Thursday, November 23, 2023

The liberal left continues its war on normal America

 Trumpenfreude strikes another business that made anti-Trump waves - American Thinker   "Trumpenfreude, which I believe is a word that Don Surber coined, happens when we get a warm glow learning about people who struck out at Trump or those close to him and, instead, managed to destroy themselves. While we should feel guilty about regular schadenfreude (e.g., delighting in other people’s misery), Trumpenfreude is something to be celebrated. The latest, somewhat delayed, comeuppance for a Trump hater is The Red Hen, the restaurant that, in 2018, proudly ejected Sarah Huckabee Sanders and her family in the middle of their meal.

At the time, the mainstream media, of course, lapped up the story of the brave restauranteur:" . . The announcement comes several years after The Red Hen faced massive scrutiny for removing Trump Administration Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders and her family from the premises in the middle of their meal after triggered left-wing employees called the restaurant’s left-wing owner, Stephanie Wilkinson, requesting that she take action to remove the family from their midst.

Continuing this thread from earlier this week: The Tunnel Wall: Restaurant That Ejected Family of Trump Spokeswoman Closes!



We know so much about the Rainbow Bridge incident…except for the driver’s name

  Andrea Widburg - American Thinker  "Yesterday, the news was filled with reports of an attack at the Rainbow Bridge border crossing between the United States and Canada near Niagara Falls. It was a dramatic incident that ended with a fiery explosion. Very quickly, though, we were told, “Not to worry. It was just a guy speeding.” What we haven’t been told, though, is the names of the people involved. In this day and age of cynicism and paranoia, I find that silence weird.

"In the footage below, you can see the car at the very top of the screen, in the background, as it begins to soar:


. . ."CNN even gave us the driver’s age—56. 

"And that’s it. The news stories I can find are, at the latest, from early yesterday evening. Since then, there’s complete media silence.

"But have you noticed the one thing missing from this whole narrative? Yup, the couple’s identity.

"Now, it’s possible that they’re not releasing the name until relatives have been notified, but that’s not usually the case when something is headline news, the way this crash was. Instead, the names of the people involved instantly appear on social media. And given the level of detail we have about the couple—where they lived, how old the driver was, what they were doing that evening—you’d think someone would know their names." . . .

 Sources Tell Fox News NY Vehicle Explosion at Rainbow Bridge Border Crossing Is Attempted Terror Attack (resistthemainstream.com)   "Explosives were found in the vehicle that left the two vehicle occupants dead. One border officer and one civilian, a 27-year-old man, were injured in the blast and transported to Niagara Falls Memorial Hospital. . . 

. . ."An Iranian passport was found at the scene.

"All bridges are closed in the area and government officials in the region are on high alert. Several buildings have closed out of an abundance of caution.

"There is speculation the vehicle exploded prematurely and was headed to New York City’s annual Macy’s Day parade."

‘No Sign of Terrorist Activity’ in Vehicle Explosion at U.S.-Canada Border, Hochul Says | National Review Consider the source.

CNN Leaves Out Why Mother's Daughter Was an Israeli Prisoner –

This video doesn't cover why her daughter was arrested and detained. She attempted to stab an Israeli police officer.

 Twitchy   "There have been some really revolting takes trying to find some equivalence between Hamas releasing 50 hostages it took October 7 and Israel releasing 150 Palestinians from prison. What did the hostages do to be kidnapped aside from being Israeli? Israel isn't releasing hostages, it's releasing prisoners who were either convicted or awaiting trial. 

"CNN International decided to talk to the mother of one of the Israeli prisoners scheduled to be released." . . .

Another example of the idiocy American culture and the media have led us into:

"Yes, trans liberation. "Trans genocide." And the White House press secretary just honored Transgender Day of Remembrance and said that America grieves for the 26 transgender lives lost. Like the trans Antifa activist who shot at a cop."

Not Surprisingly, Climate, Trans Activists Align With Hamas Hostage-Takers –

  Twitchy

"It's pretty clear that when it comes down to it, all of these so-called activists are Marxists at their core. They're commies, and commies stick together. The co-founders of Black Lives Matter referred to themselves as "trained Marxists" — they just swapped out class for race and ran with the playbook.

"So it's no surprise that these activists have found a common cause with the Palestinian people. 

It was last Sunday in Amsterdam that the world's view of Greta Thunberg suddenly shifted. She was bundled up against the November chill, wearing a gray, quilted jacket as she stood on a stage in front of a vast crowd. Her hair fell loosely over her shoulders.

