davidl on January 26th, 2021

The faux president, better known as the Dimwit from Delaware, falsely claims some eighty-one million votes for President. Due to Team Biden pension for counting dead voters, stealing votes and double counting voters, Slow Joe’s real totals are not clear.

While we do not know Joey’s real vote totals, we do know one Susan Rice’s exact vote total, and it is zero. Joey seems to hovering somewhere between there some of the time, to not at all home, from American Greatness:

For those of us watching this made-for-TV special in which a totalitarian cabal at the core of the Democratic Party takes over America while we are locked at home, one question arises: Does the mentally impaired Joseph R. Biden know that he was put into the presidency by a small committee* of hard Left operatives, and is currently serving as a figurehead, as all decisions about policy and personnel are made by others?

Somebody pulling Joey’s strings. It not Slow Joe himself, then who? Ric Genell has his theory, from Town Hall:

Former Acting Director of National Intelligence Richard Grenell believes that the person calling the shots in the White House is not the president or vice president, but rather, Susan Rice.

The former Obama national security adviser is now the White House Domestic Policy Council director and Grenell called that “a joke.”

Benghazi fans, you may recall Rice from non-Russian records of doing all five Sunday network talks shows and telling the same lie, to wit the 2012 attack on American diplomatic facilities was provoked by an Internet movie.

More on pulling strings, didn’t Dr. Jill Biden run on the expectation the she would be pulling Joey’s strings?

Then as to Speaker Pelosi, where is the talk of the 25th Amendment and the letter to Vice President?

Lastly, were is Madan Vice President?  It is not like her Senate is producing any kind of legislation.

Eric Florack on January 25th, 2021

Paul Gottfried at Intellectual Takeout

National Review has found yet another reason to hate Trump, whom it has attacked relentlessly for over four years. It seems that among his multiple shortcomings, according to Frank Lavin, a supporter of Republican Voters Against Trump in 2020, Donald Trump was not the Gipper. In fact, he caused the Republican Party to deviate grievously from Reagan’s policies; and so it now behooves us to save the GOP by returning to the proven “conservative” teachings of the president whose approval ratings approached 70 percent shortly after leaving office.

Well look, we’ve discussed these points before.

As I said yesterday, it amazes me, the number of people who are saying that Trump was no Reagan, who never really supported Reagan, either.

Which in turn, is directly online with what I wrote about the establishment Republicans like George Will, some five years ago now.

Like Reagan before him, the GOP establishment is now busy attempting to dismantle their most recent presidential candidate. Why? Because he was actually more conservative than they, and they don’t believe in conservatism.

In the end such people are as much a part of the swamp as the Democrats ever were, and are perhaps more treacherous because the Democrats aren’t pretending to be Republicans.

And of course the idea comes forward that Trump is not part of the club. A lot of feelings got hurt when Jeb Bush got rejected by the GOP rank and file. Trump isn’t a member of the aristocracy.

In short, what we have here is a group of establishment Republicans still arguing for the divine right of kings… Along with the usual crowd at places like National Review, the Bill Kristols and the George Wills, Mitt Romney’s and John McCain’s of the world.

And of course given the circumstances, they are now the favorites among the usual suspects in the leftist press.

The dropping of the names of McCain and Romney is not an idle reference. Remember the press turning on them the moment they decided they were going to run for president.To this day, those darn fools have no idea why they lost their respective elections.

Do we really have to go through all this nonsense again?

Eric Florack on January 24th, 2021

2pm today marked Biden’s 50th hour in office.

So far we’ve had:
– A loss of 52,100 jobs in oil.
– Ended energy independence for the United States.
– Alienated Canada so much Canada is suing Biden.
– Leftist terrorists, the same ones that incited the capital building are continuing to riot and burn down Portland and Seattle.
– Sent our troops that were in DC to sleep on the floor of a parking garage.
– Destroyed school sports with his “progressive” transgender programs allowing boys to compete against girls.
– Created a new federal property mask mandate, which he broke countless times already.
– Is now allowing illegal immigrants to be counted for representation in congress.
– A complete halt on student loan forgiveness that he promised.
– A complete halt on the $2000 stimulus program he promised.
– He shot down a Trump admin order to lower the cost of insulin.
– He shot down a Trump admin order to lower the cost of epinephrine.

