Archive for 2018

OPEN THREAD: What are your resolutions for 2019?

MYSTERIOUS SMOKE SIGNALS ANALYZED: Twitter Name Change Viewed As Another Hint Elizabeth Warren Could Run For President In 2020.

The name change was picked up by @CongressChanges, a Twitter bot that monitors changes to lawmakers’ Twitter accounts. The tweet stated that Warren re-named her account @ewarren. It was formerly called @elizabethforma, which includes an abbreviation for Massachusetts.

The change occurred Saturday night, according to reports.

It’s likely to be a crowded Democratic field during the 2020 election cycle, but at a minimum, Warren has got at least a 1/1024th percent chance of getting the nomination.

ANNALS OF LEFTIST AUTOPHAGY: Women Attack ‘Sexist’ Shopping Spree Ad for Ruth Bader Ginsburg Movie.

Even liberal movies can’t avoid ticking off feminists.

In the lead-up to Christmas, Focus Features released a Facebook ad encouraging women to sign up to win a free shopping spree and a trip to Washington, D.C., to celebrate the release of “On the Basis of Sex,” a movie about Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg. Women attacked this as “sexist,” “sexploitational,” and “deeply unsettling,” and it does seem particularly tone-deaf in context.

“Win a shopping spree and a trip to Washington, D.C. for you and a friend to celebrate the release of On the Basis of Sex based on a true story of Ruth Bader Ginsburg,” Focus Features wrote in the ad. The ad included a link to the Focus Features website and an invitation to sign up for the contest with a flashy picture of Felicity Jones in a suit in front of the Supreme Court.

Or to put it another way:

(Artwork by Jon Gabriel.)

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MAYBE MEXICO WILL BUILD A WALL BEFORE TRUMP: Now here’s an interesting idea from Monica Showalter, writing at The American Thinker: “Mexico can erect a border fence on its southern border, same as President Trump is trying to do on the U.S. southern border, to keep unauthorized migrants out. Given that it’s a far shorter border, it wouldn’t take much to get up.” More here.