WHAT IF THEY HELD AN IMPEACHMENT TRIAL AND NOBODY CARED? “2 NYT editors — Gail Collins & Bret Stephens — have a dialogue that shows… what? That the elite wish the impeachment would just please go away?”
I guess it’s not polling well, and it’s making the Dems look weak and afraid of Trump even though he’s supposedly irrelevant, because they are.
MAXINE WATERS DEFENDS COMMENT ENCOURAGING HARASSMENT OF TRUMP OFFICIALS:
Representative Maxine Waters (D., Calif.) is defending her 2018 comments in which she encouraged her supporters to “absolutely harass” Trump administration officials over their “zero tolerance” immigration policy.
MSNBC’s Ali Velshi asked Waters on Sunday if she had ever “glorified or encouraged” violence against Republicans, as her two-year-old comments have recently resurfaced amid discussions of the increasingly dangerous partisan rhetoric in the U.S.
“As a matter of fact, if you look at the words that I used, the strongest thing I said was tell them they’re not welcome,” Waters said. “[I said] Talk to them. Tell them they’re not welcome. I didn’t say go and fight. I didn’t say anybody was going to have any violence. And so they can’t make that stick.”
However, in 2018, after then-Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen and former press secretary Sarah Sanders were confronted with their families in public over family separation at the border, Waters encouraged more of the same.
“They’re not going to be able to go to a restaurant, they’re not going to be able to stop at a gas station, they’re not going to be able to shop at a department store,” she said.
She added: “The people are going to turn on them, they’re going to protest, they’re going to absolutely harass them.”
But why defend language that Democratic Party house organ “Politifact” claims she never said?
IT SEEMS QUITE PROMISING: Ivermectin to undergo rigorous clinical trial as COVID treatment. “The Tokyo Metropolitan Government plans to conduct clinical trials of the anti-parasitic drug Ivermectin at metropolitan and public hospitals to assess its effectiveness against COVID-19, Nikkei has learned. Clinical trials will be conducted on patients with mild symptoms. Patients who are hospitalized mostly have moderate or serious symptoms.”
THE DEEP STATE IS A MYTH, YOU GUYS. Navarro: DOJ slow-walked Trump’s executive orders while it’s fast-tracking Biden’s.
VODKAPUNDIT PRESENTS YOUR DAILY INSANITY WRAP: Congrats to the Tampa Bay Genderfluid Boating Enthusiasts.
Insanity Wrap needs to know: Is it possible for one woke busybody to ruin busty pirate wench tattoos for everyone?
Answer: Of course it is. The woke ruin everything.
Before we get to the sordid details, a quick preview of today’s Wrap.
- Fairfax County, VA teachers getting vaccinated, send unvaccinated “monitors” to cover their classrooms, anyway
- AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka has more tells than a Rossini CD on Repeat
- Soon, saying “The n-word” will be no different from saying the n-word
Bonus Sanity: Two GOP congressmen introduce the OMAR Act to clean up Ilhan Omar’s act.
And so much more at the link, you’d have to be crazy to miss it.
GRANNY-KILLER CUOMO WILL NEVER COME CLEAN, ABOUT ANYTHING: Even a lawsuit doesn’t get Team Cuomo to come clean on nursing-home deaths.
ANDY KESSLER: MEDIOCRITY IS NOW MANDATORY.
Has an era of American mediocrity begun? In January the College Board announced it would eliminate the essay portion of the SAT, as well as all of the separate SAT subject tests. Their stated purpose was “reducing and simplifying demands on students.” Such a burden.
One high school near me just dropped freshman advanced-standing (honors) English “to combat the effects of academic ‘tracking” because it “ultimately separates students of different socioeconomic and racial backgrounds.” It turns out that middle schools from lower-income areas aren’t adequately preparing their students for high school. So rather than fix that problem, they dumbed down high school.
Then again, when the University of California system did away with racial preferences in 1996, it moved to holistic admissions. What does holistic mean? Anything you want. The Association of Public and Land-Grant Universities defines it as “assessing an applicant’s unique experiences alongside traditional measures of academic readiness.” Grades are only a suggestion—and SAT scores are biased, supposedly. And here you thought smart students got into good colleges. Yes, mediocrity has crept into our self-proclaimed elite colleges. Job recruiters understand this.
