I haven’t seen any news reports, and I don’t know about where you live, but gas prices are just slightly below $4/gallon here. I know they tend to rise in summer, but this will, I assume, contribute to rising inflation again. Gotta love Bidenomics.
We in Washington State have the highest gas prices in the nation (~$5/gal) thanks to King Jay and his minions in Olympia. That is what a carbon tax does for you. I am “sure” that the Oil Companies are really the reason for this unexpected economic phenomenon or so King Jay said. It is also likely tha
t BIPOCs and the LGBTQwerty are most affected by these high prices. (or not)
Opening grafs:
‘In never-before-seen footage that was withheld by Fox News, former Capitol Police Chief Steven Sund told former Fox News host Tucker Carlson that January 6th was a complete debacle and a “cover up.”
‘ “Everything appears to be a cover up,” Sund tells Carlson in footage obtained by the National Pulse. “Like I said, I’m not a conspiracy theorist,” he continued. “…but when you look at the information and intelligence they had, the military had, it’s all watered down. I’m not getting intelligence, I’m denied any support from National Guard in advance. I’m denied National Guard while we’re under attack, for 71 minutes…”…’
Okaaaaaayyyyy.
Now let’s do…,”Hey, who was it dat wuz akchully doin’ da attackin’ “????
File under: Ohhh Tucker. Mebbe THIS is what got you fired???
CBS running with Catherine Herridge reporting on transcript of Monday’s testimony of Devon Archer to Congress. She reported that characterization of “illusion of access” to Biden spun by Dems, but disputed by Archer.
Hopefully the dam is going to burst.
Question: is there anyone around Gropey Joe with the sense and the cojones to say “You know, it might be prudent to tell Garland to ask the judge for a delay in the arraignment until say, Monday… just to give us a chance to take the temperature on this a little bit?”
Answer: probably not. But if Joe was smart he might hear the “roar of the falls” himself.
What if he said to the American people “Trump deserves to be prosecuted, but I’m worried about the precedent it might set, and I trust the American people to make the right call in their own minds!’
Wouldn’t that be pretty smart? Like I said “probably not”!
100% believe that this again illustrates why DeSantis is not the best choice, right now. Even though I will vote for him if he is the nominee.
DeSantis does in fact thrive on drama and distractions – it is how he generates attention for himself – and his campaign is almost solely devoted to going from one shiny object to another. Angry denunciations and sparring with the MSM may be his strong suit, but the role of President requires more than that.
Once the primaries & debates start – against actual candidates, Republican candidates – the contrast between DeSantis and the other candidates will not work in RD’ favor. (see what has happened since RD announced).
I watched the DeSantis v. Crist debate on YouTube. Came away convinced that his most ardent supporters – who think debating will be his strength – are going to come away disappointed.
A substantial part of communications is non-verbal. Turn off the sound and then watch DeSantis. And then compare DeSantis to Crist.
Pretty sure you will understand why I came away disappointed in DeSantis’ performance.
@Jahaziel Maqqebet
“LegalInsurrection shadow bans comments.”
• This caught my eye, wish they had provided more detail – e.g., what did they mean by “shadow bans”.
• I know for a fact that Power Line bans comments – that do not violate their guidelines or are incendiary/ uncalled for – if they do not align with the PL perspective/ dogma.
• I can reply to other’ comments, just not post my own “primary/ original” thoughts/ analysis – “Hold on this is waiting to be approved by Power Line” – and it is the same content that I post here and at Legal Insurrection. They have been refusing to post my comments for months now, with no notice or explanation – the comment just disappears (soviet style).
• Power Line is practicing the same censorship that they claim is wrong – which makes them no different than other groups that wish to rule us all.
• That is a key reason why I mention that I am 100% appreciative of the fact that Neo accepts viewpoints that are different than her own (i.e., she is practicing what she preaches).
that guy; Jahaziel Maqqebet:
“Jahaziel Maqqebet” has repetitively put that supposed information in the comments here over and over in the past. However, to the best of my knowledge, it is not true, and JM has provided no reason to believe it. What’s more, I have several times asked JM to quit putting that in the comments here. He or she has not complied.
