Archive for 2021
September 18, 2021
THE FBI INFILTRATION DONE WITH USUAL LEVELS OF FBI COMPETENCE:
In the words of Marisa Tomei from My Cousin Vinny: “Oh yeah. You blend.”
UPDATE: From the open thread:
Also:
ANOTHER UPDATE: HEH.
MORE: It gets better:
IT’S ALL GRIFT AND GRAFT AND BULLSHIT:
OPEN THREAD: Dreams unwind and love’s a state of mind.
UPDATE: Some really great 1970s camerawork there, and Stevie Nicks shows that she can belt it, even if she never does on the studio stuff.
JUST BE SURE TO PHONE THE ENEMY BEFORE ATTACKING: U.S. generals planning for a space war they see as all but inevitable.
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IT WON’T BE THE LAST: Joe Biden’s terrible, horrible, no good, very bad day. “By any measure, Friday, September 17, 2021, will go down in the books as one of the worst days of Joe Biden’s presidency. (At least so far, anyway.)”
So far.
UPDATE: Don Surber: President Fubar.
“FUCK JOE BIDEN” CHANTS ARE EVERYWHERE:
WYOMING pic.twitter.com/ZkQVB7y7JL
— Old Row (@OldRowViral) September 18, 2021
KENTUCKY pic.twitter.com/kbWIRz5l6u
— Old Row (@OldRowViral) September 18, 2021
— Old Row (@OldRowViral) September 15, 2021
The left always shows you what it’s afraid of. And they’re afraid of this phenomenon. It shows people aren’t afraid of them, even on college campuses.
And the “legal experts” going on about the dangers of “violent speech” after the four years of actual violence over Trump are hilarious, pathetic, and a disgrace to the profession all at once. Hacks. Or maybe this is a parody. Who can tell anymore?
UPDATE: Folks in the comments say it’s a parody. Like I said, who can tell these days, when most of our betters speak in parody all the time, whether they know it or not. The chants, at any rate, are sincere.
SPLASHDOWN SET FOR 7:06 PM ET: SpaceX’s private Inspiration4 astronauts will return to Earth tonight and you can watch it live.
COLOR ME SUSPICIOUS: Powell orders ethics review after Fed presidents disclosed multimillion-dollar investments.
Do I believe that the Fed presidents have conflicts? Probably. But do I think this is coming out now to provide an excuse for a purge and replacement with loyal henchment? Yes, yes I do.
WHEN SPORTS TRASH-TALK GETS NASTY:
ARNOLD SCHWARZENEGGER SAYS VOTERS WERE RIGHT TO RETAIN NEWSOM, CALLS GOP FIELD ‘DISASTROUS:’
Arnold Schwarzenegger, who became California’s governor in 2003 after a recall, said he was relieved that Gavin Newsom kept his job.
“I think voters made the right decision,” Schwarzenegger said in an interview on Wednesday, the day after Democratic Gov. Newsom beat the recall. “It’s better to stay with someone who you know what they’re going to do, rather than someone who comes in wacky and is changing everything around.”
Still, the Republican added he was hopeful that the special election was a “wake-up call” for Newsom that “makes him perform better.”
Regarding anti-maskers, Schwarzenegger uttered the words “screw your freedom” last month, which also neatly sums up Newsom’s approach to Californians in general.
Which brings us to this headline from America’s Newspaper of Record: Californians Desperate To Escape Cling To Landing Gear Of Last Jet Leaving LAX.
EVERYTHING SEEMINGLY IS SPINNING OUT OF CONTROL: One stunning afternoon: Setbacks imperil Biden’s reset.
WASHINGTON (AP) — It was an hour President Joe Biden would no doubt like to forget.
On Friday, the Pentagon acknowledged that a drone strike in Afghanistan killed 10 civilians, including seven children, not terrorists. A panel advising the Food and Drug Administration voted to not recommend COVID-19 booster shots for all Americans over age 16, dashing an administration hope. And France announced it was recalling its ambassador to the United States out of anger for being cut out of a secret nuclear submarine deal Biden had struck with the United Kingdom and Australia.
The headlines, all within an hour, underscored the perils for any president from situations that can define a term in office.
Already, Biden has seen public approval numbers trend downward as the pandemic has deepened and Americans cast blame for the flawed U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan.
The passive tone in this AP article is just incredible — but it all makes sense when you remember that it’s written by Democratic Party operatives with bylines.
And the hits just keep on coming: Number of Americans Trapped in Afghanistan Exceeds Biden Admin Claims, GOP Lawmaker Says. Rep. Darrell Issa says at least 200 individuals stranded, double Biden’s public claim.
