AT THIS POINT THE NFL WOULD HAVE TO GENERATE FAKE ENTHUSIASM EVEN WITHOUT THE COVID RESTRICTIONS: NFL games will have artificial crowd noise specific to each stadium.
Author Archive: Stephen Green
September 11, 2020
I BLAME THE DEMOCRATS AND THEIR GRIEVANCE CULTURE: ‘Going To Die Today’: Police Chief Reportedly Stabbed In Face With Ice Pick At His Own Home.
September 10, 2020
SO THEY ADMIT STUDENTS OF BOTH SEXES? Massachusetts women’s college describes itself as ‘a women’s college that is gender diverse.’
I QUESTION THE TIMING: Los Angeles County Health Director Says She Expects Schools To Reopen ‘After The Election.’
YOUR AMBASSADOR WATCHES PORN. ANYTHING ELSE WE CAN DO FOR YOU? China’s UK embassy demanded Twitter launch a ‘thorough’ investigation after its ambassador’s account liked a pornographic video.
MORE LIKE THIS, PLEASE: Major Disney Stakeholders Are Taking Disney to the Woodshed Over Embrace of China.
WELL, THE ATLANTIC: Atlantic Reporter Falsely Claims Trump Campaign Mocked Biden At Beau’s Grave.
TYLER O’NEIL: Has the Second American Civil War Already Started? “In the years leading up to the Civil War, pro-slavery and anti-slavery settlers fought and killed one another in Kansas. With the benefit of hindsight, Americans see ‘Bleeding Kansas’ as a precursor to — if not the very first tremors of — the Civil War. In one sense, the Civil War had a ‘soft opening’ in 1854, before the main event in 1861.”
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VODKAPUNDIT PRESENTS YOUR DAILY INSANITY WRAP: Trevor Noah’s Improved Gender Reveal Party Is ‘Yes, No, Maybe!’
Insanity Wrap needs to know: What’s the real problem with gender reveal parties?
Answer: DON’T FORCE YOUR PATRIARCHY ON MY BXBY, RACIST!
Before we get to the sordid details, a quick preview of today’s Wrap.
”Change” really means ”more of the same” for all the right people.
Joe Biden loves ice cream, and other weighty election issues.
The benefits of Communism, explained in one handy poster.
And so much more at the link, you’d have to be crazy to miss it.
INSTAPUNDIT: STILL FREE! Google’s latest experimental app lets influencers host paid online events.
CONRAD BLACK: Democrats Hit Rock Bottom On Election Tactics.
It is indicative of the fact that the Democrats are much less overconfident than they were four years ago that they have unleashed their dirty tricks division a month earlier than they did in 2016 with the completely irrelevant Billy Bush “Access Hollywood” tape of locker room indiscretions by candidate Trump 11 years before.
While it was completely irrelevant to whether Trump was worthy of election in 2016, and was somewhat bizarre as it emanated from the campaign of the spouse of, along with John F. Kennedy, the greatest sexual predator in the history of the White House, it was at least an uncontested recording from many years before of Mr. Trump’s opinion of a celebrity’s opportunities for sexual self-assertion. He did say it.
In this latest incident, many people, including almost everyone who would have been present, have all denied that any such utterance had been made. It is inconceivable that this president would think or say anything of the kind.
But the odium of the incident is magnified by the fact that it was clearly staged in a tight sequence coordinated between the Biden campaign and its most rabid press partisans. As soon as the Atlantic story appeared, an anti-Trump veterans’ organization called VoteVets produced a lengthy follow-up Internet statement that the President was not really any friend of the Armed Forces and veterans should take note of his outrageous comments in Paris and swarm the polls in favor of his opponent.
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UPDATE (FROM GLENN): Comment from a post last week:
The military story is battlefield prep for the Democrats to steal the military votes.
Voter fraud all the way.
Stay tuned for the MSM stories about how Trump’s support from vets is plummeting and Joe’s support from vets is skyrocketing.
Once I would have considered such a claim to be obviously paranoid.
KRUISER’S MORNING BRIEF: Trump-Hating Media Lying More and More to Keep Low-Info Dems In a Rage. “Author Bob Woodward has crawled out from under his Democratic patron rock with a book he hopes will permanently damage President Trump’s hopes for re-election. He accuses Trump of downplaying the coronavirus threat in the early days of this year. Like the ‘very fine people’ thing, this is based on deliberately misrepresenting something the president said, the context of which is plain to any fourth-grader.”
I STILL LIKE IT FOR SHARING SILLY MEMES AND PET PHOTOS: ‘The Social Dilemma’ on Netflix Will Convince You To Finally Delete Facebook.
DECOUPLING: Huawei is running out of display suppliers as Samsung and LG bail out, report says.
Related: Don’t Rely on Hope; Attack Huawei’s Value Chain.
The Trump Administration’s trade restrictions create a window during which it should mount a coherent high-low strategy that creates viable U.S. competitors before Huawei can recover.
The low end of the strategy would attack Huawei in the 5G radio network market, which is ripe for disruption. Huawei’s tightly integrated radio systems are attractive to network operators but unnecessary given emerging hardware advancements. Like today’s P.C.s, radio networks could be disaggregated as in Open RAN, with various parts being provided by different companies and integrated by a third-party vendor.
But Open RAN will not happen on its own. Moving quickly from open standards to market-ready offerings will require U.S. government demonstrations, such as those being mounted by the Department of Defense, to prove out the approach and spur the establishment of new network integrators. Moreover, investments in microelectronics like those envisioned under the CHIPs Act, American Foundries Act, and DoD Electronics Resurgence Initiative will be required to improve U.S. radio hardware to achieve competitive lifecycle cost and performance with Huawei.
The low end of the strategy may initiate a race to the bottom in 5G radio hardware but would force Huawei to defend its current position and slow improvements in its cloud computing business, where the company is not even a major player in China.
Keep squeezing them until they scream, and then squeeze some more.
Additionally, does anyone seriously believe that this better-late-than-never decoupling would be going on had Hillary Clinton won in 2016, or that it would continue if Joe Biden wins in 2020?
JUST ONCE I’D LIKE TO SEE A ‘DEMOCRATS POUNCE’ HEADLINE: Biden slams Trump over Woodward book revelations, says president ‘failed to do his job on purpose.’
IT’S GOOD TO BE THE NOMENKLATURA: Maine Dem Spiked Ethics Probe Into Partymate’s Teen Sex Abuse. “Sara Gideon blocked investigation into her handling of colleague’s sexual misconduct.”
GROUND CONTROL TO MAJOR TED: Cops Send an ‘Earth to Portland Mayor Ted Wheeler’ Message: Your City’s on Fire and the Cops Are Leaving.