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Thursday's Final Word – HotAir

So many tabbies have come and gone, their websites fade as the years go by …





Ed: El-Sayed had Piker speaking for him at campaign rallies earlier this month. Now everyone wants to pretend that Piker is Just Some Guy. Maybe that will work, but so far, it doesn’t appear to be succeeding. 

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Zachary Faria at WashEx: A New York Times/Philadelphia Inquirer/Siena University poll laid clear Fetterman’s standing in the state once again. Among Pennsylvania Republicans, Fetterman has a favorability rating of 73%, 10 points higher than the state’s GOP senator, Dave McCormick. Independents view Fetterman favorably as well, by a 49% to 36% split. But Pennsylvania Democrats give Fetterman failing grades, with his favorability sitting at just 22% compared to an unfavorable rating of 63%.

Fetterman is simply too emotionally sane and too supportive of killing Palestinian terrorists to fit in the modern Democratic Party. He has spoken out forcefully against socialist Democrats and their antisemitic, anti-American rhetoric and policies. Conor Lamb, who Fetterman defeated in the 2022 Senate primary, has begun circling the seat again, with Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) all but jumping on the Lamb bandwagon last year for a possible primary rematch.

Even if you assume that Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) and other top Democrats convince Lamb to stand down and be a team player, Fetterman will almost certainly face some socialist affiliated candidate. He or she will call Fetterman a closet Republican and accuse him of supporting the “genocide” of Palestinians, and with Fetterman’s low scores among Democratic voters, he will lose, regardless of how much help Schumer provides him.

Ed: The irony of this is that Fetterman was the progressive in the 2022 primary; Conor Lamb was the supposed moderate. In four years, Democrats and the DSA shifted to the Left so hard and so fast that Fetterman is now the new Joe Manchin, only with scruples. I don’t think I’ve ever seen a party leave its own candidate – and voters – so quickly. 

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Ed: The good news is that this will make a good entry for the AP’s propaganda contest!

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Noah Rothman at NRO: The reason Democrats resist this obvious imperative is contained within Axios’s report. They might know they have to change, but they resent it.

Axios reporter Mike Zapler admits that this language is “natural in liberal spaces.” The patois of the professorate was “created for the right reasons,” Kentucky Governor Andy Beshear sympathetically intoned. The whole enterprise was just an “effort to show more cultural sensitivity,” but it was “easily weaponized by Republicans.” Poor, Democrats.





So, the problem Third Way set out to identify endures. And it endures because the left’s linguistic signifiers are only a symptom of it. The real problem is that this language is designed to render their speakers “foreign,” as Axios put it, to most Americans. It marks its user as apart, distant, or even entirely removed from broader American culture, perhaps because that culture is irredeemable. These aren’t expressions of empathy for a select few but, rather, contempt for everyone else.

Ed: Precisely. It’s also a contempt for reality and the boundaries it imposes. The Left wants to remake Creation, and because they can never succeed, they will forever have to change verbiage and positions to cover up their failure. As I wrote earlier today, George Orwell’s 1984 understood those impulses and their consequences all too well. 

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Ed: I honestly wish I’d thought of this joke yesterday. I bet Watters does too. It’s exactly as absurd as El-Sayed’s defense of pediatric sex changes. 

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NY Post: Jill Biden declared her husband Joe is a “hero” for dropping out of the 2024 presidential race and insisted it was his advisers who wanted him to run for a second term.

In an interview with The Jamie Kern Lima Show, the former first lady didn’t directly answer whether she was the “Lady McBeth” who pushed Joe Biden to spend four more years in the White House and instead laid the blame at the feet of their long-serving staff. …

Jill Biden said she hoped the “true story” of what happened in those years would come out in the historical record and said she wants her husband remembered as a “hero.”

“People forget that historical context because of all the negative overlay, they forget the true story- of what happened,” she said. “And I’m hoping that it’s revealed in history – and that becomes Joe’s legacy.”

She criticized “negative” people who disparaged the Biden family. “People just put whatever twist on it that they want, and mostly it’s negative.”

Ed: This is an astonishing attempt at buck-passing. Jill blames White House aides for Biden Inc’s decision to stand up the Joe Biden handpuppet for a second term, and wants credit for his “heroic” decision to retreat after humiliating himself in a debate he demanded. The Bidens are the most despicable family to occupy the White House, bar none. 

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Ed: Cam and I discussed this yesterday. He’s more skeptical about data centers than I am, but both of us are frustrated at the demagoguery taking place instead of debate. We need this capacity now and especially for the future if we plan to innovate and expand access to digital services. We should be debating what’s needed and how we plan for it, not going either Full Luddite or accusing opponents of being China’s symps. 

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Julio Rosas at Mostly Peaceful: A woman who is on video attacking ICE agents during an operation in Fort Myers, Florida last week was finally arrested after a multi-day search.

Maria Del Carmen Negrete Raya was taken into custody early Thursday morning. She is an illegal alien from Mexico and filed an asylum application in 2023.

On August 19, ICE initiated a traffic stop on a car that was registered to a non-U.S. citizen. According to Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier, Negrete Raya, among others, confronted the ICE agents when the car’s occupants ran away. Negrete Raya kicked and punched agents when she attempted to enter the agents’ vehicle. One agent was hit in the groin.

Ed: I can pretty much guarantee you that going Rochambeau on an ICE agent, especially in Florida, will dim the chances considerably for asylum in the US. It will increase chances of receiving free housing for a few years at Uncle Sam’s Three Hots and a Cot, though. 

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Ed: The motives for espionage fall generally into four categories, as Olivier pointed out downstream, noted by the acronym MICE: Money, Ideology, Coercion, or Ego. Ego and hubris usually play a role in all of these cases, even when other motives apply. The Robert Hansson case was perhaps the worst of these, because Hansson actually did know how to work the system; at one point, he was in charge of mole hunts looking for turncoats like himself. Several people died because of his ego, and we still don’t know how many. 

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Channel 14 (Israel): Internal Iranian sources tell The Atlantic that Mojtaba Khamenei, designated successor to his father, is either dead or in a vegetative state—raising questions about who’s actually running Iran.

The mystery surrounding Mojtaba Khamenei’s fate continues to grip the world and has taken a dramatic turn. According to testimony from sources within the Iranian government published in The Atlantic, the terrorist designated to succeed his father is dead or at least in a state of brain death. The mystery surrounding Mojtaba Khamenei’s fate has occupied the world for some time now, and alongside numerous speculations and theories—and even Israeli confirmation that Iran’s ‘Supreme Leader’ is still alive—a new report published today (Wednesday) in The Atlantic sheds additional light on the mounting question marks surrounding Iran’s new leader.





According to the magazine, testimony from multiple sources within the Iranian government paints a picture in which Mojtaba is deceased. A staff member at a government institution in Tehran told the magazine: “I believe Mojtaba has died or is in a state of brain death,” pointing to the complete disappearance of any direct communication from him. Two additional government sources in Tehran reinforced these statements, noting that in their assessment the leader died or became a vegetable already at the beginning of the current month.

Ed: The Cardboardatollah has been dead since the beginning of the war. The brain-dead regime has used him as a sockpuppet to provide theological cover for its military junta. With economic consequences escalating, this pretense is about to unravel.

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Ed: I’ve seen reports since this that show Basij and IRGC thugs getting free passes to the head of these lines. If the regime wants to accelerate a popular revolt, they’re making all the right moves for it. 

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WSJ: A Republican push to prosecute Dr. Anthony Fauci for contempt of Congress has stalled as the Trump administration questions whether the legal approach supports an indictment by the Justice Department.

Three weeks after a GOP-led Senate committee voted to hold Fauci in contempt of Congress, some administration officials are skeptical that the current approach is procedurally sound enough to indict him for failing to answer questions before lawmakers, according to people familiar with the matter. …

Paul, who has said Fauci should go to prison, pushed a contempt vote against the 85-year-old former public-health official after he declined to answer questions before Paul’s committee over his handling of the Covid-19 pandemic. The contempt resolution, which passed on a party-line vote, would traditionally be considered by the full Senate. Given his resolution would almost certainly fail to meet a 60-vote threshold to pass, Paul’s measure called on Vance to certify it in his capacity as Senate president.

But as of early Tuesday, people familiar with the matter said that Vance’s office had yet to receive a document to certify. Paul’s office sent the report to the vice president late Tuesday, according to people familiar with the process, following repeated inquiries from The Wall Street Journal about its status. The Justice Department, which received a letter from Paul the day of the vote laying out the committee’s case against Fauci, has yet to receive a formal referral, a person familiar with the matter said. And President Trump hasn’t determined whether he wants the Justice Department to act on the referral, according to people familiar with the discussions, who say the issue hasn’t been a high priority for the president.





