Monday, January 9, 2023

Biden Chooses ‘Wall’ for Photo of First Border Visit — After Ending Trump’s Project

Is Joe actually hoping to use the wall to show how effective he has been? The "Biden Wall"?

 Breitbart

If only President Trump were around to finish the beautiful wall,

"President Joe Biden tweeted an image of his first-ever border visit Sunday that featured part of the “wall,” or border fence, in El Paso, Texas — after he and his party shut down President Donald Trump’s border wall.

"Biden ran in 2020 on a promise to build “not another foot” of Trump’s border project after Democrats refused to fund it in 2019 and claimed that it was motivated by racism and the desire to keep brown or black people out.

"As soon as he took office, Biden halted construction of the high bollard fencing that Trump had been building along the wall — though the Biden administration later quietly filled in some gaps that had been left behind.

"Yet with thousands of migrants pouring across the border daily, and millions entering the U.S., often illegally, since he took office, Biden was under pressure to visit the border for the first time in a half century of politics.

"He chose to tweet an image of himself doing so — from the official presidential account — flanked by Border Patrol officers and walking along the fence that exists in El Paso, one of the most secure points on the border.". . .

Biden’s New Border Strategy: Blame Republicans First  . . ."Remember that from day one, Biden insisted that the border was secure. At least, that’s what he’s had his Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas tell Congress repeatedly. Mayorkas did so as recently as November, a month when border patrol agents “encountered” more than 233,000 border jumpers – which was 33% more than the previous November, 224% more than November 2021, and 448% higher than November 2020.

"For the most part, Biden simply ignored the issue, and with Democrats in charge of Congress, he knew there’d be no accountability. Plus, he could count on the media to ignore the issue.". . .

As with Obamacare, Biden counts on the ignorance of American citizens. TD

Read It: Texas Gov. Abbott Hands Over Biden a Blunt Letter as President Visits Border

“Even the city you visit has been sanitized of the migrant camps which had overrun downtown El Paso because your administration wants to shield you from the chaos that Texans experience on a daily basis,” Abbott said, alleging that the chaos was the direct result of the Biden administration failing to enforce federal immigration laws.


 


NBC regrets paying Jimmy Fallon $80 million as Fox News’ Gutfeld beats Tonight Show in ratings: report

There could be another ratings shakeup on the way in the wake of Trevor Noah retiring as host of The Daily Show. It was announced this week that Chelsea Handler, D.L. Hughley, Leslie Jones, Sarah Silverman, and Wanda Sykes will all be guest hosts over the next few weeks as the network makes a decision on the next permanent host based on the performances. 

2023 The Post Millennial "Jimmy Fallon’s "Tonight Show" is trailing in the ratings to Fox News’ "Gutfeld!" causing NBC executives to question the wisdom of spending heavily on Fallon’s contract extension.

"According to RadarOnline, almost 19 months after NBC signed an $80 million five-year contract extension with Fallon, "The Tonight Show" is drawing under 1.3 million viewers, less than half the audience of "Gutfeld!"

"The "Saturday Night Live" alum, 48, had 11 million viewers when he first took over the show from Jay Leno but is now also being beaten in the ratings by the "Late Show" on CBS hosted by Stephen Colbert.

"A source told the outlet that the brass at the Peacock network regret the extension and that "The network knows the days are gone when tens of millions of people would tune in for 'The Tonight Show' but they were counting on Jimmy to do better than this!"

"Fallon was panned on social media over the weekend for a recent musical number about a new Covid variant.". . .

Dianny’s 10 Most Tiresome People of 2022

 Dianny (Who does his own illustrations)


1. Liz Cheney  "Australian news anchor Rita Panahi liked to say of then-President Trump that he is “blessed with truly moronic opponents.”

"And when it comes to Liz Cheney, Panahi’s observation has never been truer.

Liz has taken Trump hatred to new levels, plumbing the depths of Trump derangement no one dared to plumb before.

