Archive for 2022
September 21, 2022
I DID IT BY SHOPPING AT BROOKS BROTHERS: How Catholics became the new WASPs.
GRANNY-KILLER CUOMO UPDATE: Andrew Cuomo bashes Biden, Democrats for not standing by him during sexual harassment scandal: ‘Traumatizing.’
In a remarkably candid new interview, former New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo, D., said it was “traumatizing” and “heartbreaking” to see friends like President Biden and other top Democrats not stand by him when a wave of sexual harassment allegations derailed his career last year.
Asked by New York Post columnist Cindy Adams what friends were with him last year as his governorship collapsed over the misconduct accusations, he replied, “Nobody.” What followed was a series of name-dropping of prominent Democrats who he felt wounded by, likening himself to a “piece of meat,” as well as making a hint at another run for office.
“It was tough. Traumatizing. Biden, a friend 20 years, not knowing details, immediately said about me, ‘He’s got to go.’ Biden had troubles years before and I stood by him,” Cuomo said. “Gave him the benefit of the doubt. It was heartbreaking to see him trash me without reading one page, making one phone call.”
He also blasted Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., and former President Obama, as well as Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., and Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand, D-N.Y.
Flashback: Cuomo Unmasked. The New York governor’s long-running media celebration was largely based on a fiction—his dramatic understatement of Covid-19 deaths in nursing homes.
Cuomo ducked press demands for nursing-home mortality data throughout 2020, even as every other state made the information public. While New York admitted to about 7,000 nursing home deaths, informed estimates put the real count at around 12,000; the state refused to confirm the numbers. Last month, Attorney General Letitia James released a report acknowledging that the real death toll was close to 13,000. In reaction to this news, Cuomo snapped, “Who cares? 33 [percent], 28 [percent]. Died in a hospital. Died in a nursing home. They died.”
But remember, the Luv Gov is the real victim of 2020 — just ask him.
TOWNHALL’S KURT SCHLICHTER LAYS OUT HOW NEW YORK’S LAWSUIT AGAINST DONALD TRUMP WILL GO. “I expect the case will be dropped or tossed after a couple motion to dismiss rounds. Maybe there will be a small, piddling settlement the AG will claim is a victory. It’s not a real lawsuit. It’s lawfare. And I hope red AGs are taking note of the new rules.”
WHICH N.C. SCHOOLS HAVE BIAS RESPONSE TEAMS? My alma mater Duke, of course, has them, and yet somehow the “bias” continues. Weird, huh? Honestly, you ought to be ashamed to be on one of these teams.
GOODER AND HARDER, SAN FRAN: San Francisco Bicycle Coalition says not to call police about stolen bikes because it hurts ‘Black and brown’ people.
Related: Blue cities collapsing.
K-12 IMPLOSION UPDATE: Seattle-area school tries to ban saying “biological male.” Our ruling class has gone insane.
DISPATCHES FROM FRIENDS OF DOROTHY: Kenya Barris Says Wizard of Oz Remake Will Include LGBTQ Representation to ‘Reflect the World.’
Somewhere over the rainbow, indeed! Kenya Barris tells me that LGBTQ representation will be featured in his “Wizard of Oz” remake. “The original was an allegory and a reflection of the way the world was at the time with things like the Great Depression and the Dust Bowl,” says Barris, who will write and direct the reimagining for Warner Bros. “Now we’re going to turn a mirror on where we’re at right now and take disparate characters from the LGBTQ community, from different cultural communities and socioeconomic communities, and tell a story that reflects the world. I think this is the best time to do that.”
He understands a “Wizard of Oz” remake comes with tremendous pressure. “I’m nervous,” Barris tells me. “Hopefully, my movie can last as long as the original does.” He adds with a laugh: “Hopefully my movie comes out.”
Another “Wizard of Oz” remake is also in the works at New Line Cinema with Nicole Kassell (“Watchmen”) directing.
Barris’ list of recent scripts and projects in development at IMDB include a slew of remakes and sequels:
- Uptown Saturday Night
- White Men Can’t Jump
- Cheaper by the Dozen
- Coming 2 America
- Shaft
In his latest video, discussing Disney’s current obsession with memberberries, the Critical Drinker shouts, “Enough with the Remakes!” (NSFW language warning.)
HE’S JUST A LITTLE SILHOUETTO OF A MAN: Justin Trudeau is in trouble for singing “Bohemian Rhapsody” 2 days before the Queen’s funeral.
READER FAVORITE: Merrell Men’s Moab 2 Vent Mid Hiking Boot. #CommissionEarned
DON’T MERGE IT WITH NOMAD: When Voyager 1 goes dark, what comes next?
QUESTION ASKED AND ANSWERED: Do Biden’s words even matter anymore?
On the subject of Taiwan and China, Biden once again stated that Taiwan would be defended militarily should mainland China stage an invasion to reclaim the island. Before the show was even over, the White House had put out a statement saying that America’s One China policy remains unchanged.
Yet most telling was when Pelley accompanied Biden to the Detroit Auto Show, and he took note that the convention was going on without masks or social distancing or vaccine mandates. Pelley asked Biden very directly, “Is the pandemic over?” “The pandemic is over,” Biden responded. “We still have a problem with Covid. We’re still doing a lot of work on it. It’s — but the pandemic is over.” This wasn’t a gaffe. This wasn’t a slip-up. He reiterated it again in his response.
