THE NEW SPACE RACE: China wants to ramp up the launch rate of its Long March 5B rocket.
CIVIL RIGHTS STUMBLE: Oregon’s new gun control law punishes poor people. Poverty should not be a death sentence, and one’s rights should never be conditioned upon their ability to pay.
EVERYTHING SEEMINGLY IS SPINNING OUT OF CONTROL: AP thinks abortion was a constitutional right: Justices cheered at conservative group’s anniversary dinner.
WASHINGTON (AP) — Four of the five Supreme Court justices who overturned the constitutional right to abortion showed up at the conservative Federalist Society’s black-tie dinner marking its 40th anniversary.
Screen cap for if/when AP updates the lede:
(Classical reference in headline.)
GOOD: Feel-Good Friday: Justices Barrett and Alito receive standing ovations during gala event. Events like this are important. Lefties have endless awards ceremonies, etc., to reinforce the egos of the people they like. People on the right are barely in the game.
MARK JUDGE’S THE DEVIL’S TRIANGLE: MARK JUDGE VS THE NEW AMERICAN STASI IS NOW AVAILABLE AT AMAZON.
CHANGE: Multiple sources (including Decision Desk HQ) are projecting Republican Joe Lombardo elected governor of Nevada.
CALL ME CYNICAL, BUT THIS SOUNDS LIKE AN EFFORT AT EXTRACTING GRAFT: WHO report decries inequality in global vaccine market.
SLEEP IS VITAL: If You Don’t Get Enough Sleep, Your Brain Literally Eats Itself.
NOAH CARL: Name-Calling, “Fact-Checking” and Censorship in the Covid Era. A new paper analyzes the tactics used to enforce Covid orthodoxy.
HEATHER MAC DONALD: The Other Imaginary Red Wave. Despite ceaseless warnings on the left, Election Day came and went without right-wing violence.
We have been through this hysteria before. Predictions of right-wing violence are now a standard feature of Democratic rhetoric. In the lead-up to January 6, 2022 (the one-year anniversary of the 2021 Capitol riot), the media, politicians, and the Biden national-security apparatus warned that “domestic violent extremists” were likely to strike again. Washington, D.C., was reportedly on edge in anticipation of the MAGA rebels. As it turned out, January 6, 2022, was notable only for the maudlin theatrics of newly patriotic Democrats, who softly sang “God Bless America” in a candlelight vigil on the Capitol steps, as calm engulfed them.
During the previous year, the Office of the Director of National Intelligence, the Department of Justice, and the Department of Homeland Security had issued regular warnings about election-denying terrorism. The summer of 2021, August 2021, September 2021—all provoked a satisfying increase in alerts and in precautionary barricades and bollards. And still, the right-wing terrorists did not strike.
Read the whole thing.
THE NEW SPACE RACE: Yes, China Really Grew a Plant on the Moon.
READER BOOK PLUG: From Steve Deace: Why Thanksgiving?
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ONWARD AND UPWARD: Firearm Sales Poised to Eclipse Pre-Pandemic Records.
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I DON’T WANT TO HEAR ANOTHER WORD ABOUT GLENN REYNOLDS’ CARBON FOOTPRINT: Four hundred private jets arrived in Egypt during COP27 as climate delegates are accused of ‘hypocrisy.’
I’ll believe global warming is a crisis when the people who tell me it’s a crisis start to act like it’s a crisis themselves, to coin an Insta-phrase.
PROBABLY: Will FTX crash bring a crypto winter?
I have some friends who made a lot in Bitcoin and who still trade crypto (I think they keep their nest egg elsewhere, though) and they see this as a buying opportunity. I’m skeptical, though I’m much too cautious as an investor.
XI’S GOTTA HAVE IT: Chinese incursions into India are increasing and are strategically planned, study finds. Color me unsurprised.
LIVING ON TUZLA TIME: Hillary Clinton couldn’t’ve chosen a better photo to accompany her ‘shameless’ Veterans Day tweet.
Because they were pro-Obama, even CBS called her out for that lie, back in the day:
BUT HE FIGHTS — OTHER REPUBLICANS: Donald Trump Moves to Attacking Glenn Youngkin in Extremely Odd Statement.
THAT WOULD MAKE IT EVEN LESS LETHAL THAN WE THINK, RIGHT? Global COVID-19 infection rates may far exceed reported cases, WHO says.
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EVERYTHING IS GOING SWIMMINGLY: Consumer sentiment falls again, more than expected.
