Author Archive: Ed Driscoll
August 30, 2022
LEFTISTS ARE MELTING DOWN AFTER JOE ROGAN CALLS JEN PSAKI A LIAR AND PRAISES TRUMP PRESS SECRETARY:
Rogan made the comments on his podcast with Green Bay Packers quarterback Aaron Rodgers.
“She was a propagandist, I mean when she working for the White House, she’s this person that answers questions, and most of it, the hard questions were all by Peter Doocy on Fox News, he was like the only guy that was pushing back against her,” said Rogan.
“And she just f***ing flat out lied, on not just one occasion, on multiple occasions,” he added. “I mean maybe they had a narrative that they told her, maybe these are talking points, maybe that’s her job.”
He went on to say that he thought the job was weird.
“The only one that was good was that girl, McEnany, what’s her name? Kayleigh McEnany, that one that worked for Trump, that lady was a f***ing assassin. That lady had like binders, with footnotes,” Rogan continued.
“That lady was the best ever at that job,” he added. “She’s the f***ing Michael Jordan of White House press secretaries. She’s a f***ing wizard.”
Fans of Psaki were incensed that Rogan would make such a suggestion and they registered their fury on social media.
Flashback: Kayleigh McEnany Opens Press Conference With Video Loop Of Democrats Breaking Their Own Lockdown Rules.
FAUCI’S LEGACY WILL BE THAT MILLIONS OF AMERICANS WILL NEVER TRUST GOVERNMENT HEALTH EXPERTS IN THE SAME WAY AGAIN: Dr. Fauci and the Covid Rule of Experts.
Fauci’s influence was all the greater because he had an echo chamber in the press corps and among public elites who disdained and ostracized dissenters.
A flagrant example was Dr. Fauci’s refusal even to consider that the novel coronavirus had originated in a lab at the Wuhan Institute of Virology in China. This may have been because the NIH had provided grant money to the nonprofit EcoHealth Alliance, which helped fund “gain of function” virus research at the Wuhan lab. In a semantic battle with Republicans, Dr. Fauci denied that the NIH funded such research. But his refusal even to consider the possibility that the virus started in a Wuhan lab showed that Dr. Fauci was as much a politician as a scientist.
Worse, Dr. Fauci smeared the few brave scientists who opposed blanket lockdowns and endorsed a strategy of “focused protection” on the elderly and those at high risk. This was the message of the Great Barrington Declaration authors, and emails later surfaced showing that Dr. Fauci worked with others in government to deride that alternative so it never got a truly fair public hearing.
“There needs to be a quick and devastating published take down of its premises,” NIH Director Francis Collins wrote to Dr. Fauci. Their inability to abide criticism and dissent undermined the U.S. pandemic response.
“It’s easy to criticize, but they’re really criticizing science because I represent science. That’s dangerous,” Dr. Fauci said last November, in a comment that summarizes the view of the public-health clerisy. The public is supposed to let a few powerful men and women define science and then impose their preferred policies and mandates on the country.
The costs of that mindset have been severe, and not merely economic. We know now that states that locked down fared no better, and sometimes worse, than those that didn’t. We also know that the vaccines, while invaluable against serious disease, don’t prevent the spread of Covid—even after multiple boosters. More honest candor would have been better for America’s trust in public-health authorities.
“Whether you’ve met him personally or not, he has touched all Americans’ lives with his work,” President Biden said Monday about Dr. Fauci’s resignation. That’s true enough. But his legacy will be that millions of Americans will never trust government health experts in the same way again.
I can’t say I blame them after the last two and a half years.
Earlier: Roger Simon: Say Goodbye to Experts (Mostly).
THIS SOUNDS SEMI-FASCIST: Biden Says The Military Can Obliterate The Second Amendment.
President Joe Biden said Tuesday while in Pennsylvania that “brave right wing Americans” who claim the Second Amendment is meant to fight back against a tyrannical government would be obliterated by the military.
Biden was speaking in Wilkes-Barre while promoting gun control and bolstering police forces across the nation. Biden pushed for a federal ban on so-called “assault weapons” and took aim at Republicans during his speech, invoking the late Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia.
“As one of the most – one of the most conservative justices in history, Justice Scalia, once wrote like, quote, ‘like most rights, the rights granted by the Second Amendment are not unlimited’,” Biden said. “They’re not unlimited right now.”
“You can’t go out and buy an automatic weapon, you can’t go out and buy a cannon, and for those brave right wing Americans who say its all about keeping America independent and safe, if you want to fight against the country you need an F-15. You need something a little more than a gun.”
The Taliban could not be reached for comment: ‘A Nation in Anguish:’ One Year After Biden’s Disastrous Withdrawal From Afghanistan.
