DISPATCHES FROM THE INTERSECTION OF TRUNALIMUNUMAPRZURE! AND TRYING TO AVOID WORLD WAR III: In a Stunning Reversal, White House Walks Back Biden Statement That Putin ‘Cannot Remain in Power.’
Author Archive: Ed Driscoll
March 26, 2022
AND THE ANSWER IS NONE. NONE MORE GRAUNIAD: I let a baby bird nest in my hair for 84 days. He fell asleep in my palm. As far as he was concerned, I was his mother.
RADICAL CHIC, THE TRUNALIMUNUMAPRZURE YEARS: White House celebrates Maoist Yuri Kochiyama, who cheered bin Laden, communist massacre in Peru.
UKRAINE CHANGES THE FACE OF WAR FOREVER: New video from Reason TV.
DEMOCRATS ARE PARTYING LIKE IT’S 1859: In Fit of Racially Charged Outrage, Democrats Target Supreme Court’s Only Black Justice for Impeachment. Party’s ugly segregationist past resurfaces as prominent interracial couple comes under attack.
DISPATCHES FROM THE INTERSECTION OF “WELL, THIS IS THE 21st CENTURY, YOU KNOW” AND “BASED:” Paralyzed man with brain chip says first words in months: ‘I want a beer.’
THEIR APPEAL IS BECOMING MORE SELECTIVE: California’s big cities are shrinking.
How’s that Welcome Wagon program coming along?
AMERICA’S NEWSPAPER OF RECORD: Babylon Bee Writers Trying To Slowly Tunnel Out Of Twitter Jail Behind Poster Of Gina Carano.
ANNALS OF LEFTIST AUTOPHAGY: AOC: Biden Faces ‘Collapse’ of Support From Key Democrat Voters.
JIM TREACHER: Feminists Demand: Get Your Wife in Line, Clarence Thomas.
Remember when America was this close to turning into The Handmaid’s Tale? Glad those days are over. Also, women are now the property of their husbands.
“Every woman is the author of her own life… er, unless we really hate her husband!” Libs will cast aside everything they claim to believe, just to gain a moment’s advantage. Then they wonder why we don’t trust them.
Ginni & Clarence are the new Bonnie & Clyde. Also, Hunter Biden has nothing to do with his dad.
If it turns out Clarence Thomas did something unethical or even criminal, let the chips fall where they may. But I don’t hate a black man for being a conservative on the Supreme Court, so I’ll leave the shrieking to the libs.
QED: Ilhan Omar: Impeach Justice Clarence Thomas because his wife texted Mark Meadows.
When did the leftist overculture become The He-Man Woman Hater’s Club?
It takes 13 paragraphs until his party is revealed: “The case against Cutler is one of the highest-profile ones ever brought against a prominent Maine political figure. Cutler, a wealthy lawyer born in Bangor, was an aide to U.S. Sen. Edmund Muskie and President Jimmy Carter in the 1960s and 1970s. He has been a major figure in international business and greater Portland’s civic world. He returned to Maine politics as an independent gubernatorial candidate in 2010, narrowly losing to Republican Paul LePage after a late surge past the Democrat in the race. Cutler ran for governor again in 2014, but only mustered an also-ran performance at 8 percent of votes.”
WELCOME BACK, CARTER! The bad old days: Biden’s America is a throwback to the 1970s.
Under Carter, the country saw double-digit inflation. Meat prices surged, with beef up 39% in one year. Energy prices were so high that Carter urged the public to put on a sweater and turn down their thermostats. The cost of gas doubled between Carter’s first year in office and 1981.
Today, a similar situation is unfolding. Biden’s reckless spending is making everything more expensive. New data show that consumer prices spiked by nearly 8% over the past year, the fastest rate in 40 years. Gas and electricity are respectively up 38% and 9% over last year. Staples such as milk and eggs are up 11%. And used cars will cost you 41% more — if you can even find one. These prices are hitting the public in the pocketbook. Sixty-four percent of people say they are now living paycheck to paycheck. And voters rank rising prices as one of their biggest concerns.
The Biden administration’s response to surging energy prices? Buy an electric car.
Meanwhile, a crime wave to rival the 1970s is sweeping the nation. Fourteen major Democratic-run cities set all-time homicide records last year. Police officers have seen a 115% surge in ambush-style attacks since 2020. And on top of the surge in violent crimes, there’s been an uptick in carjackings and organized “smash-and-grab” robberies in stores.
As Glenn wrote in the New York Post: Don’t pretend that high prices and American suffering are a ‘bug’ for the establishment — it’s a historic feature.
ANOTHER RECORD: Average price of gas tops $6 per gallon in L.A. County.
Flashbacks:
In September of 2019, after CNN’s seven hour “climate change town hall,” Bryan Preston wrote, “Seriously, if you see all of the above — which is just a sample — and vote for any of these people for any office at any level, it’s on you. If you like Venezuela, voting for any of them will bring you a whole lot of Venezuela.”
And as Kate of Small Dead Animals wrote after the CNN horror show, “Don’t make the mistake of thinking they don’t mean it.”
● Aren’t California’s High Gas Prices What The Left Have Wanted?
● NBC, the Washington Post, and the New York Times in lockstep call for higher gas taxes.
● 2008 L.A. Times headline: “The joy of $8 gas.”
Exit quote: “Under my plan, energy costs will necessarily skyrocket…”
In other words, Obama administration retreads are following the same playbook as the original Obama administration: “We’re going to keep at it to ensure the American people are paying their fair share for gas,” is the perfect Kinsley Gaffe for an Obama administration retread like Biden: As Steven Chu, Obama’s then-incoming energy secretary, told the Wall Street Journal in the fall of 2008: “Somehow we have to figure out how to boost the price of gasoline to the levels in Europe.”
