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Report: Democrats Want to Throw ‘Bidenomics’ into the ‘Dumpster’
WENDELL HUSEBØ 13 Nov 2023
(While they're at it, toss Biden in the dumpster, too.)
Only 24% of *Democrats* say they are better off financially under Biden, per new FT poll https://t.co/RymOMdjvzW pic.twitter.com/ezYEIXskVw
— Jeff Stein (@JStein_WaPo) November 13, 2023
In our dreams, Mr. G. What a scary mess... on both sides. (JMO)
The hell with it. Here's to another day.
Stay warm and enjoy being alive.
Disoriented Biden needs help from Arlington honor guard during solemn wreath-laying ceremony
By Mary Kay Linge and Jon Levine Published Nov. 11, 2023, 12:05 p.m. ET
(Morning, Mr. G. Brandon is non compos mentis. Lord, help us if he wins a second term.)
President Biden needed stage directions from a military member during the solemn wreath-laying ceremony at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier during Veterans Day observances at Arlington National Cemetery Saturday.
Biden required assistance from a member of the tomb’s honor guard to place the large floral arrangement on a stand set on the plaza in front of the memorial honoring America’s missing and unidentified war dead.
He stepped back from the wreath and hesitated for a moment before making the sign of the cross on himself.
He backed away, turned, and took several steps away from the wreath — and then turned back and approached the officer again.
Then he backed away, turned, and took several steps away from the wreath — and then turned back and approaching the officer again.
The military member pointed a gloved hand back toward Vice President Kamala Harris, who was standing several feet away, and the president returned to his mark beside her.
Harris and Denis McDonough, Biden’s Secretary for Veterans Affairs, both appeared to be suppressing grins as the president dithered.
Republicans expressed dismay at Biden’s obvious confusion.
“God help us,” New Jersey Rep. Jeff Van Drew told The Post.
“We have a president that doesn’t know whether he’s coming or going.”
“Just when you thought it couldn’t get worse, it does,” said Rep. Darrell Issa of California.
“It’s sad to see President Biden’s cognitive impairment over and over again,” said Staten Island’s Rep. Nicole Malliotakis.
“How is he running for re-election?”
Former president Donald Trump, speaking at a campaign rally in a high school gym in Claremont, New Hampshire, mocked Biden for his regular bouts of directional confusion.
“We have a guy in the White House who can’t put two sentences together, who couldn’t find his way off this stage,” Trump said, gesturing to the gym’s small stage – prompting laughter from the crowd.
“And this is the guy we have negotiating with Putin and with President Xi of China,” Trump said.
Biden, in a 14-minute speech following the wreath-laying ceremony during Arlington’s 70th annual National Veterans Day Observance, again invoked the memory of his late son Beau, who served a year-long Iraq deployment as a member of the National Guard.
“On this day, I can see my son, standing ramrod straight as I pinned his bars on him the day that he joined the Army National Guard in Delaware,” Biden said.
“I can still feel the overwhelming pride.”
The president also stumbled over the acronym LGBTQ+ as he attempted to boost his administration’s policies regarding gay and transgender military members.
“We have doubled down on our efforts to ensure … that no veteran is denied the honor they earn because there was discharged for being LBTQ plus,” he mumbled.
The Arlington commemoration followed a private reception in the White House East Room for veterans and military officials.
Biden, who will turn 81 later this month, has made frequent stumbles and gaffes in recent months — as polls show increasing numbers of voters doubt his ability to handle the rigors of the presidency.
Meanwhile, two of Trump’s Republican rivals issued Veterans Day messages to underscore their personal military ties.
“Proud of my veteran Michael Haley and the many men and women who have served to defend our freedoms,” former UN ambassador Nikki Haley posted to X, along with a photo of her husband Michael, a National Guard officer now on deployment in Africa.
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis posted his thanks for “all who have worn the cloth of our country.”
“As a veteran myself, I am honored by the unwavering support we receive,” DeSantis, a former Navy lieutenant commander, wrote.
“I will always have the backs of our vets.”
https://nypost.com/2023/11/11/news/biden-needs-assistance-from-arlington-honor-guard-after-laying-wreath/
3/4 of a century and still going strong, I'd say.
It must be that good country living and staying on the right side of life.
Stay hale and hearty, al.
Carry on.
