DISPATCHES FROM THE “IT’S DIFFERENT WHEN WE DO IT PARTY:”
They impeached Trump over the same move. https://t.co/8lwXyDbXD3
— The Non-Consenting Dissident Barsh Consulting Co. (@EmilyTVproducer) May 9, 2024
May 9, 2024
BEEGE WELLBORN: I Don’t Want to Hear Noem-Or ‘VP’ Talk About These Two, M’kay?
Yeesh. Sometimes I think Republicans are just so desperate for a pretty face that doesn’t mean tweet, they’ll fall all over themselves elevating – and defending – the exact opposite of what they supposedly want. They get cleaned bowled over by a bad case of goo-goo eyes.
This business with the Dakota Darling Duo – Doug Burgum and Kristi Noem – being serious Vice Presidential contenders strikes me as one of those times if you check out the chatter in comment sections.
If some of you remember, I did a dive into Doug Burgum last fall after seeing the folksy, imminently approachable “regular farmer guy” no one had ever heard of during the first presidential candidate debate.
Like, who was he? I’d never heard of him.
God dang, people. All it took was about two seconds to find out he could easily be “Eat the Bugs” Burgum, judging by the close friends he runs with.
I will not eat the bugs.
THE CORBYNIZATION OF THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY CONTINUES APACE:
Pretty soon a lot of people are going to conclude that voting Republican in November will be the only way to save Israel. Whatever trust people had in Democrats to support Israel is rapidly dissipating.
— Ken Gardner (@KenGardner11) May 9, 2024
HMM: Biden’s National Guard Power Grab. “Calling it a ‘power grab,’ Gov. Greg Abbott (R-Texas) has expressed his opposition to the Biden administration’s proposal to transfer members of the Air National Guard to the Space Force without the permission of state or territorial governors.”
IT’S HARD TO HAVE BALLS AND SWAGGER WHEN YOU’RE GENUINELY AWFUL AT YOUR JOB: Press Cowards’ Hypocritical Lament Over Media’s Lack of ‘Balls’ and ‘Swagger.’
WELL, YES: Ron Hart: Foolish College Antics Accelerate Downward Spiral Of Higher Education.
36,639 students attended Columbia in 2022, and 20,321 were foreign students in 2023. It crept up on the university. . . .
The “demonstrators” were given pamphlets on how to protest. If you know anything about 18- to 25-year-olds today, they couldn’t organize a one car funeral. They are lemmings, woke and entitled.
Lefties fell for Hamas. I thought the 9/11 attacks taught us all we needed to know about radical Islam.
Hamas members committed rape Oct. 7 when it invaded Israel. Yet the “MeToo” progressive women’s movements remain eerily quiet. Hamas is fortunate that it is not a Christmas song, Founding Father statue, syrup bottle or a male candidate for the Supreme Court.
It’s only rape if it’s done by a white frat guy.
May 8, 2024
OPEN THREAD: It’s that time again.
THE NEW SPACE RACE: Chang’e-6 enters lunar orbit ahead of far side landing attempt.
UPDATE: Link was bad before. Fixed now. Sorry!
BECAUSE IT’S A KANGAROO COURT RUN BY AN IN-THE-TANK JUDGE? Why Is the Judge in Trump’s New York Trial Muzzling a Key Defense Witness?
WELL OKAY THEN:
The Biden admin you guys. I just don't know. https://t.co/MOf7uLQ4hx
— Omri Ceren (@omriceren) May 8, 2024
THE LONG AND GRINDING ROAD: 54 Years After its Release, Let It Be, the Beatles’ Last Movie, is Finally Available for Home Viewing.
My latest, over at Ed Driscoll.com.
ATRIAL FIBRILLATION IS EVERYWHERE: Concerning Findings – This Severe Heart Disease Is Becoming Much More Common.
FOLLOW THE MONEY: Brown, Harvard, and Indiana University of Pa. Received Gifts from the “State of Palestine.” The grants were spotted by the watchdogs at OpenThe Books, which has also just launched a free tool for members of the public to do their own searches of how money is being spent by governments at the local, state and federal levels. It’s called Benjamin the Chatbot (in honor of Benjamin Franklin.)
