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Archive for 2020
September 21, 2020
MAKE AMERICA SUBSERVIENT: Biden’s Green New Deal Will End Fracking And Make America Beholden To China.
OLD AND BUSTED: “Anarchy in the UK.”
The New Hotness? Anarchy in the USA: DOJ Identifies Anarchist States Inside America.
The Department of Justice has officially identified New York City, Portland and Seattle as cities where violence and destruction of property is being allowed or enabled by local officials.
“The U.S. Department of Justice today identified the following three jurisdictions that have permitted violence and destruction of property to persist and have refused to undertake reasonable measures to counteract criminal activities: New York City; Portland, Oregon; and Seattle, Washington. The Department of Justice is continuing to work to identify jurisdictions that meet the criteria set out in the President’s Memorandum and will periodically update the list of selected jurisdictions as required therein,” DOJ released in a statement Monday morning. “The list was published on DOJ’s website today in response to President Trump’s memorandum of September 2, 2020, entitled ‘Memorandum on Reviewing Funding to State and Local Government Recipients That Are Permitting Anarchy, Violence, and Destruction in American Cities.'”
Or to illustrate this post visually:
I’m not sure it’s fair to include Portland on the above list of anarchistic cities, when its mayor is micromanaging the truly big issues of the day:
CAUSING ALL THE RIGHT HEADS TO EXPLODE: Trump Indicates When He’ll Announce SCOTUS Nominee.
HIGHER EDUCATION BUBBLE UPDATE: NYU Prof Says More Than 20 Percent of Universities Could Fail Because of the Lockdowns. Is it wrong to think of this as another anti-Trump torpedo circling around? Because I kind of think that’s what it’s turning out to be.
TRUMP KILLED REAGAN CONSERVATISM OR RESCUED IT? Gerald Seib of the Wall Street Journal is out with an arresting book assessing how the conservative movement that swept Ronald Reagan into the White House in 1980 ended up split in major ways over Donald Trump’s time in the Oval Office.
Having lived and worked through this epoch in American political history, there is more than a little of Seib’s analysis that I find inadequate, but this statement by Samuel Gregg in his review of “We Should Have Seen It Coming” is not part of those doubts:
“The push to deepen America’s economic engagement with China may have begun with the Clinton administration but it was a Republican administration which assented to China’s entry into the World Trade Organization in December 2001. The consensus was that greater immersion into global markets would increasingly liberalize China and its regime. That calculation lies in tatters today.”
It does indeed and you would be hard-pressed to find anybody on the Right today willing to argue the U.S. should reverse course in its present resistance to Chinese expansion around the globe. Gregg uses his Steib review as a tool for his own assessment of where the Right has been and where it is going. I’d be very interested in how Instapunditeers view Gregg’s analysis.
ROGAN SHOULD NOT ONLY TELL THEM TO PISS OFF, HE SHOULD DEMAND THAT THE COMPLAINING EMPLOYEES BE FIRED AS AN EXAMPLE TO THE OTHERS. Spotify Employees Demanding Direct Editorial Oversight Over Joe Rogan Podcasts — Before They’re Published.
This business of “employees” nobody ever heard of demanding to censor output needs to be reined in, and unemployment is the way to do it.
AND YOU KNOW HE’S RIGHT ABOUT THIS:
HAVE YOU TRIED TURNING HER OFF AND THEN BACK ON AGAIN? Pelosi glitches out, randomly says ‘Good morning, Sunday morning’ in middle of interview.
WHY DOES COCAINE MITCH GET THE COOLEST NICKNAMES? Mitch McConnell, ‘Apex Predator!’
HMM: Is the Internet Conscious? If It Were, How Would We Know? “I have to agree with you that the lack of dialog on this point is concerning. The Future of Humanity Institute, which is devoted to assessing existential risk, has not said a word about a sentient web. Even billionaires who are fond of speculating about runaway AI can sometimes seem indifferent to the possibility that the internet might zombify the entire human race.It may be true that such an awakening is unlikely, but so was the possibility that the Large Hadron Collider would create a black hole that swallowed up the universe—and CERN commissioned a group of independent scientists to assess that risk before the project went forward.”
My advice: Don’t fear the machine that passes the Turing Test. Fear the one that deliberately fails it.
WHO? BidenWatch for September 21, 2020. “Greetings regular readers! I’m so glad you survived yesterday’s tragic mass die-off! Plus Biden campaign troubles, fundraising updates, the “Harris Administration,’ and the Burisma report looms.”
THEY BELIEVE IT, BUT I DON’T THINK THEY’RE WILLING TO SAY IT IN AN ELECTION YEAR:
MICHAEL GOODWIN: Why the country needs a filled Supreme Court for the 2020 election.
Well, as Hillary Clinton has explained, it’s basically unconstitutional to wait until after the election to fill a vacancy.
HEH, INDEED: “A couple of dozen progressive constitutional law professors, including several very prominent ones, have written a letter that, taken seriously, means that President Trump has a constitutional duty to nominate a new Supreme Court Justice and the Senate has the duty to hold a floor vote this year. . . . Of course, they wrote this in 2016, and almost certainly did not mean it to be taken seriously now that the shoe is on the other foot. But it might be worth asking them.”
Plus: “A very similar letter was sent by 350 or so law professors to the Senate Judiciary Committee, concluding: ‘The Senate Judiciary Committee should hold a prompt and fair hearing and the full Senate should hold a timely vote on the president’s nominee.'”
IS THERE A RELIGIOUS TEST FOR THE SUPREME COURT? Has the Smear Campaign Against Amy Coney Barrett Already Begun?
MY USA TODAY COLUMN: Ginsburg flap shows Supreme Court, justices are too important. “When your political system can be thrown into hysteria by something as predictable as the death of an octogenarian with advanced cancer, there’s something wrong with your political system. And when your judicial system can be redirected by such an event, there’s something wrong with your judicial system, too.”
VODKAPUNDIT PRESENTS YOUR DAILY INSANITY WRAP: Crazy Battle as RBG Fights RBG on When to Fill a SCOTUS Vacancy.
Insanity Wrap needs to know: Remember that part in the Constitution where the makeup of the Supreme Court is determined in part by an old woman’s dying wish?
Answer: We don’t, either, but we do expect the media to remind us about it every other minute for the next seven weeks.
Before we get to the sordid details, a quick preview of today’s Wrap.
- The people are revolting against the revolting people.
- Michael Moore sounds the alarm on Biden’s Michigan effort.
- Minnesota Democrats soft on child pornograpgy.
And so much more at the link, you’d have to be crazy to miss it.
ONE OF THESE THINGS IS NOT LIKE THE OTHERS:
● Shot: Hundreds gather to honor Ruth Bader Ginsburg at Portland vigil.
—Portland Press Herald, yesterday.
● Double Shot: CNN legal analyst Jeffrey Toobin suggests that Dems stop being ‘wimps’ and fight for SCOTUS by giving ‘street protests’ a whirl (video).
—Twitchy, today.
● Chaser: Epidemiologists uncertain whether long-feared autumn second wave of COVID-19 will materialize.
—The Washington Examiner, today.
GOING WHERE NOT EVEN FDR DARED TO GO: Democrats Threaten to Pack Court If Republicans Vote on Ginsburg Replacement This Year.
CAMPUS SPOKESMAN DEFENDS CAMPUS ACTION. TALK ABOUT A DOG-BITES-MAN STORY. As critics slam UChicago for black studies-only commitment, campus spokesman defends it.