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Archive for 2024
October 3, 2024
ATHENA THORNE: Lana Del Rey May Just Be the Anti-Taylor Swift.
WHY IS HIGHER EDUCATION SUCH A CESSPIT OF ANTI-SEMITISM? Boston University faces federal investigation over anti-Semitism complaint.
SOME PARTS OF AMERICA STILL WORK:
Mark Robinson has launched an air convoy, running 24/7. They are making air drops and rescue missions in WNC.
It’s all privately funded. He’s circumventing Roy Cooper and utilizing private industry to do what he is not doing as Governor.
That’s called… Leadership. pic.twitter.com/A7gcm8VRxQ
— Allen Mashburn (@Mashburn4NC) October 1, 2024
And:
Everyday Americans Are Using Their Helicopters To Bring Aid To Hurricane Helene Victims.
The Kamala Harris Administration is threatening to arrest these people for trying to help their fellow Americans.
But these awesome Americans do it anyway! 💪💪💪
Thank God they are! pic.twitter.com/5CQUkSRnXd
— Allen Mashburn (@Mashburn4NC) October 3, 2024
Previously: “Please note, however, that Hurricane Helene made landfall on September 27th, and its massive damage was predicted days before that.”
KRUISER’S MORNING BRIEFING: Dems’ Media Lapdogs Know They’re Losing Their Grip on the Narrative. “The Democrats still have the television and movie industries at their beck and call for propaganda, but they’re losing it over having one AI generator slip through the cracks.”
THE COUNTRY IS IN THE VERY BEST OF HANDS:
Report from a National Guard soldier. They are furious that the higher ups are refusing to send them to help Helene victims. There are hundreds of them and they are pissed. #Helene Please spread the word! pic.twitter.com/ahFJht6qzK
— Appalachian Chestnut (@AppyOrtho) October 2, 2024
Biden did finally on Wednesday approve “the deployment of up to one thousand active-duty soldiers to support ongoing hurricane response and recovery efforts.”
But as Publius reminds X readers, “Please note, however, that Hurricane Helene made landfall on September 27th, and its massive damage was predicted days before that.”
Also from Publius:
Here is the full list (in no particular order) of all POSSIBLE reasons why active duty military helicopters have not yet been deployed en masse to disaster relief in North Carolina:
1. The Harris/Biden Administration is grossly incompetent, both in terms of not pre-staging assets and in terms of not being able to cut through Title 10 red tape now to get the assets flying.
2. Units like the 101st Airborne (Air Assault), 82nd Airborne, XVIII Airborne Corps aviation and 2nd MARDIV are currently under classified deployment or standby orders to deploy to Ukraine, Eastern Europe, Israel, Syria, Lebanon, Iran, Taiwan or some other world hotspot, and they therefore cannot spare their rotary wing assets at this moment in time.
3. The classified readiness rates of America’s military helicopters and their crews are vastly worse than anyone outside the military understands.
4. Hurricane Helene damaged most military helicopters in NC, GA and TN, and that fact is being kept secret.
5. The military helicopter assets are not needed and everything is just peachy-keen, A-OK fine with the limited assets currently in use, and those limited assets are totally sufficient to do the job.
6. The conditions on the ground, the availability of aviation support units and/or the availability of aviation fuel make it impossible to establish forward bases for the helicopters to operate from.
7. The Harris/Biden Administration and/or the Democrat NC governor are maliciously and deliberately denying or delaying the use of these assets for nefarious reasons only they know.
One nefarious reason might be to hinder voters in some redder parts of North Carolina to tip the state to Harris-Walz.
WHAT’S WRONG WITH ROY COOPER?
The ONLY ONE who has taken decisive action. https://t.co/igWBWqP4CL
— Allen Mashburn (@Mashburn4NC) October 3, 2024
NC Gov Roy Cooper was scheduled to appear at the Mt Nebo Crossing Church in Marion, NC where FEMA has set up their headquarters.
He was a no show.
He doesn’t care about us in Western North Carolina. #ncpol
— Margo (@MargoinWNC) October 2, 2024
Someone needs to ask Gov. Cooper about this…#NCpol #NCGA #NCgov https://t.co/RpkaXxExFw
— Pete Kaliner (@PeteKaliner) October 3, 2024
DON SURBER: The Irony of the Dockworkers’ Strike: A Union Boss Should Not Be Running the Economy. “Harold J. Daggett, president of the ILA since 2011, a job his dad once held, has more power over the national economy than anyone, including the Hobo of Rehoboth Beach and Jay Powell.”
