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Archive for 2024
February 13, 2024
THE 21st CENTURY IS NOT WORKING OUT AS I HAD HOPED:
VIDEO: Biden Whacks His Least Vulnerable Spot on Marine One. “Every time the White House tries to change the narrative that Biden is an increasingly senescent elderly man with a growing temper, he goes out and does something that makes him look like an increasingly senescent elderly man with a growing temper. Because that’s what he is.”
PROBLEMS FROM BEING ACTIVE BEAT PROBLEMS FROM BEING INACTIVE: As pickleball’s popularity soars with older participants, so do injuries.
MARK JUDGE: Sorry, Dave Marcus: Biden and the Left Will Try to Jail You or Kill You.
I’d just finished confessing to a documentary film crew about how close I came to suicide. That came after a coordinated persecution by fanatical abortion advocates and socialists willing to falsely accuse an innocent, eminent judge of attempted rape, advocates who tried to use me to frame him. I took a breath, and checked my phone, only to find that Dave Marcus had just sent out a tweet defending President Biden.
“I have a lot of issues with Joe Biden” Marcus wrote. “But he is my president. And I know he won’t jail or kill me for opposing him. Putin does. And you useful idiots praising him are, well, idiots.”
Marcus is wrong. Biden and the American Stasi only care about power. Your life means nothing to them. If they need to toss you in jail or drive you to suicide to keep power, so be it.
Read the whole thing.
WE NEED TO WORK HARDER ON EXPLAINING WHY SOCIALISTS ARE AWFUL: “Today, more than 85% would vote for a qualified woman—the same goes for someone who is Black, female, Hispanic, Catholic or Jewish. Of the groups Gallup has inquired about over time and updated recently, only one, a socialist, still faces majority opposition, but it is a bare 51%.”
WITH MALICE AFORETHOUGHT: How Biden botched the border. “The previously unreported meeting, recounted to Axios by three people familiar with the events, is emblematic of the Biden administration’s struggle with the border crisis during the past three years — infighting, blame-shifting and indecision.”
#JOURNALISM:
A radical transgender illegal immigrant Bernie supporter with “Free Palestine” written on their firearm targets Christians and the MSM journos portray Texas gun laws as the problem.
Realize where we are. Realize who they are. https://t.co/mqzVOcddUa
— Oilfield Rando (@Oilfield_Rando) February 13, 2024
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HAPPY VALENTINE’S DAY: Cocoa prices surge to all-time highs as bad weather hurts West Africa crop yield. “Hershey CEO Michele Buck said Thursday that the chocolate maker’s earnings growth will be flat this year due to historically high cocoa prices. Hershey reported fourth quarter net income of $349 million, a nearly 12% decrease compared to the year-ago period.”
MEANWHILE, OVER AT VODKAPUNDIT: Biden’s Latest Racially Tinged Cringe-Fest Is Just Too Much. “What’s a sure way for Presidentish Joe Biden to win back black voters? Buy ’em some fried chicken, talk some basketball, and then post the cringeworthy video on YouTube for the whole world to see.”
OH NO: NASA Needs a ‘Miracle’ to Save Voyager 1.
The nearly 50-year-old space probe, which is currently over 15 billion miles away, encountered the malfunction on November 14, 2023. This has hindered its capacity to relay vital measurements from its scientific instruments and fundamental engineering information. As a result, the mission’s support team in Southern California has been left in the dark about key parameters related to the craft’s propulsion, power, and control systems.
“It would be the biggest miracle if we get it back. We certainly haven’t given up,” Voyager’s Project Manager Suzanne Dodd told Ars Technica in an interview. “There are other things we can try. But this is, by far, the most serious since I’ve been project manager.”
Engineers believe that the problem originated in the Flight Data System (FDS), specifically related to “frame syncing” data, and suspect that it may be due to corrupted memory within the FDS. This has hindered the team’s ability to pinpoint the exact location of the FDS memory corruption, as the lack of detailed telemetry data from Voyager 1 has made it challenging to identify the root cause of the issue.
The complexity of diagnosing and rectifying a problem occurring at such an immense distance, compounded by the age of the spacecraft and its fifty-year-old technology, has underscored the unprecedented technical and logistical challenge facing the mission’s support team.
Still, almost 50 years and 15 billion miles is a helluva run.
CHRIS QUEEN: The Not-So-Subtle Left-Leaning Message of the ‘He Gets Us’ Super Bowl Ad. “Lincoln and I have both written about ‘He Gets Us’ and how its commercials often make good points that still miss the mark. The only problem is that the conversation in this year’s Super Bowl ad falls short of the gospel.”
