Resistance strikes the Senate over the new dress code, what Mark Steyn calls the United States Senate's embrace of 'Fetterman chic.'

Democrats are destroying America at a fast enough rate. They don’t have to destroy basic decorum in the Senate, too.

HotAir   "Finally. It looks like Democrats realize that changing the rules for one senator out of 100 is not the thing to do. Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer tossed out the dress code that has been in place forever and decided senators can wear whatever they want to wear on the Senate floor.

"Schumer instructed the staff of the Sergeant-at-Arms (the Senate’s clothes police) to stop enforcing the dress code. Republicans spoke out right away, saying it was the end of decorum and the lowering of long-held standards. Democrats, though, did what they do best. They held together. The only one speaking out was Senator John Fetterman (D-PA) who mocked critics and said he was pleased with the change.

"Fetterman doesn’t like to wear suits so he doesn’t. He wears gym shorts, hoodies, and sneakers to work in the Senate. He looks completely out of place and slovenly. It is as if he is cosplaying as a teen going to the gym.

"Then, lo and behold, the silence of Democrats began to break. Senator Dick Durbin (D-IL), the Senate Democrat Majority Whip, spoke out. Durbin speaking out against Schumer is very rare. That means his words will carry weight. Durbin said that the Senate must reverse Schumer’s unilateral decision. “I’m concerned about it. You know, the Senator in question from Pennsylvania is a personal friend,” Durbin told SiriusXM host Steve Scully in a clip from “The Briefing with Steve Scully,” which is set to air in full on Friday." . . .

‘How Many People Coming Into This Country Illegally Is Enough For President Biden?’

  Issues & Insights (issuesinsights.com)

"Questions like that are almost enough to make you feel sorry for White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre. Even someone qualified for that job – which she clearly is not – would have trouble coming up with new ways to tell bald-faced lies about the border crisis and what President Joe Biden is doing to stop it.

"Her job got more difficult after U.S. Customs and Border Protection released data Friday showing that 304,162 people entered the country illegally in August – a new record.

"For perspective, it’s as many as crossed illegally in all of 2017, and more than the entire population of Pittsburgh.  

"Just a couple months ago, team Biden was crowing about a dip in the number of illegal border crossers, even issuing a press release claiming that “the administration’s plan is working as intended.”

"Two weeks ago, Jean-Pierre declared that “The president has done more to secure the border and to deal with this issue of immigration than anybody else. He really has.”

"Normally, the press would swallow such lies without blinking. But now Democratic politicians are rising up in protest around the country against the devastation Biden’s “secure the border” policies have brought to their cities and states.

"The Daily Signal recently reported that “Democratic leaders in Colorado, Illinois, Massachusetts, New York, Texas, and Washington, D.C., have declared states of emergency in response to the border crisis that occurred after President Joe Biden took office.”. . .

Ex-Intel Officials Who Signed The Infamous Hunter Biden Laptop Letter Keep Landing Gigs With The Biden Admin

  The Daily Caller

"Several of the 51 former intelligence officials who signed a letter casting doubt on the authenticity of Hunter Biden’s laptop before the 2020 presidential election have ended up serving in roles with President Joe Biden’s administration.

"In less than three years, the Biden administration has brought on six out of the 51 former intelligence official signatories of the October 2020 letter arguing that the leak of emails from Hunter Biden’s laptop had “all the classic earmarks of a Russian information operation.” Earlier this week, Biden’s Department of Homeland Security (DHS) selected three signatories of the letter to join a federal “intelligence experts” national security group, according to an announcement on Tuesday. (RELATED: Hunter Biden Admits Laptop Data Is Real After White House, Media Insisted For Months That It Wasn’t)

"Former Director of National Intelligence James Clapper, former CIA Director John Brennan and former CIA Operations Officer Paul Kolbe will be members of the new group, which will advise DHS on intelligence and national security matters including “terrorism, fentanyl, transborder issues, and emerging technology,” according to the DHS announcement. All of them signed onto the October 2020 letter casting doubt on the legitimacy of the Hunter Biden laptop before the presidential election.

"The Daily Caller News Foundation verified the authenticity of Hunter Biden’s laptop contents in October 2020.

"Moreover, Biden’s DHS previously designated Hunter Biden laptop letter signatory Nicholas Rasmussen to be Counterterrorism Coordinator in November 2022. Rasmussen was one of three DHS officials who announced the membership of Clapper, Brennan and Kolbe in the new DHS group, which will meet four times per year." . . .

Why are We Going Back to Masks and Vaxes? -

  American Thinker   "Masks are making a return, now over 3 years since COVID upended life in most of the world. For those past three years, we were constantly told to “follow the science”.

"What science were we following, medical science or political science? Which category did masks fall into? We had to wear masks everywhere in public. In private, too. These past mask recommendations laughingly passed for “science”.

"CNN pushed its audience to wear a mask while having sex. How romantic. And impractical. Canada’s top doctor scolded, “Skip kissing and consider wearing a mask when having sex to protect yourself from catching the coronavirus.”

