Author Archive: Glenn Reynolds
January 28, 2024
JOHN KASS: Hero on the Border: Texas Gov. Greg Abbott.
SO YOU’RE SAYING IT’S MUSLIM IMMIGRANTS? Two Young Boys Stabbed to Death, UK Police Urging Public Not to Identify Suspects. “The British authorities are fearful that the brutal killing of two teenagers could trigger another wave of public unrest. A 15-year-old boy and a 16-year-old boy, who are yet to be publicly identified by police, were stabbed by a ‘group of men’ on Saturday night.”
CAN WE QUIT INDULGING CALIFORNIA’S IDIOSYNCRATIC AUTO AND ENVIRONMENTAL REGULATIONS? California Bill Calls for Tech to Make New Cars Unable to Speed. “The bill would require 2027 and newer vehicles to have a speed limiter that could prevent them from going more than 10 mph over the speed limit.”
WELL, THAT’S SMART: “I don’t feel safe on the NYC Subway since the pandemic.”
Because you’re not, and the City, by all appearances, likes it that way.
REMEMBER WHEN ELECTING BIDEN WAS SUPPOSED TO BRING DIGNITY BACK TO THE OVAL OFFICE? Biden Freaks Out in South Carolina and Starts Screaming About Trump.
CAN’T TRUST ‘EM. IF WE CAN’T TRUST ‘EM, CAN WE ALLOW THEM TO EXIST? NSA finally admits to spying on Americans by purchasing sensitive data. Violating Americans’ privacy “not just unethical but illegal,” senator says.
I HOPE NOT: Martian lake confirmation brings hope sediment samples may reveal past life. Or at least that it’s limited to past life.
Related: Why I hope there’s no life on Mars.
IT WOULD TAKE A HEART OF STONE NOT TO LAUGH:
1. What process will the public use to scan, filter and follow events?
2. By what process will the public form and modify mental models about the world?
3. Where facts are disputed or manipulation is rampant, how will the public verify truth?— wretchardthecat (@wretchardthecat) January 27, 2024
Endless bad luck is nature's way of telling you something is wrong.
— wretchardthecat (@wretchardthecat) January 28, 2024
NEWS YOU CAN USE: 10 Easy Ways To Prepare For The Next Civil War.
WE MUST OBLITERATE THOSE RESPONSIBLE: Three US troops killed in drone attack in Jordan, at least two dozen injured. “The killing of three Americans at Tower 22 in Jordan near the border with Syria is a significant escalation of an already-precarious situation in the Middle East. Officials said the drone was fired by Iran-backed militants and appeared to come from Syria.”
FLASHBACK: “I’d like to propose a ‘waiting period’ for legislation. No bill should be voted on without hearings, debate and a final text that’s available online for at least a week. (A month would be better. How many bills really couldn’t wait a month?). And if the bill is advertised as addressing a ‘tragedy’ or named after a dead child, this period should double.”
WHY IS ELITE HIGHER EDUCATION SUCH A CESSPIT OF HATRED AND BIGOTRY? Lawsuit accuses UC Berkeley of not protecting Jewish students.
JOSH BLACKMAN & SETH BARRETT TILLMAN: Professor Akhil Reed Amar and Professor Vikram Amar Retreat From Their “Global” Rule for the “Offices” and “Officers” of the Constitution: Their amicus brief endorses the view that members of state legislatures are officers. They took the exact opposite position in 1995 and in subsequent publications.
ROGER KIMBALL: Our Democracy™: The Democratic Weaponization of Government and the Need for Decentralization. “The Constitution aimed to limit the power and reach of government; its rival aims to make government triumph everywhere.”
BIDEN REPORT CARD: Even Obama is worried about beating Trump.
HIGHER EDUCATION BUBBLE UPDATE: MIT Parents Press School To Address ‘Threatening’ Anti-Israel Disruptions.
MIT President Sally Kornbluth hasn’t been forced to resign yet, but she doesn’t look happy in this picture.
HAHA: Pro-Palestinian Protesters Showed Up at John Fetterman’s House. His Reaction Was Priceless. “The pro-terrorist lunatics we’ve seen hold rallies nationwide, shut down roads and bridges, and attempt to close airports have been well-documented. So, given that he’s now become an enemy of the state in the eyes of progressive America, it’s only fitting that they target the Pennsylvania Democrat at his home, which they did. And Mr. Fetterman precisely knew how to respond: by going onto the roof and waving the Israeli flag. . . . He did the same last fall when he waved the Israeli flag at a bunch of pro-terrorist supporters getting arrested on Capitol Grounds.”
