Say It Ain't So, Joe

This is the week the wheels fell off for Joe Biden. Peggy Noonan's recap of his disastrous Atlanta speech marks just one of Biden's bellyflops.

Democrats are hoping for a reset but its hard to see White House roster moves or policy pivots that will help until Team Biden grasps the fact that pandering to Left Twitter isn't the same as trying to unite the country.

Peggy Noonan reprises many McConnell quotes. For a few more zingers, here is Ben Sasse from the Senate floor.

This passage follows his introduction, in which Sasse notes he defended the filibuster when Trump wanted it further modified (my emphasis):

Today, I rise to defend the filibuster again when it's the president of the other party who's decided to go full demagogue. For his entire career in the Senate, basically, Joe Biden served in this body as long as I've been alive, plus or minus a few years. Joe Biden was a stalwart defender of the filibuster. He said that weakening the filibuster would, "eviscerate the Senate." But earlier this week, the President was pushed around by a bunch of rage-addicted 20-somethings on his staff and agreed to go down to Georgia and just read whatever nonsense they loaded into his teleprompter. It was shameful. It was sad. The President of the United States called half of the country a bunch of racist bigots. Think about that. Half the country, a bunch of racist bigots. He doesn't believe that. This was a senile comment of a man who read whatever was loaded into his teleprompter. His speechwriters puppet-mastered him into saying that anyone who disagrees with him is George Wallace. Bull Connor. Jefferson Davis. You disagree with Joe Biden and you're Jefferson Davis. Pretty breathtaking. 

Harsh yet fair.

Comments

[Jane]

Great speech!

[Narciso]

you bought this pig in a poke, ben, own up to it,

this Soviet stooge, whose son is bought and paid for by Chinese and Kazakh oligarchs, who seem to have been behind the latest insurrection over there,

[Stephanie Nene Not Your Normal Granma]

TM get a clue. You bought senility over mean tweets and now WE are paying for your idiocy.

Let's Go Brandon!
Let's Go TM!

We'll wait on the apology as we get that you haven't accepted how derp you were. When it sinks in, we'll be here for the mea culpa.

[Stephanie Nene Not Your Normal Granma]

Michael Smith
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America is more than an idea.
This week was a bad week for Joe and Kamala, but it was even worse for the American people, even Democrats (but I’m not sure they understand that). Actually, this past week is a continuation of bad weeks that began on Inauguration Day back in 2021. There has not been a single upside to any policy or action of this administration.
Perhaps that isn’t true, there has been the beginnings of something that could be positive if it can be sustained. It has nothing to do with the actions of Biden or the Democrats, rather the reaction to the real and tangible effects of the Democrat agenda.
As we pass the Democrats’ orgiastic celebration of a non-insurrection insurrection and approach the one-year anniversary of the swearing in of His Fraudulency, I was thinking about a quote from Ben Franklin this morning. Franklin said:
“Justice will not be served until those who are unaffected are as outraged as those who are.”
When parents, just regular people concerned about their kids, push back at local school board meetings, it sends a message that reality bites and bad and harmful programs and policies produce bad and harmful results.
More than that, people seem to be waking up to the time-tested truism my granddaddy, B. T. Goodwin taught me as a youngling. He often said:
“Son, when you start bad, chances are you most likely will end bad.”
The Democrats sell themselves as the “party of ideas”.
What my granddaddy told me applies to ideas as well.
Not every idea is a good idea and bad ideas lead to bad results.
The central idea that makes all things Democrat possible is that America isn’t real. It does not have a corporeal, tangible, physical existence. It has no materiality, and therefore it has no real constraints or boundaries, political, geographic, or otherwise.
America is just an idea.
It is the same denial that allows Joe Biden to defend the far-left anarchist movement ANTIFA as "an idea, not an organization" and then claim, absent any evidence, that white supremacists pose a greater danger to the country. The fact is that during 2020 and 2021, we saw ANTIFA (piggybacking on BLM protests) burn, loot and even set up their own “autonomous zones” (which, by the way, were acts more in line with the definitions of insurrection, treason, and sedition than anything any J6 protester did). The closest we saw to “white supremacy” were a few actors hired by the pedophilic Lincoln Project to smear the Virginia GOP gubernatorial candidate, Glen Youngkin.
There is a distinct advantage to believing America isn’t a nation, that it is just an idea. That advantage is that ideas can change as often as Gisele Bundchen changes outfits at a fashion show. Fad and fashion rule the day and what is good today can be bad tomorrow, failures can be redefined as successes, the goalposts are on roller skates.
This results in a culture that lauds over any use of consistent and transcendent values and principles.
I mean, things change, right?
Right?
C’mon, man. No joke. You know the thing.
The Democrats have expressed their belief that the idea of a representative republic based on a constitution drafted to decentralize government as much as practically possible, and through that decentralization, guarantee the maximum in individual liberty and equality, was a really, really, terrible idea.
They clearly believe that an individual simply cannot be trusted to manage their own affairs.
The ultimate irony is this – in the country purportedly offering the greatest individual liberty in the history of mankind, we are locked in a pitched battle over who we want to take our money and control both the economy and society. To participate in the political process now means adopting a life of non sequitur through a series of paradoxes – that freedom exists in control, that equality can be created through inequality, that stability is created by arbitrary and capricious actions, that intention trumps action, emotion is more important than logic, and that individuals who somehow mysteriously organize their own daily lives can’t voluntarily organize an effective economy and society – but a group of individuals in government can. Just by organizing into a group, the group receives some sort of Divine truth, knowledge, and infallibility the individual cannot access.
But America is more than an idea.
America is the realization of an idea.
It does have a corporeal, tangible, physical existence. It has materiality, and therefore it has real constraints and boundaries, political, geographic, and otherwise.
If you have ever worked around ISO 9001 or any Six Sigma concepts, you have no doubt heard the term “product realization”. This process is taking a product from completion of the concept development stage through the necessary steps of pilot testing, manufacturing planning, tooling design, quality management, supply chain ramp-up, and then on to full-scale production.
In simpler terms, it is to work required to transform an idea into a tangible reality.
America has been realized. It can be weighed, measured, and experienced.
The Democrats are tweaking the American design and the production process of liberty, and their tweaks are producing a measurably non-conforming product.
The corollary to “start bad, finish bad” is if you start good, you finish good.
America is the realization of a good idea.
We can finish good.

