Archive for 2024
November 1, 2024
WHITE SUPREMACY, YOU’RE REALLY DOING IT WRONG: Martin Luther King’s Niece Blasts Mark Cuban, Endorses Trump.
THE USUAL:
The shooter was 17 and could not legally carry or conceal.
A Dem Congressman lying? SAY IT ISN'T SO
— Louis vil LeGun 🍌 Notorious T.A.C.O. (@LouisvilleGun) November 1, 2024
TWIRLING, TWIRLING, TWIRLING TOWARDS FREEDOM!
Kamala: "Understand the difference here, moving forward. Moving forward, understand the difference here. What we are looking at is a difference in this election. Let's move forward and see where we are."
— The Post Millennial (@TPostMillennial) November 1, 2024
Classical reference in headline:
EVERYTHING IS GOING SWIMMINGLY: Tuberculosis patient possibly exposed hundreds at Georgia school, amid global rise. Hmm.
THIS WILL BOOST THEIR FLAGGING SALES: Volkswagen wants you to subscribe to your car.
I’M NOT SUPPOSED TO SAY SPACE PORN ANYMORE: lest the prigs at Google demonetize the site. So here is Pre-Election Astronomical Eye-Candy
A VIP article.
READER FAVORITE: All-new Amazon Kindle Paperwhite. #CommissionEarned
EVEN THEIR DYSTOPIAN FANTASIES DON’T MAKE SENSE. Why would Evil Emperor-for-Life Vance build concentration camps for illegal immigrants instead of deporting them? Come on, Red Alert Universe Vance, you had one job!
This is amazing. My favorite work of lefty hysteria art to date. pic.twitter.com/tHC1YknkPp
— Nate Hochman (@njhochman) November 1, 2024
IT’S TIME FOR VICTORIA TAFT’S West Coast, Messed Coast™ — Portland Predicts a Violent Election Night.
FINALLY, ST. GRETA HAS SPOKEN:
From earlier this year: The age of glorifying Greta Thunberg is over.
Greta Thunberg spent her weekend in France supporting two environmental campaigns. On Sunday she appeared at a rally in Bordeaux against an oil drilling project; twenty-four hours earlier the twenty-one-year-old Swede was further east, adding her voice to those activists opposed to the construction of a new stretch of motorway between Toulouse and Castres. “We are here in solidarity with those who are resisting this project and this madness,” said Thunberg in English, her now familiar keffiyeh around her neck.
Some French media described Thunberg as an “anti-global warming icon” and the “figurehead in the fight to protect the planet.” She might have been once.
Now, however, in her ubiquitous keffiyeh, appearing to chant “Crush Zionism” or endorsing slogans such as “Palestine will be free” she has become — perhaps unwittingly — the figurehead for what conservative commentators in France call “the green alliance.”
Three years ago Jean Messiha, the spokesman for Éric Zemmour during his 2022 presidential campaign, wrote of this strange coalition between Islamists and ecologists: “They share one color: green. But not only that. They also share a totalitarian approach to society.”
Plus ça change: the original European environmentalists who had a strange coalition with Islamists were awfully totalitarian as well.
And note Greta’s ghostwriter’s language: “Fill the streets, block, organize, occupy.” As Jon Gabriel wrote in June about America’s never-ending protests: Welcome to protest season, where the cause changes but the tactics stay the same. “One year, statues are toppled and the next, Jews are bullied, but it’s amazing how the far-left treats such wildly diverse issues with the same small toolbox. It has ever been thus. As one radical wrote for a Students for a Democratic Society publication in the 1960s, ‘The issue is never the issue. The issue is always the revolution.’”
HAHA: Why Did Secret Service Brass Feel the Need to Coordinate its Response to the IG’s Investigation Into the First Trump Assassination Attempt. “The emails, which RealClearPolitics reviewed, contained the subject line ‘DHS OIG Inquiries’ and directed employees to tell their supervisors if an OIG official reaches out to them so Secret Service managers could coordinate ‘an organized response.’ Supervisors sent the email five days after the same inspector general issued a negative report on the Secret Service’s actions before and on Jan. 6, criticizing the agency for failing to detect a pipe bomb near Vice President Kamala Harris and not flagging signs of potential violence to other agencies.”
BEZOS’S EFFORT TO ADD SOME BALANCE IS OFF TO A SLOW START: WashPost Pays to Promote Anti-Trump Stories. “The Washington Post this week ‘aggressively ramped up’ its paid advertising on social media platforms to boost stories criticizing former President Donald Trump after the backlash over owner Jeff Bezos’ decision to kill an endorsement for Vice President Kamala Harris’ presidential campaign.”
