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September 5, 2022
NOT RUSHING TO GET ONE AT THIS POINT: What you need to know about the new omicron booster shots.
GREAT NEWS FOR LABOR DAY! KJP Tells Us That Biden Has Created ‘Ten Thousand Million Jobs’ Since He Took Office.
THIS SEEMS UNSURPRISING: Brain study shows fentanyl kills by stopping breathing.
JEFF DUNETZ: The Munich Olympics Massacre – 50 Years Later.
PAST PERFORMANCE IS NO GUARANTEE OF FUTURE TRUNALIMUNUMAPRZURE: President Biden Says He’ll Attend Detroit Auto Show Because He’s A “Car Guy.”
President Joe Biden is going to be expected at the forthcoming Detroit Auto Show that will be taking place in two weeks. It’ll mark the first time he has visited Detroit since his days as Vice President, Bloomberg noted last week.
“I’ll be there. I’m a car guy, as you kind of noticed,” Biden said last week when asked if he was going to attend.
Sure, we noticed. In fact, we couldn’t help but notice that Biden is such a car guy that his administration is trying to force through counterproductive and burdensome environmental and EV requirements for auto manufacturers. Biden apparently has such reverence for the industry he has decided that it needs to be changed in its entirety.
The new requirements and subsidies under the Biden administration have forced automakers to fundamentally change their vehicle lineups and how they operate. They’ve also become a tax on the American people that is dropping straight to the bottom line of auto manufacturers, as we’ve noted over the last week that automakers are raising their EV prices by almost the exact amount that the Biden administration is offering in subsidies to buyers.
And he’s such a fan of U.S. auto companies that Biden has barely acknowledged U.S. automaker Tesla’s existence, simply because the company isn’t embracing unionization amongst its workers.
And don’t get Pete Buttigieg started on America’s racist road system: Buttigieg launches $1B pilot to build racial equity in America’s roads.
But with midterms approaching, Biden wants us to forget all that — and Thursday “Dork Brandon” debacle — by reverting to his Corvette-loving old image temporarily.
UPDATE: Biden last year: “We will take, literally, millions of automobiles off the road — off the road, saving tens of millions of barrels of oil, dealing with cleaning up the air. This is not hyperbole; this is a fact.”
MORE: Granholm: California’s New Gas Vehicle Sale Ban ‘Could Be’ a National Model. “Elex Michaelson [of Los Angeles’ Fox affiliate] asked [Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm], ‘California made national headlines by becoming the first state to say, by 2035, we’re not going to have any gas-powered vehicles that are new that are being sold. You can still drive your old ones, but you can’t sell new ones. Do you like this concept?’ Granholm responded, ‘Yeah, I do. I think California really is leaning in. And of course, the federal government has a goal of — the president has announced — by 2030 that half of the vehicles in the U.S., the new ones sold would be electric.’”
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NOBODY TELL BRANDON ABOUT THIS: A Call to Insurrection. But if the FBI raids you, they’ll leak to the press that they found this on your shelf. As damning as the Lego Capitol Building!
I wish I were kidding.
OUT ON A LIMB: Biden’s Speech Had It All Backward.
Mr. Trump and his followers, believe it or not, are essentially antifascists: They want the state to stand aside, to impose the least possible interference and allow market forces and entrepreneurial energies to work. Freedom isn’t fascism. Mr. Biden and his vast tribe are essentially enemies of freedom, although most of them haven’t thought the matter through. Freedom, the essential American value, isn’t on their minds. They desire maximum—that is, total—state or party control of all aspects of American life, including what people say and think. Seventy-four years after George Orwell wrote “1984,” such control (by way of surveillance cameras, social-media companies and the Internal Revenue Service, now to be shockingly augmented by 87,000 new employees) is entirely feasible. The left yearns for power and authoritarian order. It is Faust’s bargain; freedom is forfeit.
Mr. Trump, the canniest showman in the White House since Franklin D. Roosevelt, introduced into 21st-century politics what seemed to be new idioms of hatred, a freestyle candor of the id. Doing so, he provoked his enemies—and finally Mr. Biden—to respond in kind: a big mistake. In the early 1950s, when Sen. Joseph McCarthy was loose in the land, and roughly half the country supported his anticommunist inquisition, President Eisenhower wisely decided, “I will not get into the gutter with this guy.” It took a while for McCarthy to implode.
When Mr. Biden spoke in Philadelphia the other night, he might have been thinking of FDR’s speech at Madison Square Garden on the night of Oct. 31, 1936, at the end of his presidential campaign against Alf Landon—and, by the way, three months before he tried to pack the Supreme Court. That night, Roosevelt boasted that his enemies (Republicans, plutocrats, et al.) “are unanimous in their hate for me.” With a flourish, he added, “I welcome their hatred!”
Americans, lamenting the divisions of 2022 and, some of them, entertaining fantasies of a new civil war, should refresh their historical memories. The country has been bitterly divided against itself any number of times. The hatreds and convulsions of the 1930s (the era of Huey Long and Father Charles Coughlin and the Silver Shirts, of homegrown tribes of Trotskyists and Stalinists) culminated in the ferocious battle between isolationists and internationalists that lasted until the Sunday morning of Pearl Harbor.
