Top O’ the Briefing
Happy Friday, dear Kruiser Morning Briefing friends. Sanziwold eventually won over everyone in Hibiscus Club with his signature Jägermeister Rice Krispie treats.
An incontrovertible fact in 21st-century American politics is that the majority of what the Democrats accuse Republicans of usually involves things that they’re up to. A few of the more frequent examples would be calling Republicans racists, threats to Democracy, and, of course, election deniers.
We’ll just focus on that last example today.
It is true that there are a lot of Republicans who question the results of the 2020 presidential election. To hear the Democrats tell the story, these people are the first in American history to ever do so,
I frequently call the Democrats the “Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind,” party because of their ability to go blank about any history that is inconvenient for their various false narratives. If they’re not completely blocking out the facts, they’re rewriting them to fit their needs.
As soon as Republican Mike Johnson was elected the new speaker of the House of Representatives, the Democrats’ flying monkeys in the mainstream media began scrambling for something to smear him with. They were a bit panicky because before becoming the third-most powerful person in the United States, Johnson was a relative unknown.
One thing that was known about him was that, like so many others, he had questions about the “irregularities” in the 2020 election. Naturally, it was brought up in the first press conference Johnson held after being elected and, to their credit, every Republican in attendance booed the hack who asked about it. With good humor (something Democrats are incapable of), Johnson merely smiled and said, “Next question.”
The Federalist’s Mollie Hemingway tweeted about the interaction and mentioned something that I think we all need to keep saying:
Good. Until and unless corporate media ask the ENTIRE Democrat Party roughly ten million questions about their shared 2016 lie that the election was stolen, they can sit down. https://t.co/j8QJwJrtDu
— Mollie (@MZHemingway) October 25, 2023
That’s not going to happen, but that doesn’t mean those of us in conservative media should stop bringing it up and cajoling them to do so.
Of course, the Democrats don’t just send all their hacks to work in media; they also elect them and elevate them to positions of power. Matt wrote yesterday about House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries’s most recent fit of hypocrisy:
After Rep. Mike Johnson (R-La.) was elected Speaker of the House on Wednesday, Democrat Leader Hakeem Jeffries presented him with the gavel but not before taking a few shots at Johnson first.
“Joe Biden won the 2020 presidential election,” Jeffries said in reference to Johnson’s past efforts to challenge the 2020 election results over allegations of fraud in various battleground states. “He’s doing a great job under difficult circumstances — and no amount of election denialism will ever change that reality.”
Strong words from a man who was denying election results before any Republican dared to ask questions about the 2020 presidential election. It’s true. For years, Jeffries has accused Donald Trump of stealing the 2016 election and being an illegitimate president.
“With [the] legitimacy of Trump’s presidential election in doubt, his lifetime appt to Supreme Court can wait,” Jeffries tweeted in March 2017 in reference to the nomination of Neil Gorsuch to the Supreme Court.
There’s more, which Matt covers in his post.
Jeffries isn’t the only prominent Democrat who is a staunch 2016 election denier. Hillary Clinton is, to put mildly, still steeped in bitterness and denial. Granny Maojackets is fond of questioning the legitimacy of Trump’s glorious defeat of her pathetic entitlement.
The list of Democrats who are full-blown election deniers goes on (Looking at you, Stacey Abrams), and trust me, it’s a long one.
Let us not forget that the 2016 election isn’t the only one in recent memory that Democrats baselessly deny the legitimacy of. They kicked off the 21st century with years of insisting that Al Gore won in 2000. That was also the beginning of their Supreme Court denial that we’re seeing really bloom now.
The big difference between Democrats and Republicans when it comes to skepticism or denial about 2016 and 2020 is that there was absolutely nothing to be skeptical about in 2016. The Russia Collusion story was cut out of whole cloth by people who couldn’t believe that the previously all-powerful MSM was unable to will Hillary to victory, despite the fact that she was the least likable presidential candidate in the modern media era.
There were plenty of things in 2020 that were worth a raised eyebrow or two. The Democrats are now trying to criminalize legitimate questions as part of their efforts to preemptively interfere with the 2024 election.
We need to keep fighting to keep the ability to question apparent anomalies in any election, and we need to keep reminding Democrats and their media mouthpieces that they do it all the time for no reason whatsoever.
