AND THE PRESS HAS DONE ITS BEST TO MAKE YOU FORGET THAT IT HAPPENED:
One month ago today, Donald Trump took a bullet to the ear in a failed assassination attempt.
Throwback to CNN and MSNBC's initial response, where they refused to say "possible gunshots" and instead reported there were "LoUd NoIsEs!" pic.twitter.com/piuGbaWUBg
— Media Research Center (@theMRC) August 13, 2024
DISAPPOINTING: Is the New Jeep Wagoneer a “Real Jeep” Off-Road? We Find Out. “Realistically capable of no more than a basic forest road or national park trail, it lacks the tools, the clearance, and the spunk that’s made Jeep the American icon it is today.”
To be fair, very few of these SUVs ever get used off-road much. But if you want one that can go there, this isn’t the one for you. The Lexus LX and GX would be the closest competitors that can really go off-road, or their corresponding Toyota vehicles, the new Land Cruiser and the Forerunner. And the Chevy Tahoe Z71 gets a good review.
HEH, INDEED:
A great joke from Russia:
Putin, after 10 days of Kursk catastrophe, summons Stalin’s ghost :
Stalin: “What’s happened?”
Putin: “Nazis are at Kursk! My army is beaten! What should I do?”
Stalin: “Do like me 1943. Send best Ukrainian tropps to the front, and ask the US for arms!”— Sergej Sumlenny, LL.M (@sumlenny) August 13, 2024
OUT ON A LIMB: WOODROW WILSON may be America’s WORST-EVER president on free speech.
Flashback: The Hater’s Guide to Woodrow Wilson. “I come now not to explain Wilson, but to hate him. A national consensus on hating Wilson is long overdue. It is the patriotic duty of every decent American. While conservatives have particular reasons to detest Wilson, and all his works, and all his empty promises, there is more than enough in his record for moderates, liberals, progressives, libertarians, and socialists to join us in this great and unifying cause.”
I WAS EXPECTING AN EARTH-SHATTERING KABOOM, BUT “FUSION TIPPED?” DAMN. First Look: Federal Fusion Tipped Ammunition.
LIMITED TIME DEAL: Apple 2024 MacBook Air 15-inch Laptop with M3 chip. #CommissionEarned
DAVID THOMPSON: Shush, Daddy’s Being Fabulous.
From the forthcoming film by Vaishnavi Sundar, Behind The Looking Glass, about women whose partners, or fathers, have ‘transitioned’:
You’ve got to pretend that it’s all okay… You have to realise that your dad has fallen in love with himself, and there’s no part for you in that where you are not just a prop.
It’s like this person came along and said, “You know how you had a dad? Well, that was all a lie. And all that time, your dad didn’t like being your dad.” And my dad was kind of replaced by this other person. This other person who didn’t love me like my dad loved me, wasn’t interested in me like my dad was.
And his love was conditional.
Emma Thomas, the woman recounting her somewhat unorthodox childhood, also appears in this longer interview. The subjects touched on include unmentionable erotic motives, ideological capture, and the experience of watching a man publicly enacting an approximation of breastfeeding. It’s a strange listen, necessarily, a little sad, and sometimes darkly funny.
The 21st century isn’t turning out as I had hoped. Though I doubt Michael Bailey, the author of The Man Who Would Be Queen, is very much surprised.
AND THE HITS JUST KEEP COMING FOR DISNEY:
As Newsweek warned in January: Rachel Zegler and Gal Gadot on Collision Course.
Actor Rachel Zegler has called for a ceasefire in Gaza—and people are worried that this could make for an awkward Snow White press tour.
The live-action remake of the classic 1937 animated movie, which is set to be released by Disney in 2025, stars Zegler as the titular character and Israeli actor Gal Gadot as the Evil Queen. Both women are no strangers to sharing their opinions online and their social media posts have shown that they have very different thoughts on the ongoing conflict in Gaza.
Newsweek contacted Disney and representatives for Zegler and Gadot for comment via email Monday.
Gadot has been vocal in her support for Israel after Hamas launched an unprecedented attack on southern Israel on October 7, which they said was retribution for worsening conditions for Palestinians. In response, Israel launched hundreds of airstrikes on the Gaza Strip, followed by extensive ground operations. At least 1,200 people have been killed in Israel, while more than 26,000 Palestinians have been killed, with many more injured and over 1.5 million internally displaced in Gaza, according to the Associated Press.
Zegler’s remarks are certainly on brand, or as a line from the 2009 “Road to the Multiverse” episode in Family Guy went, “Oh yeah, I forgot — this is a Disney universe:”
TIM WALZ: “Mind Your Own Damn Business!”
Also Tim Walz: ‘Light ‘em up!’ Police shoot paintballs at Minneapolis residents standing on their porch.
This was during the George Floyd riots. But the power to do this to their citizens was only extended to them because of the Covid lockdowns and executive orders. This way all may-june 2020
— Sam (@Samantha_SN1) August 13, 2024
Related: Minnesota grandma jailed for defying Walz COVID lockdown orders warns ‘you do not want tyranny at this level.’ Lisa Hanson warns Americans against electing Minnesota Gov Tim Walz as vice president: ‘He will take your rights away.’
UP TO THE JOB OF PRESIDENT? SHE ISN’T EVEN UP TO THE JOB OF CAMPAIGNING FOR PRESIDENT:
CNN: What's on Kamala's schedule today?
