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Thomas Edsall does NOT title his latest essay "What's The Matter With The Democrats?". He prefers an air horn:

Democrats Shouldn’t Panic. They Should Go Into Shock.

No surprises here - 2022 looks like a Red Storm Rising / Blue Wave Goodbye election. Both history and current events are against the Dems:

The rise of inflation, supply chain shortages, a surge in illegal border crossings, the persistence of Covid, mayhem in Afghanistan and the uproar over “critical race theory” — all of these developments, individually and collectively, have taken their toll on President Biden and Democratic candidates, so much so that Democrats are now the underdogs going into 2022 and possibly 2024.

But a year is a long time and there is still a lot of football to be played. And then basketball, and then a World Series.

Comments

[Narciso]

i remember when edsall 'pretended' to care about the working class, so nothing less than 'democracy' is at stake again, because only shambling man, and his clique of elves, are legit,

[Narciso]

but compared to bezos chimp circle, he's joe kraft,

https://taibbi.substack.com/p/another-humorous-substack-panic

[Neo]

The office of the Inspector General declined to investigate Whipgate, a wholely manufactured scandal of the Biden administration. Specifically, the Border Patrol agents who protect the southern border were accused of whipping Haitians and other migrants illegally crossing the Rio Grande River into Texas.

[Narciso]

they should be panicking, but that would entail shame and they are incapable of that,

[Neo]

OSHA COVID vaccine mandate permanently enjoined by 5th circuit ...

making way for some 9th circuit Hawaiian judge to say otherwise

https://twitter.com/daton_williams/status/1460394852160401408

[Neo]

The ruling:
https://www.ca5.uscourts.gov/opinions/pub/21/21-60845-CV0.pdf

[Narciso]

the numbers are actually 2.4 million illegals, but 'what difference does it make'

[Comanche Voter]

Edsalll can hear the klaxon horn on a WW II submarine--ah ooo gah ah ooo gah--Dive! Dive!

It's not time to panic--just absorb the shock. At some point the boat will resurface--unless those awful Deplorables drop a depth charge or two.

[Narciso]

pepperidge farm remembers

https://redbroward.com/2021/11/17/remember-when-dc-elites-attacked-governor-ron-desantis-and-florida-mask-mandates/

[Narciso]

oh never mind

https://twitter.com/ChristinaPushaw/status/1460989285902000132

[Narciso]

the constitution, its over a hundred years old;

https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2021/11/16/ffox-news-reporter-chad-pergram-reveals-cryptic-email-advising-him-to-learn-process-for-congress-replacing-vice-president/

[Narciso]

and that was that,

https://alexberenson.substack.com/p/unbelievable-but-apparently-true/comments?token=eyJ1c2VyX2lkIjoxNDYwMjMwNCwicG9zdF9pZCI6NDQxNzYzMjgsIl8iOiJPam5zWCIsImlhdCI6MTYzNzE2Njg4NSwiZXhwIjoxNjM3MTcwNDg1LCJpc3MiOiJwdWItMzYzMDgwIiwic3ViIjoicG9zdC1yZWFjdGlvbiJ9.kZC5UIaoBzstYiYIpF0CZznRqcF-MjJeft4c12Dg1mM

[Narciso]

biz markey, removes all doubt

tom elliot

"Oil companies are taking American consumers and shaking them upside down at gas pumps all across our country, while simultaneously sending a signal to the Republican Party to kill Build Back Better"

[Ignatz Ratzkiwatzki]

There has been no doubt, nor grey matter for that matter, to remove from Biz Markey for decades.

[Narciso]

that small particle of brain, like ken anchovy,

[Narciso]

which is unfair to ken, he had sustained severe dane bramage from two many hits to the noggin,

[Ignatz Ratzkiwatzki]

--But a year is a long time and there is still a lot of football to be played.--

Yeah but the Dem's two biggest stars are Jim Marshall Biden and Roy Riegels Harris.
And the rest of the team is so effed up they're cheering the dumbasses on instead of trying to tackle them before they reach their own end zone.

[Ignatz Ratzkiwatzki]

Plus Jim and Roy both have CTE from playing their entire careers without their helmets on, though Roy has never been caught without her kneepads.

[Narciso]

it really takes chip dillard, to want any more of this, which is the end of the republic, all private monies, any private property, (that is the lesson of rittenhouse) your children, (which they will penalize you for having) who will property of the state,.

[henry]

It’s gonna be a long three years ahead given the red wave will be in great part a RINO stampede.

[Narciso]

history would suggest that, take kinzinger or scarborough in the previous cycle,

can we recover what we've lost in the last year, the supply chain, the border, our energy independence, our forward strike capacity with all the weapons forfeited to the islamic emirate,

[Melinda]

Margot has some fun with FOIA. A certain "firm" pops up in the first paragraph.

Emails Show Researchers Who Alleged Trump Links To Russian Alfa Bank Were Anti-Trump

Emails obtained via an open records request provide a picture of the politics behind the players who formulated and fed the Alfa Bank theory via Michael Sussmann to the FBI.

https://thefederalist.com/2021/11/17/emails-show-researchers-who-alleged-trump-links-to-russian-alfa-bank-were-anti-trump/

[Narciso]

through diligence, this is who steele was running interference for:

https://twitter.com/CJBdingo25/status/1460626204168540166

[MissMarple2]

That is a goog article from The Federalist, Melindsa. Thanks!

[MissMarple2]

That should read “good”.

[1/2aboy&1/2aman]

Miss M,
It is "good" to see you back and posting. Best of health to you.

[clarice]

https://www.breitbart.com/crime/2021/11/17/rittenhouse-jury-asks-about-videos-judge-my-nightmare-has-come-true/

[Dave (in MA)]

I love the "scare quotes" around "critical race theory", as if it's not a real thing, which I suppose it mostly isn't to the people in the bubble containing NYT writers and readers.

[Dave (in MA)]

This is insane. Chansley, a mentally unstable loner, gets three and a half years for walking into the Capitol in a costume. For perspective: 27-year-old Bryce Williams got 29 months for BURNING A MINNEAPOLIS POLICE STATION TO THE GROUND https://t.co/SenBbyF6W8

— Gerry Callahan (@GerryCallahan) November 17, 2021

[DCSCA]

https://www.bloombergquint.com/politics/-qanon-shaman-gets-41-month-prison-sentence-for-capitol-riot

(Bloomberg) -- Jacob Chansley, the self-proclaimed “QAnon Shaman” who wore a coyote-skin headdress into the Senate chamber, was sentenced to more than three years in prison for his role in the Jan. 6 Capitol riot. Chansley, 34, was sentenced on Wednesday to 41 months by U.S. District Judge Royce Lamberth in Washington. Though less than the 51 months federal prosecutors had requested, the punishment.

“What you did here was horrific,” the judge said in imposing sentence.

3 years and five months in the pokie. Vigilante! And he didn't shoot or kill anybody.

[sbwaters]

TM: Both history and current events are against the Dems

Not to mention @JoeBiden, Kamala, the entire cabinet, @PressSec, and other assorted Senate-approved #Democrat goons.

[DCSCA]

"Insanity" is aging Royalist Pelosi threatening to keep House members in Washington over Thanksgiving so Joe's BBB can be properly digested.

'Insurrectionist' Congresscritters will give speaker turkey 'the bird' instead as they head for Reagan Int'l Aerodrome.

[matt - deplore me if you must]

They can see the writing on the walls. Look at the number of dems who are retiring or even switching parties.

Harris is simply a paid target. She was never up to any of the jobs assigned to her and everyone knew it. She is the fall girl. VP's are ordinarily supposed to be seen and not heard.

The problem is that we see her tripping over rakes every day. "Ah wood fairy much lak to zank you for 'aving me here todaiy" is just another example of the sheer stupidity of the whole administration.

I wonder how Joe's conversation with Xi went? " Chairman Xi, let's go get some egg foo young and chow mien sometime."

