Archive for 2025

April 29, 2025

YOU REALLY HAVE TO ASK YOURSELF WHY:

They should at least name the bill for Jeffrey Epstein.

Posted at 10:39 am by Stephen Green on Apr 29th, 2025

ANSWERS TO 21st CENTURY QUESTIONS: The Truth about Drone Deliveries! (Video.)

Posted at 10:35 am by Ed Driscoll on Apr 29th, 2025

21st CENTURY RELATIONSHIPS (OR THE LACK THEREOF): The Junior Anti-Sex League Gets Results!

Posted at 10:22 am by Ed Driscoll on Apr 29th, 2025

DECOUPLING: Firm Predicts ‘Empty Shelves’ And Recession By June.

Apollo Global Management Chief Economist Torsten Slok on Sunday released a report outlining the timeline for Trump’s tariffs to result in empty shelves, layoffs in the trucking and retail sector and a recession this summer.

Trump announced his “liberation day” tariffs on April 2 and it takes about 20-40 days for container ships to sail to the U.S. from China, according to Apollo. Slok estimates that container ships coming to U.S. ports could come to a stop by mid May.

It then takes about 1-10 days of transit time for trucking/rail to bring goods from the ports to cities. Apollo Global Management predicts that my late May domestic freight demand will “come to a halt” and that there will be “empty shelves” with companies responding “to lower sales.”

By early June, Slok forecasts there will be layoffs in the the domestic freight and retail industries with a recession hitting the U.S. this summer.

I don’t doubt Wall Street or the media’s willingness to inflate costs and risks, but we’ll see.

Also, decoupling was never going to be easy.

Posted at 9:37 am by Stephen Green on Apr 29th, 2025

KRUISER’S MORNING BRIEFING: Fat, Drunk, and Governor of Illinois Is No Way to Go Through Life, Son. “It’s a safe bet that Pritzker won’t be mobilizing himself — the dude is one Chicago Italian beef sandwich away from exploding like Mr. Creosote in ‘Monty Python’s The Meaning of Life.’ Yeah, I’m doing fat digs here because Pritzker’s bad*** shtick is in desperate need of a reality check. He’s a privileged rich boy from the family that owns the Hyatt Hotels who fancies himself a champion of poor minorities.”

Posted at 9:06 am by Stephen Green on Apr 29th, 2025

IF YOU MAKE IT PAINFUL, THEY WON’T DO IT ANYMORE:

Posted at 9:00 am by Glenn Reynolds on Apr 29th, 2025

STEPHEN L. MILLER: The media must admit to covering up Biden’s decline.

A number of reporters are releasing volumes about Biden’s conspicuous cognitive decline, that many of them supposedly only became aware of on the debate stage last June. Many of these journalists actively worked to smear anyone who had noticed the former president’s state of mind, including right-leaning commentators and Republicans, as far back as 2021. But Biden’s cognitive and physical deterioration were not first apparent on the debate stage. They didn’t even start in January of that year, when Axios’s Alex Thompson began to take notice. That would be the same Alex Thompson honored at Saturday’s White House Correspondents’ Dinner for his reporting.

“President Biden’s decline and its cover-up by the people around him is a reminder that every White House regardless of party is capable of deception,” Thompson told the 2,500 journalists present. “We, myself included, missed a lot of this story and some people trust us less because of it.”

But throughout most of his term, any mention of Biden’s age and physical decline was met with attacks by parts of the media, including CNN, the AP, the Washington Post, the New York Times and NBC News. The Biden campaign and White House labeled incidents of him wandering off or losing his train of thought as “cheap-fakes” and the media echoed the same terminology, right up until the moment when the real Joe Biden fully revealed himself on June 27.

It was a lie — one that the media used its considerable (but waning) influence to sell.

If there’s any turnaround for CNN et al., it starts with an apology, but they seem fully committed to slow-motion suicide.

Posted at 8:35 am by Stephen Green on Apr 29th, 2025

MY NEW YORK POST COLUMN: At White House Correspondents’ Dinner, fake remorse over Biden ‘mistakes.’ “Imagine a neurological disease that changed your perceptions in subtle, damaging ways. Stubbing your toe would bring pleasure. Rotten meat would taste delicious. Deadly cold would feel comfy. Meanwhile, a gentle neck massage would make you feel sick, and fresh food would taste disgusting. You wouldn’t last long with such a disease. But our society is facing something similar. The news media, which are supposed to act as a sort of nervous system for the body politic, instead give us misinformation.”

Plus: “Journalists didn’t ‘miss’ the story. They lied about it. They chose not to cover what Americans could see with their own eyes.”

Posted at 8:08 am by Glenn Reynolds on Apr 29th, 2025

REPORT FROM THE BLUE ZONES:

Posted at 8:07 am by Glenn Reynolds on Apr 29th, 2025

WHY IS THE IVY LEAGUE SUCH A CESSPIT OF RACISM, BIGOTRY, AND HATE?

Posted at 8:00 am by Glenn Reynolds on Apr 29th, 2025