NEW CIVILITY WATCH: CNN Chyron: ‘Biden to Eviscerate Trump Today in Iowa Speech.’

CNN’s New Day previewed an advance copy of a stump speech that  Joe Biden plans to give during a campaign visit today in Iowa later on Tuesday, and according to the on-screen chyron, the former Vice President will “eviscerate” President Donald Trump.

While “eviscerate” is a common term used for hyperbolic headlines, according to Dicitonary.com this word is defined “to move entrails from; disembowel.” Let’s just say that if Biden truly plans to disembowel President Trump during his speech, the Secret Service should be alerted.

Flashback to January 2011:  When “CNN’s John King issued a prompt on-air apology minutes after a guest on his program used the term ‘crosshairs’ during a segment: ‘We’re trying to get away from using that kind of language.’

MAKE TEXAS GREAT AGAIN… ER, MORE GREAT: Texas Gov. Greg Abbott signs bill declaring children’s lemonade stands legal.

Still sad and strange that such a law is necessary though.

BLACKFACE STILL EMBARRASSING IN NEBRASKA: Unlike some other states. But one Nebraska university engaged in its own embarrassing behavior by suspending a librarian simply for posting pictures of students in blackface at a 1926(!) campus party. Lesson learned: Never make the “wrong” decision about what goes down the memory hole.

THE RETURN OF THE PRIMITIVE: As summer heats up, Calif. utility starts cutting power to prevent wildfires. “New ‘public safety power shutoffs’ will be more common due to climate change.”

No, they’re becoming more common because California’s “environmentalists” refuse to tend the state’s forest.

NEW SOCIALIST “IT GIRL” DEMANDS HIGHER DIVIDENDS: Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is Already Demanding Higher Pay, and Says She Will Become Corrupt if Not Rewarded.

Alexandria’s current salary in Congress is $174,000. This is far greater than the US average salary of workers without a high school diploma ($27+K), or those who graduated high school ($37+K). Even looking at those with a college education she earns nearly triple the rate of $66+K annually. So here is the woman, who is concerned about the wage disparity, calling for herself to be granted an even higher salary, in direct opposition to her socialist bleatings.

To justify her demand AOC invokes the likelihood of politicians turning to outside interests, unless they get what is coming to them. The argument of “Pay us, or we’ll turn corrupt” is a disturbing piece of leverage for this newcomer to be invoking.

Exit Quote: “Ocasio-Cortez, who makes $174,000, says she needs a raise like minimum wage workers: ‘Congress, retail workers, everybody should get cost of living increases to accommodate for changes in our economy.’ On the $4,500 raise she wants: ‘It’s not even like a raise.’”

We’ve only got 12 years left, she’s assured us. Who can blame her for wanting to live as large as possible in the time we all have remaining?

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KRUISER: New York Times Thinks Nobel Laureate Milton Friedman Is the Gateway to the Alt-Right.

21st CENTURY HEADLINES: Don’t Be Scared of Designer Babies.

From John Stossel at Reason TV.

WELL: Foxconn has told investors that it has the capacity to produce iPhones for the American market without using its Chinese facilities, potentially skirting possible US/China trade tariffs.

CHANGE: New York Times to Cease Political Cartoons After anti-Semitic Depiction of Netanyahu. “The Times will end contracts of two of its leading cartoonists, who were not responsible for the Netanyahu caricature. ‘Maybe we should start worrying,’ one cartoonist says.”

If they can’t tell the antisemitic comics from the non-antisemitic comics, then maybe this is for the best.

THE COLLEGE FIX INTERVIEWS GLENN ON THE SOCIAL MEDIA UPHEAVAL: Prominent tech law professor endorses Big Tech antitrust measures to save ‘marketplace of ideas.’

What’s more, the addictive tendencies that social media facilitates have tapped into many of the worst traits of humanity, the professor argues.

So what does the end look like? Does it come to physical fisticuffs? Do Americans get off their phones and head into the streets? What does a social media-induced pandemic look like, and can it actually end up with people literally dying?

“Yes,” Reynolds said in a recent phone interview with The College Fix to discuss his new book.

“We already have a fair amount of Twitter-mediated violence, which ranges from stuff like Antifa to the milkshaking fad,” he said. “Of course just as you hype people up and make them more angry, and you dehumanize their opponents, it has the potential to produce more violence.”

“It’s interesting that Twitter censors people on the grounds that ideas that people don’t want to hear may promote violence — while actually operating algorithms that amplify negative emotions and make people more likely to feel violent,” he added.

But the solution is not to regulate content, Reynolds told The Fix.

“Rather what I am saying is we need to change the environment,” he said. “That’s why I propose primarily antitrust breakups of these companies so that you don’t have such a large and volatile walled environment where things can ferment.”

When it’s lost both Peggy Noonan and Nancy Pelosi, big tech is facing an interesting next ten years.

FASTER, PLEASE: Eye transplants? Researchers 3D-print first human cornea in U.S., paving way for advancements.