I have seen Democrats argue that Joe Biden has no effect on gasoline prices because it is an international commodity. I have also seen democrats argue that stopping the Keystone XL pipeline would not have helped prices in the US because supposedly it was all going to be shipped overseas.
These things do not compute.
that guy:
Perhaps it is you who have mostly noticed the “shiny objects” of DeSantis rather than the substantive policy statements he’s made. Of course, as you say, he may end up coming across weaker in debate than his supporters hope and expect. Time will tell. It is still very early and there haven’t been any debates yet.
the problem with debating newsom, is he doesn’t remotely approach reality, and the press are on the same wavelength,
well it’s a multipart strategy, the lockdowns and the concomitant drop in demand forced many american oil companies out of business, then esg forced further cutbacks in production, across corporate board rooms, then there was the proscription of drilling on federal lands,
he problem with debating newsom, is he doesn’t remotely approach reality, and the press are on the same wavelength,
This is likely true of most modern progressives as well. It’s usually fruitless to engage in rational debate with a religious zealot on matters that pertain directly with their beliefs. And Leftism bears almost all the hallmarks of a religion with its adherants often being as zealous as a follower of any organized religion or cult.
The notion that a person’s sex is strictly determined by how one feels, that reparations are necessary, or that January 6th was worse than 9/11 or Pearl Harbor, or that Trump is worse or at least on par with the likes of Hitler or Stalin or Mao, may seem utterly absurd to Conservatives and many Independants too. But for Leftists these notions are absolutely not to be questioned, ever! They are fundemental truths.
Long Version:
• An elderly man noted that he did not get to church that often, and when he did the preacher always spoke about God. He was asked if that bothered him. He responded no, he was always glad to know that God was still important to the church.
• I was told this story by a Senior Manager during my first year out of uni. His point was that effective leadership required understanding the top priorities for your Department/ Division/ Company, and then communicating those priorities on a regular basis.
• Still some of the best advice that I ever received. Along with: You lead your way to success – same Senior Manager.
Short Version:
• It’s the economy stupid.
• Phrase coined by James Carville in 1992, when he was advising Bill Clinton in his successful run for the White House.
***
• DeSantis: On Monday – July, 2023 – posted about the Economy on his campaign website – for the first time.
• Trump: Economic Security is National Security – 2016+.
Lost in Trans Nation:
The following essay is an adapted excerpt from Miriam Grossman’s new book, Lost in Trans Nation: A Child Psychiatrist’s Guide Out of the Madness, out now from Skyhorse Publishing.
I wonder how Jeb and the brain trust feel about that.
“Tell them anything.”?
And there we go. Once you’ve spotted a Bush in the woodpile, it’s hard to unsee it.
The best defense is a good offence. But what are Republicans going to do about the Trump indictments?
Florida Representative Matt Gaetz has a multipart plan he shared via Twittter:
“@RepMattGaetz
gives House Republicans an ACTUAL PLAN to FIGHT BACK! ??
1. Demand that Jack Smith present himself before the House Judiciary Committee for a transcribed interview in the next 15 days.
2. If not he does not do that, we should send a subpoena.
3. If he ignores the subpoena, we should hold him in criminal contempt of Congress so that he is the first prosecutor in American history to be prosecuting a case while himself under criminal contempt.
THIS post has earned 2 million views. Maybe there’s still life in the dead opposition party, yet to come?
There must be more coming on this same front — offensive moves to achieve defensive ends.
Review of Year of Consent, a 1954 novel about a Future USA which is still nominally a democracy but is in reality run by the Communicatons classes–advertising and PR men, who know how to get people to think and do what they are *supposed* to think and do. Fits our current situation rather unpleasantly.
