AMERICA’S NEWSPAPER OF RECORD: Besides COVID, Here Are 43 Other Things Democrats Are Requesting Amnesty On.
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November 2, 2022
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AMERICA’S NEWSPAPER OF RECORD: Galactic Empire Requests Amnesty For Anyone Who May Have Gotten Carried Away And Blown Up A Planet.
GOT WOKE, WENT BROKE: Dan Snyder Hires Bank Of America To Sell Washington Commanders.
MEGAN FOX: Alex Stein Running Write-In Campaign for Dallas Family Court Judgeship Against Trans Activist Mary Brown. “Alex Stein, the comedian made famous by trolling board meetings and politicians all over the country, is running a write-in campaign to take the seat of Judge Mary Brown in the 301st family court district of Dallas.”
DON’T COUNT THOSE CHICKENS JUST YET: Kathy Hochul learns from Terry McAuliffe how to lose a blue state.
UNEXPECTEDLY: Reviewer Exposes EV Truck’s ‘Kryptonite’ After Trip Takes 3 Hours Longer Than It Should’ve.
[Henry] Payne, an auto critic for the Detroit News, set out to travel from Detroit to Charlevoix, Michigan. His trip was to be around 280 miles, and he was driving a new 2022 F-250 Lightning EV.
Payne wrote that he charged the truck to a full 100 percent charge ahead of the trip, and that the manufacturer claimed that a full charge should have allowed him to travel the whole distance without another charge.
But it wasn’t even close.
Payne wrote that as he sat at his third charging station of the day, another driver asked what sort of mileage he was getting on his roughly $93,000 EV truck.
“I’m getting about 170 miles of range on this trip up I-75,” he told the other driver. “How about you?”
The man replied, “I’ve got the turbo-6 cylinder. I’m getting 600 miles and 22 mpg. I don’t think I’ll ever get one of those electrics.”
At the bottom of his tale of woe, Payne reeled off the F-150 Lightning’s statistics, which included that it was supposed to have a 320-mile travel range on a full charge. But Payne only got about 170 miles down the road before he had to find a charger.
Read the whole thing, which is a preview of California’s future. Speaking of which:
Flashback: How It Started: California will ban sales of new gasoline-powered cars by 2035.
—NPR, August 25th.
How it’s going: Californians are urged to avoid charging electric vehicles, days after state announced ban of new sales of gas-powered cars by 2035.
—The Blaze, August 31th.
In accordance with the prophecy:
(Via Small Dead Animals’ recurring “We Don’t Need No Flaming Sparky Cars” series.)
JUST NBC THE PRO-CHINA PROPAGANDA! Video: CNBC’s Jim Cramer Goes On Bizarre Pro-China COVID Lockdown, Vaccine Propaganda Rant, While Pfizer’s logo is proudly displayed behind him.
Financial analyst Jim Cramer appeared to confuse the hell out of his CNBC co-hosts Tuesday by going on a bizarre rant about Chinese COVID lockdown and vaccine propaganda being a good thing.
The context for the strange outburst is that news of China potentially easing COVID restrictions and re-opening has seen improvements in the stock market.
China’s change in direction after months of brutal lockdowns is reportedly to be headed up by the nation’s chief propagandist.
And that’s where Cramer came in to sell the ‘good side’ of propaganda, noting that we only think of propaganda being bad because of “regimes we didn’t really appreciate.”
Cramer further stated that he doesn’t see any problem with suddenly locking people down without warning, even in giant theme parks, reasoning that he was able to get his own COVID test results back within a day.
“Let’s just go back over, I think chief propagandist, I call that person a dissembler, so to speak. But they have a narrative in which basically you can conquer COVID by just being locked down, and this has to change the narrative,” Cramer continued.
He then argued that China stealing and back engineering Pfizer’s vaccine is also a good thing.
“What is even better is homegrown mRNA, which I’m told they managed to get the intellectual property, stole it, which is good, and I say good because it’s better to have mRNA than not,” Cramer said.
Evergreen:
As Jim Geraghty wrote in October of 2019, when the CCP-NBA connection exposed for millions of Americans to see: We’re Not Exporting Our Values to China — We’re Importing Theirs.
MANY THINGS DON’T: A Detail in the Paul Pelosi Attack Story Makes No Sense.
MICROBIOME NEWS: COVID-19 infection damages gut microbiome, study shows.
MAYBE IT’LL HAPPEN AT THE SAME TIME AS THE RAILROAD STRIKE: Delta Pilots to Management: ‘We Will Strike If Necessary’: Nearly 15,000 Delta Air Lines pilots have voted to authorize a strike after contract negotiations stalled.
LAUGHING WOLF ON PUTIN’S Most Interesting Speech.
Again, note what he didn’t say in the speech. There was effectively no bluff, no threats, even almost an avoidance of direct talk of the war. It was not truly brought up until the Q&A. Now that got interesting, and again much of this was aimed internal, not external (save to useful idiots). The idea that Vladimir and Russia have NEVER threatened use, only hinted, was part of a well-laid campaign. Note how he brought up the threats from the British, which is going to play well in some quarters. The Slavophile dislike of the Brits showed through, just as it has throughout the invasion. Worth noting that they’ve gone after Great Britain more than they have the U.S. by a good margin. Leaving aside the hapless Truss, Vladimir was almost gentle in pointing out the threats of Biden. Which, given that the demented meat puppet and his incompetent Regency have chewed their shoes with their feet still in them almost continuously, is something.
