GOOD. ABOUT TIME WE STOPPED CUISINARTING BIRDS: President Trump Mocks Subsidised Wind Energy.
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ANNALS OF LEFTIST AUTOPHAGY: Social Justice Warriors Drive Lesbian Actress set to Play Lesbian Batwoman on the CW Off Twitter For Not Being Lesbian Enough and/or For Being an Inauthentically “Hot” Lesbian.
These are Heinlein’s Crazy Years — we just live in them, to coin an Insta-phrase.
DEMOCRACY DIES IN BIKER BARS: Trump Posed With ‘Sexist’ Motorcyclist Patch Wearing Biker, and the Washington Post is on it.
The Washington Post published an article on Monday complaining that President Trump posed next to a biker wearing a “sexist” patch on his vest.
Trump met with supporters in the “Bikers For Trump” group over the weekend and posed for photos with some of the group’s members at the Trump National Golf Club in New Jersey.
The bikers typically wear vests with dozens of various patches on them, and the Washington Post zoomed in on the photos of the bikers with the president to see what the patches said.
One of the patches seemed to ruffle the feathers of one reporter, who called it “sexist.” The patch in question features an image of a topless woman with guns covering her breasts and the caption, “I [heart] guns and t***ies.”
Clay Travis, call your office.
KAROL MARKOWICZ: The media’s blatant hypocrisy — even about media-bashing.
Welcome to the age of self-congratulatory media. “Democracy dies in darkness” goes the ridiculous tagline on The Washington Post’s front page. Reporters openly call themselves heroes and firefighters.
Yet when it doesn’t fit the standard left-wing narrative, our Guardians of the Galaxy are MIA.
On Sunday, the Unite the Right II rally of white supremacists fizzled out. Antifa demonstrators in Charlottesville, Va., who gathered to mark the anniversary of the first Unite the Right rally, threw eggs at Secret Service, were arrested for assaulting a man wearing a Make America Great Again hat, launched fireworks and smoke bombs at police and assaulted NBC reporter Cal Perry. Perry had his camera knocked out of his hands while the protester screamed profanities at him.
The story appears on various media sites, and several reporters tweeted about the attack, but the outrage was muted. Instead, nearly every outlet went out of their way to gently describe the Antifa mob. The headlines at CNN, The New York Times and The Washington Post made sure to call the group “anti-hate protesters.”
After two years of constant self-applause, and furrowed-brow concern about President Trump sowing mistrust in the media as well as possibly instigating violence against its members, where is the outrage when a reporter is physically assaulted?
Had it been an alt-right member doing the attacking, is there any doubt the story would lead all news shows and make the front page of all the major newspapers?
Also on Sunday, Mayor de Blasio sat down with Brian Stelter at CNN to continue his crybaby “News Corp is mean to me so I wish they’d disappear” tour.
Stelter had been pummeled on Twitter for glossing over the mayor’s comments when he originally made them the prior week. When de Blasio commented, “If you could remove News Corp from the last 25 years of American history, we would be in an entirely different place” some people reported it as an attack on the “press.” Stelter made sure to clarify that this was merely an attack on Rupert Murdoch and his properties. Doesn’t count!
On Sunday, Stelter let de Blasio’s ludicrous claims about The Post stirring up racial animosity by, for example, opposing David Dinkins, go unchecked. He mostly nodded along as the mayor ranted about what a better world it’d be if everyone just agreed with him.
Think of them as Democratic Party operatives with time slots and you won’t go far wrong.
OPEN THREAD: Pick up the ball and run with it.
INTERESTING: Glaucoma May Be An Autoimmune Disorder.
TEST DRIVE: 2019 Chevrolet Silverado 1500 Driven: Longer, Lighter, More Fuel Efficient, and Extremely Refined. My sister is looking to buy a brand-new truck — they’ve always bought heavily used ones — and is astounded at how nice they’ve gotten.
I mean, these are the big complaints in the review: “Interior materials don’t rise to luxury level, transmissions fall short of perfection.”
NBC OPINION: IT’S ‘LITERALLY IMPOSSIBLE, BY DEFINITION, TO BE RACIST AGAINST WHITE PEOPLE.’
Wait until NBC discovers that it employs a gentleman named Al Sharpton.
KURT SCHLICHTER: They Are Not Never-Trump, They Are Never-You.
