FLASHBACK: How David Brooks Created Donald Trump.
Related: Liberals have chosen The Donald as their ‘Destructor.’
And then they acted to make him more powerful than they could imagine.
Author Archive: Glenn Reynolds
January 27, 2025
SCIENCE, UNSETTLED: For real, we may be taking blood pressure readings all wrong.
#JOURNALISM:
— Katy Grimes (@KATYSaccitizen) January 26, 2025
CHANGE:
The GOP has turned a 11 pt deficit on who Americans trust on immigration in Trump's first term at roughly this point into a 22 point lead right now.
Moreover, the percentage who say we're on the right track on immigration is up 23 points under Trump than it was under Biden. pic.twitter.com/FEaN41kozD
— (((Harry Enten))) (@ForecasterEnten) January 27, 2025
HIGHER EDUCATION BUBBLE UPDATE: Professor: Gender studies made me realize X-Men’s Wolverine is ‘toxic’ masculinity.
SOMETIMES THE PILGRIMS AND PIONEERS WERE BRUTAL REPLACERS OF A NATIVE POPULATION; OTHER TIMES THEY’RE ROLE MODELS:
Margaret Brennan: “But this is a country founded by immigrants”
VP Vance: “Yes… but just because we were founded by immigrants doesn't mean that 240 years later we have to have the dumbest immigration policy in the world.”
Like he’s talking to a child.😂pic.twitter.com/j2V4P5IRsJ
— Geiger Capital (@Geiger_Capital) January 26, 2025
Related: “Margaret Brennan seemed keyed up from the start. Her desire to get Vance was ludicrously obvious. Meanwhile, Vance was perfectly even-tempered and articulate, prepared for everything she had hoped to flummox him with. Brennan’s style of constant interruption failed to throw him off. It backfired, making him look steady and rational and her look afraid of what he might have to say.”
WELL, FOR ONE THING BIDEN’S FEMA OPENLY DISCRIMINATED AGAINST REPUBLICANS:
ABSOLUTELY MASSIVE CLEANUP EFFORT IS UNDERWAY IN WESTERN NORTH CAROLINA TODAY!!!
THE ARMY CORPS OF ENGINEERS ARE EVERYWHERE!!!!!
WHY DIDN’T JOE BIDEN DO THIS 4 MONTHS AGO?!!!!!!! pic.twitter.com/clBcwPQsWl
— Matt Van Swol (@matt_vanswol) January 27, 2025
DON SURBER: A Very Trumpy Weekend.
OBVIOUSLY THEY KNEW WHERE THESE PEOPLE WERE. IT’S DISGUSTING THAT IT TOOK A NEW ADMINISTRATION TO MAKE IT HAPPEN: First images of ICE mass deportation efforts show arrests of MS-13 gang members, murder suspects.
CDR SALAMANDER: Condition of the Navy’s Amphibious Fleet And Its Impacts on Marines: the View from GAO. “Amphibious warfare ships are critical for Marine Corps missions, but the Navy has struggled to ensure they are available for operations and training. In some cases, ships in the amphibious fleet have not been available for years at a time. The Navy and Marine Corps are working to agree on a ship availability goal but have yet to complete a metrics-based analysis to support such a goal. Until the Navy completes this analysis, it risks jeopardizing its ability to align amphibious ship schedules with the Marine Corps units that deploy on them.”
WELL, IF “EDUCATED” PEOPLE THINK IT’S OKAY, CAN IT REALLY BE ILLEGAL?
Everyone understood that this was going on, in private business as well as universities. Acquaintances would just outright say "We're looking to hire a woman of color/queer person/etc for this position". I never figured out how to politely ask why they were confessing a crime to… https://t.co/ayEKvPRwmY
— Megan McArdle (@asymmetricinfo) January 27, 2025
Related:
Drummond Woodsum, a leftist law firm in Portland, Maine with lucrative public contracts, has told public school officials to destroy immigration-related evidence and records to obstruct possible federal law enforcement investigations by @ICEgov or @CBP. https://t.co/MPy8gfabc8
— Andy Ngo (@MrAndyNgo) January 27, 2025
MAKE THEM PAY:
They had a choice between following the law and bowing to their most ridiculous cultural revolutionaries. They chose the latter, they broke the law, and now there’s a sheriff in town that’s going to make them pay the price for it. https://t.co/jyD1dqfKSM
— Inez Stepman ⚪️🔴⚪️ (@InezFeltscher) January 27, 2025
TRUTH:
The difference between Trump 1.0 and Trump 2.0 this time around is like the difference between Michael Jordan as a freshman at North Carolina and Michael Jordan as NBA MVP.
— John Hawkins (@johnhawkinsrwn) January 26, 2025
Related:
it’s pretty funny that democrats couldve just not fought trump in 2020 and gotten four years of squishy mike pence neocon policies and instead they got a lucius cornelius sulla warlord version of trump
— Ashley St. Clair (@stclairashley) January 25, 2025
BYE, BYE GAVIN: Joel Kotkin: LA fires have extinguished Gavin Newsom’s presidential dream.
Two years ago Gavin Newsom was widely seen as a rising Democratic star and likely future presidential candidate. Meanwhile Donald Trump, facing massive legal troubles and the results of his own intemperance, seemed to many, like those at CNN, a fading figure.
How quickly things change. Over the weekend, Trump met with the California Governor as they toured parts of California devastated by the wildfires. As Newsom was forced to greet the President with his cap in hand, Trump wasted no time in attacking the state’s progressive policies. On his arrival, Trump called on Newsom to change the state’s water policies, blaming the spread of the fires on deficient supplies. This is partially accurate: although water policy has been poorly implemented, the immediate issue lay in the city’s failure to maintain fire spending and key infrastructure like water pressure for hydrants and keeping the local water reservoir filled and operable.
Trump’s demands have drawn attention to the state’s self-inflicted wounds, and its pattern of astounding incompetence. In 1971, the economist John Kenneth Galbraith described the state government as run by “a proud, competent civil service,” and enjoying among “the best school systems in the country”. This year Wallet Hub ranked the state last in terms of return on investment for taxpayers.
50 years of Democratic political dominance will do that to you.
Related:
it’s pretty funny that democrats couldve just not fought trump in 2020 and gotten four years of squishy mike pence neocon policies and instead they got a lucius cornelius sulla warlord version of trump
— Ashley St. Clair (@stclairashley) January 25, 2025
Of evil will shall evil mar.
OUT: LUXURY GOODS. IN: LUXURY BELIEFS. This makes sense.
Hypothesis: The woke crack up of culture and institutions that started in ~2013 was driven in significant part by the democratization of good taste that happened in the 2010s. Bonus: This also explains why hipsters disappeared.
Prior to around 2010, those who considered…
— Ozmodiar (@cmonjussthetip) December 17, 2024
(Via Marc Andreesen).
Related:
Leftist Jews in NYC are going to keep staying quiet as Jewish owned businesses keep getting targeted hoping their windows will get broken last. It’s so pathetic to watch. This is the “activist” class. They always have something to say, except now.
— Karol Markowicz (@karol) January 26, 2025
January 26, 2025
MY LATEST SUBSTACK ESSAY: The Left Gave Us Trump 2.0: And they’re not going to like it one bit.
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OPEN THREAD: Ring out the weekend.