THEY WENT INSANE ELECTION NIGHT 2016. SINCE THEN THEY’VE JUST BEEN RAMPING UP: Rising Tide of Leftwing Crazy: From Marcotte to “Bandagegate”.
Archive for 2024
July 19, 2024
I HAVEN’T SEEN SO MANY RED FLAGS SINCE PORTUGUESE TV STREAMED MOSCOW MAY DAY PARADES: Lots of “130 yards.” Why No Perspective?
STRANGE HOW THAT HAPPENS, INNIT? Wife of Never-Trump Columnist Max Boot Indicted in Foreign Spying Scandal.
THE WORLD DOESN’T SLEEP DURING OUR DISPUTES: Israel: Reports of Large Explosion, Possibly From Drone, Near U.S. Embassy Branch In Tel Aviv.
SOUNDS LIKE THE TYPE PERSON WE NEED ON THAT INVESTIGATING COMMITTEE: Ex-Secret Service Agent Goes Scorched Earth on Agency Over Trump Assassination Attempt.
DON’T GET CAUGHT UP IN THE RUMORS (SUCH AS REPORTS THEY FOUND THREE FOREIGN MONEY ACCOUNTS SHOOTER’S PHONE) – DEMAND AN INDEPENDENT COMMITTEE INVESTIGATION: Whistleblowers Reveal What Secret Service Said During Briefings Before Trump Assassination Attempt.
HONESTLY? IT WOULD BE GOOD: A New GOP? Maybe.
WOULD YOU DIE FOR “REPRESENTATION”? Sex Realism Means Sex Realism.
COULDN’T HAPPEN TO A MORE DESERVING CAMPAIGN: Biden Faces More Than Bad Polling and a Total Dem Rebellion. His Campaign Is Running Out of Money.
FULL OF WIND AND FURY, SIGNIFYING NOTHING: Told By An Idiot.
July 18, 2024
ANNALS OF LEFTIST AUTOPHAGY: Keith Olbermann calls on CNN to ‘fire this asshole’ Van Jones for criticizing Biden.
You stay classy, Keith:
TULSI GABBARD RESPONDS TO KAMALA’S ATTACK ON J.D. VANCE AS “LOYAL ONLY TO TRUMP, NOT TO OUR COUNTRY:” “She’s talking about J.D. Vance, someone who enlisted in the Marine Corps after… 9/11… putting his own life on the line in service to our country….”
Kamala Harris claims “JD Vance will be loyal only to Trump, not to our country.” @JDVance1 enlisted in the Marine Corps after 9/11 and deployed to Iraq in 2005, the same year I was there during the height of the war. He put his life on the line in service to our country.
Was… pic.twitter.com/v9uSS7ASQe
— Tulsi Gabbard 🌺 (@TulsiGabbard) July 18, 2024
INSURRECTION!
Insurrection against the Democratic primary voters… much worse than alternative slates of electors.
— KanekoaTheGreat (@KanekoaTheGreat) July 19, 2024
BECAUSE OF COURSE: Drunkblogging the RNC Grand Finale: Make America Great Again!
UPDATE (FROM GLENN):
@VodkaPundit can you imagine trying to explain tonight's RNC to yourself in 2012 during the Romney and Ryan RNC.
— Nobody (@HenryLumley7) July 19, 2024
Steve’s answer: “Nope!” What a long, strange trip it’s been.
OPEN THREAD: Happy Thirsty Thursday.
A-HA!
First campaign ad from the Trump Team since 2015 that I thought was really good. Massive step up from the atrocious Dillhole Borelord vids blasphemously implying Trump is Jesus. https://t.co/9BedcK4ZYq
— FilmLadd (@FilmLadd) July 19, 2024
But isn’t this just a 2019 campaign ad from Trump with “Trump-Vance” tacked on at the end? A-Ha respond to Trump’s ‘Take on Me’ campaign video: ‘Even blind pigs can find truffles.’
—The London Independent, October 2nd, 2019.
AMERICA’S NEWSPAPER OF RECORD: Republicans Concerned It’s Going To Be Harder Than Usual To Blow This Election.
PAST PERFORMANCE IS NO GUARANTEE OF FUTURE RESULTS:
Here's @JonTester lying to us in late 2023:
"Joe Biden, when I've been around him … he's absolutely 100% with it. His recall, his cognitive ability … he's fine & he's doing a good job. I think folks are making a bigger deal out of it than it is" #MTSenhttps://t.co/erqm6UYCLt pic.twitter.com/9bmDo75VPX
— Brian Anderson (@AZBrianAnderson) July 19, 2024
Flashbacks:
THE NEW SPACE RACE: GOP platform lays out aggressive space agenda to counter China.
