On December 17, 2020,
in Uncategorized,
by magoo1310
It’s Wednesday, December 16th, 2020…but before we begin, can anyone please explain what Groper Joe believes even remotely qualifies Pete Buttgag to be Secretary of Transportation…and why is no one in the MSM is highlighting his lack of any expertise or training whatsoever?!?
Hells bells, in his only management position, he ran South Bend, IN into the ground, and his only experience tangentially connected to transportation is the long hours he’s spent on the Hershey Highway.
Who cares if the murder and violent crime rates soared while poverty deepened; the lights looked nice. After all, as Stilton went on to note, “In fairness, it wasn’t a very exciting bridge before. But now it’s faaaabulous!”
Turning from the merely fabulous to the truly phenomenal, consider this Dan Crenshaw campaign spot forwarded by Grant Gould via his father Breeze:
We urge you, it able, to contribute as if the fate of the Republic rests upon securing these two Senate seats…’cuz it likely does.
“The site just sits there empty. It’s terrible,” said Donna Drimer, owner of the Matted LIC art gallery and gift store. “We’re in the middle of a pandemic. People say, ‘If we only had Amazon.’ We got nothing.”
To which we picture the once-promising bartender responding…
If Big Apple business owners are haunted by AOC’s Amazon disaster, the Biden/Harris economy will simply be to die for…at least for those who survive the havoc De Bozo’s COVID restrictions continue to wreak.
Since we’re on the subject of Dimocratic-created disasters, writing at NRO, Florida’s Rick Scott correctly concludes…
“Democrats have spent the last few months demanding bailouts for states and local governments. They claim that if you oppose spending hundreds of billions of taxpayer dollars to bail out states such as New York, Illinois, and California, then you support laying off teachers, health-care workers, and first responders.
Guess what? They’re lying. And unfortunately, too many of my Republican colleagues have bought their lie and are getting ready to cave.
What Democrats really want is for Congress to just send money to liberal politicians who have already shown they can’t be trusted with it. If these politicians have budget shortfalls, it’s because they did not prioritize their struggling constituents in the first place, and instead wasted money on other things. New York and California are of course free to burn tax dollars for fun. But they shouldn’t expect Florida and the rest of the country to pay when the bill comes due…”
Speaking of the impact of ill-advised and highly injurious Progressive policies, courtesy of Marcus Aurelias, The Hill‘s Kristin Tate wonders…
“This is the year that officially ended the boom of cities that started in the 1990s. The mirage of cities buffeted by white-collar jobs and supported by wealthy citizens willing to take on just one more tax increase is officially kaput. It is easy to blame the deluge on the coronavirus, but in reality a unique combination of factors heralded the end of the growth in places like New York while introducing population booms in medium-sized cities and suburbs across specific regions of the country. Significant populations of each social class decided it was no longer worth living in major metropolitan areas.
…The trend is comprehensive: Mega-cities that have been traditionally led by the Democratic Party face the steepest loss in population while mid-level cities either stemmed the decline or have booming populations. For young people leaving college, or those entering into the middle of their careers, there is little allure left in these concrete jungles. The safe cities inspired by Rudy Giuliani that emerged in the 1990s are no more, with surging poverty and violent crime.
The pandemic brought nightlife and culture to a near halt, and for many there is little desire to stay in a city that lost 1,000 restaurants and counting. Combine these factors with a plethora of new taxes and regulatory schemes that soak middle- and high-income earners, and it’s obvious why the former titans of population growth seem to have feet of clay. The decline of liberal cities in blue states during a crisis is perhaps the clearest judgment on a raft of poor tax and regulatory policies. It will also accelerate the demographic shift changing the political calculus in traditionally red states, as seen in Georgia and Arizona in the presidential race.
The 2020 census data will be a treasure trove of information for demographers and historians alike. But much of our current picture will likely be told and retold through family tales for generations. 2020 will likely be an inflection point for families, similar to how 1977 was the breaking point for many working New Yorkers facing the blackout, an economic crisis and crime personified by the Son of Sam. Every person who pulled up stakes had a eureka moment in which they ditched the big city for greener pastures. It turned out that this year was that juncture where millions of Americans had their own epiphanies.“
The very epitome of people getting the government they deserve…because they keep voting the same parasites into office.
