PAST PERFORMANCE IS NO GUARANTEE OF FUTURE RESULTS:

Shot:

When you heard the terrible news from Arizona, were you completely surprised? Or were you, at some level, expecting something like this atrocity to happen?

Put me in the latter category. I’ve had a sick feeling in the pit of my stomach ever since the final stages of the 2008 campaign. I remembered the upsurge in political hatred after Bill Clinton’s election in 1992 — an upsurge that culminated in the Oklahoma City bombing. And you could see, just by watching the crowds at McCain-Palin rallies, that it was ready to happen again. The Department of Homeland Security reached the same conclusion: in April 2009 an internal report warned that right-wing extremism was on the rise, with a growing potential for violence.

Conservatives denounced that report. But there has, in fact, been a rising tide of threats and vandalism aimed at elected officials, including both Judge John Roll, who was killed Saturday, and Representative Gabrielle Giffords. One of these days, someone was bound to take it to the next level. And now someone has.

It’s true that the shooter in Arizona appears to have been mentally troubled. But that doesn’t mean that his act can or should be treated as an isolated event, having nothing to do with the national climate.

—Paul Krugman, “Climate of Hate,” January 20th, 2011, as quoted at Barbara Streisand’s official Website, barbrastreisand.com.

Chaser:

—“‘Wow, this is still up, huh?’ Barbra Streisand posts cartoon of Trump impaled by Pelosi’s high heel,” as spotted by Twitchy, yesterday, who notes, “We know that Jack and Twitter want to elevate the discourse on the platform, and flagging this for removal would be a good start — actually a good continuation, following the deletion of Tom Arnold’s unhinged tweet bringing up JFK during Trump’s visit to Dallas this week.” Twitchy also quotes one Twitter who notes, “I’m guessing the @nytimes won’t be doing a 23 page article on how this incites violence.” One that, if the ideologies were reversed, would likely be quoted by Streisand to her followers on her personal Website.

Flashback: Bernie Bro James T. Hodgkinson, Attempted Assassin Of Steve Scalise, Already Being Erased From History. And additional examples of leftist violence and eliminationist rhetoric at the link.

SALENA ZITO: Why Mark Zuckerberg wants to recruit outside the Ivy League liberal bubble. So Zuck has a lot of access to information, and he’s really changed his tune lately. Would he be doing that if he expected a Democratic win in 2020?

YES, IT’S BECOME CLEAR THAT WAS NEVER THE CASE: Trump didn’t sell out the Kurds by pulling out of Syria.

NO FALAFEL FOR YOU! San Francisco Falafel Shop Owner Says Neighborhood Has Enough Falafel, Asks City to Block Rival Falafel Shop Next Door. San Francisco gives its Planning Commission nearly unlimited discretion to deny or condition permits, making life hell for business owners.

Kafka’s The Trial – a warning for the rest of us, a how-to guide for leftist bureaucrats.

CLEAN OUT THIS CESSPIT OF ABUSE: It’s time to pluck some peacock and clean house at NBC News.

THE CHINA PROBLEM: China’s Rivers Are the Major Source of Plastic Entering the Oceans.

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MISERABLE FAILURE: The dirty bottom line on de Blasio’s pathetic presidential bid.

HE’S INCREASINGLY RESEMBLING BRIAN STELTER, IN A NUMBER OF UNFORTUNATE WAYS: ABC’s Matthew Dowd attacks Megyn Kelly, makes a fool of himself (repeatedly).

OPEN THREAD: Just do it.

I SPOKE AT PRINCETON’S JAMES MADISON PROGRAM ON THE SOCIAL MEDIA UPHEAVAL A FEW WEEKS BACK, and you can see the video here. My part starts at about 18:40. Note that I was not paid $54,000.

SWEET IRONY: James Comey Reduced Fee To $54,000 For Speech On ‘The Ethical Leader’ At UNLV Law School.

