Friday, January 14, 2022

Bernie’s Takeover Is Coming Soon

. . . The thing to understand about Democrat politics is twofold. First, Democrat politics is urban politics. And second, Democrat politics is machine politics. Nobody wins elections in that party by offering up cool ideas or governing successfully. They gave up on all that years ago. . .

The American Spectator

The Democrats are rapidly running out of ways to keep the Hard Left at
bay. 

. . ."The war within the Democrat Party isn’t quite over yet, but we can see the end from here. The signs are already up. Fox News’ Adam Sabes took us on a tour of them in his piece…

Donkey Hotey

. . ."According to a Politico report, several Democratic strategists think that a progressive will attempt to enter the 2024 primary race as a challenger to President Biden.

“Will there be a progressive challenger? Yes,” Jeff Weaver, a former presidential campaign manager for Sen. Bernie Sanders said.

Some believe that Nina Turner or former 2020 presidential candidate Marianne Williamson might challenge President Biden.

In describing President Biden, another progressive strategist said that he’s “deeply unpopular” and “old as s—.”

“He’s deeply unpopular. He’s old as s—. He’s largely been ineffective, unless we’re counting judges or whatever the hell inside-baseball scorecard we’re using. And I think he’ll probably get demolished in the midterms,” Corbin Trent, former communications director for Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., and co-founder of No Excuses PAC said.

Progressive activists are also beginning to blame the president for his inaction on issues such as climate change.

Between Dec. 25 and Jan. 1, a group called “Occupy Biden” formed a camp near President Biden’s residence in Delaware, demanding that he declare a “climate emergency.” A spokesperson for the group criticized President Biden for not doing enough when it comes to climate change.

“We do understand that an administration that at least believes and asserts that climate crisis is real is an asset. But in a time of emergency we must act to do everything possible to avert catastrophe,” Karen Igou, a spokesperson for Occupy Biden told Fox News on Saturday.. . ." 

A presidential speech that rivals Biden’s for worst in modern history |

 

Power Line   "Yesterday, in a post about Joe Biden’s historically bad speech in Georgia, I invited history-minded readers to tell me about a president’s speech worse than Biden’s. Professor Andrew Busch has cited one for me.

Andrew Busch is Crown Professor of Government and George R. Roberts Fellow at Claremont McKenna College. He reached back to 1948 to find a case of a president rivaling Biden for vitriol and demagoguery.

"Andy writes:

Without in any way demeaning Biden’s accomplishment, I would suggest one possible competitor.

Toward the end of his 1948 come-from-behind campaign, Harry Truman delivered a speech in Chicago on October 25 which rivalled Biden’s in its scale of sheer demagoguery. “In our time,” Truman said, “we have seen the tragedy of the Italian and German peoples, who lost their freedom to men who made promises of unity and efficiency and sincerity…and it could happen here.”

Truman suggested that Republican nominee Thomas Dewey was only a “front man” for a clique of fascistic businessmen such as those who propelled Mussolini and Hitler into power. Sounding amazingly like Joe Biden, Truman declared that “Republican leaders, of course, give lip service to the principles of democracy. But the Republicans preach one thing and practice another. The actions of the Republican 80th Congress opened the gate to forces that would destroy our democracy…This is not just a battle between two parties. It is a fight for the very soul of the American Government.” For the whole text, see [here].

"Truman’s Chicago speech is an example of Harry “giving em hell.” Truman liked to say he didn’t give Republicans hell, he just told the truth and they think it’s hell.

"But in Chicago at least, the hell Truman gave was slander of the most egregious kind." .  . .


Worst presidential speech in modern history? | Power Line (powerlineblog.com)   "Has any president in the last 50 years delivered a worse speech than Joe Biden did yesterday in Georgia? The only one that comes immediately to my mind is Jimmy Carter’s “malaise” address of 1979. But impolitic as it was, at least that speech contained a kernel of truth.

I invite the distinguished presidential scholars among our readers and my co-bloggers to point to a speech worse than Biden’s.

"How bad was the speech? So bad that even ankle-biting partisan Dick Durbin found it objectionable. Putting it as politely and as compatibly with his rank partisanship as reasonably possible, Durbin agreed that Biden “went a little too far in his rhetoric.”

"I want to make two observations about Biden’s speech. First, it was boycotted by Georgia’s leading “voting-rights” activists. Leaders of a coalition of voting rights groups declined to attend.

"Even Stacey Abrams was a no-show. She cited “scheduling issues,” a laughably implausible excuse for not attending a presidential speech in her backyard." . . .

