JUST NBC THE EPIC FAILURE: Today Show Co-Host Hoda Kotb Fawns Over American Citizen/Chinese Olympian; Completely Ignores Uyghur Genocide.
Unexpectedly!
As Jim Geraghty wrote in October of 2019, when the CCP-NBA connection exposed for millions of Americans to see: We’re Not Exporting Our Values to China — We’re Importing Theirs.
21st CENTURY RELATIONSHIPS: NASA to launch naked pictures of humans to space in hope of ‘attracting aliens.’
CHRIS ROCK: “IS THAT WILL SMITH?” Yikes: Armed assailant attacks Dave Chapelle on stage…and hilarity ensued.
Flashbacks:
● Sen. Rand Paul had part of his lung removed this weekend because of damage from 2017 attack.
● Actor Jeff Daniels to CBS’s Stephen Colbert: ‘We Need Someone That Can Punch Trump in the Face.’
● Ilhan Omar Retweet Suggests Rand Paul Deserved to Be Assaulted.
● Senator Jon Tester (D-MT) to 2020 Dems: Don’t Run Away from Trump — ‘Punch Him in the Face.’
● Joe Biden: I Want to ‘Beat the Hell Out of’ President Trump.
● Patti LuPone defends violent attack on Rand Paul.
● CNN Host Palled Around with, Promoted ICE Firebomber’s Antifa Group.
● Leftist Thug Caught on Video Assaulting Conservative Berkeley Student While Fellow Students Laugh.
● Journalist Andy Ngo Beaten Up at Portland Antifa Rally.
● John Dickerson, the host of Face the Nation and the “political director” for CBS, wrote an article for Slate in 2013 charmingly titled “Go for the Throat! Why if he wants to transform American politics, Obama must declare war on the Republican Party.”
BEN SHAPIRO: The End of the Road for Roe?
CONSERVING CONSERVATISM MOST CONSERVATIVELY: Democrat Bill Kristol Shows His Financial Support For Ohio Democrat Tim Ryan.
RARE GUITARS ON DISPLAY AT THE 2022 DALLAS INTERNATIONAL GUITAR FESTIVAL: My latest post, over at Eddriscoll.com.
J.D. VANCE LEADS EARLY RETURNS IN OHIO REPUBLICAN SENATE PRIMARY.
On Twitter, Dave Wasserman of the Cook Political Report has already called it for Vance.
ANNALS OF LEFTIST AUTOPHAGY: The View: Biden Staff Launching Racist ‘Microaggressions’ at Kamala.
Why is the Biden White House such a cesspit of racism?
WHEN THE MOBIUS LOOP COLLAPSES:
MAKE AMERICA FLORIDA AGAIN: DeSantis is Right to Push for Constitutional Carry.
BARI WEISS: The Shocking Supreme Court Leak.
I called up one of the smartest professors I know at one of the top law schools in the country, and he echoed that: “To my knowledge, it’s never happened before in the modern history of the court. It is the most serious possible breach.”
Serious, severe, shocking, he said. But in the end, not surprising. Why not? Here’s how he put it: “To me, the leak is not surprising because many of the people we’ve been graduating from schools like Yale are the kind of people who would do such a thing.”
What did he mean by that? “They think that everything is violence. And so everything is permitted.”
He went on: “I’m sure this person sees themselves as a whistleblower. What they don’t understand is that, by leaking this, they violate the trust that is necessary to maintain the institution.”
Weiss adds, “The most obvious take here is that the Democrats were in for a bruising in the midterms and this was leaked by a liberal to galvanize Democrats. Galvanize how? Perhaps to get voters to turn out as if their lives depended on it.”
But as Ed Morrissey writes, “When Roberts practically dared people to produce a direct challenge to Roe and the court granted cert in Dobbs, abortion-rights activists knew the writing was on the wall. What this will likely do is simply accelerate the outrage and the outrage exhaustion even further ahead of the midterms, which will make this even somewhat less impactful in November. If this dropped a week before the general election, it might have generated enough voter anger on the Left to perhaps shift the election. Instead, the outcome may well be even more ennui and despair for Democrats.”
OH, THE HUMANITY: Florida Ford GT Owner Crashes Because He’s “Unfamiliar” With Manual Transmission: Police.
