That Went Well

This pre-fight weigh-in had the usual theatrics:

First U.S.-China meeting under Biden gets off to a rocky start

• • The first high-level gathering of U.S. and Chinese officials under President Joe Biden kicked off with an exchange of insults at a pre-meeting press event Thursday, according to NBC News.
  • The two-day talks are set to conclude Friday.
  • A planned four-minute photo session for the officials to address reporters ended up lasting one hour and 15 minutes due to a frothy exchange, according to NBC News

Comments

[bubarooni]

TM is up early...

[henry]

But Trump made mean tweets.

[henry]

I wouldn’t want to be Taiwanese right now.

[Thomas Collins]

Any potential progress in causing Red China to have more respect for international norms is gone now that the airy therapeutic we are the world internationalists have taken over from Trump, whose bilateral and sometimes trilateral and quadrilateral internationalism is a superior approach. Blinken may talk some talk, and probably is about the most qualified of the possible Biden Secretary of State candidates to deal with Xi. That's not saying much.

[Thomas Collins]

Meanwhile, the top men and top women are also back in charge of Russia policy.

https://asiatimes.com/2021/03/life-after-death-for-the-neoconservatives/

[MissMarple2]

Besides the fact that this administration is full of socialists, communists, crooks an thugs, we can now add TOTAL INCOMPETENCE IN FOREIGN POLICY to the mix.

[MissMarple2]

Steve Herman
@W7VOA
·
1m
Commands throughout US 7th Fleet are facilitating training and discussions on extremism within the ranks and how to address it, according to ⁦@USNavy.

[MissMarple2]

Ha!

#ChickenJoe😂😂😂 pic.twitter.com/CMjxo7A9mI

— ilDonaldoTrumpo (@ilDonaldoTrumpo) March 19, 2021

[clarice]

CHEERS!!!!
https://the-pipeline.org/the-battle-of-tinhorn-flats/

[MissMarple2]

https://twitter.com/AlexBerenson/status/1372883189254004736

Spike in Covid-19 cases and deaths in countries that have most aggressively vaccinated.

Charts included.

[MissMarple2]

Todd Bensman
@BensmanTodd
·
21m
“DHS Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas this week asserted that suspected Islamic terrorists can and have crossed the porous southern border for years...”

Landmark Confirmation of Border Threat

https://cis.org/Bensman/Landmark-Confirmation-Border-Threat

[MissMarple2]

clarice,

WHAT a great article! Thanks for linking it!

[MissMarple2]

New York Post
@nypost

· 13h
Defense secretary Austin to North Korea: US is ready to 'fight tonight' https://trib.al/b1kpNZs

[Melinda]

Well that's inconvenient:

Michael P Senger
@MichaelPSenger
Breaking: New leak shows German CDC's March 24 2020 adoption of "a catalog of measures" from University in Ningbo China outlining lockdowns, mass testing, home quarantine, and even appeals to "public spirit" and takeover by "minister for special tasks."
scribd.com/document/49937… twitter.com/aya_velazquez/

https://twitter.com/MichaelPSenger/status/1372736133830873088

[Jim Eagle]

Clarice's 8:17 shows you that people are not going to take it anymore. Bravo to Tinhorn Flats. We need more like them and less like the Fauci's of the world.

[Narciso]

So how did you like the play

[MissMarple2]

Raheem Kassam
@RaheemKassam
· 36m

Twitter has restricted Congressman Marjorie Taylor Greene’s access to her account on the same day Democrats are attempting to expel her from Congress.
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Seems sort of coordinated to me.

[clarice]

Into, love the Tinhorn Flats story. Spread it around to inspire others. Here, in LBK the local commission has mandated more restrictive measures than the governor and are being forced to reconsider in an upcoming commission mtg.In any event the Governor has said such measures are not legally enforceable and still the locals follow them.

[Jane]

https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2021/03/there-no-biden-administration-daniel-greenfield/

Which is better? A demented president, or no president?

[MissMarple2]

Jack Posobiec
@JackPosobiec

This morning Biden yelled at Blinken for bringing a staffer with purple hair to the CCP summit, per WH official.

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Why was this staffer even brought along with that goofy hair?

Does anyone think Biden even noticed?

[Jane]

It8 was a great story Clarice!

[henry]

Clowns as staff. Not a big surprise.

[Narciso]

Benedict arnold was more subtle

https://thenationalpulse.com/exclusive/westpoint-collabs-with-cusef-ccp-universities/

[Jane]

It’s great to see Fauci finally getting some push-back. History will remember this as the Fauci pandemic.

