Lucas: Taking aim at Biden' memory

  PETER LUCAS (bostonherald.com)

"Where are the fact-checkers when you need them?

"I do not mean the quick, fact-checked repudiation of the left wing’s nasty distortion of Donald Trump’s “bloodbath” remark. That canard blew up on its own accord.

"I have in mind Joe Biden’s story of how he once “embarrassed the hell” out of Mongolian Prime Minister Sukhbaatar Batbold on an archery range outside the Mongolian capital Ulaanbaatar during a 2011 visit when he was vice president.

"The Mongolians, under Genghis Kahn (1162-1227) and after, used their expertise in archery and horsemanship to conquer China, east Asia, and parts of Europe. Their mastery of the bow and wild horses is still part of their heritage.

"When it comes to archery, though, Biden would have you believe he mastered the masters and outshot any Mongolian archer around, even though the Mongols have been experts at it for a thousand years.

"Joe Biden told the story of his adventure in archery in one of his bizarre asides — which are many — in his two days of interviews conducted by special counsel Robert Hur.

"The 258-page transcript of the interview, which contained the asides where Biden meandered, was released last week. While fascinating, the transcript has been largely ignored by the left-leaning, pro-Biden establishment press.

"Hur, who investigated Biden’s mishandling of classified documents after he left the office of vice president, found that while Biden had willfully retained documents he was not entitled to have, he would not be prosecuted because of his age and failing memory.

"While Biden could not remember who stored classified documents in his garage, his house or anywhere else, he could recall Mongolia.

"While Hur’s decision has been hammered by both Republicans and Democrats, the transcript makes for some interesting reading in that Biden has been known to make up stories or embellish them.

"Examples of Biden’s fantasies are tales of him being “appointed” to the U.S. Naval Academy, his arrest in South Africa when he tried to visit a jailed Nelson Mandela, and that he drove an 18-wheeler in his youth.

"None of them are true, but each fantasy has a slim attachment to reality. He may have been recommended to attend the Naval Academy, he did not get arrested on a visit to Mandela, and he may have ridden in an 18-wheeler.

"Nevertheless, when Biden tells these tall tales he inevitably makes himself out to be the hero, as he did in Mongolia,

"But he did fire a bow and arrow in Mongolia and had a photo of it on the wall of his home in Wilmington, Del., where the interview took place. The interview took place in a room where classified documents were also stored.

Without being asked, Biden rambled on about the photo, which showed him pulling back the strings of a Mongolian bow.

"Biden said verbatim, “You know, I went to Mongolia and, and, great pictures. I, unfortunately, embarrassed the hell out of the leader of Mongolia. They were showing — they were doing — a —what they would do at the time of the invasion of the Mongols into Europe in the 14 — in the 800s…

“ 'And so they walked over and they had a target with bales of hay a hundred yards away, and these guerillas were, you know, taking shots. And I think — I don’t know if it was to embarrass me or to make a point, but I get handed the bow and arrow. I’m not a bad archer. But (indiscernible) where I can pull it back, so I — and pure luck, I hit the godamn target. (Laughter)…

“ 'No, I really did. Bales of hay that were, like, 20 bales of hay with a big target in the middle of the bale of hay. And so I didn’t mean anything by it. I turned to the prime minister and handed it to him and the poor son-of-a bitch couldn’t pull it back. I was, I was like, oh, God. (Laughter.)' ”...

Violent Female Secret Service Agent 'Should NEVER have been Hired' -

How would she have handled watching Joe Biden swimming naked in the White House pool?  

 DEI hire - The Lid (lidblog.com)   "A female Secret Service agent who insiders say should never have been hired erupted in violence last week.

"The DEI hire was hired solely because she was a woman and so the Secret Service could tout its number of women on the job.

"Per The Blaze:

Michelle Herczeg seemed to have a bad day on Monday. The Secret Service agent arrived at Joint Base Andrews in Maryland around 9 a.m. as part of a security detail for Vice President Kamala Harris, who was scheduled to depart the base later that morning.

Before Harris ever arrived, Herczeg began exhibiting strange behavior. According to reports, Herczeg gained access to another agent’s phone and proceeded to delete apps on it. The man eventually recovered his phone and otherwise went about his business.

Herczeg then allegedly began engaging in other bizarre behavior, such as mumbling to herself and hiding behind curtains. She even reportedly started throwing various items, including feminine napkins, and warning her colleagues that they were “going to burn in hell and needed to listen to God,” a source told Susan Crabtree of RealClearPolitics.

