Archive for 2020
January 9, 2020
SUPER GAFFE-O-MATIC ’76: Joe Biden introduced black singer as ‘Michael Jackson’ at Democratic dinner.
SQUAD GOALS: Rashida Tlaib blames Detroit pollution on ‘environmental racism.’
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COCAINE MITCH PLAYS FOR KEEPS: McConnell backs measure to change Senate rules, dismiss impeachment without articles.
HOUSE PASSES DEMOCRATS’ VIRTUE-SIGNALING WAR POWERS RESOLUTION AGAINST TRUMP: “Sen. Tim Kaine (D-Va.) filed a companion resolution to this War Powers Resolution in the Senate. That resolution faces an uphill battle in the Republican-dominated chamber. In other words, this resolution is not just toothless — it is also unlikely to pass both chambers of Congress. This piece of virtue-signaling seems particularly ill-fated after Trump’s statement calling for deescalation on Wednesday.”
THAT’S NOT HOW IT WORKS. THAT’S NOT HOW ANY OF THIS WORKS: Babson College abandons freedom of expression, fires professor over Facebook post criticizing Trump threat to bomb Iran cultural sites.
NEW SOCIALIST “IT GIRL” CONTINUES TO PAY DIVIDENDS: Barking Mad: PETA Slams AOC for Purchasing Purebred French Bulldog.
And an important “Reality Check” from the HuffPost: Your Dog Is Terrible For The Environment.
How dare you!
JOYLESSLY ACCUSATORY: Bloomberg Visits Virginia, Scolds Gun Owners.
U.S. ISSUED NO-FLY ORDER OVER IRAN, IRAQ HOURS BEFORE UKRAINIAN PLANE DOWNED.
Meanwhile, the Journolist or its 2020 equivalent is hopping today: ‘MSM memo has gone out!’ Neontaster notices media hacks like CNN’s Susan Hennessey using this word to help Iran shift blame for downed flight onto Trump.
THE RISE OF THE NEW PRUDERY.
There were two reasons. The first was the rise of middle-class feminism, which has always been innately hostile to anything unseemly or raucous or improper. All those prim whitebread Little Miss Muffets reading Ms. Magazine loathed salty language, which they associated with machismo, sexuality, and roistering. There has always been a prissy neo-Victorian strain in American feminists. That’s why they are the most boring people on the planet. Here in New York we call these rigid, moralistic vanilla feminists “Bambi-Nazis,” which is a perfectly apt phrase for the mix of Walt Disney and Heinrich Himmler that characterizes their thinking. Bambi-Nazi feminists were instrumental in returning the parameters of public discourse back to where they had been in 1920.
The other reason was the rise to respectability of many of the counterculture’s representatives. Protesters at Berkeley and Columbia grew up and became lawyers, investment brokers, publishers, politicians, journalists, and—most prominently of all—academics.
“Bambi-Nazis.”
NEWS YOU CAN USE: Steve McQueen’s 1968 Bullitt Mustang is up for auction tomorrow. Bought for $3,500, Steve McQueen’s Bullitt car could roll off auction block as “most valuable Mustang ever.”
NEWS YOU CAN USE: What the Hell Is Going On With Carlos Ghosn?
JIM TREACHER: Now Libs Claim Trump Is on Adderall.
Maybe Trump has a cold? Maybe that’s why he was sniffling? But no, that couldn’t be it.
Trump’s super-power is turning everybody else into Trump. If he can get away with being a jerk and saying absolutely anything he wants, why can’t they? It hasn’t worked yet, but they keep doing it. Every single day. They seem determined to hand him another four years.
Oh wait, I forgot, they impeached him. Sort of? I should wait to see what happens with that before making any predictions. After all, Nancy Pelosi is a master legislator.
Wait until the left discovers the rich cocktail of drugs that JFK was consuming, as the wacky right wing conspiracists at — checking notes — PBS report.
PAST PERFORMANCE IS NO GUARANTEE OF FUTURE RESULTS:
Shot: ‘Beloved Hero:’ Chris Matthews Compares Soleimani to Princess Diana and Elvis.
—Red State, today.
Chaser: Matthews: ‘Mullahs’ In GOP Want to Thwart Democracy at GOP Convention.
—NewsBusters, March 2nd, 2016.
JUST DESSERTS: Obama Fueled Bernie’s Rise, Can’t Figure Out How to Stop Him.
Team Obama is clearly worried about the enduring appeal of Democratic Socialist Bernie Sanders to Democratic primary voters, but as we learned from an absolutely delicious Daily Beast item on Monday, Obama and his “top lieutenants” are clueless “how to stop him.”
Hanna Trudo writes, “as Sanders gained new flashes of traction in recent weeks, the former president’s lack of official guidance to halt his momentum, and the scattering of his inner circle to rival campaigns, have hampered any meaningful NeverBernie movement.” Trudo adds that “Obama has reportedly acknowledged problems with Sanders’ vision for the country,” and yet according to the AP, “less than a month before Iowa’s kickoff caucuses, the doubters are being forced to take Sanders seriously.”
In other words, Obama and his former lieutenants worry that Sanders is crazy enough to win the Dem nomination, but too crazy to win the general election. But the root question is: Who unleashed the crazy on the Dems?
Barack Obama, that’s who.
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REVIEW: Walther CCP M2 in .380 ACP.
A WOKE WALLIS SIMPSON: Why is Meghan ditching her duchess role? Because she wants to be the global Queen of Woke.
HE ALSO THREATENS WRECKERS, HOARDERS, SABOTEURS, SHIRKERS, COUNTERREVOLUTIONARIES, TROTSKYITES, KULAKS, AND JEWS. Billionaire Warns Investors of ‘Biggest Risk’ for 2020: Bernie Sanders.
IT’S LIKE THE BURNT HAIRY HAND CASE ALL OVER AGAIN: A woman has pubic hair growing on her face from a crotch skin graft, and doctors are confused.
ROGER KIMBALL: Eliminating Qasem Soleimani was Donald Trump’s Middle East farewell letter. “President Trump’s opponents cannot forgive him his victories. But it has become increasingly clear that it doesn’t matter.”