I’m going to look at another house here today. It’s a fix-up and might be a good investment given what’s going on in the RE market.

[Dave (in MA)]

Happy birthday, you poor old sod.

[MissMarple2]

I am looking forward to Bannon's program this morning.

Live link at the upper left-hand corner of the page:

https://pandemic.warroom.org/

[Narciso]

Indeed

https://pjmedia.com/news-and-politics/tyler-o-neil/2021/03/18/witch-hunt-calif-bill-may-exclude-conservative-christians-from-police-departments-n1433573

[Narciso]

How could they tell the difference

https://www.thedailybeast.com/biden-white-house-sandbags-staffers-sidelines-dozens-for-pot-use?ref=scroll

[Narciso]

I posted the instances where a rep has been removed and she doesnt qualify, now this pack of jackals do

https://thefederalist.com/2021/03/19/wapo-writer-makes-false-claim-about-ryan-anderson-refuses-to-correct-it/#.YFSwLqrZHAQ.twitter

[Jim Eagle]

My Governor brings out a flamethrower in this WSJ Op-Ed:

https://redstate.com/bonchie/2021/03/18/ron-desantis-brings-out-the-flamethrower-in-new-op-ed-n346080

[fdcol63 🇺🇸]

When considering DeSantis, it’s always important to remember just how close FL came to having THIS scuzz bucket as Governor:

[anonamom]

Re linking this not-to-be-missed article clarice posted above

https://the-pipeline.org/the-battle-of-tinhorn-flats/

The magic words: WE WILL NOT COMPLY.

Poof! It's over!!!!

[Narciso]

Oh really

https://nypost.com/2021/03/18/judge-says-ghislaine-maxwell-case-details-too-sensational-and-impure-for-public/

[Narciso]

Really?

https://mobile.twitter.com/julie_kelly2/status/1372916098878824449

[fdcol63 🇺🇸]

Compare and contrast:

Look at the actions in a-mom’s Tinhorn Flats story above and compare them to the actions shown in this Seattle news documentary on what Seattle’s city commission has been doing to their once-great city, now a cess pool:

Seattle is Dying
https://youtu.be/bpAi70WWBlw

They will prosecute normally law-abiding business owners and citizens just trying to live their daily lives, while aiding and abetting drug users, thieves, rapists, vandals, and other scum who are destroying their cities, turning everywhere into San Francisco and Detroit.

[Jane]

Fdcol63,

You have to wonder why. What is Soros’ et al ultimate motivation. Is it just to destroy this country? Start a war? Bring back the Nazi’s? Hard to know.

[CCGirl]

Claice, great article. I just read this comment on Powerline:

Oh, Ammo Girl,
I wish we lived closer; we might be twin sisters. I'd also like to meet Clarice Feldman. Hard to believe she went to the radical University of Wisconsin in the 60's like I did. L

Sunny today - I was feeling defeated yesterday. Today I will fight that feeling.

[clarice]

Oh my,CCGirl. Caro was there then, too.

[MissMarple2]

Narciso,

I will bet you cash money hat if their were "sensational and impure details" about Donald Trump in Maxwell's testimony, it would be released in a New York minute.

[sbwaters]

CCGirl, “feeling defeated” is just a feeling. It doesn’t mean you are.

Your only job is to get up off the ground and keep on keeping on. Oh, and smile while doing it — it pisses them off.

[MissMarple2]

Argh!

Should read "that if there were"

[MissMarple2]

Sun is out today and it is supposed to be sunny all weekend. I am cleaning and just sat down for lunch.

[CCGirl]

Thanks All!

Speaking of colleges, this is a victory:

Tufts University announced on Wednesday that it is not going to renew its contract with the Confucius Institute after it expires in September this year. The decision was made in response to a 13-week long protest against the controversial educational program.

From an article at The Epoch Times.

[MissMarple2]

https://richieallen.co.uk/norwegian-prof-astrazeneca-jab-is-causing-deadly-blood-clots/

Professor Pål Andre Holme told Norwegian national newspaper VG today, that the AstraZeneca vaccine caused serious blood clots in three Norwegian health workers.

Holme led the investigation into why the workers (all under 50) were hospitalized with serious blood clots and low levels of blood platelets after receiving the AZ jab. One of the workers died on Monday.

