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Joe Biden: My debate debacle wasn't very "consequential," you know.

Steve Cortes
@SteveCortes

Joe Biden now claims his 2024 presidential debate against President Trump, which forced him to drop out of the race, was not very consequential:

"To me it was not very consequential. First of all I thought there would be another debate, which there wasn't. Notwithstanding the fact that there wasn't another debate, it didn't disturb me because it wasn't consequential."

Just 24 days after the "not very consequential" presidential debate, Joe Biden ended his campaign for President.

Video here. He doesn't sound a day over 10,000.

Happy Election News:

Don't know if this got commented on previously or not, but Illinois SuperMayor Tiffany Henyard's bid to become a Fulton County (GA) Commissioner as the Republican choice fell just a bit short.

Henyard (R) 5.40%
Willis (D) 94.60%

Posted by: Count de Monet has opinions

Teeeee-riffic:

Bill Melugin
@BillMelugin_

BREAKING: Sen. Majority Leader John Thune has been re-elected by Senate Republicans and will serve as Senate Minority Leader in the new Congress when Dems take power. Senators Barrasso, Cotton, Capito, and Lankford have all also been re-elected to their positions. Sen. Bernie Moreno (R-OH) will now serve as NRSC Chairman instead of Sen. Tim Scott.

Bill Melugin
@BillMelugin_

THUNE STATEMENT:

"I appreciated the opportunity to have an open, honest, and transparent conversation with my colleagues today, and I am honored to have their continued trust and support to lead the Senate Republican Conference in the 120th Congress," said Thune. "I'm proud of what this Republican team has accomplished together, and we remain united in our commitment to advancing conservative priorities, working with President Trump and our colleagues in the House, and holding the line against Democrats' efforts to enact their far-left, liberal agenda. We have important work ahead of us, and I look forward to serving alongside my colleagues on behalf of the American people."

Fuck you.

Jonathan Turley
@JonathanTurley

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez just promised "many, many investigations" to round up the huge number of "criminals" that Democrats see in their political opponents. None of this bodes well for the Republic as we restart the type of J6 show trials that marked the prior Democratic House.

Preston Byrne
@prestonjbyrne

Ofcom [The UK's big brother censorship organization] indicated in a hearing today that it is going to start pushing for arrest warrants for American refusers of the Online Safety Act.

It is wildly inappropriate for a foreign country to threaten Americans for exercising our constitutional rights.

The GRANITE Act would shield an American from extradition, and any time Ofcom threatened an American in this way, the American would be able to drag Ofcom - the UK's Internet censor - into federal court to confirm the order is unenforceable.

Congress: pass the GRANITE Act!

Voters aren't allowed to be their authentic selves...

Paul A. Szypula 🇺🇸
@Bubblebathgirl

Seattle Mayor Katie Wilson doesn't care that voters passed Initiative 638 on Election Day to keep biological males out of girls' sports. On Tuesday, a week after the election, she posted that she supports the Seattle Public Schools Board's decision to challenge the measure because "every young person in Seattle deserves to thrive as their authentic self."

That's not governing. That's ignoring the result. Washington voters approved the initiative to protect girls' sports with a clear majority--about 57 percent--even while Democrats made gains elsewhere on the ballot. I-638 requires medical documentation confirming biological sex for girls' competition. That law takes effect in December. Wilson and the school board are moving to fight it in court anyway.

Posted by: beckster

Remember the latest trans-looking lunatic who violently attacked TP USA staffers?

Well zhe's been identified and arrested.

Zhe claims that he's allowed to physically attack conservatives because "free speech doesn't mean freedom from [violent] consequences."

And zhe says zhe was "backed into a corner" by people peacefully handing out leaflets.

Do these people understand that many of us are thisclose to agreeing, enthusiastically, that we are allowed to beat (or worse) people we disagree with?

Texas authorities have identified a man accused of attacking students at a Turning Point USA tent on the University of Texas at Tyler campus Tuesday in the latest attack on the conservative youth organization whose founder was assassinated last year.

Smith County booking records identify the suspect Ciro Tomlian.

Video of the incident shows a man wearing a cape and a round-brimmed hat as he threw an American flag on the ground and swung a cane at a group of people. He is a former student who was not enrolled at the school at the time of the attack, according to authorities.

Tomlian faces two charges of aggravated assault with a deadly weapon and another of assault causing bodily injury after allegedly striking TPUSA students with a cane.

In the video, which shows the end of the encounter and Tomlian's arrest by campus police, the suspect grabs an American flag, throws it over his shoulder, gives the students the middle finger and can be heard saying "Back the f-- off you fascist pieces of s--."

A woman off-camera tells him to "stay away," and he raises the cane before taking a checked swing in her direction.

The man identified as Tomlian screams "back up!" again, and the woman tells someone else to "just back up."

Then a male voice, also off-camera, tells Tomlian, "No one's scared of you."
Charlie Kirk speaks at a TPUSA event

That's when he swings the cane again, apparently striking the speaker, before someone else runs over and grabs the cane. Police arrive moments later and place the suspect in handcuffs.

Once cuffed, he appears to paint the incident as self-defense and says, "freedom of speech does not mean freedom from consequences."

"I apologize officer," he says as he's led away. "I was backed into a corner."

We'll see if the school expels zhim.

Blake Carpenter
@BCarpenterBooks

Boys do not need to be socialized. They do not need to be taught the "right way" to read or the "right POVs" to enjoy. They do not need lectures or preaching. They do not need "the message."

Boys need dragons to slay and princesses to save (and ones who want to be saved, natch). Boys need danger. They need risks and stakes. They need to know what death is and what it means. They need to know what failure looks like so they know how to cope with it when Real Life comes calling. Most of all, they need stories that allow them to be who and what they are without being told why they should be something else.

Boys are not broken girls; they should not be treated as such.

If you REALLY care about getting boys to read again, pay attention to the stories being shared in other media that they like, and emulate those.

Make no mistake: this viewpoint is evil. It deserves no less than to be called out as such.