Let's Go Brandon Meme Travels Across The Northern Border

This is rather interesting:

Canadian federal government public servants may no longer send in written form, including email, colloquialisms with double entendres that may be considered "offensive"  and most especially they cannot write: "Let's Go Brandon" which was most specifically called out.

 

Interesting as one must wonder how many Canadian federal government workers  are ticked off enough at the Biden admin over everything from the Us/Canada Border to Keystone, to Afghanistan, to be writing Let's Go Brandon in their missives for this to be an issue that gets into a memo.

Also interesting as how the Public Service Alliance of Canada, the union for the same bureaucrats is, per the letter, fully on board with their members being terminated immediately without recourse for something as simple as a double entendre or Let's Go Brandon.    If I were one of their members, I'd be rather cross at this lack of appropriate representation.

So, Who Ya Gonna Believe? The Reporter Or Your Lyin' Ears?

So the reporter claims the crowd is chanting "Let's Go Brandon".

No, that is clearly not what the crowd is chanting. 

Nor would it make sense for them to be chanting "Let's Go Brandon" at that point.

Good attempt at covering for Biden and his lack of popularity though.

Given that it's spread throughout multiple University sportsball games of various types, and even at the Ryder Cup, the #FJB movement has certainly got some momentum behind it.

Brace Yourselves: Krugman Forecasts A Bright Economic Future.

This is the same Krugman who pontificated upon President Trump's election and the question of when the market will recover stated:

It really does now look like President Donald J. Trump, and markets are plunging. When might we expect them to recover?

Frankly, I find it hard to care much, even though this is my specialty. The disaster for America and the world has so many aspects that the economic ramifications are way down my list of things to fear.

Still, I guess people want an answer: If the question is when markets will recover, a first-pass answer is never.

Not a particularly good prognostication, that, and it didn't age well, at all.

So hang onto your hats, as his first-pass answer in the New York Times to a Biden win is the circumstances

suggests that Joe Biden will eventually preside over a soaring, “morning in America”-type recovery.

This may be a case of a stopped clock being right twice a day, and right on this prediction, or he may be as right as he was regarding Trump's election and the economy -- and his guess then missed it by over a mile. 

But, if we go by Krugman's track record on such things, expect a recession or a major slump shortly.

Of course, after laying out in detail all the reasons why such a recovery will have nothing to do with Biden or his policies, but due to the nature of the pandemic and recovery from it, he then states Biden and progressive policies should take full credit for it, naturally.  

He also gets lots of shots in at Trump and Republicans but after all that's expected of Krugman - a man more often wrong than not, but never in doubt.

No, That's Not How That Works

Now that Biden is the presumptive president-elect.  People are imagining what his policies will be like once he emerges from the basement and sees or does not see his shadow.

USA Today: Biden's approach to tackling COVID-19 will be dramatically different, and quickly apparent

Of course the article argues that Biden will be much more scienc-y in his dealing with Covid 19.  

It claims he will be a much better communicator and of course use the best science.  

But then it really starts to go off the rails and argues he legally can require a national mask mandate:

Biden has said he would be in favor of requiring every American to wear a mask when in a public place or business.

Some question whether the president would have the authority to do that, given the limitations on federal executive power. But Dr. Michael Ewer, a visiting professor in the Health Law and Policy Institute at the University of Houston Law Center, says Biden does.

"He has the power to say we will have a more uniform approach to public health measures," Ewer said. There will be people who oppose that, he said, but "do they have a leg to stand on legitimately? The answer is, from a public health standpoint, almost certainly not."

The answer from a legal standpoint, pace the professor,  is most certainly YES there is a leg to stand on.  So, what legal basis does this professor of Health Law and Policy argues that lets a president enforce a national mask mandate?

The Constitution gives the federal government the power to protect the general welfare, Ewer said, and the courts have generally supported restrictions on individual rights to that end. Seatbelt and no-smoking laws are examples.

Blink.  And this guy is a law professor and he's raising the general welfare clause canard and seatbelt and no-smoking laws as examples? Seriously?

