AT DISCOURSE: What’s Coming in 2024.
Author Archive: Glenn Reynolds
January 7, 2024
THE NEW SPACE RACE: Peregrine mission, to launch Monday, will aid humans’ return to moon.
RICHARD FERNANDEZ: “Joe Biden’s Jan 6 speech raises some interesting problems. What does he really want to achieve by declaring his foes outlaws? Even if he succeeds in jailing, disqualifying or otherwise delegitimizing his 2024 political opponents, the challenge to “our democracy” he posits will not go away for two reasons. First, the crisis facing the status quo does not arise from one man, Donald Trump, but from the failure of the establishment to deliver across a wide range of issues. Second, the discontent of which Trump is a figurehead now includes significant parts of the electorate and has political strongholds in a number of states.”
Plus: “How does one explain the paradox of Biden destroying his one sure means of victory and opting for a course that will probably lead to prolonged and indecisive conflict? The obvious explanation is to observe that is what he always does. He seems to prefer stalemates and chaos over clearcut solution. Why does he frequently do this? The answer is simple. It creates opportunities that would not exist in a clear cut situation. Turning 2024 into neither and yet both a regular election and insurrection would knock a lot of power loose for the grabs and this is perhaps the point.”
Also: ‘Sympathy’ surging for Jan. 6 rioters, 43% agree ‘they had a point.’
HIGHER EDUCATION UPDATE: Lessons From The Resignations Of Penn And Harvard Presidents Liz Magill And Claudine Gay. “Universities can and should protect students and faculty from a hostile environment that makes learning more difficult. But they cannot do so in a way that is selective or discriminatory or ideologically biased.”
A SMALL MEASURE OF ACCOUNTABILITY: Dartmouth ‘climate justice’ protestors arraigned on charges of criminal trespassing.
GOOD: Bill Ackman goes scorched earth on MIT and Business Insider after ‘attacks on my family.’
Related:
Going after @BillAckman’s wife is one of the dumbest moves I’ve ever seen. MIT and Business Insider don’t understand the force of nature that’s about to come after them.
This guy literally beat out Brad Pitt competing for his wife. While you were losing sleep over not having… pic.twitter.com/LQdJfYMYF0
— Robert Sterling (@RobertMSterling) January 6, 2024
R.I.P. Lacy Underall.
HEH:
COMMUNITY NOTE: AP's offices in Gaza City served as a human shield for Hamas.https://t.co/ojPJ3Z9Wto https://t.co/81Sb95g66P
— DonSurber.substack.com (@donsurber) January 7, 2024
WHY DO THE HOUTHIS STILL EXIST?
More reasons to reshore manufacturing https://t.co/UfSVmWslGo
— Aaron Slodov (@aphysicist) January 6, 2024
BANANA REPUBLIC: Defense Secretary Austin Scandal Is Even Worse Than We Thought. “When it was first reported on Saturday that Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin has been in the hospital since January 1, it was natural to assume that key figures in the Pentagon and the White House, for whatever reason, chose to keep his hospitalization a secret. What possible motive could there be for doing this? Who knows? It didn’t make a lot of sense, but the Biden administration has an extensive record of covering up scandals, so it wasn’t exactly out of character for the Biden administration to cover something up. The truth that has been coming out over the course of the day suggests something far, far worse. According to the latest reports, not even the White House knew about Lloyd’s hospitalization.”
UPDATE:
Maybe there needs to be some kind of Dead Man switch to ensure the positions are actually manned especially in the Oval Office.https://t.co/yl3S3mfVmc
— wretchardthecat (@wretchardthecat) January 7, 2024
WELL, YES: Jan. 6 rioters prosecuted ‘far too broadly’: Bill Barr.
Related:
“I’ve had sex more violent than this insurrection” — lol https://t.co/E9tHcljnQg
— Scott Adams (@ScottAdamsSays) January 6, 2024
Also: ‘Sympathy’ surging for Jan. 6 rioters, 43% agree ‘they had a point.’
UPDATE: A friend calls January 7 “a day that will live in hyperbole.”
JEFFREY CARTER: Competition, Embrace It!
ANALYSIS: TRUE. Josh Barro: Universities Are Not On The Level.
January 6, 2024
TAKING SIDES AGAINST CIVILIZATION:
Holy f@ck.@torontopolice deliver hot coffee to the Hamas supporters who are blockading the Jewish community in Armour Heights, Toronto.
— Ezra Levant 🍁🚛 (@ezralevant) January 6, 2024
IT’S TOTALLY NORMAL FOR SENIOR OFFICIALS TO DISAPPEAR FOR DAYS: Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin’s Hospitalization Saga Just Got Worse. “Is anyone else in the presidential line of succession in the hospital? If there were, we would never know. Who is talking to whom in this administration, and why is it that the easy, most simple things are disregarded or outright ignored?”
STEVE CALABRESI: January 6, 2021 Was Not an Insurrection.
OPEN THREAD: It’s Saturday night.
THEY’RE ALWAYS IN THE LAST PLACE YOU LOOK: Is a black hole stuck inside the sun?
PLUS, THEY SUCK: It Turns Out Paper Straws Might Pose a Serious Problem Too.
Well, there’s better science on this than there was supporting the plastic straw ban, which was based on a 9-year-old’s science project.
EVERYTHING IS GOING SWIMMINGLY: SecDef Hospitalized; Press Protests Lack Of Info To Public. “The Pentagon Press Association (which represents the press corp at the Pentagon) went on to say in it’s letter protesting the lack of information: ‘At a time when there are growing threats to U.S. military service members in the Middle East and the U.S. is playing key national security roles in the wars in Israel and Ukraine, it is particularly critical for the American public to be informed about the health status and decision-making ability of its top defense leader.'”
Related: A Pentagon mystery: Why was Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin’s hospital stay kept secret for days?
UPDATE: Ouch. But our ruling class sees China as a role model, so . . .
This is the type of behavior you expect from the Chinese government. https://t.co/e0Zclvnmhw
— Jennifer Griffin (@JenGriffinFNC) January 6, 2024
ANOTHER UPDATE: Hospitalized Pentagon Chief Was in Intensive Care Unit. (Bumped).