DISPATCHES FROM THE EDUCATION APOCALYPSE: Full House actress Lori Loughlin’s husband Mossimo Giannulli has been sentenced to five months in jail for his role in bribing his daughters’ way into college.
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August 21, 2020
THANKS BUT NO THANKS: Democrats Promise to Bring California-Style Blackouts to Everyone.
GOOD FOR WHAT AILS YOU: Viagra, Cialis may help boost colon cancer survival.
THEY CAN’T WIN IF THEY DON’T CHEAT: Dems get Green Party kicked off ballot after pressuring petition-signers; ‘voter suppression’ alleged.
OUR POLITICAL CLASS CONTAINS MANY, MANY UNSTABLE PEOPLE WHO ARE NOT FIT FOR A DEMOCRATIC SOCIETY: Emotional breakdowns after Trump ads appear on the Washington Post’s website.
JUST THINK OF THE MEDIA AS DEMOCRATIC PARTY OPERATIVES WITH CHYRONS, AND IT ALL MAKES SENSE: Richard Grenell points to media double standard after Dem Sen. Tom Carper’s profane mini-meltdown, CBS News journo tells him to ‘chill, man.’
Earlier: CBS’s Scott Pelley Loses a Fight Rigged In His Favor.
JULIE KELLY: The Democratic Party is Unwell.
The party’s ailments have been on full display this week. Look no further than the freakish music video that closed out the first night of the Democratic National Convention. Billy Porter, a gay black Broadway star, and geriatric Steven Stills of Crosby, Stills, and Nash teamed up to remake Stills’ 1966 classic, “For What It’s Worth.”
The video was a performative display of the party’s schizophrenia: A white ’60s counterculture icon and a Dracula-costumed POC LGBTQ activist offering an inharmonious version of a Vietnam-era tune as the official anthem for the candidacy of a feeble establishment codger and his unaccomplished cackling sidekick quickly shredding their faux moderate façade in fealty to the party’s lunatic fringe of America-hating nihilists.
Read the whole thing.
THE STEIFF TEDDY BEAR PRODUCTION OF THE ZAPRUDER FILM. Ouch! But He’s Able To Grin And Bear It: “You’ve probably seen some stuffed animals scattered around Major League ballparks, along with cardboard cutouts of fans, in this unprecedented and unusual season. In some cases, the stuffed animals are bears. Well, on Thursday night, an unlucky bear got hit right in the face with a line-drive foul ball off the bat of D-backs second baseman Ketel Marte in the eighth inning at the Oakland Coliseum. At least the bear was still smiling afterward. In fact, the bear seemed downright resilient.”
Video at link.
STACEY LENNOX: If Your School District Pulls What One Tennessee District Has, Know Your Rights. “A founding teacher at the Science Leadership Academy in Philadelphia also took to Twitter to express concern over parent observation of virtual classes. His laments about parents, especially conservative parents, had been retweeted over 1,000 times before he locked his account. Retweeting means other people were sharing his concerns with their own followers.”
If they don’t want you to know what they’re doing, it’s because they’re up to no good.
VODKAPUNDIT PRESENTS YOUR DAILY INSANITY WRAP: Biden Will Move the Country Foerwad, Plus Your Duty to Get Robbed.
Insanity Wrap needs to know: If video killed the radio star, then who killed the sitcom star?
Answer: Progressive politics did, and it was premeditated.
Before we get to the sordid details, a quick preview of today’s Wrap.
• It’s your bourgeois duty to get robbed, says a man with much more money than you have
• Biden got trumped in his home state
• Virus gonna virus, yo.
And so much more at the link, you’d have to be crazy to miss it.
PANDEMIC MISSILE LOADING IN THE PHILIPPINE SEA: Masked sailors aboard the amphibious assault ship USS America load rockets for a live-fire exercise.
STATE AND COMMERCE DECLARE WAR ON CHINA’S MALWARE AND MALGEAR:
This past week, the U.S. State Department and U.S. Department of Commerce launched new diplomatic, economic and legal initiatives designed to counter communist China’s global malware and malgear offensive.
Right — a malgear offensive.
Everyone with a smartphone understands malware, the cybersecurity portmanteau for “malicious software.” Invading malware code can sabotage, spy upon, seize control of or even destroy a digital information device.
