OPEN THREAD: Hump Day.
February 26, 2025
OCEANIA HAS ALWAYS BEEN AT WAR WITH TRUNALIMUNUMAPRZURE: Hilarious: Jake Tapper to Explain Biden Brain Coverup and Why It Was a Bad Idea.
The book isn’t out yet so I could be wrong, but I think the chances that Jake Tapper will spill the beans on how he and the rest of the Pravda Media colluded with the White House to cover up Biden’s senility are about zero.
For years, my recurring headline for Joe’s innumerable gaffes was “Super Gaffe-O-Matic ’76,” a takeoff on Dan Aykroyd’s classic Saturday Night Live TV commercial parody. I ran my first “Trunalimunumaprzure!” headline near the end of the 2020 election, after Biden screamed his way through a speech, badly garbling the script on his teleprompter. On September 29th of 2020, William Voegeli of the Claremont Institute published his column headlined “The Weak Leading the Woke,” in which he debated, “Is Biden still, you know, all there?” In contrast, Tapper was a loyal trooper until Biden’s disastrous debate with Trump in June of last year, when the new marching orders went out:
Here's Jake Tapper incensed over Joe Biden's "stutter" and outraged over claims of Biden's cognitive decline.
Now he's cashing in on a book about Biden's cognitive decline and media cover up. There is no bottom for these people.
pic.twitter.com/rdNdqh4YKQ— Stephen L. Miller (@redsteeze) February 26, 2025
Tapper now tells us that he and others saw Biden’s “health problems,” but that sure isn’t what he told us all at the time. He was just as much an attack dog against Biden critics as any MSNBC flak, and his network was as much in on the conspiracy to hide Biden’s decline and slander those of us pointing it out as Karine Jean-Pierre.
A decade ago, John Nolte of Breitbart.com coined the phrase “Bensmithing” to describe how the Buzzfeed (later the New York Times and now Semafor) Democrat stenographer Ben Smith would feign being bored anytime conservatives pointed out how Obama was screwing up and dismiss each issue as a nothingburger. Perhaps Tapper will be employing Will Smith to shoot the commercials for his new book:
UPDATE:
Last year I asked @jaketapper why he & CNN were lying to the American public about Joe Biden’s cognitive decline
They all rolled their eyes and ignored my question
Jake Tapper is now publishing a book “exposing the cover up” of Joe Biden’s mental decline 💀 pic.twitter.com/X20nzeZRjP
— Savanah Hernandez (@sav_says_) February 26, 2025
THE NEW SPACE RACE: A Secret Water Supply on the Moon? NASA’s Lunar Trailblazer Aims to Find It.
I’M SO OLD, I REMEMBER WHEN ANTI-IMMIGRANT BIGOTRY WAS SUPPOSED TO BE BAD:
Such anti-immigrant bigotry. They're flailing. https://t.co/7fW92XsJZj
— @instapundit (@instapundit) February 26, 2025
Of course, if you think this is bad, just wait until 2028, when Hispanic voters overwhelmingly turn out for J.D. Vance. . . .
WELL, THIS IS THE 21ST CENTURY, YOU KNOW: Tardigrade Protein Could Soon Make Cancer Patients More Radiation Proof.
I WAS HOPING THE USAID CUTS WOULD PUT AN END TO THIS: ‘The Trace’s’ Brand of Anti-Gun Advocacy Agitprop Spreads to More Outlets. But I guess this astroturf is privately funded.
RFK, JR. IS ALREADY HAVING AN IMPACT: Utah set to become first state to ban fluoride in public water.
ET TU, CONNECTICUT?
Nearly 7 point swing for the Republican in Connecticut special election.
I'm starting to wonder if Connecticut and New Jersey will be swing states by 2028 🤔 https://t.co/OOmsD2o1ys
— Peter St Onge, Ph.D. (@profstonge) February 26, 2025
When Scott Presler is finished in New Jersey, can we please get him out here to Colorado?
BOOM:
🚨 #BREAKING: Trump signs executive order fully implementing DOGE's government waste cutting initiatives.
"Each Agency Head shall, with assistance as requested from the agency's DOGE Team Lead, build a centralized technological system within the agency to seamlessly record every…
— Eric Daugherty (@EricLDaugh) February 26, 2025
Congress, it’s your turn next.
I’M SO OLD, I CAN REMEMBER WHEN THE LEFT RAILED AGAINST “CHEAP FAKES:” Viral Video of Don Jr. Arguing America ‘Should Have Been Sending Weapons to Russia’ Is Fake.
THE SECRET SERVICE ENDORSEMENT ISN’T THE SELLING POINT IT USED TO BE: The Secret Service Duty Rifle Build: A Detailed Breakdown.
RIP: Buffy and Gossip Girl actress Michelle Trachtenberg dead at 39. “The sources told ABC News the actress recently underwent a liver transplant and may have been experiencing complications. Trachtenberg is believed to have died of natural causes and no foul play is suspected.”
