New York lawfare

Jonathan Turley: "Alvin Bragg has his Trump trial, All he Needs Now is a Crime." 

Biden won't debate

Dementia Joe had another Ron Burgundy moment today: "Biden appears to read script instructions out loud in latest teleprompter gaffe: 'Four more years, pause'."

No worries!  The "Oceania has always been at war with East Asia" crew is on the job: "'Redacting Reality': WH Transcript Runs Cover After Joe 'Ron Burgundy' Biden's Teleprompter Struggle."

Every Biden appearance is choreographed, scripted and staged down to every notecard and teleprompter prompt and still he can't get through a single event without a gaffe.  Standing on a stage without a binder full of laminated pages?  It will never happen.

Biden won't debate.

The secret echo chamber

Ace: "Journ-O-List 2.0: Fake Reporters "Covering" the Trump Trials Get Together on Weekly Zoom Calls to Coordinate Their Biased Stories."

It is totally unsurprising that always-wrong Harvard professor Laurence Tribe is at the center of this circle jerk.  He's been pretty quiet since his stance of "of course Colorado can throw Trump off the ballot!" was smacked down by a unanimous Supreme Court.

The revenge of Tulsi Gabbard

Community Notes for the win 🏆 pic.twitter.com/Kdot46Uv2W

— End Wokeness (@EndWokeness) April 21, 2024

Banana republic clown show

Ringside at the Reckoning: "How bad is Alvin Bragg's Manhattan prosecution? - Worse than you thought, because it will do more long-term damage than you thought."

In case you missed it, these charges are based on Trump lying to his own account register to commit a "crime" in 2017 to interfere in the 2016 election.

It’s worth noting that federal Special Counsel Jack Smith, no one’s version of a wallflower, chose not to go after Trump for the supposed federal campaign finance violation.

If this matter did not so seriously threaten our faith in law, I’d have to laugh, honestly. This really is like putting someone on trial for lying to his diary.

And, by the way, it's interesting that this prosecution for something that happened seven years ago is just now making its way to a courtroom, right in the middle of the Presidential campaign season.

Must be a coincidence. 

Cannibals ate my uncle

Federalist: "We’re So Sorry, Uncle Bosie: Biden’s Latest Trip Down Dementia Lane Is A Doozy." - "Biden’s whopper about his war hero uncle eaten by cannibals exposes bigger problems than his longtime trouble with the truth." 

Columbia surrenders to Hamas sympathizers

Hot Air: "Columbia Switches to Fully Remote Classes; UPDATE: Faculty Walkout in Support of Protesters."

As somebody quipped: do they get their student loans forgiven before or after the "Death to America" chants?

For a second, imagine that black students at Columbia were taunted with chants of "Go back to Africa."

Or imagine that a gay student at Yale was surrounded by homophobic protesters and hit in the eye with a flagpole.

Or imagine if a campus imam told Muslim students that they…

— Bari Weiss (@bariweiss) April 22, 2024

Always wrong, never in doubt

Legal Insurrection: "LA Mayor Begs the Wealthy to Help Buy Housing for the Homeless - Karen Bass now frames socialism as an “unprecedented partnership”."

Los Angeles had passed a "mansion tax" back in 2022 to stick it to Richie Rich and help pay for homeless programs.  To the surprise of absolutely nobody, real estate transactions plummeted and the tax only raised 22% of its original projection.

These people never learn.  

Trump knows how to work a crowd

Daily Beast: "Trump’s Bodega Visit Should Scare the Heck Out of Democrats."

On the other hand, Biden never has to worry about a crowd being around.

Haphazardly and irresponsibly

Boston Globe: "How Massachusetts spent nearly $1 billion sheltering homeless families and migrants."

In the scramble to accommodate thousands of migrant families, the Healey administration has approved scores of hastily arranged contracts with little transparency, sometimes handing out multimillion-dollar deals without competitive bids, a Globe review of contracts found.

Hey, Massachusetts has plenty of money for non-citizens.

Democracy is at stake!

Dementia Joe: "Trump will end democracy."

Also Dementia Joe: "I'm going to ignore the Supreme Court and try to jail my opponent." 

Democrats lie - repeatedly - about inflation

Defund NPR

USA Today: "NPR editor quit after telling the truth about liberal bias in media. It's time to defund them. - NPR in recent years has gone from being something I enjoy to something that more often than not leaves me shaking my head." 

This NY Times editorial is something else

And yet oh-so typical for the Times: "Donald Trump and American justice."

The former and possibly future president of the United States is now on trial in Lower Manhattan, the first criminal prosecution of an American elected to the nation’s highest office. Donald Trump, who relentlessly undermined the justice system while in office and since, is enjoying the same protections and guarantees of fairness and due process before the law that he sought to deny to others during his term.

