May 17, 2024
WHEEL TO WHEEL: Rematch! Tesla Cybertruck vs. Porsche 911 Drag Race! (This Time It’s Not Rigged). The Tesla is towing a Porsche 911 while racing another Porsche 911.
THAT WAS TUESDAY — 51 IS SET FOR TONIGHT: SpaceX launches 50th Falcon 9 rocket of 2024 on Starlink mission.
FLORIDA MAN FRIDAY [VIP]: He Was Found Guilty of Grand Theft… Houses? “It’s time for your much-needed break from the serious news, and this week we have the curious case of the man who stole houses, instant karma for a Pokemon shoplifter, and Utah Man’s failed attempt at playing possum.”
READER FAVORITE: FLYBIRD Weight Bench, Adjustable Strength Training Bench. #CommissionEarned
THIS IS NOT INDICATIVE OF A BOOMING ECONOMY: Walmart gains high-income shoppers as elevated prices persist.
STILL A FEW BUGS IN THE SELF-DRIVING SYSTEM: NHTSA Investigating Waymo for Collisions With Stationary Objects and Unsafe Driving.
WHEN YOU’VE LOST CNN…: Even CNN Thinks That Michael Cohen’s Testimony Was a Gift for Trump.
THE VALUE OF EXERCISE: Consistent exercise changes how saturated fat is used by the body, study finds.
THIS IS WAS CNN:
Per TV Newser when compared to one year ago:
During primetime, Fox News was up by +40% in total viewers and +33% in the A25-54 demo.
In primetime, CNN was down -27% in total viewers and -39% in the demo.
— Joe Concha (@JoeConchaTV) May 16, 2024
Something that can’t go on forever will stop.
I’M EXPECTING A SPACE-SHATTERING KABOOM: ‘Once-in-a-lifetime’ exploding star expected to be visible before October.
SARAH HOYT’S SHOCKED FACE HAS BEEN TAKEN TO AN UNDISCLOSED LOCATION: More Shady Biden Accounts Have Been Discovered.
NIFTY: West Point team’s computerized rifle scope adjusts itself in combat. “The cadets, David Caddigan, Aiden Looney, Ashton Gaines, Heyward Hutson, dubbed the project ‘a smart sight for the average soldier.'”
IT’S BEEN YEARS SINCE I MISSED THE NFL: Time for the Bud Light Treatment: NFL Denounces Player for Advocating Traditional Values.
THERE’LL BE A LOT OF REBRANDING GOING ON: ‘Pour Souls’ – Rebranding Bitter Clingers and Deplorables for the 2024 Election Cycle.
CANDY CROWLEY REDUX? Some of us remember the notorious DNC stenographer Candy Crowley in 2012 helping Obama though his stumbling over facts in the debate. Just the News is asking whether the equally biased Jake Tapper can control his editorialization — not journalism — in the upcoming debates between Bad Orange Man and President Puddinghead:
“CNN initially showed the footage of Trump, though Tapper told staff in the control room not to continue showing it. “The folks in the control room: I don’t need to see any more of that. He’s trying to turn this into a spectacle, into a campaign ad. That’s enough of that. We’ve seen it already,” Tapper said while on the air […] “The Gaetz-McBreitbart nonsense that Trump spews, like these little code words that make [Sean] Hannity’s pins shine at specific moments when he utters them,” Tapper said, in apparent reference to conservative news outlet Breitbart and Florida GOP Rep. Matt Gaetz. Tapper then editorialized, saying “He is running the single most negative, sleazy campaign in American history for a major party candidate.”
We’re to expect clean and fair debate management from this guy?
“Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?”
EVERYTHING IS GOING SWIMMINGLY: Another #Bidenomics Update: CA Wines Could Be at a ‘Breaking Point.’
An extinction-level event has not come to pass — yet. But regardless of the winery survival rate, it’s become clear in 2024 that the nature of the California wine industry has fundamentally changed. After decades of unfettered growth beginning in the 1990s, wine consumption started to flatten around 2018. Now, following what appeared to be a spike during the pandemic, it’s in dramatic decline.
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The elephant in the room is #Bidenomics – the hideous state of the economy thanks to inflationary policies. For many people, the extra funds available to indulge in life’s nicer things are no longer available, having been eaten by the cost of living and the plunging value of the dollar.There’s the cost of CA wines compared to what’s coming out of Europe. CA produces a lot less volume than its European counterparts, for one thing, and as you can imagine, the overhead in Socialist Central is enormous.
California wines, overall, used to enjoy a value proposition over the imports but that’s changing, too.
KEVIN DOWNEY JR: Want Spies With That? Chinese and Iranian Moles Are Posing As DoorDash Drivers. “Chinese nationals tried to squeeze onto military bases in the U.S. roughly 100 times just in 2023, roughly once every three or four days. They sometimes pose as DoorDash drivers who have ‘wandered off course’ and ‘accidentally’ showed up at a secret nuclear site.”
UPDATE (FROM GLENN): The Kurt Schlichter scenario is looking more plausible all the time.
AT AMAZON, Shop the Book Sale. #CommissionEarned
#RESIST: Texas Sues Biden Administration Over EV Trucking Mandates. “Better to get this law thrown out now than to wait until food become unaffordable because there aren’t enough reliable trucks to deliver it.”
MY LATEST SUBSTACK ESSAY: Harrison Butker, Harbinger?
UPDATE: Via a lefty friend’s Facebook page, here’s the full text of the speech, which my friend comments is much less objectionable than the press accounts. Yeah, go figure. He comments: “I don’t agree with it in its entirety, but I think that overall it’s splendid. And I think it’s a pretty good bet that of all the commencement speeches that will be given this year, this is the only one that will be remembered next year, and for quite a few years to come.”
YOU CAN’T SPELL “CAVEAT EMPTOR” WITHOUT AN E AND A V: How About a Cheap Used Car? It’s Only Two Years Old, But There’s a Catch…
