"Watch me", says Hunter's father

 

Biden's 'watch me moment' will haunt him in 2024 after recent fall, Republican strategists say (yahoo.com)  "Republican strategists are growing increasingly concerned over President Biden's ability to serve the nation after he took a tumble last week at an Air Force event, less than a year after he told voters to "watch me" if they don't believe he has what it takes to fulfill his duties for another term in office.

"Several Republicans have questioned whether the 80-year-old Biden – the oldest person to serve as president of the U.S. – is physically and mentally up to the intense demands of the White House for another four years. However, many of those questioning his abilities had done so well before he fell at the commencement ceremony at the U.S. Air Force Academy in Colorado last Thursday.

"Last November, while fielding questions from reporters at the White House, Biden dismissed concerns from two-thirds of American voters who said in a poll that he should not seek re-election. "What is your message to them and how does that factor into your final decision about whether or not to run for re-election?" one reporter asked at the time.

" 'It doesn't" Biden replied. Asked once more at the time what his message would be to those who oppose his endeavors to seek another term, Biden said, "Watch me."

NY Times article on Biden’s age ripped as ‘slobbering,’ ‘embarrassing’ after latest fall | Fox News  

"At the same time, he is trim and fit, exercises five days a week and does not drink," it added. "He has at times exhibited striking stamina, such as when he flew to Poland then boarded a nine-hour train ride to make a secret visit to Kyiv, spent hours on the ground, then endured another nine-hour train ride and a flight to Warsaw. A study of his schedule by Mr. Biden’s aides shows that he has traveled slightly more in the first few months of his third year in office than Mr. Obama did in his."

 Biden’s falls are a serious issue that may hurt Dems — and even the nation (msn.com)

. . ."Biden is 80 years old, is in decline and has a stiff, shuffling gait that makes you hold your breath when he’s negotiating stairs or any place with potential obstacles. At his age, once the falls start, they usually don’t stop.

"Democrats should be thinking long and hard whether this is the vessel they want to ride into 2024 — and to portray as up for performing the job of president of the United States in a second term extending all the way until January 2029.". . .

“We hope and wish Joe Biden a swift recovery from any injuries he may have sustained, but we also wish the United States of America a swift recovery from the injuries it has sustained because of Joe Biden and his policies,” said Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, who is now also a presidential candidate.

Joe Biden’s worst gaffes of all time (nypost.com)

“ 'Every once in a while I make a mistake,” President Biden said in May 2022. “Like, well, once a speech.”

"He was being modest. Over five decades in public life, the former vice president and longtime US senator built a reputation as America’s premier gaffe-meister, winning the White House in 2020 despite a long history of racist comments, snide asides, and enraged diatribes against voters.

"And the rigors of the office have, if anything, worsened the problem for Biden, 79, the oldest president in US history. 

"Since his inauguration, Biden’s verbal stumbles, overblown claims, and outright fabrications have caused endless headaches for the staffers who must clean up — or try to prevent — his rhetorical messes.". . .

Can Our Culture Even Be Saved at This Point? –

  PJ Media

"Back in the late 1980s and early ’90s, conservatives boycotted — a lot. Organizations regularly sent out snail-mail letters listing companies that deserved to be rebuked. Back then, it was mostly for supporting Planned Parenthood or pushing smut on TV.

"Who can forget the outrage over David Caruso and Dennis Franz baring their butts on NYPD Blue in 1993? That seems relatively tame compared to the disgusting content portrayed on TV these days, especially on the thousands of streaming channels. Conservatives back then argued that nudity shouldn’t be shown on TV because children might be watching. The other side argued that kids shouldn’t be awake at 10 p.m., and anyway, what’s wrong with a little nudity? Despite dozens and perhaps hundreds of boycotts, Dennis Franz bared his butt on network TV anyway.

"Reflecting on the series in 2018, Franz said, “The partial nudity was one of the requests that [producer] Steve [Bochco] strongly asked for in the beginning of the production from the network.”

“He wanted to push the envelope quite a bit. So a lot was made of that. I always had great respect and admiration for his uncompromising artistic vision. He just didn’t want people to tell him what he couldn’t do. When you think about it, a great painter, you can’t tell them, ‘You can’t have this or that color.’ That’s the way Steven was as a writer and as a visionary.”

"It’s all about “art” and “pushing the envelope,” the culture be damned — literally. These people believe it’s their moral duty to change society — to rid it of all social norms and our antiquated and bigoted values.". . .

