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Hurricane-Force Media Hype

Posted on | August 18, 2024 | Comments Off on Hurricane-Force Media Hype

CNN (I watch, so you don’t have to) is still hyping polls that show Kamala Harris leading Donald Trump on the eve of the Democratic National Convention in Chicago and, if all you knew about the election is what you get from the “mainstream” media, you would believe she’s cruising to certain victory. Dig this feature in the U.K. Guardian:

Tens of thousands of Democrats are expected to descend on Chicago this week for their party’s convention, bubbling with a feeling few had anticipated: pure, unconfined joy.
At the end of their four-day fete, when the red, white and blue balloons tumble from the rafters of the United Center, Kamala Harris will have become the first woman of color to accept a major party’s presidential nomination in American history. The moment will cap a frenzied few weeks for Democrats, following the vice-president’s sudden ascent to the top of the ticket in a development that has transformed the race for the White House and galvanized a party once resigned to a rematch between Donald Trump and Joe Biden.
“It’s a remarkable turn of events,” said Howard Dean, a former Democratic National Committee chairman and former Vermont governor. “The Democrats have now been resurrected.”
In less than a month since Biden’s monumental decision to abandon his re-election bid, Harris has united most Democrats and restored the party’s dominance among young voters and people of color. While the race remains nail-bitingly close, analysts recently adjusted their outlook in a trio of Sun belt states that had appeared to be slipping away from Democrats, possibly opening an alternative path to victory.
Harris’s crowds have been large and electric — a development that appears to irk her rival, still struggling to find a mocking nickname. Fundraising has poured in at a record clip. Celebrities, artists and fashion designers are eager to help. Online, young people continue to churn out memes and flattering content.
Party officials say the Harris-inspired vibe shift is trickling down ballot and translating into on-the-ground organizing.
“You can see the giant crowd packing the rallies,” said Ben Wikler, chair of the Wisconsin Democratic party. “But what you can’t see in those images is the fact that thousands of the people who go to those rallies are signing up for volunteer shifts and then going out and knocking on the doors of potential swing voters who may not know much about Vice-President Harris or Governor Walz.” . . .

You can read the rest of that, if you’re not already sick to your stomach from such nausea-inducing treacle. One thing the “mainstream” media carefully avoid reporting are the facts about Chicago, a Democrat-controlled hellhole where 25 people have already been murdered this month. The Chicago homicide total so far this year is already 386, and another 1,634 people have been shot but survived their wounds.

Meanwhile, more than 74 million Americans voted for Trump in 2020 and an even larger number will vote for Trump again this year, and what about them? What about their opinions? What do those many millions of American voters think of the way Democrats switched candidates in mid-campaign? You’re never going to see questions like that asked on CNN, nor will they ever remind their audience of why Kamala Harris quit the Democratic primary campaign in December 2019 before a single vote was cast. The woman is an unlikeable airhead, and the only reason she became vice president is because that was the price James Clyburn demanded from Biden in return for delivering the South Carolina primary, at a time when Joe was desperate to stop Bernie Sanders.

If you’re one of those 74 million Trump voters, my advice is: Relax.

Do not let yourself become discouraged by the intensity of the pro-Harris hype coming from the media. Ultimately, this make-believe game cannot succeed, and the American people will see through the media-generated mirage of “joy” around the Harris-Walz ticket. We’re now 79 days away from November 5. You can survive the hurricane of hype that long.



 

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Mac Jones Nails Down QB2 Job in Jax

Posted on | August 18, 2024 | Comments Off on Mac Jones Nails Down QB2 Job in Jax

You don’t care about football and, at a certain level, neither do I, but the NFL saga of quarterback Mac Jones has fascinated me ever since he was a first-round draft pick for the New England Patriots in 2021. That followed Mac’s undefeated, record-setting National Championship season at Alabama and, in retrospect, can we all agree that season was the pinnacle of Nick Saban’s tenure as head coach in Tuscaloosa? During the 2020 season, Mac completed more than 77% of his passes for 4,500 yards and 41 touchdowns. What happened to Mac in New England is a long, sad story of a legendary franchise in disarray (see “‘The Patriot Way’ Has Turned Toxic,” December 7, 2023). That’s why I was overjoyed in March when Mac was traded to the Jacksonville Jaguars — the situation in New England was irretrievable, and Jacksonville is Mac’s hometown.