[Jane]

If the camel is out, who will replace her? Has to be a black woman or he will get skewered. Hey! Maxine Waters, wanna be my sidekick?

The Rittenhouse trial has disappeared from my TV. Anything going on? Has the jury watched the video?

[Dave (in MA)]

She'd just get replaced by the real President, Suzy Full Ginsberg.

[MissMarple2]

I haven’t seen C-Span in a long time. How anyone can tolerate AOC’s fake dramatic speech amazes me. Good grief!!!

[DCSCA]

She'd just get replaced by the real President, Suzy Full Ginsberg.

Yep. Susan Rice has been running this show from the get-go.

[MissMarple2]

By the way, isn’t Susan Rice married to an ABC biggie?

[henry]

Jane, per RSBN live feed the jury is watching videos. Not disclosed which ones. No verdict yet. Lawyers and judge are arguing about stuff, audio can be heard on the courthouse steps. Some legal nonsense or other that might be important, but nobody can hear it over the chanting.

Expect the judge to announce a time for verdict reveal that allows Nat Guard to arrive… expect 90 minute delay. (They are parked out by Gus, not close to Kenosha).

[DCSCA]

'The Rittenhouse trial has disappeared from my TV. Anything going on? Has the jury watched the video?'

Think about it- and the encroachment of the real world: the jury of 12 has 7 white women, four white males and one hispanic. And it's a week before Thanksgiving. It's not 'sexist' to suggest that those 7 white midwestern women likely have 'kitchen duties' they traditionally perform for their families preparing the holiday feast- or all have travel plans. They don't want to be tied up dealing w/this mess through the holiday or miss those Black Friday specials.

[DCSCA]

MM2- hope you're feeling better. Was watching that AOC CSPAN feed, too. The 'kid' [t my age, she looks like a child] is QUITE the drama queen.

MM2- yes, Rice is married to an ABC exec.

[Ignatz Ratzkiwatzki]

--Jane, per RSBN live feed the jury is watching videos. Not disclosed which ones.--

My Cousin Vinny?
Judgment at Nuremberg?

[DCSCA]

Iggy- My Cousin Vinny?
Judgment at Nuremberg?

Magnum Force.

[henry]

As if 7 white California women would not have normal lives. Sure.

FBI actor? Anyway, twitter is unaware WI has constitutional carry for long guns and hand guns. (Only need a license if you conceal). So his AR is no more illegal than his megaphone, although the latter is more annoying.

https://twitter.com/davenewworld_2/status/1461055253625905156?s=21

[henry]

Open carry. Constitutional carry is different. Oops.

[henry]

@jackposobeic

BREAKING: Prosecution confirms they TEXTED the drone video to the defense over an Android phone, which compressed the file. Blames defense team for not having iPhones!

OMG

[Narciso]

the drone video, would have procluded any indictment

[sbwaters]

Blames defense team for not having iPhones!

Hahahahahahahahaha! [Gasp!] Hahahahaha!

Stop it! You’re killing me!

You got a problem with that?

[Narciso]

method acted:

https://nypost.com/2021/11/17/my-son-hunter-star-laurence-fox-coked-up-passed-out-in-biden-flick/

[Marlene]

OMG! Yesterday Biden had a difficult time walking across a bridge in a snowstorm. Today they let him drive a $108,000 electric Humvee during his event at GM.

Ha, because hubby is a Jeep cultist,he has a t-shirt with a graphic that shows a Jeep towing a Humvee out of ditch. The caption says..."Humvee Recovery Team."

[Narciso]

good grief marlene,

https://thezman.com/wordpress/?p=25707

[Ignatz Ratzkiwatzki]

--Magnum Force--

You mean the one where the cops you say we should count on are going around murdering people?
Not sure if you were being sock puppeted yesterday, have a sense of irony deeper than my irony meter or are into substance abuse, but equating fake murderous Hollywood cops with real, innocent, law abiding self defense is, if serious, not very serious.
You may think it's drollery. It's trollery.

