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CNN: The Stupidity Caucus

Posted on | February 1, 2024 | Comments Off on CNN: The Stupidity Caucus

The late George Carlin used to say, you know how stupid the average guy is? Well, half the people are dumber than that. This crossed my mind because CNN — I watch CNN so you don’t have to — was hyping up this Quinnipiac University poll claiming that (a) Biden is leading Trump 50% to 44%, and (b) Nikki Haley would beat Biden, 47% to 42%.

Of course, you don’t believe that any more than I believe it and, quite frankly, I don’t think the people at CNN believe it either, but the point is that they think the CNN audience will believe it, and who can say they’re wrong? The CNN audience is composed of the kind of people who would vote to elect Fani Willis as their district attorney.

Here’s an important fact: Quinnipiac polls are garbage.

In August 2016, they had Hillary Clinton beating Trump by 10 points:

“We are starting to hear the faint rumblings of a Hillary Clinton landslide as her 10-point lead is further proof that Donald Trump is in a downward spiral as the clock ticks,” Tim Malloy, assistant director of the Quinnipiac University Poll, said in a statement.

LOL. If you’re the kind of person who pays attention to such things, you know Quinnipiac’s had a very bad track record in recent years, but if you’re a CNN viewer — the kind who’s dumber than the average guy — then you might actually be fooled when your news network of choice tells you that Joe Biden is beating Trump and that Nikki Haley would be a better candidate for Republicans. Here’s something else the average CNN viewer probably doesn’t realize: The Republican primary campaign is over. Trump wins, period, and there’s not much point paying attention to whatever Nikki Haley says or does between now and the moment she finally admits defeat. You know this. I know this. It’s simply a fact.

In fact, it’s been clear for months that Trump would be the Republican nominee. This is why Trump never bothered showing up for the TV debates with his putative rivals. There was never any real possibility that the various occupants of the debate stage would pose a significant threat to Trump’s solid grip on the Republican grassroots. However much you might admire Ron DeSantis, Vivek Ramaswamy, et al., they never stood a chance, and neither does Nikki Haley. She’s going to get stomped in the Nevada caucuses, then get stomped again in the South Carolina primary, and whatever happens after that is just a question of how much stomping she can endure. Because that’s what Trump will do — stomp, stomp, stomp — in every primary and caucus from here on out. New Hampshire was Haley’s best shot at actually winning a primary, and Trump beat her by double-digits there, so where can she realistically expect to stage an upset? Answer: Nowhere. Stick a fork in her, she’s done.

By pretending that Haley is still a viable candidate, CNN shows how reliant they are on the stupidity of their audience. They’re trying to monopolize the IQ-below-room-temperature viewers.

They’re getting beat by The Hallmark Channel:

Ratings-challenged CNN’s total viewership in prime time last week lagged behind the History Channel and an obscure cable network — founded by televangelists Jim and Tammy Faye Bakker — that plays Western TV shows and films, according to the latest figures released by Nielsen.
The “most trusted name in news” — which recently hired former New York Times and BBC boss Mark Thompson as its CEO — had an average of 538,000 nightly viewers in the 8 p.m. to 11 p.m. block during the seven-day period from Jan. 15 until Jan. 21, according to the most recent data compiled by Nielsen.
The weak ratings were generated despite coverage of the Iowa caucus, which saw former President Donald Trump easily rout GOP contenders in his bid to regain the White House.
CNN not only finished behind rivals Fox and MSNBC, but was the 10th most-watched channel on cable, getting beat by Hallmark, The History Channel and INSP, a South Carolina-based channel founded in the late 1970s by the Christian televangelists.

LOL.



 

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In The Mailbox: 01.31.24

Posted on | February 1, 2024 | Comments Off on In The Mailbox: 01.31.24

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Silicon Valley et Hamas delenda sunt.

