Archive for 2022
October 6, 2022
BEEGE WELBORN: ‘Real men wear white boots’ and other tales of Lefty fails.
Then came…the boots. The L’Affaire d’ BOTTES BLANCHES. Oh, they for sure had the governor now. A Lefty Meme-O-Rama ensued. This was Kerry in the vacuum bag and Dukakis in the tank, and DeathSantis going DOWN in a pool of ridicule!
Only it wasn’t to be, alas. Because these idiots don’t know the first thing about those white rubber boots and Florida.
Read the whole thing — and get ready for two-to-ten more years of these ridiculous attacks.
LIVE AT 4PM EASTERN: ‘Five O’Clock Somewhere’ with Kruiser, VodkaPundit, Special Guest Ed Morrissey.
UKRAINE WAR: It Won’t Be Won on the Battlefield. “By Putin’s decree, Russia’s borders are constitutionally inviolate, even when Russia’s leader just makes them up. That’s not the kind of ledge from which a man like Putin can gracefully climb down.”
START THE HOLIDAYS EARLY: 24 Pack Stemless Plastic Champagne Flutes Disposable. #CommissionEarned
A FIRST: Uber’s former security chief covered up enormous hack he said ‘did not exist.’ “The lone hacker apparently gained access posing as a colleague, tricking an Uber employee into surrendering their credentials. Screenshots the hacker shared with security researchers indicate they obtained full access to the cloud-based systems where Uber stores sensitive customer and financial data.”
BYRON YORK: Joe Biden, the 82 year-old candidate?
First, the NBC report might be wrong. Biden might be at exactly the stage in the decision-making progress that he described to “60 Minutes.”
Second, even if Biden has decided to run again, he is right about the disclosure requirements of the campaign finance laws. It would not be to his advantage to announce now.
Third, even if Biden has decided not to run again, politically, he can’t say so. The moment Biden announces that he will not seek a second term is the moment the entire political conversation turns to his successor, on the Democratic ticket and in the White House. Will it be Vice President Kamala Harris? Will it be another one of the 2020 Democratic primary field? Will it be someone else? The conversation will go on as if Biden did not exist.
Fourth, and most important, is that Biden is simply too old to run again. He was too old to run in 2020, and he is definitely too old now.
Pop a couple of Geritols, and read the whole thing.
Related: Notice Who Isn’t Barnstorming the Country as the Midterms Approach. “But you also can’t help but wonder if Biden’s lack of appearances on the campaign trail for rallies is another concession to the fact that the president turns 80 next month. Biden doesn’t have Covid-19 as a reason to avoid crowds anymore; in the president’s own words, ‘the pandemic is over.’ Biden has already caught Covid-19 and recovered…It seems likely that Biden just doesn’t have the energy to barnstorm the country and make a lot of appearances even if he wanted to, or if the candidates wanted him to.”
JEFFREY CARTER: Static And Half-Full: The Way The Left Views The World.
HOW IT STARTED: Watch: Biden drops F-bomb while touring Hurricane Ian devastation in Florida.
President Joe Biden dropped an F-bomb in a hot mic moment during a visit to hurricane-ravaged Florida on Wednesday.
The candid moment came as Biden exchanged words with Fort Myers Beach Mayor Ray Murphy, who had just thanked the president for coming to the state.
The two men were shaking hands, and Biden began to say something that was not quite clear in the audio. Several Twitter sleuths suggested he said, “No one f***s with a Biden,” although the last word in particular was muffled.
How it’s going: Inside the White House’s failed effort to dissuade OPEC from cutting oil production to avoid a ‘total disaster.’
CIVIL RIGHTS UPDATE: U.S. judge temporarily blocks parts of New York’s new gun law.
FASTER, PLEASE: New gene target for aggressive lung cancer discovered.
HE’LL DO LITERALLY ANYTHING BUT END HIS WAR ON AMERICAN ENERGY PRODUCTION: Biden To Ease Sanctions On Socialist Venezuela, Releases Maduro’s Convicted Narco Trafficker Nephews.
LINDSEY GRAHAM THREATENS ELON MUSK FOR DARING TO PURSUE PEACE IN UKRAINE: “If there’s one thing that can be said of Senator Lindsey Graham it’s this: the man loves a war. Whether it be in the Middle East, Eastern Europe, or Twitter, the man has yet to see a conflict he doesn’t want to insert his whole chest and all of your money into. So, it’s no surprise he got into a Twitter tussle with billionaire Elon Musk recently.”
GET IT OVER YOUNG, I GUESS: Virginia 9-year-old becomes the youngest to ever have a wisdom tooth removed.
MARK JUDGE: Me, Brett Kavanaugh, and the new American Stasi.
