GOOD THING ONLY WHITE PEOPLE HAVE BEEN DECLARED CAPABLE OF RACISM: NYC Mayor Adams Thinks Illegal Aliens Could Be Lifeguards Since ‘They’re Excellent Swimmers’.
May 15, 2024
FAIR: The Real Reason for Secularism: For the Left, the Golden Rule and the 10 Commandments turn out to be a major problem.
OH, IT’S NOT JUST NOW. THE LEFT HAS BEEN TRYING TO IMPUGN FREE WILL FOREVER: Free will itself now under assault.
And I had a knock-out drag-out fight on a panel with Robert Sawyer almost 20 years ago, as he was trying to claim everything was predestined. Bah.
CAN WE GET RID OF BMI ALREADY? The Modern Myth of Childhood Obesity Exposed.
May 14, 2024
TEACH TEACHERS NOT TO RAPE:
BREAKING: Dontay Akeem Prophet, the principal of Destiny Leadership Academy in FL, was just arrested for false imprisonment and aggravated child ab*se.
He was caught on security video trapping a student in a classroom where he continuously ass*ult*d him.
Dontay had multiple… pic.twitter.com/fu9ZDRdxMF
— Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) May 13, 2024
WELL, THEY’D BETTER GET THEIR ACT TOGETHER. OR THE TRUMP CAMPAIGN HAD BETTER PUT IN ITS OWN PEOPLE: RNC Has Few Operatives On The Ground In Swing States, Local GOP Leaders Say.
OPEN THREAD: Tuesday’s groovy.
THE NEW SPACE RACE: SpaceX Starship’s next launch ‘probably 3 to 5 weeks’ away, Elon Musk says.
NATURE includes humans.
MAKE THEM PAY:
⚖️ VINDICATED! "The jury's verdict finally cleared our clients' names after four long years of repeated personal attacks from St. Francis High School." – @KarinSweigart
READ: https://t.co/hMWMucHWqt
— Dhillon Law Group (@dhillonlaw) May 13, 2024
It’s time to end the culture of impunity that leftists have enjoyed for decades.
WHERE’S HUNTER, FAT? Joe Biden Says China’s EV Dominance Is a Problem. His Son Hunter Helped Beijing Gain a Foothold in the Industry.
President Joe Biden on Tuesday imposed sweeping tariffs on China’s aluminum and electric vehicle sectors, vowing to stop Beijing’s effort to “dominate these industries.” His son, Hunter Biden, brokered deals that helped China gain a foothold in those sectors while his father was vice president.
Hunter Biden was a founding board member of the Beijing-based BHR Partners and served on the company’s board when the firm brokered a Chinese state-owned firm’s purchase of a Congolese cobalt mine in 2016. China’s acquisition of the mine, which had been owned by an American company, gave Beijing a crucial supply of raw materials used to make batteries for electric cars. That same year, BHR Partners bought and sold a stake in Chinese electric vehicle battery maker CATL, the New York Timesreported.
Previously unreported emails from Hunter Biden’s laptop show that BHR Partners tried to broker a deal in 2015 between the American subsidiary of Chinese company Zhongwang and American aluminum maker Aleris. Zhongwang said the $2.3 billion deal would “strengthen Zhongwang’s leadership in [the] aluminum extrusion industry.” The Trump and Biden Justice Departments have since indicted Zhongwang and its owner for a scheme to evade tariffs levied against Chinese aluminum makers.
Hunter Biden’s work with BHR could prove awkward for his father, who saidTuesday he is “determined to ensure America,” not China, “leads the world” in the electric vehicle, aluminum, steel, and semiconductor industries. To reach that goal, Biden imposed a 25 percent tariff on Chinese aluminum and 100 percent tariff on Chinese-made electric vehicles.
Oh, and when it comes to tariffs on Chinese industry, the(p)resident is going John Kerry’s flipflop on the Iraq War one better— Sundown Joe is now forgainst it, for it!
Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden said he would remove Donald Trump’s tariffs on imports from China, which are taxes on U.S. consumers and companies. An aide later asserted the former vice president “would reevaluate the tariffs upon taking office.” A Gallup poll in February 2020 detected positive views of Americans toward international trade, with 79% viewing trade as “an opportunity for economic growth,” while only 18% considered trade a “threat.” (Note: The article has been updated to reflect the Biden aide’s statement.)
—“Biden Says He Will End Trump’s Tariffs On Chinese-Made Goods, Aide Walks Back Statement,” Forbes, August 6th, 2020.
NATIONAL SOCIALISM—YOU’RE REALLY DOING IT WRONG:
Striking passage from @NellieBowles’s Morning After the Revolution, out today:
NYT colleague (an editor) calls her partner, @bariweiss, a “F-ing Nazi.” pic.twitter.com/t3wnsfAi2q
— Adam Rubenstein (@RubensteinAdam) May 14, 2024
thank you for sharing this, freedom of speech is critical for democracy
sad the NYT mislead so many people 😔 pic.twitter.com/qoUyhueIJd
— Gail Alfar (@GailAlfarATX) May 14, 2024
As Glenn noted in December of 2019 when Rolling Stone got the vapors because someone at the Army-Navy game flashed the OK sign, “The 4Chan trollers have scored again. I remember when ’culture jamming’ was a lefty thing, but the lefty culture jammers never scored at this level.” All the way to the New York Times! Former (?) Obama flack Ben Rhodes wasn’t kidding — his party’s vacuous operatives with bylines really know nothing.
