ANN ALTHOUSE ASKS ABOUT BLACK LIVES MATTER: Is this ugliness mindless or deliberate?
I figure they’re just paid get-out-the-vote operatives for Trump2020. (From the comments: “Objectively pro-Trump activists.”) An alternative thesis is that Black Lives Matter was made in mockery of the 1960s civil rights movement, as the orcs were made in mockery of the elves.
PAM BONDI USES BIDEN’S OWN SLOGAN TO REVEAL HIS CORRUPTION: “‘Joe says he’ll Build Back Better. Yeah, build the Bidens back better,’ [former Attorney General Pam Bondi (R-FL)] quipped…Bondi concluded her speech with a powerful question. ‘Why should there be one standard for the elite political class and another standard for the rest of us?’”
CHINA WAR SCENARIOS: ’nuff said.
OPEN THREAD: All the vampires walkin’ through the Valley, move west down Ventura Boulevard.
QUESTION ASKED: Who is rioting in Kenosha, Wisconsin?
I notice, looking at the map, that for example Kenosha is a five and a half hour drive from Minneapolis (where George Floyd was killed) and only an hour and fifteen minutes from Chicago, where there was recent destruction of a very similar kind that’s happening in Kenosha. So groups from Chicago could arrive in Kenosha at almost a moment’s notice. It is also near Madison, a leftist city that is the headquarters of the university and that probably has plenty of young people to spare.
As I wrote yesterday, we simply don’t have enough information yet to understand what actually happened between Jacob Blake and the police, and whether his shooting was justified or not. Not that that stops the MSM, the governor of Wisconsin, or most celebrities and sports figures from opining and condemning the police.
QED: Aaron Rogers Responds To Jacob Blake Shooting: ‘A Systemic Problem’ Fueled By ‘Antiquated Laws.’
A SPACE-SHATTERING KABOOM: Did a supernova cause Earth’s mass extinction 360 million years ago?
THE PEOPLE WHO ARE TELLING US TRUMP MUST ACCEPT THE ELECTION RESULTS: Hillary Clinton to Biden: Don’t concede if the election is close. “‘Joe Biden should not concede under any circumstances because I think this is going to drag out,’ Clinton warned.”
Can they make their game plan any more obvious?
FIGHT THE POWER! STICK IT TO THE MAN! New Jersey Gym-Owners Outmaneuver Governor’s Vendetta With “Political” Workaround. “The gym will serve as a campaign headquarters and rally spot for Republican US Senate candidate Rik Mehta, a pharmacist who is challenging Sen. Cory Booker (D-NJ), the owners said.”
And right on cue: Blue-checked lefty journo reveals the racist ‘code words’ the McCloskeys used in their RNC speech.
As Mark Steyn wrote around this same time in 2012, quoting James Taranto, when MSNBC was in full-on Bletchley Park mode over every word spoken by Mitt Romney and Mitch McConnell, “‘The thing we adore about these dog-whistle kerfuffles is that the people who react to the whistle always assume it’s intended for somebody else,’ he wrote. ‘The whole point of the metaphor is that if you can hear the whistle, you’re the dog.’”
SHOCKING NEWS FROM THE WORLD OF SCIENCE: Social networks affect workplace productivity, earning potential.
ADVICE ON RHETORIC, for political leadership.
IT’S ACTUALLY WEIRDLY IMPRESSIVE HOW THEY’VE MANAGED TO SEAMLESSLY MOVE FROM ONE LUNATIC CONSPIRACY THEORY TO ANOTHER: The left’s lunatic ‘postal’ conspiracy theory.
AT AMAZON, MyPillow Classic Pillow.
WHO ON EARTH COULD HAVE ANTICIPATED THIS?* Development company warns Portland mayor: Companies are relocating because of ‘lawlessness you are endorsing downtown.’
* Other than pretty much everyone:
Related: Kimberly Klacik At The RNC: ‘I Want Baltimore To Be An Example’ To The GOP.
OUT: WE MUST HAVE A VACCINE AS SOON AS POSSIBLE! IN: NOT TRUMP’S VACCINE! Politico: How Trump’s win-at-all-costs vaccine strategy could backfire.
IN THE MAIL: Lost in a Gallup: Polling Failure in U.S. Presidential Elections. The new book by Media Myth Alert author/blogger W. Joseph Campbell.
YOU DON’T SAY: New Thinking on Covid Lockdowns: They’re Overly Blunt and Costly. “Blanket business shutdowns—which the U.S. never tried before this pandemic—led to a deep recession. Economists and health experts say there may be a better way.”
May be?
CHANGE: Exxon Mobil dropped from the Dow after nearly a century. “Exxon Mobil, which joined the Dow Jones Industrial Average in 1928, is being removed from the blue-chip stock market index. Its replacement: enterprise software company Salesforce.com.”
(Via NewsAlert.)
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