OOPS, THEY DID IT AGAIN: Trump Responds to Washington Post’s Fake Quotes Scandal. “While I appreciate the Washington Post’s correction, which immediately makes the Georgia Witch Hunt a non-story, the original story was a Hoax, right from the very beginning.”
Archive for 2021
March 16, 2021
SEGREGATION NOW, SEGREGATION TOMORROW, SEGREGATION FOREVER: Columbia University hosting 6 separate graduation ceremonies based on income level, race, ethnicities.
VODKAPUNDIT PRESENTS YOUR DAILY INSANITY WRAP: Six Weeks Since Biden Saw His Shadow and He Still Hasn’t Come Back Out.
Insanity Wrap needs to know: How can you tell that Joe Biden has gone yet another record-setting day without an initial press conference?
Answer: POLITICO is spinning it as a “largely gaffe-free White House.”
Before we get to the sordid details, a quick preview of today’s Wrap.
- Seattle responds to police shortage with additional budget cuts
- Hysterical video of the White House playing musical step-stools at the presidential lectern
- Female soldiers are just as good as male soldiers unless they don’t have to be
Bonus Sanity: 13th Gen — Abort, Retry, Save the World?
And so much more at the link, you’d have to be crazy to miss it.
PAST PERFORMANCE IS NO GUARANTEE OF FUTURE RESULTS:
● Shot: Here it is: The tweet of the day.
—Not the Bee, yesterday.
● Chaser:
At the school bus stop this morning my neighbor gave the best summation of the debate I’ve heard so far. Referring to VP Joe Biden’s rude-a-thon, he said: “At church dinners, I’ve sat a table away from that guy a hundred times. He’s the guy everyone wants to get away from.” Precisely so.
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The sheer jerkiness of the man certainly comes through. But there is an issue going beyond Biden’s abject rudeness (which according to snap polls and focus groups last night went over like a lead balloon with actual voters).
David Brooks, a good barometer of moderate thinking, put it this way: “This is not just an issue of manners. It is: How are we going to practice the kind of politics that will help us avert the so-called fiscal cliff? How are we going to balance the crosscutting challenges, like increasing growth while reducing long-term debt? A lot of people will look at Biden’s performance and see a style of politics that makes complex trade-offs impossible. The people who think this way swing general elections.”
Moreover, the obvious contempt with which both halves of the Democratic ticket hold their opponents (Obama couldn’t even look Mitt Romney in the eye) reinforces the impression that Obama can’t get along with political opponents. The president’s complete inability to work with Congress (as Bob Woodward detailed in “The Price of Politics”) and his hyper-partisanship have characterized his four years in office. This is not only a repudiation of his post-partisan appeal, but a formula for gridlock and ongoing acrimony. This is what many voters despise about politics.
The contrast between Obama-Biden and Romney-Ryan could not be greater, and the independent voters who despise partisan bickering now have a vivid portrayal of two very different approaches to governing.
—“Biden loses his cool, Dems lose independents,” Jennifer Rubin, the Washington Post, October 12, 2012.
NOBODY WANTS TO DEFEND THE INDEFENSIBLE: Biden, Harris, Psaki and Other Top Staffers Afraid to Appear in Sunday News Shows.
AT CAFE HAYEK, a roundup of Covid links.
ONE YEAR AGO TODAY: Trump Announces 15-Day Plan to Slow Coronavirus Spread.
IT’S DIFFERENT WHEN ANTIFA USE IT: Double-Standard Justice: Two Charged With Using Bear Spray on Officer Brian Sicknick at Capitol Hill Riot.
IT’S NOT MEANT TO BE LOGICAL, IT’S MEANT TO BE OPPRESSIVE: Dianne Feinstein’s Latest ‘Assault Weapon’ Bill Is Just As Illogical As All the Previous Ones.
IT’S A BUST THEN: For Texas Dems, It’s Beto or Bust Against Abbott in ’22. “Texas Democrats need O’Rourke because they have no one else who can beat Abbott, a well-known political figure with a huge campaign fund and formidable grassroots army. O’Rourke would also be likely to lose to Abbott, but would give Democrats a credible candidate who can raise money, develop and deploy a volunteer army and — for the first time since 2014 — force Abbott to focus on his reelection bid, instead of using his considerable resources to help down-ballot Republicans.”
What’s really going on here is O’Rourke’s enduring appeal to progressives, and Democrats’ ongoing, long-term effort to turn Texas blue.
PRO TIP: THEY NEVER WILL BE. Coke Went Woke and, as Expected, the Left Still Isn’t Happy.
ONE HAND WASHES THE OTHER: Here’s how much American academia spent lobbying the federal government.
HELPING THE LESS-FORTUNATE: Fundraiser set up for Meghan and Harry to raise £7.1m to pay off mortgage on mansion.
