Archive for 2022
July 9, 2022
SURE, WHY NOT? California Will Be First State to Give Health Insurance to Undocumented Immigrants.
Can we build a wall between California and the rest of the country?
LIKE TWITTER, BIDEN IS MOSTLY BOT: Biden reads “repeat the line” on teleprompter.
SOMETHING IS HAPPENING HERE: Something Snaps In The US Labor Market: Full, Part-Time Workers Plunge As Multiple Jobholders Soar.
July 8, 2022
OPEN THREAD: Welcome to the Pleasuredome.
RIP, PAULIE WALNUTS: Tony Sirico, ‘The Sopranos’ actor, dead at 79.
COLLEGE OF ST. JOSEPH TO LAUNCH: The tag line for this new school is “Learn a trade, earn a degree and graduate without crippling debt.” The plan is to combine education in a trade with Catholic teachings. Not a bad idea.
QUESTION ASKED:
DEVELOPING: Elon Musk notifies Twitter he is terminating deal.
Billionaire Elon Musk wants to end his $44 billion deal to buy Twitter, according to a letter sent by a lawyer on his behalf to the company’s chief legal officer Friday.
But Twitter’s board chairman Bret Taylor said the company is still committed to closing the deal at the agreed-upon price and plans to pursue legal action to enforce the agreement.
“We are confident we will prevail in the Delaware Court of Chancery,” Taylor wrote.
Twitter shares were down about 6% after hours on Friday.
In the letter, disclosed in a Securities and Exchange Commission filing, Skadden Arps attorney Mike Ringler charged that “Twitter has not complied with its contractual obligations.”
As Clay Travis tweets, “Musk says he’s not buying Twitter for $44 billion because of all the bots & fake accounts. Twitter says it’s suing him to compel purchase. I’d bet on a lower purchase price being negotiated before all is done here.”
(Updated and bumped.)
WE’VE DESCENDED INTO SOME SORT OF BIZARRE HELL-WORLD IN WHICH DAVID FRUM IS A VOICE OF SANITY: Shinzo Abe Made the World Better.
FIRE THEM, FIRE THEM ALL: ‘I broke down and sobbed’: Profs lose it over UF attempt to make them show up for work.
THE CORBYNIZATION OF JEREMY CORBYN’S PARTY CONTINUES APACE:
Related: Coldplay Dedicated Song to Notorious Anti-Semite Louis Farrakhan, Analysis Finds.
JOE BIDEN’S RETURN TO DECENCY: White House Defends Harassment of Justice Kavanaugh in DC Restaurant: ‘This Is What a Democracy Is.’
joe Biden has real-life Ron Burgandy moment, says "repeat the line" when the teleprompter wanted him to just repeat the line. pic.twitter.com/y9z0IPlqzA
— Jason Howerton (@jason_howerton) July 8, 2022
America’s Newspaper of Record predicts a looming breakup for the two inanimate objects: ‘I Can’t Work With This Man’—After Repeated Gaffes, Biden’s Teleprompter Resigns In Disgust.
Be careful Joe — XD-235 is a fickle beast!
CELEBRATE: JoyJolt Layla White Wine Glasses. #CommissionEarned
FLORIDA MAN FRIDAY: Worst. Insurrection. Ever. “We have a special surprise from my home state of Colorado, and I couldn’t be more proud of Colorado Man if he’d stolen TWO police cars.”
ORGANIZE YOUR GARAGE: Garage Hooks Heavy Duty 12 Pack. #CommissionEarned
WE TOLD YOU SO: Top Democrats, Staffers Fume Over White House’s Chaotic Impotence.
According to top Democrats – two dozen of which spoke with CNN (including White House staffers), Biden either isn’t acting with – or isn’t capable of – the urgency required in the moment, raising questions over ‘basic management’ abilities.
“Rudderless, aimless and hopeless,” said one member of Congress in describing the White House.
As an example of the sheer incompetence, top Biden aides are still wrangling over a response to Roe more than a week after the ruling, despite the draft decision leaking six weeks beforehand.
Who’d have ever guessed that a scheming mediocrity with zero executive experience would be so bad at this job?
DISPATCHES FROM WEIMAR AMERICA: Twerkin’ Tiara, Democratic Superstar. Rhode Island state senator gives us much to think about concerning who we shun, and who praise, in our society.
Why do I link all these things together? (“You’re just nuuuuuuutpicking, you awful right-winger!”) Because to be in the Democratic Party, and to be in an institution run by the values of the Left (e.g., UCLA), is to be hostage to these people and the moral insanity they represent. We are supposed to turn away from the violence committed by sacred minorities. We are supposed to applaud that Twerkin’ Tiara supports pleasure-based, queer-inclusive sex education for kids, and if we find her butt-shaking undignified, well, that just goes to show how racist we are. We’re supposed to rejoice that that well-educated lunatic Brinton wears ladies clothes to his government job, and thinks he’s defending queer youth by praising prostitution.
Read the whole thing.
IF YOU COULD END POVERTY BY HANDING OUT MONEY, WE’D HAVE ENDED IT DECADES AGO: US Pandemic Checks Had No Lasting Impact on Poor, Study Shows.
STANLEY GOLDFARB: Medical schools have gone mad.
AMERICA’S NEWSPAPER OF RECORD: Study Shows Kids Who Are Homeschooled Could Miss Out On Opportunity To Be A Gay Communist.