Archive for 2020
July 19, 2020
OPEN THREAD: In a French-ass restaurant, hurry up with my damn croissant.
HEH. SEEN ON FACEBOOK:
A FISKING OCCURS: The Awfulness of Ezra Klein, Explained. “Also: have Matt Yglesias contact me. There’s a problem with one of his pieces. Thanks.”
#RESISTANCE: Woman who defaced Black Lives Matter mural outside Trump Tower strikes two more times.
The black woman busted for dumping paint on the Black Lives Matter mural outside Trump Tower live-streamed the entire stunt — and was at it again just hours later in Harlem and Brooklyn.
Bevelyn Beatty, 29, posted videos to her Facebook page showing her smearing paint outside the Midtown skyscraper, and BLM murals in Harlem and on Fulton Street later in the night, then gloated about it from home on yet another video.
“Ya’ll, we did an all-nighter,” she said in the most recent post. “Let me tell you something, yesterday was epic.”
Fight the power.
RIGHT, TIME TO CANCEL STANLEY KUBRICK: Apparently Stanley Kubrick Was to Blame for The Matrix Sequels.
NEW SOCIALIST “IT GIRL” CONTINUES TO PAY DIVIDENDS: Bodega Owners Reject Goya Boycott, AOC Hardest Hit.
KURT SCHLICHTER: Time For Trump To Start Kicking Aspiration.
Sure, we elected Donald Trump in part because America found itself on Flight 93 with Felonia Milhous von Pantsuit and her creepy coterie of commie comrades angling to seize the cockpit, but that was only part of it. But besides electing him for what he would prevent, we voted for the most improbable conservative candidate in the history of ever because of what he promised to do.
The aspirational nature of Trumpism gets short-shrift, but it’s critical.
Trump told us he would make America great again. Those words chill the pasta spines of sissy Fredocons and whiny white woke wine women alike, but they thrill the rest of us.
He was aspirational, looking to the future and telling the indisputable truth that if we only harkened to our history and the legacy of the Founders, America would, in fact, be great again. And aspiration is what’s missing from his campaign right now.
I agree. I’ve been wrong every time I’ve second-guessed Trump so far, but I feel like he should have followed up his terrific Mt. Rushmore speech with more along those lines.
MISSOURI GOVERNOR SAYS HE’LL LIKELY PARDON ARMED ST. LOUIS COUPLE IF THEY ARE CHARGED.
Earlier: “Kimberly Gardner, one of four Democrats running for St. Louis circuit attorney in the Aug. 2 primary, is taking heat for a new political ad paid for with money from a national super PAC that is at least partly funded by liberal billionaire George Soros.”
More: Soros-Backed Foundation Invests $220 Million to Support Racial Justice.
OUT: TEACHERS ARE HEROES. In: Please Don’t Make Me Risk Getting Covid-19 to Teach Your Child. Tens of millions of people are going to work every day; teachers are staying home and getting paid. Put public school online, and lay the teachers off if they’re that unessential.
Related: Schools reopening has not triggered rise in Covid-19 cases, EU ministers told.
39-YEAR-OLD RWANDAN REFUGEE ARRESTED AFTER A FIRE AT THE 15TH-CENTURY CATHEDRAL IN THE FRENCH CITY OF NANTES. “The man, who was not named, worked as a volunteer for the cathedral and had been in charge of locking up the building on Friday night, LCI television said, citing prosecutor Pierre Sennes.”
WE ALL NEED TO ADMIT THAT AMERICA HAS A TATTOO PROBLEM: The Girl With The Draggin’ Tattoo. “I’m a 38-year-old single man. There’s this very pretty, very nice female trainer I see at my gym. I’d ask her out except that she has a huge tattoo of a diamond on her neck. Ugh. Total deal breaker. If it were a hidden tattoo (leg, hip, etc.), I’d deal. But I just can’t imagine myself or any guy bringing a girl with a huge neck tat home to meet the parents. Why would a woman do this?”
(Classical reference in headline.)
A TALE OF TWO SWAMPS:
Shot: Pompeo denounces ‘Marxist’ 1619 Project as gift to Chinese Communist Party.
—The Washington Examiner, Thursday.
Chaser: Top Intelligence Official Promoted ‘White Fragility’ Recommendation.
—The Epoch Times, Tuesday.
UPDATE: You know you’re over the target when you start receiving flak:
(Updated and bumped.)
DISPATCHES FROM THE EDUCATION APOCALYPSE: Wokeness Comes For Charters.