The Leftwing Media Says "Biden Has Dementia, And Here's Why That's a Good Thing!"

You think I'm kidding?

You think I'm shining you on?

Think again, friend-o: There is nothing shiny about me. I am sandpaper covered in coal-dust.

I'm sure you already know that the New York Times' first instinct was to Pivot to Republicans Pounce:

Luke Thompson is posting amusing tweets, in which he quotes a member of the partisan traitor media or a member of the traitorous Democrat Party, and then pronounces: "We have entered the Soviet grain report phase of the Biden presidency." Referencing, of course, this sort of headline that would run in Pravda every harvest season:

THIS YEAR'S GRAIN HARVEST EXCEEDS ALL RECORDS AND ALL EXPECTATIONS

In celebration of this glorious abundance, the monthly bread allowance will be raised from four loaves to two

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White House Press Briefing (Not With The Old Vegetable, But With Two Younger Vegetables)

Live feed here. Some clips below.

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Quiz: Name the 80s Movie Based On The Song
Update: Answers Added

Here's a change of pace until we get back into Biden's galloping dementia.

I've started the list with some easy ones, but then they get pretty hard, even a little obscure.

A few movies are such touchstones that I've pulled two songs each from them.

These songs aren't picked based on quality, but just on nostalgia factor and whether or not they make for a good question.

Go through all the songs and get your guesses ready before you go into the comments, because, of course, people will be posting their answers there.

In forty minutes, I will add all the answers to this post. For many, I have a clip of the song in the context of the movie, which is nice.

1. "Take My Breath Away," Berlin. Hint: "On your six." Another hint: "I have tone."

2. "I'm Alright" by Kenny Loggins. Hint: "So I've got that going for me, which is nice."

3. "Holiday Road" by Lindsay Buckingham. Hint: "Moose outside should have told ya."

4. "If You Leave," Orchestral Maneuvers in the Dark, or OMD, as all the cool kids like me knew them. Hint: "She thought you were shit, Steff. And deep down you knew she was right."

5. "Underground" by David Bowie. Hint: Mazes & Muppets.

6. "On Our Own," by Bobby Brown. Don't listen too long, he starts name-dropping the movie's title in it! Hint: The Statue of Liberty play. Another hint: Snarky exorcists.

7. "Moondance" by Van Morrison. Hint: Snarl. Growl. Another hint: "What's that star on the wall mean?" This isn't like the others were it's definitely an 80s song, but it was an important song in a big 80s movie.

8. "Makin' It," by David Naughton. Hint: "Is that a bra you're wearing or are you expecting an assassination?" Another hint: "Rudy the Rabbit." Last hint: "It just doesn't matter... It just doesn't matter..."

9. "I Can Dream About You," Dan Hartman. Hint: Plays at the end of the movie, with a fictitious band playing it. Another hint: "The only trouble with beating the shit out of you is that it would be too easy." Another hint: "A rock n' roll fable."

10. "Lunatic Fringe," Red Ryder. Hint: Sweats and cutting weight.

11. "If You Were Here," by Thompson Twins. Hint: "Now I have a place to put my hand!" Another Hint: "I'm not a farmer, I'm a freshman." This a very recognizable piece of music that had no life outside of the movie, except that I happened to own this group's first album, because, as previously stated, I was so cool. I'll be surprised if more than a couple of people get it.

12. "Melt With You" by Modern English. Hint: Romeo and Juliett in Encino (I assume, I've never seen it); early role for one of my favorite actors.

13. "Like to Get to Know You Well," by Howard Jones. Hint: French Camaro repair. Another hint: "Gee, I'm real sorry your mom blew up, Ricky."

14. "Everbody Wants to Rule the World" by Tears for Fears. This is a hard one but I bet you'll kick yourself after you see the answer. Hint: "It would be like lasing a stick of dynamite." Another hint: "Kent, this is GOD. I want you to stop playing with yourself."

15. "New York, New York" by... Queen. I can't link it because all videos would give it away. You can figure it out, though. Hint: "I'm Candy." "Of course you are." Also: "If he winssh the Prizshe, mortal man would shuffer an eternity of darknesshh!"

16. "You're the Best (Around)" by Joe Esposito. Hint: It's used as the song for a training montage. LOL, that's a joke hint -- every third 80s movie had a training montage set to a pop song. Not really much of a clue. Here's a better hint: " STRIKE FIRST. STRIKE HARD. NO MERCY SIR." Also: "Put him in a body bag!"

17. "Everybody Wants Some," by Van Halen. Hint: Mad Burger Science. Another hint: "The K-12." "Go that way, really fast. If something gets in your way... turn."

18. "American Girl" by Tom Petty was used to introduce the main female character, serving as her theme. The movie is an absolute foundational 80s movie. Hint: "If you're here and I'm here, doesn't that make it our time?" Another hint: "The attitude dictates that you don't care whether she comes, stays, lays, or prays. I mean whatever happens, your toes are still tappin'. Now when you got that, then you have the attitude."

19. "Up Where We Belong" by Joe Cocker and Jennifer Warner. Hint: "There's only two things that come out of Oklahoma: Steers and queers."

And now, for my favorite closing song and final helicopter shot of the 80s:

20. "Cheer Down," George Harrison. Hint: Action-adventure. "Diplomatic immunity."

BONUS ROUND FOR THE LADS:

These songs played over nudity, so most male Morons will know them well:

21. "Open Arms" by Journey. It played during the love/sex scene in this cartoon cult classic. Hint: "The Loc-Nar."

22. "Rubberband Man," the Spinners. Hint: Occupational comedy. Another hint: "You're weird, you're a mutant. You're a killer. You're a lean, mean, fightin' machine!" "I'll do it!"

23. The song that's absolutely seared, seared into the memories of all male Morons of a certain age: "Moving In Stereo" by The Cars. If needed, hint: "Those guys are f*gs, man!" And, critically: "Doesn't anyone f*cking knock anymore?"

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Biden Attempted to Quell the Panic About His Galloping Dementia By Appearing In Public After His 5 PM Bedtime.
It Was a Disaster.

First of all, I am so, so sorry I did not put up at least an open thread for this. I was so tired yesterday -- I did not get up from my computer for a four hour period when news was breaking -- that when 7pm rolled around I just turned off the computer and napped. I published the Cafe from my phone.

I had no idea Biden had spoken until I woke up around 9:40.

This post is literally yesterday's news, but just in case you missed some of it, here's a recap. I'm going to be linking different points in a Black Conservative Perspective video I watched about this. Click on the link, listen to the part I'm talking about, and then come back for the next point. (It's a long video.)

Biden was told by his caregivers and nurses that the most devastating revelation in the report was that he could not remember the year that Beau Biden died, and could not even ballpark it in a range of years.

So they trotted Biden out to lie: He claimed he was so "angry" that he had been asked about the year of Beau Biden's death that he deliberately went silent as some kind of Internal Psychic Protest against the questions.

He claimed he thought "how dare you" in his head. He can't say he said this aloud, because of course there is a transcript, and he said no such thing.

He claims he thought, "It's none of your damn business." The year your son died is "none of your damn business"? Is the year of your son's death a state secret?

And if so: Why aren't you keeping it "secure" wrapped in an old, oil-stained circa-1985 "No Fat Chicks" t-shirt in your garage?

