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Archive for 2019
July 14, 2019
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WHAT WAS TRUMP UP TO WITH HIS TWEETS TODAY? WELL: Exclusive poll: AOC defining Dems in swing states.
The poll — taken in May, before Speaker Pelosi’s latest run-in with AOC and the three other liberal House freshmen known as “The Squad” — included 1,003 likely general-election voters who are white and have two years or less of college education.
These are the “white, non-college voters” who embraced Donald Trump in 2016 but are needed by Democrats in swing House districts.
The group that took the poll shared the results with Axios on the condition that it not be named, because the group has to work with all parts of the party.
The findings:
Ocasio-Cortez was recognized by 74% of voters in the poll; 22% had a favorable view.
Rep. Ilhan Omar of Minnesota — another member of The Squad — was recognized by 53% of the voters; 9% (not a typo) had a favorable view.Socialism was viewed favorably by 18% of the voters and unfavorably by 69%.
Capitalism was 56% favorable; 32% unfavorable.
“Socialism is toxic to these voters,” said the top Democrat.
I think this may have something to do it.
UPDATE (From Ed): “President Trump Stirs The Pot In Dems’ Civil War, Forcing Pelosi To Make Nice With Those Who Want To Destroy Her.”
OPEN THREAD: Sunday Funday.
THE REAL AMERICA: Once again, the press and media are emphasizing division. But I took the weekend semi-off for a family reunion in the mountains, and driving back I came on an awful multiple-fatality accident just after it happened. (Fortunately, by the time I dug my trauma kit out and got to the scene, there was an actual paramedic on hand — just another passerby, but with a lot of skills, a great kit, and a couple of buddies who seemed to know what they were doing. Not that it mattered in the end, as the accident — a high-speed median-crossing headon — left no survivors. But at least there was someone more experienced and better trained than me to try.) But loads of people ran to help. There were a half-dozen members of the Thunderguards Atlanta chapter (a black outlaw motorcycle club), young women, middle-aged guys, etc. All doing their best to help and to comfort the victims. When the cops showed up they asked people to move the big debris off the road — there was a lot of it, big stuff like brake assemblies and wheels — which I thought was to open up the road but was actually so a helicopter could land right next to the vehicles. Everyone pitched in, and a couple of people even produced brooms from somewhere and swept the road after the big stuff was moved.
We were stuck there for over two hours before traffic moved, and everyone was friendly, helpful and offering each other water and other assistance. From the tenor of the news coverage most days, you’d never know that this America even exists.
Also, the Insta-Sister, who was riding with me, is great in a crisis.
FLORIDA MAN IMMANENTIZES ESCHATON: Pabst Blue Ribbon releases alcoholic coffee.
Pabst Blue Ribbon is venturing away from it’s traditional beer and heading into the coffee business.
PBR says its a hard coffee and with a 5% ABV that’s in a 11 oz. can.
It’s made with “rich, creamy milk and vanilla flavor.”
Unfortunately, you can’t get in Virginia right now since they’re only testing it in five states. You’ll have to drive to Pennsylvania, Maine, New Jersey, Florida or Georgia to try some.
Florida man on alcoholic coffee. What could go wrong?
OWN GOAL: A Blunder Of Epic Proportions. “Regular readers know that I am a fan of President Trump, and more often than not, a fan of his use of social media. But today he committed the worst unforced error of his presidency, one that we will hear about from the Democrats from now until November 2020.”
NEWS YOU CAN USE: Don’t Celebrate Bastille Day, Roger Kimball writes:
Since I am writing on Bastille Day, I am prompted to wonder why the French—or anyone else, for that matter—celebrate this infamous date. After all, the “storming” of that royal keep in 1789 was the spark that started the conflagration of the French Revolution. Unlike the American Revolution, in which the rule of law and the institutions of civil society survived the change of governments, the French Revolution was one of the signal bad events in world history. It consumed civil society and the centuries-old institutions of civilization. It was an unalloyed triumph of the totalitarian spirit, and in this respect it presaged and inspired that even greater assault on decency and freedom, the Bolshevik Revolution, the opening act of one of the darkest chapters in human history. The butcher’s bill for the French Revolution is many hundreds of thousands. Soviet Communism was responsible for the deaths of tens upon tens of millions and the universal immiseration of the people whose lives it controlled.
Yet today’s news is full of cheery stories about Bastille Day celebrations. Why?
Read the whole thing.
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THE MANHATTAN BLACKOUT PROVED HOW FRAGILE OUR INFRASTRUCTURE IS:
Midtown Manhattan was surreal Saturday night.
The center of our little island is supposed to be the center of the universe — yet I am writing this after eating a lukewarm peach for dinner by (hot) candlelight in 90-degree temperatures with the windows shut tight, racing against time to finish it before my computer runs out of its last moments of electricity.
