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Archive for 2024
May 23, 2024
I ALSO HAVE PROBLEMS WITH THE DEBATES: A Word About Presidential Debates.
SCOTLAND IMPLEMENTED RENT CONTROL. IT WAS JUST AS SUCCESSFUL AS IMPLEMENTATIONS ANYWHERE ELSE HAVE BEEN (I.E. NOT): Rents rise at fastest rate in UK under SNP cap.
OBAMA ALWAYS ACTED LIKE IRAN — OR THE MUSLIM BROTHERHOOD, BIRM — OWNED HIM: Brokeback Biden and his puppeteer 0bama to Iran: “I wish I knew how to quit you”.
WOULD FLOODING HAMASS TUNNELS COUNT AS SALTING THE EARTH? ‘Here, These are the Girls Who Can Get Pregnant’: Israel Releases Video of Hamas Kidnapping Five Females.
BECAUSE IF THEY KEEP GOING ON THAT WAY, THERE’S GOING TO BE A SHORTAGE OR ROPE: “Why won’t these stupid parents trust us to know what’s best for their kids?”
DISBAND THE FBI. SALTING THE EARTH OPTIONAL: FBI Agents Were Authorized to Use Deadly Force and Told to Be Prepared to Engage With Trump and Secret Service During Mar-a-Lago Raid.
May 22, 2024
BECAUSE DEMOCRATS LOOK AFTER THE GENTRY CLASS FIRST:
EQUITY: Democrats like NBC's @PeterAlexander are starting ask the right questions. Why is it okay for Biden to give $35K to people who went to college and not give $35K to people who became janitors, plumbers, or electricians. Why should workers pay for college graduate's debt? pic.twitter.com/645P8Lp5vq
— @amuse (@amuse) May 22, 2024
OPEN THREAD: Unleash your wit.
MY LATEST SUBSTACK ESSAY: This Is How You Get More Ants: Student protests and college administrators.
YES:
The proHamas protestors: a rundown:
1. Delusional naively-compassionate childless women
2. Men who hope to prey on them by pretending to be allies
3. Resentful leftists, pushing a self-serving victim/victimizer narrative and willing to be useful idiots for
4. A psyops…— Dr Jordan B Peterson (@jordanbpeterson) May 22, 2024
Related:
The heroes of the deluded progressive mob
The moderate @TheDemocrats have been enabling this for decades and will not draw a line
Unforgivable https://t.co/q4zmTDTdbA
— Dr Jordan B Peterson (@jordanbpeterson) May 22, 2024
BEGINNING OF SECTION 230’S END? House Energy and Commerce Committee’s subcommittee on communications and technology appears set to move forward a bipartisan bill to suspend Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act of 1996 on Dec. 31, 2025.
The suspension would take effect if Congress has not approved and the President has not signed into law a reform or outright repeal. of Sect 230. That section is the one that exempts social media giants like Facebook from being held accountable for publishing content that promotes sex trafficking, suicide, child abuse, illegal drugs and much else.
THE NEW SPACE RACE: SpaceX nears next Starship test flight as Starbase expansion continues.
QUOTE OF THE DAY:
“I mean look, [Trump is] almost the same age as Biden. But Biden presents as old. Ancient. That does not look old. He does not present as old,” Maher said. “He’s like [the rock band] KISS. He puts on the wig and the face paint, and it’s 1976 all over again.”
—Bill Maher talking with Greg Gutfeld, Monday.
In contrast, yesterday, Maher dropped by the View: Joy Behar Scolds Bill Maher for Not Doing Enough to Protect the ‘Cadaver-Like’ Joe Biden.
The difference between Maher and Behar – right here. One admits not being honest with her audience while the other calls it his brand. https://t.co/s78UyEJ4Or
— Joe Concha (@JoeConchaTV) May 21, 2024
How cadaver-like? This cadaver-like:
Hahahahahaha
Margaret Brennan thought this video of Biden was AI-created because he never blinked.
No, that’s just what the drugs do to him.
pic.twitter.com/MSFhgqebeV— Bonchie (@bonchieredstate) May 21, 2024
UPDATE: Megyn Kelly Brutally Fact Checks Bill Maher’s Left Wing Talking Points to His Face.
Megyn Kelly triggers Bill Maher by calling Hillary Clinton the 'original election denier':
MK: "Hillary Clinton of course is the original election denier."
BM: "She's not an election denier."
MK: "Then spent the next 4 years saying he was an illegitimate president."