You know who gets enraged when they can't remember the answers to simple questions?

People suffering from dementia and Alzheimer's. It's one of the classic signs of dementia. My dad had it.

The transcript, I'm sure, will also reveal that he did not go silent as some kind of stone-faced rebuke, but instead mumbled that he couldn't remember the year of Beau's death, and kept saying "I don't know" when asked if he could at least guess a range of years when it might have happened.

Biden made an enormous policy declaration to get him out of this meltdown: Biden has realized that he is so weak he cannot continue defying his young, brown, minority base by supporting the "colonizers" of Israel. He was barely supporting Israel as it was; now that this devastating report about his rapidly deteriorating faculties has dropped, he's decided he can no longer afford to fight the hard left.

He declared that Israel's response to a mass slaughter, mass rape, and mass kidnapping terrorist attack "has been over-the-top."

Also, in the below clip, he says that al-Sisi is the president of Mexico, instead of Egypt.

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THE MORNING RANT: Any GOP Presidential Nominee Will Be Criminally Indicted and Impeached if Elected; plus, Remembering Reagan’s “Exhausting” Presidency

Everyone is exhausted with Donald Trump, and his legal problems, and his scandals, and his indictments, and his multiple impeachments, etc. If only we could get someone else without Trump’s baggage, the media could move on, and we’d finally put Democrats on the defensive about Biden’s record.

While I am certainly disappointed that DeSantis won’t be our nominee, I have no illusions about how he would be treated. The Democrats and the media have seen it as their mission to unseat every Republican President since they took down Nixon. Every single Republican nominee in my lifetime has been “literally Hitler,” including Bob Dole who actually fought against Hitler. Every Republican President in my life has had multiple scandals that were “bigger than Watergate.” And now that impeachments and indictments are on the table, it is an absolute certainty that every GOP presidential candidate going forward will face multiple nuisance indictments, and every Republican President will be impeached if there is a Democrat-controlled House.

Amidst all this, the NeverTrump faux-conservatives are in a constant state of reverence about Ronald Reagan, and how shocked and disgusted St. Ronnie would be about Trump’s Republican Party. Don’t misunderstand, Reagan was the best president of my life until Trump’s first three years. I admire Reagan, and I wish he could have governed by executive order like his successors started doing. But I also remember as a high schooler interested in politics that the 1980 equivalent of NeverTrumpers were appalled by Reagan, which led to John Anderson running as 1980’s version of Evan McMullin. Country Club Republicans were as repulsed by Reagan’s blue collar coalition as NeverTrumpers are with MAGA.

With polite Republicans of today lamenting that we’re stuck with Trump rather than having a dignified, non-controversial candidate like Ronald Reagan, I would like to re-publish a piece I wrote back in 2019.

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Mid-Morning Art Thread

The Egg Dance
Pieter Aertsen

What can I say...it's Friday!

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The Morning Report — 2/9/24

Good morning, kids. Once more the disgusting fiasco of a corrupt justice system as can be seen reflected in the situations now facing former president Donald Trump and current rotting vegetable of a corrupt pervert puppet Joey Sponge-Brain Shits-Pants Biden.

For Trump, he seems to be on the verge of a significant victory as was seen at SCOTUS yesterday. With the exception of Kentanji Brown-25, all of the others at a minimum looked askance at the shyster arguing for Colorado's removal of Trump from the ballot while Justices Thomas and Kavanaugh napalmed the crap out of him. Obviously, if Trump wins this he remains on the ballot in every state. This might go 8-1 or likely 6-3. Yet if it does go that way, it would be to give Lefties ammunition to declare SCOTUS illegitimate and boost their calls to expand it. But, I do think this does go 8-1 with Affirmative Action Jackson being the lone vote because, young gifted furry and black.

In any case, the fact that they're attempting to remove him from the ballot for supposedly inciting an insurrection based on a complete wrong reading of the 14th Amendment and more to the point despite the fact that he was neither convicted nor even put on trial in the first place is disgusting. There was no insurrection, he never called for one and whatever violence took place on 1/6 at the Capitol was planned and instigated by agents provocateur or even agents themselves of the DOJ and Capitol Police. I hope this causes a domino effect in terms of the naked Stalinist show trials of Jack Smith, but with DC being a completely rigged town, the verdict is no doubt already in.

As far as Biden is concerned, yesterday was even more of a fiasco. It turned into No Reasonable Prosecutor 2: Shield the Pervert Criminal Boogaloo.

You remember Uncle Leo from Seinfeld, whose defense to shoplifting was “I’m an old man, I’m confused.” Didn’t work for him in the bookstore, but it worked for Joe Biden in the Special Counsel investigation into his deliberate retention of classified documents.

Special counsel Robert Hur has declined to prosecute [spurious] President Joe Biden for his handling of classified documents, but said Biden’s practices “present serious risks to national security” and added that Biden portrayed himself as an “elderly man with a poor memory” who would be sympathetic to a jury.“

Our investigation uncovered evidence that [spurious] President Biden willfully retained and disclosed classified materials after his vice presidency when he was a private citizen,” the report said, but added that the evidence “does not establish Mr. Biden’s guilt beyond a reasonable doubt.”

Hur’s report included several shocking lines about Biden’s memory, which the report said “was significantly limited” during his 2023 interviews with the special counsel. Biden’s age and presentation would make it more difficult to convince a jury beyond a reasonable doubt that the now-81-year-old was guilty of willfully committing a crime.

“We have also considered that, at trial, Mr. Biden would likely present himself to a jury, as he did during our interview of him, as a sympathetic, well-meaning, elderly man with a poor memory,” it said. “Based on our direct interactions with and observations of him, he is someone for whom many jurors will want to identify reasonable doubt. It would be difficult to convince a jury that they should convict him — by then a former president well into his eighties — of a serious felony that requires a mental state of willfulness.”

. . . You can read the full report here.

Yes, of course it reeks of hypocrisy vis-a-vis Trump. I taped a segment on Jesse Kelly show that will run tonight pointing out the one obvious difference in the cases, that there’s no allegation Biden played hide-and-seek with the documents once the feds sought them (which is the allegation against Trump in the Florida case, which I have long argued is his most serious risk). But still, it’s hard not to see that in the Trump records case the feds did their best to find a reason to indict him, whereas in the Biden records case they did their best to find a reason not to indict Biden — including the Uncle Leo Defense.

Two things: First, Donald Trump is being prosecuted for alleged mishandling of documents despite the fact that as president it was his purview to declassify and keep whatever documents he wanted. And from what I understand, whatever documents were in his possession were indeed secure, the bullshit of him holding a top secret file up to a TV camera notwithstanding.

Biden on the other hand took and stored boxes of classified documents in several un-secure locations (and likely was selling them to the highest bidder), while he was Obama's vice president. And that is completely illegal as he had zero authority to do so.

Aside from the fact that being demented does not, in theory, get you off the hook as Ace detailed in his post last night, Joey's document thievery took place 10 or more years ago. So does the Uncle Leo defense still apply? Whatever his mental state back then was, it certainly was orders of magnitude more "with it" than it is today.

Regardless, Hur pulling a Comey and stating that he's likely guilty but won't be prosecuted is par for the course in Tijada, Parador, San Marcos or whatever banana republic we want to call ourselves now. And legal eagle William Jacobson referring to him as "Joey Bananas" is so perfect a name with multiple meanings I'm jealous as hell I didn't come up with it.

