In last week’s Five Quick Things entry, we discussed a wild, eventful, and, for conservatives, on balance pretty successful week. Well, that was nothing compared to what we’ve had the last few days, no?
Put it this way — when it comes to culture, politics, and economics, those guys on the left really aren’t having a very good time of it right now. And until the Republican Party can bumble its way into being an organization unified and competent enough to lead the American revival we need so badly, a process that won’t really begin until some old establishmentarians finally depart from the scene, the best we can do is to take Sun Tzu’s advice.
Namely, to wait by the river.
Which seems to be working. To wit…
I said this at RVIVR Thursday, but the nonstop stream of revelations and confirmations coming both out of the congressional hearings on the Biden Bribes scandal and the failure that was the Hunter Biden plea deal shouldn’t necessarily signal to you that a Watergate-style implosion is coming. You probably shouldn’t take the same kind of political glee, if you’re on the right, that the Left did at the height of the Trump–Russia hoax kerfuffle.
The difference being two things. First, this isn’t a hoax. Joe Biden and his brother and son were without a doubt running an influence-peddling operation and raking in laughably gigantic sums of money from some seriously seedy sources in parts of the world where bribery of public officials is the way things are done. And it’s the worst-hidden public crime in modern memory.
But second, they’re Democrats — and in Washington, you just don’t get Democrats willing to enforce ethical or even legal standards on other Democrats. So the chances the Deep State would roll the Bidens over still aren’t very good.
Even so … wow.
Joe Biden through his son Hunter, it appears to anybody willing to use their eyesight, shook down Ukrainian natural gas company Burisma for some $10 million in exchange for pressuring that country’s government to fire a prosecutor who was looking into corruption that likely involved Hunter’s sweetheart arrangement that involved a seat on the company board. Biden then publicly bragged about getting the prosecutor fired at an appearance in front of the Council on Foreign Relations, which put the entire affair on the radar. And when then-President Donald Trump asked that the Ukrainians cooperate with an investigation into these pretty wide-open shenanigans, he was impeached by the Democrats in the House of Representatives.
My theory, expressed in the RVIVR piece, is that the reason this stuff was so wide open and so poorly disguised was that Biden assumed, in the latter part of Barack Obama’s second term, that his political career was over and the bribe-taking was his way of cleaning up on his way out of power. Grab all you can and then head into retirement, and Hillary Clinton will succeed Obama and make sure the statute of limitations runs out before anybody can charge you for any of the crimes you committed along the way.
But when Trump won the 2016 election, that became very problematic. The Bidens hadn’t covered their tracks at all.
I have an addendum to the theory, which is that this explains why Joe Biden ran for president in 2020 despite having nothing near the mental or physical capacity to run a campaign, much less do the job. A Trump second term would have almost certainly put him under indictment, and Biden probably wouldn’t have been alone.
Just something to think about.
By the way, I’m not a particular Kevin McCarthy fan, and I’m more than a little irritated at the failure to move impeachment proceedings on the worst members of his Cabinet (Mayorkas, Lloyd Austin, Jake Sullivan, P-Butt, Granholm, Merrick Garland). McCarthy has so far denied that he’ll let the House impeach Biden. But this week he’s beginning to say something different, and in response to a stupid question from a reporter he let loose what might have been his best moment as House speaker:
OOF: Kevin McCarthy just calmly ripped this reporter to shreds for twisting his words. pic.twitter.com/m9dSNXDdCU
— Townhall.com (@townhallcom) July 27, 2023
You can’t be a Third World kleptocrat leader without having an army of ferocious praetorians, and it seems like Team Biden has those in both the two- and four-legged variety.
You already know that the First Family’s dog is about as out of control as Hunter is, at least when it comes to taking little chunks out of Secret Service agents:
President Biden’s nearly 2-year-old German shepherd Commander bit seven people in a four-month span after former first dog Major was ousted from the White House over similar aggressive behavior, according to internal Secret Service records reviewed by The Post.
The shocking spate of incidents involving Commander — none of them previously reported — mirrors attacks involving Major, who the White House says was given to family friends after biting many Secret Service members in 2021.
In the most serious documented incident, the White House physician’s office on Nov. 3, 2022, referred a Secret Service uniformed officer to a local hospital for treatment after Commander clamped down on their arm and thigh, according to emails released under the Freedom of Information Act to conservative legal group Judicial Watch.
Commander broke the skin of a different Secret Service member’s hand and arm weeks later after the president unleashed him outside the White House following a family movie night, communications indicate — and the following month, Commander bit the back of a security technician at Biden’s Wilmington, Del., home.
So this is two Biden dogs that won’t stop biting people.
Silver lining: there’s finally some context around Washington’s NFL team. Commanders was almost as bad as the Cleveland Guardians for a bland, anodyne team mascot, but now the new owners can draw up a logo of a rabid German shepherd ready to chomp down on somebody’s extremities.