BM: "She… pic.twitter.com/Bn9ArDnf9A— Eric Abbenante (@EricAbbenante) May 22, 2024
LOOK BACK IN ANGER: Nellie Bowles’ Morning After The Revolution Documents the Insanity that was 2020.
My latest, over at Ed Driscoll.com.
PROFESSOR CARRINGTON, CALL YOUR OFFICE: The Solar Storm Was So Intense We Felt It Even at The Bottom of The Ocean.
RAT FLEAS HARDEST HIT: How Body Lice Could Rewrite the History of the Black Death.
I USED TO THINK NY SUBWAY CARS TOOK A BEATING:
ALL THIS AND WORLD WAR II WITH JAMES LILEKS:
Been on a bit of a Hitler binge lately. A nice break from the Roman binge. For this I can thank my absolutely favorite podcast, “The Rest is History,” which matches Dominick Sandbrook and Tom Holland to discuss absolutely everything. Perfect chemistry, very British, wry, droll, laugh-out-loud as well.
Eh? Laugh out loud? And Hitler? Yes, because there are absurdities and banalities that are darkly comic. They’ll do four hours on the rise of Hitler, then four more on the consolidation of power, which seems to involve an inordinate number of conferences at German spas – old-world faded charm, elderly waiters, ticking clocks in the lobby, musty smells, and it becomes a running joke referred to in passing, giving the faithful listener a recognizable callback in the next ep. All unplanned and chatty – as I said, the chemistry is great, two like-minded people who have an impressively substantial storehouse of knowledge and a sense of the breadth and scope of history, but are still continuously curious.
When I say “Binge” I mean that I’d finished the rise-to-power series and was offered up a new documentary on one of the streamers about HITLER’S MARCH TO WAR, or something — new footage! Recently uncovered documents! The hook was a countdown to WW2, and hence they had a chronological splash screen at regular intervals. MUNICH. 362 DAYS TO WAR. These words appear as if slapped on the screen, then vibrate out with a great whoosh.
Because the thing about the run-up to WW2 is this: it needs goosing to make it compelling. Jump cuts and sound effects and ADHD Ken Brown pans.
It got me thinking about the inevitable AI upscaling and enhancing of WW2 footage, particularly of Hitler. Right now he’s mostly the grainy guy shouting in newsreels, or the very grainy guy gliding in a limo as he heils the cheering throngs in Vienna. Color footage is rare. When it’s all made 4K, what sort of impact will it have?
In his 1964 book Understanding Media, Marshall McLuhan wrote:
TV is a cool medium. It rejects hot figures and hot issues and people from the hot press media…Had TV occurred on a large scale during Hitler’s reign he would have vanished quickly. Had TV come first there would have been no Hitler at all. When Khrushchev appeared on American TV he was more acceptable than Nixon, as a clown and a lovable sort of old boy. His appearance is rendered by TV as a comic cartoon. Radio, however, is a hot medium and takes cartoon characters seriously. Mr. K. on radio would be a different proposition.
Or as Lileks concluded, “I don’t think he’ll earn many new converts. I think some might be mystified by his appeal, because his speeches are like, you know, cringe. Like dude. I don’t know, I guess you had to be there.”
And for more “I don’t know, I guess you had to be there” moments, keep reading Lileks for America veering into its own creepy fascist aesthetics as well during the 1930s, before teasing, “There’s a bigger piece here, and I think I will write it for Discourse.”
Definitely looking forward to it.
REWARDING FASCISM: “So now we know what it takes to become a state: the murder of Jews. Rape, kill and kidnap Jews and seven months later, the leaders of Ireland, Spain and Norway will recognise your statehood. That’s the lesson of today’s coordinated spectacle of virtue-signalling in Dublin, Madrid and Oslo: pogroms work. The butchery of civilians gets results. Fascism has its rewards. This is ‘diplomacy’ at its most dangerous.”
GOVERNMENT HEALTHCARE: One in 5 adults in Canada without access to primary care.
BREAKING: Nikki Haley Says She Will Vote for Trump. “‘I put my priorities on a president who’s going to have the backs of our allies and hold our enemies to account who would secure the border,’ Haley said during a discussion on foreign policy at the Hudson Institute, her first public appearance since ending her presidential bid in March. ‘Trump has not been perfect on these policies. I’ve made that clear many, many times,’ she added. ‘But Biden has been a catastrophe. So I will be voting for Trump.’”
ABOUT THE CYRUS CYLINDER: King Cyrus was a VIP dude in the ancient world and Isaiah, the Old Testament prophet, had a lot to say about him. Kyle Butt explains on HillFaith why King Cyrus is still a VIP dude 2,500 years later.