Saturday, 21 May 2022

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Chavez, Maduro, Biden and Newsom

Posted: 20 May 2022 05:42 PM PDT

(John Hinderaker)

In a banana republic, what do you do when your citizens don’t have enough money because of your socialist economic policies? Simple: print more money! There was a time when we thought American politics were above such insanity, but those days are gone. The Biden administration’s multi-trillion dollar money-printing spree has launched the worst inflation since the Carter administration and the longest collapse of the Dow since 1932. Nice going, Joe!

If you think Democrats might learn from their mistakes, you don’t know Democrats. What to do when voters complain that, because of inflated prices, they don’t have enough money to pay their bills? Give them more money!

That is Gavin Newsom’s solution: write checks to the voters to help them cover the rising costs of goods and services, which in turn will further drive up the costs of goods and services. But maybe the clueless–always a substantial voting bloc–will be grateful:


State spending has played a major role in the current inflationary spiral as the federal government doled out many billions of newly-printed dollars to the states. That money is still sloshing around, as Newsom’s tweet indicates. We aren’t quite in banana republic territory yet, but we are rapidly sinking to that level.

Coming Soon

Posted: 20 May 2022 04:52 PM PDT

(John Hinderaker)

What is a woman? The question that stumped a Supreme Court nominee now resonates through our culture. And, in a rare coup of timing, the movie What Is a Woman?, produced by the Daily Wire, starring Matt Walsh and directed by my friend Justin Folk, will be released on June 1. Matt and Justin traveled around the world, searching for the answer to a simple question that suddenly has become a puzzle.

My organization plans to sponsor a showing sometime next month; watch for opportunities to see it where you live. This is the trailer:

Elongate

Posted: 20 May 2022 02:41 PM PDT

(John Hinderaker)

A woman has made a hearsay allegation against Elon Musk, claiming that on a company airplane in 2016, he exposed himself to and propositioned a flight attendant. The woman who made the claim says she is a friend of the flight attendant. It is alleged that Space-X paid the flight attendant $250,000 when she left the company.

Funny how that works: no one needed to know any of this until Musk undertook to buy Twitter and turn it into a free speech zone, and–horrors!–said he would be voting Republican in November. Now, suddenly, he is under attack on multiple fronts.

Musk has denied the allegations, but retains a sense of humor about being a target of the Left:


I don’t have any opinion on this “scandal,” except to note that it allegedly took place while Musk was a Democrat, so that gives it a certain surface plausibility.

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