UH-OH: Is Biden Inviting the Very War in Ukraine We Don’t Want to Fight? “So many reasons not to make Russia vs Ukraine a full-scale war. And yet… “
Archive for 2022
January 19, 2022
OUT ON A LIMB:
THE AMERICAN LEFT: ‘Education’ Group’s Agitprop Video Shows White Cracker ‘Karen’ Whipping Black Kids. “Though this video is disappeared on the group’s YouTube page, there’s plenty more cringe where that came from. We happily discovered that the so-called education group has an entire TikTok catalog of some of the most spectacularly cliched and disgusting videos remaining on its social media pages.”
MOLLIE HEMINGWAY: No, Jeffrey Toobin, Biden Is Not Putting Kamala Harris On The Supreme Court. “The real reason Kamala Harris won’t be nominated to the Supreme Court is that she simply isn’t up for the job.”
Says who?
BUILD BACK BRANDON: Biden Frees Alternate 9/11 Hijacker and Military Base Truck Bomb Plotter.
WHITE SUPREMACY ISN’T WHAT IT USED TO BE: White Supremacists Wanted, Immediate Openings, Applicants Need Not Be White.
COMMIE STRONGHOLDS ARE ALL THE SAME: Removing statues on campus is eerily similar to China’s actions in Hong Kong.
HEH: Electric Van, Electric Van/Can You Find One? No One Can/Loses A Fight With Petroleum Van/Electric Van. “Everyone in the Democratic Media Complex wants us to know that electric vans are THE FUTURE of delivery. That remains to be seen, but they sure seem to have a lot of trouble being the present of delivery.”
CDC CONFIRM BIDEN COVID DEATHS EXCEED TRUMP TOTAL: Issues & Insights editorial board lays it all out, based on the latest government data. Didn’t some guy named Booden or Bobbin, or something like that, say this back in 2020 when the deaths total was around 220,000:
“Anyone who is not responsible for taking control, in fact not saying I take no responsibility initially, anyone who is responsible for that many deaths should not remain as president of the United States of America.”
WELL, BYE: The Left Calls for Tossing NBC’s Chuck Todd Off Nakatomi Plaza Again. “He’s been busy blowing up the air mattresses to soften the blow for the inevitable narrative fail. So that means he might be telling the truth about some of this stuff. It’s why Leftists are caterwauling at him and urging people to switch him off. Or hurl him from Nakatomi Plaza as well.”
BRADLEY THOMPSON: Children’s Rights Defined and Defended.
FAILING STATE: The Border Crisis Is Bad, But In Mexico A Larger Crisis Looms.
U.S. policymakers, in both parties, are captive to the increasingly dangerous delusion that Mexico is a competent and trusted partner, and that our two countries can and should work together to solve problems like organized crime, drug trafficking, and illegal immigration. The animating idea, decades old now and woefully out of date, is that Mexico is a peer nation, acting in good faith, and that we all want the same things.
This gauzy conception of Mexico is how the Biden administration was able to come up with a framework for a U.S.-Mexico security relationship that’s utterly divorced from reality. A joint statement released back in October after a meeting between President Joe Biden and López Obrador outlines what’s supposed to be an update to the George W. Bush-era Merida Initiative, which was focused on helping Mexico wage war on powerful drug cartels.
The new initiative, dubbed the U.S.-Mexico Bicentennial Framework for Security, Public Health and Safe Communities, seeks to address not just “transborder crime” but also things like substance abuse, “root causes” of violence, and efforts to improve education and economic opportunity — all while “ensuring racial equity,” of course.
Given the stakes, however, all it amounts to is a series of exhausted platitudes. The reality is that the Mexican state is collapsing, and rather than having a partner to address the “root causes” of violence, we don’t even have a partner to address what might well become a humanitarian catastrophe on our border this spring.
Read the whole thing.
GREAT MOMENTS IN GASLIGHTING:
Shot: Gas prices are in the danger zone. Biden can’t do much about it.
President Joe Biden’s 2022 is off to a dreadful start. Prices at the pump could make it even worse.
Crude oil has already zoomed back to two-month highs. Gasoline prices, which move with a lag, have stopped their muted decline. And they’re starting to creep higher again.
The energy resurgence is only going to add to the economic anxiety gripping the United States and sinking Biden’s poll numbers.
“This is a terrible situation. Gas prices are in this political danger zone,” Helima Croft, head of global commodity strategy at RBC Capital Markets, told CNN.
The White House knows how deeply unpopular high gas prices are. That’s why Biden took sweeping action in November to intervene. The administration announced the largest-ever release of emergency crude reserves from the Strategic Petroleum Reserve (SPR) in US history.
The return of $85 oil will pile pressure on Biden to act once again — and the administration is signaling further action is on the table.
“Tools continue to remain on the table for us to address prices. This is something the administration is continuing to watch and monitor very closely,” a White House official told CNN.
Yet presidents have limited power to lower gas prices. While Biden has options, they all have drawbacks.
—CNN, yesterday, in an article where CTL-F “Keystone” brings up zero results.
Chaser: Rising gas prices aren’t as bad as you think.
—Headline, CNN, March 21, 2012.
Hangover: In September of 2019, after CNN’s seven hour “climate change town hall,” Bryan Preston wrote, “Seriously, if you see all of the above — which is just a sample — and vote for any of these people for any office at any level, it’s on you. If you like Venezuela, voting for any of them will bring you a whole lot of Venezuela.”
And as Kate of Small Dead Animals wrote after the CNN horror show, “Don’t make the mistake of thinking they don’t mean it.”
Flashbacks:
● Aren’t California’s High Gas Prices What The Left Have Wanted?
