DC Comics' 'woke' Superman reboot fails to fly with readers: report

 Fox Business

Interest among fans reportedly slipped further when DC Comics Publisher Jim Lee announced the company was changing Superman’s motto of "Truth, Justice, and the American Way" to "Truth, Justice, and a Better Tomorrow."

"Superman: Son of Kal-El" #1 sold only 68,800 copies since it debuted in July. That made it the 17th best-selling comic that month, according to industry resources website Comichron.

"Those sales numbers fall way short of prior Superman reboots.

 " 'Superman" #1 sold 133,700 copies in 2018, "Superman: Rebirth" #1 sold 118,434 copies, "Superman" #1 sold 105,380 copies in June 2016, and "Superman" #1 sold 118,376 copies in September 2011.

"In October, California-based DC decided to make the new Superman bisexual, starting a friendship with reporter Jay Nakamura in an attempt to boost interest.". . .

SF man allegedly responsible for half of the city's anti-Asian hate crimes in 2021 released from custody

 “Someone please help me understand what mental illness causes a 37-year-old man to vandalize 27 Asian-owned businesses,” one Twitter user wrote. Another commented, “This scumbag career criminal is not even in jail after being caught in the act of damaging properties.” Still seeking his photo. TD 

NextShark  

Derik Barreto, 37, is allegedly responsible for more than half of all anti-Asian hate crimes reported in San Francisco last year.

He was reportedly released from custody after the court granted him mental health diversion.

The news of his release comes amid mounting concerns for the safety of AAPI communities around the country.

A man allegedly responsible for more than half of all anti-Asian hate crimes recorded in San Francisco last year is reportedly out of custody, raising safety concerns across local communities.

"Derik Barreto, 37, is accused of targeting 20 Chinese-owned businesses and seven others in Chinatown, the Ingleside neighborhood and the Ocean Avenue corridor between April and August of 2021. He allegedly rode on a scooter and used a slingshot, pipe or hammer to destroy the stores’ windows, as seen in several surveillance videos.

"Following his arrest, the San Francisco District Attorney’s Office charged Barreto with a total of 33 crimes, as NextShark previously reported. Those included 27 felony counts of vandalism, four felony counts of second-degree burglary, one misdemeanor count of possession of burglary tools and one misdemeanor count of possession of a concealed weapon.". . .

Boudin’s announcement comes as he faces renewed criticism in a fatal hit-and-run case, whose one of two victims was Asian. Critics believe the victims would still be alive if the DA had not discontinued California’s Three-Strikes law in the city, which would have kept the suspect — a repeat offender — behind bars.

A search for photos of this anti-Asian criminal has been a complete no-go. One search yielded this:

Derik Barreto booking photo 0 posts "It seems we cannot find what you are looking for. Perhaps searching can help."

Odd, considering every arrest should have yielded booking photos

San Francisco reports 'alarming' increase in anti-Asian hate crimes – SFBay (sfbayca.com)

Pittsburgh bridge's 2016 infrastructure funding reportedly diverted to bike lanes and green energy programs

 American Thinker  

@libertyismetal

  The bridge that just collapsed in the city of Pittsburgh was set to be restored in 2016. Instead of replacing the completely rusted out supports, they diverted the money to bike lanes, green energy programs and lanes for self driving cars.

. . ."Virtually every infrastructure bill has been like this. The Americans for Prosperity website has a history of these continuous infrastructure bills, all of which left a lot of decaying infrastructure and a lot of greenie gee-whiz idiocies:

• In 1998, President Clinton and Congress worked together on a $217 billion transportation bill.
• Who can forget President George W. Bush’s 2005 bill that included funding for the infamous Bridge to Nowhere.
• President Obama’s 2009 “American Recovery and Reinvestment Act” had an $831 billion price tag.
• The Trump Administration proposed or endorsed several costly infrastructure plans between 2015-2020.
• If President Biden’s recent proposal gives you déjà vu, you’re not alone. His promises sound familiar to us, too.

"We know that in California, legislators and executives enjoy lying about spending for infrastructure investment, too. Remember when they hoodwinked voters into approving a gas tax for infrastructure in 2019? Yep, same story, they didnt bother with infrastructure such as roads and bridges. They set up greenie playthings instead and wasted the cash even as gas prices skyrocketed with all those added state taxes." . . .

Great moments in cross-examination | Power Line

The Guardian

 Power Line Blog   "Disgraced attorney and former CNN/MSNBC star Michael Avenatti is defending himself on charges of wire fraud and identity theft arising from his work on behalf of Stormy Daniels. A publisher paid good money for Daniels’s memoir Full Disclosure (written with a little help from Kevin Carr O’Leary). In the book’s introductory note, Avenatti vouches for Stormy: “She doesn’t try to pretend to be something she isn’t…That is very refreshing. And it is something to be cherished.”

