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KRUISER’S MORNING BRIEFING: Legit Question — Was Tucker Carlson Always This Way? “I don’t know about you, but if I ever come across someone fanboying over a mass murderer, I’m going to have some follow-up questions.”

NOT ONE MORE WORD OUT OF THE DEMOCRATS ABOUT “SAVING OUR DEMOCRACY.” NOT ONE MORE DAMN WORD:

IT’S COME TO THIS:

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MAKE DIPLOMACY GREAT AGAIN: South Korea gives Trump golden crown, medal conferring highest honor.

South Korean President Lee Jae Myung presented his U.S. counterpart with the Grand Order of Mugunghwa, South Korea’s highest honor, as well as a replica of a historic gold crown. The honor was given to Trump for his efforts to bring peace between North and South Korea.

Trump said it was a “great honor” to receive the medal and said he “would like to wear it right now.”

The U.S. president, who is on the final leg of his Asia tour, attended the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation forum in Gyeongju, South Korea, on Wednesday. Trump announced during his visit that Seoul and Washington had “pretty much” reached a trade deal.

“We reached a deal. We did a lot of different things. Great session,” he told reporters, according to the White House pool report. “We came to a conclusion on a lot of very different items.”

I’m so old, I remember when Trump was some sort of fascist/naif hybrid who was going to bumble his way into WWIII.

WHY DO THE FOREIGN PRESS ASK TOUGHER QUESTIONS TO AMERICAN DEMOCRATS THAN OUR OWN PRESS?

To ask the question is to answer it, of course:

 

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ARCTIC FROST:

ICYMI: Jake Tapper Just Told the Truth, and Now I Need My Fainting Couch. “CNN’s Jake Tapper just put the screws to Democrat Congresscritter Melanie Stansbury after she tried to deny her party’s complete culpability for the Schumer Shutdown. If you’ve never heard of her, Stansbury is a backbencher from New Mexico who votes like AOC but sounds like your niece trying to bluff through AP Civics.”

UPDATE (FROM GLENN):

MATT TAIBBI: Bill Gates Says We’ll Survive Climate Change, World Furious.

Gates offered a summary of his thesis:

There’s a doomsday view of climate change that goes like this:

In a few decades, cataclysmic climate change will decimate civilization. The evidence is all around us—just look at all the heat waves and storms caused by rising global temperatures. Nothing matters more than limiting the rise in temperature.

Fortunately for all of us, this view is wrong. Although climate change will have serious consequences—particularly for people in the poorest countries—it will not lead to humanity’s demise. People will be able to live and thrive in most places on Earth for the foreseeable future. Emissions projections have gone down, and with the right policies and investments, innovation will allow us to drive emissions down much further.

Reaction was swift and furious. In the words of the immortal Greta Thunberg, “HOW DARE YOU!” The New York Times rushed a piece out titled, “Bill Gates Says Climate Change ‘Will Not Lead To Humanity’s Demise.’” The paper linked to Gates’s net worth on the Bloomberg Billionaires’ Index, to his prior comments about irreversible ecological damage, and to the Gates Foundation’s $1.4 billion commitment to climate change research. It didn’t link to Gates’s new essay, though, instead quoting the editor of Inside Philanthropy, who said “one could imagine” this was Gates’s way of “not wanting to be a target of the Trump administration.” Social media is still burning with theories about Gates betraying the climate cause to get out from under an investigation into his foundation’s alleged funding of Chinese entities. The imminent extinction dream is dying hard.

On the eve of the the COP30 climate summit in Brazil, Gates’s downshift from “We’re gonna die!” to “A serious but survivable problem” was ripped as a grievous affront. The climate story has been reported as an extinction panic for decades, in the process becoming one of the most influential news stories ever. Its impact reached far beyond energy policy to realms like mental health, family planning, even journalism and academic freedom. Ostensible uniformity of climate consensus was used as an argument against both “viewpoint diversity” on campuses and objective “both sides” reporting.

“The climate story has been reported as an extinction panic for decades” — and yet somehow, despite almost 60 years of fear porn, we’re still here. (Except for those massacred by the repeal of net neutrality, of course.)

TRUMP’S VENEZUELA STRATEGY EXPLAINED: Rod Martin lays it out in stark detail: America doesn’t send the world’s largest and most lethal aircraft carrier, along with its accompanying destroyers, etc., merely to blow up cartel drug boats. But there’s even more to the military noose Trump is putting on Maduro’s neck (Putin, are you watching?).

