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August 28, 2024
THIS JUST IN: The Second Circuit has reinstated Sarah Palin’s libel case against The New York Times.
Bloomberg is reporting that:
“The piece, published after a gunman opened fire on members of Congress on a baseball field, described a “‘link’” between the shooting and “‘political incitement.’” It referenced a digital graphic published in 2010 by Palin’s political action committee. The graphic was a map showing crosshairs over congressional districts represented by Democrats—including the district of former Rep. Gabby Giffords, who was shot in 2011.”
Here’s the decision, which I haven’t parsed out yet.
I’ve been before the trial judge in the past, and although I have deep respect for him, he played fast and loose with several procedural matters, and contrary to law, held an “evidentiary hearing” at the motion to dismiss stage. A real no-no.
The bottom line in the case is that they ran an Op/Ed clearly blaming Palin for the kook shooting Rep. Gabby Giffords, but failed to research (and learn) that the Times had long before published an article vindicating her for any connection.
Shorthand: “Don’t you idiots read your own newspaper?”
THIS IS KIND OF A TELL, ISN’T IT? Democrats Are Freaking Out Over Republicans’ Efforts to Stop Illegal Aliens From Voting.
“OUR DEMOCRACY:”
In the past 24 hours:
-Dems force RFK Jr. to stay on the ballot
-Dems remove Cornel West off the ballot
-DOJ files an upgraded Trump indictment
-Facebook admits they censored posts in compliance with Biden-Harris requests.Saving democracy by ending it.
— End Wokeness (@EndWokeness) August 27, 2024
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KAMALA CHAMELEON: Kamala campaign flip-flops on EV mandates.
A campaign official for Kamala Harris said Tuesday that it is a “lie” that the vice president Kamala Harris supports implementing an electric vehicle mandate, even though she cosponsored legislation doing exactly that in 2019.
Harris’s director of rapid response, Ammar Moussa, wrote in a campaign email ahead of Trump running mate J.D. Vance’s remarks on the economy in Michigan that the Ohio senator would “undoubtedly lie, gaslight, and try to run away from the truth.” One such lie, he cautioned, is that “Vice President Harris wants to force every American to own an electric vehicle.”
“Vice President Harris does not support an electric vehicle mandate,” Moussa claimed, before citing several news stories that argued the Biden administration only incentivized, rather than mandated, electric vehicle production by car manufacturers. The administration spent billions to build just a handful of electric vehicle chargers and introduced tax credits for electric vehicle purchases. In addition, however, the Biden administration pushed through a new tailpipe emissions rule through the Environmental Protection Agency that would force car manufacturers to significantly scale back production of gas-powered cars. “The regulation would essentially require automakers to sell more electric vehicles and hybrids by gradually tightening limits on tailpipe pollution,” the New York Times reported in March.
Even more damningly, Harris also supported an electric vehicle mandate when she serves as the junior senator from California. In April 2019, months after announcing her bid to become the 2020 Democratic presidential nominee, Harris cosponsored the Zero-Emission Vehicles Act of 2019. The bill, which was introduced by Senator Jeff Merkley and Representative Mike Levin, presented “bold plan for transitioning the United States to 100% zero-emission vehicles.”
Flashback to 2019: Kamala Climate Power Grab: Green New Deal, Suing Exxon, Banning Straws.
I’d go with what Tom Cotton told Jon Karl of the House of Stephanopoulos on Sunday, that until Harris herself publicly denounces her past positions, assume that they’re still her goals. But even if she did announce a change in her worldview, why would anyone believe her?
UPDATE:
She really is a couple of days away from saying that she's never been vice president. https://t.co/CFnQz84q9z
— Charles C. W. Cooke (@charlescwcooke) August 27, 2024
DON’T GET COCKY: History Is Against a Kamala Harris Victory. “For Kamala Harris, all the ‘joy’ in the world won’t make voters forget who was president while she was vice president.”
#JOURNALISM:
Republicans prefer live interviews because they know the media will screw them in the edit.
Democrats prefer taped interviews because they know the media will
Protect them in the edit. https://t.co/jemsKxLzSu— John Ocasio-Rodham Nolte (@NolteNC) August 27, 2024
KAMALA’S BOLD ANTI-MEAT STANCE:
Vote Red (Meat) 🥩🇺🇸 pic.twitter.com/UEiiREFmoG
— Gabrielle Cuccia (@its_gabbygabs) August 13, 2024
You’ll eat bugs, peasant, and you’ll be grateful to get them.
EVERYTHING IS GOING SWIMMINGLY (BEIJING EDITION): The Disconcerting Signal Behind China’s Epic Bond Rally.
In recent weeks, bond traders have been piling into the perceived safety of Chinese government bonds, driving an epic buying spree that has pushed yields on the benchmark 10-year note, which move inversely to prices, to record lows.
The rally has elicited an unusual response from China’s central bank, which is responsible for managing the state treasury and maintaining financial stability: Stop buying these notes.
The tug of war has nonetheless persisted, turning an uncomfortable spotlight on some of the ingredients that economists say are fueling demand for the bonds: waning confidence in Chinese economic growth, and a lack of attractive investment options in a country where real-estate prices and stocks are both taking a beating.
The People’s Bank of China says it is worried that a sudden reversal of the bond rally could incur steep losses for smaller lenders snapping up the notes, a kind of Chinese rerun of last year’s Silicon Valley Bank debacle in the U.S.
