On December 31, 2020,
in Uncategorized,
by magoo1310
It’s Wednesday, December 30th, 2020…but before we begin, the Editorial Board at the WSJ correctly calls out an increasingly irrational individual, as they recount how…
President Trump finally signed the Covid-19 relief bill and 2021 budget on Sunday night, but not before giving a big assist to Democratic hopes of gaining control of the Senate in the two runoff elections on Jan. 5. Current GOP Majority Leader Mitch McConnell is left this week trying to undo the significant political damage.
Mr. Trump had been insisting that Congress write checksof $2,000 each to most Americans, rather than the $600 in the bill.His own Treasury Secretary, Steven Mnuchin, negotiated the $600 figure. But after the bill passed, Mr. Trump decided that wasn’t enough.
Never mind that the $2,000 would go totens of millions of Americans who have kept their jobs and maintained their incomes during the pandemic. It would also add some $350 billion or more to a federal deficit that is already into the trillions of dollars. The economy won’t benefit since the recipients aren’t going to change their behavior knowing it’s merely a one-time check.
Senate Republicans oppose the $2,000 for these sound reasons, but Mr. Trump has put them in a political spot. Democrats immediately joined Mr. Trump’s call for the $2,000, and on Monday they passed the larger amount through the House, 275-134.
That leaves Mr. McConnell with a tough call of barring a vote as Democrats bang away in TV ads in Georgia against GOP incumbents David Perdue and Kelly Loeffler. Or he can hold a vote, which would split the GOP caucus and upset fiscally conservative voters. Either way it amounts to a Donald Trump in-kind contribution to Minority Leader Chuck Schumer and Joe Biden.
By all accounts Mr. Trump is angry about his election defeat, and he is lashing out at anyone who won’t indulge his hopeless campaign to overturn it. This includes Senate Republicans, who need to win in Georgia to retain their majority and block Mr. Biden’s ability to indulge the Democratic left.
Mr. Trump’s narcissism isn’t news. But if Republicans lose the two Georgia seats and their majority, Republicans across the country should know to thank Mr. Trump for their 2021 tax increase.
This is yet another example of life imitating art, for while in Top Gun…
…a bravura lacking in actual assets only threatened the lives of those immediately around Maverick, back in the real world, Donald Trump and Congress threaten the future of the entire nation by continuing to write checks on accounts which are already seriously overdrawn.
First up, having started the year with the COVID crock, it’s only fitting we finish 2020 with another fable, as Townhall.com‘s Leah Barkoukis explains…
“Vice president-elect Kamala Harris was accused of lying after posting a Kwanzaa message claiming that she and her family celebrated the holiday growing up, despite the fact that she was born two years before it was invented by a violent, deranged felon.
“You know, my sister and I, we grew up celebrating Kwanzaa,” she said in a video message.“Every year, our family would – and our extended family, we would gather around, across multiple generations, and we’d tell stories. The kids would sit on the carpet and the elders would sit in chairs, and we would light the candles, and of course, afterwards have a beautiful meal. And, of course, there was always the discussion of the seven principles.And my favorite, I have to tell you, was always the one about self-determination, kujichagulia.”
…That message raised eyebrows on Twitter, given that it was invented after she was born and that she is of Jamaican and Indian descent…”
Not to mention she was living in Canadaa at the time.
We initially learned of Kamalaa’s Kwanzaa claim at Stilton’s Place:
“As a surefire cure for the post-Christmas blues, if Kwanzaa didn’t exist it would have to be invented. Which, come to think of it, it was – back in 1966 by a professor of African Studies in (surprise!) California.The 7-day holiday begins on December 26th which, by long tradition, is the day that a lot of candy and gifts are marked down to half-price.
Unlike other year-end holidays, there is no religious or historic significance to Kwanzaa. Rather it is a celebration of African heritage, ethnicity and, judging by the “seven principles,” the flagrant overuse of vowels.
While some might feel that a week-long holiday devoted exclusively to race is insensitive and exclusionary, keep in mind that there is precedent in the white community, which celebrates a months-long holiday called “Nascar.”
And whatever your complexion, Kwanzaa can be a time of warmth and nostalgia, filled with wonderful holiday traditions and memories. Hearing Bing Crosby sing Nguzo Saba, watching “How the Grinch Stole Odu Ifa,” or just settling in with a cup of hot cocoa to watch Jimmy Stewart in the classic “It’s a Wonderful Walimwengu.”…”
At which point our immediate thought was she’s too old to have “grown up” celebrating a fabricated festival with no history or bearing in reality. Much to our surprise and delight, Leah’s article saved us the time and effort required to confirm our preliminary conclusion.
