ELIMINATIONIST RHETORIC: Did a Democrat Congressman Call for Donald Trump to Be Assassinated?
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November 21, 2023
MEANWHILE, OVER AT VODKAPUNDIT: Comrade Xi Made a Shǎguā Out of Biden Over ‘Clean’ Energy. “I’ve got the receipts to show what a sucker — or perhaps “stooge” might be the better word — Biden is for Xi’s ‘green’ agenda.”
JOE BIDEN, WAGING MORE OF HIS PATENTED PERSONAL DIPLOMACY: Indo-Pacific trade pillar stumbles, US faces setback in countering China. “President Biden and leaders from 13 nations, including a meeting with China’s Xi Jinping, signed agreements focusing on communication and cooperation. Still, the contentious trade negotiations have raised concerns among Asia-Pacific allies, fearing a repetition of the Trans-Pacific Partnership’s fate. The situation underlines challenges for the Biden administration, especially as China actively expands its trade agreements in the region, potentially influencing US allies’ economic preferences.”
IT’S NOTHING BUT A LIE TO DISTRACT FROM ACTUAL ANTISEMITISM ON CAMPUS: Alan Dershowitz: Alleged Rise of Islamophobia at Universities ‘Fake.’
KRUISER’S MORNING BRIEFING: COVID With a Side of Crazy Is on the Liberal Thanksgiving Menu. “Yes, that’s the head of the CDC trying to act as if we’re all stuck in some sort of ‘Groundhog Day’ time loop, reliving the heyday of the pandemic freakout. It’s amazing that anyone at the CDC can talk or tweet about stuff like vaccines and masks with a straight face. Rarely has an organization so full of highly educated experts been proven so wrong about so many things in such a short time. At present, it’s the biggest federal clown car in a bureaucracy full of clown car agencies.”
ENEMY OF THE STATE: Moscow puts popular Ukrainian singer on wanted list, accusing her of spreading false information about Russian military.
The reports said an Interior Ministry database listed singer Susana Jamaladinova as being sought for violating a criminal law.
The independent news site Mediazona, which covers opposition and human rights issues, said Jamaladinova was charged under a law adopted last year that bans spreading so-called fake information about the Russian military and the ongoing fighting in Ukraine.
Jamaladinova, who performs under the stage name Jamala, is of Crimean Tatar descent. Jamala, who performed at the Kennedy Center Honors in December, won the 2016 Eurovision contest with the song “1944,” a title that refers to the year the Soviet Union deported Crimean Tatars en masse.
Her winning performance came almost exactly two years after Russia annexed Crimea as political turmoil gripped Ukraine. Most other countries regard the annexation as illegitimate.
Russia protested “1944” being allowed in the competition, saying it violated rules against political speech in Eurovision. But the song made no specific criticism of Russia or the Soviet Union, although it drew such implications, opening with the lyrics “When strangers are coming, they come to your house, they kill you all and say ‘We’re not guilty.'”
To be fair, that is how Crimea went from Tatar to Russian.
PHILIP CARL SALZMAN: Diversity, Equity, Inclusion — and the Elimination of Jews.
SURPRISING EXACTLY NO ONE: IDF says it found Hamas rocket-making lab, weapons and tunnel entrance inside Gaza City mosque.
CENSORSHIP: We Knew It All Along.
There’s a new poll from Issues & Insights and TIPP Insights that provides us with some fascinating information about Americans’ attitudes toward government and Big Tech censorship. The poll of 1,400 adults shows that 43% of Americans disapprove of censorship (26% “strongly” and 17% “somewhat”), while 36% approve of censorship (evenly divided between “strongly” and “somewhat”).
Those results are awfully close, but when you dig deeper, you’ll see some interesting trends. I&I’s Terry Jones writes that “the relative closeness of the response is deceptive. When broken down by demographics and political affiliation, surprisingly sharp differences between and within different groups emerge.”
That’s putting it mildly. Democrats overwhelmingly approve of government and Big Tech gatekeepers reining in unapproved opinions. A whopping 57% of Democrats surveyed are down with censorship, with 35% strongly approving. Only 25% of Democrats disapprove.
Read the whole thing.
November 20, 2023
JUST WAITING TO SEE HOW LONG IT TAKES GOOGLE TO DEMONETIZE ANOTHER ONE OF MY COLUMNS: Stop Trying to Make COVID a Thing (Again) (And Again).