Event organizers estimate that 85,000 people turned out, making it perhaps the largest climate demonstration in the history of the Netherlands. But Thunberg, as shown by the black-and-white Palestinian kaffiyeh wrapped around her neck, had something else on her mind. As a climate justice movement, "we have to listen to the voices of those who are being oppressed and those who are fighting for freedom and justice." The reference was to the Palestinians.

. . .



Joe can’t BS his way to a second term

 The Aspen beat

People know we’re in a dangerous time and place. Joe Biden made it much more so. Connect the dots between Afghanistan, Ukraine and Gaza, and layer on top of that picture a porous border and a woke U.S. military. Voting for four more years of Joe is reckless.

"Joe Biden has always been considered not very bright and not very honest. Beyond that, he’s thin-skinned and hot-tempered according to White House staff. His ability to remember and his ability to think – never very good – are worsening. He’s spent 40% of his time in the White House not in the White House, but on vacation at the beach in Delaware.

"He has a creepy thing for other people’s young daughters which an irate dad might someday react to in a way Joe doesn’t anticipate.   

"As for his casual relationship with facts, he certainly lies on occasion, as when it comes to his family influence-peddling business, for example.

"But his real forte is simple BS’ing.

"He BS’es that he had conversations with an Amtrak conductor a year after the conductor died – a BS dropping that he’s repeated a dozen times even after being fact-corrected by friendly media like CNN.

"He BS’es that he earned academic awards that he didn’t. He BS’es that he earned three college degrees when he didn’t. He BS’es that the driver of the truck that was in an accident that killed his first wife was drunk, when he wasn’t – in fact, the accident was his wife’s fault.

"He BS’es about who he is and what he’s done. He BS’es that he was arrested when visiting Nelson Mandela. He has a history of plagiarism and cheating – the academic equivalent to BS’ing.

"He BS’es that he received an appointment to the Naval Academy, and was a football star. Untrue and untrue.

"He BS’es that he was at the 9/11 site the day after, while in fact it was nine days after. He BS’es that he used to drive an 18-wheeler; he never did.

"He gets away with this because the media lets him. They let him because they don’t want a Republican in the White House." . . .

 He’s spent 40% of his time in the White House not in the White House, but on vacation at the beach in Delaware. He has a creepy thing for other people’s young daughters which an irate dad might someday react to in a way Joe doesn’t anticipate. As for his casual relationship with facts, he certainly lies on occasion, as when it comes to his family influence-peddling

Wednesday, November 22, 2023

Restaurant That Ejected Family of Trump Spokeswoman Closes!

  The Gateway Pundit | by Guest Contributor  ‘Telling 2/3 of the local population’ they are unwelcome is not the best business strategy

"Apparently telling two-thirds of the local population they are not welcome at your business is “not the best business decision,” suggests a report at National File about the closure of the “Commie Cluck” restaurant.

Sarah Huckabee Sanders 

"The report noted that Lexington, Virginia, facility actually was named The Red Hen, and it became infamous in a moment for a decision back in the day to eject from the premises then-Trump Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders and her family.

"Because she’s Republican.

"The report explained the owners have confirmed the business will close down, and later a new restaurant with a new name will replace it.

"The press secretary’s family was ejected from the restaurant in the middle of their meal in 2018 after “triggered left-wing employees called the restaurant’s left-wing owner, Stephanie Wilkinson, requesting that she take action to remove the family from their midst,” the report recalled.

"Wilkinson wildly claimed to the Washington Post at the time it was a “moment in our democracy when people have to make uncomfortable actions and decisions to uphold their morals.”

"The restaurant soon became known to critics as the “Commie Cluck” and while it became a destination eatery for the “elites” in Washington, locals stay away in droves.'

"Chef Matt Adams claimed the “core values” of the business “will live on.” . . .

This Thanksgiving, Joy-Ann Reid Has Much To Be Thankful For -

  Ann Coulter  "[This column is adapted from one that originally ran Thanksgiving Week 2021.]

"Why such a sourpuss, Joy-Ann? On the whole, life and MSNBC are treating you pretty well. And yet, over the last 10 years, you have complained pretty much nonstop about how badly you, and “people who look like [you],” are treated in America.

"I will take on faith, Joy-Ann, that your life up to age 16 — spent in the racist hellscape that was 1980s Denver, Colorado — was practically a maelstrom of cross burnings, Night Riders and segregated water fountains.

