It’s Monday, November 8th, 2021…and as of today, we’re officially aged 66 years and 1 day, another year older and infinitely wiser since God granted us the opportunity to see for ourselves the depths to which a purportedly “moderate” Progressive president will go to increase his personal power and profit while completely ignoring the pain and privation his policies inflict upon ordinary Americans.

Case in point, his Secretary of Energy’s response when asked what the administration’s plan is to lower prices at the pump:

This at the same time, as Jim Freeman notes at Best of the Web in his appropriately entitled “The ‘Hilarious’ Unreality of Bidenomics“…

“…she and Mr. Biden are urging petro-dictators to make even more “poison.” Come to think of it, maybe this nonsensical policy really is kind of hilarious.“

While we get Jim’s point, there’s nothing really funny about forcing moderate-to-lower income citizens to pay 30-50% more than they need have to for a gallon of gasoline.  

Now, here’s The Gouge!

First up, the WSJ‘s Dan Henninger details exactly how, in 2022…

The Biden Democrats Lose It

The progressives’ disastrous overreach fosters an emerging Republican coalition.

“…The takeaway from Tuesday’s voting is that the Democratic Party’s progressives are a clear and present danger—to their party and to everyone else. Because of progressive overreach, incompetence and intolerance, the Republican Party now owns at least three important security issues—economic security, education security and civil security, a k a “law and order.”

Those security fundamentals could be the building blocks of an emerging post-pandemic Republican coalition of suburbs, rural counties and minority voters whose concerns don’t align with the increasingly manifest impracticality of progressive ideas.

We will be learning for years the political and social implications of the pandemic. What we know is that Covid-19 closed the economy and closed the schools for beyond a year. (Actually, what we know is the government at every level closed the economy and schools for beyond a year, and that utterly unnecessarily!!!) Add in the George Floyd protests in the summer of 2020 that produced an unprecedented cultural upheaval over systemic racism (that doesn’t exist!) and what effectively became a national sit-down strike by urban police departments.

It is obvious from the results that these accumulated national and personal insecurities affected Tuesday’s elections.

Clearly, voters think something has gone wrong with the U.S. economy—inflation, shortages of both goods and workers, and the Democratic Party trying to spend more than $6 trillion, all paid for by Joe Biden whispering “Pay your fair share.“ He sounds like he’s talking to all of us.

Earth to Joe: The residents of New Jersey already pay their fair share—and more…”

We’ve said it before, we’ll say it again: While we knew Biden would be bad, even we never imagined he’d be this bad.  Frankly, other than Hillary, we’d never have believed anyone could be this bad.

In another Election 2022-related item, as the WSJ Editorial Board records, possibly just in time for November 2022…

Durham Unravels the Russia Case

His indictments reveal facts embarrassing to former special counsel Robert Mueller and the press.

“…This Durham indictment reads like a story with more to come, but some lessons are already clear. One question is why the country is only now learning these facts. The Durham indictments treat the FBI as the duped party, but the record shows former FBI director James Comey and his investigators knew from the summer of 2016 that Clinton campaign fingerprints were all over the dossier.

A transcript in the Danchenko indictment suggests that FBI officials knew Mr. Danchenko was lying in the 2017 interviews. But they did nothing to blow the whistle, nor to tell the public or Congress everything they had learned about the origins of the Russia collusion tale.

The Durham prosecutions also speak poorly of former special counsel Robert Mueller. Mr. Mueller’s job was to learn the facts about the collusion allegations, and he had access to everything that the FBI had learned. Yet the Mueller team, led by Democratic partisan Andrew Weissmann, (Thanks again, Jeff Sessions!) never told the public the Clinton side of the story.

The media also has a lot to answer for. In its conformist disdain for Mr. Trump, the Washington press corps with rare exceptions pursued the Russia collusion story with partisan blinders. They gave each other awards for stories that in retrospect amounted to nothing or, worse, misinformation. Anyone who raised doubts about this narrative, even as the facts mounted against it, was deemed a “Trump enabler.”

The Washington Post this week offered a first sign of media self-reflection, noting the Durham indictments “cast new uncertainty on some past reporting on the dossier by news organizations,” including its own. Yes they do…”

Here’s the juice: James Comey may not have initiated the Russian collusion hoax, but he’s the one key player without whose willing cooperation it could not have progressed any length at all beyond its conception.

Then there’s this bit of theological claptrap from former Republican Bush strategist and newly-minted Dimocrat Matthew Dowd, who’s running against Dan Patrick for Lieutenant Governor in Texas:

Texas Democrat candidate and former Bush adviser says Jesus today ‘would be accused of being woke’

“As I sat in church today I was thinking that if Jesus were here today he would be accused of being woke,” he tweeted. “How about we just say it is human decency to treat all with respect and dignity and that it is constitutional to say all men and women are equal.”

