IF THAT’S EVEN POSSIBLE: David Hogg’s Take on the Trump Assassination Attempt Further Devalues a Harvard Education.
Author Archive: Glenn Reynolds
July 19, 2024
21ST CENTURY RELATIONSHIPS: Preventive antibiotics may help curb the STI epidemic, experts say.
THE NEW SPACE RACE: NASA nixes VIPER lunar rover project.
#JOURNALISM:
It was truly astonishing to watch the whole claque go from "he's the best there is" to "he's a vegetable" in just a few weeks. They were going to lumber the country with this wreck like a used care salesman looking to offload a lemon that couldn't make it to the corner.
— wretchardthecat (@wretchardthecat) July 19, 2024
THE SUCKINESS THAT IS CROWDSTRIKE: A Billion Blue Screens as Windows is Down Worldwide. “Around a billion computers are bricked worldwide, mostly corporate ones. This isn’t just an online service going down for a few hours. Every affected computer needs to be rebooted in fail mode and have a driver manually [deleted].”
WELL:
ZUCKERBERG: “Trump get up after getting shot in the face and pump his fist in the air with the American flag is one of the most badass things I've ever seen in my life.”
— Benny Johnson (@bennyjohnson) July 19, 2024
WE MOVED A LOT WHEN I WAS A KID, AND I’M NOT DEPRESSED. Guess I dodged a bullet. Frequent house moves put kids at risk of depression as adults.
I think it did make me more resilient, though. And probably less prone to care what the crowd thought, since it would just be a new crowd next year anyway.
WELL, GOOD: Climate Protestors Sentenced to Jail for Blocking Major Roadway in Britain: Organizers of the highway obstruction will spend years in jail for their anything-but-peaceful protest. “The activists and their allies also sought to disrupt the trial, but to no avail.”
It’s important to end the leftist culture of impunity.
PEOPLE HAVE BEEN MOCKING THE CYBERTRUCK, BUT . . . Tesla Cybertruck popularity soars as EV pickup beats Ford F-150 Lightning to lead registration numbers in May.
TIGHTENING THE REINS ON THE LEFTIST MONEY LAUNDRY: Virginia public colleges asked to verify investments aren’t tied to politics.
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.