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September 15, 2024

THE MEMES KEEP COMING:

Related: Will Cats Decide The Presidential Election? Plus: “And every time someone says ‘no, they did not eat a cat!’ not only is it likely not true, but the obvious pivot is to ‘perhaps, but they did kill my auntie in a home invasion’ or ‘OK, but they have overwhelmed schools, are beating on local kids, and have displaced low income Americans in housing because the feds are paying top dollar for landlords to kick you out and put them up.'”

Posted at 10:45 pm by Glenn Reynolds on Sep 15th, 2024

OPEN THREAD: Ring out the weekend.

Posted at 9:30 pm by Glenn Reynolds on Sep 15th, 2024

GREAT MOMENTS IN LEFTIST BOTCHED JOKES: In the Wake of Second Attempted Trump Shooting, a Video Emerges of Kamala Making a Sick Joke.

Flashback:

Olbermann was discussing the election with Newsweek‘s Howard Fineman, a frequent guest. They topic was, how can a winner finally be determined in this never-ending Democratic race for the nomination? Of course, the assumption was that it was Clinton that should be shown the door (despite clearly still earning her spot in the race thanks to, um, voters). Fineman said that, all the delegate math aside, ultimately it was going to take “some adults somewhere in the Democratic party to step in and stop this thing, like a referee in a fight that could go on for thirty rounds. Those are the super, super, super delegates who are going to have to decide this.”

Said Olbermann: “Right. Somebody who can take her into a room and only he comes out.”

—“Keith Olbermann’s Idea For Beating Hillary: Literally Beating Hillary,” The Huffington Post, May 2nd, 2008.

Posted at 9:14 pm by Ed Driscoll on Sep 15th, 2024

REPORT: Shots fired near Donald Trump as he leaves his Florida golf club.

UPDATE: An account bearing the name of Ryan Routh was suspended early this evening by Twitter, but note this tweet from March 4th, 2020:

Routh’s Facebook page was scrubbed as well.

Flashback: Bernie Bro James T. Hodgkinson, Attempted Assassin Of Steve Scalise, Already Being Erased From History.

MORE: “The Hawaii man suspected in former President Donald Trump’s assassination attempt on Sunday is a long-time Democrat, donating exclusively to the party’s candidates 19 times since 2019, records show. Between September 2019 and March 2020, Ryan Routh contributed more than $140 on the Democratic fundraising platform ActBlue, Federal Election Commission (FEC) filings show.”

Posted at 8:51 pm by Ed Driscoll on Sep 15th, 2024

WELL, OKAY THEN:

Democrats and the media fomented that hatred, even while inveighing against “hate speech,” “misinformation,” and “stochastic terrorism.”

Posted at 8:26 pm by Glenn Reynolds on Sep 15th, 2024

HMM: Gigantic Wave in Pacific Ocean Was The Most Extreme ‘Rogue Wave’ on Record. “For centuries, rogue waves were considered nothing but nautical folklore. It wasn’t until 1995 that myth became fact. On the first day of the new year, a nearly 26-meter-high wave (85 feet) suddenly struck an oil-drilling platform roughly 160 kilometers (100 miles) off the coast of Norway.”

Actually, they were always fact. It was just that scientists didn’t acknowledge that fact.

Posted at 8:00 pm by Glenn Reynolds on Sep 15th, 2024

SCIENCE, UNSETTLED: Decade-Long Study Challenges Traditional Views of Evolution. “These findings challenge the traditional belief that measuring genetic diversity (the range of different traits in a population) and genetic divergence (the differences between populations) can easily show how natural selection is consistently operating. Instead, natural selection seems to operate with greater subtlety and complexity than previously thought.”

Posted at 7:00 pm by Glenn Reynolds on Sep 15th, 2024

THE BUBBLE THAT POPS THE BUBBLE. “Mainstream discourse has become psychotic. Here, go read a definition of psychosis. Applicable? We need to stand with brave leaders like Dick Cheney and vote for Kamala Harris, so we can have stability and order! Look at the world. Look at the actual, the things that exist in physical reality. What is the condition of the country under the Never Trumpian stable influence of mainstream governance?”

Posted at 6:36 pm by Glenn Reynolds on Sep 15th, 2024

DESANTIS GETS STUFF DONE:

Posted at 5:28 pm by Stephen Green on Sep 15th, 2024

IS ANYONE SURPRISED AT THIS?

Related:

So much lefty hate, encouraged and rewarded by “mainstream” media.

UPDATE: Trump taken to safety after Secret Service opens fire on man with possible gun at his Palm Beach golf club. “The man was later arrested by local police on I-95. It comes almost exactly two months after Thomas Matthew Crooks shot Trump at a rally in Butler, Pa. on July 13 — wounding him in the ear.”

ANOTHER UPDATE:

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I suppose at this point we don’t know that this guy was trying to shoot Trump, but the fact that the Secret Service shot at him is highly suggestive. That the Secret Service missed him, as it apparently did, is . . . kinda par for the course with the Secret Service these days.

YET ANOTHER UPDATE:

Plus:

(Bumped).