ROBERT GRABOYES: Pandemic Amnesty, No. Truth and Reconciliation Commission, Yes.
Toward the end of National Lampoon’s Animal House (1978), Flounder, a gawky freshman pledge, cries inconsolably because the older members of his fraternity have destroyed the Lincoln Continental his older brother lent him for the weekend. Otter, an oleaginous charmer, pats Flounder on the back with mock compassion and says, “C’mon, Flounder. … You can’t spend your whole life worrying about your mistakes. … You f**ked up! You trusted us! … Hey, make the best of it!”
In an Atlantic article (Let’s Declare a Pandemic Amnesty), Brown University economics professor Emily Oster channels Otter; and Oster-as-Otter invites the American public to assume the position of Flounder. Oster’s solution to nearly three years of “totally misguided” (her words) COVID-19 policies is “Let’s declare a pandemic amnesty.” After an endless torrent of mandated mayhem—grandma dying alone, funerals by Zoom, businesses bankrupted, educations wrecked, social fabric shredded—Oster says, “I certainly don’t need to dissect and rehash that time for the rest of my days. … Moving on is crucial now.” In other words, “You can’t spend your whole life worrying about your mistakes. … Hey, make the best of it!”
Let’s not bicker and argue over who killed who!
A DIFFERENT VIEW OF “DESANCTIMONIOUS.”
Plus, related — but very different — thoughts from Jeff Goldstein.
DISPATCHES FROM WEIMAR AMERICA: Topless ‘nun’ performs sexualized burlesque at Dartmouth drag show.
RIP: Kevin Conroy, the Voice of Batman, Dies at 66. The voice actor played the Dark Knight for 30 years, beginning with Batman: The Animated Series.
PARAMOUNT+’S THE GOOD FIGHT CHARACTER ACCUSES RON DESANTIS OF SEXUAL ASSAULT:
After last week’s episode of Paramount+’s legal drama The Good Fight fed us leftist propaganda from a firehose, this week wasn’t much better.
Thursday’s series finale, “The End of Everything,” featured an obvious Milo Yiannopoulos-like character who accuses the newly re-elected Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) of sexual assault in a plot to help former President Donald Trump win the presidency in 2024.
The episode begins with Diane (Christine Baranski) returning to the city, and thus to the chaos of white supremacist riots outside of the building she works in, after a relaxing trip to the countryside. She gets swept up among the protesters while trying to go through a blockade as she’s surrounded by protesters, many in red MAGA hats shouting, “White lives matter!”
The scene was a supposed “echo” of January 6, according to Vulture. As a reporter on the scene states, “From what we can tell, most protesters seem to be coming from outside Chicago, drawn by the expectation of violence, and the arrival of 11/10 supporters.” The reporter is interrupted by a protestor shouting, “One more day!”
The date 11/10 is the one protesters have been counting down to and threatening the predominantly black law firm with – albeit without any details.
Once safely upstairs, Diane is introduced to a familiar but unwelcome face. Felix Staples (John Cameron Mitchell), is seeking representation for a lawsuit he wants to bring against DeSantis for sexual assault:
Lets the smears begin. Final episode of @TheGoodFight on @ParamountPlus has client claiming @GovRonDeSantis sexually assaulted him. “He invited me onto his staff. Little did I know what he meant by staff….and forced me into oral sex.” Have DeSantis DNA “stain.” #thegoodfight pic.twitter.com/961T7MP0nu
— Brent Baker 🇺🇦 (@BrentHBaker) November 10, 2022
This is simply the same streaming platform using the negative image version of Stacey Abrams as president of United Earth on Star Trek: Discovery to generate some cheap publicity to an otherwise little-watched show. DeSantis would be best left to ignore this attempt to smear him.
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SPEECH THE IVY LEAGUE VALUES: Topless ‘nun’ performs sexualized burlesque at Dartmouth drag show.
LATERAL MOVE: Addidas and Balenciaga replaces Kanye West with Bella Hadid.
However, in October — just one day after making his runway debut at Balenciaga’s mud-covered fashion show in Paris — the rapper debuted his own Yeezy Season 9 collection, which included “White Lives Matter” T-shirts. In the subsequent days and weeks, West, 45, has continued to push the white supremacist phrase in addition to spewing anti-Semitic remarks, none of which he’s apologized for.
On Oct. 21, Balenciaga announced it was cutting ties with West, ending the Yeezy Gap Engineered by Balenciaga partnership helmed by the fashion house’s creative director, Demna Gvasalia.