"As if a mask will stop two intertwined naked bodies from transmitting a highly contagious respiratory virus. That would be like using an umbrella to keep dry during a hurricane.

"On Reddit, someone asked if one should swim with a mask. Dr Anthony Fauci, calling himself “the science”, took masks a step further, “Double-masking makes ‘common sense’ and is likely more effective.” Using his logic, why not wear 17 masks?

"Dr Fauci must have memory troubles, forgetting what he said in the early days of the pandemic. Both Dr. Fauci and Surgeon General Jerome Adams said masking was unnecessary and potentially harmful. That was until COVID mutated from a respiratory virus into a political and electoral weapon." . . .

Who Would Have Believed The Singularity Would Be So Stupid?: The Anti-Vax Movement Is Now a Massive Political Force In This Country (ibloga.blogspot.com)

Randi Weingarten Gets Fact-Checked for Misrepresenting Story About a Fired Texas School Teacher

 Legal Insurrection

“Hey Randi, you forgot to turn off comments and you’re getting fact-checked & exposed for the shameless liar on which you base your entire platform.”

"Among her critics, American Federation of Teachers (AFT) President Randi Weingarten is not exactly known for being truthful.

"It’s not uncommon to see her get Community Noted on the Twitter machine for playing fast and loose with the facts, as was the case after her incredible claim in April during a House Select Subcommittee hearing on the Wuhan coronavirus pandemic that she fought to reopen schools.

"It was, of course, untrue.

"Fast forward a few months, and Weingarten is at it again. This time around, her insinuations revolve around alleged book banning and anti-Semitism.

"She saw a story from the Houston Chronicle about a Texas teacher fired for presenting a controversial illustrated version of Anne Frank’s diary to her 8th-grade classroom and posted the link to Twitter.

"The problem, however, came in Weingarten’s sensationalistic description of what happened:" . . .

But first look at the so-called Anne Frank book that Texas teacher fired for reading Diary of Anne Frank to class (chron.com)    "But the point is that Weingarten’s claim that the teacher was fired for merely reading the commonly known version of Anne Frank’s diary is utterly false, and that she also left out what the adaptation in question contained:" . . .

The COVID is back again illustrated edition

 Bookworm Beat 9/1/23: The COVID is back again illustrated edition - Bookworm Room

"When I looked at my image collection, I was surprised to see that COVID’s alleged return topped the meme chart, even above the Gadsden kid, Biden, Trump, gender, or other perennial topics — all of which you’ll find here.

"Also, my apologies for the paucity of substantive posts. We’ve had some staffing issues at American Thinker, so I’ve had to put my day off on hold…and that’s the day I usually write things or, when I’m in the mood, record podcasts. But enough about me. Here are the memes." . . .

Dove Soap Hires BLM Thug

 Why can't we have more Candice Owens, Ben Carsons and way fewer Joy Reids along with whatever that is on "The View"?  TD

Diane L. Gruber (substack.com)

"Did I read that correctly? Did the Unilever Company just hire a morbidly obese (black) Black Lives Matter thug to promote their product, Dove soap? I don’t care about her weight nor her skin hue; but, why is a “beauty product” business normalizing hate & violence? How can this nasty brute improve sales of Dove soap? I have been using Dove soap for so long I can’t remember when I first discovered it. No more. I will find another soap to caresse by gorgeous skin. Americans need to send a signal to Big Business that we do not support political violence, hatred & bigotry.

DOVE BULLY DESTROYED A WHITE STUDENT

"You may ask why I call Dove’s spokeswoman, Zyanha Bryant, a bully. First, she calls herself a Black Lives Matter activist. THAT alone puts her into the bully category and the domestic terrorist category. As a student at the University of Virginia she participated in the BLM riots in Charlottesville Summer 2020. On July 17th Bryant focused her hatred on one person, a fellow student at UVA, Morgan Bettinger, who made the mistake of unwittingly driving down the wrong street which the BLM mob had taken over. As Bettinger was trying to find a way to back out, she expressed support for the rioters.

"Not letting the facts get in her way, Bryant spent months harassing & maligning Bettinger online and trying to get her expelled from UVA. Indeed, the day after Bettinger’s car was blocked by the rioters, Bryant began an online campaign to send mass complaints to school administrators demanding Bettinger's expulsion: "EMAIL these UVA deans now to demand that Morgan face consequences for her actions and that UVA stop graduating racists," she tweeted.

"Bryant herself filed a complaint with the University Judiciary Committee, a student-run disciplinary system, alleging that Bettinger had threatened students' health and safety. Ha! Like most “social justice” haters, she bastardized the English language. “Students’ health and safety” was threatened by the violent BLM brutes, not by the victims of BLM violence.

It took almost a year for school investigators to exonerate Bettinger. The video of the incident proved Bryant to be a liar. After making Bettinger’s life miserable just because she is “white,” Bryant finally admitted that she was “mistaken.” THIS is why I call Bryant a bully. She is worse. She is a racist bully. NOTE: UVA did not expel her for filing a false complaint. After all, she is a member of a protected class, a black female bully." . . .