May 19, 2025

MUCH OF THE BLOOD IN THAT BATH IS RUSSIAN (AND CHINESE AND NORTH KOREAN) BUT UKRAINE HAS LESS TO SPREAD:  Trump, Putin to Talk to End ‘Bloodbath’ in Ukraine.

 

Posted at 5:31 am by Sarah Hoyt 4

JEFFRIES IS UNDER INVESTIGATION: Hakeem Jeffries Named in Diddy Trial? Here’s What Was Revealed.

For allegedly attending, ah, Diddy’s parties where he supposedly insisted young Hispanic men dress as Che and Castro.  Normally I’d say let’s not kink shame, but you know what? a Commie kink should be shamed.

 

Posted at 2:32 am by Sarah Hoyt 12

‘HISTORIC PRIVILEGE’ MEANS THEY GET TO PUNISH YOU BECAUSE PEOPLE WHO LOOKED SOMEWHAT LIKE YOU LONG AGO DID BAD THINGS:  Ruling South African Party Furious After White Refugees Escape to US, Wanted to Impose ‘Accountability for Historic Privilege’.

And that’s not considering that in South Africa for the last thirty years no white person has had any “privilege” or that the Zulus — who got to South Africa at the same time as the Boers (just about) left so many corpses in the wake of their movement down Africa that new hills were formed from the piles.  Bah.
Every human race has done despicable things. It’s human. No one should answer for more than their own personal sins. And the Ruling South African Party should consider how many personal sins they’re accumulating.

Posted at 1:00 am by Sarah Hoyt 46

May 18, 2025

I’M SO OLD, I CAN REMEMBER WHEN JOE BIDEN MADE RAMBO LOOK LIKE A PANTYWAIST:

When did Democrats in the media and on Capital Hill start taking their cues from the earlier, funnier years of Saturday Night Live?

Posted at 10:58 pm by Ed Driscoll 38

OPEN THREAD: It’s there. It’s there for you. It’s what you want.

Bonus points for anyone who can find this Shaeffer beer ad from the 1980s online.

Posted at 9:30 pm by Glenn Reynolds 1374

I HAD THIS ON MY FACEBOOK PAGE THIS EVENING:

See the double dodge here? The AP does a little fluffy piece on what “86” means. And the chatter is that Comey — God’s gift to law enforcement — had to know what it means.

But see, the real whopper gets assumed away, missed or ignored. His Comeyness says: “I posted earlier a picture of some shells I saw today on a beach walk….”

Who in their right mind believes that he “just came across” this?

AP’s story at link below:

The old slang term ’86′ probably started as restaurant-worker jargon. Suddenly it’s in the news.

Posted at 8:37 pm by Charles Glasser 175

I’M BETTING THEY KNEW THIS A YEAR AGO:

Get him re-elected, have him step aside for health reasons, let Kamala be president without an election, let the usual crowd of apparatchiks actually run things.

UPDATE: “Are we only receiving this news now to distract from the just-released Hur tapes — to quiet all criticism?”

Yes. Next question?

Related:

Yes, the real question is who was President when Slow Joe clearly wasn’t? Everything else is distraction.

Posted at 7:13 pm by Glenn Reynolds 332

DEVELOPING: Biden Diagnosed With “Aggressive Form of Prostate Cancer.”

Flashback to CNBC in February of 2024: Biden is a ‘healthy, active, robust 81-year-old male,’ his doctor says after physical.

Joe Biden is fit to continue his presidential responsibilities “without any exemptions or accommodations,” the White House physician said Wednesday after conducting the president’s annual physical.

Biden “is a healthy, active, robust 81-year-old male, who remains fit to successfully execute the duties of the Presidency,” Dr. Kevin O’Connor said in a summary of the president’s health.

The results of the routine examination carry extra significance this year, as Biden seeks to tamp down concerns about whether he is physically and mentally capable of serving another four years in the White House.

The Democrat has weathered relentless attacks about his age and fitness from his political opponents, especially Republican presidential front-runner Donald Trump, who will turn 78 in June.

Despite their closeness in age, polls show voters are less concerned about Trump’s fitness than Biden’s.

Earlier in February, a Department of Justice special counsel investigating Biden over his handling of classified documents described the president in a report as an “elderly man with a poor memory.”

Biden angrily pushed back on that report, acknowledging his age but declaring, “I know what the hell I’m doing.”

But of course, he really didn’t, as Matt Margolis of PJM wrote the following month: Things Just Got a Lot Worse for Joe Biden.

Last month, the Hur report found that Joe Biden willfully retained, mishandled, and disclosed classified information but determined that he was essentially too senile to stand trial. According to the report, Biden struggled to remember details, and he couldn’t remember when his son Beau died.

Joe Biden angrily defended his memory in his unplanned address and attacked Special Counsel Robert Hur for bringing up Beau during his interview during the investigation, which managed to make things worse for him.

“There’s even a reference that I don’t remember when my son died,” Biden said. “How in the hell dare he raise that? Frankly, when I was asked the question, I thought to myself, it wasn’t any of their damn business.”

Except that Hur didn’t bring it up. Biden did.

Exit questions:

UPDATE: Trump’s comms team issues well-worded response:

Posted at 6:30 pm by Ed Driscoll 481

PROVISIONAL GOOD NEWS:

Posted at 5:29 pm by Charlie Martin 104