Disney theme park guests are pooping while waiting on line for rides
By Ariel Zilber Published Nov. 6, 2023, 1:59 p.m. ET
(Just another reason to stay away from Disney.)
When you gotta go, you gotta go — even if you’re in line for hours at a Disney theme park.
Riders at Disneyland and Disney World have been defecating while standing in line, according to witnesses who reported the grotesque sight on social media.
“I am in the queue for [Rise of the Resistance at Disney World] – someone let their kid take a dump on the floor and then they just walked out and left it- WTF?” wrote one poster on Reddit.
The post was cited by the news page SFGATE.
Disney guests can wait in line for Rise of the Resistance, the Star Wars-themed attraction, for more than an hour and a half, according to the Queue Times website.
Another Redditor who claims to have worked near the ride confirmed the claim, writing: “For the skeptics… this actually happened. Fun fact: this was one of 3 s—t-related incidents at Rise today.”
“Less fun fact: I was here for all 3 of them,” the poster wrote.
A Reddit poster who claimed to have worked at Disney World in Orlando, Fla., described guests leaving their bodily waste on the premises.
“Bodily fluids no longer bother me after working at Disney,” they wrote.
“Let’s just say that the attraction I work at has what the cast ended up dubbing ‘the poop hall’ because of the number of times guests have gone in there and pooped.”
“We even put up a camera and it didn’t stop it,” the Redditor wrote.
This claim was seconded by another Disney “cast member” — a reference to the company’s theme park employees.
“Good lord the poop hallway,” they wrote, adding that testimonials about seeing human feces near the rides “gives me war flashbacks.”
“I dealt with way too many bodily fluids at that dang attraction,” they wrote.
The Post has sought comment from The Walt Disney Company.
In 2015, two former “cast members” penned a book detailing their experiences as custodial team workers in the 1990s and early 2000s.
Ken Pellman and Lynn Barron, the authors of “Cleaning the Kingdom: Insider Tales of Keeping Walt’s Dream Spotless,” wrote that spotting human waste triggered a protocol known as “Human Code H.”
A “Code H,” which stood for “horsecrap,” called for one of the cleaners to pick up after one of the horses that was pulling a vehicle along Main Street went to the bathroom.
Pellman and Barron recalled that eventually, they started picking up human feces as well.
On one occasion, a woman who stood in line for the Indiana Jones Adventure at California’s Disneyland “burst into the control room for the attraction and deposited her gift right there,” they wrote in the book.
“It must have been challenging for the ride operator to stay at their post in there before it was all cleaned up!”
Disney guests who need to use the bathroom during notoriously long waits can alert a cast member and have their place held in line.
According to the Queue Times website, the average wait time for the Seven Dwarfs Mine Train at Disney’s Magic Kingdom clocks in at 78 minutes.
Wait times at Space Mountain can approach an hour.
Last month, Disney jacked up prices at its California and Florida theme parks by as much as 10% on some tickets.
It raised prices at Disneyland by 8.9% on single-day tickets, pushing the cost to $194 to enter Anaheim Park.
The attempts to boost revenue come after Disney revealed a $60 billion spending plan on parks and cruises over the next 10 years – a plan that came amid dwindling cash reserves at the company and had worried some Wall Street analysts with its long road to a payoff.
https://nypost.com/2023/11/06/business/disney-theme-park-guests-are-pooping-while-waiting-for-rides/
Hi al. That explains the origin of "zombie apocalypse."
Stay safe and pray that our votes make a difference.
Thanks, Mr. G. It seemed in line with the voter fraud posts. < g >
How's it going?
We're supposed to be sunny and warm.
So far, it's misty and cool.
Oh, well. The day is young. Enjoy it.
Note the ghosts streaking across today's iHub logo.
Must be a tribute to the registered voters who rise from the dead to cast their vote on Election Day.
Good Morning, Mr. G. Vote like a demorrhoid... early and often.
I was #9 in my district. The deed is done. The rest of the day belongs to me.
Here’s why Home Depot’s 94-year-old co-founder Bernie Marcus says he’s ‘particularly p–ssed off’
By Charles Gasparino Published Nov. 4, 2023, 9:29 p.m. ET
Guess you just told me... and that's just a guess because...
You can lead a right-sider to a screed.
But you can't make them read it.
Hope you feel better now.
Enjoy the day.
I have some serious college football to watch.