[Old Lurker]

Your mistake, Ig, was not trusting your gut instinct back when he first appeared. Me? At my age I shoot first and ask questions later and Killfile spared me whatever enlightenment appeared last night and has since about his third day posting.

[Narciso]

oops

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2021/11/17/jailed-insulate-britain-protester-went-globe-trotting-4x4-gas/

[Dave (in MA)]

--Jane, per RSBN live feed the jury is watching videos. Not disclosed which ones.--
My Cousin Vinny? Judgment at Nuremberg?

How about Roadhouse?

[henry]

Dave, the DeathWish series

[Narciso]

indeed,

https://www.steynonline.com/11889/a-bridge-too-farcical

at least one of the chuck norris films,

[clarice]

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/gop-defeats-obama-endorsed-candidate-deep-blue-city-biden

[henry]

Getting rowdy. Vid at link. Play spot the Fed.

@hunterjcullen

#BREAKING: Kenosha Police have arrested a protester that ripped off a protester's sign, tried to steal a camera, as well as attacking the journalist. Intense clashes with protesters, counter-protesters, and law enforcement. #VerdictWatch #KyleRittenhouseTrial #Kenosha

https://twitter.com/hunterjcullen/status/1461092602154045445?s=21

[Narciso]

zapped faster then scott baio

[Narciso]

also episodes of the a team

https://twitter.com/HansMahncke/status/1461095936357195781

[DCSCA]

Iggy: Anything you say, Lt. Briggs.

Just remember, a man's got to know his limitations.

[DCSCA]

'At my age I shoot first and ask questions later...'

Jack Ruby; judge, jury 7 executioner. Vigilante!

[DCSCA]

OMG- you gotta see Joe on the TeeVee. W/t sound down he looks EXACTLY like an emcee on a game show in front of those cars on the stage.

Let's play 'The Price Is Right' Joe. What's you bid on this beautiful new BBB Bill? $3.5 trillion? $6.2 trillion? Or is it all paid for?

[Narciso]

judge freidrich's husband was head of the enron taskforce that deep sixed arthur anderson,

[Stephanie Nene Not Your Normal Granma]

By Michael Smith:
Watching the Rittenhouse trial has been an interesting endeavor for me.
The lead prosecutor, ADA Petyr Baelish, stated in open court that Rittenhouse was the “active shooter” and the mob chasing him through a maze of burning cars and buildings, were the REAL heroes, just trying to end the risk Rittenhouse presented as he indiscriminately mowed down the crowds while dressed in body armor and a Rambo costume.
Rosenbaum and Huber died heroes. Grosskreutz is to be celebrated for his bravery in confronting the evil teen with the AR-15.
Pardon my French, but Jesus F. Christ.
To paraphrase the novelist and critic Mary McCarthy speaking about Lillian Hellman in a 1979 interview with Dick Cavett - everything the prosecution said was a lie, including the words “and”, “but”, and “the”.
It was like watching a couple of three-year-old children trying to explain to their parents why it was totally not them who climbed on the kitchen counter and broke the cookie jar.
What a bunch of liars.
If those prosecutors in that Kenosha court are in any way representative of the prosecution in our metropolitan areas, there is little wonder we are where we are as a nation. Setting aside their pitiful individual performances, there is a bigger theme running through this trial – and a pretty scary one at that.
There are new rules in our system of jurisprudence, one that involves making criminals into victims and the victims into criminals.
And this is not just in that Kenosha courtroom this is happening from coast to coast and from border to border. From Seattle, Portland, San Francisco to New York, Philadelphia, and Chicago and from Kenosha to the southern border with Mexico, there is a legal ethos developing that supplants traditional American jurisprudence based on the Constitution and duly passed laws that says people who abide by the law are bound by it, and those who chose not to, are not.
There is a dangerous perspective arising that laws only apply to some people based on the current social fads, the woke flavor of the day. If you are woke, the laws that apply to the non-woke do not apply to you. There are even black activists openly campaigning and advocating for systems of black justice and white justice.
It is painfully evident that Kyle Rittenhouse was within his legal and Constitutional rights to be where he was and do what he did. What is completely ignored is the mob that surrounded the teenager was not. Many of them were engaged in destruction of private property, trespassing and criminal violence – all of which was completely ignored by law enforcement under “stand down” orders from Kenosha city leadership.
That is a totally new and different standard of law, but has become common in cities like Baltimore, Philadelphia, Seattle, and Portland…and in this case, Kenosha.
But you can also see it in the actions of the IRS and the DOJ. You see it in how the J6 offenders have been treated vs. the ANTIFA/BLM rioters who raged for the better part of 2020. You can see it in the legal treatment of the border jumpers vs. America’s poor. You can see it in the way Project Veritas is treated vs. the literal criminals behind the Russia Collusion hoax. Steve Bannon and the J6 protesters go to jail, Andy McCabe gets his pension back and his records expunged.
Separate systems of jurisprudence and laws enforced in arbitrary and capricious manners simply cannot survive.
All Americans are all equal under the same law, or there is no law, there is only lawlessness.
And that lawlessness makes us all into Kyle Rittenhouse, all surrounded by a mob just waiting for an opportunity to destroy.

