Archive for 2024
October 8, 2024
MEANWHILE, OVER AT VODKAPUNDIT: As God Is My Witness, I Thought Roasted Chickens Could Fly.
SHOCKING NEWS FROM THE WORLD OF SCIENCE: Marijuana use linked to worse school outcomes for teens.
SOME PARTS OF AMERICA STILL WORK — WHEN BIG GOVERNMENT LETS THEM:
FAA blocked helicopters carrying relief supplies from landing due to a law requiring contact info of people they’re meeting after they land.
This is why outdated laws need expiry dates and should be trashed. pic.twitter.com/0kRmvJSmhb
— DogeDesigner (@cb_doge) October 7, 2024
HERE’S THE BOTTOM LINE ON BIDEN BORDER: New video on X has man in Arizona explaining to an illegal immigrant how he and his car full of friends can be registered to vote. Both of the guys in the video must have heard Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y) “saying the quiet part out loud.”
THEY CAN’T BE TAUGHT, ONLY KILLED: Teach Hamas ‘Don’t Start None, Won’t Get None’ & #BringThemHome, Israel.
PRIME DAY DEAL: Apple AirPods Pro 2 Wireless Earbuds. #CommissionEarned
THIS IS CNN:
Shot: Vance blames liberal rhetoric for apparent assassination attempt against Trump.
—Headline, CNN, September 17th.
AISHA MILLS, DEMOCRATIC STRATEGIST: Listen, this isn’t the first time we’ve heard this kind of talk from Donald Trump and it reeks of authoritarianism and it also harkens back to a time of Hitler, who used the same exact language that Donald Trump is now quoting to talk about the people who he thinks are poisoning the blood of the nation.
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As a Black lesbian who Donald Trump doesn’t believe has genes as good as his, is he going to attempt to exterminate me when he gets elected?
—Real Clear Politics, today.
That’s quite an odd thing to say on a cable news program, given Trump’s long history of supporting gay marriage, and according to Newsweek in July: Trump’s New GOP Platform Is a Massive Win for LGBT Americans.
NOW HE’S CONNECTING PEOPLE’S CELLPHONES TO SATELLITES:
Larry Ellison: You're saying Elon's an idiot. The guy's landing rockets! And who are you?
"Elon doesn't know what he's doing, he'll have to go out for money, I'm really smart, I work for the Wall Street Journal …
Who are you? This guy's landing rockets. You know, he's landing… pic.twitter.com/XaKeNbEJgN
— ELON DOCS (@elon_docs) October 4, 2024
Best part: “I’m really smart, I work for the Wall Street Journal.” “I’m smart, not like everybody says, like dumb! I’m smart!”
That was in 2018. Now: SpaceX Starlink Has 227 Direct to Cellphone Capable Satellites. “The Direct to Cell network leverages the infrastructure they have built for Starlink over the past several years. Direct to Cell satellites plug into the existing Starlink satellite constellation via laser backhaul; meaning even our early satellites can provide services anywhere with regulatory approvals without requiring dedicated ground infrastructure. They also leverage all the existing networking, ground stations, and Points of Presence (PoPs) Starlink has developed. The Direct to Cell data travels over Starlink’s core directly to the operator’s core, providing a seamless integration.”
They’re going to activate direct to cell service in Florida after Hurricane Milton strikes, too.
Think how much more they could be doing if Elon were as smart as a WSJ reporter. . . .
TO BE HONEST, DENTISTS WERE FOOLS TO ENDORSE FLUORIDE, IT WRECKED THEIR CAVITY-FILLING BUSINESS MODEL: Court tells EPA to consider fluoride risk, to dentists’ dismay. “A federal judge last month handed a major victory to opponents of water fluoridation, capping a seven-year legal battle over whether the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has failed to protect the public from potential toxic effects of fluoride, which is added to the tap water of around 200 million Americans.”
ISRAEL WILL HAVE TO WIPE THEM COMPLETELY OUT: Hamas Leader Wants ‘New Fronts’ of Jihad.
2024, summarized: You’re sitting in a ballpark, watching a baseball game. The person sitting next to you has a radio, tuned to the play-by-play announcer. You watch the batter drill a line drive up the left field line. The third baseman dives for it, missing, and the batter races around first and keeps going, as the third base umpire throws out an arm to signal that it’s a fair ball. “A swing and a miss for strike three,” the announcer says on the radio. “That’s Ohtani’s second strikeout of the game.” You squint at the radio. “That’s not true,” you say, pointing at the field. “He’s sliding into second.” An usher comes running down the stairs. “Excuse me!” he shouts. “We have a zero-tolerance policy for disinformation! Do I need to call security?”
On October 4, the relentlessly appalling Anne Applebaum hosted a podcast at The Atlantic website on the topic of American freedom. . . .
Opening the discussion, Applebaum and co-host Peter Pomerantsev “explain” that there are two competing models of freedom in the American past. One model is adherence to American political norms, centered on submission to the authority of the federal government. Read this carefully: . . . Freedom is choosing who rules you.