Virtually all universities and now many companies have D&I departments, for diversity and inclusion. Sounds worthy. But as far as I can tell, the No. 1 job of a D&I department is to hire more people into the D&I department. No one ever mentions excellence.
Many schools, like Hampshire College, Antioch University and Reed College, don’t even bother with meaningful grades—feelings might get hurt. Yes, the same Reed College Apple co-founder Steve Jobs attended for six months. He took courses in calligraphy, dance and Shakespeare. Reed students do receive a loosey-goosey grade-point average, but “papers and exams are generally returned to students with lengthy comments but without grades affixed.” Out in real life, Jobs was graded every day by customers, employees and investors.
And why push students to think?
Why, indeed?
TROLL LEVEL: GALACTIC OVERLORD. WHICH MAKES SENSE, I GUESS. Elon Musk just trolled The Onion by replying to them on Twitter with a plug for The Babylon Bee.
THANKS, BUT NO: Google wants to connect everything you own to the internet.
SPACE: SpaceX vs. NASA: Why it matters who will get us to the Moon first. “Ultimately it is a competition between an agency that has had years of testing and experience but is limited by a fluctuating taxpayer budget and administration policy changes, and a company relatively new to the game but which has already launched 109 Falcon 9 rockets with a 98% success rate and has a dedicated long-term cash flow.”
Related: SpaceX’s Crew Dragon just became America’s longest-lived astronaut spaceship.
SpaceX is catching up quickly on testing and experience.
WE’RE NOT SENDING OUR BEST PEOPLE TO CONGRESS: Sheila Jackson Lee: AR-15 Heavy as 10-boxes and fires .50 caliber bullets: “I’ve held an AR-15 in my hand, I wish I had it. It is as heavy as 10 boxes that you might be moving and the bullet that is utilized, a .50-caliber, these kinds of bullets need to be licensed and do not need to be on the street.”
ABOUT THAT JEEP SUPER BOWL AD: The Federalist’s Mollie Hemingway dissects the political porn that passes for corporate creativity.
IT’S GOOD TO BE THE NOMENKLATURA: Omar Kept Husband’s Consulting Firm Afloat. “Campaign payments to her husband’s firm accounted for nearly 80 percent of its 2020 cash haul.”
THE DEMAND FOR RACIAL HATRED EXCEEDS THE SUPPLY, DRAWING INFERIOR SUBSTITUTES INTO THE MARKET: U. Minnesota student claims racial profiling, fear of being shot; recorded footage shreds narrative.
POLITICAL JOURNALISM IS NOW BY MIDDLE-SCHOOL GIRLS FOR MIDDLE-SCHOOL GIRLS:
RAND PAUL: There Is ‘Zero’ Chance Trump Will Be Convicted, Impeachment A ‘Partisan’ Hearing.
More like a show trial, only without that trip to the gulag at the end.
FIGHT THE POWER, STICK IT TO THE MAN: University of Illinois just learned a very important First Amendment lesson.
NONSENSE, ALL THE BEST PEOPLE ASSURED ME THAT HIS SUITS WERE ALL FRIVOLOUS: Trump Won Two-Thirds of Election Lawsuits Where Merits Considered. “Of the 22 cases that have been heard by the courts and decided on their merits, Trump and Republicans have prevailed in 15.”
INSURRECTION? Antifa Mob Threatens to ‘Burn Down’ Washington, D.C.
YOUR BETTERS WANT TO DECIDE WHO YOU CAN AND CANNOT VOTE FOR: This Impeachment Is A Disgraceful Sham.
If they weren’t afraid that Trump might win again, they wouldn’t be doing this. So the goal is to ensure a majority of American voters can’t get what they want.
Related: Lawprof Eugene Kontorovich: Trump’s impeachment trial sets a troubling precedent. “The Constitution provides that the impeachment process is to be used to remove ‘all Civil officers of the United States’ — that is, people holding a government position. Yet in the case of Trump, the House is reading the Constitution as if it said the process applies to ‘all Civil officers of the United States, and people who aren’t civil officers, but once were.’ Exactly what it does not say. . . . It is important to emphasize what a massive departure from longstanding constitutional practice this week’s proceedings will be.”
TO OUR JOURNALISTIC CLASS, the narrative is more important than the facts.
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