TRUNALIMUNUMAPRZURE! Biden: Extra Leg Room on Airplanes Is Racist.

Toward the end of his divisive and rambling incitement to class warfare, Biden served up one of the brazen, outright lies that have marred his entire career. The man deserves credit for audacity, for even in his dementia-ridden dotage he is unsurpassed in Washington (a city of politicians, which means a city of liars) in his ability to deliver an absolute falsehood not only with absolute conviction but also with passionate, self-righteous fervor.

“Some airlines,” Joe declared, “if you want six more inches between you and the seat in front, you pay more money. But you don’t know it until you purchase your ticket. Look, folks, these are junk fees. They’re unfair, and they hit marginalized Americans the hardest, especially low-income folks and people of color. They benefit big corporations, not consumers, not working families. And that changes now.”

If “fact-checkers” really actually checked facts instead of just running interference for the far Left, they would give that statement all the Pinocchios they have, for there is simply no truth in it whatsoever.

Biden, contrary to his carefully nurtured Lunchbucket Joe image, has been a member of the Beltway elite for over five decades, and so he likely hasn’t flown commercial in ages. And characteristically, his statement is not entirely clear. He is clearly saying that the airlines are racist and take money illegitimately from their non-white customers, which is viciously false and irresponsible enough in itself, but it’s not clear how exactly he is saying they do it. Is he saying that it’s wrong and racist for airlines to charge more for seats that offer more legroom? Or does he mean that the airlines are tacking charges for more legroom onto the price for a ticket that the customer has already agreed to pay, without the customer’s knowledge?

I can’t keep track of the Brandon administration’s various imaginary grievances. Are racist airline seats more or less racist than racist roads and bridges, for example?

JIM TREACHER: Fetterman’s Lines Were Canned, But He Couldn’t Read the Labels.

RIP, KILLER: Multiple news organizations are reporting the death of Jerry Lee Lewis, age 87.

UPDATE…And multiple news organizations, and the source of the headline, got it wrong: “TMZ is retracting their report that infamous rock ‘n’ roller Jerry Lee Lewis died,” CBS Sacramento reports.

KINSLEY GAFFE: NY Gov. Hochul Doesn’t Know Why Putting Criminals in Jail is ‘So Important’ to Challenger Lee Zeldin.

AS ALWAYS, 2022 IS FAR TOO STRANGE FOR EVEN THE BABYLON BEE TO SATIRE: Could Witchcraft Make You A Better Parent? Real Witches Say ‘Yes’

MARK JUDGE ON SINISTER: The horror classic that foreshadowed Drag Queen Story Hour.

This is an ingenious set-up, beautifully realized by director Scott Derrickson and the outstanding cast. The analog to the Drag Queen Story Hour and the sexualization in our schools is clear. Ellison’s first mistake is bringing the family to this horror house to begin with, just as most parents of small children should not be within miles of any establishment hosting a Drag Queen Story Hour. And inside the Sinister house is a pagan monster. The lurid occult makeup of Bughuul is similar to some of the more bizarre outfits and malevolent visages of the more lurid drag queens.

In both cases, the ultimate goal is the same: the destruction of childhood innocence.

Read the whole thing.

Related: Christopher Rufo on The Real Story Behind Drag Queen Story Hour.

WAIT, THEY DIDN’T PIN IT ON THE SUV? Jury finds Darrell Brooks guilty in killing of six people in Waukesha Christmas parade attack.

PUTTIN’ ON THE RITZ! The Fetterman Charade Ends. “The entire Jenga-block tower of the John Fetterman campaign came crashing down last night, as it became painfully, abundantly clear that the Democratic Senate candidate in Pennsylvania is still suffering severe effects of his stroke, and the past few months of the candidate’s making ten-to-twelve-minute appearances on the stump have been an elaborate effort to hide those lingering effects. The issue isn’t the stroke; the issue is the dishonesty — and for Pennsylvania Democrats, this is an entirely self-inflicted wound. If the state party had wanted to substitute one of Fetterman’s primary rivals, Representative Conor Lamb or state representative Malcolm Kenyatta, it could have done so.”

Allow me to offer a controversial theory: A lot of Democratic Party candidates and strategists have bad judgment because they’ve grown used to a usually friendly media bailing them out of the consequences of their bad decisions. In light of last night, the decision-making of Fetterman and his campaign seems absurd — as MBD aptly summarized, “John Fetterman should not have been on a debate stage tonight. He should be at home, recovering from his stroke.”

