STATES SHOULD OFFER THEIR OWN TRAINING FOR THEIR OWN UNORGANIZED MILITIAS:* The True Intent of the Democrats’ Anti-Militia Bill Is to Infringe on Firearms Training.
*Which is basically everyone.
Archive for 2024
January 30, 2024
“AGAINST VOTER-FRIENDLY CAMPUSES.” The reason you know college registration schemes aren’t actually nonpartisan is that there is probably no population in this country less in need of help registering to vote than college students.
READER FAVORITE: ECG Portable Heart Rate Monitor – Capture Heart ECG Metrics. #CommissionEarned
NOBODY CARRIES WATER FOR JOE BIDEN LIKE AXIOS! Behind the Curtain: Biden’s Middle East moonshot.
President Biden plans to keep pushing a grand bargain in the Middle East for the days after the war in Gaza — with the hope it could happen before the election, despite Israel’s opposition, U.S. officials tell us.
The plan: Israel gets normalized relations with Saudi Arabia, in exchange for agreeing to an irreversible pathway to a Palestinian state — and allowing the Palestinian Authority to have a role in post-Hamas Gaza.
Moonshot, huh? In a nod to JFK, Biden pushing ‘moonshot’ to fight cancer.
That was the Houston Chronicle in 2022. As Glenn noted back then, it was more plagiarism of Richard Nixon, than a nod to JFK:
Nixon over 50 years ago: “I will also ask for an appropriation of an extra $100 million to launch an intensive campaign to find a cure for cancer, and I will ask later for whatever additional funds can effectively be used. The time has come in America when the same kind of concentrated effort that split the atom and took man to the moon should be turned toward conquering this dread disease. Let us make a total national commitment to achieve this goal.”
The War on Cancer, like the War on Poverty, the War on Drugs, and the War on Terror, was an expensive failure. Of course, to be fair, our government hasn’t even won an actual war in years.
Biden’s “moonshot” actually began at the tail end of the Obama years: “‘Moonshot’ to cure cancer relies on outmoded view of disease,” the New York Times noted on January 18th, 2016:
Recently a group of 15 cancer researchers cut short a meeting at the Food and Drug Administration. The reason: They had been invited to Vice President Joe Biden’s office to discuss his “moonshot” to cure cancer.
“We had no idea what was coming,” said Dr. George D. Demetri, director of the Ludwig Center at Harvard and a professor of medicine at Harvard’s Dana-Farber Cancer Institute.
It turned out the vice president was out of town that day, but his staff wanted to know: What could Biden do in his remaining year in office, and over the long term, to advance cancer research and ultimately cure the disease?
The idea that a concerted government push can lead to a “cure” for cancer is nearly a half-century old, stretching back to President Richard Nixon’s failed “War on Cancer.”
The latest, which President Barack Obama formalized in his State of the Union address last week, has a deeply emotional tinge.
Biden’s son Beau died of brain cancer in May, and the vice president’s very public mourning and call for a “national commitment to end cancer as we know it” as he announced his decision not to run for president has moved and captivated Washington.
Biden’s focus has already made some meaningful difference: He negotiated with Republican congressional leaders a $264 million increase in funding for the National Cancer Institute, the largest in a decade for an agency that has been squeezed by static budgets in recent years.
But the chances of reaching a moment of victory, as the analogy “moonshot” suggests, seem entirely unrealistic.
Curiously, this cynical ABC News journalist is worried that Joe’s original moonshot may never get off the launch pad: Joy Behar: Climate Change Could Prevent Joe Biden From Curing Cancer.
Of course, those “moonshots” are not to be confused with another space-based analogy that often orbits around Joe and his boss thanks to political columnists looking to relaunch ’50s-era metaphors — the “Sputnik moment:”
● The [Spy] Balloon Really Was a ‘Sputnik Moment.’
—Noah Rothman, Commentary, February 13th, 2023.
● April of 2022 had seen another Sputnik moment, courtesy of Bloomberg.com: The Chip Shortage Was Supposed to Be a ‘Sputnik Moment.’ What Happened?
● Yet another Sputnik moment for Biden in late 2021:
Incredible. This has all the elements of a Sputnik moment: https://t.co/I6mNZoCNye
— Blake Hounshell (@blakehounshell) October 16, 2021
And for Thomas Friedman of the New York Times, covering multiple presidents over the decades, it’s been Sputniks all the way down since 2000.
WE CAN START WITH ABOLISHING THE CDC AND THE NIH: Systemic US reforms needed to prevent mass death in the next pandemic.
DISPATCHES FROM THE EDUCATION APOCALYPSE: NYU Professor Tells Students of Hamas Atrocities: ‘We Know It’s Not True.’
