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October 26, 2022
MARK JUDGE ON SINISTER: The horror classic that foreshadowed Drag Queen Story Hour.
This is an ingenious set-up, beautifully realized by director Scott Derrickson and the outstanding cast. The analog to the Drag Queen Story Hour and the sexualization in our schools is clear. Ellison’s first mistake is bringing the family to this horror house to begin with, just as most parents of small children should not be within miles of any establishment hosting a Drag Queen Story Hour. And inside the Sinister house is a pagan monster. The lurid occult makeup of Bughuul is similar to some of the more bizarre outfits and malevolent visages of the more lurid drag queens.
In both cases, the ultimate goal is the same: the destruction of childhood innocence.
Read the whole thing.
Related: Christopher Rufo on The Real Story Behind Drag Queen Story Hour.
WELL, WE’VE KNOWN FOR A LONG TIME THAT HIGH BLOOD PRESSURE PROMOTES DEMENTIA: Study: Lowering blood pressure may prevent dementia. Not clear, though, whether lowering it further in people for whom it is already controlled will help.
TO BE FAIR, THE DEMOCRATS WOULDN’T MIND THAT, SO LONG AS THERE’S A DEM PRESIDENT. Alito: Leaked draft opinion on Dobbs case makes conservative justices “targets for assassination.” “We know that what Alito said is true because a man was arrested in June in front of Justice Kavanaugh’s home. The 26-year-old man traveled from California with the alleged intention of killing Justice Kavanaugh. His motivation, allegedly, came from the leaked document. . . . Assassinating a person in a powerful position over a difference in political opinion is never the way to handle a disagreement. Yet, here we are. Chuck Schumer stood outside the Supreme Court and called the conservative justices by name over a bullhorn, saying they would pay for such a decision. Protesters show up outside of the homes of Supreme Court justices though it is against federal law to do so and they are not arrested by local law enforcement. Many top Democrat politicians have been silent about the threats to conservative justices. Joe Biden has remained silent, while voicing support for packing the Court. It can’t continue for only one side of the aisle to criticize these threats and call for calm. Someone is going to end up getting killed.”
TAMARA KEEL: FN High Power: A Classic Rebooted. “The manufacturer of record of the vaunted Hi Power has now introduced the High Power—and more than just the spelling has changed.”
OR WHAT, EXACTLY? THEY’LL QUIT? Twitter Employees Circulate Letter to Elon Musk ‘Demanding’ to Retain Their Jobs and Benefits.
WAIT, THEY DIDN’T PIN IT ON THE SUV? Jury finds Darrell Brooks guilty in killing of six people in Waukesha Christmas parade attack.
PUTTIN’ ON THE RITZ! The Fetterman Charade Ends. “The entire Jenga-block tower of the John Fetterman campaign came crashing down last night, as it became painfully, abundantly clear that the Democratic Senate candidate in Pennsylvania is still suffering severe effects of his stroke, and the past few months of the candidate’s making ten-to-twelve-minute appearances on the stump have been an elaborate effort to hide those lingering effects. The issue isn’t the stroke; the issue is the dishonesty — and for Pennsylvania Democrats, this is an entirely self-inflicted wound. If the state party had wanted to substitute one of Fetterman’s primary rivals, Representative Conor Lamb or state representative Malcolm Kenyatta, it could have done so.”
Allow me to offer a controversial theory: A lot of Democratic Party candidates and strategists have bad judgment because they’ve grown used to a usually friendly media bailing them out of the consequences of their bad decisions. In light of last night, the decision-making of Fetterman and his campaign seems absurd — as MBD aptly summarized, “John Fetterman should not have been on a debate stage tonight. He should be at home, recovering from his stroke.”
What we’re seeing in Pennsylvania is uncomfortably close to the concept of Weekend at Bernie’s, which was funny because it was imaginary; a real-life attempt to fool people into believing a corpse is alive would be horrifyingly macabre. Remember, Fetterman had his stroke the Friday before the primary election, and his first statement, issued Sunday, declared that, “The good news is I’m feeling much better, and the doctors tell me I didn’t suffer any cognitive damage. I’m well on my way to a full recovery.” His campaign has been lying about how well his recovery was going the whole time.
A campaign does not attempt to fool people into believing that a severe-stroke victim is fine unless it’s convinced that the overwhelming majority of media in the state will be its ally and abandon their traditional role as watchdogs. The people around Fetterman are off their rockers, stupid, or both.
And hoping to run out the clock while screaming “ableism!” to any who question Fetterman’s health: It’s “ableist” of a reporter to discuss John Fetterman’s health problems, says his wife.
HOW THE LINCOLN PROJECT PULLED IT OFF: They raised $91 million in a remarkably short period during the 2020 presidential campaign, but then the internal squabbles and scandals blew it all up. Capital Research Center’s (CRC) Ken Braun looks at how it was done and the five-part “Showtime” documentary on the same.
WAIT, IT’S OKAY TO MAKE FUN OF DEMOCRATS AGAIN? McSweeney’s: If I emailed my parents like Democrats email me.
HE WASN’T MUCH WORSE THAN BIDEN OFTEN IS: ‘Painful to Watch’: Liberal Media Admits Fetterman’s Debate Performance Was a Disaster.
YES. NEXT QUESTION? Are Democratic leaders encouraging political violence?
It was reported this week that a canvasser for Senator Marco Rubio was brutally attacked by Democrats because the victim was wearing clothing advertising Rubio and also Florida Governor Ron DeSantis.
