…with Joe Biden now, as shown at our Video of the Day, accessible through link #2 immediately beneath our Quote of the Day at the top of the page. Gee, Joe, as long as the garage was locked, guess that makes it okay. Peter Doocy, Jesse Watters…
…Tucker Carlson…
…poke more than a couple holes in that defense:
Here’s the juice: There’s more to this story than Biden storing classified documents next to his Corvette. Think about it: Were this Obama, we’d never, ever even heard rumors about him improperly storing classified document. Hells bells, no one could get a copy of his college transcripts. We understand why Biden’s minions waited until after the mid-terms to release this story, but why tell it now? Why tell it at all? And why tell it in multiple salvos rather than one single broadside? And why are they allowing him to address the issue in public…personally?!?
We’re of the mind it’s because Biden really doesn’t have any minions, rather they’re recycled Obama staffers whose loyalty to Joe is transitory at best. And word may have come down from whomever is pulling his strings it’s time to start ensuring Biden’s illegitimate presidency lasts but one-term. Just a thought.
In a related item, the Journal‘s Kim Strassel discusses…
“…One of former Attorney General William Barr’s aspirations was to depoliticize the Justice Department, and one of his acts was a 2020 memo putting new guardrails around launching investigations into politically sensitive individuals or entities. No one suggests politicians are above the law. But earlier attorneys general were mindful of the risk that political investigations would appear partisan, and the need for a high bar and great discretion. Mr. Barr’s memo was a reminder of these principles.
Mr. Garland might have followed that example rather than authorize the FBI’s unnecessary and unprecedented August 2022 raid on a Mr. Trump’s home. Over documents. And documents that the Presidential Records Act outlines only minor penalties for mishandling. The department could have continued negotiating with the Trump team or gone to court for an order requiring the proper handling of the material. That would have allowed it to handle the Biden situation in a manner that was similarly low-key but also yielded accountability.
Mr. Garland instead escalated the Trump situation. That again injected the Justice Department in an election cycle, given Mr. Trump soon became a declared candidate for the presidency. Rather than be accused of a double standard, Mr. Garland this week delivered a second injection. Now he holds in his hot legal hands the fate of anotherleading candidate, Mr. Biden.
The power the department now has over the 2024 election is extraordinary. How long will the probes drag on, weighing down the candidates? Will one investigation finish sooner than the other, giving one candidate an advantage? Will one man be exonerated while the other is indicted? How much information will be leaked in each probe, in an attempt at partisan advantage? Will the department end up having altered the future of politics by dissuading Mr. Biden to run?
And does anybody think the Justice Department will come out of this without further blemishing its reputation?
Of course not. Mr. Garland is attempting to insulate the department with his special counsels, to maintain—as he robotically repeated in his announcement—that he is determined to preserve its “independence and accountability.” But nobody in America is going to buy the claim that the attorney general, who answers to Mr. Biden, isn’t deeply involved or that politics isn’t at play. If Mr. Biden is exonerated, half the country will lose its wig. If Mr. Trump is exonerated, the other half will. Likewise if either man is indicted. There is no win here. What a mess.
At some point, a future attorney general will need to summon the backbone to be truly accountable—to make the tough calls himself. That would include what seemingly has become the toughest call of all—to step out of the political fray.“
We’d say Merrick Garland is learning the wisdom of the old adage, when you lie down with dogs, you get up with fleas; But Merrick Garland is a lying dog himself.
Daily Gouge political correspondent Marcus Aurelius reached out to the Attorney General for comment, but his only response was an emphatic…
…over and over…again and again.
Next, following up on an earlier entry detailing Richard Trumpka, Jr.’s asinine assertion “products that can’t be made safe can be banned”, we learn…
“U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission chairman Alexander D. Hoehn-Saric issued a statement Wednesday assuring the public that his agency has no intention of banning gas stoves after a commission official drew the ire of the cooking public by suggesting the appliances might be banned in the near future due to the alleged health threat they pose to Americans.
“Over the past several days, there has been a lot of attention paid to gas stove emissions and to the Consumer Product Safety Commission,” Hoehn-Saric wrote in an official statement released Wednesday. “[T]o be clear, I am not looking to ban gas stoves and the CPSC has no proceeding to do so.”