Kamala Harris’ stepdaughter Ella Emhoff has raised nearly $8M for Gaza on her Instagram: ‘Abhorrent’
By Jon Levine Published Nov. 4, 2023, 7:57 a.m. ET
The stepdaughter of Vice President Harris is publicly raising money for Gaza, The Post has learned.
Ella Emhoff, 24 — whose father, First Gentleman Doug Emhoff, is Jewish — affixed a fundraising drive “supporting urgent relief for Gaza’s children” on her personal Instagram account. It makes no mention of the scores of Israeli children murdered among the 1,400 innocent Israelis killed by Hamas terrorists Oct. 7.
Her promotion puts the funding appeal in front of her 315,000 Instagram followers.
The fundraiser, which has netted more than $7.8 million so far, is being operated by the Palestinian Children’s Relief Fund, a nonprofit based in Kent, Ohio, which raked in more than $21 million in 2021, according to ProPublica. It’s unclear how much, if anything, Ella Emhoff has personally donated to the cause.
“It’s of tremendous concern and I find it abhorrent,” said Rep. Jeff Van Drew (R-NJ). “To be honest with you, I am kind of stunned by it. It’s disturbing to the maximum degree.”
Second daughter Emma Emhoff is raising money for Gaza on social media.
GC Images
A donation page soliciting cash for “Urgent Relief for Gaza’s Children” appears on Emhoff’s Instagram page.
Van Drew, a member of the House Homeland Security Committee, said it was almost certain that Hamas would be able to siphon any humanitarian cash that entered Gaza.
Ella Emhoff has pointedly insisted to reporters that she does not consider herself Jewish.
“Ella is not Jewish,” a rep for the second daughter insisted to The Forward in 2021. “It’s not something she grew up with. Ella truly has no qualms with the faith, but she does not want to speak on behalf of Judaism, as she does not celebrate herself.”
Emhoff is close to her stepmom — Vice President Kamala Harris.
X @VP
Emhoff — whose biological mom is film producer Kerstin Emhoff — has styled herself as a model and making boobs-out appearances at New York Fashion Week.
(A model ??? At the risk of face-shaming her, the only thing she should model is a triple-bagger burka.)
She is close with her stepmother, who congratulated her in an X posting after Emhoff’s graduation from Parsons in 2021.
“Keep dreaming with ambition and there is nothing you cannot achieve,” Harris wrote.
Last month President Biden announced that he would send $100 million in “humanitarian assistance” to the Palestinians — prompting swift backlash from Republicans seeking to challenge him in the 2024 presidential contest.
Former President Donald Trump, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, former UN Ambassador Nikki Haley, South Carolina Sen. Tim Scott and North Dakota Gov. Doug Burgum have all denounced the idea.
Representatives for Emhoff did not respond to request for comment from The Post
https://nypost.com/2023/11/04/news/kamala-harris-stepdaughter-ella-emhoff-raising-money-for-gaza/
Minnesota Lawsuit to Keep Trump Off Ballot Hits Rocks
BRADLEY JAYE 3 Nov 2023 4:11
A lawsuit to kick Donald Trump off the 2024 ballot in Minnesota may be in trouble after the state Supreme Court justices hearing the case appeared skeptical that states have the authority to take the unprecedented action.
The case centers around the Fourteenth Amendment, specifically Section 3’s “Insurrection Clause.” Plaintiffs argue President Trump’s actions on January 6, 2021, disqualify him from appearing on the ballot.
The clause reads:
No person shall be a Senator or Representative in Congress, or elector of President and Vice-President, or hold any office, civil or military, under the United States, or under any State, who, having previously taken an oath, as a member of Congress, or as an officer of the United States, or as a member of any State legislature, or as an executive or judicial officer of any State, to support the Constitution of the United States, shall have engaged in insurrection or rebellion against the same, or given aid or comfort to the enemies thereof. But Congress may by a vote of two-thirds of each House, remove such disability.
Similar lawsuits have been filed in other states, including Colorado, where a state trial judge heard arguments all week.
The Colorado case, heard by Judge Sarah Wallace, who was appointed by Democrat Governor Jared Polis, may eventually be headed to the U.S. Supreme Court.
The Supreme Court has never ruled on this provision of the Fourteenth Amendment, leading to the novel approach to use it to keep Trump off the ballot.
