OPEN THREAD: Make me proud.
October 12, 2024
ELMER FUDD HAD BETTER GUN-HANDLING SKILLS:
Tim Walz’s pheasant hunt photo op isn’t going so well
— Benny Johnson (@bennyjohnson) October 12, 2024
That outfit is also obviously straight from the store. That’s also indicative of awful staff work. Competent staff would have dirtied it up and run it through the washer/dryer cycle a few times, at least, so it wasn’t obvious that this was the first time he’s ever worn it.
WE’VE GOT THE SKINNY ON THIS: Imitation Ozempic Is Flooding The Market: Here’s What You Need to Know.
OBAMA’S 2004 DNC SPEECH WAS ALWAYS A LIE: The Thrill Is Gone: Barack Obama’s Scolding of Black Men Torched by Prominent African Americans.
Poor Barack. America is always letting him down.
“Black woman destroys all the arguments from CNN: Why are our black men being lectured to? Why are our black men being belittled? Nina Turner went off on Obama.
• You could see it in some of their eyes; they didn’t expect what she said.” pic.twitter.com/vbsSlxKnKn
— 1776 (@TheWakeninq) October 11, 2024
CHANGE:
73% of Boomer males: "No matter what psychological challenges I face, I will not let them define me."
72% of Gen Z females: "Mental illness is an important part of my identity." pic.twitter.com/Dh6YqUtO7h
— i/o (@eyeslasho) October 12, 2024
OOPS: Rust Armorer In More Gun Trouble. “Hannah Gutierrez-Reed, the armorer for the movie Rust who was convicted of involuntary manslaughter for actor Alec Baldwin shooting the movie’s cinematographer to death with a prop gun during filming, has again found herself in a New Mexico courtroom thanks to damning evidence found on her cell phone during the Rust investigation. According to a report at theguardian.com, when investigators searched Gutierrez-Reed’s cellphone during the Rust investigation, they found a video of her with a handgun in the bathroom of a bar. In the self-filmed video, shot a few weeks before the movie’s filming began, she explained how she snuck the prohibited firearm into the establishment.”
So she’s basically just a moron. It’s a bad idea to have morons in charge of guns.
BE PREPARED: Prepared Hero Emergency Fire Blanket – 2 Pack. #CommissionEarned
SUPPLY CHAINS IN 2024: Suppliers Go From Just In Time To Just Don’t Know. This is focused on aerospace, but it’s true across the board.
THIS IS ACTUALLY A MODERATELY BIG DEAL: A successful appointments clause challenge to Regional Fishery Management Councils.
A lot of federal organizations are similarly vulnerable.
OLD AND BUSTED: “Can I get me a hunting license here?”
—John Kerry, October 2004.
The New Hotness?
The really good hunters are able to stalk and strangle pheasants. https://t.co/la5ueTNjz6
— Mark Hemingway (@Heminator) October 12, 2024
C’mon — it’s 2024; Walz bags pheasants by aiming mental death rays at them, Sheldon Cooper-style:
ANTHONY FAUCI, CALL YOUR OFFICE: Think you’re always right? Science shows why you may be wrong.
ANNALS OF LEFTIST AUTOPHAGY: Obama Is Blaming Black Men for the Democratic Party’s Failures.
In both 2008 and 2012, I was proud to be an Ohio delegate for President Barack Obama. So I was shocked to hear what former President Obama had to say while speaking to Black men during a surprise visit to Vice President Kamala Harris‘ campaign field office in Pittsburgh.
His words made my jaw hit the floor. In fact, they made my blood boil.
President Obama had some choice words for the enthusiasm gap for Vice President Harris specifically when it comes to Black men. “My understanding, based on reports I’m getting from campaigns and communities, is that we have not yet seen the same kinds of energy and turnout in all quarters of our neighborhoods and communities as we saw when I was running,” President Obama said, and then went on to lecture Black men about their lack of support for Harris. “Part of it makes me think—and I’m speaking to men directly—part of it makes me think that, well, you just aren’t feeling the idea of having a woman as president, and you’re coming up with other alternatives and other reasons for that.”