Commissioner Richard Trumka Jr. had originally told Bloomberg News that fears over air quality caused by gas stoves was creating “a hidden hazard.”“Any option is on the table products that can’t be made safe can be banned,” Trumka Jr. insisted…”
Here’s the pertinent part we previously overlooked:
“The comments came following Senator Cory Booker (D., N.J.) and Representative Don Beyer (D., Va.) urging CPSC to investigate the issue due to its allegedly disproportionate impact on black, Latino, and low-income households.“
Which begs the question of all three of these malignant amigos…
Especially when tens of millions of gourmets and gourmet-wannabes across the nation were guaranteed to respond…
“In China, the incinerators at crematoria are working 24/7. Simultaneously, the government says it isn’t seeing any increase in deaths from Covid-19, despite a big increase in the infection rate after ending the “zero Covid” policies. The Chinese government of Xi Jinping lies about everything, and oftentimes it seems like the more important and consequential the subject, the more shamelessly and brazenly the regime in Beijing will lie.
The investigative team over at the Washington Post understands how to write a lead paragraph that grabs you, showcasing China’s overwhelmed systems for handling the dead on a human scale:
An overwhelmed funeral home in Chengdu, China, stopped offering memorial services, budgeting just two minutes for each family to say goodbye to loved ones before cremation. A funeral parlor on the outskirts of Beijing quickly cleared space for a new parking lot. Scalpers in Shanghai sold places in line at funeral homes for $300 a pop to grieving relatives trying to get cremation slots.
Still, the Chinese government continues to insist that fewer than 40 people have died in China of covid since Dec. 7, when “zero covid” restrictions aimed at entirely eliminating the virus were suddenly dropped — and infection numbers exploded.
…Is the politeness routinely shown by international organizations toward the Chinese government one of the reasons for the regime’s brazenness and shamelessness in lying? When’s the last time any Chinese government official was told, to his face, “No, that’s a lie, those figures are absolute garbage and we don’t believe them”? In other words, has a long, long era of reluctance to confront China enabled the regime’s habitual and systemic dishonesty?
…As for the satellite photos of China’s crematoria, this is not the first time the outside world has seen such images and concluded that Beijing is hiding something.
Way back at the beginning of the pandemic, people outside of China looked at the government’s official Covid figures and concluded they couldn’t possibly be right. The governments of the city of Wuhan and of China as a whole spent the first three to six weeks of the pandemic insisting there was no evidence that the virus was spreading from one human to another, despite doctors’ catching it from their patients. Perhaps most ominously for the rest of the world, the local and national governments’ “we have everything under control” message impeded an honest accounting of how deadly the virus was.
The death toll in Wuhan rose unnervingly rapidly to about 2,400, and then suddenly and inexplicably slowed. This was long before the development of vaccines, and at a time when the world’s medical communities were just figuring out how SARS-CoV-2 worked and how to best treat it.
One of the ways outside observers could tell that the official figures on deaths weren’t true was a sudden surge in the number of death-related actions China was taking. As I wrote back in spring of 2020, the official death toll in Wuhan was 2,571 as of April 7, 2020, “but separate calculations of the number of urns purchased by funeral homes and the cremation capacity and use of the cremation ovens put the death toll somewhere between 42,000 and 46,800.”
China’s effort to fool the world found some very credulous Westerners. Back in October 2021, James Palmer of Foreign Policy magazine called me out for not acknowledging the success of China’s approach: “China’s *total* covid casualties (officially) are two or three days of American covid deaths right now. Even allowing for very likely lies and underestimates, they’re a week or two’s worth of American covid deaths.”
Since the start of the pandemic, the Economist has been running an ongoing calculation of each country’s “excess deaths” — that is, how many deaths the country has experienced above its normal rate before Covid. For China, it calculates anywhere from 21,000 to 2.2 million excess deaths.
China’s not alone in this. Russia exhibits the same dishonesty and similarly implausible data: “At least 300,000 more people died last year during the coronavirus pandemic than were reported in Russia’s most widely cited official statistics.”
Authoritarian regimes run on lies; we do no one any favors when we choose to play along in the name of smoother relations.“
It’s almost as if Xi’s defenders are being paid…
…to shield him from criticism!