(Classical reference in headline.)
DISPATCHES FROM THE INTERSECTION OF THE EDUCATION APOCALYPSE AND THE MEMORY HOLE: Emory newspaper edits 20-year-old article written by Biden nominee.
The Emory University student newspaper edited an article written by the now-U.S. Solicitor General nominee to remove a quote they described as “harmful for some readers.”
Editors at The Emory Wheel, the student newspaper of Emory University, removed a quote given to then-student editor Elizabeth Barchas, whom President Joe Biden nominated to be the U.S. Solicitor General in August.
Elizabeth Barchas now goes by Elizabeth Barchas Prelogar.
“It’s really disappointing because we think we live in such a modern culture but there’s still so many primitive people out there who think violence is an effective way to show anger or prove a point,” then-freshman Justin Karp originally told the Emory Wheel in a now-archived version of their story after the September 11, 2001 attacks. “We’re better than that.”
The article, “Students react to national crisis with disbelief, hope,” was re-published on September 11 and omits the quote provided by Karp, with an editor’s note stating that his words “may be harmful for some readers.”
Not least of whom include Comrade Ogilvy.
UNEXPECTEDLY: AOC’s ‘Tax the Rich’ dress designer Aurora James owes debt in multiple states.
The company racked up three open tax warrants in New York state for failing to withhold income taxes from employees’ paychecks totaling $14,798, the state Department of Taxation and Finance told The Post. The debts — which were incurred before the pandemic — stem from 2018 and 2019. The company has been hit with 15 warrants in total since 2015.
The company got into a deeper hole with the feds. Between April 2018 and April 2019, the Internal Revenue Service placed six federal liens on Cultural Brokerage Agency totaling $103,220. The liens specifically cite the company’s failure to remit employee payroll taxes.
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While James apparently has no problem stiffing the Taxman, she isn’t shy about taking money from taxpayers — her company received in $41,666 in pandemic relief aid.
Strike a pose, there’s nothing to it.
K-12 IMPLOSION UPDATE: Concerned parents lash out at L.A. history teacher’s ‘F*** the police’ poster in LA classroom.
WORD IS THAT THEY WERE CHANTING “FUCK JOE BIDEN” AT THE TENNESSEE GAME AGAIN TODAY. The #Resistance continues!
NEWS YOU CAN USE: Why Defensive Firearms Training Is So Important.
USCCR’s REPORT ON MATERNAL MORTALITY: In its report released this week, the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights tries to make the case that racial disparities in maternal mortality are caused by racism. As one of my colleagues put it, “Black women are treated differently in the maternity ward than others in terms of being listened to, and recognized as custodians of their own care, and advocates of their own care.” In my dissenting statement, I point out that Hispanic and Asian mothers have lower rates of maternal mortality than white mothers. Make of that what you will.
JIM TREACHER: It’s the Same Vaccine, No Matter Who’s President.
Joy Reid is a shameless hypocrite. She keeps screaming about people who are hesitant about a vaccine, which she was also hesitant about until she wasn’t.
Reid has been trying to defend herself, but unfortunately for her, she has to rely on the logic and rhetorical skills of Joy Reid:
Yeah, here’s the thing about that: IT’S LITERALLY THE SAME VACCINE. It didn’t magically transform from a bad vaccine to a good vaccine, or vice versa, just because we elected a new president. There’s not a “Trump vaccine” and a “Biden vaccine.” It’s literally the same stuff! It’s the same physical matter residing in the same universe. The only thing that’s different now is a few misfiring neurons in the brains of partisan morons like Joy Reid.
This is the woman who managed to keep her awful MSNBC show after claiming that some homophobic posts on her old blog, which she wrote before anybody even knew who she was, were planted there by a hacker. That’s right, some hacker got into a time machine, went back to 2010, and tried to ruin Joy Reid’s career by making it look like she hates gay people. She’s always loved science fiction.
More here: Reid Lies About Ben Shapiro, Insists It Was Good to Be Anti-Vax Under Trump.
NEWS YOU CAN USE: Data Study: 18 Months of Ammo Sales during a Pandemic, Protests, and the Biden Presidency.
To give a pre-pandemic baseline of sorts, over the past 18 months our overall sales have increased as follows:
590% increase in revenue
604% increase in transactions
271% increase in site traffic
77% increase in conversion rateThis data is from February 23, 2020 – August 23, 2021, when compared to the previous 18 months (August 24, 2018 – February 22, 2020).
Much more at the link.