CHANGE:

I may retire to Argentina. Or Cuba, which I expect will be hospitable by then.

OPEN THREAD: Ring out the weekend.

PRATT SUMMER:

Being angry about having your home burned down and having to share city streets with drug-addicted mentally ill homeless people, that’s definitely “MAGA-encoded:”

UPDATE:

Tweet concludes, “The carpenters, electricians, and delivery drivers keeping the cities functional pay the highest gas and income taxes in the continental United States. They fund the programs but receive none of the benefits. They earn too much to qualify for state subsidies but lack the millions required to buy their way into secure zip codes. Time for Spencer Pratt.”

HOUSTON, HERE I COME: Heading back to tell folks about HillFaith, as explained on my latest Substack column.

100 MILLION SEEMS (AHEM) A LITTLE MUCH, BUT POINT TAKEN:

UPDATE (From Ed): And that’s why the left no longer sounds like this anymore:

 

When Rahm Emanuel Called for “Record Deportations of Criminal Aliens.”

● Harry Reid in 1993: It’s insane to reward illegal immigrants by giving their children birthright citizenship.

● “Trump took to Twitter on Thursday to remind Democrats that even former President Barack Obama spoke out against illegal immigration. Trump dug up a 2011 tweet from former President Obama which said: ‘I strongly believe that we should take on, once and for all, the issue of illegal immigration.’ ‘I totally agree!’ Trump wrote, retweeting the former president.”

—The Daily Caller, December 27, 2018.

GREAT MOMENTS IN ASTROTURFING:

 

AT LEAST SHE’S NOT IN TOTAL DENIAL: And thank goodness, the execrable phrase “mostly peaceful” won’t fly with common-sense people. Just the News reports that Gov. Mikey Sherrill:

“Shortly after midnight Sunday, Sherrill put out a statement acknowledging the severity of the violence and saying it had “put peaceful protesters and law enforcement in danger.” She blamed agitators outside New Jersey for the escalation.”

Newark’s mayor added that: “Mayor Ros J. Baraka admitted some were arrested in possession of weapons, necessitating a curfew.”

This can go one of three ways:

(1) it’s funded by Soros or Singham-linked people but only after the detective work is done by investigative reporters;

(2) there are too many stupid people (Prof Glenn says “embrace the power of ‘and‘.); or

(3) this gets ignored by major media. It just never happened*

*Many lefists, especially of the reporter variety play dumb. Case in point, one young lady, very nice, but suffered what we call in First Amendment law “reckless disregard for the truth.” I asked her her views on “Fast and Furious” and she said (I believe her) that she’d “never heard of it.” If you live in a  particular media bubble, the odds are good there’s a lot of stuff you’ve never heard of.

You can trash talk it as “conspiracy theory” but normal Americans just can’t ignore it anymore. And this underscores the power of Justice Brennan’s Times v. Sullivan‘s emotive authority to paraphrase:

“‘The free marketplace of ideas'” necessarily broadens the discourse of public understanding.

And now you know why I’m such a fervent supporter of non-legacy (or “new”) media: I want you to be heard.