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Archive for 2022
February 27, 2022
FLASHBACK: Tested: 1991 GMC Syclone vs. Ferrari 348ts.
The funny thing is, the supercar stats of 30 years ago seem awfully weak sauce today.
EU BANS RUSSIAN AIRCRAFT, STATE MEDIA IN SWEEPING NEW SANCTIONS: “‘The state-owned Russia Today and Sputnik, and their subsidiaries, will no longer be able to spread their lies to justify Putin’s war,’ [European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen] added. ‘We are developing tools to ban their toxic and harmful disinformation in Europe.’”
NEWS YOU CAN USE: The safest ways to store gasoline. “Please do not pump gasoline directly into a plastic bag, we’re begging you.” What can I say, that’s good advice.
DON’T GET COCKY: Biden dooms Democrats as SOTU and midterm elections loom, new poll shows.
BIDEN SAYS HE’S MADE EVERYTHING AWESOME, BUT AMERICANS HAVE A ‘PSYCHOLOGICAL’ ISSUE WITH BEING HAPPY:
Just when you think Joe Biden can’t possibly say anything more ridiculous than the last time, he proves you wrong. Lesson: Never underestimate our intrepid president and his ability to stoop to new lows of silliness, causing you to spit your liquid refreshment all over your computer screen. Or wherever. No, really.
The latest hysterical case in point, which was posted to Twitter on Saturday by our friends at the Republican National Committee, speaks for itself, but I can’t stop myself from transcribing the damn thing.
Ready? This — with a Barney Fife-like straight face, mind you:
There’s a phenomenal negative psychological impact that COVID has had [COVID! Of course!] on the public psyche. And so you have an awful lot of people who are, notwithstanding the fact that things have gotten so better for them economically, uh, that they are thinking, but, how do you get up in the morning feeling happy? Happy that everything’s alright.
Here’s Joe, America.
Biden claims he's made things better but people are “psychologically” unable to "feel happy." pic.twitter.com/AxgSGBvgZa
— RNC Research (@RNCResearch) February 26, 2022
Earlier:
● Biden pauses new oil and gas leases amid legal battle over cost of climate change.
● Fed’s favorite inflation gauge up 5.2% for biggest annual gain since 1983.
● VP Kamala Harris admits a ‘level of malaise’ in US over COVID, gets compared to Jimmy Carter.
● Is failure a byproduct or an aim of Democratic policy?
Embrace the healing power of “and.”
I REMEMBER WHEN SAYING THIS COUNTED AS “SPREADING MISINFORMATION.” Repurposing FDA-approved drugs may help combat COVID-19.
DEPEND UPON IT, SIR; WHEN A MAN KNOWS THE MIDTERMS ARE IN NOVEMBER, IT CONCENTRATES HIS MIND WONDERFULLY: CDC Discovers New Masking Science Right in Time for Biden’s State of the Union.
BIDEN VOTERS POSTING THEIR L’S ONLINE: Economic concerns hurt Biden’s approval, keep Democrats in peril ahead of midterms: Poll. “A career-low 37% of Americans approve of Biden’s job performance overall, with 55% disapproving. That includes just 30% approval among political independents and 10% from Republicans. Even in his own party, nearly a quarter of Democrats either disapprove of Biden (19%) or are withholding judgment (4%),” ABC reports.
BIDEN’S PROBLEM FOR THE STATE OF THE UNION: A friend comments that Biden isn’t getting the expected “scary times” bounce in the polls because Zelensky is making him — and every other Western leader — look weak by comparison. Also, the obvious moves to announce on Tuesday would be a boost in defense spending, and a raft of policy moves (expanded fracking, leases on federal land, Keystone pipeline approval, expanded nuclear power, etc.) designed to deprive Putin of his energy leverage. But the Democratic base would hate those moves, sensible as they are. So he’s kinda stuck. The smart thing to do would be to tell the crazy base to buzz off, but today’s Dems seem incapable of that.
