AS WITH ANY GOVERNMENT PROGRAM, SPENDING MORE DOESN’T ALWAYS MAKE THINGS BETTER, AND CAN IN FACT MAKE THINGS WORSE: Searching for the military Laffer Curve: More May Not Be Better.
Author Archive: Glenn Reynolds
August 19, 2024
HOW BAD IS THE BIDEN/HARRIS ECONOMY? THIS BAD: NY Times: Abortion Clinics Everywhere Are Going Broke. “A couple weeks ago there was some surprising news out of New York. Planned Parenthood announced it would stop doing late-term abortions (those after 20 weeks) and also planned to close four clinics in the state. The problem in New York wasn’t the legality of their business, it was the profitability. PP’s president wrote in an opinion piece that because of inflation they were in trouble unless the state started directing more public money their way. Today, the NY Times published a follow-up in the business section which makes the case that the business of abortion is not going well almost anywhere you look around the country. The story recounts the experience of a clinic in Washington DC which tried to expand in the Los Angeles area. It didn’t go well.”
Next Kamala campaign move: Blame pro-lifers for inflation.
WELL, CHELSEA HANDLER:
Liberal White women are batsht crazy.
— Gunther Eagleman™ (@GuntherEagleman) August 18, 2024
TROUBLING IF TRUE. BUT BELIEVABLE.
The West, particularly the Biden-Harris administration, isn't just delaying and denying military aid to Ukraine; it's actively sabotaging Ukrainian military operations and leaking details to the Russians in a concerted effort to prevent Russia's defeat. 1/6 https://t.co/SS64tB6pG6 pic.twitter.com/5ByjuGVdlY
— Ukraine Reporter (@StateOfUkraine) August 18, 2024
As I’ve mentioned before, the Biden/Harris Administration seems to want Ukraine (and Israel) fighting, but not actually winning.
HE’S RIGHT, OF COURSE: To Beat the Democrats, Destroy the Media First. Think of control of the news media as air superiority. You can fight without it, but it’s hard to consistently win without it.
WE GET IT, YOU’RE ASSHOLES: Anti-Israel activists disrupt Rutgers new student orientation, brag on social media.
OH NO, NOT THE STAYING HOME PART: College socialist students plan to ‘strike for Palestine’ by staying home and skipping class to cause ‘disruption.’
I love when people who produce nothing think they can wield power by going on “strike.”
DESPITE ALL THE FLUFFING, SHE’S STILL A WEAK CANDIDATE: Different Candidate, Same Plan: Despite the widespread enthusiasm for Kamala Harris, she is a weak candidate—and the race may still hinge on what Donald Trump does or doesn’t do. Widespread enthusiasm?
Meanwhile, a friend in Boston texts: “In bluest Mass, all over Boston, Cambridge, Somerville, haven’t seen a Harris-Walz bumpersticker in days. FYI. Could prob count on one hand the ones I’ve seen since she ascended. Also notably absent is any update of ‘Any functional adult in 2020.’ Apparently functionality is no longer a concern. But it’s unclear what is. Obviously a lack of enthusiasm for this situation that was foisted on them. Does foisting another, like these Michelle DNC rumblings, fix that? I dunno. I mean, a lefty port in a storm, I suppose. All that being as it may be, it’s all entirely irrelevant when elections are decided by antifa with stacks of unverifiable mail-in ballots.”
JONATHAN TURLEY: Europe’s plot to regulate political speech in America. “In Europe, free speech is in free fall. Germany, France, the United Kingdom and other countries have eviscerated free speech by criminalizing speech deemed inciteful or degrading to individuals or groups. The result had made little difference to the neo-Nazi movement in countries like Germany, which is reaching record numbers. It has, however, silenced the rest of society.”
Almost like that’s the goal, and the Nazis are just a convenient excuse.
