TIGHTENING THE REINS ON THE LEFTIST MONEY LAUNDRY: Virginia public colleges asked to verify investments aren’t tied to politics.
Author Archive: Glenn Reynolds
July 19, 2024
THEY LIKE AND FOSTER VIOLENCE FROM THE LEFT. IT HAS ALWAYS BEEN THUS. John Lucas: The New York Times’ Tolerance of Calls for Civil War and Political Murder. “The New York Times would have us believe that it has always opposed violent political rhetoric. It is a sham, a lie.”
BUT THAT’S NOT COUNTING THE GRAFT: Biden to earn more in retirement than as president.
GOOD QUESTION: Why Would Any Legit Dem Presidential Prospect Jump Into This Mess?
Related: Democrat Civil War Update: It Has Heated Up.
And: ‘Presidents Are Not ‘Talent’ to Be Replaced With a Snap of the Finger.’
Meanwhile in a discussion about Trump’s speech last night — consensus: Started out great, went on too long — a friend makes this observation: “He spoke, often seemingly extemporaneously, for an hour and 32 minutes. Regardless of context, imagine Biden trying to speak like that for 11 minutes and 32 seconds. Huge contrast.”
Heck, he can barely manage one minute and 32 seconds, and that’s only when they get the drugs right.
UH OH: Major IT Outage Hits Banks, Airlines Businesses Worldwide. It’s not a hack, but a botched update from those losers at Crowdstrike.
Crowdstrike, you may remember, is the Democratic-Party-connected “security” company that “investigated” the nonexistent Russian hacking.
A SOCIAL SEA-CHANGE IS COMING: Aria Babu: pro-natalism in the shadow of empire. “Today Razib talks to Aria Babu, a British think-thank professional who is part of the growing number of young men and women who are taking an interest in population decline and promoting pro-natalism. Babu has a degree in chemistry from University College London, and has long worked in areas related to the study of economic growth and entrepreneurship. Prior to her interest in pro-natalism Babu held conventional views about population growth and its ties to environmental alarmism. But she quickly saw that actually fertility is crashing worldwide, and with that there might be dire economic and social consequences. If that trend is left unchecked, she foresees a worst case scenario of massive economic decline and the replacement of our riotously varied modern civilization by a select few narrow subcultures, like the Amish or Somalis, who continue to favor reproduction as a social value. On the state level, declining populations will likely lead to the rise of culturally stagnant and politically authoritarian societies reminiscent of The Children of Men.”
TRUE:
Dems still own legacy media and ballot harvesting. No matter how united Republicans are, how untethered Dems are, and how horribly Dems policies over last 4 years have been, scoring an R win will still be a challenge.
— Margot Cleveland (@ProfMJCleveland) July 18, 2024
TRUST THE PROFESSIONALS: Whistleblowers Reveal What Secret Service Said During Briefings Before Trump Assassination Attempt. “The United States Secret Service acknowledged it had ‘limited resources’ during briefings held before the July 13 Trump rally in Pennsylvania at which an attempted assassination occurred, according to whistleblower disclosures to the House Judiciary Committee.”
Punish the decisionmakers behind this in ways that will be remembered by bureaucrats for decades.
“INDEPENDENT AGENCIES” ARE A CONSTITUTIONAL VIOLATION: NCLA Asks Supreme Court to Restore Presidential Control over “Independent” CPSC Commissioners. “Today, the New Civil Liberties Alliance filed an amicus curiae brief urging the Supreme Court to hear Consumers’ Research v. Consumer Product Safety Commission, taking this golden opportunity to overturn the 1935 Humphrey’s Executor v. Federal Trade Commission decision and revamp CPSC’s unconstitutional structure. Under current law, the President supposedly is only allowed to fire CPSC commissioners “for neglect of duty or malfeasance in office,” which insulates them from removal in violation of the ‘take Care’ clause of Article II of the Constitution. To approve CPSC’s structure, the Fifth Circuit below invoked Humphrey’s Executor, which upheld the constitutionality of FTC Commissioners’ similar tenure protections on the flawed theory that the Federal Trade Commission does not exercise executive power.”
Reminder/Disclosure: I’m on the NCLA’s advisory board.
