November 20, 2024

OBVIOUSLY WE NEED A CODE OF JUDICIAL ETHICS FOR THESE THINGS:

Posted at 12:47 pm by Glenn Reynolds

IF THEY’D JUST GET BACK TO MAKING CARS THAT DELIVER “SPACE, PACE AND GRACE,” THAT WOULD BE GREAT:

The genderfluid DEI people got control of another brand via the marketing department and the rest seems inevitable.

Posted at 12:44 pm by Stephen Green

NEWS YOU CAN USE? Want To Exchange Ideas With Annoying Liberals Like Yourself? Here’s How To Delete Your X Account and Join Bluesky.

What’s happening: Obnoxious liberals (many of them journalists) are performatively fleeing X, the social media app formerly known as Twitter, and signing up for Bluesky, an inferior copycat app that caters almost exclusively to obnoxious liberals who think it’s absurd to suggest that people like them exist in a bubble and are hopelessly out of touch with normal Americans.

  •  It’s a low-intensity alternative for annoying Democrats who threatened to leave the country if Trump won but never intended to follow through. It’s also much easier than boycotting Amazon or Whole Foods because Jeff Bezos blocked the Washington Post from endorsing Kamala Harris.
  • The libs don’t like X anymore because its owner, free speech advocate Elon Musk, is a Trump supporter who will play a (largely symbolic) role in the second Trump administration. They seem to genuinely believe that Musk has transformed the platform into an engine of right-wing propaganda.

What they’re saying (about leaving X): “I’m leaving Twitter,” author Stephen King proclaimed last week as though anyone would care. “Tried to stay, but the atmosphere has just become too toxic.”

  • In an interview with the Guardian, NYU history professor and “fascism” “expert” Ruth Ben-Ghiat warned that after Trump takes office, the X platform’s functions “as a Trump propaganda outlet and far-right radicalization machine could be accelerated.” The Guardian, a left-wing British publication, announced last week it would no longer post on X due to the “disturbing content promoted or found on the platform, including far-right conspiracy theories and racism.”

Leftists who have departed for the echo chamber of Bluesky suddenly feel free to express what can be, unburdened by what has been. Or reality itself. QED: Washington Post columnist Jennifer Rubin claims ‘Republicans want to kill your kids:’ ‘It’s actually true.’

UPDATE (FROM GLENN): They didn’t leave X because X is a one-sided echo chamber. They left X because X isn’t a one-sided echo chamber.

Posted at 12:30 pm by Ed Driscoll

RICK BEATO INTERVIEWS DAVID GILMOUR (Video). A surprising focus on the songwriting and recording processes of one of rock’s greatest guitarists:

Posted at 12:22 pm by Ed Driscoll

21ST CENTURY RELATIONSHIPS: A humiliated bride was “completely upstaged” at her own wedding after hungry guests snubbed the upscale vegan dinner menu — and ordered pizza for delivery instead.

Plus: “In the post’s comments, folks online did not side with the newlyweds — particularly for weaponizing the element of surprise. ‘Be honest, you didn’t tell anyone about the menu because you knew they wouldn’t like it/come if you did,’ one wrote.”

Posted at 12:04 pm by Glenn Reynolds

ANTITRUST: DOJ wants to force Google Chrome sale, Android de-bundling. “Additionally, the DOJ intends to ask for a range of other remedies, Bloomberg reported, all of them discussed in a court filing last month. These include imposing data licensing requirements and requiring more transparency for advertisers on where their ads appear, as well as requiring ‘measures related to artificial intelligence and its Android smartphone operating system,’ sources said. Those measures will likely stop Google from hoarding user data for both search results and AI products, with the DOJ seemingly paving the way for more users to opt their content out of AI training.”

Posted at 11:42 am by Stephen Green

CRISIS BY DESIGN:

If Hobbs wants to try and turn Arizona into a sanctuary state, I can’t think of anything much better that could happen to the Arizona GOP.

