Roundup
(1) Buh-bye, Jen Psaki:
Psaki is now headed to MSNBC to host a primetime show, a plan she’s had in place for months while still manning the podium in what can only be called a massive ethics breach.
Psaki: “[A]s I look back, I hope I followed the example of integrity and grace that they have set for all us and do set for all of us everyday…There is a Biden family that has extended and expanded far beyond the Biden name…They have integrity, grit, commitment…”
(2) On the Pennsylvania GOP Senate primary race, in which Kathy Barnette is now taking heat.
(3) On the Sussman case (Russiagate) and where it’s at. Yes, it’s from Andrew C. McCarthy, who’s been variable lately. But on this sort of thing he’s still quite good, I think.
(4) Get your ultra-MAGA T-shirts. Maybe it’s even better than “deplorable”?
(5) A look back at a public health policy paper that was ignored in the response to COVID. I originally wrote a post about this paper in August of 2020.
I still prefer “ bitter clinger” myself.
(4) That’s good, but my recent favorite is the DeSantisland logo. I’ve seen it on shirts, flags, and I guess you can get a refrigerator magnet too.
https://patriotdepot.com/products/desantisland-magnet-3-sizes
Just as the (unelected) Hochul has proven to be even worse than Cuomo, so is Karine likely to be even more egregiously dreadful than “Circle Back” Psaki herself. Her history of inflammatory and incendiary racialized (and idiotic) commentary may be receiving some small coverage on conservative websites, but few indeed will be those in the MSM willing to utter even the mildest criticism of a woman any negative commentary directed at whom will be branded as racist and sexist, as well as anti-gay and anti-immigrant (she was born in the West Indies).
As a life long conservative who reluctantly voted for Trump in 2016 and more enthusiastically in 2020, I still prefer embracing “ bitter clinger” or “ deplorable” more than MAGA , simply because MAGA is more associated with a single individual, Trump.
I voted for Trump, but definitely not part of the personality cult.
Saw this linked at Instapundit it is a fairly long excerpt of a WSJ editorial that is of course behind a paywall.
https://dailysceptic.org/2022/05/14/how-disagreement-became-misinformation/
Psaki is now headed to MSNBC to host a primetime show, a plan she’s had in place for months while still manning the podium in what can only be called a massive ethics breach.
I hope she has as much luck as Chris Wallace.
My own preference is “Mega-MAGA Deplorable”. We should make our anthem “In the Hall of the
MountainMAGA King.”Eeyore…I could go with this as an anthem…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OuC_k51NUqU
I’m pretty rusted on to “deplorable.”
And I’m amazed at the facility with which Psaki lies…as easy as breathing. There’s a word about that – Jeremiah 6:15: “Are they ashamed of their detestable conduct? No, they have no shame at all; they do not even know how to blush. So they will fall among the fallen; they will be brought down when I punish them,” says the Lord.
Integrity? Jen Psaki?
As stated in link I’m voting for Kathy Barnett, and fine with what I know of her standings. If wanted professional politicians would vote for them but can’t say they are doing much.
…what can only be called a massive ethics breach…
Is there any ethical aspect of the Potato regime, given that the regime in its entirety is a pulsing and rapidly metastasizing ethics breach?
1) a truly odious person, at once malevolent and deluded
2) “Donald Trump-endorsed former TV star Mehmet Oz and former hedge fund manager David McCormick.” are both W.E.F. fan boys. Oz just played the Islamophobia card. Both stand revealed as enemies of individual liberty. Trump continues to fail to have reliable advisors.
3) demonstrating that no legal remedy to the left’s perfidy exists.
4) wearing ultra-MAGA T-shirts in public would be likely to sooner rather than later result in a violent confrontation. In a blue jurisdiction it might well be labeled a hate speech provocation and a hate crime.
5) The Biden administration is taking a different approach in how to address future pandemics: “Biden’s Amendments Hand U.S. Sovereignty to the WHO”
Critics are warning that such amendments would provide the WHO with the international legal authority to impose whatever measures they announced as necessary to any of the 194 nations party to the treaty. Which by definition would include lockdowns, business closures, mandatory masking, mandatory vaccinations and ‘quarantining’ for ‘refuseniks’. Nor would the WHO be obligated to provide evidence supporting their edicts.
https://lc.org/newsroom/details/051222-bidens-amendments-hand-us-sovereignty-to-the-who-1
Will this be the next The Current Thing?
https://twitter.com/neontaster/status/1525599828872421378
@ Eeyore & John G > Hall of the MAGA King –
I personally would go with the Grieg number – first, I like it anyway and always have; second, it’s … subtle, if played to elicit a raised-eyebrow from hitherto unknown allies; third, the title alteration fits the old music better than the modern song; fourth,
a movie connection to The Pied Piper story opens up even more nuances for memes and punditry.
Th music:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dRpzxKsSEZg
The Piper plot, which could easily be analogized to the current political situation:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Pied_Piper_of_Hamelin_(1957_film)
Grieg’s original connection was to the Norwegian fairy tale of Peer Gynt, and the Mountain King is a negative figure in that story, but I suspect most Americans who know the song at all know the movie also. I played the Peer Gynt Suite frequently on our family phonograph machine in the fifties, and never knew the original story.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/teach/ten-pieces/KS2-edvard-grieg-in-the-hall-of-the-mountain-king-from-peer-gynt/z7nf3k7
File under “you learn something new every day on the internet”
https://historyofyesterday.com/the-pied-piper-was-real-130-children-disappeared-and-never-came-back-542085ffb34
Some research by renowned fairy tale historian Jack Zipes provides a very plausible explanation.
