COWABUNGA, HUNGA-TONGA: “The Hunga-Tonga eruption is rapidly becoming the lab leak of climate science.”
Author Archive: Ed Driscoll
August 9, 2023
GREAT MOMENTS IN FAILURE THEATER: Rand Paul just escalated the fight to hold Dr. Fauci criminally accountable.
DISPATCHES FROM THE GERONTOCRACY: Dianne Feinstein Hospitalized after Fall at San Francisco Home.
HOW IT STARTED:
DC Mayor Muriel Bowser had “Black Lives Matter” painted onto 16th St. just down from the White House. Last night protesters added “Defund The Police[.]”
—Tweet by Doug Mills of the New York Times, June 7th, 2020.
How it’s going: DC crime surges as Democrat councilman pleads for National Guard backup.
A Washington, D.C., city councilman said it might be time to bring in the National Guard as the city continues to be battered by high crime.
“The crime is out of control and getting worse by the day. We must declare an emergency regarding the crime and violence in our neighborhoods and act urgently. It may be time to call on the National Guard to protect the children and innocent people that are losing their lives to this senselessness,” Councilmember Trayon White Sr. said Tuesday at a press conference, WUSA 9 reported.
“I am tired of burying our children. We are too comfortable with the state of our city. We must take action to gain control and protect our residents. Law enforcement is only one part of how we combat public safety issues. It will take all of us to heal our community,” he continued.
D.C. recorded at least 13 shooting deaths in the first five days of August, which surpasses the 10 killings recorded in the first five days of July, according to the Washington Post. There have been at least 158 killings so far this year, according to police, which is a roughly 22% increase compared to the same time frame last year.
—Fox News, yesterday.
Perhaps White might want to call in the Rothschilds to protect DC: D.C. lawmaker says recent snowfall caused by ‘Rothschilds controlling the climate.’
D.C. Council member Trayon White Sr. (D-Ward 8) posted the video to his official Facebook page at 7:21 a.m. as snow flurries were hitting the nation’s capital. The video, shot through the windshield of a car driving west on Interstate 695 through downtown Washington, shows snowy skies while White narrates.
“Man, it just started snowing out of nowhere this morning, man. Y’all better pay attention to this climate control, man, this climate manipulation,” he says. “And D.C. keep talking about, ‘We a resilient city.’ And that’s a model based off the Rothschilds controlling the climate to create natural disasters they can pay for to own the cities, man. Be careful.”
The Rothschilds are a famous European business dynasty descended from Mayer Amschel Rothschild, an 18th-century Jewish banker who lived in what is today Frankfurt, Germany. The family has repeatedly been subject over the years to anti-Semitic conspiracy theories alleging that they and other Jews clandestinely manipulate world events for their advantage.
—The Washington Post, March 18th, 2018.
August 8, 2023
SOME AD AGENCY’S VP OF DIGITAL MARKETING IS GETTING FIRED:
This is the ad you make if you want people to think you've never pumped gas before. https://t.co/6okHehcywN
— Dana Loesch (@DLoesch) August 8, 2023
WAS RICARDO MONTALBAN IN THE WRATH OF CANADIANS? Piers Morgan earns the (giggle, snort) wrath of Canadians.
Piers Morgan has made a bunch of Canadians angry.
Stop laughing.
According to the Toronto Star:
English broadcaster and political gadfly Piers Morgan is feeling the wrath of Canadians after he took a shot at Prime Minister Justin Trudeau on X, the platform formerly known as Twitter.
The crime? Well, just look for yourself:
The horror. The horror.
TRUNALIMUNUMAPRZURE! Biden calls Grand Canyon one of world’s ‘nine wonders’ full of ‘ironic’ species.
IT’S COME TO THIS: Zoom demands workers return to the office.
GRAY LADY REALLY TAKING THAT WHOLE “DEMOCRATIC PARTY OPERATIVES WITH BYLINES” MEME TO A WHOLE NEW LEVEL: Emails Show New York Times Collaborating with State Government to Target Orthodox Jews.
CORUSCANT’S NEWSPAPER OF RECORD: Megan Rapinoe Gets New Job With Galactic Empire Training Stormtroopers To Shoot. “At publishing time, Rapinoe was already in hot water with imperial leadership as she demanded to be paid as much as Darth Vader.”