The general welfare clause of the constitution is not a blank check to the Federal Government to do whatever it wishes, it's a spending power, not a regulatory one.  Nor have the courts "generally supported restrictions on individual rights to that end".

Seabelt laws are actually set at the state level and encouraged by the Federal government through threats of withholding funding for related items (highway funding in the case of seatbelt laws).  No-smoking areas are similarly set by the states, or if a federal building the federal government to regulate their own property.

While Biden could conceivably find some constitutionally approved hook to restrict state spending unless in return requiring the states to pass laws for compliance with a mask mandate such as perhaps some medicare funding or such. But, it is not going to constitutionally fly to just claim he can order the entire nation to wear a mask and it can be done under the general welfare clause.

Not that the progressives ever let the constitution stand in their way or anything but this guy is a law professor of all things and really should know better. After all, this is first-year law school stuff.

Sheesh.

There's A Disconnect Between What J.Q. Public Thinks The Cops Can Do, And What They Actually Can Do

The riots and protests in Philly, and subsequent pandering by the Biden campaign over the incident are a result of the ignorant believing the cops should have done something other than shoot a mentally-ill man coming at them with a knife.

Of course the Biden campaign decided this was the pre-election BLM moment to seize upon:

Yep, they are absolutely convinced that a man who happened to be Black, and was in the process of attacking officers with a knife had a life that "mattered".  It's rather clear they believe the police officers lives (at least one of whom involved also happened to be Black) don't matter.

 

Already people are stating Wallace was 12 feet away from the police when they shot him and the knife couldn't reach them from there so they shouldn't have shot him as he wasn't close enough.  John Q Public doesn't know about and has never seen a Tueller drill.

We already have the Wallace family playing the ghetto lottery and announcing a wrongful death suit claiming the cops should have done something else other than shooting Wallace while he was attacking him, claiming he was "assassinated".  

 

No, that word does not mean what they think it means.

The Wallace family, the Biden campaign, et al., expected the cops to do "something else" when faced by a man advancing on them with a knife.

Partially, this is because there is a tremendous disconnect between what the public thinks the police are trained and able to do and what they are actually trained and able to do. 

 

Hence the commenters with "He was 12 feet away", "Why didn't they just shoot the knife out of his hand?", or just per Biden "shoot him in the leg?" or, “Why didn’t you just close with him and use your hand to hand skills to get the knife out of his hand?, you could have easily done that right and no one would get hurt, right?”

The public thinks police are trained to be super-marksmen, experts at martial arts, and able to ensure compliance with no one getting hurt if they just want that to happen by words alone. 

 

Partially this is due to politicians claiming just let the police handle it as they are the “professionals”. Then add Hollywood to the mix and the average person thinks all cops are trained to be super-SWAT black belts that can't miss and can disarm someone with the flick of a wrist, and it’s easy to see where this misapprehension comes from.

Instead, in reality most police get minimal training in hand to hand skills, barely any refresher training in those skills, and just adequate training in firearms. 

Reality also dictates going hand-to-hand against a person armed with a knife is going to most likely result in the officer getting cut, perhaps very badly.

 

The average person also doesn’t realize how dangerous a crazed individual with a knife can be. 

 

Reality also dictates that just shooting them in the leg or shooting the knife out of their hand is not going to work in real life how Hollywood makes it appear. The officer is going to miss, or maybe instead hit and the attacker will likely bleed out via their femoral artery in their leg, or the brachial artery in their arm.

In short, the public's ignorance, encouraged by the media and politicians, lead them to think police can do what they currently cannot and they get outraged when reality doesn't meet their fantasy impression of how a situation should be resolved.  Throw in a little race baiting and you get riots as a result.

Detroit Free Press Finds No News That Looks Bad to Democrats Fit To Print

No news that makes Biden and his Dem supporters look bad graces the pages of the Detroit Free Press these days.

First, just like CNN, the Detroit Free Press couldn't find the Bobulinski interview and story revealing Joe Biden's rather corrupt goings on with his son and foreign governments if their lives depended on it:

Riots happening in Philadelphia?  What Riots In Philadelphia?

Biden's statement in the debate on ending the oil industry? - forget it Jake, it's the Freep.

