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August 24, 2024
#JOURNALISM:
Bill Maher asks CNN's Kaitlan Collins how insulting it is to the press that Kamala Harris avoids the press:
Bill Maher: "What do you think about the fact that Kamala doesn't talk to the press? In a way I think it's more insulting than what Trump does. She's kind of saying: 'I… pic.twitter.com/rwUk2y8wFm— Eric Abbenante (@EricAbbenante) August 24, 2024
CARDS ON THE TABLE: Are Butch and Suni coming home on Starliner or Crew Dragon?
IT’S GOOD TO BE THE NOMENKLATURA:
This is one of THE BEST videos someone made of the DNC…
Mocking Michelle Obama's BS. pic.twitter.com/DRRVX2gxvs
— Tim Young (@TimRunsHisMouth) August 24, 2024
Flashback: “In a famous Soviet joke, then-leader Leonid Brezhnev shows his mother his luxury apartment, his limousine, his fancy country house and his helicopter only to have her object: ‘But what if the communists come back?’”
DAVID BARON, CALL YOUR OFFICE: Black bear interrupts Connecticut family’s outside time.
TOLERANCE FOR DIVERSITY REACHES TERMINATION POINT:
Once again, proven the theory that you can be an insane bat shit anti-VAX liberal invited on CNN and the daily show and have the best friends in Hollywood but the second you become or endorse to Republican you become unacceptable https://t.co/ttQL04V9tH
— Stephen L. Miller (@redsteeze) August 24, 2024
As Glenn noted in the very early days of Instapundit, “As the old saying has it, the left looks for heretics and the right looks for converts, and both find what they’re looking for. The effect is no doubt subliminal, but people who treat you like crap are, over time, less persuasive than people who don’t. If people on the Left are so unhappy about how many former allies are changing their views, perhaps they should examine how those allies are treated.”
CUT OUT EVERYTHING BUT INSTAPUNDIT: Study: Too much screen time in your 20s raises risk of heart attack.
ITS ORIGIN AND PURPOSE, STILL A TOTAL MYSTERY: “At least nine people stabbed, several dead, by what appears to be a lone perp, around an hour ago, at a ‘diversity festival’, in…Solingen, Germany. Perp on the run, perp & reasons unknown, massive manhunt underway.”
KIRA DAVIS: The Beyoncé Campaign.
The DNC is well known for their high profile celebrity guest roster. This year the heaviest hitters showed up to take the stage — the Obamas and Oprah Winfrey.
So, it was a bit surprising when rumors of a REALLY BIG guest to close out the convention began swirling. Who could be bigger than Oprah? TMZ appeared to be the main source of this massive “stunning-if-true” surprise. They claimed the surprise guest would be Beyoncé Knowles herself. The mainstream media, never a group to let themselves be distracted by actual journalism, spent the entire day chattering about the rumor and speculating about the impact of such an appearance. Not a single word had been uttered by the Beyoncé camp, the Harris/Walz campaign or any credible news source about her possible appearance but Beyoncé’s celebrity cloud of glitter and awe descended upon the United Center anyway, and its occupants were helpless to resist the gravity.
I felt it had to be Taylor Swift, even though that would be a blow to her fiancé’s fanbase and could possibly cause a negative media storm for his upcoming football season. I felt it could be Beyoncé — she’s certainly a big get — but she has performed at inaugurations and other political events in the past. It wouldn’t be a huge “surprise” to see her on that stage, although it would certainly be exciting for the audience.
As we all know by now, it turns out the big “surprise” was Kamala Harris.
No wonder the DNC-MSM felt the strong urge to goose the ratings: How Much of This Harris Speech Viewership was Fueled by Media Hyping DNC ‘Special Guest’ Rumors?
It was all a ploy to get them to stay to the end. Shameful.
