Yesterday’s announcement about my escalating impatience with threadjackers might seem to fall hard on a small segment of this blog’s comment section. That perception is accurate – but appropriate.
Still, I’m nothing if not fair.
Here’s one for all the Democrats in the audience.
It’s your thread. Go to it.
I wanna jump on this bandwagon with something related – this isn’t a threadjack, I promise.
There’s recently been a number of (g)rumblings in the New/Dissident Right about Trump. The kind of things that would bring cheer to the old heart of a Trump Skeptic. The catalyst was Trump’s reaction to, no, his gratitude for the compliment Biden paid him for simply being president when the Vaccine was developed.
Let’s start with Julie Kelly: No matter what he says, Trump yearns for the approval and affection of those who despise him. It’s what animated his worst personnel and policy decisions. On no planet should Trump express gratitude to Biden—for anything.
And conclude with Ted Franks: The nation is very fortunate that Pelosi and Schumer went full #RESIST instead of trying to roll Trump in 2017 with flattery. Trump would’ve been so excited to make a deal, he would’ve traded a SCOTUS nomination to get a promise to pass Build Back Better & single-payer Trumpcare.
This lays out just how stupid the Democrats are. Item 1) As per this post, they foisted Biden and the Ho on the nation, full-well knowing how incompetent and useless they both are and always have been. Item 2) They could’ve created an electorally omnipotent Uni-party with Trump and Nice Republicans if they’d only been nice to him.
Instapundit’s piece was just a few hours ahead of this development: Joe Biden has officially surrendered on COVID-19. The president literally admitted that there is no federal solution to the coronavirus, asserting that the solutions will be at the state level.
The NY Times’ Frank Bruni attempts a defense of Biden. It is pitiful:
But the oft-repeated assertion that Biden and the party are flat-out failing isn’t fair. I myself fell prey to excessive negativity and overstatement when, in a newsletter a month ago, I wrote that he was lurching about in a manner that called his administrative and legislative competence into question.
It’s true that this infrastructure bill traveled a tortured path, that the prior American Rescue Plan was passed along strictly partisan lines, that the southern border remains a mess and that Biden’s avoidance of interviews and occasionally jumbled remarks don’t inspire enormous confidence. It’s true that all these developments and dynamics don’t add up to the efficiency and normalcy that he promised during his campaign.
But it’s also true that he just did more for American’s beleaguered infrastructure than his immediate predecessors in the White House managed to.
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/11/18/opinion/biden-infrastructure-inflation.html
The reader extension for Firefox may be necessary to read the whole thing.
First of all, how did we get to this narrative of a bad economy? My former employer had a great fourth quarter. Christmas sales have broken all records. Unemployment is at record lows. Stock market at all time highs. There are millions of unfilled jobs. If this is a bad economy, let’s have some more.
Oh, but gasoline prices are up. Inflation adjusted gas prices from 1980 would be $2.43/gallon. We are at $3 now and dropping. Gas isn’t that high.
The NYT just ran an article that showed cattle farmers are going broke while the meat packers are cleaning up. This is a monopolistic situation where four companies control the price and are jacking it up. We can fix that. It’s called free market competition.
Housing prices are being jacked up by speculators, a huge shortage of construction workers, and unrealistic interest rates. I still own a home in a desirable neighborhood and investment companies call me almost everyday wanting to buy my house. (It’s not for sale.) Then want to do the pump and dump. Interest rates are near zero and that ain’t normal allowing for price escalation. Older construction workers are retiring in droves and the young won’t do hard physical labor. Immigrant labor from Mexico used to fill that void. We shut that off.
Omicron will soon hit 1 million cases a day and get us to herd immunity the hard way by spring. Then it fades out. Get vaxed and don’t worry about it.
All of these conditions are fixable. That’s what we should do.
Perhaps the reason your threads get “jacked” so often is that you keep putting up stupid strawmen, such as this.
Rather than defend Biden, since you never defended or agreed to defend Trump, at least not on his merits and certainly not on his failings, instead I’ll contrast the two.
Trump had 4 years, including a two year period where he effectively could pass nearly anything (except abolishing the ACA – quite simply because he pissed off McCain, a man he said wasn’t a hero – despite McCain’s selfless act to remain incarcerated in N. Vietnam). His seminal accomplishments were:
1. He appointed three Supreme Court Justices (and numerous lower court judges) – something ANY President could do, with the support of his chosen and compliant party.
2. He passed a budget-busting, needless, and reckless tax cut for corporations and the uber wealthy.
3. He ordered 100 Million vaccine dosages early – again, something ANY President would have done. Any. He also failed to put the logistics in place to get the vaccine distributed… but this isn’t about failures.. so I’ll stop there.