You all voted for this. I hope you’re happy.

And you all say Trump is a cult. If Trump is a cult, Biden is masochism.

Well the whole thing was for a photo app anyway. Like I said the other day, the only government program the Democrats don’t like is the military.

Until such time as they’re useful to protect their cushy jobs and their power.

But make no mistake people, to Democrats the military are second-class citizens:

Thousands of National Guardsmen descended on the Capitol and surrounding buildings after the riots at the Capitol earlier this month. They were there as a show of force and to discourage anyone who was thinking about a repeat performance during the inauguration. You probably remember seeing photos of guard members packed in various hallways and lobbies at the Capitol:

Something apparently changed today. The NY Times reports the Guard was kicked out of the Capitol and surrounding buildings and sent to sleep in a parking garage:

“Two Guard soldiers, who spoke on the condition of anonymity, said that they had been given no explanation as to why they were being relocated early Thursday afternoon, and said that they were without electrical power, heat and adequate restroom facilities.

One Guard soldier estimated that there were 1,000 of them sharing a single portable restroom stationed outside of the parking garage…

The two Guard soldiers said that their fellow soldiers were breathing in exhaust fumes because the garage at the Thurgood Marshall Judicial Center was still in use as a parking facility, and that the soldiers there came from the Maryland, Virginia, Tennessee afnd Alabama National Guard.”

One really must wonder if angering military personnel so early on was the appropriate thing to do.

On the other hand, it does strike me as being pure Democrat and consistent with their dislike and disrespect of the military.

Eric Florack on January 22nd, 2021

Quick thoughts that occur to me is I go through my day.

# I must admit Trump wasn’t acting very presidential in this transition of power. He probably should have been spying on his opposition. Isn’t that the new normal?

# It amazes me, the number of people who are saying that Trump was no Reagan, who never really supported Reagan, either.

# I see MeWe has added 2.5 million subscribers in a single week, which begs the question, at what point do they become big tech? I will guarantee you that if this trend continues the Democrats will try to shut them down just like they threatened Facebook Twitter et al, but never did when they went all in for Biden.

Eric Florack on January 21st, 2021

So Biden’s swearing in ceremony had 87,073 viewers. (87K / 81,000,000 votes = 0.1%)

1/10th of 1 percent of Biden’s alleged voters bothered to watch his swearing in ceremony?

The YouTube video of Biden’s inauguration speech was pulled down from YouTube because it was so wildly unpopular in the comments section.

(Remember I suggested that the primary task of big tech was to protect the Democrats? There goes your proof.)

Meanwhile, Trump’s Farewell address had 1.2 MILLION viewers.

davidl on January 20th, 2021

The Dimwit from Delaware, keeps telling us that he got some eighty million votes. While the last elected, and former, President Donny can still draw millions, Slow Joe can only attract flies. This what Joey got for his installation, photo:

Hat tip and more, CD Media:

Biden supposedly received 80 million votes in the Nov 3rd election. However, no one actually turned out today to see him installed in the Oval Office.

The reality Trump beat Biden by millions in the popular vote, and by hundreds of thousands of votes each in the disputed battleground states.

Joey’s got a smaller crowd than Clara Peller got meat on her burger.

As if they weren’t dim enough.

But an interesting Little twist from the Politico, who couldn’t be bothered to write anything about all of the problems surrounding Joe Biden, who now suddenly takes it upon themselves to do so but only after the election, only after the political objective has been attained.

“I would never say this,” Biden once snapped at an aide, aghast over the prepared remarks he was reviewing, according to a person in the room during a speech prep session last year. “Where did you get this from?’”

The aide explained that Biden had just said it in a public speech a couple of weeks earlier.

It’s an open argument I guess whether he has dementia, or if he’s always been this dumb.

That Biden has a couple of weak vacuum tubes in his CPU, isn’t the issue in the story. That’s pretty much common knowledge. The Democrats being okay with electing such an individual is problematic but not surprising.

The real issue of the story of course is that Politico decided to run with it only after the election.

I suppose this kind of double dealing shouldn’t be a surprise for many of the mainstream press, including Politico, but at the moment I can’t think of a better example of the degree to which the American public has been played.

Clearly the goal has been achieved and normal perception of things can now continue since it will no longer interfere with the political objectives.

I see Matt Margolis noticing the same story, saying in part;

Ouch.

