Empathy: Biden vs. Trump

 McEnany goes off on Joe Biden: This was heartless - YouTube

• Comments to the above video:  I can’t even imagine being in Maui and to have this President show such a lack of concern and empathy is absolutely disgusting!! My prayers for all of Hawaii s people
• He actually smirks when he says, “No comment.” Absolutely abhorrent.
• Arguing with Biden is like playing chess with a pigeon. No matter how good you are, the bird is going to knock over the pieces, crap all over the board, then strut around thinking that he won

Seattle cop's resignation letter excoriates city –

  HotAir

These failures, she says, have turned Seattle into a playground for anarchists and criminals. “If you haven’t noticed, the criminals are running the city.”

"After 23 years of serving the public, Seattle police lieutenant Jessica Taylor hung up her badge on August 1st to head off for retirement. She reportedly filled out the standard exit interview questionnaire, but that wasn’t enough for her. She included a blistering 15-page letter along with it. The letter was addressed to Police Chief Adrian Diaz, but she also directly singled out the Mayor of Seattle, Bruce Harrell, and the entire City Council. She called the council members “absurd,” referred to Mayor Harrell as “spineless,” and described Chief Diaz’s “failed leadership.” Seattle, she said, has hit rock bottom in this vacuum of strong leadership and self-destructive priorities, leaving the city as a “laughing stock” for the nation and the world. And then she got down to specifics. (Western Journal)

“Chief Diaz, let me tell you, the state of the Seattle Police Department and this city is a disgrace,” she wrote in the letter. “The toxic mix of the Seattle City Council’s absurdity, the spinelessness of the Mayor, the leniency of the prosecutor’s office, and your failed leadership has accelerated this city’s downhill slide straight to rock bottom. The problems were already brewing before you came on the scene, but since your arrival, it’s been a free fall into anarchy & chaos.”

The retired officer added that extremist city officials have “lost touch with reality, making decisions that defy common sense and basic logic.”

“Their priority is playing politics and pandering to radical ideologies rather than genuinely serving the city’s and its residents best interests,” Taylor said of council members.

Biden shows his true colors in his me-first Maui disaster response

  Monica Showalter- American Thinker

Image courtesy of Ken Swope.

. . ."It appears to be the worst natural disaster in a century and certainly Hawaii's biggest catastrophe.

"Yet Joe Biden is clueless. His ham-fisted response to this disaster keeps getting worse and worse and worse.

First, he glibly announced that neither he, nor his vice president, Kamala Harris would visit the disaster area.

"Then he went on vacation, putting in another beachside time-out, as if there wasn't an apocalypse going on the other side of the country.

"After that, returning from his restful rendezvous, he was asked about the scope of the disaster by a reporter, which by then had claimed 93 dead.

"His response? "No comment." And then he, kid you not, grinned.

"No comment means no coverage, right? Always a bad idea from a public relations perspective to get too close to those failures and disasters, because voters might make associations, right? 

"Plus, what the hey, as the New York Post noted in its cover story today, Biden knows that Hawaii's residents will always vote Democrat, so why worry about their disaster?"

Biden's 'No Comment' Praised As Most Rational, Coherent Statement He's Made As President | Babylon Bee

 ‘I Campaigned For You’: Hawaii Democrat Stunned By Biden’s ‘No Comment’ on Wildfires (msn.com)

Biden was asked about the deadly fires in Hawaii where nearly 100 are dead and over 1,000 still missing

His response: “No comment”

He just destroyed his 2024 campaign

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— DC_Draino (@DC_Draino) August 14, 2023

 

 

A Democrat judge promises to be even-handed.

 

With news about Judge Chutkan’s anti-Trump animus, a 2021 article is going viral - American Thinker 

. . ."With more information emerging daily about Judge Tanya Chutkan’s open hostility to Donald Trump as she presides over the legally suspect case that Jack Smith filed against him, a 2021 article describing Chutkan’s conduct and statements about the January 6 defendants has suddenly gone viral. The woman is unprincipled and partisan to the point of delusion. She has no business presiding over Donald Trump’s case or even sitting on the federal bench.

"Yesterday, news emerged about Chutkan’s openly stated belief that Donald Trump ought to be behind bars, something that, with nothing more, means she should be taken off of Trump’s case because she is incapable of the kind of integrity and impartiality required of federal judges. She’s a hanging judge and not bothering to hide it.

"The inestimable Techno Fog has also revealed how Chutkan has treated Trump differently—and way more harshly—than other defendants in her courtroom. Her blatantly unfair conduct arose in the context of the prosecution’s request for a protective order that would effectively silence Trump during the primary season. The prosecution filed the motion on August 4, a Friday, at almost 10 p.m. Techno Fog picks up the story:. . .

". . .Because I’m not a lawyer in Chutkan’s jurisdiction or, thank God!, in her courtroom, I can say this straight out: The woman is ideologically corrupt to the point of delusion. In case you’ve forgotten, this was what the BLM riots looked like:" . . .