A Ford GT owner in Boca Raton, Florida crashed his recently purchased supercar into a tree Friday evening because he was “unfamiliar with how to drive stick shift,” police say.
The driver, 50-year-old Robert J. Guarini, told cops he lost control after downshifting while leaving his housing development at around 6 p.m, a police report says. This led to a head-on collision with a palm tree. Guarini then told a nearby security worker that he did not have his phone and needed a ride back to his house, where he spoke to authorities via landline after leaving the vehicle unattended, the report says.
Though the police report says Guarini told officers the crash was caused by inexperience with a manual transmission, the Ford GT owner told Road & Track over the phone that there was more to the event. Guarini claims old tires, muddy pavement, and a fresh detailing were all factors causing the 550-horsepower supercar to swing out and hit a tree. The driver also told R&T the crash occurred as he shifted up into second gear from first, not while downshifting, as the official report says.
“I don’t want people to think I was racing at 90 mph,” Guarini says. “I was going 35 mph.”
From the police report, it’s unclear if speed played a role in the crash.
Found via Iowahawk, who tweets:
UPDATE (FROM GLENN): A friend comments: “Whatever position you may have on the issue, leaking a draft SCOTUS opinion to try to change the outcome of a case is a new level of brinksmanship that speaks to the hyperpoliticization of law schools and an accompanying valorization of ‘activism’ in higher ed.”
Assuming this was leaked by a clerk, the leaker should never work in law again. It’s a betrayal of the highest order. But, of course, professionalism has proven to be weak sauce indeed when it comes to restraining activism.
More thoughts from Josh Blackman. “The Court should issue the Dobbs opinion as soon as possible. Do it tomorrow. Don’t wait till Thursday, or next Monday, or the end of June. The longer this process drags on, the worse the Court will be . . . if any members of the majority changed their vote in response to the leak, that change will be seen as a direct response to this leak.”
Here’s more, including the draft opinion, at the Washington Examiner.
When the backlash hits, I predict that Politico will become sudden First Amendment absolutists.
From the comments: “That can’t be right. I was told the Responsible Gatekeeper Media did not report on or print information that was leaked or hacked.”
Of course, to be fair, though everyone seems to assume the leak came from someone on the left, we don’t know for sure.
Plus: Supreme Court Barricaded After Bombshell Abortion Leak, Leftists Start to Call for Rash Action.
Prediction: The people who accused Trump of “incitement” will have differing standards here.
Plus, from a friend:
Biden could immediately order additional protection for all Supreme Court justices
Garland could immediately order a criminal investigation into the leak
Roberts could order the immediate release of the actual Dobbs opinion
Each of these acts would have the effect of insulating the Court from the intended, potentially violent, political pressure. We’ll see if any of them does any of these things.
We will.
QUOTE OF THE DAY:
One of the many disservices done to young people by our schools and colleges is giving them the puffed-up notion that they are in a position to pass sweeping judgments on a world that they have barely begun to experience.
—Thomas Sowell, “Celebrated speech misses point on intelligence vs. performance,” Deseret News, August 13th, 2010.
PAST PERFORMANCE IS NO GUARANTEE OF FUTURE RESULTS: She Warned Against Government Control Over Free Speech. Now She’s Biden’s Disinformation Czarina.
K-12 IMPLOSION UPDATE: DC elementary school gives 4-year-olds books to report racist family members.
A Washington, D.C., elementary school is under fire after instructing students as young as 4 years old to go home and identify racist family members.
Students from pre-K through third grade at Janney Elementary School attended an “Anti-Racism Fight Club” presentation with speaker Doyin Richards, according to a letter from the principal of Janney Elementary School, Danielle Singh, written on Nov. 30, according to a report.
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“Anyone else’s Kindergarten kid freaked out by an anti-racism assembly today? My kid needed to sleep with a light on and the door open tonight,” one parent posted anonymously to the “DC Urban Moms and Dads” online forum. “Anyone know what specifically was talked about? My kid couldn’t relay much except that she was scared.”
Not only are people taking issue with the book’s rhetoric, but the at-home activities the book prescribes are also causing tension, according to the report.
Reading the book “isn’t a spectator sport” and requires “being loud, uncomfortable, confrontational and visible to ensure change is made,” Richards writes.
