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A LOT OF PEOPLE ARE HEAVILY INVESTED IN PEOPLE BEING WRONG: Planned ‘Everything You Know About Palestine is Wrong’ event at UCLA draws outrage, protest. Some of those people are in the UCLA administration.

JON GABRIEL: As unhappy as Americans are, Biden-Trump debates may actually be a welcome break.

Great news, everyone: Joe Biden and Donald Trump have agreed to hold two debates. If you want a preview, just watch some old episodes of “The Muppet Show” where those two old guys bicker in the balcony.

To be fair, I’m surprised either candidate agreed to these no-win campaign stunts. Scheduled for June 27 and Sept. 10, the debates promise to be a minefield of gaffes that will take years off the lives of any staffers cringing in the wings.

If no one falls off the dais or starts chewing the lectern, both sides will call it a success.

Neither candidate is popular, to put it kindly. According to a recent Pew Research poll, 48% of registered voters support Biden, 49% support Trump, and 49% want both candidates kicked off the ballot.

A couple of old geezers talking smack

 That last sentiment grows the younger the sample gets. Two-thirds of voters under 30 say they would replace both candidates if they had the chance.

At least I’m young at heart.

“Donald Trump lost two debates to me in 2020, since then he hasn’t shown up for a debate,” Biden said in a post on X. “Now he’s acting like he wants to debate me again. Well, make my day, pal.”

Trump, for his part, said Biden was the “WORST debater I have ever faced – He can’t put two sentences together!” He ended his Truth Social post with, “Let’s get ready to Rumble!!!”

Oldest democracy on the planet or “Jerry Springer” promo: you be the judge.

It’s 2024, so embrace the healing power of “And.” But will the debates actually happen? Drug Testing Prior to Presidential Debates? From the comments: “You are missing the point. Trump made the ‘demand’ to propogate [sic] the narrative that POTATUS is too old and senile to be President. It doesn’t matter if Biden submits to the test, gives results, whatever. Trump just placed another Free Ad by manipulating the media. Marketing genius.”

PEACE IN OUR TIME: Sacramento State cut a deal with terrorism-loving occupiers. CBS celebrated it as ‘dialogue’.

IN A FEW MINUTES: Blue Origin launches New Shepard.

OH NO! ANYWAY. . . Liberal Activist You’ve Never Heard of Quits Job: Former child poet lashes out at Biden for (truthfully) accusing Hamas of hating Jews.

THE ENEMY WITHIN: Cleric Linked to Prominent Michigan Dems Accuses Pro-Israel Lawmakers of ‘Treason.’

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KEEP DIGGING: Reps. Jim Jordan, Thomas Massie threaten CDC subpoena for vaccine efficacy data.

HE’S RIGHT, YOU KNOW:

The richer you are, in general, the more conservative your life choices are. Most left wingers talk left but live right. They live in gated communities, put kids in private schools, maximize tax avoidance, have stay at home wives, pay attention to what they do not what they say.

— Clay Travis (@ClayTravis) May 18, 2024

UPDATE (From Ed): As Charles Murray wrote over a decade ago, “When it comes to marriage and the work ethic, the new upper class must start preaching what it practices.”

OPEN THREAD: Hope your weekend is doing well.

PROFESSOR CARRINGTON, CALL YOUR OFFICE: Here we go again — new sunspot regions emerge, strong solar flare recorded.

WELL, GOOD: Ozempic Could Be Good For Your Heart Even If You Don’t Lose Weight.

THAT’S BEEN MY OBSERVATION: Most cancer treatments are useless for patients with advanced tumors near end of life.

ANTI-SEMITISM AT THE WASHINGTON POST: The editors of the Washington Free Beacon appear to be right on target.

UPDATE: I somehow missed that Instapundit’s Ed Driscoll much earlier in the day had a superb deep-dive into this disgrace.

THAT’S NOWHERE CLOSE TO ACTUARIAL ESCAPE VELOCITY: Study predicts global life expectancy will rise by more than 4 years by 2050.

ON SECOND THOUGHT, DON’T: Gimme (Government) Shelter. States and cities spend billions on housing projects that are costly, cumbersome to build, and won’t solve the affordability crisis. Steven Malanga digs into the scandalous programs, which have provided housing to people who don’t need it (one recipient was earning $1 million annually) at prices that are gouging taxpayers, like “affordable” units that cost as much $1 million apiece to build.

NOW IN PAPERBACK: Against the Great Reset: Eighteen Theses Contra the New World Order. What’s wrong with the World Economic Forum’s plans for humanity? What can be done to resist the Davos elite’s determination to run our lives? Michael Walsh has assembled essays from, among others, Angelo Codevilla, Victor Davis Hanson, Roger Kimball, Douglass Murray, Harry Stein, and me.

WINNING TACTICS: How to Defeat Left-Wing Racialism. Battle plans from six domestic-policy experts: Wade Miller, Dan Morenoff, Ilya Shapiro, David E. Bernstein, James Sherk, Judge Glock, and Christopher F. Rufo.

END OF AN ERA: Dodge, Ram CEO Tim Kuniskis Is Following the Hemi Out the Door. “Nobody should envy the person at Dodge that has to convince a sales base of high-horsepower V-8 muscle car owners to eventually switch to electric power, but that person won’t be Tim Kuniskis, who is retiring from his roles at Dodge and Ram on June 1 this year.”

Yeah, good luck with that.