OVER THE TRANSOM
EBL: Restless, Upstairs Downstairs, and When Hitler Stole Pink Rabbit
Twitchy: Gov. Gianforte (R-MT) Seemingly Defends Removal Of “Trans” Kid From Family, Progs At VoteVets Drop Hot Take & Get Roasted, and Rep. Ayanna Pressley (D-MA) Whines About Walgreens Store Closures & Blames Racism
Louder With Crowder: Thug Throws Pole Through County Building – Take A Guess How Many Priors He Has, Leftist Vox claims Americans are “oddly obsessed with protein”, and Leftists have a new target for their hate: Board Games! They “uphold colonial narratives”
Vox Popoli: Trump’s Trade War 2.0, The Great Retardation, and Artificial Bafflegarble
Upstream Reviews: Fallout From The Chengdu Worldcon

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
American Conservative: Bolton Pens New Trump Campaign Ad
American Greatness: How’s Life in Obama’s Fundamentally-Transformed America Working Out for You So Far?
American Thinker: If…Then…2024, also, The De-evolution of the West
Animal Magnetism: Animal’s Hump Day News
Babalu Blog: Cuban hospitals not spared from the critical medicine shortages on the island, Cuba and Belarus seal ‘bilateral military cooperation agreement’, and Reports from Cuba: Cuban authorities arrest a dozen Ladies in White, says Berta Soler
BattleSwarm: Chinese Commies & PianoGate: One Of Them Was A Spy
Behind The Black: Rocket Lab launches four commercial satellites, Tank explosion in Shanghai injured three, Pentagon in discussions with SpaceX about buying a Starship outright for military missions, Voyager signs SpaceX’s Starship to launch its Starlab space station, Private company in India aims to build its own manned capsule and astronaut training facility, and Shoddy Harvard — home of plagiarism and bigotry — loses another big donor
Cafe Hayek: Oren Cass’s Response Fails
CDR Salamander: The Aesthetics Of A Recapitalized Maritime Industry
Chicago Boyz: Red Guards in Mexico?
Da Tech Guy: A National Disgrace Out of San Francisco
Dana Loesch: Parents Are Responsible For Raising Their Own Kids, Not Social Media
Don Surber: Trump’s next cabinet
First Street Journal: I guess that Marc Rowan will keep his checkbook closed
Gates Of Vienna: Why Does Islam Abuse Women? — It’s the Doctrine, Stupid!
The Geller Report: NYPD Cops BEATEN By Illegal Migrant Mob — Attackers Later Freed Without Bail, also, Republicans Introduce Bill to Completely Defund Terror Agency UNRWA
Hollywood In Toto: Argylle Is Great, Terrible, Funny, Confusing and Way Too Long, Media Freaks Over Ben Shapiro/Tom MacDonald’s ‘Facts’ Rap, and Bari Weiss’ Free Press Goes Hollywood
The Lid: Gov. Abbott and Lt. Gov. Patrick Vow to Stay the Course on Texas Border Barriers Despite Biden Warnings
Legal Insurrection: Southern Illinois U Med School Scholarship Discriminating Against Non-LGBTQI+ White and Asian Students Challenged By Equal Protection Project, Six Pro-Life Activists Face Over 10 Years in Prison for Violating FACE Act in Tennessee, Father in Newton, MA, Writes Open Letter to Schools Calling for the Suspension of All DEI Policies, ‘Cornell Has One Administrator for Every Two Undergrads’, and Biden Finally Visiting East Palestine, OH, a Year After Devastating Train Derailment
Nebraska Energy Observer: Away with the Fairies, Who Have a Lesson For Us
Outkick: Despite Attempts To Cancel Them, Poll Finds That The Blackhawks Have Players’ Favorite Jerseys In The NHL, NBA Hits Anthony Edwards With $40K Fine After Obliterating Refs, Buying One of Mahomes’ Game-Worn Jerseys Will Cost You Over $200K, and Campaign to Replace Destroyed Jackie Robinson Statue Raises More Than $145K In Donations
Power Line: American Miseducation, Whereabouts, and The Daily Chart: Bring Back Arranged Marriages?
Shark Tank: Bill Banning Corporal Punishment For Disabled Students Passes Florida Committee
Shot In The Dark: Let’s Stir Up Another Republic-Threatening Hornet’s Nest Part II, Social Participation Trophy, and The Usual Suspects
STUMP: The Sentinel Effect, Centenarians, & Pension Fraud
This Ain’t Hell: DOJ: Diverse Army Officer Corps a National Security Imperative, Authors of ‘far-right terrorism’ book invited by a Department of Defense office, and How long does it take to ramp up?
Victory Girls: Kara Swisher Hopes For MAGA Tears At Super Bowl
Volokh Conspiracy: Students for Justice in Palestine at Univ. of Florida Denied Preliminary Injunction
Watts Up With That: The Hoax: an interview with Dr. Neil Frank, former Director, National Hurricane Center, also, Urban Heat Island Studies – Do Pristine Weather Stations Even Exist?
The Federalist: ‘A Starting Point’: Meta Oversight Board Member Says 2020 Election Interference Was ‘Not Enough’, Court Dismisses Disney’s Lawsuit Against Florida Over Losing Private Control Of Government, All Signs Indicate North Korea Is Preparing For War, Sen. Hawley Humiliates Mark Zuckerberg For Lying About How Big Tech Hurts Kids, 20 Questions To Ask Republican Candidates In Your State, and If ERIC’s Voter Roll ‘Maintenance’ Is So Popular, Why Do Democrats Feel A Need To Force States To Join?

