DEMS ALREADY GEARING UP TO IMPEACH HIM AGAIN OVER ‘SELF-DEALING’:  Trump hotels charged Secret Service ‘exorbitant’ rates to protect first family.

Government discounts are generally extended on a “rooms available” basis for standard rooms. Deluxe accommodations are not typically offered at discounted rates. But they don’t care. Trump’s real sin? He didn’t give 10% for the big guy.

WILL EDITH WILSON PLEASE COME TO THE COURTESY PHONE?  Jill Biden lashed out at WH staffers for not stopping Joe’s solo presser: report.

SHE SENDS A REMINDER TO ANDREW AND BILL THAT SHE’S STILL THEIR FRIEND:  Ghislaine Maxwell dishes on ‘dear friend’ Prince Andrew, ‘special’ pal Bill Clinton.

I’ll get out ahead of the news: Ghislaine’s suicide will have been very tragic. Girls capable of shooting themselves three times on the back of the head don’t come around every day.

OPEN THREAD: Do your best work.

HMM: Artemis 1, ispace lander set November launch dates.

GOOD: Puerto Rico gets Jones Act waiver for liquefied natural gas shipments.

Should probably provide one for New England, too: New England risks winter blackouts as gas supplies tighten. “New England has been grappling with fuel-supply challenges for more than a decade because the region has limited pipeline capacity. Imports of LNG can make up more than a third of the region’s natural-gas supply during periods of peak demand, according to the Energy Information Administration. The Jones Act, a law restricting the movement of ships between U.S. ports, makes maritime delivery of domestic supplies nearly impossible, so the region relies on gas produced abroad. Now, intense competition for LNG cargoes driven by European demand makes securing supply ad hoc a costly proposition”

Some new pipelines would be nice.

MOLEHILLS:  The San Diego Union Tribune reports story about a UC-San Diego lecturer who is thought to have said the wrong thing concerning a group of Spanish-speaking men talking loudly outside his classroom.  The quote at the end of the story got me:  “‘Everyone agrees that what the professor did was racist,’ said Sky Yang, president of Associated Students at UCSD.  ‘There is a split among students over whether he should be fired or whether he should stay and be re-educated.  It seems that some want to give him a second chance because he apologized quickly.'”

“LUXURY BELIEFS” NOT WINNING OVER NON-LUXURY VOTERS: Republicans Gain Edge as Voters Worry About Economy, Times/Siena Poll Finds. “With inflation unrelenting and the stock market steadily on the decline, the share of likely voters who said economic concerns were the most important issues facing America has leaped since July, to 44% from 36% — far higher than any other issue. And voters most concerned with the economy favored Republicans overwhelmingly, by more than a 2-1 margin. . . . The biggest shift came from women who identified as independent voters. In September, they favored Democrats by 14 points. Now, independent women backed Republicans by 18 points — a striking swing given the polarization of the American electorate and how intensely Democrats have focused on that group and on the threat Republicans pose to abortion rights. The survey showed that the economy remained a far more potent political issue in 2022 than abortion.”

A friend writes: “My observation: just as the right to your life is a prerequisite to enjoy any other right like free speech, bearing arms, or voting; basic needs like food, shelter, and energy must be met before people can afford to focus on wonky policy disagreements over abortion and democracy.”

Yep. You have to work your way up from the bottom of Maslow’s hierarchy of needs, not down from the top.

THE OPPOSITE OF CLARENCE THOMAS IN SO MANY WAYS: Justice Jackson Sets Record for New Justice in October Arguments: The Court’s newest justice was an extremely active questioner during the Supreme Court’s October arguments.

TEACH WOMEN NOT TO MURDER: A fifth-grade Catholic school teacher was arrested after she admitted to having a ‘kill list’ that included students and staff, police say.

DISPATCHES FROM THE INTERSECTION OF “RIOTS FOR THEE, BUT NOT FOR ME” AND “WITH DNC IN MIND CITY BANS CARRYING URINE, FECES:” Seattle City Council Woman Wants Police Protection After Turds Thrown at Her Condo.

(Classical references in headline.)

IGNORE THE PROBLEM; IT WILL GO AWAY: Leftist columnist freaks out over ad showing actual crime in America.

If you happen to be a baseball fan who has been watching the playoff games recently you may have noticed some intentionally jarring political advertisements popping up between innings. They depict some of the grisly crimes that have been captured on security cameras around the country recently as the ongoing crime crisis continues to spiral out of control. The advertisements ask voters to consider why this is happening and to take this critical issue into account when they vote next month.