STEVEN HAYWARD: Can Our Universities Be Fixed? “It is possible that the current moment, with the shocking anti-Semitism on display at leading universities right now, is an inflection point.”
ACCOUNTABILITY IS FOR THE LITTLE GUYS: ATF Likely to Dodge Accountability Bullet in Arkansas Shooting Death.
YES — AND IN RESPONSE, THEIR APPEAL IS BECOMING MORE SELECTIVE: Sports Illustrated Hates You.
This year’s issue of the Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Edition is the 60th, and the magazine is celebrating by not featuring gorgeous women in skimpy swimsuits.
In fact, the magazine’s cover features a photo of women in evening gowns—at least, mostly women. These days you can never tell who will show up in the magazine pretending to be female.
Gail King, a noted sex symbol, is prominently featured. She snagged an interview with the magazine’s editor, who explained the shift away from featuring women in swimsuits to more woke content, featuring plus-size women and men cosplaying them.
“This ain’t your dad’s Sports Illustrated,” we are told. And this is supposed to be a good thing. The formerly unabashedly male publication prefers old, fat, Queer readers these days. Because they are the core audience for sports, just as woke white women are the core audience for comic book movies.
This is why they have been so successful.
SI has been, at least, successful in jettisoning its former readers–circulation is down by half. So at least their strategy of offending much of their audience is working. What publication would want to be patronized by heterosexual men these days?
Good riddance!
Of course, jettisoning readers isn’t so good for the bottom line. They have had massive layoffs and almost folded, being rescued at the last minute by a last-minute buyer.
Gayle King, 69, makes her Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue debut in sizzling one-piece: ‘Sexy isn’t an age’ https://t.co/STD6OzgTY2 pic.twitter.com/izolccisqc
— Page Six (@PageSix) May 14, 2024
Flashback: Leave Supermodels Alone!
The other night, after I’d had a little too much of this world, I decided to bathe in cleansing waters and scour my soul by watching the new E! True Hollywood Story episode on Victoria’s Secret. (Yes, I know. Life is sad.)
Best I can tell, this investigative blockbuster was largely derived from a New York Times story from last year, subtly headlined, “Angels in Hell: The Culture of Misogyny Inside Victoria’s Secret.” The gory particulars of both the article and the E! documentary were enough to curl your hair, not unlike the bouncy locks of former VS model Jill Goodacre (a Victoria’s Secret OG). There were harrowing tales of handsy, lecherous executives, and of models getting ready for Objectification Fest (the once-hallowed Victoria’s Secret Fashion Show) by eating an apple a day with no sides. Ed Razek, the former chief marketing officer of Victoria’s Secret’s then parent company, L Brands, was so creepy, that he kept company with Jeffrey Epstein, the latter of whom posed as a Victoria’s Secret recruiter. It was all genuinely awful.
But perhaps most unsettling of all, according to the ominous narration, VS didn’t show a commitment to diversity of body types (women, you may have heard, come in all shapes and sizes!), and they continued to “market a standard of beauty that customers found male, stale, and hopelessly out of touch.” (Just imagine a woman so deluded, that she’d try to make herself attractive to a man while performing the sacred fourth-wave feminist rite of buying lingerie.) After hearing this last bit, I sat there in stone silence for what felt like hours, but was probably just a few minutes or so, until E! aired another rerun of The Bradshaw Bunch, in which former NFL great Terry Bradshaw “still stinging from their embarrassing loss last year…..coaches the family for a repeat appearance on Celebrity Family Feud.”
I hurt for my supermodel sisters. I asked a lot of unanswerable questions like, “Why, God, why?” Then I asked one last question, which you’re not supposed to utter in public: “Whatever happened to skinny, beautiful models, and will they be coming back any time soon?”
As Iowahawk likes to say:
And:
(Classical reference in headline.)
LIES, DAMNED LIES, AND JEN PSAKI’S NEW BOOK: Gold Star Families Threaten to Sue Jen Psaki.
A TRUCK THAT SWINGS BOTH WAYS: GM Now Has the Hardware to Help an Electric Silverado Power Your House. “Power outages cost American businesses about $150 billion annually, according to the U.S. Department of Energy, so having a solution when power goes out is critical. Some electric vehicles allow bi-directional charging, meaning they can receive power to charge their batteries, but can also give power to a home or business when the grid fails. GM Energy, a subsidiary of General Motors, has new hardware that allows customers to charge their electric Chevy or Cadillac, and give power to their home in case there’s an outage, or use stored energy when costs spike.”
FIND YOUR PHONE: Apple AirTag 4 Pack. #CommissionEarned
THEY’RE THE DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE, THEY DON’T CARE ABOUT THE LAW: DOJ Busted for Illegally Retaliating Against Whistleblowers.
GREEN NUDE EEL: Solar’s Been Taking a Beating Lately. “In the middle of a big swim meet with thousands of school kids and parents gathered in Australia under the roof of the Sydney Olympic Park Aquatic Center, that solar panel-encrusted roof lit off.”