With the border crisis hanging around the Democrats' collective neck despite the GOPe throwing them lifelines, the economy in shambles as everyone believes their lying eyes and wallets over Karine Carpet-Muncher Pierre's claims, and multiple exploding regional wars threatening to blow up the world, they still let Joe Bananas go in front of the TV cameras — Live and unscripted.

{So-called quote-unquote "president"] Joe Biden took to the microphone for an unannounced address on Thursday night, following the release of the politically devastating Special Counsel report that said he "willfully retained and disclosed classified materials after his vice presidency when he was a private citizen." While the report stated that such actions "present serious risks to national security,” Biden will not face charges because he presents himself as an “elderly man with a poor memory” and it would be difficult to convince a jury he is guilty of a serious felony because to commit such a crime “requires a mental state of willfulness.” The report elaborated by pointing out he couldn’t even remember when he was vice president and didn’t even remember when his son Beau died.

The address was scheduled for 7:45 p.m. but did not actually get underway until around 8 — well past his usual 7 p.m. bedtime.  I can't explain how or why Biden's handlers felt it was a good idea to trot him out at night to talk about the special counsel report, but it did not go well. He was belligerent and defensive, and it was a terrible look. When he addressed the report claiming that he couldn't remember when his son died, it really got bad.

 "How in the hell dare he raise that," Biden said angrily, concluding that it is "none of their damn business."

"For any extraneous commentary, they don't know what they're talking about," Biden insisted, even though the report presented direct quotes. "It has no place in this report."

Biden also blamed his staff for storing classified documents in his home, office, and garage, insisting, "I take responsibility for not having seen exactly what my staff would do!" "The bottom line is the matter is now closed, and I can continue what I've always focused on: my job of being the president of the United States of America."

Making the situation worse was when he decided to take questions from reporters. Amazingly, Fox News's Peter Doocy was the first to ask a question.

"President Biden, something that the special counsel said in his report is that one of the reasons you were not charged is because, in his description, you are a 'well-meaning elderly man with a poor memory.'"

"I am well-meaning! I am an old man, and I know what the hell I'm doing," Biden insisted. "I've been president, and I put this country back on its feet. I don't need his recommendation."

"How good is your memory, and can you continue as president?" Doocy followed up.

"My memory is so bad, I let you speak," Biden said, trying to make a joke about a very serious issue.

Biden defiantly declared, "I'm the most qualified person in this country to be the president of the United States."

It got worse from there. All hell seemed to break loose as reporters shouted to get questions in.

A reporter noted that Americans have been watching him and are concerned about his age. A confused and angry Biden shouted back, "That is your judgment!" Biden defiantly declared, "I'm the most qualified person in this country to be the president of the United States."

When Biden finally had enough and told everyone he was leaving, he ended up coming back to the podium to address a question about the situation in the Middle East—and proceeded to refer to Egyptian President Abdel Fattah El-Sisi as the "President of Mexico."

Whoever decided to let Joe Biden out tonight to speak to the nation should be fired.

Well, in a sane world, yes. But in a sane world, a man who was for sure mentally impaired four years ago should never have been allowed to run for office. That mirrors the complete lack of any kind of morality or humanity from Biden's wife and family. But that is quite obviously a Biden family trait passed on in the blood and even marriage. Of course, if the 2020 election wasn't rigged, Biden would've been and probably was blown out in as close to a landslide that we can have these days given the electoral landscape.

The naked, shameless will to power of the Democrats meant trotting this old pervert vegetable to be their puppet was perfectly acceptable, despite the fact that his geriatric senescence, and stumbling up and down AF-1's stairs when not shambling around aimlessly like a Roomba-Dalek that blew a fuse sent a message to friend and foe alike.

As far as the 2024 election is concerned, Biden's performance along with Hur's report are the "wafer thin mint" on top of the border catastrophe and all the rest that will only make a lot or a significant number of Democrats and anyone else with eyes to see will seal Biden's and his party's fate. The tell is the calls that have been growing for Biden to step aside going back even before yesterday's flaming farce.

However repulsed the aforementioned are by Biden, I don't think they're suddenly going to jump en masse on the Trump train. But they likely will sit this one out as their personal financial situation and the border deteriorates as they most certainly will before this coming November.

Can Trump keep his fat yap shut about 2020 and not step on his own schlong with things like calling off the tremendous culture war victory that is the Bud Lite boycott? I hope so, but there again it's hope over experience. His own big mouth is his worst enemy. Still, while for political expediency it might be best to sidestep 2020, it must not be either forgotten nor forgiven. That said, with all the show trials popping at once, it certainly is an issue that he's going to have to and of course will expound upon in the press. How he does it will either seal the deal or turn people off. I'll leave that to the experts and all of you to formulate that strategy.

Meanwhile, Joey Bananas still has the nuclear codes. And before you go off and say that the Kalorama Klown Komintern are really the ones in charge, Biden's mental state and his still functioning innate ego might lead him to cut Geppetto's strings if he feels threatened. Oh boy!

Could Joe Biden bomb Iran? There are loud calls by some members of Congress and pundits to do this in response to the surge in attacks by Iranian proxy groups against U.S. bases in Iraq and Syria and shipping in the Red Sea and Gulf of Aden.

Some thought it was telling last weekend when National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan refused to rule out a U.S. attack on Iran during a press interview.

But why would anyone be calling for American airstrikes against Iran? Why didn’t the massive U.S. airstrikes against Iranian-backed militias in Iraq and Syria last week and the 14 or more U.S. airstrikes against the Houthi rebels in Yemen halt their attacks?

The answer to both questions is that American deterrence in the Middle East has seriously eroded during the Biden [junta] . . .

. . . Worried about criticism from his progressive supporters, Biden and his senior national security officials have pressed the Israeli government to end the war quickly and agree to a peace plan based on the two-state solution. Israeli officials have rejected ending the war before it can guarantee Israel’s security and defeat Hamas. They have also said two-state solution peace plans are off the table due to the October 7 attack. . .

. . . There have also been press reports of growing tension between Biden and Netanyahu, including the president abruptly ending a December 23 phone call with the Israeli leader, Netanyahu repeatedly rejecting Biden’s calls for Palestinian sovereignty, and a report that Biden was running out of patience with Netanyahu.

In addition, until recently, the Biden administration did little in response to attacks on U.S. bases in Iraq and Syria by Iran-backed militias and over two dozen missile and drone attacks on Israel and Red Sea shipping by the Iran-backed Houthi rebels. . .

. . . There have also been press reports of growing tension between Biden and Netanyahu, including the president abruptly ending a December 23 phone call with the Israeli leader, Netanyahu repeatedly rejecting Biden’s calls for Palestinian sovereignty, and a report that Biden was running out of patience with Netanyahu.

These are serious questions that Congress should insist the Biden Administration answer before a possible attack against Iran. I believe that regardless of whether one believes congressional authorization for an attack on Iran is legally required, the president would be wise to seek it anyway because congressional debate and endorsement of such a serious action would give it much more credibility.