But economists say those concerns are overblown, and suspect the real reason for authorities’ displeasure is the message underpinning the fervor for the government bonds: a lack of confidence in China’s economic growth.
Prediction is difficult, especially about the future, but China seems more and more likely to be heading towards a ’90s Japan-style “lost decade.”
SOMEBODY GET HER A RED HAT: Kamala Harris Goes Full MAGA, Endorses This Signature Trump Policy.
DISPATCHES FROM THE BLUE ZONES:
Langer’s in Los Angeles has been making the greatest pastrami sandwich on the planet for nearly 80 years and now may be closing due to the crime, drug use, homelessness, violence, and all the other 3rd world conditions that have overwhelmed this family business. pic.twitter.com/GmMKr7tfSi
— Kevin Dalton (@TheKevinDalton) August 27, 2024
LA’s streets went from merely filthy and badly maintained 15 years ago to full-on Third World today. But decline is a choice, and Los Angelenos choose it at every opportunity.
ON KAMALA GASLIGHTING: Michael Shellenberger nails it in 59 seconds. Doubt I could say it any better.
In Duty: Memoirs of a Secretary of State at War, Robert Gates wrote that [Obama’s National Security advisor Tom Donilon] characterized the United States military as “in revolt” and “insubordinate.” The attorney, who had never been in the military, “bridled” when Gen. McChrystal announced a counterinsurgency strategy in Afghanistan. As Gates explained, “troops risking their lives need to be told that their goal is to ‘defeat’ those trying to kill them. But such terms were viewed in the White House as borderline insubordinate political statements by generals.”
The composite character president formerly known as Barry Soetoro, whose Dreams from My Father was a novel, contends that “the future must not belong to those who slander the prophet of Islam.” In a military conflict with the Taliban, a belch from the ninth century, America must not be seen as an outright victor*. This creed authorized Joe Biden to hand over billions in high-tech military gear, and an entire airbase, to the Taliban. The 13 American dead and Americans allies left behind were written off as collateral damage, and according to Biden the whole operation was an “extraordinary success.”
Additionally, as a Democrat who came to power during the Watergate era, Biden believes that the helicopters bugging out of Saigon in 1975 was a fitting end to the Vietnam War, and the Afghanistan debacle was Joe coming full circle with his imagined past self, bravely going to war — with that steely military tactician, Gerald Ford:
During a 2012 eulogy for George McGovern, Joe Biden recalled a confrontation he had with President Gerald Ford over pulling troops out of Vietnam. Ford had agreed to meet with the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, which included then-freshman Joe Biden, to discuss the administration’s military funding requests during the fall of South Vietnam on April 14, 1975.
According to Biden’s account: “I said, ‘Begging the president’s pardon, but I’m sure if the president were in my position, the president would ask the president the following question.’ I swear to God, it’s in the transcript. And Ford looked at me very graciously, and he said, ‘Yeah?’ I said, ‘With all due respect, Mr. President, you haven’t told us anything.’ They were talking about Sector 1, Sector 2, Sector 3, and with that the president turned and said, ‘Henry, tell them.’ And that was the first time it was decided that we were not going to try to sustain our presence [in Vietnam],” said Biden.
But Biden’s alleged statement, and the response from Ford, do not appear in the classified minutes of the meeting, which have been released by the Ford Library Museum. According to the transcript, Biden did speak up at the meeting to oppose military aid to help evacuate South Vietnamese allies alongside the U.S. troops. “I am not sure I can vote for an amount to put American troops in for one to six months to get the Vietnamese out. I will vote for any amount for getting the Americans out. I don’t want it mixed with getting the Vietnamese out,” said Biden, according to the transcript.
Found via Fred Bauer, who notes, “Biden has never made any secret of his tremendous admiration for McGovern, whom he views as a transformational and inspirational figure.” Which brings us to this month in 2021:
* See also: Obama effectively bugging out of Iraq for a second term talking point. As Glenn wrote in 2013, “Ideology required that the Iraq War be a failure, even if it needed a nunc pro tunc effort to make it so.”
EVERYTHING IS GOING SWIMMINGLY: Home prices hit record high in June: ‘Most unaffordable housing market in history.’
And: Oregon Plan Offers $30,000 to Help Migrants Buy Homes.
Juicing demand while prices are high to increase affordability is Democrat thinking at its very sharpest.
THE DEBT-FREE FOUR-YEAR DEGREE: IS IT POSSIBLE? Yes, with lots of work. But with the Democrats on a suicide mission to forgive college debt, it probably makes no sense to save or pay upfront for college when you could always just help your kid pay back the loans and still have a chance of getting some of that sweet, sweet free money. Perverse incentives much?
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KRUISER’S MORNING BRIEFING: Kamala Is Bringing a Mansplainer Chaperone to Her First ‘Interview.’ “What makes Harris look even more pathetic here is that she should have nothing to fear from CNN. Dana Bash is one of the most egregious Dem propagandists in media. She’s a biased hack’s biased hack. Jake Tapper probably hits her up at least once a week for coaching on how he can become a better fluffer for the Democratic National Committee.”
ALL THE BEST PEOPLE TOLD ME THIS NEVER HAPPENS: Thousands of Non-Citizens Previously Cast Ballots in Texas.