{"id":420935,"date":"2022-03-24T02:53:55","date_gmt":"2022-03-23T23:53:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/collusion-for-biden-and-other-commentary\/"},"modified":"2022-03-24T02:53:55","modified_gmt":"2022-03-23T23:53:55","slug":"collusion-for-biden-and-other-commentary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/collusion-for-biden-and-other-commentary\/","title":{"rendered":"#Collusion for Biden and other commentary"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_84 counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-custom ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title\" style=\"cursor:inherit\">Table of Contents<\/p>\n<label for=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a29020ed1c47\" class=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-label\"><span class=\"\"><span class=\"eztoc-hide\" style=\"display:none;\">Toggle<\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-icon-toggle-span\"><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" class=\"list-377408\" width=\"20px\" height=\"20px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" fill=\"none\"><path d=\"M6 6H4v2h2V6zm14 0H8v2h12V6zM4 11h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2zM4 16h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2z\" fill=\"currentColor\"><\/path><\/svg><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" class=\"arrow-unsorted-368013\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"10px\" height=\"10px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" version=\"1.2\" baseProfile=\"tiny\"><path d=\"M18.2 9.3l-6.2-6.3-6.2 6.3c-.2.2-.3.4-.3.7s.1.5.3.7c.2.2.4.3.7.3h11c.3 0 .5-.1.7-.3.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7zM5.8 14.7l6.2 6.3 6.2-6.3c.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7c-.2-.2-.4-.3-.7-.3h-11c-.3 0-.5.1-.7.3-.2.2-.3.5-.3.7s.1.5.3.7z\"\/><\/svg><\/span><\/span><\/label><input type=\"checkbox\"  id=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a29020ed1c47\" checked aria-label=\"Toggle\" \/><nav><ul class='ez-toc-list ez-toc-list-level-1 ' ><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-1'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/collusion-for-biden-and-other-commentary\/#%E2%80%9CCollusion_for_Biden_and_other_commentary%E2%80%9D\" >&#8220;Collusion for Biden and other commentary&#8221;<\/a><ul class='ez-toc-list-level-2' ><li class='ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-2\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/collusion-for-biden-and-other-commentary\/#From_the_right_Collusion_for_Biden\" >From the right: Collusion for Biden<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-3\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/collusion-for-biden-and-other-commentary\/#Media_watch_%E2%80%98Fact-Checkers_Killing_Journalism\" >Media watch: \u2018Fact-Checkers\u2019 Killing Journalism<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-4\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/collusion-for-biden-and-other-commentary\/#Libertarian_Progs_Want_Biden_to_Do_Their_Work\" >Libertarian: Progs Want Biden to Do Their Work<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-5\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/collusion-for-biden-and-other-commentary\/#Legal_beat_Telling_Questions_KBJ_Wont_Answer\" >Legal beat: Telling Questions KBJ Won\u2019t Answer<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-6\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/collusion-for-biden-and-other-commentary\/#Iconoclast_Ailing_Dems_Need_New_Trajectory\" >Iconoclast: Ailing Dems Need New Trajectory<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<h1><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"%E2%80%9CCollusion_for_Biden_and_other_commentary%E2%80%9D\"><\/span>&#8220;Collusion for Biden and other commentary&#8221;<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h1>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/03\/HunterJoeBiden.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all\" \/><\/p>\n<div>\n<aside class=\"single__inline-module alignleft\">\n<\/aside>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"From_the_right_Collusion_for_Biden\"><\/span>From the right: Collusion for Biden<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019ll never know what effect the \u2018October Surprise\u2019 of 2020, the New York Post\u2019s reporting\u201d on Hunter Biden\u2019s laptop, \u201cmight have had on the election\u201d if it \u201creceived wider circulation,\u201d <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/streaklinks.com\/A-wE7p9LS0nzr9Yv4g6xCy0I\/https%3A%2F%2Fwww.wsj.com%2Farticles%2Fhunter-bidens-laptop-and-americas-crisis-of-accountability-nyt-new-york-post-media-allegations-political-connections-11647872692\">notes The Wall Street Journal\u2019s Gerard Baker<\/a>. But it \u201cso alarmed\u201d \u201cenough influential people\u201d that \u201cthey pulled off one of the greatest dis<a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/download-scripts-themes-apps\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"9\" title=\"Download Scripts &amp; Themes &amp; Apps\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">app<\/a>earing tricks since Harry Houdini made that elephant vanish from a New York stage.