So crippled by her all-consuming obsession to destroy Donald Trump, Liz has become Captain Ahab, willing to stop at nothing to finally land the white whale, even if it means blowing up her own political career.

By the time the January 6 committee began airing their primetime Made-for-TV specials in June, I was already so sick of Liz’s monomaniacal moralizing that I couldn’t bring myself to watch even a single clip from the hearings if she was a featured speaker.

When Wyoming primary voters finally had a chance to weigh in on their congresswoman’s raison d’être, they sent a clear message by handing the nominal Republican a 37-point defeat.

Pro-tip, Liz. If you’re going to blow up your bridges in your quest to bring down Trump, maybe wait until you’re off the bridge before you press the plunger.

Rather than taking a lesson from her crushing defeat, the sanctimonious blowhard used her concession speech to declare herself the modern-day Abraham Lincoln.

Yeah, I don’t think so. If there is any politician Liz Cheney resembles, it’s RussiaGate promoter and fellow Jan 6 committee member, Adam Schiff.

. . ."The fact that Liz is genuinely considering running for President in 2024 shows you just how clueless and out of touch she is. Sure, her state rejected her by nearly 38 points, but gosh, darn it, the rest of the country is sure to hop aboard the Pequod and sail the seas with Captain Liz Ahab. And like every other anti-Trumper to come over the transom, Liz is able to inhabit this delusional world of hers thanks in large part to the American corporate news media that is always on hand to elevate anyone who hates Trump as much as they do.

4. Joe Biden: 2022 was the year I got sick and tired of the lectures on unity from a man who calls half the country domestic terrorists who are a threat to our “democracy.”

6. Adam Kinzinger "I don’t know what I find more tiresome about Adam Kinzinger, his pretending that he sacrificed his House seat by standing up for the Truth or his Twitter tough guy act

UNCONDITIONAL SURRENDER: Biden’s catastrophic legacy in Afghanistan

Yet it matters not one bit to Democrats

It’s a year later, and it’s still hard to fathom what we did here. And now we have the Taliban in charge doing what they were doing 20-plus years ago: providing sanctuary to al Qaeda.”

 Linda Rivera  "BEYOND TRAGIC: Brother of U.S. Marine, who was killed in Afghanistan due to Joe Biden’s botched withdrawal, commits suicide at memorial for his fallen little brother

"You’ll recall that 13 US service members were killed and many more were wounded last August in a suicide blast in Kabul because of Joe Biden’s corruption and incompetence. Lance Corporal Kareem Nikoui’s brother committed suicide on August 9th – one year after his little brother was killed because of Joe Biden’s disastrous retreat from Afghanistan.

"Gateway Pundit; Shana Chappell is the mother of slain U.S. Marine Lance Cpl. Kareem Nikoui. Lance Cpl. Nikoui was killed last year when a suicide bomber was allowed into the inner perimeter of the Kabul Airport and blew himself up killing 13 American servicemen and women and over 100 Afghans……….

Fox News contributor Gen. Jack Keane (Ret) slammed the Biden administration for the Taliban takeover of Afghanistan and the damaging effects the U.S. absence has had in the region.

 

The BETRAYALS never stop  . . ."At least one Republican House lawmaker, Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene of Georgia, has drafted impeachment articles against the president."

. . .“ 'I don’t say this lightly and I’ve never said it about anybody else – any other leader in this position. People have been talking about impeaching President Biden,” Kemp told Levin.
Col. Richard Kemp: Jihadists around the world are celebrating Video

“ 'I don’t believe President Biden should be impeached. He’s the commander in chief of the U.S. armed forces who’s just essentially surrendered to the Taliban: He shouldn’t be impeached. He should be court-martialed for betraying the United States of America and the United States armed forces.”. . .

Sunday, January 8, 2023

Know what gaslighting is? Weasel Zippers shows us all and Democrats are just fine with it.

 DHS Secretary Claims Biden Has Managed Border “In An Orderly Way”…




Biden: Republicans Who Campaign On Securing The Border Are “Extreme”

Extreme? I'll give you extreme!