There are many troubling things about this story. Biden forgetting part of a stump speech is bad enough, but this is an incident that took place last year, but has only come out now. Biden’s handlers kept it under wraps until now. How many other examples of Biden’s cognitive decline from the 2020 campaign have been covered up? If it was leaked to the media earlier, they didn’t report on it then. The obvious question is “why not?”

Obviously, Politico got the memo. The election is over. Trump is out of office. Biden’s cognitive decline is no longer taboo. It can be discussed ad nauseam by the media now because getting Biden into office wasn’t the primary objective of getting him elected.

Biden’s sole purpose was to play the role of an “electable” candidate who could appeal to independents and anti-Trump Republicans under the ruse of being a centrist just to get Trump out of office. For all intents and purposes, Biden’s job is complete, and a San Francisco liberal is now waiting in the wings to take his place at the appropriate time.

I give Biden less than six months of bumbling about, before the mysterious heart attack.

Eric Florack on January 20th, 2021

A friend passes this along from a source unknown… The story I had already heard.

With just one day left in President #Trump’s term, Sec of State Pompeo has officially determined that #China’s campaign of mass internment, forced labor & forced sterilisation of over 1 million Muslim minorities in #Xinjiang constitutes ‘genocide’ / ‘crimes against humanity.

It’s going to be interesting to watch the Delaware dimwit dance around this one.

If he wants to save his ability to use the office of president to make money off selling America to the Chinese communists, he’s either going to have spend whatever time he’s got left on this Earth kissing the back sides of the Communists, or explain to the American people why he’s doing business with a genocidal government.

Always assuming of course that he actually understands that he’s president, which seems to be an open question.

Eric Florack on January 19th, 2021

This post is a result of a question posed to me by a friend of mine of a number of years. Like most Americans, she’s troubled by what she sees going on in our country and in our government.

Her question was one that I’ve been thinking about for a few days now… Was it Ashley Babbitt’s fault that she got killed by the DC cop?

I told her that first of all that her death was certainly an application of the law. Then I went on from there…

But to my mind this is more of a moral question. Since when is the law of the final arbiter of right and wrong? (If there is such a thing as an unjust law then the law cannot be the final say in such matters.)

As for who’s to blame for her death, I have mixed feelings on that point.

Revolutionaries… Which she doubtless saw herself… occasionally die. As I say, her death was an application of the law. But was the law just in that case?

The reason you’re having a problem identifying who’s at fault for her death is because there’s a good part of you (and, of me, for what it’s worth) feeling that her cause was more moral and just than the cause of the government, which at that point was to silence opposition. I think at the end of the day there’s a lot of blame to go around for death. She bears partial responsibility.

I fear that we are all going to face questions like that in the near future… Forcing us to choose between what is morally right and what is easy. Certainly an application of the law is easy, and can be treated as if it’s cut and dried.

Morality, however, seldom is cut and dried, and I believe we will be forced into that decision making process, by an immoral government.

Personally I find the Democrats call for national unity and a peaceful transition and their appeals to morality, to be totally unconvincing, particularly given what we saw over the last summer and for that matter, over the last four years.

(As an aside, ponder this question…Does the removal of southern monuments and all reference to the Confederate States tell us anything about the treatment that Republicans are going to receive, particularly Trump supporters?)

In their zeal to shut down any and all opposing voices, they have succeeded in doing what John Kennedy warned us about, they’ve made peaceful revolution impossible, therefore making violent revolution inevitable.

I’m afraid it’s my read that the question comes down to what the trigger will be… And what we see in the agenda of the new administration, is a trigger-rich field.

Eric Florack on January 19th, 2021

Isn’t it interesting that we have fences in Washington DC to protect the politicians?

Remember, these are the very same people who tried to convince us that fences didn’t work when it came to our southern border.

And who are we protecting politicians from? The people. The very same people who were told last Summer that rioting burning and looting and killing was what democracy looks like when we started asking questions about why the political figures particularly Democrats were encouraging those rioters.

If nothing else, what we have here is a lack of the consent of the governed… And no that’s not an idle phrase, that.

davidl on January 18th, 2021

It seems that the official lock down of the Demented Denizen from Delaware, begins Wednesday, From Citizen Free Press:

[Beijing] Biden’s transition team claims there is a very real fear that members of the national guard who support President Trump might kill Biden during the inauguration so they’ve asked commanders to confiscate all ammo and magazines from the soldiers. Biden’s team asked if it would be possible to determine which soldiers voted in GOP primaries or who have contributed to GOP candidates so commanders could station them away from the president-elect.

