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'Nagging and Patronizing': VDH Lays Bare the End of Barack Obama's 'Mystique' By Mike Miller "Old soldiers never die, they just fade away." The famous phrase, paraphrased from an old Army ballad, was spoken by retired General Douglas MacArthur before a joint session of Congress on April 19, 1951. While Barack Obama, America's 44th president, neither served in the U.S. military nor is particularly old, I thought about MacArthur's words as I began to write this article — but with a significant twist: Obama's words and actions during the waning months of the 2024 presidential election likely signaled the end of the Obama mystique and his role as the unquestioned Democrat Party power broker. But unlike Douglas MacArthur, Barack Obama isn't fading away; he bears much of the blame for engineering both cognitively declining Joe Biden becoming the 2020 Democrat presidential nominee and also Biden being kicked to the curb in favor of Vice President Kamala Harris and her ill-fated 2024 presidential campaign. As author and conservative political commentator Victor Davis Hanson put it: "Obama had long been rumored as the catalyst for the 2020 Joe Biden nomination — and thereafter played the whispering puppeteer behind the subsequent lost Biden administration years." {snip} VDH nailed the following, which I read with a smile on my face, save for the part about wrecking the nation. The Obamaites then got their wish for four years of enacted hard-left directives that they could only have dreamed of while in actual power. But their radical menu since 2021 had divided and nearly wrecked the nation — hyperinflation, 12 million illegal aliens, a ruined border, spiraling crime, a shattered foreign policy of appeasement, the popular backlash against DEI/woke/trans chauvinism, partisan lawfare and weaponization of the government. And the ruling radicalism beneath the Biden facade eventually cost the Democrats nearly everything — the presidency, the House and the Senate. By the time Kamala Harris lost the election in spectacular fashion, VDH noted, "Voters had tuned out a nagging and patronizing Obama — and his stale, now-dated, hope-and-changey, boilerplate speeches." https://redstate.com/mike_miller/2024/12/15/nagging-and-patronizing-victor-davis-hanson-lays-bare-the-end-of-barack-obamas-mystique-n2183231 .

The Democrats’ Hispanic Voter Crash: It’s not as bad as you think—it’s worse. “It’s been widely noted that the Democrats fared very poorly with Hispanic voters in the November election. But I believe that the scale of the Democrats’ crash among Hispanic voters has not yet been fully processed nor the extent to which this crash undermines Democrats’ plans for the future. . . . The Hispanic shift to the right was concentrated among the younger generations of Hispanics who of course are the future of the Hispanic vote. Among Hispanics under 45, the Democratic margin dropped by a shocking 26 points. Trump actually carried working class Hispanic men in this age group by 7 points.” As I’ve been saying for years, the GOP is now the multiracial party of the working class. https://www.liberalpatriot.com/p/the-democrats-hispanic-voter-crash

NOBODY’S SURPRISED AT THIS DEVELOPMENT: Biden Admin Takes Credit for Israeli Victories It Tried To Prevent. https://freebeacon.com/israel/biden-admin-takes-credit-for-israeli-victories-it-tried-to-prevent/

The hits just keep on coming.

Yeah, but he had an advantage. TIME Magazine 😍 Socialism. .

It's interesting that we continue to see the mental breakdown of the radical American left on a daily basis on our @X timelines and nobody in the establishment media has done a report on a need to do something about the surge in left-wing "hate speech." Despite the uptick in violent language and radical activists committing acts of political violence — including two assassination attempts on a former president and the execution of a healthcare CEO, complete with a "manifesto" about why he did it — neither the FBI nor the DHS have issued warnings about the rise of "far-left extremism" in the United States. The SPLC has not remarked on any of these clear "hate speech" incidents or the acts of political violence. The establishment media is silent. The FBI and the DHS have nothing to say about it. No wonder media trust is at an all-time low and millions of Americans believe the U.S. government has been "weaponized."

END OF THE LINE FOR NANCY PELOSI: Hip Fractures, Mortality Rates, and Father Time. She’s not someone who’s spent the past 20 years in a rocking chair. She seems fit, thin, and very active. All of this matters. The healthier you were before your hip injury, the more likely it is you’ll recover. But it’s a deadly serious situation for Pelosi and her loved ones. Almost certainly, she’s facing a steep recovery process, and at her age, it’s foreseeable that there could be a series of struggles. Nancy Pelosi has been such a fixture in American politics for so many decades, she seemed larger than life — a permanent, immovable presence. It seemed as if, in 50 million years, there would still be cockroaches, taxes, and Nancy Pelosi pulling strings in the House. If anyone could outlast Father Time, it’s her. But for both good and bad, our legislators are human. Ones on the right; ones on the left; those in the middle: we’re all flesh and blood. And we all grow old. We all get sick. All of us will die. Even Nancy Pelosi. In all likelihood, her career is over. https://pjmedia.com/scott-pinsker/2024/12/14/end-of-the-line-for-nancy-pelosi-hip-fractures-mortality-rates-and-father-time-n4935127

Damn Rednecks.