"Now, twenty years later, nearly everything coming out of Hollywood is designed to offend and push that proverbial envelope. You can’t let your kids watch cartoons or a Disney movie without them being subject to left-wing groupthink and indoctrination. It’s all about shaping public morality — by promoting immorality. More specifically, they are degrading public morality and replacing it with a strict adherence to woke ideology. A movement that once preached freedom and reveled in standing against “the man” has become “the man,” and we’re now all expected to bow to their idols.

"We fight against a culture that is increasingly liberal and depraved. We’re no longer a nation with a shared Judeo-Christian ethic. Wokeism is the progressive god, and a loss of revenue is the price they willingly pay to appease their deity. Unless and until we can mainstream our values again — and that’s a big if — our culture will continue to deteriorate.

"I’m a Christian, so I take a longer view of these things. The Bible tells us that “in the last days there will come times of difficulty. For people will be lovers of self, lovers of money, proud, arrogant, abusive, disobedient to their parents, ungrateful, unholy, heartless, unappeasable, slanderous, without self-control, brutal, not loving good, treacherous, reckless, swollen with conceit, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God, having the appearance of godliness but denying its power.” That sure sounds familiar, doesn’t it?". . .

Gutfeld: Democrat San Fran put out a glitzy propaganda ad. The reality clips. OMG -

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‘Gutfeld!’ panelists discuss San Francisco’s $6 million tourism ad to incentivize people to return to the city. See clips below…  Democrats destroy EVERYTHING they control.  – see the clips below this top video by Gutfeld"

 https://twitter.com/i/status/1665413926195015680

This is hilarious and so democrat. San Francisco tourism video ad minus homeless, drugs, and crime and the stench of urine, feces, and weed. “In case you’re looking for nice place to take your family and get shot”🤣🤣 pic.twitter.com/fSnDyaXcB5

— • ᗰISᑕᕼIᗴᖴ ™ • (@4Mischief) June 1, 2023

Los Angeles School District Urges Students To Celebrate Pride Month With ‘LGBTQ+’ Coloring Books, ‘Ally Pledge Cards,’ And ‘LGBTQ+ Bingo’

Be afraid; be very afraid

The Daily Wire

"The Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD) encouraged students to celebrate Pride Month with coloring books of “LGBTQ icons,” creating “ally pledge cards,” and playing “LGBTQ+ Bingo.”

"An interactive graphic posted to the LAUSD Human Relations, Diversity, and Equity website urges students to “Celebrate Pride” and offers several suggestions on how to do so. The coloring book was produced by the Gay, Lesbian, Straight Education Network (GLSEN), an organization that says it works “to prompt LGBT cultural inclusion” in schools.

"The first illustration in the coloring book is of “We’Wha,” an “Indigenous Two-Spirit Zuni tribe member from New Mexico.” The coloring book goes on to say, “As a child being two-spirit, We’Wha learned a mixture of Zuni feminine and masculine traditional roles.' ” . . .

Bookworm Beat

Meanwhile, back in America: Texas Gov. Signs Law Banning Transgender Procedures On Kids… | Weasel Zippers:  Texas Becomes Largest State To Ban Transgender Procedures On Kids | The Daily Wire

. . ."With Abbott’s signature, the Lone Star State joins at least 18 other states that have banned transgender surgeries for minors, with many prohibiting both surgical and chemical procedures. 

"The Texas law says that the procedures are prohibited “for the purpose of transitioning a child’s biological  sex as determined by the sex organs, chromosomes, and endogenous profiles of the child or affirming the child’s perception of the child’s sex if that perception is inconsistent with the child’s  biological sex.”

"The legislation took a while to get through both chambers of the Texas legislature as Democrats used parliamentary tactics to stall it.". . . 

Bookworm Beat 6/1/23: An over-the-top illustration edition

 - Bookworm Room

News in Brief

 Megyn Kelly Tears Up - Vows to No Longer Use Preferred Pronouns (VIDEO) | The Gateway Pundit | by Mike LaChance  . . ."MEGYN KELLY: I for one will not be celebrating this dishonesty. In fact, I’m in a very different place when it comes to this entire issue.

"And that is the subject of today’s opening – Why I’m done with preferred pronouns…

"I was an early proponent of using preferred pronouns as far back as the early 2000’s. Of saying “she” when I knew the truth was “he.” It seemed harmless and I had no wish to cause offense. Trans people were tortured enough, it seemed to me, by nature of their dysphoria and society’s disdain for them in general. So I complied. I went along with it.