Let’s focus on the recent past.

"Consider:

" 'You were admitted to Harvard with SAT scores that would have gotten an Asian kid disowned by his parents.

"You manage to keep your show at MSNBC with ratings that would get a white person canceled.

"People try harder to laugh at your excruciating jokes than they would for a male of any race.

"Plus, I have it on good authority that no one at MSNBC has pestered you about touching your hair.

"Your brief daytime show on MSNBC made ratings history, garnering only 38,000 viewers in the demo its first day on air — the lowest for the entire network! That inched up to 56,000 viewers two days later, the second lowest for the network. Ronan Farrow’s show debuted the same week. But while he was quickly cashiered for poor ratings, you were promoted, even though he is white and you are black. Dodged a bullet there!

"You weren’t prosecuted for making a false FBI report when you claimed that right-wing saboteurs had hacked your blog, planting long, venomous threads about gay people. It seems your go-to attack for celebrities and Republicans is to accuse them of being gay. (For example, you described Dick Cheney “topping off” Sean Hannity — gay slang for oral sex — and repeatedly ran your “Top 5 ‘totally not gay celebrities of the year.'”)

"Nor were you fired for your preposterous, and quickly disproved, lies about having been hacked when it was you who mocked people for being gay — including Oprah.

"Your many, many blog posts sneering at gays were written just 10 years earlier, when you were an adult and a professional journalist. Meanwhile, teenagers — even white ones! — are being thrown out of college for the stupid things they said on Snapchat when they were 15. But you came through like a champ, without consequence — despite being black!

"Indeed, instead of firing you, MSNBC gave you a prime-time show. This is the network that canned Chris Matthews(astonishingly, another white male) for telling girls they’re pretty. And who took the humiliated Matthews’ time slot? YOU DID! Despite the fact that he is white and you are black." . . .

More Hamas Atrocities Documented, Strongly Supported By Palestinians and Ignored By Western Feminists

 Legal Insurrection

Survey by Palestinian polling firm shows 75% support for October 7 massacre. Defeating Hamas is just the first step if there ever is to be peace. Palestinian society is going to have to change, much like German and Japanese societies changed after their defeat. 

"We shouldn’t have to do this. But lowlife scum have been spreading false claims either that the Hamas massacre on October 7 never happened (e.g. The Palestinian Authority, you know, ‘the moderates’) or that Israeli did the killing (internet clickbait personalities like Jackson Hinkle and pathological anti-Israel fanatics like Max Blumenthal).

"So we continue with the video and other documentation of the Hamas atrocities.

"Huge Crowds of “Civilians” Taunting Hostages Reflect Palestinian Society

We’ve all seen the video of Shani Louk in the back of a pick up truck, mostly naked and her legs bent unnaturally, being beaten, spit upon, and molested by crowds. Until seeing this video, however, I didn’t realize how large the crowds were. It’s unclear if it is Louk in the trucks or other hostages and murder victims, because the white Toyota pick up trucks are common Hamas vehicles. But is looks like the terrorists in the rear of some of the vehicles are not the same ones in the Louk vehicle, so these likely include other victims. The crowd appears to be at least several hundred deep, maybe thousands. These are your innocent civilians we keep hearing about."

Lucianne.com News Forum - How Hamas Nazis Became an Environmentalist and Gun Control Cause   From Q***rs for Palestine to marchers carrying signs reading, “Palestine is a Reproductive Justice Issue”, the Hamas Nazi cause has been vertically integrated throughout the Left. Greta Thunberg was booed after injecting anti-Israel chants into environmental rallies. The BLM movement was a longtime foe of Israel, but Asian Studies departments recently joined in. The leaders of March for Our Lives and the Sunrise Movement, a gun control group and an environmental protest group, signed a letter to Biden warning that young people wouldn’t vote for him unless he forced Israel to stop attacking Hamas Nazis.

In red America, standing up for Israel isn't controversial (nypost.com) . . ."Ever since Baltimore Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake gave rioters “space” to “destroy” in 2015, many municipal leaders have taken a hands-off attitude toward destructive mobs (at least those mobs aligned with the left, which to be fair is pretty much all of them). 

"This has been bolstered by the criminal-justice “reform” approach of not charging or prosecuting for most crimes even people who are arrested.

