IS IT POSSIBLE TO HATE THE MEDIA ENOUGH?  This is why you don’t hate the media enough.

BEING CALLED “HITLER” BY ERDOGAN IS LIKE BEING CALLED “UGLY” BY FRANKENSTEIN’S MONSTER:  Netanyahu slams Turkish President Erdogan for Kurdish ‘genocide’ after Hitler comparison.

AS A FORMER COLORADAN I CAN UNDERSTAND THE IMPULSE, BUT IT’S MY UNDERSTANDING THE LAW NOT BEING APPLIED TO PEOPLE WHO STAB NON-TOURISTS EITHER:  Deranged attacker accused of stabbing teen tourists at Grand Central had been cut loose by NYC judge over prosecutors’ pleas.

On the serious side: is this what we’re doing now? Really?

AS PRECISE AS NECESSARY CONSIDERING YOU CAN THROW A ROCK ANYWHERE IN GAZA AND HIT A HAMAS MEMBER:  Israel says its air campaign in Gaza is precise while targeting Hamas.

HARVARD IS FOR PARIAHS NOW:  Austrian business school cuts ties with Harvard in solidarity with Jewish students.

I’M SO OLD I REMEMBER WHEN ‘CATHOLIC’ IMPLIED DOCTRINAL CONSERVATIVE:  ‘Blasphemous’: Here’s What Happened When a Church Installed a Same-Sex Nativity Scene.

To be fair, like much of the crazy these days, it’s not even so much blasphemous as literally insane.

HEY, LEFTIES, MAKING PLACES LITERAL SHITHOLES HAS CONSEQUENCES:  Portland sees increase in diseases spread by human waste.

WE’D LIKE TO REMIND THE MEMBERS AND SUPPORTERS OF THE WHO THAT THEY ARE MADE OF MEAT AND PRESUMABLY TASTY:  MUST WATCH: WHO head Tedros declares war on meat and traditional farming to fight ‘climate change’.

And that just like the real minimum wage is always zero, the food of last resort is always long pig. And they shouldn’t make assumptions about who gets eaten in that situation.

OH CANADA! OH CASTREAU!  Trudeau government gives medal to trans activist who got Vancouver rape shelter defunded for refusing to house biological men.

I WOULD LIKE TO REMIND ALL NYT EMPLOYEES THAT THEY ARE TASTY AND MADE OF MEAT: NYT Pushes “Groundwater Crisis” to Attack America’s Poultry and Dairy Industries.

SHIP THEM TO GAZA. ALL OF THEM:  Anti-Israel Protesters Stage Blockades of LAX, JFK Airports.

WELL, THEY’RE FOLLOWING THE PLAYBOOK THAT LED TO ACW. SO WHY SHOULD IT BE DIFFERENT?  ‘Ivy League Judges Taking Trump Off the Ballot Would Cause This Country to Explode’.

THE REAL MINIMUM WAGE IS ALWAYS ZERO:  California Pizza Hut Franchises Lay Off Over 1,200 Delivery Drivers Due to State Raising the Minimum Wage.

And also, to quote a friend’s favorite saying, most politics is a cope session to claim that economics doesn’t apply this time.

THAT’S A BOLD STRATEGY, COTTON:  Jack Smith Wants Judge to Exclude Trump’s January 6 Evidence From Trump’s January 6 Trial.

OPEN THREAD: This thread’s for you.

THE NEW SPACE RACE: China launches new Beidou satellites, rocket booster lands near house. The Chinese have a history of being unconcerned about falling boosters, as do the Russians.

HMM: Intermittent Fasting Seems to Result in Dynamic Changes to The Human Brain.

TWO LITTLE DISCUSSED BUT MAJOR FACTORS IN MCCARTHY OUSTER: One of these two huge but mostly unreported factors that helped move the scale against Kevin McCarthy won’t surprise Instapunditeers, but the second one almost certainly will. Check it out in my Premium Report for The Epoch Times.

MARK JUDGE: Christians and Conservatives Have Not Faced It: We are No Longer Living in America.

OUT: DRY JANUARY. IN: “DAMP JANUARY.”

SOCIALISTS KEEP LOOKING TO “UNEXPECTEDLY” NATIONALIZE: Nationalize Greyhound.

—Jacobin, today.

If only there was a nationalized transportation system that has existed for decades that we could use as a benchmark to see how nationalizing Greyhound would likely proceed:

After posting historic spending deficits in 2021 and 2022, Amtrak is planning to spend more in fiscal year 2024 as federal funding expands to “unprecedented” levels.

Amtrak posted operating losses of $1.08 billion in 2021 and $886.8 million in 2022, far greater than pre-COVID losses, but is still going ahead with expansion. By comparison, Amtrak lost $29.4 million in 2019, the year before the pandemic hit.

The increase in spending was pandemic-related, according to Amtrak.

Amtrak asked Congress for a $350 million bump in funding for fiscal year 2024 to $3.65 billion.

The Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (IIJA) was signed into law by President Joe Biden on November 15, 2021. The law authorizes $1.2 trillion for transportation and infrastructure spending with $550 billion of that figure going toward “new” investments and programs. Amtrak will receive $85.2 billion via IIJA from FY 2022 through FY 2026.

—Amtrak presses on with more funding and expansion despite historic losses, the Washington Examiner, May 19^th.

And it’s curious that Jacobin doesn’t want competition for Greyhound’s services, when they exist as competition among the left for Salon’s longstanding goals of nationalizing every industry in the US:

• “Hugo Chavez’s economic miracle.”

—Salon.com, March 6, 2013.

• “Let’s nationalize Fox News: Imagining a very different media…Excerpted from ‘Imagine: Living in a Socialist USA.’

—Salon.com, January 18, 2014.

• “Like [the late communist Pete] Seeger and the FDR cargo cult, Salon also harbors turn-the-clock-back fantasies of their own: Last month, the publication called for the nationalization of the news media because it was uncomfortable with the glut of right-leaning news and opinion led by — you guessed it! — Fox News. (Hmmm — I wonder if someone in the FCC read that article?) Now the Website wishes to turn the clock back on the film industry because of a perceived glut of independent films.”

—Easy Riders, Raging Stasists, Ed Driscoll.com, February 22, 2014.

• “Let’s nationalize Amazon and Google: Publicly funded technology built Big Tech. They’re huge and ruthless and define our lives. They’re close to monopolies. Let’s make them public utilities.”

—Salon.com, July 8, 2014.

NOBODY NEEDS AN AR-15: Seattle Homeowner Uses Rifle to Fend Off 4 Home Invaders in Early Morning Home Invasion Attempt.

SO I’VE FINISHED THE LAST BOOK (SO FAR) of Tom Burkhalter’s World War II series, and I’ve quite enjoyed it. Highly recommended.

The action in New Guinea reminds me of my 8th grade history teacher, Mr. Rufus Pannell, who was an antiaircraft gunner in New Guinea from 1942-1945. We quickly learned that he could be diverted from the day’s assignments with questions about his time there, and while we thought we were getting away with something, we also learned some things about American history that weren’t in the textbook.