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Archive for 2023
September 22, 2023
NO SH*T SHERLOCK! Germany Has Reached Its ‘Limit’ on Migration, Admits Left-Wing President.
So has everyone else. This method of redistribution of the world’s riches, like all communist grand schemes just makes everyone poorer.
THE TALKING MOP WILL NOT ANSWER QUESTIONS! ‘We’re Moving On!”: Jean-Pierre Cuts Off Doocy After He Asks About the Border Crisis.
SOMETHING NOT RIGHT HERE: Whatever happened to “independent journalist” John Sullivan, who filmed the killing of Ashli Babbitt?
MORE LIKE THIS AND SOON: Pushback: Professor blacklisted by North Texas U wins in Federal court.
SO THIS HAPPENED: Governor Abbot officially declared an invasion at our border because of Biden’s policies.
There’s a million ways this could be wrong, and yet he did the right thing, because this is what Biden has been up to: After last night’s mammoth Venezuela Temporary Protected Status re-designation, DHS will redesignate Afghanistan for TPS.
This is nothing less than an invasion, and it must be stopped.
AND MISANDRY NO WELCOME: You can’t provide an answer if you don’t understand the question.
SIC SEMPRE FAUDSTERS: As ye sow, so shall ye reap.
THEY ALL WENT TO THE SAME UNIVERSITIES. THEY BELIEVE WHAT THEIR WOKE PROFESSORS PREACHED: Another Brand Bites the Dust?
“STYMIED” IS SUCH AN UGLY WORD. MERRICK G. PREFERS TO SAY ‘INCONVENIENCED’: Two more IRS officials say David Weiss stymied and ‘not the deciding person’ on Hunter Biden tax crimes.
September 21, 2023
TECH-MEDIATED NEO-ORWELLIANISM:
The British government writing to tech firms demanding they financially punish and cancel Russell Brand before he’s been through due legal process over the allegations against him is a very disturbing Orwellian development. pic.twitter.com/6hWPDOF8V3
— Piers Morgan (@piersmorgan) September 21, 2023
We used to be told that Islamic terrorists hated us for our freedom. And maybe they do, but now it’s clear that so do our own governments.
WHY PEOPLE FIND “CONSPIRACY THEORIES” PLAUSIBLE:
How the Bankman-Frieds "spent billions of dollars operating a vast array of left-wing advocacy groups that present themselves to the public as grassroots initiatives"https://t.co/mD7VO8yjXo
— wretchardthecat (@wretchardthecat) September 22, 2023
The great innovation of American progressive religion is that virtue comes at no personal cost. The modern holy man flies a bizjet, meets in Davos, drinks only the best bubbly. Screws everyone, literally, in a Bahamas penthouse … the 21st century saint.
— wretchardthecat (@wretchardthecat) September 22, 2023
"The fact that the world is only now learning that the father of one of the biggest alleged fraudsters in American history sat on the advisory board of a company directing the biggest ‘dark money’ operation in American history is deeply disturbing".
FTX and a party were joined.
— wretchardthecat (@wretchardthecat) September 22, 2023
NOW OUT FROM THOMAS SOWELL: Social Justice Fallacies.
OPEN THREAD: Just do it.
GREAT MOMENTS IN ENVIRONMENTALISM: Gavin Newsom flew from Calif. to NY to tell the UN that burning gas is destroying the planet.
SUBMARINE ON EUROPA: Next stop, Europa? Nano subs to get test beneath Antarctic ice in 2026.
DID SEN. BOB MENENDEZ AND WIFE IMPROPERLY TAKE GOLD BARS FROM CORRUPT BANK EXEC?
Federal prosecutors are looking into whether an admitted felon helped arrange to give gold bars worth hundreds of thousands of dollars to New Jersey Sen. Robert Menendez or his wife in exchange for help, sources familiar with the matter tell News 4.
Investigators want to know if Menendez, a Democrat, offered to contact the Justice Department to try to help that man who was accused of banking crimes. Those questions are now before a federal grand jury in Manhattan that is considering whether to hand up corruption charges against the senior senator from New Jersey.
Sources say witnesses are now testifying before that federal grand jury. Part of the investigation centers on the senator’s ties to Fred Daibes, a New Jersey developer and one-time bank chairman. Officials with the FBI and IRS Criminal Investigation want to know if Daibes or his associates gave gold bars to the senator’s wife, Nadine Arslanian — gold bars worth as much as $400,000.
At the time of the gift handoff, Daibes was facing federal bank fraud charges that could have landed him up to a decade in federal prison.
Will anything come of this? As New York magazine notes, “Menendez possesses an ability to hang on through corruption scandals that would bury most politicians.”
IN SOVIET SAN FRANCISCO, CITY BLAMES CAR OWNERS FOR THEFTS! San Francisco supervisor holds hearing on strategies to address car break-ins.