Given the Biden [junta's] efforts to appease Iran, I believe it is unlikely that the President would order an attack on Iranian territory or other offensive actions against Iran. But given Biden’s low approval ratings, I am worried that a desperate “wag the dog” attack on Iran to distract Americans from the president’s political problems at home cannot be ruled out. Congress must keep a sharp eye out for this and demand that it approve any U.S. attack on Iran or Iranian forces.

Fred Fleitz's analysis is sound, but Biden is now personally under the gun, vis a vis his obvious mental deterioration and perhaps a paranoia in his draining brain case that might lead him to do something rash.

Already the 25th amendment is being invoked by the GOP, and considering the political situation does not favor the Democrats mostly because of Biden, they might at some point soon or even during the convention signal the bullpen.

Biden I am sure will not react kindly to that. Demented or not, he knows where the skeletons are.

My latest essay is up at Taki's Magazine. Give a read and comment!

Have a good weekend.

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• Apple's response to new EU rules forcing it to open up its platform seems to be an epic saga of malicious compliance. (The Register)
  
  They're just begging for a multi-billion-dollar fine at this point.
  
  
  
• Google meanwhile has suddenly started blocking some apps from being sideloaded. (Hot Hardware)
  
  If it an app requests permission to manage SMS messages or notifications, it has to go through the official app store now. Because the apps being sideloaded with those permissions were all malware.

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I Think That I Shall Never See, A Poem As An ONT

Hello Horde! Before we start the ONT, I'd like to take a moment to pause and remember yesterday as the anniversary of one of the darkest days in America's history, a day which shall live in infamy.

Spectator Index is supposedly a “news” outfit, but that tweet is how they started the day yesterday. It did not go well for them.

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Kung-Fu Cats Cafe

lightning in Bavaria spring 2020
no photographer named, via unwetterfreaks on IG

Beautiful winter scene. The sun is out and the ice is melting so I think this qualifies as "spring-like," even though it shows snow and ice.

Motoring through NYC, in 1911.

Why can't this be real?

Fisherman catches a fish in a net, but then notice the hundreds of baby fish swarming around the mother fish who will die if he takes her...

I thought it was crazy when they were running around on a net suspended from four hot air balloons, but then they started jumping off it...

Another crazy balloon stunt.

Wheee...!

The "Stairway to Heaven" in Austria. Make sure you read the explanatory text beside the video.

Little boy is being chased down the street by an angry turkey! The boy probably called it a "Jive Turkey." They hate that.

Almost... too many bear cubs.

Shaolin cats.

Even more Shaolin cats.

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Biden's Ghostwriter, To Whom Biden Divulged National Security Secrets, DELETED HIS RECORDINGS OF BIDEN AS SOON AS THE SPECIAL COUNSEL WAS APPOINTED

The man Biden divulged national security secrets do is Zwonitzer. He was mentioned in the last post.

The Special Counsel said that Biden couldn't be prosecuted for revealing national security secrets to a complete civilian with no clearance to receive them because of Biden's "diminished faculties."

But that's just the beginning of the story.

(By the way, Deb Heine just confirmed to me that the "diminished faculties" line is in the report, the current version, on pages 247-248. Always trust content from ace, even when he's slapdash and shaky.)

As soon as the Special Counsel was appointed and Biden and Zwonitzer realized that he would be subpoening all the notes and records of their meetings, ZWONITZER DELETED ALL THE TAPES, thereby denying the Special Counsel evidence of what, exactly, Biden was sharing with him.

The implication, of course -- impossible to miss -- is that Zwonitzer deliberately engaged in spoliation -- destruction -- of evidence.

And why would he do that?

Another big implication is that Biden, or his lawyers, demanded that Zwonitzer destroy evidence of a crime.

"At some point after learning of Special Counsel Hur's appointment, Mr. Biden's ghostwriter, Mark Zwonitzer, deleted digital audio recordings of his conversations with Mr. Biden during the writing of the book, Promise Me, Dad, The recordings had significant evidentiary value."

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Special Counsel: Biden Shared Classified National Security Information With Someone Not Permitted to Receive It, But That's Okay, Because Biden Has "DIMINISHED FACULTIES"

Wow.

Assuming this account is legit: this is something. It says it's a project of Heritage, so I provisionally think it's real. (No checkmark, though.)

Update: AmGreatness star (and former AoSHQ guest blogger) Deb Heine just confirmed to me that the "diminished faculties" line is in the report, the current version, on pages 247-248. Always trust content from ace, even when he's slapdash and shaky.)

So Biden didn't just steal classified documents he had no right to possess -- he also shared them with people who did not have a government clearance to see them.

But the special counsel says: He has a "faulty memory " and "DIMINISHED FACULTIES," so we're given this feeble, demented old man a pass on this MAJOR CRIME.

Oversight Project
@OversightPR

Special Counsel Hur found both: (1) "faulty memory"; and (2) "diminished faculties." That second finding is hugely significant. It is a finding the President not only has memory issues, but also has cognitive impairment. No surprise the White House strenuously objected to this language.

The "diminished faculties" line appears on the top of the second page, below:

I dunno, is this text in the document itself, or are they saying this was the text of the original document, before Biden's caregivers objected (presumably on HIPPA grounds) and got them to soften the language?

At the very least: Biden will no longer be able to use the basement strategy. People will demand he sit for long, antagonistic interviews and not be permitted to dodge and change the subject when his brain glitches.

Which is pretty much the same as saying: Biden will have to step aside.

My guess is that Biden's caregivers are attempting to negotiate a Superbowl interview with CBS -- but insisting on the most in-the-bag Democrat propagandist CBS has.

Do the liberals at CBS want to protect him any longer, though?

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SILVER ALERT: SPECIAL COUNSEL REPORTS THAT BIDEN CANNOT REMEMBER WHAT YEARS HE WAS VICE PRESIDENT, OR EVEN WHAT APPROXIMATE, BALLPARK YEAR BEAU BIDEN DIED

He literally talks about Beau Biden three times a week.

He constantly lies about Beau being killed in Iraq.

But I guess he's not lying -- he's just an elderly man with a "significantly limited" memory whose mental state is too deteriorated to form the mens rea to intentionally lie.

Spencer Brown at TownHall:

By admitting that it would be a struggle to convince Americans that Biden possesses a "mental state of willfulness," they're admitting he's too far gone to be the President of the United States.

Even worse, the special counsel's recounting of the interviews with Biden found even more staggering lapses in the president's memory (emphasis added):

In his interview with our office, Mr. Biden's memory was worse. He did not remember when he was vice president, forgetting on the first day of the interview when his term ended ("if it was 2013 - when did I stop being Vice President?"), and forgetting on the second day of the interview when his term began ("in 2009, am I still Vice President?"). He did not remember, even within several years, when his son Beau died. And his memory appeared hazy when describing the Afghanistan debate that was once so important to him. Among other things, he mistakenly said he "had a real difference" of opinion with General Karl Eikenberry, when, in fact, Eikenberry was an ally whom Mr. Eiden cited approvingly in his Thanksgiving memo to President Obama.

While it remains to be seen the full fallout of the special counsel's report, it's safe to assume the 25th Amendment will become a topic of discussion in the coming days, as well as Biden's future as Democrats' 2024 nominee.

I... don't see how Biden continues. I don't. Like I said in the last thread, I know I've been saying he's not going to be the nominee for years (and in fact doubted in 2016 he'd make it to November).

