SENATE REPORT: ‘No Politically Motivated Pressure’ Found in Assessment of Russian Election Meddling. “Intelligence Committee says 16-month ongoing investigation has revealed ‘additional examples of Russia’s attempts to sow discord, undermine democratic institutions’.”
This story from Wednesday got lost in the Independence Day hoopla.
THE LEFT IS SO FULL OF HATE THESE DAYS: Move OVER Kino Jimenez! Blue-check ADULTS double DOWN on attacking minor in #MAGA hat on Twitter.
LONDON PUB RENAMING ITSELF FOR TRUMP VISIT: THE “TRUMP ARMS.”
The Jameson pub in Hammersmith will host a welcome party serving Donald Trump’s favourite food and drink. A banner bearing the pub’s temporary new name will be hoisted onto the roof in time for Trump’s arrival and will remain there until he leaves.
Guests will be treated to a BBQ with hot dogs and cheeseburgers, reported to be served up at the White House for the President. These will be washed down with Trump-themed cocktails. Costumes, music and banners will help create the atmosphere of a Trump campaign rally.
Landlord Damien Smyth said the two-day welcome party was a chance to show POTUS that he had a big fan club in London, despite threats of mass protests. . . .
“There are many Trump supporters around here who will be happy to see it,” said Irish-born Mr Smyth, whose wife Marian is a New Yorker. “I was talking to regulars who are looking forward to the visit and I said ‘Let’s set up The Trump Arms while he is here’.”
Local Patrick Sullivan volunteered to organise the event. He said: “Trump has kick-started the US economy, bombed evil Assad and disarmed North Korea. It is right that such a key ally of Britain gets a warm welcome and that our country sends a clear message that we value the special relationship.”
Well, that’s nice.
DOES THIS COUNT AS BEING TIRED OF WINNING? Private payrolls miss expectations as companies can’t find enough people to hire.
WHAT ARE THE ODDS THAT THIS IS BASICALLY FAKE NEWS? Outrage-inducing AP story on Army ‘discharging’ immigrant recruits has some pumping the brakes.
OPEN THREAD: Enjoy!
GOADING TWITTER TO SELF-DESTRUCT: It’s hard to read this article by Farhad Manjoo in the New York Times as anything other than an attempt to goad Twitter into shutting down President Trump’s account. This is madness. Not only would this ultimately destroy Twitter, the explosion of both private and government regulation to follow would likely take a large part of Internet freedom with it.
ON THE WAY FROM AUSTIN BAY: Cocktails from Hell: Five Complex Wars Shaping the 21st Century.
ALL THEY HAVE TO DO IS NOT BE CRAZY. AND YET: Democrats’ court-packing talk is just crazy.
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BEASTLY JUSTICE: Lions eat rhino poachers in a South African game preserve.
Rangers discovered the remains of two, possibly three, people in a lion enclosure in the Sibuya reserve, near the south-east town of Kenton-on-Sea.
A high-powered rifle and an axe were also found.
There has been an rise in poaching in Africa in recent years, to feed growing demand for rhino horn in parts of Asia.
In China, Vietnam and elsewhere, rhino horn is erroneously believed to have aphrodisiac qualities.
Sex and violence?
SO IN THE PAST COUPLE OF DAYS, Wal-Mart pulled anti-Trump merchandise from its website, and the guy who pulled a MAGA hat from a teenager’s head lost his job. This seems to represent a change from the previous culture of impunity.
ALSO THOSE PARTS OF THE ESTABLISHMENT RIGHT THAT WENT NEVERTRUMP: Victor Davis Hanson: The Left Can’t Come To Grips With The Loss Of Power.
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ANDREW BREITBART’S EEEEVIL PLAN FOR THE HUFFINGTON POST CONTINUES TO BEAR FRUIT:
● Shot:
Out on the road the other day I saw an affluent black man driving a BMW with two bumper-stickers. One was pro-NRA and the other one was a Tea Party sticker that read, “Don’t tread on me.”
This left me very confused.*
—Tweet by Kimberley Johnson of the Huffington Post written today and then later deleted.
● Chaser:
This is an election about whether the people of Pennsylvania hate blacks more than they hate women. And when I say people, I don’t mean people, I mean white men. How ironic is this? After all this time, after all these stupid articles about how powerless white men are and how they can’t even get into college because of overachieving women and affirmative action and mean lady teachers who expected them to sit still in the third grade even though they were all suffering from terminal attention deficit disorder — after all this, they turn out (surprise!) to have all the power. (As they always did, by the way; I hope you didn’t believe any of those articles.)
To put it bluntly, the next president will be elected by them: the outcome of Tuesday’s primary will depend on whether they go for Hillary or Obama, and the outcome of the general election will depend on whether enough of them vote for McCain. A lot of them will: white men cannot be relied on, as all of us know who have spent a lifetime dating them. And McCain is a compelling candidate, particularly because of the Torture Thing. As for the Democratic hope that McCain’s temper will be a problem, don’t bet on it. A lot of white men have terrible tempers, and what’s more, they think it’s normal.
—The late writer-director Nora Ephron on Pennsylvania’s Democratic Party primary voters, in an essay titled, “White Men,” the Huffington Post, April 20, 2008.
● Hangover:
“In America, White Women Can Get Away With Almost Anything.”
—Koritha Mitchell, associate professor of English at Ohio State University, the Huffington Post, March 16, 2018.
Tolerance for diversity? You’re really doing it wrong. But as the late Andrew Breitbart wrote about his role in helping to create the Huffington Post, “I went in with dual purposes. While the Huffington Post in theory served Arianna’s and the left’s goals of creating a battlefront where they could fight their battles, it served my ulterior purpose of creating preparation for talk radio and cable news, where everyone could see what lunacies constituted the thought processes of the richest noblesse oblige liberals in our land, the people who benefit the most from our way of life and yet craft the culture of our land in opposition to that way of life. Frankly, I wanted to put them on display. And, for different reasons, so did Arianna.”
* “I drive a BMW, so let’s wonder together about why I think and vote the way I do. Here’s an open invite to come on my show and have that conversation,” Colin Noir of NRA TV tweets in response to Johnson. We’ll let you know if Johnson takes him up on the offer.
MORE SCIENCE: Women are hard-wired to find well-meaning sexist men MORE attractive because they think they will be protected and provided for, finds study. “Men who are considered to be sexist in a well-meaning way – for example if they are chivalrous or think women need a man to protect them – may be more attractive. Even though women find these men patronising and can feel undermined by them, they are more likely to want to couple up with them than with men who don’t give them special treatment.”
YOUR DAILY TREACHER: No, You Shouldn’t Assault People for Wearing MAGA Hats (or Anything Else).
This shouldn’t need explaining, but you’ve seen what’s become of our education system.
SHOCKING NEWS FROM THE WORLD OF SCIENCE: Women more attracted to dominant, successful men than to good-looking ones.
FASTER, PLEASE: Engine tests underway for DARPA spaceplane program.
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PURDUE PROMISES FREE SPEECH, DELIVERS: It will not punish a professor for a two-year-old post of a 42-year-old picture of herself as a child dressed in blackface, correctly noting that such a post is not harassment.
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