David Foster: I started reading “Year of Consent” a few months ago (on your recommendation), put it aside for a while, and finally finished the last few pages this past weekend while having my car serviced at the dealership. Yes, there are plenty of parallels with our current situation, including “influencers”, social credit systems, ubiquitous biometric surveillance, and a primitive form of AI (the novel was published the year before Dartmouth mathematician John McCarthy coined the term “artificial intelligence”). The ending reminded me of the ending of “Casablanca”. One difference: Australia would no longer be a refuge for members of the resistance. As Covid showed us, it’s quite the other thing.
A tall black thief in a hoodie which partially masks his face goes into a 7-11 in California and brazenly starts to pull massive amounts of cigarettes and other product off the shelves and throws them into what looks like a 55 gallon size rolling trash can, filling it up.
Despite the pleas of the staff he continues to pull stuff off the shelves, and at one point momentarily pulls what looks like a knife out of his back pocket, then, puts it back in.
In the background you can hear store employees saying to just let him go on stealing, that by the time the cops show up he’ll be gone, etc.
Then two store employees–one in a turban, and both likely Indians–show up, and while one grabs the thief and wrestles him to the ground, the man with the turban starts to beat the thief “like a rented mule” with a long stick, and the thief starts to cry.
In the background you can hear an employee telling the thief to go, and the thief says he will and, just then, the clip cuts off.
Given what has been happening lately with regard to crime in major Democrat run cities, how much do you want to bet that the thief will be allowed to just walk out of the 7-11, will likely not be charged and, even if arrested, will be back out on the street within a few hours, but that the two store’s employees will either be fired and/or charged with the crime of assault?*
@ David Foster > “Fits our current situation rather unpleasantly.”
Not just unpleasantly but frighteningly so.
The book you reviewed, “Year of Consent,” really is (as you said) more accurate than 1984 or Brave New World, except for a few minor points (the benevolent UN, the state of computer hardware, although it’s intrusive technology is spot on) and this: “We’ve done away with police and even prisons. Crime has been almost wiped out since we recognized it as a social disease. We’ve done away with poverty.”
Our Communications Oligarchy is perhaps not as competent as the book’s.
Or perhaps the author (Kendell Foster Crossen) couldn’t imagine that the dictators who arose would actually want to destroy the United States rather than just being in control of everything, because his elites actually do believe their distorted view is true:
“There are fewer restrictions on people than ever before in the history of mankind. For the first time they’re really free.”
I did appreciate Crossen’s shrewd recognition of something well-known in conservative circles: the hero “has too much of a sense of humor, not viewed as a desirable thing.”
Also his accurate picture of the Soviet Union, despite the misinformation that was even in 1954 being pushed by the government and the media.
Too bad nobody paid attention.
AesopFan…” the hero “has too much of a sense of humor, not viewed as a desirable thing.”
The Biden Entity tried to get Covid-related jokes banned from FB:
I haven’t seen any news reports, and I don’t know about where you live, but gas prices are just slightly below $4/gallon here. I know they tend to rise in summer, but this will, I assume, contribute to rising inflation again. Gotta love Bidenomics.
We in Washington State have the highest gas prices in the nation (~$5/gal) thanks to King Jay and his minions in Olympia. That is what a carbon tax does for you. I am “sure” that the Oil Companies are really the reason for this unexpected economic phenomenon or so King Jay said. It is also likely tha
t BIPOCs and the LGBTQwerty are most affected by these high prices. (or not)
Kind of late to the paahdy….
‘ “Everything Appears To Be A Cover Up”: Capitol Police Chief Challenged J6 Narrative In Never-Aired Tucker Carlson Interview ‘—
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/everything-appears-be-cover-capitol-police-chief-challenged-j6-narrative-never-aire
Ya think??????????
Opening grafs:
‘In never-before-seen footage that was withheld by Fox News, former Capitol Police Chief Steven Sund told former Fox News host Tucker Carlson that January 6th was a complete debacle and a “cover up.”