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The Mailbag of Magnificence
Let us begin with this from Damon:
I assume CONGRATULATIONS are in order for your Diamondbacks!
As an Astros fan, I will be rooting for you guys! No self respecting
Astros fan can root for the Rangers team that refused to swap series
with us right after hurricane Harvey when our city was completely flooded.
So . . good luck! As far as I can tell nearly all of Houston is pulling
for you!
Thank you for the gesture of sportsmanship, Damon, but you assumed WAY wrong. I’m a Dodgers fan, have been since I was a young boy. We used to be able to get Dodgers games on AM radio in Arizona at night when I was a kid. The Diamondbacks didn’t even exist until I was almost 40, and I wasn’t living here then. I’m not much of a homer, either. I don’t like a team just because I live near it. As a Dodgers fan, I think you know where I stand on the cheating Astros.
Dan writes:
Re: “Monkey peels a hard boiled egg in 7 seconds..”
Thanks for nothing, Kruiser!
I just wasted so much time with that I’d be embarrassed to disclose the number. 🙁
I eat a lot of hardboiled eggs and have never quite gotten the perfect peeling down, even though I’ve tried all the tricks. For every two that I effortlessly peel, one looks like I blasted it with a shotgun.
Tony wins this week’s “Tedious Complaint” tiny violin:
I’m an honest American. Been conservative/libertarian since 7-8 when I suddenly began spouting politics and fell in love with Reagan (parents were for Anderson, so it wasn’t something from home…), and I believe that trump made himself a target, and he’s also guilty of various charges. Then again, I don’t typically care for loudmouthed New York City liberals who hang with Hillary and donate to kamala Harris.
But you do you.
Trump captured my attention when I was in high school. I had his picture on my walls and loved quotes from him like “I screw back in spades.” I resolved to study business and be as much like him as I could…so I studied him closely.
And learned how disgusting he is.
So spare me the tooth gnashing and the crap about what all Americans think.
Because all this honest American wants is trump to go the hell away—however that has to happen, and to see someone who’s actually capable and intelligent—Ron DeSantis!—take office and begin fixing the actual problems of the nation.
I write something nice about DeSantis, the Trump people complain.
I write something nice about Trump, the DeSantis people complain.
I’m not sure how Tony managed to latch onto this particular post and gloss over my ever-growing body of work that praises DeSantis (ask the Escalator MAGA crowd about that). Perhaps the complaint emails just aren’t as passionate if the person writing them is even remotely informed about the subject of said complaint.
As a reminder to all of the “My guy/gal or the highway!” Republican primary voters, this is what I’m focused on for next year.
Charlotte weighs in with this:
Greetings, Kruiser-man,
Your morning briefing is the first thing I read when I open my email. Don’t let the naysayers make you change your first paragraph. I enjoy your creativity.
I notice that you capitalize the word “left” when using it to refer to political leaning. I refuse to capitalize the word, because the people over there are so small in so many ways .Granted, they are big in some ways, too: big liars, big cheaters, big jerks…need I go on?
I understand your thinking, Charlotte, and don’t disagree with you. However, when writing about the Right or the Left, it’s easier for me to keep things organized in my brain if each is capitalized. Both are convenient umbrella categories and save me from having to constantly type things like “center-right” or “progressive left.”
Thank you for being a regular reader!
This is from David in Minnesota:
Mr Kruiser,
I am one who enjoys your Top of the Briefing lines. Some immediately click for me. Some leave me scratching my head. But your quip on S’more scented kilts has me questioning my taste for Scotch and Milky Way Midnight candy bars. Chocolate and marshmallow will never taste the same.
Keep up the good work!
See if this helps, David: nuke the Milky Ways and drink more scotch.
Yeah, I should totally be a life coach.
We will finish with this from HB:
Oh most supreme wordsmith and joke teller,
“Intellectual curiosity and critical thinking among the student body are to modern American academics what garlic and crucifixes are to vampires.”
Thank you for the one sentence takedown of BigEd. You are a national treasure!! I don’t care what those nattering nabobs of negativism say (kudos and props to Spiro Agnew). Keep up the keen insights and fun. But, mostly the fun…
I’m so glad you enjoyed that; I take my responsibilities as a national treasure very seriously. And I promise that, even in these dark times, I’ll continue to keep up the fun.
Many thanks to all who reached out this past week!
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