[Narciso]

senator clean face, abolished the filibuster for judicial nominations, prompted by the brennan center, they dubbed it 'the constitutional option'
now the dems want to rule in perpetuity, so much so they have hollowed out the nasa appropriation bill like the tauntaun in Empire, we shall see how that goes, they want to disarm the people, so the Oceania of Australia can happen,

[Narciso]

America is an idea, just not the one the progs want

it was a notion that individual merit not class like the European powers would determine one's fate, that the right to worship would not be restricted by the state, that speech would not likewise be rationed that govt would be limited to self defense that general welfare be considered, but not the preeminent concern that the people would not be oppressed by fastidious and capricious tyrant, by musket if need be,

[Len]

Week in Pictures.

https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2022/01/the-week-in-pictures-10-year-challenge-edition.php

[Narciso]

so is waterbuffalo man chansley so crazy, except for the wardrobe. maybe he was ringer, but compared to officious toadies like kinzinger,

in the world of 2022, they would lock up revere, and adams and warren, and everyone in between the dantons robespierre and cordays they are left off with a warning,

[Narciso]

that is the contrast between 2020 and 2021, the ravagers were allowed to frolick from city to city, like the insurgency that susan rosenberg invisioned, after she bombed the capitoll

[MissMarple2]

The Chinese have noted an Omicron virus case in Beijing. Info is buried in a Reuters story Bannon’s international guy picked up.

Navarro thinks they will use that to disrupt the supply chain further, which could really damage our economy further. My recommendation is to stock up on canned food, first aid supplies and paper products.

[Narciso]

the canadian twit zoolander is already doing his part with his cross border trucking mandate,

[Narciso]

see here

https://www.iheartradio.ca/am800/news-poll

[Narciso]

seeing as the grimaldi's indulge greta thunberg (aka the firestarters delusions)

https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/yachts-be-exempt-eus-carbon-pricing-plan

[Narciso]

indeed

https://twitter.com/banishedprotein/status/1482404243839483904?cxt=HHwWgICs-cezx5IpAAAA

[matt - deplore me if you must]

When you've lost Peggy Noonan....

Sincerely;

Bitter deplorable gun clutching bible clinging carrying raciss climate deniers

[Narciso]

where did they think the charlottesville claxon would end

https://twitter.com/aaronsibarium/status/1482124912622022656?cxt=HHwWgMC9maywyJEpAAAA

[Narciso]

this doesn't apply to the vaccines

https://taibbi.substack.com/p/look-behind-the-curtain-discussion

[clarice]

That's a must read Taibbi, narciso!

[clarice]

here's another must read:https://brownstone.org/articles/what-might-have-been-calm-protection-and-care/

[Davod]

Narciso. I found out yesterday that the Koreans built a university in Kazakhstan, staffed with South Koreans.

