KRUISER’S MORNING BRIEFING: Joe Biden and the Wawa Cannibals—An American Tragedy. “One of the most galling results of the mainstream media’s dereliction of duty is that every syllable that Donald Trump utters is fact-checked seven or eight thousand times, while Biden is given carte blanche to keep repeating stories that are truth-free garbage. They don’t even call him on his oft-recited lie that his son Beau was a casualty of war. This isn’t merely an elderly man’s confusion about a date or a place; either he’s so addled that he truly doesn’t remember where and how his son died, or he knows he’s deliberately lying.”
Author Archive: Stephen Green
April 19, 2024
HMM…: Might Turn Out That POTATUS’ Gonzo Gaza Pier Plan Was a Blessing in Disguise.
Last October I wrote about the potentially catastrophic state of our country’s maritime support system, the U.S. Maritime Support Fleet. Biden has someone in charge right now they mockingly refer to as “The Ghost Admiral.” We have already lost the capacity to mobilize a tanker fleet to fuel our naval vessels at sea in event of a large scale conflict.
CDR Salamander, along with other experienced naval and maritime observers, have been raising alarms for years about the state of readiness of our vessels, and the shrunken posture of our force. You cannot continue to carve and carve away and still expect there to be meat on bones or good morale in overtaxed, understaffed, over-deployed ships companies.
We’ve all been railing against the money wasted on high-tech, whizbang boondoggles instead of maintaining a healthy, viable, lethal fleet (looking at YOU, LCS class).
What this exercise attempting to cross the Atlantic has proven is that we may not need tankers. Our poorly maintained and continually neglected naval vessels, be they Navy or Army, may not be capable of making it to the conflict to begin with.
Read the whole thing.
UNFIT FOR OFFICE: Joe Biden Has All But Abandoned American Personnel in Niger.
But Biden has time for a milkshake.
Biden struggles to close the takeout box at Wawa, then eventually gives up and tells his handler: "You take that box. I'm gonna go order a milkshake."
Then he shuffles away (before getting confused once again). pic.twitter.com/6I5V0wW5zZ
— RNC Research (@RNCResearch) April 18, 2024
That looks like what happens when the edibles kick in before you make it back home.
GODSPEED: All the pieces are in place for the first crew flight of Boeing’s Starliner. “Now that Starliner is attached to its Atlas V rocket, ULA and Boeing engineers will run tests to ensure solid mechanical, electrical, and communication links between the spacecraft and launch vehicle. Next week, Wilmore and Williams will return to Cape Canaveral from their training base in Houston for final reviews and training.”
Meanwhile, in Texas: SpaceX Fired Up Starship Twice In Preparation For Flight 4 Launch.
FRIENDS IN STRANGE PLACES: Wait, WHO Wants to Join NATO?
April 18, 2024
IT’S GOOD TO BE THE NOMENKLATURA: DC mayor took ‘economic development’ trip to Masters on taxpayers’ dime.
HEADS THEY WIN, TAILS HE LOSES: Liberal Activists Are Trying to Sneak Onto Trump Jury. But It’s Trump Who May Get in Trouble??
THE LONG MARCH THROUGH THE INSTITUTIONS:
One thing I’ve realized after working with teachers for 12 years is that it’s very hard to get them to commit to political or ideological neutrality in the classroom because:
A. They view teaching as an inherently political act intended to turn students into political units… pic.twitter.com/2t640P7KcL
— Chalkboard Heresy 🍎🔥 (@CBHeresy) April 16, 2024
Plus this: “This is so contrary to the teachers I grew up with in the 70’s and 80’s. I didn’t even know if most of them were married, let alone their political persuasion. There were always 1 or 2 more “radical” teachers who didn’t hide their politics, but they were rare.”
I’ve joked for years that I knew so little about my teachers’ lives outside of school that, for all we knew, they blinked in and out of existence when the morning and end-of-school bells rang.
THIS STINKS LIKE B.O.: O’Keefe Media Group Exposes Who Is Really Running the White House.
KATIE PAVLICH: There’s an Update on the Kind of Classified Information Biden Mishandled. “Our investigation uncovered evidence that President Biden willfully retained and disclosed classified materials after his vice presidency when he was a private citizen. These materials included (1) marked classified documents about military and foreign policy in Afghanistan, and (2) notebooks containing Mr. Biden’s handwritten entries about issues of national security and foreign policy implicating sensitive intelligence sources and methods. FBI agents recovered these materials from the garage, offices, and basement den in Mr. Biden’s Wilmington, Delaware home.”
THEY’RE A YUGE NUISANCE: Elon Musk Will Get Rid of the Twitter/X Pr0nBots with This 1 Weird Trick.
THE OHIO-CLASS SSBNs THE COLUMBIA-CLASS WILL REPLACE AREN’T GETTING ANY YOUNGER: US Nuclear-Missile Sub Delayed Up to 16 Months Over Bow, Generators.