Trump’s attorneys argue that the amendment does not apply to presidents. The text of the amendment references Senators, Representatives, and Presidential electors, as well as other federal officials, but not the presidents.
The oath the amendment specifies, which is sworn by those listed officials, is not the same oath sworn by presidents. The presidential oath is prescribed separately in the Constitution.
Trump’s attorneys further argue that neither Minnesota law nor federal law allow the courts to strike a candidate from the ballot.
Specific to Trump’s case, his legal team insists that what occurred on January 6, 2001 was not an insurrection and that Trump himself was not responsible.
Trump has not been charged in a court of law with insurrection. A Democrat House impeached him on two occasions – roughly the court equivalent of an indictment – but the Senate acquitted him.
Two of the seven Minnesota justices recused themselves.
Several justices, including Chief Justice Natalie Hudson, said it seemed that questions of eligibility should be settled in Congress, given its constitutional roles and powers in certifying presidential electors and impeaching presidents.
“[Those powers] seem to suggest there is a fundamental role for Congress to play and not the states because of that,” said Hudson. “It’s that interrelation that I think is troubling, that suggests that this is a national matter for Congress to decide.”
Hudson also expressed concerns with the possibility for “chaos” if multiple states decide differently on if states can determine a presidential candidate’s eligibility, joining other justices in questioning if it was appropriate for states to determine the matter.
She said even if the court had the authority to keep Trump off the ballot, “Should we is the question that concerns me the most.”
The Fourteenth Amendment was ratified in 1868 in the aftermath of the Civil War. The bulk of the text specifically deals with matters resulting from the war, which Trump’s teams has used to bolster its argument that the insurrection clause refers specifically to those who fought for the Confederacy.
Primaries in Minnesota and Colorado will take place March 5, 2024.
The case is Joan Growe, et al. v. Steve Simon, Minnesota Secretary of State, Case No. A23-1354, in the Minnesota Supreme Court.
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2023/11/03/minnesota-lawsuit-to-keep-trump-off-ballot-hits-rocks/
YW. It seemed to go along with the quote in your post...
‘Mao’s America’ author Xi Van Fleet reveals how US is on the verge of becoming a communist state like China
By Miranda Devine Published Nov. 1, 2023, 10:54 p.m. ET
Remember when Hollywood activist Jane Fonda chortled that the coronavirus was “God’s gift to the left”?
That was back in October 2020, at the height of lockdowns and school closures, when the country was reeling from the violent BLM-Antifa riots over the summer.
It was no time for celebration, but clearly Hanoi Jane knew something that most Americans didn’t pick up at the time.
A new book out this week explains what leftist Fonda seemed to know back then, perhaps from her papered-over days as a Communist collaborator during the Vietnam War.
While we were sleeping, in 2020, America went through a cultural revolution which was instantly recognizable to escapees from totalitarianism like Xi Van Fleet, who had lived through the terrors of Mao’s China as a schoolgirl.
Her book, “Mao’s America,” is a five-alarm warning of the menace in our midst.
She is alarmed that most Americans do not see clearly what she does, that “the root of today’s ‘woke revolution,’ not to mention its ultimate goal, is Marxism followed by Communism.”
2021 woke-up call
You might remember Van Fleet as the plucky Virginia mom who burst onto the national stage in 2021 with a 60-second speech to the Loudon County School Board, warning that critical race theory and similar woke ideology being shoved down kids’ throats echoed Mao’s murderous Cultural Revolution in the China of her youth.
Her kids were grown by then and she was shy, but she felt a duty to warn the adopted country she loved about the menace it was facing.
“Chinese by birth; American by choice, survivor of Mao’s Cultural Revolution, defender of liberty,” is how she describes herself, having emigrated to America in 1996.
China’s Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution, launched by Mao Zedong, the Communist dictator who ruled from 1949 to 1976, lasted 10 years, and covered most of Van Fleet’s school years.
“In my memory, it also appeared to happen overnight, just like it did here in America in 2020 . . . Overnight, we were told the country we lived in was rotten to the core and needed to be dismantled.
“Instead of looking for racists, we were ordered to look for ‘counterrevolutionaries’ . . .
“People turned against each other in search of enemies and in defense of Mao. Friends turned against friends, neighbors against neighbors, co-workers against coworkers, and family members turned against each other. As children, we were taught to report on family members, including our parents.”
