Taiwan: What Was Pelosi Thinking? -

The American Spectator | USA News and Politics   "House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s visit to Taiwan was deliberate act of provocation whose only justification was hubris and personal vanity

"Pelosi knows well the rising anger of the American electorate that has been brought about by many of the current administration’s actions: the incompetent and hasty withdrawal from Afghanistan completed so that President Joe Biden could make a somber announcement last Nov. 11; the raging inflation of over 9 percent and the disingenuous explanation of its full causes; the preposterous effort to differentiate between the technical and common definitions of a recession; the pandering to influential progressives such as Rep. Alexandra Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.), who would end air travel, replace or upgrade buildings, and protect even those unwilling to work with her “Green New Deal” estimated to “cost between $51 trillion and $93 trillion over ten years”; a distracting obsession with identity politics, including the debate over pronouns and what constitutes gender; the introduction of critical race theory even into the U.S. military; the drive to teach sexual orientation and identity in elementary curricula; an unprecedented wave of unauthorized immigration; the inability of Vice President Kamala Harris to express herself cogently; and questions about the overall ability and stamina of the president.

"This is not a glowing report card, and Pelosi must sense that so many of the American people are now saying, “Enough.” Indeed, many observers are predicting a massive Republican sweep of the House in November.

"Against such an array of negativity, Pelosi must be hoping to protect her legacy as a politician and staunch defender of human rights, especially if she will no longer be speaker of the House come November. Indeed, Pelosi has a history of expressing opposition to Beijing: In 1991, she left her entourage without Chinese escorts and unfurled a banner in Tiananmen Square, supporting those demonstrators killed there.". . .

If the IRS comes, will they bring CNN at 6 AM?

 

Does America's newest political party stand a chance?

 The Week

"Dozens of former Republicans and Democrats have joined forces to launch Forward, a new centrist political party. Its founders include Andrew Yang, the onetime Democratic presidential candidate; Christine Todd Whitman, the former Republican governor of New Jersey; and David Jolly, a former GOP congressman from Florida.

" 'Political extremism is ripping our nation apart, and the two major parties have failed to remedy the crisis," Yang, Whitman, and Jolly wrote in an op-ed for The Washington Post. In the last two years, there has been a "spike in political intimidation," they said, and "if nothing is done, the United States will not reach its 300th birthday this century in recognizable form." The op-ed cited a 2021 Gallup poll that found half of U.S. adults identify as independent and 62 percent believe the Democratic and Republican parties "do such a poor job representing the American people that a third party is needed.' ". . .

Why Are There So Many Idiots in Politics?

 

Why Are There So Many Idiots in Politics? (townhall.com)

You can’t help people who won’t help themselves, and there must come a point at which you have to stop trying. If these cities keep electing horrible, corrupt politicians or straight up morons, they have to deal with the consequences.

You really have to wonder who ran against some of these morons in political office sometimes. Honestly, was the alternative to someone like Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez being forced to step on a rusty nail? Was Eric Swalwell’s opponent a literal cannibal promising to consume children if elected? If you set out to elect some of the dumbest creatures to ever walk upright on the planet, you couldn’t do much better than what Democrats currently have serving in Congress and the White House. Why? 

"There is no good answer, at least one that covers everyone. "There are, after all, a lot of really dumb Democrats in office. You have to ascribe some of it to identity politics, which is the polite way of saying racism, but the rest of it has to be tied to people’s desires to be pandered and lied to. A fish swallows a hook because it wants the worm, dumb people see pandering the way a fish sees that worm.

"Look, there have always been, and will always be, dumb people in the world. But you don’t give them power the way Democrats have. You hold them off with promises and distract them with shiny objects because they’re stupid." . . .

MSNBC's Joyless Reid Suffers Humiliating Ratings Disaster As Fans Abandon Her Toxic Programming -

  The Blue State Conservative

Since the program launched years ago, MSNBC’s “The ReidOut” with host Joy Reid finished the second quarter of 2022 with its smallest audience thus far, which is not a good sign for the host known for spewing toxic and divisive content, which could be why her audience is leaving.

. . ."Reid officially took over Matthews’ time slot in July 2020, after having a series of rotating hosts, but seems like that might have been a bad idea for MSNBC. Many criticized MSNBC at the time, for promoting Reid on the heels of her infamous blog scandal in 2018. Reid was arguably best known for claiming homophobic, conspiratorial, and other offensive posts on her pre-fame blog were planted by diabolical hackers at the time of her promotion. Eventually, she got emotional on the air when her claim fell apart. She admitted it seemed unlikely she was hacked but claimed that she did not recall making the offensive remarks, for which she apologized anyway.

"Despite her skeletons, “The ReidOut” started strongly, averaging nearly two million viewers during the third quarter of 2020, but has lost 46% of its audience since. As “The ReidOut” has lost a whopping 60% of its viewers in the critical category over the same time period, viewers from the coveted demo are also fleeing. In its inaugural quarter, the far-left program managed 308,000 demo viewers.". . .

Why has MSNBC kept her as long as they have, knowing the racially divisive Reid has been for years?

A vulgar commercial on Tucker Carlson tells a very good story

"I watch Tucker Carlson regularly. I don't always agree with him, but I find him engaging and informative.  However, when the show cuts to commercials, I hit the mute button.  Today, I couldn't find the clicker and found myself watching a Gillette Venus commercial celebrating pubic hair, something I found vulgar.  However, my attitude changed when I realized why I was watching this ad: it's a signal that advertisers are recognizing that, if they want to reach Democrats in the coveted (because profitable) 25–54 demographic, they must advertise on Tucker.

"The commercial is not obscene.  As I said, it's just vulgar.  If my kids were still young, I would not be very happy to have the news interrupted by a commercial focused on "pubes" and having singing pubic hairs on the beach:

. . ."This ad, though, is defiantly directed to young people, and not stodgy young people, either.  So why would Gillette (which ran into trouble with conservatives over its embrace of so-called transgenderism and "toxic masculinity") buy ad time to cater to edgy young women and, I guess, young men?  The answer is, they're buying ads because you go where the customers are."

Wikipedia Locks Its Website After More Than 70 Edits On the Definition of 'Recession' to Match Biden White House

 Wikipedia Locks Its Website After More Than 70 Edits On the Definition of 'Recession' to Match Biden White House - Analyzing America   "Americans may be beginning to witness the purpose of Joe Biden’s so-called “Ministry of Truth,” armed with the purpose of shutting down alleged “disinformation” online.

"The Biden White House is desperately trying to spin a narrative that the U.S. is not a recession despite the economy shrinking for a second straight quarter by an annualized rate of 0.9%.

"Now there is an “edit war” going on Wikipedia over the dirty “r-word,” meaning recession. Critics say the Left is obsessed with redefining numerous words beyond recession, including woman and vaccine.

"There have been more than 70 edits to the Wikipedia page about recessions. The site was locked to prevent further changes.

"The edits were clearly meant to parrot the Biden administration’s talking points. The changes attempted to undermine the broad consensus definition of recession, which is two quarters of negative GDP growth.". . .