What we’re seeing in Pennsylvania is uncomfortably close to the concept of Weekend at Bernie’s, which was funny because it was imaginary; a real-life attempt to fool people into believing a corpse is alive would be horrifyingly macabre. Remember, Fetterman had his stroke the Friday before the primary election, and his first statement, issued Sunday, declared that, “The good news is I’m feeling much better, and the doctors tell me I didn’t suffer any cognitive damage. I’m well on my way to a full recovery.” His campaign has been lying about how well his recovery was going the whole time.

A campaign does not attempt to fool people into believing that a severe-stroke victim is fine unless it’s convinced that the overwhelming majority of media in the state will be its ally and abandon their traditional role as watchdogs. The people around Fetterman are off their rockers, stupid, or both.

And hoping to run out the clock while screaming “ableism!” to any who question Fetterman’s health: It’s “ableist” of a reporter to discuss John Fetterman’s health problems, says his wife.

YES. NEXT QUESTION? Are Democratic leaders encouraging political violence?

It was reported this week that a canvasser for Senator Marco Rubio  was brutally attacked by Democrats because the victim was wearing clothing advertising Rubio and also Florida Governor Ron DeSantis.

Sen. Rubio tweeted Monday:

Whatever one’s partisan leanings, when this incident was reported a fair person could condemn this act of political violence without jumping to the conclusion that Republicans should be on the lookout for physical attacks from Democrats all over the country.

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But when you think about it further, particularly what Sen. Paul has experienced, I can’t say with certainty that more of this kind of violence won’t happen in the future and it could become more common than anyone might expect – with Democratic leaders either encouraging it or at least not condemning it.That’s what rage can potentially drive people to do and there’s a blaze of political rage out there right now, on all sides.

A civil society requires civility. This is ain’t it.

Read the whole thing, whose details are already been memory holed by the DNC-MSM.

Earlier: This leftist didn’t understand why he was just arrested for running over, killing an 18-year-old “Republican extremist.” Huh. “A judge ordered Brandt held on $50,000 bail, which he objected to, saying he’s not a flight risk…Brandt posted bail, and is back on the streets. He is now in the process of scrubbing his social media.”

More: MSM don’t think man confessing to ‘politically motivated’ vehicular homicide of Republican teen is worth covering for some reason.

• Bernie Bro James T. Hodgkinson, Attempted Assassin Of Steve Scalise, Already Being Erased From History. And additional examples of leftist violence and eliminationist rhetoric at the link.
• ‘Not fitting their narrative’: Waukesha feels abandoned after tragic parade attack.

Evergreen:

WIDE AWAKE IN AMERICA: U2’s Bono: Capitalism Crushes Poverty.

The conversation found Bono, whose politics lean to the Left, admitting a hard truth for Times readers to hear. Socialism isn’t the global panacea we need. Capitalism, warts and all, is the better option.

Bono blasted activists who love breaking stuff but can’t be bothered getting their hands dirty to make things happen. Systemic change demands hard work, he says, and not everyone is up to the task.

More importantly, all the donations in the world won’t necessarily solve intractable problems like hunger. And that lesson clashed with the man he used to be.

I ended up as an activist in a very different place from where I started. I thought that if we just redistributed resources, then we could solve every problem. I now know that’s not true. There’s a funny moment when you realize that as an activist: The off-ramp out of extreme poverty is, ugh, commerce, it’s entrepreneurial capitalism.

Later, he slammed those who reflexively bash business leaders, ignoring how important they are for the greater good.

I didn’t grow up to like the idea that we’ve made heroes out of businesspeople, but if you’re bringing jobs to a community and treating people well, then you are a hero.

Bono also spoke of reaching across the aisle, praising anew President George W. Bush’s efforts to fight HIV in Africa. He admits doing so may lose the group some fans, but so be it.

Achtung, baby! Read the whole thing.

EVEN RICHARD NIXON HAS GOT SOUL:

McGovernites welcomed the flavor burst of radicalism. They desired the greening of America, so we could all be hipped to what the kids were up to, whether it was dropping acid, burning draft cards or making pipe bombs. Nixon’s people were the silent majority, who wanted to keep politics in its place, not sprawled all over their daily lives. The silent majority still exists in our PC age. Harangued, guilt-tripped, and policed for microaggressions, they want the media and academic-elite diversocrats out of their hair.