Biden, by contrast,
1. Got 100 Million doses of vaccines delivered and facilties setup to inject people within 54 days of taking office
2. Got a $1.2T Covid relief package passed despite MASSIVE opposition from the GOP
3. Reinstated our sanctions against Russia in a meaningful way, putting Putin on notice that invading the Ukraine would not be tolerated
4. Withdrew from Afghanistan, in alignment with the agreement Trump struck. Yes, it was messy, but it was also ABOUT DAMNED TIME.
5. Re-established the respect for our government’s foreign policy and policy on Climate Change around the world, as opposed to the laughing stock reputation of the former President
6. Most importantly, re-established the RULE OF LAW – didn’t seek to usurp the will of the voter, nor lie to the public time and again, about basic facts, no sharpies, no denial of climate impacts, no denials of pandemic trutths, no denial of basic science. Biden quite simply is successful because he, by contrast to Trump, wasn’t/isn’t a colossal turd-fest of a President. He returned us to sanity, rather than the hate-filled, vengeance-seeking horror show that was the prior administration.
That all said, Mitch, perhaps if you had the guts to speak to the actual issues of the day, such as the massive assault on the continuation of the democracy that Trump and his enablers have engaged in, there wouldn’t be such an ongoing need to try to pull the discussion onto something more meaningful that your fevered dreams about handguns. You say it’s because others engage in those conversations but Mitch, YOU are accountable for your blog, not others, and YOU are accountable for the lack of fact, or the dumbing down of your readers, no one else.
Today, the Atlanta Journal Constitutional reported that of the alleged 5000 dead voters in Georgia, they and the state election board, found FOUR , not 4000, FOUR, cases of ballots mailed in on behalf of dead voters. WHERE is your story debunking this mythology? Where is your concern for the truth? Where is your concern for the rights of Georgia voters (or voters at all)? Where is your outrage? You want us to read some sort of drivel justifying a wide-swath of the public saying “F-you Joe Biden” – after you used to bitch and moan when I (and others) said things like Bush Light when referring to George W Bush, saying we should respect the office of the Presidency … yet here you are pushing this, candidly, piece of shR# article purporting to be reporting but in truth just reinforcing vulgarity toward the President….YET, you complain about threadjackig?? Seriously…. show some guts, stand up, speak out. Tell the truth about the election, and you won’t have to censor people quite so much… Or,
Do as you always do, run for cover, delete posts, deny facts, and continue to delude people. I’ve got $10 on which one happens.
Almost forgot — thread jacks.
5 GOP-led states extend unemployment aid to workers who lose jobs over vaccine mandates
https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2021/12/27/5-gop-led-states-extend-unemployment-aid-workers-who-lose-jobs-over-vaccine-mandates/
Wait, isn’t this what Republicans were railing on Blue states about? Paying people not to work….
If you seriously want to use articles from the NY Post as evidenciary of good reporting/well researched and meaningful articles, then please never again complain about a lack of proof.
Biden doesn’t control the mutation of Covid, he certainly has been one of the folks pushing to see more fair wages, and better distribution of profits, so that the current labor “strike” wouldn’t have been needed – one of the causes of inflation – and he certainly pushed for better action on the virus, rather than the “do nothing” approach that lead to supply-chain interruptions, one of the other causes of inflation.
But hey, never let a short term crisis go to waste, right?
Congratulations, Mitch. I doubted you’d be able to get these two rascals to babble on command. My mistake.
Ladies and gentleman, for one day only, fresh off their tour of their parents basements, pudding boy and the troll, making sh*t up as they go, reality doesn’t have a shot with these goobers.
Dear lord, what color is the sky in these morons’ world?
Inflation, price of gas? Hello, is this thing on?
A little data beats a whole pile o’ anecdotes:
https://data.oecd.org/leadind/consumer-confidence-index-cci.htm
Consumer confidence took a nose dive shortly after Biden was sworn in and is now lower than it ever was during the Trump presidency.
I speculate that the cause of the rapid decline of consumer confidence was Biden making it clear that he would pursue an anti-growth agenda, followed by the rapid realization by the public that Biden was incapable of dealing with the twin devils of the current economy, supply chain driven shortages and record inflation.
One of the reasons it is so difficult to defend Biden is because of the crazy zig-zags in public policy when a drooling idiot is in charge of it. How can you praise Biden for limiting domestic oil production and also praise him for encouraging OPEC oil production?
In the latest example, How do you defend Biden turning control of the covid response over to the states when not long ago Biden’s Chief of Staff was saying that responding to covid was the job of the feds, and explicitly criticizing the state-oriented response of Biden’s predecessor?
https://bit.ly/3HguMOa
It is only the support of the media that keeps Biden’s approval rating higher than the teens. Biden is basically governing as the media imagined Trump would govern.
“Inflation adjusted gas prices from 1980 would be $2.43/gallon. We are at $3 now and dropping. Gas isn’t that high.”