MATT TAIBBI: “There are no working-class censors.” “The dirty secret of content moderation all over the world is that it’s a tiny sliver of educated rich correcting everybody else. It’s telling people what fork to use, but you can get a degree in it, basically. The problem is America has the most useless aristocrats in history. . . . These people have no honor, no belief, no poetry, no art, no humor, no patriotism, which is unique to them, no loyalty, no dreams, and no accomplishments. They are simultaneously illiterate and pretentious, which is very hard to pull off. They may have one idea, and it’s not even an idea, but a sensation. Fear. Rightly so, because they snitch each other out at the drop of a hat. They’re afraid of each other. But they’re also terrified of everyone outside their social set, and they live in near constant dread of being caught with even one original opinion.”
ICYMI: Kamala Must Combat ‘Frightening!’ Commie Memes, but She Can’t Because She Is One. “The Left, which so often beats us at creating politically effective imagery, understands all too well the power of those Commie Kamala memes. Those seven House Dems, the screeching NPR lady, the buttisnky who got you suspended from Facebook for sharing wrongthink images — they aren’t worried about deep fakes. They’re scared that Grok has given the Right a tool to produce effective political imagery.”
PJ Media readers asked for more longer-form pieces and I’ve been happy to oblige.
NOBODY LISTENS TO BIDEN-HARRIS ANYMORE: Last Time Iran Attacked, the Biden-Harris Admin Held Back Israel’s Response. This Time, the Jewish State Will ‘Not Be Deterred.’
DAVID HARSANYI READ “THE MESSAGE” SO YOU WOULDN’T HAVE TO: The racist protocols of Ta-Nehisi Coates.
The Palestinians of The Message are uncannily peaceful, yearning to write poetry and plow the “sacred land” beneath their feet. Nowhere in his book, not once, does Coates bother mentioning “Hamas” despite writing it right after one of the largest massacres of Jews in history. Nowhere in his polemic about the Palestinian struggle does Coates type the words “Palestinian Liberation Organization” or “PLO” or “Fatah,” much less “Hezbollah” or “Iran.” “Yasser Arafat” wasn’t important enough to make an appearance.
Because Coates distances himself from the Holocaust, his readers will be blissfully unaware of the grand mufti of Jerusalem, Haj Amin al Husseini, who personally implored Adolf Hitler to “burn” the Jews of Europe years before Israel ever existed. It would, no doubt, be a heavy lift for Coates to explain why Arab pogroms occurred with regularity before the “occupied territories” or “Nakba.”
The word “terrorist” makes one appearance in the entirety of The Message, and it is preceded by the word “Zionist.”
Because of course.
PROFESSOR CARRINGTON, CALL YOUR OFFICE: Massive solar flare could trigger auroras this week: Will you be able to see it?
PRIME DEAL: Crest 3D Whitestrips, Professional Effects. #CommissionEarned
WHY, INDEED?: “Why did it take four years to debunk the black baby study?” I would add that the notion that black mothers die in childbirth at disproportional rates because doctors are racist is at least as dubious. But nevertheless my colleagues on the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights seem to believe it. At least they say they do.
IT’S THEIR WAR TO FIGHT, LET THEM DECIDE WHEN AND HOW: To Hell With Concerns About a ‘Wider War.’ Let Israel Win.
PEOPLE BLAMING THE FLOOD IN ASHEVILLE ON “CLIMATE CHANGE” NEED TO THINK ABOUT the Flood of 1916.
ANALYSIS: TRUE. Kemi is right – not all cultures are ‘equal:’ It’s not racist to call out child marriage and misogyny.
Hamas, Hezbollah, and the mullahs of Iran — and, God knows, the Houthis — are barbaric savages and deserve to be treated as such. Claims to the contrary, or charges of racism or cultural imperialism, are just disinformation from our enemies.
October 2, 2024
OPEN THREAD: Hump Day.
THE NEW SPACE RACE: U.S. faces stiff competition from China in satellite remote sensing.
I’M A MAN OF PEACE, AND THERE’S NOTHING MORE PEACEFUL THAN A DEAD TROUBLEMAKER: New: IDF Kills Nasrallah’s Son-in-Law in Damascus Strike.
UPDATE: I’m delighted that so many people in the comments got the Keith Laumer reference.