Archive for 2024

HONESTLY? IT WOULD BE GOOD:  A New GOP? Maybe.

FULL OF WIND AND FURY, SIGNIFYING NOTHING:  Told By An Idiot.

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….”

INSURRECTION!

OPEN THREAD: Happy Thirsty Thursday.

A-HA!

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.

PAST PERFORMANCE IS NO GUARANTEE OF FUTURE RESULTS:

Flashbacks:

‘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.

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