● NBC, the Washington Post, and the New York Times in lockstep call for higher gas taxes.
● 2008 L.A. Times headline: “The joy of $8 gas.”
Exit quote: “Under my plan, energy costs will necessarily skyrocket…”
In other words, Obama administration retreads are following the same playbook as the original Obama administration: “We’re going to keep at it to ensure the American people are paying their fair share for gas,” is the perfect Kinsley Gaffe for an Obama administration retread like Biden: As Steven Chu, Obama’s then-incoming energy secretary, told the Wall Street Journal in the fall of 2008: “Somehow we have to figure out how to boost the price of gasoline to the levels in Europe.”
So is it fair to ask if Biden is on the payroll of Putin? As Walter Russell Mead wrote in 2017:
If Trump were the Manchurian candidate that people keep wanting to believe that he is, here are some of the things he’d be doing:
Limiting fracking as much as he possibly could
Blocking oil and gas pipelines
Opening negotiations for major nuclear arms reductions
Cutting U.S. military spending
Trying to tamp down tensions with Russia’s ally Iran.
“Yep,” Glenn added in late 2019. “You know who did do these things? Obama. You know who supports these things now? Democrats.”
Related: Biden tormented by Republican guerrilla campaign and ‘I did it’ stickers.
Also: 100Pcs I Did That Biden Funny Car Stickers. #Resist #CommissionEarned
ACCORDING TO THE PRESS NOWADAYS, EVERYONE WORTH ANYTHING IS A WHITE SUPREMACIST: Liberal Media Scream: MSNBC’s laughable charge Sinema a white supremacist. This labeling strategy strikes me as unwise.
DISPATCHES FROM THE MEMORY HOLE: One Political Party Has Always Fought For Civil Rights, The Other Created The KKK.
AKA, “the terrorist wing of the Democratic Party,” before the party recently branched out into Antifa and BLM.
CONFLICT OVER SCHOOL DISCIPLINE: There’s a good chance Tennessee’s new law empowering teachers to keep order in their classrooms will come into conflict with the Biden Administration, which has made noises about reviving the Obama Administration’s race-based school discipline policy. (See my article: The Department of Education’s Obama-Era Initiative on Racial Disparities in School Discipline: Wrong for Students and Teachers, Wrong on the Law.) After nearly two years of zoom classes, the last thing students need is to spend the rest of their school years in a chaotic classrooms.
KRUISER’S MORNING BRIEF: Glenn Youngkin Wastes No Time Triggering Crybaby Libs Everywhere. “Youngkin has also drawn the attention of White House Spokesditz Jen Psaki, who was probably thrilled to take a few minutes away from having to explain her train wreck of a boss.”
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MIDTERM BATTLEFIELD PREP BY NPR: The Movement To Stick Inflation Blame On Biden.
It’s hard to say how widespread use of these stickers actually is, but they’re all over the Internet. If you search “Biden sticker” on Google, they immediately pop up. In between TikTok videos of orangutans driving golf carts and a chipmunk named Squishy filling up his cheeks with nuts, there are hundreds of videos of TikTokers placing “I did that!” stickers on gas pumps. Dozens of online merchants sell packs of them on sites like Amazon and Etsy, usually for around 8 or 9 bucks for 100 stickers.
Etsy seller JolieJamesStyle typically sells “handmade jewelry with healing properties,” but now they’re selling Biden “I did that!” stickers. Kara Allbaugh, who owns a small design and marketing company in Columbus, Nebraska, says she started a secondary business selling these stickers on Etsy back in October. She says they’ve been flying off the shelves. “I don’t know how long this will go on for, but it’s still funny because now you can just put them on everything, not just gas,” she says.
Even before their recent en-wokening, NPR has always really hated grassroots protests by the right. Flashback: Taxpayer-Funded Immaturity: NPR Teaches Readers ‘To Speak Tea Bag.’
—NewsBusters, January 4, 2010.
As Glenn noted in October of 2016, “I’m increasingly concerned that the neutralization of the Tea Party movement — an effort by both major parties — may have convinced a lot of people that civics-book style polite political participation is for chumps.”
Incidentally, regarding that third link, why are Democrat monopoly institutions such cesspits of rampant ignorance and homophobia?
Related: How Journalism Abandoned the Working Class. “For a long time, the notion that America is an unrepentant white-supremacist state—one that confers power and privilege to white people and systematically denies them to people of color—was the province of far-left activists and academics. But over the past decade, it’s found its way into the mainstream, largely through liberal media outlets like the New York Times, NPR, MSNBC, the Washington Post, Vox, CNN, the New Republic, and the Atlantic. What changed? Most obviously: white liberals. Their enthusiasm for wokeness created a feedback loop with the media outlets to which they are paying subscribers. And the impact has been monumental: Once distinct publications and news channels are now staggeringly uniform.”
FAIL, BRITANNIA: UK Gov’t Plans Publicity Blitz to Undermine Privacy of Your Chats.
The UK government is set to launch a multi-pronged publicity attack on end-to-end encryption, Rolling Stone has learned. One key objective: mobilizing public opinion against Facebook’s decision to encrypt its Messenger app.
The Home Office has hired the M&C Saatchi advertising agency — a spin-off of Saatchi and Saatchi, which made the “Labour Isn’t Working” election posters, among the most famous in UK political history — to plan the campaign, using public funds.
According to documents reviewed by Rolling Stone, one the activities considered as part of the publicity offensive is a striking stunt — placing an adult and child (both actors) in a glass box, with the adult looking “knowingly” at the child as the glass fades to black. Multiple sources confirmed the campaign was due to start this month, with privacy groups already planning a counter-campaign.
Boris Johnson’s UK has been a big disappointment.