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January 28, 2023
HE JUST KEEPS GOING AND GOING: How Donald Trump’s 2024 Campaign Bounced Back: The former president’s chances, once dim, are brightening.
Trump continues to dominate in polls of Republicans. He’s drawn even with President Biden in head-to-head matchups. He lobbied successfully for Rep. Kevin McCarthy (R., Calif.) to become speaker of the House of Representatives. His loyalists on the House Judiciary, Oversight, and Weaponization of the Federal Government committees will be sure to advance his interests. He’s plotting his return to Facebook, Instagram, and possibly Twitter, and his connection with the Republican base remains strong.
Most important of all, Trump’s rivals in both the Democratic and Republican parties are repeating the mistakes they made in the run-up to the 2016 election. The Democrats assume that there is no way for Trump to become president, while Republicans believe he will fade from the scene. Their failure to learn from history has made it possible not only for Trump to win the GOP nomination for the third straight time, but to pull another inside straight in the Electoral College and return to the White House. For decades, Trump has said that the political class is corrupt, insular, and incompetent, and that Republican leaders lack guts. Washington is doing its best to prove him right.
Well, he’s not wrong about that.
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Knowing her days were numbered due to poor health, Nikki Finke “began mailing out packets to trusted friends — and press outlets — containing allegations that are, in some cases, ‘Harvey-level bad,’ to direct quote someone who’s seen some of them,” the anonymous tipster wrote, referencing disgraced movie mogul Harvey Weinstein.
“The Hollywood producers, directors and stars who mistreated younger women, and in some cases younger men, but escaped #MeToo the first time around may not be as fortunate this time — including one of its very few moguls with even more power than Harvey.”
The whistle-blower also claimed an unnamed A-list actor would be included alongside Weinstein and Bill Cosby if Finke’s files were exposed.
The source warned: “The shoes should start dropping soon.”
We’ll see; a cynical man might start to think that Hollywood is a sex-grooming gang or something.
HMM: ATF warns gun dealers on “potential civil unrest.”
Maybe the government should try heading that unrest off?
THIS IS CNN: CNN’s Race-Baiter Van Jones Blames Racism for Black Cops Beating Tyre Nichols to Death.
Jones writes:
At the end of the day, it is the race of the victim who is brutalized — not the race of the violent cop — that is most relevant in determining whether racial bias is a factor in police violence. It’s hard to imagine five cops of any color beating a White person to death under similar circumstances. And it is almost impossible to imagine five Black cops giving a White arrestee the kind of beat-down that Nichols allegedly received.
It’s that simple. For race-baiters like Jones, if the victim is Black, he (or she) is always a victim of racial hatred. It’s a self-fulfilling statement. A statement that cannot be defeated, even when the criminals are Black. If a Black man is the victim, race is always the reason.
Jones and race-baiters like him are stoking flames that will envelop the nation. Antifa–the thugs and goons who burned America three years ago–have taken to the street again, and will, again, burn, loot, and destroy property. I saw plenty of signs on the streets of Memphis that called for “justice” for Nichols, but Antifa thugs burning cities isn’t about Tyre Nichols. It’s never about the victims of police violence.
Those fiery but mostly peaceful riots — and the boost in ratings for CNN — don’t stoke themselves, you know. As Glenn wrote in 2021, “The thing is, it’s a lot easier to encourage violence when the consequences happen to someone else. Too much of upper-class America is cocooned from real risk. For the people in poor and working-class neighborhoods where riots and looting tend to happen, the consequences are much more apparent. That’s why the cavalier attitude of so many Democrats toward riots makes sense. Democrats are now the party of Wall Street, Silicon Valley and upscale suburbs. The people who have to deal with consequences will have to go somewhere else politically. And they will.”
BUT NO MEAN TWEETS:
3 years ago today
gas was $2 a gallon
Eggs were $1 a dozen
Mortgage rates were 3%
Inflation was less than 1%
We had full employment, economic growth, and World Peace
What happened?— Vince Langman (@LangmanVince) January 26, 2023
WELL, THE “FACT CHECKERS” ONLY APPEARED WHEN THE TRUTH STARTED GETTING OUT. THAT MIGHT BE A HINT: ‘Fact-Checkers’ Not Interested in Tracking Hunter Biden’s Aid to Other Dissolute Bidens.