The McGovern forces stumbled over the issue of people’s moral choices, which Nixon voters acknowledged but which they often ignored. Nixon talked about law and order, not out of resentment but rather loyalty to the ethics that most people shared. Killing cops was bad, the Nixonites said (in 1971, 129 police officers were murdered, the highest number anyone could remember). McGovern’s superleftist fans blamed something called oppression, not criminals with guns.

THE DESCENT OF MARK ZUCKERBERG:

Mark Zuckerberg is in a lot of trouble. He has turned away from the slog of running Facebook to focus almost entirely on his ‘metaverse’, a vision of the internet where people enter interactive virtual spaces using virtual reality (VR) headsets. He has pledged investment of at least $10 billion a year for a decade, and investors have been told that profits will be lower for the next decade as a result. He saw the digital future once. Can he repeat the trick?

Right now, it seems not. His company’s stock price has more than halved, wiping $600 billion off its market value. Shareholders are worried. Meta is to cut expenses by at least 10 per cent in the coming months, in part through redundancies. More cuts are expected.

Last week’s Meta conference – held in the metaverse, aptly enough – failed to change the mood. The announcements of a $1,499 VR headset and the dramatic introduction of legs for metaverse avatars did little to convince the markets this really is the future: Meta’s share price is down almost 25 per cent just in the past month. Zuckerberg’s personal wealth has shrunk by more than $76 billion this year so far.

There’s an obvious problem with Zuckerberg’s vision: who wants to wear a clunky virtual reality headset, watching outdated graphics that induce nausea? In a world where most of us use the internet via our mobile phones, can this really be the future? The figures suggest not: Meta expected 500,000 active monthly users on its VR platform, Horizon Worlds (which is accessed by VR headsets), by the end of this year; the current figure is fewer than 200,000. Leaked internal documents show that most of those who visit Horizon tend not to return after the first month. Meta staff themselves are reportedly unsure of the product: ‘The simple truth is, if we don’t love it, how can we expect our users to love it?’ wrote Meta’s metaverse vice-president Vishal Shah in a memo last month.

The iPad was inspired by a prop in 2001: A Space Odyssey. The flip phone by the Star Trek communicator. But apparently the world isn’t ready to move into a clunky impersonation of Star Trek’s holodecks just yet.

PUTTIN’ ON THE RITZ! PA Senate Debate an Utter Disaster for Fetterman.

I watched the entire debate, and I have to admit that I sometimes felt bad for Fetterman. I’m sure he expected to have bounced back from the stroke quicker and stronger than he has, but Tuesday night’s debate performance merely demonstrated just how far he has to go in his recovery. Without a doubt, Pennsylvania voters, and indeed the nation, saw firsthand that he is not capable of being a U.S. senator.

A condition of the debate was the allowance of a closed-captioning system to accommodate Fetterman’s cognitive impairments. The moderators were transparent about the system, but the system couldn’t help Fetterman articulate his positions clearly—at all.

From the beginning, it was clear that this was going to be a rough night for Fetterman, who opened up the debate by announcing, “Hi, goodnight, everybody.”

It got worse from there.

Read the whole thing.

Related: Letting John Fetterman debate was political malpractice:

This has been backed up more recently by the complicit leftist media, which dogpiled NBC News reporter Dasha Burns for daring to suggest that Fetterman had difficulty with questions and struggled to understand small talk in her recent interview. Rebecca Traister of New York magazine, Kara Swisher of a million podcasts, Molly Jong-Fast of someone-who’s-wasting-their-money: they all claimed that Fetterman was fine, just fine, and maybe it was Burns who had problems with small talk. They all now look like useful idiots — and there’s no defense for this level of partisan spin. The man can barely function, and everyone with eyes can see it.

For Republicans and Dr. Oz, the race had been trending in their direction even prior to this debate — but rather than right the ship, the choice by Fetterman’s team to force their candidate out on stage is political malpractice that will in all likelihood doom their effort.

More: Fetterman Comes Out in Support of Using Federal Funds for Abortion Tourism during Rocky Debate Performance.

DEMOCRATS: The Only Way To Save Democracy Is One-Party Rule.

If Republicans vote, they are killing democracy. If they don’t vote, they are killing democracy. The only way to “save democracy,” writes The Washington Post’s Max Boot, is to empower one-party rule — a position that probably sounds counterintuitive to anyone with a middle-school education. “Now you need to vote to literally save democracy again,” contends President Joe Biden, or we will lose our “fundamental rights and freedoms like the right to choose, the right to privacy, the right to vote — our very democracy.”

