NEW SOCIALIST “IT GIRL” CONTINUES TO PROJECT: AOC attacks Mark Zuckerberg for the Daily Caller having a role in Facebook’s fact checking. “She says the news outlet ‘has ties to white supremacists.’”
Evita Peron and Subhas Chandra Bose could not be reached for comment.
NASA SAYS: Humans can land on Mars by 2035.
ELON MUSK SAYS HOLD MY JOINT: SpaceX Wants Unmanned Starship on the Moon in 2022 and Manned in 2024.
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FIGHT THE POWER: PragerU Truck to Blast Banned Videos on Screens In Front of YouTube.
I GIVE TWICE A YEAR, BUT MAYBE I CAN MANAGE THREE: Hospitals Around The World Have A Dire Shortage Of Blood.
Maybe they should make it easier to give blood. I’ve written about this since InstaPundit was new.
DISPATCHES FROM THE EDUCATION APOCALYPSE:
Shot: Americans Need to Get Over Their Fear of Math.
—The Harvard Business Review, today.
Chaser: “Woke Math:” Seattle Public Schools Will Start Teaching That Math Is Oppressive. A new ethnic studies curriculum will teach students that “ancient mathematical knowledge has been appropriated by Western culture.”
—Reason, yesterday.
(Via Newsalert.)
THE RETURN OF LINDSEY 2.0: ‘This is a lynching, in every sense’: Lindsey Graham says Trump’s impeachment description ‘accurate.’
I LIKE A GOOD JOKE AS MUCH AS THE NEXT PERSON…but writing any cease-and-desist letter on an admittedly false and frivolous basis is sanctionable behavior. The Society of Professional Journalists’ Florida chapter fails to understand the difference between speech and behavior:
A Florida chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists (SPJ) has applied to trademark the term “fake news”[…] So yes, this is satire. It’s a joke. But it’s a joke with a point, and as any student of public discourse will tell you, a joke sometimes hits harder than the truth,” [Teen Vogue writer] Bloch wrote. “And if anyone accuses us of trolling the president, well, nothing else seems to work with him, so what do we have to lose?” While the SPJ chapter waits on the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, Bloch writes, it intends to send letters to President Trump warning him he is infringing on a pending trademark.”
It’s also worth noting that filing a legal demand without a good-faith basis is more likely than not a violation of the Florida Bar Rules of Professional Conduct, which states in part that “A lawyer should use the law’s procedures only for legitimate purposes and not to harass or intimidate others.”
I’m waiting for some attention-seeking lawyer jerk to do this. Makes me wonder: Is Avenatti licensed in Florida?
21ST CENTURY STORIES: Man Uses His Heat-Seeking Drone to Find Missing Child.
BLUE ON BLUE: AOC Defies Pelosi, DCCC With Texas Endorsement.
Ocasio-Cortez endorsed progressive Jessica Cisneros in her primary challenge against Rep. Henry Cuellar (D., Tex.), citing Cisneros’s status as a “strong new ally in the fight for Medicare for All.” Cisneros is supported by Justice Democrats, the same progressive group that backed Ocasio-Cortez and Rep. Ilhan Omar (D., Minn.) in 2018.
Ocasio-Cortez’s endorsement marks another act of defiance toward Democratic leadership. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D., Calif.) and Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee chairwoman Cheri Bustos (D., Ill.) have endorsed Cuellar.
Ocasio-Cortez attacked Cuellar in her endorsement, accusing the incumbent Democrat of fighting for “big corporate donors” and suggesting he is “quite regressive” compared to his constituency. The Cuellar campaign denounced the freshman congresswoman’s endorsement as out-of-state meddling. Ocasio-Cortez, his spokesman said, does not speak for the people of Texas.
She speaks for everyone, everywhere. Just ask her.
UNEXPECTEDLY: Rasmussen Reports polls voters:
“It is time for us to get out of these ridiculous endless wars, many of them tribal, and bring our soldiers home. We will fight where it is to our benefit, and only fight to win.” 55% of Democratic Likely Voters agree. We did not name the quote source.
Two guesses as to who said it.
THIS MIGHT BE MY FAVORITE PART: Gutfeld: The Better Trump Does, The More Insane The Left Acts.
HE’S NOT WRONG: Trump aide Stephen Miller pushes back: ‘Permanent bureaucracy a mortal threat to America.’