Asked why he is so confident that the vaccine caused the blood clots, Holme told VG;

“We have the reason. Nothing but the vaccine can explain why these individuals had this immune response. There is nothing in the patient history of these individuals that can give such a powerful immune response.

I am confident that the antibodies that we have found are the cause, and I see no other explanation than it being the vaccine which triggers it.”

The Norwegian government and AstraZeneca have so far refused to comment. “We have to look at the results first, I don’t want to comment on this now”, said Medical Director Steinar Madsen to NTB, The Norwegian News Agency.

“We await the decisions of the EMA later today before we will comment on this”, said AstraZeneca’s Media Relations Director Christina Malmberg Hägerstrand.

This is a massive development. A Norwegian scientist has declared that the Vaccine itself caused the blood clotting in the three health workers he examined, one of whom died. This will not be reported outside of Norway. You should share it with anyone you know, who is due to receive the AZ jab or any other.

[Melinda]

Biden inauguration priest Rev. Kevin O’Brien under investigation in California

https://nypost.com/2021/03/19/biden-inauguration-priest-under-investigation-in-california/

Seems to be a theme building....

[MissMarple2]

Breaking911
@Breaking911
·
1h
JUST IN: Twitter has locked Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene out of her account

House Democrats are planning to introduce a resolution today to expel her from Congress

[Ignatz Ratzkiwatzki]

The Confucius Institutes are changing their name.
Wonder if Tufts is pulling a fast one.

[Ignatz Ratzkiwatzki]

This thing with China will not end well.
The most probable outcome is the typical prog public bluster while they make whoopee in private with our enemies while weakening America.
The alternative is Xiden continues the Corn Pop tough guy act until we end up in a war.
The Democratic party seems determined to claim Churchill's description of the Hun as their own.

[Neo]

L'EXIT! People rush to escape Paris with train tickets selling out as Macron plunges a THIRD of French people into new month-long lockdown amid surge in COVID cases and vaccine roll-out shambles
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9380497/Parisians-rush-escape-city-amid-French-lockdown.html

[Neo]

Putin offers Biden to negotiate online "It would be interesting for the people of Russia and the people of the U.S., and a lot of other countries", Russian leader says

State Dept intentionally blew the China meeting so Joe Biden wouldn’t meet with Xi Jinping

Looks like Foreign Policy won't be Joe "El Ilegítimo" Biden backup plan

[Davod]

MM2. While I applaud the quick response by manufacturers in producing vaccines, the testing process must have been limited.

[Jane]

There should be a resolution to expel every democrat from Congress!

[MissMarple2]

Melinda,

I am taking the liberty of excerpting the lead paragraph of that New York Post story, to make sure people here see it. Bolding is mine.

"The Jesuit priest who officiated then-President-elect Joe Biden’s inaugural Mass — and has been a family friend for almost 15 years — is under investigation for unspecified allegations and is now on leave from his position as president of Santa Clara University in California, according to the college."
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1. He's a Jesuit, a very liberal group. Pope Francis is also a Jesuit.

2. Family friend for 15 years? Which member of the family? Hunter? Joe?

3. What are these unspecified allegations? Sexual abuse? Drug smuggling? Money laundering?

4. He's in California. If the Bidens have known the guy for 15 years, surely he was serving on the east coast/DC area at some point. Anyone bothered to find out where?

5. Is he in California at the college because he was accused of something somewhere else?

[MissMarple2]

https://www.zerohedge.com/economics/things-are-out-control-there-shortage-everything-and-prices-are-soaring-what-happens-next

[MissMarple2]

Joe Biden just fell 3 times in a row trying to go up the stairs to Air Force One pic.twitter.com/gTUTckUH32

— Caleb Hull (@CalebJHull) March 19, 2021

Video at the link.

[Neo]

I bet there might be a chance of having a "Death Channel" to broadcast the death announcements. I mean there are roughly 80,000 deaths every day in the US. Given 86,400 seconds in a day, each person could be announce for about a second.

[jimmyk]

Not to be too negative, but it's unfortunate that the Tinhorn Flats story is so rare. There's safety in numbers. If hundreds of restaurants in an area all did the same thing, I'm guessing it would be hard for the local dictators to do much about it, and it would be more of an embarrassment to them.

I remember that defiant gym owner in NJ. I believe he got shut down and possibly fined. Easy for me to say, but we need a mass uprising. Here in NYC at least it seems we've got so many cargo cult believers that businesses not only don't defy, but sometimes they even exceed the local orders in being strict. Like even now only allowing curbside pickup rather than people coming in and shopping or eating. I don't know if they really believe in what they're doing, or just think that enough other people believe it that it's in their interest to go along with it.