"University administrators have shown a similar unwillingness to enforce basic principles of social order and provide a basic level of security and protection for students and faculty targeted by angry mobs. 

"So it’s actually kind of newsworthy to note not everywhere operates that way.

"It’s possible for people to engage in free speech without official toleration of violence — in fact, it’s official intolerance of violence that makes free speech for everyone possible. " . . .

The Biden Economy and How It Could Be Fixed

 

Imprimis (hillsdale.edu)   "Just about everybody on Wall Street knows, despite what you read in the financial press, that the Biden administration’s economic policies are driving our economy into a recessionary ditch. In a recent Wall Street Journal survey of 23 large financial institutions that do business directly with the Federal Reserve, 16 predicted a recession in 2023 and two predicted a recession in 2024, while only five predicted that we would avoid a recession—although even those five predicted we’d have only one-half percent economic growth, well below the 2.1 percent average over the past 20 years and dangerously close to what has traditionally been considered a recession.
"A recession is defined, traditionally, as two consecutive quarters of negative economic growth. At least it was defined that way before the financial press redefined it prior to the 2022 midterms, ensuring that despite two consecutive quarters of negative growth, President Biden’s policies couldn’t be labeled recessionary. But regardless of the definition, this negative growth meant declining standards of living, fewer job opportunities, lower wages, and increased poverty for the American people. Overall, we have become a far less vibrant and far less prosperous society on the verge of a serious recession.
"The hard economic times we are experiencing are especially striking as they come on the heels of the Trump boom, which opened our eyes again to American economic potential when we have low taxes, reduced regulation, and a bountiful supply of domestic energy. Everybody, particularly minority and low-wage earners, reaped the benefits in the Trump years of abundant job opportunities, increasing wages, historic highs in family income, and historic lows in rates of poverty and unemployment.
"Consider some of the metrics. In 2019, the last year before the pandemic, median family income grew to nearly $73,000. It went up $4,600 in that year alone, a 6.4 percent increase over 2018—the largest annual increase going back to 1967. That amounted to 45 percent more growth in one year than the $3,200 increase that the Obama administration achieved in eight years. And contrary to what would become an election year talking point, the economic benefits were widespread. Every racial group experienced a record high median family income level: for white Americans it rose 5.7 percent; for black Americans, 7.9 percent; for Hispanic Americans, 7.1 percent; and for Asian Americans, 10.6 percent." . . .

The Bonfire of Biden’s Vanities

  Power Line



Biden Mocked Into Oblivion After Posing with 81st Birthday Cake: 'Portal to Hell' (westernjournal.com)   . . ."Recall that after the devastating Aug. 8 wildfires in Maui, Hawaii, Biden waited 13 days to visit the island. When he finally arrived, he made a pathetic attempt to relate to the wildfire victims by sharing a story of a long-ago kitchen fire at his Delaware home.
"Whether as a “portal to hell” or a metaphor for his dumpster-fire administration, Biden’s bonfire of a birthday cake at least allowed us to laugh and keep from crying."


Obama Snubs Biden at 15th Anniversary of His Presidential Victory: 'Tensions Were Evident'

  The Gateway Pundit | by Bryan Chai, The Western Journal 

"The relationship between the POTUS and the VPOTUS can be a fickle thing.

"Sometimes things start out well enough but end badly, as they did with former President Donald Trump and former Vice President Mike Pence.

"Other times, things sputter and struggle to even start out well, as with President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris.

"And then there’s whatever is going on between former President Barack Obama and Biden, who served as the former’s VP in both presidential terms.

"The two-term Democrat ticket of Obama-Biden has always seemed like an odd fit from the outset — far more a marriage of convenience than anything else.

"Biden, very much a swampy, career politician, never quite felt like a natural extension of Obama, very much part of the new breed of far leftism infesting the Democratic Party (think the “squad.”)

"It doesn’t help dispel the odd couple vibe that Obama, for the many, many, many faults he has, at least has some semblance of a human personality — whereas Biden has all the charisma of a comatose wildebeest.

"Obama’s personality largely stems from his speaking ability, and it’s an ability the man clearly puts time and effort into. Whatever you may think of the man, when Obama speaks, it’s very deliberate, crafted and curated.

"So when Obama mentions — or doesn’t mention — something when speaking publicly, people take notice.

"In a less-than-glowing Sunday article from The Washington Post, the outlet that threatens democracy with darkness (or something to that effect) chronicled the way in which Democrats are furiously working to overturn the less-than-stellar image of the incumbent president — except for Obama." . . .