‘ “Everything appears to be a cover up,” Sund tells Carlson in footage obtained by the National Pulse. “Like I said, I’m not a conspiracy theorist,” he continued. “…but when you look at the information and intelligence they had, the military had, it’s all watered down. I’m not getting intelligence, I’m denied any support from National Guard in advance. I’m denied National Guard while we’re under attack, for 71 minutes…”…’
Okaaaaaayyyyy.
Now let’s do…,”Hey, who was it dat wuz akchully doin’ da attackin’ “????
File under: Ohhh Tucker. Mebbe THIS is what got you fired???
CBS running with Catherine Herridge reporting on transcript of Monday’s testimony of Devon Archer to Congress. She reported that characterization of “illusion of access” to Biden spun by Dems, but disputed by Archer.
Hopefully the dam is going to burst.
Question: is there anyone around Gropey Joe with the sense and the cojones to say “You know, it might be prudent to tell Garland to ask the judge for a delay in the arraignment until say, Monday… just to give us a chance to take the temperature on this a little bit?”
Answer: probably not. But if Joe was smart he might hear the “roar of the falls” himself.
What if he said to the American people “Trump deserves to be prosecuted, but I’m worried about the precedent it might set, and I trust the American people to make the right call in their own minds!’
Wouldn’t that be pretty smart? Like I said “probably not”!
this is how much contempt they have for us
https://nypost.com/2023/08/01/feds-hired-ny-health-czar-who-defended-deadly-nursing-home-order/
“Ron DeSantis accepts Gavin Newsom challenge to Hannity-moderated debate”
https://nypost.com/2023/08/03/ron-desantis-agrees-to-debate-gavin-newsom-on-fox-news/
100% believe that this again illustrates why DeSantis is not the best choice, right now. Even though I will vote for him if he is the nominee.
DeSantis does in fact thrive on drama and distractions – it is how he generates attention for himself – and his campaign is almost solely devoted to going from one shiny object to another. Angry denunciations and sparring with the MSM may be his strong suit, but the role of President requires more than that.
Once the primaries & debates start – against actual candidates, Republican candidates – the contrast between DeSantis and the other candidates will not work in RD’ favor. (see what has happened since RD announced).
I watched the DeSantis v. Crist debate on YouTube. Came away convinced that his most ardent supporters – who think debating will be his strength – are going to come away disappointed.
A substantial part of communications is non-verbal. Turn off the sound and then watch DeSantis. And then compare DeSantis to Crist.
Pretty sure you will understand why I came away disappointed in DeSantis’ performance.
@Jahaziel Maqqebet
“LegalInsurrection shadow bans comments.”
• This caught my eye, wish they had provided more detail – e.g., what did they mean by “shadow bans”.
• I know for a fact that Power Line bans comments – that do not violate their guidelines or are incendiary/ uncalled for – if they do not align with the PL perspective/ dogma.
• I can reply to other’ comments, just not post my own “primary/ original” thoughts/ analysis – “Hold on this is waiting to be approved by Power Line” – and it is the same content that I post here and at Legal Insurrection. They have been refusing to post my comments for months now, with no notice or explanation – the comment just disappears (soviet style).
• Power Line is practicing the same censorship that they claim is wrong – which makes them no different than other groups that wish to rule us all.
• That is a key reason why I mention that I am 100% appreciative of the fact that Neo accepts viewpoints that are different than her own (i.e., she is practicing what she preaches).
that guy; Jahaziel Maqqebet:
“Jahaziel Maqqebet” has repetitively put that supposed information in the comments here over and over in the past. However, to the best of my knowledge, it is not true, and JM has provided no reason to believe it. What’s more, I have several times asked JM to quit putting that in the comments here. He or she has not complied.
I have seen Democrats argue that Joe Biden has no effect on gasoline prices because it is an international commodity. I have also seen democrats argue that stopping the Keystone XL pipeline would not have helped prices in the US because supposedly it was all going to be shipped overseas.
