C'mon Man!©, Pay Attention Or Don't Use a 'Prompter

Or else, just pause your whole campaign and let Gavin Newsom play in the big game.

Every Nacht is Kristallnacht at Columbia University

It’s Kristallnacht on Kampus as Mayor Adams blames mysterious outside agitators. https://t.co/vhjb7WVdU5

— TSB (@TweetingTSB) April 23, 2024

On the one hand, it is staggering to see this sort of open and raw antisemitism in the U.S. (and UK, Australia, Canada, etc.).

On the other hand, the more the population of the U.S. resembles, say, the General Assembly of the UN, the more it will exhibit the common attitudes of the General Assembly toward Israel, not to mention toward the U.S. in particular and Western civilization at large. 

BTW, while not every criticism of Israel can be regarded as antisemitism, what we see today on Columbia and many other locations meets the definition.    

    

Secret Service Agent on Veep Detail Snaps "Entirely"

When an on-duty Secret Service agent acts out a bundle of bizarre behaviors, escalating to the point that she assaults her shift leader and needs to be wrestled to the ground, physically restrained, and disarmed, well, that requires serious oversight by the administration and by Congress. 

In fact, if yesterday's incident fails to bring on an oversight hearing, that would be something even more bizarre than the behavior of Special Agent Herczeg. 

This news story names names and brings the incident back to a question of Secret Service hiring policies, Secret Service Scuffle Prompts DEI, Vetting Scrutiny:

Herczeg also screamed at the special agent in charge (SAIC), rattling off the names of female officers on the vice president’s detail and claiming they would show up and help her and allow her to continue working. At that point, other agents on the scene believed Herczeg was suffering from a mental lapse, and the superior officer, SAIC, approached her to tell her she was relieved from the assignment.

“That’s when she snapped entirely,” one source recounted.

Appparently, she hadn't snapped entirely until the other agents at the scene needed to remove her pistol and handcuff her.

We can only hope Special Agent Herczeg gets the mental health treatment she needs. And it wouldn't hurt at all if the Secret Service itself were given some shock therapy.   

Fun, Fun, Fun, 'til Their Daddy Takes Their T-Bird Away

"NPR gives a masterclass on how not to do damage control" (@TheHillOpinion) https://t.co/zUTkJPdLwH

— The Hill (@thehill) April 22, 2024

There are lots of choice phrases in that opinion piece:

"when you depend upon an act of Congress to help keep the lights on ... NPR, whose response to Berliner is a lot like its reporting: one-sided, tone-deaf, ill-advised and insanely self-important ... the breathy staccato ubiquitous in its on-air programming"

And the author winds up with this bottom-line proposition: 

"[NPR] is free to believe that it’s a balanced and even-handed news organization. But it is not entitled to taxpayer support. Is it really too much to ask that NPR indulge in its delusions on its own dime? It’s a fair proposition." 

Fair indeed.

BTW, that taxpayer support runs to $525 million in FY24 from the federal government alone. Every other media entity in the country manages to keep its lights on without putting its hand in the taxpayer's pocket. How much longer must we pay for breathy staccato tone-deaf self-importance?

 

We Don't Need No Thought Control (Hey! NPR! Leave That News Alone!)

Bill Maher Issues Wake-Up Call to All Democrats Who Think the NPR Story Is Not a Big Deal

"NPR is to them [Republicans] what this country would be if it was a permanent democratic governorship."

"Of the 87 people working in editorial positions there, 87 are Democrats. Even if… pic.twitter.com/6GbSwqMLA0

— The Vigilant Fox 🦊 (@VigilantFox) April 20, 2024

Do we, kids? Hell no! Just another brick in the wall.

 

As a Young Boy, Joe Biden Dreamed of Choosing Freedom Over Democracy - D'oh!

The choice is clear: Freedom over Democracy any day. https://t.co/6VGibKafV2

— TSB (@TweetingTSB) April 18, 2024

C'mon Man!© It was the best Joe Biden speech ever!

 

NYT Election Poll Has No Good News For Biden

It's been an interesting news day on the domestic front, with The New York Times publishing a poll it did with Sienna College on the upcoming election. Biden's staffers will not be happy. 

Since the NYT put its story about the poll behind a pay wall, here's the Daily Mail story, which is free, the way nature intended the internet to work.

The barebones polling results are at: April 2024 Toplines NYT Sienna College Poll of Registered Voters Nationwide, 

The biggest bucket of cold water for Biden comes from the results for these two questions:

Who did you vote for in the 2020 presidential election between Donald Trump and Joe Biden?

Donald Trump - 36%

Joe Biden - 43%

And,

If the 2024 presidential election were held today, who would you vote for if the candidates were [Biden and Trump]:

Donald Trump - 46%

Joe Biden - 45%

Well, well, well. An interesting number of Biden voters from 2020 say they will vote for Trump this time. 

Those poll results are without including voters who only 'lean' one way of the other, and without considering election scenarios with third and fourth party candidates. Both of those contingencies favor Trump over Biden more strongly. 

Looking at the Daily Mail's story, it seems the key reason for those results is the much larger number of voters who remember the Trump years as "mostly good" (42%) versus Biden's years (25%).  

C'mon Man!© Stop the malarkey and make this election a contest!