"The much anticipated cross-examination of Stormy by Avenatti is in process in federal district court in Manhattan. The Daily Mail has a long account with the tabloid highlights and its own transcript of the cross-examination including this classic exchange:

Avenatti: Didn’t you tell the New York Times that watching me work was like watching the Sistine Chapel painted?

Stormy Daniels: That’s what you told me to say.

"Cherish that! I take it from the Daily Mail account that Avenatti cast doubt on the credibility of his former client. Say it isn’t so! The exchange quoted above nevertheless has the ring of authenticity, to say the least. The distasteful Daily Mail story reminds me of Henry Kissinger’s comment on the Iran-Iraq war: “It’s a pity they both can’t lose.' ”

Biden 'hot mic' with Fox's Doocy fuels speculation

 The Hill  . . ."The episode has since sparked intrigue in media and political circles about whether the hot mic accident was an intentional choice ahead of the midterm elections. 

"“I personally believe it wasn’t a hot mic. He knew what he was doing, he knew he was on,” CNN’s Brian Stelter suggested on Tuesday “And then he had the manners to call later and try to mend fences. But it is still interesting to get inside the mind of the president.”  

"Plenty of people disagree with that view.

"Amber E. Boydstun, a professor of political science at the University of California, Davis, said she finds it hard to believe that Biden’s outburst at Doocy was premeditated or strategic. 

“ 'It just doesn't seem in his ethos or in any kind of longer-term best interest of the White House for him to use that specific expletive,” Boydstun said. “That just doesn't track.” 

"In a broader sense, Boydstun said it is feasible that the White House communications staff and Biden himself may have grown increasingly frustrated in recent months “walking on eggshells” when making public statements and dealing with the press, especially with the president’s approval ratings faltering and his legislative agenda stalled.". . .

Biden Puts 8,000 Troops On Alert In Case Peter Doocy Retaliates | The Babylon Bee

  . . . " Milley quickly made a phone call to get his troops mobilized. He then made another call to give Peter Doocy a heads up.

" 'I'm not planning any retaliation, that Biden guy is crazy!" said Doocy in a statement. "Or... am I?" Doocy's lips then curled upward in an evil right-wing smile. 

"The State Department informed Ukraine their military protection may have to wait until the Doocy threat has passed."

Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau Has Fled Ottawa For A “Secure Location”… |

 Weasel Zippers

"As thousands of protesters entered Ottawa, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and his family were moved from their home to an undisclosed location somewhere in the city on Saturday afternoon due to security concerns, CBC reports.

"A “Freedom Convoy” of some 2,700 trucks entered the Canadian capital city of Ottawa Saturday to protest Trudeau’s COVID-19 policies, Reuters reported. According to the Independent, around 100 big rigs blockaded a main street running past the Canadian parliament building.

"The convoy, which approached the capital from all sides, began as a protest against a vaccine mandate for Canadian truckers crossing the U.S.-Canada border but grew into a wider expression of discontent with the government’s COVID-19 policies.

“These demonstrations are national in scope, they’re massive in scale,” Ottawa police chief Peter Sloly said Friday, expressing concern about the possibility of violent “lone wolf” individuals carrying out violent acts." Keep reading…

Virginia's New AG Jason Miyares DESTROYS CNN's Shameless Hack Jim Acosta Who Bizarrely Accused Him of Being a Communist

The Gateway Pundit

"There’s a new AG in Virginia and he is putting the people first.  He knows what it means to live in a communist country and is determined not to let it happen in Virginia.

"Virginia’s new Attorney General started with a bang and fired 30 corrupt attorneys on the state’s payroll and announced major investigations the moment he was sworn in.

CNN’s loathsome reporter accused the incoming Republican leaders in Virginia of being communists earlier this week.

Acosta is one of the most shameless ‘reporters’ out there.  This gas-lighting from the communist left didn’t sit well with the incoming AG in Virginia.

Redstate reported on the exchange AG  Jason Miyares had on Hannity the other night.

“I think what Jim Acosta said — listen, my family fled Communist Cuba. You want to talk about what ‘Soviet-style’ looks like? It’s the opposite of freedom,” he said. “My mother has distinct memories of being forced to take classes in Marxist-Leninism.” 

