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MATT TAIBBI: Karine Jean-Pierre Writes History’s Most Incoherent Memoir.

The core complaint in Independent is that apart from a “brief reprieve” in 2020, when the summer of Floyd saw “literature such as White Fragility by Robin DiAngelo gaining in popularity,” America has shown itself to be simply too backward to recognize the essential superiority of candidates like Harris. Even so, Jean-Pierre insists, Democrats could have done more to help. “When critics said Harris didn’t know anything about foreign policy,” she wrote, “Democrats should have emphasized how she’d worked closely with our partners in Asia as well as African nations like Ghana, Zambia, and Tanzania.”

Democrats could have spent $100 billion a second on ads emphasizing Kamala’s cooperation with Zambia and Tanzania, and they wouldn’t have been able to compete with videos like the one below:

Jean-Pierre’s thesis is also just wrong. Trump was far from a juggernaut. He left office in 2021 with a 62% disapproval rating and trailed Captain Dodderpants for virtually all of 2022 and 2023. If Harris had been a good or even a middling candidate, she easily could have won. However, she was handcuffed both by her own peculiarities and the huge Gobstopper-sized zit in the middle of the Democratic Party’s forehead, which grew out of years of denials that the chief executive was a vegetable. Videos featuring Jean-Pierre figured heavily in the growth of that Gobstopper.

She raged at reporters, not even conservatives, for asking rational questions. The scene below took place in July last year, in the wake of a post-debate New York Times report that Biden saw a neurologist. Jean-Pierre had been caught not telling the truth about this, and when correspondents like AP’s Zeke Miller and Ed O’Keefe of CBS pushed her, she flipped out. Her evasions were comical, implying Presidents might have casual contact with a physician more easily than a layperson because the doctor is just down the hall as opposed to a “public transportation” ride away, while acting like reporters were being unreasonable in not accepting that a “verbal check-in” with a neurologist specializing in Parkinson’s Disease is different from a “medical exam.” Watch how calm and accommodating Miller in particular is (he’s the first reporter in the video), yet Jean-Pierre eventually rips even him for “not okay” questioning:

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Jean-Pierre had over a year to think about what to say about all this, and instead of writing the book the whole world wanted, the true story (complete with photos of Biden’s used-bib collection and pictorial toilet guides) of her frustration at having to be the public face of one of the most obvious and legally perilous cons in American political history, she denied there was anything to cover up, much less that she had responsibility for it. Then she announced she was “fed up” with a country too racist to accept a cabbage-president, before offering her prescription for success in politics. “People,” she wrote unironically, “want authenticity.”

For sure, there are seriously goofy Trump administration characters. There continues however to be a massive underappreciation for the number of true lunatics escaped from the just-completed Biden period. The whole issue of Biden’s competence is under investigation and may eventually become a criminal matter, making it even more amazing that someone like Jean-Pierre would write a memoir at all, much less one this detached from reality. Is politics just a jobs program for crazy people? I don’t know how to read this book and conclude anything else.

Next up for the wrath of KJP? Biden’s former press secretary launches extraordinary attack on George Clooney for saying what everyone thought about ailing former president.

Former White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre blasted actor George Clooney in her new book for writing a high-profile essay telling Joe Biden to drop out of last year’s presidential election.

In July 2024, Clooney penned a guest essay for the New York Times in which he described seeing an ailing Biden in the run-up to the election.

‘When I woke up, the piece was there, splayed across the pages of The New York Times. The headline? “George Clooney: I Love Joe Biden. But We Need a New Nominee,” Jean-Pierre wrote in in her book, Independent: A Look Inside a Broken White House, Outside the Party Lines.

‘I read it in disbelief.’

Which means that KJP is actually angry with Obama, who was desperately looking to secure a fourth term in the White House: “A political mole told RadarOnline.com it was Obama who urged Clooney to call for Biden – his own vice president – to end his sputtering campaign, fearing the fallout if he did it himself.”

KJP’s book may be titled Independent, but she’s not going to risk burning any bridges with her party’s biggest grandees.

THEY’LL DO ANYTHING TO AVOID CIVILIZING THEIR CITIES: More Maneuvering By Oregon and Portland To Keep The National Guard Off The Streets Of Portland.

SIGN OF THE TIMES: CBS News boss Bari Weiss seen with bodyguards amid heightened security concerns.

Weiss had guards described as “beefy” and “chiseled” as she attended a conference at the New York Historical Society put on by private equity giant RedBird Capital.

The source said the detail was hired because “there are enhanced security concerns.”

“It’s highly unusual for a news executive to have six bodyguards,” a former network exec told The Post.

Weiss, the 41-year-old co-founder of the Free Press who recently sold her newsletter to Paramount Skydance for a reported $150 million, seemed to be in good spirits as she entered the venue on Manhattan’s Upper West Side.

Weiss was photographed by Breaker News as she was surrounded by a protective detail that formed a “ring” around the new CBS News boss — including one bodyguard who was described as having “chiseled looks” and a “buff physique” reminiscent of Hollywood hunk Hugh Jackman.

