It’s Monday, January 16th, 2023…but before we begin, rewatching the clip of Peter Doocy confronting Joe Biden over his mishandling of classified materials, we noticed something peculiar:
Namely Biden’s lack of his usual combativeness when presented with inconveniently irrefutable facts.
No “C’mon man”:
No asinine challenge to a push-up contest:
(We’ve always wondered how utterly sycophantic one must be to applaud such stupidity.)
No “You’re a d*mn liar!“:
No “Don’t try me, pal!”
Just a pregnant pause, followed by the stumbling recitation of what’s on his cue cards.
We’re of the opinion Hank Johnson, despite being half-witted, is half-right. Biden IS being set up, just not by Republicans. As noted previously, something tells us Joe’s puppet master is growing tired of tugging his strings.
*An assumption/explanation with which we wholeheartedly disagree.
“The Kaiser Family Foundation (KFF) reported recently that 28 percent of adults express hesitancy about the vaccine for Measles, Mumps, and Rubella. That number represents a significant surge. Among parents of school-aged children, suddenly, the number believing that the MMR vaccine should be a requirement for enrollment in school dropped twelve percentage points. Forty-four percent of Republican-leaning independents, up from 22 percent a few years ago, said that the decision for a child to receive an MMR vaccine should be left to their parents, not to schools or the state.
This is the adverse effect of public-health officials’ behavior during the pandemic, when our institutions fed us a toxic cocktail of confusion, deliberate manipulation, and outright lying, and also endorsed censorship of contrary opinion.
Upon reflection, the mercy is that those KFF numbers aren’t much, much worse.
…All the hassle that parents received during the pandemic — the fears they had about losing their jobs due to mandates, or losing their child’s place in school due to vaccination requirements — could be easily associated with the era of hysteria and misinformation spread by public authorities whom we usually trust to be sober and judicious.
This also naturally occasions harder questions and conspiratorial musings: If a public-health authority is recommending a vaccine I know my child doesn’t need, what am I to make of the radical expansion of the childhood-vaccine schedule in recent years? If a bunch of people denounced as psychos and conspiracy theorists turned out to have been right during the pandemic, and our major authorities turned out to have been wrong, why shouldn’t I listen to the FDA-skeptics such as Robert F. Kennedy Jr. more often?…”
Here’s the juice: This was the subject of a long conversation we recently had with TLJ. There’s liars, d*mn liars, and then there’s Dr. Faux Chi and company.Nothing we’ve been told by anyone in the government or MSM regarding the scamdemic can be trusted.
Since we’re on the subject of d*mn liars, Virginia governor Glenn Youngkin has revealed…
What started off as allegations of one of our most prominent schools, has revealed a systematic problem. Now, there are news reports that seven schools in NOVA have delayed notifying Virginia students of their academic achievements. This is unacceptable. https://t.co/KyrYEwZeLt
Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen called on Congress to raise the debt ceiling as soon as possible, warning that the government could become unable to pay its bills after early June.
In a formal letter sent to party leaders in Congress, Ms. Yellen said the government would hit the roughly $31.4 trillion borrowing limit on Jan. 19, when the Treasury Department will begin implementing so-called extraordinary measures to manage the government’s cash flow.
“While Treasury is not currently able to provide an estimate of how long extraordinary measures will enable us to continue to pay the government’s obligations, it is unlikely that cash and extraordinary measures will be exhausted before early June,” Ms. Yellen wrote to Congressional leaders.
Which provides the perfect segue for this warning from NRO‘s Kevin Hassett:
“It is astonishing how far and how rapidly the financial situation in the United States has deteriorated. Perhaps we have grown accustomed to the wailing about debt and deficits, but it has not always been so.
When Ronald Reagan took office, government debt held by the public was about $650 billion. The few liberals who still bother to criticize his presidency will concede that he won the Cold War, defeated inflation, and started a long-lasting economic boom, but his profligate defense spending — they will be quick to add — increased the national debt by a then-unprecedented amount. By the time Reagan left office, debt held by the public had indeed jumped, to about $2 trillion. Back then, liberals told us that the $1.4 trillion addition to the national debt threatened calamity. The fact that Reagan’s total effect over eight years was smaller than that of the “Inflation Reduction Act” highlights just how much times have changed.
We have spent our way into a colossal mess. After all the stimulus and other spending, debt held by the public is more than ten times the level with which Reagan left us, at about $24 trillion (though adjusting for inflation would somewhat lower this increase). If that number sounds familiar, it’s because it is similar to our recent levels of GDP, meaning that we owe almost an entire year’s national income because of our runaway spending…”
Yellen’s warning of impending doom is life imitating art, in this case one of our favorite scenes from Christmas Vacation:
How House Republicans handle this will demonstrate the commitment of spendaholic Kevin McCarthy to reining in his Congressional spendthrifts.
Meanwhile, as Jim Geraghty details, it was a…
Heck of a Morning, Axios!
“…Elsewhere at Axios, the usually reliable Josh Kraushaar and Alexi McCammond look at the recent spate of transportation crises as a series of unfortunate events that could unfairly derail the future ambitions of Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg. “Buttigieg has in several cases been the victim of circumstances that predated his time in office — such as the ancient computers and infrastructure that appeared to contribute to the FAA disaster.”
Nobody made Buttigieg appear on James Corden’s Late Late Show last September to discuss air-travel delays, where he pledged to the host, “I think it’s going to get better by the holidays.”
