OR AT LEAST, OF CERTAIN DEMOGRAPHICS IN OUR AGE:
60% of Americans believe the devil is real, which is quite a bit higher than the professed support for various progressive propositions. The belief that sharing majority theological beliefs is somehow scandalous seems quite emblematic of our age. https://t.co/K9u4l3kxTd
— Megan McArdle (@asymmetricinfo) July 16, 2024
OPEN THREAD: Tuesday’s groovy.
CONVENTION VIDEO: Ramaswamy Champions American Exceptionalism. “Ramaswamy may not have found his footing in the primary, but if he focuses on these principles with this much passion and clarity, we’ll see him succeeding in other races soon enough.”
THE NEW SPACE RACE: China reschedules planetary defense mission for 2027 launch.
NARRATOR: “IT NEVER ACTUALLY WAS.” Microsoft laid off a DEI team, and its lead wrote an internal email blasting how DEI is ‘no longer business critical.’
HMM: Self-Awareness Might Not Have Evolved to Benefit The Self After All. “But we have argued that consciousness may have evolved to facilitate key social adaptive functions. Rather than helping individuals survive, it evolved to help us broadcast our experienced ideas and feelings into the wider world. And this might benefit the survival and wellbeing of the wider species. The idea fits with new thinking on genetics.”
SENDING A SIGNAL:
Good for her. God Bless this family. https://t.co/3V7PftFDob
— Catturd ™ (@catturd2) July 16, 2024
JOSH BLACKMAN AND SETH BARRETT TILLMAN TAKE A VICTORY LAP: New in Harvard JLPP Per Curiam: What We Did and Did Not Argue in United States v. Trump. “In case you are living under a rock, yesterday Judge Cannon granted the motion to dismiss the indictment. The court cited several of our arguments.”
TAIWAN, TAKE NOTE: Ukraine is Building Killer Robots on the Cheap.
NEVER ASSUME MALICE FOR WHAT CAN BE EXPLAINED BY INCOMPETENCE, BUT AT SOME POINT THE TWO ARE INDISTINGUISHABLE:
Here’s the official story so far: a random 20 year old acting completely alone walked within 150 yards of a presidential campaign rally with a rifle, climbed onto a rooftop in full view of Secret Service snipers, set up his shot and fired without anyone intervening and with no…
— Matt Walsh (@MattWalshBlog) July 15, 2024
Secret Service had snipers INSIDE the building the assassin used. They took pictures of him. They watched him pull out a range finder to get his exact distance to Trump. They radioed the Secret Service command post about the assassin.
They all knew he was there.
Who gave the… https://t.co/4Exs0xm3Y1
— Sean Davis (@seanmdav) July 16, 2024
Employee safety is the top priority for a job where you have to *checks notes* be willing to take a bullet for someone else.
— Clay (@MoodyBlueshirt) July 16, 2024
Related:
Notice he doesn’t have any short fat middle aged woman guarding him. https://t.co/hOdmc79Ffk
— EducatëdHillbilly™ (@RobProvince) July 15, 2024
SAD BUT TRUE: Democrats Have No Problem With Political Violence, They’re the Reason it Exists.
Related:
Your timely reminder that between 1865 and 1901, three presidents were assassinated, all Republicans. Three of the first six elected GOP presidents were murdered, by Democrats, anarchist leftists, and sexual weirdos. JFK, the lone Dem, was shot and killed by a Communist.
— Michael Walsh (@TheAmanuensis) July 4, 2024
Also: Just a Reminder: The Left Is Getting More Shrill and Violent.
Flashback: Democrats are threatening to remove security funding for Supreme Court.
Milwaukee approved every RNC protest request—without vetting or checking identities. And they gave protest groups no limits on the number of people allowed. @nypost's @amysikma: https://t.co/BwokKoGkKd
— Kelly Jane Torrance (@KJTorrance) July 12, 2024
NEVER FORGET: these are the nine U.S. Congress members that sponsored HR 8081, the bill aimed to revoke President Donald Trump's Secret Service protection if Joe Biden’s lawfare campaign was successful in obtaining a felony conviction by Soros D.A. Alvin Bragg. pic.twitter.com/CO9bbYcFXL
— Dapper Detective (@Dapper_Det) July 14, 2024
Here’s 2 and a half minutes straight of Democrats explicitly calling for political violence.
Has Biden ever denounced this?
They have blood on their hands. pic.twitter.com/mbGYXTWAN7
— Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) July 14, 2024
Your daughter Christine tweeted that the lunatic who assaulted my husband and broke six of his ribs was “right” to attack him — on the same day Rand was literally gasping to breathe from his injuries. https://t.co/tbPEVKscsM
— Kelley Paul (@KelleyAshbyPaul) July 14, 2024
Democrats very much enjoy an atmosphere of violence and intimidation.
THE NEW SPACE RACE: What would it take to turn Mars into another Earth?
YOU KNOW HOW WE KNOW IT WASN’T FAKED? NASA events commemorate 55th anniversary of Apollo 11 moon landing.
Because if it had been, they’d have faked another big accomplishment since.
AS GOD AND ROBERT HEINLEIN FORESAW: Newly discovered moon cave could house future lunar explorers, researchers say.
LOSS OF TRUST HAS A PRICE: Global childhood vaccination rates still below prepandemic levels.
FLASHBACK: A RARE MOMENT OF HONESTY.
Chuck Schumer in January, 2017: “You take on the intelligence community, they have six ways from Sunday at getting back at you, so even for a practical, supposedly hard-nosed businessman [like Trump], he’s being really dumb to do this.” pic.twitter.com/0movJPfioD
— Dan O'Donnell (@DanODonnellShow) August 9, 2022
HIGHER EDUCATION SPREADS MISINFORMATION AND CONSPIRACY THEORIES: UVA professor claims Trump shooting was ‘staged’ and a tactic to win votes from ‘idiots.’
PUSHBACK: A friend sends this from MIT. It’s the Pierce Laboratory, by where the protests were. If you can’t make out the photo on your device, it’s Israeli and American flags, and the words “Jews are Indigenous to Israel.”
THE ESTABLISHMENT HAS BEEN SCREWING WITH ELON, AND HE’S RETURNING THE FAVOR: Elon Musk Has Said He Is Committing Around $45 Million a Month to a New Pro-Trump Super PAC. “Formed in June, America PAC is focused on registering voters and persuading constituents to vote early and request mail-in ballots in swing states, according to one of the people. The coalition assessed that the Democrats have historically had very robust “get out the vote” campaigns and took note of the amounts of money that the Biden administration has dedicated to so-called on the ground efforts in swing states. America PAC will try to counter that.”
DEMENTIA MAKES SOME PEOPLE MEAN: That Was Quick: Biden Is Getting Nasty Again.
Also, it’s all he’s got.
Related: Biden Flails Trying to Defend “Bullseye” Remark About Trump.
HOW DARE HE RESIST AGGRESSION: Liberal Media Scream: Anger over blood-splattered ‘fight, fight, fight.’
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