This left the White House in yet another bind on issues from student loan forgiveness to immigration restrictions to vaccine mandates, all of which to one degree or another are premised on the idea that we’re in a pandemic. Biden’s words could jeopardize legal cases his administration might be preparing. His usual media defenders, like the Washington Post and NPR, sprang into action to spin Biden’s own words. Politico and CNN were given statements that in fact the pandemic is not over.
Biden’s own staffers are undermining the nominal president’s statement: White House cleans up Biden’s ‘very consistent’ claim pandemic is ‘over.’ “Biden’s press secretary said Wednesday that the president was speaking about public sentiment, not the state of emergency, during a headline-grabbing 60 Minutes interview that appeared to throw into disarray his administration’s agenda. ‘Just to step back for a second, when he made those comments, he was walking through the Detroit car show, the halls of the Detroit car show, he was looking around. We have to remember the last time that they had held that event was three years ago,’ Karine Jean-Pierre said during an appearance on MSNBC Wednesday. ‘We are in a different time. He’s been very consistent about that.’”
As Dan McLaughlin wrote in July, “Biden could put a stop to the public walkbacks immediately by firing one or more people for publicly contradicting him. There are two overlapping reasons why he hasn’t done that: He isn’t willing to stand up to his own staff, and at some level, he grasps that they keep walking back things that he should never have said in the first place. If you have spent much time around elderly men with declining faculties, you will recognize the all-too-common pattern of lashing out because they need help for things they could once do themselves, rather than being thankful for the help.”
WAS JESUS THE FIRST CONSERVATIVE? That is not entirely a rhetorical question since, whether you are a Burkean traditionalist, a Reaganite fusionist, a Paleo-Con, a Trump Ultra MAGA or an agnostic libertarian, a case can be made that, historically speaking, the essential underlying concept for limited government and individual liberty begins with “rendering unto Caesar what is Caesar’s and unto God what is God’s.”
Even so, in my view, and I suspect that of anybody else who is passably familiar with Scripture, Jesus is infinitely more important than such temporal concerns even while providing the ultimate ordering context for all of them. I am regularly asked these days why I believe that, and the fact is, there are two rather basic reasons (not the only, but the most important). I explain them on HillFaith today.
LEAVE THOSE KIDS ALONE: Your Tax Dollars Fund a Group Pushing ‘Transgender Identity’ on Two-Year-Olds.
I WONDER WHAT THEY’LL PLUG INTO: California seeks to ban sales of diesel big rig trucks in bold bid to cut pollution.
ROGER SIMON: Some Modest Proposals for Govs. DeSantis, Abbott to Continue Their Excellent Work.
Gentlemen, here are some possible destinations where I am certain these excess illegal aliens (excuse me, “poor undocumented souls”) will be welcomed with the most open of charitable arms, as they were in Martha’s Vineyard. These people, after all, are “progressive.”
They care.
- Aspen, Colorado (especially during an important “elite” conference)
- Bill Gates’s house in Medina, Washington
- BlackRock CEO Larry Fink’s house in North Salem, New York
- Nancy Pelosi’s vineyard in Napa (but tell them to be careful of drunk drivers)
- Alejandro Mayorkas’s tennis club (yes, he plays)
- John Kerry’s private jet before taking off for the next “climate” conference
- The Harvard Kennedy School on the day of Brian Stelter’s first class.
Feel free to add your suggestions in the comments. I tried to keep this a little bit light, but the situation isn’t.
To say we are living in dark times is an understatement. When the FBI is grabbing Mike Lindell’s cellphone at a Hardee’s, in a manner that my friend John Hinderaker properly compares to the Gestapo, you know you’re living in a country not far different from communist China.
Thank God we have a few politicians like DeSantis and Abbott who are prepared to stand up and mock them, but in truth, it’s mostly up to us now.
Related: Ridicule Is Man’s Most Potent Weapon. “It was ridiculous enough that New York mayor Eric Adams described experiencing a tiny part of Biden’s border crisis as ‘horrific’ and D.C. mayor Bowser declared a state of emergency and called on the Pentagon for help. Even today, the total number of people sent to those cities is less than two days’ worth of what is happening at the border. But Operation Martha’s Vineyard was the real comedy payoff. The situation was like something out of a farce by Tom Wolfe or Christopher Buckley: a few dozen border-jumpers arrive at the retreat of the lefty rich and famous, where ‘no human is illegal’ and there are enough empty mansions to house them a thousand-fold, and after being given some cereal they’re whisked away by soldiers.”
Shipped to a military base while the people with the “We believe no human being is illegal” lawn signs cheered. FDR smiles.
Martha's Vineyard residents cheer as illegal immigrants are led to a bus to a military facility pic.twitter.com/0iLDln2Pmn
— Jack Poso 🇺🇸 (@JackPosobiec) September 17, 2022
THE COMING MEAT SHORTAGES WILL HELP WITH THIS: Overpopulation of deer spreads tick-borne illnesses.
EVERYTHING IS GOING SWIMMINGLY: Existing home sales fall in August, and prices soften significantly.
Related: Goldman Sachs says brace for an even bigger housing downturn.
This isn’t all bad, as prices were too high, really. But it’s further evidence that we’re slipping into a recession, if we’re not already there.
OK, GROOMER: Matt Walsh Exposes Trans Clinic at Vanderbilt, Lefties Immediately Call the FBI. “Apparently, this program started in 2018, not to help children, but because it was seen as a ‘big money maker’ that included lots of follow-up appointments.”