January 27, 2023
BLACK OFFICERS IN A MAJORITY BLACK CITY WITH A BLACK POLICE CHIEF BEAT BLACK MAN TO DEATH AND. . . Riots Break Out in Memphis, Other Cities as Police Release Tyre Nichols Video. And it’s not like this is the voice of the unheard crying for justice: Every media outlet has been on this, and the officers have already been charged.
Related: Riots and Schelling Incidents.
THEY HAVE AN UNFLAGGING DESIRE TO MAKE YOUR LIFE WORSE: Gas bags: Progressive war on your stove is VERY REAL.
THREAD: “I learned so much being at the RNC today.”
My favorite was the RNC guy who said we need “more people who read the newspaper.” How out of touch can you be?
OPEN THREAD: Do it on the weekend, and it’ll be all right.
FRENCH EMBASSY U.S. MAKES A HILARIOUS MOCKERY OF THE AP’S NOW-DELETED STYLE GUIDE UPDATE:
Earlier we passed along some of the mockeries being sent in the direction of the Associated Press over their explanation for a deleted tweet. Here’s the text of the tweet the AP deleted:
The French Embassy (oops, I violated the AP’s style guide there) saw that and responded accordingly:
Related: Jeremy Clarkson encountering Frenchness in France:
RIOT SEASON SEEMS TO COME EARLIER EVERY YEAR: “On January 7, Tyre Nichols was stopped by Memphis police for what is said to be a routine traffic violation. For some reason, he fled and officers pursued him. One or more ‘altercations’ followed, and Nichols ultimately was transported to a hospital, where he died. Five Memphis police officers have now been charged with second degree murder and other crimes.”
UPDATE (FROM GLENN): Here we have a black man, killed by black officers in a majority-black city run by Democrats, the offending police have all been charged and the authorities seem to be taking the crime quite seriously, but everyone expects riots all over because . . . well, just because.
I don’t suppose the news media have anything to do with that.
The MSM 2023 👇 pic.twitter.com/fRgCbs3pLf
— Vince Langman (@LangmanVince) January 27, 2023
UPDATE (From Ed): Tyre Nichols traffic stop videos released, cities around the country prepare for protests.
ANOTHER UPDATE (FROM GLENN): Riots and Schelling Incidents.
RADICAL CHIC: THE NEXT GENERATION. Ivy League Lawyer Who Firebombed Cop Car Will Spend a Year and a Day in Prison. “Trump administration prosecutors had sought a 10-year sentence with a domestic terrorism enhancement for the pair, which was dropped after President Joe Biden and Attorney General Merrick Garland took office. Mattis and Rahman in June scored a sweetheart deal with Department of Justice prosecutors, pleading guilty to lesser arson and explosives charges that warranted a mere five-year sentence. New York State announced before Rahman’s sentencing that both she and Mattis had been disbarred. James Trusty, a former federal prosecutor, told the Washington Free Beaconin November that the DOJ’s treatment of the two was ‘extraordinarily unusual.’ Both Mattis’s and Rahman’s attorneys requested sentence commutations before they appeared in court, pushing for each to be released on time served.”
20 YEARS AGO, ON INSTAPUNDIT: “JAMES LILEKS reports on the Super Bowl ads and on what he found by Googling the ‘ordinary Americans’ in a Star Tribune story about the antiwar movement.”
WARM UP THE BUTLERIAN JIHAD: Deepfakes: faces created by AI now look more real than genuine photos.
SKYNET SMILES, THEN LAUGHS UNCONTROLLABLY: Scientists invented a melting liquid robot that can escape from a cage.
I mean, seriously people. You’ve seen the movies, right?
IN THE PIPELINE: New Drugs Coming in 2023.
THE NEW SPACE RACE: China working on new moon rover for 2026 mission to lunar south pole.