GENTRY-CLASS PIETIES FOR THE WIN:
If you're scared to say "protect our daughters", then you're failing your daughters as a father pic.twitter.com/ryiNhe8u8r
— Riley Gaines (@Riley_Gaines_) August 16, 2024
IT’S ALMOST LIKE THE BIDEN/HARRIS ADMINISTRATION WANTS WAR MORE THAN IT WANTS VICTORY:
Western Escalation manager ridden governments are going do what they're going to do.⬇️
Screw the long term security interest of their nations or the West. Their personal careers depend on Russian _NOT LOSING_ to Ukraine.
Careerism über alles.🤢🤮 https://t.co/I36DV7YdxM
— Trent Telenko (@TrentTelenko) August 17, 2024
⚡⚡🤬UK decision to allow Kyiv to use Storm Shadow missiles on russian territory is effectively blocked by Washington – Times
It's a fucking disgrace how many restrictions can be placed on Ukraine. If there were no restrictions, the offensive would be much more effective. pic.twitter.com/XtOuoI4qXa
— 🇺🇦 UkraineNewsLive🇺🇦 (@UkraineNewsLive) August 17, 2024
TO BE FAIR, YOU’RE NOT MEANT TO BE:
Are you better off after 3 1/2 years of their fighting? https://t.co/3xPwi8B9n3
— Kurt Schlichter (@KurtSchlichter) August 18, 2024
LIKE BIDEN, SHE MUST BE TIGHTLY CONTROLLED BY STAFF: Salena Zito: Harris’s tightly controlled Pennsylvania event avoided Pittsburgh.
She finished the day at a local Sheetz gas station, which was ironic at least and arguably hypocritical considering that Harris’s administration sued Sheetz in April. The ludicrous suit claims that merely by conducting criminal background checks on job applicants, the company was practicing racial discrimination.
Beaver County is located to the west of Allegheny County, adjacent to the airport. It was once a powerful component of the Democratic Party, filled with union families who worked at the steel mills in Aliquippa and Ambridge. But as the Democratic Party shifted leftward, the voters moved toward the Republican Party. In 2020, then-President Donald Trump won the county over Joe Biden by nearly 20 percentage points.
While some local Democrats thought the move was strategic to show she was attempting to expand her universe, others were more cynical, citing the tight control of who attended her planned events and the risk she would take doing an event in Pittsburgh, where she might face a pro-Hamas contingent in her party that has become very politically vocal there.
Late last week, that movement, spearheaded by the Pittsburgh Democratic Socialists of America, came to a head. The Democratic Socialists of America’s Pittsburgh chapter submitted a petition to the city for a proposed ballot question this November that would ban Pittsburgh from doing business with companies that have financial ties to Israel. The petition spurred accusations of antisemitism and placed Pittsburgh Mayor Ed Gainey on the hot seat.
Gainey’s initial reaction was a concern that the ban would grind to a halt the city’s ability to deliver services. Gainey did not, however, ever publicly object to the ballot question. When the ballot petitions were handed in last week, it was discovered over a dozen employees within Gainey’s administration, including Communications Director Maria Montaño, had signed the petition. Within days, Montaño stepped down from her position.
Since Hamas’s terrorist attack on Israel last Oct. 7, the city has become a hotbed of pro-Palestinian protests, including an encampment that was set up on the grounds of the University of Pittsburgh. The city has also become a hotbed of vandalism to synagogues, Jewish-owned businesses, and the homes of Jewish residents in the city neighborhood of Squirrel Hill, where the massacre of 11 congregants at the Tree of Life synagogue occurred six years ago.
Several longtime Democratic strategists in Pennsylvania believe Harris avoided Pittsburgh for any of her stops and stuck close to the airport so she could avoid the possibility that protesters would interrupt her tour in the important battleground state of Pennsylvania.
Related: Abandon Biden rebrands into Abandon Harris during DNC: ‘Reminiscent of 1968.’
She’ll run from these people, but she won’t denounce them.
DON SURBER: How to Tell Kamala Isn’t Polling Well.
