Disinformation, corporate style

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O corse, that’s just sampling. You can add the “Russian disinformation, so we won’t cover it” and the biggest whopper of them all, Joe Biden is perfectly fit to serve as president for not one, but two terms, which is only now, post-election, being confessed to have been entirely false.

Democrats Finally Admit the Obvious About Joe Biden, and It Gets More Shameless From There

Bonchie:

TO STATE THE OBVIOUS — From Peter Baker and Zolan Kanno-Youngs’ NYT assessment of President JOE BIDEN’s final chapter: “Time is catching up with Mr. Biden. He looks a little older and a little slower with each passing day. Aides say he remains plenty sharp in the Situation Room, calling world leaders to broker a cease-fire in Lebanon or deal with the chaos of Syria’s rebellion. But it is hard to imagine that he seriously thought he could do the world’s most stressful job for another four years.”

The level of shamelessness it takes to title that blurb with "To State the Obvious" is unquantifiable. I spent so many years chronicling Biden's undeniably deteriorating mental and physical state here at RedState that I filed stories under the tag "senile." You know who did deny his condition, though? Politico, The New York Times, Peter Baker, Karine Jean-Pierre, and essentially every other living, breathing Democrat. 

The peak of their disinformation campaign was no doubt the "cheap fakes" saga. Following an especially disturbing mid-2024 performance in France in which Joe Biden had to be led around and corrected by world leaders, including Italia's Giorgia Meloni, the press and White House claimed the videos were being altered, dubbing them "cheap fakes." NBC News proclaimed, "Misleading GOP videos of Biden are going viral. The fact-checks have trouble keeping up."

It was Biden's big on-stage freeze-up at a Los Angeles fundraiser in late June that caused the White House to pick up the talking point, though. Karine Jean-Pierre would go on to quote a denial from Barack Obama, who was hosting the event, as evidence conservatives were using "cheap fakes." Notably, a month later, one of Obama's aides admitted that Biden was so disoriented that night that the former president himself was "shaken." 

"Cheap fakes," indeed.

I suppose it's better that they spend their time doing this sort of thing than working to destroy our economy, our culture, and our country (Bad link before: fixed)

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Finger on the Pulse: Amy Klobuchar Passes Vital Legislation to Make the Bald Eagle Our National Bird

Amy Curtis:

This writer will make an embarrassing confession: she never knew the bald eagle wasn't the official national bird until today (more on that in a second. Yeah, she knows about how Benjamin Franklin proposed making the turkey the national bird [a myth — didn’t happen — Ed] , but she had always just assumed whatever the government needed to do to make the bald eagle our mascot was done ages ago.

Guess not.

On one hand, this writer is fine with Congress passing stupid bills like this. It shouldn't spend any tax money, and it's not some nanny state policy that attempts to run her life.

On the other hand, if this is what Congress is doing, maybe they need to spend even less time in D.C.

One commenter added “reader context”:

The commenter goes on to ask “What else is in that bill?” showing a cynical distrust of of our leaders. Sad.

(You can find a history of the 1784 designation of the eagle as our national bird and the reaffirmation of that resolution on August 26 1916 here.)

Here's a good place for the DOGE Boyz to start (UPDATED — that's billions, not millions)

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Waste Watch: Federal government spends billions on empty office space

Over $81 million is wasted every year for the underutilized government office space
alone, the report states. Furthermore, billions of additional dollars have gone toward buying brand-new furnishings for the abandoned offices. Though federal employees worked from home during the COVID emergency, Open the Books found that agencies continued to spend upward of $3 billion on furniture.

UPDATE: Convinced that no governmental body could possibly limit its losses to a mere $81 million, FWIW’s fact checker (that would be Gideon) went to Open Book’s actual report and found this:

“The government owns 7,697 vacant buildings and another 2,265 partially empty buildings. Maintaining and leasing government office buildings costs $8 billion every year, and another $7.7 billion is spent on the energy to keep them running.”

HotAir:

It turns out that the DoE is one of the biggest offenders when it comes to wasting fossil fuels and energy itself, exemplified by that very building. Built for a capacity of almost 4900 people every day with nearly a million square feet of usable square footage, the average daily number of folks utilizing that massive structure in 2023 was?

8

As in eight.

...The Department of Energy is the least utilized building, with just eight employees counted for the daily average in 2023, though office management reportedly refuted the attendance estimate. Other agencies with the emptiest office spaces include the Agency for Global Media, the US Department of Agriculture, Department of Veterans Affairs, and the Environmental Protection Agency.

Land sale on Round Hill Road

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549 Round Hill Road, 7.42 acres, has sold direct for $3 million.

Why reinvent the wheel? Here’s what I had to say about this property back in September:

After 188 days, a price cut on Rogues Hill

549 Round Hill Road, from $4.5 to $3.9 million. 7.42-acres, 2.62 of which has been deeded to the Land Trust/Conservation group, but no fear: according to the listing, you can still build the 20,000 sq.ft. weekend cottage of your dreams.

The acreage is listed as land — there was a 1775 house here when these owners bought the property for $4.5 million in 2009, but that’s apparently since been confined to the dustbin of history.

gone