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Rep. Pramila Jayapal: "Lets talk about the fact that President Trump incited an erection."@RepDanBishop: "You can talk about that too I guess." pic.twitter.com/xN3XrT8fnw
— Greg Price (@greg_price11) January 10, 2024
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January 10, 2024
AT MY SUBSTACK: Having a Postrel moment, on technology and sartorial progress.
JAMES LILEKS’ WEDNESDAY REVIEW OF MODERN THOUGHT:
People who are in the United States without explicit permission, who arenon-citizens, have an extensive set of rights. The people who are paying for them have an extensive set of obligations.
This puts things rather clearly:
Students at a Brooklyn high school were kicked out of the classroom to make room for nearly 2,000 migrants who were evacuated from a controversial tent shelter due to a monster storm closing in on the Big Apple.
The city made the move amid concerns that a massive migrant tent at Floyd Bennett Field would collapse from torrential rains and gusting winds — packing them instead into the second-floor gym at James Madison High School five miles away.
The school’s neighbors were not keen on the last-minute decision.
LOL, as they say, at that last one. As if that’s going to make a difference. You could have a majority – say, 51% – of the locals disagree with this, but going along with their objections would be mob rule, not Our Democracy.
The students will now “attend” “class” “remotely,” which consists of completing an assignment given by the teacher. No actual lectures.
As a thought exercise, imagine another era where A) there wasn’t a constant stream of unvetted people entering the country and being distributed around and given benefits, because it was difficult to enter the country illegally, and those who did so were not facilitated in any way by the government, and B) the idea of suspending school because non-citizens need the building would be met with incomprehension by people of many political opinions. Not the Reds, who would regard any largess given to non-citizens as useful and just, but everyone else.
I’m trying to imagine Ed Koch reacting to the proposal.
Okay, here you go: Democrats Are Worried Immigration Could Sink Biden. The story quoted above is quite a way for the Biden administration to begin the election year. Oh wait, did I just say, “The story quoted above?” But wait, there’s more!, as the ’70s era commercial announcer would declare: “This isn’t just happening in Brooklyn (which voted 75% for Joe Biden),” Ace of Spades adds. “As the Federalist points out, American children are being sacrificed to prioritize the Newer and Better Americans all across the country.”
BIG MAN BOTTOMS OUT: Chris Christie is set to drop out of the 2024 presidential race.
UPDATE: “Chris Christie Suspends Campaign To Spend More Time With Family-Sized 12-Piece Chicken Meal From KFC,” America’s Newspaper of Record reports.
More: Chris Christie on hot mic says Haley ‘is gonna get smoked’ by Trump.
HOW DARE YOU STOP US FROM FREELOADING OFF AMERICAN DRUG DEVELOPMENT EXPENDITURES! Canada vows to defend its drug supply against Florida importation plan.
PEAK GRAUNIAD: The Guardian blames the Gaza war for global warming. Really! Let’s look at the numbers.
Wait, what? Half of this supposedly huge amount comes from US cargo planes flying to Israel?
If that is true, then every airplane in the skies is putting out huge amounts of CO2 – which indeed they really do. A single transatlantic flight generates hundreds of metric tons of CO2.
So a little research shows that all aviation traffic worldwide puts out over 1 billion tons of CO2 every year. That comes out to about 2.8 million tons from aviation every day. According to these calculations, Israel is directly and indirectly responsible for less than 5000 metric tons of CO2 a day – which is about 0.17% of what is used by all airplanes every day. It is the equivalent of about 25 flights from London to New York. And aviation is responsible for about 2% of CO2 emissions worldwide, meaning the war in Gaza is adding roughly an additional 0.0034% of all CO2 emissions.
Looking at it another way, the world generates about 36.8 billion tons of CO2 a year, which is 100 million tons a day. If the Gaza war generates 5000 tons a day, that increases the amount of CO2 by 1/20,000th.
Does that sound like it has an “‘immense’ effect on climate catastrophe”?