Mr. Biden has a diploma from the Joy Reid School of Public Speaking.

Jeffrey Epstein brought EIGHT young women with him on his trips to see Bill Clinton at the White House: Displayed photos of himself posing at the Briefing Room podium at his Palm Beach mansion

 Daily Mail Online  

 "Jeffrey Epstein paid more than a dozen visits to the Clinton White House throughout the former president's first few years in office - even bringing along with him multiple women, including four known to be his girlfriends, DailyMail.com can reveal. 

"Unearthed visitor logs last month confirmed the late pedophile had visited the Executive Mansion at least 17 times during Bill Clinton's first term, beginning shortly after his inauguration in 1993.    

"Additional records exclusively obtained by DailyMail.com now reveal that Epstein was not always alone during his trips to the White House, where he was joined by eight different women between 1993 and 1995. 

"Never-before-seen footage also shows the disgraced financier - who on three occasions visited the president's house twice in one day - kept framed pictures of himself at the podium of the White House Briefing Room at his Palm Beach mansion. 

"The nature of Epstein's accompanied visits is not disclosed in the visitor logs, however, they show one of them coincided with a dinner in the Blue Room attended by dozens of well-heeled guests. " . . . 

When do we change from Pinocchios to Bidens?

 

Silvio Canto, Jr.   


"We've grown accustomed to Glenn Kessler's Pinocchios — those articles that check the accuracy of a statement.  Kessler is back with another "fact check," and President Biden's nose keeps getting bigger:

"I did not walk in the shoes of generations of students who walked these grounds. But I walked other grounds. Because I'm so damn old, I was there as well. You think I'm kidding, man. It seems like yesterday the first time I got arrested." (President Biden, in remarks in Atlanta on voting rights, Jan. 11)

It was just a throwaway line, made to laughter, [sic] in an important presidential speech. But here's the president, saying he once had been arrested, during a section that recalled some of the heroes of the civil rights movement. He even suggested he had been arrested more than once, as he recalled it was the "first time" he had been arrested.

It's certainly not the first time he's said he's been arrested. Previously, he has said he was arrested trying to see Nelson Mandela in South Africa (Four Pinocchios false) and for trying to enter an all-female dorm room at Ohio University (Partly False, according to USA Today). He has also suggested he was arrested for wandering onto the Senate floor as a "star-struck kid," but most times he has indicated he was just given a warning.

"Under normal circumstances, this quote from a presidential speech would make people laugh at another old man making fun of his age.  Unfortunately, President Biden has a habit of doing this when he goes off-script.  He makes up stories to impress the audience, and then he gets a Pinocchio from the media.

"Once upon a time, no one cared about a senator from Delaware doing this.  Most of us reacted by saying it was up to the people of Delaware to deal with their senator.  He was forced to drop his 1988 campaign over plagiarism.  His other presidential campaigns never got very far.

"It's different because he is now the president.  His words are heard by more people and therefore monitored with more frequency.

"Maybe Kessler should change the rating from Pinocchios to Bidens.  It sure looks like President Biden's imagination goes beyond Geppetto's beloved puppet's lies.  I don't recall Pinocchio ever saying he was arrested in a civil rights march."

Fox News

Washington Post awards Biden 'Four Pinocchios' for false claim he was 'arrested' during civil rights protest | Fox News    'The primary source for this story is Biden — and we’ve learned over the years that he is not always a reliable source'
. . ."Biden was forced to admit in 2020 he had concocted a tale of once getting arrested while trying to see Nelson Mandela in South Africa." . . . 

"Sen. Sinema on Filibuster: It ‘Ensures That Millions of Americans Represented by the Minority Process Have a Voice’ "

The Democrats all of them to eliminate the 60-vote threshold, but we know for sure Sinema is a no. Sen. Joe Manchin (D-WV) is also a likely no. There are a few quiet ones, too, like Sinema’s Arizona colleague, Mark KellyLegal Insurrection

 On the filibuster, Kyrsten Sinema and Joe Manchin came through in the crunch - American Thinker   "Almost a year ago, Senate minority leader Mitch McConnell agreed with majority leader Chuck Schumer to an equal power-sharing agreement for the upcoming session, reflecting the 50-50 split between the parties (with Kamala Harris as the tie-breaking vote).  In exchange, McConnell agreed to allow the question of the filibuster's continued existence to be brought up to a vote.  He did so because Senators Joe Manchin and Kyrsten Sinema promised not to end the filibuster.  That was an incredible gamble, but, on Thursday, Manchin and Sinema came through on a filibuster vote.  A furious Biden started hollering about the horrors of life without federalizing American elections and made it clear that Democrats will keep coming back.


