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Author Archive: Glenn Reynolds
February 4, 2025
BETTER PUT SOME ICE ON THAT BURN:
Eugene should never be ashamed that he’s Jewish
It’s enough that we’re ashamed that he’s Jewish https://t.co/6mXV0EKUzT
— Ron Coleman (@RonColeman) February 5, 2025
OPEN THREAD: Tuesday’s groovy.
MY NEW YORK POST COLUMN: Smashing the ‘rice bowls’ — Why elites are lashing out at Trump and Musk’s reforms.
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I don’t like reporting secondhand info, so take this with a grain of salt. I repeat: take this story of rich liberal panic with a grain of salt.
A liberal friend of mine has a very liberal friend—let’s call him Marko. Everybody loves him. He’s rich, always relaxed, has a ton of… pic.twitter.com/SMRVugj6Vm
— John Ʌ Konrad V (@johnkonrad) February 4, 2025
UPDATE:
You have to understand that hundreds if not thousands of parasitic NGO offices are located in and around DC.
And all of the people staffing them are staring at the abyss of not being able to pay their bills with our confiscated earnings. https://t.co/sZSbafL6Rc
— Oilfield Rando (@Oilfield_Rando) February 5, 2025
SECOND-HAND SMOKE: Children Who Live With Cannabis Smokers Also Test Positive for the Drug.
We’ve been warned about second-hand tobacco smoke for years. Weed somehow gets a pass.
ONLY WHEN DEMOCRATS LOSE:
Is that what we’re calling elections now? https://t.co/BlgPMHwLnM
— Kurt Schlichter (@KurtSchlichter) February 4, 2025
WHY THEY’RE SQUEALING SO LOUDLY:
48 vCPUs are throttled curating the USAID grant network for every single EIN, will take a while (~12 hours). Which is fine, it gives @watilo time to prettify it in the morning.
Blame the federal government for creating such computational complexity.
But here's a teaser – this… pic.twitter.com/a8v2ERxxXC
— DataRepublican (small r) (@DataRepublican) February 4, 2025
THE E.V. BUBBLE CONTINUES TO DEFLATE: Aston Martin CEO Teases Hybrids and Scales Back EV Plans.
NEVER A BAD IDEA: GOA Encourages Members To Remind Trump About 2A Promises.
CHANGE: Starlink profit growing rapidly as it faces a moment of promise and peril. “The key takeaway I want everybody to walk away with is, if SpaceX was building the Starlink system to pay for a Mars colony, we’ve got evidence that the company will generate the type of free cash flows from the business that could pay for said endeavor.”
SHOCKING NEWS FROM THE WORLD OF SCIENCE: Women speak 3,000 more words daily than men during midlife, study shows.
WILL THEY WORK BETTER IN ARUBA? Your environment affects how well your medications work.
THE CURRENT POLITICAL ENVIRONMENT SUMMARIZED:
Guy trying to describe how bad Trump is:
“He just shut down a government agency!”
*crowd cheers*
“All the workers are out in the streets crying!”
*crowd cheers more*
“And he’s not done! He’s going to do it more government agencies!”
*crowd goes nuts*
— Frank J. Fleming (@IMAO_) February 3, 2025
HIGHER EDUCATION BUBBLE UPDATE: Harvard students more focused on extracurriculars than academics: Faculty committee recommends attendance policy after finding few students ‘prioritize their courses.’ “The findings come amid growing skepticism by employers to hire Ivy League graduates, as reports expose grade inflation and students’ struggles to read a single book cover to cover in the course of a four-year undergraduate program.”
K12 IMPLOSION UPDATE:
His name is Gene Wu, Chair of the Texas House Democrats.
He went to private school.
He sends his kids to private school. pic.twitter.com/lqiu45jFZl
— Corey A. DeAngelis, school choice evangelist (@DeAngelisCorey) February 3, 2025
GOOD, BECAUSE IT’S VERY UNPOPULAR: The Left won’t let go of woke.
DON SURBER: Trump has frenemies jumping through his hoops.
#JOURNALISM:
Forty-three paragraphs into the NYT's latest hit piece on @elonmusk, the six (!) by-lined reporters reveal that the federal government lost $236 billion to apparent fraud ("improper payments") in 2023 alone. Maybe this isn't the dunk you guys thought it was? pic.twitter.com/7UDVijgVMe
— Michael Shellenberger (@shellenberger) February 4, 2025
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— Rothmus 🏴 (@Rothmus) February 4, 2025
Plus:
LOL at anyone who pretended Joe Biden was in charge for four years suddenly acting concerned about “shadow government.” https://t.co/j3bYqoBUA8
— Sean Davis (@seanmdav) February 4, 2025
HE REALLY IS A CARICATURE AT THIS POINT: Father James Martin and the Tired Leftism of the Jesuits.
HAHA: Frank “The End of History” Fukuyama is unhappy with how things are going.
In the year prior to November’s election, there were deep concerns among Donald Trump’s opponents concerning the agenda for attacking the “deep state” that was outlined in detail in the Heritage Foundation’s Project 2025. These plans included resurrecting “Schedule F,” an executive order issued at the end of the first Trump administration that stripped virtually all bureaucrats of their civil service protections and placed them into an “at-will” category that would allow them to be fired without cause. . . .
Well, the new administration took office on January 20, and has now in effect revived Schedule F. What is remarkable is that the mainstream press has failed to pick up on this, or to inform the public of the likely consequences of this move.
Plus: “Consider what this may mean. If Trump hand-picks a new IRS chief, that individual can be pressured by the president to order audits of journalists, CEOs, NGOs and NGO leaders.” Har de har har. We had that throughout the Obama and Biden administrations.
Plus: “DOGE is now acting like a hired gun.” Well, yes. It’s basically there to advise the President on waste and fraud that it finds, which turn out to be copious and shameless. Naturally the establishment doesn’t like this. My take on all these complaints is: You don’t have to sell me, I already voted for him. Or maybe “don’t threaten me with a good time.”
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And there it is. https://t.co/XsJ68wjdw4
— Catturd ™ (@catturd2) February 3, 2025