CNN reporter reports in front of a burning building in Kenosha with a chyron that reads “Fiery But Mostly Peaceful Protests After Police Shooting”

No, really
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— Daily Caller (@DailyCaller) August 27, 2020

 

AF Branco - Tue, Aug 15, 2023

Trump Decries ‘Very Biased and Unfair’ Obama-Appointed Judge Who Could Send Him to Jail › American Greatness (amgreatness.com)  . . .The Obama-appointed judge has earned a reputation for doling out the harshest sentences against January 6 rioters and protesters.

"In October of 2021, Chutkan defended Black Lives Matter rioters who rampaged through numerous cities in the summer of 2020, calling them “mostly peaceful” while condemning the Jan. 6 protesters as a “violent mob” who posed a “very real danger” to “the foundation of our democracy.”

“ 'People gathered all over the country last year to protest the violent murder by the police of an unarmed man — some of those protests became violent. But to compare the actions of people protesting mostly peacefully for civil rights to those of a violent mob seeking to overthrow the lawfully elected government is a false equivalency and ignores the very real danger that the Jan. 6 riot posed to the foundation of our democracy,” Chutkan said in the sentencing of Jan. 6 protester Matthew Mazzocco." . . .

 

National Review crashes and burns over "Rich Men North of Richmond"

Don Surber (substack.com)  Oliver Anthony and the sorry state of NR

"When Hitler turned on Stalin, Guthrie turned on Hitler. To cover up his past support, he slapped a label on his guitar, “This machine kills fascists.” He was as phony then as National Review is now." (But Springsteen still admires Woody.)

"I was not going to write about Oliver Anthony’s brilliant song, Rich Men North of Richmond, because I have nothing worthy to add. The video puts all other commentary to shame. North of Richmond refers to the federal government, which is too large, too powerful and too uncaring.

" But Mark Antonio Wright, executive editor of the Never Trump National Review, butted in with a Learn-to-Code column attacking Anthony for daring to complain about DC’s treatment of the working class. It lectured Anthony to be more like Woody Guthrie, the Nazi apologist and communist." . . .

. . ."Those jobs disappeared to Red China and other sweatshop nations. National Review repeatedly mocks factory workers by claiming this was the free market. The antebellum South could have made the same argument about its slavery, couldn’t it?

"The irony is that while a guy in the suit says learn to code, those coding jobs have gone overseas as well. And miners have plenty of the skills that Wright waxed about poetically, but the mines are closing and the company towns that are not far from where the singer lives have turned into opioid dens.

"From North of Richmond, Wright demands a grand economic plan from Anthony. Wright wrote, “I wish Oliver Anthony the best, and I’ll give his next single a listen, but he should consider singing about what makes America a great land — a land of opportunity, not of guaranteed success.”

"Ah, there is another irony. Wright calls for celebrating what makes America great while working for a magazine that has mocked Make America Great Again for 8 years, beginning with Trump’s announcement for the presidency, when its news story called him a witless ape. It celebrated the end of his first term with a news story, “Witless Ape Rides Helicopter.” . . .

Backlash to Woke ‘Snow White’ Remake Intensifies After Another Cringe Interview Clip Goes Viral

Sister Toldjah; RedState

"As my RedState colleague Brandon Morse pointed out in July, the live-action remake of "Snow White," which is set to debut in January 2024, appears to be destined to fail before moviegoers get a chance to see the finished product, primarily because the movie's stars have been obnoxiously giddy about pointing out how it will be woke and nothing like the 1937 original.

"Rachel Zegler, who plays Snow White, and Gal Gadot, who plays the Evil Queen, were over the moon in a widely shared clip from the D23 Expo that surfaced last month which showed Zegler and Gadot talking about how Prince Charming's role would be significantly reduced.

“ 'She’s not going to be saved by the prince and she's not going to be dreaming about true love," Zegler noted when asked about how she would "bring a modern edge" to the story. 

" 'She’s dreaming about becoming the leader she knows she can be, and the leader that her late father told her that she could be if she was fearless, fair, brave, and true,” Zegler went on to say.

"The result of that has been a pretty significant backlash, with many people noting they're just not interested in seeing that so-called "modern twist" to the classic because, well some things are just better off left alone and unchanged, and quite frankly there was nothing wrong with the original.

"Over the weekend, more clips of Zegler from that same Expo talking about how the movie would be different from the original resurfaced, and along with that snippets of how she's disparaged the concept of Snow White before in other interviews. Essentially, what all the clips boil down to is Zegler not thinking much of Prince Charming the "stalker" and the whole Snow White story in general." . . .

Disney Doesn't Just Hate Its Product, It Hates You – RedState   "A recent interview featuring actress Rachel Zegler has been making the rounds. Zegler is set to play the classic Disney character "Snow White" in the corporation's latest soulless cash grab, and it would appear that while she's proud to play the character, it's not because of its legacy to Disney. " . . .