[Jim Eagle]

Biden to Gerry Ford's ghost: "here hold my beer".

[Neo]

"El Ilegítimo" Biden Falls Three Times While Attempting to Climb the Steps of Air Force One

Secret Service Wrestle Ramp to the Ground

[jimmyk]

In honor of DrJ, who would appreciate this as a trumpet player himself, bit of KJOM classical:

Christopher Martin Performs all four parts J.S. Bach's Little Fugue (arranged for four trumpets).

[Narciso]

To serve man, is a cookbook after all.

[Narciso]

The dragons kep kennel couldnt reply to a nation of laogai

[rse]

Yesterday afternoon I was reading on back patio and heard quite the aerial commotion that kept getting closer and louder. It was a bunch of ospreys escorting something that red said looked like marine one.

They were headed towards dobbins (which I grew up near enough to to come out and watch the c 5 galaxy when I was young. Then last night out came a letter from the same airport I could hear starting at 5 am the morning after super bowl that no one could be out and about there this afternoon.

Speculation since both potus and kamala are headed to ATL to visit cdc (over by emory), now stacy abrams, and then asian leaders is that it will NOT just be motorcades as was trump and pence's patterns.

Honestly everyone else too. In high school I had been to DT ATL for some reason and was on 75 coming north when I realized the exits were being blocked. I realized the presidential motorcade must be behind me (GErald ford) and got off at Dobbins exit, pulled over, and along it came 5 minutes later.

[MissMarple2]

https://thefederalist.com/2021/03/17/us-intelligence-just-released-another-rigged-report-on-russian-election-meddling-this-time-in-2020/

[MissMarple2]

🏆 Best meme of the year🏆 created by @NautPoso

RT is you miss

🏌️‍♀️Donald J Trump 🏌️‍♀️ pic.twitter.com/YrzDlXjxr4

— CONNIE’S CORNER (@CRRJA5) March 19, 2021

LOLOL!! Video at the link. It will cheer you up!

[Pinandpuller]

“Falling Down is a movie about a man named William Foster, fired after government budget cuts...”

You couldn’t make that movie today, amirite Boys?

[MissMarple2]

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/pelosi-biden-border-situation-under-control

Not only is this unbelievable, she also insults President Trump by saying this is more humanitarian.

[Narciso]

But he would still be still be considered a deplorable

[Narciso]

Its a how to manual for us

https://www.economist.com/briefing/2021/03/20/china-is-not-just-shackling-hong-kong-it-is-remaking-it

[MissMarple2]

Seth Abramson
@SethAbramson

· Mar 16
I just saw a clip of Joe Biden spryly exiting Air Force One in Philadelphia, and I was suddenly reminded of the totally bonkers fact that the GOP has tried to question his health after years of calling an obese man who doctored his medical records the picture of physical stamina.
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It only took 2 days to make this guy look like a total shill.

[Narciso]

His scrapbook of crazy is in every library

[MissMarple2]

https://donsurber.blogspot.com/2021/03/yoda-trump.html

"Buddha Trump".

[Jim Eagle]

jimmyk,

Thanks for your 12:19 Christopher Martin trumpet fugue which reminded me that I miss Karl Haas and his radio program (Adventures in Good Music). In Southampton it would come on at 5:00pm cocktail hour and was the perfect accompaniment to the classic vodka martini:)

[sbwaters]

Michael Smith replying to sbwaters ...
I often think of contemporary progressivism as an ouroboros - an ancient symbol depicting a serpent or dragon eating its own tail. As it consumes itself, it becomes more focused and angry as it realizes it is getting smaller - until it dies and is reborn to start the process all over again.

[Narciso]

They shouldnt make it so obvious

https://mobile.twitter.com/thechrisbuskirk/status/1372961299450130436

[Neo]

Given the American tradition of "No Taxation Without Representation", I would say that Georgia's 14th congressional district is about to become a popular "No Tax" zone.

[JohnH]

CCGirl, you went to UW-Madison? Early 80’s?

[Melinda]

FXHedge
@Fxhedgers
INSTAGRAM AND FACEBOOK MESSENGER DOWN - DOWNDETECTOR

https://twitter.com/Fxhedgers/status/1372969546282242050

[Melinda]

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[Narciso]

Ach was doing for check cashing this week.

[Melinda]

Different system, narc.

