March 29, 2025

I TWEETED THIS EARLIER, BUT THE INSTAWIFE TOOK THE PICS. Pro-Elon/Pro-Tesla/Pro-JD Vance demonstrators at Knoxville’s Tesla dealership.

Posted at 1:23 pm by Glenn Reynolds 21

WATCH: Scott Jennings Humiliates Another CNN Talking Head.

On Friday evening, Lulu Garcia-Navarro made the laughable attempt to convince viewers that this situation was somehow worse than Secretary Lloyd Austin’s catastrophic failures—such as the one that left 13 American service members dead, or the time he went AWOL while his deputy lounged on vacation, cocktail in hand. With a straight face, she actually suggested that if this had happened under the Biden administration, someone would have been held accountable.

“If this was a Democrat or a democratic administration who had foolishly, unconscionably created a group chat to have discussion about a military operation that was top secret, I think, Scott, you would have been the first person to call for those people’s resignation,” Garcia-Navarro argued.

She then insisted that accountability should not be a partisan issue. “Accountability is actually something that normally happens in a well-functioning administration,” she said. “This isn’t, you know, cowboys and Indians and calling for scalps. This is actually what most people would think was, if someone has behaved in a way that puts American lives at risk, they should be held accountable for it.”

“You don’t have to make up hypotheticals, Lulu, about if this happened in a democratic administration,” Jennings countered. “Let me take you back in time. In a Democratic administration, the secretary of defense oversaw a disastrous military operation in which 13 servicemen died in Afghanistan. Then to try to make up for it, they vaporized like seven children in a drone strike. Then later, the secretary of defense went AWOL and didn’t even tell the commander-in-chief.”

Garcia-Navarro quickly interrupted. “This is a completely different thing,” she insisted.

Now, let’s get real for a moment. She’s right; they are different situations. What happened under Lloyd Austin’s watch was so much worse. The incompetence of the Biden administration not only resulted in the deaths of 13 U.S. servicemembers, but also the fall of Afghanistan to the Taliban, who now had access to billions of dollars of U.S. military equipment that was left behind by Joe Biden.

Related: My theory about who’s really behind the war plans leak that could trigger a White House coup.

Posted at 1:14 pm by Ed Driscoll 39

HMM: Heart problems tied to brain shrinkage in new study. “Heart disease might contribute to the sort of brain shrinkage seen in dementia, a new study says. People with early signs of heart problems are more likely to have brain changes associated with dementia, researchers reported Wednesday in the journal Neurology.”

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BENJAMIN KERSTEIN: Rise of the ‘anti-Nazi’ Nazis.

The progressive left believes that it owns anti-Nazism. Literally owns it. Anti-Nazism is progressivism’s personal property, and no one else has any right to it. As such, progressivism can wield anti-Nazism as a weapon against anyone and anything it finds distasteful with total impunity.

Today, with campus antisemites stating at every possible opportunity that their goal is a second genocide of the Jews and engaging in the racist hate crimes necessary to prove it, we are faced with an irony that is world-historical in scope: Progressives use anti-Nazism to defend people who are very much like Nazis. Progressives then go even further and claim that these people are victims of Nazism.

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The reason is that, whatever their pretensions otherwise, progressives do not own anti-Nazism. In fact, they have no claim to anti-Nazism whatsoever. Genuine anti-Nazism can only lie with those who oppose genocidal antisemitism, because if Nazism is not genocidally antisemitic, then it is not Nazism. You cannot be anti-Nazi while defending genocidal antisemites. It is impossible.

Moreover, by claiming that antisemites are somehow victims of Nazism, progressives are engaging in an act of monstrous blasphemy. They are defaming the millions of Jews who died at antisemitism’s hands and appropriating the generational trauma of those who survived.

Historically, this is par for the course. Antisemites have always been happy to appropriate whatever they wish from the Jews and then spit in our faces. But it is no less disgraceful for its great age.

This is offensive enough, but progressives dig the hole even deeper: They claim that the Jews are Nazis. This blood libel is a staple of progressive rhetoric and wildly popular among the campus antisemites. In many ways, it has become part of “legitimate” discourse in academia. Nonetheless, it is difficult to fully convey the depth of the sadism and cruelty inherent in it.

Related: The World After Gaza: turning the Holocaust against Israel.

Posted at 12:45 pm by Ed Driscoll 50

LAS VEGAS JUDGE DECLINES TO RELEASE SUSPECT IN TESLA ‘DOMESTIC TERRORISM’ ATTACK:

A federal magistrate judge declined Friday to immediately release the man accused of setting fires at a Tesla collision center, citing her concerns of returning him to the community without his mother’s supervision.