As I wrote last September, U.S. secretaries of transportation are a bit like brake lines, offensive lines, and power lines — you only pay much attention to them when they don’t work.“
But what can one expect from a former mayor of a small, failing city whose only qualification for running the Department of Transportation is his homosexuality.
Moving on, here’s sextet of special selections certain to sate the curiosity of inquiring Conservative minds:
(2). The administration of Governor Ron DeSantis quickly called out the apparent discrimination(we’d suggest “blatantly obvious” versus merely “apparent”) in a new diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) initiative called the Pathway to Hockey Summit. scheduled for February 2nd in Fort Lauderdale. The event is exclusive to female, black, Asian/Pacific Islander, Hispanic/Latino, Indigenous, LGBTQIA+, and/or disabled registrants. In a separate line item the NHL welcomed veterans as well.
“Discrimination of any sort is not welcome in the state of Florida, and we do not abide by the woke notion that discrimination should be overlooked if applied in a politically popular manner or against a politically unpopular demographic. We are fighting all discrimination in our schools and our workplaces, and we will fight it in publicly accessible places of meeting or activity. We call upon the National Hockey League to immediately remove and denounce the discriminatory prohibitions it has imposed on attendance to the 2023 ‘Pathway to Hockey’ summit.”
Good for Ron and shame on the NHL, which again demonstrates a total lack of awareness of and respect for its fan base.
(3). Based on the following, we’d recommend boycotting any property owned the Ghermezian family of Edmonton, Alberta.
(5). Just when we thought The Left couldn’t get any crazier, the powers-that-be at USC proved us wrong, as this forward from The Boss conclusively demonstrates. As Wilfred Reilly notes at NRO, “The fact that many people take this sort of stuff dead seriously reveals a major cultural problem in American middle-class life.” He’s right about that, as we honestly find it impossible to imagine anyone has time to ponder such inanities.
(6). Writing at the Weekend Jolt, Judson Berger offers the prescient warning we haven’t heard the last of the stove banners., which his NRO colleague Jack Crowe described as a “a gun grab for people who like to cook.” Here’s the kicker: The banners have no plan WHATSOEVER how to generate the electricity to power the electric appliances which will replace those powered by the cleanest burning, most plentiful fuel on the planet. As this meme forwarded by Hickey points out:
Which brings us, appropriately enough, to The Lighter Side:
Then there’s these from Speed…
…James Patrick…
…Major Jon…
…Rick Page…
…Ed Hickey…
…and Balls Cotton:
Finally, we’ll call it a day with further evidence the depths to which the Biden criminal cartel will go haven’t even begun to be plumbed, as Jonathan Turley reports on a…
“In Oscar Wilde’s “The Importance of Being Ernest,” the main character’s search for his true name comes to a head when he finally demands “would you kindly inform me who I am?” In an astonishing filing this week, Hunter Biden answered that question for his four-year-old daughter Navy Joan and effectively declared “you are no Biden.”
Hunter Biden’s disgraceful treatment of his daughter has long been on display in Arkansas where he denied being her father, fought paternity, and was threatened with contempt of court over his failure to supply needed documents. After DNA testing was forced by a court, Hunter was found to be the father but he continued to resist efforts to force him to pay child support and supply financial records.
Recently, Hunter’s ex-lover Lunden Roberts sought to have a surname change for her daughter to Biden. Even after his long and abusive treatment of his daughter in court, Hunter Biden’s opposition is breathtaking. He opposes his daughter using his name and says that, if she does, she will never have a “peaceful existence.”
Of course, Biden did not feel that way with his other four children. They are all true Bidens and living peaceful existences. It is only Navy Joan who he does not want to bear the family name.
Hunter’s concern for Navy Joan’s peaceful existence is a bit odd since he has reportedly never even seen his daughter after fighting for years to deny his paternal status and child support.
Hunter is asking Circuit Court Judge Holly Meyer to deny Navy Joan the ability to use her father’s surname and claiming that it is in her best interest. The filing is so self-serving and transparently dishonest that it does what was once thought impossible: reach a new low for Hunter. All of his reported selfies having sex and doing drugs with prostitutes were shocking. His attacks on his former sister-in-law, Hallie Biden, widow of the deceased brother (with whom Hunter later had a romantic relationship), were appalling. However, the craven effort to deny this child his name reaches a level of cad that stands unrivaled.
The position of Hunter in court has been disgraceful, but the media has largely ignored the matter. It has also ignored the utter lack of support from President Joe Biden and the First Lady, who tellingly omitted a stocking for Navy Joan as one of their grandchildren. (The dog and cat did receive stockings). There is no record that Joe or Jill Biden have ever sought to meet, let alone embrace, their grandchild. The President has, however, sought to deny the child security protection (despite his son’s concern for her “peaceful existence”).
Joe Biden has long campaigned against “deadbeat Dads” but when a Fox reporter asked about Hunter’s refusal to pay child support, President Biden snapped at him and refused to answer the question on the “personal matter.” (The media also ignored Hunter’s deadbeat dad record in fawning interviews about this “bravery” in writing a book on his life)…”
That’s one piece of human excrement who didn’t fall far from his stinking sphincter of a father. And Dr. Jill seems to have married into the perfect family.
Magoo
Video of the Day
Rand Paul knocks it out of the park paying homage to a lesson taken to heart by Davey Crockett. WOW!!! Here’s to Horatio Bunce! BTW, Paul says nothing whatsoever about Pelosi.
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Ami Horowitz gets a Mexican citizen’s assessment of the many educated asses in America.
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