DON’T WORRY, IT WON’T END BADLY THIS TIME AROUND: Bank of America Tests No-Down-Payment Mortgages for Minority Communities.
What’s the worst that could happen?
Earlier: The Economic Doom Loop Has Begun.
EX-SOVIET LEADER MIKHAIL GORBACHEV DEAD AT 91, RUSSIAN NEWS REPORTS SAY.
UPDATE: The Daily Beast apparently wishes they were “Back in the USSR:” Mikhail Gorbachev, Who Sank the Soviet Empire With His Own Glasnost, Dead at 91.
FLASHBACK: Credit The Liberator, Not The Dictator. “Here’s another column from a freed Soviet, who recalls, ‘On the morning of April 20, 1989, the day my family leaving Moscow, a knock came on my parents’ door. It was our next-door neighbor. Ours being one of the Soviet Union’s cramped, communal apartments, I mean that quite literally. Waving a bottle of vodka, he insisted my father drink a toast. He wanted to celebrate our new freedom, which also meant his: By leaving him our half of the apartment, we were bypassing Soviet restrictions on the sale of state property. Agreeing, my father suggested they toast to Gorbachev. After all, our neighbor was a common day laborer, unlikely to be up on the complex realities of international politics; and more than likely to have imbibed his fair share of politburo propaganda, which Gorbachev, in his hick Caucasus accent, spouted daily. Our neighbor only laughed. ‘Gorbachev? You think Gorbachev gave me this apartment? We’ll drink to Reagan. Reagan gave me this apartment.’’ He gave you a lot more than that, comrade. And I’m sure you know it today.”
DISPATCHES FROM GROUND ZERO OF THE EDUCATION APOCALYPSE: Gibson’s Bakery Wins! Ohio Supreme Court Refuses To Hear Oberlin College Appeal. “Several commenters mention Oberlin College going to federal court. That is a long, long, long shot. The appeal would be from the Ohio Supreme Court to the U.S. Supreme Court. The likelihood the U.S. Supreme Court would agree to hear a case the Ohio Supreme Court refused to hear is not zero, but it’s approaching zero. I would not be shocked if they tried, but they would have to obtain another stay of enforcement of the judgment from the U.S. Supreme Court, another major hurdle that has little likelihood of success.”
THEIR APPEAL IS BECOMING MORE SELECTIVE: Struggling, ‘Lazy’ Washington Post May Cut 100 Newsroom Positions.
The New York Times would like you to know that its competitor, the Washington Post, is struggling.
Not only is the Post on track to lose money in 2022 after years of profitability, it’s been unable to boost the number of paying subscribers back to the 3 million it had in 2020 as its business has “stalled.”
The organization is on track to lose money in 2022, after years of profitability, according to two people with knowledge of the company’s finances. The Post now has fewer than the three million paying digital subscribers that it had hailed internally near the end of 2020, according to several people at the organization. Digital ad revenue generated by The Post fell to roughly $70 million during the first half of the year, about 15 percent lower than in the first half of 2021, according to a recent internal financial document reviewed by The New York Times. -NYT
As such, CEO Fred Ryan has floated the possibility with newsroom leaders that the paper may cut 100 positions – around 10% of its newsroom.
Will they be learning to code, or building solar panels?
ANNALS OF LEFTIST AUTOPHAGY: Ticked-off Liberals Turn Against CNN, Launch Viral ‘#BoycottCNN’ Twitter Campaign.
AMERICA’S NEWSPAPER OF RECORD: Ark Of The Covenant Unboxing Video Goes Horribly Wrong.
I’LL TAKE HEADLINES FROM 1980, ALEX: Rob Schneider on ‘Saturday Night Live’ – ‘It’s Over.’
ANN COULTER: My New York Nightmare.
For nearly two years, every morning I’d wake up thinking, I’ve got to get back to New York. Well, I’m back, and this isn’t what I meant at all. I wanted to be in the city that never sleeps, where I could walk around carefree, even at night, take the subway, and live within a few blocks of every possible convenience.
Instead, this happened. Two years after the shutdowns began — restaurants closed; then open with social distancing, masking and a 10 p.m. curfew; then closed again, except outside in the middle of winter; then open, with masking and a vaccine card — Covid’s finally gone! Hurray! (It was gone in Florida two years ago. That governor is a miracle-worker!)
But the New York I’ve come back to is Death Wish New York. Thank you, Democrats! In 2019, for the first time since World War Two — except one year, 1964 — Democrats won total control of state government. And the number one item on their “To Do” list was to pass a no-jail law, requiring the immediate release of suspects arrested for basically anything short of intentional murder.
The no-jail law went into effect in January 2020.