Next, writing at Best of the Web, Jim Freeman shines the cold, harsh light of reality on claims The Donald’s refusal to accept the results of the election are either unprecedented or a clear and present danger to the Republic, as he records…
“Four years may seem like a long time ago, and perhaps it was given the changes since then in American politics. By mid-December of 2016 Hillary Clinton and her supporters had accepted the results of the November presidential election and were treating America’s president-elect with graciousness and respect.
Just kidding. On this day in 2016, the FBI secretly recorded a conversation between a bureau source and Trump associate Carter Page.Two months earlier, the FBI had used a bogus Clinton-funded dossier of Russian collusion claims and misled the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court into approving the first of several warrant applications focusing on Mr. Page.
Mrs. Clinton would continue for years promoting fact-free Russia conspiracy theories about her political rivals. And back on Dec. 15, 2016, many of her supporters were still seeking to prevent the winner of the November election from taking office…”
We’re certainly of the opinion Trump’s appeals have run their course, but only color us concerned for the Constitution if, in the tradition of his immediate predecessor, he conspires with the Justice Department and national intelligence services to remove Biden…or Harris…from office.
Speaking of those who would subvert the system, as the Daily Caller details, unlike President Trump‘s family and associates,…
Here’s the juice: As we note in the description accompanying our Video of the Day (accessible through link #2 immediately below our Quote of the Day at the top of the page), the only way the Biden family’s congenital corruption sees the light of day is if a Special Prosecutor is appointed to investigate and expose it. And Trump’s clock is ticking.
In a related item courtesy of Keith Calcote, the WSJ‘s Paul Gigot informs us how…
“Joe Biden says it is “time to heal” America’s divisions after the Trump presidency, and The Wall Street Journal has praised him for saying so. Presumably he intends less rancor with the press as part of this mandate, but on that score my run-in with the Biden team this weekend was very Trumpian.
The catalyst was our Saturday op-ed by Joseph Epstein, “Is There a Doctor in the White House? Not if You Need an M.D.” Mr. Epstein, a longtime contributor, criticized the habit of people with Ph.D.s or other doctorates calling themselves “Dr.” as highfalutin, using Jill Biden as Exhibit A. Mr. Epstein can be acerbic, and his piece began: “Madame First Lady—Mrs. Biden—Jill—kiddo: a bit of advice on what may seem like a small but I think is a not unimportant matter. Any chance you might drop the ‘Dr.’ before your name?”
This has triggered a flood of media and Twitter criticism, including demands that I retract the piece, apologize personally to Mrs. Biden, ban Mr. Epstein for all time, and resign and think upon my sins. The complaints began as a trickle but became a torrent after the Biden media team elevated Mr. Epstein’s work in what was clearly a political strategy.
…By the way, the Journal editorial page’s longtime style is to use “Dr.” only when referring to medical doctors. Henry Kissinger gets a “Mr.” Lynne Cheney, wife of Dick Cheney, is Mrs. Cheney despite her Ph.D.
If you disagree with Mr. Epstein, fair enough. Write a letter or shout your objections on Twitter. But these pages aren’t going to stop publishing provocative essays merely because they offend the new administration or the political censors in the media and academe. And since it’s a time to heal, we’ll give the Biden crowd a mulligan for their attacks on us.“
To which we say, bully for Paul Gigot and the Wall Street Journal! Then again, in the interests of full disclosure, we should note repeated ridicule of references to Mrs. Biden as “Dr. Jill” in these pages long predate Epstein’s piece.
In a related item brought to us by Balls Cotton, the Babylon Bee recounts how, when a…
Dr. Jill’s certainly knows never to let a good crisis go to waste, nor pass up any opportunity to remind all within earshot she got her Ed.D…at age 55…under the name Jill Jacobs-Biden…from the prestigious University of Delaware. Which begs the question how much help she needed from The First State‘s senior senator to gain entrance?!?
Which brings us, appropriately enough, to The Lighter Side:
Then there’s these forwards from Balls Cotton:
That last one is particularly Illuminati-ing!
Finally, we’ll call it a day by recognizing this week’s winner of the Happy Gilmore Memorial…
…Award, Michigan congressman Paul Mitchell, who curiously decided now was the appropriate moment to make a “principled” stand.
It’s truly life imitating art, the latter as represented by Otter in Animal House…
…and the former by Mitchell, who obviously believes…
See, Mitchell’s retiring at the end of his term, and Republican Lisa McClain’s already been elected to succeed him. Talk about putting it all on the line! He’s a profile in quiet courage; or, as Dirty Harry would have put it…
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