“Cancel culture ensued, and on its path anything that was not pure Maoist — including our Chinese heritage — was literally destroyed. Statues were toppled by mobs. Books and art were burned.”
It was all too familiar to Van Fleet when America started tearing itself apart in 2020.
She knew it wasn’t spontaneous, but deliberate.
She couldn’t miss the striking similarities of America’s own Cultural Revolution, born of the perfect storm of the pandemic and the violent hysteria whipped up over the death in Minnesota of a black criminal, George Floyd, under the knee of a white cop.
With mounting horror she saw the lawless mobs set free to menace the populace and recognized them as the homegrown version of Mao’s Red Guards, with the subsequent ongoing breakdown of law and order the deliberate outcome.
“The summer of 2020 will forever be remembered as the summer of unrest and violence,” she writes.
“It runs parallel to the Red Guards’ Red Terror in August and September of 1966. Americans are now told to accept a new reality where the police have become villains and criminals have become victims who are allowed to roam freely in our cities and communities, terrorizing the citizens.”
Destabilized by chaos
Sanctioned shoplifting and the encouragement of an emboldened criminal underclass that plagues most blue cities is not some random after-effect of the pandemic, but a tactic she recognizes to destabilize law-abiding citizens and keep them in a perpetual state of confusion and fear.
“It is all about power,” she writes.
“It is about gaining power by first destabilizing a society through cultural subversion and upheaval.”
She saw children turn on parents, Thanksgiving family gatherings riven by division and discord, the public ritual denunciations of conservatives, the toppling of statues, the denigration of our history and of religion and the nuclear family, the absurd lies and gaslighting by our leaders accepted as holy writ, and above all, a very un-American censorship which crushed dissent.
“But wait,” she said to herself.
“I have seen all of this before . . .
“I know what it is that is happening here because I’ve seen this on both fronts: far-left progressive forces, using weapons such as CRT, wokeism, BLM, and cancel culture, in order to root out conservatives and any resistance to their radical agenda.”
Van Fleet also was reading WeChat, a Chinese version of Facebook, and was struck by “how many Chinese people in China were laughing at what was going on in the US, calling it the ‘American cultural revolution.’ ”
The Chinese knew better than most Americans what was happening in our country, and they reveled in it.
Thank goodness for refugees of communism like Van Fleet.
They are the canaries in the coal mine warning us to wake up before it is too late.
Rand slams fed cyber-censors
Sen. Rand Paul politely eviscerated DHS Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas and FBI Director Christopher Wray this week for their efforts to censor Americans on social media under the guise of “threats to the homeland.”
While attempting to deny the documented undeniable, both men conceded their meetings with Big Tech had all but dried up in the wake of the scathing US District Court ruling in July in the landmark free-speech case Missouri v. Biden, which is heading to the Supreme Court.
But you can bet they will find some more imaginative method of controlling unauthorized speech ahead of the 2024 election, as they did in 2020.
In that case, Sen. Ted Cruz’s call to impeach Mayorkas could be seen as an election integrity measure, as well as well deserved punishment for his border mismanagement.
https://nypost.com/2023/11/01/opinion/maos-america-author-xi-van-fleet-reveals-how-us-is-on-the-verge-of-becoming-a-communist-state-like-china/
Glad you enjoyed it, Shelly.
It's been my favorite Halloween song for years.
Cat Country 96 in Allentown PA used to play it every All Hallows Eve.
Stay safe.
Thanks AZ1. I don't mind. There are still a few people who talk to me.
It's fun to observe both sides from the top of the fence.
Have fun.
I am not a MAGA. I am a RINO.
Ask any one of the MAGAs I've pissed off.
Happy All Hallows' Eve...
Howdy Gmenfan. I read the comments, too.
They tend to coincide with the point of view espoused by the website.
I will admit they're often amusing and offer more insight than the original article did.
Story Television has been on as background noise for most of yesterday and today.
They've been airing documentaries of the Civil War battles all day.
Yesterday there was a piece on John Wilkes Booth that focused on his hatred of Lincoln.
Apparently old Abe was not beloved by all.
I couldn't help thinking about Trump. Crazy times we're living in.
Interesting timing. I was just about to post this:
https://www.breitbart.com/clips/2023/10/30/co-secstate-griswold-real-questions-if-the-constitution-disqualifies-trump-from-presidency/
We'll see what happens.
