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Author Archive: Glenn Reynolds
October 6, 2024
AS THEY SHOULD: Israel Takes The Gloves Off.
WE’RE NOT LED BY THE BEST:
Mayorkas 3 months ago: FEMA is "tremendously prepared" for hurricane season
Mayorkas today: FEMA is out of money and can't make it through hurricane season. "We do not have the funds"
Look at this. 3 months apart: pic.twitter.com/aX3o0NGihb
— Gregg Re (@gregg_re) October 4, 2024
The first instinct of an incompetent is to explain failure and then take control of everything.
— wretchardthecat (@wretchardthecat) October 5, 2024
THE DESPERATION BEGINS TO SHOW: That’s Politico, where they seem to have lost their mind. “Trump is everywhere. Anxious Dems begin to wonder why Harris isn’t.”
Because she can’t think or speak in public. She’s paralyzed if her teleprompter fails, and pretty bad even when it works.
JUST IN: Kamala Harris has no clue what to say after her teleprompter appears to stop working, keeps repeating herself.
The Vice President kept repeating “32 days.”
“Remember his number 32 today? We got 32 days until the election.”
“So 32 days… 32 days… Okay. We got some… pic.twitter.com/2fIl1nyEkq
— Collin Rugg (@CollinRugg) October 4, 2024
October 5, 2024
OUR WORTHLESS RULING CLASS:
Usually it is we the public who have failed them. Taxes will increase and regulations redoubled until everyone is doing his fair share. Notice that the concept that they actually work for us has completely disappeared in the shuffle.
— wretchardthecat (@wretchardthecat) October 5, 2024
What is hardest to forgive is the abuse of trust, the cheapening of the sacred symbols and the exploitation of esteem by conmen who would burn a Rembrandt to toast a marshmallow.
— wretchardthecat (@wretchardthecat) October 5, 2024
So long as it’s their marshmallow.
OPEN THREAD: I do it all for you.
THE NEW SPACE RACE: China aims to breed zebrafish aboard Tiangong space station (video).
MY LATEST SUBSTACK ESSAY: Schrodinger’s Election.
JOEL KOTKIN: Kamalafornia Über Alles. “Yet given the partisan fixations of most mainstream media, few look at the Kamalafornian reality. Since 2000, this state of unmatched attractions has managed to lose a net 3.5 million domestic residents. Critically, it ranks toward the bottom among US states in drawing newcomers, who have always been the critical fuel for its economy. Many of those leaving, according to an analysis of IRS data, are middle-income families in their childbearing years; many are college graduates. Forget Harris’s youthful “vibe”: The state, according to data from the Census Bureau’s American Community Survey, is aging 50 percent more rapidly than the nation—gradually ditching the surfboard for the walker. When Biden was elected in 2020, an overjoyed Los Angeles Times gushed that his goal was to turn America into California. This reflected the reality that the progressive power center lies not in New York, now only the fourth most populous state, or even in the wider Northeast, but in California.”
Plus:
California progressives like to hold up the state as a social-justice model, with establishment left theorists like Laura Tyson and Lenny Mendonca envisioning the state as the epicenter of “a new progressive era.” Others see California, as a New York Times column put it, epitomizing “the shared values of our increasingly tolerant and pluralistic society.”
This is a stretch of planetary proportions. Instead of becoming more of a social democracy, California is becoming ever more feudal: a place characterized by a two-tier economy, with a more affluent educated white and Asian population lording it over a Latino and African-American service class.
California may be home to the highest number of billionaires. Despite its enormous wealth, it is also home to a third of the nation’s homeless people. The Golden State also suffers the highest share of residents living in poverty and the widest gap between middle- and upper-middle-income earners of any state.
Nearly one in five Californians—many working—lives in poverty (using a cost-of-living-adjusted poverty rate). The Public Policy Institute of California estimates that another fifth of residents live in near-poverty, or about 15 million. Most tragic, roughly 20 percent of California’s children lived in or near poverty in 2016.
They’ll turn us all into beggars ’cause they’re easier to please.
THIS IS NOT AN ACCIDENT: The Number of Illegal Aliens Dumped Into Swing States Is Jaw-Dropping.
QUITE A MOVEMENT:
ELON MUSK: "The true test of someone’s character is how they behave under fire. We had one president who couldn’t climb a flight of stairs and another who was fist-pumping after getting shot! FIGHT, FIGHT, FIGHT!" pic.twitter.com/5R8gJdEz08
— Benny Johnson (@bennyjohnson) October 5, 2024
#JOURNALISM:
New York Times says elon musk is “barricading himself behind a phalanx of bodyguards”
Scroll down about 3,000 words and they admit that Zuckerberg has ten times as much security pic.twitter.com/cgpaACkj7i
— Gregg Re (@gregg_re) September 18, 2024
MICROBIOME NEWS: Gut bacteria engineered to act as tumor GPS for immunotherapies.
LIES ALL THE WAY DOWN: Kamala Harris’s Long-Running Disinformation Campaign on Guns.
CALL ME, DUDE:
I see we’ve reached the stage of civilizational decline where the sclerotic federal bureaucracy is hamstringing the tech billionaire’s effort to run private disaster relief in the face of government inaction while trapped civilians run out of food and water… https://t.co/9QSXZBIavy
— John Daniel Davidson (@johnddavidson) October 4, 2024
Related: Feckless Mayor Pete Gets Caught Flat-Footed When Elon Says ‘Call Me, Dude.’
THE FINANCIAL PRESS CERTAINLY ISN’T QUESTIONING THE TIMING: Are Folks In America That Stupid?’ Dave Ramsey Says Americans Should Be More Suspicious Of The Fed Rate Cuts Timing. “We just got word a few moments ago – surprise, surprise, 45 days from the election, the Fed dropped the interest rate … That wasn’t possible four months ago or eight months ago, but right before the election, it’s possible. That’s just sus.”
EVERYTHING IS GOING SWIMMINGLY: There’s a Marburg virus outbreak, younger women are getting breast cancer and more children are dying from flu.
THERE SEEMS TO BE A ROWBACK UNDERWAY: Fluoride in drinking water might be less beneficial today.
Related: Federal judge orders EPA further regulate fluoride in drinking water due to concerns over lowered IQ in kids. I used to laugh at fluoridation alarmists and conspiracy theorists, and now. . . .
Meanwhile, General Jack D. Ripper smiles:
CHANGE: HAVE WE PASSED PEAK OBESITY?
We already know from clinical trials that Ozempic and other GLP-1 drugs produce sustained reductions in body weight, but with mass public usage taking off — one in eight US adults have used the drugs — the results may now be showing up at population level. pic.twitter.com/e1FxDkBh3X
— John Burn-Murdoch (@jburnmurdoch) October 4, 2024
BEYONCÉ IS SO RADICAL: Yale offers Beyoncé ‘black radical tradition’ class.