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OPEN THREAD: Ain’t no party like an open thread party.

CHANGE:

ANALYSIS: TRUE.

I DON’T SEE THESE PEOPLE AS BEING ABLE TO HANDLE BEING GANGSTERED, SO THEY PROBABLY DON’T WANT TO START THAT UP:

THE INSTAWIFE HAS ALWAYS BEEN ABLE TO DO THIS: Scientists Just Revealed How to Cook The ‘Perfect’ Egg. Her methodology is not absurdly complex like this one: “The solution, they suggest, is to use a saucepan of boiling water at 100C and a saucepan of water at 30C and to transfer the egg from one to the other every two minutes for exactly 32 minutes in total.”

OR HE’S ANGLING FOR ATTORNEY GENERAL IN THE NEXT DEMOCRATIC ADMINISTRATION: “A federal judge early Saturday temporarily restricted access by Elon Musk’s government efficiency program to the Treasury Department’s payment and data systems…”

Is the federal judge taking the position that in the name of enforcing the Take Care Clause, it is the role of the judiciary to oversee whatever the President does with the executive power that the Constitution vests in him?

Is there some extra-legal notion that the federal judge should seize the power to put on the brakes when a President with questionable judgment is moving too fast? (I’m hearing some lawprofs singing that tune.)

It’s a previously unknown clause in Article II: The executive power shall be vested in a President of the United States, unless he threatens the establishment’s feedlot.

UPDATE:

“FED UP MAN” IS THE ENGINE OF OUR REVOLUTION:

Enough shrieking harridans.

QUESTION ASKED: What’s so ‘cruel’ about dressing up and having a good time?

A group of young, attractive, well-dressed men and women. Smiling. Laughing. Drinking. Talking. Stark light exaggerating every detail. It feels like some kind of paparazzi photo. It’s an evocative shot, and there has been no shortage of commentary on it.
Online left-wingers claim the photo is ugly. The bright flash, blown-out faces, high contrast, and excited laughter are unflattering and make the individuals look menacing. If conservatives don’t realize this, it’s because they don’t understand aesthetics.

Conservatives, on the other hand, just see a bunch of well-dressed young people having fun.

Anti-aesthetics

For the left, the best kind of aesthetics are those that make people look vulnerable or fatalistically defiant. And if vulnerable or fatalistically defiant isn’t possible because the individual is just too attractive and confident, wonky will have to do.
Weirdly slouching posture. Slightly depressed face. A rough, brutalist scene will be fine. Or a cutesy one can work too. Something that feels jarring and disorienting, weird and wacky. If pity is impossible, hidden irony is the next best thing. These are some aesthetic values of left-wingers today.

Confident happiness, without any ironic subtext, is just not something in their aesthetic lexicon.

Earlier, from Matt Walsh: This New York Magazine Cover Goes Viral For All The Right Reasons (Video).

DOES THIS GUARANTEE TRUMP TAX CUTS EXTENSION? The Winston Group conducted a recent focus group and survey and among much else in the way of incisive and important insights was this, as related by Newt Gingrich, courtesy of Rod Martin:

“In a direct choice, government spending was overwhelmingly seen as a bigger problem (76 percent) than not enough revenue coming in from taxes (16 percent). This is the case across party (Republicans: 89-7; Independents 77-15; Democrats 63-27).”

There are no guarantees in politics, of course, but when three-quarters of the public says keeping tax cuts in place compared to 16 percent who want higher levies, odds are it ought to happen without much drama.

NOW WE KNOW WHO WAS RUNNING THE COUNTRY FOR JOE BIDEN:

Time Magazine’s latest issue has joined the fray, featuring Musk seated confidently at the Resolute Desk—a symbolic jab suggesting he’s really the one in charge. The outrage is ironic, considering the same voices now wailing about Musk’s alleged control were silent while Joe Biden spent four years clearly not running the White House.

Why does this matter? Well, we now have fresh allegations from Lindy Li, a former Democratic National Committee (DNC) insider, about who was running the White House for Joe Biden.

And it’s quite terrifying.

Once a proud fundraiser for Joe Biden and Kamala Harris, Li has turned into an insider spilling the Democratic Party’s most closely held secrets—and, boy, does she have stories.

Her revelations pull back the curtain on what has been described as a chaotic and delusional 2024 campaign for the Democrats, which spectacularly collapsed under the weight of its own hubris. Li has revealed intriguing insider details about how Joe Biden was ultimately ousted, and what Pelosi and Obama really think of Kamala. Back in December, she revealed new dirt on Joe Biden’s mental decline. “The president has not been cognitively fit to assume the duties of the Oval Office for a number of years now,” she told Fox News. “And it breaks my heart because I know President Biden and I love the man, but he is in no shape or form able to carry out the duties that the Commander in Chief requires, and it’s just devastating.”

But it’s her revelations about what happened in the White House in the aftermath of Biden’s devastating performance in his June debate on CNN with Trump that are truly jaw-dropping.

Read the whole thing.

Flashback: The ‘cabal’ that bragged of foisting Joe Biden on us must answer for his failed presidency.