Jay Leno, the last of the true nighttime comics, burned in a fire

Jay Leno responds after reports of 'serious' burns in fire (nypost.com)

 Andrea Widburg

Leno harks back to a time in America—the 1990s and first decade of the 21st century—that seems like a distant memory. Like Johnny Carson, the late-night host who preceded him, Leno’s humor was based on the premise that Americans are all willing to laugh at political foibles regardless of their, or the politicians’, party allegiance.

Back when late-night comedy was enjoyable :

. . ."With Leno’s retirement, late-night TV became a leftist wasteland. Even if he wasn’t the numbers leader, Jon Stewart set the tone for what was to come: Make a nasty remark about a Republican and then wait for the trained seals in the audience to bark out their cued laughter. Stewart eschewed wit or charm. This was “comedy” for the initiated.

"Stewart’s show gave rise to three other mean-spirited leftists: John Oliver, Samantha Bee, and Stephen Colbert, all of whom knew that their jobs required an unending stream of venom directed at Republicans and, especially, at Donald Trump. Indeed, the nastiness on cable TV shows infected the networks. By 2016, Jimmy Fallon was forced to apologize for daring to have then-presidential candidate Donald Trump on his show and actually treating him with friendliness and respect.

"I wish Jay Leno a swift, uneventful recovery. I also wish he were back on TV when late-night comics brought America together in shared laughter over the foolishness and foibles of the American political scene."

Now here is quality political humor, involving Reagan, Chinese President HU, Secretary of the interior James Watt, Yasser Arafat.

So far above anything Colbert, Letterman, Kimmel or any other nameless ones are capable of. TD

Maybe America Hasn’t Suffered Enough

 Scott McKay

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.

"He initially responded, "I hope that the first sex changes will be made to the children of those who voted for this abomination," and he suggested lawmakers there may as well "legalize pedophiles and complete their crimes" against nature.

"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.". . .

Related: Bizarre rules that North Koreans must follow to stay alive in Kim Jong-Un's regime (timesnownews.com)

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

Legal Insurrection

. . ."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.". . .

MSNBC Warns of DeSantis Implementing GOP, Fox's 'Autocratic System' Goal

Newsbusters   "Is there something about being a historian on cable news that makes you say absurd things? History Prof. Ruth Ben-Ghiat joined the Saturday edition of Velshi on MSNBC to warn that Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, or whoever “Fox News and Murdoc and the GOP elites” support intend to install an autocracy that will make it easier to wage coups. Meanwhile, the election results were said to reflect “reality” because a bunch of candidates won believe the country is for more than just Christian white men.

"Host Ali Velshi had asked about “election deniers” like Arizona’s Kari Lake, but Ben-Ghiat wanted to talk about someone else, “But we can't forget about that and also, the anointment of Ron DeSantis is very worrying to me because he is a smoother and more disciplined extremist and so we can never forget that the ultimate goal whoever, you know, Fox News and Murdoch and the GOP elites protect—protect and proclaim, the goal is to make it easier to have an autocratic system prevail.”. . .

MSNBC's Ali Velshi shows us the reporting we can expect from that channel:

When you've lost Scott Adams...

Hot Air  " Earlier this morning, David looked at the startling way in which Winsome Sears cut her ties with Donald Trump after rising to prominence as a staunch soldier in the

Trump army. That clearly caught some people by surprise, though not everyone. Sears wasn’t alone, however. Another fervent Trump supporter has appeared to similarly throw in the towel. Famed cartoonist Scott Adams, best known for his iconic Dilbert series, made a very brief but apparently definitive declaration on Twitter yesterday. He was responding to news that Trump was attacking Virginia Governor Glenn Youngkin for reasons that weren’t entirely clear.  This was apparently a bridge too far for Adams, who simply typed out three words. “Yeah, I’m out.” (Raw Story)

Dilbert cartoonist Scott Adams has stuck by Donald Trump through countless scandals throughout the years, from getting caught on camera boasting about sexually assaulting women to getting impeached for trying to shake down the Ukrainian government for dirt on political rivals, and for getting impeached again for inciting a deadly riot at the United States Capitol building.

Now, however, Adams on Friday said he’s finally had enough, and it came after Trump unloaded on Republican Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin for an unspecified reason.

“Yeah, I’m out,” Adams wrote in response to Trump’s attack on Youngkin.

Here’s the tweet heard ’round the world.