[Davod]

Transparency:

https://pjmedia.com/instapundit/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/fbinpc-600x575.jpg

[Narciso]

that is fascinating, also surprising, north koreans would want the uranium, kazakhs launder the monies

[Narciso]

this was very reckless exercise,

https://rwmalonemd.substack.com/p/tidal-wave-of-documents-on-gain-of

[Narciso]

many questions come to mind

comeshttps://heavy.com/news/houston/muhammad-siddiqui/

[Narciso]

indeed.

https://twitter.com/joekent16jan19/status/1482113120961118208?cxt=HHwWgICqvf2Bw5EpAAAA

[Davod]

Narciso. My source also said that South Korea exports a lot of stuff to Kazakhstan. Also, GM has a large manufacturing facility there.

[Davod]

I know a guy:

http://ace.mu.nu/archives/1638668001013blob.jpg

[Narciso]

it may have started with this :

https://www.lensculture.com/articles/michael-vince-kim-untold-stories-the-koreans-of-kazakhstan

[Neo]

"Me putting chips in arms doesn't make sense to me — why would I want to do that?" said Bill Gates.

[Narciso]

and then he replaced the chip,

kazakhstan seems to be a remote place to put a facility like that,

[Davod]

Slideshow of cats (8:51)

https://youtu.be/_8dcYkg7FQw

[Narciso]

so is this guy

https://www.the-sun.com/news/4471373/who-is-aafia-siddiqui/

[Davod]

It's the 9th largest country in the world.

[Davod]

Banned from the media? Start your own platform:

http://ace.mu.nu/archives/image%20(3).jpg

[henry]

Media is one thing. Cancelling access to the banking system is a whole other threat. The My Pillow guy just got the gun dealer treatment. This is despicable.

[Narciso]

it seems they followed big guys not so subtle hint,

[Davod]

Henry. I don't know how, but someone has bring these pricks down, for politicizing the banking system.

Note:Found during my search. "Politicizing is not available in the financial dictionary."

[MissMarple2]

White House will not guaranteeTrump protection from assassination. Nice.

[Narciso]

they were all in on the sulemani lamentation wake,quassem was a client of liz cheney at state, you see how it all comes together,

cair was organizing rallies for her release,

[Narciso]

some people don't get the clue,

https://twitter.com/ChuckRossDC/status/1482505080217739264

[MissMarple2]

https://twitter.com/i/broadcasts/1zqJVBkrpPLJB

Link on Twitter to live broadcast of Trump rally.

[Narciso]

just three months ago

[Davod]

"A repeat pet moron.
Here is a picture of the most spoiled cat in the world, Oblio. A picture of her highness lounging on top of the blanket.
Regards,
Butch"

http://ace.mu.nu/archives/OBLIO%20ON%20BLANKET.jpg

[Narciso]

a little more
context

https://www.meforum.org/62644/american-islamists-advocate-for-lady-al-qaeda

[Narciso]

some good news for a change,

https://www.wric.com/news/politics/ag-elect-miyares-makes-personnel-changes-ahead-of-term/

[Narciso]

the usual suspects involved

https://twitter.com/SethAMandel/status/1482510347563057153?cxt=HHwWgoCypc7T95IpAAAA

[Stephanie Nene Not Your Normal Granma]

Ric Grenell is new VP at Newsmax!

[Jane]

That’s excellent Stephanie!

[Narciso]

a much desired objective, conversely

https://alexberenson.substack.com/p/the-daily-beast-asked-me-to-comment

[Narciso]

thats curious

https://t.me/The_Library_II/67533

[Jack Lillywhite]

South Koreans? To replace disgruntled Javaians on my refinery project in Indonesia we brought in Koreans. Very disciplined, well trained, excellent work culture. To house them we set up a separate camp on a peninsula by the bay. The brought their own LST landing craft to transit the bay to our work site.

My residence was on same peninsula above their camp. Once their cook shed began to boil up the fermented Kim chee I was out of that residency in a New York minute. A suffocating sensory experience.

[clarice]

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10406275/Donald-Trump-amassed-115million-election-war-chest.html

[Narciso]

these scribes are very ignorant,

https://www.jpost.com/middle-east/iran-news/article-692595?fbclid=IwAR3DRo05_B-nxsb1cCxc_6rx3zRAhKoKODCa67p5Q2OzS80VxdJQiTN-jis

[Jack Lillywhite]

Even $115 million won’t win an election as long as the Dems can repeat the wholesale theft of ballots as they did in 2020. Years

[Ignatz Ratzkiwatzki]

--Once their cook shed began to boil up the fermented Kim chee I was out of that residency in a New York minute. A suffocating sensory experience.--

LOL

[Jane]

Hostages are safe.

