OPEN THREAD: Speak for yourself.
April 17, 2024
TRUNALIMUNUMAPRZURE!
People.
This is not good. And don’t whatabout me on Trump. I’m not a Trumper. https://t.co/DGhjCspNsx
— John Podhoretz (@jpodhoretz) April 18, 2024
Was it over when the Hawaiians bombed Pearl Harbor?!
“THAT’S THE SECOND HIGHEST-RATED COMMENT on the NYT article, ‘NPR Editor Who Accused Broadcaster of Liberal Bias Resigns/Uri Berliner, who has worked at NPR for 25 years, said in an essay last week that the nonprofit had allowed progressive bias to taint its coverage.'”
The comment: “Having rarely missed a Morning Edition or All Things Considered every day every week for every year between 1984 and 2013, by 2014 NPR became less and less tolerable to this centrist… until by 2020 I just stopped caring and certainly stopped listening. I doubt I am alone in having concluded NPR had become something of a joke. And a really sad one.”
Plus: “Highest rated: ‘Kudos to Berliner for having the backbone to write the essay he did. Weren’t we all thinking it anyway and he just voiced the reason many of us stopped listening to NPR on a regular basis?'”
And: “Third-highest: ‘Mr. Berliner was on suspension not for working for outside organizations but for truthfully criticizing NPR’s bias.”
Fourth: “I’ve been listening to NPR my entire life. Things took wild turn after 2016. And now I am finding myself disjoint from almost all conversation happening on NPR.”
Plus: “Remember, these are NYT readers. These are most likely liberals who are put off by the left-wing slant. I was going to write What happened in 2016? I had to laugh at myself.”
OH, THAT’S JUST TOO APPROPRIATE: Columbia Protesters Said They Were Sprayed With a Chemical Weapon. A New Lawsuit Says It Was Fart Spray.
HOW TO MAINTAIN YOUR GENERATOR.
BIG TALK FROM AN ADMINISTRATION THAT’S STILL FUNDING GAIN-OF-FUNCTION RESEARCH: White House announces global partnership to prevent future pandemics.
ANOTHER ONE GETS RED-PILLED: Just the News is reporting that Uri Berliner, a National Public Radio veteran editor who authored an essay that was critical of the news outlet’s liberal bias, resigned Wednesday.
“Today, those who listen to NPR or read its coverage online find something different: the distilled worldview of a very small segment of the U.S. population. If you are conservative, you will read this and say, duh, it’s always been this way. But it hasn’t,” he wrote last week in an essay for The Free Press.
He’s probably in line for the same insane demonization the Margaret Sullivan and MSNBC crowd have leveled against Bari Weiss, Glenn Greenwald and Matt Taibbi.
If you step off the reservation and think for yourself, you’re dead to us and we must destroy you. Because we’re liberals. That means we embrace dissent, except when we don’t agree.
THEM’S FIGHTIN’ WORDS: A Hollywood Producer’s One-Woman War Against… Syndey Sweeney’s Looks?
MILTON FRIEDMAN WOULD LIKE A WORD: Biden’s Comment About How to Bring Prices Down Reveals He Knows Nothing About Economics.
HEY, IT COULD HAPPEN TO ANYONE:
Oops: Columbia University President Accidentally Gives Nazi Salute When Being Sworn In For Congressional Testimony https://t.co/Ipfeoua8js pic.twitter.com/nXrPBHZXRl
— The Babylon Bee (@TheBabylonBee) April 17, 2024
DEAL OF THE DAY: Keurig K-Elite Single-Serve K-Cup Pod Coffee Maker. #CommissionEarned
THE ELECTRIC VEHICLE BUBBLE DEFLATES: Poll: Americans Are Less Interested in Buying an EV Than in 2023.
HMM:
🚨💥 BREAKING: Explosion at BAE's 155mm artillery shell filling facility, Glascoed, in Wales!
This comes 2 days after there was a small fire at the Scranton Army Ammunition Plant in Pennsylvania, which makes 155mm shell bodies.
BAE tells the Sun that there was an explosion at… pic.twitter.com/bAwgA1uWBK
— Colby Badhwar 🇨🇦🇬🇧 (@ColbyBadhwar) April 17, 2024
Once is happenstance, twice is coincidence…
YOU’RE GONNA NEED A BIGGER BLOG: Another Example of How the Liberal Media Doesn’t Support Trump Getting a Fair Trial.
BE PREPARED: Battery Tender Plus 12V Battery Charger and Maintainer. #CommissionEarned
DISPATCHES FROM THE BLUE ZONES: New York City concerned about rise of rat urine-related illness and even death.
DENVER: Blue city mayor defunds police force by more than $8 million to aid migrants.
A Democrat-controlled city announced $45 million in funding for programs to help deal with the skyrocketing number of migrant arrivals it is facing, resulting in over $8 million in budget cuts for the police department.
Denver Mayor Mike Johnston announced last week a package of $45.9 million to fully fund programs for “newcomers” for 2024 and avoid worst-case scenarios projected by the city. That’s in addition to $44 million in spending already secured for the program through previous budget moves.
Spending on migrants in the city skyrocketed last year from $2 million a month in August to $15 million in December. In January, migrant numbers peaked at around 5,000 in shelters but have since dropped to around 1,000, according to official figures.
“Newcomers,” LOL.
I must have spent 20 years making the drive up to Denver from Colorado Springs at least once a week to meet friends, have a nice dinner, go to a nightclub, etc. But that seems like a long time ago.