Biden Jokes He’d Like To See “Peace And Security” When He Visits Southern Border For First Time Ever…   A thinly veiled warning to authorities at the border. Why does anyone respect this man's hints?

George Santos "has nothing on our Fabulist-in-Chief in the White House."

 Republican George Santos who ran as 'openly gay' was previously married to a woman: Report | Washington Examiner

The Biggest Liar in American Political History Inspired George Santos - The American Spectator | USA News and Politics   "The representative-elect 

Walter Mitty  "The original "Walter Mitty" was created by humorist James Thurber, who wrote the famous story "The Secret Life of Walter Mitty." In Walter's real life, he is a reticent, henpecked proofreader befuddled by everyday life. But in his fantasies, Walter imagines himself as various daring and heroic characters. Thurber's popular story, which was first published in The New Yorker in 1939, was later made into a movie. Walter Mitty has since become the eponym for dreamers who imagine themselves in dramatic or heroic situations."

. . ."George Santos never plagiarized speeches given by John F. Kennedy, Robert Kennedy, and Hubert Humphrey.

"George Santos never angrily told a voter questioning his credentials, “I think I probably have a much higher IQ than you do,” before rattling off such false accolades as winning “the outstanding student in the political science department” at the University of Delaware, where he “graduated with three degrees,” before going “to law school on a full academic scholarship” and finishing “in the top half.”

"George Santos never claimed that he played football for the University of Delaware.

"George Santos never slandered a truck driver by saying he “drank his lunch” to fictionalize a very real family tragedy.

"George Santos never boasted of confronting, chain in hand, the notorious gang leader Corn Pop after a legendary incident concerning improper diving-board use at the community pool.

"George Santos never plagiarized speeches given by John F. Kennedy, Robert Kennedy, and Hubert Humphrey.

"George Santos never angrily told a voter questioning his credentials, “I think I probably have a much higher IQ than you do,” before rattling off such false accolades as winning “the outstanding student in the political science department” at the University of Delaware, where he “graduated with three degrees,” before going “to law school on a full academic scholarship” and finishing “in the top half.”

"George Santos never claimed that he played football for the University of Delaware.

"George Santos never slandered a truck driver by saying he “drank his lunch” to fictionalize a very real family tragedy.

" George Santos never boasted of confronting, chain in hand, the notorious gang leader Corn Pop after a legendary incident concerning improper diving-board use at the community pool.

"George Santos never described himself as having been “raised in the Puerto Rican community at home.”

"George Santos never, to cover up courting another man’s wife, concocted a cornball story of a chance sighting of a woman in an airport advertisement leading to a date to see A Man and a Woman, a movie about a widower given a second chance at love, which in turn led to marriage.

"George Santos never expropriated the life story of British politician Neil Kinnock by pointing to “my ancestors who worked in the coal mines in northeastern Pennsylvania and would come up after 12 hours and play football for four hours.”

"If only George Santos said any of this, then maybe Democrats would quit calling for the congressman-elect’s resignation and instead nominate him for the presidency.". . .

The horrifying revelations of the Idaho student murders; What the Idaho student murder investigation tells us about how criminal justice should work.

 VOX

The probable cause affidavit for the arrest, released Thursday after Kohberger’s first court appearance, sheds new light on an extraordinarily horrific crime and the equally extraordinary criminal investigation that followed it. What finally led to Kohberger’s arrest was simply excellent investigative work: a mix of well-organized policing, groundbreaking forensics using genetic genealogy, and old-fashioned detective work. 

. . .“ 'Impressive” might be an understatement: The swiftness with which police managed to identify, carefully build a strong case against Kohberger, track him across the country, and arrest him, all while working with multiple agencies and somehow managing to keep his identity from leaking to the public, is extremely rare. It’s even more extraordinary given how many victims were involved, how unusual the crime was, how many agencies were involved, and how intense the public and media scrutiny was.