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In The Mailbox: 01.30.24 (Evening Edition)

Posted on | January 31, 2024 | Comments Off on In The Mailbox: 01.30.24 (Evening Edition)

— compiled by Wombat-socho

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Silicon Valley et Hamas delenda sunt.

OVER THE TRANSOM
357 Magnum: The Hugo Awards Bend The Knee To Red Chinese Censorship
EBL: Mark Steyn Still On Trial, also, The Island
Twitchy: “Nobody Is Buying Kathy Griffin Comedy Tour Tickets” Sobs Kathy Griffin, Gisele Fetterman Deletes More Social Media Accounts – Rumored To Be Single Now, and “They Want You Weak & Sick”
Louder With Crowder: Planned Parenthood Shares Latest Creepy Video, Now They’re Targeting Virginity, Parents Silenced By Judge After Accusing State Of Kidnapping Teen Daughter Who Began Identifying As Trans Male, and Elon Musk Boasts Patient With First Chip Implanted In Their Brain Is “Recovering Well”
Vox Popoli: Lee Kuan Yew Warned You, Ukraine Fires Head of Armed Forces, Great Replacement Reality, You Know What They Are, A Team of Leaders, and Digging In Deeper

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
Adam Piggott: They don’t care about what women want
American Conservative: The ‘Adults’ Are Not Back in Charge of U.S. Foreign Policy, also, How Many ‘Limited’ Wars Are Enough?
American Greatness: Biden Administration to Crack Down Further on Gas Stoves, also, Conspiracy to Embezzle $40 Million in Ukraine War Funds ‘Tip of the Iceberg,” says U.S. Congressman
American Thinker: The Death of Citizenship, also, Denationizing the United States
Animal Magnetism: Animal’s Daily Fifth Column News
Babalu Blog: Reports from Cuba: ‘Bosses at state-owned companies are living on another planet,’ Cubans complain, Is Belarusian Defense Minister in Cuba to arrange for the deployment of missiles? and The systemic reality of Cuba’s housing crisis
BattleSwarm: Trump Endorses Phelan Opponent David Covey
Behind The Black: The FBI must be wiped clean, or wiped out, on Day One of the next Republican administration, The Pentagon picks Northrop Grumman’s orbital refueling port as its standard, SpaceX launches Northrop Grumman’s Cygnus capsule to ISS, Spain awards rocket startup PLD $43.8 million grant, and Today’s blacklisted American: U.S. Court rules against coach fired for simply stating a fact in a casual conversation
Cafe Hayek: Want More Production? Support Free Trade, also, Another Open Letter to Donald Trump
CDR Salamander: Germany – A Political, Not Industrial Problem?
Chicago Boyz: Strauss-Howe Generational Theory, Illustrated
Da Tech Guy: The Messy House of Mouse, also, Total Con 38 Here I (Finally) Come
Dana Loesch: Tuesday Roundup
Don Surber: Turning the border against Trump
First Street Journal: There is a two word phrase to accurately describe the electric buses sold to transit agencies, and the first of those two words is “cluster”, also, The hits just keep coming
Gates Of Vienna: A Progressive Crybaby Culture, Islam: Abolition of Civilisation, Part II, Robert Fico: Our Governments Bowed to the Pharmaceutical Companies, and If You Build It, They Will Come
The Geller Report: DRAMATIC RAID: Israeli Special Forces Dressed in Disguise Storm Hospital and Kill Hamas Top Commander and Two Other Islamic Terrorists, Montana Child Services Kidnap 14-Year-Old Daughter From Family’s Home After The Parents Opposed Gender Mutilation, and January 5th Pipe Bomber Was a “Former” FBI Official
Going It Alone: Three years on
Hollywood In Toto: Is This the Taylor Swift vs. Joe Rogan Election?
The Lid: Caught Covering for Biden: Fake ‘Fact-Check’ Site Snopes Forced to Reverse Its Own Ruling
Legal Insurrection: Seattle VA Reportedly Requested $500K to Build Hospital for Gender Transition Surgeries, Biden Administration Dials Way Back on Its Gas Stove Crackdown, Rutgers U. Student Govt. Gave $20K to Students for Justice in Palestine Chapter for Events Over Past Year, DOJ Investigating Squad Member Cori Bush for Allegedly Misusing Security Funds, Oakland’s Largest Private Employer Tells Employees to Stay in Buildings for Lunch, Republicans Demand Ilhan Omar Resign Over ‘Somalian First’ Speech, and School Board in Stamford, CT, Votes to Remove Veterans Day and Columbus Day From School Holidays
Nebraska Energy Observer: Let’s talk
Outkick: Vivek Ramaswamy Predicts Chiefs Will Win The Super Bowl To Perfectly Set Up A Taylor Swift Endorsement Of Joe Biden, Lakers’ D’Angelo Russell Fined $15K After Inconsequentially Kicking A Basketball, Tom Brady Gets Brutally Honest About Dan Campbell’s ‘Aggressive’ Calls Against Niners, ESPN Dragged For Turning Taylor Swift Into A Ravens Hater, Toronto Strip Club Rolling Out The Red Carpet For NHL All-Stars With Free Lap Dances, Stephen A. Smith Shows Double Standard In Coverage Of 70-Point Performances Of Luka Doncic and Joel Embiid, and Orioles Will Reportedly Have New Owners With $1.725 Billion Bombshell Deal In The Works
Power Line: The Daily Chart: Public School Bloat, Cross-examining Hermann Goering, and A New Day In Support For Law Enforcement?
Shark Tank: Byron Donalds – Says Cori Bush “Up To No Good”, Questions Ilhan Omar’s Allegiance To US 
Shot In The Dark: Like It Never Happened, Remember, and Fact-Check 
STUMP: Nibbling At The Problem – Chicago Adds $306.6 Million To The Pension Pot, also, Taxing Tuesday – Much Ado Over SALT
This Ain’t Hell: Captain Larry Taylor, MoH dies age 81, Every bullet a tracer, American troops on the ground in Yemen, Israeli SF Scores Three in West Bank Raid, and Tennesse couple committed TRICARE fraud, spent lavishly
Victory Girls: State Of Montana Seizes “Alleged” Trans Teen From Parents
Volokh Conspiracy: No, Texas Has Not “Defied” The Supreme Court
Watts Up With That: Did Climate Change Cause the Fall of the Roman Empire? Farmers Protests Paralyse Europe, So Many Problems Continue to Plague the EV Industry, and Some Notes On The Trial Of Mann v. Steyn
The Federalist: Five Years Ago Today, Joe Biden Spread The Jussie Smollett Hate Crime Hoax, Dad Of 11 Convicted For Praying At Abortion Facility Alongside 5 Other Pro-Lifers Targeted By DOJ, How To Stop Cultural Marxism From Destroying Your Church, Biden Has The Power To End The Border Crisis Without Congress – He Just Doesn’t Want To, ‘Bidenomics’ Is So Bad It’s A Punchline, But Americans Aren’t Laughing, Rep. Ilhan Omar Represents Everything Wrong With America’s Immigration System, and Medical Malpractice Insurance Might Just Save Our Teens From Mutilation And Castration
Mark Steyn: Consequences, The Look Of Love, The End is Nigh, Will the Real Slim Shady Please Stand Up? and Cruel and Unusual Punishment

