Even limiting his exposure to reporters from 9-10 AM was too dangerous, so Biden has gone to the mattresses

Your handlers will come get you when it’s safe

No public appearances while he “preps for Thursday’s debate”. Prepare for a debate moderated by a rabid Democrat/Trump hater? Really?

Kristen Welker has deep Democratic ties. When she was announced as the moderator, she immediately deactivated her Twitter account because it was littered with anti-Trump posts. Welker even was caught [in 2016 - ED] on a hot mic telling a Clinton operative what question she was about to ask her on-air (without realizing people could hear her say that).

Renowned FWIW commenter “The DUDE” denies that Biden’s going into hiding has anything, anything to do at all, with a desire to avoid answering questions about his and Hunter’s business ventures with China and Ukraine:

One candidate eschews crowds in deference to public safety. The other does not and, like a train wreck, garnishes [sic] all the media attention.

(I would say that Trump is holding public rallies in defiance of the negative attention of the Democrats’ media arm, even garnished with a cherry on top, but never mind.)

So there you have it: Biden has retreated to his basement to protect us from ourselves. Plus, of course, his conviction that we don’t deserve an answer to what he has in store for us.

Funniest video you'll see today

Fox News reporter Leland Vittert questions Biden surrogate Jenna Arnold on Biden scandal. She handles it … poorly.

You’ll want to click over to the video (Fox News video, not, alas, Hunter’s) for the full fun, but here’ a sampling:

"Jenna, it's real simple. You're saying it's unconfirmed. Tell us what parts are not true," Vittert hit back. "Hunter Biden knows what emails he has and hasn't sent. Are you saying, and the campaign saying, these emails aren't his?"

Instead of giving a firm "yes" or "no" to the question, Arnold attempted to spin.

"It's unclear to me – I would say what's so important right now, from the American citizen and the media – yourself included, Leland – is to continue to ask clarifying questions about this, why the FBI is investigating," she said.

"Whoa. Whoa. Whoa," Vittert interjected.

"It's unclear to me – I would say what's so important right now, from the American citizen and the media – yourself included, Leland – is to continue to ask clarifying questions about this, why the FBI is investigating," she said.

"Whoa. Whoa. Whoa," Vittert interjected.

"It's imperative to know that the NSA told Trump that Giuliani was being played by these emails –" she went on.

"Again, Jenna, Jenna, Jenna. The easiest thing in the world to do: stop with all the obfuscation. The easiest thing in the world to do would be to say, 'These aren't Hunter Biden's emails,'" the Fox News host explained. "Nobody, including Hunter Biden, and including the campaign, has said it."

Arnold keeps trying to squirm off the hook by changing topics: How dare anyone compare China to Nazi Germany, did you know that Trump killed 200,000 people with the flu he invented, and so on, but Vittert keeps dragging her back until she’s finally forced to admit that no, no one has said that the emails are inauthentic.

Definitely watch the whole thing; it’s short, but it’s deadly.

Trust the science: pussy hats prevent COVID

Thousands of deranged women travel to Washington to protest … oh, who cares what they’re angry about this time?

Sounds like a super spreader event, right? No, no. The mitigation measures to battle the coronavirus pandemic only apply to some events and activities, not large protests in American cities. The protesters are magically inoculated from being infected, apparently. Only Trump supporters attending a campaign rally or church members attending a church service infect each other.

… Also, there are quarantine restrictions on visitors to Washington, D.C. and those must have been waived for all the out-of-state protesters. The story of a young woman driving up from Florida with her mother and grandmother to attend the Women’s March, an 18-hour car trip, shows that the rules only apply to some people. 

Remember when we were told that women have to support other women? That, too, is no longer true. If a conservative woman is nominated for the Supreme Court, liberal women by the thousands will rise up and march in the streets against that nomination, as happened Saturday ….

[just as “believe all women” doesn’t apply to women who claim that Biden inserted his finger into their vagina - ED]

…. The Washington Post reports that the marchers were mostly white. And there were lots of signs being held up. One read, “Trump is an unstable penis!” held by what looks to be a white man.

DERANGED MUCH?

As dumb as a crack head forgetting where he left his laptop

(UPDATED PICTURE, COURTESY OF BURNING MADOFF)

Rapper busted after bragging about defrauding the government in music video

Fontrell Antonio Baines, 31, who goes by the stage name “Nuke Bizzle,” was arrested Friday for applying for more than $1.2 million COVID-19 jobless relief funds in a scheme using stolen identities, according to the US Attorney’s Office for the Central District of California.