Yeah, I'm out. https://t.co/4nFqNywxJ7

— Scott Adams (@ScottAdamsSays) November 11, 2022

Jonathan Turley Ruins Biden's Snarky 'Lots of Luck' Wish to GOP About Hunter Probe With Perfect Analogy

 RedState  "Among the politically-related opinions that I most respect are those from liberal-leaning professionals who rise above their personal political views and tell it like it is, regardless of party. Legal scholar and Fox News contributor Jonathan Turley is on that list. We’ll get to Professor Turley in a minute but first, Joe Biden.

"During Biden’s midterm elections post-mortem on Wednesday, he was asked about the possibility of Republicans conducting congressional investigations — if the GOP wins the majority in either chamber or both, that is — into the Biden Family Business, notably Hunter Biden‘s shady business dealings. Biden smugly shot back: “Good luck with that,” suggesting the American people want to move on. Here’s Joe:

Lots of luck in your senior year, as my coach used to say.

Look, I think the American public wants to move on and get things done for them. And, uh, I heard that it was reported … many times that Republicans were saying — the former president said — how many times you gonna impeach Biden?

I think the American people will look at all of that for what it is. It’s almost comedy.

Takes gall, huh?

"Uh-huh, Joe. You mean the same way TDS-riddled Nancy Pelosi House Democrats “moved on” from the hollow Russian “collusion” hoax? And impeachment? You are aware that the Democrats impeached Trump twice — both times, solely for political expediency — and the meaningless Jan. 6 Committee charade, right Joe? Wait— maybe you don’t remember any of that, but nonetheless.

"As luck would have it, Biden’s cocky response didn’t escape the attention of Jonathan Turley, who on Thursday dropped a column titled: Washington’s Pandora’s Box: The Opening of the Hunter Biden Laptop Could Expose the Cottage Industry of Influence Peddling.". . .

No worse choice for president

TO THE EDITOR:  "Biden is a person with a mental disorder, a sociopath. His behavior shows no regard for right and wrong and completely ignores the needs of American citizens.-

"When Biden speaks, the mainstream media say that’s just Joe's storytelling, but most know it’s plain out lying, deception, and manipulation.

"Just a “ very few” examples of Biden's obsessive lies:

*I earned 3 degrees and finished in the top half of my law school class.

*I was jailed in South Africa while on my way to visit Nelson Mandela.

“I used to drive an 18-wheeler.

*Gas prices in California have always been $7 per gallon.

*Powerful sanctions have stopped Russia.

*Our economy roared back faster than anyone predicted.

*My tax spending plans will lower the deficit.

*My house burned down with my wife in it.

*My son Beau, died in action while in Afghanistan.

"
And my personal favorite is "To all Americans, I will be honest with you, as I’ve always promised." -. . .

Media Propagandists Will Never Play Fair, No Matter How Quality The GOP Candidate Or Lousy The Democrat

 The Federalist

"Donald Trump is neither a kingmaker nor the palace’s HR director charged with hiring the next court jester. He didn’t make the Republican Party, and he didn’t destroy her fortunes. And Trump did not downgrade the red tsunami to a splash. The schizophrenic election results that included both Trump-endorsed winners and losers show that. 

"Like all else in politics, the truth lies somewhere in the middle. But no matter where that line falls, conservatives need to accept the reality that the Democrat Party, Fetterman loyals, faux Republicans, and the corrupt corporate media don’t care: They aren’t going to like us, they won’t represent us fairly, and they aren’t going to vote Republican. 

"A Democrat Party that props up an elderly man with obvious signs of mental decay to run as the party’s presidential candidate cares only about power. And voters casting their ballots for the same man, or the even more cognitively challenged Democrat candidate who just won the Pennsylvania U.S. Senate seat, see only one thing: the “D” next to the candidate’s name. 

"The establishment press likewise plays for team Democrat, and conservatives won’t change that even if they nominate the most milquetoast moderate candidate willing to don a scarlet R. Enter stage right, 2012 presidential candidate Mitt Romney. The press portrayed the inoffensive Romney as an animal abuser and denigrator of the women brimming over from his business binders. 

"The media will never play fair, as CNN’s Candy Crowley established when she moderated the Obama-Romney presidential debate. So in the pocket for the Democrat Party was the press that Crowley took no pause before conducting a live and incorrect fact-check of Romney when the GOP contender exposed then-Democrat President Barack Obama’s delay in branding the deadly Sept. 11 assault on the U.S. Consulate in Libya as an act of “terror” — something Obama falsely claimed he had done during his White House Rose Garden press conference held the following day.". . .