— Burt Macklin (@BurtMaclin_FBI) August 23, 2024
UPDATE:
Disappointment As Special DNC Guest Turns Out To Be Carrot Top https://t.co/bljq63tmES pic.twitter.com/MP8CTbWhix
— The Babylon Bee (@TheBabylonBee) August 23, 2024
I FORGOT TO CONGRATULATE REP. MASSIE EARLIER ON THIS:
And just like that, both major party Presidential candidates support my Tax Free Tips Act of 2024 ! Thank you @RonPaul for originally introducing this bill. pic.twitter.com/ma8R2AoGrG
— Thomas Massie (@RepThomasMassie) August 11, 2024
THEY’RE ALWAYS TRYING TO SHUT PEOPLE UP: Government Official’s Attempt to Use an Anti-Stalking Order Against a Citizen.
IT’S AS IF THE PEOPLE RUNNING THINGS WANT US TO BE WEAK VIS-A-VIS CHINA:
'While China rapidly builds military capacity, the U.S. military is rapidly shrinking across the services. In President Biden’s current budget request, the Army will be reduced to just 442,300 active duty soldiers, the smallest it has been since 1940. The U.S. Navy is half the…
— Matthew Continetti (@continetti) August 23, 2024
A UNITER, NOT A DIVIDER:
Incredible 🇺🇸 pic.twitter.com/ishL9aMuU1
— Benny Johnson (@bennyjohnson) August 24, 2024
Donald Trump is America’s Unity Candidate. What other campaign in American history could bring together:
– RFK Jr.
– Elon Musk
– Tulsi Gabbard
– Hulk Hogan
– Nikki Haley
– Vivek
– Tucker
– Teamsters
– NFL & UFC Superstars
– Biggest streamers on earth
– Biggest rappers on earth— Benny Johnson (@bennyjohnson) August 23, 2024
MAYBE HE WAS ALWAYS THIS SHRUNKEN AND NOW THEY JUST AREN’T PUMPING HIM UP ANYMORE:
It's astonishing to watch Joe Biden shrivel from the incumbent and future POTUS to a shadow in mere weeks. It almost looks like CGI.https://t.co/gV1ttiodsb
— wretchardthecat (@wretchardthecat) August 24, 2024
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OUT: FOLLOW THE SCIENCE. IN: Evolutionary biologists reject ‘white, male’ framework, embrace ‘queer’ DEI research.
THIS IS JUST PATHETIC: U of Tampa RA training includes scenario of student feeling ‘threatened’ by conservative roommate with MAGA flag.
Unless the training is to say “grow up and get used to getting along with people who have different ideas.” Not clear from this story.
DNC, RNC RATINGS UP: The Democrats’ gathering in Chicago drew slightly more viewers than the GOP assembly in Milwaukee this year, but Axios shows the Nielsen ratings back to 2008. The highest rated year for each party’s national convention? You will very likely be surprised by one, but not the other.
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THE MESSAGE OF DEMOCRATS’ CORRUPTION SPREADS:
We may disagree with RFK Jr. about many things, but he’s right about how the Democratic Party uses lawfare and dirty tricks to suppress democratic competition and voter choice.
The Dems preach about “saving democracy”, but in reality they’re working overtime to stamp it out. https://t.co/WIz4YXUMEp
— Dr. Jill Stein🌻 (@DrJillStein) August 23, 2024
It helps that it’s the truth, of course.
LIFE IN 2024:
Remember, kids, Donald Trump is responsible for every page of Project 2025, which he did not write, is not on his campaign page, and has explicitly disowned, but Kamala Harris not responsible for ANYTHING HER OWN ADMINISTRATION HAS DONE WHILE SHE IS VICE PRESIDENT.
— Ben Shapiro (@benshapiro) August 23, 2024
HOW ABOUT THAT?
One of the things RFK incidentally revealed was that during the period when Trump was supposedly paralyzed by Harris he was busy flanking the DNC.
— wretchardthecat (@wretchardthecat) August 24, 2024
EVERYTHING IS GOING SWIMMINGLY, CHAIRMAN XI: Chinese Weakness is the Real “China Shock:” It has been over a year-and-half since the end of “Covid Zero” restrictions, but domestic demand is still so weak that production is only holding up thanks to exports (dumping?)
The Chinese government’s management of the economic consequences of the pandemic was uniquely bad. Its policy errors compounded longstanding structural issues in the distribution of income, harming not just the Chinese people, but workers in the rest of the world.
And yet our ruling class still sees China as a model. Then again our ruling class, like China’s, doesn’t prioritize the well-being of its citizens.