It’s Monday, January 24th, 2022…but before we begin, just when you thought things couldn’t get any worse, in a forward from Jeff Foutch, the Daily Mail relates how the…

TSA reveals illegal migrants flying without proper ID can use an ARREST WARRANT as identification

It’s worth noting the lovely Shannon checked in this evening from the southern border where, while quail hunting, her party encountered a group of at least 20 illegals under a mesquite tree.  The moment was all the more poignant, coming as it did on the heels of the man tasked with protecting the homeland bragging Biden and his band of merry anti-Americans had “fundamentally changed immigration enforcement in the interior.” 

“For the first time ever, our policy explicitly states that a non-citizen’s unlawful presence in the United States will not, by itself, be a basis for the initiation of an enforcement action. This is a profound shift away from the prior administration’s indiscriminate enforcement.“

The key word there being “enforcement”, NOT “enablement”.

Now, here’s The Gouge!

First up, in an intriguing piece of analysis courtesy of American Greatness via Speed, Vince Everett Ellison details…

Voting Rights Advances the Cause of Political Slavery

If you choose to be unquestionably devoted to any political party you have chosen to be a slave.

“The great Thomas Sowell opined, “The fact that so many successful politicians are such shameless liars is not only a reflection on them, it is also a reflection on us.  When the people want the impossible, only liars can satisfy.” I am reminded of Sowell’s statement whenever I contemplate the irony of today’s Democratic Party advocating for the voting rights of black Americans. 

White Democrats are not seeking voting rights to empower black Americans. They strive to maintain power for themselves, consistently exploiting black Americans toward that end. 

It is an indisputable historical fact that the 1965 Voting Rights Act was necessary because the Democratic Party systematically stole elections for over 100 years. It is also a historical fact that in a 100-year reign of terror, Democrats used bribery, intimidation, torture, and murder against black Americans and poor whites to illegally maintain power. 

White Democrat shamelessness and the treachery of what I call “The Iron Triangle” (most black politicians, black preachers, and black civic organizers) are on full display, when you come to realize that the same Democratic Party that burned black churches because they conducted meetings educating African Americans about their right to vote, now organize in black churches to deliver the vote for themselves. The same Democratic Party that whipped, murdered, and castrated black men because they attempted to vote or because they were Republican now uses street money to bribe and to deliver these black men to the polls because they are their most reliable voters. 

The same Democratic Party that claims to be the black community’s benevolent savior has brought nothing to the ghettos they control but poverty, crime, mass incarceration, illiteracy, and death. The same Democratic Party that has been the most perpetually evil organization against black Americans on the face of the earth since its inception in 1800, now utilizes the black vote as the catalyst to remain the absolute master of black America. 

What happened?…”

Ellison’s explanation is quite thought-provoking and well worth your time.

Next, The Washington Free Beacon‘s Matt Continetti correctly concludes…

Joe Biden Doesn’t Know What You’re Talking About

No U-Turns for President Biden ahead of midterms

“…Biden’s message to the 64 percent of the public that says the country is headed in the wrong direction: Everything is fine. Biden’s message to the 42 percent of the public that says economic conditions are poor: You must be joking. “We created six million new jobs—more jobs in one year than at any time before,” Biden said. “Unemployment dropped—the unemployment dropped to 3.9 percent.” Yes, Biden conceded, there is “frustration and fatigue in this country.” But that is due to the pandemic. As for inflation, Biden went on, it will subside when the Federal Reserve tightens the money supply (true), when Congress passes “my Build Back Better plan” (false), and when his anti-monopoly executive orders take effect (also false). “I didn’t overpromise,” Biden said. “But I have probably outperformed what anybody thought would happen.”

In one sense that’s true—Biden has turned out to be much worse than anybody expected. Just 28 percent of Americans say they have “a great deal of confidence” in his management of the White House. Forty-nine percent say he is doing more to divide than to unite the country. Less than a third want him to run for reelection. Biden shows no sign of taking these atrocious numbers seriously. “I don’t believe the polls,” he said Wednesday. It shows.

…Biden pledged to make some changes this year, however. Not to his White House team. Not to his vice president. According to Biden, they are all doing fine. Nor will he alter his policies. Maybe Build Back Better can pass in “chunks,” maybe Congress can reform the Electoral Count Act to prevent election subversion, but overall Biden is satisfied with himself. “Can you think of any other president that has done as much in one year?” Biden asked in one of his biggest whoppers of the afternoon. “Name one for me.”

