EVERYTHING IS GOING SWIMMINGLY:
Dementia Meds Meet Their Match https://t.co/Kx5O8l3WoL pic.twitter.com/9V4H7BxGFM
— The Babylon Bee (@TheBabylonBee) March 8, 2024
Related:
Biden Announces Increased Spending On Smergberd, Rustamufferns, Blabtrussels https://t.co/WyB497PZ7l pic.twitter.com/wg1GRntwrA
— The Babylon Bee (@TheBabylonBee) March 8, 2024
MATT TAIBBI: America Enters the Samizdat Era. “The Internet, in other words, was being transformed from a system for exchanging forbidden or dissenting ideas, like Samizdat, to a system for imposing top-down control over information and narrative, a GozIzdat. Worse, while the Soviets had to rely on primitive surveillance technologies, like the mandatory registration of typewriters, the Internet offered breathtaking new surveillance capability, allowing authorities to detect thoughtcrime by algorithm and instantaneously disenfranchise those on the wrong side of the information paradigm, stripping them of the ability to raise money or conduct business or communicate at all.”
Tar, feathers.
WHEN REALITY BITES:
But there is one power that will **always** be greater than govt and that is reality. The role of govt should be to align with reality, to become maximally truth seeking for its own sake, otherwise spurned reality will destroy it. Nemesis always follows Hubris.
— wretchardthecat (@wretchardthecat) March 6, 2024
And sooner or later it always does.
JOHN LUCAS: Guess Who’s Stumping for Trump?
Can you believe it? Bill Clinton — yes, ol’ Slick Willie himself — has spoken in support of getting rid of the President. Although he did not name names, his comments can only be regarded as support for Donald Trump. Who could’ve seen this coming?
Doubt me? Here is a verbatim transcript [with one minor edit in brackets] of former President Clinton’s comments to students at the University of California:
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“I think how different life looks in the road ahead for you than it did for me when I was your age. Our country is still a great country with so much good in it but we could do so much better.
“Most Americans who played by the rules for the last [four] years have been punished. The average family is working harder, spending less time with their children, paying more for their education and health care. Worried about losing their jobs, worried about the future of this nation.
“In California alone half a million jobs have been lost.
“Your state government is broke and while you’re building more jails, education is being cut and as you well know, tuition is being raised.
“The middle class in this country is declining, the poor increasing. Only the very wealthiest have done better. Your nation has fallen from first to tenth in the world in wages.
“What we got to do now is fight for real change. Change that will require us all to take on interest groups and big government. Change that will require us all to assume more responsibility. Change that will require us to move away from a country in which the top 1% control more wealth than the bottom 90% for the first time since the roaring ’20s.
“Change that will require us all to be one community again, to confront and impose on ourselves higher standards of responsibility, and to listen to one another again instead of just scream at one another. To sit down together, and learn from one another, and honestly try to change ourselves. If we’re going to rebuild America, we’ve got to create more opportunities. We’ve got to require more responsibility. We’ve got to permit more individual choice and strengthen our communities.
“How are we going to do it? I’ll tell you one thing you’ll never do any of it until you change the presidency.”
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OK, OK, time now for full disclosure: This is indeed a transcript of Bill Clinton talking to students at Cal, but it is from a campaign speech in 1992.
Heh.
YOU’LL BE SHOCKED TO LEARN THAT THIS IS A NEW YORK TIMES READER ASKING: I Hate Kids. Do I Have to Make Nice With My Nephew?
THE COUNTRY’S IN THE VERY BEST OF (SENILE, DEMENTED) HANDS:
Joe Biden finally says Laken Riley's name after refusing to do so for a week
Well kinda he actually says "Lincoln Riley" pic.twitter.com/A7Ti6eipbZ
— Media Research Center (@theMRC) March 8, 2024
STEPHEN GREEN’S POST-SOTU WRAPUP:
Did you ever get the feeling that, if only you could figure out just what the hell was going on, you'd wish you hadn't?
— Dusty Pitts 🇺🇲 (@the_dusty_pitts) March 7, 2024
UPDATE: Yep.
