IAN’S WAKE… JARED MOSKOWITZ: I got an aerial tour of Fort Myers beach. Most of it will need to be completely rebuilt. (VIDEO)
‘DECIMATED AND UNRECOGNIZABLE’ … NY POST: Fort Myers in shambles after Hurricane Ian batters Florida coast
FORT MYERS, Fla. — The road to Fort Myers is littered with power boats, yachts and jet skis – including by its ‘Welcome’ sign – in the aftermath of Hurricane Ian which smashed into the coastal city Wednesday as a Category 4 storm, leaving it decimated and unrecognizable.
‘WATCH ME’ … BIDEN’S MENTAL FAILINGS ARE BECOMING TOO BIG TO IGNORE… NOAH ROTHMAN: The Dam Breaks
How many senior moments have we seen the president of the United States struggle through? There was the time Joe Biden tried to shake hands with no one in particular. We saw him keel over on what was at the time a stationary bicycle. Americans watch Joe Biden deliver prepared remarks as they would watch a tightrope walker—through the gaps in between their fingers and with gritted teeth. And no presidential speechwriter ever compelled the president to describe anything as “cumalidefasredsulc.”
Such is the cult of the presidency that the first reaction to these and many, many similar episodes is often to dismiss their significance. If that fails to shame those who notice Biden’s apparent cognitive impairments into silence, the observant are subjected to calumny. “The smear that he’s lost it — that he’s cognitively impaired” is a “frequent explicit refrain within Republican-aligned media,” wrote Bloomberg’s Jonathan Bernstein. “Including Trump.” Implicit in this brushback pitch is that those in elite circles who make note of the obvious jeopardize their status and, it logically follows, their livelihoods.
WALORSKI’S BROTHER FEELS BAD FOR JOE… STEVEN NELSON: Late GOP Rep. Jackie Walorski’s bro: Biden ‘doing best he can’ despite forgetting sister’s death
“It’s par for the course,” Walorski told The Post of Biden’s bizarre gaffe. “I feel sorry for him, really.”
“He made a phone call after my sister was killed and he was very sincere in his relaying the grief process because he’s been through that grief process, he knows all about it,” Keith Walorski added.
“All I’m saying right now about the president is bless his heart for trying. Yeah, it was a big mess-up today. Inexcusable? No. Unforgivable? No. I’m not gonna hold it against him. I just feel sorry for him.”
LORD FAUCI, DUKE OF COVID… OPEN THE BOOKS: Fauci’s Net Worth Soared To $12.6+ Million During Pandemic – Up $5 Million (2019-2021)
Last night, our auditors at OpenTheBooks.com received Dr. Anthony Fauci’s FY2021 financial disclosures from the National Institutes of Health.
The documents contain a wealth of previously unknown information. For example, the Fauci household’s net worth now exceeds $12.6 million – up $5 million from 2019 through 2021. […]
Big Awards: In 2021, Fauci augmented his government income with nearly $1 million in prizes from non-profit organizations across the world. For example, the Dan David Foundation, based in Israel, awarded $901,400 for “speaking truth to power” and “defending science” during the Trump administration.
THAT $1 MILLION PRIZE? CHECK OUT THE RATIONALE… NIH RECORD:
Fauci received the Present award, which “recognizes achievements that shape and enrich society today,” for […] fighting for the recognition of novel approaches such as mRNA vaccines and “courageously defending science in the face of uninformed opposition during the challenging Covid-19 crisis.”
AMERICA’S PRIME MINISTER APPOINTS HIS OWN WIFE AS DR. DOOLITTLE… Biden Admin Names White House Chief Of Staff’s Wife As Ambassador For Plants And Animals
The Biden administration announced Wednesday that it is appointing the wife of White House Chief of Staff Ronald Klain to be a special diplomat overseeing international animal and plant habitats.
The State Department appointed Monica Medina as the first-ever U.S. Special Envoy for Biodiversity and Water Resources to solve the world’s intertwined biodiversity and water crises, according to a department media note. Klain’s wife will adopt an “all-of-government effort” to represent the interests of plants and animals abroad because the administration believes that such species are currently threatened by the “climate crisis.”
Medina and the department will crack down on “nature crime” such as illegal mining and logging, to promote biodiversity and keep water supplies clean, the department stated. The special envoy will also implement the White House’s water security plan and the Global Water Strategy, initiatives that seek to stop droughts across the globe without increasing greenhouse gas emissions.
HE BETRAYED HIS OWN BIOLOGY… WHY WOULDN’T HE BETRAY HIS COUNTRY? … FREE BEACON: First Openly Transgender Army Officer Indicted for Trying to Give Soldiers’ Medical Info to Russia
The Army’s first openly transgender officer was indicted Thursday on charges of trying to provide American soldiers’ medical information to the Russian government.
A federal grand jury in Baltimore indicted Jamie Lee Henry and his wife, Anna Gabrielian, on charges of conspiracy and wrongful disclosure of individually identifiable health information. According to prosecutors, the couple met last month with an undercover FBI agent posing as a Russian diplomat and offered medical information from Fort Bragg, the home of the military’s elite Delta Force.
Gabrielian, an anesthesiologist at Johns Hopkins University, told the undercover agent during an Aug. 17 meeting that “she was motivated by patriotism toward Russia to provide any assistance she could to Russia, even if it meant being fired or going to jail,” according to the indictment. Gabrielian gave the undercover agent medical information on a spouse of someone who works in the Office of Naval Intelligence, and “highlighted” a medical issue that “Russia could exploit.”
