Kafka trap

Former AUSA Andrew McCarthy: "Bragg’s Prosecution of Trump Violates New York State’s Constitution."

Briefly: the charge that business records were falsified in pursuance of "another crime" can't say "none of your business" when you ask what that crime might be.  "That’s a fatal problem because New York State’s constitution mandates that a statute must spell out any statutory terms it is incorporating. Under Article III, §16, of the state constitution, incorporation by reference is not permitted."  

Good question: why don't you bring your facts to Hannity, Joe?

Red State: "Biden Brings Obama, Clinton for Podcast Interview, They Still Manage to Mess Up and Diss Americans."

It looks like Presidents Obama, Clinton, and Biden appeared on the "Smartless" podcast and it was just released yesterday.  As expected, it was a slobbering, fangirl lovefest but host Jason Bateman asked a very good question...that never got answered.

You could see it during one question asked by Bateman. He asked if it could be as simple as Biden going on Sean Hannity and asking him why the people who follow him don't think Biden is good at the job.

"Just answer his questions, call his bluff," Bateman huffed. "I mean the information, the facts are all there," he claimed. "Particularly for that group of people. What you do is so much better suited than what the other agenda is talking about. Is it just a matter of getting on that network. I don't get it." 

Excellent question.  If all the facts are on your side and there's just so much disinformation out there, why not go on Fox News, refute the lies, and defend your stellar record?  Call the bluff, man!

Can you imagine?  Anyway, thanks for the laugh, Jason.  Loved you in the criminally-underrated "It's Your Move." 

Extra - In case you're wondering why Dementia Joe will never appear on Fox News - or apparently any other media outlet - check out how Nancy Pelosi responded when she got the slightest amount of pushback from the noted right-wing platform of MSNBC.  

You poors don't know how great things are

Federalist: "Middle-Class Americans Don’t Care What Paul Krugman’s Charts Say About Inflation" - "To paraphrase Lyndon Johnson on Vietnam, if Paul Krugman has lost The Atlantic, he’s lost the argument, even among the liberal intelligentsia. Perhaps Krugman, Gavin Newsom (“I revere [Biden’s] record … what he’s done in three years has been a master class”), and the others trying to gaslight voters should climb down out of their well-heeled ivory towers and start understanding the real-life concerns of the American middle class." 

Derangement

Twitchy: "New York Lib Vandalizing an Anti-Biden Truck Learns FAFO Means 'Florida Around and Find Out'."

Two questions:

1) What kind of madness grips a grown man to key a car because he didn't like a bumper sticker?

2) Keying a car is a felony in Florida?  Seems harsh.

Rube Goldberg lawfare

This article from Jonathan Turley does an excellent job explaining the sheer absurdity of the New York legal case against Trump: "On Alvin Bragg and the art of not taking the law too seriously." 

China to U.S.: GTFO

The adults are back in charge, yo.  Great look here:

Humiliation: Blinken departed #China and only the US ambassador said farewell at the airport.

Not a single Chinese official came.

The lowest of the low in international diplomacy etiquette, reflecting the condition of US China relations.

Even when he arrived to Beijing, he… pic.twitter.com/5bN4oGJ5zK

— Indo-Pacific News - Geo-Politics & Defense (@IndoPac_Info) April 27, 2024

Biden won't debate

Wall Street Journal: "Biden Says He’ll Debate Trump. When? - Trump claims the President isn’t up to the job. If Biden shuns debates, voters might conclude Trump is right."

Since Mr. Biden took office, according to Politico, he has given interviews to only two print reporters. He speaks only to friendly venues like Mr. Stern’s radio show. (We’re available for an interview on foreign or economic policy, sir.) Meanwhile, Axios reported Friday that Mr. Biden no longer walks solo to Marine One on the White House lawn. Instead he’s surrounded by a phalanx of aides because advisers worry that “videos of Biden walking and shuffling alone—especially across the grass—have highlighted his age.”

Dementia Joe has created a huge problem for his campaign because most Americans expect Presidential debates and pulling out after committing to a debate would look weak.  But the alternative is a forum where Biden can't use notecards or depend on a teleprompter, so that's definitely not an option.

The question isn't when Biden will debate.  It's when will one of his campaign flunkies release a statement with the excuse.

Clown show update

PJ Media: "This New York City Prosecution of Trump Is a Dangerous Legal Jenga Game for Democrats." - "The New York City trial of former President Donald Trump has ended its second week in a heap of confusion.  The question is the same now as when the charges were announced years after the alleged "criminal" bookkeeping acts occurred: Dude, where's the case?" 

This won't happen

Townhall: "Biden Responds to Trump's Challenge to Debate Before November."

I'll tell you exactly what this is: Biden's ego getting ahead of his sense.  He has much too high of an opinion of himself to ever think he couldn't go toe-to-toe with Trump.  His campaign will walk this back on some flimsy pretense when crunch time comes.

Biden won't debate.

Why did it have to fail?

NY Post: "Inside the failed White House coup to oust Biden press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre." 

The New York Times eviscerates Dementia Joe

Hey, maybe they are the enemy of this White House!  "Shocker: NY Times Absolutely Shreds Joe Biden for Hiding From the Media."

This is obviously the NYT trying to get ahead of the Politico story.  Here's the statement: "For anyone who understands the role of the free press in a democracy, it should be troubling that President Biden has so actively and effectively avoided questions from independent journalists during his term."

He can't do it.

Also: Biden won't debate. 

Imagine thinking the NY Times is the enemy

Politico: "The Petty Feud Between the NYT and the White House."

My favorite part of this article is how the NY Times wants a sit-down interview with the President, a tradition that dates back to FDR, and the White House response is: "hey, we've done two sit-down interviews in three years!"  

Absolutely brilliant

There are a lot of inside jokes here and you need an above-average knowledge of recent NFL history but - damn - this is funny:

NFL draft meeting pic.twitter.com/1adH1C5Hny

— Annie Agar (@AnnieAgar) April 24, 2024

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