IT DOESN’T SEEM TO BE GOING WELL. But the press will tell us it was brilliant, even while commiserating with one another about how bad it really was.
OPEN THREAD: Who am I? Why am I here?
THE NEW SPACE RACE: SpaceX eyes March 14 for 3rd Starship test flight.
MY CONGRESSMAN COMMENTS:
President Biden has already said he won't make any orders during his SOTU speech tonight to address our Southern Border crisis.
But he will order U.S. troops to build a port in Gaza so we can ship them more taxpayer-funded aid. https://t.co/9Ygt5my78i
— Rep. Tim Burchett (@RepTimBurchett) March 7, 2024
A friend emails:
You really have to hand to the Israelis here, they’re absolutely maneuvering the United States into doing their will. Third-country postwar responsibility for the Gaza Strip is a major strategic goal for the Israelis, and we’re going to give it to them, in exchange for — well actually pretty much nothing.
The Michigan polling must be terrible.
The gratitude of the people of Gaza for the United States Armed Forces’ humanitarian efforts on their behalf will express itself just as did the gratitude of the people of Iraq, Syria, Saudi Arabia, Afghanistan, Somalia, and Lebanon when we we made comparable efforts on their behalf: they will take the aid and make strenuous efforts to slaughter as many Americans as they possibly can.
Hey, nobody messes with Joe. Barack Obama said so.
IT’S SUPPOSED TO BE SATIRE:
Aides Fitting Marionette Strings To Biden In Preparation For State Of The Union https://t.co/aDltGB5F8J pic.twitter.com/kHRofaJueD
— The Babylon Bee (@TheBabylonBee) March 7, 2024
I DID NOT EXPECT THIS: Effects of The Spanish Inquisition Can Still Be Seen in US Hispanic Healthcare.
I RAISED THE INSTA-DAUGHTER WELL: She was just telling me how she made homemade mayo with avocado oil, but then added bacon grease at the end for flavor. Genius. Like homemade Baconnaise, but better than the storebought version. Which isn’t bad.
UPDATE: Due to many requests, here’s her recipe:
I fry enough bacon to suit my heart. You want it crispy. Let cool.
Then mix an egg yolk with 1tsp dijon mustard and very slowly add 1/2 cup oil (I use a mild olive). Once it’s thickened, stir in a spoonful or two of bacon grease to taste, chop up and add a couple slices of bacon (I just eat the rest), and voila. Delicious on toast with tomatoes or stirred into pasta salad.
“I just eat the rest.” Did I raise her well, or did I raise her well?
FOUR YEARS AGO WAS OUR LAST NORMAL WEEK, AND NOBODY KNEW IT. Well, some of us had an inkling. I took my seminar out to a bar on the Thursday before spring break, and told them it might be the last time we were all together in one place, which turned out to be true. And Helen and I rented an Airbnb downtown for the weekend for a little getaway. A week later everything was locked down. Fortunately, I had plenty of supplies, and toilet paper.
SENSIBLE GUN LEGISLATION: GA: Bill Would Make Property Owners Liable For Injuries In Gun-Free Zones.
CIVIL RIGHTS UPDATE: Louisiana Becomes 28th Permitless Carry State, Gov Signs Into Law.
THE BIG TECH MENACE: Microsoft accused of selling AI tool that spews violent, sexual images to kids.
21ST CENTURY RELATIONSHIPS: Pregnant women protected from HIV by drug-emitting vaginal ring.
WELL, YES: Hochul putting the National Guard in NYC subways is a political stunt. Enforcing the law, and ending catch-and-release policies, would do more good. But that would be an admission that the current policies are failures. This is a distraction, instead.
MARK JUDGE: Mad Men or Good Men: Defending the American Men of Pre-Feminist America. Pre-Feminist America was a better America, overall. And according to the General Social Survey, women were much happier.
THEY SHOULD SET IT UP LIKE MYSTERY SCIENCE THEATER 3000: Trump says he’s going to do a ‘Play by Play’ of State of the Union.
WHY IS HIGHER EDUCATION SUCH A CESSPIT OF ANTISEMITISM? UNLV cops shut down Israeli professor’s lecture rather than remove anti-Israel protesters.
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