ROGER KIMBALL: Fake Crowds, Fake Ads, Real Ridicule: A Week of Failures for Harris-Walz. “What we are witnessing is the panicked flailing of a campaign that is desperately attempting to recoup its lost initiative. The result is partly embarrassing, partly hilarious.”
Author Archive: Glenn Reynolds
October 14, 2024
October 13, 2024
OPEN THREAD: Ring out the weekend.
THE NEW SPACE RACE: China launches third high orbit internet satellite.
DOESN’T REQUIRE MUCH EQUIPMENT, EITHER: Isometric Exercise: Why This Workout Regime Is So Good For You.
HMM: Third Trump assassination attempt thwarted when armed man arrested outside Coachella rally, sheriff says. “The suspect — identified as 49-year-old Las Vegas resident Vem Miller — was caught at a checkpoint about a quarter-mile from the rally with fake VIP passes to the rally and fake press passes — as well as unregistered weapons, including a loaded shotgun, a handgun and a high-capacity magazine, according to the Riverside County sheriff’s office.”
OBVIOUSLY, THIS IS MORE PROOF THAT WE’RE LIVING IN A SIMULATION: The Universe Is Not Locally Real, and the Physics Nobel Prize Winners Proved It.
COLOR ME UNSURPRISED: Friendships in teen years important for future happiness.
“DO THE LETTERS F.O. MEAN ANYTHING TO YOU?” Matt Taibbi: The Hurricane Speech Panic is Here: In a sequel to the pandemic panic, politicians and elite media are calling for a European-style speech clampdown, this time using the weather as an excuse.”
When you’re crooks and morons whose policies can’t withstand criticism, your first instinct is to shut down the critics.
THERE’S NOTHING WRONG WITH RAPE OR TORTURE, SO LONG AS THE HANDS PERFORMING THEM ARE SUITABLY BROWN AND WEATHERED: Teacher professional development marquee: ‘Resistance to colonialism is not terrorism.’
CONSEQUENCES: Students who invaded Stanford president’s office and injured cop slapped with felony charges: Anti-Israel activists took over a building at Stanford University and thoroughly vandalized it before being arrested on Wednesday.. “The protesters are facing felony charges, and seniors in the group will not be allowed to graduate. . . . The activists, who included 11 current students, left graffiti throughout the Main Quad before barricading themselves in the office building, such as ‘Death 2 US,’ ‘F*** Amerikkka,’ and ‘Kill Cops.'”
It’s important to end the leftist culture of impunity.
CHANGE:
BRUTAL 😂
Even SNL is roasting Kamala for always saying ‘I was raised in a middle class family’
— Benny Johnson (@bennyjohnson) October 13, 2024
LIKE KAMALA, HE’S NOT REALLY ONE OF THEM AND FEELS SUPERIOR, EVEN THOUGH HE PRETENDS: Barack Obama’s Tiresome Condescension Toward Black Men. “Obama’s broadside, which quickly went viral, was further proof of his status as the party’s resident scold.”
DAVID MASCI: SpaceX and the New Space Race.
AFTER SUCCESSFUL TEST FLIGHT, SpaceX Starship Super Heavy booster lands in historic capture. Starship itself is currently coasting on the far side of the world, for a re-entry over the Indian Ocean.
CULTURE IS UPSTREAM OF POLITICS: MAGA songstress targets ‘war on men’ in latest viral tune.
The country singer who created MAGA’s theme song in “Trump Won” and had former President Donald Trump mouthing the words in her viral hit “The Chosen One” is targeting the so-called war on men in her latest tune.
Natasha Owens, whose “Trump Won” hit No. 2 on Billboard’s country chart, has just released “Gimme a Cowboy,” her team told Secrets.
In it, Owens sings about seeking a traditional relationship: “I’ll be the woman, you be the man, just like the good Lord planned.”
In a statement, Owens said she feels that today’s culture is quickly becoming anti-family and anti-male with its heightened focus on transgender efforts.
A rap song on this theme would help Trump more, perhaps, but still.
EVERYTHING IS GOING SWIMMINGLY: An Inflation Hurricane Is Shorting The Electric Grid: Prices for generators, transformers, and other utility components are soaring. Hurricane Helene (and now Milton) will make the problem worse.
I believe we’ve also sent transformers to Ukraine.
PUNCHING HARD AT A VULNERABLE SPOT: About the Biden-HARRIS Military: Boffo New Trump Ad Dropped During Aurora Rally.
Ad here:
OMG HAHAHA 😂🤣💀
Trump just played this epic clip of our old military vs our new woke military: pic.twitter.com/RlLdutL2jc
— End Wokeness (@EndWokeness) October 9, 2024
Related: I Went To The Trump Rally In Aurora Colorado. ” went to the Trump Rally in Aurora, Colorado and it was an illuminating, and interesting day. Especially when the media reports paint a very different picture. According to the media, how dare a Republican candidate for President use words like ‘war zone’ to describe Aurora, CO and its problem with illegal immigration gangs!”
October 12, 2024
OPEN THREAD: Make me proud.
ELMER FUDD HAD BETTER GUN-HANDLING SKILLS:
Tim Walz’s pheasant hunt photo op isn’t going so well
— Benny Johnson (@bennyjohnson) October 12, 2024
That outfit is also obviously straight from the store. That’s also indicative of awful staff work. Competent staff would have dirtied it up and run it through the washer/dryer cycle a few times, at least, so it wasn’t obvious that this was the first time he’s ever worn it.
UPDATE: A friend messages: “The staff’s bungling of the pander aside, that they even thought this Walz hunting charade was going to win over men…. Should people that tone deaf be allowed to run the country?” No.