When the special agent in charge attempted to intervene, Herczeg allegedly began screaming and insisting that other female agents on Harris’ security detail would support her and allow her to continue working.

"Herczeg was eventually removed from her assignment. And then things went from bad to worse.

"After being told, she reportedly tackled the SAIC and started punching him.

“ 'She snapped entirely,” the source said.. . .

Speaking of the above: Not just hugs: Biden swam naked in front of female Secret Service agents, walked around residence without a stitch (bizpacreview.com)

Intifada hurt Democrats; Democrats are drinking the venom of anti-Americanism and anti-Semitism.

 Don Surber (substack.com)

Democrats hitched their star to young college graduates — Free Ride Educated Devotees of Obama, or FREDOs for short. They’re idiots. 27% blame Israel for the October 7 attack by Hamas. 

Toon added by TD

"Americans woke up Wednesday morning to scenes on TV of police in blue cities arresting college students who camped on campuses. The action came as Democrats were appalled —

— by their polling numbers.

"The internal numbers must be even worse because Chuckles the Clown Schumer, the Senate Democrat leader, took to the Senate floor and said, “Smashing windows with hammers and taking over a university building is not free speech. It is lawlessness. And those who did it should promptly face the consequences that are not merely a slap on the wrist.

“ 'Campuses cannot be places of learning and argument and discussion when protests veer into criminality and those who commit such acts are doing nothing to convince others that their cause is just.”

"I do not recall Schumer condemning the BLM riots of 2020. Burning used car lots apparently is covered by the First Amendment.

"His denunciation came four weeks after FJB demanded a ceasefire, which is what the students demanded.

"This would be the 16th ceasefire in Israel’s 75-year history. The last one was broken on October 7 by out-of-uniform Gazan soldiers who attacked a civilian festival and raped, tortured, murdered and then mutilated the bodies of 1,400 Israelis and foreign visitors. The violations of international law included taking hostage 240 people with Americans among them.

"FJB, Democrats and the media, who worked feverishly to free a WNBA player who was arrested in Russia on drug law violations, have ignored the Palestinians kidnapping Americans.

"The campus protests revealed to Americans that Democrats are drinking in their Kool-Aid the venom of anti-Americanism and anti-Semitism." . . .

'Screams Before Silence' Must Be Seen and Remembered

 Harrowing documentary lets Oct. 7 victims share endless tales of sexual violence  "It was even worse than you heard, than you read, than you feared.

“Screams Before Silence” lets the survivors of the Oct. 7 massacre at the hands of Hamas tell their stories.

"The documentary, available for free at screamsbeforesilence.com, doesn’t show the grisly visuals found in the 45-minute video circulated to journalists and Hollywood denizens. The stories reveal atrocities that led one voice to describe them as “redefined evil.”

"Even the Nazi machine couldn’t match the vile acts perpetrated again and again.

It was even worse than you heard, than you read, than you feared.

“Screams Before Silence” lets the survivors of the Oct. 7 massacre at the hands of Hamas tell their stories.

"The documentary, available for free at screamsbeforesilence.com, doesn’t show the grisly visuals found in the 45-minute video circulated to journalists and Hollywood denizens. The stories reveal atrocities that led one voice to describe them as “redefined evil.”

"Even the Nazi machine couldn’t match the vile acts perpetrated again and again." . . .

The Palestinians know of this film and it is doubtful they will allow any more women hostages free to tell their stories. Meanwhile, the mindless campus tools will continue their vandalism and robotic chants. TD

AFTER CEO SAYS HE IS ‘EAGER’ TO HIRE CAMPUS PROTESTERS, COMPANY TAKES A HUGE HIT RIGHT IN THE WALLET

 First this! Oct. 7 Victims Sue Group Behind Campus Protests, Alleging They're a 'Propaganda' Arm of Hamas – RedState  

Too late to help these Jews. (Photo added by TD)

 . . ."Now there's a group taking action at what they think is the heart behind the protest effort.  

"October 7 victims - nine people including survivors and relatives of those who were massacred during the Hamas attack on Israel - have now filed a big lawsuit against the Nationals Students for Justice in Palestine group (SJP) and their parent organization (AMP). SJP has been active in protests/actions across the country on campuses. 

"The complaint accuses the groups of violating the Antiterrorism Act and the Alien Tort Statute and seeks damages because of the Oct. 7, 2023 attack and continuing actions by the group." . . .