The request was refused

I found it interesting that with thousands active duty federal troops in the DC area, Slow Joe was bring in National Guard troops from as far as Hawaii.  Joey, or more likely Team Joey, would have some reason to fear active duty soldiers.  It was a major element of Joey’s election campaign to seek out, destroy and replace active duty military absentee ballots.  Military absentee ballots were found discarded in the trash, and unfolded, as in never mailed, military ballots, with very high percentage for Biden, were counted and recounted.

It takes special kind of courage to steal a citizens vote and then ask for his respect and protection.  Courage or extreme situational unawareness.

It seems to me that Joey is signaling his intent to avoid travel for the duration of his term.  Joey it will be hard to travel without using either Marine One and Air Force One. Maybe Joey, you can some of your claimed eighty million voters, the real persons who are among the living, to give you some escort?

Eric Florack on January 18th, 2021

Kate Stokes says it well:

Nothing says “free and fair” like an inauguration that needs miles of razor wire and 25k troops to protect it from the voters.

“I believe there are more instances of the abridgment of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations.” —James Madison, Address at the Virginia Convention, June 16, 1788.

davidl on January 16th, 2021

In what has to be the coldest welcome since Abraham Lincoln had to sneak into Washington, Beijing Biden is setting up his occupation of the People’s Capital:

NY Post

Heck the federal army got a better reception in Richmond.  This show of force is being predicated on the deaths during the peaceful patriot demonstrations of 6 January.  Five people died, however four have been attributed to natural causes, and the other on Ashli Babbit died at the hands of Speaker Pelosi’s hired thugs.

Related, note Beijing Biden opposes wall to keep alien out of the country, but supports them to keep citizens out of our capital.  Further ‘rats are keen to defund our police, but spend 450 million dollars for a legislative police force to defend some five hundred congresscritters.

This was forwarded to me, I didn’t write it. But it says so much I couldn’t resist.

Remember in 2011 when tens of thousands of Democrats surged on the Wisconsin Capitol building in Madison and physically occupied it for more than two weeks? We were told, “This is what democracy looks like.”

Remember in 2016 when Obama was President and hundreds of BLM blocked interstate highways and violently accosted police (even killing several)? We were told, “To assign the actions of one person to an entire movement is dangerous and irresponsible.”

Remember in 2018 during the Kavanaugh hearings when a mob of Democrats stormed the U.S. Supreme Court building in Washington, DC, and pounded their fists in rage on the door. We were told, “It’s understandable.”

Remember this summer’s riots in major cities across the country when groups of Democrats marched in the streets, set buildings on fire, looted businesses, assaulted and even killed bystanders and police? We were told, “These are mostly peaceful protests.”

Remember when Democrats seized several blocks of the Capitol Hill neighborhood in downtown Seattle, declaring it an autonomous zone?

Remember the guns and deaths and utter destruction? We were told, “It’s a block party atmosphere.”

Remember when a crazed mob gathered after the Republican National Convention and attacked Rand Paul, a sitting U.S. Senator? We were told, “No justice, no peace.”

Remember how police were told to stand down, governors refused to call in the national guard, and Democrats paid bail for violent protesters who were arrested? We were told, “This is the only way oppressed people can be heard.”

The real culprit here? The mainstream media has been telling us for years that violence is the only way people who feel oppressed can be heard, it’s the only way to get justice, and this is what democracy looks like. Apparently, a few who were in the crowd on Wednesday listened to them.

The inflammatory rhetoric of the Left caused this, and it’s about time Democrats and the mainstream media took responsibility for dividing Americans and attempting to humiliate those who support the President or any conservative ideals. They have pushed people to the brink, even while claiming, “It’s time for unity.” It’s time for careful reflection and change on all sides.

And, so now, having (questionably) the outcome they wanted, the government reacts:

Responding to warnings of potentially violent demonstrations, governors across the nation are calling out National Guard troops, declaring states of emergency and closing their capitols to the public ahead of President-elect Joe Biden’s inauguration next week.

Do you understand yet, America?