"The triumph of the investigation, however, is tempered by the realization that Kohberger seems to have been working the criminal justice system in order to become a better criminal. Each half of the resolution to this case is a cold counter to the other: On the one hand, a picture of what we all, desperately, want policing to look like; on the other, a picture of what the criminal justice system too often becomes: exploitable.

"Still, it’s easy to imagine this investigation becoming a major case study for what effective policing can and should look like: law enforcement working with the community and with each other, and building the case methodically, based solely on the evidence.

"Perhaps most unusual of all is just how strong the case against Kohberger appears from the outset. Eyewitness? Check. Video surveillance of his car? Check. DNA match? Check. Implicating cell phone records? Loads. Even without the added circumstantial evidence of Kohberger’s own obsession with criminal psychology, this would be a hard defense to mount.

"And we know all of this just from the probable cause affidavit — which typically only contains enough information to make the case for an arrest. The trial process itself will likely reveal much more information about the crime and the alleged criminal.". . .

Soros Prosecutors Are A Menace To Society, From Virginia To New York And Everywhere Else

 


https://lidblog.com/soros-prosecutors/. . ."Descano is being sued for deprivation of civil rights under federal law by the mother of an 11-year-old rape victim, whose attacker Descano let go on a lesser charge.

"And this is just one of the local prosecutors funded by George Soros to push for less sentencing, fewer prosecutions, and more leniency for criminals. And it has ripple effects across state lines.". . .

. . ."According to a Times Union analysis of New York crime data, from July 2020 to June 2021, about 4 percent, or almost 3,500, of those 98,145 released under the law went on to commit violent crimes: “there were 3,460 cases in which adults were rearrested on violent felony charges, including 773 with a firearm.”

"These included “cases in which adults were released after being charged with offenses for which judges previously could have set bail or ordered them held in custody.”

"Even before the law’s implementation in 2020, New York state judges were letting criminals go in 2019, with 25,000 estimated to have been released beforehand, according to PIX 11.

"In his campaign for Governor in 2022, U.S. Rep. Lee Zeldin (R-N.Y.) blasted New York State’s cashless bail reforms, enacted in 2020, calling for overhauling it. And with good reason, as the state and city governments were unleashing a crime wave upon their own people. It nearly put Zeldin into the Governor’s mansion in Albany—and in four years, it might again, especially if things don’t improve."

Super Arrogant Michelle Obama Claims She’s America’s “Forever First Lady”

 It’s truly pathetic to see Barack and Michelle Obama going around thinking that they were so much more than they really were to our country. They were a burden on our nation for eight years, and instead of doing what every other First Family did when their time in the White House was done and leave Washington alone, the Obamas continue to try and wiggle their way back into the spotlight. It’s pretty disgusting to watch.

Yet she holds fast to the title "America's forever victim" .

Earlier this year, former First Lady Michelle Obama told a crowded room of students that she was America’s “forever First Lady.” As you likely are aware of by now, Conservative actor James Woods is somewhat of a stickler when it comes to liberals getting their daily dose of reality. He was quick to remind the former First Lady that she was just that… America’s former First Lady.

"Breitbart News reported at the time that Mrs. Obama was visiting Temple University in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania when she was speaking to a room full of high school students on May 2. The students were preparing to go off to college, and were attending a College Signing Day event that Mrs. Obama and numerous other liberal celebrities attended. Breitbart wrote that “Robert De Niro, Rebel Wilson, Bradley Cooper, Karlie Kloss, Ciara, Janelle Monae and Zendaya” were all in attendance.

"The event was meant to be about the students who would soon be transitioning into college, but the former First Lady had to make it all about herself. She took the stage and started building herself up.

“ 'The only reason I am standing here today is because I was where you were way back when. I was a kid who grew up on the south side of Chicago. I went to public schools my entire life, and when I decided that I wanted to go to college and I applied — Do you know what one of my college counselors told me? She told me don’t set my sights too high. Yeah, she told me that some of the schools that I was trying to apply to, maybe they were too hard for me,” Michelle said while on stage.