So is it fair to ask if Biden is on the payroll of Putin? As Walter Russell Mead wrote in 2017:
If Trump were the Manchurian candidate that people keep wanting to believe that he is, here are some of the things he’d be doing:
Limiting fracking as much as he possibly could
Blocking oil and gas pipelines
Opening negotiations for major nuclear arms reductions
Cutting U.S. military spending
Trying to tamp down tensions with Russia’s ally Iran.
“Yep,” Glenn added in late 2019. “You know who did do these things? Obama. You know who supports these things now? Democrats.”
Related: Biden tormented by Republican guerrilla campaign and ‘I did it’ stickers.
Also: 100Pcs I Did That Biden Funny Car Stickers. #Resist #CommissionEarned
WAS IT OVER WHEN J.K. ROWLING BOMBED PEARL HARBOR INVADED UKRAINE?! Putin: The west wants to cancel Russia just like it canceled J.K. Rowling for criticizing transgenderism.
A BILLION HERE AND A BILLION THERE, AND SOONER OR LATER, YOU’RE TALKING ABOUT REAL MONEY: 10 Insane Ways Local Governments Wasted Biden’s ‘COVID’ Bailout Money.
TRUNALIMUNUMAPRZURE! Biden tells 82nd Airborne they’ll be in Ukraine in apparent gaffe. “‘You’re going to see when you’re there, and some of you have been there, you’re gonna see — you’re gonna see women, young people standing in the middle in front of a damned tank just saying, ‘I’m not leaving, I’m holding my ground’,’ Biden said. The White House did not immediately respond to The Post’s request for clarification.”
March 25, 2022
ROGER SIMON: Ketanji Brown Jackson’s Big Lie to Sen. Blackburn Exposes Progressivism.
When Sen. Marsha Blackburn (R-Tenn.) asked Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson to define the word “woman,” during Jackson’s U.S. Supreme Court confirmation hearing before the Senate Judiciary Committee, she got the response “I can’t.”
When Blackburn responded with an incredulous “You can’t?” Jackson replied: “Not in this context. I’m not a biologist.”
It takes a biologist to define “woman”? Does Jackson think we’re morons?
In a way, yes. Or she doesn’t care.
She’s a progressive, and progressives have been redefining language—English and many others—to fit their purposes dating back to the Spanish Civil War and undoubtedly earlier. (See Davis Hunt III at The Pamphleteer.)
Jackson very well knows what a woman is. The nominee has known this all her life, as we all have. But these days, in her part of the political world, she’s not supposed to.
So she lied.
She simply parsed her words in order not to offend a constituency that has become imbued with “transgenderitis.” By that I mean a group taking what we all know—that a small percentage of people suffer from gender dysphoria to a degree that they seek to change sexes—and extending it into absurd public policy for reasons of power and control and, ultimately, money, not to mention a completely distorted and harmful view of gender itself. (In this case, see swimmer Lia Thomas.)
Those with that form of dysphoria, as do all with serious problems, deserve our sympathy and support, but no more so than everyone else with difficulties.
Nevertheless, they’ve been singled out for now and are being manipulated and exploited by the left, just as many minorities before them have been.
The transgendered are the favored class du jour. Tomorrow—I’m sorry to tell them—it will be someone else.
In the meantime though, Blackburn’s query is “The Freeport Question of Our Time,” Steve Hayward writes at Power Line:
The “Freeport Question” refers to Abraham Lincoln’s devastating question posed to Stephen Douglas in his second debate against Douglas on August 27, 1858, held in Freeport, Illinois. The question was seemingly simple: “Can the people of a Territory in any lawful way, against the wishes of any citizen of the United States, exclude slavery from their limits prior to the formation of a State constitution?”
Douglas’s answer split the Democratic Party in half, and helped to assure Lincoln’s victory in the 1860 presidential election. Douglas’s answer was Yes, a territory could exclude slavery prior to applying for statehood if the residents of the territory so chose. But the Democratic Party’s southern slave interest was demanding a federal “slave code” that would permit them to take slaves to any territory as a matter of federal legal right (a prospect made more possible by the lamentable Dred Scott decision), no matter what a majority of the residents thought. As such, Douglas’s answer was unacceptable, and so was his candidacy in 1860, which is why the Democratic Party split in half in the summer of 1860 and ran two tickets in the November election.
Today’s Freeport Question—the question that has the potential to split the Democratic Party off from a majority of voters—is: what is a woman?
TIM BLAIR: Today’s noticeboard is brought to you the enduring mystery of woke sports reporters.
Theory: sports reporters feel ashamed because they’re wasting their lives writing about inconsequential games, so turn political to compensate.
If so, they are mistaken. Sports reporting is an honourable calling. Politics, not so much.
American journalists frequently refer to the sports department as the equivalent of working in a candy or toy store, compared with the hard news sections (or what passes for such things these days). When the late Mike Wallace interviewed Bill Parcells for 60 Minutes in 2004, he even used that metaphor on Parcells. After describing the 14 hour days Parcells put in as a head coach, Parcells told Wallace, “If you want to stay competitive, this is one of the most competitive businesses there is.” Wallace replied with an incredulous tone, “This is the toy department!”, confusing his own profession’s view of sports journalists, with the people they cover. It’s an insulting metaphor to say to a man who had spent nearly his entire adult life coaching college and professional football.