SOD OFF, SWAMPY! NOW AN INTERNATIONAL MOVEMENT: Greta Thunberg’s rally in Canada met by energy worker counter-protests. “First, we had Londoners bringing a rapid end to the underground train demonstrations. Then, there are the continuing protests by the Dutch farmers, as their government wants to cut both nitrogen and carbon emissions. Now, child climate alarmist Greta Thunberg’s climate change rally has been crashed by counter-protest led by truck convoy of oil and gas workers in Canada.”

ANOTHER AED SUCCESS STORY:

M.J. Crumity was just an ordinary eighth-grade boy playing dodgeball in his gym class in Florida on October 1 when his pacemaker quit working. What happened next was extraordinary.

M.J. collapsed on the floor and went into cardiac arrest. A coach called Madison County Central School’s school resource officer, Sgt. Joey Knight, for help.

“I bolted to my truck or my patrol vehicle and drove down to the gym to find him unresponsive lying on the gym floor,” Knight told CNN affiliate WCTV.

Knight, a trained emergency medical technician, immediately began CPR. School nurse Annie Dyke arrived with an automatic external defibrillator.

“They are saying, ‘He is not breathing,’ and you are just saying, ‘I got to get there, got to get there, got to get there,'” Dyke said.

They applied the defibrillator, and Knight “did more compressions.” He noted that the school principal was there standing off to the side praying. M.J. became responsive and was taken to the hospital.

They even make home models.

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YOU CAN’T MAKE THIS STUFF UP: Beto O’Rourke Announces Support for Menstrual Equity Act on National Period Day.

THE LEAD/VIOLENCE CONNECTION: UWM study finds over half of gun violence perpetrators and victims had elevated blood lead levels as children. “The study follows a consistent vein of prior research connecting lead exposure and violence.”

ASKING THE IMPORTANT QUESTIONS: Gay Breakfasts, Indignant Crime, and Rebellious Broccoli: Are We Doomed?

As they say at the rigorously objective Associated Press, everything seemingly is spinning out of control!

15 MINUTES INTO THE FUTURE: “Tulsi Gabbard, conservative crush,” was a headline at Spectator USA, in a column dated September 17th.

That was a month before this:

Advantage: Spectator.

UPDATE: Linking to his Friday column, “Put Up or Shut Up on These Accusations, Hillary,” Jim Geraghty makes a great observation on Twitter about her seeing Russians under all the beds: “Oh, by the way, if Tulsi has all these Russian Bots behind her and promoting her… and she’s still only at 2% in most polls… that doesn’t paint a picture of a particularly powerful or influential Russian propaganda and disinformation campaign.”

CHINA SYNDROME: Zantac OTC recalled over cancer-causing chemical.

WELL, GOOD: Amazon Is Spending Big to Oust Seattle’s Socialist Council Member.

C’MON, IT’S NO WHERE NEAR AS COOL: Time magazine owner slams Facebook as ‘the new cigarette.’

Related: Who else misses smoking in a bar?

HE’S NOT WRONG: Michigan Congressman Calls Hillary Clinton a ‘Trump Asset’ After Gabbard Comments.

In a follow-up tweet issued shortly after 1 a.m., the congressman wrote: “Hillary does—and did—drive many people into the arms of Donald Trump. Her attack on Tulsi does likewise. In my district, Trump did worse than any Republican in modern times and still beat Clinton by a fair margin. Many Ds in the Midwest rejected her. I didn’t vote for either one.”

Right after I saw this, I saw the following declaration from one of my libertarian Facebook friends:

I’ve given up potentially lucrative media gigs because I would not stump for Trump. I’ve limited the places and people I would work for because of him.

I deeply disdain his rhetoric, immigration positions, trade policies, and nationalist instincts.

But after witnessing the behavior, policies, and hot air of the democrats over the past week, I think I’m going to really revel in his victory next year.

I keep seeing stuff like this.

GOOD: Protesters at Barclays Center wear ‘Stand with Hong Kong’ shirts.

Related: NBA China Woes Refuse To Die, As Tibet Protesters Demonstrate At Brooklyn Nets Game.

More, please. There also need to be protests at Chinese consulates and embassies, and at the offices of Chinese companies.