Which reminds us, G. Trevor wants the who, why, where, when, how and how much of the miraculous…
…El Paso transformation. Who did it?…why did they do it?…where did they put everyone?…when did they move them?…how were they moved?…how much did it cost? We seem to recall El Paso lacked the resources to cope with the flood of illegals, so, G. Trevor’s questions stand.
We’re towards the tale end of the major prophets, finishing up Ezekiel. And if there’s one overarching reason for God’s judgment against Israel and Judah repeated throughout Isaiah, Jeremiah and Ezekiel, it’s the sacrifice of babies on the altar of Molech.
Andrea Mitchell and those sharing her slavish devotion to the killing of the unborn worship at the modern-day altar of Molech. And if there are levels in Hell, be certain they’ll have the warmest seats in the house. Then again, absent the saving grace of Jesus Christ, we’d be right there with her.
(4). Townhall.com‘s Rebecca Downs reports Virginia AG Jason Miyares is broadening his investigation into the deliberate delay in notifying students who earned National Merit awards by the the principal of the Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technologyto include the entire Fairfax County Public School system.
“…waited for about a month to distribute certificates to National Merit commended students and semi-finalists, past the October 31 deadline for students to note the awards on their applications for early acceptance to select colleges, according to a report in City Journal and the New York Post.
The report by journalist and activist Asra Nomani links the delay of National Merit awards to Thomas Jefferson high’s equity efforts, and its new “equal outcomes for every student, without exception” strategy. Most of the students who had their award notification delayed were Asian, Nomani reported.
According to the report, Thomas Jefferson high’s principal, Ann Bonitaibus, told a concerned parent in an email that the school had received the National Merit certificates in mid-October, and that she had signed them within 48 hours. But the awards were not distributed by homeroom teachers until November 14, after the early application deadline had passed, the report stated. “Teachers dropped the certificates unceremoniously on students’ desks,” Nomani wrote.“
Here’s hoping the heads of many educated idiots at the highest levels of the FCPS system roll.
(6). Turning from educated idiots to the garden variety, on the occasion of the recent FAA system crash, Erick Erickson notes the single accomplishment of our gay (only noted because it’s his only qualification for the job) Secretary of Transportation:
Mayor Pete’s continued occupation of a cabinet seat in the Biden clown car begs the question…
Which brings us, appropriately enough, to The Lighter Side:
Then there’s these from Balls Cotton…
…Major Jon…
…and Ed Hickey:
Finally, we’ll call it a wrap with yet another titillating tale torn from the pages of The Crime Blotter, courtesy today of a larcenous lawyer:
“…Assistant U.S. Attorney Claire M. Fay called Deveny an “unfeeling financial predator” who used lies and manipulation to defraud her clients. Many had suffered serious brain and bodily injuries in traffic crashes or other accidents and were awaiting payments from insurance company claims that Deveny had filed on their behalf.
Instead, Deveny stole the identities of countless clients, forged insurance checks made payable to them and deposited the money to her own bank accounts to cover her and her husband’s lavish lifestyle. “For 12 long years, she systematically robbed her clients, not with a gun and a mask, but with a pen and a law license,” Fay said.
Deveny used her clients’ money to pay for “unbridled and decadent spending” on big game hunting trips to Africa, taxidermy costs for the hunting trophies, guns and ammunition, travel to Las Vegas, Mexico, South Africa and Alaska, cruises and fishing trips, according to Fay. Deveny bought more than $220,000 worth of expensive cigars from Broadway Cigars and more than $60,000 for stays at the Desert Sun Resort, a Palm Springs luxury nudist resort, Fay said…”
The trial judge noted “part of what contributed to Deveny’s downfall was the emotional and physical abuse she endured from her late husband, who took his own life in 2018″. While we can’t speak to any emotional or physical abuse the husband dished out, we’re relatively certain seeing Deveney naked in broad daylight…
…had something to do with his suicide.
Magoo
Video of the Day
Oh, the garage containing the classified materials was LOCKED. Soooo…how exactly is that different from the front door to Mar-a-Lago?!?
Tales of The Darkside
Tucker explains what happens when a someone’s only qualification for their job is their perverted sexual preference. SPOILER ALERT: The rest of the country suffers while he flies private! Let’s not even TALK about AMTRAK!
On the Lighter Side
Welcome to the wacky world of modern healthcare, courtesy of G. Trevor and the collaboration of The Donald, Dr. Faux Chi and Big Pharma.
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