Archive for 2024

August 7, 2024

MAKE AMERICA MINNESOTA AGAIN!

UPDATE:

And an appropriate Kinsley Gaffe from NPR:

UPDATE: It really is a Kinsley Gaffe from NPR: Tim Walz Cozied Up to Anti-Semitic Terror Defender at 2019 CAIR Event, Photos Show.

Posted at 4:30 pm by Ed Driscoll on Aug 7th, 2024

IRAN: From Hot War to Cold Feet? “Iran’s mullahcracy might be made up of crazies, but they aren’t suicidal.”

Posted at 4:21 pm by Stephen Green on Aug 7th, 2024

HOW IT STARTED:

How it’s going: Cori Bush: ‘AIPAC, I’m Coming to Tear Your Kingdom Down.’

More here: Squad’s Cori Bush meltdown after being ousted from Congress in rant revealing who she is blaming for embarrassing loss.

Progressive Squad member Cori Bush had an on-stage meltdown Tuesday after losing her reelection bid.

The progressive Democrat became the second Squad member to be taken down after a hotly-contested primary against a more moderate challenger who hammered Bush for supporting pro-Gaza protests.

Now, she is blaming her defeat on pro-Israel group AIPAC which put a whopping nearly $9 million to oust her, that she threatened to ‘tear down.’

Her unhinged remarks came during a primary election watch party in St. Louis, Missouri, where she took a stage in front of supporters.

Pacing back and forth on the stage and speaking so loudly that the microphone shook, the former Black Lives Matter organizer condemned ‘corporations’ and AIPAC, charging them with orchestrating her ousting.

Defiantly, Bush told the crowd that now she is no longer bound to the decorum of Congress, and that now she had ‘some of the strings [cut] off,’ her opponents will ‘see this other Cori, this other side.’

Why is the far left such a cesspit of anti-Semitism and not-so-veiled threats of violence, just weeks after an assassination attempt on the Republican candidate for the presidency?

Posted at 4:14 pm by Ed Driscoll on Aug 7th, 2024

UKRAINE? OH, RIGHT:

This is a long thread about how the Ukrainians are doing air interdiction with drones the way the U.S. Air Force has traditionally done it with attack planes, at a fraction of the cost.

Posted at 4:04 pm by Glenn Reynolds on Aug 7th, 2024

A FLEX WORTHY OF A TRUE MARINE:

Posted at 4:00 pm by Glenn Reynolds on Aug 7th, 2024

MOVE ALONG, NOTHING TO SEE HERE COMRADE: Tim Walz’s deep links to China: Kamala’s VP pick taught and went on honeymoon in the country… and oversaw a scholarship program funded by Beijing.

Related: That’s what Xi said!

UPDATE:

Posted at 2:35 pm by Ed Driscoll on Aug 7th, 2024

PROF. ROB NATELSON: United States v. Abbott and State War Powers.

Mr. Hyman and I investigated the Founding-era meaning of “invasion” and “invaded” to determine if, as three U.S. appeals courts have opined, those terms were limited to formal attacks by foreign military forces. We found they certainly were not. Both 18th century dictionaries and contemporaneous usage supported definitions broad enough to encompass peaceful but unauthorized cross-border incursions that resulted in damage. For example, in the years before the Constitution was written, both Benjamin Franklin and Pennsylvania officials referred to a peaceful but unauthorized wave of immigration into their state as an “invasion.”

We also learned that during the Founding era, migrants entering a country illegally were considered, or treated as, “alien enemies.” They were not accorded the same rights as “alien friends.” It made no difference whether an illegal migrants’ country of origin was friendly or hostile.

Read the whole thing.

Posted at 2:30 pm by Glenn Reynolds on Aug 7th, 2024

CHRISTIAN TOTO: The Kamala Harris Sketch You’d Never See Today. “The next four months will find few mainstream humorists targeting Harris in any way, shape or form. They’ll turn all of their attention on President Donald Trump and figure out ways to prevent a second Trump presidency.”

Posted at 1:46 pm by Stephen Green on Aug 7th, 2024

JAMES LILEKS’ WEDNESDAY REVIEW OF MODERN THOUGHT: Great moments in far left Gnosticism, as kitsch painter Thomas Kinkade is declared “fascist:”

Just so you know: The personal is political extends to aesthetic preferences. Your tastes put you in the political camp that deserves violence. Hunt down the fash Kinkade fans and ship them to the camps, or our democracy is in peril!

Rockwell? Oh, we’ll get around to him.

Read the whole thing.

Posted at 1:35 pm by Ed Driscoll on Aug 7th, 2024

QUESTION ASKED AND ANSWERED: “Is Joe Biden Calling ‘Defund’ Democrats Crazy?,” Noah Rothman asked in 2021:

This week, President Joe Biden attended a town hall-style forum hosted by CNN where anchor Don Lemon gently guided the president toward reframing the defund debate in a way that could benefit Democrats. “You said police are up against—well, they’re up against the narrative that, you know, the country is anti-police, Democrats are anti-police, Joe Biden is anti-police,” Lemon probed the president. “They’re not saying it,” Biden interjected. “Republicans are saying it on the far–,” the president caught himself. “I’m not going to—anyway.” “No,” Lemon pressed. “I want you to talk about this, because, I mean, it’s an important narrative.”