THEY SHOULD HAVE SEEN THIS COMING: To Cancel The Cancellers. “I regard these people as my personal enemies and collectively as a public menace. History has demonstrated, categorically, that when the left takes over the destruction it wreaks is solely limited by the means at hand and the forces that hold them in check.”
One of which is payback.
July 18, 2024
TULSI GABBARD RESPONDS TO KAMALA’S ATTACK ON J.D. VANCE AS “LOYAL ONLY TO TRUMP, NOT TO OUR COUNTRY:” “She’s talking about J.D. Vance, someone who enlisted in the Marine Corps after… 9/11… putting his own life on the line in service to our country….”
Kamala Harris claims “JD Vance will be loyal only to Trump, not to our country.” @JDVance1 enlisted in the Marine Corps after 9/11 and deployed to Iraq in 2005, the same year I was there during the height of the war. He put his life on the line in service to our country.
Was… pic.twitter.com/v9uSS7ASQe
— Tulsi Gabbard 🌺 (@TulsiGabbard) July 18, 2024
INSURRECTION!
Insurrection against the Democratic primary voters… much worse than alternative slates of electors.
— KanekoaTheGreat (@KanekoaTheGreat) July 19, 2024
OPEN THREAD: Happy Thirsty Thursday.
THE NEW SPACE RACE: GOP platform lays out aggressive space agenda to counter China.
#JOURNALISM:
Rachel Maddow, Jen Psaki and other MSNBC hosts use LED screen to make it look like they’re at RNC in Milwaukee https://t.co/uUTdbYiPsl pic.twitter.com/LCtjYO6fxX
— New York Post (@nypost) July 18, 2024
IT’S A “CONSPIRACY THEORY” ABOUT AN ACTUAL CONSPIRACY:
I’m a broken record on this, but that is the story here. The rest is noise. New York Magazine called it a “conspiracy.” That’s what it was. The Democrats willfully conspired to lie to the public about the president’s health. Here’s a good example of it. Voters have noticed. https://t.co/bwPSNTrqCG
— Charles C. W. Cooke (@charlescwcooke) July 18, 2024
COLOR ME SKEPTICAL, BUT GOOD: Promising New Obesity Treatment Shows No Side Effects in Initial Studies.
IT’S A BAD WEEK FOR BIDEN: U.S. Appeals Court Blocks All of Biden Student Debt Relief Plan.
DEI SHOULD D.I.E.:
EXCLUSIVE: New allegations that Secret Service training resources were reallocated to “executive leadership bonuses” and DEI-prioritized recruitment are among the torrent of charges leveled against agency Director Kim Cheatle and other top officials in the aftermath of the…
— Susan Crabtree (@susancrabtree) July 18, 2024
Flashback:
From 10 years ago! There is always a tweet. https://t.co/5Y1kge59nK
— Mollie (@MZHemingway) July 18, 2024
#JOURNALISM:
The DOJ indictment makes clear they were spying on either Boot's wife and/or the foreign government she served, and she asked her paymasters for "instructions" on what she should write in her WPost op-eds about them, yet those articles remain up without even an Editor's Note??? pic.twitter.com/V4jdMr5Hos
— Glenn Greenwald (@ggreenwald) July 18, 2024
LONGEVITY: Experts create anti-aging holy grail drug that extends life 25% and prevents cancer and gray hair. Faster, please.
WHICH LAB MADE THIS? New fungal infection discovered in China.
ACTUALLY, I DON’T LIKE SCREENS: 2025 Cadillac Escalade First Look: Yo Dawg, We Heard You Like Screens …
DON’T GET COCKY: Emerson: Trump Runs the Table in Battleground States — Including VA.
Nice. But seriously, don’t get cocky: “However, Biden only trails within the margin of error in most states, even as Trump has widened the battleground map. . . . To be honest, a two-point shift in the national head-to-head after the assassination attempt on Saturday in the short run isn’t much movement at all. It suggests that the electorate may not be malleable any longer. That’s both good and bad for Biden, as it also suggests that he may not be able to catch up as the race hardens, but on the other hand, he’s remaining in striking distance, where GOTV could make the race a toss-up.”
If you’re not donating and volunteering to phone-bank and drive people to the polls, then you’re not in this race. No, commenting on blogs doesn’t count.