NO ONE WHO HAS OUR BEST INTERESTS AT HEART: Matt Taibbi: Who’s Running This Country?
Author Archive: Glenn Reynolds
July 25, 2024
DON SURBER: Democrats Side With Hamas.
YOU CAN’T HANDLE THE TRUTH: FOIA suit targets Secret Service director’s DEI push.
ADHERING TO OUR ENEMIES:
A key element of Netanyahu’s speech was making it clear that Iran’s primary target is not Israel, but the United States. This is true, and has been true since 1979. Israel simply stands in their way. Iran has attacked American Embassies all over the world, took American hostages… pic.twitter.com/25uGPBAUsb
— Dan Crenshaw (@DanCrenshawTX) July 24, 2024
JOHN DEERE IS A DISAPPOINTMENT:
Wow. John Deere CEO John May should resign or be fired over this video. Listen up because you won’t believe what he admits.
He admits to seeking specific races for board seats and that "diverse" board members have questioned why certain non-diverse people were hired and how to… pic.twitter.com/IB2P4W5C6l
— Robby Starbuck (@robbystarbuck) July 24, 2024
WELL, GOVTRACK AND AXIOS WILL ERASE THAT ANY TIME NOW: Candidate Kamala Harris Owns the Biden Administration’s War on Guns Track Record.
THE OLYMPICS ARE A CESSPIT OF CORRUPTION AND DOPING AND WE SHOULDN’T WANT THEM HERE, AND SALT LAKE CITY SHOULDN’T BE COMPLICIT: Salt Lake Awarded 2034 Olympics Under I.O.C. Pressure Over Doping Inquiries: Olympic officials insisted on the right to pull the Games amid U.S. investigations into how the World Anti-Doping Agency handled positive tests for banned substances among Chinese swimmers.
The International Olympic Committee awarded the 2034 Winter Games to Salt Lake City on Wednesday only after a last-minute demand that the agreement shield global sports authorities from U.S. investigations into doping by Chinese athletes.
Organizers of Salt Lake City’s bid and Gov. Spencer J. Cox of Utah agreed to the changes sought by the I.O.C. The unexpected twist came amid an escalating dispute between the global antidoping agency and its American counterpart, and at a time when the Justice Department and Congress are looking into why Chinese swimmers who tested positive for performance-enhancing drugs three years ago were not subject to penalties from the World Anti-Doping Agency.
Mr. Cox told I.O.C. members before Wednesday’s vote awarding the 2034 Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games to Salt Lake City that he would “work with the levers of power,” including in Congress, to “alleviate your concerns.”
The announcement brought fully into the open a festering clash within the sports world over reports of Chinese doping, the adequacy of the response and aggressive efforts by the United States to combat it.
Critics of the I.O.C. and the antidoping agency, known as WADA, said they saw the developments as a blatant effort to cover up both a pattern of suspicious activity in the Chinese swimming program and the unwillingness of WADA to confront it.
Well, they see it as that because that’s just what it is.
AXIOS GETS OWNED FOR LYING, WON’T CARE, WILL DO IT AGAIN:
This you? pic.twitter.com/FhqVuPlvw6
— Catturd ™ (@catturd2) July 24, 2024
July 24, 2024
HMM: US, Canada Jets Intercept China, Russia Planes Near Alaska. Unclear from this story whether the Russian and Chinese planes were flying together, or separately.
USEFUL IN CASES OF HURRICANE, EXTENDED POWER OUTAGE, OR CIVIL UNREST: Bathtub Storage Emergency Drinking Water Container, Comes with Hand Pump, Disaster and Hurricane Survival, BPA-Free (100 Gallon).
AMERICA’S PAPER OF RECORD:
Criminals In Congress Begin Helpfully Holding Up Signs To Identify Themselves https://t.co/gGwmvycqDV pic.twitter.com/xIZ4KsCohM
— The Babylon Bee (@TheBabylonBee) July 24, 2024
OPEN THREAD: Hump Day.
THE NEW SPACE RACE: SaxaVord prepares for first orbital launch. “A spaceport in the Shetland Islands expects to soon be ready to host the first vertical orbital launch from U.K. soil. In a presentation at the Farnborough International Airshow here July 23, Scott Hammond, deputy chief executive and operations director of SaxaVord Spaceport, said he expected the spaceport to receive the last of the licenses from U.K. regulators in September needed to host the inaugural launch of Rocket Factory Augsburg’s RFA ONE rocket there.”
