IT’S COMING BACK, THANKS TO ELON AND THE DONALD: Virginia Postrel: The Lost Glamour of the Future.
Leftists were crushed by what Normal Mailer called the “Revenge of the Squares.” While they yammered about changing the world, the guys at NASA with the flattops and pocket protectors went and actually did it.
HE’S RIGHT. IT’S THE INTELLECTUAL EQUIVALENT OF THE WUHAN VIRUS LAB:
The wellspring of the mind virus is academia https://t.co/LYVt6tG6YZ
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) December 9, 2024
MY LATEST SUBSTACK ESSAY: 2024: A Damn Close-Run Thing.
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ANOTHER GREAT TRUMP APPOINTMENT:
I'm extremely honored by President Trump's nomination to assist with our nation's civil rights agenda. It has been my dream to be able to serve our great country, and I am so excited to be part of an incredible team of lawyers led by @PamBondi. I cannot wait to get to work!
— Harmeet K. Dhillon (@pnjaban) December 10, 2024
She and I did a free-speech panel together at Stanford Law several years ago and I was quite impressed.
OPEN THREAD: You oughta know how all the pros play the game.
THEY DIDN’T START “FACT-CHECKING” UNTIL THE FACTS STARTED TO GET OUT: Is It Any Wonder That No Sane Person Takes Fact Checks Seriously?
And then they started lying.
WELL:
🚨BREAKING: Senator Joni Ernst announces her SUPPORT For Pete Hegseth as Secretary of Defense.
Ernst says she believes Pete Hegseth and not “anonymous sources”
WE WON: pic.twitter.com/j73zDDkdtV
— Benny Johnson (@bennyjohnson) December 9, 2024
I think we can chalk this up to the power of X. In the 2016 media environment, it probably wouldn’t have happened.
SHE SHOULD BE:
She’s terrified. https://t.co/LtK8RJXl7Y
— Catturd ™ (@catturd2) December 9, 2024
#JOURNALISM:
Rolling Stone describes Jordan Neely as a “Michael Jackson impersonator”
He had 42 prior arrests including for assault, and was a violent drug addict who threatened people on the subway.
The media is evil pic.twitter.com/TlLQXEOqGi
— Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) December 9, 2024
THE CLOCK HAS STRUCK THIRTEEN TIMES. And now we’re seeing a preference cascade, as nobody wants to put up with the leftist bullying that’s obviously crazy.
NY Times readers are generally self hating masochists who lack the capacity for basic reality testing.
But even they think it’s ridiculous Penny was prosecuted and thought he should have gotten off.
Impossible to overstate the unpopularity of lib criminal justice derangements. pic.twitter.com/JGlAq3oNwN
— Coddled affluent professional (@feelsdesperate) December 9, 2024
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Sorry, but it ain’t the summer of 2020 anymore. America went into a brief period of psychosis — COVID-19 lockdowns, George Floyd & BLM riots, Defund the Police bullshit — but it seems that moment has passed. Let the righteous Not Guilty verdict for Daniel Penny be its tombstone. https://t.co/95fiNaOHYE
— Jerry Dunleavy IV 🇺🇸 (@JerryDunleavy) December 9, 2024
Hey remember that time when a bunch of parents got put on an FBI terror watch list for yelling at school board meetings about teachers showing their kids gay p0rn? https://t.co/y9s3D8rbmG
— Oilfield Rando (@Oilfield_Rando) December 9, 2024
D.C. INJUSTICE: How DC judges are brazenly denying any relief for J6ers even as President Trump continues to promise pardons are in the making on Day One.
Something needs to be done about D.C.’s impossibly partisan legal system. Personally, I’m in favor of abolishing “home rule” for DC. Our nation’s capital should be ruled by the nation, not by the apparatchiks who live there.
GUNS ARE TERRIBLE, DANGEROUS, AND CORRUPTING AND ONLY WE SHOULD HAVE THEM: Michigan Democrats Exempt Themselves From Capitol Gun Ban.
21ST CENTURY RELATIONSHIPS: Top 8 Online Platforms for Interracial Dating in 2024.
SHOCKING NEWS FROM THE WORLD OF SCIENCE: Quality of parent-child relationships predicts adulthood well-being, 21-country study finds.
YES.
100%! Daniel Penny, Florida waits for you. https://t.co/M0och4byUz
— Karol Markowicz (@karol) December 9, 2024
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Don’t worry about the libs, sure they’re super mad about that verdict, but they’ll brush themselves off and go right to looking for another white guy to sacrifice on the altar of their new religion
— Oilfield Rando (@Oilfield_Rando) December 9, 2024
UPDATE (From Ed): Ron DeSantis tweets, “The acquittal of Daniel Penny is clearly the just and correct verdict. I must admit I was skeptical that a jury in New York City would reach a unanimous not guilty verdict, and the jury deserves credit for doing the right thing. Meanwhile, is there a worse prosecutor in America than Alvin Bragg?”
FOR MY FRIENDS, EVERYTHING. FOR MY ENEMIES, THE LAW. How The Régime Treats Is Enemies, And Its Friends.
SO I’M PUTTING THIS PROF DOWN AS PRO-PANTSING, I GUESS: Trans professor: House reps didn’t ‘offer any evidence’ trans colleague is really a man.
Also, why do they always look like that?
HIGHER EDUCATION BUBBLE UPDATE: University of South Carolina student eats Constitution in front of TPUSA display.
THE PROBLEM IS, TECHNOCRATS WERE SUPPOSED TO BE COMPETENT: Technocracy’s last stand: Keir Starmer is oblivious to the anger that’s building.
WATCHING HER FACIAL EXPRESSIONS WITH THE SOUND OFF IS REVEALING.
I call liberal journalists “activists,” because that’s what they are, and Welker couldn’t be clearer about that here. https://t.co/SFwTQWZzUM
— Karol Markowicz (@karol) December 9, 2024
THEN: OBAMACARE HAS FIXED HEALTHCARE! NOW: HEALTHCARE IS SO BAD IT JUSTIFIES ASSASSINATIONS!
"And it’s not lost on many of us that it’s being done by the same people who unilaterally overhauled the industry to their liking a decade ago."
Yeah, we noticed.
"O-care is the bestus and is going to fix everything!"
::O-care passes::
"This system and everyone in it suck." https://t.co/81nmcBh6Nh— Physics Geek (@physicsgeek) December 9, 2024
I GUESS THE BAATH PARTY IS ALL WASHED UP: Syria live updates: Putin to give Assad asylum in Russia, Kremlin says.
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