NYT ENDS POLITICAL CARTOONS: Regardless of what you think of the Netanyahu cartoon that seems to have spurred this decision, there is no way to make the case that the nation’s most prominent paper giving up on this historically powerful medium says anything good about the current free speech environment. My advice to anyone who cares about free speech:

‘CLEAN’ FREIGHT TRAFFIC IS ELUSIVE AS CALIFORNIA ROLLS TOWARD ZERO EMISSIONS:

Work used to be much simpler for the California Department of Transportation: widen highways, fill potholes, build new freeways*.

Alas, those quaint days are gone.

To get an idea of what planners must prepare for, state officials recently hosted a demonstration of a drone air taxi that will require devising a “highway above the ground,” said Reza Navai, a Caltrans transportation planner. “If you think transportation on the ground is complex.…”

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The state’s transportation gurus envision technology that will ping driverless vehicles with an automated message when they stray from their lanes, “smart” roads that charge electric cars and trucks as they pass and an electrified Interstate 5, the West Coast’s main freight corridor. California has already widened its painted lane stripes to six inches from four so self-driving vehicles can better “see” the road. Ultimately, the highways themselves will be redesigned and constructed with different materials.

California’s transportation agency, which updates its master plan every five years, is currently preparing a look at 2050. While officials cannot predict each new technological wrinkle, Reza said, “we must be able to consider all the possibilities.”

2050 – why bother? Vice, making a relaxed, pie-in-the-sky projection compared to AOC’s 12 years to doomsday, assures me there’s a “high likelihood of human civilization coming to an end” by that year.

* Building new freeways? Dude, that’s so Pat Brown.

OH: George Will Demands Open Borders: ‘I’m For As Much Immigration As The Economy Can Take.’

NOTHING SMALL-TOWN ABOUT U.S. CHAMBER OF COMMERCE: President Donald Trump has all but declared war on the U.S. Chamber of Commerce (CoC), saying he’s a member of it but probably not for much longer. The CoC, Trump claims, “is more for the companies and the people that are members than they are for our country.”

Harsh judgement? Not at all, at least according to Sundance at The Last Refuge, who  argues that “the CoC is the lead U.S. member of the multinational ‘Big Club’, and has driven policies directly against Main Street USA for three decades.  Until now no modern U.S. president has ever been willing, or fearless enough, to take them on … ‘until now.’ And that’s just for openers. It gets better here.

BRYAN PRESTON: ‘Right Here, Right Now’ — The Cold War We’ve Forgotten Why We Won.

FLIP, MEET FLOP:

He’s flailing.

Biden was a much better candidate when he wasn’t running.

JIM GERAGHTY: Joe Biden Is Convinced a Pro-China-Trade Stance Is a Winner.

Biden has always supported expanded trade with China. In 2000, he voted to approve Permanent Normal Trade Relations with China. In a presidential debate in 2007, when asked, “Would you call for tariffs to protect American consumers from unsafe products from China? Are you willing to go there?” Biden answered, “I’m not. No, I’m not willing to go there. You don’t need to start a tariff war. All you have to do is enforce the law. Enforce the law.”

In a 2012 speech alongside then-Vice President Xi Jinping, he declared, “I believe that a rising China is a positive development — not only for China but also for the United States and the world. It will fuel economic growth and prosperity, and a rising China will bring to the fore a new partner with whom we can have help meeting the global challenges we all face.” In that same speech, Biden declared, “China has responded to our concerns about procurement policies and established a high-level body to strengthen enforcement of intellectual property rights as well.”

Supposedly, Biden’s strength as a nominee is his appeal to the Rust Belt Obama-to-Trump voters who put Trump in the White House. But staying soft on China and endorsing health benefits for illegal aliens would seem to put that appeal at serious risk.

See also: The Evitable Nominee.

PURPLE PEOPLE BEATERS ENDORSE GREEN NEW DEAL: SEIU Endorses, Sees Green New Deal As A “Fundamental Reshaping Of Our Economy.”

Will AOC be asked to denounce the past violence that has occurred at SEIU events?

AWFUL: Virginia Beach shooting victim considered taking gun to work over concerns about colleague, lawyer says.

Kate Nixon considered taking a gun to work on May 31, the day a co-worker killed her and 11 others in the country’s deadliest mass shooting this year, an attorney for her family said on a radio show Monday.

The public utilities engineer was concerned about DeWayne Craddock “as well as one other person,” said Kevin Martingayle, an attorney working with Nixon’s family. So on the night of May 30, Nixon had discussed with her husband, Jason, “whether or not she should take a pistol and hide it in her handbag,” Martingayle said. She decided against it because of a city policy that prevents employees from bringing weapons to work.

The next day, Craddock, who had worked as a city public utilities engineer for nine years, used a .45-caliber handgun with a legally purchased silencer to fire at colleagues in Building 2 of the city’s Municipal Center in Princess Anne.

So needlessly tragic.

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