FAILED PRESIDENCY: White House Report Card: Biden stumbling over inflation, vaccination failures, and polls.
Related: Biden tormented by Republican guerrilla campaign and ‘I did it’ stickers.
Also: 100Pcs I Did That Biden Funny Car Stickers. #Resist #CommissionEarned
GREAT MOMENTS IN GASLIGHTING: Brian Williams in MSNBC Farewell Message: ‘I’m Not a Liberal or a Conservative.’
NewsBusters begs to differ: 11th Hour Hits Midnight: Here’s the Worst Moments From Lyin’ Brian at MSNBC.
TOP SELLER: Hammermill Printer Paper, Made in the USA. #CommissionEarned
ROBERT HEINLEIN FOR THE WIN: Rereading “Blowups Happen” I ran across a reference to “the pandemic neuroses of the Crazy Years.” And here we are . . .
GREAT MOMENTS IN GASLIGHTING: Biden on Approval Ratings: People Are Getting ‘Inaccurate Information’ ‘About Their Situation’ and Are Worried about COVID.
COVID, eh? How’s ‘shutting down the virus’ going, Joe?
JOE FRIDAY, CALL YOUR OFFICE! LAPD union head warns tourists to stay away from the city: “We can’t guarantee your safety.”
The head of the Los Angeles Police Department’s union has a message for tourists planning a trip to the city this holiday season – don’t do it. Don’t go to Los Angeles. That’s quite a message coming from the second-largest city in the United States. The rising crime rate running rampant across the country is hitting Los Angeles especially hard.
Jamie McBride, head of the union representing LAPD officers, said he can’t guarantee personal safety. His warning came with a movie reference.
“My message to anyone thinking about coming to Los Angeles, especially during the holiday season, is don’t,” Jamie McBride, the head of the LA Police Protective League, the union representing LAPD officers, said in a television interview. The message from McBride comes as what many residents and business owners view as a wave of crime slamming the city and surrounding areas.
“We can’t guarantee your safety. It is really, really out of control. I said it to people before, it’s like that movie ‘Purge,’ you know, instead of 24 hours to commit your crime, these people have 365 days to commit whatever they want,” McBride said.
McBride is referencing the 2013 horror film where all crime, including murder, is decriminalized one day of the year.
Related: Soros-Backed DA Wants Jacqueline Avant’s Killer to Serve Less Time. “What to do as the chief prosecutor when your city is in shock and outrage over the shooting murder of 81-year-old philanthropist Jacqueline Avant in her own home? If you’re Los Angeles District Attorney George Gascon, you leap immediately into action with a fundraising email ‘asking for money to push through a bill removing extra prison time for using a gun during a crime.’”
Earlier: San Francisco’s vaunted tolerance dims amid brazen crimes.
BIDEN VOTERS POSTING THEIR L’S ONLINE: “Kamala Harris Needs to Get Serious,” says Peggy Noonan:
The Washington insider path is closed to Ms. Harris because she’s relatively new to town and her president’s experience dwarfs hers.
But here’s something she could do for Mr. Biden to be useful to his larger project. She could lend what skills she has to the public presentation of the administration’s stands. Mr. Biden isn’t strong there; he’s uneven in his attempts to explain and advance policy thinking.
To do this Ms. Harris would have to decide to become serious—to inform and immerse herself, meet with party thinkers, study her briefing books. Her current strategy, to the extent it exists, appears to rely on her sense of her own personal charisma—delighted laughter, attempts to connect personally, to convey zest.
She should speak instead with sincerity and depth. She shouldn’t confuse Happy Warrior with Hungry Operative.
Ms. Harris has never seemed especially earnest. This would be a good time for earnestness.
Would a new and serious Kamala Harris be spoofed? Yes, but it would be a better kind of spoofing. Let them say you look chastened: People would be relieved to see you look chastened. Let them snidely suggest you had previously hidden your serious side. You did. Let them say you’ve been humbled. You should be. So far you’ve got a lot to be humble about.
Get your mind off yourself, give America a break, get this thing turned around.
Good luck with that happening by the Klain administration. As Scott Johnson writes at Power Line, in “High Noonan: Return to Kamala edition,” “Noonan is pathetic. Noonan’s popularity as a Journal columnist may justify the editors’ persistence in turning over the paper’s valuable editorial page real estate to her on a weekly basis, but I trust they are embarrassed by it.”