Not sure what it says that I laughed along with Vladimir at the Khruschev comparison, but again note what wasn’t said along with what was said. No direct threats, though he invited all to read Russian doctrine on nukes. An emphasis on the threats incoming. The dirty bomb and nuclear plant discussions were interesting. Much wasn’t said, and how it wasn’t said was interesting indeed.
This is when smart Western leadership would prepare Sun Tzu’s golden bridge for Putin, but the West doesn’t have any smart leadership.
IN RESPONSE TO NANCY PELOSI: Why I Am Voting Republican. “With less than a week until the 2022 midterm elections, and Democrats reeling from the shellacking they are expected to get, I read a news article that stated you are wondering just how ‘anyone could vote for these people’ (meaning, Republicans). Allow me to answer what I presume was a merely rhetorical question. . . . We’re voting Republican because Democrats control every major city in America and—let’s face it—you suck at governance. Your cities are in shambles. They are hotbeds of crime and are always on the verge of bankruptcy. Your policies engender government dependence under the guise of compassion, encourage lawbreaking, and pit neighbors against one another in class and racial warfare.”
Much, much more at the link.
MISTER, WE COULD USE A MAN LIKE ZORA ARKUS-DUNTOV AGAIN: 38 Amazing Vintage Ads for Chevrolet Corvettes From the 1950s and Early 1960s.
TRUE, BUT THEY WON’T: Jonathan Chait: Progressives need to overcome the fear of standing up to the woke mob.
The “woke mob” is a bunch of morons on Twitter, many of whom are bots. Tell them to screw off. But lefties assume that they somehow have some sort of moral authority.
BIDEN: I Was Born a Poor Black Child. “That’s not a stutter, folks. That’s not a slip of the tongue. That’s what those of us in the high-powered punditry business call ‘a flat-out, big-ass, pandering lie.'”
EVERGREEN HEADLINE: The Press Has Officially Lost Its Grip On Reality.
Consider the recent string of events involving President Biden.
In the span of a few days, he called Kamala Harris a “great president,” got disoriented at an event on the White House lawn, claimed that his student loan giveaway was a law passed by Congress not his own executive order, misstated the name of Britain’s new prime minister, suffered another embarrassing teleprompter failure, appeared to nearly drift off into sleep during a TV interview, got confused about how to exit a stage he’d climbed up just moments before.
A neutral press would be demanding answers from the White House about Biden’s condition. They be talking to experts about the grave risks of having a president suffering from dementia in charge. They’d have their pollsters ask the public about its concerns with Biden’s mental health. (Something our Issues & Insights/TIPP has done).
Instead, reporters are feverishly sweeping Biden’s rapid deterioration under the rug. Indeed, if it weren’t for conservative news outlets, the public would have virtually no idea of how disturbing Biden’s decline has become.
They did the same thing with John Fetterman, the Democrat running for a senate seat in Pennsylvania. Reporters covering Fetterman haven’t been truth-seeking. They’ve been truth-denying about the debilitating effects of the stroke he suffered in May.
The public had virtually no idea how bad Fetterman’s condition is – until Fetterman’s debate with the Republican Mehmet Oz, which exposed it for all to see and has led to a sharp decline in Fetterman’s poll numbers. Why didn’t Pennsylvania voters know? Because the press was covering it up for fear that reporting on Fetterman’s condition would only help Oz, which could then lead to — horror! — Republicans taking control of the Senate.
The border crisis is another example. A little over a week ago, the U.S. Customs and Border Patrol agency released its latest report on illegal border crossings, and the numbers are truly shocking. In the last fiscal year, they’ve encountered 2.7 million illegals, up from 1.9 million in 2021 and four times the number in President Trump’s last year in office. Try to find news coverage about that report from the “truth-seeking” press.
Just think of the media as Democratic Party operatives with bylines, and it all makes sense.
HMM: Democrats Are Spending More in This Michigan District Than in Any Other in the Country.
The race in Michigan’s redrawn Seventh Congressional District, which pits Democratic incumbent Elissa Slotkin against Republican challenger Tom Barrett, a state lawmaker and military veteran, has emerged as one of the most hotly contested in the country. Together, spending from both sides totals nearly $27 million.
The Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee alone dropped nearly $5 million to save Slotkin, more than the group has spent anywhere in the country. Nearly 1 out of every 22 dollars spent on a House race this cycle has gone to the battle over this district.
Slotkin likely never anticipated such a close race. She currently represents Michigan’s eighth district, but newly drawn districts moved her to run in the seventh, which is slightly more Democratic-voter-heavy than her old home. Biden’s plummeting approval ratings, along with the nation’s shaky economy, however, have nearly negated that advantage.
The district is in many ways the perfect swing district, encompassing the full spectrum of voter types—there are urban voters and college students in Lansing, but also rural voters in surrounding counties, including farmers and blue-collar factory workers.
I don’t know how the race will turn out, but I know it’s wrong that Washington has grown so big and powerful that any one House seat can be worth tens of millions of dollars.
THIS WHOLE MULTICULTURALISM THING ISN’T WORKING OUT AS PLANNED: Muslim dad grills school board over obscene books.