Posted at 10:40 am by Stephen Green

KRUISER’S MORNING BRIEFING: Trump Tags In Linda McMahon to Body Slam Dept. of Education. “School choice is anathema to the Democrats, who are completely beholden to the American Federation of Teachers and the National Education Association. McMahon’s advocacy for school choice will have the Dems finishing off whatever Prilosec they may have left after the election.”

Posted at 9:07 am by Stephen Green

NATO ACTS:

Posted at 8:50 am by Glenn Reynolds

BRITONS ELECT COMMUNISTS, DISCOVER COMMUNISM ISN’T SO GREAT, ACTUALLY: Thousands of British farmers protest against ‘tractor tax’ on inheritance.

The measure, dubbed the tractor tax by critics and announced in the new government’s budget last month as it sought to raise funds, has drawn an angry backlash from farmers who say the ruling Labour Party does not understand rural communities.

The protesters held placards stating “no farmers, no food, no future” and “Starmer the farmer harmer”, in reference to Prime Minister Keir Starmer. Police estimated about 10,000 protesters took part.

Farmer Emma Robinson, 44, said she was “absolutely livid” and would take part in measures to disrupt food supplies if the government did not back down.

Robinson said her farm in northwest England had been in her family for 500 years and she was going to pass it on to her children.

“It’s being taken out of my hands by someone that’s been in parliament for literally days,” she said.

The passing of farms down through generations was tax-free, but under the policy set out by finance minister Rachel Reeves, from 2026, 20% tax would be paid on the value of a farm above 1 million pounds.

Existing personal allowances, which a married couple can combine, takes the threshold for a farm and associated property up to 3 million pounds.

Farmers say that while their land and machinery has a high value, the farms themselves have low profit margins, meaning their children would have to sell land to cover the tax bill.

Easy call: the buyers will be well-connected.

Posted at 8:36 am by Stephen Green

LIZ SHELD: Morning Greatness: Trump Selects Linda McMahon as Secretary of Education.

UPDATE: “Apprentice — there’s a word with resonance. We seem to be talking about teaching young people specific marketable skills rather than channeling them into college. I’m sure that will be controversial… especially now that we’ve seen that it’s the college-educated who vote Democratic and the working class has turned to Trump.” Indoctrination is how leftists reproduce, so that’s a real kick in the nads.

Posted at 8:26 am by Glenn Reynolds

PUNCH BACK TWICE AS HARD:

Posted at 8:22 am by Glenn Reynolds

PUNCH A NAZI:

Posted at 8:20 am by Glenn Reynolds

THEY LITERALLY DON’T THINK THOSE SHOULD BE ALLOWED: X Is the Nonpartisan News Source, Which Drives Liberals Nuts. “Twitter was crucial to the success of the MAGA movement not because Elon Musk made Twitter/X a MAGA haven–look at those poll numbers, and you can see that Democrats and Republicans are here in equal measure–but because the news media was so like Pravda that having a space where people could see a more synoptic view of the world destroyed the Truman Show the media was trying to create.”

Related:

Posted at 8:16 am by Glenn Reynolds

VICTORIA TAFT: Do You Want to See How Elections Are Stolen? Watch Pennsylvania. “The difference this time is the rules have been changed back. The difference this time is the state supreme court isn’t cheerleading the fraud. The difference this time around is who’s doing the election denying.”

Posted at 8:05 am by Stephen Green

THE BATHROOM WARS REACH CONGRESS:

“Every day Americans go to work with people who have life journeys different than their own and engage with them respectfully, I hope members of Congress can muster that same kindness,” [Sarah McBride responded] on X.

“This is a blatant attempt from far right-wing extremists to distract from the fact that they have no real solutions to what Americans are facing,” McBride added. “We should be focused on bringing down the cost of housing, health care, and child care, not manufacturing culture wars.”

Ed [Morrissey]: Er … who’s manufacturing culture wars? The people who insist that males should have access to women’s spaces on the basis of self-identity, or the people who oppose it? Because it looks a lot more like the former than the latter, and voters seemed to agree in this last election. 

Hiroo Onoda could not be reached for comment.

Posted at 7:45 am by Ed Driscoll