How did Trump undermine justice as President?  The editorial never deigns to explain or offer any examples.  It's just taken as a given.

This is what it's like in the groupthink bubble where a dissenting viewpoint is not allowed.

Clown show PolitiFact doing what they do

Newsbusters: "PolitiFact Refuses To Give Rubio 'True' Rating For True Statement."

PolitiFact resorts to the classic "acksually" tactic whenever a Republican says something that is 100% true.

Biden won't debate

The talking points are out and the trial balloons have been launched!

Boston Globe: "Have presidential debates outlived their usefulness? - There are better ways for the public to hear from presidential candidates. I say good riddance to the televised presidential debate."

The Atlantic: "Why Biden Should Not Debate Trump - The networks want their show, but to give the challenger equal status on a TV stage would be a dire normalization of his attempted coup."

And here's Jim Geraghty in response: "The Justifications and Excuses for Biden Skipping Debates Start to Pile Up"

Biden is free to make any decision he likes, but those who oppose Trump shouldn’t fool themselves about the way many voters will interpret a decision like that. If the 81-year-old Biden refuses to participate in debates later this year, many Americans will conclude that it’s because he’s too old and that either he or his staff fears what Biden would say, or how he would appear, over the course of three 90-minute presidential debates. Yes, Biden looked fired up in his most recent State of the Union address, but in the end, all Biden had to do was read off a teleprompter and pause for applause. Debates are much tougher, and the opportunities for gaffes and unflattering moments are plentiful.

My feeling is that the Biden camp has already made the decision not to debate based on the fact that they skipped the traditional Super Bowl interview and generally keeps Dementia Joe away from any unscripted moments.

Biden won't debate.

Extra - Althouse: "We're not supposed to read Biden's refusal to debate to mean that he lacks the mental capacity to debate. Frum and others will instruct us, repeatedly, in articles repeating the talking point."

You can dress it up into a principled stance, but we all know it's because he's old and can't do it.

— Holden (@Holden114) April 16, 2024

Red-pilled Bill Maher

Fox News: "Bill Maher rips sanctuary city 'hypocrites' turning away migrants: Abbott, DeSantis 'called their bluff' - 'The things that came out of the mouths of the leaders of New York and Chicago and even San Francisco, were pretty astounding,' Maher remarked." 

Biden won't debate

NY Post: "Biden cheat sheet for Iraq PM meeting caught on camera — including instructions to ‘pause’."

Last week, Dementia Joe held an event with the Prime Minister of Japan and Joe's podium had a teleprompter set up (the PM did not).  Biden spoke from the teleprompter and then fell back on a binder to answer two questions that he got in advance.  Last night, he congratulated members of the U.S. military for actions in Israel and he couldn't get through this simple exchange without notes which he conspicuously reads as he's mumbling:

There are six jump cuts in this video that lasts less than a minute! This is the BEST that the White House could do? They couldn’t get the meds in time to jack up old Joe to give an address to camera, so we’ll just hand Grandpa some cue cards to read and try to pass it off as him just being “overwhelmed” with the sheer awesomeness of our military.

At every public event, Joey needs notecards, giant television screens, laminated binders and teleprompters.  When he strays from his crutches, Dementia Joe starts talking about meetings he had with dead Europeans.

Debate?  He won't debate.  Prove me wrong, Joe!

Day 1 in Trump's banana-republic show trial

Is anybody honest taking this travesty seriously?

Not the L.A. Times: "Why it’s hard to muster even a ‘meh’ over Trump’s New York criminal trial" - "But any voters who look beneath the surface are sure to be underwhelmed. Calling it election interference actually cheapens the term and undermines the deadly serious charges in the real election interference cases."

Not CNN's legal analyst: "Even CNN Legal Analyst Incredulously Wrecks 'Weakness' of Unprecedented Criminal Case Against Trump"

Reason: "Alvin Bragg Says Trump Tried To Conceal 'Another Crime.' What Crime? - The leading possibilities are all problematic in one way or another."

And Jonathan Turley says it's actually New York's legal system on trial:

Lawyers have been scouring the civil and criminal codes for any basis to sue or prosecute Trump before the upcoming 2024 election. This week will highlight the damage done to New York’s legal system because of this unhinged crusade. They’ve charged him with everything short of ripping a label off a mattress.

Just a few weeks ago, another judge imposed a roughly half billion dollar penalty in a case without a single victim who lost a single cent on loans with Trump. (Indeed, bank officials testified they wanted more business with the Trump organization).

Now Bragg is bringing a case that has taken years to develop and millions of dollars in litigation costs for all parties. That is all over a crime from before the 2016 election that is a misdemeanor under state law that had already expired under the statute of limitations.

Other than an expired statute of limitations and the lack of definition of an actual crime, it's an airtight case.  It's obvious there's one law for Trump and another for everybody else.