KRUISER’S MORNING BRIEF: Kamala Harris Will Remind Everyone How Awful She Is During Confirmation Hearing. “The optics of Harris teeing off on a Roman Catholic mother with a shrieking progressive ‘Gender traitor’ rant won’t really help Team Harris-Biden win over any hearts and minds in swing states where the polls are tight.”
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September 23, 2020
TELL CANADA TO STOP MEDDLING IN OUR ELECTION: Court papers: Woman wrote ‘give up’ in ricin note to Trump.
PROGRESS: Blue Origin targets this Thursday for New Shepard reusable rocket launch with NASA landing system test. “The launch of Blue Origin’s New Shepard vehicle will be its thirteenth overall for that category of launch craft, and the seventh in a row for this particular rocket. The payload will include an even dozen commercial cargo items, including a Deorbit, Descent and Landing Sensor Demonstration done in partnership with NASA — basically a highly precise automated landing system that will help NASA land on the moon and eventually Mars.”
FIGHT THE POWER: US House passes forced labour bill that would bar Xinjiang imports.
September 22, 2020
THIS IS A THING THAT HAPPENED: Here’s What You Need to Understand About That Amish Trump Parade in Ohio.
DEWINE HASN’T EXACTLY BEEN OHIO’S MR. POPULAR Trump Introduced Pro-Masking GOP Gov. Mike DeWine at His Ohio Rally and It Did Not Go Well. At All.
DEMOCRATIC OPERATIVES WITH BYLINES: ABC Town Hall Masquerades Anti-Trump Activists as ‘Uncommitted’ Voters.
Kutztown University professor Ellesia Blaque—whom ABC repeatedly identified as “uncommitted” in its coverage of the town hall—praised vice presidential candidate Kamala Harris during the Democratic primary, saying she would “be there, volunteering” for the California senator in Pennsylvania. The English professor was not shy about her partisanship, calling Trump a “f—ing moron,” “pathetic,” “pig,” “swine,” “punk ass,” and “LOOSER” (sic) in a slew of 2019 tweets. She is a self-described “liberal Democrat,” according to her Facebook profile, on the grounds that liberals “are not motivated by money or power, but by humanity and the needs of the people.”
Much more at the link, but what else would you expect from actual Democratic-operative-with-a-byline George Stephanopoulos?
THEY SURE AREN’T ACTING AS THOUGH THEY EXPECT BIDEN TO WIN: Colorado Is The Test Run For Democrats’ Vote-By-Mail Blame Game.
Democrats have a new prime target in their political sights: U.S. Postal Service and Postmaster General Louis DeJoy. On Friday, Colorado Secretary of State Jena Griswold sued USPS and DeJoy for a supposed “attempt at voter suppression that violates the United States Constitution and federal statutes and must be stopped immediately.” This time, the “voter suppression” and “constitutional violation” came in the form of a postcard sent to voters with incomplete information about vote-by-mail.
Really? One deficient informational postcard is powerful enough to commandeer Colorado’s elections authority and suppress the right to vote?
In truth, Democrats are again using USPS to attack President Trump, openly accusing him of conspiring with DeJoy to disrupt USPS and interfere in vote-by-mail elections. Democrats insist on using USPS as a scapegoat when — not if — vote-by-mail issues arise in untested states. The left may be escalating the blame-game, but this scapegoating is nothing new.
Read the whole thing.
IF YOU CAN’T WIN, CHANGE THE RULES: Biden Won’t Rule Out Packing the Supreme Court.
BATTLESWARM BLOG: Democrats Really Haven’t Thought Through This ‘Total War’ Thing. “If Democrats really want to contemplate total war, then what’s to prevent Republicans from implementing those same measures next year if they win?”
The plan is to lock in Democratic advantages to the point where there isn’t another GOP-led government.
DAVID HARSANYI: The Democrats’ Bogus Concern for SCOTUS ‘Norms.’
Norm #1: When Democrats are in charge of both the Senate and the White House, they are free to nominate and confirm any justice they please, as quickly as they please, as they did in the cases of Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Stephen Breyer, Sonia Sotomayor, and Elena Kagan.
Norm #2: When Democrats only run the White House, they are free to nominate any SCOTUS justice they please, and they also get to dictate whom Republicans are allowed to confirm, as they tried to do in the case of Merrick Garland — blessed be his memory.
Norm #3: When Democrats run neither the nomination process nor the confirmation process, they get to dictate who is confirmed to the Court, as they argue today in the case of Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s replacement.
Norm #4: If Republicans fail to adhere to all these rules, Democrats have license to burn everything down to the ground. (And, of course, I only mean that 90 percent metaphorically.)
Democrats will keep getting away with playing the “rules are for suckers” game until Republicans stop being suckers, and license for them to do just that is maybe Trump’s greatest gift to the GOP.
UPDATE (FROM GLENN): This is sadly true.
RIPE FOR DISRUPTION: A German rocket startup seeks to disrupt the European launch industry.
GLEICHSCHALTUNG: Don’t Want to Wear an LGBT Pride Emblem? You’re Fired.
VODKAPUNDIT PRESENTS YOUR DAILY INSANITY WRAP: Joe Biden Is America’s Favorite Poor Little Rich Man.
Insanity Wrap needs to know: Are you being oppressed by the memory of Abe Lincoln and a very large rock?
Answer: Yes? Then you aren’t oppressed, Snowflake.
Before we get to the sordid details, a quick preview of today’s Wrap.
- What has been seen in a dress cannot be unseen.
- GoodFellas government comes to Colorado.
- Newsweek buries the correction, not the incorrect lede.
And so much more at the link, you’d have to be crazy to miss it.
ALSO: The Wuhan Virus Is Still Killing People and So Is Our Response.
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VERY COOL, BUT OCCUPANCY MIGHT STILL BE A PROBLEM BY THE TIME IT’S COMPLETED: NYC’s Newest Proposed Building Would Be the City’s Tallest—And Will Act as a Carbon Emissions Filter. “The 2,400-foot-tall building would change New York’s skyline forever.”
You will be made to care, or at least to conform.
KRUISER’S MORNING BRIEF: Amid All the ACB SCOTUS Talk, Barbara Lagoa May Be Trump’s Trump Card. “There is no way to keep the Democrats from being insane bottom-feeders during this process, but nominating Lagoa might throw them off for just a bit. Their slavish devotion to identity politics could trip them up.”
Nah. They only believe in that stuff when they believe it gains them the advantage.
UPDATE (FROM GLENN): If Barbara Lagoa is Trump’s pick for the Supreme Court, it will forefront a subject that roiled the presidential election in 2000 — Elian Gonzalez.
DON’T THROW ME INTO THAT BRIAR PATCH: Facebook Says it Will Stop Operating in Europe If Regulators Don’t Back Down.
NOT SO MUCH ANTI-FASCIST AS PRO-COMMUNIST: Antifa Wants to ‘Overthrow Our Government,’ Terrorism Expert Says.