GOOD: Ukrainian “go f*** yourself” soldiers may be alive. But a reminder that early war reports are often wrong.
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EXCEPT WHEN YOU’RE TEACHING CRITICAL RACE THEORY, OF COURSE, THEN IT’S ABSOLUTE: Academic freedom has limits inside the classroom, law professor says.
HIGHER EDUCATION BUBBLE UPDATE: 2+2=5? Bill Gates funnels $1 MILLION to push ‘math is racist’ narrative.
WELL: Putin Puts Nuclear Deterrent on ‘Special Alert.’
Related: West unleashes SWIFT bans, more crushing penalties on Russia. “The United States and European nations agreed Saturday to impose the most potentially crippling financial penalties yet on Russia over its unrelenting invasion of Ukraine, going after the central bank reserves that underpin the Russian economy and severing some Russian banks from a vital global financial network. . . . The central bank restrictions target access to the more than $600 billion in reserves that the Kremlin has at its disposal, and are meant to block Russia’s ability to support the ruble as it plunges in value amid tightening Western sanctions. U.S. officials said Saturday’s steps were framed to send the ruble into ‘free fall’ and promote soaring inflation in the Russian economy.”
If they’re as good at that as they have been with inflation in the U.S. economy, they should succeed admirably.
Also: Police detain anti-war protesters in Russia.
MORE: Closed.
EVERYTHING IS GOING SWIMMINGLY: White House Report Card: Looking like America chose wrongly.
This week’s White House Report Card finds President Joe Biden treading water. He had little impact in the Russia-Ukraine crisis, no impact on the surge in inflation and gas prices, and was dismissed as a failure in approval rating polls.
He did succeed in fulfilling his promise to liberals to nominate a black woman for the Supreme Court, the admired federal appeals Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson. But his polling remained low, his agenda remained stalled, and the battle against the coronavirus was a confusing mess. He hopes to give it life at next week’s State of the Union address.
When all else fails, at least he can fall back on his well-known eloquence.
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CRISES BY DESIGN: Biden pauses new oil and gas leases amid legal battle over cost of climate change.
In September of 2019, after CNN’s seven hour “climate change town hall,” Bryan Preston wrote, “Seriously, if you see all of the above — which is just a sample — and vote for any of these people for any office at any level, it’s on you. If you like Venezuela, voting for any of them will bring you a whole lot of Venezuela.”
And as Kate of Small Dead Animals wrote after the CNN horror show, “Don’t make the mistake of thinking they don’t mean it.”
Flashbacks:
● Aren’t California’s High Gas Prices What The Left Have Wanted?
● NBC, the Washington Post, and the New York Times in lockstep call for higher gas taxes.
● 2008 L.A. Times headline: “The joy of $8 gas.”
Exit quote: “Under my plan, energy costs will necessarily skyrocket…”
In other words, Obama administration retreads are following the same playbook as the original Obama administration: “We’re going to keep at it to ensure the American people are paying their fair share for gas,” is the perfect Kinsley Gaffe for an Obama administration retread like Biden: As Steven Chu, Obama’s then-incoming energy secretary, told the Wall Street Journal in the fall of 2008: “Somehow we have to figure out how to boost the price of gasoline to the levels in Europe.”
So is it fair to ask if Biden is on the payroll of Putin? As Walter Russell Mead wrote in 2017:
If Trump were the Manchurian candidate that people keep wanting to believe that he is, here are some of the things he’d be doing:
Limiting fracking as much as he possibly could
Blocking oil and gas pipelines
Opening negotiations for major nuclear arms reductions
Cutting U.S. military spending
Trying to tamp down tensions with Russia’s ally Iran.
“Yep,” Glenn added in late 2019. “You know who did do these things? Obama. You know who supports these things now? Democrats.”
Related: Biden tormented by Republican guerrilla campaign and ‘I did it’ stickers.
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DON’T GET COCKY: Is Putin Trapped?