PUNCH BACK TWICE AS HARD:
THIS IS BEAUTIFUL! The View had to read a legal notice about the fake claims made against Matt Gaetz, or he would've sued them into oblivion 😂
He's not even Attorney General yet, and they're already walking on eggshells.
pic.twitter.com/yHwzd3T1kF— George (@BehizyTweets) November 20, 2024
PUNCH A NAZI:
Tell me how a masked mob chanting "whose streets?" "our streets" through an Orthodox Jewish neighborhood is "freeing Palestine" rather than just open antisemitism.
Imagine a group of masked Klansmen shouting the same slogans through a black neighborhood and you get the idea. https://t.co/cafRwcQdQ0— David Bernstein (@ProfDBernstein) November 20, 2024
THEY LITERALLY DON’T THINK THOSE SHOULD BE ALLOWED: X Is the Nonpartisan News Source, Which Drives Liberals Nuts. “Twitter was crucial to the success of the MAGA movement not because Elon Musk made Twitter/X a MAGA haven–look at those poll numbers, and you can see that Democrats and Republicans are here in equal measure–but because the news media was so like Pravda that having a space where people could see a more synoptic view of the world destroyed the Truman Show the media was trying to create.”
Related:
The media wants you to think @elonmusk has turned X into a conservative echo chamber.
Turns out it's the most balanced platform in the world. pic.twitter.com/BgABhAVm72
— Cabot Phillips (@cabot_phillips) November 19, 2024
RUSSIANS! UNDER MY BED!
If Tulsi Gabbard is a Russian asset, why has the US military allowed her to serve in it for 26 years, up to and including today as a Lt. Col. in the Army Reserve?
It's rather to difficult to explain that except with the conclusion that the accusation is utter baseless bullshit.
— Glenn Greenwald (@ggreenwald) November 19, 2024
Telling paragraph about Tulsi in the NYT. There's no evidence she's working with Russia. But she agrees with Russia about some geopolitical issues.
Would they ever write this paragraph about a Member of Congress parroting Israeli, Saudi, Turkish talking points? pic.twitter.com/Ncwo8Bd7t1
— Zaid Jilani (@ZaidJilani) November 19, 2024
THAT’S WHO THEY ARE, THAT’S WHAT THEY DO: Media Lie About Pete Hegseth’s Christian Faith To Falsely Smear Him As Racist.
SOME THOUGHTS ON APPOINTMENTS from a friend:
Bill Hagerty has the creds and integrity to take on the job. He will be an easy confirm.
A good man with international business experience and a understanding of Asia.
Not a flashy guy no baggage, no drama. Exactly what we need.The test of Musk influence and the influence of DOGE Committee will be the Sect of Agriculture choice and the Farm subsidies that depend on decisions made at that level.
Stay tuned.
OPEN THREAD: Party on.
SHUT THEM DOWN, THEY’RE PRE-EMPTED: The California Coastal Commission’s ruling to limit SpaceX launches threatens national defense.
SEISMIC PRECURSOR: Mysterious Signal Preceded The Most Powerful Eruption of Modern Times. “The fracture also caused a Rayleigh wave, a type of acoustic wave that moves along a solid surface – in this case, Earth’s surface. The wave was detected 15 minutes before the main volcanic eruption on January 15, 2022, from about 750 kilometers (466 miles) away.”
MY NEW YORK POST COLUMN: How Trump will keep the left on defense — in transition and beyond.
My guesstimate is that it would take the, ah, disappearance of a dozen people or less (maybe even as few as five) for the spark to finally hit the powder. Block deployment of IRGC support forces, and there would be a boom today.
One of the largest factors preventing the boom is our current Regency, which has gone to extraordinary lengths to protect the mad mullahs. And to fund them. This has been Obama policy from the start, in defiance of facts, logic, morality, and more.
Why? One can surmise either an incredibly naive belief in the stabilizing influence of Iran as a regional power, or that a significant number of our policymakers have been on the payroll of (or blackmailed by, or both) Iran, or its patron, China.
SPACE: SpaceX launches sixth Starship but aborts booster landing. The booster, though, did successfully put the Starship upper stage, known as Ship 31, onto a suborbital trajectory. During its time in space, SpaceX briefly reignited one of the vehicle’s Raptor engines, a test of that capability needed for deorbit burns on later missions.”
I REMEMBER WHEN IV VITAMIN C WAS CONSIDERED A QUACK TREATMENT: High-dose IV vitamin C plus chemotherapy found to double survival time in advanced pancreatic cancer.
WELL, THAT’S NICE: The 2025 BMW X3 Gives You a Lot More—for the Same Money.
NEWS YOU CAN USE: Even the mighty shotgun has some shortcomings. “A shotgun is a short-range tool, ideal for ranges of 40 yards and closer when loaded with standard 00 buckshot loads. While it’s true that hunters can sometimes down game at 70 yards or slightly farther, their shotguns, magnum loads and sights/scopes have been optimized for longer ranges, and therefore are not optimized for shorter ranges that are vastly more common for defensive purposes. Certainly, a shotgun can be used at longer ranges with slugs in a pinch, but expecting 100-yard groups smaller than 6 inches with your 18-inch-barreled home-defense shotgun is wishful thinking.”
If I’m shooting people at 100 yards, I’m not doing home defense anymore.
ORBITAL MECHANICS MAKE THAT DIFFICULT: Why can’t we just launch all of Earth’s garbage into the sun?
DOUGLAS HOLZ-EAKIN ON CUTTING ENTITLEMENTS.
SPACEX PRESIDENT PREDICTS RAPID INCREASE IN STARSHIP LAUNCH RATE: “It’s going to be hard to catch us, but I certainly hope people try.”
EVERYTHING IS GOING SWIMMINGLY:
Let’s check in on Rosie O’Donnell two weeks after the election… pic.twitter.com/GHmSdWlAJZ
— Benny Johnson (@bennyjohnson) November 18, 2024
THAT’S BECAUSE THEY DON’T SPANK THEM: Poll: Many parents struggle to manage kids’ anger.
IT’S THE ONLY CHOICE IF YOU CARE ABOUT YOUR CITIZENS AND THE PLANET: Italy and Czechoslovakia Plead for Nuclear Energy.
A CONFEDERACY OF DUNCES: Health care organization launches ‘Stop RFK War Room.’ “Democratic-aligned health care advocacy groups are putting together a strategy to fight Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s nomination to be HHS secretary.”
Plus: “Woodhouse acknowledged that while some of Kennedy’s ideas might have broader support — like his efforts to ban certain food additives — his views on vaccines and his plans to cut the National Institutes of Health and the Food and Drug Administration are ‘too dangerous’ to take his nomination laying down. ‘Just because Hannibal Lecter has a couple good ideas on something, doesn’t mean I want to invite Hannibal Lecter to dinner,’ he said.”
Good to see that Democrats have abandoned their over-the-top demonization of opponents post-election. But I suspect this is mostly a grift, to give consultants and operatives a new source of funds post-election. Especially if Kamala’s operation winds up stiffing them, as seems likely. . . .
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