Archive for 2022
June 7, 2022
VODKAPUNDIT PRESENTS YOUR WEEKLY INSANITY WRAP: Biden Tells You It’s Raining While… You Know… On Your Boots. “Joe Biden has always been a liar, but just how bad he’s gotten at it is this week’s big crazy.”
Plus:
- I know Dave Weigel. Dave Weigel is not a friend of mine…
- It isn’t about gay or straight, it’s about sexualizing children
- How did Hunter Biden not wind up with a dead hooker?
So much more at the link, you’d have to be crazy to miss it.
GEORGIA DEMOCRATS FREAK OUT WHEN REPUBLICANS TAKE A PAGE FROM THEIR PLAYBOOK: “Like so many thorns in our sides here in Georgia, it all starts with Stacey Abrams. No doubt you’ve heard the stories of how her Fair Fight Action PAC took in $1.34 million and used it to pay off the medical debt of 68,000 Georgians, along with 40,000 others in Arizona, Louisiana, Mississippi, and Alabama. Fair Fight Action hasn’t stopped crowing about it — even buying ads one time here on PJ Media — highlighting how Stacey Abrams cares about Georgians because she took contributed money and doled it out like candy while calling for expanded government healthcare here in the state she loathes but wants to run. And it’s no doubt when (not if) she runs for president, we’ll never hear the end of how she took care of people in five states. It was such a crass political move, but it was all totally cool in the eyes of the left. But let a Republican do something similar, and the Democrats go all ‘Katy, bar the door.’ Georgia Democrats are seeing red because a PAC supporting Georgia Bulldogs football star and Heisman Trophy winner Herschel Walker in his Senate bid gave out $25 gas vouchers to consumers in South Atlanta last weekend. There were no strings to the vouchers — no push to register to vote, to endorse Walker, or to appear in campaign commercials — the $25 was simply meant to help hard-working Georgians stretch their gas dollars a little farther.”
THEY’VE BEEN SPENDING MORE TIME STRESSED AND REQUIRED TO GO TO SCHOOL TOO EARLY IN THE MORNING: Melatonin overdoses in kids increase 530% over past decade. “The largest increase, a 38% jump, came in the first year of the coronavirus pandemic, which the study’s authors say was likely because more children were spending more time at home.”
DEAL OF THE DAY: Fossil Men’s Quinn Leather Bifold Wallet. #CommissionEarned
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Matt Margolis: Which Is Dumber: Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez or the Term ‘Latinx’? “Don’t get me wrong—I’m sure she was a pretty decent bartender once.”
Paula Bolyard: The Dirty Little Secret Behind the Upcoming J6 Prime Time Show Trial. “Goldston has a dirty little secret.”
Yours Truly: Is Big Sister Watching You for ‘Hate’ in New York? “It sounds like something out of George Orwell when New York Governor Kathy Hochul brags about mandating social media platforms turn themselves into snitches.”
HIGHER EDUCATION BUBBLE UPDATE: ‘Civility be d****d’: Professor built technology to go after pro-Trump social media content.
The left always wants to silence its critics. That’s not because the critics are wrong, but because they are correct.
IT’LL COME WITH STRINGS, TOO: ‘A Bad Idea’: Federalized, Universal Preschool Carries A $350 Billion Price Tag.
DEAL OF THE DAY: Bluetooth Headset with Microphone. #CommissionEarned
HMM: Russia’s invasion after 100 days: Ukraine goes on the offensive. “The battle for Ukraine has turned into a slugfest of dueling artillery. It’s not the lightning-quick takedown Russian President Vladimir Putin intended. But former CIA Director David Petraeus says there’s no denying Russian progress. . . . The Ukrainians have now gone on the offensive, both in the South (against the Russian-held city of Kherson), and in the north (outside Kharkiv). Petreaus said it is an attempt to outflank the Russians.”
The overall tone of this suggests the Russians are doing better than you might think, despite having failed at their original plan.