"I didn’t see the harm.

"By 2016 we were debating bills to stop trans access to certain bathrooms which I covered from the news desk, siding with the trans community. How does it affect our lives as women if here or there a trans person uses a stall in our bathroom? These people aren’t bothering anyone – why wouldn’t we accommodate them?

"I didn’t see the harm.". . .

Five Days Into Pride Month and the Rainbow Weariness Is Already Bone-Deep – PJ Media  . . ."Anyway, I have been made to care, just not in the way they would like. No doubt many others have too.

"We care about being held hostage by the fringe of a fringe. We care about being told that the rules of biology and nature have been suspended and that there are more genders than there are flavors of ice cream at Baskin-Robbins. We care about being called bigots if we think that it’s monumentally unfair that biological male athletes are competing against biological females and ruining their dreams. We really care about being told that our feelings and opinions are intolerant outliers.". . .

Zelensky turns against Trump to help Biden’s re-election - American Thinker  . . ."But that warning clearly meant:  don't help Trump against Biden; feel free to join us in undermining Trump, as President Obama helped undermine your former president Viktor Yanukovych.  The hypocrisy is nauseating.

"Compare Zelensky's  palsy-walsy tone suggested by the transcript of his phone chat with President Trump that the Anti-Trump insurrectionists used for Impeachment.  Note that President Trump was justified to ask Zelensky's help in exposing the Biden family's corrupt practices in Ukraine."    

SAVE The Planet, STARVE The People: Irish Gov’t Proposes SLAUGHTERING 200,000 Dairy Cows To Meet Climate Targets (Video) ⋆ Conservative Firing Line

Pre-2016 Fox: What Happens to the 3 Million ‘Tucker’ Viewers?

 Jacob Yusufov (americanpigeon.org)

So while Carlson will be “just fine” in whatever he does now, the right will no longer reach those older men and women that make up a significant portion of the electorate. . . " boomers will not “abandon television in favor of new, more decentralized media online.”

"There’s much we still don’t know about why Tucker Carlson and Fox News parted ways. For endless speculation, see the mainstream outlets that fired up their computers to break the story along with hundreds of other outlets that need to piggyback off of the fleeting SEO craze. What we do know is that the firing follows a $787.5 million settlement between Fox and Dominion Voting Systems after the latter alleged that the outlet promulgated disinformation about the company rigging the 2020 election in favor of Joe Biden. 

"Despite Carlson’s alleged “hatred” for the former president, as text messages in January 2021 reveal, his release of the January 6th footage given to him by House Speaker Kevin McCarthy was more fodder for Democrats to call for his termination—that is, when they weren’t screeching about fictitious apologetics for white supremacy and misogyny. At one point, Carlson was accused of “advocating” for the “great replacement theory,” which has been outed as a democratic strategy to replace Americans with progressive immigrants. 

"Putting the left’s controversy of Carlson aside, there are more pressing questions that more people on the right should be asking: what happens now that the most popular host on cable television, who draws in more than three million viewers a night, is no longer on air? And what happens to those three million viewers? 

"Tucker Carlson Tonight reportedly pulled in more viewers than any other cable news show between Fox, CNN, MSNBC, and Newsmax, winning over the key 25-54 age demographic. But the main issue with a demographic spanning nearly 30 years is that it says nothing of the late boomers of 1964 who are part of a generation that will not put down the remote for other forms of media and entertainment. ". . .

Trump: Chris Christie . . .He's Polling At Zero, What's The Purpose Of Running?

 

Trump: Chris Christie "Had 6% Approval Rating In NJ," He's Polling At Zero, What's The Purpose Of Running? | Video | RealClearPolitics  

But Trump will be a lame-duck President.

Chris Christie: Donald Trump's Ego Will Prevent Him From Skipping 2024 Primary Debates | Video | RealClearPolitics

   CHRISTIE: He – he petulantly skipped one debate, yes. And, in the end, though, he was at every other debate because he believes, I can tell you this from being the guy who prepped him for debates in ‘16 and in ‘20, he believes he will win every debate he’s in. And that ego part of him will prevent him from skipping.