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In The Mailbox: 01.30.24 (Morning Edition)

Posted on | January 30, 2024 | Comments Off on In The Mailbox: 01.30.24 (Morning Edition)

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Silicon Valley et Hamas delenda sunt.

OVER THE TRANSOM
EBL: Why are we tolerating Iranian attacks? American Buffalo, Paulina Porizkova, and Wild Bill Hickok
Twitchy: STRAIGHT Into Our VEINS, NYT Discovers Southerners Have Gas Stations With Restaurants Attached, and New Republic Claims MAGA Is Tanking Border Deal In Anticipation of “Full-Blown Ethnonationalist Savagery”
Louder With Crowder: Lia Thomas is taking legal action so that it can compete against women in the Olympics, Superintendent Busted Trying To Secretly Close A School For Special Needs To Turn It Into A Migrant Facility, Elon Musk exposes the truth about Biden’s new “border security” bill and the open borders Democrats are gonna hate it, and See how “The Simpsons” predicted a media-induced “phony baloney” public health scare in 2010 that sounds eerily familiar
Vox Popoli: Battlegames, Confident or Crazy? Why Gab’s AI Will Beat Google’s AI, A Profile in Cowardice, It’s in the Script, Apparently, and No Boots for the Ground
Stoic Observations: Arthashastra
Upstream Reviews: Book vs. Movie – Jurassic Park
L’Ombre de L’Olivier: Running The Numbers On Rape & Pregnancy
Draw & Talk: They Destroyed My Creativity! Don’t Let This Happen To You!