PAST PERFORMANCE IS NO GUARANTEE OF FUTURE RESULTS:
CNN'S DANA BASH TODAY:
"I have not talked to a Democrat who wants abortion on demand until time of birth…"
CNN'S DANA BASH JUST LAST SEPTEMBER:
"Your fellow Democrat running for Senate in Pennsylvania, John Fetterman, has said that he does not believe that there should be… pic.twitter.com/pW0dUS1FSM
— Townhall.com (@townhallcom) August 8, 2023
OH, TO BE IN ENGLAND: The Queering of Tudor History Continues Apace.
HOW IT STARTED: Maura Healey Not Opposed To Making Massachusetts A Sanctuary State.
—New Boston Post, October 5th.
How it’s going: Massachusetts governor declares emergency over immigrants: ‘This is a national issue.’
—The Washington Examiner, today.
Earlier: Sanctuary Cities Seethe as Illegal Immigrants Actually Arrive.
The surest sign that public policies are simply virtue signals is when the messages don’t cost anything. The easiest way to tell when that signal starts to fail is to watch politicians flounder as the costs start to rise and voters demand relief.
It was free—and meaningless—for progressive churches to post banners calling themselves “nuclear free zones” during the Reagan era. Their dwindling congregations loved it. It was free, after George Floyd‘s murder, to post woke catechism signs on your front lawn, proclaiming “In this house, we believe: Black Lives Matter, women’s rights are human rights, no human is illegal” and so on. Maybe the neighbors gave you high-fives. And for years it has been free for deep-blue cities to proclaim themselves “sanctuaries” for illegal immigrants. That’s changing now that voters want some sanctuary for themselves.
Changes like this happen when voters realize the old virtue signals actually entail serious costs—and that they will have to pay them. That is exactly what’s happening in New York City and Washington D.C. now that Texas governor Greg Abbott is sending those cities a few busloads of illegal immigrants from his state.
These progressive bastions were silent when the Biden administration flew planeloads of illegal immigrants to suburban airports in the middle of the night. TV coverage was prohibited, and the arrivals were secretly dispersed. Abbott’s buses, by contrast, arrive downtown greeted by local TV crews. Now you can hear the politicians screech.
Why, it’s as if: Democrats Discover Only The Federal Government Can Solve The Border Crisis.
CRISES BY DESIGN: ‘Bidenomics’ Has Been A Disaster.
By the time the “American Rescue Plan” was passed, there was already too much money chasing too few goods. Tons of people warned about the consequences of dumping more money into the economy. Even when inflation began inching up, Biden dismissed it — “no serious economist” is “suggesting there’s unchecked inflation on the way,” he said. Democrats, of course, wanted to cram through a $5 trillion progressive agenda spending bill. So when inflation became a big non-transitory political problem, the Biden administration began arguing that more spending would help ease inflation.
Again, the vital to remember about “Bidenomics” is that it makes absolutely zero sense.
Only after inflation became a political issue did the Democrats rename “Build Back Better” the “Inflation Reduction Act.” It still contained all the historic spending, corporate welfare, price-fixing, and tax hikes, but, more importantly, it also still had absolutely nothing to do with mitigating inflation.
Let’s not forget that “Bidenomics” also helped initiate the highest gas prices in history. The president signed a slew of executive orders pausing government leases on public lands, shutting down the Keystone XL pipeline, and stymieing drilling in the Gulf of Mexico over concocted “social cost of carbon” externalities, among other restrictions. Despite the uncertainty of the post-pandemic economy, all of this was done in the first weeks of his administration.
Gooder, and harder, America: The ghost of Milton Friedman is haunting President Biden.
Flashback: The ‘cabal’ that bragged of foisting Joe Biden on us must answer for his failed presidency.
OUT ON A LIMB: Yes, David Brooks, You Are the “Bad Guys.”
Dear Mr. Brooks,
Your column might be the best thing written in the New York Times in the past seven years. You’ve undoubtedly been subjected to a fair amount of abuse for it. You should probably never have written it if the comments are any indication. But those are people in the bubble. They don’t represent either the majority or the future. They think they do, but they don’t.
Your question, “Are we the bad guys”? The answer is yes. You are the bad guys. You have systematically dehumanized half the country because they dared to want to be represented by someone you don’t like. You have gone along with a warped distortion of who Donald Trump actually is, and you have perpetuated that lie to your own detriment.