PSYCHO STABS 9/11 FIRST RESPONDER TO DEATH IN NYC… NY POST: EMT stabbed to death in Queens as she was grabbing food
An EMT was stabbed by a maniac on a Queens street Thursday afternoon in an unprovoked attack that occurred as she went to grab food, authorities said.
Lt. Alison Russo-Elling, a 61-year-old department veteran who was a World Trade Center responder on Sept. 11, 2001, was stabbed more than 20 times by an assailant at 20th Avenue and 41st Street around 2:20 p.m., police said.
In horrific surveillance footage from the scene, Russo-Elling is knocked to the ground by a knife-wielding madman who proceeds to stab her repeatedly as she lies helpless on the concrete.
ONE OF THE FIREBOMBING ANTIFA ATTORNEYS IS ASKING FOR A LIGHT SENTENCE… BECAUSE SHE WAS DRUNK… FREE BEACON: Firebombing Attorney Begs for Light Sentence, Citing Inebriation and ‘Unprocessed Trauma’
A left-wing lawyer who pleaded guilty to firebombing a police cruiser is asking for a commutation of her sentence, pointing to the fact that she was inebriated at the time of the offense and coping with “unprocessed trauma,” according to court filings.
Attorneys for Urooj Rahman argue the self-described human-rights activist was “numb, disassociated, and inebriated” when she threw a Molotov cocktail into a New York City police car during the George Floyd riots in May 2020. Lawyers say Rahman was also reeling from her many “abusive partnership relationships” and processing “early trauma” from being taunted as a Muslim after 9/11.
On the night of May 29, 2020, Rahman “became quite drunk” after drinking vodka on “an empty stomach” with fellow lawyer and later getaway driver Colinford Mattis. Rahman’s attorneys say the pair’s decision to firebomb an NYPD cruiser was an “aberrational” act meant to protect others from future police violence.
“Tossing the Molotov cocktail was a way of expressing anger at those police officers around the country for whom Black lives did not matter,” Rahman’s attorneys wrote in a September memo to U.S. District Judge Brian Cogan. “It was an act of protest intended to avoid exposing others to harm.”
YOUTUBE DEMONETIZES SUPERCUT OF DEMOCRATS CLAIMING THE 2016 ELECTION WAS STOLEN… MATT TAIBBI: Memory Holed: “The Election Was Hacked” (VIDEO)
Mercifully, the January 6th committee hearings in congress were canceled yesterday, presumably because Hurricane Ian’s landfall would have botched ratings. With midterms approaching, Democrats have a lot riding on January 6th and are growing impatient. New York congressman Sean Patrick Maloney, who runs the party’s campaign arm, even grumbled about a lack of indictments.
“I think it’s going to be very hard for people to understand if there aren’t actions by the Justice Department to hold people accountable,” he said.
As with Ukrainegate and impeachment, and Russiagate before that, polls show January 6th remains low on the list of voter concerns (the cratering economy is first). However, the reason it “may be hard for people to understand,” as Maloney says, is that congress has spent too much time blurring lines between election denial and conspiracy to overturn the result. If they just focused on the latter — and they have produced evidence, like Trump asking Acting Attorney General Jeffrey Rosen to seize voting machines — the hearings might be more effective, even with Republicans.
But they haven’t been, for a reason made obvious by Matt Orfalea’s damning video — which YouTube incredibly has already demonetized — above. Amid sweeping efforts to punish election denial in the Trump context, both criminally and with censorship, an almost exactly similar denial campaign that inspired four-plus years of blue politics has been dropped down a memory hole.
MORE… ‘I’D LIKE TO THANK YOUTUBE FOR MAKING OUR POINT’… TAIBBI: YouTube Demonetizes TK Content
Today we’re releasing a video Matt Orfalea has been working on, showing years of audio and video clips, tweets, and headlines in which Democratic Party politicians and media figures describe Donald Trump’s presidency as illegitimate. Before it was even published on this site, Matt received the above notice.
I’d like to thank YouTube for making our point. The material in this video does not promote the idea that any election was stolen or illegitimate. On the contrary, it shows a great mass of comments from Democratic partisans and pundits who themselves make that claim, about the 2016 election. Those comments were not censored or suppressed when made the first time around, by the likes of Hillary Clinton, Joe Biden, Kamala Harris, Karine Jean-Pierre, Adam Schiff, Rob Reiner, Tom Arnold, and Chris Hayes, among many others.
RELATED… NR: YouTube Removes Incoming Italian Prime Minister Meloni’s Passionate Speech on Family Breakdown
YouTube appears to have removed a version of a 2019 speech delivered by incoming Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni that focused on the ongoing leftist assaults on the family unit, God, and national identity.
As of Wednesday, the platform scrubbed the video, leaving a notice: “This video has been removed for violating YouTube’s Community Guidelines.” However, other copies of the video of Meloni’s address at the World Congress of Families in Verona remain on the site.
NFL SHOCK… TUA ROCKED… AGAIN… FOX: Tua Tagovailoa’s hospitalization sparks support from NFL world, criticism over handling of last week’s injury
There was a scary moment in the Miami Dolphins-Cincinnati Bengals Thursday night game, as Tua Tagovailoa was stretchered off the field and taken to the hospital with head and neck injuries.
Tagovailoa seemed visibly shaken up after he was sacked, looking like he froze up at one point – the Dolphins said he does have movement in all extremities. […]
There was a scary moment in the Miami Dolphins-Cincinnati Bengals Thursday night game, as Tua Tagovailoa was stretchered off the field and taken to the hospital with head and neck injuries.
Tagovailoa seemed visibly shaken up after he was sacked, looking like he froze up at one point – the Dolphins said he does have movement in all extremities.
FULL VIDEO OF TAGOVAILOA SACK… (VIDEO)