In an interview, Miller called inside attacks a “very grave threat,” and he explained it this way:
“It is best understood as career federal employees that believe they are under no obligation to honor, respect, or abide by the results of a democratic election. Their view is, ‘If I agree with what voters choose, then I’ll do what they choose. If I disagree with what voters choose, then I won’t, and I’ll continue doing my own thing. So basically it’s heads I win, tails you lose.
“‘If you elect Hillary Clinton, then I’ll implement all of her policies very faithfully, and if I see massive evidence of corruption on Hillary Clinton’s part, then I’ll keep it all a secret. If you elect a candidate I disagree with, then I’ll lie, I’ll leak, I’ll cheat, I’ll smear, I’ll attack, I’ll persecute, and I will refuse to implement, and I will obstruct at every single step of the way.’”
But, said Miller, Trump’s most loyal nonfamily staffer who also worked on the 2016 election, said that the president isn’t “cowed” by the attacks. In fact, he said the criticisms steel the president.
“We’ve made clear that your leaks will backfire and your sabotage will fail, and we’ll simply implement the policy doubly,” he said. “Not only will you not change the outcome, but the more that you try to leak and disrupt, the more determined the president will be in his course to accomplish that which he was sent here to do,” said Miller.
The top aide, interviewed in his second-floor West Wing office, also mocked insider critics who have been responsible for failed policies, especially in the intelligence, foreign policy, and defense arenas.
“The same people who made wrong judgment calls in Iraq, with respect to strategy in Afghanistan, Libya, Egypt, too … the people who made all these decisions now are so utterly convinced that they alone know what the right policy is,” Miller said.
YES, AND THEY’RE ALL EVEN WORSE. NEXT QUESTION? Anxious Democratic Establishment Asks, ‘Is There Anybody Else?’
Will have more on this later in the week, courtesy of Bill Whittle.
I’D LIKE TO SEE MORE THAN “REDUCED CLINICAL DECLINE.” Biogen seeks FDA approval for drug targeting Alzheimer’s disease.
SO THAT’S HOW WARREN PAYS FOR HER PLANS! Color printers are wonderful inventions. Babylon Bee explains it all.
WE’RE SAVED! Bed Bath & Beyond Pulls Halloween Decorations Following Racism Complaint. “The whole ball of stupid got rolling in Nyack, New York, where someone from a local law firm picked up a few of the nasty-evil-vile-racist-hater plastic pumpkins for office Halloween decorations. Local Westchester News 12 reported that ‘the jack-o’-lanterns upset some community members,’ and so the law firm of Feerick, Nugent, MacCartney got rid of them. Then, following a vital news investigation into this horrific act of pure …[checks notes] holiday charm… Bed Bath & Beyond decided to stop selling them.”
WHOM THE GODS WOULD DESTROY, THEY FIRST MAKE CRAZY. AND HIGHER EDUCATION HAS BECOME OBJECTIVELY CRAZY: Universities Breed Anger, Ignorance, and Ingratitude.
A pernicious cycle begins even before a student enrolls. A typical college-admission application is loaded with questions to the high-school applicant about gender, equality, and bias rather than about math, language, or science achievements. How have you suffered rather than what you know and wish to learn seems more important for admission. The therapeutic mindset preps the student to consider himself a victim of cosmic forces, past and present, despite belonging to the richest, most leisured, and most technologically advanced generation in history. Without a shred of gratitude, the young student learns to blame his ancestors for what he is told is wrong in his life, without noticing how the dead made sure that almost everything around him would be an improvement over 2,500 years of Western history.
Once admitted, students take classes from faculty who, polls reveal, are roughly 90 percent liberal. According to one recent survey, Democrat professors on average outnumber Republican faculty by a 12-to-1 ratio on the nation’s supposedly diverse campuses. But such political asymmetries are magnified by a certain progressive messianic self-righteousness that turns the lectern into the pulpit, the captive class into a congregation. The rare conservative professor is more resigned to the tragedy of the universe and, in live-and-let-live fashion, vacates the campus arena to the left-wing gladiators who wish to slay any perceived heterodoxy.
It’s Victor Davis Hanson, so read the whole thing.
(Classical reference in headline.)
HOWIE CARR: Mitt Romney, thy name is . . . Pierre Delecto. “Willard has been a rather pathetic figure for quite some time now, but really this Pierre Delecto nonsense is, as he himself conceded, a new low. Has anyone ever seen Pierre Delecto and Carlos Danger together in the same room? Anthony Weiner was employing his nom de perv in a sick attempt to pick up underage girls. Mitt Romney was trying to respond to the unkind words of . . . Jennifer Rubin? Mitt, are you serious? Jennifer Rubin?”
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