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April 25, 2023
IF IT WERE ONLY ANHEUSER-BUSCH: Lost In The Desert Bud Light Hires Swamp Creatures.
I’VE ALSO WONDERED THIS: Thralldom to Emperor Bong: this ain’t your grandfather’s weed.
SIXTY MINUTES IS TOTALLY NOT A MOUTH PIECE OF THE REGIME: Ray Epps Is Totally Not A Fed, Says “60 Minutes”.
THEY’LL ONLY DO THIS TILL PUNISHED: British Climate Zealots Return to Boston, Slashing Tires on 43 SUVs.
FREEING HIM TO GO INDIE. FOX NEWS IS THE LOSER HERE: Tucker Carlson is Out at Fox News.
STUPID OR EVIL? OR IS THERE A DIFFERENCE? Biden EPA Pushing New Power Plant Standards, Risking Already Strained Electric Grid,
JUST THEIR DETERMINATION TO STEAL OTHER PEOPLE’S CHILDREN: Biden Babble or Big Brother: ‘No such thing as Someone Else’s Child’.
Socialists are evil and they steal.
April 24, 2023
And in both cases, that demoralization comes from having a crappy president in the White House.
MY NEW YORK POST COLUMN: The COVID lockdown scolds killed people — but they still have no shame.
LARRY CORREIA ON TUCKER CARLSON:
I am seeing a lot of people not really understanding today’s events in cable news. Ha ha. Tucker Carlson is such a loser. Big dummy got fired!
That shows a very boomer era understanding of media consumption and overestimation of the power of a traditional news channel.
He didn’t need Fox. The last I saw his contract there was something like cheap, which is chump change to a guy with a reliable audience in the millions every night.
Tucker Carlson is now going to go sign a Joe Rogan size contract on a streaming service. He will make the most money of any news broadcaster in history and probdbly do so by an insane margin.
Meanwhile Don Lemon is a relative non entity. He won’t bring much of an audience with him wherever he goes.
One of these two will get a pay cut. The other is going to make orders of magnitude more money, and has the investment potential to boost any media corporation he signs with into a very competitive sphere.
And I don’t even watch Fox News at all, nor do I care about Tucker Carlson. But if you are too blinded by goofy partisan point scoring to grasp the business implications of this, it’s a bad look, but it ain’t my problem.
Larry knows about making money without a traditional platform.
Related:
Fox fires @TuckerCarlson five days after he crosses the red line by acknowledging that the TV networks pushed a deadly and ineffective vaccine to please their Pharma advertisers. Carlson’s breathtakingly courageous April 19 monologue broke TV’s two biggest rules: Tucker told the…
— Robert F. Kennedy Jr (@RobertKennedyJr) April 24, 2023
UPDATE: Also:
Hilarious but true: @TuckerCarlson leaving hit Fox stock harder than the Dominion suit ever did.
Look, if Steven Crowder can be offered $50 million for four years and want $120, what is Tucker worth? Here’s a hint: it starts with a b pic.twitter.com/FQpWF7z4jJ
— Alex Berenson (@AlexBerenson) April 24, 2023
OPEN THREAD: Be here now.
READER BOOK PLUG: From Andy Ellis, 1% Leadership.
TO BE FAIR, THAT MAKES HER A GOOD FIT WITH PRESIDENT TRUNALIMUNUMAPRZURE: Biden’s Pick For Top Africa Job Twice Failed Foreign Service Officer Test, ‘Couldn’t Get Through the English Grammar Section.’
In a July 2021 interview with Ghana’s CitiTV, then-United States ambassador to Ghana Stephanie Sanders Sullivan recounted her “strange” first attempt to complete the Foreign Service Officer Test, a written exam required for most career diplomats.
“I couldn’t even get through the English grammar section, which was my forte,” said Sullivan, a native English speaker and Brown University graduate. The diplomat, who Biden nominated last November to serve as the chief envoy to the entire African continent, said she bombed the test because she “was on village time.” Though it’s not clear what “village time” means, Sullivan says she left a third of the questions blank, leading her to fail the exam. Nevertheless, she persisted.
“There’s a little bit of that ‘Little Engine That Could’: I think I can, I think I can,” Sullivan told the interviewer. “So, the next year I tried again, and I also didn’t pass.”
The ambassador to the African Union has grown increasingly important as Washington attempts to strengthen ties with the continent as a bulwark against Chinese influence. The CCP’s Belt and Road initiative entices developing countries with the promise of infrastructure projects and low-interest loans, which often leave the nations in debt to Beijing. Senior American officials have visited an African nation four times in 2023 alone in an effort to shore up alliances on the continent. Vice President Kamala Harris recently concluded a high-profile African tour.
Why would Biden care about the CCP getting a stake in African nations? GOP lawmakers say they’re ‘getting to the truth’ about Biden family payments from China: ‘Reeks of corruption.’
TEXANS USED TO BE BRAVER: SpaceX celebrated Starship’s 1st launch. Some locals called it ‘truly terrifying.’
DISPATCHES FROM THE ICE FLOE: Dianne Feinstein and the Cult of Indispensability.
