ARNOLD KLING: Why Are We So Badly Governed? “Government and non-profits do not select for managers with the ability to deliver results. They select for people who are good at playing the game of status and power within an organization.”
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— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) October 27, 2024
DON SURBER: Endorse Trump to save your newspaper.
As a retired newspaper editorial writer, I offer a little advice to newspaper editorial writers in deep red states: endorse Trump. It will be fun. It will be daring. It will impress former readers who finally agree with the local newspaper.
The experience also will be educational as the writer struggles to find reasons to support the president. The writer might actually discover Russiagate really was a phony scandal, Obama really did have the FBI spy on him, and Jesse Jackson really did give The Donald two Rainbow Coalition awards back in the day.
We are told — by newspaper writers — that newspapers are vital to democracy but they do not act that way.
Indeed.
IT’S NOT EXACTLY A VICTORY LAP, BUT KINDA: Mark Judge: The end of the Washington Post. “The Washington Post is collapsing. Once one of America’s great media institutions, the paper lost $100 million last year and has shed 500,000 subscribers. Recent reports reveal that Post owner Jeff Bezos is going to be more hands-on to try and save the paper. Yet trying to get employees of the Post to do their jobs is like trying to get dogs to play baseball. Dogs just aren’t interested in baseball, and the breed of journalist now at the Post is just not interested in journalism.”
WHAT DID COMMUNISTS USE BEFORE CANDLES? ELECTRICITY!
Cuba went from grand to slumming, to raffish, to faded, to distressed, to shabby, to squalid, to pitiful without ever once passing Communist.https://t.co/8YItFTHbik
— wretchardthecat (@wretchardthecat) October 25, 2024
WELL, YES:
Let’s remember that Trump will put on the biggest show of his campaign tomorrow at Madison Square Garden, and Madison Square Garden is the biggest wrestling venue of the modern world. I think Trump wanted to establish that great wrestling theme as his theme so it will work especially well when it plays over his entrance into Madison Square Garden.
Perhaps the newsfolk who’d be inclined to just call it something like “ominous instrumental music” will be up to speed by tomorrow. But perhaps not. They might prefer to string along their own followers with whatever descriptions they can type out that make Trump seem weak, weird, and confused. They’re so dishonest!
Well, yes.
OPEN THREAD: Saturday night’s all right for blogging.
WELL, THE FIRST TIME IS ALWAYS FRAUGHT: Starship Super Heavy booster came within one second of aborting first “catch” landing.
I DUNNO, THERE’S A LOT OF COMPETITION FOR THAT SPOT: TikToker who tore down Greek flags thinking they were Israeli dubbed ‘one of the dumbest people on Earth’ by frustrated locals.
SOME PARTS OF AMERICA STILL WORK: SpaceX sends 22 Starlink satellites into orbit in record-setting launch.
FLASHBACK: REMEMBERING AMERICA’S WORST PRESIDENT. Woodrow Wilson made democracy unsafe for the world. Well, worst President so far.
STEVEN HAYWARD: A Trump Agenda for Day One. One of the mistakes of the Reagan Administration, which got off to a comparatively fast start and achieved significant results, was that it was in retrospect neither bold enough nor fast enough. At the end of Reagan’s two terms, one senior official reflected that the failure to achieve some of their fundamental goals of shrinking government, cutting the welfare state, and reining in regulatory power was that ‘it required…boldness, more boldness, ever more boldness. This boldness was not always in evidence.'”
Millei is a better role model than Reagan. Trump’s big weakness in 2016 was that he thought he still lived in the America of his youth. I think he knows better now.
NEWS YOU CAN USE: The Best Winter Tires for Snow, Ice, and Slush According to the Experts.
CROUCHING TIGER, HIDDEN GUNFIGHTER: Straight Talk: Jelly Bryce Oklahoma Shootist. “In his later years Bryce taught firearm techniques to new agents and represented the bureau by putting on shooting exhibitions. He was known for his point-shooting techniques and for using a deep crouch when drawing his gun and getting his shots off. Point shooting and the deep crouch became FBI trademarks for that era.”
LIKE I NEEDED ANOTHER REASON TO AVOID CANDY CORN: Some Halloween candy includes cancer-linked Red Dye 3, watchdog says.
BAD NEWS FOR SURGEONS: Weight-loss surgeries decline 25% as GLP-1 drugs grow in popularity.
SCIENCE: Diversity study reveals Hollywood prefers busty Latinas over breast baring whites.
Me, I’m broad-minded about such things.
HMM:
TRUMP: “Tonight, the Middle East is a tinderbox. It's ready to explode. People are being killed… Nobody is in charge. Joe Biden is asleep, and Kamala is at a dance party with Beyonce.”🔥
— ALX 🇺🇸 (@alx) October 26, 2024
FACT CHECK: There was no dancing, Beyonce didn’t perform, and Kamala went all schoolmarm on protesters.
While Trump and Joe Rogan are laughing, chatting up and having a good time Kamala is barking at protesters at her Beyoncé concert rally thing.
— ALX 🇺🇸 (@alx) October 26, 2024
MATT TAIBBI: Uh, Oh: New York Times, Washington Post Signal Post-Election Crackdown: Elite anxiety is bleeding into public commentary, suggesting we have more than an election to worry about in the coming weeks. “What about just letting voters choose? No go, explain the Harvard men.”
ICYMI:
The closing dozen days of Trump being called a Nazi has a 2016 feel to it
What’s new: his supporters are pushing back with a testimonial video of an Auschwitz survivor who backs him https://t.co/OttJVNUn8U
— Marc Caputo (@MarcACaputo) October 25, 2024
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