JOHN NOLTE: WaPo Editor Quits After Bezos Orders Opinion Page to Defend Free Markets, Personal Liberty.
Bezos said, “I offered David Shipley, whom I greatly admire, the opportunity to lead this new chapter. I suggested to him that if the answer wasn’t ‘hell yes,’ then it had to be ‘no.’”
“After careful consideration, David decided to step away.”
Yeah, that’s a shame.“I’m confident that free markets and personal liberties are right for America. I also believe these viewpoints are underserved in the current market of ideas and news opinion,” Bezos said in closing. “I’m excited for us together to fill that void.”
One crybaby Post staffer has already threatened to quit: “I still have not felt encroachment on my journalism on the news side of coverage,” wrote someone who works at the Post named Jeff Stein, “but if Bezos tries interfering with the news side I will be quitting immediately and letting you know.”
Yeah, you let us know, Jeff. We’ll all be right here on the edge of our seats waiting for you to let us know.
A crybaby Post subscriber who does legal analysis for cable news is so offended by the idea of defending free markets and personal liberty, he canceled his subscription.
This looks to me like a Trump-style move to rid his failing newspaper of the Woke Parasites eating it alive. Maybe this will get more of them to self-deport quit in a huff like Jennifer Rubin did (nobody misses her). That way there’s no severance or lawsuits.
Oh, and speaking of Rubin:
Earlier: Fast Times at Bezos High: Jeff Bezos sparks outrage with overhaul of Washington Post opinion page.
BE PREPARED: FOXWELL Car Scanner NT604 Elite OBD2 Scanner. #CommissionEarned
DENNIS PRAGER: What’s the Difference between Socialism, Fascism, and Communism? (Video.)
PAUL CASSELL: Did Glossip and the Oklahoma Attorney General Collusively Conceal Evidence to Win Their U.S. Supreme Court Case? Wouldn’t be the first time.
SO THAT’S A NO THEN? Syria Suffers Massive Israeli Strikes Hours After Jolani Demanded Withdrawal. “Israel in a rare confirmation of the overnight airstrikes said its warplanes struck ‘military targets in southern Syria, including headquarters and sites containing weapons.’ It added, ‘The presence of military assets and forces in the southern part of Syria constitutes a threat’ to Israeli citizens.”
KEEP YOUR CAR CLEAN: CAR GUYS Plastic Restorer. #CommissionEarned
CHRISTIAN TOTO: Why Hollywood Is Eerily Similar to USAID.
Consider “Wolf Man,” the latest attempt to revive the classic horror movie character. The January release flamed out at the box office, but a look at the film suggests it must have cost less than “The Brutalist.”
Much less. Why?
The film is primarily set in a cabin in the woods. A few scenes take place in the neighboring forest. The FX are minimal, to say the least, and the only “name” in the cast is Julia Garner of “Ozark” fame.
The reported budget stands at $25 million. Where did all the money go?
Read the whole thing.
RADICAL CHIC, THE BOY BAND ERA: Why the internet celebrated a killer. New video from Reason TV:
UPDATE:
The "Free Luigi" people are absolutely unhinged.
Woman explains she supports Luigi because she also killed someone (via DUI) and doesn't think she should have been punished. pic.twitter.com/xBUxMEy8mD
— Brad Polumbo 🇺🇸⚽️ (@brad_polumbo) February 26, 2025
THEY WERE OBVIOUSLY PUTTING DOWN SKINWALKERS: New clues to the ‘nailed head ritual’ uncovered in Spain.
LET’S CHECK IN WITH MSNBC TO SEE HOW THEIR TACK TO THE CENTER IS COMING ALONG: MNSBC’s Newest Anchor Eugene Daniels Is a ‘Kamala Harris Expert’ and ‘Walking Beyoncé Encyclopedia’ Who Has Revolutionized the DC Fashion Scene.
Eugene Daniels, the Politico White House correspondent who was supposed to be the “breakout star” of the 2024 election but ended up being one of the biggest losers, is leaving the mid-tier news website to join MSNBC. Daniels, an alleged “expert in all things Kamala Harris” with a “fashion sense that mirrors his bold style of reporting,” will cohost a weekend roundtable show as part of the left-wing network’s ongoing reorganization efforts. It is unclear whether the self-described “walking Beyoncé encyclopedia” will face any wardrobe restrictions at MSNBC, but a Washington Free Beacon photographic analysis confirmed that Daniels has a bold sense of fashion, and certainly appears to admire Beyoncé, the former Destiny’s Child singer best known for being married to Jay-Z.
As legendary Austrian-American actor Rainier Wolfcastle would say:
UNEXPECTED HEADLINES: Keeping Satan Off the Ballot in Utah. “Will Satan be barred from running for office in Utah? The vote in the state legislature was 65-2. The questions now are, will the governor sign? And who the hell were the two people who voted against it? Is the pro-Satan caucus in Washington, D.C., making inroads in the Beehive State?”