[Davod]

Jane. Thinking back to the Muhammad painting exhibition in Texas some years ago.

What did the FBI know, and when did they know it?

[Davod]

Ace's The Saturday Night Joke

Years ago, a young Navy Pilot was injured while ejecting from his A-4 Skyhawk due to engine failure during a cat shot from the carrier, but due to the heroics of rescue helicopter crew and the ship's hospital staff, the only permanent injury was the loss of one ear.

Since he wasn't physically impaired, he remained on flight status and eventually became an Admiral.

However, during his career he was always sensitive about his appearance.

One day the Admiral was interviewing two Navy Master Chiefs and a Marine Sergeant Major for his personal staff.

The first Master Chief was a Surface Navy type and it was a great interview. At the end of the interview the Admiral asked him,

"Do you notice anything different about me?" The Master Chief answered, "Why, yes, Admiral. I couldn't help but notice that you are missing your starboard ear, so I don't know whether this impacts your hearing on that side."

The Admiral got very angry at this lack of tact and threw him out of his office.

The next candidate, an Aviation Master Chief, when asked this same question, answered, "Well yes, Sir, you seem to be short one ear." The Admiral threw him out as well.

The third interview was with the Marine Sergeant Major. He was articulate, extremely sharp, and seemed to know more than the two Master Chiefs put together. The Admiral wanted this guy, but went ahead with the same question. "Do you notice anything different about me?"

To his surprise, the Sergeant Major said, "Yes Sir. You wear contact lenses."

The Admiral was impressed and thought to himself, what an incredibly tactful Marine. "And how would you know that?" the Admiral asked.

The Sergeant Major replied: "Well, sir, it's pretty hard to wear glasses with only one fuckin' ear.

[Davod]

Finally:

"Cops humiliated after using pink face masks to fight Covid and demand another colour.

The head of Italy's police union has said the masks are "unsuitable" for police officers and is calling for "immediate action" to get blue or black masks sent for officers to wear"

[jim nj]

https://apnews.com/article/technology-business-europe-russia-ukraine-404c5e751709fba66b31fd512f734d80

Microsoft discloses malware attack on Ukraine govt networks

This seems to be a new angle:

"Microsoft said late Saturday that dozens of computer systems at an unspecified number of Ukrainian government agencies have been infected with destructive malware disguised as ransomware, a disclosure suggesting an attention-grabbing defacement attack on official websites was a diversion. The extent of the damage was not immediately clear."

[jim nj]

https://www.northjersey.com/story/news/2022/01/15/passaic-chemical-fire-11-alarm-qualco-contained-latest-updates/6538928001/

Massive 11-alarm Passaic chemical plant fire has been contained, building collapsed

A pretty decent follow-up on the blaze. Includes a little history too.

[hoyden]

Condolences, Clarice.

Clarice’s Pieces will return next Sunday
By Thomas Lifson
This Sunday, we will have to do without our accustomed treat of Clarice Feldman’s wise and witty insight in her column, Clarice’s Pieces.

Unfortunately, Clarice is coping with a death in her family, for which we offer our sincere condolences.

Clarice will return next week, however, which gives us all something to look forward to.

[Tom Bowler]

Very sorry to hear of your loss, Clarice.

[Marlene]

Jane and Steph! Be safe. Tornado warning until 8:12 AM. The weather is nasty this morning.

[KevlarKid]

Y'all--- been a minute, eh? All good. Listen---

have heard from my son in the streaming video industry in L.A.: FX is going into production for a 7 episode season of "Justified" featuring T. Olyphant. Starts shooting mid to late spring...possible release in Fall but likely next January.

Knew that there were more than a few fans here on JOM. Need cool stuff to look forward to.

On 3 now--- F*ck China! :)

[henry]

Good morning Kevlar.

Only 5 here, but at least the wind stopped for a while.

[MissMarple2]

Hey, Kev!

Thanks for the info!

[MissMarple2]

16 and sunny here.

[Melinda]

University of Michigan president, fired.

https://twitter.com/nypost/status/1482723068418170882

"Inappropriate relationship"

[Jane]

Marlene,

That was a hell of 4 hours. I got the first warning on my phone at 6:00 AM and they continued until 10. I don’t live in the best pace for a tornado. all is well -wet and chilly!

[Len]

"Justified!" I sincerely hope they don't muck it up.

