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June 27, 2018
THE 21st CENTURY IS NOT WORKING OUT AS I HAD HOPED: Woman who called cops on black girl selling water resigns as CEO of pot company.
WHEW, I’M GLAD THEY’VE FINALLY STUMBLED ONTO A WAY TO BLAME MEN FOR EVERYTHING: Feminists Invent Concept of ‘Emotional Labor’ to Blame Men for Everything.
UPDATE (FROM GLENN): Anyone who thinks that “emotional labor” is something that men don’t engage in has never lived with a woman.
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THIS SHOULD MAKE ANOTHER GOOD RNC AD: She Persisted: Chelsea Clinton calls for anti-American protests abroad to Get Trump. I feel like these people live in some sort of a bubble.
YOUR DAILY TREACHER: It’s Not Misogyny if the Targets Are Republicans, Right?
LEFTIES ARE NOT HAVING A GOOD WEEK:
He’s a “comedian” at Comedy Central. And dumb as a rock, obviously.
MAKING THE ROUNDS TODAY:
THE “BE NICE TO JOURNALISTS ACT”?: Kyle Smith eviscerates the whining US press corps, and NBC’s Kasey Hunt in particular:
While President Trump was mocking the media as usual at his South Carolina rally last night, Hunt tweeted, “The last person to rule America who didn’t believe in the First Amendment was King George III.” Leave aside that Trump does not “rule” America or that the First Amendment didn’t exist during the period of British rule anyway. Describing Trump as uniquely antagonistic to the First Amendment among presidents is preposterous. It is historical illiteracy.
It’s not like this hasn’t been pointed out before. She’d last about 5 minutes in Singapore or Thailand.
FLASHBACK: On Judicial Nominations, GOP Must Punish Democrats for Decades of Unprecedented Escalations.
Guy Benson tweets: “They talk as if Mitch/GOP stonewalling of Garland came out of nowhere. In fact, it was richly-earned vengeance” for decades of unilateral Democratic escalations & power grabs. A brief history.”
And from his 2017 column (linked above):
When Democrats continued their heretofore unforeseen practice of blocking up-or-down votes for majority-backed judicial nominees after the GOP regained the Senate in 2004, Republicans saber-rattled about invoking the so-called “nuclear option.” That fear led a bipartisan group of Senators, seven from each party, to forge the ‘Gang of 14′ compromise. The terms of that agreement survived a number of years until Democrats decided that they could not abide the GOP using the filibuster precedent they’d invented under Bush to thwart a limited number President Obama’s picks. For perspective, in their respective first terms, Obama had more of his circuit court nominees confirmed than Bush did — and enjoyed a better confirmation rate on district court selections than George H.W. Bush. Nevertheless, Democrats decided that the deployment of their own tactics against a Democratic president constituted a fresh justification to abolish the very practice they’d pioneered, detonating the “nuclear” option that many of them had inveighed against when Republicans were merely considering it as a method of overcoming Democrats’ previous unprecedented escalation. Some Reid defenders have argued that the former Democratic leader did everything he could to reason with Republicans to avoid going nuclear very early in Obama’s second term. Not true:
When Reid broke the filibuster [in 2013], he claimed the GOP could have avoided the nuclear option if they’d simply confirmed the seven appointees they’d been blocking. According to Politico, McConnell conceded to those demands to save the filibuster. At the last moment, Reid insisted that Republicans surrender the threat of filibustering any Obama’s appointments in the future.
Democrats single-handedly and unilaterally introduced the concept of judicial filibusters against majority-supported nominees, then proceeded to unilaterally end it, all over the course of about a decade. They started the practice when they were in the minority, then blew it up when they were in the majority.
Well, that’s different because shut up.
CHUCK SCHUMER: ‘Height of Hypocrisy’ if McConnell Doesn’t Stall Supreme Court Nomination Like 2016.
The Biden Rule applies to presidential election years, Senator, but I think you know that.
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YOU DON’T WANT TO BE ONE OF THEM: Study suggests more than 1 in 10 adults are folate, vitamin B12 deficient.
THE OUTRAGE HAS ONLY JUST BEGUN: Justice Kennedy Retiring.
So much more to come.
Update: More here and here at the PJMedia liveblog, and this news cycle is just getting started.
And even more from Caleb Howe.
UPDATE (FROM GLENN):
If she’s kicked out of an ice cream parlor, it’s got to be Breyer.
BECAUSE IT’S A FRICKING LASER BEAM? This Is The Horrifying Reason You Should Never Stare Into a Laser Pointer.
MAYBE PATTON OSWALT WAS NEVER THAT FUNNY TO BEGIN WITH: “Trump is the worst thing for comedy right now because the longer he stays in office, the more tense and angry and on edge everyone is.”
George Carlin, Richard Pryor, Steve Martin, and Bill Cosby all honed their comedic skills during the ’60s and ’70s, which weren’t exactly the most relaxed and happy decades in American history.