Monday, November 14, 2022

Maybe America Hasn’t Suffered Enough

The red wave washed ashore as a ripple, though Republicans did make progress.

. . ."This should have been a massive wave election. Given the low job approval ratings of the sitting president in his first midterm election, and given the favorable generic congressional ballot numbers, this should have been a plus-five wave in the Senate and a plus-30 wave, or bigger, in the House. It also should have resounded down to statehouses, and yet the GOP turns out, apparently, not to have been able to beat abysmal Democrat gubernatorial candidates like Katie Hobbs, Kathy Hochul, and Gretchen Whitmer.

"There are so many utterly horrid Democrats who will remain in office after this election that it should be offensive to average Americans. It’s tempting to fall into the trap of believing there must be wholesale corruption in American elections, but the problem with going there is that there must be proof before it’s actionable.

"Until some is presented, we’ll have to deal with something very unpleasant. Namely, here’s the truth that we on the Right are going to have to accept: the American electorate in 2022 is awful.

"And the axiom about the cycle that involves weak men and tough times is a real thing, and we are in the worst quadrant of that cycle.

"We are still in the time in which weak men make tough times. We have not gotten to the point where tough times make tough men.

"But get ready because those tough times will do their work. Perhaps for quite a long while.

"Somehow, the Democrats and their pals in the legacy media managed to convince a large swath of Americans that we’re not in a recession. Four in five Americans are unsatisfied with the economy, a large majority seem to be furious about gas prices, people say crime is out of control, and yet barely half of the country — if that — are motivated to unload the horrid leadership that caused those issues.

"Look at the state New York is in, and yet the voters there overwhelmingly chose to retain Hochul?". . .

Video: Xi, Biden Shake Hands In Bali – The Body Language Of Xi When They Stopped Shaking Hands Is Very Telling

USA Supreme

The respect for Biden on the world stage is gone! But sadly our country’s reputation is also on the line!

"US President Joe Biden and Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping shook hands at the start of their high-stakes summit in Bali, Indonesia on Tuesday.

"Biden and Xi are among the heads of state attending the G20 summit in Bali, Indonesia, from November 15 to 16. Having met multiple times as vice presidents of their respective countries, their meeting on the sidelines of the event is their first in person as leaders.

"Footage showed the two presidents greeting one another in front of the international press, posing for photographs inside a conference room before sitting down across from each other with large entourages of interpreters and senior advisers.

"The body language of Xi when they stopped shaking hands is very telling

"And his face really says it all!

"Biden and Xi walked toward each other from opposite sides of a hotel lobby and shook hands in front of a row of US and Chinese flags just after 5:30 p.m. local time.

"Watch the video below:"

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Comment to this post: You can observe where is the leadership characteristics of these two guys. Xi is the real boss. Biden touched his nose like a shy little girl, he took the initiative to walk to the front of Xi's handshake is really a loss of American face. Xi's face though... subtly sends a message. Biden is a joke.
Joke or not, Biden discussed international subjects with Xi. Here is his report, but believe him at your peril.

Sports star says 'God created Adam and Eve,' all hell breaks loose

'I'm not going to accept all the weddings, all the parades, and anything else they do as normal' Vassilis Tsiartas

WND "A retired soccer star whose opinions about gender, based on biblical standards, appeared on social media has been given a suspended 10-month jail term for believing that men are men and women are women, as God created them.

"The abuse by the justice system in Greece of retired football legend Vassilis Tsiartas has been profiled in a column by Ben Johnson at Washington Stand.

"The report explains Tsiartas also was given a fine, suspended, for being "transphobic."

"His comments on social media came in his opposition to a law that would have lowered the age in that nation to legally change one's gender to 15.

"Later he wrote about his biblical beliefs.

" 'God created Adam and Eve," he said, citing the Bible and explaining his faith-based objection to "extreme gender ideology and the redefinition of marriage," the report said.". . .

North Korean Mom in Trouble for Not Saving Kim Portraits From Fire (insider.com)

According to the Hermit Kingdom's laws, all depictions of the Kim family must be treated with the same reverence as the men themselves - meaning failure to care for the portraits properly is a serious crime.

Gotta believe this: Kim Jong-Il was reportedly a magical or supernatural or some other-worldly person. His official biography states that he did not use a toilet, because he did not need to - meaning he did not defecate or urinate. As insane and unbelievable as that sounds, it is a widely known 'fact' in North Korea. The lie was told to make Kim Jong-Il appear more "God-like". Now, if a man that did not go to the bathroom wasn't godly enough for you, Kim Jon-Il also claimed to be able to control the weather based on the mood he was feeling.

When virtue-signalling in North Korea; Acceptable haircuts in Kim's world:

How many similarities do you see between American college campuses and North Korea?

California Remains a Blue State Hellscape

Votes continued to be tallied days after the election, including several key congressional districts.

Sanctuary state signs pop up in California (wnd.com)

"It is fortunate that I was not emotionally invested in the outcome of the election in California.

"Perhaps the race that most interested me was the Los Angeles mayor’s race. Ahead of the election, I reported that Republican businessman Rick Caruso and Democratic Congresswoman Karen Bass, are in a dead heat in the race.

"Initially, Caruso was ahead in the votes. But as the votes are still being counted, days after the election has ended, Bass is miraculously leading slightly.

