Archive for 2020
July 19, 2020
OPEN THREAD: In a French-ass restaurant, hurry up with my damn croissant.
HEH. SEEN ON FACEBOOK:
A FISKING OCCURS: The Awfulness of Ezra Klein, Explained. “Also: have Matt Yglesias contact me. There’s a problem with one of his pieces. Thanks.”
#RESISTANCE: Woman who defaced Black Lives Matter mural outside Trump Tower strikes two more times.
The black woman busted for dumping paint on the Black Lives Matter mural outside Trump Tower live-streamed the entire stunt — and was at it again just hours later in Harlem and Brooklyn.
Bevelyn Beatty, 29, posted videos to her Facebook page showing her smearing paint outside the Midtown skyscraper, and BLM murals in Harlem and on Fulton Street later in the night, then gloated about it from home on yet another video.
“Ya’ll, we did an all-nighter,” she said in the most recent post. “Let me tell you something, yesterday was epic.”
Fight the power.
RIGHT, TIME TO CANCEL STANLEY KUBRICK: Apparently Stanley Kubrick Was to Blame for The Matrix Sequels.
NEW SOCIALIST “IT GIRL” CONTINUES TO PAY DIVIDENDS: Bodega Owners Reject Goya Boycott, AOC Hardest Hit.
KURT SCHLICHTER: Time For Trump To Start Kicking Aspiration.
Sure, we elected Donald Trump in part because America found itself on Flight 93 with Felonia Milhous von Pantsuit and her creepy coterie of commie comrades angling to seize the cockpit, but that was only part of it. But besides electing him for what he would prevent, we voted for the most improbable conservative candidate in the history of ever because of what he promised to do.
The aspirational nature of Trumpism gets short-shrift, but it’s critical.
Trump told us he would make America great again. Those words chill the pasta spines of sissy Fredocons and whiny white woke wine women alike, but they thrill the rest of us.
He was aspirational, looking to the future and telling the indisputable truth that if we only harkened to our history and the legacy of the Founders, America would, in fact, be great again. And aspiration is what’s missing from his campaign right now.
I agree. I’ve been wrong every time I’ve second-guessed Trump so far, but I feel like he should have followed up his terrific Mt. Rushmore speech with more along those lines.
MISSOURI GOVERNOR SAYS HE’LL LIKELY PARDON ARMED ST. LOUIS COUPLE IF THEY ARE CHARGED.
Earlier: “Kimberly Gardner, one of four Democrats running for St. Louis circuit attorney in the Aug. 2 primary, is taking heat for a new political ad paid for with money from a national super PAC that is at least partly funded by liberal billionaire George Soros.”
More: Soros-Backed Foundation Invests $220 Million to Support Racial Justice.
OUT: TEACHERS ARE HEROES. In: Please Don’t Make Me Risk Getting Covid-19 to Teach Your Child. Tens of millions of people are going to work every day; teachers are staying home and getting paid. Put public school online, and lay the teachers off if they’re that unessential.
Related: Schools reopening has not triggered rise in Covid-19 cases, EU ministers told.
39-YEAR-OLD RWANDAN REFUGEE ARRESTED AFTER A FIRE AT THE 15TH-CENTURY CATHEDRAL IN THE FRENCH CITY OF NANTES. “The man, who was not named, worked as a volunteer for the cathedral and had been in charge of locking up the building on Friday night, LCI television said, citing prosecutor Pierre Sennes.”
WE ALL NEED TO ADMIT THAT AMERICA HAS A TATTOO PROBLEM: The Girl With The Draggin’ Tattoo. “I’m a 38-year-old single man. There’s this very pretty, very nice female trainer I see at my gym. I’d ask her out except that she has a huge tattoo of a diamond on her neck. Ugh. Total deal breaker. If it were a hidden tattoo (leg, hip, etc.), I’d deal. But I just can’t imagine myself or any guy bringing a girl with a huge neck tat home to meet the parents. Why would a woman do this?”
(Classical reference in headline.)
A TALE OF TWO SWAMPS:
Shot: Pompeo denounces ‘Marxist’ 1619 Project as gift to Chinese Communist Party.
—The Washington Examiner, Thursday.
Chaser: Top Intelligence Official Promoted ‘White Fragility’ Recommendation.
—The Epoch Times, Tuesday.
UPDATE: You know you’re over the target when you start receiving flak:
(Updated and bumped.)
DISPATCHES FROM THE EDUCATION APOCALYPSE: Wokeness Comes For Charters.
POLICE ARREST ALLEGED BRAKE LINE CUTTER CAUGHT ON CAMERA UNDER NYPD VAN. “Officers arrested 24-year-old Jeremy Trapp. He has been charged with reckless endangerment and criminal mischief. Officials say Trapp was seen at times coming and going from the Occupy City hall protests in recent weeks. The alleged crime comes amid what NYPD officials are calling deeply troubling anti-police environment — they point to previous cases of police vehicles firebombed, officers attacked and vehicles sabotaged in others way — lug nuts loosened on their cars for example.”
CHRIS WALLACE IS WHY THERE CAN’T BE ‘FACT-CHECKERS’ AT THE 2020 TRUMP-BIDEN DEBATES: “Wallace again asserted that Biden ‘says nothing about defunding the police.’ How he said that with a straight face should be studied in professional acting courses for years to come. Of course Biden said he agreed with defunding the police. Anyone who has had the stamina to find his buried interviews of late has seen it for themselves. In a very recent interview, Biden was asked, ‘Do we agree that we can redirect some of the funding [to police departments],’ and an enthusiastic Biden said, ‘Yes, absolutely!’”
15 LITTLE-KNOWN FACTS ABOUT AMERICAN GRAFFITI: “American Graffiti is newly available on HBO’s streaming services this month, so we figured it was worth another pass down the main drag. Here are some lesser-known facts to know about it, in case you settle in for a rewatch or a first watch — it’s highly recommended if you haven’t seen it before.”
Given that Graffiti was set in the stone knives and bearskins era of 1962, and shot while Richard Nixon was still in office, I wonder what sort of historical lecture HBO will be tagging onto the film?
I wonder how long it will be before Mayor Lightfoot orders the statue crated and then removed under the onus of “public safety concerns,” the language used by Philadelphia’s mayor to remove his town’s Columbus statue in June.
Elsewhere in Chicago: 50 shot, 7 fatally, in Chicago so far this weekend.