Yep, it's truly Iowahawk's world:

Looks Like Biden Has Some 'Splainin' To Do

So it now looks like what Trump was accused of and impeached for regarding Ukraine - Joe Biden actually did, and profited from it through his son as well.

Instapundit: COLLUSION: Smoking-gun email reveals how Hunter Biden introduced Ukrainian businessman to VP dad.

I daresay Hunter Biden is kicking himself now for failing to pickup that laptop.  

 The emails show Joe Biden was lying about not knowing about his son's business dealings in Ukraine.  It also ties together nicely his extortion of Ukraine over firing the prosecutor investigating Burisma while Hunter Biden sat on the board of Burisma.

A Biden own-goal October surprise - but only if anyone takes notice and if the media cares to cover it and for now it seems the New York Post is the sole media outlet gicving this attention.

Interesting how neither the Detroit News nor the Detroit Free Press make any mention of this rather damning discovery.  Had such damning emails about Trump come to light right now they would have been top-story, front-web-page news.

Bidenmentia: My Pick For VP is So Secret, I Don't Even Know Who it Is!

The Detroit Free Press: Joe Biden: I 'honest to God don't know who' VP pick will be

One would think he'd be moving along with this choice, as the pick would earn him some media attention when he's otherwise been nowhere to be found. But, so far he hasn't a clue who his advisors think will poll best as his running mate.

Tellingly, he actually declared that "no one has been vetted yet."

So after all this time and his many announcements about having a woman VP he hasn't gotten the task of vetting potential candidates going yet? Seriously?

An interesitng thing to say when news reportes are suggesting otherwise: Klobuchar reportedly being vetted to be Joe Biden’s running mate

Either he's lying on the lack of vetting, or he really is waiting for the winds to blow, and the polls and the various factions in the Democratic Party to come out with their choice of Vice President.

Bidenmentia: No, You Can't Leave The Democrat Plantation!

Democrats generally think the have a lock on the Black vote. The Dems expect and demand that they are entitled to having Blacks to get in line and vote D, and woe betide any Black person that dares leave the Democrat fold.

But they generally don't come right out and say that.

Joe Biden just let the mask slip and came right out and said it.

USA Today: Joe Biden, in testy interview, says 'you ain’t black’ if you're undecided over him vs. Trump

Charlamagne then urged Biden to visit when he came to New York and added, "It’s a long way until November. We've got more questions."

That was when Biden retorted: "If you have a problem figuring out whether you’re for me or Trump, then you ain’t black."

It follows well the Democrats track record that anyone on their plantation can't really be that genuine person if they dare vote otherwise.

A woman is a "gender traitor" if she votes republican, Blacks are traitors if they vote Republican.

You need to earn every vote, you should not feel entitled to it, especially counting on it due to the voter's race or gender.

Fun to see Biden come out in public and say that entitlement belief out loud.

Democrats Want Deeds Not Words

So let me get this straight.

The Dems want to throw out the guy who years ago talked about “Grabbing them by the pussy” with such language being beyond the pale for them and now they want to replace him with Biden who allegedly actually did grab ‘em by the pussy.

Gotta love the consistency.

So That's Why Clinton Allegations Are Resurfacing Now

The Detroit Free Press: Joe Biden vs. Donald Trump in 2020? Poll predicts winner

The Democrat establishment seems to be trying to clear away the obstacles, namely a very large one named Hillary Clinton, for Joe Biden to run as the Democrat establishment candidate in 2020.

If former Vice President Joe Biden is thinking about a run for president in 2020, there's reason to believe he could do well against President Donald Trump. On Wednesday, polling firm Morning Consult and the publication POLITICO put out a survey showing Biden leading Trump 46% to 35% in a hypothetical race between the two for president in 2020.

Of course whether the creepy Uncle Joe allegations slow down the Biden train, or his numerous gaffes. Biden's gaffes, even as the media will likely go full court-press to cover for him. are the gifts from the git that keep on giving.