MORE: Trump was between holes 5 and 6 on golf course, suspect farther ahead, sources say. ” Former President Donald Trump was moving between holes five and six at his South Florida golf course when the security incident happened Sunday, a source briefed on the matter told CNN. The suspect, who the Secret Service engaged with, was a number of holes ahead of the former president, according to two law enforcement sources. The Secret Service fired at the suspect as a protective measure, that source said.”

Posted at 4:24 pm by Glenn Reynolds on Sep 15th, 2024

RIGGED:

Posted at 4:23 pm by Glenn Reynolds on Sep 15th, 2024

MATT VESPA: The Left Is Powerless in Stopping the Haitians Eating Pets Story…And It’s Amazing to Watch.

I don’t know whether to laugh or cry, though in this instance, it’s not a statement regarding some appalling examples of liberal media bias. For the Ohio Haitians ‘eating the pets’ story, it’s pure entertainment, maybe a touch of schadenfreude: the liberal media is being tortured in their attempt to neutralize the story. Contrary to the establishment press, this story hasn’t been debunked. There’s no way within 48-72 hours that authorities can verify dogs and cats are not being eaten by the tens of thousands of Haitians in Springfield, Ohio.

As for the local birdlife, geese and ducks are being eaten, with police reports to corroborate the allegations. Even a fact check done by local media on that story’s angle hasn’t negated it. If anything, it might have shined a light that this problem has expanded. I’m talking about the viral picture of the migrant holding a dead goose—that was not in Springfield but nearby Columbus.

The inability of the media to suffocate this story alluded to the industry’s appalling lack of trust. No one believes them, no matter how hard they try. It only seems to further entrench people’s belief that Haitian migrants are running wild in Springfield. The consumption of pets needs to be verified, but many corroborating eyewitness accounts exist. Geese and ducks are being taken, driving out of control in the town. It’s led to fatalities.

Christopher Rufo goes in search of: The Cat Eaters of Ohio.

So, is there any truth to the charge? We have conducted an exclusive investigation that reveals that, yes, in fact, some migrants in Ohio appear to have been “eating the cats,” though not exactly in the manner that Trump described.

Our investigation begins in a run-down neighborhood of Dayton, Ohio, the closest major city to Springfield, about a half-hour’s drive away. We identified a social media post, dated August 25, 2023, with a short video depicting what appear to be two skinned cats on top of a blue barbeque. “Yoooo the Africans wildn on Parkwood,” reads the text, referring to Parkwood Drive. The video then pans down to two live cats walking across the grass in front of a run-down fence, with a voice on the video warning: “There go a cat right there. His ass better get missin’, man. Look like his homies on the grill!”

We spoke with the author of the video, who asked to remain anonymous but confirmed its time, location, and authenticity. He told us that he was picking up his son last summer, when he noticed the unusual situation. “It was some Africans that stay right next door to my kid’s mother,” he said. “This African dude next door had the damn cat on the grill.”

We then identified the home by matching it to the visuals in the video and cross-referencing them with the eyewitness. When we knocked on the door of the first unit, a family answered, telling us they were from the Democratic Republic of the Congo and that all of the surrounding units were occupied by other African migrants.

One of the residents told us that her former neighbors, also from Africa, had lived in the adjacent unit until last month. They had a blue grill and the father would find meat in the neighborhood. “Her dad was going to find meat,” she said. “Her dad was going, holding a knife.” The current residents also showed us a blue grill of the same make and model as in the video, which the former neighbors had abandoned after they moved out. There were at least ten cats wandering around the complex and another resident complained that they were breeding on the property.

According to the original witness, whose son was friendly with the neighbors, there was no doubt about what happened last summer. “They was barbecuing the damn cat!” he said. His son’s mother had previously witnessed the family butchering a mammal on the street, but the cats on the barbeque put him in such a state of shock, he felt the need to film it.

To be clear: this single incident does not confirm the particularities of Trump’s statement. The town is Dayton, not Springfield; cats alone were on the grill, not cats and dogs. But it does break the general narrative peddled by the establishment media and its “fact checkers,” who insisted that this has never happened, and that any suggestion otherwise is somehow an expression of racism.

Related: Trump Promises Mass Deportation of Springfield, Ohio Immigrants If Elected.

And from the Power Line Week in Pictures:

UPDATE: Rufo responds to a CBS hit on his “Cat Eaters of Ohio” article with a very lengthy rebuttal on Twitter:

ANOTHER UPDATE (FROM GLENN): Can’t stop the signal.

Posted at 4:14 pm by Ed Driscoll on Sep 15th, 2024

THIS IS CNN: Dana Bash Auditions for Spot on the Harris-Walz Team As She Berates JD Vance During a Very Ugly Interview. “This was a very ugly interview with Bash refusing to act like a journalist in any way. She refused to let Vance answer questions, she pushed Democrat talking points continuously, and what is worse, she has not been to Springfield, OH, and couldn’t find anything more substantial than comments by people who don’t live in the affected area that the incidents did not happen. To Vance’s credit, he revealed Bash as the partisan midwit we always assumed her to be.”

Posted at 2:45 pm by Ed Driscoll on Sep 15th, 2024

SEND THE HAITIANS TO ASPEN THIS WINTER, AND MARTHA’S VINEYARD NEXT SUMMER:

Posted at 2:29 pm by Glenn Reynolds on Sep 15th, 2024
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