. . ."Sinema seems to be the only one who remembers and understands why President George Washington hated political parties.

"Sinema also seems to be the only one who remembers that Americans are not robots. We all feel and think differently. You guys would be shocked to know that Professor Jacobson and I do not agree on everything. (Cats are better than dogs, Boss!)"

Democrats Block Plan to Remove Foreign Nationals from Voter Rolls (breitbart.com) . . ."Most recently, Democrats in New York City approved a plan to give voting rights to nearly a million foreign nationals in the city, who only have to prove that they have resided in the U.S. for 30 days. Republicans, Democrats, and naturalized citizens are now suing the city."  Their voters will include those illegals Biden's Democrats are bringing into this country.



Biden's racist irony

The slogans for the John Lewis Voting Rights Act sound like perfect democracy until you realize that the act rejects election integrity laws and instead opens the door to systemic voter disenfranchisement. 


Biden's racist irony - American Thinker  . . ."Biden, the top Democrat, tried to inflame spectators' emotions by making historical comparisons to Democrat racists.  He compared the actions and intents of Democrat, racist, White supremacist George Wallace to Republican Dr. Martin Luther King.  He even compared the actions and intentions of Democrat racist, White supremacist Jefferson Davis to the pioneer of the Republican Party, Abraham Lincoln! 

"To be fair, Biden can't be blamed for this jarring level of irony.  The truth is, to make historical arguments citing American racist White supremacists, you automatically must include Democrats because they were the sole purveyors of racism, slavery, and White supremacy through most of American history.  Democrats were committed to using government coercion to immorally and unconstitutionally enshrine the enslavement of Blacks for as long as possible.  The infamous "Jim Crow" laws were just one of the many inhumane outcomes due to Democrats' grotesque, deep-seated hatred. " . . .


. . ."The John Lewis Voting Rights Act is designed to undermine existing election integrity laws and implement new government tools and levers to maintain power unconstitutionally.  Unfortunately, the act would enshrine voter disenfranchisement as law; every voter is disenfranchised with this legislation. 

"If the act takes effect:

  1. Ballot-harvesting will be legalized nationally.
  2. There will be no voter ID requirements (meaning non-citizens can vote).
  3. And there will be unlimited mail-in voting, expanded un-manned ballot box placements, online voting, and any number of new federally mandated and monitored changes.

"The federal government would deprive the state governments of the authority to manage and control elections in the states.  As the act dumps the states' checks and balances, dead voters would vote, and any number of illegal votes would somehow count. 

"That's how legal votes are nullified.  When illegal ballots are counted, and especially when that happens system-wide, the result is systemic voter disenfranchisement." . . .

The bipolar Covid crisis

 Biden, never a good loser, said, despite the ruling, that companies still should impose the jab on their employees.  "Tone-deaf" doesn't begin to describe the man.

www.terrellaftermath.com

COVID hysteria is so yesterday - American Thinker   . . ."When do we know that COVID hysteria has become so yesterday?  Maybe when establishment media begin to say so, too.  In Thursday's Wall Street Journal, columnist Daniel Henninger shouted it:

Today, it's fair to say that no one but the hopelessly credulous believe much of anything Mr. Biden, Jen Psaki, Anthony Fauci or Rochelle Walensky says about Covid and Omicron. The list of doubted authorities worldwide could extend to the horizon. 

"When it's obvious enough that mainstream media recognize it, it's probably actually arrived.  If you're marking your calendars, mark this day or week or month as 1 A.C. (for After COVID).  A new era has arrived." . . .

But at least now, the mentally challenged occupant of the White House, who recently likened people who disagree with him to domestic terrorists, is rapidly becoming irrelevant.. . .

Joy Reid, Doc in ‘Fauci’ Shirt: Let’s Keep Unvaccinated People From Medical Care, Dock Pay | Newsbusters  "MSNBC’s ReidOut host Joy Reid showed in 2021 that she was unrelenting in her use of dangerous and incendiary rhetoric, so it was no surprise when, on Tuesday night, she argued critics of Dr. Fauci were “pro-Omicron armchair physicians” and unvaccinated Americans should receive lower pay and less (or no) medical care when ill compared to the vaccinated.

"Joined in the endorsement of communism was MSNBC medical contributor Dr. Lipi Roy, who donned a “Fauci” t-shirt to prove her seriousness as a doctor while the two suggested Fauci critic and Senator Rand Paul (R-KY) wasn’t a true doctor because of his accreditation and “insane, atrocious vitriol.' ”. . .

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