“Balenciaga has no longer any relationship nor any plans for future projects related to this artist,” parent company Kering told WWD at the time. West’s photo was scrubbed from Balenciaga’s Instagram and website as well.
While West’s 10-year contract with Adidas seemed tenuous in recent months for a number of reasons, tons of celebrities called on the brand to terminate its deal amid the rapper’s anti-Semitic rants. After placing the partnership “under review,” Adidas — which had served as the manufacturer and distributor of the Yeezy brand since 2016 — finally terminated the collaboration.
From last year: Bella Hadid joined pro-Palestinian protests.
PROTEST LIKE IT’S 1999: Cornell students cancel Coulter’s speech: ‘Your words are violence. We don’t want you to speak here,’ one protester yelled. Protester, you’re a dumbass who’s a stain on the Ivy League. Though it’s pretty much the Stain League at this point.
EVAN MCMULLIN IS A LYING, GRIFTING TOOL WHOSE BEHAVIOR STAINS HIS SUPPORTERS: ‘Not at all how the call went’: Sen. Mike Lee’s son calls McMullin’s bluff.
In a subsequent Facebook post and tweet, McMullin claimed he told Sen. Lee, “I truly hope that he upholds his oath to the Constitution during his upcoming term.”
Lee’s son John retorted via Twitter: “That is not at all how the call went. I was there. Both candidates were surprisingly cordial. For once, you didn’t take the typical pedantic tone — I was surprised how kind the exchange was. And then you turned around and tweeted this. You have lied and deceived until the very end.”
McMullin is an encapsulation of what’s wrong with our political class. Unprincipled, sanctimonious — yes, this time it sticks — and willing to say anything to bring in the grift.
THIS IS STUPID AND WRONG: Trump lashes out at ‘Ron DeSanctimonious’ (again). Not only is it dumb to be attacking a highly successful Republican out of what looks like pure ego, but “DeSanctimonious” is a total failure as a linguistic kill shot. Trump has launched some devastating ones, but when they work it’s because they encapsulate something that’s obviously true about the target, and that people have been unwilling to say. Here, DeSantis isn’t sanctimonious at all — that would be, say, Mitt Romney, for those who remember him — and it just falls flat. Besides, he’s already been called (also falsely) “DeathSantis” by the media, so this just seems weak by comparison.
Sorry, but Trump is off his game here.
UPDATE: And now he’s going off on Glenn Youngkin too on Truth Social. Why?
DESANTIS RULES: Eight reasons why the Florida governor had a big election night.
SPRINGTIME FOR COL. SANDERS: In Germany, the ‘K’ in KFC Mistakenly Becomes Kristallnacht With Promo Error.
In the biggest advertising blunder since a Rhode Island sports bar and grill thought using the words “Anne Frank” and “ovens” in the same sentence was comedic gold, Kentucky Fried Chicken’s German division has apologized for an automated promotional message sent to its app users in that country. The message contained mention of Kristallnacht (Night of the Broken Glass), the 1938 beginning of the Holocaust, as though it was a holiday. From the Washington Post:
On Wednesday, the 84th commemoration of those brutal riots, KFC Germany sent out push notifications to users of the fried chicken chain’s app. The notification suggested that for the “[c]ommemoration of the Reich pogrom night,” customers could “[f]eel free to add more tender cheese to the crispy chicken,” according to a Google translation of the original message. “Now at KFCheese.”
Elsewhere in Germany: Watch: Germans are dancing to stay warm this winter. Just four years after laughing at Trump:
Watching the footage of the chilly krauts cha-cha-cha-ing, Cockburn can’t help but recall former president Donald Trump’s speech to the United Nations back in 2018, where he warned that “Germany will become totally dependent on Russian energy.” At the time, the German delegation laughed and shook their heads at what they considered yet another absurd broadside from the American president.
Reliable, even-handed CNBC rated Trump’s claim as “highly misleading.” That didn’t age very well.
After a bruising midterm cycle for the Republicans he endorsed, Trump can salve his ego with the fact that he was right about Russian energy.
In a Reuters video showing off the class, one instructor said that “you can dance yourself warm, for example, by taking up the swinging, this bounce that you have all the time, or a triple step.” Another expressed a sense of satisfaction with the program, saying it helped to add some positivity to the “problems with the climate or the energy crisis and such.”
How far Germany has fallen. From being the economic envy of the world, it is now a country where citizens turn to the waltz to save energy and fight the cold — the faint echoes of World War One’s Turnip Winter are hard to miss.
