Archive for 2016
November 21, 2016
THE LEFT’S BASIC PROBLEM: FREAKOUTRAGE HAS LOST ITS STING:
Freakoutrage needs the cooperation of President-elect Trump (Ohhhh, baby, I’m a-tinglin’ again!), and that’s another reason you’ll fail. Freakoutrage is really a way you and your media fluffers try to train conservative leaders. You try to teach the Republican leader that if he does anything you don’t approve of, you’ll scream and whine and then he’ll have to back down. It’s a means of control, like a shock collar. And this works on a lot of Republicans, or used to: “Oh no, the WaPo is angry! Quick, start #caring!”
But The Donald? Nope. You have no heat because he’s giving absolutely no damns.
Ditching the press to scarf a sirloin? WAAAAAA! Damns given: 0.
Appointing hardcore conservatives? WAAAAA! Damns given: 0.
Building the wall, repealing O-Care, SCOTUS Justice Willet? WAAAAA! Damns given: 0.
You’ll be freaking out and the President will be eating a taco bowl and kicking it old school with his hot immigrant wife like a boss, penning and phoning Obama’s miserable legacy into oblivion.
So libs, carry on with your freakoutrages. Please. Each one makes you weaker and us stronger. Everyone sees the truth behind your freakoutrage scam. Everyone sees the truth behind you. The audience of Hamilton didn’t boo Pence. The cast didn’t lecture Pence. The audience booed us. The cast lectured us. You libs hate us. Hate, not merely dislike. Hate. Your dream is a country without us, just like I predicted in my new book.
Yep. And once people figure out that you hate them, your moral currency takes a hit.
NEWS YOU CAN USE: Scientists shocked by what they found on ATMs.
Scientists have taken a close look at the automated teller machines (ATMs) that we use all the time, absent-mindedly punching in a PIN and receiving cash, and found something rather alarming: microbes from fish, chicken and baked goods found on the surfaces of keypads throughout New York City.
The findings were published in the American Society for Microbiology. In the course of their research, scientists collected a large variety of microbes and bacteria that make their way from human hands to the surfaces of ATM keypads. It shows that there’s just no escaping the massive amount of bacteria that surrounds on a daily basis.
Maybe there’s something to the cashless society after all.
YOU WENT FULL PAULINE KAEL, MAN. NEVER GO FULL PAULINE KAEL:
Terry Brown is a 55-year-old plumber in Stanley, a small North Carolina town that is 90 percent white and whose motto is “Jesus Saves.” He is the sort of person media elites and coastal liberals allegedly overlooked or scorned before Donald Trump’s surprise victory.
These arrogant sophisticates, we are told, live in a world of people just like themselves, making them incapable of understanding the real America. So Trump’s victory hit them like a lightning bolt out of a clear blue sky.
Brown, however, was not surprised. “I don’t know anyone who would vote for Hillary Clinton,” he told Los Angeles Times reporter Jenny Jarvie the day after the election.
He doesn’t know anyone who would vote for Clinton? That’s quite a feat, because 60.5 million of his fellow Americans did. Apparently, there are Trump voters who live in their own bubbles — distant from and deaf to ordinary people who think differently.
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With polls in hand, the media concluded that the electorate, including working-class white men in small towns, had seen through Trump. That was the ultimate media failure: not expecting too little of these voters but expecting too much.
—Steve Chapman, the Chicago Tribune, “Trump and the media ‘failure.’”
DISPATCHES FROM THE EDUCATION APOCALYPSE: Hampshire College Surrenders to Lunatic Left, Lowers American Flag. As Michael Walsh writes, “You might want to think twice before sending your kids here.”
NEWS YOU CAN USE:
- How to Talk About Star Wars at Thanksgiving With Your Ignorant, Rebellion-Backing Uncle.
- Star Trek TOS Character You’d Invite to Thanksgiving Dinner Is…
- The Musicians’ Thanksgiving Survival Guide.
- The Tattooed Person’s Thanksgiving Survival Guide.
- Gluten-Free Thanksgiving Recipes and Menu Ideas.
- Your Body Ecology Thanksgiving Survival Guide!
- Maria Shriver.com’s Thanksgiving Survival Guide Based on Your Personal Archetype.
2016 CAN’T END SOON ENOUGH: “An earthquake with preliminary magnitude of 7.3 has struck off the coast of Fukushima prefecture in Japan. A tsunami warning for waves of up to three meters (10 feet) has been issued,” AP is reporting.
PARENTING IN THE AGE OF TRUMP: Kids Are Writing Letters to Donald Trump Begging Him to Be Kind.
I dunno, I think he once shot a man in Reno, just to watch him die — if Twitter is to be believed.
AND: Paying Students to Protest Trump.
They probably won’t make enough to move out of their parents’ basement after graduation.
REPORTING FROM THE 2016 L.A. Auto Show.
AT AMAZON, Pre-Black Friday Deals in Fashion for Men and Women.
Plus, deals in Luggage.
HELPING TO RE-ELECT TRUMP, ONE SMUG SNEER AT A TIME: ‘You’re Too Poor To Buy Tickets Anyway’: Wealthy Celebs Sneer at ‘Hamilton’ Boycotters.
I BLAME DEMOCRATS’ HATE-FILLED, INFLAMMATORY RHETORIC: 4 cops shot in 24 hours in 4 cities, 2 shootings called targeted.
21ST CENTURY PROBLEMS: Woman sues claiming smartphone-compatible vibrator shared sexytime data with company. “She used the device ‘on several occasions’ since the purchase, but was never informed that each time she turned on the app, the company was monitoring her activities as well, collecting ‘personally identifiable’ information, according to the lawsuit.”
COLOR ME UNIMPRESSED: US government releases official guidelines for smart guns.
FASTER, PLEASE: The Race For A Zika Vaccine.
OH NO, POLITICO: Obamacare repeal plan stokes fears of market collapse.
Repealing the law without a replacement is likely to spook health insurers, who might bolt from the markets prematurely to avoid losses as some people stop paying their premiums, while others rush to have expensive medical procedures before losing coverage. Insurers would have little incentive to stick around without knowing know what to expect at the end of the transition. And that could spell chaos for consumers.
“The discussion right now about repeal and replacement is making the market very, very nervous,” said Washington Insurance Commissioner Mike Kreidler, a Democrat. “I would not be surprised to see the potential for a stampede to exit the market.”
This is what we call “distinction without a difference.“
LIFE IN THE 21ST CENTURY: The CRISPR Bioterrorism Threat. “Scientific advisers to President Obama warn that the U.S. urgently needs a new biodefense strategy and should regularly brief President-elect Donald Trump on the dangers posed by new technologies like CRISPR, gene therapy, and synthetic DNA, which they say could be coöpted by terrorists.”
DAN RATHER: Now, More Than Ever, We Must Stand Up for Science.
That the author of “fake, but accurate” was published by Scientific American speaks volumes about what has become of that magazine.
NEWS YOU CAN USE: Don’t Flush Sodium Metal Down Your Toilet. That’s why I always put mine down the Disposal.