ARE THERE ANY INSTITUTIONS THAT STILL GIVE A DAMN ABOUT THEIR REPUTATION? Nate Silver Claims Pollsters are ‘Putting Their Finger on the Scale’ to Make it Appear the Race is Close.
NOTHING TO SEE HERE, MOVE ALONG:
Exclusive footage obtained by The Free Press shows LA teachers discussing how to organize their students for the pro-Palestine cause.
“Some of the things we can do as teachers is to organize. We just have to be intelligent on how we do that….We have to know that Zionists and… pic.twitter.com/RJgqXCXC9k
— The Free Press (@TheFP) October 31, 2024
JIM GERAGHTY: Oh, Sure, Now the Harris Campaign Needs Pennsylvania Governor Josh Shapiro.
Hey, remember when CNN headlines were declaring, “Walz could help Harris shore up the ‘blue wall’ on the way to the White House”?
Is he?
I’ll take this ad as a quiet admission that when it comes to winning Pennsylvania’s 19 electoral votes, Shapiro is a far more useful asset than Walz. And as we approach Election Day, it becomes increasingly clear that Walz, self-described “knucklehead,’’ doesn’t bring as much to the table as Democrats believed in those heady days of summer. As noted yesterday, polling indicates Harris is on pace to win Minnesota by a slightly narrower margin than Joe Biden won the state in 2020. Never mind helping Harris in the critical blue-wall states; there’s not much evidence that Walz has helped her at all in his home state.
(Despite the protests from Eric Holder, it is clear that the vetting process he ran for Harris, digging into the background of her running mate options, was nowhere near thorough enough.)
You could see it in the online discourse and the Saturday Night Live sketch – Democrats were disappointed with Walz’s performance in the debate with J.D. Vance. He doesn’t know what a venture capitalist does, he thinks the First Amendment doesn’t cover hate speech, he goes rogue and declares America has to get rid of the Electoral College… Walz isn’t a strength you can put front and center in campaign ads, he’s a liability you try to hide until Election Day.
The guy who was supposed to be this big help with rural and blue-collar Americans is giving his closing message on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert, the friendliest of urban metropolitan venues. Walz is campaigning in downtown Detroit today, and then Flint and Traverse City.
Let’s face it though, as a Certified Minnesota Football Genius, the man is the second coming of Bud Grant: ‘Coach’ Tim Walz Has Another Football Lingo Issue, Coach and Sen. Tommy Tuberville Helps Out.
Hey, anybody who “can run a mean pick-6” can call it anything he wants!
Fortunately, America’s Newspeak of Dictionary speaks jive Walz:
Far more serious than Walz’s football malapropisms is what his mouthpiece is saying: Tim Walz ‘Says’ He Wants to Destroy America. “Vice presidential candidate Tim Walz ‘says’ he wants to destroy America — not expressly; nonetheless with perfect clarity. Walz’s mouthpiece and education guru, Brian Lozenski, actually did say it expressly. In the embedded video, Lozenski, whom Walz appointed to craft an “ethnic studies” curriculum for Minnesota children, calls for the overthrow of the United States. (Ethnic Studies, despite its harmless sounding name, is founded on Critical Race Theory and, like CRT, is aimed at overthrowing America.)”
Incidentally, unlike Trump and Vance, why hasn’t Walz gone on Joe Rogan’s podcast?
But why would anyone think that Walz is “too weird?”
THE BROOKS BROTHERS RIOT, THE NEXT GENERATION:
Does Brooks Brothers or Paul Stuart make the really authentic Proud Boys neckties?
(Classical reference in headline.)
FLORIDA MAN FRIDAY [VIP]: This Is Domino’s Pizza, Please State the Nature of Your Emergency. “It’s time for your much-needed break from the serious news and this week we have one quick-witted assault victim, $100,000 worth of stolen bacon, and Tennessee Man using the wrong kind of donuts to trick the police.”
IT’S COME TO THIS:
Todd writes, “the campaign to convince the world that all media should be assumed to be biased politically unless proved otherwise.” Well, yes. As long as the journalist discloses where his bias lies, this isn’t a problem. Or as Sean Davis wrote in 2015: Sorry, Chuck Todd, But Reporters Are Not The Referees Of Politics.
And that fact is exactly why Chuck Todd so desperately wants to be viewed as a referee, rather than an observer who just happens to have a camera in front of him and a media operation behind him. He wants you to think he’s the one calling balls and strikes. He wants you to think he’s the expert on the rules. He wants to be the one to tell you what’s out of bounds and what isn’t. And the reason he wants that is because he, like so many other reporters (he is not, by any stretch of the imagination, the only political reporter to have significant ties to the Democratic Party), has skin in the game.