Democratic Congresswoman Karen Bass took the lead in a close race against billionaire real-estate developer Rick Caruso to become the next mayor of Los Angeles, according to partial results still trickling out from local election officials.
Bass had 50.4% support compared to 49.6% for Caruso as of Friday afternoon, with an estimated 62% of the votes tallied, according data from the county registrar’s office and the Associated Press. Caruso had led in early counting.
Even though the election was Nov. 8, a winner may not be declared for several more days, or longer, as officials tally the mail-in ballots.. . .

Cornell University “Apologizes” To Ann Coulter After Students Shouting “Your Words Are Violence” Shut Down Speech

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. . ."Cornell has a long history of conservative speakers being heckled, disrupted and harassed: Rick Santorum, pro-Israel events, and Michael Johns come to mind. But it’s not just conservatives – a group of liberal students wrote a scathing letter in the student newspaper decrying the leftist activist intimidation on campus:

“We write as a group of liberals frustrated with the current campus hostility towards free speech and open dialogue. We believe that a repressive campus culture only isolates and radicalizes, but does not eliminate, those with dissenting views. The goal is to win hearts and minds — not to cancel them. While we find the left’s policy goals laudable, we question the tactics used by our fellow students to achieve those goals. It is important to approach others with goodwill and charity, yet oftentimes we struggle to extend these virtues to our peers and friends.” Add Ann Coulter to the list.

"I knew she was speaking on November 9, because I’m the faculty advisor to the Cornell Chapter of the Network of Enlightened Women (NeW), the group which invited her and sponsored the event. The speech was in one of the larger lecture halls at the law school, but was not a law school or law student event. I was not in Ithaca, so I couldn’t attend.

"In the run-up to the event, progressive students organized the obligatory petition to disinvite her, and engaged in self-parody in the Cornell Sun student newspaper:. . .

On Republican congressional leadership

Bear in mind that Sen. McConnell kept Judge Merrick Garland off the Supreme Court.TD

Horowitz: It’s past time to replace McConnell and McCarthy as leaders

The most influential form of activism at this point would be for conservatives to call their respective representatives-elect and demand that they support a new leader and publicly declare their opposition to McCarthy. Likewise, all GOP senators should be encouraged to vote for someone other than McConnell for Senate majority leader. Although that vote is private and only among the GOP members, there is no reason why senators should not be forced to go on the record to declare their support or opposition to McConnell.

Elise Stefanik for House Speaker "Perhaps Rep. Kevin McCarthy might serve the GOP (and the country) by mediating any difficulties in the relationship between The Donald (Trump) and The Ronald (DeSantis). He is, alas, not the member of Congress to stand up against the demagogic, demonizing campaign that the Democrats will wage against the GOP speaker from January 3, 2023 to January 3, 2025.

"My first choice, reflexively, was Louie Gohmert, until I learned that he wanted to be attorney general of Texas, lost his bid, and is leaving Congress. Confessing the error of my political ways, Rep. Elise Stefanik, of upstate New York — the third-ranking Republican in the House, now becomes the obvious choice to succeed the execrable Nancy Pelosi.

"Rep. Stefanik, a MAGA Republican, will stand up to the manipulating, conniving, devious, demeaning, and deceptive Democrats who work, without let-up, to make the life of the Speaker miserable. Just consider what the Democrats did to Newt Gingrich, credited with masterminding the great GOP House victory of November 8, 1994 — remember when elections took place on a single day? After 40 years in the minority, in 1994, the Republicans gained 54 seats to become the House majority with 230 GOPers in the House.". . .

Republican Leadership Worse than Worthless . . ."But one must wonder if these empty suits, being quite happy with their present position on the D.C. gravy train, even want to win.

"They need to go, replaced by strong people determined to win, but not before getting down on their hands and knees and apologizing to the American people and Republican voters for their staggering incompetence and entrenched determination to fail."

Rep. Andy Biggs expected to launch leadership challenge against Kevin McCarthy . . ." Biggs has been critical of McCarthy’s leadership in the minority, voicing concerns that the California Republican won’t prioritize issues important to the far-right flank of the party. CNN reported the news of Biggs’s likely bid against McCarthy.

“ 'I think we need to have a real discussion about whether he should be the speaker or not,” Biggs told reporters on Thursday.

“ 'I think that his statement recently that we shouldn't impeach Secretary Mayorkas indicates that maybe we're not going to be as aggressive going forward as we should be. I think we need to have a very positive statement of what we're going to accomplish and do, and I haven't seen that yet,” he added. "That's — those are things that I think we should have a very frank discussion internally about, where we're going to be going forward."

The Republican Leadership Mess . . ."In the House, Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy has done nothing to indicate he’s capable of steering the party in a more normal direction — from his voting against certification of electoral votes, to his years of coddling Trump. He is likely to be outmaneuvered by Nancy Pelosi whether Republicans are narrowly in the majority or narrowly in the minority. Mitch McConnell has delivered a lot more for Republicans over the years than McCarthy. Were it not for him, not as many conservative judges would have been confirmed and Democrats would have accomplished more when in power. He also did the right thing when it counted, on January 6. See, too, our editorial on why he is not to blame for Republican losses this year. That said, leading the Senate Republicans is not a lifetime position. McConnell is 80 years old and at some point in the near future, the party is going to have to figure out a succession plan. Whoever wins the leadership roles, they aren’t going to have much of any power in the next two years. Republicans will be in the minority in the Senate, and in the House, even if they end up eking it out, their margin will be so small that the GOP leader will practically have to be asking Marjorie Taylor Greene for permission to take a bathroom break. So really, this leadership fight is setting things up for Republicans’ next chance to retake full control of Washington in 2024.". . .