Biden's latest but likely base-pleasing gaffe that the hero who stopped the church shooting using an AR15 should not have been allowed to have an AR15 will go over well with the anti-gun elites in the party. But, the gaffe likely cost him in the election as gun control and gun bans don't seem to be playing nor polling well.

Of course, these same polling organizations that claim Biden will win it in 2020 are the very same ones that proclaimed Hillary! was inevitably going to take it in a walk.

That didn't quite happen, and any proclamations of an inevitable Biden victory should be taken with a very large, gaffe and creepy crusted grain of salt.

You Know The Ukraine Is A Lost Cause When Obama Sends Biden To Demonstrate Support

Instead of sending something or even someone useful, Obama sends the Ukraine.....Biden.

No word yet on whether Biden told them to just use a shotgun if armed men break into their border.

The Detroit News: Biden in Ukraine to show support as tensions rise

Vice President Joe Biden on Monday launched a high-profile visit to demonstrate the U.S. commitment to Ukraine and push for urgent implementation of an international agreement aimed at de-escalating tensions even as violence continues.

Biden planned to meet Tuesday with government leaders who took over after pro-Russia Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych was ousted in February following months of protests. The White House said President Barack Obama and Biden agreed he should make the two-day visit to the capital city to send a high-level signal of support for reform efforts being pushed the new government.

Yeah, Ukraine is hosed.

Democrat Cognitive Dissonance On Women And Guns

In actuality it is probably not cognitive dissonance as they are too ignorant and stupid to realize thier views conflict.

Democrat Thought 1: Women can't handle AR-15s.

According to Democrats, AR-15s are just too hard for women, the poor dears, to operate.

Democrat Rep Carolyn McCarthy: A Rifle Better for Women’s Self Defense Than AR-15s.
Let's take a moment to celebrate Rep McCarthy's (she of the shoulder-thing-that-goes-up) ignorance here - an AR15 IS a rifle. Indeed, it is easier to use with lower recoil and easier operating procedures than traditional hunting rifles.

Democrat Vice President Biden: You don't need an AR-15, it's harder to aim, it's harder to use.

According to Biden an AR-15 is harder to use than a double barreled shotgun. Not true. The AR15 not only has significantly less recoil than a double-barreled shotgun, but is more accurate, handier, and holds more shots than the two shells of a double-barreled shotgun.

Democrat Thought 2: Women should be able to serve in combat in the military and can handle M-4s.

Both VP Biden and Rep Carolyn McCarthy are strong proponents of letting women serve in combat positions.

The M-4, the fully automatic version of the AR-15, has the same weight and the same operating mechanism of the AR-15, but with the added complexity of a selector switch that moves to (oh how difficult!)a third position for burst or fully automatic fire rather than the (simpler!) two position switch on the AR-15.

How in the world will the poor females in the military handle such a complex firearm?

I know, they'll get a man to help!

According to these Democrats, women are both strong, independent persons able to serve in combat and stand on their own, yet at the same time they are too helpless, dumb and weak to operate what is really a very simple device in their own defense - the same device they would be issued with in the military to serve in combat.

Yes, these Democrat idiots are busy making laws to infringe our rights while being completely ignorant of the subject matter, not to mention being both insulting to, and dismissive of American women at the same time.

VP Biden Getting Second String Drivers Or Just A Ploy To Nationalize The Auto Insurance Industry?

Gaffe-prone Vice President Joe Biden also seems to have quite the accident prone motorcade: Fox News: Biden's Motorcade Involved in Vancouver Accident Injuring Two

Biden's motorcade is racking up quite the score: Huffington Post: Joe Biden's Security Detail In Car Crash In New York (dated Nov 17 09)-

This is the third car accident involving Biden's motorcade or security detail in less than a week. On November 11th, a pedestrian was struck and killed by two Secret Service employees in Temple Hills, MD. In another incident yesterday, a sheriff's deputy was hit by a car while escorting Biden's motorcade in New Mexico.

Transporting Biden seems to be a risk factor far greater than using a cell phone while driving, and likely could count as operating while impaired.

After essentially nationalizing the US car industry, if Joe Biden's drivers keep this up, Obama's going to have to nationalize the US Auto Insurance industry to cover the losses.