I was infuriated to hear these remarks. No other group of voters is talked to like this, as if they are children. But it’s not just the paternalistic tone that had me enraged. It’s the underlying message in his words—that Black men are misogynistic and can’t bring themselves to vote for a woman.
This vilification of our men is out of line. For starters, it’s false. Black men are socialized in the same patriarchal society that every other American man is socialized in, yet when Secretary Hillary Clinton ran for President in 2016, 81 percent of Black men voted for her, while only 32 percent of white men did the same.
As for Black men allegedly being so reticent to vote for Vice President Harris, her lowest numbers are with Black men under 50 years old—72 percent of whom support Harris.
If white men supported Harris at 72 percent, they’d be held up as an example of how men can support women. So why are Democratic Party leaders like former President Obama vilifying Black men?
It’s simple: The Democratic Party is setting Black men up to take the fall in case Vice President Harris fails to defeat former President Trump in November. It’s that simple.
Evergreen:
YEAH, THAT’S A TOUGH ONE TO FIGURE OUT: Why Kamala Harris won’t appear on Fox News.
Ms Harris’s approach to the media – seemingly to avoid almost all potentially damaging interviews and instead cosy up to friends and allies – reveals an interesting aspect of her electoral strategy.
The campaign has focussed on getting out the vote among groups it believes it has already won, such as Latinos and young women, rather than converting Republicans.
That approach has raised some concerns from Democratic strategists, who feel Ms Harris is not far enough ahead in the polls to take such a cautious approach to the media.
On the current numbers, almost all pollsters put the overall result of the election within the margin of error, and several sophisticated election models predict that Trump will win.
The question being asked in some party circles is whether Ms Harris will subject herself to an interview with the most hostile mainstream broadcaster: Fox News.
One strategist told The Telegraph that the question of a Fox News interview was under discussion among Ms Harris’s allies, amid concerns she needed to be “braver” about the media.
As seen in this week’s Power Line Week in Pictures, good luck with that:
LIGHTNING DEAL: Compact First Aid Kit (228pcs) Designed for Family Emergency Care. #CommissionEarned
THE TSARS COULD HAVE USED THIS: FDA approves first once-weekly drug treatment regimen for hemophilia.
QUOTE OF THE DAY:
"Just to be clear that's your team"
Boy, the clapping seals sure
went silent on that one— Stephen L. Miller (@redsteeze) October 12, 2024
No, I have no idea who she is either, but Vanity Fair assures me that she’s most emphatically voting for more roof tossing in the Middle East: Chappell Roan Declares She’s “Voting for F**king Kamala Harris” Following Backlash.
Related:
DISPATCHES FROM THE “I’M SORRY YOU WERE OFFENDED” SCHOOL OF NON-APOLOGIES: Whitmer: I’m Sorry You Failed to Appreciate My Genius, Catholics.
At least Gretchen Whitmer got one political tradition right this week: the non-apology apology.
After participating in a weird submissive-porn version of Catholic communion, or just a demonstration of how Kamalites operate, the governor of Michigan has gotten a deluge of outrage and criticism. Catholic bishops in all seven dioceses in the state issued a statement demanding an explanation and apology for Whitmer’s campaign video for Kamala Harris and its “offensive impact” in mocking the Eucharist. Clearly, the bishops recognized the imagery Whitmer and Liz Plank used, since they see it every day in their own parishes:
The Bishops of Michigan have expressed their “profound disappointment and offense taken” with Governor Gretchen Whitmer for posting a video skit on social media showing the state’s Governor feeding a Dorito corn chip to a kneeling podcaster in a manner that is widely being perceived as a mockery of the Holy Eucharist.
“The skit goes further than the viral online trend that inspired it, specifically imitating the posture and gestures of Catholics receiving the Holy Eucharist, in which we believe that Jesus Christ is truly present,” said Paul A. Long, President and CEO of the Michigan Catholic Conference which represents the seven dioceses of the state, October 11.