But this is an Official Government Document branding the President of the United States as senile and too mentally deteriorated to form the necessary cognitive state of "willfulness" required by a crime.

(By the way: A commenter pointed out that while he may be demented now, presumably he wasn't demented when he was a senator stealing these documents, so the DOJ's excuse for not prosecuting him actually makes no legal sense. They should just be clear that Biden's brain is, in their estimation, too far gone for him to really have any continuity with or connection to the man who committed these crimes.)

The media will of course attempt to bury it, but it is Unburiable.

Furthermore, there are prominent Democrats like David Axelrod who have been banging the drum for Biden to step aside (or be moved aside by more competent people).

Will he go silent now? Now that the DOJ has officially declared that Joe Biden is mentally unfit to stand trial?

Doubtful.

This is not great news for us, because... Well, Joe Biden was one Democrat we thought that Trump could actually beat, with negatives even higher than his own.

Will he be able to beat the replacement? Hard to say. But remember, the DNC will not unveil the replacement until the last possible second, thereby denying us the opportunity to inform the public about whichever corrupt leftist they've selected.

Nominees lose popularity throughout the campaign season. The DNC and corrupt election-rigging media is scheming to unveil the nominee in.... August, a few short months before the election, and then relying on the tech monopolies to suppress all negative stories about the Surprise Candidate.

Thanks to andycanuck.

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DOJ Defends Decision to Prosecute Trump for Missing Document, While Excusing Biden: It's Hard to Win a Conviction Against an "Elderly Man With a POOR MEMORY"
JOE BIDEN PLEADS SENILITY AS A DEFENSE

For real. I'm not just making it up. Well, I made up that he "pled senility."

But that's exactly what he did!

The DOJ finds their boss and fellow Democrat hack too "sympathetic" to bring charges against.

This is an admission of political bias.

It's also, of course, an admission that Joe Biden's cognitive decline is so severe that it's considered a valid defense to the admitted crime of "willful" retention of classified documents.

Remember news from a few days ago that Biden was worried about "embarrassing" disclosures in special counsel report?

Well, this is that embarrassment: The motherfucker pled senility to get him off of being charged with a crime.

UPDATE! Note that the Special Counsel says that Biden compromised national security -- and also says that Biden did this owing to his "poor memory."

So we have official word from the DOJ that Biden's mental decline compromised national security.

Amazingly, Biden admitted his cognitive decline as a defense to the crime he has plainly committed.

NBC "News:"

Special counsel Robert Hur has declined to prosecute President Joe Biden for his handling of classified documents, but said Biden's practices "present serious risks to national security," and added that Biden portrayed himself as an "elderly man with a poor memory" who would be sympathetic to a jury.

"Our investigation uncovered evidence that President Biden willfully retained and disclosed classified materials after his vice presidency when he was a private citizen," the report said, but the evidence "does not establish Mr. Biden's guilt beyond a reasonable doubt."

Right, because Joe Biden interposed his cognitive decline as a defense, hinting -- or outright stating -- that if he's brought up on charges, he'll just say he can't remember things and so he had no "intent" to keep the documents.

He merely "forgot" he had them at all.

No intent!

About a month after he left office as vice president, in a recorded conversation with his ghostwriter in February 2017, Biden remarked that he "just found all this classified stuff downstairs," the report said. Biden was believed to have been referencing classified documents about the Afghanistan troop surge in 2009, which Biden opposed.

Bidens' memory, Hur's report said, "was significantly limited" during his 2023 interviews with the special counsel.

I plead senility.

Now elect me to be the most powerful man in the world, with a quavering thumb on the nuclear button.

"We have also considered that, at trial, Mr. Biden would likely present himself to a jury, as he did during our interview of him, as a sympathetic, well-meaning, elderly man with a poor memory," it said. "Based on our direct interactions with and observations of him, he is someone for whom many jurors will want to identify reasonable doubt. It would be difficult to convince a jury that they should convict him -- by then a former president well into his eighties -- of a serious felony that requires a mental state of willfulness."

There you go -- his impaired cognitive state precludes him from having the culpable mental state of willfulness required by the crime.

Just a refresher, crimes have both an actus reus -- the culpable act -- and a mens rea -- the culpable mind. If you're out hunting and you accidentally shoot a man wearing a brown coat, mistaking him for a deer, you can't be prosecuted for murder, which requires intent as a mental state (or such extreme recklessness that shows a depraved indifference to human life).

This particular crime requires "wilfulness," which is an intermediate mental state, short of "intent," but a couple of steps above mere negligence (aka carelessness, lack of concern over something the law demands you have concern and care about). It's something like, "you may or may not have intended to do this thing, but you acted so unconcerned that your actions would result in this thing that we call you 'willful' with respect to your indifference to the outcome of your actions."

Like if you get smashed-out drunk and go for a drive. You may not have intended to kill the person you wind up running over, but you made a series of decisions which were willful in their indifference to the very real possibility you'd kill someone.

Note this doesn't mean that Biden didn't have intent -- just that the law doesn't require it. A "higher" mental state, like intent, is always sufficient to satisfy the requirement of a lower one, like willfulness.

But the law says that the state doesn't have to prove you intended to retain classified information -- just that your actions were likely to result in this outcome, and you willfully chose to take those actions anyway.

Biden played up -- or, more frighteningly, genuine demonstrated -- that he was a mentally feeble man who could no longer even collect the wits and willpower necessary to form a mental state of willfulness.

And willfulness is kind of like extreme carelessness.

He's saying that his brain is too deteriorated to even be guilty of being extremely careless -- it's just his normal walking-around state. You can't charge a senile old man for just being a senile old man, can you?

Hur's report said there were "clear" material distinctions between a potential case against Biden and the pending case against Trump, noting that unlike "the evidence involving Mr. Biden, the allegations set forth in the indictment of Mr. Trump, if proven, would present serious aggravating facts."

Sure, sure.

I guess Trump didn't present himself as a sympathetic, well-meaning elderly man with a "SIGNIFICANTLY LIMITED" memory.

Hur goes political and explains that Trump kept his documents, while Biden turned his over, after being ordered to. But then... Trump had a legal argument about why he should be able to retain them (the Presidential Records Act). Biden, who was a senator and vice president when he was stealing such classified documents, has no such statutory defense for his actions.

Hur's report does explain at length where the facts of the Biden investigation are similar to the charges brought against Trump.

"For all of the classified materials recovered during this investigation, after the vice presidency, Mr. Biden did not receive a written waiver of the need-to-know requirement, and no agency official made the findings required by the executive order," the report states.

Thanks to JackStraw.

Almost as if he arranged it just to prove he was not cognitively well enough to prosecute, Biden once again began telling people that he was just speaking with people who died ages ago.

On Sunday, Biden had told a campaign-event audience in Las Vegas that he had consulted with French president Francois Mitterand in 2021's G7 summit about America being "back" under his leadership. That may have come as a surprise to Mitterand, who left office in 1995 and died the year after.

One might pass that off as a singular gaffe; Mitterand and Macron start with the same letter, for instance. However, in a couple of New York fundraisers last night, Biden claimed twice to have consulted Helmut Kohl about the January 6 riot. That caught the attention of NBC News, which then reported the earlier confusion of the doddering incumbent:

President Joe Biden on Wednesday twice referred to the late German chancellor Helmut Kohl instead of former Chancellor Angela Merkel while detailing a 2021 conversation at campaign events....