The recent utterly unsurprising utter capitulation by the Fredocons to the SJW/tech/media campaign to deplatform and silence any right-wing voice who is not trying to sell you a cruise cabin is a symptom of a bigger problem. It’s not a symptom of Trump Derangement Syndrome, though Trump has utterly deranged these pointy-headed geeks. It is a symptom of Conservative, Inc.’s contempt for you.
As usual, Kurt pulls no punches.
YOUR DAILY TREACHER: Antifa Is Just Plain Fa.
I don’t know of anybody, Nazi or anti-Nazi or otherwise, whose mind has ever been changed by a punch in the face. It’s never shown a guy like Ken Parker the error of his ways. That’s because violent rhetoric like this is just virtue signaling. It’s a way for liberals and leftists to remind all the other members of their chosen group that they still belong. “Hey guys, we’re just like the heroes on Normandy Beach. Yay!”
Speaking of which, Jeffrey Goldberg of the Atlantic has deleted his tweet from last August comparing Antifa to the allies storming the beaches of Normandy. I wonder what changed his mind?
GOOD QUESTION: Why Does It Cost So Much to Educate a Child in America?
BREAKING NEWS FROM 1913: Democrats Now the Socialist Party.
Speaking of 1913, don’t miss the tweet regarding Woodrow Wilson at the end of Steve Hayward’s post.
NO ENEMIES TO THE LEFT: HuffPo Reporter Urges Media Not To Cover Antifa Violence.
Andrew Breitbart’s eeeeevil plan for the Huffington Post continues to bear fruit.
21ST CENTURY QUESTIONS: Where Are All The Hydrogen Cars?
DISPATCHES FROM THE NEWSPEAK DICTIONARY: Don’t Say ‘Hey Guys!’ in The Workplace Anymore, advises CNN Money.
You can’t just clock in and focus on your job anymore, identity politics now dictates how you introduce yourself to a room of colleagues.
Julia Carpenter, CNN Money writer specializing in gender in the workplace, listed ways to avoid accidentally misgendering a coworker.
People who “identity as non-binary, gender non-conforming or genderqueer prefer “they/them” pronouns to reflect their identity and gender expression” but “for many workplaces, making space for non-binary people is tricky, because some people may prefer certain pronouns but present themselves in a more masculine or more feminine way.” This confusion can make coworkers, “misidentify them without even realizing their mistake.”
As Thomas Sowell wrote over 20 years ago in The Vision of the Anointed, on the left’s sustained attack on “The Generic ‘He:’”
Trivial as such crusades may seem, they have been very successful in changing the way people talk in the media, in academia, and in government. Not only is the generic “he” taboo in many quarters, the speech controllers have pressed on to new conquests, attacking such words as “layman,” “craftsman,” “actress,” or “matron,” which violate their unisex view of the world, and also proscribe such phrases as “to master a language” because it uses a sex-specific word. These examples are from an official guidebook put out by the Australian government, which shows how far such crusades have spread. An American guidebook, distributed internationally, declares that there is “a perfectly scientific, completely foolproof, and highly theoretical model for avoiding sexism on the job.” As so often happens, pretensions of “science” are the last refuge of those who offer neither the evidence nor the logic that are integral to science.
The net effect of all this is that young women, especially in educational institutions where they are bombarded with radical feminist propaganda, are led to believe that every use of the generic “he” in books of the past is proof of disdain or hostility toward women, when in fact such usage simply avoided cluttering up the language or forcing writers into strained constructions and awkward phrases. In short, the anointed are helped to make yet another group feel like victims and to regard the anointed as their rescuers.
Time-Warner-CNN-HBO is rapidly going full Airstrip One. In addition to articles advising on the newest advancements in woke pronouns and gender theory, Lena Dunham is happy to play Central Scrutinizer* and dox the daylights out of any employees she overhears speaking doubleplus ungood crimethink.
Exit question: Is “Hey You Guys!” still acceptable, or is Rita Moreno the next person on the CNN dox list?
* Sorry to cross the streams between Orwell and Zappa.
ALL THE NEWS THAT FITS THE NARRATIVE: New York Times Savages Republican Candidate By Omitting the Most Important Data.
“I like beer” used to be one of the few things a vast majority of Americans could agree on without it getting political. But as Ed likes to say, you might not be interested in the Gleichschaltung, but the Gleichschaltung is interested in you.
REVIEW: Kel-Tec RDB-S Survival Carbine. The review is by Oleg Volk, which is cool.