Want the Next President to be a Republican? Steer Clear of Trump › American Greatness (amgreatness.com)   . . ."And while many voters believe that Trump was cheated out of a second term, it does the Republican Party no favors to nominate him, only to have him lose to a feeble and often confused man, or to whichever radical leftist the Democrats decide to throw out there.". . .

To win the presidency, Trump will need to convince Americans who are not fervently in his camp, as well as independents and other non Republicans to vote for him. That is no easy task for an individual who has managed to alienate virtually everyone who is not part of the MAGA faithful.

 

When the state steals baseball

Yes, these cultural wars are part of an attack on traditional values.  The objective, as we learned in Cuba, is to destroy the family unit and rewrite history.  And no one can escape it, especially if you love watching sports.  

 Silvio Canto, Jr.; American Thinker  "Years ago in Cuba, my father, brother,  and I spent a lot of Sunday afternoons watching baseball games.  I have memories of the old professional Cuban winter league and players like Minnie Minoso, Camilo Pascual, Pedro Ramos and others.  However, most of my memories were actually watching the new teams that the regime created after outlawing pro teams.  It was decent baseball but all politics.  In the old professional league, the outfield fences had advertising from local merchants.  The new league used those spaces to promote slogans praising the revolution and attacking capitalism.  As my father used to say, everything with these people is pushing their agenda.  It was.

"So am I surprised that the Left is now targeting baseball?  I am, not because we've seen this movie before.  I am glad that Mike Gonzalez addressed this issue vis-a-vis the Dodgers.  This is what he wrote:   

This time, they’re coming after baseball. Baseball. Get it? The National Pastime. The inner sanctum of homespun goodness. Your last refuge from the crazy. The leftists intent on politicizing everything, changing society, and coercing changed behavior won’t leave you alone, ever, anywhere.

If you thought you could ignore this attack on your way of life, you were fooling yourself. If you thought the “culture wars” were for others, think again. The choice here is binary: You surrender or you fight this evil with all your might.    

The place this time is Los Angeles. Yes, the Dodgers, one of the most hallowed franchises in the most hallowed sport. And the medium is one of the things that you hold most dear -- your religion, your faith, your God. . . .

Defund The IRS –

  Issues & Insights

. . ."Through the Inflation Reduction Act, the Biden administration had obtained an additional $80 billion for the IRS, more than six times its current annual budget. Funding for enforcement was to increase by 69% through fiscal 2031. Such a “generous injection of other people’s money” would mean, according to the Washington Free Beacon, that the IRS will “employ more bureaucrats than the Pentagon, State Department, FBI, and Border Patrol combined.”

"The expansion will now be delayed for at least one fiscal year.

"Of course hiring 87,000 new IRS agents, as the Biden administration hopes to, would do nothing to reduce inflation. It would, however, give the federal government greater power over a citizenry it wants so desperately to control. The FBI can arrest Americans, the intelligence communities can spy on us, but it’s the IRS that can, and does, terrify and ruin.

"We wish we could say the IRS is a harmless collection agency that operates a paper-shuffling process and provides exceptional customer service. We’re sure some, maybe even many, who work for the IRS have the same wish. But the reality is that it’s a voracious monster.

"The fear and loathing of the IRS goes beyond its leadership’s inclination to be an attack dog for politicians (think of the Democrats during the Obama years) who want to not just injure but eliminate their across-the-aisle opponents. When the ruthless Dr. Floyd Ferris sneered in Ayn Rand’s “Atlas Shrugged” that:

There’s no way to rule innocent men. The only power any government has is the power to crack down on criminals. Well, when there aren’t enough criminals, one makes them. One declares so many things to be a crime that it becomes impossible for men to live without breaking laws.

Would any American be surprised if those words were lifted straight from the unofficial IRS operations manual, and not fiction that hits close to real life?. . .

Only One Republican Candidate Gets Results

 In their party's two leading candidates, Republican voters have a choice between a former president with a record of deferring to experts with mixed and sometimes dismaying results, and a state governor with a demonstrated capacity for mastering the details on issues and following through and getting results. 

Michael Barone (jewishworldreview.com)  "The Wollman Rink episode, or, rather, the unduly optimistic conclusion I drew from it, explains a lot about Donald Trump's presidency and why he may not do as well against Gov. Ron DeSantis (R-Fla.) in the contest for the Republican nomination, as current poll numbers suggest.

"The story of the ice skating rink repair is now ancient history, a reference even fewer readers will find familiar than when I featured it in a column in December 2016, a month after Trump's surprise election as president.