[Narciso]

that's was right on the mark, stephanie

[henry]

@mikelowereports

The #KyleRittennhouse jury has been dismissed for the day. Deliberations will continue on Thursday. Meantime, protesters continue to argue about the case outside of the #Kenosha County Courthouse. @WGNNews

[DCSCA]

Swung by the grocery store today- Ocean Spray cranberries: $3.29/can.

Last year it was $1/can- still have one priced that in the pantry. Unreal.

Thanks, Joe.

[Narciso]

oh thats reassuring

https://www.express.co.uk/news/royal/1523121/meghan-markle-interview-ellen-degeneres-usa-royal-family-richard-fitzwilliams

[matt - deplore me if you must]

I thought Meggles and Harry were preempted by Paris Hilton's wedding? The ruling class in The Capital seems to be doing quite well while the districts suffer.

Now Joe, who in his very first action as president cancelled the Keystone XL Pipeline wants to investigate the oil companies for the high price of the same oil which he begged the OPEC countries to pump more of. Joe has multiple cognitive dissonance disorders.

[Narciso]

considering gazprom gave all the key players including shambling man, 750 k, maybe cognitive dissonance is not the problem,

[DCSCA]

We're paying $5.15/gal for Shell regular outside of San Diego. And CA has a 51 cent/gallon gasoline tax as it is. So every price jump really stings w/a 20 gallon fill up. And the price of electricity is soaring as well-- so pushing electric cars as an alternative isn't any bargain-- especially given the cost of electric cars to begin with.

[Narciso]

of course it isn't

https://twitter.com/Oilfield_Rando/status/1461088884310294529

[Narciso]

that's true,

https://twitter.com/PatrickDeneen/status/1461019248898285573

[Narciso]

they didn't get that tape:

https://dailycaller.com/2021/11/17/diversity-officer-cbs-newsroom-leak-project-veritas/

[Pinandpuller]

Asked what it felt like to take human life, Kyle Rittenhouse said, "I wouldn't know, I've only ever killed Communists....."

[Jane]

Boy, I’m nervous after 2 days. Seems the best we can hope for is a hung jury.

[Ignatz Ratzkiwatzki]

--Just remember, a man's got to know his limitations.--

I knew the irony ran deep in this one.

[clarice]

Butterfield (d) Greenville .NC resigning.

[Narciso]

well then

https://thenationalpulse.com/news/pedo-friendly-prof-placed-on-leave-by-university/

[Stephanie Nene Not Your Normal Granma]

Camera Catches Video Conversion Software 'Handbrake' and 'Format Factory' on Prosecution's Laptop

Now, questions are swirling over how exactly the footage may have been compressed and degraded.

One possible answer may have been found on the prosecution’s laptop.

During closing arguments, the prosecution pulled up various files in order to make its case.

