HUH. I WONDER WHY THAT WOULD BE?
Democrats are absolutely terrified of Elon looking into Social Security https://t.co/VjdTkp5K4o
— Jeff Carlson (@themarketswork) April 10, 2025
Author Archive: Glenn Reynolds
April 10, 2025
DON SURBER: World cheers Trump’s 10% tariff: On Wednesday, he created Wall Street’s biggest day in 24 years. “Watching the Trump’s Tariff War from afar, I find it hilarious. He has managed in the past week to get the world to accept a 10% tariff on everything while triggering Red China to engage in an actual tariff war that is financially suicidal for the communist regime. The headline from Never Trumpland was ‘Trump Caves on Tariffs After Insisting They Were Essential.’ These clowns must work for minimum wage because their negotiating skills are nonexistent.”
CDR SALAMANDER: All Hail the First of Hopefully Many Maritime Focused Executive Orders. “Time is of the essence.”
CHRIS BRAY: Eisgruber Pretends (But Arguments Work Better When They’re True).
On NPR this week — the broadcast version of The Atlantic, the place for utterly conventional thought from people who are always wrong — a deeply concerned interviewer sat down with the president of Princeton University, Christopher Eisgruber, to talk about the vicious monster Trump’s anti-intellectual assault on the modern research university. The discussion became quaint immediately, as Eisgruber spooled out a depiction of the university as a great citadel of knowledge, a castle of wisdom where disinterested experts fearlessly seek out only the purest expressions of truth, striving selflessly as servants to the people . . . Actual research: How lesbians feel about Dawson’s Creek. Universities have been hollowed out, are being hollowed out, and have been politicized. You can’t set foot on a campus and not see the centrality of left-focused activism to academic culture. Which is fine, to a point, and everybody gets to believe what they want to believe, although part two of that argument is that no one has a right to other people’s money. But for crying out loud, don’t pretend that academia is an open culture engaged in a disinterested pursuit of truth, and don’t pretend that suddenly — suddenly, for the first time ever! — Donald Trump is politicizing the modern American university. The modern American university is politicized. We know. It’s kind of not that hard to figure out.
And he has the poster.
FAT CHANCE: Macron Should Be a Statesman and Pardon Le Pen.
TRUE:
Any nation that can’t transport thousands of drones across oceans – and can’t reload and refuel them with sealift – won’t just fall behind, it’ll vanish from the battlefield. Logistics wins wars. https://t.co/HP9SsgCXvE
— John Ʌ Konrad V (@johnkonrad) April 7, 2025
April 9, 2025
#JOURNALISM:
Of all the many media hoaxes, the one I laugh about the most was when the New York Times assured us "anonymous" was a HUGE, Cabinet Secretary-level figure and it turned out that they were 1000% lying and it was Miles Taylor, IV. Someone wayyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy down the DHS food chain https://t.co/CjZtyxJov4
— Mollie (@MZHemingway) April 9, 2025
OPEN THREAD: Hump Day.
I CAN’T BELIEVE THIS LOSER WAS THE DEMOCRATS’ DESIGNATED “NORMAL GUY:”
🚨 Tim Walz was heckled and booed by military veterans in Minnesota today over his stolen valor. pic.twitter.com/It80ZIeZCC
— Dustin Grage (@GrageDustin) April 10, 2025
THE NEW SPACE RACE: Redwire and ispace U.S. to collaborate on lunar missions.
NEWS YOU CAN USE: These 7 Common Daily Habits Could Be Damaging Your Kidneys.
A STELLAR MYSTERY: Alien Structures or Shock Waves? Strange Filaments Discovered in the Milky Way Baffle Astronomers. I checked with an expert:
LEFTIES THINK TRUMP PROCEEDS BY IMPULSE INSTEAD OF BY PLAN:
Bingo. He, Bessent, Lutnick and Navarro clearly modeled out the various scenarios.
Ultimately tariffs are a high stakes carrot or stick negotiation, a style Foggy Bottom and the rest of the globalists have zero concept of– but the business world thrives on.
— Steve 🇺🇸🦅🇺🇸 (@SteveSellsMD) April 9, 2025
Trump just forced 75+ countries to the negotiating table to fix our trade deficits on a tight timeline
That’s a huge win
But for your comedic interests, here is a clown take👇🏼 https://t.co/7YcK276u0X
— DC_Draino (@DC_Draino) April 9, 2025
Related:
Liberals Devastated As Stock Market Recovers https://t.co/m3MVBz2cPS pic.twitter.com/xGnz02iw9d
— The Babylon Bee (@TheBabylonBee) April 9, 2025
This was brilliantly executed by @realDonaldTrump. Textbook, Art of the Deal.
— Bill Ackman (@BillAckman) April 9, 2025
Yes, totally caved by… *checks notes*…. successfully using his leverage to bring the nations of the world to the negotiating table for fairer trade deals while realigning global trade against China. https://t.co/akUXzDihd8
— Greg Price (@greg_price11) April 9, 2025
MAKING AMERICA GREAT AGAIN:
🚨 @POTUS signs an Executive Order to end the Obama-Biden war on water pressure and Make America's Showers Great Again pic.twitter.com/NO4qaOj0xv
— Rapid Response 47 (@RapidResponse47) April 9, 2025
Flashback: Low-Flow Showerheads Actually Use More Water Than High Pressure Ones.
Intrepid researchers at the University of Surrey had placed sensors in 290 showers around campus, recording data for 39 weeks from 86,421 individual shower sessions. “Water consumption,” the study found, sensationally, “was reduced by up to 56% with high water pressure.”
The researchers, seeming puzzled by the results, recommended more study. But they also offered a theory along these lines: When a showerhead delivers a good, fizzing spray, people pop in and briskly get their business done, unlike when faced with a drizzle that prompts them to wonder if the Head & Shoulders will ever be adequately washed off their head and shoulders.
But then, making your life worse is the actual goal. Everything else is just marketing. Related:
ONCE A CONSPIRACY THEORY: HHS, EPA launch review of fluoride in drinking water.