That word—“narrative”—conveys to the audience that they’ve been privy to little more than a story. It’s a more nuanced variation of the idea that Democrats have never really sought to defund local police forces, and you only believe that because you’ve been gulled by the GOP’s mesmeric powers of suggestion. But Biden expounded on this theme in a rather bizarre exchange with reporters on the subject.

“Are there people in the Democratic Party who want to defund the police?” a reporter asked the president. Biden snapped back: “Are there people in the Republican Party who think we’re sucking the blood out of kids?” he said to the sound of bewildered silence. Check and mate.

To translate, Biden’s veiled answer to the question posed by his interlocutor is, yes, of course, some Democrats support defunding the police. But they are as fringe, paranoid, and, indeed, vicious as the Republicans who subscribe to the most unhinged QAnon conspiracies. If that were true, we would be in big trouble. By any objective assessment, the number of Republicans who subscribe to some version of Q’s incomprehensible theories is dwarfed by the amount of elected Democrats who weren’t just amendable to defunding police but tried to translate that slogan into policy.

Flash-forward to today, where the Washington Examiner reports: Kamala Harris donated last year to defund police group backing DC ‘sanctuary city’ law.

Reuters reports that “Vice President Kamala Harris is toughening her position on illegal immigration, taking on hardliner Donald Trump on his signature issue in a series of campaign events and digital ads in coming weeks, according to campaign staff.”

Why wasn’t she doing that prior to running for the White House?

(Although perhaps the buried lede in the Reuters story is that they’re actually referring to “illegal immigration,” a phrase Kamala herself once tried to memory hole: Kamala the Language Cop: Harris Urges End to Terms ‘Radical Islamic Terrorism,’ ‘Illegal Alien.’)

Posted at 1:22 pm by Ed Driscoll on Aug 7th, 2024

KRUISER: ‘Slay Queen!’ Kamala Is the Worst Bit of Fanfic I’ve Ever Seen. “The Dems may not be discussing that in public but, deep down inside, they’re all thinking about it. The only thing that has changed about Kamala Harris since her ignominious exit from the 2020 presidential race is Joe Biden’s mental decline. It became obvious to them a couple of weeks ago that Harris would be the less awful option for 2024; sort of like choosing between ringworm and allergy hives.”

Posted at 1:15 pm by Stephen Green on Aug 7th, 2024

WHAT “FUNDAMENTAL TRANSFORMATION” LOOKS LIKE: America Is Ready for a Jewish Veep. The Democrats Aren’t.

Almost as soon as Harris began her search for a running mate in earnest, a campaign from the progressive left made it clear that the anti-Israel wing of the party would not vote for Shapiro. Though his support of Israel is identical to that of every other contender, though he hates Benjamin Netanyahu a lot, though his view on college campus protesters (he called it “absolutely unacceptable” that “universities can’t guarantee the safety and security of their students”) is the most common, most popular view, none of this was a match for his last name, the fact that he is an observant, kosher-keeping proud Jew, and that, like the vast majority of Jews, he supports the state of Israel.

In their criticism of Shapiro, leftists pointed to the fact that he excoriated University of Pennsylvania president Liz Magill for refusing to condemn calls for the genocide of the Jews—I know, what a monster!—that he called on Penn to shut down the anti-Israel encampments, which violated university codes and guidelines—the shame!—and that he told The New York Times, “If you had a group of white supremacists camped out and yelling racial slurs every day, that would be met with a different response than antisemites camped out, yelling antisemitic tropes.” How dare he suggest antisemitism should be condemned, no matter what side it comes from! 

As The Babylon Bee put it Monday night, “Democrats Worried Choosing Jewish Vice President May Cost Them The All-Important ‘Death To America’ Vote.” By Tuesday morning, the Harris campaign had turned farce into tragedy and picked Walz for Harris’s running mate.

There can be no doubt about it: there was only one reason to reject Shapiro, and it was that the Democrats would rather cater to their antisemitic base and lose the election than embrace the vast non-antisemitic American middle and win. “You also have antisemitism that has gotten marbled into this party,” Van Jones said on CNN Tuesday. “You can be for the Palestinians without being an anti-Jewish bigot, but there are some anti-Jewish bigots out there.”

This is a party whose “progressive” politics have gone very far “back and to the left,” as Oliver Stone would say, since Al Gore chose Joe Lieberman to be his veep in 2000: Back then, “the media not only applauded it as a historical milestone but considered his piety a political plus: Lieberman was well-known for his devout faith, which, the Democrats/media hoped, would contrast nicely with President Clinton’s cigar-tinged indiscretions. The possibility of liberal blowback wasn’t even considered. But now, the truth is just too big to ignore,” Scott Pinsker wrote yesterday. “When Lieberman was tapped, antisemites weren’t yet a key Democratic voting bloc. Now they are.”

Posted at 12:00 pm by Ed Driscoll on Aug 7th, 2024

AT LEAST JOHN KERRY ACTUALLY WENT TO VIETNAM:

Posted at 11:55 am by Glenn Reynolds on Aug 7th, 2024
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