Nick Arama (causeaction.com)

"The CEO of Hims & Hers Health [San Francisco], Inc. may have just found out it’s not a smart idea to support the campus radical protesters. 

"The CEO, Andrew Dudum, who claims he has a Palestinian background, said that he would be “eager” to hire them, terming their actions “moral courage.” 

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"He then included a link for anyone who wanted to apply. 

"But Dudum’s offer may not have gone as he’d hoped, it may have had a result he didn’t anticipate. After he made that comment, he was inundated with folks on X saying they would no longer be buying his products. Then on top of that, about two days after he said that his company’s stock plummeted." . . . 

Hims and Hers stock plummets 8% after CEO says he is ‘eager’ to hire anti-Israel protesters (msn.com)

Alvin Bragg Is as Corrupt as the New York Robber Barons

 The case is driven not by law but by politics. - The American Spectator | USA News and Politics  

"What makes Bragg’s position even weaker is that the federal prosecutors looked at the very case Bragg sees as criminal and declined to prosecute." . . .

"New York state governmental corruption metastasized after the Civil War. Mayor William “Boss” Tweed’s famous ring in New York City elevated kickbacks to a high art. His ability to deliver votes ensured that legislators found it in their interest to give him plenty of cover. When the arch-robber baron Jay Gould tried to stop fellow robber baron Cornelius Vanderbilt’s stealthy attempt to grab control of the Gould’s Erie Railroad, Gould created 50,000 more shares of Erie stock, diluting Vanderbilt’s shares. Running away to New Jersey to escape criminal charges, Gould and his confederates bribed enough legislators in Albany to buy a post facto rewrite of the criminal code legitimizing what he had done.

"Eventually, demand for reform grew. Boss Tweed went down on graft charges and ended his days in the Ludlow Street Jail. New legislators set reforms in motion, one of which was a constitutional amendment banning the legislature from incorporating other laws in their legislation by mere reference. This happened in other states swept by the reform movements of the time. A similar ban in New Jersey was in a state Supreme Court ruling for the purpose of clarity: Legislators would know clearly the content of the bill they were voting on, and the people would know what it required of them.

"The New York Constitution includes this provision today in Article III, Section 16. It reads: 

No act shall be passed which shall provide that any existing law, or any part thereof, shall be made or deemed a part of said act, or which shall enact that any existing law, or part thereof, shall be applicable, except by inserting it in such act.

"In other words, no hiding of laws inside laws. If it is to be law, let it be set forth explicitly." . . .

What the Pro-Palestinian Campus Protests Are Really About

 Carl R. Trueman | First Things   The childish, ignorant partiers wearing those look-at-me fashions around their necks offer the world nothing but disgust and embarrassment over all the "we want" and "we demand" proclamations. The Tunnel Dweller

"But no protester has the right to be taken seriously merely as a protester. When protests are childish, inconsistent, racist, and rooted in no shared vision beyond that of mere negation, then those who participate in them should be treated with contempt.

"The recent pro-Palestinian student protests on elite university campuses across the country offer fascinating, if somewhat depressing, insights into the state of modern American culture. It is not so much that the lunatics have taken over the asylum as the kindergartners have taken over the nursery.

"First, society takes the attitudes and antics of the young far too seriously. In an era when we are reliably informed that adolescence persists well into the twenties, it is strange that we deem the views of anyone under the age of thirty to have any real significance or merit. Yet it seems to be an unspoken assumption that young people, especially young, angry, and opinionated people, are to be indulged as important. World leaders were clamoring to have cringeworthy photo ops with Greta Thunberg when she first rose to prominence. Thunberg types now abound on the left and right of the political spectrum. They often combine their ill-informed opinions with a confident youthful extremism that should be summarily dismissed or mocked without mercy rather than featured on the news. 

"This exaltation of youth is simultaneously the exaltation of ignorance and incompetence. Early claims of Israeli occupation of Gaza and the continued sloppy use of the language of genocide, fueled by people at the U.N. who could benefit from using a dictionary, are two obvious examples of the former. As for the latter, when, for example, did adult revolutionaries hold hunger strikes lasting a whole twelve hours or seize buildings and then demand that the university authorities give them food and water? I have no affection for Che Guevara, but he did at least spend time in a Bolivian jungle while trying to foment revolution. I presume he never once considered whining to the Bolivian government about the harsh conditions of jungle life and had to find his own food and water. A cynic might say that even our revolutionaries are pathetic these days." . . .

Carl Trueman is a professor of biblical and religious studies at Grove City College and a fellow at the Ethics and Public Policy Center.

