Archive for 2019
October 2, 2019
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I’D JUST LIKE TO ADD A PREEMPTIVE “UNEXPECTEDLY!”: Why the Wealth Tax Will Only Bring in a Fraction of What Supporters are Claiming.
BRITAIN: Please America, take Meghan Markle back. She has dragged across the Atlantic a garbage truck full of the most emetic US wokeness. Hey, when we had her she was just a cute second-tier TV actress. You guys are the ones who put her in a position where her dumb opinions would get attention.
THE 21st CENTURY IS NOT TURNING OUT AS I HAD HOPED: Universal Orlando Bans OK Sign After ‘Despicable Me’ Hate Crime Atrocity.
FIGHTING CONTAMINATION BY THE RED STATE MENACE: Police charity event on hold after chief withdraws because Republicans were invited: report.
HMM: Visa, Mastercard, Others Reconsider Involvement in Facebook’s Libra Network.
Cracks are forming in the coalition Facebook Inc. assembled to build a global cryptocurrency-based payments network.
Visa Inc., Mastercard Inc. and other financial partners that signed on to help build and maintain the Libra payments network are reconsidering their involvement following a backlash from U.S. and European government officials, according to people familiar with the matter. Wary of attracting regulatory scrutiny, executives of some of Libra’s backers have declined Facebook’s requests to publicly support the project, the people said.
Their reluctance has Facebook scrambling to keep Libra on track. Policy executives from Libra’s more than two dozen backers—a group called the Libra Association—have been summoned to a meeting in Washington, D.C., on Thursday, according to people familiar with the matter.
I know I wouldn’t get into bed with Mark Zuckerberg.
I WISH BERNIE THE BEST AS HE TRAVELS TO CUBA TO TAKE ADVANTAGE OF THEIR EXCELLENT MEDICAL CARE (RIGHT?): Sanders treated for blocked artery.
BILL MCGURN ON PELOSI’S PERMANENT IMPEACHMENT. By proceeding by fiat instead of a full House vote, the speaker sets a terrible precedent:
Almost a year ago Mr. Nadler advanced a similar argument about the high bar for impeaching President Trump. “If you’re serious about removing a president from office, what you’re really doing is overturning the result of the last election,” he told Roll Call. “You don’t want to have a situation where you tear this country apart, and for the next 30 years half the country’s saying, ‘We won the election, you stole it.’ ” Today that Mr. Nadler is nowhere to be found.
Meanwhile, with her decision to proceed with impeachment by fiat, Mrs. Pelosi has set many disturbing precedents—none more terrible than the idea that all you need is a willing speaker and you can put a congressional committee in permanent impeachment mode, using its powers to try to overturn an election.
“Until now, only the full House could trigger impeachment proceedings,” says Mr. Collins. “By denying that vote, she is laying the ground for perpetual impeachment proceedings—and transforming the most severe constitutional power into an irreverent messaging tool.”
As with Harry Reid and the filibuster, apparently Pelosi believes there will never be another Republican Congress and if there is one, they will never attempt to employ the same tactics she’s invoked against a president whom the DNC-MSM is deifying as the next FDR/JFK/BHO. As Jonah Goldberg wrote over a decade ago, “Liberals are geniuses at unleashing social panics because A) it never occurs to them that their motives are anything but pure and B) because they are almost exclusively focused on short term tactics. And yet they are invariably shocked when these moral frenzies come back to bite them. McCarthyism was a direct consequence of both the Red Scare and the Brown Scare. And when the tactics they mastered were turned on them, they acted as if they came from nowhere.”
NOW AVAILABLE ON YOUTUBE FOR YOUR VIEWING, ER, PLEASURE: “FBI Lovebirds,” a stage play based on the texts of FBI agents Peter Strzok and Lisa Page, texts that were made public in the course of the recent investigation of Russian interference in the 2016 election.
GOVERNMENT HEALTHCARE: 16 Indiana Students Hospitalized After Getting Insulin Shot Instead of Planned TB Test.
GIRL CAN’T HELP IT: Warren Backs AOC’s Illegal Immigrant Welfare Plan.
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.’
Flashback: Environmentalists make good movie villains because they want to make your real life worse.
