HILLARY: ‘Sanders Would Be More Likable If He’d Just Have The People Who Don’t Like Him Assassinated.’ “Many political commentators quickly condemned her remarks but have since turned up dead.”
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Archive for 2020
January 25, 2020
POOR PUERTO RICO: Puerto Rico hit by a 5.0 quake amid ongoing seismic activity. “A 5.0 magnitude earthquake hit southern Puerto Rico on Saturday at a shallow depth, raising concerns about unstable infrastructure in a region that has been hit by quakes every day for nearly a month.”
DON SURBER: Writing Off Gun Owners. “Tim Alberta of Politico went back home to see what is happening in rural Michigan. He attended the Mid-Michigan Gun & Knife Show. The result was a piece, ‘How the Gun Show Became the Trump Show.’
If your political party declares itself the deadly enemy of a large group of Americans, don’t be surprised if those Americans believe it.
2002 FLASHBACK: Raving Lunacy: Joe Biden’s War On Electronic Music. I feel old. The “3 year old nephew” mentioned in that column is now a 20 year old college basketball player.
CHRISTIAN TOTO: Critics Go Ga Ga Over Taylor Swift’s ‘Miss Americana.’
Yes, we haven’t seen celebrities do the very same thing (and call the Commander in Chief ‘Hitler’) for the past three-odd years. The critic then wonders what took Tay Tay so long to agree with Liberal America?
How could an educated, privileged woman living in America in the 21st century be this slow on the uptake? It’s a fair point. But I’d argue many men before have had their awakening much later in life, and were applauded for doing so. One hopes it’s never too late to come to the light side.
Light versus dark. It’s as if only one side of the ideological divide is worth considering, and thank heavens Swift chose wisely.
But here on the dark side, we have cookies. Everybody loves cookies.
Honestly, Trump’s “dopes and babies” line — which was aimed at the generals, not the military as a whole, as Bloomberg certainly knows, and was basically correct — sounds much like this phone dressing down by JFK.
Related: The Suicide of Expertise.
Also related: Trump and the Crisis of the Meritocracy.
NO. NEXT QUESTION? Has Bernie Sanders learned anything over the past 50 years?
TAMARA KEEL: Partial Price, Full Conceal.
DON’T BELIEVE CLAIMS WOMENS’ MARCH PURGED ITS ANTI-SEMITIC LEADERS: No, the anti-semites just served out their terms, according to Capital Research Center’s Ashley Rae Goldenberg.
NEWS YOU CAN USE: What Is Smishing, and How Do You Protect Yourself?
NOT THE BABYLON BEE: What Now? MSNBC: Schiff Is Like Atticus Finch, Billy Joel, Prince, And Springsteen!
NEVER LISTEN TO GREENS: Germany Rejected Nuclear Power—and Deadly Emissions Spiked. And you’re pretty safe to assume that any Angela Merkel policy is self-destructive.
HIGHLY ILLOGICAL: Star Trek Actor George Takei Thinks He’s Entitled to Royalties for the Space Force Logo.
UPDATE (FROM GLENN): Did the U.S. government steal the Starfleet logo for its Space Force? It may be the other way around.
John Noonan argued it looks more like the logo for America’s Air Force Space Command (founded in 1982). “So the Air Force originally stole the Star Trek logo?” someone asked him on Twitter — prompting this wry reply.
“Well, that was certainly the joke we made 15 years ago.”
But it may actually be the other way around. One Star Trek fan site claims that the Starfleet logo never even appeared on the original Star Trek or Star Trek: The Next Generation series, and wasn’t created until after the Air Force’s logo, during the fourth season of Deep Space Nine (around 1996), by American graphic designer Mike Okuda.
I think someone from the future traveled back to get Trump elected to ensure the founding of Starfleet, and this is just a little easter egg they left.
WARREN’S STUDENT LOAN DEBT PLAN CREATES THE IRRESPONSIBLE SOCIETY:
I guess it boils down to what kind of society do you want? It’s not just student loan forgiveness, or “free” college tuition paid for by those who pay taxes. Government radically altering the nature of American society makes a powerful underlying statement: you’re a chump if you play by the rules. You’re a knucklehead if you live your life responsibly. You’re a dolt if you’re self-reliant.
It’s not Lyndon Johnson’s “The Great Society,” it’s “The Irresponsible Society.”
That’s not the kind of country I want to live in.
As Fred Siegel wrote in his 2014 history of the American left, The Revolt Against the Masses, “The best short credo of liberalism came from the pen of the once canonical left-wing literary historian Vernon Parrington in the late 1920s. ‘Rid society of the dictatorship of the middle class,’ Parrington insisted, referring to both democracy and capitalism, ‘and the artist and the scientist will erect in America a civilization that may become, what civilization was in earlier days, a thing to be respected.’ Alienated from middle-class American life, liberalism drew on an idealized image of ‘organic’ pre-modern folkways and rhapsodized about a future harmony that would reestablish the proper hierarchy of virtue in a post-bourgeois, post-democratic world.”
ANNALS OF LEFTIST AUTOPHAGY: Anita Hill in Iowa: Too Late for Joe Biden to Apologize.
THINGS TO KEEP IN YOUR TRUNK: First Look: TNW Aero Survival Rifle – LTE – 9MM.
GOP SENATORS SURVIVING SNOOZEFEST IMPEACHMENT TRIAL WITH FIDGET SPINNERS, SECRET CANDY DRAWER.
Related: The Solemnity Trap: “Nearly all of the Senators know these things, and the Democratic presidential candidates among them certainly do. These particular Senators — the ones running for president — must subscribe to Nancy Pelosi’s solemnity myth, and I find it delicious that they do. But we don’t have to go along with the gag, and neither do most Republican Senators.”
TRUMP DOESN’T SEEM DEPRESSED BY THE IMPEACHMENT DRAMA:
Trump was in the motorcade. Look, he said, firemen ahead. And they’re saluting me? Why, I should be saluting them. Stop the car, I’m getting out. But security, sir? Screw that, I’m getting out and shaking some hands.pic.twitter.com/zWJgYoqC5t
— First Words (@unscriptedmike) January 25, 2020