In The Shadow Of Mt Hollywood

I think there are numerous signs now that the lizard people are scrambling for a Plan B: Hillary Clinton 2024 Gains Steam Biden-Cheney 2024? VP Harris Dodges on if There Will Be Same 2024 Democrat Ticket Nancy Pelosi's Eyebrows Are A Thing -- No, Really Nancy Pelosi makes millions off tech stocks It's becoming harder and harder to finesse the failure of the Biden-Pelosi agenda, and one sign of it is, as I pointed out yesterday, that the elevation of the speaker's eyebrows is an annual event that up to now has caused little comment. Today, it's a thing. One did not, up to now, disrespect the speaker. Indeed, the direct comparison to Michael Jackson raises the even less mentionable circumstance, that Speaker Pelosi's public persona is basically that of a drag queen. The media at this point, now that her signature issue is lost, has no reason to cover for her. It's also significan...

Last summer, I posted on what in early 2021 seemed to be a consensus "Götterdämmerung strategy" among the elites, whereby Speaker Pelosi, possibly expected to retire after the 2022 election, would use slim congressional majorities, plus control of the White House, to enact a massive Great Reset agenda and ignore the post-2022 consequences because, well, she'd be retired by then. I likened this to someone who, assuming the world would end on December 21, decided to run up a huge credit card bill that would never need to be repaid. I was always skeptical that this would work, but there have been only a few voices of sanity over the past year who raised the point that Pelosi had only a single-digit majority in the House, with the Senate evenly tied. Throughout the fall and winter, it became more clear that there weren't enough votes among Senate Democrats even to reach a tie on the Götterdämmerung agenda. Beyond that, House Republican leader McCarthy is announcing...

On Friday, President Biden gave a typically incoherent statement on COVID : President Joe Biden said on Friday he did not believe the coronavirus will be a permanent affliction for Americans. "No, I don't think COVID is here to stay," Biden told reporters after remarks on the U.S. economy. "The new normal is not going to be what it is now, it's going to be better." But all of a sudden, for reasons that aren't clear to me at all, the emphasis has shifted from shots to tests. Nearly 50 House and Senate Democrats are calling on the Biden administration to substantially increase the nation's supply of rapid COVID-19 tests. In a letter led by Rep. Adam Schiff (D-Calif.), along with Rep. Ro Khanna (D-Calif.) and Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), the lawmakers acknowledged efforts already underway, like acquiring 500 million additional tests and setting up federal testing sites, but said the administration needs to do more to boost supplies. "...

According to Politico yesterday, Fresh off a high-profile speech in which he warned that a dagger had been placed at the throat of American democracy, President Joe Biden will travel to the state that White House officials view as “ground zero” for Republican-led election suppression efforts. Biden will speak in Georgia on Tuesday. In his remarks, he is expected to not only echo the themes of his address on the anniversary of the Jan. 6 insurrection but to expand on his endorsement of a filibuster carveout to pass voting rights legislation in the Senate. . . . “We are doubling down, kicking it into another gear, we are going right to the belly of the beast, or ground zero, for voter suppression, voter subversion and obstruction,” said Cedric Richmond, White House senior adviser and director of the Office of Public Engagement. Politico makes the point that the real issue isn't Georgia, it's Sen Manchin, though Manchin himself isn't named: “It's really about the...

Two recent stories provide what I think is an insight into high-level thought processes in Washington. The first is from Friday in Politico: The White House is looking to Sen. MARK WARNER (D-Va.) to help thaw out its frosty relationship with Sen. JOE MANCHIN (D-W.Va.) in hopes of resurrecting President JOE BIDEN’s Build Back Better plan. Two senior Senate sources said that Warner, one of Manchin’s closest friends and his former housemate, will be involved in any future BBB talks. Manchin has said publicly that he’s not negotiating with the White House. Privately, he has been even more pessimistic. . . . Spokespeople for both Warner and Biden demurred about the specifics of the Virginia senator’s exact role in the effort to win over Manchin. “Sen. Warner and Sen. Manchin are good friends,” a Warner spokesperson told Playbook. “They talk regularly, sometimes about policy and sometimes just shooting the breeze. I wouldn’t call those conversations ‘negotiations.’” But yester...

Even the legacy media is acknowledging, as Newsweek did, that Donald Trump was the true winner of the January 6 commemorations. After the storming of the U.S. Capitol, GOP insiders told The Intelligencer they had lost patience with Trump, whom they predicted would face waning influence within the party. Trump's closest allies also feared that his role as the riot's catalyst would hurt his legacy and the party. However, Civiqs' daily tracking polls have shown that following the tumultuous 12 months since the riots, Trump's standing among Republicans is largely unchanged. Just before the insurrection, 83 percent of registered Republican voters surveyed said they had a "favorable" opinion of Trump. That rating stayed above 80 percent every month until August 2021, and was still as high as 76 percent by the end of December. CNN went a little farther and acknowledged that the problem isn't just with Republicans. It was only a little more than a month ...

As a non-lawyer who nevertheless got a lot of experience covering lawsuits in the former blog, I'm particularly interested in developments with NASCAR driver Brandon Brown's efforts to find a sponsor in the face of corporate NASCAR's wish to make him just go away. No lawsuits have been filed yet, but they're plainly just offstage, yet the usual independent media legal commentators have so far had nothing to say. They're still preoccupied with Ghislaine Maxwell, which has turned out to be a bore, or January 6, ditto. There are three parties to this matter. The first is Brandon Brown himself, who had been developing a promising career as a driver, and who had just celebrated his first major win as Talladega, AL spectators chanted "[redacted] Joe Biden!" in the stands. An interviewer attempted to sanitize this by saying they were actually chanting "Let's go Brandon!", but perversely, this immediately became a meme for the other expression in ...