Biden doesn’t want to make substantive changes. He wants a different schedule. “I’m going to get out of this place more often.” Never mind that he spent a quarter of his first year in Delaware. “I’m going to go out and talk to the public.” And “now that I have time,” he’s going to seek more advice from “experts outside,” including the “presidential historians” who convinced him that he is FDR and LBJ reborn and set him on the road to a 40 percent approval rating. Finally, Biden said, “We’re going to be out there making sure that we’re helping all those candidates.” No doubt. I, for one, can think of many candidates who Biden is helping. They are all Republicans.“

Though there’s one major change which has resulted from 46*’s disastrous presser.  As Best of the Web relates, Biden now claims he never makes promises, only offers proposals.

This feckless fool reminds us of a young child, its face smeared with icing yet supremely confident in their powers of persuasion, expecting their mother to believe their denial of having eaten the cake.  He’s living in a fantasy world of total denial.

In a related item, AEI‘s Michael Rubin details why…

Biden’s weakness matters

“When President Joe Biden won the election, his surrogates repeatedly declared, “The adults are back in charge.” Especially on the foreign policy front, Biden’s team promised expertise and a steady hand. They have delivered anything but.

The withdrawal from Afghanistan was a disaster that will blight not only America’s strategic reputation for generations but its moral standing as well. The fact no Biden administration officials resigned in the wake of that disaster just adds to the shamelessness.

Biden aides may believe that nonstop crises are just bad luck. They are wrong. While dictators have agency, credibility and posture also matter. For too long, since the twilight of the Cold War, a successive array of presidents have projected weakness and ambivalence.

In 1982, President Ronald Reagan sent Marines into Beirut as part of a four-nation peacekeeping force to end Lebanon’s civil war. Rules of engagement forbidding loaded weapons hampered the contingent and proved fatal on Oct. 23, 1983, when the nascent Hezbollah movement sent a suicide truck bomb into the Marine Barracks, killing 241 U.S. service members. In one of his greatest mistakes as president, Reagan ordered a withdrawal.

However, what happened in Beirut did not stay in Beirut.

Years later, al Qaeda founder Osama Bin Laden cited Reagan’s withdrawal, as well as President Bill Clinton’s subsequent withdrawal from a humanitarian mission in Somalia following the “Black Hawk Down” incident, to justify his belief the United States was a paper tiger and that terrorism could work.

President Barack Obama, to whom Biden and many on his national security team owe their careers, saw real-world calculations of strength versus weakness and credibility versus prevarication as lacking sophistication. In effect, he turned his back on the real world and replaced it with theories bantered about in university seminar rooms. This was certainly at play when he voided his own red line on the Syrian government’s use of chemical weapons. Not only did Syria not subsequently forfeit its chemical stockpiles (despite White House pronouncements to the contrary), but it also paved the way for Russian President Vladimir Putin to conclude Obama was a paper tiger and that there would be few consequences for invading Crimea and eastern Ukraine.

That same weakness has been on display with Iran. When in the face of provocation, the U.S. turns the other cheek or offers new concessions — the message learned in Tehran is not that the time for diplomacy is here, but rather that they can exploit U.S. weakness. White House spokeswoman Jen Psaki last week blamed malign Iranian activity on President Donald Trump’s withdrawal from the 2015 Iran nuclear deal, but this is anachronistic. Tehran ramped up its terrorism and support for regional proxies against the backdrop of Obama and Secretary of State John Kerry’s limp-wristed diplomacy.

The same pattern holds true with Iranian, North Korean, and Chinese hostage diplomacy. During the Lebanese civil war when an Iranian-backed group seized a Russian hostage, the Russians seized the relative of a hostage-taker and delivered him in pieces. That was the last Russian they took. That may not be something Washington could do, but there is a wide gulf between that course of action and offering billions of dollars in ransom, a practice in which Obama engaged.

Biden’s aides may now scramble to reverse his gaffe green-lighting a further Russian “minimal incursion” into Ukraine, just as a couple of months ago when they sought to walk back a blunder about U.S. commitment to Taiwan. But the problem is not simply a single or series of gaffes. Instead, it is a projection of weakness and denial that such weakness has consequences. The simple fact is that dictators are attracted to weakness in the way flies are to honey.