Biden's gaffes Wednesday came at a series of fundraisers in New York as he described conversations he said he had with European leaders at a meeting of the Group of Seven industrialized nations in the U.K. in 2021, months after the Jan. 6 riot.

Jonathan Turley mentioned the case of Vincent "The Chin" Gigante, a NYC mobster who was able to beat criminal raps by acting insane in his everyday life, walking around in a bathrobe everywhere, etc. He made himself conviction-proof by pretending to be insane 24/7.

So is this a case of Joe Biden pretending to forget that Mittarand died in the mid-90s, and that Kohl died in 2017?

Is Biden Secret Genius?

It's worth considering.

I've considered it now, and the answer is No, Biden Not Secret Genius. Biden is in fact Senile Old Man who really cannot remember what year it is, and sometimes calls Jackie to the stage, asking "Where's Jackie?" when she does not come, at a eulogy for Jackie, forgetting that Jackie is dead and therefore cannot take part in the euology for Jackie.

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Report: Mitch McConnell Lied to GOP Senators About Ukraine Aid Being Tied to Biden's Performance In Closing the Border

The report claims further that GOP senators are sick enough of this repulsive foreign agent that his "leadership" is "in jeopardy".

Bradley Devlin:

To ensure real border security, "I pushed for making the Ukraine funding contingent on actual border metrics," like threshold and performance measures over a number of months, [Senator Ron] Johnson told TAC. "We definitely had a majority of our conference support that."

"The only way you can get border security with a lawless administration is you have to tie it to something they want," which was aid for Ukraine, Senator Rick Scott of Florida told TAC in a phone interview. "So a lot of us, and Ron Johnson was probably the most vocal on this, said we've got to have metrics and the numbers need to come down to the Trump numbers, or you don't get the Ukraine aid over a period of time."

...

The reason the bill failed to secure the border, however, is because McConnell, after deputizing Lankford, prevented the senator from Oklahoma from attaching Ukraine aid to any real, concrete metric of bringing down the number of migrants entering the United States.

"Without telling anybody, apparently, McConnell, on his own, told Lankford that's not even on the table," Johnson said. Later, "we had that confirmed by Sinema, who said that James never asked for that." For Johnson, it was "a breach of [McConnell's] leadership position" by blowing off the consensus view of the conference.

McConnell is now pushing a standalone bill for Ukraine funding -- and abandoning any pretense of wanting to protect America's border at all.

Pivoting from one failed supplemental to likely another makes it "obvious that Mitch's top priority is to provide aid to Ukraine--to secure Ukraine's border before ours," Johnson claimed. As for the Senate, Johnson says "this is not the world's greatest deliberative body. We hardly deliberate at all."

...

"I have no idea why we're doing it except for this: Senate leadership is obsessed," Vance told Bannon. It's "a borderline fetish with getting Ukraine money and they're willing to give away all of our leverage to get it. Everybody needs to say this is a no-go. Vote no on this package. It is the single most important thing to kill in the U.S. Senate since I've been here. The worst piece of legislation, I think, in the U.S. Senate since I've been here and we've got to absolutely get it out of here."

I don't see any quotes by Senators calling for McConnell to be deposed. The closest they come is to imply it:

"I am hoping my colleagues are really taking a close hard look and asking themselves, 'How did we get in a position where we're being blamed for a problem that was 100% caused by Biden and his Democrat allies in Congress?'" Johnson said. "McConnell led us into that."

...

"There needs to be a change in how we manage and govern the conference," Scott said. "Everybody I talk to basically agrees. I don't know people who don't agree with me that we have to govern the conference a different way."

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Supreme Court Appears Poised to Reject Challenge to Trump's Candidacy, and Might Even Reject It... Unanimously

Jonathan Turley
@JonathanTurley

The argument is now over. The disqualification advocates may have expected a cold reception, but this was perfectly glacial. Notably, some of the toughest and most skeptical questions came from the left of the Court.

One threshold question is this: When the insurrection clause speaks of "officers" being disqualified from office, does it even mean the president, whose qualifications are spelled out in the Constitution, with no mention of insurrection being a bar?

Or does it just mean the people the Executive appoints to fill federal posts?

Even Katanji Brown Jackson seems to think "officers" means "appointed officials," not constitutional officials like the president:

Jonathan Turley
@JonathanTurley

...Most notable were the questions from Justice Jackson who seemed to push the idea that the president may not have been intended to be one of those covered by the provision.

Jonathan Turley
@JonathanTurley

...They are now turning to the first question on what officers are covered. Justice Jackson is leading off...

...Jackson is probing the list argument that the president is not listed expressly. She is asking why Trump is not pushing that argument harder.

Well... Trump tends to hire incompetent people.

Even Roberts is antagonistic. The 14th Amendment, he says, was written to reduce the power of the states (establishing that federal rights were the rights of all citizens, whether or not states wanted to grant them, etc.).

Why then, he asked, would this same Amendment grant states the power to veto federal presidential candidates?

Jonathan Turley
@JonathanTurley

...Chief Justice Roberts asked a deadly question of why the 14th Amendment (which is designed to limit the power of states) would be used to enhance this power of the states. He suggested that Murray's arguments are "ahistorical."

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Vigilante Poses as Underaged Minor on the Internet to Entrap a Predator, Arranges for a Meeting, and Then Executes the P3dophile

Some call him a hero. But others brand him "an inspiration."

A Texas man posed as a minor and lured a convicted child sex offender to his death because he felt law enforcement didn't do enough to keep pedophiles in prison.

James Spencer III, 24, had been in contact with Sean Connery Showers, 37, on the messaging app Kik, where he posed as an underage individual as the two planned to meet up while some of their messages appeared "sexual in nature," according to ABC 13.

Showers had shown up to the 900 block of Northwood St in Houston on May 29, 2023, when a car pulled up beside him before the driver fired numerous "automatic-like" shots and sped off.

In 2009, Showers pleaded guilty to federal child porn possession and was sentenced to 30 months in prison, along with being required to register as a sex offender.

Ten years later, he was sentenced to two more years in prison for failing to register as a sex offender, records obtained by the outlet said.

Another driver found Showers' lifeless body in a ditch within the residential neighborhood.

Investigators connected Spencer to Showers' death after a phone that was found under the man's lifeless body had messages indicating he was planning on meeting someone at the nearby Montie Beach Park.

"(Spencer and Showers) were communicating using a social media app," said 179th District Court Chief Prosecutor Rehman Merchant.

"The communications were sexual in nature. The officers believe that they were meeting up at this park to engage in sexual activity."

Some of the messages from Spencer were seemingly used to get Showers to admit his past.

...

Spencer allegedly became a vigilante after claiming law enforcement wasn't doing enough to stop the other predators.

"(A) third party states (Spencer) told them he believed police were not doing enough to keep pedophiles incarcerated and (Spencer) wanted to rob and harm those type of men because they would do bad things to little children and other people and he knew how to track them by an app on the phone," his bail order, obtained by KTRK read. "A month later, defendant made the same comment that 'if the cops were not going to do anything, maybe he should kill them himself.'"

Princeton can use a man like James.

Chris Hanson is a homo.

Related: Rich Lowry does all that we can expect of someone with his limited intellect and diminished testosterone, and notes the obvious: Kids should not be on social media at all.