When the best you can say about the Brandon administration is, “Things aren’t much worse than under Jimmy Carter,” maybe you should stop talking.
On the other hand, Biden got routed by goat herders in Afghanistan but just sent US troops to Ukraine to take on the Russians. With a little luck, maybe Brandon can get us into a land war in Asia – just think how the economy would boom!
🚨🚨Thread Jack
Jared Schmeck: “Merry Christmas and Lets Go Brandon:”
Biden: “Lets Go Brandon, I agree”
“I told the president f*** you after he was nice to my kid but also I didn’t have the guts to say f*** you to his face so I said let’s go brandon tee hee what a hardass I am he’s so owned”
When today’s GOP sends their people, they aren’t sending their best.
Why would someone say a phrase usually devoted to Jesus and then say f*** you? Seems contradictory. But there’s their war on Christmas. So congratulations on the win I guess.
Odd. I can’t decide if the two lefty trolls haven’t gotten the email yet or if they don’t want any non-lefties to realize that the left “hates” the Bidens too. Biden approval crashes to 37% … in progressive tracking poll.
Let’s take a look at Biden’s standing where key Senate races will take place in November:
Arizona, Mark Kelly (D) defending: 36/57
Colorado, Cory Gardner (R) defending: 41/50
Georgia, Raphael Warnock (D) defending: 30/59
Nevada, Catherine Cortez Masto (D) defending: 37/54
New Hampshire, Maggie Hassan (D) defending: 43/50
North Carolina, Richard Burr (R) retiring: 35/57
Ohio, Rob Portman (R) retiring: 30/61
Pennsylvania, Pat Toomey (R) retiring: 39/54
Wisconsin, Ron Johnson (R) maybe defending: 38/54
And this is the view from a progressive polling outfit
Regarding the claim of “getting 100 million vaccines out”, are we really under the impression that the makers would forego the revenue from that? Also, remind me–under whose leadership were these vaccines developed? Doesn’t that, ahem, count as an accomplishment of President Trump?
And sure, Biden’s scared the Russians away from Ukraine, which is why they’ve got several divisions stationed at the border. Because they’re so scared of Biden.
On the next point, Afghanistan wasn’t just messy, it was an $86 billion re-arming of the Taliban. Our best hope there is that they are too stupid to use all those weapons. Maybe if we can clone Biden and send him there in Taliban attire?
We know that when the Democrats send a guy to the White House, they aren’t sending their best.
Emery is quite fond of deliberately misquoting people, isn’t he? Here is what Schrenk actually said about his talk with Biden:
“At the end of the day I have nothing against Mr Biden,” Jared Schmeck, 35, told the Oregonian newspaper. “But I am frustrated because I think he can be doing a better job. I mean no disrespect to him.”
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/dec/26/lets-go-brandon-santa-tracker-caller-joe-biden
^ Woolly, Woolly, Woolly — if only you could post an honest comment.
A guy says “Let’s Go Brandon” to the president and before you can blink he’s booked up on the entire MAGA podcast circuit to elaborate on his incredible accomplishment.
Jared Schmeck tells Steve Bannon: “Donald Trump is my president and he should still be president right now. The election was 100% stolen. So, I just want to make that clear.”
https://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2021/12/27/lets_go_brandon_guy_jared_from_oregon_tells_bannon_podcast_the_2020_election_was_100_stolen.html
That’s one way to admit all the criticism of him is justified.
Once again, cherry picker Emery, you have either missed, but more likely ignored, a couple of recent polls that indicate over 43% of DEMOCRATS believe that there was either likely or highly likely election tampering. Those same polls showed that over 40% of independents also felt that way. The more intelligent Democrats, that aren’t standing in line to kiss Brandon’s ass like you and Paddywhacker, show that they can think for themselves.
A caller insults the president. The president agrees with the caller. The left is angry at the caller for insulting the president.
Yes, but what about the president? Why’d he agree with the insult? Does he even realize he’s been insulted? It’s the most popular insult on the planet. Doesn’t he have any idea what’s going on in his own country?
Imagine how hard Liberals have to spin to make the issue all about the prankster and not the dementia patient which they foisted on the nation, which is the point of Mitch’s column and his challenge to the threadjackers.
Biden’s chief of staff, Ron Klain, is widely mocked for penning an op-ed claiming that 2021 wasn’t all that bad:
https://nypost.com/2021/12/27/ron-klain-mocked-for-sharing-op-ed-saying-2021-not-all-bad/
This came within hours of Biden declaring that citizens who did not get the Trump vaccine would suffer through a winter of sickness and death.
No one ever believed that dimwit, brain damaged, and now senescent Joe Biden was really up to the job of president. Biden apologists pointed to advisers and cabinet members like Ron Klain, Jake Sullivan, and Pete Buttagieg as being the geniuses carefully crafting policy behind the scenes.
