This might have to be a three-column week for me, because the pace of odd political stories is increasing. So here goes.
Because I have a weak stomach, I limited my live exposure to Biden’s State of the Union speech, but I’ve read some more excerpts and coverage, and have a few more thoughts.
To start, I don’t know why any Supreme Court justices still come to the SOTU. Only six of the nine showed up this time, but that’s still six too many. There may have been a reason for the highest court to be on hand for the SOTU back in the day, but ever since Obama lied about a recent ruling and insulted them to their faces in 2010, they should have all stopped attending.
When Biden brought up abortion, he addressed them directly, and – unexpectedly! – both angrily and incomprehensibly. This is a transcript, which I only wish I were making up: “With all due respect, justices, women are not without electric–…electoral power, excuse me, without electoral or political power. You’re about to realize zzhh ow mush (which I think was supposed to be “just how much”)…
I put the ellipses in at the end because it seems like Biden stopped there, and that’s not a grammatical end to a sentence.
I actually do like prefacing a statement with “with all due respect,” because what follows is inevitably never respectful. Which makes the point pretty artfully: I’m going to treat this next point about someone with all the respect it is rightfully due, which is none at all.
I’m going to try to start working that phrase into my columns more often.
Biden used that phrase in his typically hostile way, but he showed that he doesn’t even know how to threaten correctly. His point seemed to be that since women have so much electoral power, the justices will regret opposing them – even though judges are supposed to interpret the law, not react to political power – before he ends with what he wants to be an ominous warning about the electoral consequences of taking a supposedly unpopular position.
Does he think SCOTUS judges are elected? Because if so… yikes!
Thankfully, all of the justices gave him the stink eye – even the three far-left ones – and the awkwardness of insulting people who are restrained by decorum from punching back cannot have played well with anyone who’s not already a hateful far-left loon.
Especially since the Dems played to their stereotype throughout the night. In a speech full of lies, they weren’t perturbed at all. But the one time when Biden accidentally told the truth – calling Laken Riley’s murderer “an illegal” – they became outraged!
And then Biden, because his spine is made of melting ice cream, apologized for calling an illegal alien murderer “illegal.”
Also, is everybody else as confused as I am about his comments about “Lincoln” Riley?
I don’t mean the part about how he couldn’t get her name right, even when he was surrounded by people with big buttons with her name on them.
I mean what he said next: “But how many thousands of people being killed by illegals?”
What? That’s not a sentence, and it doesn’t make sense.
It could mean something like, “How about all the many others who are being killed by illegals? Why don’t we say their names?” And if that’s what he meant, more power to him! Let’s start publicizing the names and stories of ALL the innocent Americans robbed, raped or killed by the millions of unvetted illegals the left’s open border is responsible for.
Or it could mean, “There AREN’T thousands of others being killed by illegals.” In which case, the entire sentient world cries, “Malarky!” And let’s loose the hounds of fact-checking.
All that being said, I do see two positives that came out of the SOTU:
1. Biden missed a great chance to get his speech off on a good foot: a bunch of pro-Hamas protestors block his car on the way there and he didn’t run them over. He should remember that at the end of your life (which for him came around 3 years ago), it’s not the things that you did that you regret, so much as the things you didn’t do.
And he didn’t order his driver to run over those Hamas-holes.
That would have been such a win-win! Every normal American would cheer as the hateful little narcissists went careening off (or under) the car. Plus, Biden couldn’t get in any trouble for any deaths or injuries, because his attorneys could use the precedent of the Hur defense: you can’t charge this guy, because he’s obviously out of his gourd!
2. The MSM and Dem hacks (but I repeat myself) have been out touting his SOTU like crazy, pointing to a positive reaction to the speech in polls. (Though as a columnist on RedState pointed out, it was the smallest positive rating of any SOTU since they started being rated.) They’re able to do so because the bar had been set so low that Biden managed to trip and fall forward over the metaphorical sandbag of the super-low expectations.
Which is great for us, because as I’ve said before, our best hope is that Biden does just well enough to stay in the race, and not get swapped out for anyone with higher ratings than him. (And there’s only one person in the solar system who is NOT in that category, and her name rhymes with Shamala Sharris.)
On another topic, beleaguered California has at least gotten a little bit of good news this past week: two of the most egregious leftist pols in the country – and that is saying something – both lost primary contests this week. Horrible whitey-hater Barbara Lee and staff-abusing dim bulb Katie Porter both went down to highly entertaining defeats on Tuesday.
Lee had left her long-time House seat to run for Dianne Feinstein’s Senate seat. You may remember Feinstein from the way she spent her last months on earth under her daughter’s conservatorship, because she was non compos mentis — and yet well enough to be a Democrat US Senator.
Great job, California voters!
At 75, Lee was clearly too old to run again, and yet she did so anyway.
I’m sorry. My crack staff is telling me that it’s not her age, but her IQ that is 75. Sorry about that.
Her age is 77. So, yeah. Too old to run for office. (We’re making an exception for Trump, but only because he’s 27 years younger than his opponent.)
Katie Porter was running for the same Senate office.
You may remember her for sitting in front of a white board full of gibberish and speaking nonsense, or perhaps for abusing her staff the way Hillary did Bill, when behind closed doors and after the newest young secretary burst out of Bill’s office, running away at full speed and furiously rubbing her bottom.
Well, in a race in which the top two contenders go into a run-off, Babs Lee came in fourth, and Katie Porter came in third. And in even better news, Republican Steve Garvey came in second.
The bad news is that he’s up against Adam Schiff, and it’s California. So Pencil-Neck will almost certainly be the new Senator from CA, and Californians will continue to get what they’ve voted for, good and hard.
Still, we need to take good news wherever we can find it in those big blue states, and at least we had the pleasure of watching two horrible leftists leave their House seats and then get humiliated in their attempt at the Senate.
Speaking of arrogant lefties getting what’s coming to them, even if you appreciate normalcy, you probably have heard of RuPaul, who is a famous drag queen. You know, the same way Liz Warren is a famous drag Indian. (#wemustneverstopmockingher)
On March 4th, RuPaul announced that he had launched an online bookstore called Allstora, which will NOT ban books, in protest against conservatives’ rabid desire to ban books. Even though conservatives have not been trying to ban books, which would involve trying to stop a book from being published.
No, conservatives are just weirdos who don’t want taxpayer money being spent on gay – or straight! – porn for school libraries. Unbelievably enough, they really don’t want their kids reading any books that include graphic details about how to sexually service creepy older people.
Even though, with all due respect, that describes the first several chapters of Que Mala’s political autobiography.
Anyway, RuPaul tooted his own horn (and I don’t know gay slang, so if that’s a euphemism, I apologize) by saying that his fabulous new bookstore would be “a marketplace for all books and all stories.”
Annnnndddd… within one day of being opened, RuPaul’s bookstore started getting hit by an avalanche of protests and requests to “ban” books. But break out your sad trombone – again, that sounds like it could be gay slang, so mea culpa? – because it turns out that all of those protests came from… wait for it… “progressive” book banners!
Unexpectedly!
And a few days later, RuPaul tucked his tail between his legs (sorry for that mental image) and caved, agreeing to put scary red warnings on books by conservatives, and even agreeing to remove some books by some firebrand conservatives such as Elon Musk.
Who, as you might have noticed, is not even a conservative.
So great job, self-styled “defenders of democratic values.” You’ve made the point obviously clear: the intolerant people who want to dictate what others read are… leftists!
Hamas delenda est!
Martin Simpson 