For Putin, Xi Jinping, and Ali Khamenei, Biden is the honey pot of their dreams.“

Here’s the juice: James Earl Carter, Jr. and Barack Hussein Obama II were honey pots, but at least they never personally green-lighted the invasion of an ostensible ally, let alone organized the most ignominious, ill-advised retreat in American history.  Joseph Robinette Biden, Jr. on the other hand…?!?

Moving on, here’s a quick quartet of articles specially selected for inquiring Conservative minds:

(1). In a forward from Tom Bakke, the Air Force Times reports the May 2020 crash of an F-22 Raptor has been blamed on human error, glitches and tape, with human error on multiple levels constituting the vast majority of the blame. Nothing like $200+ million and one irreplaceable F-22 down the drain because of truly bone-headed mistakes, particularly in times such as Michael Rubin just described. 

(2). The Morning Jolt relays a focus-group transcript which should worry Dimocrats.

(3). In a display of political cynicism common among contemporary Progressives, New York governor Kathy Hochul blamed the shooting death of one NYPD officer and the wounding of another NOT on the shooter, but on “the scourge of illegal guns on our streets”, also referencing how “a shot from an illegal gun took the life” of the officer.  The good governor also failed to mention either victim, Jason Rivera, 22, and Wilbert Mora, 27, by name.  Likely owing to the fact she didn’t know their names, nor was much interested in learning them.

(4). Since we’re on the subject of those willing to say whatever they believe will benefit them politically, moving the goal posts once again, CDC Director Rochelle Walensky , almost as useless a piece of bureaucratic sh*t as Dr. Faux Chi, announced Friday (aren’t all such announcements made on Fridays?!?) the agency is working to “pivot the language” around who qualifies as fully vaccinated against Covid-19 to instead focus on who is as “up-to-date” with their shots as they “should be.”  Note, “as they should be”…in her politically-motivated, completely unscientific, fact-free opinion.

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

Finally, we’ll call it a wrap with yet another sordid story straight from the pages of The Crime Blotter, courtesy today of a curious case of mistaken identity, as a…

Black man arrested in Las Vegas as White felon twice his age looks to sue police

Shane Lee Brown seeks $50,000 in damages from Las Vegas and Henderson police

“A 25-year-old Black man is suing two police agencies in Nevada after he was misidentified as a White ex-felon nearly twice his age, arrested, and held for six days in jails in two Las Vegas-area jurisdictions. Shane Lee Brown claims civil rights violations, false imprisonment, negligence and other wrongful conduct by Las Vegas and Henderson police and their top officials and seeks at least $50,000 in damages. The civil lawsuit describes Shane Neal Brown, now 51, as a White man with a bushy white beard who is taller than Shane Lee Brown.

…Shane Lee Brown was arrested in January 2020 during a traffic stop by Henderson police, jailed in that city’s lockup and transferred in custody two days later to Las Vegas police. He remained jailed in Las Vegas until he appeared before a judge who ordered him freed.

His attorney, E. Brent Bryson, accuses police and corrections officers of failing to perform “any due diligence” – including comparing photos, fingerprints, dates of birth, physical descriptions or criminal identification numbers – following his client’s arrest.

…Henderson police and Las Vegas police representatives declined Friday to comment about the case, citing department policies about litigation. Henderson spokeswoman Kathleen Richards said the city attorney was reviewing the lawsuit and would address its claims in court…”

Reading this story, two thoughts immediately came to mind.  The first was of this scene from Twins:

Second, something tells us when this is all over, is all Henderson and Las Vegas authorities have to fork over is $50,000, they’ll view it as a bargain.

Magoo

Video of the Day

Something tells us former special assistant to Bush II Scott Jennings may not be a political commentator at CNN for long. The look on Anderson Zoolander’s face is priceless.

Tales of The Darkside

If you’ve ever wondered why a group of parrots is called a pandemonium, after viewing this forward from James Nichols you’ll wonder no longer.

On the Lighter Side

Watch the video then vote in our latest poll and tell us: Is this ad pro-Joe or another Let’s Go Brandon parody. Suffice it to say, if it’s the former, it was almost a colossal a waste of time and money as the Infrastructure bill.