BIDEN FINALLY SPEAKS TO DESANTIS FOLLOWING BACKLASH OVER NOT REACHING OUT AHEAD OF HURRICANE.
Flashback: Biden White House neglects to commemorate anniversary of D-Day during his first year in office, doesn’t mention it his second year in office until being barraged by social media for hours:
OPEN THREAD: Have a rollicking good time.
ADAMS TO KANSAS: DROP DEAD. ‘Kansas doesn’t have a brand:’ NYC mayor takes stab at Sunflower State.
Adams also talked about how people from both countries welcomed him because they recognized New York City.
“We have a brand, and when people see it, it means something,” Adams said. “You know when we go there… Kansas doesn’t have a brand. When you go there, OK, you’re from Kansas. But New York has a brand, and that brand means diversity.”
While campaigning for mayor, Adams also made headlines for telling new arrivals in Brooklyn to “go back to Iowa,” the New York Times reports.
Even though he’s on the other side of the state line, Kansas City Mayor Quinton Lucas weighed in on the fellow Democratic mayor’s comments:
“Not my fight exactly, but it’s always good to be in someone’s head,” Lucas said on Twitter.
Related: Major crime continues to surge in NYC, up 36% this year: new police data.
(Classical allusion in headline.)
HUNTSVILLE SOUNDS NICE: Lawmakers press Air Force for final decision on U.S. Space Command.
HOW IT STARTED: California governor signs fast food bill into law that could raise minimum wage for workers in the state to $22 an hour by next year.
—Business Insider, September 5th.
How it’s going: Chipotle To Test Robotic Chip Maker After Gavin Newsom Signs Minimum Wage Bill.
—Outkick the Coverage, today.
The real minimum wage is always zero.
THE NEW SPACE RACE: China launches three more satellites after recent rocket doubleheader.
GREAT MOMENTS IN PROJECTION: Biden Adviser: ‘MAGA Republicans’ Would ‘Disrupt Our Democracy,’ ‘Destroy’ the USA.
President Biden was the first to slam “MAGA Republicans” as “extremists,” and members of his administration are following suit.
On Sunday, Keisha Lance Bottoms, one of Biden’s senior advisers, was asked if members of the Biden administration will “keep hammering away at that phrase” — MAGA Republicans — between now and the November election:
“Well, I think it will be important for all of us who care about the United States of America to call out what we see,” Bottoms told MSNBC’s Jonathan Capehart:
“And what we see, again, with this MAGA Republican agenda, is an effort to disrupt our democracy. So, whether it be through November and beyond November, I think it will always be important to call out any effort there is to destroy — essentially, destroy the United States of America.
“President Biden has been very clear, he wants to work in a bipartisan effort. He has worked in a bipartisan effort. He’s been able to get things done on behalf of our country.
“But when you have a MAGA Republican agenda that has no respect for the Constitution, that has no respect for free and fair elections, then it is important for all of us, not just the president, not just me, for all of us to call it out for what it is. It is a danger to our democracy, it is a danger to our way of life.”
Flashbacks:
● CNN Center in Atlanta damaged during protests.
—CNN, May 29th, 2020.
● Atlanta Protests Turn Violent: Police Cars, Local Restaurants Damaged.
—Georgia Public Broadcasting, May 29th, 2020.
● Atlanta’s protest ends with shattered storefronts and pleas for peace.
—Georgia Recorder, May 30th, 2020.
● College Football Hall of Fame vandalized, looted in Atlanta riots.
—AL.com, May 30th, 2020.
● Protesters burn down Wendy’s in Atlanta after police shooting.
—Reuters, June 13th, 2020.
● As Black Vigilance Becomes Armed Vigilantism, Accountability Is Lost in Atlanta’s Streets.
—The Intercept, June 24th, 2020.
—Stacey Lennox, PJ Media.com, July 6th, 2020.
● Amid spike in crime, a question of who owns the streets.
For some in Atlanta, the feeling is one of abandonment. “The police just don’t seem to care anymore,” says Morris Worthen, a Black Atlanta native. At the same time, he adds, “Everybody protests police shootings of Black people, but I don’t see any protests when Black people kill Black people.”
Nearby, a white neighbor, Tom Doyle, says he can’t deny a shift in attitude among his neighbors, regardless of their race.
“If the police back off, there’s really only two things left to do: defend yourself or be a victim,” says Mr. Doyle, who says he sometimes carries his gun.
But the police feel abandoned, too, says Thaddeus Johnson, a Georgia State University criminologist, who spent 10 years as an officer with the Memphis Police Department in Tennessee.
—The Christian Science Monitor, July 15th, 2020.
● Atlanta mayor says city has been ‘defunding the police’ for the last few years.
—Reporter Newspapers, June 11th, 2020.
Related: Why Team Biden might be purposefully grinding down the middle class.
UPDATE: Dem midterm strategy: Racing for the Bottom(s).
Not to put too fine a point on it, but the United States of America was doing a heck of a lot better under a MAGA Republican president than under the current one.
That is unless you think that inflation, a cratering economy, food and gas shortages, and everybody thinking the country is moving in the wrong direction are the preferred conditions. And I sometimes wonder if this isn’t the case for the Biden crowd.
Of course in their view the only thing that matters is that they are in power and can continue funneling money to their buddies, so America is better off under Biden’s rule in their view.
Democrats nationally have two issues upon which they are hanging their electoral hat: abortion, and hating Donald Trump/his supporters. Both of them are issues that appeal to their base and almost nobody else. The Biden Administration makes the Carter Administration look tack sharp and competent, just as Hunter Biden makes Billy Carter look sophisticated.
