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June 22, 2023
THEY ALWAYS SHOW YOU WHO THEY’RE AFRAID OF: RFK Jr. slams media’s ‘frantic need to discredit me.’
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Flashback: The rich and powerful thrived as the rest of us suffered in the year of lockdowns.
Newsom has continuously attacked DeSantis for his policies in Florida – even releasing an ad earlier this year urged Americans not to vote for the governor with the tagline ‘don’t make America Florida.’
DeSantis’ team is using that same rhetoric in return, releasing an email with the one-minute video with the subject line: ‘Don’t California Our Nation.’
‘We’re here in the once great city of San Francisco,’ DeSantis said in a straight-to-camera video shot on the streets of the California city.
‘We came in here and saw people defecating on the street. We saw people using heroin. We saw people smoking crack cocaine,’ he detailed. ‘And you look around and the city is not vibrant anymore. It’s really collapsed because of leftist policies. And these policies have caused people to flee this area.’
Newsom claims that DeSantis’ policies are too far right, but DeSantis says on the flip side that his California counterpart’s laws have led to a collapse of the Golden State.
‘They don’t prosecute criminals like they do in most parts of the country and the wreckage has really been sad to see,’ DeSantis said in the video. ‘I’ve seen so many businesses boarded up. I’ve seen so much riff-raff just running around. It just shows you these policies matter. Leadership matters.’
‘They are doing it wrong here,’ he added.
Related: DeSantis diagnoses San Francisco’s problems but the Mayor hates the medicine.
Recently, California politicians have been obsessed with engaging in political sparring matches with Ron DeSantis. Ostensibly, they are angry Californians are leaving their state en masse and moving to Florida. San Francisco Mayor Breed was clearly upset DeSantis pointed out the drugs and feces in the streets, and shot back with her own retort.
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Breed’s response is a textbook definition of what Victor Davis Hanson once dubbed “The Bloomberg Syndrome.” As VDH wrote in early 2011 when then-New York City Mayor Mike Bloomberg failed to adequately remove a foot and half or so of global warming from his city streets:
It is a human trait to focus on cheap and lofty rhetoric rather than costly, earthy reality. It is a bureaucratic characteristic to rail against the trifling misdemeanor rather than address the often-dangerous felony. And it is political habit to mask one’s own failures by lecturing others on their supposed shortcomings. Ambitious elected officials often manage to do all three.
The result in these hard times is that our elected sheriffs, mayors, and governors are loudly weighing in on national and global challenges that are quite often out of their own jurisdiction, while ignoring or failing to solve the very problems that they were elected to address.
Quite simply, the next time your elected local or state official holds a press conference about global warming, the Middle East, or the national political climate, expect to experience poor county law enforcement, bad municipal services, or regional insolvency.
And quite possibly, a fair amount of “bad luck” to strike as well.
ACTUALLY, I WAS HOPING TO GET AN F-35: Biden Jeers Americans Would ‘Need an F-16’ to Take on Government.
BEST AND BRIGHTEST: President Joe Biden’s man to fight the Monkeypox battle says officials should support policies that encourage the “joy” of multiple same-sex orgies, the Washington Stand’s Ben Johnson reports.
And in a related development, the Prophet Isaiah offered this analysis: “Woe to those who call evil good and good evil, who put darkness for light and light for darkness, who put bitter for sweet and sweet for bitter!”
PLUS: The great Don Surber’s latest column on Substack focuses in on a Daily Guardian expose of a federally funded public school teachers meeting devoted to ways of protecting trans kids from … their parents.
Gaetz: Have you ever heard of the Washington Generals?
Durham: The Washington Generals? Yes.
Gaetz: And they’re the team that basically gets paid to show up and lose, right?
Durham: (Laughing) I’m sure that the players who exert blood, sweat, and tears don’t view it that way, but you might.
Gaetz: I think they do. I think they do because the job of the Washington Generals is to show up every night and to play the Harlem Globetrotters, and their job is to lose —
Durham: Oh, I’m thinking — I’m sorry — of a different, I was thinking of a different team.