These things do not compute.
that guy:
Perhaps it is you who have mostly noticed the “shiny objects” of DeSantis rather than the substantive policy statements he’s made. Of course, as you say, he may end up coming across weaker in debate than his supporters hope and expect. Time will tell. It is still very early and there haven’t been any debates yet.
the problem with debating newsom, is he doesn’t remotely approach reality, and the press are on the same wavelength,
well it’s a multipart strategy, the lockdowns and the concomitant drop in demand forced many american oil companies out of business, then esg forced further cutbacks in production, across corporate board rooms, then there was the proscription of drilling on federal lands,
This is likely true of most modern progressives as well. It’s usually fruitless to engage in rational debate with a religious zealot on matters that pertain directly with their beliefs. And Leftism bears almost all the hallmarks of a religion with its adherants often being as zealous as a follower of any organized religion or cult.
The notion that a person’s sex is strictly determined by how one feels, that reparations are necessary, or that January 6th was worse than 9/11 or Pearl Harbor, or that Trump is worse or at least on par with the likes of Hitler or Stalin or Mao, may seem utterly absurd to Conservatives and many Independants too. But for Leftists these notions are absolutely not to be questioned, ever! They are fundemental truths.
whose side is the bbc on,
https://hotair.com/headlines/2023/08/03/bbc-forced-to-apologize-for-characterizing-wwii-heroics-as-infamous-n568899
now hannity is just unoriginal in his mind set, it might have worked in 2005, but the progs are so beyond the zero barrier, at this point,
yep
https://twitter.com/libsoftiktok/status/1686597677621071874
Stock Market Sinks after U.S. Credit Rating is Downgraded from “AAA” to “AA+”
https://legalinsurrection.com/2023/08/stock-market-sinks-after-u-s-credit-rating-is-downgraded-from-aaa-to-aa/
Long Version:
• An elderly man noted that he did not get to church that often, and when he did the preacher always spoke about God. He was asked if that bothered him. He responded no, he was always glad to know that God was still important to the church.
• I was told this story by a Senior Manager during my first year out of uni. His point was that effective leadership required understanding the top priorities for your Department/ Division/ Company, and then communicating those priorities on a regular basis.
• Still some of the best advice that I ever received. Along with: You lead your way to success – same Senior Manager.
Short Version:
• It’s the economy stupid.
• Phrase coined by James Carville in 1992, when he was advising Bill Clinton in his successful run for the White House.
***
• DeSantis: On Monday – July, 2023 – posted about the Economy on his campaign website – for the first time.
• Trump: Economic Security is National Security – 2016+.
Lost in Trans Nation:
The following essay is an adapted excerpt from Miriam Grossman’s new book, Lost in Trans Nation: A Child Psychiatrist’s Guide Out of the Madness, out now from Skyhorse Publishing.
https://www.newsweek.com/medical-establishment-has-succumbed-gender-madness-opinion-1816436
Now he’s talking!
DeSantis on Nixing Deep State: ‘We Are Going to Start Slitting Throats on Day One’
I wonder how Jeb and the brain trust feel about that.
“Tell them anything.”?
And there we go. Once you’ve spotted a Bush in the woodpile, it’s hard to unsee it.
The best defense is a good offence. But what are Republicans going to do about the Trump indictments?
Florida Representative Matt Gaetz has a multipart plan he shared via Twittter:
“@RepMattGaetz
gives House Republicans an ACTUAL PLAN to FIGHT BACK! ??
1. Demand that Jack Smith present himself before the House Judiciary Committee for a transcribed interview in the next 15 days.
2. If not he does not do that, we should send a subpoena.
3. If he ignores the subpoena, we should hold him in criminal contempt of Congress so that he is the first prosecutor in American history to be prosecuting a case while himself under criminal contempt.
4. If Attorney General Merrick Garland doesn’t enforce that criminal contempt, then we ought to impeach him!”
https://twitter.com/RepMattGaetz/status/1686861851466866689
THIS post has earned 2 million views. Maybe there’s still life in the dead opposition party, yet to come?