Jones is now a rehabilitation project, frankly, and he could not have asked for a better place to do it. Jaguars head coach Doug Pederson is himself a former quarterback, who spent most of his 12-year NFL career as a backup, so he has a high degree of empathy for a player in Mac’s situation. Furthermore — and this is crucial — there is no doubt who QB1 is in Jacksonville. Trevor Lawrence was the No. 1 draft pick in 2021, the same year the Patriots got Jones at No. 15 overall and, despite Lawrence’s woeful rookie season (during Urban Meyer’s disastrous tenure as Jaguars head coach), he has flourished the past two seasons under Pederson.

Two years ago, Trevor led Jacksonville to the AFC South title, and a first-round playoff victory over the Los Angeles Chargers, before losing in the divisional round to the Kansas City Chiefs. Last year, after a strong start, the Jaguars faded down the stretch and missed the playoffs, as Lawrence struggled with injuries. Now fully healthy, Trevor’s status as starting QB is beyond dispute, which means that Mac Jones doesn’t have to deal with anything like the pressure and scrutiny (and, let’s face it, hate) he endured in New England, where the legendary shadow of Tom Brady loomed so large. Still, the job as backup quarterback wasn’t just going to be handed to Jones on a silver platter. For the past three seasons, C.J. Beathard has been QB2 in Jacksonville, and if Jones wanted that job, he would have to beat out Beathard. Mac cinched it Saturday night:

Mac Jones threw for 210 yards and two touchdowns, taking a step toward formally securing Jacksonville’s backup job, and the Jaguars beat Tampa Bay 20-7 in a preseason game featuring few starters Saturday night.
Jones got the nod in place of Trevor Lawrence and completed 16 of 23 passes, including TDs to Parker Washington and Brevin Easton. He also scrambled six times, including a nifty, duck-under move on linebacker Vi Jones in the second quarter to avoid a sack.
“Just got to keep carrying the momentum,” Jones said. “It’s a one-week season; everyone always says that. The preseason, too. You’ve got to stack good games and move on to the next game.”
Jones’ best throws went for scores. He hit Washington in stride on a third-and-17 play for 25 yards and a 7-0 lead that capped a 17-play drive. Washington finished with three receptions for 38 yards a week after returning a kickoff 73 yards against Kansas City.
Jones returned in the fourth quarter after C.J. Beathard (groin) was ruled out and lofted a perfect pass to Easton for a 31-yard score. Jones finished with a QB rating of 127.1. Beathard was 5 of 7 for 40 yards and was sacked three times.
“I thought overall Mac played a solid football game,” coach Doug Pederson said. “He was obviously into it. You saw his intensity out there. Made some great throws. Just led the team like you expected. … He loves playing. He loves playing the game and he did some great things.”

Although the severity of Beathard’s injury was not disclosed, the fact that Jones came back on in the fourth quarter and quickly produced a touchdown — which, hey, isn’t that what a backup QB needs to do? — can be fairly regarded as putting a lock on the job. Besides the unknown status of Beathard due to his injury, Pederson (and Jacksonville GM Trent Baalke) must also consider the potential demand for Mac’s services elsewhere around the league. For example, when the Minnesota Vikings lost first-round rookie QB J.J. McCarthy to a season-ending injury last week, several commentators suggested the Vikings might trade for Jones. And there might be other teams interested in a young veteran quarterback who, now that he’s escaped the gloom of New England, is once again showing the abilities that made him a first-round draft pick three years ago. By August 27, NFL teams have to cut their roster down to 53 players, and it’s generally agreed that the Jags will only keep two QBs on their active roster. The hope would be that they can cut QB3, then resign him to the practice squad after he clears waivers. But what are the chances that Jacksonville can successfully make that maneuver with Mac Jones? Not good, whereas C.J. Beathard almost certainly would.