Looks aside, Weiss is smart to have all that protection — and even though she’s a lefty, she certainly doesn’t need it from conservatives.

GOOD: Future for Woke Cincinnati Police Chief Suddenly Looking Chilly.

ISN’T THAT EXACTLY WHAT A SECRET NAZI WOULD SAY? Graham Platner: ‘I Am Not a Secret Nazi’ (We Haven’t Reached the Bottom Yet).

LOL, MORNING JOE:

Um, she’s running against a woman… https://t.co/hr6K2xhFVD

— Ilya Shapiro (@ishapiro) October 22, 2025

EVERY WRONG SHOULD HAVE A REMEDY: Yes, President Trump and Everyone Hunted by the DOJ Should be Compensated. “President Trump and everyone around him who were merciless tormented by the government for years are entitled to damages–not just to recoup financial losses but to ensure this doesn’t happen again.”

I’ve suggested a legislative approach.

OPERATION BLITZ-CRINGE: Graham Platner Swaps Nazi Skull for Morbidly Obese Celtic Wolf.

Platner claims to have gotten the Nazi tattoo during a drunken night out in Croatia in 2007. The embattled candidate said he only recently became aware of the Nazi affiliation. In an effort to preempt a story being shopped by his Democratic primary opponents, Platner went on Pod Save America and denied being a “secret” Nazi. He did not deny being an overt Nazi, raising further questions about his support for genocide.

Genevieve McDonald, who resigned as Platner’s campaign manager last week in response to unearthed Reddit posts in which the candidate disparaged black people, rural Americans, police officers, and rape victims, suggested Platner was lying about being unaware of the tattoo’s significance. “Graham has an anti-Semitic tattoo on his chest,” she wrote. “He’s not an idiot, he’s a military history buff … he knows damn well what it means.” Another former associate of Platner’s told Jewish Insider the candidate proudly referred to the tattoo as “my Totenkopf.”

An extensive Free Beacon analysis determined that Platner’s attempt to cover up the anti-Semitic tattoo was also riddled with Nazi symbolism. A close reading of the poorly drawn obese wolf creature suggests the new tattoo is most likely a reference to Blondi, the German Shepherd who accompanied Adolf Hitler to his Führerbunker in 1945. Most glaringly, the animal’s arms and legs are positioned to resemble two halves of a swastika. The less said about the tattoo’s proximity to Platner’s nipple, the better.

Heh, indeed. Theodore Dalrymple once warned that the tattoo parlor is “the refutation of the doctrine that the customer is always the right. In the tattoo parlor, the customer is always wrong.” That’s especially true with both Platner’s original tat and its replacement:

"What'll it be today?"

"I need a coverup for this Nazi Totenkopf tattoo."

"I can see why. Anything in mind?"

"How about a badass wolf? I like badass wolfpacks and whatnot."

"But…"

"I SAID give me a badass WOLF"https://t.co/dxudUJXoCa

— David Burge (@iowahawkblog) October 22, 2025

Und die hits kommen einfach immer weiter! Senate Candidate With National Socialist-Linked Tattoo Recruited Socialist Paramilitary Group in Maine.

The important thing to understand is none of this is disqualifying for Democrats.

— Ron Bassilian (@Ron4California) October 22, 2025

Alas, it really isn’t.

It took less than a week for Democrats to go from “we should ruin those kids’ lives for making Hitler jokes in a group chat” to “we should make that guy with Nazi tattoos a U.S. Senator.”

— Bad Hombre (@joma_gc) October 22, 2025

And it only took ten months to go from socialist gnostics seeing a Hitler salute from Elon Musk to, “eh, so the big lug’s got a Totenkopf tattooed on his chest. No big whoop, right?”

Krystal Ball smeared Elon Musk over an innocent hand gesture earlier this year but now has no problem when a leftist has a full blown Nazi SS tattoo

X is the best platform on earth for exposing public figures who have no principles or standards. They expose themselves! pic.twitter.com/FU7Xy3Df6O

— Ryan Saavedra (@RealSaavedra) October 23, 2025

OF COURSE THEY DID: Mark Judge: They Wokeified ‘Damn Yankees.’ “Of course they had to make it about race. Race is their entire world—the prism through which everything must be viewed.”

Generally speaking, race is what stupid people talk about when they’re trying to be deep.

RAYMOND IBRAHIM: This Is How They Make Blacks Hate — and Kill — Whites in America.

SAYING THE QUIET PART OUT LOUD: Top Democrat Says Americans Need To Suffer So Democrats Can Have Political ‘Leverage.’

ALEX BERENSON: Why woke women make terrible leaders: It’s not just their sanctimony and humorlessness. It’s their insistence on feel-good nonsolutions to real problems. The backlash is only beginning.

This is only the beginning of their flaws.

OPEN THREAD: Hump Day.

THE NEW SPACE RACE: China’s 1st reusable rocket test fires engines ahead of debut flight.

APEX PREDATOR, BABY: There’s One Super Predator in Africa That Instills More Fear Than Lions.

OPEN THREAD: Make it special.