AND I STILL THINK ALEX JONES SHOULD NOT HAVE BEEN “DEPLATFORMED”: Alex Jones and his crowd of incels at the 2008 Denver Democratic Convention, vs Michelle Malkin. I’m the large crew-cutted obstacle in the black shirt.
UPDATE (FROM GLENN): Yeah, whenever I think of Alex Jones, this is what I think of. He’s a total dick. But what they did to him was still wrong. And they’re already warming up to do it to others.
OPEN THREAD: Roll up for the Magical Mystery Thread!
I SEE THE STEALTH WING OF THE TRUMP 2020 CAMPAIGN IS ON THE JOB: Black Lives Matter Protesters Crash Wedding Of Cop Linked To Stephon Clark Shooting.
You know, if I were the Russians and colluding to put/keep Trump in power, this is actually how I’d do it. The commies still have a lot of influence with these lefty groups (BLM even started as a RevCom project). You can send your “activists” out to do things that play well with the left, while shifting moderate voters to Trump, and no one would even suspect. Luckily, Putin’s not that smart.
YOUR DAILY TREACHER: It’s a Mistake to ‘Deplatform’ Alex Jones or Anybody Else.
LIFE IN THE 21ST CENTURY: AI Weapons Are Here To Stay.
AT AMAZON, save on Wheels and Tires.
As usual, they think they’re hurting Trump, when actually they’re devaluing their own currency.
THEY TOLD ME IF TRUMP WERE ELECTED WE’D SEE ANTI-IMMIGRANT RIOTS. THEY DIDN’T TELL ME THEY’D BE STAGED BY BLACK PEOPLE IN BROOKLYN:
Protesters in Brooklyn — some chanting “where is ICE?” — besieged a second nail salon Monday that they believe is connected to the shop where customers brawled on video with employees last week — forcing cops to escort the workers out for their own safety.
About 150 predominantly African-American demonstrators marched from New Red Apple Nails at 1426 Nostrand Ave. — scene of the melee caught on tape Friday — to the Beautiful Red Apple Nails at 1224 Nostrand Ave. and trapped four employees inside. . . .
Demonstrators angrily chanted, “shut them down,” “f–k the police” and “no nails, no toes, these racist shops have got to go.” At least one protester screamed, “where is ICE (U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement)?” implying that the salon’s Asian employees might be undocumented immigrants.
Cops formed a line to hurry the employees, three women and one man, into a police van.
Shortly after the workers were driven away, several protesters and cops shoved each other but there were no immediate arrests.
Hours earlier, officers had to do the same thing back at 1426 Nostrand Ave. and helped employees get through protesters to safety.
“Where is ICE?” Surely that’s racist or something.
SAUL ALINSKY SMILES: Jim Lyons out-PCs the Democrats.
It was 10:45. By now, the few remaining sane Democrats in the Legislature realized that Lyons had done them a solid, sparing them from being recorded on a roll call vote on whether to recognize the genders of pangender, polygender and cisgender, not to mention intersex, intersex man, intersex woman and intersex person …
Personally, I’m glad S. 2562 is back in the closet, because it’s obvious what the two-spirit community’s next demand would have been — listing all 73 genders on the actual licenses.
As Lyons left the chambers, a very confused reporter asked him why he’d done such a thing to Gender X.
Lyons says he glared back at the scribe.
“Are you saying you want to leave some genders behind?”
Jim Lyons — he did it for the children.
Heh. Read the whole thing.
(Via Power Line.)
LET THE AGGIE JOKES COMMENCE: Senior takes graduation photos with one of her ‘best friends’ — a giant Texas gator.
UPDATE: Related: Here’s how a Rescue Alligator gets a bath.
PROPAGANDA IN SUBURBAN BOSTON HIGH SCHOOL: Emails Reveal High School Teachers Plotting to Hide Their Political Bias From Parents. One teacher wrote, “Personally, I’m finding it really difficult in the current climate to teach kids to appreciate other perspectives. . . I don’t feel good about protecting [a nativist] student’s right to a so‐called ‘political’ view.”
YOU’RE GONNA NEED A SMALLER BLOG: Top Ten Reasons to Be Nostalgic for Obama. “He absolutely excelled at setting ignoble records.”
At least according to Don Draper, nostalgia comes from the Greek for “the ache from an old wound.”
REMEMBER, THE LEFT’S GAME PLAN IS ALWAYS TO SILENCE ITS OPPONENTS, NOT TO OUT-ARGUE THEM: “Blogs shattered the Old Media monopoly during the 2004 election. Social media became an instrument to restore the power of the guild.”
STEYN AND SANITY: The Heartland Institute is live-streaming its America First Energy Conference right now. So, for instance, you can watch my colleague Sam Kazman on CAFE standards very soon.
But I’m sure you’ll want to see this from a previous Heartland Conference – Mark Steyn on climate change and free speech:
WTWT (watch the whole thing).
COMMIES RUIN EVERYTHING, EXHIBIT #1,000,006: Winnie the Pooh film banned in China after the country’s miserable leader Xi Jinping was compared to the dopey bear.
SHOCKER: Most Cis (“Normal”) People Won’t Date Trans People. “Virtually all heterosexuals excluded trans folks from their dating pool: only 1.8% of straight women and 3.3% of straight men chose a trans person of either binary gender. But most non-heterosexuals weren’t down for dating a trans person either, with only 11.5% of gay men and 29% of lesbians being trans-inclusive in their dating preferences. Bisexual/queer/nonbinary participants (these were all combined into one group) were most open to having a trans partner, but even among them, almost half (48%) did not select either ‘trans man’ or ‘trans woman.’ Of the seven participants who themselves identified as transgender or nonbinary, 89% were willing to date another trans person.”
AT AMAZON, save in Oral Care.
HIGHER EDUCATION BUBBLE UPDATE: Christian Campus Group Sues for Right To Choose Christian Leaders.
WELL: BREAKING: DC Court Orders DOJ to Preserve Comey Emails. Is it cynical that I think they’ve already been “lost?”
FALLEN ANGELS IS JUST A SCIENCE FICTION NOVEL, RIGHT GUYS? RIGHT? GUYS? Sunspot update for July 2018: The Sun flatlines! “Except for two very short-lived and very weak sunspots that observers hardly noted, the Sun was blank for entire month of July. This has not happened since 2009, during the height of the last solar minimum. What makes this so significant and unique is that it almost certainly signals the return of the next solar minimum, a return that comes more than a year early. The solar cycle the Sun is now completing has only been ten years long. It is also one of the weakest in more than a hundred years. This combination is unprecedented. In the past such a weak cycle required a long cycle, not a short one.”
FRAMING: A Top Syrian Scientist Is Killed, and Fingers Point at Israel.
The NYT headline says “scientist,” but the lede says, “Aziz Asbar was one of Syria’s most important rocket scientists, bent on amassing an arsenal of precision-guided missiles that could be launched with pinpoint accuracy against Israeli cities hundreds of miles away.”
More:
He had free access to the highest levels of the Syrian and Iranian governments, and his own security detail. He led a top-secret weapons-development unit called Sector 4 and was hard at work building an underground weapons factory to replace one destroyed by Israel last year.
On Saturday, he was killed by a car bomb — apparently planted by Mossad, the Israeli spy agency.
In other words, this “scientist” was a weapons developer with top-level ties to two terrorist regimes.
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