Author Archive: Glenn Reynolds
February 4, 2025
MATT TAIBBI: America’s Smear Machine Put on Trial: A week of heated confirmation hearings served as a referendum on America’s Reputational Death Star. Of course, the dirty and dishonest nature of America’s confirmation process goes back to Advise and Consent. And Allen Drury mocked a press that was not as much better than today’s as you might think.
February 3, 2025
INDEED HE IS.
You people doxxed a minor for awkwardly smiling. You told the entire world where he went to school. A Disney producer said he wanted to shove him and his friends into a wood chipper.
Trump isn't going to make the left "start to be cruel"
He's going to make you stop. https://t.co/kKfC9WfQwt pic.twitter.com/ul1QgAswJv
— Seamus (FreedomToons) (@seamus_coughlin) February 3, 2025
OPEN THREAD: Monday, Monday.
I HAVE A QUESTION FOR YOU, DEAR READERS:
Six young hyper geniuses now literally have their lives depending on Trump winning it all. Forever.
— Spider Miner (@Shamed_Vulture) February 4, 2025
And that question is, is this part of Elon’s plan? Personally, I think he explained the risks and the target they’d be wearing, and they agreed. It’s also likely, of course, that they were smart enough to know that already.
THE NEW SPACE RACE: A red moon: Will the next ‘Sputnik Moment’ be made in China?
THAT’S RIGHT.
Trump: let’s shrink the government, enforce our laws to protect our citizens, shrink the bureaucracy and guarantee free speech for all.
Communists: this is fascism! https://t.co/q9RlXNLON9
— Not the Bee (@Not_the_Bee) February 1, 2025
JAMES PETHOKOUKIS: The Doomsday Clock needs a pro-progress switch to the Genesis Clock.
Flashback: The Clock Ticks.
VINAY PRASAD: A review of the newly approved novel non-opioid pain reliever suzetrigine (Journavx). Seems only modestly effective.
CHICANERY:
The thing that never happens happened again. https://t.co/PumeFyGy0G
— Catturd ™ (@catturd2) February 3, 2025
I’M SURE IT’S ALL TRUMP’S FAULT SOMEHOW. As bird flu ravages poultry industry, the damage spreads.
On the other hand, one of my Facebook friends posted this as her answer to efforts to do so:
UPDATE: Actually, though, we just paid $3.99 for a dozen of “Eggland’s Best” eggs, Helen’s favorite.
ANOTHER UPDATE: From the comments:
A LOT OF POCKETS WERE LINED, THOUGH. 11 years after a celebrated opening, massive solar plant faces a bleak future in the Mojave Desert.
WELL, I WAS RIGHT. The Left Gave Us Trump 2.0. And they’re not going to like it.
IT’S NOT LIKE THAT. IT IS THAT.
Criticizing Musk for wanting to protect taxes is like crying because someone shut off your corruption tap.
— Jacob (@jacob_w_palmer) February 3, 2025
Related:
BREAKING: IIhan Omar loses it, shrieking over Trump's freezing of USAID payments, calls him a dictator:
"We talked about Trump wanting to be a dictator on day one, and here we are. This is what the beginning of dictatorship looks like!"
— Jack (@jackunheard) February 3, 2025
Yes, dictators are noted for cutting back on sham foreign aid. It’s practically a trademark.
WELL, THIS IS THE 21ST CENTURY, YOU KNOW: Prosthetic limb gains more natural control through hand–brain connection.
THE LEFT WAS DESIGNED BY AND FOR GARBAGE PEOPLE:
This. This is the chemically pure resentment goblin spirit of the left.
Guy sees a kid, just a kid, a literal genius who won a six figure prize for using AI to decipher an ancient scroll that had stumped archeologists for decades, who gives up a 7 figure income in tech to serve… https://t.co/PbMuf71T4B
— Pascal-Emmanuel Gobry (@pegobry_en) February 3, 2025
A very important and symbolic detail is that the DOGE wiz kid who deciphered the scroll didn't come from MIT or Harvard et al. but graduated from the University of Nebraska https://t.co/21PGWQYUgJ
— Lomez (@L0m3z) February 3, 2025
Pretty much every day when deployed on active duty, I put my life and the life of my Sailors in the very capable hands of young men and women even younger than these guys.
We’ll be just fine, probably great. https://t.co/yRjl6VFb1L
— cdrsalamander (@cdrsalamander) February 3, 2025
UPDATE:
Time to confess:
Media reports saying that @DOGE has some of world’s best software engineers are in fact true.
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) February 3, 2025
ANOTHER UPDATE: Haha!
My favorite part about DOGE is how one of the guys will be some kind of insane prodigy who decoded the Herculaneum Papyrii at the age of 20 and the hit piece author’s bio trying to take him down is like, “associate staff writer for general topics, hobbies include having a cat.” pic.twitter.com/wgXE2RkVCL
— Payton Alexander (@AlexanderPayton) February 3, 2025
FLASHBACK: Sorting for Stupidity? Thoughts on the state of the federal government. “Thus, my hypothesis is that these factors produced a new kind of sorting among the bureaucrats, in which the brighter ones were more likely to leave meaning that, over time, the people staffing the agencies would become, on average, dumber. And note the double whammy – the agencies are becoming dumber because they were more powerful, since that produced the lobbying dynamic that made the smarter people more likely to leave.”
A LOT OF WINNING GOING ON:
Never mind my question, I didn’t actually want an answer, she said, once he answered her. https://t.co/qLM1yff76u
— Mary Katharine Ham (@mkhammer) February 3, 2025
But I’m not tired of it.