At this point — with one preseason game remaining against the Falcons — it looks like Mac Jones will be QB2 for the Jaguars, and that’s exactly where he wants to be. Jacksonville’s offensive line seems rather porous, so Mac can watch from the sidelines while Trevor Lawrence gets blitzed and sacked repeatedly. It’s a nice gig, being a backup quarterback, and my hope is that Jacksonville can amass a winning record and Trevor can stay healthy, at least until November 5. That’s the NFL trade deadline, and I wouldn’t want to see Mac’s rehabilitation get interrupted by having the Jags trade him to some other team in need of an experienced QB. No, let Jones stay in Jacksonville, and let the Jaguars stack up a 6-3 or 7-2 record before the trade deadline, but if something happens to Trevor Lawrence after November 5? Well, Mac needs to be ready. Because that’s the name of the game as a backup QB — be ready.



 

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FMJRA 2.0: It Could Have Been Worse

Posted on | August 18, 2024 | Comments Off on FMJRA 2.0: It Could Have Been Worse

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Atlanta may be 76-54, but we swept them in the Launching Pad before coming home and getting whupped by Pete’s Brewers at RFK; we lost Game 1 thanks to the accursed rain gods, but Carl Morton hung on to win his fifth game, 2-1 against George Stone. In Game 3 the Brewers got to Joe Coleman for four runs, but we couldn’t buy a hit off lefty Gary Ryerson, who we should have beaten like a red-headed stepchild. Welp. We’re facing California Tuesday (Monday or Wednesday if I can manage it) and the Daytraders next Friday, so I’m not expecting another 4-2 week. We’ll enjoy the Curly W while it lasts.
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Another good week.

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In The Mailbox: 08.15.24 (Morning Edition)
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BREAKING NEWS: Washington Post Columnist Understands Economics!

Posted on | August 17, 2024 | Comments Off on BREAKING NEWS: Washington Post Columnist Understands Economics!

The Pulitzer Prize committee hasn’t solicited any suggestions from me, but maybe they should consider Catherine Rampell of the Washington Post for a special award, because I can’t remember the last time anyone at the Post exhibited any real comprehension of how markets work.

In case you missed it — because, really, who cares? — this past week, Kamala Harris rolled out “her” economic policy agenda. The scare-quotes around “her” are necessary because Kamala has never in her life had an original idea, and “her” economic plan is no exception to that rule. Central to this economic plan is an idea stolen from Elizabeth Warren, a federal ban on “price gouging.” Like every other Elizabeth Warren idea, this is a very bad idea, as Matt Margolis explains:

The proposal, of course, is Soviet-style price controls branded as a federal ban on price-gouging. The proposal tries to kill two birds with one stone by simultaneously deflecting blame for inflation onto corporate greed — rather than the economic policies of the Biden-Harris administration — and convincing the public that she has the solution to fix it.

“If you like your bread lines, you can keep your bread lines.”

Rampell’s column in the Post rips Kamala to tatters:

“Price gouging” is the focus of Vice President Kamala Harris’s economic agenda, her presidential campaign says. She’ll crack down on “excessive prices” and “excessive corporate profits,” particularly for groceries.
So what level counts as “excessive,” you might ask? TBD, but Harris will ban it.
That’s the thing about price gouging: As has been said of hardcore pornography, you know it when you see it.
It’s not hard to figure out where this proposal came from. Voters want to blame someone for high grocery bills, and the presidential candidates have apparently decided the choices are either the Biden administration or corporate greed. Harris has chosen the latter.
In a news release Wednesday, her campaign said the first 100 days of her presidency would include the “first-ever federal ban on price gouging on food and groceries — setting clear rules of the road to make clear that big corporations can’t unfairly exploit consumers to run up excessive corporate profits on food and groceries.”
What are these “clear rules of the road” or the thresholds that determine when a price or profit level becomes “excessive”? The memo doesn’t say, and the campaign did not answer questions I sent seeking clarification. . . .
It’s hard to exaggerate how bad this policy is. It is, in all but name, a sweeping set of government-enforced price controls across every industry, not only food. Supply and demand would no longer determine prices or profit levels. Far-off Washington bureaucrats would. The FTC would be able to tell, say, a Kroger in Ohio the acceptable price it can charge for milk.
At best, this would lead to shortages, black markets and hoarding, among other distortions seen previous times countries tried to limit price growth by fiat. (There’s a reason narrower “price gouging” laws that exist in some U.S. states are rarely invoked.) At worst, it might accidentally raise prices. . . .