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
Adam Piggott: The Flag of Freedom
American Conservative: Where Did It All Go Wrong?
American Greatness: Trump Has Reason to Rage—But Needs to Stay Calm and Get Even Rather than Mad, also, Our Democracy™: The Democratic Weaponization of Government and the Need for Decentralization
American Thinker: Today’s ‘Climate Crisis’ Is a Fairy Tale, Our First Gun, Biden, the Border, and Tik Tok Too, and WEF Totalitarians Seek to Euthanize the West
Animal Magnetism: Goodbye, Blue Monday
Babalu Blog: Cuban dictator Raul Castro appears at march with three fellow nonagenarian despots, Reports from Cuba: Havana ration store thieves had no luck: the rice had not arrived, Cuban mercenaries in Ukraine fighting alongside Malaysians, Serbians, Belarusians, Nepalese, and Dominican YouTuber traumatized after visit to communist Cuba
BattleSwarm: Follow-Up: Chinese Commies Can’t Chain Our Pianos, A Naive Look At The Homeless Industrial Complex, and Debunking The “700,000 Truckers To Texas” Story
Behind The Black: Another Red Chinese pseudo-company vertically lands a prototype 1st stage, Iran launches three satellites on single rocket, SpaceX completes two launches on Sunday, The internal structure of 19 galaxies, as seen in the infrared by Webb, and Bi-partisan bill proposed giving space traffic management to Commerce, not FCC
Cafe Hayek: Buying Votes With Your Own Money Is Illegal; Buying Votes With Other People’s Money Is Good Politics, also, New York Times: “Trade Is Not a Job Killer”
CDR Salamander: A Midrats January Free For All, also, Tower 22’s White Swan
Chicago Boyz: 
Da Tech Guy: The Sincerest Form of Flattery of Don Surber so Mini Linkfest plus Thoughts, Want People to Stop Worshiping Trump? Stop Trying to Crucify Him for the People’s Sins, Leftist group of Chicago municipal staffers cheers on students cutting class to attend Gaza ceasefire rally, and To Those Who Hate America These Bugs Are Features
Dana Loesch: A Loud Absence, 
Don Surber: Taylor Swift nude!
First Street Journal: Because Larry Krasner won’t put the bad guys in jail, the decent people of Philly are putting themselves behind bars, also, Why don’t we take sex crimes against children seriously?
Gates Of Vienna: Our Lady of Allahu Akhbar, Innocent Oseghale is Still Guilty, and The End of Free Speech and Thought in Europe
The Geller Report: Ilhan Omar Tells a Crowd of Somalians Her Only Priority is to Put Somalia First, She is Somalia First, Muslim Second (No Mention of America), Wall Street Journal: At Least 1,200 UN Employees are Actual Hamas Terrorists, 12,000 UN Staff in Gaza have Links to Islamic Terrorists, House GOP Drafts Articles Of Impeachment Against DHS Sec. Mayorkas, The Islamization of International Law, and UN Employees TOOK PART in October 7 Genocidal Massacre of Jews, Only 12 Are Fired
Glenn Reynolds: Birthday Cheer
Going It Alone: Digging Deep
Hollywood In Toto: Why Ricky Stanicky’s Trigger Warning Is … Glorious, SNL Ignores Biden’s Gibberish, Invents Attack on Trump, Meet Alan Ng, Disney’s Worst Nightmare, and Beekeeper (And Hunter Biden Stand-In) Win Box Office Weekend
Legal Insurrection: UPenn Honors Activist Prof Who Accused Israel of ‘Genocide’, Biden Pauses Liquefied Natural Gas Export Approvals in Desperate Bid to Appeal to Climate Cultists, Former National Security Officials Warn of “Multi-division Army of Young Single Adult Males” Illegally Crossing Border, This Is How You Do It: NYPD Stops Hamas Supporters From “Flooding” JFK Airport, ‘Undocumented’ U. California Student Group Staging Hunger Strike for ‘Equal Employment Opportunities’, Canadian Bureaucrats Forcing Dr. Jordan Peterson to Submit to Re-education for Criticizing Gender Ideology and Climate Change, and Oklahoma GOP Censures Sen. Lankford Over Border Deal With Democrats