One person who definitely noticed the advertisements was Will Bunch, the liberal author and columnist for the Philadelphia Inquirer. Having his baseball game interrupted by such “vile right-wing political ads” was clearly more than Mr. Bunch could tolerate, so he took to the pages of his newspaper this weekend to vent his fury at the “shadowy figures” behind the advertising campaign. Apparently, seeing images of terrible things that are actually happening on America’s streets today is an unwarranted disruption to the lives of ordinary Americans or something.

If you live in Philadelphia or thereabouts, the October baseball playoffs have brought almost unbridled joy from a Phillies hot streak, punctuated by an epic bat flip and an inside-the-park home run — and marred only by jarring interruptions from the most shockingly crude and, arguably, racist political ads since Willie Horton hit the small screen in 1988.

Every few innings, the dark, grainy TV spots — with a flood of unsettling images of urban crime and civic unrest, or large migrant caravans streaming toward the U.S. border — broke up the stream of otherwise cheerful spots for iPhones or car insurance. One says “illegal immigration is draining our paychecks, wrecking our schools, ruining our hospitals and threatening your family” — blaming President Biden, and telling Democrats to “stop hurting our children,” against an ominous, empty playground swing. The crime spot blames liberals for a wave of “violence, bloodshed and death” as men with machine guns roam an urban wasteland.

Bunch puts on his detective hat and figures out who is responsible for these advertisements that “marred” the “unbridled joy” of a Phillies game. Do you really need me to tell you who he determined was the culprit? It was the Bad Orange Man, of course! Well… it wasn’t Donald Trump specifically, but the group developing the advertisement, Citizens for Sanity, is the brainchild of what Bunch calls “the very worst, xenophobic remnants of Team Trump.”

Bunch, who caught “Defund the Police” fever in 2020, is angry that the GOP has revived the effective Nixon-era “Law & Order” playbook: Of Course Republicans Should Run against Crime.

Democrats and the media are trying to shame Republicans into giving up one of their strongest issues: being tough on crime. Will Bunch, writing in the Philadelphia Inquirer, says that Republicans are reviving “racist ‘Willie Horton’-style fearmongering” ads from their 1980s playbook. Similar accusations litter the airwaves on CNN and MSNBC. Fretting abounds in the New York Times and Washington Post.

Republicans should ignore this. Bunch has no evidence that the ads are fueling racist incidents or ripping up the social fabric. He objects that the ads are working: A “once seemingly dead-in-the-water Mehmet Oz has revitalized his Republican Senate campaign against Democrat John Fetterman — and suddenly the 2022 midterms are all crime, all the time.”

There’s a good reason for that. Philadelphia’s district attorney, Larry Krasner, ran as a progressive. His own office’s website reports that 49 percent of gun-possession charges and 66 percent of violent offenses were withdrawn or dismissed this year. Over 400 people have been murdered in Philadelphia so far this year; the city is on pace to break homicide records by the end of the year. Carjackings have skyrocketed. The atmosphere of lawlessness reached a crescendo in recent weeks as five teens were shot outside of Roxborough High School, one fatally. And Temple University graduate Everett Beauregard was shot in the back of the head by a complete stranger near Drexel. Pennsylvania’s Democratic Senate candidate John Fetterman endorsed Krasner’s reelection campaign and embraced all of his soft-on-crime policies. George Soros’s political organizations spent nearly $1.7 million to elect Krasner as Philadelphia’s DA.

If Republicans can’t run against this unfolding disaster, then democracy itself is a joke. Berwood Yost, a pollster who directs the Franklin & Marshall College Center for Opinion Research, noted that Krasner is a huge electoral liability for Democrats: “He’s a direct tie to what Republicans would call ‘woke, soft-on-crime views towards the police’ — and those views are just not a popular position anywhere outside of Philadelphia.” Elections are for checking the positions of authority against the populace.

You know it’s an effective ad when YouTube labels the embedded clip “This video is age-restricted and only available on YouTube.” Click here to watch.

LAW REVIEWS ARE RUN BY LAW STUDENTS. SOMETIMES WELL, SOMETIMES NOT. Law Prof Bemoans His Experience Publishing An Article In The Iowa Law Review.

THE CORBYNIZATION OF THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY* CONTINUES APACE: Adam Kinzinger Unravels In Bizarre, Embarrassing Rant After Critic Hits Close to the Mark.

