BOOM: CNN’s Van Jones Just Wrote the Democratic Party’s 2024 Eulogy. “A bullet couldn’t stop Trump. A virus just stopped Biden.”
Author Archive: Stephen Green
July 17, 2024
THE PJ MEDIA CREW IS LIVEBLOGGING THE RNC TONIGHT: Day 3 of the RNC—Make America Strong Once Again.
‘MURICA:
Like I said. This is what legends are born of. Children in Uganda recreate the assassination attempt on President Trump. pic.twitter.com/jNSsWpClL2
— Justin Hart (@justin_hart) July 17, 2024
Complete with fist pump.
EVERY TIME YOU TRY TO PUT THE CONSPIRACY THOUGHTS TO REST…: Thomas Crooks’ parents ‘called the cops on the day of the Trump rally shooting.’
WHAT WAS GLENN SAYING JUST THE OTHER DAY ABOUT THE PRESS BURYING THE TRUMP “FIGHT” PHOTO LIKE THEY BURIED THE “FALLING MAN” PHOTO?
Axios: a "photo editor" at a "major news outlet" suggests media should bury the photo of Trump raising his fist because it's "kind of free PR for Trump in a way, and it's dangerous for media organizations to keep sharing that photo despite how good it is." pic.twitter.com/pLcrLi6mnH
— Peter J. Hasson (@peterjhasson) July 16, 2024
IT’S ALSO WHAT YOU DO WHEN YOU’VE GIVEN UP ARGUING FOR YOUR CAUSE:
Positing that the foe is demonic aims at shoring up internal cohesion rather than constituting any realistic assessment of the opponent. It is a fiction aimed at preventing compromise.
— wretchardthecat (@wretchardthecat) July 16, 2024
MORE LIKE THIS, PLEASE: Adam Carolla Shreds DEI Poster Child Kimberly Cheatle.
Also: #MeToo.
CORN, POPPED: It’s ALIVE, ALIVE… the Democrat Revolt Against Biden ‘Resurfaces.’ “It had appeared as though the Democrat Civil War of 2024 had ended in an unsatisfactory stalemate (unsatisfactory for them; I’m loving it) with a critically wounded Presidentish Joe Biden still atop the ticket. But now comes word that the fighting has quietly resumed.”
DECLINE IS A CHOICE FORCED ON US BY DEMOCRATS: Joe Biden’s Energy Policies Are Based on Fantasies and Fairy Tales.
PJM manages the transmission of wholesale electricity across 13 states and the District of Columbia – including major data center hotspots such as Virginia and Ohio.
Meanwhile, a neighboring RTO, the Mid-Continent Independent System Operator (MISO) painted an even gloomier picture in its recent “Reliability Imperative Report.” MISO manages electric transmission across 15 states throughout most of the Midwest, Mississippi Valley, and Great Plains regions as well as the Province of Manitoba in Canada.
In their report, MISO forecasts a demand increase of 60 GW, or 32%, by 2042. At the same time, MISO expects much of their current baseload capacity to retire. And despite new renewable generation planned for construction, MISO expects to see a net capacity decline of 32 GW (@18%).
“Because new wind and solar resources have significantly lower accreditation values than the conventional resources that utilities and states plan to retire in the same 20-year period, the region’s level of accredited capacity is forecast to decline by 32 GW by 2042” MISO stated.
PJM expects 58 GW of current capacity to retire by 2032, which is approximately 30% of the total current capacity of 196 GW). This amount of capacity loss is despite peak forecasted demand increasing by 43 GW above current capacity.
The story continues to repeat itself across the country.
If Democrats were actively working* to cripple a great nation, what would they be doing any differently?
*They are.
EVERYTHING IS GOING SWIMMINGLY (MOSCOW EDITION): Russia Classifies Mortality Data after Ukraine War Losses Revealed.
Russia has classified parts of its mortality data, days after an investigation revealed the scale of the nation’s war dead—according to a Russian demographer.
Alexey Raksha, a demographer who previously worked at the Federal State Statistics Service of Russia (Rosstat) statistics agency, found on Tuesday that Rosstat deleted two columns of data containing details on the number of deaths and mortality from external causes.
On June 27, the original data was used by independent outlet Important Stories, which estimated that at least 71,000 Russian troops had died since the full-scale invasion of Ukraine began in February 2022.
Russian President Vladimir Putin’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine has resulted in high military fatalities for both Moscow and Kyiv. Newsweek has contacted Russia’s Foreign Ministry for comment by email.
Independent Russian news outlets Mediazona and Meduza also published a joint investigation on troop deaths in the war on July 5, which used data from the country’s National Probate Registry. The outlets found that by the end of June, approximately 120,000 Russian troops had died since the conflict began, “but the real number could be as high as 140,000.”
The Soviets lost somewhere between 14,000-26,000 men in nine years of fighting in Afghanistan.
SHAMELESS NATION: What Does It Take to Get Fired in Washington These Days? “If Cheatle possessed the strength of character demanded by the position she holds, she’d have fallen on her virtual sword before the final gunshot had stopped ringing in people’s ears.”
