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And this surprises you because? 

President Biden was caught once again wielding a crib sheet bearing scripted remarks to the press during an Oval Office sitdown with Iraq’s prime minister Monday.

Biden, 81, turned to the script — which included an all-caps stage direction on when to pause in his comments to allow for an interpreter to translate — to make his first public statement since Iran launched an unprecedented direct missile and drone attack on Israel over the weekend.

The president glanced down at his script repeatedly as he sat beside Iraqi Prime Minister Mohammed Shia’a Al-Sudani.

The script even told him where to pause.  Stupid, and dangerous.

These are the people unifying America…

Yes…

…yes they are.

Well yeah, except…  

I’m reading “Why Biden Should Not Debate Trump/The networks want their show, but to give the challenger equal status on a TV stage would be a dire normalization of his attempted coup” by David Frum (in The Atlantic). [skip]

An excerpt from Frum:

The Confederacy did not go away when Abraham Lincoln refused to concede the title of president to Jefferson Davis. That’s not why Lincoln consistently denied Davis that title. Lincoln understood how demoralizing it would be to Union-loyal Americans if he accepted the claim that Davis was a president rather than a rebel and an insurrectionist. Biden should understand how demoralizing it would be to democracy-loyal Americans if he accepted the claim that Trump is more than a January 6 defendant.

…Trump is a former POTUS, the Republican nominee, and they don’t want Biden to debate because he’s badly demented. 

OK, so which is it?  

Attorney General Merrick Garland vowed Wednesday that President Biden has ‘no impairment’ after being pressed by a Republican lawmaker about the findings of special counsel Robert Hur’s report on Biden’s improper handling of classified documents.

Garland, speaking to Rep. Ben Cline of Virginia during a House Appropriations Committee hearing on the Justice Department’s Fiscal Year 2025 budget request, said ‘I have seen the president effectively guide the members of the Department of his Cabinet and his military.’

Garland declined to comment when asked by Cline if he agreed with Hur’s characterization that Biden is a ‘sympathetic, well-meaning, elderly man with a poor memory,’ saying ‘I’ve said before, and I’ll say again with respect to the report that it’s improper for the attorney general to editorialize.’

Biden has no impairment, or he’s so impaired he can’t be prosecuted?  Garland is a perjurer, is stupid, or both?

‘The president has no impairment. I don’t know how many ways I can say this. I have complete confidence in the president and I reject your characterization,’ Garland also said.

Oh, so that’s why they don’t want him to debate—complete confidence.

Hunt on…

Well, this explains a lot: 

The University of Nebraska at Lincoln added more than 350 new positions in the past decade – nearly all of them administrative – while student enrollment numbers remained steady, a College Fix analysis found. [skip]

During the 2022-23 school year, the most recent data available, the public university’s Lincoln campus employed 4,014 full-time administrators and support staff, according to information the school filed with the federal Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System.

In 2013-2014, IPEDS data shows UNL employed 3,720 administrators and support staff – meaning it added 294 administrative positions in 10 years.

Administrators and support staff include management, student and academic affairs divisions, IT, public relations, administrative support, maintenance, legal and other non-academic departments.

Meanwhile, across the same decade, the number of teaching and instructional staff increased by 60, and student enrollment remained relatively the same, about 18,100, according to the data.

UNL employs about one faculty member for every 10 students and about one administrator for every five students.

The ratio of faculty to students increased slightly from 99 faculty per 1,000 students in 2013 to 102 in 2022, the analysis found.

I wonder how long before there are more DEI bureaucrats than students?

In TSTS #145, we learned of Texas Democrat Sheila Jackson Lee’s latest bit of lunacy, when she told an audience the moon was made of gasses.  I’m surprised she didn’t say “cheese.”  Well, she’s made it worse:  

Of course.

 The problem is always that Republicans notice Democrat stupidity, not the stupidity.

I’m not embarrassed to live in Wyoming. I’m just pissed about the occasional idiots like these:  

The Wyoming Department of Health has approved about $3,000 in public money to help throw an annual drag queen bingo party in Laramie as an anti-AIDS fundraiser.

‘Reminder, this show is Rated ‘R’ – REALLY not for kids!’ says the webpage of Wyoming AIDS Assistance, a nonprofit group putting on the drag queen bingo night April 27. ‘Complete with salty language, dirty jokes and booze-a-plenty, parental discretion is strongly advised!’

