I’m in a better mood than I was on Friday, only partly because of spending a weekend with the family and relaxing. The best way to deal with my increasing disgust with the MSM turned out to be watching a bunch of videos of people’s surprise twin announcements. (Somehow I got there after starting out with Cheap Trick and other 70s and 80s music).
From there I went to videos of grandparents and other relatives finding out that a new baby was named after them, and then to people adopting the kids they’d helped to raise. After all of that life-affirming, wholesome goodness, the sleazy lying of our feckless journalists faded into insignificance.
It also helped that it’s starting to feel like the Kamala honeymoon might be fading. I know the MSM will keep tirelessly propagandizing for her and Walz, but I’m seeing more evidence that even they don’t have enough lipstick for this pig, metaphorically speaking.
(And no, that wasn’t a veiled Willie Brown reference. To quote Trump during the golfing segment of his debate with the late Joe Biden, “Let’s not act like children.”)
It was nice to see even a few MSM outlets point out that Kamala’s economic plan – creating price controls, going after businesses for “price gouging,” and giving away $25K to help anyone who can’t afford a house to get a house – are impractical schemes that won’t work.
By the way, if you haven’t read the CO Economics Correspondent’s piece on the disastrous history of price controls from over the weekend, scroll back and find it, because it’s great. He zips through 4000 years of history, demonstrating that Que Mala’s ideas would bring the same kind of economic dysfunction as when Hammurabi and Diocletian tried them.
Which is aggravating, because Kamala had only to ask Imhotep Pelosi – who went to high school with Hammurabi – about the topic. In fact, Pelosi can remember when you get 30 ka of corn for 2 gerah!
(That joke would have killed if you were all ancient Babylonians!) (Don’t forget to tip your maidservant.)
In other good news, JD Vance did a great job under hostile questioning from leftist hacks on the Sunday shows last week, and I’m looking forward to him beating Tampon Tim like a rented mule in their debate. And if Trump can discipline himself and stick to policy – please God, because we need this! – he should be able to remind people why Kamala dropped out with zero votes in the primary in 2020.
Speaking of cringy leftist hacks, it was also fun to watch Steven Colbert interviewing CNN’s Kaitlan Collins. Because when he earnestly said to her, “I know you guys are objective over there, that you just report the news as it is—” he was interrupted by a wave of laughter from his studio audience.
The laughter caught him by surprise, and it made for a great, cringy moment when Collins asked, “Was that supposed to be a laugh line?” and Colbert accidently told the truth, saying, “It wasn’t supposed to be, but… I guess it is.”
Ouch! When you’ve lost the flock of low IQ and low-info sheep in Colbert’s audience, it’s time to give up the pretense, CNN.
In international news, Israel continues to stubbornly insist on not surrendering to terrorists, and not dying, to the frustrated fury of the Biden administration.
Additional, hilarious details have just come out about Israel’s missile strike that took out Hezbollah leader Fuad Shukr at the end of July. Shukr had been so secretive that few confirmed recent pictures of him existed, and he’d been in hiding for nearly 40 years. It turns out he’d been working in the second story of a seven-story building.
In fact, one of the long-term residents in the building reported that they’d barely seen him there, and that he was, “Like a ghost.” And now he’s even more of a ghost!
Somehow the Israelis managed to get a mysterious phone call to Shukr, telling him to go up to his 7th story residence, which is where the missile struck shortly thereafter.
I’d love to know what that phone call was about! Did somebody in the IDF pretend to be one of his bodyguards, telling him that one of his wives was upstairs cheating on him, and he better come up right away?
Or maybe a Jewish spy claimed to be a Nigerian prince, and urged Shukr to log on to his home computer so that he could receive millions of dollars that the prince was trying to get out of his country.
But no matter what that call was about, I hope that in his final moments, Shukr heard the Israeli missile that was about to kill him, and had time to shake his fist and scream, “Jeewwwssss!” like Captain Kirk screaming, “KHAN!”
Speaking of dead terrorists, a top Hezbollah commander named Hussein Kassab decided he’d take a relaxing motorcycle ride through the coastal city of Tyre in Lebanon on Saturday. Unfortunately for him, Team Yarmulke apparently has a satellite that specifically scans for genocidal murderers on Harleys, because they found him.
And in the middle of his joyride, they used a drone to drop a strike on Kassab-a’s melon.
Finally, just to remind us that the European and internation media is as sleazily dishonest as our own MSM, they reported that over the weekend the IDF struck a school in Gaza, killing 100 people, and repeating Hamas’ insinuation that most of those were civilians.
But the IDF had done their homework, and they released video and other evidence showing that the former school had lately been used as a compound by terrorists, and that the number of dead were around half what Hamas had claimed.
They also quickly released information identifying 19 of the dead as Hamas terrorists, followed on Saturday by another list of 12 more dead terrorists from that strike.
So just like our “journalists” who have been claiming that Joe Biden was healthy and super compos mentis, and that Que Mala is a joyful, non-border czar moderate, the Hamas “sources” insisted that the school in question was full of Palestinian toddlers.
And you’d have to have been fallen out of a coconut tree, unburdened by a cerebral cortex, to believe either one of those groups.
Hamas delenda est!
Martin Simpson 
Now if only Vance could remember that some women are unable to have children and many of the same have a cat or two and clear that sore point up it would be great. He/they lost my sister’s vote with that remark.
Pama Taylor
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Coincidentally enough, Vance has said many, many times — including in the interview from which the cat lady comment was pulled — that he was NOT talking about people who are unable to have kids. In that sense, this controversy is like the one about Trump calling white supremacists “nice people,” even though he said several sentences later that did NOT refer to white supremacists and neo-Nazis, “who should be condemned completely.” With all due respect to your sister, if she has managed to overlook the many thousands of more offensive comments from the other side (America is irredeemably racist, that half the country who voted for Trump are deplorables and fascists, etc. and etc.) but then saw a joke from Vance and THAT was the deal-breaker, I’m not sure her vote was actually gettable. But you would know that better than I, and I might be wrong.
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