This article is just manipulating numbers to make Israel look bad. And, let’s face it, anyone who looks at a map of the world and thinks that anything happening in Gaza is having an “immense” effect on the CO2 worldwide is an idiot.
Was it over when the Germans bombed Pearl Harbor and catastrophically increased global warming?! Forget it, the Grauniad is rolling.
IT’S LAME, UNLESS IT’S DEPLETED URANIUM. What is Lead Free Ammunition?
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It’s utterly remarkable. Is the public to accept that the Department of Defense, which has an annual budget of nearly $820 billion, can’t handle a single sick-out? This isn’t some mom-and-pop grocery store.
No, this whole fiasco is symptomatic of something else – a gerontocratic administration that has no one at the wheel.
Sources let it be known that Biden was ‘exasperated at not more quickly being informed.’ But the 81-year-old, who himself held no public events for two solid weeks over the holidays, didn’t even speak to Austin until January 6. Then Biden reportedly said he would not accept a resignation if Austin were to offer one.
This is a pattern. An administration led by a declining octogenarian, lacking in vigor, focus and mission, is incapable of demanding excellence from its staff.
In 2021, transportation secretary Pete Buttigieg – then part of Biden’s ‘Supply Chain Disruptions Task Force’ – was on paternity leave for two whole months while a logistical crisis rattled the economy and stoked runaway inflation.
The public wasn’t told and Buttigieg kept his job.
It’s utterly remarkable. Is the public to accept that the Department of Defense, which has an annual budget of nearly $820 billion, can’t handle a single sick-out? This isn’t some mom-and-pop grocery store.
No, this whole fiasco is symptomatic of something else – a gerontocratic administration that has no one at the wheel.
Sources let it be known that Biden was ‘exasperated at not more quickly being informed.’ But the 81-year-old, who himself held no public events for two solid weeks over the holidays, didn’t even speak to Austin until January 6. Then Biden reportedly said he would not accept a resignation if Austin were to offer one.
This is a pattern. An administration led by a declining octogenarian, lacking in vigor, focus and mission, is incapable of demanding excellence from its staff.
In 2021, transportation secretary Pete Buttigieg – then part of Biden’s ‘Supply Chain Disruptions Task Force’ – was on paternity leave for two whole months while a logistical crisis rattled the economy and stoked runaway inflation.
The public wasn’t told and Buttigieg kept his job.
The look the other way attitude from Biden and his handlers descends all the way down to the lowest rung of White House staffers: Message Discipline: Zero — Biden Admin Plagued by Anonymous Letters From Young Staffers.
It’s the same old story: When the staffers of a leftist politician object to their employer’s policies or positions, anonymously, the legacy media faithfully reports that this is done out of respect, even love, for the principal and his/her positions. When the staffers of a politician on the right do this – and by on the right, I mean anyone to the right of Che Guevara – they are bravely coming forth to expose corruption, bad faith deals, and oppressive behavior on the part of their principle.
You can set your watch by it.
Here’s what is happening here, spin by the legacy media notwithstanding: The Biden Administration doesn’t have any idea what much of their staff really thinks, and they have zero message discipline. They have lost control, if indeed they ever had it. Since the word go they have relied on DEI hires and checking off “diversity” boxes instead of experience and competence; they are running cover for a principal who has very little idea of what goes on from day to day, and as the high-pressure campaign season kicks into high gear with the first primaries, it’s very apparent that they aren’t up for the task.
Firing some staffers — even if the White House still has no clue who is leaking — would at least send the remainders that there is some level of accountability. But as we’ve seen, absolutely none exists within this administration.
EVERYTHING IS GOING SWIMMINGLY: Citing “crew safety,” NASA delays upcoming Artemis missions by about a year.
REPORT:
A shocker in Seattle: Pete Carroll is expected to be out as the Seahawks head coach, per sources. He still could remain in the organization, but not as the head coach. pic.twitter.com/fh4Jo8oMlk
— Adam Schefter (@AdamSchefter) January 10, 2024
On the upside, this will allow Carroll much more time to investigate what happened on September 11th.