[Stephanie Nene Not Your Normal Granma]

Gasparilla Marina on Placida is destroyed.
A couple of 55+ trailer parks got damaged out near Placida.

A tornado did touch down in Ft Myers as well. I haven't seen any damage reports from that though there will be some as I've seen footage of that tornado and the transformers blowing out.

Oh and the light at Veterans and Paulson is out near me. That is it.

[Marlene]

Jane and Steph, sounds like your area got some damage. Our phones didn't give warnings, but hubby had local weather on the TV early. He woke me and said, we might have to go into the little bathroom. When I looked out the window, the sky was yellowish, not to mention the thunder and lightening!

[Marlene]

*lightning*

[matt - deplore me if you must]

So is the ash cloud from the Hunga-Tonga eruption going to affect climate or the weather or whatever?

[Marlene]

Matt, hubby and I just discussed the option of waking up to a tornado warning here in Florida or a foot of snow (expected in Maine). Two of my siblings are in the mid-south and dealing with snow, sleet and ice. Yay January!

[Davod]

23 waiting for the snow to arrive.

[Davod]

Matt. Absolutely not. It's not man made.

[Davod]

Typewriter - Brandenburger Symphoniker (3:56)

https://youtu.be/nW8dGwa2zRw

[Davod]

Marlene. Our snow is coming up from the South.

[Davod]

I typed to soon. The snow has started.

I put out birdseed early so the birds had a chance to eat before the snow. I normally get around 5 or 6 doves. There at least twenty out there enjoying themselves.

[Marlene]

Davod, I just talked to the daughter. They are in MD (inside the beltway). They are prepared for more snow. :)

[Narciso]

karpl markowitz was right

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10407591/Texas-synagogue-terrorist-British-accent-officials-liaising-Met-Police.html

[Davod]

This is a headline leading to a VIP article:

" General: CNN’s Bakari Sellers and others seem upset that Gov. Glenn Youngkin banned CRT, which doesn’t exist."

[Davod]

From the Daily Mail article:

"...Malik Faisal Akram was shot dead after a stand-off with American intelligence officers at Congregation Beth Israel in Colleyville, Texas on Saturday..."

Intelligence officers?

[Narciso]

bakari is a figment of my imagination, there can't be someone that stupid or shallow,

[Davod]

Marlens. I hope everything goes well for her family.

[Davod]

Marlene, not Marlens. Sorry.

[Marlene]

Davod, don't worry about her, she grew up in northern Maine, her hubby in upstate NY. They know snow. :)

[Davod]

From Ace's weekly book column:

http://ace.mu.nu/archives/Bookshops-in-the-Future.jpg

[Davod]

Horrifying villains that can return from the dead:

https://media.townhall.com/Townhall/Car/b/stg011622dAPC20220115074504.jpg

[Davod]

From The Peoples Cube:

News we don't have time to write about

Fauci: The only thing we have to fear, is a lack of fear itself!

Study: Most people have had sex more violent than January 6th

Facebook permanently bans Facebook from Facebook for violating Facebook community standards

New remake of the 1950's horror movie Them to be titled Them/They

Teachers Union: Idea that CRT is being taught in K-12 just a conspiracy theory by white supremacists trying to maintain their systemically racist police state

Biden solves border crisis with free direct flights from Central America to major metropolitan areas

[clarice]

snowing here--city will go crazy

[Narciso]

snow in january, zounds

https://donsurber.blogspot.com/2022/01/democrats-saying-lets-go-brandon.html

[Davod]

Don Rickles roasting Clint Eastwood on the set of Kelly's Heroes (2:16):

https://youtu.be/Hc2MN1n6UIA

[Melinda]

Nice pic.

Archaeo - Histories
@archeohistories
One of the three Roman pools of Gafsa, in Tunisia, two of which are open. Built in the 2nd century BC, they are about five meters deep and are fed by hot water springs.

© Museum of Artifacts

#archaeohistories

https://twitter.com/archeohistories/status/1482683513589866499

[bubarooni]

Went to the grocery store today for the first time since Christmas.

Empty shelves and high prices.

[Davod]

From Ace:

What's the deal recently with monster chickens? I used to be able to buy three pound chickens, which they called "fryers." Now it seems as though the minimum size is 4.5 pounds, and there are some Argentinosaurus-sized birds out there that are just ridiculous!

http://ace.mu.nu/archives/monsterchicken.jpg

[Davod]

Why should this be limited to the Vatican:

http://ace.mu.nu/archives/MisHum%20funny.jpg

[Davod]

My post about chickens has nothing to do with the roast by Don Rickles.