Related: ‘La La Land’: Former Dem Presidential Candidate Slams Democrats for Calling Trump Shooting ‘Staged.’
We’ve descended into some sort of bizarre hell-world in which Cenk Uygur is a voice of sanity.
UPDATE: Known Wolf: Trump shooter Thomas Crooks threatened to ‘shoot up’ his high school and ‘put bombs in the bathrooms’ years before his failed assassination attempt on the former president.
‘WITHOUT EVIDENCE,’ NBC BLASTS ‘CONSERVATIVE PUNDITS AND LAWMAKERS’ ON SECRET SERVICE DEI. More and more “news” articles are popping up with this “without evidence” line. This jarring tell simply means “we don’t want you to believe the upcoming claim.” NBC even spends the next few paragraphs discussing the very evidence cited by DEI critics (female agents in the video being a foot shorter than Trump, or seemingly out of position). Maybe the critics are wrong and the weight of the evidence is against them, but they’re not “without evidence.” Saying they are is incompetent journalism.
WELCOME BACK, CARTER! Biden’s physician uttered the dreaded M-word in his covid diagnosis last night:
Dr. Kevin O’Connor, the president’s physician, said in a note that Biden, 81, “presented this afternoon with upper respiratory symptoms, to include rhinorhea (runny nose) and non-productive cough, with general malaise.”
At Commentary, John Podhoretz responded:
In the most pregnant turn of phrase in 45 years, his own press office presented us with a letter from Biden’s doctor explaining that the president had taken the test because of his symptoms, which included a feeling of “malaise.”
That word was, of course, the takeaway from the speech that unofficially announced the futility of the Jimmy Carter reelection effort 14 months before Carter faced Ronald Reagan—and Carter never even said “malaise”! It was just what emanated from his discussion of what was ailing the country, which was not his bad leadership but a “crisis of confidence.” Carter’s effort to shift blame to the American people’s own spiritual condition was the marker of his doom. Its use again in 2024 suggests an unseen Straussian hand at work in the levers of the universe, planting esoteric messages about the end of Joe Biden’s career in his own press statements.
Since an economic malaise tends to go hand-in-hand with a leftist in the White House, as I wrote in 2011: Welcome Back My Friends, to the Malaise that Never Ends.
1979 was also the year of Jimmy Carter’s infamous “malaise” speech. As [Steve] Hayward wrote in volume one of The Age of Reagan:
The New Republic [called] the speech “pop sociology stew” filled with “servile flatteries.” “Carter seems to think that teaching us to sing ‘Let a Smile Be Your Umbrella’ can be a substitute for leading us in out of the rain. Fortunately, he utterly lacks the rhetorical skill for such a con job.”This represented a striking turnabout for The New Republic. When Carter first declared the energy crisis to be the “moral equivalent of war” in the spring of 1977, The New Republic editorialized in a vein that anticipated the Carter of July 1979: “To us, whatever contraction of affluence this country may suffer over the next few years appears no more than a byproduct of the contraction of the spirit we are already suffering.” A labor leader who had supported Carter in 1976 complained that “The fault is his, not ours, and asking us to say something nice about America is like Gerald Ford telling us to pin on little lapel buttons and ‘Whip Inflation Now.’” And naturally Carter’s message rubbed Reagan the wrong way: “People who talk about an age of limits,” Reagan said, “are really talking about their own limitations, not America’s.”
To his credit though, last year, an Insta-commenter noted, “Carter didn’t give a speech soon after his (honest) election in front of a national monument back-lit blood red with two Marines flanking either side describing his political opponents as traitors.”
Last night, Biden’s doctor inadvertently channeled Jimmy Carter. Today, one of Biden’s supporters is channeling his opponent:
When you order the Trump campaign on Temu https://t.co/1tCupK4JKf
— Siraj Hashmi (@SirajAHashmi) July 18, 2024
Exit question: Was this the moment when everything went pear-shaped?
#JOURNALISM:
Rachel Maddow, Jen Psaki and other MSNBC hosts use LED screen to make it look like they’re at RNC in Milwaukee https://t.co/uUTdbYiPsl pic.twitter.com/LCtjYO6fxX
— New York Post (@nypost) July 18, 2024
IT’S A “CONSPIRACY THEORY” ABOUT AN ACTUAL CONSPIRACY:
I’m a broken record on this, but that is the story here. The rest is noise. New York Magazine called it a “conspiracy.” That’s what it was. The Democrats willfully conspired to lie to the public about the president’s health. Here’s a good example of it. Voters have noticed. https://t.co/bwPSNTrqCG
— Charles C. W. Cooke (@charlescwcooke) July 18, 2024