WE TRIED EVERY DEMOCRATIC PROCESS, BUT PEOPLE DIDN’T AGREE.
Okay now folks in the UK who want a plant-based future are doing milk dumps at the grocery store. Curious to know what folks think about this. pic.twitter.com/tBDEFgyt5x
— Read Jackson Rising by @CooperationJXN (@JoshuaPotash) October 15, 2022
That’s because they’re not crazy.
WHY HERSCHEL WALKER MAY WIN, ACCORDING TO THE NEW YORK TIMES: “Rather than Warnock trying to make Walker answer for his alliance with the former president, Walker insisted that Warnock defend his with the current one, a dynamic that doesn’t exactly track with media coverage of the midterms. We keep wondering how much Trump will wound Republican candidates. Warnock seemed plenty worried about how much Biden would wound him.”
Well, nobody much likes Biden, who’s senile, demented, corrupt, and incompetent.
SETH BARRETT TILLMAN: “Educating” the Irish Football Athletes.
ANTICIPATING A ROUGH WINTER, my brother just bought this generator. He got it and is quite happy with it. He’s pretty knowledgeable about generators, so that means something. #CommissionEarned
SHOCKER: Controversial Chicago priest and activist Father Michael Pfleger facing new sexual abuse allegation. “Pfleger is no stranger to controversy. He once received condemnation for threatening to ‘snuff out’ a federally licensed gun shop owner at an NRA protest led by the Rev. Jesse Jackson in Chicago. The Catholic priest has also faced heat for defending Rev. Jeremiah Wright, Obama’s own pastor known for controversial sermons post the 9/11 terrorist attacks, as well as anti-Semite Louis Farrakhan.”
OPEN THREAD: Enjoy yourselves, kids.
WHEN YOUR LEADERSHIP CLASS IS POSSESSED BY AN INFECTIOUS FORM OF MADNESS: Netherlands shuts down rich natural gas field amid energy crisis.
MEH, I’M FINE WITH IT. Heidi Klum and daughter Leni, 18, slammed for ‘weird’ and ‘disturbing’ lingerie ad.
AMERICA’S FUTURE MAY DEPEND ON IT: Debate/Discusssion–Can We Separate Race and State?
FLASHBACK: Dead Voters & A Dying Democracy?
ATLANTIC REPORTER* TACITLY ADMITS SHE WANTS TO DATE KARI LAKE:
Related: Libs Freak After Kari Lake Runs Over Dana Bash on CNN.
* I know. But it’s hard to work “Democratic Party operative with a byline” into the headline and keep it concise.
(Classical allusion in headline.)
2022-2023 LAW SCHOOL ADMISSION CYCLE starts off with a whimper. “So far, numbers in most categories are down with 142 of the 197 law schools experiencing a decrease in applications with some being down 30% or more at 43 law schools. . . . There are 41,910 applications (a 17.5% decrease compared with a year ago and a 5.3% decrease compared with two years ago) submitted by 8,472 applicants (a 12.1% decrease from a year ago and a 3.2% decreased compared with two years ago), according to Oct. 12 LSAC’s U.S. volume comparison data.”
FYI, THE INSTA-WIFE WILL BE ON THE OXYGEN CHANNEL TONIGHT TALKING ABOUT WOMEN WHO KILL: The Black Widow Murders. (Bumped).
PAST PERFORMANCE IS NO GUARANTEE OF FUTURE RESULTS:
Shot: Dr. Anthony Fauci on what Americans can do to limit pandemic’s harm:
Judy Woodruff: Speaking of spring break, there has been conflicting advice to Americans this week in different states about whether schools should be closed or open, day care centers.
What is your best advice on that right now?
Anthony Fauci: You know, it really varies from location to location.
And you want to listen to the local — state and local health authorities. But you also would hope that they are looking at the guidelines that are coming from the federal level, because they are only guidelines. They say you should. They don’t say you must.