[Narciso]

Can i interest you in some fresh leaches

https://mobile.twitter.com/drsanjaygupta

[clarice]

https://nypost.com/2021/03/18/officials-like-fauci-have-undermined-trust-in-government-institutions/

[Neo]

Sent a message to my Congresscritter telling her to please get expelled from Congress so all of PA-6 can enjoy no taxes under "No Taxation Without Representation"

[jimmyk]

I miss Karl Haas and his radio program (Adventures in Good Music).

JiB, that was actually syndicated out of Detroit's WJR-AM superstation, and I remember it growing up as well. Haas was a refugee from Nazi Germany who ended up in Detroit. He had this deep radio voice, and would begin every show with "Hello, everyone." I hadn't realized till seeing Wiki that the opening theme from a Beethoven sonata was performed live by Haas for every show.

[Pinandpuller]

I want Rand Paul to ask Fauci about the SARS-BWV 988 Goldberg Variation.

[Pinandpuller]

Speaking of Bach, he was killed by an eye surgeon, but I still trust eye surgeons more than infectious disease specialists.

[Old Lurker]

Clarice, Reynolds is right as far as he goes re Fauci, but he missed the big picture. Fauci was simply the instrument the left used to rid us of Trump and take us headfirst into a Marxist situation in the shortest possible time.

So, yes, NOBODY should trust anything the little twerp utters, but more importantly one has to ask who is using him to what end.

Duh. Clear as a bell.

As to Fauci the man, he did the same with Aids, he is a Hillary Clinton Butt Boy, his politics have been well known inside the Beltway for thirty years, and why Trump gave him that platform is beyond me. That political blunder is largely responsible for Trump losing the election.

The scorpion killed the damn frog again.

[Jim Eagle]

jimmyk,

Bill McGlaughlin replaced Haas and he is no slouch. Really educated me about classical music and just plain music.

[Narciso]

Anyone spoke against him except fumento and who else

https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2021/03/the-geek-in-pictures-commodities-edition.php

You see how scott gottleib is still like a barnacle years after leaving office.

[Pinandpuller]

Reading that back I spotted a misspelling. I meant to type that I trust eye surgeons more than I trust payed government liars.

[Narciso]

Carry on

https://mobile.twitter.com/Doc_0/status/1372889639405694980

[Neo]

US Circuit Judge Laurence H. Silberman warns the current state of media is 'a threat to a viable democracy'

U.S. Circuit Judge Laurence H. Silberman, a Reagan appointee, launched a broad attack on the Supreme Court's unwillingness to revisit precedent and the news media in a dissent in Tah v. Global Witness - a defamation case. After arguing against the court majority's ruling on the merits of the case, Silberman was "prompted to urge the overruling of New York Times v. Sullivan" - a landmark ruling that established what a plaintiff must show to prove a claim of defamation or libel made against a publisher.

[Narciso]

The gist of it

https://law.justia.com/cases/federal/district-courts/district-of-columbia/dcdce/1:2018cv02109/199984/21/

[Melinda]

Pull my other finger, @jack....

Marjorie Taylor Greene 🇺🇸
@mtgreenee
I was just told @Twitter suspended me for 12 hrs in “error,” on the same day Dems introduced a resolution to expel me from Congress.

What a coincidence?

Twitter’s little error wasn’t resolved until after 12 hrs.

@jack which employee made the “error?”

Reply to my email, Jack

https://twitter.com/mtgreenee/status/1372958869182382085

[Narciso]

Meanwhile in fuhrman 2 electric boogaloo

https://legalinsurrection.com/2021/03/chauvin-pre-trial-day-10-motion-rulings-portion-of-2019-prior-floyd-arrest-video-can-be-played-at-trial/

[Jane]

What’s with type pad signing me out all the time?

[jimmyk]

The judge in the Chauvin case seems pretty good, actually, though that $27M settlement should have at least resulted in a change of venue. New Neo notes that two previously accepted jurors have been discharged because they admitted the settlement would make it hard for them to be objective. The others are probably lying.

https://www.npr.org/2021/03/10/975678095/judge-peter-cahill-in-derek-chauvin-trial-hes-known-for-being-fair-decisive

[jimmyk]

What’s with type pad signing me out all the time?

Jane, did you sacrifice a virgin yet this week?

Seriously, I think when you login there may be some kind of "Remember me" check box that helps, unless I'm confusing it with JOM2. In any case I only get logged out of Typepad once every couple of weeks or so.

[MissMarple2]

Jane,

It does that to me, too.