Dianne Feinstein is incapable of doing the most elemental part of her job, but she’s still adept at discrediting my work. Back in January, I wrote a defense of gerontocracy, occasioned by the end of Nancy Pelosi’s long run as speaker of the House. I argued that oldsters just do it better, because nobody is born to effectively wield power; it’s a learned skill. My primary evidence was the trio of senior citizens—not just Pelosi but also Joe Biden and Chuck Schumer—that orchestrated the two most fertile years of legislation in recent memory.But the 89-year-old Feinstein, who is out with shingles, is making a compelling counterargument: Octogenarian politicians sometimes behave like grandparents refusing to hand over the keys to the car. They stop in traffic for no apparent reason and never accelerate above 20, but they’re under the delusion that they’re still good drivers.
I understand that acknowledging this may make some uncomfortable. All of us, if we are lucky, face the indignities of aging. In other circumstances, the fact that Feinstein can’t cast votes in the Senate might not be terribly meaningful for the country. But the Senate is evenly divided—and when she is out of pocket, the Democrats can’t prevail on a party-line vote. Because she sits on the Senate Judiciary Committee—and Republicans refuse to let her trade the assignment with a colleague physically fit for the job—Democrats are unable to send any of their nominees to the bench to the floor of the Senate.
This isn’t a trivial part of Feinstein’s job. Without a majority in the House, it is more or less the entirety of it. A more liberal bench is the only lasting achievement available to her party, and she’s preventing its realization. This is a fleeting opportunity, moreover: Even if Biden wins reelection, the political map nearly guarantees a Republican majority in two years’ time. These next few months are the narrow window for Democrats to aggressively erode the GOP’s capture of the judiciary.
Ed Morrissey adds, “A reasonable question, but in [Franklin] Foer’s telling, the answer is: only when it interferes with Democrats’ agenda. It’s not just a gerontological issue either, given John Fetterman’s obvious impairments. Both parties have been guilty of refusing to let go of impaired pols, but for now this is clearly a Democrat issue — especially in the White House.”
Flashback: The Democratic Party’s Ice Floe Politics.
RUN ALL THE CANDIDATES! Tucker Carlson for president? “Tucker has served as a sort of kingmaker for American conservatives and Republican politicians in recent years. But what would happen if Tucker decided that he himself is the king now? What if Tucker acted on a long-held fringe rumor that he might actually jump into the 2024 GOP primary, upending any expectations of a two-man race between former president Donald Trump and Florida governor Ron DeSantis? Carlson’s sudden departure from Fox will no doubt kick the speculators and pollsters into action. His name, whether he intends for it to be or not, will likely begin to appear in polling.”
CREEPY JOE IS BACK: Biden Doesn’t Think Your Children Belong to You.
The idea that the government believes that children belong to them and not their parents is a terrifying thought. It raises fundamental questions about the role of the state, the autonomy of individuals, and the family institution.
The concept of parental rights and responsibilities has been at the heart of Western society for centuries. It is widely accepted that parents are responsible for the upbringing and welfare of their children and that the state’s role is to support and protect families in this endeavor. However, if the government were to assert that children belong to the state, it would imply a drastic shift in the balance of power between the individual and the state.
And Joe Biden, the man who currently occupies the White House, effectively endorsed that premise on Monday. Biden was giving remarks that honored the Council of Chief State School Officers’ 2023 Teacher of the Year, Rebecka Peterson, a high school math teacher from Tulsa, Okla.
“Rebecka put a teachers’ creed into words when she said, ‘There’s no such thing as someone else’s child.’ No such thing as someone else’s child. Our nation’s children are all our children,” Biden said.
To be fair, that strategy worked out brilliantly in Virginia for Gov. McAullife in 2021. Even so, expect this clip to go into wide circulation next year:
BIDEN: "There's no such thing as someone else's child. Our nation's children are all our children!" pic.twitter.com/scaZ4vDrPZ
— Townhall.com (@townhallcom) April 24, 2023
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LONGEVITY UPDATE: Unlocking the Secrets of Aging: Sirtuin Enzymes in the Spotlight.
HMM: Ukraine Crossed the Dnipro? “Today came more concrete evidence that Ukrainian troops are landing and operating on the eastern/southern bank of the Dnipro.”
FASTER, PLEASE: Engineering team develops multifunctional tendon-mimetic hydrogels. “Repairing or replacing injured tendons or similar load-bearing tissues represents one of the major challenges in clinical medicine. Natural tendons are water-rich tissues exhibiting outstanding mechanical strength and durability. Their mechanical properties originate from sophisticated microscale structures involving stiff collagen fibrils aligned in parallel and interlaced with soft water-retaining biopolymers. . . . A research team led by Dr. Lizhi Xu of the Department of Mechanical Engineering in the Faculty of Engineering at the University of Hong Kong (HKU) has developed a new type of tendon-mimetic hydrogel with outstanding mechanical properties matching those of natural tendons combined with multifunctionalities for biomedical applications.”
NOBODY’S PERFECT:
Grenell is not wrong… https://t.co/x4arNDnMsc
— @amuse (@amuse) April 24, 2023
A REMINDER FROM DON SURBER: You Can’t Win if You Don’t Fight. “The firing of the elitist woman marketer behind the Dylan Mulvaney can of Bud Light came on Friday night, a week too late to save the brand. Bud then fired the fellow who hired her. Get woke, go broke struck again. . . . The departure of the marketer comes after a week of liberals assuring us that those silly conservatives won’t hurt Bud Light.”