Miyares also disclosed that his uncle, Angel Miyares, had been arrested in the dark of night by now-deceased dictator Fidel Castro’s secret police and detained without due process — and that his parents later had their home “nationalized: in the name of fairness and equity.” […]

“What we have said is parents matter. Listen, if you’re a parent and you want to mask your child for six, seven, eight hours a day, you absolutely have that right. That’s your individual decision,” he said. “The great irony of all this, is in Soviet-style communist states like Cuba, the state diminishes parents. They say, ‘Your loyalty is to the state,’ and parents have less control. This is about parental empowerment.' ”. . .   Jim Acosta video 

Maybe it's time to take George Soros seriously

 Pay particular attention to Discover the Networks | Secretary of State Project (SOSP):

... One of the principal duties of the secretary of state is to serve as the chief election officer who certifies candidates as well as election results in his or her state. The holder of this office, then, can potentially play a key role in determining the winner of a close election.

 List of Prosecutors Backed by George Soros Causing Murder and Crime to Soar

"Murder and crime have soared under district attorneys and state attorneys funded by George Soros and his affiliated foundations. Cities that have been affected by the progressive policies include Los Angeles, Chicago, Philadelphia, Houston, Dallas, San Antonio, Phoenix, St. Luis, New York, Baltimore and Orlando, and more.

The Kyle Rittenhouse trial, the Jussie Smollet hoax, the attack on the Waukesha Christmas parade, the organized mob lootings in San Francisco, and now the indictment of the Baltimore district attorney have each attracted national attention and spotlighted an issue that many in law enforcement and politics have been warning of for years: the threat of activist district attorneys (DAs).

"Specifically, the public imagination has been captured by the stories of activist DAs backed by the shadowy figure of George Soros.

"Many have heard of him, and most understand that he spends millions on U.S. politics, but very few know the specifics. As a result, Soros has become something of a folklore monster whose reputation often exceeds reality.

"But when it comes to Soros’s involvement in backing left-wing district attorneys, Soros really is the archvillain that rumor makes him out to be." . . .

Complete List Of U.S. Organizations Funded By George Soros 199 Listed alphabetically. " Organizations directly funded by Soros and his Open Society Foundations (OSF): Source: DiscoverTheNetworks.org via Dr. Eowyn _Including the ACLU, Democratic Party, Southern Poverty Law Center, and to bring riots and criminals onto our streets: "Secretary of State Project : This project was launched in July 2006 as an independent “527” organization devoted to helping Democrats get elected to the office of Secretary of State in selected swing, or battleground, states."

Dr. Evil gets out his checkbook - American Thinker ..."And as a result, San Diego is not plagued with the kind of crime that Los Angeles and other blue cities with Soros-backed district attorneys have descended to.

"It's a potent example because it suggests that the public knows.  Soros cash = hellhole cities.  That makes the Soros money pile useless.  Soros may think, as Joe Biden does, that slathering more money on will fix the problem, but at this point, it is more likely to backfire as voter sentiment shifts and word gets out about the Soros D.A. records. 

"Transparency is Soros's worst enemy.  It's the kryptonite to his slather-cash money plans.  No wonder he doesn't like it." Emphases mine, TD

George Soros' DAs: Billionaire's cash helped elect two dozen district attorneys across U.S. - Washington Times "George Gascon, Kim Foxx and Larry Krasner get most of the attention, but they are far from the only left-wing prosecutors whose campaigns were bankrolled by Democratic megadonor George Soros." . . .

Soros-Funded DA George Gascón Rationalizes Crime-Wave Epidemic | Frontpagemag

But we should never forget those like George Gascón, George Soros, Black Lives Matter, and progressive apologists who all have the blood of the victims on their hands. 

 Organizations Funded Directly by George Soros and his Open Society Institute - KeyWiki

This should hardly come as a surprise to anyone - when Soros said years ago that he would take over the judicial system he meant it - & millions of dollars followed that pledge. The question is why no one - on both sides - stopped him? https://t.co/F3KkpFbuRA

— Lara Logan (@laralogan) January 27, 2022

 The 2022 midterms will be a fight against Soros-funded people and movements! Soros pours $125M into super PAC ahead of midterms

MSNBC and CNN will be kind to the Soros groups. TD

Will we follow this man into battle?

 By crudely insulting a Fox reporter, Biden again showed his coarse nastiness - American Thinker  "Biden is now and always has been an exceptionally nasty man who's developed a decades-old reputation for saying really mean things to people.  He usually does it with a little grin, the kind that says, "If you challenge me on this, I'll just say you can't take a joke."  However, when Biden sat before a microphone and called Fox News White House correspondent Peter Doocy a "stupid son of a b----" last night, that was no joke.  That was just Biden.  And his insult was accompanied by the useful admission that Biden knows exactly how badly his economy will hurt Democrats.". . .

Biden REALLY Doesn't Like To Answer Questions (rumble.com)

FURTHER UPDATE: a collection of Biden insulting reporters asking questions he doesn't like:

Joe Biden has always been a nasty bully.  

Political Cartoons (townhall.com)

John McWhorter says "It’s Time to End Race-Based Affirmative Action."