I’d say that we need a complete and total shutdown of Germany until we can figure out just what the hell is going on, but thanks to their suicidal energy policy, that’s exactly what’s about to happen.
WELL, THAT’S BECAUSE IT DID: Even Democrats agree media election bias favored Team Biden.
CIVIL RIGHTS UPDATE: Second Amendment Challenge to University of Michigan Gun Ban.
JURY ORDERS FILMMAKER PAUL HAGGIS TO PAY $7.5M IN RAPE SUIT:
Veering from sex to red-carpet socializing to Scientology, the civil court trial pitted Haggis, known for writing best picture Oscar winners “Million Dollar Baby” and “Crash,” against Haleigh Breest, a publicist who met him while working at movie premieres in the early 2010s.
After hugging her lawyers, Breest said she was “very grateful” for the verdict as she left court. In a statement released later, she said she was thankful “that the jury chose to follow the facts — and believed me.”
Haggis said he was “very disappointed in the results.”
“I’m going to continue to, with my team, fight to clear my name,” he said as he left the courthouse with his three adult daughters. One had wept on a sister’s shoulder as the verdict was delivered.
After a screening afterparty in January 2013, Haggis offered Breest a lift home and invited her to his New York apartment for a drink.
Breest, 36, said Haggis then subjected her to unwanted advances and ultimately compelled her to perform oral sex and raped her despite her entreaties to stop. Haggis, 69, said the publicist was flirtatious and, while sometimes seeming “conflicted,” initiated kisses and oral sex in an entirely consensual interaction. He said he couldn’t recall whether they had intercourse.
After a day of deliberating, jurors sided with Breest, who said she suffered psychological and professional consequences from her encounter with Haggis. She sued in late 2017.
While awarding her $7.5 million to compensate for suffering, the jury concluded that punitive damages should also be awarded. Jurors return Monday for more court proceedings to help them decide that amount.
The verdict came weeks after another civil jury, in the federal courthouse next door, decided that Kevin Spacey didn’t sexually abuse fellow actor and then-teenager Anthony Rapp in 1986. Meanwhile, “That ’70s Show” actor Danny Masterson and former movie magnate Harvey Weinstein are on trial, separately, on criminal rape charges in Los Angeles. Both deny the allegations, and Weinstein is appealing a conviction in New York.
If these trials keep up, Hollywood could begin to get a ever-so-slight reputation of being a sex-grooming gang.
ROGER KIMBALL: Republicans need to figure out mail-in voting: It’s being used by Democrats to influence the course of elections.
What was the determinative fix in the 2022 midterm elections? Early, mostly mail-in, voting. It is perfectly legal. But it undermines a fair and open electoral process. Were I a Democrat, I might even say that it “threatens our democracy.” Why? Because it allows for the wholesale manipulation of the vote. It also dilutes the integrity of an election by transforming it from an event into a process.
I should add that “mail-in ballots” is an equivocal term. It can mean different things in different contexts and in different states. The practice is obviously open to more interference and manipulation than same-day voting is. So extra safeguards must be put in place and scrupulously followed if such interference and manipulation is to be avoided. Some states do this. Florida is a good example. Other states do not. Apparently, about 1.4 million people asked for mail-in ballots in Pennsylvania. Around the same number voted early by mail in Arizona, compared to just shy of half a million on Election Day. Were all such ballots carefully checked to ascertain the identity and eligibility of the person casting the vote?
I doubt it, but let’s leave that question to one side. The real issue is that the wholesale practice of early or mail-in voting makes a mockery of elections. If you say that an election is to be held on November 8, but millions of ballots are already docketed, if not actually counted, by the time November 8 rolls around, why bother to have Election Day at all? Why not have Election Week, or Election Month, or Election Quarter?
Elections are meant to represent a particular decision made at particular time at which voters can assess the state of things at that moment and make their choice. Early and mail-in voting undermines the definitiveness of that practice. I suspect that in many cases the result of an election is essentially predetermined by early and mail-in voting, something that makes the very idea of Election Day superfluous.
Indeed, and that’s the ultimate goal.
GRIFT AND GRAFT: White House Won’t Say How It Spent $1 Billion in Taliban-Controlled Afghanistan: State Department stonewalls watchdog looking into taxpayer funds.
I wouldn’t be surprised if some of it flowed back to the Big Guy.