In early August 2021, National Geographic published an article titled “As Germany’s Secret-Police Archive Shutters, Reckoning for Its Victims Continues.”
The piece describes the Stasi, the German secret police who controlled, terrorized, spied on, and harassed the citizens of Communist East Germany from the end of World War II to the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989.
Reading it, I relived some of my own trauma — not at the hands of the German Stasi, but the American Stasi, who upended my life in the fall of 2018. I recount the ordeal in a forthcoming book, The Devil’s Triangle: Mark Judge vs. the New American Stasi.
In America today, we have an organization that is analogous to the German Stasi. Or rather, it is three organizations that often work together — the legacy media, opposition researchers, and leftist politicians. Like their German counterparts, these groups try to effect political change and exert cultural control by blackmailing, terrifying, and embarrassing their victims.
In early 2009, the Washington Post, through its then-sister publication Newsweek informed its readers “We Are All Socialists Now.” Curiously, they left out the fact that the model of socialism that Beltway elites had chosen was East Germany.
ABOUT THAT KAMALA HARRIS CAR ACCIDENT YOU MIGHT NOT HAVE EVEN HEARD OF…: Another Secret Service Scandal?
I EAT A LOT OF SALMON. SARDINES NOT SO MUCH. Study: Eat salmon, sardines in midlife for improved thinking, brain structure.
HE WON’T; HIGH PRICES SUIT HIS HANDLERS JUST FINE: US oil and gas industry MOCKS Biden after OPEC announced production cuts: Energy groups say administration now has no choice but to come ‘crawling back’ to domestic producers in bid to lower prices.
NEWS YOU CAN USE: The MSM Guidebook on How to Figure Out the Blame for Various Types of Disasters.
3 Political Scandals of the Past 12 Years in the USA, and How the MSM Managed to Find the Culprits
1) WHO IS GUILTY?! In the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina in 2006, rescue efforts were bungled in Louisiana’s largest city. Who should be blamed for the scandal?
Should it be the mayor of New Orleans?
Well, ain’t Ray Nagin a Democrat? So: scratch that.
Should it be the governor of the Pelican State?
Well, ain’t Kathleen Blanco a Democrat? So: scratch that.
Should it be the president of the United States?
Hold on: who’s in the White House? Ain’t it a hombre by the name of George W Bush? And ain’t he a Republican?! Yup, it certainly appears so. Well (Snaps fingers) there you go! Nailed it!
Read the whole thing, which is “unexpectedly” adjacent to:
DRESS UP TWICE AS HARD: Here’s What Happened When a Concerned Mom Dressed Like Drag Queen at a School Board Meeting.
BATTLESWARM BLOG: Multiple Russian Fronts Collapsing. “Kreminna seems to be the next big target for Ukrainian forces to take in Luhansk, allowing them to cut a major supply line and directly threaten Severodonetsk and Lysychansk.”
Plus this from ISW’s daily roundup:
The fragmentation of the Russian nationalist information space could have significant domestic impacts and could even affect the stability of Putin’s regime. Putin will be unable to meet the mutually exclusive demands of various groups. Kadyrov and Prigozhin are pushing for a change in the way Russia fights the war to one more suited to their unconventional modes of mobilizing personnel and fighting. The veterans have been pushing for a more traditional overhaul of the Russian higher military command and MoD and for putting Russia on a conventional war footing and the Russian MoD. Russian milbloggers are currently defending the Kremlin’s selection of uniformed commanders while continuing to attack the MoD and making a variety of extreme demands and recommendations of their own—all the while reporting on Russia’s frontline failings in detail even as the MoD tries to silence them. Putin cannot afford to lose the support of any of these groups, nor can satisfy them all as the war wears on and Russian troops continue to sustain losses. The shocks of the Kharkiv and Lyman defeats, energized by the partial mobilization and its poor management, have exposed these deepening fissures within Putin’s core constituencies to the view of all Russians. They could even begin to seed the notion that Putin is not fully in control of his own base. The ramifications of such a development for his regime are hard to predict.
Impossible, really. Although it this war is perhaps more likely to end in Moscow than it is to end in someplace like Mariupol.
THE ONE WHO LOOKS PRESIDENTIAL ISN’T THE PRESIDENT, OR AT LEAST NOT YET: DeSantis Flashes His Alpha-Dog Energy in Meeting With Diminished Biden.
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XI’S GOTTA HAVE IT: Chinese Communist Party’s National Congress To Set Leaders, Agenda For Next 5 Years. “Having used anti-corruption campaigns to take potential rivals out of play, President Xi Jinping is fully expected to be named to an unprecedented third term as the party’s general secretary.”