"The Wollman Rink was first opened in 1945, but due to mismanagement by the city government, it deteriorated over the years, and by 1984, when the Trump Tower opened just a few blocks away on Fifth Avenue, it wasn't working at all, even after the city government spent $13 million over six years trying to fix it.

"Enter Trump, who offered to get the rink working, and did so, as he recounted in his 1987 memoir, "The Art of the Deal," ahead of time and $3 million under budget. Maybe as president, I speculated, he could transform government procedures and eliminate endless environmental reviews and enable the public seriously to build infrastructure again.

"No such luck. Even as the head of the executive branch, and for the first two years with Republican majorities in both houses of Congress, Trump did not come close to making the deep reforms needed to make American infrastructure great again. It seems that House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.), with a razor-thin majority in the House and facing a Democratic Senate and president, may have gotten more than Trump ever did.

"Why was I mistaken? I failed to draw the appropriate lesson from Trump's own account. He admitted he knew nothing about skating rinks and that he needed experts who did. He decided he could find them most easily in Canada, a technologically advanced country with thousands of working ice-skating rinks. Months later, New Yorkers were once again ice-skating in Central Park.

"As president, he seems to have operated similarly, not bothering to master issues himself but hiring purported experts and relying on them to get things done. But too often, the skating rink didn't get repaired, or the expert failed to show the respect the president craved.

"And what Common Good's Philip Howard called the "decade-long review and permitting procedures (that) more than double the effective cost of new infrastructure projects" stayed in place. A missed opportunity for the nation.

"Rather than lay the groundwork for fundamental reform, Trump's typical response was to denounce his appointees, the highly talented and utterly incompetent alike, and seek out yet other purported experts.

Sometimes, the results were good. Operation Warp Speed, a suspension of usual procedures with a huge outlay, produced COVID vaccines that, though not preventing infection, significantly reduced death rates.

"But not always. Trump largely turned over COVID policies to credentialed experts such as Anthony Fauci and Deborah Birx, who pushed him toward advocating restrictive policies. Fauci, who had funded research in the Wuhan lab, worked secretly to quash the lab leak theory and to smear as incompetent scientists who favored less stringent restrictions. A president more inclined to ferret out details on critical problems might have prevented such misconduct." . . .

Cracks in Biden's wokester Pentagon? Military backs off from promoting gay culture -

In a tweet last July [2020], then-candidate Biden said: “Banning the Confederate flag from military installations was long overdue. Banning the LGBTQ Pride flag — the very symbol of diversity and inclusion — is undeniably wrong. The Pentagon should ensure it is authorized, or as President, I will.” 

 Monica Showalter; American Thinker   "In the wake of the Bud Light boycott, something interesting is happening in the military, too.

According to Politico:

The Pentagon will no longer allow shows involving drag performers to be hosted at military facilities, a spokesperson said Thursday, enforcing a longstanding policy amid intensifying pressure from Republican lawmakers to cancel the practice.

Drag shows on military bases have been a contentious issue in recent months as part of a larger push by some Republican lawmakers who say personnel policies including diversity training and racial-justice education distract from warfighting and harm recruiting efforts.

"There's also this, reported on Fox News:

The U.S. Navy has taken down posts celebrating LGBTQ+ Pride month on social media, including rainbow banners that read, "Pride."

Pride posts made on the Navy's Instagram and Twitter accounts on Thursday, June 1, are no longer there as of Friday, June 2. The posts showed outlines of Navy vessels and aircraft with streaming rainbow trails and the word "Pride" stylized in different colors. They were removed without explanation.

A meme account on Twitter called "End Wokeness" called attention to how the Navy also took down an LGBTQ+ Pride banner on its account. Some users left comments suggesting the posts were taken down in response to backlash over military support for Pride.

"The tweet is here:

‘Pride’ Month is not license to resort to name-calling the faithful - American Thinker

. . ."I was shocked to read those words: “. . . which is stacked with openly homophobic members.” How do they know they’re “homophobic” and not simply religious Jews and people? 

"Shame on the Associated Press for resorting to name-calling, e.g., “homophobic members.” Would they call people who are religious and disapprove of adultery, “adulteryphobic?” Or would they call those who oppose pedophilia “pedophobic?” There are other sexual acts or relations that could also be named that are mutually considered sinful and forbidden by Islam, Orthodox Judaism, and Christianity."