\u201d National-security and intelligence veterans rushed to validate <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/social-mediaa\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"1\" title=\"Social Media\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">media<\/a> and tech suppression of the Post stories. \u201cNow we can guess why so much US intelligence has been so faulty all these years. Either these 50 or so grandmasters of international espionage are completely unable to distinguish Russian disinformation from real information, or they prostituted their credentials in a naked act of political hackery.\u201d The \u201cdeeper shame\u201d is that none will pay a price.<\/p>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Media_watch_%E2%80%98Fact-Checkers_Killing_Journalism\"><\/span>Media watch: \u2018Fact-Checkers\u2019 Killing Journalism<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>\u201cA cadre of fact-checkers has marched through the institutions of journalism,\u201d <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.tabletmag.com\/sections\/news\/articles\/invasion-fact-checkers\">observes Jacob Siegel at Tablet<\/a> \u2014 turning reporters \u201cinto rent-a-cops whose job is to enforce an official consensus.\u201d With \u201chundreds of millions of dollars in funding,\u201d this \u201cindustrial fact-checking complex . . . trades on readers\u2019 respect for older journalistic values like objectivity without acknowledging the role of the prestige media in deliberately undermining those values\u201d by \u201cenforcing loyalty to progressive ideas that can\u2019t survive on their own.\u201d This was all \u201cconstructed to solve an unproved assertion: that a lack of government regulation over social media swung the 2016 election.\u201d Which suggests that \u201cthe convergence of government power with fact-checking is neither a conspiracy nor an accident.\u201d<\/p>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Libertarian_Progs_Want_Biden_to_Do_Their_Work\"><\/span>Libertarian: Progs Want Biden to Do Their Work<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>Progressives in Congress are \u201cpushing the Biden administration to take executive action on a host of issues that Congress apparently can\u2019t or won\u2019t deal with,\u201d <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/reason.com\/2022\/03\/22\/progressive-lawmakers-ask-joe-biden-to-do-their-jobs-for-them-with-executive-orders\/\">reports Reason\u2019s Eric Boehm<\/a>. That includes \u201cbanning gas and oil drilling on federal lands\u201d plus \u201cfixing problems with the Affordable Care Act and overhauling the immigration system.\u201d But \u201cevery member of the progressive caucus in Congress is, by definition, a member of Congress capable of writing and introducing legislation,\u201d so getting this done is their job. \u201cThe executive branch does not exist so ideas that cannot get the requisite votes in Congress can become national policy.\u201d If these progs \u201cwant to advocate for executive action,\u201d they should leave Congress to \u201cbecome lobbyists.\u201d<\/p>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Legal_beat_Telling_Questions_KBJ_Wont_Answer\"><\/span>Legal beat: Telling Questions KBJ Won\u2019t Answer<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>As \u201cSenate Judiciary Committee Democrats incessantly remind us\u201d that Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson will make history if she becomes \u201cthe Supreme Court\u2019s first Black woman,\u201d it\u2019s remarkable that \u201cshe can\u2019t say what a woman is,\u201d <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/opinion\/ketanji-brown-jackson-biden-supreme-court-pick-andrew-mccarthy\">quips Andrew McCarthy at Fox News.<\/a> On Tuesday, \u201cshe testified that she can\u2019t \u2018provide a definition\u2019 of what a woman is,\u201d even when offered Justice Ruth Bader Ginsberg\u2019s. \u201cSee what seven years at Harvard can do for you!\u201d In reality, \u201cit is not that someone as erudite and sophisticated as Judge Jackson can\u2019t tell us the answer. It is that she won\u2019t.\u201d She also dodges any question seeking \u201cto get a read on how she decides what the law is\u201d because she \u201cgrasps that we wouldn\u2019t like the answer very much.\u201d<\/p>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Iconoclast_Ailing_Dems_Need_New_Trajectory\"><\/span>Iconoclast: Ailing Dems Need New Trajectory<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>\u201cDemocrats need to find a way back to their historic base of working-class and minority voters,\u201d <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.spiked-online.com\/2022\/03\/23\/the-coming-bloodbath-of-the-democrats\/\">warns Joel Kotkin at Spiked<\/a>. With \u201cthe probability of a significant loss\u201d in the midterms, expect \u201ca full-scale brawl over the party\u2019s trajectory.\u201d Voters receptive to Dems\u2019 \u201ctraditional, economic-centered social-democratic message\u201d are \u201cless enthused about the priorities of the now dominant progressives,\u201d especially climate-change activists. Cultural issues (especially crime) are another \u201cfault line between the bulk of the electorate and the tin-eared elites.\u201d Voters want a \u201cfocus on their concerns, as opposed to mainly environmental or cultural concerns.\u201d The \u201ctakeover of the party by the super-affluent of Manhattan, Menlo Park or Malibu\u201d drives its \u201cshrinkage outside the big inner cities.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em>\u2014 Compiled by The Post Editorial Board<\/em>\n                        <\/div>\n<blockquote><p><strong><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">If you liked the article, do not forget to share it with your friends. 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