Mark Zuckerberg is very sorry.

His apology at a Senate hearing to the families of victims of online child sex abuse was dramatic, and the human thing to do in the moment, although he was pressured into it under persistent questioning from Sen. Josh Hawley, a Republican from Missouri.

Zuckerberg's contrition -- whether real, fake or somewhere in between -- doesn't really matter one way or the other, though.

The key question is why we are subjecting our children to a vast, real-time experiment in exposure to a radically new medium that evidence suggests is harmful to their emotional and mental health?

This dubious venture is unquestionably a boon to the bottom line of Meta and its peer companies, but it's doubtful that any parent in America has ever thought it was good for their kid.

Gosh, how can I get my tween to spend more time on Instagram? is, needless to say, a thought most parents don't have.

The social scientist Jonathan Haidt has been on this case for some time now and points out a marked increase in teen depression and anxiety that coincides with the rise of social media, particularly among the girls.

It is, to be sure, difficult to nail down with absolute certainty a direct relationship between social media and these distressing outcomes, but many studies find a connection and the lived experiences of families is, overwhelmingly, that the takeover of adolescence by social media hasn't been a healthy phenomenon.

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The Morning Rant: The Pro-Terror Biden Junta Does It Again!

The United States government is currently pushing a deeply dishonest narrative, backed up by obscenely twisted and sometimes blatantly false data, that Israelis are rampaging through Arab areas of the West Bank and attacking innocents. The Biden junta has gone so far as to sanction Israelis they accuse of this behavior.

The Fraudulent Case Against 'Violent Settlers'

The problem is that it is a blatantly political effort to cast Israel in an unflattering light and ultimately return to the disgusting paradigm that there is violence on both sides, therefore Israel does not have any moral authority to act against the Arabs who perpetrated the worst pogrom since World War II. This is the virulent Jew-hating Obama contingent in the Biden administration trying to regain the initiative in the Middle East and return to their grand plan of an ascendant Iran and a weakened Israel.

Much of the information that these lawmakers were citing came from a single, ostensibly impartial source whose words carry weight in Washington in part because of his rank: Lieutenant General Michael R. Fenzel, a three-star general who currently serves as the U.S. Security Coordinator to Israel and the Palestinian Authority[...]

According to sources in and out of the U.S. government familiar with Fenzel's reports and advocacy, nearly every claim presented by the USSC as fact seems to have been lifted directly, sometimes verbatim, from the websites of highly partisan pro-Palestinian organizations, including the United Nations' Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs in the Occupied Palestinian Territory (OCHA) and the far-left Israeli NGO B'Tselem, which accuses Israel of apartheid and receives vast support from European governments and from George Soros' Open Society Foundations.

Say it ain't so! George Soros...Jew-hater and Nazi collaborator is involved?

The reality on the ground is far different than what the hard-left NGOs and the Iranophiles in our government want us to believe.

In the past 12 months, 13 Israelis were murdered by Palestinians in Jerusalem and 17 in the West Bank—not counting those slaughtered on October 7, 2023—while doing nothing more provocative than driving home or stopping for gas. The number of Palestinian civilians who have been killed by Israelis under such conditions over the same time period is zero.

But the story the administration has been telling anyone who will listen is very different. By scrubbing any mention of the daily violence directed by Palestinian terror operatives against Jewish civilians living in the West Bank from his reports, Fenzel has eliminated the clear retaliatory motive for the vast majority of attacks by Israelis against West Bank Palestinians. Thinly laundered reports from expressly anti-Israel organizations, designed to support an illusion of innocent Palestinians being violently attacked by bloodthirsty Israelis, paint a picture of an Israeli equivalent to the Palestinian atrocities of Oct. 7, lending itself an easy “both-sides” posture meant to ease the way to creating a new Palestinian state in both the West Bank and Gaza. With an executive order now in place, the Biden administration has all the tools it needs to crack down on any form of Jewish life in Judea and Samaria, and on anyone, in Israel or stateside, who supports it.

1,200 Israelis were brutally murdered in ways that are redolent of the worst excesses of the Einsatzgruppen in Eastern Europe and Russia in 1943. That there aren't wholesale massacres of Arabs in the West Bank and calls for ejection of the entire population is a testament to the grounding of the people of Israel in a firm and just morality.

For the Biden junta -- led by a drooling, pedophilic imbecile -- to single out Israelis while conspicuously ignoring the vast majority of the violence is indicative of a deeply disturbed view of the issues, and a clear indicator of where their allegiances lay. Just the existence of a United States Army general who has official contact with the Palestinian Authority, which is the political arm of a terrorist group directly linked to the murder of thousands, including American citizens, is a clear signal that our current government is ambivalent about the use of terror to achieve political goals.

They support the marginalization of Israel, the strengthening of Iran, the creation of a "Palestinian" state in the midst of Israel, all for their ultimate goal which is nothing other than the ultimate destruction of the Jewish state.

Never mind that Israel is a lone outpost of democracy, pluralism, Western culture, Western morality and political philosophy. Never mind that Israel has been the tip of the spear of the West against the encroachment of militant Islam and its inexorable march toward a worldwide caliphate and the subjugation or murder of all non-Muslims.

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Mid-Morning Art Thread

Pulcinella on Holiday
Giovanni Domenico Tiepolo

Don't ask me! It's just...weird!

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The Morning Report — 2/8/24

Good morning, kids. In the aftermath of the failure to impeach DHS apparatchik Alejandro Mayorkas for his role in allowing the 8 million and counting invasion of unknown, unvetted third world foreigners, ex-GOP Congressman George Santos took to Twitter/X with a three-word Tweet under an image of the House electronic vote scoreboard.

BOOM.

An ongoing problem for the Republicans dating back to the days of black and white television is that the power players in the party have never had a grasp on the importance of messaging and optics. As Ed mentioned, the Mayorkas vote wasn't really about impeachment, it was about sending a message to the voters. 

Reps. Tom McClintock (R-Calif.), Ken Buck (R-Colo.), and Mike Gallagher (R-Wis.) are all too stupid to understand that. (Utah Rep. Blake Moore voted no as a procedural move that would allow House Republicans to bring the resolution back to the floor.)

All three "Blah, blah, blahed" all over themselves to explain why they voted no. None of their excuses are valid because there was no reason whatsoever for a Republican to vote against impeaching Mayorkas. None. Zero. Nada. Not a thing. 

Former House GOP ne'er-do-well George Santos couldn't wait to troll the failure of his one-time colleagues:

Miss Me Yet?

Why yes, George, I do miss you. 

While the Democrats are focused squarely on assaulting our freedoms and shredding the Constitution, I don't really care whether any of the Republicans in Congress are good people or not, just as long as they're consistently voting against tyranny. Something I've often said about presidential candidates applies in this case as well: I don't need a prom date, I need a fighter. 

Democrats in Congress are harboring raging anti-Semites, terrorist sympathizers, and commies; George Santos is practically an archangel compared to them. 

This isn't really about George Santos, though. It's about the fact that when things count the most, Republicans reflexively begin forming a circular firing squad and using "principles" as a justification for it.

It's not about "principles" or stupidity or anything like that. It's about collusion with the Democrat-Left for both the chance to wear the dubious title of "Elitist 2nd Class" and more crucially to take a payoff that helps the Left continue to destroy the republic and the citizenry. Yet aside from that last paragraph Stephen Kruiser is dead on target with this and has phrased it perfectly.