For the first six months, the no-jail law worked great! Of course, it’s freezing from January through March and then the entire city was shut down for Covid. Apparently, street crime disappears when there’s no one on the street. But then, on May 25, a fentanyl addict was killed by police in Minneapolis, unleashing a bacchanal of violence in Democratic-controlled towns across the land.
It had taken twenty years for New York mayors Rudy Giuliani and Michael Bloomberg to round up the criminals. It took only one year for Democrats to release them.
In a total surprise to the party in power, criminals continued to commit crimes. But this time, they knew that, even if they got arrested, they’d be right back on the street in about an hour.
Despite the city being virtually crime-free for the first half of 2020, by the end of the year murders were up 44 percent, shootings up 97 percent, car thefts up 67 percent and burglaries up 42 percent.
Paul Kersey, call your office!
August 29, 2022
AND THE HITS JUST KEEP ON COMING: Top FBI agent resigns amid claims he shielded Hunter Biden from probe: report.
HMMMM: Tinfoil Haturday: Did Dave Chappelle Get ‘the Talk’ Back in 2005?
Back in the early 2000s, there were two seemingly apocryphal stories about famous comedians who had been bouncing around comedy club green rooms for years: Bill Cosby was a rapist and Dave Chappelle had gotten “the talk.” We know at least one of those stories is true.
Remember back in 2005 when Comedy Central offered Dave Chapelle a staggering $50 million contract for two more seasons of the Chappelle Show, then he mysteriously disappeared to South Africa?
As the legend goes, Chappelle got “the talk” as he was on the brink of mega-success. I’ve heard the story several ways. In the most creative version, a bunch of successful black comedians and entertainers, led by Oprah Winfrey, showed up in Chappelle’s bedroom at 4 a.m. and told him that if he wanted big-time money and success he was going to have to “toe the line” politically. In other words, he needed to go full libtard. Chapelle decided instead to go to South Africa without even telling his wife.
Read the whole thing.
GENOCIDAL GOVERNOR DEATHSANTIS KILLS AGAIN: This Time Terminating Four Broward County Schoolboard Members’ Careers for Incompetence. “Meanwhile, his opponent for November is making it clear who’s side he’s on: ‘BREAKING: [CBS Miami] has learned [Charlie Crist] is expected to announce he has chosen Karla Hernandez-Mats, the president of the teachers union in Miami, to be his running mate, according three sources familiar with the decision.'”
What could go wrong for Crist? Charlie Crist picks running-mate who tweeted how Cubans ‘mourn’ the death of dictator Fidel Castro.
Related: Randi Weingarten Praises Charlie Crist’s Teachers’-Union Running Mate in Florida Governor Race.
WHITE HOUSE STAMMERS AFTER PETER DOOCY NAILS ILLEGAL IMMIGRATION QUESTION:
Doocy: “Somebody unvaccinated comes over on a plane, you say that’s not okay. Somebody walks into Texas or Arizona unvaccinated, they’re allowed to stay?”
Jean-Pierre: “That’s not how it works… It’s not like someone walks over.”
Doocy: “That’s exactly what is happening!”
I find it incredibly funny to see Jean-Pierre flail about the moment she goes off script and strays from her magic binder. Doocy is obviously correct that illegal immigration is driven by those who are quite literally simply walking across the border. Jean-Pierre, not having a prepared answer ready, walks into the obvious trap, asserting that’s not happening when that’s exactly what’s happening.
It gets worse toward the end, though, when after being further pressed by Doocy, Jean-Pierre returns to her binder to read a pre-scripted response about what the administration has supposedly done on border security (which is basically nothing). But Doocy wasn’t even asking about border security. He was asking about the nonsensical COVID regulations that punish healthy, legal travelers like Djokovic while allowing masses of illegal immigrants that aren’t vaccinated to be released into the interior of the country. Jean-Pierre has no answer because there is no answer that could make that situation make sense.
To be fair, this is the person who declared in late June, “The fact of the matter is the border is closed.”
Related: “White House Says Biden Not Briefed on ‘National Security’ Materials Seized from Mar-a-Lago.”
No word yet if President Klain has been briefed, though.
PAST PERFORMANCE IS NO GUARANTEE OF FUTURE RESULTS: Or, question asked and answered.
Shot:
Chaser:
Conventional wisdom suggests that any “generic” Republican would easily beat Hillary Clinton in November — and any other Democrat would destroy Donald Trump.
But what if that’s wrong? Increasingly, the notion that Trump could actually win seems less absurd. As I write this, the election forecasting site FiveThirtyEight says that if the election were held today, he’d have close to a 47 percent chance of winning. It’s not crazy to theorize that Trump, with all his faults, might actually be better positioned than any traditional Republican would be.
Let me explain. For years, conservatives have lamented liberal media bias. This bias becomes even more recognizable the closer we get to Election Day. And whether it’s coverage of Hillary Clinton’s fainting flap or the re-emergence of the “birther” story, the media seems to once again have put its thumbs on the scales in favor of the Democrat.