There must be more coming on this same front — offensive moves to achieve defensive ends.
Review of Year of Consent, a 1954 novel about a Future USA which is still nominally a democracy but is in reality run by the Communicatons classes–advertising and PR men, who know how to get people to think and do what they are *supposed* to think and do. Fits our current situation rather unpleasantly.
https://chicagoboyz.net/archives/69852.html
David Foster: I started reading “Year of Consent” a few months ago (on your recommendation), put it aside for a while, and finally finished the last few pages this past weekend while having my car serviced at the dealership. Yes, there are plenty of parallels with our current situation, including “influencers”, social credit systems, ubiquitous biometric surveillance, and a primitive form of AI (the novel was published the year before Dartmouth mathematician John McCarthy coined the term “artificial intelligence”). The ending reminded me of the ending of “Casablanca”. One difference: Australia would no longer be a refuge for members of the resistance. As Covid showed us, it’s quite the other thing.
A tall black thief in a hoodie which partially masks his face goes into a 7-11 in California and brazenly starts to pull massive amounts of cigarettes and other product off the shelves and throws them into what looks like a 55 gallon size rolling trash can, filling it up.
Despite the pleas of the staff he continues to pull stuff off the shelves, and at one point momentarily pulls what looks like a knife out of his back pocket, then, puts it back in.
In the background you can hear store employees saying to just let him go on stealing, that by the time the cops show up he’ll be gone, etc.
Then two store employees–one in a turban, and both likely Indians–show up, and while one grabs the thief and wrestles him to the ground, the man with the turban starts to beat the thief “like a rented mule” with a long stick, and the thief starts to cry.
In the background you can hear an employee telling the thief to go, and the thief says he will and, just then, the clip cuts off.
Given what has been happening lately with regard to crime in major Democrat run cities, how much do you want to bet that the thief will be allowed to just walk out of the 7-11, will likely not be charged and, even if arrested, will be back out on the street within a few hours, but that the two store’s employees will either be fired and/or charged with the crime of assault?*
* See https://www.tmz.com/2023/08/03/7-eleven-workers-robbery-shoplifter-cigarettes-attack/
P.S. Here’s what recently happened to another 7-11, this one in Chicago.*
You know if 7-11 pulled out of this neighborhood, it would be accused of “racism,” and of creating a “food desert.”
* See https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12370701/Chicagos-woke-new-mayor-Brandon-Johnson-scolds-reporters-using-phrase-mob-action-rabble-400-youngsters-trashed-7-Eleven-Windy-City.html#newcomment
@ David Foster > “Fits our current situation rather unpleasantly.”
Not just unpleasantly but frighteningly so.
The book you reviewed, “Year of Consent,” really is (as you said) more accurate than 1984 or Brave New World, except for a few minor points (the benevolent UN, the state of computer hardware, although it’s intrusive technology is spot on) and this: “We’ve done away with police and even prisons. Crime has been almost wiped out since we recognized it as a social disease. We’ve done away with poverty.”
Our Communications Oligarchy is perhaps not as competent as the book’s.
Or perhaps the author (Kendell Foster Crossen) couldn’t imagine that the dictators who arose would actually want to destroy the United States rather than just being in control of everything, because his elites actually do believe their distorted view is true:
“There are fewer restrictions on people than ever before in the history of mankind. For the first time they’re really free.”
I did appreciate Crossen’s shrewd recognition of something well-known in conservative circles: the hero “has too much of a sense of humor, not viewed as a desirable thing.”
Also his accurate picture of the Soviet Union, despite the misinformation that was even in 1954 being pushed by the government and the media.
Too bad nobody paid attention.
AesopFan…” the hero “has too much of a sense of humor, not viewed as a desirable thing.”
The Biden Entity tried to get Covid-related jokes banned from FB:
https://pjmedia.com/news-and-politics/robert-spencer/2023/08/02/wipe-that-smile-off-your-face-peasant-biden-regime-pressured-facebook-to-ban-jokes-n1715556