THIS ISN’T WHERE I EVER HOPED WE’D BE BUT IT IS WHERE WE ARE:
There’s some controversy about this because it’s unpleasant. But here’s the thing. We’re betraying our own powerless people if we don’t use the power we have to protect them by making the side that imposed these new rules feel the costs.
We have tried reason. We have tried… https://t.co/PTrfP4CYII
— Kurt Schlichter (@KurtSchlichter) July 17, 2024
More:
We have tried reason. We have tried appeals to simple justice. They have failed. Now we need to apply punishment. They need to know there is a cost to this. If we fail to impose a cost on them for doing this because doing so is unpleasant, we have betrayed our own people and left them exposed. The left will not stop unless it has reason to. This is reason to.
Sometimes you have to be stern.
Indeed.
RABBI MICHAEL BARCLAY: It’s Time to Stand Up Against Hollywood Celebrities Who Destroy Rather Than Build Up.
LAND GRAB: Feds Want To Eat 700,000 Acres of Texas/New Mexico Land. “Both this plan and the 30×30 plan in general smack of the sort of unauthorized, self-directed bureaucratic empire-building that the Loper Bright Enterprises v. Raimondo decision struck down.”
HARD TO WATCH: Biden Suffers Multiple Glitches in Nevada Campaign Swing.
IT USUALLY IS: The Offshore Wind Energy Scandal Is Even Worse Than You Think.
The moves by BP and Shell are only the latest examples of the troubles facing the offshore wind sector, which has been foundering on the shoals of higher interest rates, citizen opposition, and ballooning costs. Over the past year, numerous projects on the Eastern Seaboard, including Skipjack Wind in Maryland, Park City Wind in Connecticut, and South Coast Wind in Massachusetts, have been canceled due to bad economics. In all, according to data compiled by Ed O’Donnell, a nuclear engineer and a principal at New Jersey-based Whitestrand Consulting, about 14,700 megawatts of offshore wind capacity has been canceled. For comparison, about 15,500 megawatts of capacity is now in development, under construction, or operational.
Of course, those figures don’t jibe with the tsunami of hype about offshore wind energy that has appeared in major media outlets. But the hard reality is that America’s offshore wind sector is a subsidy-dependent industry that is dominated by foreign companies who are in bed with some of America’s biggest climate NGOs, including the NRDC (gross receipts: $555 million) and Sierra Club (Gross receipts: $184 million).
Those NGOs and others, including the National Wildlife Federation (gross receipts: $142 million) and Conservation Law Foundation (gross receipts: $17.5 million), are leading the most shameful environmental betrayal in modern American history. Rather than seek to protect marine mammals and stop the industrialization of our oceans, they are eagerly promoting the installation of hundreds of offshore wind platforms smack in the middle of the known habitat of the critically endangered North Atlantic Right Whale.
Much more at the link.
KRUISER’S MORNING BRIEFING: The GOP Is Both Grand and a Party Again. “There is something really extraordinary going on this week: it’s not awful to be a Republican or a conservative who’s voting Republican this year. Let’s be honest here — that’s a novelty. I mean, I think that the last time I was really excited during the week of the Republican National Convention was in 1984.”
I HAD BEEN ASSURED THAT INFLATION WAS ILLUSORY, TRANSITORY, A HIGH-CLASS PROBLEM, AND OVER ALREADY: IMF lowers outlook for US economy while warning of slower disinflation. “The Federal Reserve is also expecting relatively weaker employment next year, with the unemployment rate rising to 4.2 percent from its current level of 4.1 percent, according to the Fed’s latest summary of economic projections.”
Employment — as measured by full-time, private-sector jobs — already sucks and has since the Biden “recovery.” And so does the labor participation rate, which has yet to recover to pre-lockdown levels.
CELEBRATE DIVERSITY: Muslim Cab Driver Beheads Jesus Statue Outside NYC Church.
I GUESS GOV. ABBOTT WILL JUST HAVE TO CHARTER MORE BUSES: Now Biden is Flying Migrants Back to Texas. “The New York Post has uncovered yet another ‘unannounced’ White House program related to the Biden border crisis. Ever since Texas Governor Greg Abbott effectively shut down his state’s southern border, the cartels have been forced to move their human smuggling cargo further to the west. Much of the traffic has been showing up in California, particularly in the San Diego area. Despite Gavin Newsom’s claims that California was still a ‘welcoming’ state for migrants, in reality, the San Diego area was simply becoming ‘overrun.’ Since we clearly can’t have that happening to a blue state in an election year, Joe Biden rushed to the rescue. The White House has been operating weekly charter flights out of San Diego to take the migrants elsewhere. Their destination? Texas, of course. They are being flown in and released in the Rio Grande Valley.”
KEVIN DOWNEY JR: The Commies Are Now on Defense. Here’s What We Can Expect. “I suggest you buy stockpile food, water, and perhaps a few more boxes of mostly peaceful ammo.”
July 16, 2024
THE RNC IS PUTTING ON A SOLID CONVENTION THIS YEAR: First Night Reflections and A Little Teddy Roosevelt GOP Convention History.