Prosecutors allege Baines and his co-conspirators fraudulently obtained at least 92 pre-loaded debit cards under the names of other people, including identity theft victims, prosecutors said.

They were then sent to addresses that Baines had access to in Koreatown and Beverly Hills, prosecutors said.

In posts on Instagram, the rapper boasted repeatedly about his ability to defraud California’s Employment Development Department.

Baines also shared a music video on YouTube titled “EDD” in which he raps about getting “rich off of EDD.”

In the video, he points to a stack of EDD envelopes and brags about getting rich by “go[ing] to the bank with a stack of these” – presumably a reference to the debit cards that were issued in the scheme, prosecutors said.

“Unemployment so sweet. We had 1.5 land this week,” Baines said in the video, while another rapper chimes in, “You gotta sell cocaine, I can just file a claim.”

Once, I was leaving the criminal court building after a long morning dealing with idiot clients and stubborn prosecutors, and I commented to a colleague, “our clients are so dumb!”

“If they weren’t, we’d be out of business”, he pointed out.

True, that.

I fear he's wrong

“The Gaslight Election Won’t Work”

Thaddeus McCotter:

I recently chatted with a veteran political observer who asked my opinion on a matter confounding him. Apparently, this observer had conversed with an equally politically savvy person, and the pair had shared a puzzlement over the dearth of audiences at former Vice President Joe Biden’s campaign appearances. They were further befuddled by the media treating this as if it were perfectly normal. Ultimately, both deemed the 2020 presidential election the oddest not only in their lifetimes, but in all of American history. They felt something was missing, but couldn’t divine what.

I opined that the Democrats are running a “gaslight election.” What was missing from the Democratic Party was a real candidate and issues. In the past, these have been requisite for waging a campaign for the White House. Today, though, the Democrats, quite deliberately, have turned the 2020 presidential election from a contest into a referendum.

This explains the Democratic Party power brokers’ selection of Biden to serve as a “safe” face for the party, one that needs to do little more than read platitudes from his teleprompter. 

Biden is not driving and has not driven the campaign. He and his running mate, Senator Kamala Harris (D-Calif.), are both along for the opaque windowed limousine ride. Biden-Harris are nothing but a Democratic generic ballot: “Who would you vote for today, President Trump or a Democrat?”

Yet, the American electorate is still accustomed to being respected enough that a party is expected to provide a real candidate and positions on issues.  ….

Consequently, in conjunction with their elitist left-wing pillars of support—namely the media, academia, tech, and other corporate titans—Democrats are gaslighting voters. Their goal is to conceal the Democrats’ absence of a real candidate and issues; confuse the majority of voters who believe they are better off than they were four years ago—you know, when Biden was vice president—to the point that they question their conclusions. ……

Whatever they claim, one electoral maxim is beginning to bite the Democrats in their proverbial nether regions: voters want to vote for something. 

This something can be a candidate; this something can be an issue; but this something cannot be nothing. This is especially true for independents, who can’t stand either party. Hence Biden’s ads where he recites vacuous platitudes, as if he’s running to be America’s life coach. 

But voters see through this; and, unable to suspend their disbelief during the Democrats’ Gaslight Election, voters cast a pox upon both political houses by not voting—including Democrats. Ergo, the Democrats’ attempts to prolong the election; and Pelosi’s 2020 version of Peter Strzok’s “insurance policy.” As even Democrats are being turned off by their party’s gaslight election, the Left needs more time to drag them to the polls one way or another.

But contrary to McCotter’s hypothesis, Trump Derangement Syndome is rampant. This Madison (well, Madison) potential voter doesn’t care about mere “issues” — she just hates Trump.

[Mary] Klein said Biden’s name will be checked on her ballot for a reason unrelated to his policies.

“I believe that he is a good person,” Klein said. “I believe this election comes down to good versus evil.”

There are a lot of Marys out there. We can hope they’ll stay home, but will they?

The Perfesser's right, as always

He summarizes it nicely, in one word

PATHETIC:  Pitt Law Adjunct Prof Resigns After Using N-Word In Class On Offensive Speech.

Related:  French Teacher Beheaded After Discussing Mohammad Cartoons.