IN KEEPING WITH THEIR HISTORICAL RECORD OF RACISM: Great White Wave: Democrats Suppress Historically Inclusive Slate of GOP Candidates: Bigotry to blame? (Yes.)
Republicans nominated a historically diverse, equitable, and inclusive slate of candidates in the 2022 midterms elections. Some were victorious.
Sens. Tim Scott (R., S.C.) and Marco Rubio (R., Fla.) cruised to reelection, as did Gov. Greg Abbott (R., Texas), who shrugged off his ableist critics to retain his title as America’s preeminent (and only) wheelchair-bound governor.
Rep.-elect Josh Brecheen (R., Okla.) will be the only member of the Choctaw Nation in the House of Representatives, and if Herschel Walker defeats Sen. Raphael Warnock (D., Ga.) in next month’s runoff election, there will be more black Republicans in the U.S. Senate than black Democrats.
Alas, more than a dozen Republican minorities were swept away Tuesday by what some are calling the Democratic Party’s “white wave.” In what can only be viewed as a deliberate act of bigotry, Democrats nominated white candidates to run against GOP candidates of color and proceeded to defeat those candidates, thereby excluding them from the halls of power.
Anyone familiar with the mainstream media’s coverage of Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama knows that simply running against a woman or person of color is the moral equivalent of trying to exclude all women and all people of color from ever holding political office. It is tantamount to committing violence against an entire community of vulnerable citizens.
Mehmet Oz would have been the first Muslim Senator. Why do Democrats hate Muslims?
LIVE STREAM: STUDENTS FOR FAIR ADMISSIONS v. HARVARD: I’ll be on a panel discussing the Harvard case at the Federalist Society’s Lawyers Conference today at “approximately” 12:30 Eastern. The time approximate because it’s a lunch panel. They’ll start once everybody has eaten. I hope to say a few words about my “Agenda for Congress.”
IT SURE IS, AND THIS SHOULD BE A MAJOR GOP FOCUS FROM NOW UNTIL 2024: New Yorker: We regret to inform you that parental activism is real and spectacular.
TIRED: GAY MARRIAGE. WIRED: WIDOW REMARRIAGE. I’m a Military Widow. I’ll Lose My Benefits if I Remarry.
IT’S NOT JUST ME: Casting the Oracle Stones.
I said from the beginning these elections stood a good chance of massive fraud. I TOLD you. And now you’re treating the results as though they were perfectly legit. Has everyone gone insane?
PSAKI ADMITS DEMS PEDDLING SOCIALISM: The former White House Press Secretary and State Department spokesman has a moment of honesty on Twitter.
TELL ME THIS DOESN’T KEEP YOU UP AT NIGHT: Nearly half of American adults experience sleep deprivation: study.
A RIGHT LIKE AMERICA: THE BEST ENEMY AND THE WORST FRIEND: Are We Really Ready To Quit Donald Trump?
Whatever we think of the man, he quit his comfy life and lost his position in the world, to work for the country according to his lights. Now we turn on him because the dems fixed an election (two actually) so he looks bad.
Yeah, that’s a good move to attract non-political personalities who want to do something for the country.
If you like your Swamp, keep right on.
ALL THE FAMILIAR SPOTS HAD PROBLEMS AGAIN: Maricopa County has issues again.
IF WE’RE GOING TO LIST THINGS MSNBC DOESN’T UNDERSTAND WE’LL BE HERE ALL NIGHT: MSNBC doesn’t understand gerrymandering.
IT’S GREAT TO BE VINDICATED. AGAIN, MY NAME ISN’T CASSANDRA: Time for another Wuhan panic update.
I NEVER HAD A LOT OF PATIENCE. BUT ALL THIS “ROLL OVER AND PLAY DEAD” IS MAKING THINGS MUCH WORSE: Oh, PLEASE!
NO IT WON’T. YOU CAN’T CHALLENGE THE INEXISTENT: Re-Elected California Governor Newsom’s Energy Literacy Will Be Challenged Over the Next 4-Years.
THAT THEY CAN’T EVEN PREDICT THE PRESENT, GIVEN PAST DATA? The Dirty Secrets inside the Black Box Climate Models.
THE SAME THAT HAPPENED TO OURS: FRAUD. IT’S NOT HARD: What on Earth Happened with Brazil’s Election?
FOR THAT MATTER, BIDEN’S FOREIGN ASSOCIATIONS SHOULD BE LOOKED AT: Biden Thinks Elon Musk’s ‘Cooperation With Other Countries is Worth Being Looked At’.