Sen. Rubio tweeted Monday:
Whatever one’s partisan leanings, when this incident was reported a fair person could condemn this act of political violence without jumping to the conclusion that Republicans should be on the lookout for physical attacks from Democrats all over the country.
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But when you think about it further, particularly what Sen. Paul has experienced, I can’t say with certainty that more of this kind of violence won’t happen in the future and it could become more common than anyone might expect – with Democratic leaders either encouraging it or at least not condemning it.That’s what rage can potentially drive people to do and there’s a blaze of political rage out there right now, on all sides.
A civil society requires civility. This is ain’t it.
Read the whole thing, whose details are already been memory holed by the DNC-MSM.
Earlier: This leftist didn’t understand why he was just arrested for running over, killing an 18-year-old “Republican extremist.” Huh. “A judge ordered Brandt held on $50,000 bail, which he objected to, saying he’s not a flight risk…Brandt posted bail, and is back on the streets. He is now in the process of scrubbing his social media.”
- Bernie Bro James T. Hodgkinson, Attempted Assassin Of Steve Scalise, Already Being Erased From History. And additional examples of leftist violence and eliminationist rhetoric at the link.
- ‘Not fitting their narrative’: Waukesha feels abandoned after tragic parade attack.
Evergreen:
I WISH WE’D SCRAP SOME DEPARTMENTS AT HOME: New right-wing Swedish government scraps environment ministry.
JOANNE JACOBS: Tell parents truth: Enough with the happy talk. “‘The disaster and inequity of pandemic policies is now in clear focus,’ he writes. Despite a few outliers — Department of Defense and Catholic schools — ‘it’s an across-the-board disaster for the United States.'”
DEAL OF THE DAY: Coleman Sundome Camping Tent. #CommissionEarned
YES: ‘Every State Needs to Pass a Law’ Like This, Detransitioner Says of Arkansas SAFE Act. “Confused children need to be protected from experimentation; it cannot be left up to the doctors, because they’ve been ideologically captured. The medical establishment needs to move past these treatments like they moved past lobotomies.”
SO IT’S BASICALLY A RENT-A-MOB: Harvard students get $2,700 for pro-affirmative action rally at SCOTUS.
Harvard University students who travel to the Supreme Court to rally in support of affirmative action and the institution’s racial quota system will get $2,700 in funds to do so.
The Harvard Undergraduate Association approved a request from the Affirmative Action Coalition on campus for $2,700 from its new “Social Life Fund,” the campus newspaper reported.
The student activists “acquired funding for transportation and lodging through other sources, including the NAACP’s Legal Defense Fund, but meal subsidies had yet to be covered,” The Harvard Crimson reported.
The group expects 90 students to attend the protests at the Supreme Court where attorneys representing the Ivy League school will argue in support of racial quotas in admissions on October 31. The students also plan to participate in an activist training the weekend prior.
A slide from the October 16 meeting noted that the affirmative action group’s “work aligns perfectly with the HUA and Harvard College (to produce citizen leaders)” and the activists’ goal “to preserve diversity among Harvard’s undergraduate population.”
Uh huh.
WIDE AWAKE IN AMERICA: U2’s Bono: Capitalism Crushes Poverty.
The conversation found Bono, whose politics lean to the Left, admitting a hard truth for Times readers to hear. Socialism isn’t the global panacea we need. Capitalism, warts and all, is the better option.
Bono blasted activists who love breaking stuff but can’t be bothered getting their hands dirty to make things happen. Systemic change demands hard work, he says, and not everyone is up to the task.
More importantly, all the donations in the world won’t necessarily solve intractable problems like hunger. And that lesson clashed with the man he used to be.
I ended up as an activist in a very different place from where I started. I thought that if we just redistributed resources, then we could solve every problem. I now know that’s not true. There’s a funny moment when you realize that as an activist: The off-ramp out of extreme poverty is, ugh, commerce, it’s entrepreneurial capitalism.
Later, he slammed those who reflexively bash business leaders, ignoring how important they are for the greater good.
I didn’t grow up to like the idea that we’ve made heroes out of businesspeople, but if you’re bringing jobs to a community and treating people well, then you are a hero.
Bono also spoke of reaching across the aisle, praising anew President George W. Bush’s efforts to fight HIV in Africa. He admits doing so may lose the group some fans, but so be it.
Achtung, baby! Read the whole thing.
GO BACK, JACK, DO IT AGAIN: NYC Subway Shove Suspect Lamale McRae Had Over a Dozen Arrests and Did Time for Attempted Murder.
UPDATE (FROM GLENN): Well, the hangman wasn’t hanging, so they put him on the street.
CHANGE: Vietnam coming for China’s electronics supply chain.
Related: The end of Apple’s affair with China.
The mushrooming of factories in southern India marks a new chapter for the world’s biggest technology company. Apple’s extraordinarily successful past two decades—revenue up 70-fold, share price up 600-fold, a market value of $2.4trn—is partly the result of a big bet on China. Apple banked on China-based factories, which now churn out more than 90% of its products, and wooed Chinese consumers, who in some years contributed up to a quarter of Apple’s revenue. Yet economic and geopolitical shifts are forcing the company to begin a hurried decoupling. Its turn away from China marks a big shift for Apple, and is emblematic of an even bigger one for the world economy.
Xi will squander the prosperity left to him by every Chinese leader since Deng, because that’s what communists do.
CLOSE AIR SUPPORT comes at you fast. From both perspectives.