 How is it that these silly children do not know about what Palestinians did to these women? 'Screams Before Silence' Must Be Seen and Remembered (hollywoodintoto.com)

Asking College Students if They Know Why They are Protesting  It is disgusting to hear these products of our education system spouting canned phrases someone else has taught them with not an original thought among them. TD

Activist Groups Trained Students for Months Before Campus Protests (msn.com)

Is the best and brightest we choose for America's leaders?

"Jihab"?

 Student calls out Ilhan Omar for calling some Jewish students 'pro-genocide'

"University of Pennsylvania student Eyal Yakoby condemns Rep. Ilhan Omar's harmful comments toward Jewish students and discusses his experience on campus during the volatile anti-Israel protests."

"Jewphobia": antisemitism flourishes in America, including Congress, as seen above.

Douglas Murray Dismantles The Word "Islamophobia" "Douglas Murray carefully scrutinizes and unpacks the word "Islamophobic" raising important questions."

Murray asks the interviewer where is the only country Nazis were welcomed after WW2. Other countries, including Germany, Nazis shrunk back shamefully, if one does not count such fanatics such as Otto Skorzeny.

Other Muslim nations will not accept Palestinians for good reason. Only this Democrat tool of Obama, Soros and wealthy Jew-haters, Joe Biden, want them in America.

Joe Biden's Medal of Freedom Ceremony Goes South As His Brain Fries and He Slurs Uncontrollably

 Bonchie – RedState  "Joe Biden held a Medal of Freedom ceremony on Friday in which he awarded standouts like John Kerry, Al Gore, and Nancy Pelosi with America's highest civilian honor. What did they do to deserve such a reward? The answer is nothing, but they have been radical leftists, and that was enough. 

"As with any public appearance by Biden, the event offered ample evidence of his senility. At one point, he appeared to forget what he was there for, perhaps mistakenly thinking he was awarding the Medal of Honor to someone.

"Look at his eyes in this next clip. You can see him squinting to make out the words after he calls Michelle Yeoh, an actress, "Michael Yeoh." He also called the Paris Olympics the "Paralympics" because he slurs his words so much.

"The leader of the free world, ladies and gentlemen."

BIDEN v. TELEPROMPTER: "She's not only, she's not only the only person receiving this medal, she is a, uh, she is a, uh, you know..." pic.twitter.com/uwVofHTldE

— RNC Research (@RNCResearch) May 3, 2024

Luke Skywalker will always love Joe.  When it comes to Biden worship, Mark Hamill outdoes the media - Eric Utter 

. . ."Most preposterously of all, according to the obviously deranged partisan hack Mark Hamill, “Joe Biden is the best president we’ve ever had.” And, Hamill opines, Donald Trump is the “worst.” Biden, a desiccated husk on a good day, better than Abraham Lincoln? Has Biden won a war? Freed anybody? Is he capable of delivering an equivalent to the Gettysburg Address? Is he capable of stating his own address?

"How about George Washington? How does Biden compare to the Father of Our Country? Washington eventually defeated the greatest military the world had ever known…without a navy…or an established professional army. He could have been a king but refused. And, as the first Chief Executive, he set precedents for every president that followed. Biden effectively surrendered to the Taliban. Biden thinks he is royalty or should be. Let’s pray to God that future presidents don’t follow his precedents." . . .

9 Reasonable Demands From Students Occupying Campus Buildings

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"Much has been made about the student protesters occupying spaces on college campuses recently -- but what do these masked, wanna-be revolutionaries actually want? The Babylon Bee has obtained the following list of completely reasonable demands being made by students occupying campus buildings:

1. Later bedtimes: And no more naps!
2. Dunkaroos: With extra creme. They never give enough creme.
3. For the Jews to just stand still, surrender, and agree to be eradicated: And no defending themselves. That's not fair.
4. Some Red Vines: Get out of here with your Twizzler offers.
5. No accountability or consequences for anything they do or say at any point in their lives: Obviously.
6. Several pints of Ben & Jerry's "From the River to the Sea, Palestine Will Be Free" Pistachio Ice Cream: Freeing the people of Gaza one scoop at a time.
7. That campus be designated a gun-free, banana-free, and Jew-free zone: It's just common sense.
8. An extra 30 minutes of screen time on weekends: Schindler's List is a long movie, okay?
9. The total dismantling of all Western society and also some Pop-Tarts: Frosted strawberry and the complete end of the Western world. Delicious.
10. As soon as these demands are met, the protesters have agreed to keep rooting for the destruction of Israel and America, but back in their dorm rooms. Your move, University President!

