Archive for 2019
June 2, 2019
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DOES TRUMP’S EFFORT TO GET MEXICO TO REIN IN ILLEGAL IMMIGRATION TO THE UNITED STATES CONSTITUTE A RETURN OF THE BERLIN WALL? “Defenders of Trump’s action could argue that there is a distinction between locking people in completely and ‘merely’ preventing them from leaving for a specific destination (such as the US). But surely we would still condemn the Berlin Wall if the East German government had said its purpose was to block its citizens from moving to the West, but they were still free to leave for other communist nations.”
If the Berlin Wall had stopped people from going to West Germany while they were allowed to go to every other country in the world — which is the correct analogy here — then it wouldn’t have been a big deal. In addition, Trump’s effort is in part to stop Mexico from allowing (or maybe encouraging) migrants from Central America to pass through Mexico and enter America illegally. That doesn’t fit the Berlin Wall analogy at all. Which is because it’s a dumb analogy that doesn’t remotely match the facts at hand.
If this is the strongest argument against Trump’s immigration policy, then Trump’s immigration policy is safe.
HE’S AN EXCELLENT LAWYER WHO DID A HELL OF A JOB: White House Special Counsel Emmet Flood to Leave Job. “President Trump said that Emmet Flood, a lawyer who joined the White House to help with the Russia investigation, would leave the job on June 14, the Wall Street Journal reports.”
OPEN THREAD: Knock yourselves out.
WELL, YES: Morrissey hasn’t turned right: our establishment has turned insane. “Morrissey is — thankfully — still alive. But that also means the working-class autodidact from Manchester must face the heat from a metropolitan nanny culture, despite the fact that he moved all the way to the States in part to avoid London’s notoriously venomous press.”
Metropolitan nanny culture. I love that.
QUESTION ASKED AND ANSWERED:
● Shot: Is Trump making the Democrats moderate again?
—Headline, the Washington Examiner, today.
● Chaser: Liberals sue so they can make doctors violate their religious beliefs on transgenderism.
—Headline, the Washington Examiner, May 31st.
LOUSY LEFTIST POLITICIANS: How California’s Homeless Crisis Grew Obscenely Out of Control.
ARNOLD KLING: Why does the Google News algorithm lean left?
TRUMP WILL AWARD THE PRESIDENTIAL MEDAL OF FREEDOM TO ECONOMIST ARTHUR LAFFER, FOR HIS CONTRIBUTIONS TO GROWTH AND PROSPERITY: Paul Krugman Hardest Hit. “In fact, shouldn’t someone call the NY police to do a welfare check on Krugman and his cat?”
In Glenn’s new book, The Social Media Upheaval, he quotes Columbia Law Professor Tim Wu in The Curse of Bigness: Antitrust in the New Gilded Age, and then adds:
In total, Wu reports, “Facebook managed to string together 67 unchallenged acquisitions, which seems impressive unless you consider that Amazon undertook 91 and Google got away with 214 (a few of which were conditioned). In this way, the tech industry became essentially composed of just a few giant trusts: Google for search and related industries, Facebook for social media, Amazon for online commerce.” And these new tech monsters have a one-two punch that Standard Oil lacked: not only do they control immense wealth and important industries, but their fields of operation – which give them enormous control over communications, including communications about politics – also give them direct political power that in many ways exceeds that of previous monopolies.
I’m so old, I can remember when the Internet was all about diversity and looseness, rather than intertwined monopolies.
CLARICE FELDMAN: A Made Man (Mueller) Unmakes Himself.
NEW SOCIALIST “IT GIRL” AND HER INFECTIOUS PERSONALITY CONTINUE TO GIVE THE PEOPLE EVERYTHING SHE’S GOT: AOC is battling a terrible cold but she went to the Queens Pride parade anyway and exposed people to her germs.
MAYBE OUTSOURCING EVERYTHING TO A HOSTILE COUNTRY WAS A BAD IDEA: China aims to disrupt America’s ability to make its own medicine.
SNOWFALLS ARE NOW JUST A THING OF THE PAST: The Education of Greta Thunberg: Naivety Meets Reality for the Teen Climate Alarmist.
(Classical reference in headline.)
WHY IS THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY SUCH A CESSPIT OF VIOLENCE? Sore Loser: Rep. Gaetz’s (R-FL) Former Opponent ‘Milkshaked’ Him Following A Town Hall.
According to The Hill, 35-year-old Amanda Kondrat’yev was detained and no further incidents took place. It’s interesting to note that Kondrat’yev ran for Gaetz’s seat back in 2016.
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The event comes after Brexit Party leader Nigel Farage had a similar attack take place last week. “Milkshaking” is the new form of protest in Britain against “right wing” lawmakers. And it has apparently jumped the pond.
And it’s Media Matters approved: As a congressman is assaulted with a milkshake Media Matters applauds after complaining inciteful language is leading to violence.
Unlike those examples given of people saying things that Media Matters disagreed with, Amanda Kondrat’yev was arrested on the scene, and charged with aggravated assault. It will be left to those claiming this is not violence to explain how those charges apply when nothing objectionable took place.
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