BIDENOMICS IS WORKING: Average American’s retirement balance falls 4% as more and more savers dip into their later life savings to make ends meet.
Meanwhile, here’s another in an endless series of pieces explaining why Americans are too stupid to know how good we’ve got it under Biden: The US economy is doing well under Biden: But Americans don’t believe it.
Who you gonna believe, the establishment or your own lyin’ 401(k)?
GOODER AND HARDER, NEW YORK: NY ranked ‘Least Free State,’ with high taxes, debt, regulation.
“JOURNALIST”: Israel Arrests NBC Journalist for Inciting Terrorism.
THE COPE IS STRONG: 5 ways Democrats are coping with Biden’s terrible polls.
The Washington Post reported that during a September political panel in Aspen, Colorado, an attendee raised concerns about Biden’s viability as the Democratic nominee, and asked: What’s the backup plan?
According to the Post, former Biden chief of staff Ron Klain had a quick rebuttal: “The president is the party’s nominee, Klain said, and a strong nominee at that. There is no backup plan.”
There is certainly no backup plan that would be as orderly as renominating Biden. But there’s an entire fleet of Democratic up-and-comers biding their time and laying the groundwork for future White House bids — whether it’s by hosting a debate in the first-in-the-nation primary state, or holding a surprise meeting with President Xi Jinping in China.
And there are a few members of the Biden administration whom the president has cast as the party’s political future, including his vice president.
However, pitching Biden as the only option plays into Democrats’ fear of the unknown, particularly when up against Trump.
“He isn’t Trump” might not be quite the selling point it was in 2020, considering what’s happened to the economy and the world since Biden took over.
DISPATCHES FROM THE BLUE ZONES: California Suspends Gun License of Homeowner Who Protected His Family From Intruders.
THIS IS WHAT WEST POINT DOES INSTEAD OF TRAINING THE OFFICERS WHO WIN WARS: West Point Calls for Unconstitutional Censorship— Ahem, ‘Disinformation’ Commission.
DON’T GET COCKY: Joe Biden is facing a near-historic deficit for an incumbent.
Take a look at recent national surveys from CBS News/YouGov, CNN/SSRS, Fox News, Marquette University Law School and Quinnipiac University. All five are high-quality polls that meet CNN standards for publication.
All five give Trump an advantage of 2 to 4 points over Biden among registered or likely voters. On their own, none of these data points mean too much. Trump’s lead in all of them is within the margin of error. Averaged together, though, they paint a picture of an incumbent with a real problem.
Over the past 80 years, incumbents have, on average, led their eventual challengers by a little more than 10 points about a year out from the election. This includes nearly every incumbent for whom we have polling since Franklin Roosevelt in 1943.
It includes Barack Obama against Mitt Romney in November 2011. This is notable because a number of Democrats have tried to dismiss the current data showing Biden in trouble by saying that Obama had been behind at this point, too. That simply isn’t true.
And this from Maureen Dowd:
According to a New York Times/Siena College poll, Donald Trump is ahead in five battleground states and, as some other surveys have found, is even making inroads among Black voters and young voters. There’s a generational fracture in the Democratic Party over the Israeli-Hamas horror and Biden’s age. Third-party spoilers are circling.
The president turns 81 on Monday; the Oval hollows out its occupants quickly, and Biden is dealing with two world-shattering wars, chaos at the border, a riven party and a roiling country.
“I think he has a 50-50 shot here, but no better than that, maybe a little worse,” Axelrod said. “He thinks he can cheat nature here and it’s really risky. They’ve got a real problem if they’re counting on Trump to win it for them. I remember Hillary doing that, too.”
The president’s flash of anger indicates that he may be in denial, surrounded by enablers who are sugarcoating a grim political forecast.
Biden has always lashed out, always punched down. Even if he isn’t surrounded by enablers, he doesn’t have the strength of character to listen to honest criticism.
MEANWHILE, OVER AT VODKAPUNDIT: Biden Uses Cold War Law to Nuke Your Gas Furnace. “Remember when it was nothing more than right-wing fearmongering that Democrats were going to outlaw your gas appliances? It was a more innocent time, way back in [checks notes] January of this year.”