Ann Coulter: Hate Watchdogs Need Glasses

 Ann Coulter

"In November 2019, thousands of antifa tried to prevent me from speaking at UC Berkeley. They failed for only one reason: The Proud Boys were there. Ditto with speeches I gave in Philadelphia and Los Angeles. Antifa came, but so did the Proud Boys. Order was maintained." 

"Too bad the Jewish students being harassed on campuses don’t have the Proud Boys around to protect them. They can thank the Anti-Defamation League’s Jonathan Greenblatt for making that impossible.

"Greenblatt could see right through the Proud Boys’ stated mission of supporting Western Civilization. Ha! Mere camouflage for “a right-wing extremist group with a violent agenda.”

"Similarly, the Southern Poverty Law Center alerted liberals that the Proud Boys were “extremist” and “white nationalist.”

"Wikipedia’s entry on the group is a 20,000-word libel. (Apparently, the group “us[ed] ‘Western chauvinism’ as euphemism for the white genocide conspiracy theory” — just like Wikipedia uses “The Free Encyclopedia” as a euphemism for “left-wing bile.”)

"There is literally nothing about “white nationalism” or “white genocide” in anything the Proud Boys said about themselves. Or “right-wing,” for that matter, unless prizing Western culture is now the exclusive province of the right wing.

"How about these statements: “Zionists don’t deserve to live,” “Go back to Poland!” “Burn Tel Aviv” — all said recently by protesters at Columbia University. Or how about a Palestinian flag and the words “FINAL SOLUTION” at George Washington University?" . . .

"I guess the ADL and SPLC didn’t see that coming, despite their exquisitely sensitive antennae for “hate.”

"Arguably, these hate watchdogs took their eye off the ball by labeling conservatives “white nationalists” merely for admiring the West, opposing mass immigration, defending the police, writing books about IQ, attacking feminism, hating identity politics or warning of Islamic terrorism.

"It sure seems like conservatives weren’t the biggest threat after all, eh, Jonathan?" . . .

Every Republican is a Nazi to the left, just as every conservative is a Jim Crow racist to MSNBC's Joy Reid. TD

Why Protest on Campuses With No Connection to the Israel-Hamas War?

 The American Spectator | USA News and Politics  It’s all about making activists feel good.

"The activism for activism’s sake on American campuses does not save a single Palestinian. It does salve the feelings of privileged American kids." 

"What societal institutions, other than mosques, show a greater receptivity to the pro-Hamas message than the campuses?

"Neither transgenders wearing keffiyehs nor the great number of students owning high-end glamping gear strikes as the strangest thing about the protests. Their location does. 

"Martin Luther King did not march on Cambridge Common or Telegraph Ave. He demonstrated in Montgomery, Selma, Birmingham, Atlanta, and points beyond where governments, businesses, and powerful people discriminated against African Americans. He risked hearing jeers rather than cheers because he wanted change, not an ego boost. He suffered not merely jeers but jail, hurled foodstuffs, a stabbing, the invasion of his privacy, and ultimately assassination so that others would not suffer.

"Demonstrations generally follow this pattern of addressing grievances directly at the source.

"PETA protests medical research facilities that perform experiments on animals, not vegan restaurants that serve sesame noodles. Strikers demonstrate outside of the factories that pay them less than they demand, not outside the union hall. Pro-lifers hold placards on the sidewalk next to Planned Parenthood clinics, not churches.

"If PETA did make its case in a vegan restaurant, then one imagines many a customer might shout “Hear, hear.” This would make the PETA protestors feel good. But it seems unlikely to advance the group’s principles.

"This hypothetical forces the question, for what purpose do the protestors make their voices heard in the very places where their voices dominate? Proximity seems the obvious and partly right answer. Other reasons pertain to the inability of many progressives to operate outside of their intellectual ghettos and the desire of many young people for affirmation. No explanation for why the campuses serve as the site of the protests involves the connection of the universities to the war, of which tangential seems too strong a word, or the grounds of elite schools serving as an effective platform to save Palestinian lives, which they are not.

"The protests that canceled classes at UCLA, forced Columbia to move to remote learning, and closed Cal Poly-Humboldt for the semester look like a performance. It all probably felt exhilarating and cathartic. But in terms of propelling the cause of the Palestinians, the demonstrations proved entirely ineffective." . . .