I can’t believe I’m writing this, but John Fetterman is the best Democrat Senator in the United States. He said Bob Menendez should be expelled, he came out against selling farmland to shady Chicoms, and he’s stood up for Israel and mocked pro-Hamas protestors.
He’s probably a good example to keep all of us humble: if I thought that I knew anything for certain, it would be that Fetterman would be a 100% terrible senator.
And lo and behold, he’s no worse than a 70% terrible senator. Which, sadly, makes him the best of all of the Democrat senators. So yeah, I got that one wrong.
Or, as a great Babylon Bee headline put it: “Weird: Man Becomes More Conservative As He Regains Brain Function.”
The “journalists” at the Washington Post went out on a 24-hour strike yesterday. Historically speaking, I’m not sure I’ve ever heard of a strike bringing a company to its knees in less than many weeks of work stoppage, so I’m not sure what they thought they’d accomplish in a one-day strike.
In the regular working world, people call that “taking a day off.”
The WAPO workers say they’ve been without a contract for 18 months, and the bosses aren’t giving them what they need. But the paper is reportedly losing $100 million per year, and they’re in the middle of the latest round of layoffs (this time it’s a 240-job cut) to try to stem the financial bleeding.
The workers put out a short video asking for people to support their negotiating position. In that video, various WAPO reporters cite what they’ve done. The first one out of the gate says that she’s risked her life covering Ukraine. Which I think is a fair point.
But then the next five reporters in a row list five stories they’ve covered: “I’ve covered an insurrection. A global pandemic. Historic racial justice protests. Climate change. And gun violence in the America.”
Yes. And you’ve covered all of them dishonestly!
There was no “insurrection” in the commonly understood meaning of that word. You misled about the pandemic constantly. (Horny pangolins started the whole thing! It’s deadly for everyone! Masks stop transmission! Distancing by six feet is scientific! The vax stops the virus! Fauci is not the spawn of Satan!) You called violent looting and riots by mobs of leftist, anti-white racists, “peaceful protests for racial justice.”
You’ve exaggerated the threat of climate change based on computer models that we know are wrong, and you’ve lied about what we can do to mitigate it. And you’ve constantly lied about who is perpetrating gun violence (it’s not law-abiding citizens and NRA members) and how it can be drastically reduced (enforce the laws on the books by giving long jail sentences to everyone who commits a crime with a gun).
Do you think that might be why fewer people are buying the WAPO, and thus paying your salaries anymore?
In fact, I’ve got bad news for you: if the paper really is losing $100 million per year with all of you making what you’re making, you’re all overpaid already.
And other than adopting a strategy of trying to bring in more money by not lying your ideological hindquarters off – you seem to have ruled out that possibility – the only way you could possibly get raises now would be if Bezos ponies up even more good money to throw after bad.
I don’t know Bezos, and the only one I know who might be close to billionaire status is the great and powerful CO. But the way I understand it, billionaires are not generally in the “let me continue operating a corporation that loses $100 million per year” business.
But hey, workers of the world unite, and you do you, and good luck with those negotiations, you boneheads!
On another topic, in this winter of my discontent (despite it being the time of year when I celebrate God sending me a Savior Whom I sorely need), I am still thankful for one constant in this beleaguered world: most criminals are incredibly stupid.
One recent example was provided by four would-be carjackers in Bethesda, Maryland right after Thanksgiving. They pistol-whipped their victim and took his keys, but then their getaway was thwarted by the fact that they couldn’t escape in his car.
Because while they should all be beaten with a stick, not one of them could drive one!
The Blaze story about their incompetence listed three other similarly moronic carjackings by bungling carjackers: one in San Antonio, who got shot by his would-be victim (because: Texas!) as he tried to find first gear; two in Maryland who had to leave the car they’d taken because they didn’t know the difference between a clutch and a marital aid; and three others who took a beating from a MMA-trained driver and had to return to their own car and lead the cops on a high-speed chase before getting arrested.
(There’s no mention in that story of whether any of the driver’s ed rejects also had easily identifiable tattoos on their big stupid heads, but the smart money says probably.)
Another imbecilic criminal story happened last weekend in a Michigan Wal-Mart, where local police were holding a “Shop with a Cop” charity event. Local poor kids were being escorted around the store by 75 uniformed policemen to receive some free Christmas presents.
That’s when an unnamed 62-year-old criminal genius decided that she’d fill a cart with over $700 worth of stolen stuff and roll it right out the front door.