As recently as six years ago, Harvard law students were satisfied with professors merely issuing “triggering warnings” before discussing sexual assault crimes in Crim I (or any class — one professor was asked by a student not to use the word 'violate' in class — as in ‘Does this conduct violate the law?’ — because the word was triggering.) Today, anything and everything is a fireable offense.

I wonder if there’s a teacher anywhere in this fine country of ours who’s brave enough, or suicidal enough, to assign Huckleberry Finn as even a suggested reading?

Money Bawl

Uh, say what?

Holden sends along this link to an article by Kyle Smith, National Review, of Uncle Joe’s inability to manage his money or himself. Spoiler alert: the man accidentally sold off his own driveway.

The portrait of Joe Biden that emerges from What It Takes (1992), Richard Ben Cramer’s thousand-page New Journalism–style report on the 1988 presidential race, in which Biden ran for a few steps until he stumbled over his own shoelaces, is a familiar one. Biden is the grinning, overconfident oaf, a strutting salesman who keeps selling himself loads of bull manure even as everyone around him becomes alarmed by his obliviousness to facts. Or to cite another figure for comparison: He’s the lord of Swamp Castle in Monty Python and the Holy Grail: “Everyone said I was daft to build a castle on a swamp. But I built it all the same, just to show them. It sank into the swamp. So I built a second one. And that one sank into the swamp. So I built a third. That burned down, fell over, then sank into the swamp . . .” The story of Joe Biden is where staggering incompetence meets irrepressible self-confidence. The more he fails, the more convinced he becomes that he’s right.

Ladies and gentlemen, Joe Biden, managerial visionary. We turn to page 248 of Cramer’s tombstone-sized book. A couple of years into his Senate career, Biden has a dream of living grandly by buying on the cheap a former du Pont manse, together with a huge chunk of land, for $200,000. The house was boarded up and soon, probably, to be torn down. But Biden saw something in it. Sure, it needed some fixing up. Never fear, Joe is here! Joe is a can-do fellow. The first winter he and Jill spent in the house, it used up 3,000 gallons of fuel oil. It turned out the third floor was wide open, to the stars. Squirrels were living up there. Oops. The judgment on display here is not great.

Next year, Biden starting selling off bits of the land for development to pay for improvements such as storm windows. Small problem here: One of the lots he sold off was his own driveway, and the new owner blocked it off so he couldn’t pass through it. So Joe built a second driveway, which turned into a swamp in winter. He sold off another piece of property that, it turned out, included the front of that second driveway, so he couldn’t use that one anymore either. So I built a third. He hated that one for being a dumpy little thing. Eight years went by, and he made a deal to buy back the original driveway, the one he sold off when he first bought the house. Which cost him a fortune in landscaping to reshape.

Meanwhile Biden was struggling with the upkeep of the grounds; he’d let the grass get three feet high, then attack it with a riding mower. Mysteriously, year after year, the mowers kept breaking down. He’d go buy a new one, and wreck that one too. “These damn things aren’t built right,” he’d mutter. The mower was always the problem, you see. And the next one. And the next one.

…..

At some point visitors noticed he had staked off the area around the very swimming pool, a plot he announced he was going to sell to raise more cash. Joe’s plan for the existing pool was to move it. Move a swimming pool. “Whaddya think?” he’d ask. “I think you’re f***in’ crazy,” friends would tell him.

All of this is leading up to why Joe, cash arsonist, decided he’d had enough of the fixing-upping he brought on himself and told his aides of his plans to move into an enormous Hyannisport-style $1.1 million estate in 1986, as he was preparing to run for president. “There was (to be perfectly blunt, as Joe would always say) a breathtaking element of balls. . . . Lots of times, more balls than sense.” Cramer evinces no interest whatsoever in how a public servant whose salary had ranged from $42,500 in 1972 to a 1986 figure of $75,100 could afford such a lavish spread — $1.1 million in 1987 dollars would be $2.5 million today. At the time, Biden was already “into Visa, Amex for thousands.” Joe Biden, sharp-eyed custodian of budgets.

Cramer does a lap dissolve between the constant rethinks and upheavals of the various Biden homes and the similar confusion in the campaign, during which months were spent trying to come up with a message, i.e., an argument Biden could make to the voters. The argument “I’m not Trump” was not yet available. Biden’s mind was a landfill of half-considered ideas, and his lack of focus was so obvious that he repelled leading Democratic strategist Bob Shrum, who declined to work with him: “Shrum thought Biden was a looneytune,” Cramer writes.

