Saturday Miscellany

First, the Biden dementia watch.

It has been quite a week for old Joe Biden. His senile dementia is proceeding at warp speed.

Naturally, Biden’s apologists are out in force distorting what he said, the better to make him seem coherent and cogent. And yet, cerebral impairment is cerebral impairment.

So, Joe said this at a meeting with the Prime Minister of India:

I sold a lot state secrets and a lot of very important things.

Of course, he qualified the statement by saying that he was joking. Unfortunately it was not funny, and it is not a laughing matter.

And then Biden confused Ukraine with Iraq”

He said that Russian President Vladimir Putin "is clearly losing the war in Iraq" 

And then he called the Prime Minister of India, the Prime Minister of China:

Both last night at a fundraiser + then again this morning at the White House, President Biden referred to Ukraine as "Iraq" and said "my new best friend the prime minister of China" before correcting himself to say the Prime Minister of India.

And then, Biden offered a Kamala-level word salad:

Less than a y—a guy driving a truck hit a b—anyway—knocked down a whole bridge and—the whole block—four lanes of the highway!

Clearly, this does not inspire confidence. But the truth remains: You can fool some of the people some of the time; you can make fools of a lot of the people a lot of the time; but you can’t fool all the people all the time.

Second, in the meantime, Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor wrote a couple of dissenting opinions this week. The net result was the more than a few savvy commentators pointed out that she had demonstrated why it was wrong to put underqualified people, aka diversity hires, on the court.

Then again, we could have known it. Harvard Law Professor Lawrence, a denizen of the political left, had said this about Justice Sonia several years ago when her name was first floated for a court seat:

… she is not nearly as smart as she thinks she is, and her reputation for being something of a bully could well make her liberal impulses backfire and simply add to the firepower of the Roberts/Alito/Scalia/Thomas wing….

Third, speaking of affirmative action and diversity quotas, our living breathing example of their failure lies in our vice president, the inarticulate fool named Kamala Harris. 

She now sports the worst approval ratings of any vice president in recent history:

Nearly half of the respondents have a negative view of Vice President Harris, according to a new NBC News survey. 

The poll, published on Monday, found that 49 percent of respondents have a negative opinion of Harris, while 32 percent of those surveyed have a positive opinion of the vice president. 

Harris received a net negative rating of -17, which is the lowest net negative rating for a vice president in the history of the poll.

Fourth, speaking of real insurrections, France is burning up, or should we say burning down. In that context, up and down have roughly the same meaning. 

What would we do without France?

As you know, a policeman shot and killed a Muslim immigrant and France’s Muslim population took to the streets to burn the nation down. 

Given that the migrant population had come to France for opportunity and freedom, they happily burned down the library in Marseille and desecrated a Holocaust memorial. People are beginning to notice that French Muslim migrants had turned into an invading army, working to replace French culture with Islam.

Of course, it’s an immigration story. France has led Europe in allowing Muslim migrants into the country. This group seems not to have cottoned to Gallic life, and so, is protesting, mostly peacefully, as they say around here. To show their gratitude, they they are burning the place down. 

Anyway, a newspaper polled the French people and discovered that a large majority believed that there are too many Muslim migrants in the country:

A new poll conducted for top French newspaper Le Figaro shows that nearly three out of four French people believe there are too many migrants in the country, with the poll results coming after the country accepted a record number of foreigners in 2022 under President Emmanuel Macron.

As a grim sidelight, under the category of equal justice, when an Algerian migrant raped and murdered a twelve year old girl, named Lola Daviet, there were no riots were her, no protests, no outrage. No one cared.

Fifth, the Biden administration happily hired yet another anti-Semite. At the same time the administration has adopted the BDS Jew-hating policies and is refusing to fund research conducted by Jewish scientists on the West Bank.

The new hire will be advising the administration about immigration policy. Of course, a quick glance at what is happening in France would offer far better advice.

As for Ramzi Kassam, the New York Post reports:

The White House's newest hire is a City University of New York (CUNY) professor who has accused Israel of "ethnic cleansing" and "systematic genocide," a move that is raising alarms among the many people who are already concerned about the Biden administration's failure to combat anti-Semitism on America's college campuses.

Ramzi Kassem, a professor at CUNY's law school, was tapped to serve as a senior policy adviser for immigration in the White House's Domestic Policy Council. Kassem is a vocal Israel critic who spent a portion of his time as an undergrad at Columbia University writing scathing criticisms of the Jewish state, a Washington Free Beacon review found. Kassem, who helped defend terrorists held at Guantanamo Bay, charged the Jewish state with genocide and decried "unconditional" support for Israel.

Kassem's hiring comes as the Biden administration fights the perception it is feeding Israel's opponents. A closely watched White House plan on combating anti-Semitism, for instance, was recently watered down by anti-Israel activists. The State Department admitted on Monday that it is boycotting research partnerships with certain Israeli organizations.

CUNY announced that Kassem "will work to support the Biden-Harris agenda across a range of immigration issues" using his expertise as "a national leader on progressive immigration reform." Kassem enters the White House after working for more than a decade at CUNY, which has repeatedly found itself in hot water for promoting anti-Semitic hate speech and, in some cases, subjecting Jewish students to "severe and persistent anti-Semitic harassment." CUNY's law school, in particular, promotes anti-Semitic boycotts against Israel and recently featured a graduation speaker who accused Israel of sending "lynch mobs" after Palestinians.

Kassem's past writings strike a similar note. In an April 1998 article, the White House adviser claimed there is "sufficient evidence" implicating Israel in a "systematic genocide" against the Palestinians. The Jewish state's behavior, Kassem wrote in the Columbia Spectator, is "a clear-cut case of ethnic cleansing." In another April 1998 article, titled "Zionism Impedes Middle Eastern Peace," Kassem claimed European Jews came to the Middle East "with the intention of conquering the land." A two-state solution between the parties "is not viable, nor is it desirable," he insisted.

As for the Jews who supported Biden and who think that Trump is Hitler-- crickets.

Sixth, New York State is losing tax revenue. As everyone could have guessed, the exodus out of New York and of California has hit the governments in the pocketbook. 

Tax the rich sounds good, until the point where the rich pick up and leave.

The New York Post:

New York state is reeling from a COVID-era exodus to low-tax locales as revenue during this fiscal year is down nearly 20%, according to a report.

New York and California saw the steepest drops in tax-generated revenue this fiscal year while Florida and Texas saw their coffers fill up thanks to a pandemic-fueled migration.

New York has collected 19.5% less in levies while California has seen its state tax revenue fall by a whopping 24.9%, according to data revealed by Bloomberg News.

Meanwhile, Texas reported a 12.2% growth in state tax revenue while Florida has collected 9.9% more in levies so far this fiscal year, according to the data compiled by Urban-Brooking Tax Policy Center.

In Texas, the windfall has translated into a record $33 billion surplus, prompting Gov. Greg Abbott to seek tax cuts.

Seventh, on the Bud Light death watch. It looks like it’s about time for the fat lady to sing. Now, the company is giving the stuff away:

Beer Business Daily publisher Harry Schuhmacher said the industry is shocked that Bud Light Sales haven’t bounced back from its disastrous promo celebrating transgender influencer Dylan Mulvaney’s “365 Days of Girlhood,” but the sagging sales are beginning to look like “business as usual.”

Schuhmacher said things are actually getting “a little bit worse” and cited recent Nielsen data that indicated Bud Light volumes were down 31% for the week going into Father’s Day weekend. At the same time, Miller Lite and Coors Light were both up.

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