Barr: Trump’s ‘Verbal Skills Are Limited’ Not Much Past ‘Very, Very, Very’
PAM KEY 27 Oct 2023 1:20
(Trump lovers hate Barr and he doesn't sound articulate in this, but I think he has a point. I dread the 2024 election.)
Former Attorney General Bill Barr said Thursday on C-SPAN’s coverage of an event at Harvard’s Institute of Politics that former President Donald Trump’s “verbal skills are limited.”
When asked what Trump’s flaws are, Barr said, “I think his biggest flaw is a lot of it is performance rather than substance.”
He continued, “He is more interested in performing and getting a reaction than he is of solving a particular problem.”
He added, “Untimely we need some degree of unity. We are all in the same boat. We have to figure out a way to muddle through Someone who is constantly rolling around in the mud and fighting at the drop of a hat and is strickly in that mode, I’m worried about them getting us through.”
Referring to Trump saying Hezbollah is “very smart,” CBS chief correspondent Jan Crawford said, “I thought his comments on Hezbollah, that was appalling. I mean, do you think he’s, is he losing it?”
Barr said, “His verbal skills are limited. And so he, you know, if you get him away from ‘very, very, very,’ the adjectives sort of– they’re unfamiliar to him and they sort of spill out and he goes too far. You know, he’s not very disciplined when it comes to what he says.”
https://www.breitbart.com/clips/2023/10/27/barr-trumps-verbal-skills-are-limited-not-much-past-very-very-very/
You got that right (JMO). A Happy TGIF Morning to ya, possh.
Glad I caught this before I take off to start my day.
Don't let the bastards get you down...
Hiya, Mr. G. Who da hell knows?
Seems like everyone thinks their feelings constitute the center of the universe.
Crazy self-centered world we live in these days.
Stay safe. Hope you're getting some of this last gasp of summer.
Enjoy.
Halloween killed! ‘Woke’ schools axing kids’ parties over inequality is a haunting new low
By Kirsten Fleming Published Oct. 27, 2023, 6:30 a.m. ET
Billionaire Columbia University Alumnus: Anti-Israel College Students ‘Have Sh*t for Brains’
AMY FURR 26 Oct 2023 2:41
(No argument here.)
Billionaire Leon Cooperman says Columbia students supporting Hamas have “shit for brains” pic.twitter.com/leqaecFvHe
— Brian Doherty (@BDOH) October 25, 2023
Can Speaker Mike Johnson Govern?
GOP agitators will have to give him leeway they denied Kevin McCarthy.
By The Editorial Board Oct. 25, 2023 6:41 pm ET
After three weeks of pointless but embarrassing intrigue, House Republicans finally hit on a consensus nominee for Speaker. Congratulations to 51-year-old Louisiana Rep. Mike Johnson, who with a 220-209 vote Wednesday won the unenviable job of herding the cats, snakes and peacocks in the GOP menagerie.
The question is whether the Republican malcontents will let him govern in a way they refused his deposed predecessor, Kevin McCarthy...
... Mr. Johnson wrote a “Commitment to Civility” that was signed in 2017 by dozens of his fellow freshmen. In a brief House speech Wednesday, he came off as gracious, funny and smart, and if he continues in this tenor, he will be an asset for the GOP.
Whatever the McCarthy mutineers might say, the three weeks of turmoil have hurt the GOP’s image as a party that can competently govern while acting as a political check on Mr. Biden. A big part of Mr. Johnson’s job is to bring order to this Republican chaos.
The hard reality is that the GOP’s narrow majority puts him in the same precarious position as his predecessor. If the agitators want Speaker Johnson to succeed, and voters to keep them in power, they will spend the coming days working to fund the government and pocketing incremental conservative wins. If they don’t, they deserve to lose, and they probably will.
Full Editorial is here:
https://www.wsj.com/articles/mike-johnson-house-speaker-republicans-kevin-mccarthy-1ea4ed9?mod=hp_opin_pos_1
Johns Hopkins doctor’s bullying exposes whole profession
By Post Editorial Board Published Oct. 25, 2023, 12:15 p.m. ET
Latest migrant poll should scare the hell out of Democrats
By Bob McManus Published Oct. 24, 2023, 6:13 p.m. ET
A new poll says 84% of New Yorkers think the state’s migrant mess is a serious problem.
