Saturday, April 16, 2022

People are focused on Hispanics’ low approval of Biden, but take a look at the real outlier: +65 Americans.

"Biden is + with +65 yos with his highest approval number of any age bracket at 48%. This is insane if you consider the race cross tabs here. Only 23% of seniors are non-white so being at 48% with seniors blows out demographic expectations.
"His white approval rate is in the low 30s. It’s possible they crammed Ds into the +65 segment to lift that approval number up. Could have done the same with whites w/degrees. This was a favored tactic for Florida polling in ‘20 that showed Biden up +5%. Eagles 
"Overall disappointment on the left for Biden not being ‘left enough’ (only held back by Manchin) and no Green New Deal explains general dissatisfaction across younger ages that should support him. 76% from Ds is weaker than Obama ever had. They’ll vote D even if mad at Biden. 
"Black approval rate isn’t high enough to make up for it either. It’s such an outlier that polling shenanigans is the likely culprit. There is another possibility. The +65 crowd might have seen the world pass them by. Biden’s play for normality in ‘20 might work due to no tweets 
"The +65 crowd will swallow that covid is better. It’s not, but there’s no death ticker on tv and no nonstop psyop. Biden is awful but a known quantity. These people can think ‘90s Biden is a return to normal. They don’t have kids in schools. Their homes are paid for. They have $. 
"They aren’t working. DEI doesn’t affect them yet. The age skew isn’t as bad as in France where Macron enjoys amazing support from the elderly ‘68ers. It’s still bad if not a function of poll chicanery. We shouldn’t be surprised by the last gen that watches TV & believes its lies 
"These are the civility types. These Boomers likely rank JFK as a top 5 president because of vague memories curated by the media and his handsome smile. They hated Trump because the media & what he reminded them of themselves. 
"Biden offers a better (in their mind) reflection of a declining old man who has kids that look out for him (for corrupt deals) and younger minorities pat his back & praise him for being hip to their wants (a good white). ". . .

Silence is no longer golden: The left demands woke words

 Left demands woke words from corporations (nypost.com)


"Examples of this virtue-signaling abound: Think of every horrible video with endless Hollywood celebrities profoundly and sincerely decrying whatever the outrage du jour is. The issue here isn’t really “cancel culture,” it’s whether we can have entertainment and corporate spaces that are free of politics. 

"This is part of a weird larger trend in corporate America in which it is no longer enough for companies to sell us soap and smartphones; they also must be saving the world, leading the way for cultural change or standing up to this, that or the other thing. Why? Why can’t they just sell us a widget and shut up? 

"The answer, until recently, has been that progressive public-relations stunts bought companies cred with the hyper-left at little cost. You could throw “love is love” into a commercial, throw on a colorful ribbon at the Oscars, and feel smug as you collected a paycheck. 

"Now that’s not enough. Activists and the Twitter mobs won’t accept it when businesses and cultural heroes don’t take a stand. You denounced that law in Kentucky, why won’t you do the same in Texas? 

"It’s hypocritical, of course, because the loudest voices in the room are screaming about Republican governors, but never call for a boycott of, say, Myanmar. And progressives are never happy with bland slogans of unity — they are increasingly pushing companies to oppose laws that most Americans agree with, including the Florida school curriculum one. ". . .

Conservative shareholders target 'woke' corporate boards - Washington Times  "Conservative investors are becoming shareholder activists to battle what they call the “woke” gender and race policies of America’s corporate boardrooms."


Will Conservative Investors Now Become Shareholder Activists and Battle 'Woke' Boardrooms? – RedState   . . ."In the wake of Elon Musk’s hostile takeover bid to acquire 100 percent of Twitter and take the leftist, conservative-censoring Big Tech giant private, investigative journalist Glenn Greenwald — the best in the business in my not-so-humble opinion — made the following observation:

Yesterday was a flagship day in corporate media. It was the day they were forced to explicitly state what has long been clear: they not only favor censorship but desperately crave and depend on it.

Even if Musk doesn’t buy Twitter, never forget what yesterday revealed.

Busted MTA cameras failed these subway violence victims, too

 NY Post

“The MTA has work to do to ensure riders feel safe. At a minimum, that means making sure existing security measures are working. New Yorkers are resilient and will persevere, but they deserve peace of mind that comes from a transit system that puts their safety first,” DiNapoli said in a statement.

 

. . ."Rebecca Lamorte, 30, a disability activist and former City Council candidate, recounted twice being assaulted on the subway — and both times authorities said cameras were out of service.

"In 2013, she said, she was getting off the 6 train at 51st Street when — “a woman pushed me.”

“ 'I thought I was putting my left leg on the platform and it was the gap, actually, between the train and the platform. my leg went in, it was crushed between the train and the platform,” she told The Post.

"The next morning, she couldn’t walk. Her left leg’s nerves are now “completely ruined,” causing her daily pain and forcing her to walk with a cane, she said.