Nebraska Energy Observer: Saturday – just for you, Septuagesima, and North and South, and a Squish in the Middle
Outkick: Lamar Jackson, About To Take Some Deserved Criticism, Can Only Answer With Better Play, Even In Bitter Defeat John Harbaugh Hangs His Hat On Words Out Of The Bible, Ravens, With NFL’s Best Record And No. 1 Seed, Lose Their Composure and Lose To Chiefs, Bengals QB Joe Burrow Disagrees With Soft, Egregious ‘Taunting’ Penalty Called on Ravens, Patrick Mahomes, Travis Kelce Take Issue With Justin Tucker During Pregame Warmups, Clay Travis Pays Off Alyssa Milano’s Travel Baseball GoFundMe — With One Condition, and West Virginia Governor Endorses ‘Women’s Bill Of Rights’ To Protect Women’s Sports With Riley Gaines By His Side
Power Line: The Climate Models Are Wrong, Omar the Magnificent, and Long day’s journey into “Shoah”
Shark Tank: Republicans enlist 800,000 registered voters over Democrats in Florida
Shot In The Dark: “Regrettably Unbecoming”, Urban Progressive Privilege – Clouds Of Smug Descend, and Attention, Secret Service
STUMP: Trump v. Biden Take Two – Using Social Security Mortality Assumptions, also, The Week In Meep – Weird Saints, Dresses w/Pockets, Sumo, & Opera
The Political Hat: Xyr Loved Big Trans-Brother
This Ain’t Hell: Missing off Yemen, NPRC Records Request Status, Transgender veterans suing the Department of Veterans Affairs, British General argues for the need of a citizen army, Navy: No GED? No Problem! Drone strike results in American casualties, three killed, and UN Aid Agency Staffed by Hamas
Transterrestrial Musings: Harvard, also, Thirty Eight Years
Victory Girls: Holocaust Remembrance Day: To Educate The Next Generation, Will Biden Be All Talk And No Action After Americans Are Killed? and Ilhan Omar Openly Declares Her Own “Dual Loyalty” To Somalia
Volokh Conspiracy: L.A. County Paying $5M to Settle Case Alleging Constitutional Violations in Prosecution of Election Management Company’s Owner
Watts Up With That: WINNING – Trillions Spent on ‘Climate Change’ Based on Faulty Temperature Data, NOAA’s Graph Provides Best Evidence That Solar Heating Is Warming the Oceans, Not CO2, More Revelations Emerge of How the Climate Change Committee Dupes Parliament into Voting for Net Zero Measures, Germany’s dream of building a fleet of hydrogen-fired power plants is faltering, Offshore Wind and the Stress on Commercial Fishermen, and Automobiles, human nature, and the challenge of building cars that people actually want
The Federalist: House Republicans Reveal Mayorkas Impeachment Articles Amid Worst Border Numbers In History, Pentagon To Pay For Soldiers To Manufacture Motherless And Fatherless Babies, Activist Medical Establishment Abandons Science On Kidney Disease To Pursue Racial ‘Equity’, Senators Propose Bipartisan Bill To Keep Lab-Grown Meat Off The School Lunch Menu, Censorship-Industrial Complex Enlists U.K. ‘Misinformation’ Group Logically.AI To Meddle In 2024 Election, and Georgia’s K-5 ‘Social Studies’ Curriculum Is A Trojan Horse For Leftism
Mark Steyn: Bumper Cars: Jacques Tati Gets Caught in Traffic, A Nobel Mann? “Excuse Me While I Puke”, “Keep an Open Mind”, and Defendants for Life

