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Archive for 2020
February 10, 2020
YOU’RE GONNA NEED A BIGGER BLOG: Democratic Presidential Clown Car Update for February 10, 2020. “Iowa screws everything up, the Bernie juggernaut gathers momentum, there was another debate, and Biden calls a voter a ‘lying dog-faced pony soldier’.”
SLAVE THE WHALES: Beaked whales observed coordinating deep dives. “In all cases the pairs of whales dove in extreme synchrony.”
POLITICAL CORRECTNESS AT 2020 OSCARS EXPOSES HOLLYWOOD’S HYPOCRISY:
The Academy keeps surprising us, doesn’t it? Keeps finding new stuff to be ashamed of, embarrassed about and regretful of. They won’t be revoking the 600 Oscars they gave Harvey Weinstein while every single person in town was talking about his depredations, you understand. But they’re very worried about — I’m not making this up — species-ism. You see, humankind has just been discriminating in favor of humans too much, and it needs to stop. Everybody off the planet! We should all go live on Planet Joker, maybe?
“We’re talking,” said Joaquin Phoenix as he accepted his Best Actor award for “Joker,” “about the fight against the belief, one nation, one race, one gender or one species has the right to dominate, control and use and exploit another with impunity. I think that we’ve become very disconnected from the natural world and many of us, what we’re guilty of is an egocentric worldview, the belief that we’re the center of the universe.”
Should someone else be in charge, then? That seemed to be Joaquin Phoenix’s batty suggestion in his just-got-home-from-first-semester-at-Bard consciousness-raising monologue. You can’t call him a humanitarian because he suggested humanity was messing up “the natural world” while scolding us for drinking milk: “We steal [a cow’s] baby even though her cries of anguish are unmistakable and then we take her milk that’s intended for her calf and we put it in our coffee and our cereal,” he said. Well, that’s because we rule this planet. There may not be one race that’s better than another but there certainly is “one species” that’s superior. Cows would be putting our milk on their cereal if they could figure out how.
Also at last night’s awards: Obama-backed Film Director Quotes Communist Manifesto at the Oscars.
THIS SHOULDN’T NEED TO BE SAID, BUT IT NEEDS TO BE SAID: Being Fired by Trump Does Not Make You a Holocaust Victim.
NEWS YOU CAN USE: Beer Still Drinkable After Nuclear Apocalypse.
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BIDEN IS A PUNCHLINE: Mayor Pete Punches Back: Biden Reducing Small-Town Americans ‘to a Punchline.’
It isn’t a funny joke, but he’s still the punchline.
ATLANTIC MAGAZINE FOAMS OVER TRUMP’S PRESS ATTACK: Using Web ‘Disinformation’ Like Dictator for 2020.
Choose the form of your destructor, to coin an Insta-phrase: The Atlantic forgets its Web disinformation was a key mile marker on the road to Trump.
COME AND SEE THE VIOLENCE INHERENT IN THE SOCIALISM: U.S. Senate candidate selects guillotine as ‘symbol of the work we have to do.’
A U.S. Senate candidate in Maine has selected an unusual logo for campaign T-shirts – the guillotine – citing the need for a revolution to remove big money from politics.
The logo, unveiled this week by Democrat Bre Kidman, recalls the execution device known for its role in the 18th century French Revolution and is intended to symbolize revolt by low- and middle-income people, Kidman said.
“The guillotine is an image which calls to mind what people have done for revolution before,” said Kidman, an attorney who’s running for the seat held by Republican Sen. Susan Collins. “If we can find a better path to revolution than that we owe it to ourselves and our country.”
Kidman, who is non-binary and uses the pronoun “they,” said the logo is something they came up with out of frustration over the large amounts of money in politics.
I’m so old, I can remember when journalists had a meltdown over candidates’ clip-art. I look forward to Paul Krugman and MSNBC’s stern condemnation of Kidman’s hateful and violent imagery.
Related: Eight Things You May Not Know About the Guillotine:
During the Reign of Terror of the mid-1790s, thousands of “enemies of the French revolution” met their end by the guillotine’s blade. Some members of the public initially complained that the machine was too quick and clinical, but before long the process had evolved into high entertainment. People came to the place de la Revolution in droves to watch the guillotine do its grisly work, and the machine was honored in countless songs, jokes and poems.
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The guillotine is most famously associated with revolutionary France, but it may have claimed just as many lives in Germany during the Third Reich. Adolf Hitler made the guillotine a state method of execution in the 1930s, and ordered that 20 of the machines be placed in cities across Germany. According to Nazi records, the guillotine was eventually used to execute some 16,500 people between 1933 and 1945, many of them resistance fighters and political dissidents.
Kidman went full French Revolution. Never go full French Revolution.
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SPOILER: NO, THEY DON’T. Underdog Democrats Michael Bennet and Deval Patrick Say They’ve Got a Chance in Flinty New Hampshire
QUARANTINES AND MORE: The Coronavirus and the Constitution. There’s a lot of interesting law on quarantines and infectious disease control. I used to cover it back when I taught National Security Law.
THE SOCIALIST STATE WITHERS AWAY SO THAT THE PEOPLE MIGHT ENJOY A LITTLE CAPITALISM: To survive, Venezuela’s leader gives up decades of control over oil.
Will Sanders denounce his buddy Maduro?
HMM: Secret tapes in racially tinged police scandal may revive difficult time for Buttigieg. I predict they’ll come out just before South Carolina.
LOOK, FAT: Biden calls woman ‘lying dog-faced pony soldier’ at N.H. campaign event.
What is the origin of Biden’s insult? “We may never know, but one thing is certain: For Democrats who want to nominate a presidential candidate with a vast library of half-remembered old Westerns floating around in their brains, there’s only one choice.”
PROPER RESPONSE: SHADDUP KID, YOU KNOW NOTHING.
That response is particularly appropriate given that the millennials’ activism is just a sad attempt to appropriate the glamour of their parents and grandparents’ generations.
UPDATE: From the comments: “Remember, every Instagram crying jag by an emotionally fragile Millenial is supposed to be indistinguishable from Letter from Birmingham Jail.”
ANOTHER UPDATE: Because a few people in the comments seem confused, note that Ahmari isn’t the “kid” to whom I refer. He’s describing the situation, not contributing to it.
THE CHINA SYNDROME: Where did they go? Millions left Wuhan before the city was put under quarantine.