What church would that be, Mr. Dowd?

What does it tell you about Dubya that an advisor to his 2000 presidential campaign and chief strategist for his 2004 reelection effort would eventually run for office…as a Socialist?!?

Next we offer an octet of items specially selected for inquiring Conservative minds:

(1). NRO‘s Zach Evans records how the House passed the infrastructure bill on Friday night, with representatives breaking into cheers as they saddled our children and their children with another $1 trillion in useless, unfunded, unrepayable debt.  13 Republicans gave the bill the necessary backing to pass, proving yet again, as Christ said in Matthew 10:36, “And a man’s foes shall be they of his own house.”  BTW, David Marcus’s “expert analysis” of the vote at FOX News is too cute by way more than a half.

(2). Echoing a concern we’ve raised a number of times, given the recent siding of Amy Barrett and Brett Kavanaugh with “the Supreme Court’s three-justice progressive bloc and its Machiavellian chief justice”, Andy McCarthy poses the quite reasonable question, do we have a constitutional-Conservative Supreme Court majority — or pols in robes?

(3). As FOX informs us, in response to being caught addressing a conference sans mask because attendees had a “hard time hearing” her…

…the childless creature who’s used her union’s influence with Progressive politicians to almost single-handedly shut down public schools and, upon their reopening despite her best efforts to the contrary, has thus far forced millions of kids to continue wearing masks even after being vaccinated, explained away her hypocrisy with the statement, “I don’t like masks either.”

Here’s a second, six-word shot of the juice: Rules for THEE, NOT for SHE!

(4). In another entry from NRO‘s Zach Evans, we’re told, in response to a three-judge panel on the Fifth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals issuing a temporary injunction against 46*’s vaccine mandate citing “grave statutory and constitutional issues”, U.S. Surgeon General Vivek Murthy told Martha Radditz on ABC’s This Week the Biden administration would defend its mandate for employers with at least 100 workers, assuring Americans, “The president and the administration wouldn’t have put these requirements in place if they didn’t think that they were appropriate and necessary.”

Sure,…appropriate and necessary to their continued control of the country in the face of their manifest ineptitude and contempt for the Constitution.  Murthy is almost as accomplished a liar as Dr. Faux Chi, with his continued denials of the basis of semantics his organization funded gain-of-function research in a sub-standard, unsafe facility run by the Communist Chinese.  But believe them when they tell you it’s all for your own good.

(5). As they’re both educators, Daniel Buck and Anthony Kinnett are in a position to confirm, the repeated protestations of Progressives to the contrary notwithstanding, Critical Race Theory IS, in fact, being taught in America’s public schools.

(6). In a development which should surprise no one familiar with politics in Progressive precincts, New Jersey’s Dimocratic state senate leader Steve Sweeney is refusing to concede to Republican truck driver and political novice Ed Durr, saying THOUSANDS of ballots have been “recently found“.  To mangle a classic line from Trading Places, “Ballots…

(7). Since we’re on the subject of pathological liars, showing either the Progressive’s penchant for prevarication…or a total detachment from reality…Senators Mark Warner and Tim Kaine both claimed in “separate” statements Sunday Terry McAuliffe could have defeated Glenn Youngkin if Congress had passed the Biden administration’s infrastructure bill sooner.  Something tells us this is the latest Dimocratic talking point, soon to be parroted across Progressivism.

(8). Speaking of sh*t you just can’t make up, according to a report from the New York Post via George Lawlor, the Duchess of Cornwall, aka Camilla Parker Bowles, “hasn’t stopped talking about” Joe Biden’s loud and “long fart” at the Glasgow COP26 summit.

Then again, it was an emissions conference!  Reports Francis reacted to Biden having sharted earlier in the Vatican by exclaiming…

…remain unconfirmed.

Which brings us, appropriately enough, to The Lighter Side:

Then there’s these from Ed Hickey…

…the lovely Shannon…

…and Balls Cotton…

…along with two from The Boss:

Finally, last, but certainly never least, we thought one of the cards with which TLJ commemorated our 66th birthday yesterday morning was far more appropriate to the circumstances of the current occupant of the Offal Office:

Biden voters must be soooo proud they’re soiling their undergarments in solidarity!

Magoo

Video of the Day

Jesse Watters explains why last Tuesday was just the preliminary, as the main event is yet to come.

Tales of The Darkside

Except that WASN’T the question, and it IS what you said; demonstrating yet again why, if a familiarity with the truth were dynamite, Joe Biden couldn’t blow his nose. Why Peter Doocy let 46* get away with such patent prevarication is another question entirely.

On the Lighter Side

Courtesy of G. Trevor, a hilarious take on LGB, aka FJB.