times.

Stores in some markets, like Alaska and Hawaii, had already stopped book sales.

It seems like a shame but, except for the occasional coffee-table book or prepper guide, I can’t remember the last title I purchased that wasn’t an ebook.

Posted at 12:42 pm by Stephen Green

#JOURNALISM:

Posted at 12:27 pm by Glenn Reynolds

NBC NEWS: Biden’s Lying About Pardoning Hunter Was Part of the Plan. As Charles Cooke writes:

In case you missed the key line, I’ll print it again:

They said it was decided at the time that he would publicly say he would not pardon his son even though doing so remained on the table.

Astonishing.

Karol Markowicz adds:

Ben Domenech writes: Hunter’s pardon is the legacy of Joe Biden’s weakness.

Democrats and their media cogs will write this off as the action of a loving father. But it isn’t. It’s doing the same thing that these partisans have always done — give Hunter Biden a pass, treating him like he’s a dysfunctional teenager instead of a pompous fifty-four-year-old prick whose day job is as a corrupt artist and night job is “sober-ish” in the mid-Atlantic sense. The Big Guy is cut from the same hypocritical cloth. He won’t even meet his granddaughter — I have. She’s lovely and polite — and I gave her a fruit snack. Joe should try it sometime.

Love sometimes requires you to be tough, to require honorable consequences, especially in the face of addiction of all forms. But Joe Biden is not tough or honorable. He just wears the aviators to make him look like he is. No one ever really bought it — and now we know for sure.

It’s also the legacy of a media that cheerfully defended Biden for years: Straight-FAFO! Scott Jennings Takes CNN Panelist Apart for Claiming Biden Didn’t Lie About Hunter Pardon.

Former Hillary flack Karen Finney’s smirks and eye-rolls during this segment are telling, as he reminds her, “You don’t have to defend this. He’s leaving office. You don’t have to defend it. You don’t have to die on this hill. You can say this is wrong, because everybody knows that it is. It’s wrong.” Jennings asks, “Are you fine with the lying? Are you fine with him sitting before the election all year and lying to the American people? Are you fine with the lying about it?”

Yes, the entire DNC-MSM decided it’s perfectly fine with Biden’s lying, even as he’s headed out the door, and in their enabling of it over the last five years, ever since began his presidential run.

Exit quote:

Posted at 12:00 pm by Ed Driscoll

THE KAVENAUGHING OF KASH PATEL HAS BEGUN:

Fun!

If this is the best they’ve got on Patel, I like his chances.

UPDATE (FROM GLENN): This tweet appears to have been deleted. So I guess they don’t even have this on him.

Posted at 11:40 am by Stephen Green

WELL, YES: Former Democratic lawmaker says party needs ‘rebrand’ post-Trump win.

Former Rep. Tim Ryan (D-Ohio) criticized the structure of his party during a Saturday appearance on MSNBC’s “The Weekend.”

“We need a rebrand. I think you and I have been talking about this since 2016,” Ryan said in the clip highlighted by Mediate. “Like, our brand is toxic in so many places and it is like, you are a Democrat? That’s the stuff we get like in Ohio.”

The lawmaker said Democrats need a complete “reboot” echoing other party leaders after a somewhat unexpected landslide loss in November where Republicans claimed the House, the Senate and the White House.

“We need a complete reboot. We need a complete reboot with the DNC. We need a complete rebranding. We got to get back established into our values,” Ryan said.

“What does it mean to be a Democrat? People want to trust us. They don’t want to go to Donald Trump.”

“Not Trump” was pretty much the party’s brand this year, Mr. Ryan. How’d that work out for you?

Posted at 10:38 am by Stephen Green

PUSHBACK WORKS: After uproar, Georgetown law delays pregnant student’s exam so she can give birth.“Initially, the law school refused to grant Brittany Lovely’s request, telling her ‘Motherhood is not for the Faint of Heart,’ according to a petition created by her classmates.”

This is the same university that was setting up a “self-care suite” with legos, crayons, and milk and cookies for students traumatized by Trump’s win. Faint of heart indeed.

Related:

Posted at 10:30 am by Glenn Reynolds

SCIENCE MARCHES ON: Loving the Brine Shrimp: Exploring Queer Feminist Blue Posthumanities to Reimagine the ‘America’s Dead Sea.’ “The article aims to transform narratives surrounding Utah’s Great Salt Lake, often referred to as “America’s Dead Sea,” by reimagining how brine shrimp (Artemia franciscana) are perceived in science, culture, and art. It introduces the concept of hydrosexuality to bridge these realms, thereby enriching feminist blue posthumanities and feminist biology through art-based practices and queer advocacy. By navigating the environmental narrative of the GSL, the hydrosexual perspective challenges settler science by exploring the connections between the reproductive system of brine shrimp and the economy, ecology and culture.”

Posted at 10:02 am by Glenn Reynolds

I QUESTION THE FUTURE OF THE UK, PERIOD: Man arrested for ‘kapo’ slur questions Jewish future in Britain. The UK is prosecuting one person for referring to Jew haters as … “Jew haters,” and another for referring to a leftist rabbi as a “fake rabbi” and “kapo.” Meanwhile, mobs of antisemites shout genocidal slogans in the street unmolested. Thank goodness for the First Amendment…

Posted at 9:53 am by David Bernstein