Yes, we want to be the center of finance, tech and media, but we cannot even keep the lights on for a Saturday evening. Meanwhile, our fearless leader, Mayor Bill de Blasio, is radioing it all in from Iowa, where they have plenty of power.
When we lived in Silicon Valley, we always chuckled that thanks to NIMBYs and radical environmentalists, the technology of the 21st century was being developed on a very shaky power grid that was likely last updated when Jerry Brown’s dad, Pat, was still governor in the 1960s. In 2011, Victor Davis Hanson warned of “The Bloomberg Syndrome:” “Quite simply, the next time your elected local or state official holds a press conference about global warming, the Middle East, or the national political climate, expect to experience poor county law enforcement, bad municipal services, or regional insolvency.”
OWN GOAL: As Democrats Fight A Civil War, Trump Strips Naked And Runs Onto The Battlefield.
The Democrats are currently embroiled in a civil war so damaging that you have members calling each other racist and threatening to primary one another. For the first time since their election, the self-described “squad” of Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and her minions are on their heels, not sure how to react to the fire they are taking. Even the liberal media are infighting about which side to take as the volleys are launched.
Meanwhile, the economy is booming and President Trump is enjoying one of the more positive stretches of his tenure.
Well, he was at least. For some reason, he thought it would be a good idea to wake up this morning and tweet this.
********If I could ask the President one question, it’d be this. Why make it so difficult for those who are trying to get you re-elected?
Democrats are collapsing in on themselves. All he has to do was sit back and not distract them. Instead he rips his shirt off and runs out on the battlefield screaming to be shot at. I know, 3-D chess and all that, but this just makes no sense.
I agree, but is there some 3-D chess going on here? Have at it in the comments.
UPDATE (FROM GLENN): This is barely even 2D chess. Trump is pointing out that these “it” girls are ungrateful asses who don’t like America. By not naming them, he’s forcing their defenders, and his critics, to admit that they’re ungrateful asses who don’t like America before they can even talk about the issue. This isn’t hard. But if you want more, there’s this way of putting it: All the Democrats have to do is not be crazy, and Trump’s making it impossible for them to do that.
COME AND SEE THE VIOLENCE INHERENT IN THE LEFTISM: Antifa Activist Identified as Man Armed with Rifle Who Tried to Set Fire to ICE Center.
WAGES OF HYSTERIA: Study: 40 percent of medical clinics refuse to treat regular opioid users. “We were hearing about patients with chronic pain becoming ‘pain refugees,’ being abruptly tapered from their opioids or having their current physician stop refilling their prescription.”
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THE EMPEROR’S NEW CLOTHES WASN’T MEANT TO BE A HOW-TOO BOOK: First, we’re told that fourteen year-old girls are supposed to pretend that the classmate in their locker room with the penis is really a girl. Today, we’re told that women on the slightly darker side of European-Caucasian skin tone (that is, Reps. AOC and Tlaib) have “brown skin.” Aaron Blake: The unmistakable ugliness of Trump urging brown-skinned congresswomen to ‘go back’ to their countries.
And it’s not just the U.S. Remember when the fair-skinned Algerian Malia Bouattia was declared to be “first Black president” of the UK’s National Union of Students?
“WHY DON’T WE JUST RELEASE MIGRANT CHILDREN IN DETENTION TO THEIR RELATIVES IN THE U.S. WHO WANT TO TAKE THEM IN?”: Here’s one reason: Rapid DNA testing reveals a THIRD of migrants faked family relationship with children to claim asylum during ICE pilot of the procedure in Texas.
BUT THERE’S A REPLACEMENT: The Air Force’s “Spooky” Gunships Have Flown Overseas for the Last Time.
DON’T GET COCKY: Democrats and Republicans agree — Donald Trump will be re-elected.
BOTTOM STORY OF THE DAY: Miley Cyrus Says ‘Earth Can’t Handle’ Her Having Kids, Earth Agrees.
SPEAKING OF LEFTIST AUTOPHAGY: I ran across this quote from Mr. Dooley (Finley Peter Dunne): “Th’ dimmycratic party ain’t on speakin’ terms with itsilf ….” (I am not sure of the date, but Dunne lived from 1867-1936. In any event, history repeats …)
And apropos of nothing in particular, here is another of Mr. Dooley’s observations that seems rather modern:
“D’ ye think th’ colledges has much to do with th’ progress iv th’ wurrold?” asked Mr. Hennessy.
“D’ ye think,” said Mr. Dooley, “’tis th’ mill that make th’ wather run?”
Alas, the modern world’s immense wealth allows us to buy a lot of … uh … stuff that we couldn’t otherwise afford.
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