You don’t get to be “against the rich” if the richest people in the country fund your party in order to preserve their government-sponsored monopolies. You are not “a supporter of free speech” if you oppose free speech for people who disagree with you. You are not “for the people” if you pit most of them against each other based on the color of their skin, or force them out of their jobs because of personal choices related to their bodies. You are not “serious about economic inequality” when you happily order from Amazon without caring much for the devastating impact your purchases have on the small businesses that increasingly are either subjugated by Jeff Bezos’ behemoth or crushed by it altogether. You are not “for science” if you refuse to consider hypotheses that don’t conform to your political convictions and then try to ban critical thought and inquiry from the internet. You are not an “anti-racist” if you label—and sort!—people by race. You are not “against conformism” when you scare people out of voicing dissenting opinions.
When “the left” becomes the party of wealthy elites and state security agencies who preach racial division, state censorship, contempt for ordinary citizens and for the U.S. Constitution, and telling people what to do and think at every turn, then that’s the side you are on, if you are “on the left”—those are the policies and beliefs you stand for and have to defend. It doesn’t matter what good people “on the left” believed and did 60 or 70 years ago. Those people are dead now, mostly.
Welcome to the party, pal.
Related: “And progressives—I count myself as one of them—do ruin cities. Or, at least, they put in place policies that cause profound harm to the people living in them. An obvious case-in-point is the call to defund the police. It’s a slogan that fits nicely on a bumper sticker, but what are its consequences in practice?”
WEIRDLY, NO. MOST PARENTS DON’T WISH TO TORTURE THEIR CHILDREN Jen Psaki defends schools forcing children to eat outside in frigid weather due to COVID fears: “I think the vast majority of parents appreciate that”.
Though much is made clearer about Jen’s upbringing…
I SEE. SO THEY’RE A PUBLISHER, RIGHT? BOMBSHELL: In court filing, Facebook admits ‘fact checks’ are nothing more than opinion.
SHOCKED, SHOCKED, SHOCKED: Apple Gives $275 Billion to China.
At this rate, my shocked face will wear out.
WHY ARE LIBERAL BASTIONS SUCH CESSPITS OF SEXISM AND ABUSE? Chris Cuomo’s CNN producer charged with luring girls for ‘sexual’ training.
NOOOO. WHERE IS MY SHOCKED FACE??? New study suggests natural immunity is more protective over time than COVID-19 vaccine.
A LONG TRAIN OF ABUSES AND USURPATIONS: Minnesota Bistro Owner Sentenced With 90 Days in Jail and $1,000 Fine For Defying COVID Lockdown Order.
In case you wondered where we were right about now….
NOW THEY TELL US: CDC: About 75 Percent of Omicron Cases Are in Fully Vaccinated People.
WELL, CHINA DID BUY HIM: Energy dichotomy: Asian coal gains momentum as Biden undermines US economy.
Who knew old Joe was an honest politician who would stay bought?
NAH. COVID WAS THE EXCUSE. THE REALITY IS THAT THIS IS THE LEFT’S DESPERATE ATTEMPT TO HOLD ON TO POWER: We broke everything in the name of COVID.
And in the end it will finish them.
‘BITE THEM’ IS A WEIRD WAY TO SPELL ‘END UP WITH THEIR HEADS ON PIKES’: The Great Reset Crowd’s Overreach Will Come Back to Bite Them.
BEHOLD, MY SHOCKED FACE! Neil Oliver Says Enough is Enough – The U.K. Elite Created COVID Propaganda and Fear While they Danced and Partied at Christmas.
It was enough a year ago. And more than enough.
BECAUSE IT’S MORE FUN FOR THEM IF THEY LIE TO YOUR FACE WHILE CONTRADICTING THEMSELVES: Biden Warns of Autocracy One Day After He Promised to Veto Democratic Vote to Remove His Unilateral Vaccine Mandate.
I HEAR THERE’S DRAGONS IN THAT THERE TERRA INCOGNITA: Sailing Past the Script.
But you know, there’s weasels here.
GOOD: China’s SenseTime Hong Kong IPO in limbo after U.S. blacklisting. “Chinese artificial intelligence startup SenseTime Group is considering whether it can proceed with a planned $767 million Hong Kong initial public offering after the U.S. added it to an investment blacklist, two sources familiar with the situation told Reuters. The sources said on Saturday that the company had not yet made a final decision on whether to go ahead with the listing, while one added that it would consider whether to make additional risk disclosures if it proceeds.”
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