Entrepreneur David Sacks who has been supportive of Republican candidates called out Kinzinger for his profile in which he claimed he was “country first” but then bragged about being a part of “NAFO” a “foreign propaganda organization (NAFO) which was founded by a neonazi. Can things get any crazier?”

What is NAFO? Here’s what the account “Defense of Ukraine” — a Ukrainian government account — says.

So he’s spending his time defending Ukraine on Twitter and accusing people of being Kremlin trolls on behalf of Ukraine? That could be a problem if he’s acting as an agent of Ukraine. And a group Sacks claims was “founded by a neonazi”? What is Adam doing?

Sacks’ tweet caused Kinzinger to lose his mind.

“David, whose last name is Sacks, claims #nafo is a foreign propaganda organization,” Kinzinger said. “Well there SACKS, much better than under the influence of Russian propaganda. Sacks. #NAFOarticle5”

It looked like he hashtagged it to try to sic people on Sacks, attacking him over his name and accusing him of being under the influence of Russia.

Sacks didn’t take it lying down and asked Kinzinger if he had an issue with people with Jewish names.

It’s been quite a month for the future MSNBC or CNN pundit: Adam Kinzinger’s bizarre rantings – Baseballcrank, pro-lifers, and Putin – Oh my!

* And its camp followers.

TEACH WOMEN NOT TO RAPE! (CONT’D): Ohio softball coach pleads guilty after sleeping with student, begged them not to tell.. “Ashley Rison, 31, an employee at New Miami High School, is facing five years in jail after pleading guilty Wednesday to sexual battery and gross sexual imposition in response to allegations she had sex with a 17-year-old student, WXIX-TV reported.”

ANNALS OF LEFTIST AUTOPHAGY: Gisele Fetterman calls for NBC to apologize following ‘shocking’ interview with husband John Fetterman.

Mr Fetterman suffered a stroke in May, shortly before the Pennsylvania Senate primaries. As a result, he uses closed captioning to better communicate, which was employed during a recent sit-down interview with NBC News journalist Dasha Burns.

The interview itself was ultimately overshadowed by an extemporaneous comment from Ms Burns while promoting the appearance on the network. She told viewers that it seemed like Mr Fetterman was unable to follow their small-talk conversation ahead of the interview without the use of the closed captioning assistance.

“During some of those conversations before the closed captioning was rolling it wasn’t clear he could understand what we were saying,” Ms Burns said on NBC while promoting the interview.

The comment sparked a firestorm of fierce reactions, with other journalists claiming Mr Fetterman had no trouble following their conversations and Mr Fetterman’s critics pouncing and arguing it showed the candidate was not up to the task of serving as a US senator.

Ms Fetterman criticised the interview.

“If this happened in a school, if this was a child that was ableist towards another child or a teacher, there would’ve been issues stated. There would have been new training done,” she told The Independent in an exclusive interview. “What is being done at the media after a reporter came out so openly ableist towards a person? I think shocked and appalled, but sadly not surprised. I know there’s still so much to do, but it would be great to see some accountability, to actually see real change.”

Did the “de facto candidate” just compare her stroke-riddled husband to a child?

UNEXPECTEDLY! Comcast Pulls Plug On G4 TV, Ending Comeback Try For Gamer-Focused Network.

Comcast’s Spectacor division is pulling the plug on video game-centric network G4 TV, whose early incarnation in the 2000s remains a cultural touchstone for many millennials, just a year after its relaunch.

In a memo set to be sent out to all employees, Spectacor CEO Dave Scott explained that the company’s investment and efforts to revive the network just didn’t gain traction.

A few dozen employees and contract workers are affected by the shutdown. Comcast said it will assist them with outplacement and consider some for internal opportunities.

If only there were warning signs that this was coming:

As G4TV Slides Towards Bankruptcy, They Finally Fire “Frosk.”

Obviously they were going in a different direction from Olivia Munn.

Frosk is a loud, obnoxious SJW feminist without an ounce of humor in her. She is full of hatred and rants. She also sometimes works for China and defends China.

G4 didn’t get a lot of watches on YouTube despite the high budget and its promotion and brand name. And Frosk started to get criticized because despite having very dogmatic and firm opinions about everything — like every leftwing feminist fatmouth — she was a leftist SJW, by which I mean, she did not know what in the hell she was talking about.

And I don’t mean about politics. I mean she would make dogmatic pronouncements about basic things about games and game systems and get them completely wrong. You know, her supposed field of expertise.

People would comment that she got them wrong, and she’d get angry.