Well no, “the hatreds and convulsions of the 1930s” would go on for quite a while longer. FDR gave a Nazi Iron Cross to a conservative reporter he didn’t like in 1942, and retroactively smeared Calvin Coolidge as a fascist in his 1944 State of the Union address. President Truman would go on to compare his Republican opponent in 1948 to Hitler, setting a trend from Democrats that would go on to the present day.
MARK JUDGE: The Horror: Joe Biden and His Demons. “Others have pointed it out, but it really was shocking how President Biden’s recent speech in Philadelphia resembled a cinematic cameo by one of the lesser demons of hell. Biden ranted and raved, his dementia illuminati by hellish red lights in the background. It was like the horrifying ending of Heredity.”
UPDATE: From the comments: “‘Biden is not a large enough personality to be a towering evil. He’s too petty for that.’ Banality Joe. This is the best column I’ve seen from Mark Judge. The Chapaquiddick reference is remarkable.”
LABOR DAY DEAL: Garmin Rugged Outdoor Watch with GPS. #CommissionEarned
IT’S THE LEGITIMATE CUSTOMER REVIEWS THEY NEED TO WORRY ABOUT: Amazon’s putting a three-day pause on reviews for The Rings of Power. “An Amazon representative told Variety that it put the policy in place to give the service time to evaluate whether a user review comes from an actual viewer — not a bot or troll looking to hijack the reviews section. Amazon introduced the policy earlier this summer, starting with its reboot of A League of Their Own, which contended with review bombers who opposed the show’s political stance.”
And there’s this from The Irish Times: The new hobbits are filthy, hungry simpletons with stage-Irish accents. That’s $1bn well spent. “The Scots get it too in The Rings of Power. Stand-ins for the dwarfs, they are portrayed as aggressive and argumentative. It gets to the point where I expect Durin, prince of Khazad-dûm, to whip out a deep-fried Mars bar. Every other ‘mad Jock’ cliche has already been ticked off.”
Racism, straight up.
IT’S DIFFICULT TO BELIEVE IN PUBLIC EDUCATION WHEN PUBLIC EDUCATORS NO LONGER DO: New Poll: Parents Are Increasingly Dissatisfied With K-12 Education.
THE DEMAND FOR WHITE SUPREMACY IN AMERICA FAR OUTSTRIPS THE SUPPLY: Hate Hoax: No Evidence To Support Duke Women’s Volleyball Player Claim She Was Called Racist Slur At BYU Match.
INSTITUTIONAL RACISM IS VIOLENCE: Drake U. diversity training has ‘opposite effect,’ leaves students ‘traumatized.’
IN RECENT HISTORY, THE SIDE WITH THE F-15S HASN’T PREVAILED: Kurt Schlichter: F-15 vs. AR-15? Bet on the Guys With the Guns.
KRUISER’S MORNING BRIEFING: Democrats’ Unhinged Attacks Are Only Making Trump Stronger. “We here on the right like to say that Donald Trump ‘broke’ the Democrats when he won the 2016 presidential election and permanently vanquished Granny Maojackets to her box of breakfast Franzia in Chappaqua. It’s so much more intense than that though.”
PROF. JACOBSON: Biden “on a war footing” to dehumanize “roughly half the population who voted against him.” “What we’re seeing come out is the real Joe Biden. Anybody who has followed his career knows that the 2020 portrayal of him by the media as kind grandfatherly Joe Biden is a fabrication. He was deemed the father of ‘Borking,’ the vicious attacks on judicial nominees dating back many decades ago. His entire career has been one of viciously attacking people.”
EVERYTHING IS GOING SWIMMINGLY: ‘Why shouldn’t it be as bad as the 1970s?’: Historian Niall Ferguson has a warning for investors.
Historian Niall Ferguson warned Friday that the world is sleepwalking into an era of political and economic upheaval akin to the 1970s — only worse.
Speaking to CNBC at the Ambrosetti Forum in Italy, Ferguson said the catalyst events had already occurred to spark a repeat of the 70s, a period characterized by financial shocks, political clashes and civil unrest. Yet this time, the severity of those shocks was likely to be greater and more sustained.
“The ingredients of the 1970s are already in place,” Ferguson, Milbank Family Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution, Stanford University, told CNBC’s Steve Sedgwick.
“The monetary and fiscal policy mistakes of last year, which set this inflation off, are very alike to the 60s,” he said, likening recent price hikes to the 1970′s doggedly high inflation.
“And, as in 1973, you get a war,” he continued, referring to the 1973 Arab-Israeli War — also known as the Yom Kippur War — between Israel and a coalition of Arab states led by Egypt and Syria.
Between Nixon and Carter, it hardly seems possible that our leadership could be even worse this time around — and yet here we are.
FOLLOW THE SCIENCE: Critics of the pandemic school closures have been vindicated.
“OUR COUNTRY’S GOING TO HELL:” “What a theme! We just saw Biden speechifying from what looked like hell (what with that red light), demanding that we join him there, and now here comes Trump, with his own hell theme.”
Only one of them is pro-Hell, though.
BREAKING: Liz Truss set to become Prime Minister, replacing Boris Johnson. “Truss will not be formally installed as the new prime minister until Tuesday after Johnson formally submits his resignation to the Queen at Balmoral and his successor is then invited to form a government.”