Keep on the Sunny Side, Always on the Sunny Side

Biden finds “a good side” to Florida condo collapse

“You know what’s good about this?” Biden said at a briefing with local leaders. “It lets the nation know we can cooperate and when it’s really important.”

Biden added, “I just got back from 12 days in Europe. [He was actually there 8 days,] You wonder whether we can do this. And you’re doing it. I mean, just the simple act of everybody doing whatever needs to be done.”

During a brief pep talk to local police and other emergency response workers around noon, Biden said, “I just wanted to say thank you. Thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you,” before veering off topic.

“As you all know, it’s not only what you’re dealing with now, but your brothers and sisters across this country are having more pressure put on them because of the drought, because when you have 121 degrees heats up in Vancouver you really got a problem,” Biden said.

“I was on the Zoom call yesterday with all the Western governors and you know what they’re asking for? They need more firefighters… because, you know, last year the fire season didn’t start this early. And enough places burned down, enough territory burned to the ground  — more than, bigger than the size of Rhode Island. And already it’s started early.”

I’m not sure what, other than the Left’s general shame at our country not being Europe, caused Joe to bring up his trip there, but he’s certainly not the only one who’s ever tried to keep cheerful in the face of calamity. Chin up, people!

Dingletown Tingle

The owner of 101 Dingletown bought it out of foreclosure in 2018 for $2.050 million, redid it, tried to get $3.495 in 2020, and failed. He put it back on the market this year at $3,595 and received full price in 7 days.

This was originally one of that madman General Tso Chicken’s spec projects back in ‘07, and like all his poorly built houses, failed to sell. He wanted $5.798, he got nothing.

But this seller did well.

Crazy Days

11 Kenilworth Terrace asked $3.995 million, has sold for $4.641

9 Shorelands

9 Shorelands Court, priced at $2.425 million, closed yesterday for $2.665.

1 Shore Acre

1 Shore Acre Drive, $4.350 ask, $4.4 got. Note: It sold in 2014 for $4.375, so the sellers lost money on this one.

We seem to be back in the boom days of 2004-2007, when potential buyers were greeted by stacks of contracts on a table by the door. Booms bust, and sooner, not later. “This time will be different” has been the cry of exuberants since the Tulip Mania, which collapsed in 1637. So maybe this time is the exception, but I don’t think so.

And the media still won't report it

From the laptop, which we don’t admit exists

Corrupt as Hell: Biden’s Mexican Deal was “Flippin’ Gigantic”

Trips on Airforce 2 to meet with Hunter’s new friends, visits to the White House in “Dad’s office”, and so forth. We won’t a hear a word of this from the Fourth Estate.

We will, however, get lots of fawning coverage from these lickspittles. Vogue, admittedly not a news outlet, calls her “a goddess” in its coverage of the next Edith Willson, and “real” reporters are right there with their fellow sycophants.

The Liberal White Man’s Burden

The Left, White Supremacy, and Dumb Black Wards of the State

Here’s a superior being whitesplaining to a Black man who rose from the ghetto that, “as a woman, I had to work twice as hard as you to be successful”.

This lady is mental! Her videos get worse and worse by the day pic.twitter.com/v3jq79Ljsh

— Libs of Tik Tok (@libsoftiktok) June 30, 2021

Plenty of more of the same at the link above, if you have the stomach for it. In the meantime, here’s this classic:

I kept holding this comment in the pending file to protect the writer from abuse, but she keeps insisting, so ...

An anymous banshee from an ad hoc and self-styled group calling itself “Hold Seth Bergstein Accountable” has tried three times to post a comment. Okay, Honey, here you go:

(Trying again to get this comment posted. I hope you'll post this so that your readers have the correct facts.)

Hi everyone. Popping in here to clear up some confusion. The account is in NO WAY endorsed by, associated with or connected to Alex Kasser. We are a group of women who've survived domestic violence and want to use our voice to help others. I hope everyone takes the opportunity to learn more about coercive control and domestic violence. We welcome any questions in an effort to raise awareness not just for Alex's tragic case, but for the more than 1 in 4 women who will experience domestic violence in their lifetime. We also care deeply about shedding light on the litigation abuse that occurs. It's been a hidden and misunderstood epidemic for too long.

Look: you ladies had unpleasant marriages and, presumably, bitter divorces. So your answer to that is to join forces with a woman you don’t know, a person who chose to use her public office to reveal her own personal experience and push for legislation that will aid her in her divorce. Neither her husband nor her children chose to have the family’s discord smeared across newspapers and social media, Ms. Kasser did, which makes her a horrible mother, and a wife that Mr. Bergstein must be delighted to soon be shed of.

Almost as bad, she decided to quit the job she ran for so that she can summer on Nantucket with her girlfriend, and falsely blamed that decision on the pressures of a divorce that she’s dragging out — and despicably added that she wanted to spend more time with the beloved children she ran out on years ago.

