Archive for 2024
October 24, 2024
TOOK THEM THAT LONG, HUH? Report: Democrat Donors Aware of Biden’s ‘Frighteningly Awful’ Cognitive Issues As Early as June 2023.
Author and Washington Post associate editor Bob Woodward’s word is often considered sacrosanct in leftist/media circles. But he’s thrown them for a bit of a loop in a new book called “War,” released October 15th, which gives fresh insight into what some Democrat movers and shakers knew about Biden’s cognitive issues and when they knew it.
In the book, Woodward quotes some donors on and off the record talking about how Biden looked and sounded “frighteningly awful” when they saw him, with others comparing him to “your 87-year-old senile grandfather” who complimented women’s eyes as he walked around the room:
The first fundraiser hosted by Kevin Scott, the chief technology officer of Microsoft, at his home in Los Gatos on June 19 [2023], was attended by 38 guests, including some of the most serious Democratic donors in [Silicon Valley]. The event raised $2.7 million for Biden’s re-election fund. Guests, however, said that Biden was “frighteningly awful.” It was “like your 87-year-old senile grandfather” wandering around the room, saying to women guests, “your eyes are so beautiful.”
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And after a small “meet the president” fundraiser attended by about 20 people at the home of philanthroposts Susie and Michael Gelman in Chevy Chase, Maryland, on June 27, 2023, guests described their interactions with Biden as “painful.”
“He never completed a sentence ” said Bill Reichblum , cofounder and president of Liberties Journal Foundation, who attended with his wife and father-in-law, a former U.S. ambassador to Romania. “He would start to talk about something, jump somewhere else. He told the same story three times in exactly the same way and it meandered so much. … It was striking.
For anyone not invested in keeping Joe’s mortal remains propped up, his decline was visible years earlier (and like Bill Clinton’s peccadilloes in the 1990s, the DNC-MSM all knew about Biden’s decline as early as 2019, but chose not to report it.)
I ran my first “Trunalimunumaprzure!” headline near the end of the 2020 election. Prior to that, for years, my recurring headline for Joe’s innumerable gaffes was “Super Gaffe-O-Matic ’76,” a takeoff on Dan Akroyd’s classic Saturday Night Live TV commercial parody. But it was obvious by the 2020 election cycle that the pilot light was beginning to dim on Biden, which is why I retired that headline, with my first reference to the T-word on October 31st, 2020, in reference to this infamous moment, in which brain, mouth and teleprompter reading skills all failed miserably for Biden.
And now we’re in the Schrodinger’s President phase of the Weimar Republic:
Flashbacks:
● Documented: Biden’s memory loss dates to 2015, 25th Amendment territory.
● The ‘cabal’ that bragged of foisting Joe Biden on us must answer for his failed presidency.
BUT OTHER THAN THAT, MS. HARRIS, HOW DID YOU ENJOY THE SHOW? Kamala’s CNN Town Hall Was a Masterclass in Political Self-Destruction.
WOEING: Boeing reports $6 billion quarterly loss as striking workers vote whether to accept contract offer.
Members of the International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers were voting at union halls on a contract that would raise pay by 35% over four years. Before the doors opened at a hall near Boeing’s factory in Renton, Washington, workers joined a snaking line outside, where there were a few scattered calls for the offer’s rejection.
“It’s going to be a split vote,” predicted Brian Hatcher, who has worked at Boeing for 15 years and said he voted “no” largely because the proposal did not restore pensions that were eliminated a decade ago.
The strike, which started Sept. 13, Their strike since mid-September has served as an early test for Boeing CEO Kelly Ortberg, who became chief executive in August.
In his first remarks to investors, Ortberg said Boeing needs “a fundamental culture change,” and he laid out his plan to turn the company around after years of heavy losses and damage to the aerospace giant’s reputation.
It’s the self-inflicted wounds to Boeing’s reputation that could take the longest to heal.
LIES, DAMNED LIES, AND THE DEMOCRAT-MEDIA COMPLEX:
If you’re going to tell a Gold Star Family that you, a reporter, have absolute moral authority, not them, you should have a named source on the record. Maybe two! What Gold Star families say about their experiences, with their names attached, should matter no matter who they… https://t.co/qXxM2hscTb
— Mary Katharine Ham (@mkhammer) October 23, 2024
Exit quote: “I could not get a similarly sourced piece published on a fantastic claim about Kamala at any major outlet, and that’s as it should be.”