THAT WOULD ALMOST BE A RELIEF, IF TRUE: Is Kamala Drunk? “Is Kamala drunk most of the time? If you watch her talk with that possibility in mind, so much makes sense all of a sudden. All those word salads, the occasional slurring, the inappropriate laughs… These are all tells that her brain is fogged by something, and it may not be stupidity.”
I feel like she’d be more amusing if she were drunk, though.
AS YE SOW, SO SHALL YE REAP: Protesters paused to reconsider opposing Harris at the DNC. They decided on full steam ahead.
Related: 1000 Cops Call in Sick.
HMM: Her name was on a filing agreeing to be a Cornel West elector. Her question: What’s an elector?
Related: Cornel West Tossed Off Ballot in Michigan. They’re doing this to RFK Jr. too. Anything to clear the decks for Kamala.
CIVIL RIGHTS UPDATE: NRA, SAF File Brief In Case Concerning Carry Across State Lines.
“Historically, nonresidents traveling in a state were treated no worse than residents with regard to firearm carry,” the brief states. “If they were treated differently under the law, it was generally to exempt travelers from carry restrictions—not to subject them to more onerous burdens than residents. Moreover, a government license was not historically required to exercise the right to carry arms; carry licenses that applied to free citizens were not enacted until the late-19th-century and applied only to concealed carry, leaving open carry unrestricted.”
Keep fighting for constitutional liberties.
A NEW TYPE OF MASCULINITY, SOARING LIKE A BLUE FALCON ABOVE THE OLD: On “Positive Masculinity:” Does Tim Walz represent a new “enlightened archetype” of men? “No man with a spine would go near the term ‘positive masculinity,’ since it implies there’s something wrong with masculinity. A woman who agreed to bask in cheers of men calling her an example of ‘positive femininity’ would rightly be viewed as pitiable if not an outright traitor to her sex by other women. While the spectacle of Walz fawned over by a gaggle of female columnists fantasizing about him being led in a choker cradling a pig and wearing a hardhat is hilarious, it mostly makes men cringe, or want to organize an Entebbe rescue. Are Democrats so scarred by Bill Clinton that they have to put tank traps around anything with testes?”
Yes. Also they’ll say anything to manipulate their core single white female constituency.
August 18, 2024
EVERYTHING IS GOING SWIMMINGLY:
On Wednesday, the Bureau of Labor Statistics will downward revise jobs for the April 2023-March 2024 period by up to 1 million. This means that all "beats" recorded in the past year will have been misses and the US job market is in far worse shape than the admin would admit.
— zerohedge (@zerohedge) August 18, 2024
EXCITEMENT ON THE WAY?
JUST IN: Gov. Josh Shapiro is NOT campaigning with Kamala today — due to “scheduling.” Another coup is coming…
— toddstarnes (@toddstarnes) August 18, 2024
JUST IN: It was just announced that Michelle Obama will speak at the DNC. Buckle up. #coup #DNC2024
— toddstarnes (@toddstarnes) August 18, 2024
YES, BUT DEMOCRATS REPRODUCE VIA INDOCTRINATION IN THE EDUCATION SYSTEM:
Don’t interrupt your opponent when they are working hard on their own demographic decline! They should set up a mRNA Covid mobile “vaccine” unit for the trifecta! 😂 https://t.co/lZQfgnqz5u
— Edward Dowd (@DowdEdward) August 18, 2024
Related: Neurosis and the Curley Effect.
Plus:
How dare JD Vance call us childless cat ladies.
Anyway, the Abortion and Vasectomy Mobile’s schedule is all full now. https://t.co/4g6PJALhUJ
— Sunny (@sunnyright) August 18, 2024
UPDATE (From Ed): Old and Busted: Red Pilled.
The New Hotness? Abortion Pilled!
Abortion pills spotted marching at the protest against the DNC on the eve of the convention. pic.twitter.com/bbCU80flpp
— The Post Millennial (@TPostMillennial) August 19, 2024
OPEN THREAD: How was your weekend?