SEGREGATION NOW, SEGREGATION TOMORROW, SEGREGATION FOREVER: New York High School Students Walk Out Because There are too Many White Kids.
Archive for 2019
December 5, 2019
IT’S CORRUPTION ALL THE WAY DOWN: Mueller witness bragged about access to Clintons secured with illegal campaign cash, says Justice Department.
OPEN THREAD: All these worlds are yours, except Europa. Attempt no threading there.
HOW NOT TO SELL SINGLE-PAYER:
The mask sure has been slipping a lot.
UPDATE: Like I said, slipping a lot.
ANOTHER UPDATE: Slip, slip, slipping: The Confiscation Is the Point: Progressives Admit It’s About Seizing Wealth, Not Helping People. “The confiscation of wealth alone is the whole point of the progressive enterprise.”
As Kurt Schlichter says, they hate you and want you dead. Or at least under the boot. Because they’re garbage people who compensate for their awfulness by exploiting and oppressing others.
OLD AND BUSTED: Words like “golf” and “Chicago” are racist dog whistles from the GOP.
The New Hotness, as brought to you by the Washington Post? Is Melania Trump sending coded messages, or are we just talking to ourselves?
Perhaps the Post will break out their Ouija board to analyze this pressing issue.
I’M NOT SAYING THAT IT’S ALIENS, BUT IT’S ALIENS: There’s Something Weird About the Craters of Asteroid Ryugu.
IT’S MORE FUN IF YOU SAY IT IN THE VOICE OF MOE THE BARTENDER: Walmart Employee Pages Store Looking For ‘Mr. Clinton Killdepstein.’
MEET THE MAN WHO SAYS BIDEN HAS A ‘WET NOODLE FOR A BACKBONE:’
The Iowa man who challenged Joe Biden during a campaign event on Thursday told The Post he had no regrets about the heated exchange.
“I’m positive 90% of the people there didn’t know about his son working on the board in Ukraine. I wanted it brought out there,” said 83-year-old Merle Gorman, referring to Biden’s son Hunter’s job at a Ukrainian gas company.
“If it educated them a little bit, so be it,” Gorman said. “I’m glad it happened.”
During a routine campaign stop in New Hampton, Gorman set the former vice president off when he accused him of sending Hunter to work for Burisma Holdings.
“You’re a damn liar, man. That’s not true. And no one has ever said that,” Biden, 77, raged.
Gorman said: “The exchange speaks for itself. He didn’t have the guts to explain the situation, and that’s what I wanted.”
“He got pissed off and stomped around … he wasn’t happy at all,” Gorman continued. “He started mumbling, saying it wasn’t true.”
“After today, he told me what he’s made out of … he’s got a wet noodle for a backbone.”
Biden has two modes when interacting with the press and the public — attempt to schmooze them with his fake Irish-American charm, or full-on rage when challenged, as when he locked a reporter in a closet, angrily shouted at conservative journalist Jason Mattera (and then reportedly investigated him) in 2011, and with both Gorman today and at an infamous presser during the 1988 campaign, bark at them about his Brainac-level IQ.
Given that the issue of his son will be coming up repeatedly this year, thanks, ironically enough, to the Democrats’ impeachment efforts, I’m surprised his handlers haven’t programmed him to switch into the former mode to calmly offer a quick rationale, and then immediately switch to the usual campaign trail pabulum about “looking toward America’s future.”
As for the left-leaning former Marine Gorman, he says “he voted for Barack Obama, said he liked Elizabeth Warren and would also gladly see Pete Buttigieg, Cory Booker or Andrew Yang on the ticket.”
Does that insulate him from getting the full Joe the Plumber/CNN gif-maker doxxing from the DNC-MSM, or should he start deleting his social media accounts?
UPDATE (FROM GLENN): Sorry, Joe — you’re going to be getting questions about your brother Jim, too.
IT’S COME TO THIS: Actor Chris Pratt apologizes for posing with single use plastic bottle.
Actor Chris Pratt on Wednesday apologized for posting a photo on Instagram of him posing at a gym with a single-use plastic water bottle in his hand after “Aquaman” star Jason Momoa called out his fellow Hollywood star.
Pratt posted the Instagram photo on Tuesday as part of a collaboration with Amazon.
This prompted Momoa to comment under “The Guardians of the Galaxy” star’s photo saying, “Bro i love you but wtf on the water bottle. no single use plastic. come on.”
Pratt apologized in response saying, “Aquaman! You’re completely right. Dammit. I always carry my big gallon size reusable water jug with me too. I even had it that day!!!”
“Love you too buddy,” Pratt added in his reply. “My bad. I don’t want your home of Atlantis covered in plastic. Hear that kids? Reduce. Reuse. Recycle.”
