I have to agree with the characterization . . . there are a lot of Democrats who’d rather see you dead if you’re not as loving as they are.
In the past I voted Democrat, because they were (mostly) the kindness party.
But they have become the party of division & hate, so I can no longer support them and will vote Republican.
Now, watch their dirty tricks campaign against me unfold … ?
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) May 18, 2022
When I give a speech at a corporate event, I often ask those in attendance, “Do you know how to tell if you’re doing the job?” As heads start whispering back and forth, I provide these clues: “If you’re up at 3 A.M. every night talking into a tape recorder and writing notes on scraps of paper, have a knot in your stomach and a rash on your skin, are losing sleep and losing touch with your wife and kids, have no appetite or sense of humor, and feel that everything might turn out wrong, then you’re probably doing the job.”
This always gets a laugh, but not a very big one. Those executives in the audience recognize there is a significant price to pay to be the best. That price is not something they laugh at.
From Kevin D. Williamson:
Before the blood was even dry in Buffalo, Democrats were asking the most important question:
“How can we well-heeled white progressives most effectively use the murders of all these black people to our personal and political advantage?”
The murderer in Buffalo didn’t kill anybody you’ve ever heard of, and so the first thing to do if you want to exploit the deaths of all these people — and that is what Democrats intend to do — is to connect the crime to some famous name or prominent institution. It doesn’t matter if there isn’t any actual connection: Just assert it, and that’s good enough for the newspapers and the cable-news cretins and the impotent rage-monkeys on Twitter.
The usual suspects: social-media platforms, Tucker Carlson, Donald Trump, the Republican Party, Fox News, the National Rifle Association, etc.
The shooter was actually well known in advance as a nut case.
Apparently, it never occurred to anybody in New York to keep an eye on the lunatic who showed up at school wearing a full hazmat suit. The kid who already was on the radar of the state police and the mental-health bureaucracy. The kid who was asked about his post-graduation plans and answered: murder-suicide.
New York does have a “red flag” law on the books but nobody bothered to try to take the shooter’s guns away under that law — even after he very publicly expressed his desire to carry out such a massacre.
To my mind, that would constitute more competent governance than chasing around 4chan and Twitter for “hate speech” after the massacre has taken place.
New York’s governor, Kathy Hochul, said she would soon be calling meetings with social media companies, and noted that “hate speech is not protected.”
“Noted” in this case means “lied.” I’ve heard this “hate speech is not free speech” meme from a lot of people who heard from somebody else and liked the sound of it, but Gov. Hochul is a lawyer and should know better. Maybe she missed class the day that was covered.
There is no such thing as “hate speech” as a matter of constitutional law in the United States, and the sort of thing that is classified as “hate speech” in countries that do have such laws is — pay attention, now — exactly the kind of speech the First Amendment is designed to protect: offensive, unpopular, detestable, the kind of speech that most people consider immoral and indefensible. The kind of speech nobody likes or wants is the kind of speech the First Amendment is there for — the other kind of speech doesn’t need any protection. Here is a useful heuristic: If you immediately want to suppress somebody’s speech, then that is probably the kind of speech the First Amendment was made for.
Audit finds half of Joe Biden's Twitter followers are fake https://t.co/HcJjpi1D8W pic.twitter.com/p3dEeOdV6q
— New York Post (@nypost) May 17, 2022
My 4-year-old just FaceTimed to ask what I’m doing to “help the people in Buffalo” and “why did the bad man do this?” Absolutely gutting. This cannot be his normal. It’s time to BAN ASSAULT WEAPONS. #EndGunViolence
— Rep. Eric Swalwell (@RepSwalwell) May 16, 2022
“Assault weapons” are already banned in New York. New York has every gun law you could possibly want, including a “red flag” law.
Do you have a more serious suggestion than “It’s time to ban things that are already banned”?
BTW, the replies to this dubious tweet are hilarious. A couple examples:
In the middle of enjoying her after-dinner all-natural watermelon fruit bar popsicle, my 5-year-old leaned back in her chair, looked me dead in the eye and asked, “What will we ever do to escape this inflationary spiral in which this country currently finds itself.” I’m shook AF.
— Will Stafford (@WillStaffordLSU) May 17, 2022
My 2 year old just asked me how we can afford to give Ukraine $40 billion when we have countless citizens suffering here. I’m still trying to regain my composure,it’s just crushing to hear them talk like this.
— FDodd (@capt_trips83) May 17, 2022
It's nice of our governor to take a short break from forcing people to wear masks, stay inside, and get vaccinated in order to lecture us about bodily autonomy. https://t.co/j3VDr7aacf
— Paul Epps (@paulepps) May 15, 2022
One of my online chess games. Some annotations below . . .
2. g3 This opening move doesn’t have a name as far as I know.
4. Bxe4? There’s no way I can see for Black to save the pawn after 4. Nc3 so why put the bishop out there as a target?
6. b3? 6. h3 would prevent Black’s follow-up move.