But Team Biden’s two-legged attack dogs are just as active. Here’s a disturbing story:
Bill Stevenson, ex-husband of Jill Biden, tells Greg Kelly how Joe Biden weaponized the government against him following his divorce with Jill.
MORE: https://t.co/THDyCLFyl8 pic.twitter.com/ANvomQnqbm
— NEWSMAX (@NEWSMAX) July 27, 2023
These are the scummiest people ever to occupy the White House. They’re going to need a fumigator and an exorcist when Joe and Jill and the rest of the mob scurry back to Delaware.
On Wednesday there was a two-hour House hearing on the question of UAPs, or UFOs as many of us prefer to call them, starring David Grusch, the former intelligence officer of the federal government’s UAP task force. Grusch doesn’t appear to be a nut by any means, but the things he’s saying would, at least up until not that long ago, mark him as an absolute loon.
Among the things he offered up:
Grusch’s testimony at the hearing largely mirrored an interview he did with News Nation that is worth a watch if you have the time…
I’m somebody who’s long been a skeptic about all of this. A while back, when this stuff began to really percolate in the national media, I noted that a century ago we looked at unexplained occurrences in places like Fatima and Medjugorje and saw a spiritual source, and I’m not convinced we should dismiss that in favor of space aliens.
But Grusch’s testimony, which he can’t substantiate, he says, because the physical evidence is classified, would point to something like the existence of non-human or extraterrestrial intelligence. So OK, let’s entertain this for a minute.
I won’t take too long with this, but Grusch has said the government has flat-out lied to us about UFOs for almost a century. And if he’s correct, while I’d normally be outraged about the obfuscation and lying, in this case I can live with it.
We’re going to make a big cultural thing about all of this, but here’s the truth: if there is a civilization out there capable of traveling through time and/or space to get here, there is absolutely zero reason to believe they’re friendly. We’ve been sending out radio signals for close to a half-century in an effort to communicate with whoever is out there, and so far there’s no response.
They’re apparently just here, flying around. And sometimes crashing. Until they decide to do something else.
The history of contact between advanced civilizations and primitive civilizations is not favorable to primitive civilizations. And that’s us.
The fact that the government is hiding so much of this tells me that there would be real reason to panic if we knew everything. There are worse things out there than the Deep State.
Which is not an endorsement of the Deep State.
We already had the episode in which Mitch McConnell injured himself in a fall at a hotel, and this week we had a disturbing mental freeze while the octogenarian Republican Senate leader was attempting to give a speech.
There’s more even than that going on:
Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) reportedly tripped and fell while disembarking a plane earlier this month, weeks before his unfortunate freeze incident on Wednesday.
Two sources familiar with the fall incident confirmed to NBC News that it happened at Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport, adding that he sustained no serious injuries and resumed business as usual that day.
“The fall, which has not been previously reported, occurred July 14 after the flight out of Washington was canceled while everyone was on board,” NBC noted. “McConnell who was a passenger, had a ‘face plant,’ someone who was on the plane at the time but did not witness the fall told NBC News. That passenger also said they spoke to another passenger who helped tend to McConnell.”
The U.S. senator has resorted to using a wheelchair when navigating crowded airports as a precaution. A survivor of polio, he has a history of difficult falls and “sustained a concussion and a cracked rib in a fall in Washington this year,” causing him to spend six weeks away from the Senate.
It’s time that we impose either term limits or a mandatory retirement age on Congress and other federal offices. Between Biden, Dianne Feinstein, McConnell, and others, we have a government made up of codgers who can’t remain upright.
Enough already.
I don’t know what to make of this, but Barack Obama’s personal chef was found in a public pond at Martha’s Vineyard, just yards away from Obama’s compound on that island.
And it’s suspicious, but of course we’re told by the regime media that there’s nothing to see here…
The social media platform X, newly renamed from Twitter, is hosting wild conspiracy theories without evidence claiming that there was foul play in the death of the Obamas’ personal chef on a Martha’s Vineyard pond.
The platform has pulled back many of the rules it once had around misinformation under owner Elon Musk, who acquired Twitter last year while vowing to make speech as free as possible.
The Massachusetts State Police called the death of Tafari Campbell, 45, an accident after divers recovered his body Monday from Edgartown Great Pond, about 100 feet from shore. Former President Barack Obama and his wife, Michelle, who own a house there, were not home, police said in a statement.
Right-wing figures cast doubt without evidence on the police statement and found a home for their views on the website X, the new name for Twitter after Musk rebranded it Sunday. A post in which Ian Miles Cheong, an online pundit, asked followers what they thought “really happened” got 5.6 million views on X.
A post from the X account @libsoftiktok noted that the pond is 8 feet deep where Campbell was found and that he had posted swimming videos on Instagram — facts other people said in replies indicated he was killed. That post had more than 14.5 million views.
There is no reason you should believe anything you’re told about this. Which is not to say that there’s something sinister here.
Or that there isn’t.
Because between the Biden bribes and the UFOs and practically everything else we see lately, any relationship between the truth and what you’re told is mostly coincidental.
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