Plus: “Just a few days ago, I argued that whole layers of high-status American political and cultural figures are ‘no longer culturally American.’ They don’t see the country, they don’t like the country, and they don’t have the most basic American instincts.”
DEAR HOLLYWOOD: Wokeness Or Profit. Choose One. “Social Justice destroys everything it touches. Disney spent billions acquiring valuable cash cow franchises and then woke employees turned them into money losing failures. The woke insisting that Lightyear needed more gay lost Disney tons of money and goodwill. The staffers who kept wokeness out of Inside Out 2 made Disney a billion dollars. That and Deadpool and Wolverine proved that fans will still flock to theaters if you just stop trying to shove ‘The Message’ down their throats and simply give them what they want.”
“All I want is a story. Let Western Union take care of the messages,” the wise man once said.
SLOW LEARNER:
Q on The View: Is there something you would have done differently than President Biden in the last four years?
HARRIS: "There is not a thing that comes to mind…"
— Kathryn Watson (@kathrynw5) October 8, 2024
That doesn’t quite jibe with her attempts at reframing herself as the “change” candidate, does it?
WHAT’S THAT DEFINITION OF INSANITY AGAIN? Did Democrats Take Control of China?
Obamanomics — borrowed from FDR and since resurrected as Bidenomics — was the fine art of taking an economy that had been knocked on its back, firmly stepping on its throat with the jackboot of regulation, and bashing it repeatedly on the head with a giant sackful of money while shouting, “WHY WON’T YOU DO ANYTHING?”
While we’re just four weeks out from learning whether Obamanomics will be rebranded once more as Kamalanomics, our friends in Communist China are learning the hard way what it’s like to be ruled by truly ambitious Democrats. Or Communists. It’s all so confusing sometimes.
The point is that China’s massive economy has been flat on its back for a while now, thanks in no small part to strongman Xi Jinping’s determination to restore Communist control. His severe COVID lockdowns only made things worse, convincing consumers that they’d better stuff all their money under the proverbial mattress.
This is where classic New Deal/Obamanomics comes in.
Much more at the link.
REPORT: Robert Saleh fired by the Jets after miserable start to the NFL season. “The Jets have endured a miserable start to the NFL season despite star quarterback Aaron Rodgers being back to full health, with their latest setback against the Vikings leaving them with a losing 2-3 record. And just days on from that loss to Minnesota in London — where he controversially wore a Lebanon flag on the sidelines — ESPN’s Adam Schefter is reporting that Saleh has been relieved of his duties in New York.”
“MAKE ME A MARTYR, BUT NOT YET”:
🚨 Breaking: Sheikh Ibrahim Amin REFUSED nomination as the next Hezbollah leader.
LMAO 🤣 pic.twitter.com/CC08CpEwKy
— Dr. Eli David (@DrEliDavid) October 6, 2024
Well, can you blame him?
THE ENEMY WITHIN (CONT’D): ‘Our martyrs’: Chicago college students rally for ‘Gaza:’ Pro-Palestinian activists are organizing walkouts and rallies in support of Israel’s attackers.
Remember, these groups are demonstrating, and often vandalizing and assaulting, in support of Hamas, a designated terror group that is currently holding Americans hostage.
REMINDER:
Two democrats have taken shots at Trump due to the rhetoric and language used by Democrats and yourself.
Yet when we accurately say that people have tried to kill him you blame him.
You are not a serious person.
— Ross Schumann (@RossSchumann) October 6, 2024
FROM YOUR TWITTER ACCOUNT TO GOD’S EAR:
I can’t believe I’m saying this.
60 Minutes just ended Kamala Harris’ campaign
This is excruciating
— Benny Johnson (@bennyjohnson) October 8, 2024
There is no coming back from this.
CBS: You’re an illegitimate candidate
Kamala: I’m protecting democracy
CBS: You’re destroying democracy
Kamala: Just wait…pic.twitter.com/XIiWxBPl89
— Benny Johnson (@bennyjohnson) October 8, 2024
THE NEW SPACE RACE: Impulse Space wins $34.5 million contract for U.S. Space Force missions. “Under the contract, Impulse Space will deploy two orbital transfer vehicles (OTVs) that will carry space surveillance payloads for missions intended to enhance U.S. military capabilities in space domain awareness. One mission will be launched to low Earth orbit (LEO) while the other will go to geosynchronous transfer orbit (GTO). These efforts are part of the U.S. Space Force’s Tactically Responsive Space (TacRS) program, which is designed to leverage commercial technologies for the rapid deployment of satellites and other assets in response to national security needs.”
I’m not sure $34.5 million even gets you a face-to-face meeting with an Old Space contractor.
FAD ENDS, BUBBLE DEFLATES: Toyota Joins Ford and Other Major Companies Scaling Back DEI Commitments.
This is why the grifters — *cough* Ta-Nehisi Coates *cough* — are switching from “anti-racism” to the ever-popular anti-semitism. There’s always money in that. Especially these days.