Money raised from the event is to benefit people living in Wyoming with HIV/AIDS, according to the group’s website.

Stupid and perverse.

But of course:  

When Jose Antonio Ibarra of Venezuela first crossed the United States-Mexico border in September 2022 near El Paso, Texas, Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) had about 8,100 detention beds available. Instead of holding Ibarra in its available detention space, ICE released him into the U.S. interior.

A year and a half later, Ibarra was arrested and charged with 22-year-old Laken Riley‘s murder in Athens, Georgia.

Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas, during a Senate hearing on Thursday, suggested that Ibarra’s release into the U.S. interior was justified because the agency had no reason to detain him — even as thousands of ICE detention beds were available at the time of his release.

“There was no derogatory information of which we were aware in our holdings to compel the detention of this individual,” Mayorkas told Sen. Katie Britt (R-AL), a ranking member of the Senate Appropriations Committee’s Homeland Security Subcommittee.

One would think the Administration would be smart enough to just shut up, but their criminal arrogance won’t allow that.  Stupid, and evil.

Oh, this will work out well…  

The Democrat-run city of Denver plans to defund its Police Department to pay for illegal immigrants.

Colorado’s capital, commonly referred to as a ‘sanctuary city,’ announced Wednesday that it will spend $89.9 million on services for incoming illegal migrants, pulling some funding from roughly $45 million in public programs and services. The Denver Police Department will be hit with a reduction of $8.4 million— about 1.9% of its total operating budget, the city confirmed to the Daily Caller News Foundation.

…if only there were some model Denver could rely upon to predict what might happen…

NYC…   

Some people just look the part…

A man arrested for punching a random 9-year-old girl in New York City’s Grand Central station on Saturday had been released without bail in early April for allegedly breaking a woman’s nose in a similar assault.

Jean Carlos Zarzuela, 30, was arrested and charged with assault after the incident took place shortly before noon on Saturday, PIX11 reported.

…you can’t save people who don’t want to be saved.

I dunno…

….could there be some connection between government handing out and forgiving loans and skyrocketing tuition costs?

Trust the science…

Trust the media…

We’ve reviewed our conduct and concluded…  

 A review of the suicide bombing that killed 13 American service members at Afghanistan’s Kabul International Airport during the U.S.’s 2021 botched military withdrawal has concluded that the sniper team guarding Abbey Gate did not have the terrorist in its sights before the attack. [skip]

After a ‘thorough review,’ the federal command agency confirmed that the Abbey Gate terrorist attack ‘was not preventable at the tactical level without degrading the mission to maximize the number of evacuees’:

*Leaders at Abbey Gate were present, engaged, and made sound tactical decisions.

*The suicide bomber was not previously identified in the crowd, nor was there an opportunity for service members to engage him prior to the attack on August 26, 2021.

*Though unable to be ruled out completely, it is unlikely that an IED test run occurred outside Abbey Gate on August 21, 2021.

*Taliban forces outside Abbey Gate used excessive force that resulted in civilian deaths.

*The new information obtained during the review did not materially impact the findings in the November 2021 Abbey Gate 15-6 investigation and the supplemental review team did not recommend any modifications to those findings. 

…we’re blameless.  Maybe if we held onto Bagram instead of putting our troops in the middle of crowds of jihadists…?

Living rent-free in their heads…

They’re the FBI…

…they don’t got to obey no stinking laws!

I’m sure he’ll get around to it any day now…

Oh yes, they’re the wave of the future…

…a very stupid future.

Katie Couric is…  

‘The socio economic disparities are a lot and class resentment is a lot and anti-intellectualism and elitism is what is driving many of these anti-establishment [people] — which are Trump voters — so, I think that is a huge problem that we have to address,’ Couric explained to Maher, referring to the MAGA movement that got its name from the ex-president’s campaign slogan.

‘I mean globalization and the transition from an industrial to a technological society — I don’t know if you’ve ever been jealous of someone else or resentful — It is such a corroding and bitter almost bile feeling.’

Translation? Oh, those uneducated poors are jealous of us!

…stupid.

Yes he is…

…but the adults letting him cheat are worse.

Against.  Next question?

And in the feel good moment of the week:

And in the what goes around, comes around moment of the week:

But as for all the rest: too stupid to survive.