Considering the amount of plastic toys, DVDs, and other merchandising their franchises generate, not to mention the amount of soda movie theaters serve in plastic cups with plastic straws, presumably both actors will be recommending that their respective studios cease producing their franchises, or at the least voluntarily retire from the movie industry, to set the proper example for the rest of us.
(Barring that, instead of groveling to the eco-obsessive Momoa, why didn’t Pratt simply say that he refills his plastic bottle at his gym’s fountain?)
Flashback: AQUAMAN STARTED TALKING LIKE A SUPERVILLIAN SO SLOWLY, I HARDLY EVEN NOTICED: Actor Jason Momoa declares that people ‘are a disease that is infecting our planet.’
Related: Environmentalists make good movie villains because they want to make your real life worse.
TBH, WE WEREN’T THAT CRAZY ABOUT HIM BACK IN LAW SCHOOL:
Pam Karlan, however, seemed a lot more together back then. (She was a year ahead of me, George was a year behind.)
WORLD WAR III BEGAN WHEN DR. JOHNNY FEVER GOT HOLD OF A SMALL NUCLEAR WARHEAD: BREAKING: Bomb Squad Investigating Report of a Possible Small Nuclear Reactor Inside a Garage in Columbus, Ohio.
Chippenhook Court has reportedly been evacuated as crews investigate the report. Batallion Chief Steve Martin, the Columbus Division of Fire spokesman, is reportedly en-route to the scene.
Steve Martin? That’s the tell; the Matrix is glitching, and giving us another “girl in the red dress” fault in the code.
(Classical allusion in headline.)
120 ROUNDS PER MINUTE: Chambers Flintlock Machine Gun from the 1700s.
DRIVING OPPONENTS CRAZY IS HIS SUPERPOWER: Just when Trump is calling the Democrats “crazy,” we get some loonily angry outbursts from Joe Biden and Nancy Pelosi.
THE DEMOCRATS IN 2019.
LIFE IN THE 21ST CENTURY: The Rise Of Restaurants With No Diners As Apps Take Orders. “Inside a bright red building in Redwood City, just south of San Francisco, cooks plunge baskets of french fries into hot oil, make chicken sandwiches and wrap falafel in pita bread. If you’ve been in a restaurant kitchen, it’s a familiar scene. But what’s missing here are waiters and customers. Every dish is placed in a to-go box or bag. Delivery drivers line up in a waiting area ready for the name on their order to be called. Behind the counter, racks of metal shelves hold bags of food. Each bag sports a round, red sticker with the logo of DoorDash, America’s biggest food delivery app. DoorDash manages this building, the drivers, the counter staff — everything but the food, which is made by five restaurants that are renting kitchens here.”
What do you call a restaurant with no diners? A factory.
WHAT COULD GO WRONG? The US Military Wants Cyborg Super Soldiers, But We’re Not Ready, Expert Warns. “The US military envisions a future where in the next few decades, soldiers could become enhanced through ocular, auditory, muscular, and even neural augmentations, such as retinal overlays or neural implants that fuse man and machine in unprecedented ways.” Honestly, I see no moral problems with enhancement as such, but there are issues nonetheless.
LIGHT READING: Light Infantry Tactics For Small Teams.
HOW MANY OF YOU KNEW JOE BIDEN HAD A SHADY BROTHER? HOW MANY ARE SURPRISED? FBI probing terroristic threat against McMinnville couple suing Joe Biden’s brother.
The FBI is investigating the delivery — via the mail — of a terroristic threat to a McMinnville couple who are suing the brother of Democratic presidential hopeful Joe Biden, Knox News has confirmed.
The threat came in August in a plain white envelope to the McMinnville home of Michael Frey and his wife, Natalie Frey, just days after Knox News publicly revealed their claims of fraud and deception against Biden’s brother, Jim Biden, in a federal lawsuit.
Inside the envelope was what appeared to be blood-stained currency from a Middle Eastern country commonly known as a haven for terror groups and a “torture ticket” — a voucher for the infliction of torture.
Well, that’s nice. Plus: “The U.S. Attorney’s office confirmed this week the threat was under investigation by the FBI. The office and the FBI declined to comment further.”
WHAT AWFUL PEOPLE: Twitter employee tweets harassment at Andy Ngo. “You should just get fat again and hangout on reddit acting sad. I liked fat, sad Andy better.”
SHE’S RUNNING: “Well, contrary to what you may hear, I actually like men,” Hillary Clinton tells Howard Stern.
REPUBLICANS EVERYWHERE ARE PRAYING FOR BIDEN TO BE THE NOMINEE: Biden Fat Shames Iowa Voter Who Says Hunter’s Ukraine Work Is Disqualifying. To paraphrase Ian Faith, that’s okay, there aren’t any fat voters to speak of in Iowa anyway.