Well the smear against Helgeth is collapsing, let's turn to Tulsi instead.

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Good to see you back @Doc You were missed. .

Elizabeth Warren Tries to Walk Back Horrendous Comments on Murder of Healthcare CEO. https://legalinsurrection.com/2024/12/elizabeth-warren-tries-to-walk-back-horrendous-comments-on-murder-of-healthcare-ceo/

They misled you ? What a surprise. Headline writers blithely omit "a" and "the," but there's a big difference between "the polio vaccine" and "a polio vaccine." The Washington Post splashes this in our face: "RFK Jr. ally filed petition to revoke FDA approval for polio vaccine." I suspect that many readers experience alarm — Oh, no, it's crazy to take away the polio vaccine! — and read no further. But it's not the polio vaccine. It's a polio vaccine. From the text of the article: An ally of Robert F. Kennedy Jr. petitioned the government in 2022 to reconsider its approval of a widely used polio vaccine, which is credited with staving off a debilitating virus that can result in permanent paralysis. The petition is about one polio vaccine, not all polio vaccines. Aaron Siri — a lawyer with a history of seeking to expand exemptions to vaccines — asked the Food and Drug Administration to suspend or withdraw approval of Sanofi’s polio vaccine for children.... In the 2022 petition, [Siri] raised questions about the safety of the polio vaccine and argued for more studies to be conducted. I've added the boldface. That "the" in "the polio vaccine" refers to Sanofi's vaccine, and if you go to the link on "petitioned the government" you'll see Sanofi's vaccine distinguished from other polio vaccines. The Washington Post has a subheadline with the word "the": Click for more » https://althouse.blogspot.com/2024/12/headline-writers-blithely-omit-and-but.html#more

Sadly, you are correct sir. In my 40 years as a nurse a broken hip in someone elderly is almost certainly a precursor to their decline. The trauma is just too much to overcome, the loss of mobility deeply effects their senses and cognition.

From the same article. Like Mr. Kennedy, Mr. Siri insists he does not want to take vaccines away from anyone who wants them. “You want to get the vaccine — it’s America, a free country.” he told Arizona legislators last year after laying out his concerns about the vaccines for polio and other illnesses. I thought we approved of "choice"

END THREAD. JOHN NOLTE: Lesley Stahl, Van Jones ‘Extremely Worried’ About Death of Corporate Media Influence. “I’m extremely worried about the press. I despair. I worry greatly. We’re at the point where if [sic] the POTUS is going to say ‘Legacy media is dead.’ I’m very dark about it.” Eat it, sweetheart. If the knowledge that Lesley Stahl is despairing and in a dark place does not make you want to stand up and cheer, you must be a feminist. You see, throughout the 2024 campaign, the corporate media were Bruce Willis in The Sixth Sense. They didn’t know they were dead. Being ignorant of their own death, they played all their usual games assuming it would drag Kamala Harris — Celebrity Obama 2.0 — over the finish line. Stahl’s own 60 Minutes went so far as to dishonestly edit Kamala’s interview to make her sound smart. Van Jones’ own CNN raged on and on about Trump’s “Nazi rally” at Madison Square Garden and spread the hoax about Trump calling for Liz Cheney’s execution. Then… The “too big to rig” results came in on Election Night and it finally hit them: We’re dead. No one believes us anymore. Our influence is gone. We can’t rig elections anymore with our lies and hoaxes. Despair! Despair! Despair! Donald Trump visiting podcast after podcast, doing Joe Rogan, sitting down for a handful of Breitbart News interviews, is as big a sea change in politics as when John F. Kennedy embraced television in 1960. Radio was declared dead. TV was king. Well, now, the legacy media is dead and alternative media is king. https://www.breitbart.com/the-media/2024/12/12/nolte-lesley-stahl-van-jones-extremely-worried-death-corporate-media-influence/

Here's wishing the best. and please retire.

NOTHING TO SEE HERE: Little Joe is still busy . . . . . . . or at least his 'handlers' are. Biden commutes roughly 1,500 sentences and pardons 39 people in biggest single-day act of clemency. You see, if you can’t prove violence, then people are put away on something else. And there’s plea bargaining and… I’d look very carefully at everyone Biden is letting out and their connection to Biden. The Biden Junta is dirty, dirty, dirty. https://apnews.com/article/biden-pardons-clemency-4432002d67334e6716c2776fd73f3cc8 .