While doing so, the video compression software Handbrake can be seen installed on a laptop used by the prosecution.

In the below video of the trial’s closing arguments, the Handbrake app can be seen in the computer files.

On Wednesday, the prosecution offered another possible explanation for how the file may have been compressed.

Assistant District Attorney James Kraus explained to Judge Bruce Schroeder that an accidental compression of the file may have occurred when the prosecution sent the file from a iPhone device to an Android phone owned by the defense.

“Detective [Martin] Howard asked them how they would like to receive it. Miss [Natalie] Wisco asked that it be emailed to her. He emailed her the file,” Kraus said.

“Now somewhere along the lines, whether it was … it appears the issue is, I believe Miss Wisco could not have it airdropped because she has an Android phone. Going from an iPhone to an Android, it appears somehow compressed the file. We did not know that this would occur.”

Kraus claims the prosecution took no part in altering the video that the defense was given.

Nevertheless, on this basis, the defense moved for a mistrial without prejudice (meaning the state could refile charges) on Wednesday afternoon.

“And I think if we’re going to try to do this in a way that is free from anybody hiding anything, anybody not having the same evidence as everybody else has … we have to ask for this, and I’m asking for it.”

Western Journal

[Narciso]

they didn't put it on a jump drive?

https://rumble.com/vpbxbb-michael-yon-war-correspondent-u.s.-security-compromised-new-paradigms-wsarg.html

[clarice]

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10213313/White-House-defends-Bidens-comptroller-currency-pick-report-arrested-1995.html

well to marxists like her, all property is theft.

[Davod]

P&P.

Reminds me of what woman sniper Pavlichenko said. Not men, Fascists.

"Asked what it felt like to take human life, Kyle Rittenhouse said, "I wouldn't know, I've only ever killed Communists....."

[Narciso]

there was that swedish sniper who had a similar mindset, if memory serves,

who picked this woman, to run anything much less the coinage of our currency?

[Narciso]

he was a polish mercenary rafal ganowitz,

[Narciso]

this guy,

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kUKZcVR58i8

[clarice]

https://legalinsurrection.com/2021/11/rittenhouse-trial-mayhem-courtoom-fights-over-videos-and-mistrial-as-jury-deliberates/

[Narciso]

they really should dismiss with prejudice, but sanction the prosecutors, but who will bell that cat?

[Jim Eagle]

I spent too much of last night coordiating the move here. Boxes, boxes and more boxes, 2 car garage packed to the ceiling. Mrs. JiB coming tomorrow or next day. She says she will sort it out.

I reminded her that Spring training for some starts in February for pitchers and catchers.

[Narciso]

so you leave the cars outside?

https://technofog.substack.com/p/exemptions-to-the-covid-19-vaccine

[Davod]

Jim Eagle. I don't envy you.

[Davod]

Hungry Parrot planning lunch (36 secs):

https://rumble.com/vp6emb-hungry-talking-parrot-plans-a-dinner-buffet.html

[Jim Eagle]

narc,

Hell yea! No room except i had them keep he door for the elevaopr clear.

Off to bed, Lady is tallking to a ghost.

[clarice]

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/pentagon-inspector-general-raises-questions-about-former-d-c-guard-commander-s-jan-6-account/ar-AAQPClL?ocid=msedgntp
Eff off refused to send in the guard 1/6--then Pelosi appoints him to a higher position.

[Pinandpuller]

The Bad News is, they’re all from California:

https://www.outkick.com/tennessee-will-pay-for-unvaccinated-cops-to-relocate-to-state/

[Pinandpuller]

Can anyone explain why JoJo Rosenbaum was free to CROSS STATE LINES after raping FIVE LITTLE BOYS???!!

Why was the last thing he saw Kyle Rittenhouse and not shovel fulls of Arizona dirt hitting him in the face?

[Pinandpuller]

Why does Dershowitz have a portrait of Nicholas II?

[clarice]

https://taibbi.substack.com/p/the-russiagate-whitewash-era-begins