My own prediction is that come November 9 Republicans will have won control of both the House and the Senate. I could be very wrong about this, as I often am. But I am going out on a limb here.
Don’t get cocky.
(Updated and bumped.)
WELL, THIS IS THE 21ST CENTURY, YOU KNOW: Behold, The Epic Last Images Taken by NASA’s Asteroid Redirection Test Spacecraft.
AT LEAST WHEN YOU SMOKE YOU CAN HANG OUT OUTSIDE WITH THE OTHER SMOKERS: Being lonely and unhappy accelerates aging more than smoking, study finds.
TRUMP’S FIRST SHAM IMPEACHMENT TRIAL WAS ‘UNCONSTITUTIONAL,’ JERRY NADLER REPORTEDLY SAID:
In a bombshell report about a forthcoming book called Unchecked: The Untold Story Behind Congress’s Botched Impeachments of Donald Trump, co-authored by Politico Playbook’s Rachael Bade and Washington Post reporter Karoun Demirjian, it was revealed that none other than House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jerrold Nadler (D-N.Y.) was absolutely not in agreeance with how Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) or House Select Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff (D-Calif.) were prepared to handle the impeachment process.
Fox News noted:
In October 2019, amid the Democrats’ plan to hold a full House vote on a resolution outlining the structure of impeachment proceedings against Trump, Nadler, according to the book, took issue with how Schiff, who was tapped by Pelosi to lead impeachment efforts, was prepared to proceed with the impeachment without due process for Trump.
Worried about the situation and the likelihood that his Judiciary Committee would not be able to cross-examine witnesses as the committee had done traditionally, Nadler confronted Schiff about the planned process, and, according to the book, said: “It’s unfair, and it’s unprecedented, and it’s unconstitutional.”
In response to Nadler’s many concerns about the particular process that was used by Schiff and Pelosi, Schiff reportedly responded by saying, “I don’t appreciate your tone…I worry you’re putting us in a box for our investigation.”
Nadler and his staff were reportedly “sidelined” for a spell while Pelosi and Schiff — and every Dem involved in the sham impeachment — carried on with the process. Nadler and his staffers, the authors claim, worked overtime to get back in the good graces of the House Democratic leaders. The strategy to include the Judiciary Committee in the impeachment process, after all, seemed to have worked before it all fell apart again.
I hope they’re prepared to reap the whirlwind: The Democrats damned Biden by impeaching Trump.
INCENTIVES MATTER: Teen interest in long-lasting birth control soars after Roe.
A FRIEND COMMENTS, “NO WONDER HER HUSBAND DUMPED HER.” My children were born in New York but now live in Texas. I sometimes wish we had never moved.
IRONY CAN BE AWFULLY IRONIC SOMETIMES, MATE:
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— Konstantin Kisin (@KonstantinKisin) September 27, 2022
BROADSWORD CALLING DANNY BOY. BROADSWORD CALLING DANNY BOY: Mark Felton visits the castle from Where Eagles Dare in his latest video:
NOTIZIE DAL BUCO DELLA MEMORIA: Meloni’s liberal opponent: Nascent fascism in Italy is “absolutely fake news.” “Matteo Renzi was the Italian prime minister from 2014-2016. He’s a lefty but tells CNN: ‘Personally I was against Georgia Meloni. I’m not her best friend. We are rivals but she is not a danger to democracy. The idea there is a risk of fascism in Italy is absolutely fake news.’”
QUESTION ASKED AND ANSWERED:
● Shot: “Hey, where are the white women at?”
—Cleavon Little in Blazing Saddles, 1974.
● Chaser: ‘Transracial’ icon Rachel Dolezal has been reduced to doing OnlyFans and Black Twitter has thoughts.
—Louder with Crowder, today.
HIS APPEAL HAS BECOME MORE SELECTIVE: No One Watched Chris Wallace’s New CNN Show.
CNN rebooted “Who’s Talking to Chris Wallace” after torpedoing of CNN+ to air weekly at 7 pm. The program averaged 401,000 viewers for its debut, down 29% from the 2022 average for the time slot.
Wallace tanked most among viewers under 70 years old. He drew just 44,000 viewers in the advertiser-coveted demographic of 25 to 54 — that’s a 64% decline for the hour.
That’s not exactly a huge increase from the heady days of CNN+:
Flashback: The Chickens Come Home to Roost for Chris Wallace. “My thought bubble on this is: What the hell did Wallace expect? Even absent the Cuomo/Zucker scandals, it wasn’t exactly a big secret how bad things were at CNN, not just from a ratings perspective but a coverage perspective. Between Brian Stelter, Jake Tapper, Don Lemon and others, they’ve been an embarrassment for years, so much so that even reliably left-wing news outlets like the New York Times and the Washington Post have taken to criticizing some of the decision-making and reporting styles there.”
ONLY TRAINED LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICERS CAN BE TRUSTED WITH FIREARMS: Video Shows Denver Cops Wound 6 Bystanders In Addition to the Bad Guy…Out of 6 Rounds Fired.
When you’re a civilian, they tell you that you’re civilly and criminally responsible for every bullet you fire. Police, not so much.
IT ALSO LACKS IN TASTE AND NUTRITION: Once-Hot Fake Meat Sees Sales Slide on Price and Being Too ‘Woke.’
THE WAR ON TOMBOYS: Would her school allow Miss Jean Louise Finch to remain “Scout” today?
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