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Rule 5 Sunday: Pre-Tax Double Scoop Edition

Posted on | January 29, 2024 | Comments Off on Rule 5 Sunday: Pre-Tax Double Scoop Edition

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Making up for lost time and lack of Internet…this week’s appetizer courtesy of Rule 5 Texan on X.
Ceterum autem censeo Silicon Valley et Hamas delendam sunt.

Girls that ride horses tend to be good at riding other things.

ANIMAL MAGNETISM: Rule 5 American Rome Friday, and the Saturday Gingermageddon.

EBL: Saturday Night Girls With Guns, Make Taylor Swift Cry, The Plasmatics – “Sex Junkie”, Joyce Randolph RIP, Hero Cop – Vermont Trooper Michelle Archer, Tosca, Saturday Night Girls With Guns (2), Julie London – “June In January”, National Pie Day, and Sports Illustrated RIP

A VIEW FROM THE BEACH: Tika Camaj, Fish Pic Friday – Shippie94, Thursday Tanlines, WVA to Import Elk, Wednesday Wetness, Someday, I Blame the Chinese, The Monday Morning Stimulus, Random Celebrity News,  Palm Sunday, Valerie Cody, Texas Border Standoff Continues, Fish Pic Friday – Reelhapa, Woodstock Singer Gone, ASMFC Sets Outline for Upcoming Striper Regs, Miss You, Waterman Learns to Code, Wednesday Wetness, Tattoo Tuesday, Hudson River Stripers Have a Bad Year Too, The Monday Morning Stimulus, Random Celebrity News, RFK Jr Seeks to Throw Election to the House, Palm Sunday and Tucker Accuses Feds of Setting Jan. 6 Bombs 

FLAPPR: T.I.T.S. for January 26 and January 19

Thanks to everyone for the luscious links!

