IS THE HOUSE OF STEPHANOPOULOS TURNING ON SUNDOWN JOE?
Corporate Media reporter just asked Biden why he's running for re-election when over 70% of Americans, including a majority of Democrats, DON'T want him to run
Brutal. pic.twitter.com/TA9wye3gWw
— Benny Johnson (@bennyjohnson) April 26, 2023
Meanwhile, is the Gray Lady turning on the elderly president? Even the Times Is Airing Concerns about Biden’s Age and ‘Cognitive Abilities.’
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OUR SOVIET PRESS IS HAPPY TO OBLIGE OUR AMERICAN BREZHNEV:
But, to be fair, not all of them:
Corporate Media reporter just asked Biden why he's running for re-election when over 70% of Americans, including a majority of Democrats, DON'T want him to run
Brutal. pic.twitter.com/TA9wye3gWw
— Benny Johnson (@bennyjohnson) April 26, 2023
Ouch.
UPDATE: On second viewing, Biden seems to have been prepped in advance for the “tough” question, too.
PROBABLY FOR THE BEST: More older Americans cutting back on prescription drugs.
BIG COMPANIES SUDDENLY DECIDE THAT MOTHER’S DAY EMAILS ARE TRIGGERING. More at this Twitter link; just keep scrolling. Is this new this year? If so, who’s behind this? And while I am all for being sensitive to women (and men) who have lost children, where do I go to get this level of solicitousness?
::Extra Cynical Mode Activated:: Are we sure these companies didn’t just stumble on this as some kind of really effective market segmentation? Like, maybe people who opt-out using these emails are much more likely to buy things at an Independence Day sale?
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GEORGE MF WASHINGTON: The (Not So) Strange Return of the Vinyl LP.
It’s not just the thrill of discovery or that nostalgic sense of freedom that keeps me hunting for new (old) albums… the more I think about it, the more I think there’s something else going on… something that is also related to that damned algorithm, but in a much more nefarious way.
I have a growing fear of censorship… of the mass memory-holing of anything that doesn’t toe whatever the latest “NPC” line might be. What amounts to, essentially, the willful destruction of our culture and all it has produced or achieved in pursuit of some unattainable Utopian ideal. I worry that it won’t be long before Rock N’ Roll sits firmly in the crosshairs of a new generation of Woke Scolds who want to purge the Earth of anything they deem “problematic”… things like “sex, drugs and rock n’ roll”, for example. And because of the dizzying pace of technological advancement, I’m absolultely terrified that they are going to figure out a way to do it so that we won’t even notice it when they do.
What happens next — to “Brown Sugar,” no less — is truly frightening.
Just another example of owning hard copies of anything you want to keep, and maybe even more importantly, to pass on.
And do read the whole thing.
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EVERYONE KNOWS HE CAN’T HACK IT: KJP Says the Quiet Part Out Loud About Biden Serving Two Full Terms.
LOL, ADAM KINZINGER: Adam Kinzinger Says It’s Time for Gun Owners to Begin to Dismantle Gun Rights.
VIDEO: Brit-Turned-American On the Glories of Suburbia. “British-born Laurence Brown has a YouTube channel dedicated to documenting the differences between Britain and the UK. In the last year, he’s become an American citizen and bought a house in the suburbs (Chicago’s, alas), and has some observations, mostly positive, about American suburbs, including the community of dog owners, immaculate lawns, and America’s love affair with rectangles.”
IF IT WEREN’T FOR DOUBLE STANDARDS THEY’D HAVE NO STANDARDS AT ALL. I think virtually all speech should be protected on campus, but it is utterly impossible to imagine that a non-black professor in 2023 could say “Blacks are so f–ing racist” on Twitter, or even be accused of telling a student in class “It’s not your fault you were born in Africa,” and end up with a university defending them and posting something like this. Colleges should do this (if it’s true), but they won’t. Insult the right groups, though, like white people (in virtually all cases), Jews (in this case) or Asians (in some cases, depending on whether the school is in Stop Asian Hate vs. Stop Asian Admissions mode), and boy do you ever get some serious due process. This unequal treatment is wrong, it’s corrosive, it’s not equal justice, and people are noticing it more and more.
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Plus:
So much more at the link, you’d have to be crazy to miss it.
JEFF GOLDSTEIN: Maybe I’ll be there to shake your hand, maybe I’ll be there to stakeholder capitalist the land.
Like many things faddish and ephemeral — disco, Pet Rocks, feathered hair, taking Michel Foucault seriously as an intellectual — the 1970s gave birth to the concept of stakeholder capitalism, one of the most unfortunate yet enduring of the bad ideas that polyester decade bequeathed us. At its essence, stakeholder capitalism is Marxian capitalism run through a lens of business ethics. It is the attempt to maintain authoritarian control over capitalism by forcing upon the Invisible Hand a Velvet Glove, then using that glove, which hides an iron fist, to pound the world into adopting values that both assert and maintain its worldview. It is Theory applied to markets, marketing, wealth creation and management, and an overall globalized ethos of required and policed “virtue,” with the end goal being — as it always is under the discourses of cultural Marxist thought — power: who has it, who controls it, and who uses it for their own ends most effectively and ruthlessly.
That’s just the intro. It gets even better.
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HANS A. VON SPAKOVSKY: Columbia Law School — EXPOSED. “If you thought based on our coverage of the curriculums at Yale, Stanford, and Chicago that you had seen the worst of the political indoctrination that passes for a law school education these days, wait until you see the curriculum at the Columbia Law School in New York City.”
This is the fourth of a 10-part series.
THEY MAY WIND UP MEETING THE “TYRE IRONS GROUP:” “Members of an ‘autonomous movement’ called Tyre Extinguishers said they recently ‘disarmed’ 43 SUVs in ‘one of the wealthiest areas’ of Boston by letting the air out of the tires.”
The story calls it “generally harmless,” but making it impossible for people to get in their cars and drive off, possibly in an emergency, isn’t harmless.
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