1. The Washington Post’s schadenfreude-tastic self-destruction. The paper’s value has been on a long skid downward, and since Bezos bought it, it’s lost tens of millions of dollars per year. So Bezos prevented the leftist lunatics in the WAPO newsroom from endorsing Que Mala, and the spoiled kiddies threw a temper tantrum.
In response, Bezos wrote an Op-Ed containing actual common sense: “The hard truth [is that] Americans don’t trust the news media,” and, since “endorsements create a perception of bias… ending them is… the right [decision].” (Of course he’s still a bubble-dwelling lefty: he warned that if the MSM completely collapses, people will continue turning to unvetted, irresponsible, misinformation-prone conservative podcasts and websites…such as the ones who DIDN’T fall for Russia-gate, laptop-gate, mask-gate, vax-gate, etc. and etc.)
And then the kids in the newsroom flopped on the floor, kicking their tiny feet and holding their breath. And mirabile dictu, so did a ton of the WAPO’s propaganda-dependent subscribers; 200,000 of them canceled their subscriptions, cheered on by many celebrities and other high-profile dullards.
So if the WAPO keeps shoveling out their steady stream of dishonest pap, they will continue their doom spiral downward into a Biden-esque, flatlined state, until the plug is mercifully pulled, once Bezos will no longer throw good money after bad. OR, they can try to go cold turkey and start printing true journalism… and get there much more quickly, as all of their dead-end readers flee.
Beautiful!
Even though Bezos is actually trying to do the right thing, he and the MSM are now reaping what they’ve been sowing for years. It’s a blue-on-blue circular firing squad, and I’m not sure my supply of popcorn is going to hold out.
2. Kamala crammed an awful lot of self-contradictions into her big speech on Tuesday night:
“This election is about the future,” followed by, “But January 6th, though!”
“It’s time to turn the page,” followed by, “I can’t think of any changes to make from my time with Biden!”
“We must stop pointing fingers and come together,” followed by, “But Trump is a tyrant! Everybody point your finger at him and yell, ‘Tyrant!’”
(You’ve heard of the “Thrilla in Manilla?” This speech should’ve been called, “Back-flips on the Ellipse.”)
But my favorite part came literally seconds into the speech. After months of insisting that crime is way, WAY down, she begins her speech. But she is immediately drowned out by cascading sirens, presumably from cop cars chasing criminals and ambulances racing crime victims to area hospitals.
The only way that audio backdrop could have been improved upon? Gunshots and despairing screams of, “Oh God, why are all these horrific crimes happening even though we’ve elected only Democrats in DC for the last century?!”
(And then, from a lonely CO Nation member on the edge of the crowd, “Unexpectedly!”)
3. The GOP’s trolling of the Dems over garbage-gate has been a thing of beauty. Trump arriving in Green Bay in the garbage truck, then giving a speech in his fluorescent garbageman vest? Chef’s kiss!
But for my money, Tom Cotton – one of my favorite senators – won the internet by posting two side-by-side pics, one of Trump doing the fries at McDonald’s and the other of him in the garbage truck. His caption? “The Biden-Harris economy is so bad that seniors have to work two jobs just to make ends meet.” Bold move, Cotton!
4. Joe Biden’s covert strategy of “Project: Undermine the Cackler”
Kamala: DeSantis won’t take my calls, and he’s badly mishandling this hurricane!
Three… minutes… lay-tair… Biden: I just spoke to DeSantis, and he’s doing a great job!
Kamala: Trump is an evil fascist because he MIGHT jail his opponents in the future!
Three… minutes… lay-tair… Biden: We’ve got to lock him up!
Kamala: A no-name comedian at MSG compared Puerto Ricans to garbage. That’s Hitler talk!
Three… minutes… lay-tair… Biden: All Trump voters are garbage!
Man, that garbage story is – ironically – the gift that keeps on giving! I’ve loved watching the MSM twisting in the wind over it.
They first gave us a raft of good “Republicans Pounce” headlines (i.e., whenever a story is truly bad for the left, the MSM focuses not on the bad facts, but on the GOP reaction to those facts…which is always unfair and sleazy, according to the MSM).
Time’s headline said, “WH attempts clean-up after Biden appears to call Trump Supporters ‘garbage’.” So I guess now “Appears” = “you watched him say that.” Politico and others referred to “outrage” and “a firestorm” on the right, always moving the focus from the dehumanizing comments to the right’s reaction to them.
How much does fate seem to want to humiliate Que Mala? Over the last 4 years, roughly 98% of Biden’s sentences have been so slurred, garbled or otherwise defective that they could be understood by neither God nor man.
But the ONE TIME that the late President manages to excrete a grammatically correct and clearly understandable sentence, that sentence turns out to be a rhetorical torpedo aimed to strike perfectly amidships against the rusty starboard side of the sinking USS Cackler!
Here’s Biden’s statement, verbatim: “…Puerto Ricans in Delaware are good, decent, honorable people. The only garbage I see floating out there is his supporters. His, his, his demonization [slur][slur] seen as unconscionable…”
The Dem MSM hacks, bathed in flop sweat and desperately going over the video like it was the Zapruder film, came up with their own “magic bullet” theory: the phantom apostrophe. (Worst Star Wars sequel ever, by the way.)
You are probably saying to yourselves, “Oh, if only we had an English professor to provide a quick grammar refresher!” Fortunately for you, I am here to save the day. So let me get my white board and my marker out…
Okay. The desperate MSM weasels are arguing that when Biden said “supporters” he didn’t mean to use that word as a second noun that is equivalent to the first noun (“garbage”) in a sentence whose syntax is clearly comparative.
He instead meant that word to have an apostrophe after it, indicating possession; thus the Scranton wizard meant to say that “the garbage [he sees] is the supporters’ [garbage].”
That meaning is possible but not likely, for two reasons:
First, there are less ambiguous ways to indicate possession here, e.g. “The only garbage belongs to his supporters,” or “The only garbage comes from his supporters,” or “The only garbage is that of his supporters.”
Second, the much more common syntax to indicate possession puts the noun doing the possessing BEFORE the thing/quality being possessed.
For example:
“AOC’s juicy booty” (her words not mine)
“Michelle Obama’s prominent Adam’s apple” (that one’s a two-fer, with “Adam” possessing his “apple”)
“Tim Walz’s inept shotgun skills”
“Kamala’s room-temperature IQ” or
“Liz Warren’s laughably non-existent Indian heritage” (#wemustneverstopmockingher)
So the much more likely interpretation is that Biden was saying exactly what he appeared to be saying: “Trump’s supporters are garbage.”
Especially since that reading fits in perfectly with a years-long pattern of top Democrats slandering GOP/Trump voters with pejorative terms: deplorables, bitter clingers, fascists, Nazis, sexists, racists, bigots, homophobes, xenophobes, threats to democracy, etc. and etc.
Kamala’s closing argument is clear: “Joy has left the building; Trump is Hitler; most Americans are garbage.”
Fellow CO-ers, let’s wear their scorn proudly, and shout it from the rooftops: “We are the garbage CAN people, not the garbage CAN’T people!”
Go vote! Hamas (and Harris/Walz) delenda est!
Martin Simpson 