Kamala spokesman Adrienne Elrod: "She's talking to voters and getting her message out there."
CNN: She has literally nothing on her schedule today.
Kamala spokesman: Well, yeah. pic.twitter.com/NPCnGNiuTH
— RNC Research (@RNCResearch) August 13, 2024
MILE MARKERS ON THE ROAD TO DETROIT: One of America’s richest cities sinks in massive hotel debt — as tourists stop choosing it for their vacations. Harry Stein once wrote, “Someone’s going on about how fantastic San Francisco is, and it suddenly hits you that’s one place on earth you never want to live” — or vacation there.
CHANGE: A Consensus No Longer. The American Society of Plastic Surgeons becomes the first major medical association to challenge the consensus of medical groups over “gender-affirming care” for minors.
DO TELL: Long COVID continues to evade diagnosis through lab tests.
Flashback: Long COVID ‘indistinguishable’ from other post-viral syndromes a year after infection, researchers find.. “The term ‘long Covid’ should be dropped from use, because Covid has no more aftereffects than the flu or other mild respiratory illnesses, according to a major new study from Australia released yesterday. The study showed that only 3 percent of people who had Covid had ‘moderate-to-severe’ aftereffects a year later – numerically fewer than those infected with influenza or other mild respiratory diseases.”
WHY IS MSNBC SUCH A CESSPIT OF RACISM? MSNBC, Jemele Hill, Brian Stelter Silent on Joy Reid’s Racist Rant Calling White Sen. ‘Mayonnaise Sandwich.’
MSNBC is the self-appointed police force for racist comments in American society. Not a day goes by when at least one of the pundits at the network does not label someone a “racist” – even if they are not actually a racist.
Yet, last week, one of MSNBC’s own went on another overtly racist rant against white people. Primetime host Joy Reid thanked Kamala Harris for not picking Arizona Sen. Mark Kelly as her running mate because, unlike Tim Walz, Kelly is “super white.”
Err, not just “super white.
According to Reid, Sen. Kelly is “like a mayonnaise sandwich on Wonder bread white.”
OutKick asked MSNBC for comment. The network did not respond. MSNBC does not respond to inquiries regarding Reid’s bigotry. We’ve tried before.
Translation: a network that proclaims zero tolerance for racism, refuses to condemn one of its leading hosts for spewing racism for profit.
It’s fine — Kelly isn’t from Chicago, and isn’t known for playing golf, so therefore describing him as being “like a mayonnaise sandwich on Wonder bread white” can’t be racist. But I do wish Reid’s time traveling hackers would dial it back a bit.
NEITHER ONE OF THEM IS EXACTLY BURDENED BY COMPETENCE: Not Even KJP Can Name Any of Kamala’s Policy Achievements.
WHAT WAS YOUR FIRST CLUE, GUYS? NASA watchdog finds quality control problems with Boeing SLS work.
WELL, YES: Boeing Has Become The Poster Child for Ruling-Class Incompetence. “It isn’t only the gimpy thrusters. The Starliner is blocking one of the ISS’s two docking ports. The geniuses who designed the capsule’s flight software set things up so that it cannot be undocked remotely, meaning that the only way to free up the docking port for now is for at least one astronaut to strap in and ride the deathtrap down. What makes this especially baffling is that during its uncrewed test flight, the Starliner was perfectly capable of autonomous docking. . . . So far Boeing has extracted about $4B from NASA for its faulty Starlemon, which is well behind schedule. SpaceX, meanwhile, has charged half that for the Dragon, which has made 20 successful flights to the ISS since its first crewed launch in 2020.”
NEW INSPIRATION FOR THE BIDEN-HARRIS IRS: Battle axes unearthed in a cemetery in Russia may have belonged to 11th-century taxmen.
“THAT’S SUPPOSED TO BE A LAUGH LINE?” Well, these days yes, even to a Colbert audience.
Stephen Colbert: “I know you guys are objective over there (at CNN) that you just report the news as it is”
Kaitlan Collins: “That supposed to be a laugh line?”
Colbert: “It wasn’t supposed to be” pic.twitter.com/ZsqPinvMz3
— Daily Caller (@DailyCaller) August 13, 2024
THE COUNTRY’S IN THE VERY BEST OF HANDS:
Why would you expect anything different when the CINC's elevator doesn't go to the top floor and senior leaders are chosen by symbolic value and life story? The wonder is that only Corey Comperatore died in front of his family?
— wretchardthecat (@wretchardthecat) August 12, 2024
AND VOIDS QUALIFIED IMMUNITY, WHICH IS HUGE: 2nd Circuit Rules Lawful Gun Ownership Doesn’t Justify a Warrantless Search. “No one will ever mistake the Second Circuit Court of Appeals for a gun-friendly bunch of jurists. So that should be a good indicator of just how egregious the violation of one man’s rights was that they have slapped down a cop for conducting a warrantless search of his car simply because he had a concealed carry permit and a gun. A three-judge panel also ruled that the cop in question isn’t entitled to qualified immunity because he so egregiously chose to violate the civil rights of someone without any discernible probable cause.”
VIDEO: Harvard’s Can’t Fail Track For Moneyed Morons. “The Z-list is like, you have a student who is so academically inept that no tutor, no study drug, no recommendation from a senator, can can mask the fact that this is a person does not belong here. This is a dumb person.”
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