Them: “You can’t hide”
Him: Here I am, bitches 🇮🇱🇮🇱🇮🇱 https://t.co/Vx9XvA26n5
— Guy Benson (@guypbenson) January 27, 2024
MAKE THEM PAY: Canada’s Laurentian Elite Cry Uncle.
And just like that, Canada’s storied Liberal Party, in power for one hundred years, the country’s self-described “natural governing party,” is done. Before the ruling this week, Pierre Polievre’s Conservatives were projected to win 222 seats, according to Angus Reid’s January 21st poll, with the Liberals at 53 seats. Trudeau’s partner-in-crime, the fetching champagne socialist Jagmeet Singh, he of the mauve headwraps and Rolex watch? Twenty-five seats. With the decision, handed down by a federal judge, that Trudeau invoked the Emergencies Act illegally, to end the truckers’ protest in Ottawa and at border crossings in Ontario and Alberta, Canada’s ruling elite has given up. They cannot continue the fiction any longer.
To illustrate how ridiculous Canada’s public life is, the findings by the RCMP and government were entirely driven by a government-funded Non-Governmental Organization, the Canadian Anti-Hate Network, or CAHN. The group was used in a perfect illustration of the Iron Triangle of government and bureaucratic action. The government funds an anti-hate group, which immediately identifies opposition to the government, labels it as hate, feeds it to the police which proceeds to investigate.
The astroturfed outfit accused a podcaster of being a “white supremacist” and an “accelerationist.” The RCMP then provided CAHN’s “evidence” to legislators who then fed it to the subsidized media. Like a very, very good little girl, Canadian senator Paula Simons said he (the podcaster) wanted to “accelerate racial conflict to lead to the eventual creation of a White ethnostate,” during a debate in the house. None of this was found in any of the hundreds of hours of said podcast. Nevertheless, it was reported widely across the media as cold hard fact.
As in every single western democracy now staggering under unsustainable government-caused debt, the “natural ruling party” stood up for the thousands upon thousands of activist groups who besiege citizens with scare- and sob-stories meant only to increase the tax base for the Liberal elite. In recent years, to combat growing anti-government populism, elites in every western democracy have also supported political action groups meant to drive its enemies into the dirt. As reported by Michael Shellenberger and Matt Taibbi, these are coordinated through the Five Eyes and gamed at the World Economic Forum, in a cross-cultural assault by the elites on the people.
In short, CAHN drove virtually 100 percent of the evidence used to invoke the Emergencies Act. All of its accusations were found to be fake, fictionalized or exaggerated, as the attached FOIA documentation demonstrated. The outfit is a typical attack dog, staffed by members of the hard left, like this character, its face: Sue Gardner. These people are sent around the Stations of the Activist Cross, acquiring credits, awards and citations, to give themselves credibility, without having creating anything of value in the real world. The marshalling of the greedy hard left by corporatists to force ideological purity upon the middle and working classes was a masterful strategy. It, and its international cadres, are entirely focused on destroying the political power of the middle and working classes by accusing them of “racism” and “hate.”
The most egregious finding of the court was that the RCMP faked intelligence that identified the protestors as being funded by MAGA in the U.S., because they wanted to “take over” Canada. Documents obtained under FOIA discovered the following, from Michael Schellenberger’s Public substack.
So the consequences for this misbehavior need to be biblical. If the ruling class faces no consequences, it will do it again. And no, losing an election isn’t enough. There need to be crushing personal consequences for the individuals involved in this.
It’s not as if their misrule hasn’t already imposed consequences on their citizenry: “Let’s put it this way, if Canada were a state, it would be poorer than West Virginia or Mississippi, despite being the second-largest country, with abundant natural resources, in the world, blessed with a highly educated populace. The courts decision may mean that Canada is emerging from its half- century stasis and its massive grifting class on its way to the abattoir.”
#JOURNALISM:
You could cure cancer while simultaneously saving a baby from a burning building and you will never get the boundless love, devotion, and compassion a journalist will show to a murderer. https://t.co/mxqWTIL59h
— James Kirkpatrick (@VDAREJamesK) January 27, 2024
January 27, 2024
OPEN THREAD: Party like it’s Saturday night.