That spurred her to go on this tirade against G4’s viewers — and remember, they didn’t have all that many viewers. She only briefly mentioned that bit about her getting a lot of things wrong, and then started insisting that everybody was always telling her how ugly and not-f***able she was, especially compared to the previous female hosts on G4.

* * * * * * * *

I will keep saying: SJWs, if you want to push your unpopular #Woke CRT poison on the public, you need to vote for Trump, or DeSantis. You need a booming Trump or DeSantis economy so that corporations are so flush with cash that they can limp along with the losses you’re incurring them.

In a Biden economy, you get fired. In a Biden economy — in a recession — they can’t afford failure. They demand profits.

I don’t know what it’s going to take before corporations finally turn away from woke propaganda. I don’t know how many millions of dollars they will have to pour gasoline on to and set aflame before they finally realize that everyone hates wokeness.

And I don’t know how quickly I want them to realize it. I don’t watch their horrible content any longer.

But I am extremely entertained watching them lose millions and millions of dollars.

Do you think the marketplace is being irrational in rejecting all of your beautifully elevated woke propaganda?

Well, as Wall Streeters used to say: The market can remain irrational for far longer than you can remain solvent.

Indeed. Got woke, went broke.

HOW THE BORDER WENT MAGA:

Democrats underrate the regional appeal of conservatism at their own peril. From 2015 to 2021, Will Hurd was the congressman for the sprawling border district now represented by Tony Gonzales. “In 2020, the number of Latinos voting for Republicans was not a surprise,” he asserts. Citing the high proportion of people across the borderlands who work in law enforcement and the concentration of oil and natural gas production in the Permian Basin that bridges West Texas and eastern New Mexico, Hurd believes it was the progressive embrace of criminal-justice reform and green energy that motivated many in the region to vote for Trump. “What was happening in 2020 was these initiatives within the Democratic party were impacting the livelihoods of people that lived along the border, that was the significant difference.” . . . As Laura Gómez, a law professor at the University of California, Los Angeles, put it when I reached her at her home in Albuquerque, “From the Trump years on, the nation has gone through tremendous changes. Politically, ideologically. Why wouldn’t we expect that Latinos have also been changing?”

Via a friend, who comments: “Author also visibly puzzles over how some Mexican immigrants make a distinction between those who did so legally vs. illegally after remarking upon how bizarre it is that Trump’s support went up [after he] supposedly called immigrants rapists. It’s like the author sees it but can’t make sense of it due to such deep bias.”

IMPORTANT HEALTH ADVICE: “Colonoscopy is not effective if you don’t do it.”

BUT OF COURSE: American technology boosts China’s hypersonic missile program.

THE WASHPOST WAY: ‘Badass’ Journalists ‘Afflicting the Comfortable’ for ‘Radical Change.’

Margaret Sullivan recently stepped away from her soapbox as a media columnist for The Washington Post, but she has a new book out titled Newsroom Confidential: Lessons (and Worries) from an Ink-Stained Life. Mark Judge at the Washington Examiner provocatively asserted journalism is a like a drug, and they became addicted to the power of “doing good,” like forcing Richard Nixon to resign over Watergate.

Judge quoted Sullivan on liberal heroes Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein: “They were badass, the essence of swashbuckling cool, especially when confused in my teenage mind with Robert Redford and Dustin Hoffman … I wanted to be them, or at least immerse myself in that newsroom culture. Righteousness could be achieved, according to the self-important journalism adage, by ‘afflicting the comfortable and comforting the afflicted.'”

Fair enough. When will the Post start?

SMALL MEN LIVE FOR THE PERQUISITES OF OFFICE, AND HE’S A SMALL MAN: Christopher Wray certainly seems to be enjoying the FBI’s private jet. “It seems that Wray has been making very liberal use of the FBI’s private jet when he needs to get away from the Beltway. On at least one occasion he used it to head to his family’s vacation home in the Adirondack Mountains. And another series of trips to the Atlanta area is also under scrutiny. The problem is that Congress never authorized that jet for personal use. It’s only supposed to be used for counterterrorism purposes.”

Hahaha. “Counterterrorism.” He’s probably investigating parents who spoke at school board meetings.

WHY IS THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY SUCH A CESSPIT? Pests, Filth, and Killer Elevators: Inside Raphael Warnock’s Secret Low-Income Apartment Building.

JEFF DUNETZ: We Are VERY Powerful –Kanye West Says So. “Isn’t he wonderful? Kanye West believes the Jewish people are so influential. Thank you, Kanye. My middle finger salutes you.”

2023’S DISCONTINUED VEHICLES.