GROPING AND SMOOCHING: Joe Biden Enters 2020 Presidential Race.
Archive for 2019
April 26, 2019
YEAH BUT WHO WILL PROCESS ALL THE DATA? Why is there no off switch?
CLAUDIA ROSETT: Countering North Korea’s $2 Million Bill for Otto Warmbier.
NRO DISSES FRANKLIN GRAHAM. But maybe he has a better idea of what the battle is about than they do.
IN RESPONSE TO YESTERDAY’S POST ON THE ARMENIAN GENOCIDE, reader Bart Hall recommends The Lost History of Christianity: The Thousand-Year Golden Age of the Church in the Middle East, Africa, and Asia–and How It Died.
#LOVEWINS: Princeton valedictorian gets engaged to her 71-year-old former professor.
Shades of Phil Bobbitt.
OPEN THREAD: Did anything happen today?
MAYBE THIS EXPLAINS AMERICA’S WAISTLINES: Universe expanding faster than expected, Nasa data confirms.
NEW SOCIALIST “IT GIRL” CONTINUES TO PAY DIVIDENDS: AOC: Why is this Republican, who’s actually a Democrat, posing with a cardboard cut-out of me?
It’s not the mistake that’s irksome. Mistakes happen. It’s the endless g*ddamned whining all the time. She’s a political celebrity on par with Nancy Pelosi, certainly more recognizable than Chuck Schumer or Mitch McConnell, and instead of laughing off a light joke like this as one of the perks/pitfalls of celebrity she has to turn it into an assignment for gender studies class. It’s revealing too that she deleted the tweet and didn’t repost it with the correct party ID for Yarmuth. If it’s troubling for whatever weird reason to have Republican men posing with cut-outs of young women, why isn’t it troubling to have Democratic men posing with them?
Is AOC having trouble identifying sexist men in her own party? Plenty of righties would be happy to share a few names with her.
It gets better, as Ryan Saavedra of the Daily Wire tweets: “Even more embarrassing for Ocasio-Cortez, she is a co-sponsor of legislation reintroduced by John Yarmuth earlier this month:”
Fortunately though, the House of Stephanopoulos has her back: At last: ABC News reports that Republicans Pounce on Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’ deleted tweet.
Of course, as Greg Pollowitz tweets, Ocasio-Cortez “is right. Dems have a creepy obsession with cardboard cutouts of other Dems.”
THAT WON’T HURT HIM IN THE DEMOCRATIC PRIMARY: Ann Althouse: Biden’s announcement video is anchored in a demonstrable lie.
How dare Biden rest his campaign on a blatant lie — a lie that has been used to stir up fear and racial discord?! The hypocrisy of offering to bring us together and embrace lofty values when he is either repulsively ignorant or just plain lying!
I could not finish watching that video. I tried, but I couldn’t force myself. It’s utterly toxic bilge.
If Biden does not come forward and retract this video and apologize and commit himself to making amends, I consider him disqualified. He does not have the character or brain power to be President.
Word is the video made some people in Charlottesville angry, too. Here’s the mother of Heather Heyer, who was killed in Charlottesville: “Most people do that sort of thing. They capitalize on whatever situation is handy. He didn’t reach out to me, and didn’t mention her by name specifically, and he probably knew we don’t endorse candidates…. It’s been almost two years since Heather died. I’m moving forward. I still grieve for my daughter. But I have a realistic understanding that this was a public event, and people will use it however it suits them. It’s just a fact of life.”
BAD NEWS FOR TECH: Record Number of Customers Waiting To Upgrade Their Cellphones.
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ALL HAIL MARX, LENIN! Vladimir Lenin is back from the dead, and not at all happy with Comrade Bernie.
(Classical allusion in headline.)
DISPATCHES FROM THE EDUCATION APOCALYPSE: California May Ban Schools From Suspending Students For ‘Willful Defiance.’
JUST THINK OF THE MEDIA AS DEMOCRATIC PARTY OPERATIVES WITH BYLINES, AND IT ALL MAKES SENSE: Nets Brush Off Biden’s Grabby Hands, Spending Less Than Two Minutes On Controversy.
GIVE KIDS MORE FREEDOM: The Value of a Self-Directed Summer for Kids.
RAYMOND LOEWY WEEPS: ‘Is it just me or … ‘? Iowahawk thinks Joe Biden’s campaign logo is a little too on-the-nose:
Elsewhere in Kinsley-style graphic design gaffes: ‘You have to see it to believe it’: People are seeing things in Justin Fairfax’s campaign logo:
Considering it reportedly took “three people two months to create Hillary Clinton’s campaign logo,” I wonder how many man-hours went into these two great moments in graphic design?
WE ONLY HAVE TEN YEARS TO READ THIS COLUMN: When Earth Day Predictions Go Predictably Wrong.
SRI LANKA EASTER BLASTS: Death toll revised down from 359 to 253.
That’s good news, but it’s still 253 too many.
DO-GOODERS DO DAMAGE: Nonprofit Pays Bail For Man Who Attacked His Wife, Hours Later He Murders Her.
PAST PERFORMANCE IS NO GUARANTEE OF FUTURE RESULTS: Biden’s current senior adviser in 2016: We don’t need white men leading the Democratic Party.