Todd worked for the presidential campaign of former Democratic Sen. Tom Harkin of Iowa. His wife is a long-time Democratic campaign consultant. They very clearly have skin in the game. Major League Baseball would never hire a George Steinbrenner staffer to stand behind the plate for a Yankees game against the Red Sox. It would be absurd to suggest that an arrangement like that would be appropriate. Fans would be outraged. But Todd would have you believe that this would not just be totally kosher, but totally normal.
In the interest of full disclosure, I also have a political background. I was a congressional staffer for several Republicans. I worked on a Republican presidential campaign. There are two big differences between Todd and me, though: 1) I am completely up-front about my biases, my background, and my ideological and political preferences, and 2) I am under no delusion that I’m a neutral arbiter. When I make assertions, I do my absolute best to back them up with verifiable evidence. And I certainly do not make any claims that I’ve been bestowed (by whom, Chuck Todd never makes clear) with some sort of official role in determining who is following The Rules™ and who isn’t.
See how easy that is?
Note also that Todd is writing in the Atlantic, which after the Kevin Williamson debacle in 2018, has quite neatly identified its collective ideology.
THAT’S HOW IT GOES: AT&T praises itself after getting caught taking too much money from FCC program.
BUILT TO LAST: Voyager 1 Just Phoned Home From 24 Billion Kilometers Away On A Transmitter Not Used Since 1981.
On October 18, the spacecraft did not respond. Voyager 1 uses an X-band radio transmitter to communicate with the Deep Space Network. The mission team knows its spacecraft and worked out that the command might have triggered the fault protection system, leading to a lower rate of data transmission with a change to the signal from the X-band transmitter.
The team searched for that signal and were able to find it. The situation was a bit of a hiccup, but didn’t seem to cause any alarm. Not like last year, when the spacecraft started producing gibberish.
With that in mind, the team started to look deeper. Then, on October 19, in a concerning development, the signal stopped altogether. Luckily, Voyager 1’s onboard computer somehow found a solution – a truly left-field one.
“The flight team suspected that Voyager 1’s fault protection system was triggered twice more and that it turned off the X-band transmitter and switched to a second radio transmitter called the S-band,” NASA’s Tony Greicius writes in the Voyager Blog.
“While the S-band uses less power, Voyager 1 had not used it to communicate with Earth since 1981. It uses a different frequency than the X-band transmitters signal is significantly fainter. The flight team was not certain the S-band could be detected at Earth due to the spacecraft’s distance, but engineers with the Deep Space Network were able to find it.”
The team has confirmed that the S-band transmitter is working well, even after all this time and at such an incredible distance. They are currently working to restore the spacecraft to its normal operations.
Parts of America still work — after almost 50 years and 15 billion miles.
GREAT MOMENTS IN INADVERTENT SELF-IDENTIFICATION: Massachusetts man arrested for allegedly painting swastika on Trump campaign sign.
A Cohasset man has been arrested for allegedly painting a swastika onto a Trump campaign sign sitting along a public road in town.
The defaced sign is the property of Kevin O’Donnell, the 77-year-old co-chair of the Republican Town Committee and a longstanding supporter of former President Donald Trump.
Police arrested 74-year-old Frederic Laidlaw, who was in Quincy district court on Thursday for arraignment on a felony charge of “defacement of property,” Cohasset Police Chief William Quigley said in a statement.
“Cohasset police allege that Laidlaw entered onto private property and painted a swastika on a political sign on Wednesday October 30th,” Quigley wrote.
O’Donnell told the Herald that the sign — which cost him about $200 — for the last three elections has been on land he owns next to busy Route 3A, with no previous problems.
He also said that he has to wonder if the person who decided to deface it even realizes the imagery they are conjuring when they use a symbol most closely associated with the Nazi government of Germany.
“It’s shocking, absolutely shocking,” he said. “Do they understand how many people died because of that ideology?”
Friend of Israel and proponent of less wars; Trump is the Worst. Hitler. Ever.
NOTHING TO SEE HERE, MOVE ALONG:
Monroe County District Attorney said the fraudulent voter registration forms were traced to FieldCorps whose clients included Biden-Harris, Mark Kelly and Arizona Democrats.
Calls to the number listed went unreturned and the FieldCorps website was mysteriously taken down. https://t.co/EhpDauPa8a pic.twitter.com/gzjojz01cL— ZitoSalena (@ZitoSalena) November 1, 2024
At least with Elon Musk owning X, these reports can’t get squashed any longer.