Leave it to narcissistic, self-serving, lying, dog-faced pony soldiers like Kamalaa and the Obamaas…
…to claim a contrived celebration as their own.
In a related item of cultural misappropriation, as the Daily Mail informs us…
“After November 3, the meaning of some words and concepts abruptly changed. Have you noticed how new realities have replaced old ones?
Media cross-examination of the president is now an out-of-date idea. The time for gotcha questions has come and gone. Why ask a president whether he is a traitor or a crook when you can focus on his favorite flavor of milkshake or compliment him on his socks?
The old pre-election truth was that new vaccines take years to develop. The new post-election truth is that it’s no big deal to bring out new vaccines in nine months.
Impeaching a first-term president after his first midterm election — on a strictly partisan vote, for political reasons other than the Constitution’s “treason, bribery, or other high crimes and misdemeanors” — is now a terrible idea.
Worse would be to appoint a special counsel to harass a president on unfounded charges of collusion with China. An even scarier notion would be a conservative dream team of partisan lawyers hounding President Joe Biden — using a 22-month, $40 million blank check.
It would be unprofessional for university psychologists and physicians from a distance to diagnose, in pop fashion, the mental faculties of a President Biden.
Certainly, there would never be talk about Department of Justice officials contemplating wearing a wire as part of an entrapment scheme to remove a President Biden through the 25th Amendment. That would almost constitute a coup attempt.
Almost as bad would be for the holdover FBI director to start “memorializing” his private conversations with Joe Biden on FBI devices. He might then leak such memos to the press — just in case he were to be fired for secretly investigating Biden for “Chinese collusion” and then lying about such a probe.
…To keep track of our brave new American world is easy.
Just consider everything said to be bad by the “Animal Farm” media before November 3 as now good. And remember that everything said to be good two months ago is now actually bad.“
You get the picture.
Since we’re on the subject of those who’ve sown the wind eventually reaping the whirlwind, as NRO‘s Zach Evans reports…
“Lawyers for the Girl Scouts claimed in a court filing on Thursday that a recruitment drive by the Boy Scouts was “highly damaging” to the Girl Scouts.
The Boy Scouts renamed itself Scouts BSA and removed the word “boy” from their recruitment materials in 2018, when the organization decided to open certain programs for female participants. (The new Boy Scouts programs for girls remain separate from the boys-only programs.)
However, the Girl Scouts filed suit against the organization in November 2018 over trademark concerns, contending in the suit that the Boy Scouts’ rebranding would be “uniquely damaging” to Girl Scout operations. In the latest filing in the suit, the Girl Scouts asserted that Scouts BSA recruitment efforts caused confusion among parents who wished to send their daughters to Girl Scouts.
“For the last century, the Girl Scouts trademark has become understood to designate the source of scouting services for girls,” court documents reviewed by the BBC stated. “Now, because of what Boy Scouts has done, that distinctiveness is being slowly eroded, and the law affords Girl Scouts a remedy to stop such a further loss of distinctiveness.”
Attorneys representing the Girl Scouts claim in the filing that the Boy Scouts’ gender-inclusive rebranding has led to “rampant” confusion among parents who are unsure which organization to send their children to…”
Sorry, but anyone who would want to enroll their kids in either organization these days is already hopelessly confused.
Which brings us to The Lighter Side:
Then there’s these four from Balls Cotton…
…along with two more from Ed Hickey:
Finally, we’ll call it a day with There’s Something You Don’t See Every Day, and news that a…
…as evidenced by this photo courtesy of the lovely Shannon:
Here’s wishing you and yours a safe and blessed 2021.
Magoo
The Video of the Day
CNN’s Dana Bash briefly imitates a reporter as she presses Dr. Faux Chi on how he’s moving the goalposts for herd immunity. Hey, why NOT shutdown the economy based on one man’s best guesstimates?!?
Tales of The Darkside
Michael Knowles accurately identifies what “lies” at the heart of Socialist ideology. And forget the subject’s hair color; all she has to do is open her mouth and you know what end of the political spectrum she’s weighing down like a bloated lead balloon.
On the Lighter Side
Gavin Newsom’s plans for California in 2021. And if you haven’t heard him, first, you’re lucky, and second, yes, he does talk and sound like that.
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