“SHUT UP,” THEY EXPLAINED:
Notable tidbit from (now-former) NPR Editor Uri Berliner's piece for @TheFP: He raised internal objections to "the numerous times we [NPR] described the controversial education bill in Florida as the “Don’t Say Gay” bill when it didn’t even use the word gay." Notice that he never… pic.twitter.com/wmPnTqH2Qf
— Christina Pushaw 🐊 🇺🇸 (@ChristinaPushaw) April 17, 2024
And then this from Robby Soave.
NPR's staff sees DEI as a weapon to be wielded against a heretic. CEO Katherine Maher thinks ideological diversity is a racist dogwhistle. Do these statements not prove that Uri Berliner is completely correct? https://t.co/miFpiXlLzF
— Robby Soave (@robbysoave) April 17, 2024
The silence from Berliner’s coworkers, colleagues, and even his union is deafening.
VIDEO: Loyola Law School Anti-Racism Fellow Goes on One Helluva Racist Rant. “Get the f*** out of here all you ugly ass little Jewish people in this b**ch.”
PRIVACY: Illinois woman hits Target with class action lawsuit for collecting biometric data without her consent. “The lawsuit, filed last month in Cook County, claims Target’s surveillance systems, including cameras with facial recognition technology installed in Illinois stores, ‘surreptitiously’ collect biometric data on customers without their knowledge or consent.”
NOBODY CAN AFFORD TO BUY, NOBODY CAN AFFORD TO SELL: New-home construction posts biggest drop in four years, despite America facing a housing shortage. “With mortgage rates beginning their ascent in February, home buyers may have pulled back from purchasing homes, which would explain the big drop in housing starts in March.”
Re-ascent, actually, as lenders took notice of January’s end of disinflation.
KRUISER’S MORNING BRIEFING: Sydney Sweeney Should Win an Award for Triggering Miserable Lib Women. “Show me on the Gloria Steinem doll where Sydney Sweeney touched you.”
COME SEE THE ANTISEMITISM INHERENT IN THE LEFTISM: Why the Media Ignore Anti-Semitism.
When the New York Times did get around to reporting on some of these incidents, the article’s focus was not on the thuggish rhetoric and behavior of Palestinian activists toward Jews, but rather on how such behavior was affecting Democratic politicians’ holiday parties and fundraisers. “Protests over the Biden administration’s handling of the war are disrupting the activities of Democratic officials from city halls to Congress to the White House, complicating their ability to campaign—and, at times, govern—during a pivotal election year,” the story noted.
What the paper of record failed to mention, but is easily visible across social media on a regular basis, is that these protests are promoting and normalizing anti-Semitism, not taking a principled stand on behalf of the Palestinians (a majority of whom approved of Hamas’s attack on Israel on October 7, according to polling data). In New York in late March, for example, outside a fundraiser for President Biden, a male protester was captured on video following a young woman who was trying to get into the building. He screamed at her, “F—ing murderous kike. F—ing die. Keep it moving, bitch.”
Why aren’t these anti-Semitic attacks front-page stories? Why aren’t they given the kind of relentless scrutiny that anti-Semitism on the right has properly received in these same outlets? The Times has published countless stories about the rhetoric of participants in the 2017 “Unite the Right” rally in Charlottesville, Virginia. Where are the big-think pieces and deeply reported stories about the organizations and funders behind the anti-Jewish groups staging protests outside synagogues and other Jewish institutions?
Read the whole thing.
ATHENA THORNE: Trump’s Brilliant Prosecution Juxtaposition Campaign. “Manhattan DA Alvin Bragg and Judge Juan Merchan conspire to keep the presidential frontrunner locked up in a dingy courtroom during the day, but he is free to roam after court hours. An irrepressible and brilliant marketer, Trump seizes on those hours to communicate. And he is off to a pitch-perfect start.”
“He got shot down in an area where there were a lot of cannibals at the time,” Biden initially told reporters after visiting a war memorial that bears his uncle’s name in Scranton, Pa.
“They never recovered his body, but the government went back when I went down there and they checked and found some parts of the plane.”
“He got shot down in New Guinea and they never found the body because there used to be — there were a lot of cannibals, for real, in that part of New Guinea,” Biden told United Steelworkers union members.
The cannibals wore onions on their belts, which was the style at the time.
More seriously, Biden also repeated the long-disproved “Suckers and losers” smear against Trump.
If we had an honest press… alas.
ANTI-CIVILIZATION NARRATIVES DON’T ESTABLISH THEMSELVES, YOU KNOW: The Washington Post Tries to Turn Supporters of Terrorism Into Victims.
April 17, 2024
THEM’S FIGHTIN’ WORDS: A Hollywood Producer’s One-Woman War Against… Syndey Sweeney’s Looks?