….

The problem with Biden started with Biden: Just as with his tastes in property, he was always reaching for more than he could grasp, always pictured himself grander than he was. In mid-speech he couldn’t help himself, he’d go off on a tangent and brag about his role in the glorious civil-rights movement that he had completely missed. He’d say he started in the movement and reminisce about how it felt to march in the streets. But Joe had never marched, his aides reminded him. The best he could do was point to a time when a black football teammate in high school couldn’t get served fries at a restaurant, so the rest of the players, including Joe, walked out. “The gurus would shake their heads. That’s not marching,” Cramer writes. Joe would apologize and then, a week later, in another speech, he’d do the same thing again. This year he has been boasting about the french-fry incident as part of a career spent “desegregating restaurants, that kind of thing.” Biden’s Selma envy kept popping up, over the years, in various other forms, such as when he claimed, last winter, “I was raised in the black church politically.” He wasn’t.

Cramer clearly likes Biden and writes about him mostly sympathetically, and he obviously spent a lot of time getting to know the man, along with other major candidates. Even so, the image that forms is not reassuring. Biden looks far better from a distance than when you zoom in on him, which is why so little media coverage, these days, focuses on his actual record. The Biden of What It Takes is a classic slick-salesman type, just like his dad, Joe Sr., the used-car dealer. He’s loose with his money, loose with the truth. Unable to manage anything competently, even his own house. Even his own mouth. Managerial competence is not what he exudes. Bluster and blarney and back-slapping are the limits of his skills. There’s a reason why, in a half-century of observing his buffoonery, no one took the idea of a President Biden seriously until about ten minutes ago.

Admittedly, there’s a bit of Biden in everyone, and perhaps more so in the Donald, but the difference between the two candidates is that Trump knows what he stands for and will fight to get it. Biden has no idea what he thinks or even wants, except to gain the presidency he’s been so long denied, and will do whatever his new friends on the Left demand of him.

Leftist commies will approve of Joe’s flexibility and will vote for him, of course. Others — a majority, I hope — less sanguine about the future and direction of this country, will choose more wisely.

They're back!

High Comedy

Our own Chris Murphy says the Biden emails are a Russian plot.

And — surprise! So does Adam Schiff.

But here’s the tell: despite having had four days to do so, neither the Biden campaign nor Hunter has denied that the emails (and the videos) are real.

Because they know the proof is coming.

Because white ANTIFA goons know a fascist when they see one

When will Biden condemn ANTIFA?

Free speech rally in San Francisco assaulted by ANTIFA.

A photographer working for The Associated Press witnessed a supporter of President Trump being taken away in an ambulance and a San Francisco police officer injured on the ground near the plaza.

The event was canceled, though both sides stuck around in the area into the late afternoon. [Protest organizer Phillip] Anderson had also planned a protest against big tech outside of Twitter’s headquarters, according to NBC Bay Area.

The San Francisco Police Department said three cops suffered minor injuries when they were assaulted with pepper spray and caustic chemicals. One officer was taken to a local hospital for treatment.

No arrests were made.

Video showing the unprovoked attack by ANTIFA mob, inckuding the white guy sucker-punching Mr. Wislon can be found at the link. It’d be foolish to be in any city of any size November 4th, as the LEFT riots, and win, lose, or draw, they’ll be out smashing things and people.

Can't hurt, might help

Up in Maine, Republican Senator Susan Collins is behind in the polls to a Rhode Island carpet bagger named Sarah Gideon (no relation). The Democrats have targeted Maine in their quest to regain control of the Senate, and the money is pouring into the state: $100 million spent so far (2014 election total was $8 million), with $76 million of that going to Gideon, $24 to Collins. So Collin is in trouble: enter, genius.

Anything Trump is in favor of, hydoxychloroqine, peace in the Middle East, lifting the national lockdown to save the economy, is immediately denounced by the hysterical Left and its media branch, the mainstream press. Conversley, anything Trump opposes, billions to Iran to fund terrorism, the development of nuclear weapons by that same country, a ban on mandatory intersectional struggle seessions for federal employees, is embraced and cheered by those same zealots.

A Trump endoresement of Collins would only cement the opposition aganst her; maybe his attack on her will drive the mildly Trump-deranged to switch their vote, if opnly to thwart the Tangerine Man.

Worth a shot.