Joe Biden supporters had an especially paranoid couple of days   "It’s amazing that this man was once a congressman, because he clearly has zero understanding of both political philosophies and the American political system—for the umpteenth time, fascism is a leftist ideology and America was never supposed to be a democracy—and on a recently-broadcast televised MSNBC segment, Joe Scarborough issued an ominous warning: if President Trump secures a second term, he will “imprison” and “execute” any and all political opponents that he can.

"Projection much? Who’s really been imprisoning and executing political opponents? Does the name Ashli Babbitt ring a bell? What about Craig Robertson? Owen Shroyer? Or how about the J6ers? Or, is this a signal of guilt? Has he done something criminal and he’s starting to sweat? Talk about paranoia!" . . .

UPDATE: Obama's false equivalence on Hamas is outrageous — and adds pressure on Israel (nypost.com)  . . ."Pressure is already on Israel to make its temporary cease-fire in exchange for hostages permanent.

"Obama’s obscene comparison reflects both ignorance and bias.

"There can be no possible justification for the beheadings, rapes, burnings, kidnappings and mass murders of more than 1,200 Israeli babies, women, the elderly and others.

"Obama has admitted as such.

"Nor can there be any dispute that these abominations occurred and Hamas leaders have promised to repeat them again and again." . . .

Can Israel's Catastrophe Change the Jewish Worldview?

 American Thinker  . . ."But the pogroms of October 7 were not only the deaths of 1,200 Israelis, but also a blow to the Western liberal thinking of Israelis: their failed experience of reconciliation with radical extremists and religious fanatics, whom part of the Jewish population of Israel considered potential neighbors and partners for peaceful coexistence. 

"Israel is an oasis in the desert, surrounded by barbarians and fanatics who believe in the superiority of Muslims over non-Muslims. The conflict in this region has acquired the features of a religious war. Islamic extremists cannot accept the existence of a non-Islamic (Jewish) state. Therefore, expecting peaceful coexistence between "two states for two peoples" is as meaningless as waiting for Godot, as in the classic theater of the absurd play by Samuel Beckett.

"But is it enough to change the West's worldview?

"The West's desire to democratize the East has led to the flooding of Europe with Arab refugees. Failed attempts to establish democratic regimes in the East have created a threat to democracy in Western countries. 

"The Arab and Muslim population in Europe is growing due to the tens of millions of Muslims who fled there from their countries, which are all independent states.

"These people do not assimilate in Christian countries. They consider Islam the only correct religion. To them, non-Muslims in the new countries are second-class people. Muslims who fought the European colonizers and drove them out of Asia and Africa moved to Europe after the former colonizers and began to colonize European countries themselves. Democrats in Europe and the United States believe that it is possible and necessary to rationalize religious fanatics and involve Muslim populations in the building of Western civilization. They want to rationalize the irrational. " . . .

Israel Vows: The War Against Hamas Will Go On After Hostage Pause (breitbart.com)    . . ."Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said, in a statement announcing the deal:

I would like to reiterate: The war is continuing and the war will continue until we achieve all of our goals – Eliminating Hamas, returning all of our hostages and assuring that the day after Hamas, Gaza will no longer threaten Israel, that there will be no other element that supports terrorism, educates its children for terrorism and threatens the State of Israel. With G-d’s help, we will do it and we will succeed – and together we will win.

"Minister of Defense Yoav Gallant added:"

As a result of the decision taken about a month ago to intensify our ground operations, to enter [Gaza] and to increase the pressure on Hamas, there is now a chance to create a plan that will lead to the release of hostages. I view the release of hostages first and foremost as an issue related to values – a moral issue, an issue that points to the [unwritten] agreement between the State, the government and its citizens. All members of the cabinet, all the members of the IDF, ISA, and Mossad, everyone who is working on the issue of the hostages and missing persons – is dedicating all their time, soul and energy to this issue, day and night.

At the same time, without continuing [military] pressure, there will be no chance of bringing [home] additional hostages. Therefore, upon my request and that of the defense establishment, the government has included in its decision, the unequivocal demand that immediately after we have exhausted this phase, all operations by the IDF [Israel Defense Forces], ISA [Israel Security Agency] and all the security forces, will continue in full force – first in order to defeat Hamas, and secondly, in order to create the necessary conditions to bring home additional hostages." . . .

But what will Mses Thunberg and Sarandon say?