Oh, it’s much worse than that, Mr. Brooks. Are you sitting down? This is the moment just before the aristocracy you write so eloquently about comes crashing down around you. You might say you have just spotted the iceberg on the horizon. The water is too still. The ship is moving too fast. It can’t be turned around in time. The ship is made of iron, and it will sink.
Like so many times before, an aristocratic minority can only stave off its ultimate collapse at the hands of the discontented majority for so long. Just look around at the abandoned mansions of the Gilded Age, a world that once was. Or take a trip to France and look at the chateaus in the countryside, or you might even look around in the American South at the plantations and high society before it was all Gone with the Wind.
I’m not necessarily saying the red states are going to drag America back in time – that’s your narrative and the false opinion of the ruling class. This is about a new America waiting to be born once the establishment elite gets out of the way.
As Steve Hayward asks at Power Line: Why Are the “Baddies” So Bad?
David proves unable to break from his class. The people in his class are vicious and evil. Full stop. We can see already a critical mass of elitists who will censor and even enforce lockdowns by force if the law didn’t stand in their way even a little bit. Elite institutions are a large part of the cause of this; they deserve to be destroyed right down to their foundations. The inherent presumption of “progressivism” is that their “expertise,” based on infallible “science,” can guide us to a better future. As Oakeshott warned, “the conjunction of dreaming and ruling generates tyranny.” Good luck getting the Harvard faculty—or the New York Times editorial page—to ponder this problem for a nanosecond. This is why the “baddies” are so bad (hat tip to Mitchell & Webb below). Until that presumption is overturned, nothing will meaningfully change. Does Harvard realize that a majority of the nation would celebrate if the entire campus burned to the ground?
Exit quote:
MARK JUDGE: From The Fabulous Baker Boys to Barbie: The ‘privileged victims’ of the Left.
In his 1979 work The Culture of Narcissism, social scientist Christopher Lasch argued that the human personality had transformed over the course of the later 20th century. We have gone from a generally well-adjusted people to a society full of rage and resentment. Lasch argued that in the healthy development of infants, it is crucial that children experience the reduction of feelings of omnipotence and helplessness, the kind of imbalance that has our culture seeing women as simultaneously goddesses who can do it all and totally helpless if they receive a slight insult. Lasch argued that parents, community, and “transitional objects” — toys such as Barbie dolls, games, pets — introduce the concept of limits. Barbie is supposed to make children feel less godlike.
Resentment might feel good, but, despite what Barbie says, it’s not a good plan for happiness.
Read the whole thing.
WE’VE DESCENDED INTO SOME SORT OF BIZARRE HELL-WORLD IN WHICH PIERS MORGAN IS A VOICE OF SANITY: Don’t cry for Megan Rapinoe and humiliated USWNT – they’re a bunch of unpatriotic losers.
August 7, 2023
AND THEY CAN DEFINITELY KEEP HIM: Chris Christie Brings Bon Jovi to Ukraine.
LET’S GO BRANDON: Here We Go Again. Gas Prices Jump In Past Month.
GERMANS GONNA GERMAN: Porsche erases Jesus from Lisbon.
The 60th anniversary of the debut of the Porsche 911 is here, and Porsche is going all out.
Who wouldn’t use such a thing as an opportunity to cash in and remind people that the brand and the product are beloved?
Porsche even spent millions producing a video showcasing their 911 driving through iconic places throughout the years, recreating the history and evolution of the car and how it has fit into the changing lives and culture of its customers.
It’s a nice marketing move. Except for one thing: they had to make the video private because somebody noticed that in the scene where the 911 drives through Lisbon Portugal the video producers edited out the similarly iconic massive statue of Jesus Christ, erasing not just the history and culture of the city but of course of Christianity itself.
They have now made the video private on YouTube.
I’ll just leave it here.
I don’t think @elonmusk will cave to censorship on this platform. pic.twitter.com/abNLNJAler— Alex B. (@maisumcarneiro) August 6, 2023
Having been caught partying like it’s 1939 and airbrushing Jesus out of existence in the above video, Porsche has dialed back the Adobe After Effects that removed him from the video and added a pinned comment on its YouTube page, “A message to our community: in a previously-uploaded version of the 911 S/T launch film, a landmark was removed. This was a mistake, and we apologise for any offence caused. Your comments on this video were appreciated.”