KRUISER’S MORNING BRIEFING: Biden Is Mad That Americans Are Noticing All of His Failure. “There are two types of people in America — those who had high hopes for all of this and those of us who aren’t idiots. There wasn’t much in the almost 50 years that Biden was redefining mediocrity in government that would have given any discerning person a reason to think that this presidency would be otherwise.”
EVERYTHING IS GOING SWIMMINGLY: A friend sends this from California.
Heck, I paid $5.19 for premium yesterday in Knoxville, where gas is usually cheap.
Related: Biden tormented by Republican guerrilla campaign and ‘I did it’ stickers.
Also: 100Pcs I Did That Biden Funny Car Stickers. #Resist #CommissionEarned
Plus: Father on MSNBC Summarizes How Bad Democrats Are Getting Shellacked in November With One Perfect Sentence. “One administration had cheaper gas and this administration has more expensive gas.”
Why aren’t American voters appreciating Biden’s self-declared “incredible transition?!” Biden praises high gas prices as part of ‘incredible transition’ of the US economy away from fossil fuels.
YES, WAPO. YOU’VE BECOME A GARBAGE INSTITUTION RUN BY THE WHIMS OF GARBAGE PEOPLE. WaPo meltdown continues: “Is this who we are?”
“ELITE” EDUCATION HAS BECOME A CESSPIT OF PSYCHOSOCIAL DYSFUNCTION: “The thing about cancel culture is there’s an eager effort to misunderstand, to jump when there’s any material that can be used against your antagonists. And that too is performative… in the great ruckus that is present-day elite education.”
RUY TEIXEIRA: The Mallory McMorrow Fallacy: Or Should We Call It The Popeye Fallacy?
Mallory McMorrow is having a moment. The Michigan legislator made a short speech assailing a fellow legislator who had accused her in a fundraising email of “grooming and sexualizing” kindergartners, which was subsequently viewed millions of times on McMorrow’s Twitter feed. Her message, delivered with some well-chosen personal touches, boiled down to: stand up to hate.
The speech was rapturously received in Democratic circles, particularly among activists and Democratic-leaning pundits. One went so far as to compare McMorrow to Nelson Mandela and Vaclav Havel. And many asserted that here, finally, was a blueprint for an effective Democratic midterm strategy.
Democrats should contain their enthusiasm. When you think about it, what McMorrow is recommending is basically what Democrats have already been doing—calling out their opponents for being hateful, bigoted and/or racist—but doing it more loudly and unequivocally. The idea here seems to be that a message’s effectiveness is directly proportional to the vigor with which it is asserted.
This is a fallacy. If a message has underlying weaknesses and fails to connect to significant and real voter concerns, it will not become more effective by simply increasing the volume. The weaknesses will still be there and voters’ concerns will not magically go away. . . .
This has not worked and is highly unlikely to work for the midterms and beyond. The Democrats cannot escape the necessity of moving to the center on sociocultural issues which does not consist of simply opposing hatred, but rather of making it clear that Democrats have a common sense approach to these issues that is different from the approach pushed by their woke activist wing. Until that is done, the Democrats will continue to be highly vulnerable on all these issues.
The woke activists are a crazy fringe. Most people, even most Democrats, aren’t on board with their agenda.
EVERYTHING IS GOING SWIMMINGLY: Survey says gas, groceries, political divide carrying a heavy weight. “A trip to the grocery store and gas pump isn’t helping anyone’s blood pressure. Expenses are like that crazy driver in the high-speed lane who can’t slow down.”
Related: Team Biden Might Be Purposefully Crushing the Middle Class.
NATIONAL MALAISE, TAKE TWO: Poll: Under Joe Biden, Americans Are Losing Hope: Americans are ‘deeply pessimistic’ about the economy, political divide, and the American dream.
Well, it’s harder to be hopeful when you’re led by crooks, creeps, and incompetents. And we are.