THE CORBYNIZATION OF THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY CONTINUES APACE: Hiring Pro-Hamas Aide Completes Elizabeth Warren’s Anti-Israel Pivot.
Related: Ilhan Omar: I ‘Do Not’ Regret Past Anti-Semitic Comments.
Archive for 2019
July 17, 2019
THAT’S A LOT OF HORSES: The first all-new Lotus in years will be a 1,971hp electric car.
I DON’T WANT TO HEAR ANOTHER GODDAMN THING ABOUT MY CARBON FOOTPRINT: David Attenborough: upper-class warrior. “So a man who has clocked up more air miles than the average African dictator is deeply concerned that your once-a-year package holiday to Spain is destroying the planet. If Attenborough had his way, a certain class of people (by coincidence, his class) would be allowed to jet around the world enjoying themselves, while others would be restricted from doing so.”
I’ll believe it’s a crisis when the people who keep telling me it’s a crisis start acting like it’s a crisis — by making any sort of actual personal sacrifice at all.
AN E-BIKE THAT “CHANGES EVERYTHING.”
COLD WAR II: After Chinese Trawler Sinks Philippine Boat, Duterte Calls On US To Send Seventh Fleet.
Duterte has certainly changed his tune on China (and the US), and Beijing has no one to blame but themselves.
CAN YOU SURRY, CAN YOU PICNIC? SURRY DOWN TO A STONED SOUL PICNIC: Marianne Williamson Returns to Her ‘Soul Base’ After a Far-Out 2020 Debate.
J.D. VANCE: Libertarians Don’t Understand Culture And Politics. I mean, he’s not wrong. As I get older, the biggest weakness of libertarianism seems to me that it takes culture for granted. The libertarian critique of politics is quite valid, but libertarian solutions to the problems the critique brings out don’t seem to fly very often in the real world.
That said, it’s also worth remembering that the tremendous progress we’ve seen, lifting people out of poverty all over the world in colossaly unprecedented numbers, isn’t the result of political programs but of (comparatively) free enterprise and free markets. You’ve got to give credit there, if you’re honest.
WARNER TODD HUSTON: Since The Media Won’t Report it, Here are Dozens of Anti-American Statements by ‘The Squad.’
But don’t question their patriotism.
YOUR DAILY TREACHER DROPS A BOMBSHELL: Trump Partied with Cheerleaders in the ’90s, Which Will Hurt His 2016 Campaign. “If there’s evidence that Trump had anything to do with Epstein’s crimes, let’s see it. This is not it. This is just a newly divorced 46-year-old millionaire having a good time. Don’t hate him ’cause you ain’t him.”
AOC DRAWS A CHALLENGER: A Black, Female, Jamaican, Republican Challenger.
ROGER SIMON ON THE IDENTITY POLITICS-OBSESSED LEFT: Democrats One Hundred Percent Wrong about Racism.
DENNIS PRAGER: We All Wanted to Love the Women’s Soccer Team.
Rapinoe is a great soccer player. Other than that, she is unimpressive. She comes across as arrogant, a fool and a lowlife.
Why a fool? Because she thinks she has something important to say to the American people and that we need to hear it because she is a great soccer player. She is not alone in this conceit. Tom Steyer and other billionaires think the same thing about themselves: that because they are better at making money than almost everybody, they must be wiser than almost everybody.
People who excel in one thing are tempted to think they are smart about everything, but that is almost never the case. There is no reason at all to assume that people who excel in anything (other than wisdom) are wiser than anybody else. And here’s the kicker (no pun intended): People who think they are wise because they excel at something unrelated to wisdom are fools.
And when your pay is determined by ticket sales and ad revenues (not sexism), it’s beyond foolish to actively anger or annoy half of your potential audience.
GIRONDISTS, MEET THE MONTAGNARDS: The ‘Squad’ aims to guillotine the Democratic old guard.
K-12 IMPLOSION UPDATE: TRENDING: Educators work to combat racism, whiteness in math.
GOODBYE, F-35. HELLO, SANCTIONS? Trump cuts off F-35 for Turkey. And lawmakers say sanctions are coming.
QUOTING PEOPLE’S OWN WORDS IS PROBABLY RACIST OR SOMETHING: New RNC ad uses the Squad’s OWN WORDS against them and it’s BRUTAL. Getting these women elected was Roger Stone’s greatest political dirty trick ever.
NETROOTS: Ex-CNN commentator at progressive summit: Major news outlets are ‘Zionist orgs.’
Former CNN commentator Marc Lamont Hill claimed that news outlets like NBC and ABC were “Zionist organizations” that produced “Zionist content,” during a panel on Friday at the annual Netroots Nation summit held by progressive activists in Philadelphia.
The summit describes itself as “the largest annual conference for progressives” and has long been a stop for Democratic presidential hopefuls, including this year.
Hill’s comments came less than a year after he lost his CNN perch after calling for a “free Palestine from the river to the sea,” during an appearance at the U.N. The statement was interpreted by many as a call for the elimination of Israel, something Hill denied.
He made his comments during a panel on “embedding Palestinian rights in the 2020 agenda,” which also featured statements that Israel was engaged in a “white supremacist” project.
But Trump’s the racist.
HIGHER EDUCATION BUBBLE UPDATE: UT Austin to give free tuition to low-income students…and illegal immigrants.
LIZ SHELD’S MORNING BRIEF: Clean Up on Aisle Pelosi. “Is there anyone outside the beltway that cares about this soap opera? This is the ultimate exercise in political theater that feeds the rabid lefty base but means nothing to anyone other than the media and the idiots on Twitter with hot takes. Have the Democrats focused grouped this strategy, because it seems to me to be a very poor pathway to victory.”
MEANWHILE, BACK IN ANARCHIC SOMALIA: The Global War on Terror continues — because the terrorists’ war on everyone else continues.
JUMP AND SWIM: Army Reserve soldiers training at Fort Bragg, North Carolina, jump from a Blackhawk into Mott Lake and swim to shore. They are training for 2019’s Best Warrior Competition.
