Joe Biden said MAGA Republicans were a threat to our nation. These freedom-loving patriots, who only want a government that works for them, better trade deals, more jobs, and fewer taxes, are a clear and present danger that must be crushed. And yet, we’re not the ones killing people over political disputes. That would be the Democrats. The Left used the January 6 riot to smear Trump supporters as violent insurrectionists. Still, only one person was killed inside the Capitol Building, Ashli Babbitt, whose officer-involved death continues to be plagued with lingering questions. Those inquiries will remain, but one act of political violence will probably go under the radar due to its location, but that doesn’t make it less relevant given the war cry bellowed by Mr. Biden.
In McHenry, North Dakota, a 41-year-old man allegedly ran down an 18-year-old teenager over a political dispute, killing him. He was reportedly drunk at the time of the attack. To make things more bizarre, the alleged perpetrator called the police on himself and admitted to killing the North Dakota teenager. He is held on $50,000 bail since he claimed he wasn’t a flight risk as if that means anything in a potential homicide investigation. The victim reportedly called his mother before his death, asking for help as he noticed the man chasing him down (via Grand Forks Herald):
Prosecutors allege moments before he was killed, 18-year-old Cayler Ellingson called his mom to come rescue him because 41-year-old Shannon Brandt was chasing him in the city of McHenry, where the street dance had just wrapped up.
By the time she could get there, her son was dead.
Brandt was officially charged Monday with vehicular homicide and leaving the scene of a deadly accident.
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Court papers show Brandt called 911 around 2:30 a.m. Sunday and told the 911 dispatcher that he just hit Ellingson, claiming the teen was part of a Republican extremist group and was calling people to come get Brandt after a political argument.
Ellingson’s mom told police her son called her just before the crash, asking if she knew Brandt, which she does. She does not believe her son knew him.
[…]
“We are still trying to determine what, exactly, transpired at the time of crash and prior to that as well,” explained Niewind.
Police say Brandt was drunk when he hit and killed Ellingson with his SUV.
“We do not know of any witnesses. We are still making attempts to interview potential witnesses from the street dance, people that were present prior to the crash happening,” Niewind said.
A loser twice the victim’s age couldn’t handle a political argument, so he allegedly killed him. That sounds like a rational individual. Whether they live in cities or rural America, the Left is just unspooled.
Joe Biden Is a Moron and Scott Pelley Is No Better
Stop the presses, the President of the United States gave an interview! That, in and of itself, shouldn’t be newsworthy, but when you’re dealing with an insulated moron who hasn’t given an interview in the gestation period of a human being it is a bit of news. And when that interview is with the vaunted 60 Minutes, it is important. Or at least it used to be.
Much like Meet the Press dined out for years on the job Tim Russert did – getting credit for being a place for “tough” interviews based on his reputation while subsequent hosts slobbered all over Democrats and got into interrupting matches with Republicans until Chuck Todd simply killed the brand – 60 Minutes as a journalistic outfit lives only in the memories of people who no longer watch it. It’s pathetic.
When Lesley Stahl interview Donald Trump it was a non-stop interruption, when Scott Pelley sat down with Joe Biden Pelley had to be careful not to get his face crushed by the President from here he’d had his lips planted.
There was no challenging, which isn’t surprising, but there wasn’t even any pointing out the obvious lies or “factual inaccuracies” from the senile occupant of the Oval Office. Pelley’s one question about Hunter Biden, for example, might as well been cleared by the White House beforehand, if not written by them.
Pelley asked, “Mr. President, if you run again, Republicans are most likely to go after your son Hunter once again. And I wonder what you would like to say about your son and whether any of his troubles have caused conflicts for you or for the United States.” If you expected a question mark at the end of that you don’t understand journalism as it currently exists. There was actually no question about Hunter, there was an opportunity for Joe to say whatever he wanted, unchallenged, before moving on. That allowed Pelley to check the box without asking anything serious like why did Joe lie about meeting more than a dozen times with Hunter’s business partners and those paying him a fortune in industries he had no knowledge of? And why Hunter wasn’t “hired” by these companies until Joe was in a position to have influence over US policy toward the countries and industries these companies operate in?
There are so many unanswered and important questions that should have been asked, Pelley opted to set the ball on a tee and walk away, no follow-ups, nothing.
Instead of journalism you get throne-sniffing. When asked about inflation, Joe rambled about how it’s not that bad. “Well, first of all, let’s put this in perspective. Inflation rate month to month was just– just an inch, hardly at all,” Biden said in a way someone who is not impacted by inflation at all could say.
Inflation is not a per-month phenomena, it is cumulative. An 8 percent increase one month, year-over-year, followed by another month of 8 percent does not mean priced have increased 16 percent over 2 months. It’s measured against the previous year and means prices are still up 8 percent over the previous year, likely meaning there wasn’t inflation the previous year but now there is. So when Joe says inflation month over month was only up “just an inch,” he’s referring to an 8.2 percent increase one month turning into an 8.3 percent increase the next. That .1 is what inflation was from one month over the previous one, it didn’t reset and disappear. Joe knows this, or at least Scott Pelley should. Yet there was no real pushback on that either.
After Biden claimed credit for creating jobs that were allowed to return after Democrat Governors lifted their forced closure orders and quickly moved on from there. Pelley moved on too, because anything else would’ve been too much like journalism.
Journalism is not what 60 Minutes does anymore, at least when a Democrat is the subject. A Democrat President can say he plans to “continue to grow the economy” when we’ve had 2 quarters of shrinking GDP and receive zero challenge.
It’s beyond embarrassing. Not only could a child ask better, more
honest questions of the President of the United States than “award
winning journalist” Scott Pelley did, that child could also give better
answers. The segment will probably win an Emmy and a Pulitzer.