Since they matter a lot more than some businessman’s.
NO. AND THEIR VOTES ARE VISIBLE DUE TO CLEAN VOTING: Latinos: No, Spanish Language ‘Disinformation’ Didn’t Cause Hispanics to Support DeSantis, GOP.
“COUNT”: Arizona’s Maricopa County Still has to Count Hundreds of Thousands of Ballots.
This is not normal in any other country. It’s not really normal here, either.
November 10, 2022
UNEXPECTEDLY! Federal Judge Strikes Down Biden Student-Loan ‘Forgiveness.’
A federal judge in Texas on Thursday blocked President Biden’s student-loan “forgiveness” plan in response to a lawsuit from the Job Creators Network Foundation (JCNF).
The conservative advocacy group filed a suit in October arguing that the Biden administration violated federal procedures by not allowing borrowers to provide public comment before the program was unveiled.
Judge Mark Pittman of the Northern District of Texas called the plan an “unconstitutional exercise of Congress’s legislative power” and noted the program failed to go through standard regulatory processes.
“No one can plausibly deny that it is either one of the largest delegations of legislative power to the executive branch, or one of the largest exercises of legislative power without congressional authority in the history of the United States,” Pittman wrote in a 26-page opinion.
But it did help President Klain to drum up some enthusiasm among his base to help tamp down the red wave this week, thus serving its purpose.
WELL, THIS IS THE 21ST CENTURY, YOU KNOW: People With Complete Paralysis Walk Again After Nerve Stimulation Breakthrough.
UM, BECAUSE IT’S COLD AND FLU SEASON? Flu and colds are back with a vengeance — why now? At least this article admits that it’s lockdown fallout: “Hensley says that this is because the population ‘is more immunologically naive than what we would expect in most years’. Normally, children get infected by their second birthday. Now, ‘you’re going to end up having kids that are three, four years of age right now who have never seen RSV’.”
MATT MARGOLIS: This Explains the Lack of a Red Wave More Than Anything Else.
All the fundamentals were in the Republicans’ favor, yet while the GOP is still on track to win the majority in the House and maybe eke out a 51-seat majority in the Senate, the red wave many of us were expecting didn’t happen.
There are many theories about why the elections played out as they have. Many believe it was a lack of quality candidates, or the issue of abortion, or even Donald Trump. But on Wednesday, Tucker Carlson of Fox News offered his explanation for the Republican Party’s dismal midterm election results despite a favorable environment — and it makes perfect sense.
“[T]he mechanics of an election. They matter. In fact, they matter sometimes more than any individual running in the election. The way people vote makes a big difference to the outcome,” he explained.
Case in point: Pennsylvania.
The GOP has always been awful on this. Part of that was due to a consent decree that has since been dissolved, but they haven’t changed. Too worried about being called racists by people who call them racist to manipulate them.
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K-12 IMPLOSION UPDATE: Connecticut 7th grade teacher details sexual fantasies with minor students to Project Veritas.
BREAKING Project Veritas: Connecticut School Director Placed "On Leave" After Detailing Sexual Fantasies with Minor Students
"They [students] are naughty”
"They spread their legs wide open…just brutal"
“Every day there is different panties on"pic.twitter.com/i92e5FA28B
— Harmeet K. Dhillon (@pnjaban) November 10, 2022
Related: A Word to the Wise Liberal. “This is a PSA to all male Democrat staffers: If a really hot chick goes on a few dates with you, there’s a 75% chance that she works for James O’Keefe.”
UM, NO? Zoom Meetings Are Coming to a Tesla Near You.
Many of us are living in a remote work world now, which means we now sit through endless video meetings instead of piling into boardrooms. Tesla hopes to turn your car into another meeting space, announcing that Zoom would soon come to its EVs’ infotainment systems.
The feature was revealed at a Zoom product conference, not by Tesla. That said, Elon Musk previously confirmed that in-car meetings were coming, so this isn’t a total surprise. Zoom pulled back the curtain on the tech at the Zoomtopia 2022 event.
Tesla has come up with plenty of useful features, but just as many of its quirky “innovations” are less clever. Despite that, and the fact that it’s easy to pile on Tesla, this actually looks like a helpful feature. The teaser video from Drive Tesla Canada shows a person using the feature while charging their Tesla, allowing them to make use of otherwise dead time.
I’m not sure the ability to have work meetings while you’re forced to wait on your car is a good selling point.
VDH: Tuesday Takeaways.