“It is not just distasteful or ‘strange;’ it is an all-too-familiar example of an elected official mocking religious persons and their practices. While dialogue on this issue with the governor’s office is appreciated, whether or not insulting Catholics and the Eucharist was the intent, it has had an offensive impact.”
Indeed, although as I wrote earlier, that’s not all the video did, either. Whitmer role-played a priestess in a cult setting rather than make an argument for her preferred policy. Even without the trappings of Catholic practice, the video makes progressives and Democrats into a cult and its elected officials as idols to be worshipped, as Plank clearly demonstrated, rather than public officials to be held accountable.
Plus, if you believe the other interpretation, Whitmer and Plank used a submissive-porn motif to model what the two apparently believe is the proper relationship between elites and the masses. That’s “masses” with a small-M, of course. YMMV, but all of these interpretations could apply simultaneously … and probably do. (Read my earlier argument on all three.)
We need a complete and total shutdown of Michigan until we can figure out just what the hell is going on there:
Remember when Gretchen Whitmer called JD Vance weird? pic.twitter.com/rDVPcdIF3X
— Bonchie (@bonchieredstate) October 10, 2024
REPORT: “Massive” cyber attacks hit Iranian government sites and nuclear facilities.
As Middle East tensions rise, cyberattacks hit Iran’s government branches and nuclear facilities, following Israel’s response to Iran’s October 1 missile barrage.
Amid escalating Middle East tensions, Iran faced major cyberattacks Saturday, disrupting its government branches and targeting nuclear facilities. The massive cyberattack followed Israel’s pledged response to Iran’s October 1 missile barrage, as regional conflicts intensified in Gaza and Lebanon.
Abolhassan Firouzabadi, former secretary of Iran’s Supreme Council for Cyberspace, told local media Iran suffered a cyber attack. Firouzabadi also added that threat actors stole sensitive information from targeted infrastructure.
“Nearly all three branches of Iran’s government – the judiciary, the legislature, and the executive branch – have been hit by heavy cyberattacks, and their information was stolen,” said Firouzabadi, the former secretary of Iran’s Supreme Council of Cyberspace, was quoted as saying by the Iran International. “Our nuclear facilities have also been targeted by cyberattacks, as well as networks like fuel distribution, municipal networks, transportation networks, ports, and similar sectors. These are just part of a long list of various areas across the country that have been attacked,” he added.
"Nearly all three branches of Iran's government – the judiciary, the legislature and the executive branch – have been hit by heavy cyberattacks, and their information stolen," said Firouzabadi, the ex-secretary of Iran's Supreme Council of Cyberspace, without explaining when… pic.twitter.com/SjjcMM7dhe
— Iran International English (@IranIntl_En) October 11, 2024
Live look at Iran’s computer networks under attack:
GREAT MOMENTS IN VICTIMHOOD: Mariska Hargitay suffered ‘secondary trauma’ from ‘Law & Order: SVU’ storylines.
Mariska Hargitay, 60, who has starred as Olivia Benson in the “Law & Order” franchise since 1999 — making her the longest-running character in the longest-running prime-time drama — said that she’s been “deeply” impacted by the show.
“When I started the show, I wasn’t aware of how deeply it would go into me,” Hargitay said in a recent interview with “SVU” fan Selena Gomez published Monday in Interview magazine.
Hargitay, who has been married to “Blue Bloods” actor Peter Hermann since 2004, added, “My husband Peter is always like, anytime I go anywhere, my first question is, ‘What’s the crime rate here?’ So it’s on the brain.”
She continued, “There’s been times when I didn’t know how to protect myself, and I think I was definitely a victim of secondary trauma from being inundated with these stories and knowing that they were true. Those were the parts that I didn’t know how to metabolize, just because of the sheer volume of it.”
Hargitay is paid a reported $500,000 per episode of her Law & Order franchise.
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