“GIVE ME YOUR MONEY OR I’LL TAKE YOUR STUFF” IS SOCIALISM IN A NUTSHELL: Democrats In Democrat-Run Cities Threaten To Loot Supermarkets If Democrats Keep Welfare Benefits Shut Down. “Now, I am making the assumption that the people pledging to commit crimes to support their perceived absolute right to free stuff from American taxpayers are, in fact, Democrats. There may indeed be a few down-on-their-luck Republicans impacted by the lingering effects of the Biden Recession that have had to rely on government handouts to feed their children, but they don’t seem like the type threatening to break the law. I’m also assuming those would-be looters are not Libertarians, as none of them strike me as the sort to have Milton Friedman books in their apartments.”

YOU WOULD NEED A HEART OF STONE NOT TO LAUGH:

FROM NATHAN BRINDLE:  All Precious Stones and Peoples (Timelines Universe Book 11).

All Precious Stones and Peoples (Timelines Universe Book 11)
Once, a million years ago, a water world populated with dolphin-like beings, the product of gene-alteration by their Progenitors on the Earth-like world one orbit closer to the sun, was flung into the cold and dark of interstellar space by the passage of a rogue star.

And four thousand years ago, its engineers were awakened from suspended animation to bring the world into a new orbit around a giant, blue-white star, where the waters of the World Ocean could thaw and life could continue to flourish.

This is the story of the A’ka’pa’i’ka’ti, and their Foretold Saintess, Speaker to the Dry Ones, born to communicate with the Progenitors when they finally arrived to reclaim the lost . . .

COLUMBIA BROADCASTING STRUGGLE SESSION CONCLUDES: CBS Staffer Calls Layoffs a ‘Bloodbath,’ Race and Culture Unit ‘Gutted.’

Oh no, the race and culture team has been disbanded.

Flashback to October of last year: Jewish CBS anchor forced to meet with Race and Culture Unit after grilling pro-Palestinian author: Report.

CBS News reportedly forced Jewish anchor Tony Dokoupil to meet with the network’s in-house Race and Culture Unit after a group of employees complained he was too tough on a pro-Palestinian author.

The saga began last week when Dokoupil interviewed author Ta-Nehisi Coates about his book, “The Message,” which describes in part his travels “to Palestine, where he sees with devastating clarity how easily we are misled by nationalist narratives.” The CBS News anchor irked liberal colleagues by bluntly stating that it read like something you would find in “the backpack of an extremist,” and pressing Coates on whether he believes Israel has the right to exist.

The New York Times reported that “a group of CBS News employees approached executives with their concerns about Mr. Dokoupil’s handling of the interview,” and Dokoupil had to meet with both the CBS News standards and practices team and the Race and Culture Unit.

“The conversation focused on Mr. Dokoupil’s tone of voice, phrasing and body language during his interview with Mr. Coates,” the Times reported.

As the editors of Weiss’s Free Press wrote last year, “In other words, Tony Dokoupil did his job. That’s when his troubles began.”

In September of last year, as the presidential race was going into overdrive, Tucker Carlson was promoting a pro-Hitler “historian.” The following month, CBS’s “Race and Culture Unit” was admonishing a Jewish journalist for doing, err, journalism. In his Commentary newsletter yesterday titled, “The ‘Woke Right’ Is on the Left,” Abe Greenwald wrote:

Tucker Carlson, Candace Owens, Nick Fuentes, and the like are in no way conservative. But their mode of populist outrage—against Israel, corporate America, traditional values, and U.S. military dominance—doesn’t exactly align with the political or cultural right either.

In fact, the closer you look, the clearer it becomes: They simply are the woke left. They’re a faction of the woke left for those who disdain the tawdry aesthetics of campus protest. That’s it. In every other respect, they are the same. They share the left’s hatreds, heroes, and self-pitying worldview.

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So the supposed woke right hates Israel, loves Communist and fascist dictators, pals around with America’s present-day enemies, and regrets American military victory. Wrap the lot of them in keffiyehs, and they’re good to go.

Fortunately, the CBS Race and Culture Unit is good and gone, at least.

INDEED, IT ALREADY DOES: