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Via AMGreatness:
New polls conducted by the Trafalgar Group show Joe Biden’s approval numbers still in the cellar, and congressional Democrats lagging behind Republicans by over 13 points on the generic ballot.
Of the 1,083 likely general election voters surveyed between 01/12/22 and 01/15/22, just 38.7 percent approved of Biden’s performance and 59.2 percent disapproved. Nearly 50 percent of voters said they strongly disapprove of the job Biden is doing.
The lights are on but nobody is home.
That’s a laugh
What do we mean by covering misinformation? Really it's about covering reality: The uses, abuses, and distortions of it, the people twisting it, and the effect that has on all of us. We already do a lot of important work on this; we want to do more.
— Alex Koppelman (@AlexKoppelman) January 18, 2022
Via JNS:
The British terrorist who held four Jews hostage at gunpoint on Saturday at a Texas synagogue told his brother that he had been planning the event for two years and that he came to America to “go down as a martyr.”
In a recording of the call that he made from Beth Israel synagogue to his brother Gulbar, obtained exclusively by the London Jewish Chronicle from a security source, Malik Faisal Akram said he came to America on a jihadi mission and to demand the release of convicted terrorist Aafia Siddiqui, known as “Lady Al-Qaeda.”
He also ranted about the “f***ing Jews” he held at gunpoint. “I’ve got four beautiful guys, Jewish guys with me, they are trying to play ball with me,” he said.
“I’m opening the doors for every f***ing youngster in England to know—live your f***ing life, bro … we’re coming to America and f**k with them if they want to f**k with us, we’ll give them f***ing war,” he said to his brother, who was in a Blackburn police station, according to the JC.
More like a cackle.
Oh well, no federalization of elections after all…
Via The Guardian:
Senate Democrats failed again to pass sweeping new voting protections on Wednesday, in what may be the most brutal blow yet to efforts to strengthen protections for voters at a perilous moment for US democracy.
Just as they have done four other times in recent months, all 50 Republicans united in their opposition to the measure. They relied on the filibuster, a Senate rule that requires 60 votes to advance legislation to a final vote.
Democrat Rep. Hakeem Jeffries says Democrats' federal elections takeover bill is "inspired by Hugo Chavez…Cesar Chavez." pic.twitter.com/vwLtYOMBYv
— RNC Research (@RNCResearch) January 19, 2022
Following Biden’s lead.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JxSCDqG_dl4
One of my top career moments came when critics called me and partner @PhilipRucker “the new @realBobWoodward & @carlbernstein”.
Today I’ll interview one of those icons at 12 noon on @PostLive .@washingtonpost subscribers get the inside scoop https://t.co/yYY9KpWWHg— Carol Leonnig (@CarolLeonnig) January 18, 2022
When they say “Democracy” they mean “Liberalism”
Via WashEx:
Liberal journalist Carl Bernstein escalated his war on former President Donald Trump, Republican voters, and Fox News on Tuesday, arguing their impact has pushed democracy to the edge of failure.
“We may be — particularly with Trump, and if you look at how large his movement [is] or those who are willing to embrace it and the big lie, etc., etc., how big this change in our culture is — I think there’s real reason to fear that with the genie out of the bottle to the extent that it is that we may never be able to — possibly, we may never be able to regain who we are as a democratic nation, and as a prevailing democratic notion,” he said during a Washington Post live session for subscribers.
Ugh….
Via Hollywood Reporter:
The polarizing auteur, back at Sundance with “sexual fable” ‘Sharp Stick,’ reveals how surviving hate, sickness and addiction led to artistic rebirth: “I’d love the next decade to be less about apologizing and just about openly making art.”
Just, no.
Imminent Supreme Court retirement?
Favorites: Kantaji Brown Jackson (D.C. Cir.), Leondra Kruger (Calif. Sup. Ct.). Longshot: VP Kamala Harris. Stay tuned to @CNN for news. #SCOTUS
— Jeffrey Toobin (@JeffreyToobin) January 17, 2022
Via Washington Examiner:
British Prime Minister Boris Johnson is reportedly planning to do away with all COVID-19 laws in the United Kingdom as case numbers drop and the country learns to treat the virus like a seasonal flu.
The government is considering ending all legally enforced policies in England and is instead moving to a guidance-based system, a source told the Daily Mail. Laws that have existed since the beginning of the pandemic, including enforced self-isolation after an infection, could come to a halt, the source said.
Officials are reportedly discussing scrapping policies, such as the enforced use of COVID-19 passports, as early as later this month.