The remaining 16% are zombied-out addicts living in parks and subway tunnels.
Ha. Just kidding about the zombie part.
But, seriously, if you live in New York and don’t think the state’s ever-swelling army of border-hoppers is a serious problem, then you really — really — haven’t been paying attention.
So no surprise, then, that a poll Tuesday from the Siena College Research Institute finds not only that New Yorkers are uber-stressed over immigration — but that President Biden has but a single-digit lead over Donald Trump in a hypothetical general election match-up next year.
Clearly, federal fecklessness has consequences.
Biden is up only nine points — 46% to 37% — in a head-to-head in 2024, an extraordinarily small number in cobalt-blue New York.
Or maybe, just maybe, New York isn’t quite so blue any longer — having been mugged by a crime-and-chaos-tolerant Democratic political establishment.
Recall that Republican Lee Zeldin came within 7 points of beating Kathy Hochul in last year’s gubernatorial race — the closest the GOP has come in a very long time.
It’s easy to make too much of such polls, especially those taken a year in advance of the race in question — and at a time of great political and social turmoil.
After all, Biden may not even be the Democratic nominee next year — and who knows where Trump will be by then, right?
But this much seems clear: The effective collapse of America’s southern border comes with downstream political ramifications.
How can one tell if the Siena poll truly reflects public disquiet on immigration?
That’s easy — both Hochul and Mayor Eric Adams are very much acting like it does.
They’re cowards about it, for sure, complaining about costs and then timidly stating the obvious — the problem is the open border — but scurrying back under cover, presumably after blowback from both the White House and New York’s increasingly hard-left Democratic establishment.
Regular New Yorkers have no reason to fear either, of course.
They get it — it’s hard not to when 100,000-plus penniless supplicants crowd into your state in just months — and they overwhelmingly tell Siena they want it stopped.
It’s sort of like last year when crime and related social disorder dominated the debate when an obdurately ideological political establishment blew off those concerns — and when a Republican came uncommonly close to beating an incumbent Democratic governor.
Now throw in the Biden border collapse — plus the shameful Islamist terror fellow-traveling by so many Democrats ( https://nypost.com/2023/10/24/opinion/rashida-tlaib-embraces-trutherism-on-gaza-hospital-blast/ ) since Oct. 7 — and it should surprise no one that New York is trending purple.
But purple is one thing; a serious Trump threat to the Democratic presidential ticket in New York next year would be something quite different.
Still, earthquakes often follow foreshocks.
Hochul’s close call could be one such; Tuesday’s Siena poll, another.
So what’s a proud Democrat to do?
Maybe tell Joe Biden that 84% of New Yorkers say his immigration policies are sinking their state and that it’s time he does something about that.
The man’s future, such as it is, could depend on it. Also, New York’s.
Email: bob@bobmcmanus.nyc
https://nypost.com/2023/10/24/opinion/latest-migrant-poll-should-scare-the-hell-out-of-democrats/
How much do you want to bet the libtard ecofreaks will object to mining the lithium?
GM, Gmenfan.
Israel war could lead to a Democratic crackup in 2024
By Daniel McCarthy Published Oct. 23, 2023, 9:10 p.m. ET
Conventional wisdom says voters don’t care about foreign policy.
Nearly two years into Europe’s largest conflict since World War II, the conventional wisdom seemed to be right.
Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has had little effect on the GOP presidential-nomination race and opened no room for a challenger to Joe Biden among the Democrats.
But the butchery Hamas perpetrated against Israeli civilians Oct. 7 has shocked Americans like nothing since 9/11.
Memories of the war on terror have come flooding back: the Twin Towers burning, Daniel Pearl’s murder in Pakistan, bombings in London, a massacre in Paris, ISIS cutting the heads off kneeling prisoners.
So many of those images have been compressed into a single day of horror in Israel.
Will this, then, make an exception to the rule that voters don’t think about foreign affairs when they cast their ballots?
So far the Republican race looks unchanged at the top, but 50 points below Donald Trump there are tremors.
Second place now looks to be a contest between Nikki Haley and Ron DeSantis: A USA Today/Suffolk poll released Monday showed a one-point margin between them, with Haley’s support at 11 points and DeSantis’ at 12.
An Emerson poll Friday showed the former United Nations ambassador and the Florida governor neck-and-neck, at 8 points each.