Chilling stuff. But it doesn’t end there. You will remember that by failing to “reform” the filibuster, which would entail authorizing the thinnest of fleeting majorities to shove through massive generational “reforms” without any national consensus or debate, we are also killing democracy. This has been the position not only of left-wing pundits and the New York Times editorial board, but also senators tasked with defending their institution. I wonder if they will support this democracy-saving fix next session, as well?

Then again, if we don’t nationalize the economy to avert a climate crisis, we are also killing democracy. “We’ve got to save democracy in order to save our species,” Jamie Raskin explains. And if we don’t empty the Strategic Petroleum Reserve to temporarily keep gas prices low to help Democrats win in 2022, we are killing democracy. “We find ourselves in a situation, where keeping gas prices low is key to preserving and strengthening the future of our democracy,” MSNBC’s Chris Hayes says.

We must allow the president to unilaterally create trillion-dollar spending bills and break existing private sector contracts by fiat. For democracy. We must pack the court to “save democracy.” We must create a Ministry of Truth to help with “strengthening democratic institutions.” We must vote for a Pennsylvania candidate who can’t cobble two consecutive coherent sentences together because the “fate of our democracy” is at stake, says our former president.

If you don’t support a partisan congressional investigation that’s circumvented basic due process norms, you probably hate democracy. If you aren’t self-flagellating and holding yourself accountable for the actions of Jan. 6 rioters, you are also bolstering the coming autocracy.

When your leftist rhetoric has lost Susan Sarandon…

RIP: Former President Ash Carter Dead at 68.

(Classical reference in headline.)

PUTTIN’ ON THE RITZ! Fetterman vs. Oz debate: The elephant in the room. “Remember all those reporters who attacked NBC’s [Dasha Burns] for her remarks about her Fetterman interview? YIIIIIIIIIKES.”

UPDATE:

DISPATCHES FROM THE EDUCATION APOCALYPSE: Linguists slam Cambridge University for teaching ‘woke’ German: Fury as students are taught ‘gender-neutral’ version of the language that avoids using masculine forms that are not ‘inclusive’ to non-binary people. “Oliver Baer, of the German Language Association, said non-native speakers attempting to chatter with Germans in the trendy new tongue are likely to get laughed out of the country. Mr Baer, from Dortmund, said: ‘My first reaction is it’s like Monty Python is back. ‘It’s a minefield and I would hate to recommend to any Englishman to have to go through the details of all that.'”

COVID IS OVER: New York Supreme Court reinstates all employees fired for being unvaccinated, orders backpay.

WAS IT OVER WHEN “RASHEE SANOOK” BOMBED PEARL HARBOR?! “Rashee Sanook:” Joe Biden’s Gaffe While Congratulating New UK PM. Rishi Sunak is Britain’s third Prime Minister this year, after Liz Truss left office just 49 days into her term.

Forget it, he’s rolling trunalimunumaprzurering.

But what exactly did Brandon mean by this? “‘We’ve got news that Rashee Sanook is now the prime minister,’ Mr Biden said. ‘As my brother would say ‘go figure,’’ he added.”

AND A NOW, A WORD FROM HAROLD STASSEN AND LYNDON LAROUCHE: Hillary Clinton says Republicans have plan to ‘steal 2024 presidential election.’

GREAT MOMENTS IN FEAR PORN: CNN claims pets have big climate impact, advises buying ‘smaller breeds’, feed them ‘insect-based food.’

NO WORD YET WHEN HUGO BOSS WILL SIGN KANYE WEST:

Related: How could you be so heartless? Unpacking Kanye’s antisemitism. Let’s be the ones who set the example in our own communities and call out antisemitism. Our words will have a ripple effect, encouraging others to do the same.

More: Is Spike Lee’s Anti-Semitism More Tolerable Than Kanye West’s?

Well yes, because, as the Atlantic’s Jeffrey Goldberg would say, Lee is part of the left’s family. West, due to his dalliance with Trump, is not.

“THIS IS EXACTLY WHAT GINA CARANO WARNED US ABOUT:” ‘Didn’t start with gas chambers:’ Susan Sarandon brutally honest about who Democrats really are right now with accurate AF meme.

“Psephologists of the world unite: you have nothing to lose but your fibs!” How the midterm polls became Democratic fan fiction.

KAMALA HARRIS LIES, CLAIMING THAT SHE NEVER PROMOTED THE BAIL FUND THAT BAILED OUT BLM RIOTERS AS WELL AS MURDERERS AND R4PISTS; But the Tweet In Which She Promoted that Bail Fund Is Still Up!