KRUISER’S MORNING BRIEF: CNN Is the GOP’s New Best Friend. “CNN may be trying to destroy President Trump and the Republican party along with him, but they have become such a rabidly ideological clown show that they may now be helping.”
When I say that “all the Democrats have to do is not act crazy,” that includes apparatchiks at places like CNN.
WHO NEEDS A REPUTATION WHEN THERE’S A NARRATIVE TO PUSH? Newspaper Embraces Crappy Fiction for Climate Change ‘Reporting.’
VIDEO COMMENTARY: 737 Max Delays: “A loss of trust.”
Hat tip to Mike Perry who adds, “Boeing is still building them. They’re parking them in Eastern Washington and hiring hundreds of techs to keep them up. This is costing Boeing a lot.”
COMEDY ISN’T PRETTY (OR FUNNY): Colbert Lets Biden Lie, Deflect and Spin.
President Barack Obama’s tag team partner is running for the White House, again, and doing so badly. His gaffes are coming at a steady clip. His handlers are trying to keep him out of the public eye whenever possible.
And, at 76, the whispers he’s too old for the gig rise up with every jaw-dropping mistake – like forgetting his old tag team partner’s name.
Good thing Colbert had an ace in the hole. Biden’s a Democrat, so all he need do is prop the vice president up for a good 10-plus minutes, avoiding reality as long as possible.
And that’s precisely what happened Wednesday night.
Christian Toto always turns bad TV into good write-ups.
BRYAN PRESTON: CNN’s #ClimateTownHall Does the Nation a Great Service.
GOOD. NOW GET BEN PENN FIRED FROM HIS FOR TARGETING AN INNOCENT MAN: Leif Olson to Rejoin Labor Department Days After Resignation.
BECAUSE LETTING MEN INTO BATTERED-WOMEN’S SHELTERS IS A PHENOMENAL IDEA: House Democrats will consider bill to block HUD rule allowing anti-trans shelter discrimination.
HE WAS ALREADY PRODUCING THEM, WHICH IS WHAT CAUSED THE DEMISE OF THE NUCLEAR PACT: Putin says Russia will produce new missiles after demise of nuclear pact.
IT’S ALMOST AS THOUGH OBAMA’S IRAN DEAL WASN’T WORTH A DAMN: Trump Admin Sanctions Iranian Space Program for Covering Nuclear Weapons Work.
SENATOR RON WYDEN: Mark Zuckerberg should face “the possibility of a prison term.”
80 YEARS AGO TODAY: FDR declares U.S. neutrality in WWII.
That was one day after Belgium and the Netherlands declared neutrality, for all the good it did them.
FORGET IT, HE’S ROLLING: Andrew Yang Wants Buybacks… for Your Car?
MEANWHILE, OVER AT VODKAPUNDIT: Mike Pompeo Won’t Put His John Hancock on Afghan Peace Deal. “US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo won’t sign his name to the pact he and his team negotiated with the so-called Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan, better known as the Taliban — but not for the reason Time magazine wants you to believe.”
KRUISER’S MORNING BRIEF: Let’s Swap San Francisco for Greenland.
Look, I have never liked the Bay Area. While California’s politics may have chased me away, I have always loved everything else about the state, except San Francisco and its environs.
The weather is always awful. The Giants play there. They have a problem with human feces on the sidewalks. The Giants play there. The city launched the public career of Kamala Harris.
The Giants play there.
Now they’ve decided that some friends of mine are domestic terrorists.
The city has become a festering boil on America. It needs to go.
That seems about right.
PRIVACY: Google Has My Dead Grandpa’s Data And He Never Used The Internet.
Over the past couple months I’ve been held up on a regular basis by the fact that Google has been overriding my LastPass credential window with their own despite the fact that I’ve never given Google access to any of my sign in credentials. This has been happening to me more often than I’d like, and it has really started to bug me. Why? A couple reasons. For one, I don’t want Google perpetually scanning my form fields grabbing stuff I didn’t ask them to just because that’s their default status. And two, Google is prioritizing their credential services over others I had previously chosen. This is simply a small demonstration of Google’s monopoly power that I would prefer it not be in my life. So last week I decided it would be the last time.
My first step was to hit that little “Manage…” button Google has deprioritized at the bottom of their credential window to see where it took me. What I found out is that Google, as expected, has been keeping track of me very well. Upon arrival to the controls page, I found a list of “Saved Passwords” (duh) as well as a list of “Never Saved” passwords.
Hmm. Never Saved? At no point did I tell Google to create and store a list of websites I had logged into that they didn’t get access to but would like access to at some point in the future. Maybe in the Terms of Service/Privacy Policy I agreed to this, but who knows? Not the majority of us, and it’s just creepy.
All that, and you’ll still have to read further to get to the part where Google had a dossier on his non-internet using grandfather.
PARLIAMENT VOTES TO DISSOLVE THE PEOPLE AND ELECT ANOTHER: U.K. Parliament Gives A Full-Fledged Finger To The British People.
MAKE IT AN ORDER OF MAGNITUDE BIGGER AND IT WOULD STILL BE TOO SMALL: Google Agrees to Record $170M Fine For Kids’ Privacy Violations.
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