Both aspiring alternatives to Trump make a point of their anti-terrorist and pro-Israel stance.
As a sitting governor, DeSantis took the initiative to organize flights to bring Americans home from Israel.
Haley, leaning on her UN experience, has made foreign policy a cornerstone of her campaign all along — before the Hamas atrocity, she had already staked out a niche for herself as champion of the GOP’s more hawkish and internationalist wing.
At first that positioning seemed to offer few electoral benefits — and now it’s complicated by the fact that while DeSantis is closer to Trump on the Ukraine conflict, he’s no less outspoken than Haley on Israeli security and has a record from his time in Congress to back it up.
The trouble for DeSantis is that his poll numbers were already slipping, and now a galvanizing new issue puts the spotlight on a rival as much as on him — while Trump continues to drift above the clouds, a political world unto himself.
Trump unquestionably advanced peace in the Middle East, through the Abraham Accords.
The contrast between his tenure in office and the global chaos that keeps growing worse under Biden couldn’t be more stark.
Ordinary voters might not think much about foreign policy, but they can see the difference between the Trump and Biden records, and they feel it, too.
The Taliban are back in power in Afghanistan, Russia is in Ukraine, and the Holy Land bleeds.
In matters of war, Biden makes Jimmy Carter look like Dwight Eisenhower. And Trump looks Reaganesque in comparison with Biden’s worse-than-Carter record.
Going to Israel himself was a way for President Biden to hide his hellish record behind a photo op, and in the short run that ploy might shore up his polls.
The most recent surveys still show him with a slim-to-none lead over Trump, but just imagine how he’d fare if he looked even weaker now.
Democrats, of course, have a history of bitter division over war — as well as “anti-colonialism” and Israel.
Eugene McCarthy and Robert F. Kennedy Sr. chased President Lyndon Johnson out of his bid for renomination by giving antiwar Democrats candidates to rally around.
And even more fatefully, in 1972 the New Left dragged George McGovern down to a landslide defeat and provoked a realignment in American politics, driving Cold War liberals and many Jewish voices out of the party.
The radical left of McGovern’s day wasn’t just antiwar, it was outspokenly “anti-colonialist,” which translated into sympathy for Third World revolutionary movements and post-colonial dictators, as well as reflexive hostility to Israel.
Biden’s party suffered no split over the Russian invasion of Ukraine — the antiwar left was nowhere to be seen.
But the anti-Israel left has been out in force since the Oct. 7 terror attacks, and it reviles Biden, despite his efforts to keep the Democrats’ left fringe wedded to his coalition.
The new New Left may be a minority even in today’s Democratic Party.
Yet like the old New Left it has the potential to spark a civil war among progressives, especially as causes like Black Lives Matter and anti-police politics entwine with “anti-colonial” and anti-Israel ideology.
To the left, it’s all just anti-racism.
To everyone else, it means excusing murder — and voters do care about that.
Daniel McCarthy is the editor of Modern Age: A Conservative Review.
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Grand Old Party: How Aging Makes You More Conservative
Baby boomers have shifted right. But liberal millennials and Gen Z are canceling them out.
By Dante Chinni and Stephanie Stamm Oct. 23, 2023 5:00 am ET
One of the most durable forces shaping the U.S. electorate is that voters tend to lean more Republican as they age.
But it also matters where they begin on the political spectrum, and there are indications that millennials and the oldest members of Generation Z started out more liberal than prior generations. That has made them a crucial base of support for Democrats, even as some other groups of voters have moved away from the party.
Gaining assets and income pushes voters toward conservative fiscal policies, such as lower taxes, that allow them to keep more of their money, researchers say. As Americans move from midlife to retirement, they are more likely to favor stability over change, and less likely to back liberal policies that upset the social order.
This rightward shift is likely to affect who wins elections in 2024 and the years beyond. One in six Americans is age 65 or over, up from one in eight a decade prior, according to the most recent decennial census. A slump in births that started in 2008 will eventually give way to a smaller pool of new, young voters.
On its face, the shift bodes well for Republicans. Yet its effects have been muted by the size and liberal bent of millennials now approaching middle age, and the more solidly blue partisanship of Gen Z voters just entering the electorate...
The rest is here:
https://www.wsj.com/politics/elections/grand-old-party-how-aging-makes-you-more-conservative-8b2515b0