One such activity involves a series of questions that asks the students, “Where do you see racism in yourself? This requires true soul-searching. Be real with yourself, don’t feel guilt/shame and own it. It’s the first step in becoming an anti-racist.”
In the section, “How to deal with racism from loved ones,” Richards’s work instructs the young readers that “just because someone is older than you doesn’t mean that they’re right all of the time.”
“If someone doesn’t believe that people should be treated equally based on the color of their skin, then they are the problem. Parents need to stop making excuses for that behavior if they truly believe in anti-racism. … Who in your family has racist beliefs? Do you think you can change their ways? What is your strategy for dealing with them?”
“‘You’re a traitor!’ yelled the boy. ‘You’re a thought criminal! You’re a Eurasian spy! I’ll shoot you, I’ll vaporize you, I’ll send you to the salt mines!’ Suddenly they were both leaping around him, shouting ‘Traitor!’ and ‘Thought-criminal!’, the little girl imitating her brother in every movement. It was somehow slightly frightening, like the gamboling of tiger cubs which will soon grow up into man-eaters.””
1984 — a warning for the rest of us, a how-to guide for the left:
IT’S COME TO THIS: Free Speech as a ‘Right Wing Value.’ “I know everything is polarized these days, but I still have a hard time understanding how we can’t all agree that the government creating a Disinformation Governance Board led by a person famous for spreading disinformation is a batsh*t, awful move.”
Related: Great moments in leftist performance art: MSNBC’s Mehdi Hasan rages over ‘petulant and not-so-bright billionaire’ Elon Musk just handing Twitter — and the midterms — to ‘neo-Nazi’ GOP (video). “All the Left had to do was not be crazy. They couldn’t meet that bar.”
UPDATE: ‘It just got real’: Musk fires back at ‘lovely people’ at MSNBC in a big way for calling all Republicans ‘Nazis’ and OH HELL YEAH. “NBC basically saying Republicans are Nazis…Same org that covered up Hunter Biden laptop story, had Harvey Weinstein story early & killed it & built Matt Lauer his rape office. Lovely people,” Musk tweets.
(Updated and bumped.)
DISPATCHES FROM THE INTERSECTION OF ANNALS OF LEFTIST AUTOPHAGY AND TRUNALIMUNUMAPRZURE: Trevor Noah used the White House Correspondents’ dinner to force Joe Biden to laugh at how bad the nation is suffering under his own policies.
ANSWERING THE IMPORTANT AUTOMOBILE QUESTIONS: “You’ll have heard how the Alpine A110’s combination of lightness and rightness has earned the admiration of evo’s tillermen. And that’s all well and good, but what’s it like if you’ve just had a vasectomy? To find out, I went to a central London clinic and invited a large, medically qualified man to have a good rummage amongst my underparts, then realised with dismay that I had booked to borrow a low-slung French sports coupe almost immediately afterwards.”
WE’VE DESCENDED INTO SOME SORT OF BIZARRE HELL-WORLD IN WHICH CNN IS A VOICE OF SANITY: CNN: All jokes aside, Biden’s doing terrible.
(Link safe; goes to Ed Morrissey.)
WHOOPS: Russians plunder $5M farm vehicles from Ukraine — to find they’ve been remotely disabled.
The contact said the process began with the seizure of two combine harvesters, a tractor and a seeder. Over the next few weeks, everything else was removed: in all 27 pieces of farm machinery. One of the flat-bed trucks used, and caught on camera, had a white “Z” painted on it and appeared to be a military truck.
The contact said there were rival groups of Russian troops: some would come in the morning and some in the evening.
Some of the machinery was taken to a nearby village, but some of it embarked on a long overland journey to Chechnya more than 700 miles away. The sophistication of the machinery, which are equipped with GPS, meant that its travel could be tracked. It was last tracked to the village of Zakhan Yurt in Chechnya.
The equipment ferried to Chechnya, which included combine harvesters — can also be controlled remotely. “When the invaders drove the stolen harvesters to Chechnya, they realized that they could not even turn them on, because the harvesters were locked remotely,” the contact said.
Tibor’s Tractor remains eternally loyal, however:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gqZGBawsg8k
Flashback: Vox “journalist” attempts to dunk on Trump; discovers the hard way that farm tractors can connect to the Internet.
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