CENSORS, STALINISTS, PATERNALISTS, FAUX-LIBERALS, AND OTHERS WHO WOULD SUPRESS FREE SPEECH: YOU’RE ON NOTICE. The U.S. Supreme Court will hear oral arguments on March 18 in Missouri’s lawsuit alleging the federal government colluded with social media companies like Twitter and Facebook to suppress conservative and libertarians’ freedom of speech. And a lot of us are watching.
The Missouri Independent, explains the matter before the court, about which I and my fellow Insta-team members have written before:
“The 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in New Orleans prohibited the White House, the Surgeon General’s Office, the F.B.I., and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention from having practically any contact with the social media companies. It found that the Biden administration most likely overstepped the First Amendment by urging the major social media platforms to remove misleading or false content […]
“A central dimension of presidential power,” the administration argues, “is the use of the office’s bully pulpit to seek to persuade Americans — and American companies — to act in ways that the president believes would advance the public interest.”
But the bully pulpit, Missouri and Louisiana attorneys general wrote, “is not a pulpit to bully.”
Sadly, the outlet totally ignores the text of the 5th Circuit’s opinion, because, well, I think they’re kind of biased. Most reporters (and I have a lot of experience here) have been for too long living in a paternalist bubble. They know more than you do. They are inherently smarter than you. You work with your hands (Ugh). They know what’s better for you. “Shut up, serf!”
And to digress a bit, here’s where I find faux-liberal paternalism to be a form of fascism: To assert your view to the exclusion of others is a violation of others’ moral autonomy, in my mind, a core human right. In short, exactly what Stalin did. But that’s for another time.
But here’s what we know for a fact: The Fifth Circuit said:
“We find that the White House, acting in concert with the Surgeon General’s office, likely (1) coerced the platforms to make their moderation decisions by way of intimidating messages and threats of adverse consequences, and (2) significantly encouraged the platforms’ decisions by commandeering their decision-making processes, both in violation of the First Amendment.”
In the oral arguments on that case, one judge asked the government lawyers whether the tone of the government was not like that of mob bosses in the movies: “Nice social media platform you have there. A shame if anything were to happen to it.”
Golly, where have we heard that before?
Spread the word to those faux-liberals who hide behind the chimera of “suppressing disinformation to save democracy” or other gibberish: we are watching. And fighting back.
HMM: When facing potential annihilation, the DEI industry doubles down. Let’s discuss.
Social Justice Warriors always lie, and they always double down.
HMM: Biden campaign Achilles’ heel is Black voters.
Polls continue to reflect deep anger and frustration among Black voters. The president has admitted he hasn’t been aggressive enough on issues important to Blacks, who wonder whether their lives have significantly improved under his administration.
A recent survey conducted by the Atlanta Journal Constitution in the key battleground state of Georgia should put Democrats on notice. Biden won the state in 2020 with support of the urban vote but is now lacking substantial support among Black Georgians. Only 58.6% back him at this point. Meanwhile, 20.4% plan to vote for Trump, and 10% indicated they don’t plan on voting at all.
“We are an afterthought for Democrats,” Detroiter and longtime political consultant Adolf Mongo says. “Biden is going to have to come here and court Black votes. The days of relying on a relationship with two or three Black preachers to deliver the votes don’t work anymore for Black people because church attendance for most of these churches is down anyway.”
“For some reason, Democrats don’t like to spend in cities like Detroit, Cleveland and other urban areas,” he says. “But if they slip on this one, Trump will be back in the White House, and you will see what happens to our democracy.”
Don’t get cocky™, but I’d also lend this story credence since the warnings come from black Democrats who want Biden to win.
THE HORROR, THE HORROR: This Poor Porsche Taycan Cross Turismo Had Its Headlights Ripped Out Of Its Face.
This Poor Porsche Taycan Cross Turismo Had Its Headlights Ripped Out Of Its Face https://t.co/qG9XcuckuY pic.twitter.com/7ZBN12qRph
— Jalopnik (@Jalopnik) January 24, 2024
“The Taycan is a pretty pricey car, and this will probably be a pricey fix. In Porsche’s official factory parts catalog the front fenders are each around $500 while the fender liners are upwards of $200, not to mention all of the assorted other bits that will need to be replaced. The headlights, meanwhile, can cost between $2,000 and $4,500 depending on which ones they were, and that’s before adding in the cost of labor and other necessary parts.”
AN IDEA SO CRAZY THAT IT JUST MIGHT WORK: Harvard Admissions Should Be More Meritocratic. “What’s the opposite of meritocracy? Historically, positions were distributed by hereditary privilege, family ties, patronage to cronies, or sale to the highest bidder. These are not far from the system we have here.”
RIOTS FOR THEE, BUT NOT FOR ME:
Shot: Rep. Cori Bush Doubling Down on ‘Defund the Police’ Despite Requests From Fellow Progressives.
—Legal Insurrection, February 10th, 2022.