That is a great movie, Aesopfan! Jim Backus is grand, as usual.
Van Johnson made a great Piper. Which led to his being The Minstrel, on Batman ! All in all a very enjoyable film!
“…MAGA…”
A once-very-respectable, Liberal journal demonstrates—proudly, unabashedly—to what extent it’s gone totally GAGA….
Nothing new, alas—it’s been this way for quite a while now; but a shame, nonetheless…. (And been getting it’s getting increasingly worse.)
“Donald Trump’s Brazen Bid to Control MAGA Minds”—
https://newrepublic.com/article/166339/truth-social-trump-steaks-twitter?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=tnr_weekly
“Democracy in Peril”—
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/tnr-live-democracy-in-peril-tickets-324127041707
Abbot baby formula crisis, continued:
‘Abbott Refutes White House Attempt To Blame It For Biden Baby Formula Fiasco;
‘Psaki smears manufacturer on her last day as Press Secretary. Abbott responds: “At the White House press conference today, the Press Secretary mistakenly said that our formulas were tainted and killed two infants…. The facts, however, are critical: A comprehensive investigation by Abbott, FDA and CDC found no evidence that our formulas caused infant illnesses.”’—
https://legalinsurrection.com/2022/05/abbott-refutes-white-house-attempt-to-blame-it-for-biden-baby-formula-fiasco/
FWIW. (Not sure if this was already posted.)
So whom should one be believing here?
Abbott?
“Biden”?
The media…?
(I know whom one oughtn’t believe. Automatically…which leaves…)
From the “There’s-a-Time-to-Destroy-And-a-TIme-to-Obliterate” File:
“Here’s How Biden’s Radical Rewrite Of Key Civil Rights Law Will Fundamentally Change America”—
https://libertyunyielding.com/2022/05/14/heres-how-bidens-radical-rewrite-of-key-civil-rights-law-will-fundamentally-change-america/
H/T Blazingcatfur blog.
I know Neo doesn’t usually post on Sunday, but I’m posting this news item here because it’s front-page MSM round-up-the-usual-suspects fare: “A teenage gunman entranced by a white supremacist ideology known as replacement theory opened fire at a supermarket in Buffalo on Saturday,” in the words of the NYT— he killed 10 people (a security guard among them) and wounded three others. The kid left behind a 180-page manifesto that, according to Wikipedia, “claims the Jews to be responsible for non-white immigration, and that non-whites would overwhelm and wipe out the white race, and expressed support for Dylann Roof and Brenton Tarrant [the New Zealand shooter].”
Anyway, here is a link to the archived NYT account, so you won’t need a subscription to read it: https://archive.ph/20220515055142/https://www.nytimes.com/live/2022/05/14/nyregion/buffalo-shooting
Kid just handed the Democrats a gift-wrapped political opportunity.
Battle of the Titans!
‘Bezos Blasts ‘Disinformation’-Spreading Biden Over Latest Inflation Blame “Misdirection”‘—
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/bezos-blasts-disinformation-spreading-biden-over-latest-inflation-blame-misdirection
Barry Meislin,
I have to start reading zerohedge again. That’s a nice one. Bezos charges Biden with misdirection. Who’d a thunk it?
This claim from the White House is yet another example of what the left does when they get into trouble. They go back to the things that they believe are tried and true tactics of manipulation from the past. The oil companies are price gouging!
So the Dems will campaign on gun control and White Supremacy? That’s novel? Will they encourage BLM/Antifa, mostly peaceful, protests again?
what you think this happened by accident, they probably encouraged him, see coen bros militia, he’s a soupcon of squirrel,
PA+Cat no doubt your right it’s s gift horse to the Leftists, yet how many racial attacks have there been by BLM and its smothered with pillows by the Democrats Propaganda Ministry?
According to the media, a “white supremacist” gunned down 10 black folks in Buffalo. His manifesto reads like an essay penned after he received a lobotomy.
Meanwhile, what’s been happening on the South Side of Chicago during the Lightfoot era?
Apparently, some deeply tanned white supremacists are taking daily target practice on black folks.
“claims the Jews to be responsible for non-white immigration, and that non-whites would overwhelm and wipe out the white race,
I wonder what handle he was using at Unz.com.
“Who’d a thunk it” indeed…
At this rate, looks like Bezos might have to lay off most of the WAPO staff.
(Though if it’s only Jennifer Rubin and that Taylor creature, then I’d be satisfied…)
As for Zerohedge, well…buyer beware; but there are some fascinating “things” there. (Gotta know how to sift through it, though….)
And in more “infrastructure” news:
“Pelosi House ramps up perks like Peloton, liquor store while Americans scramble for baby formula”—
https://justthenews.com/government/congress/pelosis-house-ramps-perks-peloton-liquor-store-while-americans-scramble-baby
Pelosi, as per usual, with her fingers on the pulse…
(At least she won’t have to stumble too far for a “pick-me-up”…if she runs out.)
AesopFan, thanks for the Pied Piper history link.
Peppermint Patty is circling back to the most deranged Cable channel.