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MEANWHILE, OVER AT VODKAPUNDIT: The Speech Donald Trump Should Give on China. “As someone who is broadly supportive of President Trump’s foreign policy, particularly towards China, it is sometimes frustrating that the president hasn’t really provided the American people with a Reaganesque vision to go along with his Reaganesque posture. With that in mind, here is my very modest attempt to provide just that. So if you’ll join me in front of an imaginary television, the President is about to address the nation from the Oval Office…”
I KNOW WHO I’M BETTING ON GETTING THERE FIRST: NASA, Boeing, SpaceX closing in on return to human spaceflight.
BATTLEFIELD PREPARATION: How the Trump Campaign Is Preparing for 2020.
Now put all of these pieces together: In spring 2020, as the Democratic nominee is becoming clearer, the Trump campaign and RNC take some of that $150 million or so and use it to run ads defining the Democratic nominee as extremist who wants to ban private health insurance, offer taxpayer-funded health care to illegal immigrants, decriminalize crossing the border illegally, raise taxes, make it easier to get an abortion, enact reparations for slavery, and ban the death penalty. They target cost-effective, not-so-big television markets like Green Bay, Madison, Wausau, Marquette, Eau Claire, Erie, Harrisburg Duluth, Cedar Rapids, Flint, Grand Rapids, Lansing, Wilkes-Barre, and Winston-Salem. Maybe if they’ve really got money lying around, they expand into Bangor, Fargo (it reaches into northwest Minnesota) Sioux Falls (southwest Minnesota) Albuquerque-Santa Fe, Mankato, and Rochester, Minn. Suddenly, after months of ads laying out the unpopular stances of the new Democratic nominee, that nominee isn’t polling so well in head-to-head matchups with Trump, and that vulnerable incumbent president doesn’t look so vulnerable anymore.
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NEW SOCIALIST “IT GIRL” CONTINUES PAY WITHHOLD DIVIDENDS: AOC : “… no person should have a billion dollars.”
As Steve Bartin writes at Newsalert, “Comrade Cortez shows the communist she really is. AOC has the range of what you should be allowed to make income wise.”
Related: Elizabeth Warren’s ‘Wealth Tax’ Is Punishment, Not Taxation.
YES, BUT IT MAKES ALL THE RIGHT PEOPLE FEEL BETTER ABOUT THEMSELVES: Punishing car commuters isn’t the answer to Colorado congestion.
BUT WILL THEY COVER “ASSAULT HEALTHCARE?” Walmart’s Sam’s Club to launch healthcare pilot program.
YES: Falling For Racist Hoaxes Is A Symptom Of Self-Loathing.
The answer to this question speaks to a unique aspect of the current American moment, a deep self-loathing that has convinced many people in our country that we are irredeemably bad and that, of course, these racist incidents are going on all around us, even if we have never witnessed one. Put simply, we believe because we want to believe.
The idea that the United States is an evil and racist place is a relatively new one. In the past, we were aware of the racist sins perpetrated throughout our history, but we also celebrated real progress away from such a state of affairs. For many on the left, this is no longer the case. They do not view slavery, Jim Crow, Japanese internment, and a whole host of other horribles as a stain upon the nation, but rather as the fabric itself.
And this self-defeating attitude extends well beyond racist hoaxes. The absolute hysteria we have seen in recent weeks regarding climate change is also directly out of this playbook. Not only are we frightening our children with absurd apocalyptic predictions of imminent doom, we are teaching them the United States is a major force for this destruction, even though our own contributions to climate change and ocean pollution are minimal in comparison to other nations.
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KAMALA: VE HAFF VAYS OF MAKING YOU NOT TALK: “It’s helpful to know that Harris’s orientation is to suppress freedom of speech. Her own political speech has proven quite ineffectual, so it’s in her self-interest to shut down the speech of others. Whether she’s into restricting speech for personal reasons or whether she pure-heartedly seeks the greater good through censorship, it’s a bad orientation to display as you’re running for President. I’m certainly glad she has the freedom of speech to express that lousy thinking, though. What she’s said puts her out of the running for my vote.”
BIDEN VERSUS BIDEN: According To Hunter Biden, Joe Biden Lied About Ukraine.
Related: NBC’s Today Show: My, but Hunter Biden’s business in China is interesting…