Kasser needs the power of the Karens to protect her? She’s worth tens of millions of dollars, and can surely afford to hire lawyers more vicious than you girls can ever dream of being.

So give it a break, and go find something better to do than trying to cancel someone you don’t know and who surely doesn’t, or want to know you. I suggest needlepoint.

And 1.2 million in cities and suburbs, and the green energy to manufacture and charge them)

Psaki: we’ll need 500,00 charging stations for rural and “disadvantaged” communities, so 1.7 million, total. That seems like a lot of chargers, but also a little: there are 280 million cars being driven on our roads, not counting Oprah’s collection in storage.

It’s irrelevant, really, because there aren’t going to be all that many cars available by 2035: the manufacturers are already switching, irreversibly, to electric, and the fossil fuel industry is doomed.

How many cars can beanie propellers power? Not so many.

Broken windows

Dirt bikers pummel postal worker

Two bystanders intervened and rescued him, so that’s the good news. The bad news is that dirt bikes are a scourge of New York. They’re illegal to drive on the street, let alone sidewalks, but packs of thugs are doing just that, and driving law-abiding residents crazy.

“What’s up with the constant ATV brigade up and down Broadway all day and night? It’s totally annoying and actually scary!!” Allison Eden posted to the 15,000-member “Upper West Side Together” Facebook page earlier this month.

“There are no laws anymore. I’ve never really seen anything like this,” Eden, 51, told The Post. “I almost hit a brigade [of ATVs] once because I thought they were stopping, but they didn’t.”

But while complaints are up, enforcement is way down.

The NYPD has issued 10 ATV-related summonses in 2021 as of March 16, a department spokeswoman said. That number is on pace to fall short of the 77 summonses issued by the NYPD for all of 2019 and the 58 (a 25 percent decrease amid the pandemic) for all of 2020, the data shows.

Posters! Yeah, that’s the ticket!

This is not a black vs white issue — black residents are as vociferous in their complaints as whites on the Upper West Side, and Mayoral candidate Eric Adams traveled to a black neighborhood in Brooklyn to listen to their voices. Listen, but not do anything about it, because he claims to be powerless to stop it.

NYC, like all Democrat-run cities, has huge problems: a public school system that graduates just 7% of black 12th graders proficient in math is just one of them, but the impunity granted lawbreakers, from unlicensed drivers driving unlicensed vehicles on sidewalks, to drinking, smoking crack, and defecating on sidewalks, to CD “sellers” extorting tourists in Times Square all adds up.

I’ll admit, I’m a suburban/rural boy, and wouldn’t live in a city on a bet, but surely even urbanites must be growing tired of this. Too bad for them, they’re just going to have to get used to it, and watch it get worse.

The Peter Principle, demonstrated (or in this case, the Willie Principle)

it’s not fwaaiirr!

Ezra Klein thinks Joe Biden should be giving Kamala Harris less difficult tasks in order to ‘make it likelier ‘she’ll win’ when she runs for POTUS

“Look,” NYT columnist Klein told FWIW, “we all know Kampallawalla’s sole talent is knowing who to sleep with, and while that worked miracles in Sacramento, it doesn’t work here: everybody screws each other in this town, so big deal, right?

“Joe doesn’t know where she is, or even who she is, but President Jill does, and has set her up to fail. No cookie baking demonstrations, no cheerleader car wash appearances; instead, it’s ‘get a black transgender to the moon, Kampalla’, and “get the Palestinians to convert to Judaism’. These would be tough for anyone, but Kampallawalla? Maybe she can do a kids’ coloring book with Meghan — they’re looking for a ghostwriter as I speak.”

Psaking Back: Career Handbook for our Lady in Waiting (from Holden, of course and no, it’s not about shopping at discount box stores)

Black billionaire wants white factory workers to pay him reparations

Oprah enjoys a giggle in “Promised Land”, her $100 million Montecito home (one of seven)

“I got mine, I want yours”, says Robert Johnson, founder of Black Entertainment Television”
America’s first black billionaire, Robert Johnson, is pushing hard for the government to pay $14 trillion in reparations — and he wants his check just like everyone else.

“Reparations would require the entire country to … admit that the result of slavery has been 200 years of systemic racism,” the Black Entertainment Television (BET) founder told Vice.

“And for that reason, black folks have been denied $13-15 trillion of wealth and therefore we as a country now must atone by paying black people of all stripes — the rich ones, the poor ones, and the middle — out of our pocket,” Johnson told the outlet.

Johnson, who owns several homes and heads an asset management firm, insists that means money for himself and other rich and famous black Americans, naming Oprah Winfrey, Michael Jordan, and LeBron James.

He denounces attempts to split “reparations” into separate items like free housing, bulls’ penis snacks and defunding the police, and returning ghettos to their natural state as “placebo paternalism”:

“It’s just not one big bill or asking this country to stand up and apologize, and you’re not asking people to pay out of their paychecks,” he added of the current approach.