I’m not making that up. In a country full of towns where cops are few and far between, because leftist supporters of criminals have defunded or harassed them off the job, this brainiac decided to stage her own little Thomas Crown Affair-style heist in a store filled with 75 cops!
She made it out to the parking lot and was stashing her loot in her car when she got arrested.
I don’t know anything about that woman other than her age, but I’d bet Joe Biden’s life on one thing. The getaway car she was tossing the stolen goods into?
It had to be an automatic.
But if we can categorically state that criminals are invariable dumb, can you guess which other group is also invariably d—
Oops, you got there ahead of me: Republicans.
Expelling Santos is a typically dumb GOP move. Which is not to say that he didn’t deserve to be expelled.
He is a ridiculous dullard and delusional conman, and in a healthy political system, he would never have gotten with a million miles of winning a seat in the House. He’s an embarrassment to the GOP and to his constituents, and free of our current context, he should have been tossed out of the congress forthwith.
Except. Literally dozens and dozens (maybe hundreds!) of Democrats in the House – and in the GOP as well – have behaved as badly or worse than Santos, and all of them are still in the House, and probably will be until they are as broken down and senile as Joe Biden was before he passed away in mid-2020.
For a few quick examples: Maxine “Melting Face” Waters openly called for people to harass GOP pols in public; there is a jihadi caucus (Omar, Tlaib, Jayapal, et al) in the House who tacitly support terrorist groups like Hamas.
Santos is accused of using campaign funds to unethically enrich himself; name 6 Democrats (or Republicans) who haven’t! Bob Menendez has been well-known to be a bribe-taking corrupt-icrat for years and is currently facing a raft of charges, and he’s STILL in the Senate, several decades after credible charges against him first surfaced.
One charge against Santos was that he lied about his ethnic background when he falsely claimed to be Jewish. Meanwhile, Grandma Squanto owes her entire academic and then Senate career to her faux Indian heritage claims, and she’ll be in the Senate until she dies, after which she’ll be the only white lady to receive a traditional Indian tree burial (look it up), despite having less connection to actual Indians than the Italian and Jewish actors who made up the Hekawi tribe on F-Troop.
(Yes, that’s another timely pop culture reference that you only get in my columns.) (Also, #wemustneverstopmockingher)
Therefore, since the Democrats have shown absolutely zero signs of any willingness to expel corrupt members of their own party in Congress (doing so would cut the number of Dems in congress by around 98.3%), it was political malpractice for the GOP to decrease their already razor-thin majority by expelling Santos.
So let’s re-cap. Santos is a scumbag, but he had already been shunned by the GOP and was already getting tossed out next year. In the interim, he would have been a reliable GOP vote, and the party would have a decent chance of replacing him with a Republican next November. Meanwhile, the Democrat minority in the House is chock full of scumbags, and none of them have been condemned or forced out by the party, and they will all cling to their House seats like grim Biden.
I’m sorry, that’s “death.” They will cling to their seats like grim death.
Finally, let’s go into the weekend on a high note: the many dozens of Hamas thugs who surrendered to the IDF yesterday. Pics show them lined up on the street or riding in the back of trucks on their way to Israeli prisons, all of them stripped to their underwear. (Not to sexually humiliate them, as they did to their unarmed victims, but because their terrorist ilk have a tendency to be armed to the teeth and wear explosive vests.)
These are heartwarming images, not just because they show that Israel is winning, but because it’s useful for the “Palestinians” to see their big, bad jihadi warriors revealed to be the weak cowards that they are.
When they were up against unarmed hippie chicks and senior citizens, they were all “Allahu akbar” this, and fearless, “we will happily die as martyrs while killing Jews” that. But when they have to face some pissed off Hebrews with guns, they end up standing around in the street in their undies like they’re attending a gay pride parade led by Dylan Mulvaney.
By the way, I wonder what all of the pro-Hamas caucus in our congress and on our campuses think of those pictures? They’ve been screaming for “proportionality” in Israel’s fight against Hamas for weeks.
But do you think those idiots know that in this context, proportionality would mean finding hundreds of Israeli terrorists to rape hundreds of those Hamas captives, then murder all of them, but only after raping and murdering their wives and children and grandparents in front of them?
And then throwing their naked and mangled corpses in the back of open pick-up trucks and driving them through the streets of Tel Aviv while mobs of jeering Jews spit on and defile them?
I know: even though all of those captured Hamas terrorists deserve to be treated that way, that’s an insane and unthinkable scenario that would never happen in a million years.
Which tells you everything you need to know about who are the good guys and who are the bad guys in Gaza and Israel.
Hamas delenda est!
Martin Simpson 