Kamala Harris, The World's Greatest Orator and Polymath

A little palate-cleanser. Those videos below the fold.

And a little snack: James Comey has a new grift -- writing "crime novels."

LOL.

Mark Judge parodies and reviews James Comey's newest grift which allows a huge media corporation to pass even more unearned money to him.

I'd gotten home after a long day bartending at the Nest and was right at my hotel room door when I saw it. It was on the ground, up against the door. A package from Mysterious Press. Even though I left the Daily Dispatch Beacon last year--journalism is dead--I was still getting galleys of books to review. They'd even found me in this flea pit.

I brought the package inside and fixed myself a Maker's Mark. Then I tore it open. Probably some here-and-gone thriller with a gaudy cover, written by a hack.

Jesus. The new Jim Comey novel. Central Park West.

Comey was the communist tentpole who'd made my life hell in 2018. This beady-eyed pelican even tried to take down the President, and used some sleazy low-life tactics to try it. Then after he got shitcanned from the FBI--he was the top man--he cranked out a couple of nonfiction books about what a hotshot he is. Now he's trying crime fiction. He was part of taking down Gambino, which should make me respect him. Then I see those pictures of Comey jumping up and down like a schoolgirl or in a Biden-Harris t-shirt and I begin to doubt.

I mean, what kind of a punk goes after the President, not face-to-face but by leaking to The New York Times? A weasel. Not to mention what he did to me in 2018. I'll get to that.

Central Park West. The novel begins when Tony Burke, a former New York governor who left office tainted by a #MeToo scandal, is murdered in his Central Park West apartment. The killer dresses up like Tony's estranged wife, Kyra, to gain access to the building. Then assistant U.S. attorney Nora Carleton, who's prosecuting a mob case, has a star witness tell her the mafia was involved in Burke's death.
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I give Central Park West 20 pages. It's clunky and full of cliches. The opening scene where Kyra's impersonator takes out the governor is awful. She comes in and puts a gun to his neck and what does he do? He "finds his executive cadence" to speak to her. What's an executive cadence? I don't know. She replies: "For once, you're not in charge Mr. Governor. And the beauty of the top floor in a prewar building is--what's that expression?--nobody can hear you scream. You'd be much better off just doing what I say."

Fucking monologuing. Killers don't monologue unless it's a James Bond movie or a comic book. They're usually sneaky and quiet. They work quickly. The really smart ones pull levers behind the scenes so they don't have to get their hands dirty.

That's Comey.

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I try Central Park West again, but it's no use. Cliches, bad dialogue, awkward scenes. Patti's right. It ain't my fault it didn't grab me. It's Inspector Clouseau's.

The book is shat out upon the public on May 30. I contacted a couple of people I knew who were published authors and who might have a galley I could read to tide me over, but alas, they didn't.

James Comey leaks everything, but he's keeping this piece-of-shit locked down tight until he can expel it on May 30.

Also: Disney's stock price fell nine percent after their latest earnings report, in which they reported another four million cancellations of their D-Minus streaming "service."

Disney shares fell nearly 9% Thursday after the company reported subscriber losses at Disney+ during the most recent quarter.

The company, which posted profit and revenue for the period that were in line with Wall Street estimates, reported a loss of four million Disney+ subscribers. That downtick was offset by price increases, which led to a narrowing of operating losses at the streaming unit by $400 million for the fiscal second quarter.

Still, Wall Street expected a gain of more than one million Disney+ subscribers, according to StreetAccount, and the surprise subscriber loss spooked the Street.

WDW Pro says that Bob Iger attempted to explain away his failures by casting itself as the victim of the mean Ron DeSantis, who is punishing Disney for Virtue Signalling so beautifully. WDW Pro points out that Disney is highly selective as far as its Virtue Signalling: Bob Iger loves taking on the American cultural conservative movement, and gets off on antagonizing them and losing their business, but, on the other hand, he also refuses to take a similar "Fuck You" stance towards China. Who he coddles, who he thanks, who he sucks up to.

Why is Bob Iger at war with Ron DeSantis, but fastest friends with President Xi in China? Why is it necessary for Disney to push the trans agenda to America's children when it cuts out any gay content in their movies for their Chinese audiences? Why is Disney willing to accommodate itself to Communist China, but not Florida?

On that point:

This is very interesting from Midnight's Edge.

For a long time, I've known that ESG -- "Environmental, Social, Governance" -- scores based on the ratings of leftwing woke organizations were being used to pressure corporations into pushing the extremist left agenda.

But I didn't know what actual mechanism was being used to punish corporations for not having a high enough Woke Quotient.

This Midnight's Edge video explains it: Corporations do not have all the money they need for their operations on-hand most of the time. They routinely have brief shortfalls of millions of dollars. So they need revolving lines of credit to remain liquid when making payroll.

Financial institutions used to loan out to corporations just based on their ability to pay the short-term loans back.

But now they've become a Woke Cartel and have added a new prerequisite for a loan: You have to have an ESG rating of a certain level, or the Woke Cartel will deny you short-term financing and your company will go insolvent the first time it has to make payroll but doesn't have the cash-on-hand to pay it.

Watch the video starting from 11:00 to see this theory. (Although it's mostly only what I just described.)

Is Midnight's Edge right? Is this how corporations are being bullied by the left into pushing transgenderism and "equity" on the country? Is this why Tranheuser-Busch refuse to fire the woman who hired Dylan Mulvaney -- because the financial hit of losing their revolving line of credit would be an existential crisis, whereas losing a third of their customers is merely a belt-tightening ordeal?

Honestly, I don't know. Sorry. I've long known that ESG was being used to make corporations the enforcement arm of Marxism USA but I didn't know how. This explanation makes sense and is easily comprehensible, so it appeals to me.

But I'm not sure if Midnight's Edge is right or not. I'm just out of my depth.

Boy, this absolute idiot really think this One Line is a real mind-blower.

In related news, watching that clip has made me Developmentally Disabled.

Ohhhhh, that explains it:

USA Today: Time is running out for White Men to Position Kamala for Success!!!

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