CAPTION THIS:
— Matt Margolis (@mattmargolis) July 25, 2024
FBI DIRECTOR: I DIDN’T NOTICE BIDEN DECLINING, BUT I DON’T NOTICE MUCH.
@listen.andrelax Head of fbi getting pressed #secretservice assassination #assassination attempt, #usa #news #fbi ♬ original sound – Listen and relax
UPDATE: A former student, a crack criminal lawyer herself, writes: “That’s the best cross I’ve seen from a politician. His god awful Botox is forgiven.”
NEW CATCHPHRASE FOR KAMALA HARRIS: “Selected, not elected.” She got no votes for the Democratic nomination. The Democrats will be putting forward someone no Democrats voted for in the primary, all while talking about “our democracy.”
WELL, BIDEN ISN’T RESIGNING, BUT HE’S GIVING WHAT LOOKS LIKE A CAMPAIGN SPEECH — FOR HIS NEXT 6 MONTHS IN OFFICE. It would help if he could speak like a normal person. His voice sounds weird and his enunciation is off. And his condemnation of extremism and violence would play better if angry mobs of terrorist sympathizers hadn’t invaded the Capitol and burned American flags while desecrating monuments around Washington.
It would be nice if we had a president who would protect our monuments.
UPDATE: Jesse Watters’ sum-up: “Damage control for a failed presidency.”
NEXT THEY’LL TELL US THAT OIL CAN BE PRODUCED ABIOTICALLY: Mysterious ‘Dark Oxygen’ Discovered at Bottom of Ocean Stuns Scientists. “Chugging quietly away in the dark depths of Earth’s ocean floors, a spontaneous chemical reaction is unobtrusively creating oxygen, all without the involvement of life. This unexpected discovery upends the long-standing consensus that it takes photosynthesizing organisms to produce the oxygen we need to breathe.”
WILL JOE BIDEN RESIGN TONIGHT? “Do I want him to resign? Do you? I don’t know how bad he is right now, and I don’t know if Kamala Harris is ready to jump into the job at the same time she’s got to hit the ground running as the candidate in a big time crunch. I don’t know which way puts our country and the world in the most danger. And maybe you’re also concerned with whether one party or the other has a better chance of winning in November if Kamala Harris ascends to the presidency right away.”
My first thought abut tonight’s address is that he was going to resign, so Kamala could run as an incumbent. My second thought was that he wouldn’t resign, because then Kamala couldn’t run on being the first black woman president.
GOOD START FOR KAMALA’S CAMPAIGN:
“Republicans pounce” hall of fame entry. pic.twitter.com/sI87t86jxl
— Ian Miles Cheong (@stillgray) July 24, 2024
Pro-Palestinian protestors have stormed the US capital in protest of America helping Israel. pic.twitter.com/bsfDWgsnoc
— Catch Up (@CatchUpFeed) July 24, 2024
Insurrection!
These are your choices in the 2024 election. Choose. pic.twitter.com/0hDGmjk2qy
— Ian Miles Cheong (@stillgray) July 24, 2024
It appears that every historical monument in DC is being vandalized with no intervention from the police. pic.twitter.com/dQxKcW0NlS
— Ian Miles Cheong (@stillgray) July 24, 2024
People are currently burning the American flag in our nation’s capitol while yelling “Allahu Akbar.”
pic.twitter.com/H5uh7l8JfC— Greg Price (@greg_price11) July 24, 2024
ANOTHER BLOW AGAINST THE ADMINISTRATIVE STATE: En Banc Fifth Circuit Concludes FCC’s “Universal Service” Fee Is Unconstitutional: A majority of the judges concludes this fee constitutes a tax, the authority for which is improperly delegated. “A petition for certiorari will almost certainly be filed by the federal government, and certiorari will very likely be granted.”
The majority here is right, and I hope the Supreme Court agrees.
RON HART: The ‘Useful Idiot’ Was No Longer Useful. Bye Bye, Biden.
Related, seen on Facebook:
“I don’t want to go on the cart . . . ”
“I feel happy! I feel happy!” “I think I’ll go for a walk!”
“Shut up, you’re not fooling anyone.”
COLOR ME UNSURPRISED: Study shows shift in GLP-1 drug use for obesity, not diabetes.
ALSO, IT’S PROOF AGAINST GENZ CARJACKERS: We Drove the Last VW Golf GTI With a Manual Transmission. We Don’t Want It to Go Away.