INDEED.
…Vance spoke with a quintessentially American voice. It was clear, honest, and unafraid. There was no pretense or evasion. It was a speech about who we are as a nation and the values that still define us — and no longer define our allies.
— Jonathan Turley (@JonathanTurley) February 15, 2025
COLOR ME UNSURPRISED: Epidural steroid injections for some forms of back pain can help in short term.
WITHOUT THE DRUG ABUSE: Donald Trump, the new JFK?
TRUST THE SCIENCE: Over 500 COVID studies retracted for ‘unreliable’ information: watchdog.
SUNLIGHT IS THE BEST DISINFECTANT: Texas university removes ICE raids guidance for faculty after Campus Reform report.
JOSH BLACKMAN: “Fools” Rush In the Department of Justice. “In recent years, the Department of Justice has prosecuted public officials in high profile cases. In several of those cases, the Supreme Court unanimously reversed the convictions.”
THEIR WORLD IS OVER, BUT THEY REFUSE TO NOTICE:
JD Vance's denunciation of the demise of conscience speech in Europe is devastating because the secular establishment denies such a thing is even possible, or ridicules its existence (except for Islam) and have left the field open to speakers like Vance to rampage through.
— wretchardthecat (@wretchardthecat) February 15, 2025
YOU COULD HAVE JUST LEFT IT AT “GEORGE CLOONEY’S OUTDATED.” George Clooney’s outdated new play celebrates the ‘truth-telling’ press.
MATT TAIBBI: Germany Opens Big Fat Pie Hole. “German Foreign Minister Boris Pistorius disapproves of J.D. Vance’s criticism of European censorship laws.”
A somewhat different reaction from the NATO Secretary General: “You are absolutely right. We have to grow up.”
Meanwhile, J.D. Vance’s reaction to German criticism is likely to be along these lines:
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Apologize for telling them that they shouldn’t arrest people for silently praying? That’s your position? https://t.co/rC6eXlCiZN
— Kurt Schlichter (@KurtSchlichter) February 14, 2025
AMERICA’S PAPER OF RECORD:
Europeans Beg JD Vance To Become President Of Europe https://t.co/i2xXFJFHvu pic.twitter.com/F4cxEqVysO
— The Babylon Bee (@TheBabylonBee) February 14, 2025
American liberalism clearly experienced dramatic changes in the 2010s, and these changes are specific and comprehensible. Liberals in 2010 weren’t the same as liberals in 2020. They just weren’t. They changed in comprehensible and expressible ways. And this absolutely dogged insistence that no such change occurred is one of the weirdest, most obviously dishonest political claims of my lifetime. It’s a record of a political and intellectual tendency defined by its powerlessness and directed by people who think that asking them to defend their ideals is a kind of crime. And, just… why? Why why why? A lot of dedicated people insisted that American liberalism had to evolve, worked hard to force it to evolve, and ultimately achieved remarkable success in doing so. It’s not a surprise, and frankly not interesting, that I personally think that that evolution was mostly disastrous. But so what? Shouldn’t these people be celebrating how liberalism was changed over time, to emphasize race and gender and sexual orientation to an even greater degree than it already did? I just find it bizarre, as well as willfully obtuse, to defend a political project by insisting that it never existed, especially when the evidence of its influence is all around us.
It’s fallout from the crazymaking of Higher Ed, and from the Democratic Party’s takeover by well-off white people who fight for prestige based on virtue-signaling luxury beliefs.
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Something Democrats need to address to win again how exhausting and mean our culture is.
I am staring at Debatecon this weekend. One of the other guests there is conservative @IamSean90. We agree on literally nothing. Text him to set up coffee? BOOM. DONE.