Las Vegas Metro police arrested Paul Kim, 36, on Wednesday night on charges including arson and possessing an explosive device, the 8 News Now Investigators first reported. U.S. Marshals later took Kim into custody on federal charges.

The fires, which involved Molotov cocktails, happened Tuesday, March 18, around 2:45 a.m. at a Tesla center located at 6260 West Badura Avenue near Jones Boulevard and Warm Springs Road.

License plate readers, cameras, social media tools, DNA and other technology directly led to Kim, LVMPD Sheriff Kevin McMahill said Thursday.

During a detention hearing Friday before Magistrate Judge Elayna Youchah, prosecutor Jacob Operskalski called Kim a “flight risk” and said the Department of Justice considered his alleged actions “domestic terrorism.”

Operskalski noted there was no federal charge for domestic terrorism and highlighted the determination could lead to enhancements during sentencing.

Why aren’t there federal charges for domestic terrorism? Last Wednesday, ABC reported: Attorney general calls Tesla arson attacks ‘nothing short of domestic terrorism.’

Posted at 12:30 pm by Ed Driscoll 68

MAKE APPLE GREAT AGAIN: Siri, explain how you became Apple’s most embarrassing failure.

According to Bloomberg, Apple executives told staff that the delays were “embarrassing” and “ugly”, and said the company had promoted the Siri revamp before it was ready.

Robby Walker, a senior director at Apple, pointed the finger at the company’s marketing team for seeking to promote the features ahead of time. A week later, Giannandrea was reportedly sidelined, with Mike Rockwell, the head of the Vision Pro headset, put in charge of Siri.

The uncharacteristic own-goal led to a wave of criticism. John Gruber, a long-time Apple follower, said that “something is rotten” at the company, while Ming-Chi Kuo, a well-connected analyst, said Cook should apologise.

Apple is now facing a false advertising lawsuit from customers who said they bought new iPhones on the premise that they would receive features such as the new Siri. Apple has not yet responded to the lawsuit.

Mr Chatterjee, of Forrester, says: “There is cause for concern but not for panic.”

He says the company has plenty of loyal customers, but that the company’s recent challenges have dimmed hopes of an upgrade “super cycle” to boost sales.

The problems getting Siri to work might be understandable in isolation, but they come amid a series of Apple initiatives that have missed the mark.

The company invested billions of pounds into an electric car project that it eventually scrapped a year ago.

Its Vision Pro headset – the company’s biggest new idea since the iPhone – has disappointed, with plans for an upgraded model reportedly in flux.

But ChatGPT 4o can now make Ghibli cartoons at the drop of a text prompt – isn’t that enough of a bleeding edge 21st century high-tech breakthrough for one week?!

Posted at 12:14 pm by Ed Driscoll 29

I’M IN THE WRONG BUSINESS. I COULD HAVE GOTTEN RICH JUST SENDING RANDOM INVOICES TO THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT.

Posted at 12:06 pm by Glenn Reynolds 68

IT’S NOT NEGLECT, IT’S HATE:

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EH, THEY TOLD US A LOT OF STUFF:

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CHANGE: RFK Jr. Unveils Plan to Transform HHS into MAHA Powerhouse: ‘We’re Going to Do More With Less.’

To demonstrate how dysfunctional the department was when he took charge, he revealed that it’s organizational (Org) chart was incomprehensible.”

“There was no chain of command,” he explained, adding that “territorial” and “self-serving” employees were operating in “all these different silos and fiefdoms.”

According to Kennedy, within these silos, officials were “selling patient information to each other.” He told Cuomo that when he tried to obtain Centers For Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) depersonalized patient data—which belongs to HHS—”the sub-agency said we have to buy it from them!”

“It doesn’t make any sense. There were sub agencies that wouldn’t give us patient data,” he complained.

Kennedy told Cuomo that HHS has 100 communications departments, 40 procurement departments and “dozens” of IT and human resources units.

“None of them talk to each other,” Kennedy said. “And what we’re trying to do now is to streamline the agency, to eliminate the redundancies and to focus the mission so that everybody at HHS is going to wake up every morning and say, ‘What am I going to do today to make America healthy again?’”

To alleviate fears being drummed up by Democrats and their allies in legacy media, he stressed that they are not going to cut services.

Faster, please.

Posted at 8:30 am by Glenn Reynolds 125

#CHANGE:

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#JOURNALISM:

Posted at 8:18 am by Glenn Reynolds 78

FLASHBACK: “Government, we are sometimes told, is just another word for things we choose to do together. Like a lot of things politicians say, this sounds good. And, also like a lot of things politicians say, it isn’t the least bit true.”

Posted at 8:00 am by Glenn Reynolds 33