Gaetz: Yeah, so their job is to lose, and I’m kind of wondering, and it just seems so facially obvious, that it’s not what’s in your report that’s telling, it’s the omission — it’s the lack of work you did. And for the people, like the chairman, who put trust in you, I think you let them down, I think you let the country down, and you are one of the barriers to the true accountability that we need.
Durham: Do I get to respond to that or comment on that? Well, I don’t know if you’ve ever investigated a crime —
Gaetz: I don’t know that you have. You didn’t investigate these, Mr. Durham. How about Andy McCabe? Did you charge him? Did you investigate him?
Jordan: The gentleman’s time has expired. The witness can respond, then we’ll move on to our last —
Durham: I don’t know, Sir, whether you’ve ever had occasion to try to investigate crimes under the rules and regulations, and under the Constitution that we’re bound by. We can gather evidence, in particularly lawful ways, but we can’t charge people, because we might think something —
Gaetz: It’s not just that you didn’t charge — it’s that you didn’t investigate. You didn’t investigate the Mueller team wiping their phones and you won’t tell us who gave the orders because you’re protecting those people!
As a regular observer of hearings like this, I couldn’t help but notice the pivot toward lambasting Durham from the Republican side. It seemed to occur while the committee was in brief recess to take a floor vote (regarding whether or not to move forward with censuring Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA), a member of the committee who had his own tangle with Durham earlier in the day). Was that a strategic move to undercut arguments that Republicans were just glomming onto Durham to generate talking points and defend the honor of their beloved former president (as some of the Democrats on the committee insisted)? Or is something else afoot here? Was Durham indeed playing the role of Washington General? Controlled opposition to appease the calls for accountability while running cover for the “deep state”?
It’s hard to know anymore who’s playing who, and who’s running what op. I guess that’s what years of government officials acting in bad faith and refusing to be straight with the people who elect them and pay their salaries breeds.
And as for accountability, well, I hope no one’s holding their breath.
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FALLOUT: General Electric stops servicing gas turbines at Russian thermal power plants.
General Electric (GE) has stopped servicing GE-made gas turbines installed at Russian thermal power plants with extended sanctions over Moscow’s invasion of Ukraine coming into force.
The Kommersant daily cited officials from several thermal plants in Russia as saying that the servicing of turbines produced by the U.S. company had stopped as of June 19, adding that GE may also stop spare parts supplies for its turbines in several important thermal power plants across Russia.
That could prove inconvenient.
LIKE THE SAUSAGE-MAKING, BEST NOT TO KNOW TOO MUCH? Justice Stevens’s Papers Reveal How The Fortune Cookies Were Baked In Lawrence v. Texas.
DEAL OF THE DAY: Extremus Tactical Wallet. #CommissionEarned
MORE LIKE THIS, PLEASE: Riley Gaines Humiliates the President of Human Rights Campaign. “My experience — my husband, he swam at University of Kentucky, as well — In terms of accolades and in terms of national ranking, I was a much better score than them. He could kick my butt any day of the week… without trying.”
JOEL KOTKIN: The Rise of the Liberal Apostate. “In an age of darkness, glimpses of light are rare — but all the brighter for it. As the censorious progressivism embraced by Joe Biden and much of his Democratic party grows into an increasingly pervasive quasi-religion, ordinary people are finding ways to push back. Like democratic Leftists in the Cold War, old-style liberals are becoming a key force in challenging today’s new orthodoxies. And this rising tide of liberal apostasy, coupled with a growing pushback from grassroots businesses and consumers, represents a far more profound challenge to the established order than the one routinely mounted by conservatives. In the Renaissance, the impetus for change did not come from Jews, Muslims, devil-worshippers or pagans, but devout Christians such as Erasmus, Luther and Calvin.”
I’m not sure I agree with lumping conservatives in with devil-worshippers, but okay, I take the point.
June 21, 2023
DEVELOPING: Huge Explosion Rocks Paris, Over 35 Injured.
OPEN THREAD: Hump day.