You can read the rest, and frankly, now I’m worried about Catherine Rampell’s safety. Telling the truth about how bad Democratic policies are? Is that even allowed? Isn’t it racist to say Kamala would wreck the economy worse than it’s been wrecked already? It’s probably just a matter of time before Rampell is the target of an exposé by Taylor Lorenz.



 

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In The Mailbox: 08.16.24

Posted on | August 17, 2024 | Comments Off on In The Mailbox: 08.16.24

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Usual weekend deadlines for the usual weekend posts.
Go buy & read Devon Eriksen’s Theft of Fire, and then vote for it in the Dragon Awards. DO IT.
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OVER THE TRANSOM
357 Magnum: When Seconds Count, The Police Are (20) Minutes Away
EBL: The Change, also, Tim Walz Let Minneapolis Burn
Twitchy: Where’s The Momentum? RIP Science – Neil deGrasse Tyson Says Feelings Not Chromosomes Determine Gender, and Kamala Helped Create “The Shortest Political Ad I’ve Ever Seen”
Louder With Crowder: Kamala Harris to announce plan making homeownership MORE expensive… just like she did your car
Vox Popoli: They Are Still Lying, A Late Arrival, Nick Fuentes Calls Out Tucker, and SFWA Melting Down
According To Hoyt: Step By Step By Step, Silence In the Fields, and The State of the Writer
Monster Hunter Nation: Audio Books Don’t Count As Reading, also, America is All the Same
Toni Airaksinen: SUNY-Albany Student Accused Of Rape, But Witnesses Claim It Was Consensual
Upstream Reviews: The Dragons Have Arrived! also, Barrayar
Gab: Guess Who Had A Birthday Yesterday, 
Defending The Wood Perilous: Gypsie Princess Effie’s Logs #5 – Meeting (Infernal) The Neighbors