In the past two cycles, Republicans have nominated serious candidates who were thoughtful and irenic. John McCain went so far as to correct his own supporters when they suggested in 2008 that then-Sen. Barack Obama was “an Arab.” “No, ma’am,” McCain said. “He’s a decent family man [and] citizen that I just happen to have disagreements with on fundamental issues and that’s what this campaign’s all about.”
How did McCain’s benevolent nature benefit Republicans? “When the media got through with a good man like McCain,” writes Victor Davis Hanson in the National Review, “he was left an adulterous, confused septuagenarian, unsure of how many mansions he owned, and a likely closeted bigot.”
The next GOP nominee would meet a similar fate. “[Mitt] Romney was reduced to a comic-book Richie Rich, who owned an elevator, never talked to his garbage man, hazed innocents in prep school and tortured his dog on the roof of his car,” Hanson continues.
—”Is Trump the Only Republican Who Can Handle the Media Onslaught?”, Matt Lewis, Roll Call, September 22, 2016.
THE CORBYNIZATION OF THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY CONTINUES APACE: It’s Open Season on Jews in New York City.
MICHAEL WALSH: What’s the Constitution Among Friends?
What’s in our future? Civil War? Partition? Amicable divorce? In the meantime, let me leave you with this, from my debut novel, the controversial Exchange Alley, written after my return from Moscow in 1991 and published in 1997 but set in the period just before the end of the Soviet Union.
There is an unmistakable odor about socialist countries that pervades every public place. It is a strong animal smell, composed in equal parts of sweat and unwashed clothes, Russian cigarettes, cheap perfume, piss, disinfectant, and leaded gasoline; in the heyday of Communism, every socialist country smelled the same. But in the mother church of Marxism-Leninism, the reek was stronger, sharper, more pervasive. It was the ur-stench of the Soviet system, the stink of a dying animal and with each passing year it got stronger and more difficult for foreigners, even fellow travelers in the west, to ignore.
Smell that here at home now? I thought you might.
Read the whole thing.
IT WAS MY UNDERSTANDING THAT THERE WOULD BE NO MATH. Tim Blair on the Grauniad: Eight Years or 78, What’s the Difference.
Seems these dumb alarmists don’t know the difference between centuries and decades:
The record-breaking heatwaves seen across much of the world in recent months will become increasingly common by the end of the decade, according to research.
The end of the decade, you say? Please continue:
By 2100, dangerous conditions will occur in western Europe, the US, China and Japan three to 10 times as often.
Germany? Pearl Harbor? Forget it, the Grauniad is rolling.
August 28, 2022
Police told a group of lesbians to leave a gay pride march in Cardiff after an officer was filmed telling the gender-critical women to step aside due to ‘confrontation’ with a transgender marchers and their supporters.
The activist group ‘Get The L Out UK’, which ‘stands against transgenderism’, shared footage from yesterday’s Cardiff Pride event.
In the clip, two rival marchers can be seen shouting at each other on St Mary Street during the LGBT march.
Organisers of the event, Pride Cymru, have since claimed the lesbian group – seen displaying banners reading ‘transactivism erases lesbians’ and ‘lesbians don’t like penises’ – had ‘interrupted’ the march, and were not officially registered to attend.
The police officer can be heard saying to the women they are ‘causing confrontation between different groups of people’.
He said: ‘At the moment, your march, this group of people is causing confrontation between different groups of people.’
Women are then heard replying ‘we’re lesbians, it’s Cardiff pride’.
The police officer replies, saying ‘whatever you are… at the moment, is causing confrontation’.
More at the London Spectator: Why are lesbians no longer welcome at Pride? “Whilst Pride became populated with floats carrying drag queens resplendent in tassels, glitter and sequins, with rollerskating nuns following behind, lesbians sought to continue to remind the world that there were real issues to be fought, such as women losing their children to violent men because of anti-lesbian bigotry in the family courts; compulsory heterosexuality and the pressure to marry men and have babies, and a total lack of understanding that women have the right to control our own sexuality. Lesbians have had enough, as we saw from the Cardiff parade yesterday. If gay men wish to turn what used to be an honourable protest march into nothing more than a street party, and include kinksters and cross dressers in the rainbow flag, that’s up to them, but lesbians have a lot of work left to do. As Angela Wild, a founder member of GTLO told me, they protested the march to highlight the appalling treatment of lesbians by the queer-identified crowd, and the climate of sexual coercion that lesbian have to navigate daily. ‘The way we were treated, both by the LGBT crowd and the police who refused to let us march and failed to protect us is a clear reflection of the current anti-lesbian image brought by trans activists,’ says Wild.”