But they should at least be looked at. So, clearly, in certain circumstances, particularly in areas where there’s community spread, the schools should be closed.
—PBS News Hour, March 20th, 2020.
Chaser: Fauci: School Shutdowns Something ‘I Had Nothing to Do With.’
[ABC’s Jonathan Karl] interjected, “But much less than the older population obviously.” Despite the fact that children faces significantly lower risk of developing severe health complications after contracting Covid-19, they were forced to mask in schools for nearly two years. New York City only recently dropped its mask mandate for public pre-school and daycare kids.
Fauci reminded Karl that he, allegedly, repeatedly urged school districts to keep schools open as long as possible. “No one plays that clip. They always say ‘Fauci was responsible for closing schools.’ I had nothing to do [with it]. I mean, let’s get down to the facts,” he asserted.
As late as September 2020, Fauci recommended that schools only open back up once the virus is “under control,” he told CNN at the time.
Fauci said in August that he plans to step down from his role as director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases in December, concluding many decades in government.
—NRO, today.
Fauci can’t step down fast enough. As James Meigs explored last month: Why Fauci Became a Bobblehead.
Fauci seems to have concluded that he is synonymous with science itself. “It’s easy to criticize,” he complained on Face the Nation last year, “but they’re really criticizing science because I represent science.” Note to reader: No one “represents” science. Science is a radically transparent system of inquiry, debate, and a willingness to challenge received wisdom. As soon as any individual claims the authority to speak for science as a whole, that person is doing the opposite of science.
Today, there is reason to believe that Covid-19, as devastating as it was, did less damage to our society than our ham-fisted overreaction to the disease. Fauci and his public health colleagues were enthusiastic cheerleaders for the policies that inflicted this damage. The social, medical, and economic aftershocks will reverberate for decades to come. It’s tempting to lay the blame here all on Fauci, to assume that his personal moral shortcomings created this mess. I don’t think that’s right. By all accounts, Fauci is a well-meaning official who really believes he’s doing what’s best for the country. But so what? Well-intentioned people can do just as much damage as malevolent ones, sometimes more.
No. The real problem here is power. Fauci simply has had far too much of it for far too long. When the Good Saint Anthony retires in a few months, this administration (or, more likely, one that follows) would be smart to ensure that the next NIAID director operates on a much shorter leash. We would all do well to recognize that appointing “czars” in times of crisis always backfires in the end. And it’s fundamentally un-American.
Flashback: Fauci and other health ‘experts’ are messing up monkeypox just as they did COVID, Ebola and AIDS.
EVERYTHING OLD IS NEW AGAIN: Eugenics Isn’t Just History.
WELL, SHE’S STILL EDUCATING: Teacher turned OnlyFans star offers tutoring for other aspiring adult models.
OLD AND BUSTED: 81 Million Votes!
The New Hotness? Only 33% would vote to reelect Biden if presidential election was held today: poll.
Related: The ‘cabal’ that bragged of foisting Joe Biden on us must answer for his failed presidency.
STACY MCCAIN HAS ANSWERS TO THE IMPORTANT QUESTIONS: Who Put the Bomp? “What does a car made in Wolfsburg, Germany, have to do with a novelty hit from 1961? It’s a strange tale, with musical connections to Dolly Parton, the Mamas and Papas, a children’s cartoon and an iconic scene from a famous 1980s movie. It’s about a boy from Brooklyn.”
THERE’S NO HISTORICAL SUPPORT FOR THIS RULE; OLDER LAWS TENDED TO REQUIRE PEOPLE TO CARRY GUNS TO CHURCH: SAF Sues State of New York Over Church Gun Carry Prohibition.
READER FAVORITE: Tempur-Pedic TEMPUR-Cloud Pillow for Sleeping. #CommissionEarned
I’M PRETTY SURE THIS IS SATIRE, BUT IN THIS ERA WHO CAN BE SURE? Get A Black Friend. (Via Juliette Ochieng.)
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