How would you feel about your kids being admitted to a university because of their “diverseness” from other kids rather than, well, their selves?

Althouse  " That seems very important! Let's read:

When affirmative action was put into practice around a half-century ago, with legalized segregation so recent, it was reasonable to think of being Black as a shorthand for being disadvantaged, whatever a Black person’s socioeconomic status was.... I think a mature America is now in a position to extend the moral sophistication of affirmative action to disadvantaged people of all races or ethnicities, especially since, as a whole, Black America would still benefit substantially....

"Whether we're mature or not, the legal basis for upholding affirmative action in the higher education admissions process has been "diversity." And McWhorter attacks this concept. For one thing, his own children have led an upper-middle-class, privileged life.

And I will never forget a line from a guidebook that Black students at Harvard wrote two decades ago: “We are not here to provide diversity training for Kate and Timmy.”...

The Kid Rock–Neil Young War

 National Review

Kid Rock reminds listeners that their ire — due to feeling distant from and unrepresented by their government, the media, and other public institutions — can find justification in the Constitution.

Left: Kid Rock at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame induction ceremony in Brooklyn,
 Right: Neil Young performs at a tribute to Bob Dylan in Los Angeles, Calif., in 2015.

"The strongest lyric on Kid Rock’s new single “We the People” is 235 years old: “In order to form a more perfect union / Do ordain and establish this Constitution of the United States of America.”

"Nothing else on this recording is as powerful, since most of Kid Rock’s song resorts to crude profanities. But the reason why is easy to understand. On the day Kid Rock released his song, rock-music veteran Neil Young publicly threatened Spotify with an ultimatum: Either remove its broadcast of the political commentator and comedian Joe Rogan, or he’d remove his music from its streaming service. It’s enough to make a true rock and roller revolt.

"But the synchronicity is a jolt. “We the People” challenges rock-music orthodoxy, specifically the authoritarian stances taken by famous, established rock stars such as Neil Young, Bruce Springsteen, and the Rolling Stones, who no longer behave like the counterculture figures they once seemed.

"In this sudden ideological skirmish, Kid Rock wants to reclaim populism and protest against Young’s imperious assertion of authority and limited expression.

Kid Rock’s unabashed vulgarity forsakes the education and eloquence of the Founding Fathers but no less than congressional rule-breaking currently does. That’s because “We the People” — words taken from the preamble of the Constitution — is based on the widespread working-class anger that the "Constitution is routinely flouted by the people who have sworn to defend it. The anger has been mounting since the Covid lockdowns, yet mainstream media vilifies it.". . .

Remember when "Crosby, Still, Nash, and Young" became just Crosby, Stills, and Nash?   Once you could have thought of David Crosby as kinda cute

JCN’s Severino: Stephen Breyer ‘Bullied’ Into Retiring by ‘Left-Wing Dark Money Groups’

 JCN's Severino: Stephen Breyer 'Bullied' Into Retiring by 'Left-Wing Dark Money Groups' (breitbart.com)

"U.S. Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer was ushered into retirement by “left-wing dark money groups,” according to a statement Wednesday by Carrie Severino, president of the conservative Judicial Crisis Network. 

"Breyer’s retirement was reported by the press before he himself made it, leading to speculation that it had been leaked by a White House eager to appease left-wing critics after its recent legislative failures — and worried about Republicans winning the Senate in 2022."... 

Biden to Announce Black Female SCOTUS Nominee During Black History Month | CNSNews

“The person I will nominate will be someone with extraordinary qualifications, character, experience and integrity, and that person will be the first black woman ever nominated to the United States Supreme Court. It's long overdue, in my view. I made that commitment during the campaign for president, and I will keep that commitment,” he said.

Dems Itching to See GOP Senators ‘Block a Black Woman’ Seem to Be Forgetting Some Things – RedState  . . ."While the reality of the matter is that most Republican Senators would oppose whoever Joe Biden nominates (regardless of skin color and/or gender) because they know they’d likely be a “woke” proponent of judicial activism (the left’s favorite kind of judge), many conservatives found it rather amusing how history-challenged Lockhart, Ali, and others expressing glee over the coming battle over Biden’s eventual nominee proved themselves to be.

"For instance, there was this inconvenient fact:

Joe Biden filibustered and voted against Janice Rogers Brown — TWICE! #SCOTUS pic.twitter.com/J4VSSsRlsD

— Gayle Trotter (@gayletrotter) January 27, 2022 

. . ."Not to mention this one, which unfortunately took a devastating toll on Miguel Estrada’s wife Laury, who miscarried and later died in 2004 of an accidental overdose:". . . 

Between the lines: Part of the calculus for any Biden nominee is someone who can be confirmed in a 50-50 Senate and, ideally, with the buffer of bipartisan support.