More than merely fighters, we need fighters who understand who and what they are fighting for. The GOP as it is constituted today is fighting for the right to make a buck off the destruction of this country. Sadly, this attitude goes back over 70 years to President Eisenhower. During a time of unprecedented postwar prosperity, along with his near deification as a war hero, he had the political wind at his back to at least make a concerted effort to roll back some or even most of the disastrous encroachments on our liberty of FDR's New Deal.

Of course, in his farewell speech that warned of a "military industrial complex," perhaps he understood what it would have meant to oppose them. Because what he labeled the military industrial complex is what we now know today to be "The Deep State." And look what it's doing to Donald Trump and a growing segment of the population opposed to its power.

Since then, the bureaucracy has only metastasized in scope, power and influence by leaps and bounds with LBJ's Great Society capped off by the seizure of one sixth of our economy, the healthcare/insurance sector via Obama's Hope and Change. It should be noted that as bad as Democrat administrations have been in utilizing the Deep State to erode our freedoms, the worst offenders of all were Republicans Richard Nixon who gave us the EPA and OSHA, and George W. Bush with the DHS.

That would be the same Department of Homeland Security which Alejandro Mayorkas remains at the top as Reichsminister, and who oversees the Obama/Biden operation that has erased our borders and threatens to erase our national identity. Homeland Security, indeed.

In a strange way, I'm kind of disappointed that Joey Sponge-Brain Shits-Pants and his handlers are waiting until after the election to go down to Texas to likely arrest Greg Abbott and Ken Paxton, and perhaps revoke Texas' statehood over (don't vomit) insurrection.

“You never want a serious crisis to go to waste. And what I mean by that: it’s an opportunity to do things that you think you could not do before.” — Rahm Emanuel, Obama White House chief of staff

Ah, from the lips of the take-no-prisoners “Rahmbo” (who once reportedly delivered a dead fish to a tardy pollster) to the ears of 25 U.S. governors. 

That’s 25, count ‘em, state bosses – one complete half. Who recently joined together in a declaring their defiance of the Feds over the current usurper administration’s “All-ee, all-ee in free” approach to the southern border. Exacerbated by the actions of the arrogant Bidenites in “attack(ing) and su(ing) Texas for stepping up to protect American citizens from historic levels of illegal immigrants, deadly drugs like fentanyl, and terrorists entering our country.”

The result of which was the Supreme Court’s recent 5-4 punt of that suit, delivering to the administration the snippers to remove razor wire the Lone Star Staters had positioned on the boundary in a desperate attempt to stem the flow of migrants.

Hmmm. A little over three years ago, this commentator noted that a “spurned lawsuit,” initiated by none other than Texas and bringing together 18 states to allege a stolen presidency, provided “a potential stepping stone” from which “it’s only a hop, skip and a jump to the Declaration of Dissolution previously suggested in this space.”

It’s not just the number of nose-thumbing states that is elevated this time around. It’s the rhetoric – and potentially Rahmbo-esque implications. “Republican Governors Band Together” read the headline on the guvs’ communique. You mean, like “Join or Die?”

And more consequential, this central assertion: “The Biden Administration has abdicated its constitutional compact duties to the states” (emphasis added). . .

. . . The governors “stand in solidarity with our fellow Governor, Greg Abbott, and the State of Texas in utilizing every tool and strategy, including razor wire fences, to secure the border.”  “Stand in solidarity?” Them’s “compact” words (and we don’t mean small). And words aren’t the only way Republican governors are “hanging together” to stick it to Washington. Red-state commanders in chief have been dispatching troops and troopers to the border for many moons. Now, recent presidential-race-departee Ron DeSantis is rushing 1,000 “reinforcements” westward from the Sunshine State. . .

. . . Which brings us back to the Machiavellian counsel of Mr. Emanuel, whose somewhat-more-than-cheeky desk nameplate read “Undersecretary of Go F— Yourself.” If one were to engage in a word association exercise anywhere in America today, who wouldn’t respond to the term “border” with “crisis,” if not “serious crisis?” (As the fictional Col. Nathan Jessup might have put it, “Is there another kind?") . . .

. . . Let’s see. We have a “serious” fiscal, social and national security catastrophe. The fact that untrammeled immigration has risen to become Americans’ number one concern. And the reality that 50% of the nation’s governors have seized the occasion to vault up right up to the line of voiding and replacing America’s “constitutional compact” . . .

. . . Emanuel’s Prairie State predecessor, Abraham Lincoln, averred that the nation could not “endure permanently half slave and half free.” Today’s America cannot endure with its venal, reality-rejecting, wealth-sucking woke half permanently dictating to and impermissibly burdening, persecuting and outright endangering the sound, stable and productive cohort. 

The opportunity now presents itself for the leaders representing the latter half to go full Rahmbo before it’s too late to save any of us. Take the logical next step: declare not just the “constitutional compact,” but the union dissolved.

Again, BOOM.

Trump or no Trump, elections rigged or otherwise are not going to mend both the divide between Americans and anti-amerikkans nor the now virtually impossible to dismantle Deep State bureaucracy that wields the actual power via regulations that almost never are reversed in an increasingly corrupt judiciary that acts as their rubber stamp.

Please do not misconstrue my sentiments as a call for violence. What is painfully obvious is that we are now in the latter part of the phrase of "What cannot go on will not go on."

For sure it won't. How the "will not go on" plays out is anyone's guess.

ABOVE THE FOLD, BREAKING, NOTEWORTHY
• "When the criminal is really a victim, those he abuses have no right to defend themselves. Self-defense codes enshrine into law that the criminal deserves to suffer at the hands of those around him in society, adding to the hierarchy of injustice that oppresses him. It perpetuates the so-called 'cycle of oppression' the left aims to dismantle. In other words, cracking down on self-defense serves the same function as going easy on crime: building a new morality of the oppressed, with a new aristocracy at the top."
  Why Self-Defense is the Only Type of Violence the Left Won’t Endorse
  
• "Will GOP governors go full Rahmbo and move from border defiance to dissolution? . . . Today’s America cannot endure with its venal, reality-rejecting, wealth-sucking woke half permanently dictating to and impermissibly burdening, persecuting and outright endangering the sound, stable and productive cohort.  The opportunity now presents itself for the leaders representing the latter half to go full Rahmbo before it’s too late to save any of us. Take the logical next step: declare not just the 'constitutional compact,' but the union dissolved." (That last sentence. Whoa - jjs)
  Never Let a Serious Border (And Constitutional) Crisis Go to Waste
  
• "Tamara Weitzman, an oncology social worker in Seattle, was called an 'insensitive, Canadian white bitch' and a 'white kike' at her workplace. Then she got packed off to DEI sensitivity training."
  "White Kikes" and "Melanin Recessives"
  
• "While the Democrats are focused squarely on assaulting our freedoms and shredding the Constitution, I don't really care whether any of the Republicans in Congress are good people or not, just as long as they're consistently voting against tyranny. Something I've often said about presidential candidates applies in this case as well: I don't need a prom date, I need a fighter." (THIS. Every single fucking second of every single fucking day. Forever. - jjs)
  Hell Yes, I Miss George Santos

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