Chaser:
As RedState reported on Monday, a House Democrat is currently under criminal investigation for the misuse of government funds under the guise of paying for “security” services. Heavy speculation revolved around that Democrat being Rep. Cori Bush, and that has now been confirmed.
—Confirmed: House Democrat Being Criminally Investigated Is ‘Squad’ Member Cori Bush, RedState, today.
And speaking of “Riots for thee, but not for me!”
In less than 30 seconds…
Cori Bush: “I’m going to make sure I have security.”
Also Cori Bush: “And defunding the police has to happen. We need to defund the police.”pic.twitter.com/yDgo0wviG2— Jerry Dunleavy 🇺🇸 (@JerryDunleavy) August 5, 2021
Related: “He claims he can summon tornadoes at will, cause earthquakes with his hate, and conduct blood rituals to bring ruin upon his enemies. An intergalactic master of psychic self-defense born 109 trillion years ago, his days, he says, are now spent tending to his crops and spreading anti-Semitic conspiracies. Nathaniel Davis III also happens to be Rep. Cori Bush’s (D., Mo.) close friend and her highest-paid private security guard.”
(Classical reference in headline.)
TO BE FAIR, HIS ADMINISTRATION IS INFESTED WITH TERRORIST SYMPATHIZERS: Biden STILL Appeasing Iran, Even After Its Proxy Killed Our Troops.
EVERYTHING IS GOING SWIMMINGLY: 2023 Tax Filing Season Opens Today As IRS Computer Snarl Could Impact Millions Of Taxpayers.
RACISM, STRAIGHT UP:
You won't see this clip on nightly news.
Nancy Pelosi suffers meltdown after the pro-Hamas crowd takes over her driveway, leading to a shouting match.
Nancy screams 'go back to China where you came from!'pic.twitter.com/bz6Miw6kKj
— Citizen Free Press (@CitizenFreePres) January 30, 2024
Assuming the audio hasn’t been doctored, this would be yuge news if Pelosi were a Republican. But she’s protecte(D).
KINSLEY GAFFE: E. Jean Carroll Delivered the Sound Bite That Could Win Trump the Election.
Rachel Maddow asks E. Jean Carroll what she's going to do with "Trump's money" to help "women's rights."
Carroll says she and Maddow will "go shopping, get completely new wardrobes, new shoes…Rachel, what do you want, penthouse?"
Her lawyer nervously says "that's a joke": pic.twitter.com/5LAx5xU5Uy
— Steve Krakauer (@SteveKrak) January 30, 2024
“As Megyn Kelly commented, this sort of stuff only helps Trump. You could argue that Carroll gave Trump an in-kind contribution of equal worth to the former president’s 2024 election effort. The man is worth many times more than the judgment, Jean. Please stop acting like you financially broke this man. The women of The View took a victory lap as if this would impact his march to the White House in any way.”
GUERRILLA WARFARE AT MAYORKAS IMPEACHMENT MARKUP: The hearing opened with Democratic motions to cancel or delay the process. No surprise there.
DISPATCHES FROM THE EDUCATION APOCALYPSE: Not Just Claudine Gay. Harvard’s Chief Diversity Officer Plagiarized and Claimed Credit for Husband’s Work, Complaint Alleges. “The complaint makes 40 allegations of plagiarism that span the entirety of Charleston’s thin publication record.”
CARPETBAGGING IS NOT A GOOD LOOK: We Are So Over Lauren Boebert. “The 4th is even more Republican than the 3rd (R+13 vs R+7 according to Cook) where she might hope to squeak her way back into office with a 1,000-vote win instead of 500. But first, she has to make her way past a crowded field of GOP competitors in the primaries — and that’s where I expect Boebert to crash and burn.”
YOU KNEW THEY WERE GOING TO END UP HERE EVENTUALLY: How much does human breathing contribute to climate change? All those billions of bodies exhaling carbon dioxide with every breath really starts to add up…
LIKE THOSE INSTITUTIONS THEMSELVES: The poisonous antisemitism that has infected elite institutions of higher learning is both silly and extremely dangerous.
WOEING: Alaska Airlines Plane Appears to Have Left Boeing Factory Without Critical Bolts.
Boeing and other industry officials increasingly believe the plane maker’s employees failed to put back the bolts when they reinstalled a 737 MAX 9 plug door after opening or removing it during production, according to people familiar with the matter.
The increasingly likely scenario, according to some of these people, is based partly on an apparent absence of markings on the Alaska door plug itself that would suggest bolts were in place when it blew off the jet around 16,000 feet over Oregon on Jan. 5.
They also pointed to paperwork and process lapses at Boeing’s Renton, Wash., factory related to the company’s work on the plug door.
At some point, Boeing’s lowered quality control is going to start affecting the company’s stock buybacks — and then management might notice.
GET IN SHAPE: New Balance Men’s Fresh Foam 510 V6 Trail Running Shoes. #CommissionEarned