As for Jake Tapper, whatever credibility he might have once had, he squandered long ago.
NEWS FROM MY NECK OF THE WOODS: Tennessee AG Exposes Federal Release of Illegal Immigrants Convicted of Dangerous Crimes.
Tennessee Attorney General Jonathan Skrmetti today announced that following a successful lawsuit by the Tennessee Attorney General’s Office, United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement (“ICE”) was forced to produce previously undisclosed information about the agency’s release of thousands of detained migrants, including dangerous convicted criminals. The hundreds of pages of documents obtained shed light on federal authorities’ since-abandoned plan to transport potentially thousands of “single adult” immigration detainees into Tennessee.
The records show that ICE’s plan to release migrants into this State was derailed by pushback from Tennessee’s Governor and U.S. Senators and ultimately stopped through successful litigation by the Tennessee Attorney General’s Office and other States. The information further reveals that although ICE abandoned its failed plan for the mass release of detainees into Tennessee, the agency nonetheless released over 7,000 detainees directly from its Louisiana facilities at that time, including more than 30 who were assigned ICE’s highest security-threat level. Released detainees had criminal records, including homicide, sexual assault, aggravated assault with a weapon, armed robbery, kidnapping, smuggling aliens, drug trafficking, burglary, and fraud.
“The federal government’s single most important job is to keep dangerous people out of our country and instead it has let killers and rapists illegally cross our border and walk free on our streets,” said Tennessee Attorney General Jonathan Skrmetti. “While the urgent work to fix our broken immigration system continues in Washington, my Office will keep fighting for transparency and accountability.”
In December 2022, the Governor’s Office learned that ICE had been coordinating with local immigration-rights groups and Nashville officials to release large numbers of detainees into Tennessee before the anticipated termination of the federal government’s Title 42 public health order. With support from the Governor, the Tennessee Attorney General’s Office immediately worked to obtain answers from the federal government. When federal authorities failed to respond to Tennessee’s Freedom of Information Act requests, the Attorney General’s Office filed suit.
As a result of the litigation, ICE searched for and produced hundreds of pages of responsive records that revealed the following:
Coordination between ICE, Nashville city officials, and a Tennessee immigration nonprofit to arrange for the mass release of detainees into Tennessee
ICE originally planned to release thousands of single, adult, non-citizen detainees from its Louisiana detention facilities into Tennessee
Data from ICE showing the release from its Louisiana detention facilities of non-citizen detainees with violent criminal records, including murder, rape, and kidnapping
You can find the documents from ICE here.
Pathetic, and I think the nonprofits, city officials, etc. should face some accountability. But nice work from the Tennessee AG’s office, and from AG Jonathan Skrmetti.
CDR SALAMANDER: Lies, Damn Lies, and Shipbuilding Plans.
VDH: A Media Beyond Caricature.
CBS’s iconic 60 Minutes has had plenty of scandals and embarrassments in its long 57-year history, most notably the fake-but-accurate Dan Rather mess. Yet never has it found itself in greater disrepute than in 2024.
Donald Trump, for good reason, recently declined to join 60 Minutes for its traditional election-year in-depth interviews of the two presidential candidates. Why?
Last time he consented in 2020, anchor and interviewer Leslie Stahl attacked Trump’s accurate assertion that the Hunter Biden laptop (then in the possession of the FBI) was authentic—and authentically damning to Joe Biden’s presidential candidacy.
Stahl falsely claimed the laptop “can’t be verified.” She further incorrectly asserted, “So this story about Hunter and his laptop, some repair shop found it; the source is Steve Bannon and Rudy Giuliani.” The New York Post, in fact, reported the story. The FBI did not deny it.
Yet old Twitter and Facebook, under collaborating FBI tutelage and pressure, suppressed dissemination of the truth. Joe Biden’s then-advisor and now Secretary of State Antony Blinken, in conjunction with former interim CIA Director Michael Morrel, helped round up “51 former intelligence authorities” (among them Leon Panetta and both John Brennan and James Clapper, who had admitted previously of lying under oath to Congress) to claim falsely that the laptop had all the hallmarks of a Russian information gambit to warp the election.
Joe Biden used the “expert” consensus to further lie in the last Biden-Trump debate that the laptop was cooked up by the Russians. And neither CBS, the “intelligence authorities,” nor any of the Bidens have ever since apologized.