But it turns out that these guys are f’n idiots, too.
For those of us who did not want Biden as president, but voted for him, it should be acknowledged that he has done an astonishingly good job in less than one year; as the vast majority of Americans display a frenetic or hysterical behavior that borders on psychosis.
Biden is just short of completing one year in the White House, which means he has three years left and that is a good thing. I am sure he will work hard and negotiate so that the BBB will become law. Writing the epitaph for a presidency that has three years left to go is incorrect.
astonishingly good job in less than one year
This is hilarious! Maybe the Emeries are a comedy team?
There is no objective measure by which this statement is true.
Biden has failed at every level. The right hates Biden. The left hates Biden. The independents hate Biden.
Everyone hates Biden.
There are still US citizens abandoned in Afghanistan. But we don’t talk about that.
The Chinese are flying armed sorties into Tiawan’s airspace. They’re working on 3 aircraft carriers.
Apples are $2.45 per pound.
Blacks are running amok in every large US city. Chicago has racked up a body count that exceeds the cartel wars in Mexico. In St. Louis Missouri, you have a 1:45 chance of being a victim of a violent crime…every day.
Tens of thousands of uneducated, unskilled, 75 IQ foreign nationals pour across the border every month. Many are carrying fentanyl and meth across with them.
The FBI is keeping dossiers on parents who raise their voices at school board members.
There are at least 50 men who have been held in solitary confinement for a year, awaiting their trials for fucking parading without a permit.
The President wants everyone to know his butt has been wiped.
Reprobates like rAt emery and his fetid sidekick, Peevee think that’s super duper.
Populism is the amber that is going to freeze the hard right over on the non-winning side of the political spectrum. The American first-past-the-post system eventually puts lame horses out into the back pastures of irrelevance.
Where is the next majority? The shuffling going on below the Trump tempests roiling the Republican surface is the sound of new and younger contenders getting ready for 2023, an entirely new horserace. A lot of contenders sense that a younger Republican candidate in 2024 could be the next president by projecting a suburban friendly and comforting persona coupled with a commitment to put American interests first and not let them get cosmopolitanized by elites distant from the real America. This is about market positioning and messaging by a personality that has successfully graduated from anger management.
Who might the next Republican candidate be? Look for someone like recently elected Virginia governor Glen Youngkin, a suburban appealing former private equity titan from the global-spanning Carlyle Group. Another would be David McCormick, former CEO of mega hedge fund Bridgewater, who is running for US senator from Pennsylvania, home of some of the most strategically important suburbs in America. Both of these individuals are well situated in the commanding heights of the top .05% of the wealth distribution. If money threads the needle to the top job in the USA, these guys or others like them will be right in the middle of the competitive mix in 2023 and the 2024 electoral seasons. In this scenario, Donald Trump is more of a placeholder than a contender.
As Senator Mitch McConnell’s remarked recently that he was watching the results coming out of the House January 6 committee with great interest because the American people have a right to know, there is a large underground of well-moneyed Republicans who have a big interest in Liz Cheney doing a thorough job making Trump and that wing of rabble rousers radioactive to any future American presidential majority. Paves the way for a candidate smoothly representing the big money.
Right now the Republican horserace for president looks more like a submarine race, but profound currents run deep. Keep an eye on the submarines.
Emery’s predictions are famously, consistently, wrong.
Wrong about the Brexit vote failing. Wrong about Hillary winning over Trump in a landslide. Wrong about the outcome of the Mueller investigation.
It doesn’t matter who the Republican candidate is, it matters who the vote counters are. Didn’t we learn anything from the 2020 elections?
If Democrats can find vote counters willing to kick out impartial observers, paper over the windows, pull suitcases of ballots out from under the table to run through the ballot counting machines as many times as they need for their candidate to win; if Democrats can find find judges who refuse to listen to the evidence and media to cover up the whole thing; then no Republican will ever win an election again, unless Democrats decide to allow it (to create deniability for the next stolen election, when it really matters).
If 80% of Republicans refuse to accept the legitimacy of an election that their guy lost by 8 million votes, what happens if the next time they lose in an election that’s closer? What if they win the popular vote but lose the EC??
MP, that wasn’t rAt’s prediction. Its some shit he cut and pasted.
I can spot his plagiarism a mile away
The last time the democrats accepted a Republican president as legitimate was 1988.
In 2000 the Democrats lost every Florida recount and still took it to the supreme court.
In 2004 the Democrats charged voter suppression in Ohio swung the election to Bush.
In 2016 they even tried to subvert the electoral college. A host of dems, including the loser Hillary Clinton and ex prez Jimmy Carter, said publicly that they did not consider Trump’s election to be legitimate.
So fuck ’em, is what I say.