DISPATCHES FROM WEIMAR AMERICA: This video isn’t a skit – it’s a real San Francisco city board meeting.
I thought it was a skit but turns out this was a real San Francisco board meeting
— End Wokeness (@EndWokeness) January 10, 2024
Ben Shapiro tweets, “Hamas would literally murder every single one of these people.” But doesn’t that add to their excitement? As Mark Steyn has written, “our tolerance of our own tolerance is making us intolerant of other people’s intolerance, which is intolerable. And, unlikely as it sounds, this has now become the highest, most rarefied form of multiculturalism. So you’re nice to gays and the Inuit? Big deal. Anyone can be tolerant of fellows like that, but tolerance of intolerance gives an even more intense frisson of pleasure to the multiculti masochists.”
And with San Francisco accelerating its descent into Detroit by the Bay, as the “Board of Supervisors voted 8-3 in favor of a resolution calling for a sustained ceasefire in Gaza,” it’s a literal example of what Victor Davis Hanson has described as “The Bloomberg Syndrome:” “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.”
Or all of the above, as even the long suffering citizens of San Fran must know by now.
UPDATE:
Tel Aviv just voted 10-0 to have SF clean up the human feces and heroine needles on their streets before thinking they have a right to preach to anyone about literally anything. https://t.co/TBiTHcyrEu
— Hillel Fuld (@HilzFuld) January 10, 2024
Heh, indeed.
NOTHING’S SHOCKING: California’s Next Suicidal Idea Will Shock You — Unless It Doesn’t. “You know, it seems like only yesterday [It was only yesterday, Steve —editor.] I reported that progressive groupthink had doomed California to a slow-motion suicide starting 30 years ago. But instead of reversing course, one representative is adding another few drops of arsenic to the state’s coffee supply.”
YES, CONGRESS CAN ARREST HUNTER BIDEN: Or anybody else who defies a lawfully issued congressional subpoena, under the Inherent Contempt Power, according to the Congressional Research Service (CRS). As I report for The Epoch Times, Rep. Nancy Mace (R-S.C.) was right, Biden can be arrested, but wrong in claiming it could be done “right here right now” during a tumultuous congressional hearing.
FRUITS OF DISTRUST: Philadelphia measles outbreak raises concern as vaccination rates fall.
CONGRESSIONAL PRODUCTIVITY ‘CRISIS:’ The first session of the 118th Congress passed only 34 measures that became laws, the lowest total for any first session since the 82nd Congress in 1951. Interestingly enough, however, experts linked to Democrats and Republicans agree how many laws are passed is not a good measure for the productivity of a Congress.
SHUT UP, HE EXPLAINED: Trump BANNED from speaking in his own defense in closing argument in New York fraud trial.
IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE PROPHECY: Rep. Jayapal to members of Congress: “Let’s talk about the fact that President Trump incited an erection.”
President Trump did WHAT?
Never a dull day here in the House…😂 pic.twitter.com/Ug1jEtIhKF
— Rep. Dan Bishop (@RepDanBishop) January 10, 2024
Emily Litella could not be reached for comment.
REMAIN CALM — ALL IS WELL IN BIDEN’S AMERICA: FAA warns parents to stop holding babies in their laps on planes amid fears infants could be SUCKED OUT of aircraft if more doors blow off commercial airlines.
UPDATE: Alaska Airlines cancels Boeing 737 MAX 9 flights through Saturday after midair blowout.
STRANGE BEDFELLOWS: Another Fani Willis Hire Reveals the DA’s Conflicts of Interest.
THE SELF-SERVING IS SELF-EVIDENT: As Harvard Dean, Claudine Gay Weakened Faculty Plagiarism Policy. The Corporation Leaned on That Policy To Try To Save Her Job. “Before she became the shortest-serving president in Harvard’s history, Claudine Gay watered down the school’s policy on research misconduct, making it more difficult to sanction faculty members for plagiarism—and greenlighting the very rules the school invoked in a last-ditch effort to save her job.”