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September 15, 2019
#JOURNALISM: “Wait, what?!? The flailing @nytimes tells us that Trump’s asylum policies aren’t that different from what’s done in Europe and Australia. They also – gasp – build fences! But a key difference – his rhetoric is harsher. Well, there you go then.”
COMMIE METAPHOR ALERT: Julian Castro stands on box to look taller in Democratic debate.
SURE, THAT INDICATES RELIABILITY: Latest Kavanaugh Accuser Was Hillary’s Lawyer in Clinton Impeachment. But this is all bullshit, and further evidence that #MeToo wasn’t a moral movement, but a lame political tool.
DANIEL HANNAN: Our democracy is being overthrown by the EU’s Hideous Strength. “It’s not about Brexit any more, at least not primarily. It’s about whether we remain a democracy in the fullest sense. Our system depends on unwritten conventions and precedents. We expect winners to show restraint and losers to show consent. We expect our officials – including judges, civil servants and, not least, the Commons Speaker – to be impartial. We expect the electorate to be the final umpire. All these norms are coming under pressure as the campaign to reverse Brexit intensifies.”
YEAH, BUT SINCE THEY THINK THEY ARE THE STATE THEY DON’T THINK THEY CAN BETRAY IT: ‘There’s a word for what the political elite is doing – treason.’
OPEN THREAD: Make it special.
PEOPLE WHO CALL TRUMP HITLER 24/7 ARE OFFENDED BY AN AD: Ilhan Omar Blasts GOP Ad Depicting Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Burning: ‘Pull This Garbage Off the Air.’ The truth hurts.
HMM: Gary Larson teases return of ‘The Far Side.’ Don’t toy with me, Gary.
AMERICA’S PAPER OF RECORD IS SO GOOD, THEY BRING YOU TOMORROW’S NEWS TODAY! Babylon Bee Accurately Predicts a Snopes ‘Fact Check’ Nine Months Before They Do It.
ANNALS OF LEFTIST AUTOPHAGY: The Root Writer Blasts Joe Biden’s ‘Negro Summer Safari Adventure’ With ‘Corn Pop The Gansgta.’
The Root’s Michael Harriot called out a recently-surfaced video of former Vice President Joe Biden, referring to claims that he faced off with a gangster named Corn Pop as “Biden’s Negro Summer Safari Adventure.”
Biden’s story revolved around a summer he spent working as a life guard at a pool in a primarily black neighborhood and a confrontation with a group of guys carrying straight razors.
Biden claimed that he met Corn Pop and the others and threatened them with a length of chain, and that was how they came to respect him and ensure that others would leave him alone.
But Harriot wasn’t buying it.
“I’m always astounded by the imaginings of white people as it relates to race. Many of them have this fictionalized jigaboo version that is almost alien-like. And one of the greatest examples of this ever is Joe Biden’s story about Corn Pop the gangsta,” his thread began.
Harriot apparently didn’t check The Root’s archives before trashing Biden. In 2010, the left-wing African-American-themed Website ran a puff piece titled “Joe Biden’s Black Pass,” built around Biden and “Corn Pop:”
Shortly after he ousted a guy named Corn Pop for breaking the rules at the all-black pool, Joe Biden considered calling the police to escort him to his car once his shift ended.
Corn Pop belonged to a gang known as the Romans, and Biden, the lone white lifeguard at Prices Run—one of the few public pools in Wilmington, Del., open to non-whites during the 1960s—made fun of the man’s pomade-slathered hair before kicking him out.
Word from the black lifeguards was that Corn Pop, who took his coiffure pretty seriously, would be waiting outside with a straight razor, ready to fight. Calling the cops was a no-no, Biden was warned, unless he planned to never return to the pool.
Biden, then a 19-year-old college student, didn’t take long to deliberate. He made his way to one of the back rooms and emerged with a 6-foot-long piece of chain wrapped around his arm. He knew what he had to do.
Luckily, a little public posturing was enough to satisfy Corn Pop, and the two men made peace; Biden even apologized for the insult.
It was possibly the first in a long line of verbal slip-ups that would land the vice president in hot water, but to let Wilmington’s black residents tell it, that day at the pool was fateful. It was there that Delaware’s star politician earned the respect of the African-American community, which would see him through many elections.
“That’s where it all started,” says Joe Brumskill, a former Wilmington school board president who worked on several of Biden’s U.S. Senate campaigns. “He grew up working with black people, and we got to know him well.”
Of course, Biden’s interactions with “Corn Pop” are still up for debate; and I certainly understand Harriot’s skepticism, especially given Biden’s many other gaffes and mis-remembrances. The story also sounds far too similar to T-Bone, Corey Booker’s frequently mentioned imaginary friend.
The Root was one of the last Internet redoubts of the Graham Family, until they sold it to Univision in 2015. The Grahams previous sold the beleaguered Washington Post in 2013 to Jeff Bezos for $250 million — tip money to Bezos — after off-loading Newsweek for $1.00 three years prior.
REALITY…WHAT A CONCEPT: What If All Reality Were Optional?
A majority of politicians and pundits believe that economic reality is optional. Of course, they don’t express this belief in any manner so direct. But one can logically infer this belief from their policy proposals.
Take, for example, support for rent control. Having the state keep the monetary prices of rental units below the values that would arise in free markets is believed by many pols and pundits – and by nearly all “Progressives” – to effectively keep the actual market values of rental units at whatever low prices the state sets. In this reality-is-optional world, when the state pushes down nominal rental prices, the quantity of rental units supplied not only does not fall, it increases to match the increase in the quantity of rental units demanded.
Want more housing for folks with modest incomes? No problem! We’ll just push the rental prices lower to increase ordinary folks’ access to housing. See, the world is such a simple place!
Similar reality-is-optional ‘solutions’ are minimum-wage statutes (for increasing the pay of low-skilled workers) and mandated paid-leave (for increasing the welfare of all workers).
Read the whole thing — though I’m afraid my leftists may think of this as a how-to guide published by the Ministry of Truth.
(Via Ace of Spades; classical reference in headline.)
EVERGREEN HEADLINE: The New York Times Anti-Kavanaugh Bombshell Is Actually a Dud.
21ST CENTURY PROBLEMS: There Seems to Be a Big Issue When It Comes to Single People Being Treated For Cancer.
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DON SURBER: Apologize, Mitt. “It was an interesting speech in that Romney was repeatedly wrong.”
GOOD: Trans cafe worker fired after kicking out conservative activist. Neither your sexuality nor your politics give you any special privilege to act badly.
21ST CENTURY PROBLEMS: Mind Reading Devices Are Coming But Scientists Fear Telepathy.
Related: Mind-Reading Tech Is Dangerously Close to Becoming a Reality.
THE 21ST CENTURY ISN’T TURNING OUT AS I’D HOPED: CDC warns people not to kiss chickens.