San Francisco Supervisor Dean Preston on Thursday is sponsoring a hearing on strategies to address the city’s problem with car break-ins.
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Preston offered on idea on social media Wednesday night.
“Just as government in the 1980’s launched a massive “buckle up” campaign to retrain drivers/passengers to use seatbelts, we need as a city to pound in every way possible the message to visitors: do not leave anything in your car. Do this and we’ll dramatically reduce car break-ins,” said Preston. “We should not be throwing our hands up on this issue.”
When does San Francisco join Chicago and sue Kia and Hyundai for car thefts?
HOW IT STARTED:
Some blame Watergate for this abrupt collapse of trust in institutions, but not very convincingly. For one thing, the decline in trust begins to appear in the polls as early as 1966, almost a decade before the Watergate was known as anything more than a big hole in the ground alongside the Potomac River. For another, the nation had managed unconcernedly to shrug off Watergate-style events before. Somebody bugged Barry Goldwater’s apartment during the 1964 election without it triggering a national trauma. The Johnson administration tapped the phones of Nixon supporters in 1968, and again nothing happened. John F. Kennedy regaled reporters with intimate details from the tax returns of wealthy Republican donors, and none of the reporters saw anything amiss. FDR used the Federal Bureau of Investigation to spy on opponents of intervention into World War II—and his targets howled without result. If Watergate could so transform the nation’s sense of itself, why did those previous abuses, which were equally well known to the press, not do so? Americans did not lose their faith in institutions because of the Watergate scandal; Watergate became a scandal because Americans were losing faith in their institutions.
—David Frum, How We Got Here: The 70s The Decade That Brought You Modern Life — For Better Or Worse.
How it’s going: Public’s view of politics slipping, now ‘unrelentingly negative.’
None other than the Pew Research Center sums up the alarming state of politics in and around the nation at this time. It is “dismal,” the pollster advised.
“Americans have long been critical of politicians and skeptical of the federal government. But today, Americans’ views of politics and elected officials are unrelentingly negative, with little hope of improvement on the horizon,” noted the wide-reaching survey, which was released Tuesday.
“Majorities say the political process is dominated by special interests, flooded with campaign cash and mired in partisan warfare. Elected officials are widely viewed as self-serving and ineffective,” the survey analysis advised, noting that there was no single “focal point” in politics that is troubling the public.
Anger and exhaustion permeate the entire political process.
“There is widespread criticism of the three branches of government, both political parties, as well as political leaders and candidates for office. Notably, Americans’ unhappiness with politics comes at a time of historically high levels of voter turnout in national elections. The elections of 2018, 2020 and 2022 were three of the highest-turnout U.S. elections of their respective types in decades,” the poll analysis advised.
“But voting in elections is very different from being satisfied with the state of politics — and the public is deeply dissatisfied,” it said.
—Jennifer Harper, the Washington Times, today.
THE NEW SPACE RACE: The Moon’s Craters Might Contain Far Less Ice Than We Hoped.
Bummer, we’ll have to get it from comets and asteroids. But it’s early to conclude that without on-site exploration and drilling.
FIRST-WORLD PROBLEMS: The Agony of the School Car Line: It’s crazy-making and deeply inefficient. “A few generations ago, in 1969, nearly one in two kids walked or biked to school. Now only about one in 10 kids gets to school those ways. And only about a third of children who live within just one mile of school walk or bike there.”
Well, this is because the usual destructive interplay of upper-middle-class women and news media has made people too fearful to let their kids walk to school, and the state child-welfare people — who have been known to go after parents for letting their kids simply play outside — hover in the background making people afraid to do it. But the real problem, as always, is parents (mostly mothers, to be honest) not so much worried about actual safety as about what other parents (mostly mothers, to be honest) will think.
And there’s a bus driver shortage because undisciplined kids and hovering parents make driving a school bus a deeply unappealing proposition.
THE HARDEST WORKING WOMAN IN POLITICS! President Joe Biden to Establish First-Ever White House Office of Gun Violence Prevention, To Be Overseen by Vice President Kamala Harris.
President Joe Biden has given Vice President Kamala Harris another job — she will head a task force dedicated to fighting online abuse and harassment.
Biden on Thursday will announce the White House Task Force to Address Online Harassment and Abuse and Harris will formally launch it by hosting a roundtable in the afternoon.
The administration said the task force was being launched ‘to address online harms, which disproportionately affect women, girls, people of color, and LGBTQI+ individuals.’
It’s the latest task to be handed to Harris, who has a full plate of issues she leads for the Biden administration, including defending voting rights and examining the root cause of migration.
Flashback: “On the latest Editors podcast, I floated the somewhat-tongue-in-cheek theory that Joe Biden has set Kamala Harris up to fail, a passive-aggressive form of revenge for her shivving him in that first Democratic presidential-primary debate.”
To be fair, there’s enough failure to go around for everybody in this administration.