To the degree Republican gubernatorial candidates not supported by Trump easily won their races in states like Georgia and Ohio, they helped Trump-supported senatorial candidates. To the degree Trump-supported gubernatorial candidates lost badly such as in Pennsylvania, they hurt Trump-supported senatorial candidates.
Trump’s pre-election unexpected attack on DeSantis may have turned off a few thousand independents and Republicans from voting for Trump-affiliated candidates. And his pre-midterm boast that he would likely run for president may have scared — and energized — some last-minute, hard-core anti-Trumpers and Democrats to go out to vote.
Pollsters got it wrong — again. But this time once trustworthy conservative pollsters had little inkling that the simmering left-wing base was enthused by wild talk of abortion and insurrection. The real under-polled voters were not silent, wary Trump supporters, but this time around seething upscale women and college students.
Final takeaways?
Democratic opposition to a flawed and impaired Biden running again in 2024 will recede. Republican loyalty to the unpredictable Trump could fade.
And both those realities will empower DeSantis.
As Michael Barone notes, “The biggest winner of election 2022 was Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis. Four years ago, he carried Florida 50%-49%, by just 32,000 votes, and he has been under repeated attack by the national press for his policies on COVID, concentrating on protecting the elderly and insisting on open schools and outdoor activities, and for a bill forbidding overt sexual material in kindergarten through third grade. His mettle was tested when Hurricane Ian attacked southwest Florida on Sept. 28 at a point not predicted by meteorologists (weather experts have improved greatly in recent decades but aren’t perfect). He got the Pine Island bridge repaired within three days and the Sanibel Island bridge repaired in three weeks rather than the predicted three months. He didn’t just promise to build things — he delivered. This year, DeSantis won reelection by 19 points, a 1,506,000-vote margin, in the state that George W. Bush carried in 2000 by a 537-vote margin after 35 days of recounts and litigation.”
TWENTY MINUTES INTO THE FUTURE: What will the final GOP tally be in the House?
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JOEL KOTKIN: The Democrats’ false victory. A progressive bloodbath has merely been delayed.
When Democrats performed poorly in the past, they were forced to rethink their politics. After Walter Mondale suffered a landslide defeat to Reagan in 1984, the Democratic Leadership Council was set up to steer the ship towards the centre — and ultimately supported both a young Bill Clinton and, to an extent, Biden himself. In turn, the DLC was inspired by the moderate Coalition for a Democratic Majority, founded after Nixon’s trouncing of McGovern in 1972. Today, however, it’s hard to say that now is the time for a new political vision when virtually all the high-profile blue state Democrats won, sometimes by wider than expected margins.
So, rather than using the next two years to regroup and craft a political programme that could win the next election, the Democrats now appear stuck with a weak leader who appears unfit to deal with the global challenges that will define America in the coming decade. Internally, too, the Democrats look increasingly unstable. A stronger-than-expected Midterms performance doesn’t mask the fact that the progressives remain a dominant faction in the party — with an associated agenda that, outside of deep blue-college towns and core cities, commands remarkably low levels of support, as Barack Obama and others have warned.
Sticking to such a programme threatens the party’s already weakening hold on working-class voters, in particular those threatened by climate policies. Over time, the economic implications of Biden’s green agenda may be obvious, but for now they are hidden amid massive deficits and increased transfer payments. However, as Democratic strategist Ruy Teixeira has noted, in the longer run, the party’s emphasis on “de-growth” and austerity is unlikely to attract middle and particularly working-class voters.
Read the whole thing.
WHAT SHE SAID: I don’t believe you.
Seriously, what she said with bells on and a side of “I told you so before this all happened.”
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THE NEW SPACE RACE: China ditches expendable rocket plan for its Moon program.
UH HUH. SURE. WHATEVER. I see Elon has not turned off the “bald-faced propaganda” switch at Twitter (yet, hopefully?)
“Voting by mail is safe and secure.” Literally nobody believes this. And I am old enough to remember when it didn’t take days to count votes, because I am older than 20. Live not by lies.
DID SOMEONE DO GAIN OF FUNCTION RESEARCH ON THIS? Mysterious outbreak of bone-eating TB resembles an ancestral form.
SOMETIMES YOU LICK THE TOAD, SOMETIMES THE TOAD LICKS YOU: National Park Service warns visitors to stop licking psychedelic toads.
JOHN NOLTE: Report Says Disney Wants to Make Indiana Jones … a Girl.