I’M SO OLD, I REMEMBER WHEN BIDEN WAS GOING TO RESTORE TATTERED RELATIONS WITH OUR ALLIES: Senior Biden Admin Official Refused To Meet With Israeli Ambassador During 2021 Hamas Conflict, Internal Emails Show.
Samantha Power, the head of the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), was asked to meet with then-Israeli ambassador Gilad Erdan in May 2021, when Hamas and other Palestinian terror groups were attacking Israel with missiles in protest of a court ruling that evicted six Palestinian families from an East Jerusalem neighborhood.
Power declined the meeting, internal government emails show, saying that Israel must first reach a ceasefire with the Palestinian terror groups before being granted a sit-down. The behind-the-scenes diplomatic drama reveals how the United States used back channels to pressure Israel into stopping its siege on Hamas militants—tactics that once again may be in play as the Biden administration pushes Israel into ending its current war on the terror group.
“The Administrator [Power] would like to take the meeting with the Ambassador [Erdan] but wants to hold until there is a ceasefire or resolution to the currently [sic] escalation of the conflict,” a scheduler in Power’s office wrote in a May 18 email to USAID colleagues working in the region, according to a cache of internal documents first obtained by the Center to Advance Security in America (CASA), a government watchdog group.
In recent weeks, the Biden administration has begun to walk back its robust support for Israel’s war against Hamas, with Biden saying on Thursday that the Jewish state’s response to the worst terror attack in its history is “over the top.” The administration has also reportedly considered slowing down arms sales to Israel to pressure the Israeli government into reaching a ceasefire with Hamas.
It’s increasingly clear that the only reason the Biden Cabal hasn’t already put a serious squeeze on Israel was the horrific nature of the Hamas October 7 terror invasion.
But as October 7 fades from public memory, that will change.
KRUISER’S MORNING BRIEFING: If Only We Could Deport Biden and Mayorkas for Their Border Debacle. “The real problem, of course, is that the idiot Dems and their squish Republican pals don’t view the crush at the border as invasion, despite the fact that it clearly is. For most of the last three years, they’ve been pretending that there are no real problems and have repeatedly assured the American people that the southern border is secure.”
NOBODY WHO MATTERS ACTUALLY BELIEVES THE “EXISTENTIAL THREAT’ THING:
You don't demonstrate your seriousness that Trump is an existential threat to democracy by going through the motions to renominate an 81-year-old with a 38% approval rating who 75% of voters think is too old without giving anyone a choice because that's just how things are done.
— Nate Silver (@NateSilver538) February 11, 2024
Related: RFK, Jr.’s Super Bowl Campaign Ad Broke Democrats in a Big Way.
WELL, GOOD:
BREAKING: Iowa state legislators have introduced a bill to abolish the DEI bureaucracies in all state universities. This would be another win for our movement and for the principle of colorblind equality. pic.twitter.com/IS4YEP0fod
— Christopher F. Rufo ⚔️ (@realchrisrufo) February 12, 2024
WE WERE PROMISED THAT A BIDEN ADMINISTRATION WOULD BRING COMPETENCE AND DECORUM BACK TO THE WHITE HOUSE: Axios Details Meltdown in Biden Administration Over the Border: “[Susan] Rice referred to [HHS Secretary Xavier] Becerra as a ‘bitch-ass’ and privately called him an ‘idiot,’ according to multiple sources.”
BRAVE SIR ROBIN: ‘Antiracist Baby’ Author Kendi Refuses To Debate Matt Walsh After Viral Exchange On Slavery. “Kendi, who gained prominence after George Floyd died in 2020, developed a career pushing Critical Race Theory through books and speaking engagements. In 2021, the MacArthur Foundation announced that Kendi would receive a $625,000 five-year grant for research. Kendi, who says that America is systemically racist, often charges steep fees for speaking engagements.”
VOX POPULI, VOX DEI: Majority rate Biden’s mind poorly but say Kamala Harris is not the answer.
HOW DO YOU DO, FELLOW KIDS?
The fuck?
I thought this was a parody account at first. https://t.co/iXkc31yFRF— Larry Correia (@monsterhunter45) February 12, 2024
Reality being confusable with parody is a constant problem of the current era. And of the current administration.
What this is meant to distract from: Biden Refuses to Take Cognitive Test at His Annual Physical.