Meanwhile, I have…
— Brianna Wu (@BriannaWu) February 14, 2025
THE LIES DON’T HAVE TO BE CONSISTENT, THEY JUST HAVE TO BE CONSTANTLY REPEATED: “I say hilariously, because there has been all this effort to portray Trump as a huge narcissist who must be losing his mind over the ascension of Musk into a ‘co-President.’ That Time Magazine cover has been talked about as if it’s an enraging taunt that is utterly at odds with the idea of Trump as a maniacal egoist. And now here’s Trump, calmly sitting, and Musk, standing, gleefully gabbing to the press about all the cool stuff he’s doing and horsing around with his short little tiny kid, and Barbaro’s idea is that we must all still think the same thing about Trump. I’d love to credit Barbaro with having a super-dry sense of humor, but the next speakers didn’t take a cue to say, wow, we’ve got a whole new Trump here and let’s try to understand him.”
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Wish I had a dollar for all the pros last year who told me Trump can't share the limelight and would never bring on Kennedy and the others
Guy has shared more limelight than most politicians ever
— Walter Kirn (@walterkirn) February 13, 2025
OPEN THREAD: Happy Valentine’s Day.
DAVID STROM: I was wrong about Trump. Well, a lot of people were.
THE JOKES LIBERALS USED TO MAKE: As “Saturday Night Live” turns 50, political correctness hamstrings the show’s efforts at comedy.
HE’S RIGHT, YOU KNOW:
The deep state has a lot less power when you stop giving it the benefit of the doubt that it’s acting in good faith and understand that it’s just a bunch of grubby little political hacks exploiting the system. https://t.co/g4LCuQsdLo
— Kurt Schlichter (@KurtSchlichter) February 14, 2025
TRUMP IS SHOWING THE WAY, AS MILLEI DID, BUT ON A MUCH LARGER SCALE:
While governing the US Trump is also awakening populations world-wide to the quiet corruption of their own governments, which also divert taxpayer money to their NGO friends, also use defense spending to feed uncompetitive mil industries, and perpetuate overstaffed bureaucracies
— Edward N Luttwak (@ELuttwak) February 14, 2025
THIS SEEMS RIGHT: Judge Orders LSU To Return Law Prof To The Classroom Despite His Use Of Vulgar Language In Criticism Of Gov. Landry And President Trump. His comments were puerile and narcissistic, but warranted a talking-to from the Dean, not an attempted firing.
I suspect, though, that he wouldn’t have been out in support of a law professor who said “f*ck Barack Obama” and told students that they should be ashamed if they’d voted for him.
I WANT TO CARRY ONE IN MY SLEEVE LIKE A RIVERBOAT GAMBLER: The Classics: Eliot Over/Under Derringer.
I’VE MENTIONED BEFORE THAT MY NEPHEW IN THE ARMY HAS HAD TROUBLE GETTING FED: Over $151 Million Taken from Soldiers’ Paychecks for Food Costs Spent Elsewhere by the Army. “The Army is repurposing more than half of the money it collects from junior enlisted soldiers for food, according to data reviewed by Military.com. The numbers suggest that a large portion of those funds are not going toward feeding soldiers, a diversion of resources coming at a time when troops increasingly struggle to find nutritious food on base. The money is collected in what amounts to a tax on troops — taken from their Basic Allowance for Subsistence (BAS) payments, roughly $460 per month that is automatically deducted from the paychecks of service members who live in barracks and is intended to help cover food costs. For junior enlisted troops who earn about $30,000 annually, the cost can be consequential. . . . It’s unclear what specifically the additional funds taken from soldiers are being spent on, but they do not appear to be going toward feeding soldiers.”
Feeding the troops properly should be a top priority, and whoever’s behind this should end up in Leavenworth.
Or at least do this:
Ground every Army VIP air transport and every GO loses their chef and valet until this is unscrewed. https://t.co/uPEYBaHm5c
— Ezra A. Cohen (@EzraACohen) February 14, 2025
LOL, “CURRENT JUSTICE OFFICIALS” ARE COMPLAINING ABOUT “BRAZEN POLITICIZATION.” Where were they for the last 16 years at least?
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Every single one of these lawyers who is now resigning 1) did not heroically resign after any of the many Biden outrages; 2) knows they will get their toes shrimped by the regime media and their social circles; and 3) will walk into hugely lucrative jobs within days.
They have…— Kurt Schlichter (@KurtSchlichter) February 14, 2025
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