“ 'Shoot, when Barack and I set foot in the White House, it was a struggle. There were a lot of people who told us that we weren’t supposed to be in the White House. That we couldn’t handle the pressure, that we weren’t ready. So I’m telling you, they will doubt you today and they will doubt you for the rest of your life, but you will have some struggle and that’s okay,” she continued.

“ 'I’m not one of those doubters. I know you have everything it takes to succeed. I know you are me, and if I can be standing here as your forever first lady, then you can do anything you put your mind to,” Michelle stated, as reported by Fox29 News.". . .



Scorning Israel and Other Delusions of the Left

 Steve Apfel

I urge the SPLC to immediately put BlackLivesMatter on their list of hate groups. BLM is a Jew hating, White hating, Israel hating, conservative Black hating, violence promoting, dangerous Soros funded extremist group of haters. Morton Klein 

 . . ."Besides, a week is held to be a long time in politics; the government may defy the predicted plague on the house of Israel. For one thing allies and investors could force moderation on it. For another, US Secretary of State Blinken has praised the election and promised that Washington will not turn on Israel, negating the hue and cry from sour grape opponents.

"What is a crook and fanatic or two in government when not too many in the free world are  better. The President of America heads a crime family, for heaven sake.  

"As regards elections, how many countries can better Israel’s in terms of free and fair? Not the US. The Twitter files courtesy of Elon Musk prove censorship and collusion to rig Biden’s 2020 narrow victory over Trump.  In short, why make Israel a lone wolf offender?". . .

. . ."Such pro-Israel activists as they are, they pleaded with the Biden Administration: treat Israel’s government as illegitimate, observing the well-trod path of Democrats who rejected the legitimacy of Donald Trump’s 2016 election. They called themselves “the Resistance,” as if Trump headed another imaginary pro-Nazi Vichy regime. Hillary Clinton, Jerrold Nadler, Joe Biden and Jimmy Carter repeatedly called him an “illegitimate” president. For three years they fixated on ousting the imposter with their Russian collusion hoax, going so far as tasking a special undertaker named Robert Mueller to nail down Trump’s casket lid once and for all. Talk of threats to democracy. The pot calling the kettle black, wouldn’t you say?". . .

Don't Hate Israel for Its Weapons       . . ."The anti-Israel cabal in Britain refused to arm the Jews of Palestine.  President Truman's administration and the U.N. embargoed weapons shipments to the fledgling state.  Sanctions lasted in some form into the 1960s.  France put a weapons embargo on Israel in 1967, blaming Israel's pre-emptive attack.  President Johnson changed the relationship with Israel.  By 1968, the government signed deals with Israel to send Skyhawks, Hawk missiles, and Phantom jets and made loan guarantees to purchase them.

"The turning point came in 1973.  The Yom Kippur War was the signature event that sparked the explosive growth of Israel's domestic defense and weapons industry.  Henry Kissinger and James Schlesinger were disseisors in the Nixon administration.  They self-enforced an arms embargo on Israel while the Soviets supplied and re-supplied Arab forces.  Never again, Israeli leaders swore, will the State be held hostage and without its own arms and weapons.  By 1988, JStor, an academic journal, reported Israel as "home to an impressive military-industrial sector which ranks in the top ten in total exports.' ". . .

Saturday, January 7, 2023

Try to enjoy Liberal America as it is

 















The Coup We Never Knew, by Victor Davis Hanson

And what has corrupted the Democrat Party?

Victor Davis Hanson

Did someone or something seize control of the United States?

What happened to the U.S. border? Where did it go? Who erased it? Why and how did 5 million people enter our country illegally? Did Congress secretly repeal our immigration laws? Did President Joe Biden issue an executive order allowing foreign nationals to walk across the border and reside in the United States as they pleased?

Since when did money not have to be paid back? Who insisted that the more dollars the federal government printed, the more prosperity would follow? When did America embrace zero interest? Why do we believe $30 trillion in debt is no big deal?