“ 'I wanted camera footage. I was told that the cameras don’t work there. They’re either broken or there’s no tape in them to record anything,” she said. “I want to know what happened to me. … My life is forever shaped from this moment.' ”

Psaki Says Fox News ‘Provides Questions’ That Make ‘Anyone Sound Like a Stupid Son of a B*tch’

 Legal Insurrection

"The arrogance and snobbish attitude displayed by these people never fails to blow me away."


"Aren’t you so glad that decency has returned to the White House? Aren’t you so glad that we have an administration that doesn’t attack the press?

"Biden called Fox News’s Peter Doocy a stupid son of a b*tch when he asked the president about inflation.

"The issue came up on Thursday night when Press Secretary Jen Psaki appeared at a live recording of Pod Save America, which is run by a bunch of former Obama people.

"Doocy asks Psaki a lot of hard-hitting questions. He irritates her and the whole administration.

"So the hosts of the podcasts asked if Biden addressed Doocy correctly. Psaki used it to take a swipe at Fox News.

"Fox News issued this statement: “In his role as White House correspondent, Peter Doocy’s job is to elicit truth from power for the American public. His questions are his own, he is a terrific reporter and we are extremely proud of his work.”

"Then Psaki said Doocy “was gracious after President Biden called him and apologized.”. . .

New York Times Attacks Christians on Easter Weekend, Demands America Gets Rid of God

 New York Times Attacks Christians on Easter Weekend, Demands America Gets Rid of God | Neon Nettle

"The failing New York Times has marked the Holy weekend of Easter by attacking Christians and demanding that America gets rid of God.

"The left-wing newspaper published an op-ed on Good Friday arguing that faithful Christians should eliminate their belief in God.

"The article, titled In This Time of War, I Propose We Give Up God,” shamelessly claims that God is responsible for “war and violence.”

"It continues by blaming God and Christianity for the world's “oppression and suffering.”

"It then suggests that people should be banned from teaching children about Him.

"The author concludes by declaring: "Killing gods is an idea I can get behind.' ". . .

Biden’s Late Brezhnev Period

 The American Conservative   "The president attempted to shake hands with someone who isn’t there, then stumbled around confused before finding his way off the stage. Take a look at this clip from Barack Obama’s recent visit to the White House. President Biden wandered around disoriented, and again tried to give a greeting with his hands to someone who wasn’t there.". . .

"This is not funny. This man is the Commander in Chief, and he is clearly not in full control of his faculties. The other day he called Russian war crimes in Ukraine “genocide” — a term that has specific meaning in international law, and that commits the US to certain acts in its face. As horrible as what Russia is doing is, it’s not genocide, and it cheapens the term for the sake of scoring political points against the Russians. The point is that the President of the United States is not in control of his mental faculties enough to stop himself from running off at the mouth in a time of war. You’ll remember how in Poland, he called for regime change in Russia — a radical statement that White House aides had to walk back.
" I’ve been thinking about Biden as a Jimmy Carter, in terms of his weakness at the polls. But he is also late-period  Leonin Brezhnev
" He’s not the only possibly senile politician in Washington:
 Some colleagues of Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) are concerned she’s no longer fit to serve in Congress, according to a new report. . . .

 Full article here 

Media that gleefully pilloried the Catholic Church over pedophilia charges averts their eyes over much larger schoolteacher pedophilia problem

 Thomas Lifson

Imagine if 7 separate charges of pedophilia against Catholic priests had surfaced in one day.  The progressive media would have blared the total on front pages and in newscasts all day long 

Grooming? Woke Schools Brainwash Kids Using the Same Tactics Deployed
by Pedophiles (westernjournal.com)
  Added by TD

. . ."I am not complaining that the Catholic Church’s problems should have been ignored by the media.  The institutional failure of the Church to confront its pedophile priests caused great suffering among innocent children.

But that suffering and institutional failure apparently is dwarfed by the magnitude of the pedophilia and grooming problem (they are closely related) in government schools. In both institutions, people entrusted with leadership responsibilities failed their young charges, and used them for their own perverse sexual gratification.  The media highlighted pedophilia cases in the Church to the point that pedophile priests became a cliché because of its hostility to  the Catholic Church for its unwavering commitment to unchanging moral standards given by God (including the sanctity of human life). But now that government schools have become indoctrination camps, dominated by left wing teachers’ unions and boards of education that do their bidding, the media usually limit coverage of teachers’ pedophilia to local media, if that. (The sole exception seems to be hot, young female teachers who have posed for pictures in provocative outfits.)

"OF COURSE, not all teachers are pedophiles. Just as was true for priests, many people selflessly devote themselves to the cause of helping others. But there needs to be strict scrutiny of those who seek to be put into the classroom, and awareness, as David Mamet recently pointed out, that pedophiles gravitate towards occupations that put them in contact with vulnerable children."

Don Surber: 7 pedo teachers in 1 day  . . ."The people who oppose the new law aid and abet these crimes. They don't want to be called groomers. That's an easy title to lose. Stop grooming and stop enabling groomers."