Malgear is my portmanteau for malicious digital equipment, malicious gear (hardware) that has the built-in ability to surveil, sabotage and destroy when its manufacturer gives the command.
Think Huawei, think malgear.
My latest Creators Syndicate column.
GOOD AND HARD: Calif. Dems’ Taxes on Millionaires Could Spell Disaster in Golden State.
The two latest tax proposals, Assembly Bills 1253 and 2088, both explicitly target California’s ultra-wealthy. A.B. 1253, released in late July, imposes an additional 1, 3, and 3.5 percent tax on earnings over $1, $2, and $5 million, respectively, applied retroactively to the first day of 2020. A.B. 2088 would impose a 0.4 percent tax on all personal wealth in excess of $15 million ($30 million for couples), including assets outside of California.
Both bills would hit many of the state’s tech billionaires, such as Oracle CEO Larry Ellison (worth $59 billion), Mark Zuckerberg ($54.7 billion), and Democratic megadonor Laurene Powell Jobs ($16.4 billion). A.B. 2088 would be the first state wealth tax in the nation, mirroring the tax agendas of prominent progressives such as Sens. Bernie Sanders (I., Vt.) and Elizabeth Warren (D., Mass.).
Assemblyman Rob Bonta (D.), one of A.B. 2088’s main sponsors, argued that the bill was necessary to fill the $50 billion budget hole left by the coronavirus crisis.
Easy call: It won’t.
WHEN “ANTI-RACISM” MEANS RACISM (SPOILER — PRETTY MUCH ALWAYS): Twitter founder gives $10 million to university research center that promotes anti-white discrimination.
TYLER O’NEIL WATCHED THE DEMOCRATIC CONVENTION SO YOU DON’T HAVE TO*: Five Things to Know About Night Four of the Democratic National Convention.
* And you probably didn’t: Americans Rightly Tune Out the Democratic National Convention. Compared to 2016, fewer people are watching on broadcast and cable TV because they know a dull infomercial when they see one.
POLYAMORY, THE NEXT STEP DOWN THE SLIPPERY SLOPE: Glenn Stanton says don’t confuse it with polygamy or polyandry. What polyamory is — basically, a sexual free-for-all among two or more individuals — is just fine with the New York Times.
Stanton thinks somebody at America’s former newspaper of record ought to do a little research on what the top scholars on children and family health almost unanimously say is the healthiest arrangement for kids and society. It ain’t polyamory.
SHAKEUP: Kim Jong Un Puts Sister In Charge Of US, South Korea Relations Amid Signs Of Crisis.
South Korean lawmakers later told reporters the country’s National Intelligence Service determined that Kim had delegated responsibility for relations with the United States and South Korea to his sister Kim Yo Jong, Bloomberg reported.
The supreme leader’s younger sister is considered a powerful ally and first gained international attention when she became the first member of the Kim family to visit South Korea during the 2018 Winter Olympics, according to BBC News. (RELATED: Remember When The Media Fell In Love With Kim Jong Un’s Sister?)
Intelligence committee member Ha Tae-keung told South Korean lawmakers that Kim still retained ultimate control and was not likely to adopt a “collective leadership” style found in other communist countries like China, Bloomberg reported. “The absolute power of Kim Jong Un is being shared under the current leadership style of North Korea,” Ha said.
The power shift and warnings of an economic crisis come amid the fallout from a combination of recent flooding in agricultural lands, international economic sanctions and the coronavirus outbreak, according to Reuters.
Reportedly, she’s both smart and vicious.
SO THEY’LL BASICALLY HAVE A WHOLE MINISTRY DEVOTED TO THIS? George Mason seeks to become ‘national beacon’ for ‘anti-racism’ with ‘Truth, Racial Healing, and Transformation’ czar.
REMEMBER HOW BATTY RELATIVES USED TO BE KEPT IN THE ATTIC? The Issues & Insights crew sees one Democratic innovation – keeping batty Biden in the basement.
KRUISER’S MORNING BRIEF: Biden Manages to Clear Low Bar, Media Weeps Tears of Joy. “It’s true, Biden didn’t make any major mistakes during his big moment at the DNC. Then again, the expectations for his speech have been lowered for months so all he really had to do was get through it without pausing to eat his foot and it was going to be judged a rousing success.”