PRIORITIES: Biden’s ‘Rescue Plan’ Will Sic the IRS on Anyone Who Earns $600 in the Gig Economy.
Buried inside the 600-page bill that’s ostensibly meant to provide pandemic relief is a provision requiring gig economy platforms to report information to the IRS about all users who earn at least $600 in a year. Previously, platforms were only required to provide the IRS with information on users who made at least 200 transactions or earned at least $2,000.
The tightening of the reporting requirements means a lot more paperwork and tax compliance requirements for platforms. It also means more tax headaches for anyone who might use those platforms to earn a little extra cash. Anyone earning a sizable income via rental properties on Airbnb was already covered by the old rules, meaning this change will only affect low earners. Now, even the sale of a single expensive piece of old furniture on eBay or running deliveries for Uber Eats in your spare time might trigger the new reporting requirements.
Big Government, Goodfellas style.
WELL, NO DEMOCRATS, ANYWAY: No one running for New York mayor seems to care about crime. Curtis Sliwa is running.
KRUISER’S MORNING BRIEF: The Washington Post Kills Puppies When You’re Not Looking. “The mainstream media in the United States of America has been openly cheerleading for Democrats for well over half a century now. If any of the people who participate in this propaganda party want me to back that up I’d be more than happy to lock them in a room and force them to read my body of work on the subject that spans more than two decades. They’ll still deny their complicity in pimping the Democratic narrative but we will have at least kept them away from inflicting harm on our freedom for a while.”
TO BE FAIR, SO IS HIS ENTIRE PRESIDENCY: Biden’s fake claims about coronavirus vaccine unseemly.
President Biden’s blatant attempt to steal the credit for the so far successful coronavirus vaccine rollout is unseemly and inaccurate — revealing just how insecure Biden is when it comes to the political optics of his new administration.
The White House is so desperate to wipe away any vestige of Donald Trump’s administration that it’s resorting to fake claims about the vaccine and pumping up Biden’s alleged heroics.
In his address to the nation last week, Biden made several totally “misleading” claims that even the liberal New York Times and CNN were able to uncover.
The Democratic president said the beginning stages of the virus in 2020 were “met with silence and spread unchecked, denials for days, weeks, then months.”
Excuse me, Trump silent?
Not even the most sycophantic Biden booster would say that the former president was quiet.
In fact he put together the coronavirus task force in early 2020 and gave a March speech to the nation from the Oval Office on the virus.
Trump surely tried to downplay the severity of the virus for months, but he held near daily briefings, subjecting himself to harsh questions from the media.
Here’s another whopper — Biden’s statement that “two months ago this country didn’t have enough vaccine supply to vaccinate all or anywhere near all of the American public. But soon we will.”
Biden is making it sound like the supply magically appeared only after he became president. Trump during his term ordered some 800 million doses of vaccines that were developed or in development — enough to vaccinate all of the nation.
In another “misleading” claim, Biden says when he took office only 8% of Americans under 65 had gotten their first shot.
“Today that number is 65%,” Biden boasted.
Again, the reason for the big jump is because health care workers, first responders and nursing home residents were prioritized in most states to get the virus first. It wasn’t because of anything Biden did.
Trump in fact launched and supported “Operation Warp Speed” which helped spur the development of at least three successful vaccines so far.
You won’t hear those three words anymore.
They just keep lying. To be fair, it’s not like they face any actual consequences.
WHY DO DEMOCRATIC GOVERNORS HATE GRANDMA? New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy’s Office Was Warned On Nursing Home Policy: ‘Patients Will Die.’
RETURN TO NORMALCY: Washington D.C. Falls Under Permanent Military Occupation: When are the troops leaving? Never, if the Democrats have their way.
Nothing says we totally won a legit election, you guys, like surrounding the Capitol with troops and razor wire.
NONSENSE, THAT WOULD BE JOURNALISM, AND THE PRESS DOESN’T DO THAT ANYMORE:
NICE: DuckDuckGo uses App Store privacy labels to call out Google for ‘spying’ on users.
I’ve been using DuckDuckGo’s search engine for years, but increasingly they’re becoming a full-spectrum privacy services company.
THE DEMOCRATS’ DESIRE TO USE TROOPS AGAINST THEIR POLITICAL ENEMIES IS PALPABLE: Congressman Brings National Guard To Confront Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene Over Guam Status Gaffe: Uniformed National Guard engaging in a political protest directed at a Congressman, in the halls of the Capitol no less, is another sign the military is being politicized. “After the attacks by official military Twitter accounts and officials on Tucker Carlson for his criticism of military wokeness, this stunt of using the National Guard to confront a Congressman is another sign of how politicized the military is becoming in the service of Democrats.”
Though to be fair, a platoon of the Guam National Guard vs. Marjorie Taylor Greene is pretty even odds.