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FMJRA 2.0: Kick ’em When They’re Down

Posted on | January 28, 2024 | Comments Off on FMJRA 2.0: Kick ’em When They’re Down

— compiled by Wombat-socho

SOTD
Ceterum autem censeo Silicon Valley et Hamas delendam sunt.

The future of journalism

Democratic Socialists of America Now Planning Layoffs Amid Financial ‘Crisis’
First Street Journal
The Daley Gator
Flappr
A View From The Beach
357 Magnum
EBL

Democrats: ‘Our Voters Are Too Stupid to Understand How Awesome Joe Biden Is’
The Pirate’s Cove
The Daley Gator
A View From The Beach
357 Magnum
EBL

No More Statues of White Men?
The Daley Gator
Flappr
357 Magnum
A View From The Beach
EBL

FMJRA 2.0: The Machinery of Night
EBL

The New Hype-Shire Primary UPDATE: Trump Wins, CNN and Haley Lose
A View From The Beach
357 Magnum
EBL

‘Don’t Ever Take Sides With Anyone Against the Family Again. Ever.’
357 Magnum
EBL

In The Mailbox: 01.26.24 (Afternoon Abbreviated Punditry Edition)
357 Magnum
A View From The Beach
EBL

In The Mailbox: 01.26.24 (Evening Edition)
357 Magnum
A View From The Beach
EBL

Top linkers for the week ending January 26:

  1.  EBL (8)
  2.  357 Magnum (7)
  3.  A View From The Beach (6)

Thanks to everyone for all the links!

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What Part of ‘Learn to Code’ Do We Need to Explain to Laid-Off Journalists?

Posted on | January 28, 2024 | Comments Off on What Part of ‘Learn to Code’ Do We Need to Explain to Laid-Off Journalists?

Does she look particularly Hispanic to you? I say this as someone with a Hispanic son-in-law and daughter-in-law, both of whom are wonderful people from families that are at least as affluent as my own. The notion that every person of Hispanic ancestry is a victim of racist oppression — mired in poverty, “living in the shadows” as “undocumented,” etc. — is contradicted by my own direct observations. Gobbling down grilled steak at poolside with the Argentine in-laws, you don’t really get much of a sense of la lucha continúa radicalism. Just sayin’ . . .

So here is Jean Guerrero, who certainly doesn’t look like some kind of peasant mestizo, bemoaning her recent layoff:

It’s worth mentioning that Guerrero wrote a 2020 book, Hatemonger: Stephen Miller, Donald Trump, And The White Nationalist Agenda, which basically smears everyone who voted for Trump as a neo-Nazi. As you might imagine, the replies to her post about being laid off from her newspaper job were iluminado:

We don’t hate her for being Latina. We hate her for being a journalist. Hating journalists is a tradition that can unite all Americans.



 

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Thank You for the Orgasmic Pleasure

Posted on | January 27, 2024 | Comments Off on Thank You for the Orgasmic Pleasure

Did I just wake up from dreaming of a three-way with Sydney Sweeney and Olivia Dunne, or is Taylor Lorenz complaining about the downfall of establishment journalism? It makes no difference. Either way, I’m experiencing a pleasant surge of endorphins in my bloodstream.

Permit me to share a few excerpts:

“[The] journalism industry is basically in a freefall. Today the Los Angeles Times laid off 115 employees. . . . But what’s really dark is that this is just the latest in months and months and months of layoffs in the media industry. In fact, tens of thousands of journalists have been laid off in the past year. . . . The newspaper industry is cratering. . . . I don’t think people understand how bad the world would be without journalists.”

Oh, how unbearable life would be without Taylor Lorenz!

As I have previously noted (“Why Is KiwiFarms.net ‘Harassment,’ But What Taylor Lorenz Does Is ‘Journalism’?”), Ms. Lorenz’s professional specialty is doxxing people whose politics she doesn’t agree with. Whatever one might think about the current woes of the journalism industry, we should lament the fact that Taylor Lorenz is still employed while thousands of honest reporters are out of work.



 

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