When did clean-burning, cheap, and abundant natural gas become the equivalent of dirty coal?  How did prized natural gas that had granted America's wishes of energy self-sufficiency, reduced pollution, and inexpensive electricity become almost overnight a pariah fuel whose extraction was a war against nature? Which lawmakers, which laws, and which votes of the people declared natural gas development and pipelines near criminal?

Was it not against federal law to swarm the homes of Supreme Court justices, to picket and to intimidate their households in efforts to affect their rulings? How then with impunity did bullies surround the homes of Justices Brett Kavanaugh, Samuel Alito, Amy Coney Barrett, Neil Gorsuch, John Roberts, and Clarence Thomas - furious over a court decision on abortion? How could these mobs so easily throng our justices' homes, with placards declaring "Off with their d--s"?

Since when did Americans create a government Ministry of Truth? And on whose orders did the FBI contract private news organizations to censor stories it did not like and writers whom it feared?

How did we wake up one morning to new customs of impeaching a president over a phone call? Of the speaker of the House tearing up the State of the Union address on national television? Of barring congressional members from serving on their assigned congressional committees?

When did we assume the FBI had the right to subvert the campaign of a candidate it disliked?  Was it legal suddenly for one presidential candidate to hire a foreign ex-spy to subvert the campaign of her rival?

Was some state or federal law passed that allowed biological males to compete in female sports?  Did Congress enact such a law? Did the Supreme Court guarantee that biological male students could shower in gym locker rooms with biological women? Were women ever asked to redefine the very sports they had championed?

When did the government pass a law depriving Americans of their freedom during a pandemic?  In America can health officials simply cancel rental contracts or declare loan payments in suspension? How could it become illegal for mom-and-pop stores to sell flowers or shoes during quarantine but not so for Walmart or Target?

When did we assume the FBI had the right to subvert the campaign of a candidate it disliked?  Was it legal suddenly for one presidential candidate to hire a foreign ex-spy to subvert the campaign of her rival?

Was some state or federal law passed that allowed biological males to compete in female sports?  Did Congress enact such a law? Did the Supreme Court guarantee that biological male students could shower in gym locker rooms with biological women? Were women ever asked to redefine the very sports they had championed?

When did the government pass a law depriving Americans of their freedom during a pandemic?  In America can health officials simply cancel rental contracts or declare loan payments in suspension? How could it become illegal for mom-and-pop stores to sell flowers or shoes during quarantine but not so for Walmart or Target?

Since when did the people decide that 70 percent of voters would not cast their ballots on Election Day?  Was this revolutionary change the subject of a national debate, a heated congressional session, or the votes of dozens of state legislatures?  What happened to Election Night returns? Did the fact that Americans created more electronic ballots and computerized tallies make it take so much longer to tabulate the votes?

When did the nation abruptly decide that theft is not a crime, and assault is not a felony? How can thieves walk out with bags of stolen goods, without the wrath of angry shoppers, much less fear of the law?

Was there ever a national debate about the terrifying flight from Afghanistan?  Who planned it and why?

What happened to the once-trusted FBI? Why almost overnight did its directors decide to mislead Congress, to deceive judges with concocted tales from fake dossiers and with doctored writs? Did Congress pass a law that our federal leaders in the FBI or CIA could lie with impunity under oath?

Who redefined our military and with whose consent? Who proclaimed that our chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff could call his Chinese Communist counterpart to warn him that America's president was supposedly unstable? Was it always true that retired generals routinely labeled their commander-in-chief as a near Nazi, a Mussolini, an adherent of the tools of Auschwitz?

Were Americans ever asked whether their universities could discriminate against their sons and daughters based on their race? How did it become physically dangerous to speak the truth on campus? Whose idea was it to reboot racial segregation and bias as "theme houses," "safe spaces," and "diversity"? How did that happen in America?

How did a virus cancel the Constitution? Did the lockdowns rob us of our sanity? Or was it the woke hysteria that ignited our collective madness?

We are beginning to wake up from a nightmare of a country we no longer recognize, and from a coup, we never knew.