HE’S CERTAINLY THE MASTER OF HIS DOMAIN: Was ‘Seinfeld’ a Prophet?
Author Archive: Stephen Green
June 8, 2022
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HERE COMES STAGFLATION: Target Warns Profit Will Drop Because It Has Too Much Stuff. “Big retailers benefited over the past two years from the pandemic rush to buy patio furniture, laptops and home décor, as shoppers were buoyed by savings and government stimulus checks. Now many of those same stores are grappling with a swift reversal of buying behavior with consumers spending less on goods in favor of services and necessities such as food and fuel.”
SAYING THE QUIET PART OUT LOUD: Democrats Admit the True Purpose of J6 Hearings.
THOSE RESPONSIBLE FOR SACKING THE PEOPLE WHO SHOULD HAVE BEEN SACKED HAVE NOT BEEN SACKED: Legal YouTuber: The Washington Post correction to Taylor Lorenz’ story is still not correct.
STACEY LENNOX: As California Goes, So Goes the Country: Why Michael Shellenberger Needs to Win in November. “The machine behind Newsom is spending time promoting Shellenberger’s opponents because they see him as a threat. “
MORE LIKE THIS, PLEASE: Turning Point USA’s Young Women’s Leadership Summit Was Not What I Expected and I Loved It. “Clark set the tone and the message was clear. Strong conservative women are on the rise and they wouldn’t be shamed, silenced, and walked on. They dare you to try. This isn’t the passive group of women the left had dealt with decades ago. Clark was right. The old movement is dead. This is something different.”
PROBABLY NOT BEFORE JANUARY 20, 2025: Will the secret New York migrant flights ever stop?
VODKAPUNDIT PRESENTS YOUR WEEKLY INSANITY WRAP: Biden Tells You It’s Raining While… You Know… On Your Boots. “Joe Biden has always been a liar, but just how bad he’s gotten at it is this week’s big crazy.”
Plus:
- I know Dave Weigel. Dave Weigel is not a friend of mine…
- It isn’t about gay or straight, it’s about sexualizing children
- How did Hunter Biden not wind up with a dead hooker?
So much more at the link, you’d have to be crazy to miss it.
THEY’VE BEEN SPENDING MORE TIME STRESSED AND REQUIRED TO GO TO SCHOOL TOO EARLY IN THE MORNING: Melatonin overdoses in kids increase 530% over past decade. “The largest increase, a 38% jump, came in the first year of the coronavirus pandemic, which the study’s authors say was likely because more children were spending more time at home.”
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Matt Margolis: Which Is Dumber: Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez or the Term ‘Latinx’? “Don’t get me wrong—I’m sure she was a pretty decent bartender once.”
Paula Bolyard: The Dirty Little Secret Behind the Upcoming J6 Prime Time Show Trial. “Goldston has a dirty little secret.”
Yours Truly: Is Big Sister Watching You for ‘Hate’ in New York? “It sounds like something out of George Orwell when New York Governor Kathy Hochul brags about mandating social media platforms turn themselves into snitches.”
IT’LL COME WITH STRINGS, TOO: ‘A Bad Idea’: Federalized, Universal Preschool Carries A $350 Billion Price Tag.
KRUISER’S MORNING BRIEFING: Biden Is Mad That Americans Are Noticing All of His Failure. “There are two types of people in America — those who had high hopes for all of this and those of us who aren’t idiots. There wasn’t much in the almost 50 years that Biden was redefining mediocrity in government that would have given any discerning person a reason to think that this presidency would be otherwise.”
EVERYTHING IS GOING SWIMMINGLY: Biden’s press office plagued by negative coverage, messaging gaffes as media signals ‘honeymoon is over.’ “In a sense, the mainstream media is just now figuring out what the public has known for months.”
[New White House PressSec] Jean-Pierre has also developed a reputation for reading scripted answers from her notebook that conflict with Biden’s statements. Many reporters have already grown frustrated with Jean-Pierre, and NBC News reporter Kelly O’Donnell essentially told the press secretary how to do her job during a heated exchange last week on who briefed Biden on the baby formula crisis.
“To say there is no specific person is not a satisfactory answer. When you have senior assistants to the president, there’s a paper trail, I’m sure, about briefings to the president. There is a domestic policy council. There’s a chief of staff. At some point we need to know who would have been the most likely person to talk to him,” O’Donnell said.
Jean-Pierre continued to dodge the question and the NBC News reporter fired back, “It just looks like it’s evasive” to not have senior White House aides come forward and admit they briefed the president on the baby formula shortage.
“We’re also trying to understand the information flow in this White House, and it’s important for us to get that answer, which is where we’re going to keep asking it until we get that answer,” O’Donnell said.
Both Fox and the New York Post ran versions of this report featuring the dustup between Jean-Pierre and O’Donnell.
Curiously, I couldn’t find any mention of it at NBC News where O’Donnell reports.
KEVIN DOWNEY JR: Drag Teens, Naked Adults, and Stupid Burger Buns. Is This Gay Pride? “Remember, if you don’t like the idea of adults cheering on a shirtless boy dancing in a feather boa, you’re a ‘homophobe.'”
June 6, 2022
HELP NOT WANTED: Sen. Chris Murphy urges Biden to not get involved in bipartisan gun talks. “Mr. Biden nearly upended those negotiations last week with a prime-time address to the nation in which he called for, among other things, universal background checks and a ban on military-style semi-automatic rifles or ‘assault weapons.’ Such proposals have thwarted Congress for nearly two decades.”
I remember when the Complicit Media sold candidate Biden as the “moderate” who could “get things done” with both sides on the Hill.
On the other hand, Biden inadvertently stomping gun control legislation to death would be the best thing to happen to it.
LAYERS OF EDITORS AND ASS-COVERERS: Washington Post issues two corrections after stealth-edit scrubbed false claim from Taylor Lorenz report.
The Post later followed with an even lengthier correction, this time at the top of Lorenz’s article that read, “The first published version of this story stated incorrectly that Internet influencers Alyte Mazeika and ThatUmbrellaGuy had been contacted for comment before publication. In fact, only Mazeika was asked, via Instagram. After the story was published, The Post continued to seek comment from Mazeika via social media and queried ThatUmbrellaGuy for the first time. During that process, The Post removed the incorrect statement from the story but did not note its removal, a violation of our corrections policy. The story has been updated to note that Mazeika declined to comment for this story and ThatUmbrellaGuy could not be reached for comment. A previous version of this story also inaccurately attributed a quote to Adam Waldman, a lawyer for Johnny Depp. The quote described how he contacted some Internet influencers and has been removed.”
Late on Friday, the Post quietly changed “correction” to “editor’s note” while maintaining the text of the errors.
Neither correction, however, addressed who was behind the stealth edit.
When asked specifically whether Lorenz herself or an editor made the stealth edit, a spokesperson for the Post replied, “That’s not something we’d discuss on the record.”
For obvious reasons.
YOU ONLY GET ONE GUESS: There Was Huge ‘Mistake’ in the 2020 Census… Guess Which Party It Favored?
NOT THE FIRST REPORT LIKE THIS I’VE SEEN, BUT STILL WAITING FOR MORE DETAILS TO EMERGE: Successful Ukrainian Counterattack in Severodonetsk? “The fog of war and the paucity of competent in-theater reporting makes things hard to analyze, but at this point in time, it appears that Ukraine is winning the Battle of Severodonetsk.”