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
American Conservative: Democrats Are the Biggest Danger to the Constitutional Order, also, It’s Kamala’s to Lose
American Greatness: Theater of the Absurd, Harris-Walz Edition, Kamala to Unveil Economic Plan, and In Touting Soviet-Like Price Control Plan, Kamala Harris Vows to Fight Price…Gauging?
American Power: Richard J. Evans, Hitler’s People
American Thinker:  Deep State Plutocrats Have Nowhere to Hide, also, Kamala’s Last Walz?
Animal Magnetism: Animal’s Hump Day News, Animal’s Red Thursday News, and Rule Five Ammo Machine Friday
Babalu Blog: Former member of the Cuban Communist Party’s Central Committee arrives in Miami, 8 hours without bathroom breaks – the daily ordeal of girls in Cuban schools, and Kamalanomics and Castronomics: Identical twins?
BattleSwarm: Harris County Democratic Election Official Charged With Corruption, Biden Recession + Wokeness + Streaming + Strikes = Extinction Event For Hollywood, and LinkSwarm For August 16
Behind The Black: NASA reconsiders cancellation of overbudget and behind schedule robotic refueling mission, Red China launches new set of classified remote-sensing satellites, Was the Chicxulub bolide 65 million years ago an asteroid from beyond Jupiter? New data continues to refine the margin of error for the Hubble constant, SpaceX launches 116 payloads on its eleventh smallsat Transporter mission, and The continuing stalemate in the Ukraine War
Cafe Hayek: Belief In The Righteousness of Price-Controls Belongs in the Dark Ages, Simple Ol’ Me Responds, and Do American EV Producers Need Tariff Protection?
CDR Salamander: Europe’s Strange, Self-Destructive Illusions, also, Fullbore Friday
Chicago Boyz: Dancing the Minnesota Walz, also, Worthwhile Reading & Watching
Da Tech Guy: A Follow Up to A Future Success Story – Mission Accomplished, Facebook has jumped the totalitarian shark, and Under the Fedora: An Accurate Assessment, DA Bragg’s priorities, So Bad even the MSM can’t spin it, An idiot no longer Useful, Stacy on Susan Wojcicki
Don Surber: Congress can help elect Trump, Nothing is over until we decide it is!
First Street Journal: This morning’s rant, Ivy League research associate wants clerks at Wawa to pay for her commute, and Karma comes to Taylor Lorenz!
Gates Of Vienna: Och, The Puir Wee Bairns Make Out Like Bandits, Party Gone, Prime Minster Gone, Monkey Business, Diversity Is Not Our Strength, It’s Grand to be a “Refugee”, and The Grey Buses
The Geller Report: Biden-Harris Regime Using Taxpayer Money to Mask Medicare Premium Hikes Doubling Even Tripling Before Election, also, Georgia Secretary Of State Brad Raffensperger OPPOSES Election Integrity
Hollywood In Toto: Alien: Romulus Delivers Franchise’s Greatest Hits, How It Ends with Us Became Summer’s Counter-Programming Hit, Joe Rogan & Dennis Quaid Torch Woke Religion, and Blink Twice Wallows in Empty Fourth-Wave Feminism
The Lid: Secret Service Failures Mount: Local Police Sniper Killed Trump Assassin, NOT Feds, Feds Quickly Cremated Killer’s Body
Legal Insurrection: Canadian Officials Want Country to Prepare for Viruses Potentially “Worse than Covid”, Supreme Court Keeps Hold On Biden/Harris Title IX New Rules Giving Boys Access To Girls Sports and Locker Rooms, Academic Boycotts From AAUP Would be ‘Catastrophe for Jewish Students’, JD Vance’s Dog Joins the Campaign—Meet Atlas! Survey Finds College Students Lack ‘Rudimentary’ Knowledge of History and Civics, Milwaukee Police Association Endorses President Trump and J.D. Vance, and Tulsi Gabbard: ‘Kamala Harris is an Empty Suit’ Candidate Who Will ‘Say Anything’
Michele Catalano: conspicuous consumption
Nebraska Energy Observer: Police State Britain – the Sky Grows Darker, Take Some Deep Breaths, and Scattershot Friday
Outkick: Connor Stalions Returns To The Sidelines At Detroit High School As The ‘Most Hated Man In College Football’, Monte Harrison Goes From 10-Year Pro Baseball Career To Walk-On Receiver For Arkansas At 29 Years Old, ESPN’s Mina Kimes Responds To OutKick After Mocking Michele Tafoya, Who Called Out Her Walz Comments, WNBA Star Caitlin Clark Answers Phoenix’s Taunt With An Electric Performance For The Indiana Fever, Joe Burrow Reflects On Frustrations At Ohio State, Riley Gaines Says ‘ESPN Is A Joke’ After Network Fired Sam Ponder, and Sydney Sweeney Leaves Instagram In A Smoldering Pile Of Ashes With Wetsuit Thirst Traps
Power Line: Idiot wind, price controls edition, Taliban Triumphs Over Transformed America, Kamala Mocks White People, and Thoughts from the ammo line
Shark Tank: New Polls Show Dip In Support For Abortion Amendment
Shot In The Dark: A 20 Year Parade of Lies – Prelude, The Eternal Pot, Joy! In Action! Walz – Artifice All The Way Down, The Only Thing, and Flash Of Daily Epiphany
STUMP: Interest Rate Cut? Wanna Bet? also, Chicago Is My Kind Of Town To Beat Up On – 2017 Edition
The Political Hat: The Exception That Proves The Sex Binary Rule, Quick Takes – Racial Discrimination Obsession, and Firing Line Friday: Are Medical Costs Controllable?
This Ain’t Hell: Navy Sets the Bar, Wikipedia lists Tim Walz as Command Sergeant Major and Afghanistan Veteran, Marine Osprey crash victim to be honored, Come Walz with me, Valor Friday, Naughty Navy Admonished Again, The Taliban celebrates three years in power, JD Vance keeping the stolen valor heat on Tim Walz, and Pin-Ups For Vets 2025
Transterrestrial Musings: The Invasion Of Russia, also, Don’t Know Much About History
Victory Girls: Another Reinvention of Kamala – How About Hopeless
Volokh Conspiracy: Are Laws Restricting Mask-Wearing in Public Constitutional?
Watts Up With That: Biden Admin Cements Gas Stove Rule After Insisting It Isn’t Going After Gas Stoves, Ukraine Approves $20 Billion Green Energy Plan Despite Ongoing War, and Math Confirms Foolishness of Climate Alarmism
The Federalist: There Is Nothing ‘Joyful’ About Harris’ and Walz’s Grimly Anti-American Agenda, Georgia Election Board Has One More Chance To Move To Paper Ballots To Safeguard Its Elections, Activists Say, Everything The Biden-Harris Administration Doesn’t Want You To Know About Its Drug Price Controls, ESPN Axes Host Days After She Voiced Opposition To Men Competing In Women’s Sports, CNN Trots Out B-List ‘Republican’ Coward To Push Voting For National Destruction, 13th Oregon County To Support Ditching Blue State For Idaho Urges ‘Legislative Action’ On Redrawing Border, and 24 Attorneys General Ask Supreme Court To Uphold Arizona Law Requiring Citizenship Proof To Vote
Mark Steyn: Live Around the Planet- The Sex of Joy, Honouring with Ice Cream, It’s a Short Way to Tipperary, and Farewell, Leicester Square!