IN THE MAIL: Vows: The Modern Genius of an Ancient Rite.
THE POWER SOURCE OF THE FUTURE! Fusion Breakthrough: 6 Minutes of Plasma Sets New Reactor Record.
OUT: “We just want to work hard, build better lives, and assimilate as Americans.”
In: Group of migrants sends list of demands to Denver’s mayor.
Mister, we could use a man like Anthony McAuliffe again.
HEH. WHO COULD HAVE SEEN THIS COMING?
They're starting to panic about Biden's 2024 chances.
Jake Tapper on April 29: "When you look at these protests… do you think to yourself, 'Wow, this is a real in-kind contribution to Donald Trump'?" https://t.co/nKx5vj6S2y— Bill D'Agostino (@Banned_Bill) May 8, 2024
WARNING: THE PUBLIC-HEALTH ESTABLISHMENT IS HAZARDOUS TO YOUR HEALTH: Medscape Censors Science to Placate Activists. Medscape, which bills itself as “the leading online global destination for physicians and healthcare professionals worldwide,” posted medical-education programs on tobacco-harm reduction that included accurate information about nicotine vaping, the most promising tool yet developed for helping smokers quit. But then, despite an enthusiastic reception from the professionals who watched the programs, Medscape bowed to a campaign by anti-vaping zealots and removed the programs.
The result will be less-informed doctors and, presumably, more people smoking and dying. But to anti-vaping activists desperate to keep their jobs and funding, that smells like victory.
MARK JUDGE: Press Cowards’ Hypocritical Lament Over Media’s Lack of ‘Balls’ and ‘Swagger.’
“Very few owners have balls anymore,” former Vanity Fair and New Yorker editor Tina Brown told [Semafor’s Max] Tani. “A very sorry fact for journalism.”
Tani’s piece was amplified by Jack Shafer at Politico. “Wounded and limping, doubting its own future, American journalism seems to be losing a quality that carried it through a century and a half of trials: its swagger,” Shafer wrote. “Swagger is the conformity-killing practice of journalism, often done in defiance of authority and custom, to tell a true story in its completeness, no matter whom it might offend.”
Veteran Washington Post newsman Kevin Merida, quoted by Shafer, says: “It’s harder to be confident, and exude that confidence in newsrooms—given the state of our industry. But leaders should find their inner swagger.” He continued, “I don’t like to generalize, as every newsroom is different. But cautiousness, lack of ambition, being too quick to abandon experiments or being afraid to try them, all are signifiers. To quote the immortal [hip-hop group] A Tribe Called Quest: ‘Scared money don’t make none.’”
Shafer hopes that “surely there is a path back from the milquetoastery of contemporary journalism to something approximating swagger.”
In reality, these would-be Mike Tysons are more like the quivering students in the movie School Ties—the ones who hide in their dorm rooms when they are called out by Brendan Fraser.
Tani, Shafer, and Merida may talk tough about mixing it up, but none of them, and none of their epicene peers in the mainstream media, have come within miles of reviewing, or even mentioning the evidence I produced in my book about 2018’s corrupt Kavanaugh hearings. In The Devil’s Triangle: Mark Judge vs the New American Stasi, I show the way the left was attempting through extortion and bullying to end Justice Brett Kavanaugh’s confirmation and, potentially, my life. To ignore it as if none of what I’ve revealed is newsworthy or historically important is insane.
Just think of the media as Democratic Party operatives with bylines, and this bias-by-omission makes perfect sense.
Evergreen:
SOME HAVE IT MORE THAN OTHERS: Research pinpoints ‘neural compass’ of brain activity used to orient people.
HOW DO THEY SAY SEPPUKU IN SOUTH DAKOTA? Kristi Noem Calls Off Disastrous Book Tour, Canceling Hits on Fox News and CNN at Last Minute.
THERE WERE SO MANY TO CHOOSE FROM: Which Classic Comedy Character Is Biden Most Like? I Have the Answer.