Ed: That’s telling in and of itself. Trump has slammed Fauci, but Trump is also the president who gave Fauci free rein over the pandemic in the first place. He might not be too anxious for a court case in which those decisions might get scrutinized, although those may be irrelevant legally to the contempt charge. I’m curious why Paul didn’t just follow the normal procedure and send the referral to the full Senate for a vote. Were there not 50 votes to support it?

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Kurt Schlichter at Townhall: But when we did think about them, they used to be kind of amusing. Now they’re actively annoying. And their obsessive loathing of the United States has morphed from a vaguely tiresome affectation into something genuinely grating. They are ripping us off on defense and trade, they are failing to back us up around the world, and they have become a petty dictatorship. They are still funny, but the Ralph Wiggum of nations is longer ha-ha funny.

They thought about us a lot, and you can’t really blame them. We’re economically successful, stubbornly free, and masculine — all the things that Canada either never was or no longer is. Canada has been taken over by the faculty-lounge left. It’s less a country than a giant, freezing college campus where the government will literally destroy your life if you do something like point out obvious truths about how a man is not a woman or that there was a giant scam involving allegedly dead Indian children — oh wait, we’re supposed to call them “First Peoples.” Of course, they have enshrined collective guilt over taming their vast lands as their national ideology. They despise us, but they also despise themselves. We have a glorious Constitution, and they have an endless land acknowledgment. …

And let’s face it: Canada isn’t anything like a real democracy. It holds no moral high ground. It persecutes people for speaking. It murders those it deems a burden on society. It embraces every disgusting aspect of DEI, including having a justice system that treats different races differently. You can be destroyed for saying things in Canada — financially and maybe even placed in prison. You are also unable to enjoy the God-given right to keep and bear arms; the government keeps a monopoly on lethal force, meaning it keeps a monopoly on power, and those who should be citizens are merely subjects. It’s frankly disgusting, and a country like that is unworthy of our friendship.





But of course, nations don’t have friends. They have interests. And it’s in America’s interest to redefine our relationship with Canada.

Ed: As I’ve said before, we need to work on getting Kurt to come out of his shell. I’m not at all antagonistic toward Canada, but we let them apply tariffs for a very long time on American dairy products without consequence as part of the NAFTA arrangement. I think a little flexibility on their part now would be a good idea. 

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Ed: Come on. How difficult was it to find a legit pic of Dolly in the archives? As Stephen Green quipped, “Layers of fact-checkers and editors.” Sheesh. 

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Matt Taibbi: The Post doesn’t have a particularly impressive recent record on speech lately, but Attiah loved canceling, until it happened to her.

She’s been consistently unsympathetic toward writers who lost jobs over speech issues. The classic example was New York Times writer Donald McNeil, whose firing over “use of the N-word” turned out to be different in reality. He was asked by a student if it was right to suspend another student for using the term and replied by asking if it was used as a slur, or repeated in a lyric or a book title, as Times writers like Paul Krugman had in print, with the consent of Times editors. McNeil’s life was wiped out for a conversation that was not intended for publication and was absurdly misrepresented. Attiah didn’t care and scoffed at the “fuss.” In the wake of the forced or semi-forced resignations of Times editorial page editor James Bennet and junior editor Adam Rubenstein, Attiah upheld the ludicrous notion that publishing an op-ed by Senator Tom Cotton put “black people and black journalists in danger.” …

That Attiah is a hypocrite on speech issues is undeniable, but that isn’t the first thing that jumps out reading her copy. The bigger issue is that she sucks. She’s on a short list of the most defiantly unoriginal, skilless columnists ever employed at a major American newspaper. Her columns read like first drafts, and her social media posts are full of gems like, “White women are lucky that we are just calling them ‘Karen’s’ [sic]. And not calling for revenge.” Her columns are just a micro-step removed from Titania McGrath-type parody of the “Shakespeare was a black woman. Deal with it” variety, only she’s not in on the joke.





Ed: I suspect that Jeff Bezos will pay lawyers before ever allowing Attiah to publish anything at the WaPo for both reasons: she’s a hypocrite on this point AND she sucks. 

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Ed: Beautiful. It’s a little dusty in here, too. 

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Last night’s lyric: “Sixteen Tons” by Tennessee Ernie Ford.


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