The biggest test screening disaster involves one cut of the film that has “Phoebe-Waller Bridge replacing Harrison Ford at the end of the movie.”
“Another unpopular conclusion had Ford’s Indiana Jones dying,” writes Ruimy. “Presumably, this would set up the franchise for further sequels with Ford not returning.”
Ford not returning is obvious. He’s 80.
This is about the brand, and only the woke groomers over at Disney could destroy the Indiana Jones brand.
After all, it was Disney that took the most beloved movie franchise in history, Star Wars, and woke-raped it until it was no longer viable as anything other than a TV show.
And allow me to add this: Who the hell is Phoebe-Waller Bridge?
I’m vaguely aware of the name. I know the woketards love her. She had a TV show on Amazon that lasted a few seasons. This is who they want to make the next Indiana Jones? Some girl who was on TV for a few years? You can see the logic behind handing the Indy baton to an Angelina Jolie, Charlize Theron, or Milla Jovovich. It would still be a terrible idea. But those actresses are movie stars with some credibility in the action genre.
Exit quote: “The Star Wars film franchise was so foolproof even George Lucas’s stillborn prequels couldn’t kill it. Indiana Jones is so foolproof even the dreadful Kingdom of the Crystal Skull couldn’t kill it. But Disney can kill Indiana Jones. Disney can kill anything.”
JONATHAN TURLEY: Washington’s Pandora’s Box: The Opening of the Hunter Biden Laptop Could Expose the Cottage Industry of Influence Peddling. “Washington is famous for managing scandals. Indeed, it is a virtual artform in the Beltway. However, there is one investigation that comes the closest to Pandora’s box for the Washington establishment. A serious investigation into the Hunter Biden scandal could put the political and media elite into an existential crisis.”
SENATOR BLUTARSKY APPROVES THIS MESSAGE: Travel, drugs, alcohol: survey shows how Biden student loan bailout recipients will spend extra money.
JUST NBC THE MISOGYNY! MSNBC Levies Disgusting, Yet Telling Attack on Lauren Boebert.
Get it? Because Boebert is objectively pretty, obviously the only other job she can get after politics (if it comes to that) is doing porn. This dude should go on Jimmy Kimmel’s show with jokes like that.
Of course, one look at Bardella would tell you he’s an absolute beta who doesn’t know how to talk about women outside of misogynistic tropes. It’s also pretty telling that his mind went straight to OnlyFans at the first mention of a woman he probably fantasizes about in his free time.
What is it with MSNBC and misogyny, given their previous vile attacks on Sarah Palin and Hillary Clinton?
Related: Fellow Democrat Claire McCaskill’s ‘not gonna be lectured on hypocrisy’ for enjoying Kurt Bardella’s vile swipe at Boebert
21st CENTURY HEADLINES: Special Ops C-130 Tests Pallet-Dropped Cruise Missiles In The Arctic.
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AMERICA’S NEWSPAPER OF RECORD: Republican Party Staves Off Red Wave.
“This was a close call,” said one Republican leader in Washington. “We were worried that we would achieve massive victories tonight, but we thankfully snatched defeat from the jaws of victory to achieve a much more proper and sensible red trickle, like the proper gentlemen we are.”
Some Republicans achieved major victories, which were largely ignored by party leadership due to the fact that those Republicans were loud and icky “MEGA-MAGA” culture warriors. “Ron DeSantis won by double digits, and frankly, we find that quite uncouth,” said a D.C. consultant while holding up a glass of red trickle victory champagne. “Everyone knows the key to being a good Republican is to muddle your message and make it really squishy so no one knows what you stand for and everyone will like you. Duh!”
Everyone in the room then golf-clapped politely.
I had no idea that the Babylon Bee had moles in the Bulwark’s offices.
FIGHT THE POWER: Cato Institute sues to stop Biden $400 billion student loan bailout.
IT’S COME TO THIS: ‘SNL’ staff writers boycott over Dave Chappelle’s hosting gig.
There’s unrest at 30 Rock, Page Six hears, over the decision to sign up Dave Chappelle to host “Saturday Night Live” this weekend.
We’re told that some staff writers are so furious that the comedy superstar — who has made transphobic and homophobic jokes — has been chosen to helm the iconic show that they’re sitting out the episode.
“They’re not going to do the show,” an insider told Page Six. “But none of the actors are boycotting.”
Wait until the current writers discover what the show’s original writers crafted — and ‘80s cast member Eddie Murphy’s stand-up routines poked fun at.
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