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In The Mailbox: 08.15.24 (Morning Edition)

Posted on | August 15, 2024 | Comments Off on In The Mailbox: 08.15.24 (Morning Edition)

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Too tired last night after the long drive down from Tonopah to blog.
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OVER THE TRANSOM
357 Magnum: Don’t Bring A Knife To A Gunfight
EBL: Hitler phones Kamala Harris
Twitchy: Chicago Is Going To Be Fun Fun Fun! Trump Offers Harris A Campaign Tip With Superb Troll In NC, and Kamala’s First Two Policy Proposals Were Swiped From Trump & This Other Guy
Louder With Crowder: Hey, remember when weird Tim Walz had cops shoot paintballs at people breaking the curfew? (Updated)
Vox Popoli: A Terrible Decision, also, Whatever Happened to Huddled Masses?
Upstream Reviews: Splashdown, 
L’Ombre de L’Olivier: Batteries & Energy Storage
Stoic Observations: The Downside
Ammo.com: Gun Violence Statistics 2024
Toni Airaksinen: Cornell Student Trades Cap & Gown For Orange Jumpsuit After Antisemitic Threats
Gab: Celebrating Eight Years Of Unwavering Commitment To Free Speech

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
CDR Salamander: You Can’t Go To War With Your Factory
Dana Loesch: Fauci Shocked That He Keeps Getting The Coof Despite Being Infinity Vaxxed & Boosted
Don Surber: Trump’s winning strategy
STUMP: Chicago Is My Kind Of Town To Beat Up On -2016 Edition

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Trump Derangement Syndrome and the Media’s ‘Misinformation’ Obsession

Posted on | August 15, 2024 | Comments Off on Trump Derangement Syndrome and the Media’s ‘Misinformation’ Obsession

Have you forgotten? In case you don’t remember how traumatized liberals were by Donald Trump winning the 2016 election, you can click here for an ABC News video of Hillary Clinton’s supporters, gathered for a planned victory celebration at the Javits Center in New York, crying on the evening of November 8, 2016. It was a beautiful sight.

Insofar as Democrats were not already crazy — because anyone who votes Democrat cannot be entirely sane — the trauma of the 2016 election drove them completely bonkers and they’ve never recovered. It was on the night of November 8, 2016, apparently, that Team Hillary settled on their excuse for defeat: “RUSSIA! RUSSIA! RUSSIA!”

Hillary Clinton herself accused Russia of “interfering” in the election: “This is not just an attack on me and my campaign, although that may have added fuel to it. This is an attack against our country. We are well beyond normal political concerns here. This is about the integrity of our democracy and the security of our nation.” But who was actually threatening “the integrity of our democracy”? In July 2016, while the campaign was still going, the FBI began spying on the Trump campaign in “Operation Crossfire Hurricane.” The origin, justification and legality of this project, led by the notorious Peter Strzok, have all been extensively scrutinized. The investigation began after (but was not necessarily caused by) the alleged hacking of Democratic National Committee emails. The official justification for the investigation had to do with conversations between Trump policy adviser George Papadopoulos and an obscure academic named Joseph Mifsud, which Mifsud subsequently relayed to Australian diplomat Alexander Downer. This gossip then got mixed in with spurious allegations from the infamous “Steele dossier” to create the myth of “collusion” between Russia and the Trump campaign which, after Trump’s 2016 victory, became the basis of phantasmagoric delusions on the part of Democrats and the media (but I repeat myself).

