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Saturday, January 18. 2025

Saturday morning links

New England Journal of Medicine Publishes Screed Defending ‘Gender-Affirming Care’


PROF. GARRETT: Leftists’ victimhood mentality persists as DEI retreat accelerates


Is David Brooks a Moral Philosopher?


Head of Infamous "Information Disorder" Commission Promoted at NPR. A
Twitter Files all-star and former head of an Aspen Institute panel on
content suppression is moved up the ranks at National Public Radio


Saturday Miscellany


The five tech titans that will sit with Trump during inauguration and what their position means


Black Lives Matter Demands Grocery Store Remain Open Despite Losing $7,000 a Day to Theft


Once Again, Life Catches Up to The Bee


Bill Gates had ‘intriguing’ three-hour dinner with Trump: ‘I was frankly impressed’


Trump is Reforming the Intelligence Community Already


My Decade with Donald Trump -He
chased her with hair spray. She saw him get shot. Salena Zito is the
journalist who knows Trump—and his voters—better than anyone.


Suddenly, Gavin Newsom's Electric Car Mandate Looks Pretty Dumb to LA Fire Victims


Why Europe Fears Free Speech

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Unless the dinner with Bill Gates turns out to have been a humiliation ritual similar to Trump's meeting with Romney years ago, I take the fact that the meeting occurred as a serious mark against Trump. To the extent Gates isn't completely ignored, he should be treated with contempt.

Alas, Trump appears to have an endless appetite for being flattered. Which is a trait that makes him vulnerable to being manipulated. Time will tell.
#1 James4HJ on 2025-01-18 09:10 (Reply)
To be fair, pretty much everyone likes to be flattered. I think you are spot on about Trump. However, as VDH points out, from the video posted yesterday, Trump is a world class troller. What happened at the meeting and what was presented to the public, could be two different things.
Trump is far from perfect, but he is the best that we have right now. I mean, unless you a communist, authoritarian tyrant that thinks big government can solve all of humanity’s problems. Then Trump is literally the devil. But, even Obama, the light bearer of the modern Marxist, was yucking it up with literally Hitler, at Jimmy Carters funeral. The funeral that had white supremacist markings on the front of the program; imbedded in the floor of the church. Lefties are so ignorant. And the lie. A lot.
#1.1 B. Hammer on 2025-01-18 11:42 (Reply)
QUOTE:
The five tech titans that will sit with Trump during inauguration and what their position means . . .. will deliver the jobs and free speech that will define his term.

Uh.

QUOTE:
During the campaign, Trump even warned Zuckerberg he would 'spend the rest of his life in prison' if he worked against him like he did in 2020.

That's not free speech, nor rule of law, but arbitrary and coercive.
#2 Zachriel on 2025-01-18 09:40 (Reply)
OhMiGod, look at what somebody else is telling us what Trump said to another person ! ! (clutches pearls, swoons on fainting couch).

It's a tired tactic, supposed quotes disproven as falsehoods too many times to accept at face value.
#2.1 Aggie on 2025-01-18 15:52 (Reply)
Aggie: OhMiGod

OhMiGod, he wrote it down.
#2.2 Zachriel on 2025-01-18 16:36 (Reply)
Hoping this occasion can be filed under the category of "keep your enemies closer."
#3 Slow Learner on 2025-01-18 09:41 (Reply)
The federal government already spends 100% of its tax revenue just to pay for mandatory entitlement spending and interest on the debt.

https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2025-01-17/joe-bidens-last-day-us-dangerously-close-point-no-return-podcast
#4 feeblemind on 2025-01-18 12:14 (Reply)
feeblemind: The federal government already spends 100% of its tax revenue just to pay for mandatory entitlement spending and interest on the debt.

Which means cuts to Social Security and Medicare, or an increase in taxes, or both. Instead, Trump plans to cut taxes and has said he won't touch Social Security.

QUOTE:
the inflation we are still experiencing

Inflation was just 2.9% in 2024.
#4.1 Zachriel on 2025-01-18 14:10 (Reply)
Black Lives Matter Demands Grocery Store Remain Open Despite Losing $7,000 a Day to Theft

Like the article says, BLM should open up its own grocery store. I wonder if BLM would then continue its now-tolerant view of shoplifting.
#5 Gringo on 2025-01-18 15:44 (Reply)

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