More recently, CBS got caught selectively editing the 60 Minutes interview with Kamala Harris, cutting and pasting an incoherent Harris response to lessen her embarrassing word salad. And in a subsequent interview with House Speaker Mike Johnson, the network once again edited and pruned his answers, but in contrast, on this occasion, to make him seem far less persuasive.
In yet another current CBS interview with author Ta-Nehisi Coates, network host Tony Dokoupil honestly questioned Coates about his new, one-sided, anti-Israeli book The Message. The result was that the left-wing icon Coates was almost immediately revealed to be abjectly ignorant of the Middle East, unapologetically biased, and completely uninterested in any viewpoint other than his own partisan prejudices.
Yet what followed proved yet another network embarrassment. An internal CBS division with the eerie Orwellian title of “CBS News Race and Culture Unit” attacked Dokoupil for not providing “context” for Coates’s self-condemnatory and embarrassing interview. The subtext was that CBS, under pressure from woke zealots, simply disowned Dokoupil and sought to subject him to correct thought training. His apparent crime was not insisting on different—softball—journalistic standards for woke black authors like Coates. In other words, CBS blamed Dokoupil for revealing Coates to be a fool on the air.
The network further diminished its eroding reputation yet again through the unprofessional conduct of recent moderators Norah O’Donnell and Margaret Brennan during the J.D. Vance/Tim Walz vice presidential debate.
But it’s not just CBS; NBC are fully onboard Team Kamala:
And prior to that, look who moderated her “predetermined” take no new questions “town hall:”
And of course, the entire DNC-MSM has gone all-in this week on its roadshow version of The Producers, as Steve noted earlier:
And then they see trendlines such as these and pretend to not know why they’re occurring:
LIMITED TIME DEAL: CRAFTSMAN VERSASTACK Mechanics Tool Set. #CommissionEarned
THE NEW SPACE RACE: Blue Origin launches 2nd human-rated New Shepard rocket, nails landing.
Jeff Bezos’ aerospace company launched its uncrewed NS-27 mission at 11:30 a.m. EDT (1530 GMT) today, sending a brand-new New Shepard rocket-capsule combo on a brief trip to suborbital space. No people launched aboard NS-27, but the mission flew 12 research payloads, five of them on the booster and seven inside the capsule. The rocket reached a maximum altitude of around 332,000 feet (101 kilometers) before returning for a landing around seven minutes and 20 seconds later.
Roughly three minutes after that, the company’s new crew capsule, the RSS Kármán Line, came in for a parachute landing in the West Texas desert.
Nice job, sticking the landing. Next up: reusability.
WHAT BREITBART CALLED THE “DEMOCRAT-MEDIA COMPLEX” IS NO MYTH:
3 Days ago, NBC News and MSNBC presented Al Sharpton, who is a paid contributor, as a moderator and interviewer of Harris.
Now he's going to Michigan to campaign for her. https://t.co/LXuAZv3Xdz
— Stephen L. Miller (@redsteeze) October 24, 2024
Related: Donald Trump Leads Kamala Harris Among Arab Americans. “While Arab and Muslim Americans overwhelmingly backed President Joe Biden in 2020, that support has significantly eroded amid anger over the Biden administration’s ongoing support for Israel’s offensives in Gaza and Lebanon.”
And yet it’s Biden-Harris whose support for Israel is equivocal at the very best — when the administration isn’t actively undermining Israel’s war effort. And it’s Trump who has fully embraced Bibi Netanyahu doing whatever he needs to do.
NOW OUT: From James Patterson and Matt Eversmann, American Heroes. #CommissionEarned
THEY ALL KNEW, EVERYONE WITH EYES KNEW, BUT THEY CALLED US LIARS ANYWAY: Just As Harris Insists Biden Is ‘Capable In Every Way,’ Some Inconvenient Facts Come to Light.
SPOILER: THEY WILL NOT EASE UP ON THE BULLSHIT.
So you mean to tell me Trump said “I need the kind of generals Hitler had” four whole years ago and no one said anything about it until 12 days before the election.
Would you just ease up on the bullshit, people?
— Joey Mannarino (@JoeyMannarinoUS) October 23, 2024
Trump is likely the most vetted presidential candidate in history. Anything “good” came out years ago.