All the insanity since November 2016, you must understand, can be traced to two simple facts: Trump won and Hillary lost, and these facts were never accepted by Democrats, least of all Hillary herself. To this day, we’re still dealing with the consequences of the resulting delusion — Trump Derangment Syndrome — and one symptomatic manifestation is the media’s obsession with “misinformation.”

Ed Driscoll on Wednesday called attention to this item:

During a White House press briefing [Monday], the Washington Post’s Cleve Wootson asked if the government has a “role” in tackling “misinformation” and if President Joe Biden planned to “intervene” in Trump’s X Space.

An alleged journalist demanding that the federal government “intervene” to prevent the Republican candidate from speaking publicly? You see how this connects back to the 2016 campaign, because Russian “interference” in the election was alleged to include “misinformation” spread by social media — how else to explain why Hillary Clinton lost? Democrats believed Trump could not have won the election legitimately, and from this certainty arose their vigilance against “misinformation.”

All of this is preamble to the question I found myself asking Saturday: “Why did so many people hate Susan Wojcicki?”

The text message came from a friend: “Vaccine induced turbo cancer?” It included a link to the notice that former YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki was dead.
What did this message mean? Quick research determined that the cause of Wojcicki’s death at age 56 was lung cancer, which her husband said was first diagnosed in 2022:

Wojcicki – who was one of the most prominent women in Silicon Valley – had been involved with YouTube’s parent company Google from its earliest days, when its two founders worked out of her garage in California to build a search engine. …
Wojcicki had served as YouTube’s CEO for nine years before announcing last year in a blog post that she would be “stepping back” from her leadership role to focus on her family, health and personal projects that she was passionate about, CNN previously reported.
She oversaw YouTube during the web’s pivotal transition toward social media, but also as online platforms came under increasing scrutiny for spreading misinformation, hate speech and other harmful content.
“I’m so proud of everything we’ve achieved,” Wojcicki wrote when announcing she was stepping down in 2023. “It’s been exhilarating, meaningful, and all-consuming.”

The ancient Latin adage, De mortuis nil nisi bonum (“Speak no ill of the dead”) is wise advice, but anyone who searched social media for Susan Wojcicki’s name on Saturday morning could discover how widely disregarded this advice was in her case. Many thousands of people were expressing their happiness that Wojcicki was dead, as she had been identified as “Censorship Voldermort” for her suppression of dissenting viewpoints on YouTube, especially in regard to the COVID-19 pandemic. . . .

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Watching CNN (So You Don’t Have To)

Posted on | August 14, 2024 | Comments Off on Watching CNN (So You Don’t Have To)

The most popular show on CNN, Anderson Cooper 360 at 8 p.m. ET, gets about 700,000 viewers. The total viewership of the two-hour interview Donald Trump did on X with Elon Musk is unknown, but it was certainly in the many millions — far bigger than the audience for Cooper or Wolf Blitzer, Jake Tapper, Caitlin Collins, et al. So it is rather amusing that CNN, which can’t get an interview with Kamala Harris, slams Musk for scoring an interview with Trump, an interview that is much more popular than anything on CNN. In between endless hype of Kamala (the candidate who won’t even talk to them), CNN spent Tuesday airing a lot of coverage about the alleged strategic errors of the Trump campaign. Trump should stop mocking and insulting Kamala, according to the “experts” cited by the failed third-place cable news network. Because, yeah, Republicans should take advice from S.E. Cupp.

CNN is one small part of a gigantic media cabal trying to help Kamala Harris run out the clock. The object of the game is to get the Democratic nominee to early voting season without her ever being asked a tough question or otherwise risking exposure as the unprincipled, incompetent airhead she has always been. If it’s actual news you’re looking for, don’t bother tuning into CNN. Trust me, I watch it every day.



 

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