7. Ng2? 7. Bxc6+ knocks out a valuable Black piece.
8. Bf1?? White’s game is probably lost already so instead of prolonging with something like 8. Nc3, why not just commit suicide?
The system is rigged. They want us to believe that it’ll protect us, but that’s a lie. We protect us. We do. Nobody else. Not the companies, not the scientists, not the government. Us.
I’ll tell you how the movie ends but without a spoiler. It ends with the closing credits, over which we hear Johnny Cash singing “I Won’t Back Down,” the Tom Petty song, which perfectly summarizes the Mark Ruffalo character, who won’t back down, not as an act of defiance but just as a quiet refusal to give up.
Whether or not that strategy works for him, I will not reveal here.
Because the movie is based on real-life events, it’s also a good watch for anyone who believes that government agencies will protect us from all of the bad things in life, and that anyone who thinks otherwise must be crazy.
Rating: 
Dark Waters
A corporate defense attorney takes on an environmental lawsuit against a chemical company that exposes a lengthy history of pollution.Director: Todd Haynes
Cast: Mark Ruffalo, Anne Hathaway, Tim Robbins
IMDb rating: 7.6 (120393 votes)
Twitter deal temporarily on hold pending details supporting calculation that spam/fake accounts do indeed represent less than 5% of usershttps://t.co/Y2t0QMuuyn
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) May 13, 2022
I’d have to say that fake accounts are waaay over 5 percent. Example: NYT and CNN claim 50-60 million followers and get retweets in the lower double digits, whereas accounts with far fewer real followers can get thousands of retweets with a banana emoji and a photo of Estelle Getty.
— Dave Rubin (@RubinReport) April 27, 2022
[And That’s the Truth is a feature by our guest blogger, Sojourner Truth — PE]
I just seen a couple things. One is Michelle Obama’s brother, Craig Robinson, and his white wife gettin their kids kicked outta school.
Dependin who you listen to, the Robinsons was either providin helpful feedback to the school on assignments and teaching practices, or they was harassin and disrespectin the teachers and administrators to where the school had enough and kicked em out.
How many kids at this school? A thousand? You gonna have a thousand sets of parents tellin the school how it’s gotta be run to their satisfaction? Or these two fools thinkin “Our brother-in-law was president of the U-nited States! We are people of unusual importance and you gonna do it the way we tell you to do it.”
Just talk to your kids about the lessons at home. You really don’t like the school, find another one. Or homeschool the kids.
Poor black kids can’t get a good education and rich black kids can’t get a good education cause everybody’s lookin backwards, backwards, backwards. The past is gone. It’s dead.
Here’s another thing I seen: An Asian woman on Twitter says
in class, professor tell me im “oppressed” because i’m women and asian. I say who cares. Teach Engineering. I pay much money to learn good education. stop wasting time to be stupid. I pay money to learn math, not penis this, vagina that, oppressed this, victim that
Two things I know about the history of Asians in America: 1) It’s bad; 2) It ain’t taught in school.
Black history is bad but everyone learns in school about slavery, the Civil War, Jim Crow, segregation, racism. Nobody learns how or why anonymous Asian bones got scattered all over the American West.
Asians got plenty to complain about if they want to but they lookin forwards not backwards. Lookin forwards to gettin a good education. Like this woman says, stop wastin time bein stupid.
And that’s the Truth!
Yeah but here’s the saddest part
I don’t even care
And there’s nothin you can do, it’s gonna happen
Sit down and drink a beer with Father Time
I've been trying to get pregnant just so I can get an abortion but so far, no luck. https://t.co/G6SzTy5gb8
— Paul Epps (@paulepps) May 7, 2022
I'm not a doctor but I know enough about male paraphernalia to say that if a man is expelling blood through his genitals, a tampon is not going to help. https://t.co/tkaQkuCek3
— Paul Epps (@paulepps) May 5, 2022
Now, if you know what you’re worth, then go out and get what you’re worth. But you gotta be willing to take the hit, and not pointing fingers saying you ain’t where you are because of him, or her, or anybody. Cowards do that and that ain’t you. You’re better than that! ~ Rocky Balboa
According to the LA Times, the chronic absence rate in LAUSD for black students is 57 percent. For Latinos, it is 49 percent.
And poor performance by these groups on standardized tests like the SAT is due to the fact that the tests are racist, not because the students don’t show up for school.
He couldn’t have just turned off the set?
One of my favorite comedians. We saw him do a show at the Improv in Irvine. I lived in Irvine for many years but didn’t go to the Improv much because comedians of any stature rarely show up there. I don’t know why. They do the Hollywood Improv, you’d think they could just drive up the road a piece, do a set in Irvine and pick up another check.
I also heard Gilbert interviewed many times and I think he was even funnier conversationally than he was in his act, and his act was very funny.
RIP Gilbert Gottfried
Have we reached the ultimate state of absurdity where some people are held responsible for things that happened before they were born, while other people are not held responsible for what they themselves are doing today? — Thomas Sowell
Sometimes when I taste the delicious acai berry, I put down my gun and give thanks to a nonexistent God.
