Saturday, May 11, 2019

Saturday roundup

Erick Erickson at The Resurgent on a lamentable turn of events:

Christian “mommy blogger” Glennon Doyle Melton divorced her husband, announced she’s a lesbian, and entered a relationship with Abby Wambach, a retired soccer player.
They now star in a new advertisement for Secret deodorant all about girl power.
Andrew Eggar at The Bulwark on the pathetic sight of Larry Kudlow, who knows better, trying to spin the Very Stable Genius's latest boneheaded trade-with-China move.

How boneheaded? This boneheaded:



I thought this tweet about it pretty much nailed it:

just a reminder that captain anti-socialism’s glorious central plan now entails paying farmers to grow product, taxing the product to eliminate demand for the product, paying farmers compensation for unsold product, then literally buying the unsold product

Here's why the rock-and-a-hard-place characterization is apt for our current juncture: the VSG is a hot mess, but, as Andrew McCarthy makes clear at National Review, Democrats have been trying, with this entire Russiagate undertaking, to unseat a legitimately elected US president. The VSG is the alternative to a pack of rabid dogs.

Iran's got quite an attitude these days:

Iran could target U.S. commercial ships including oil tankers, the U.S. Maritime Administration said on Friday, as a senior Iranian cleric said a U.S. Navy fleet could be "destroyed with one missile."
In the latest tense exchange between Tehran and Washington, Iran's hardline Revolutionary Guards separately said Iran would not negotiate with the United States, a stance that seemed partly aimed at discouraging Iranian President Hassan Rouhani and his moderate allies from taking up a U.S. offer of talks.
U.S. President Donald Trump on Thursday urged Iran's leaders talk with him about giving up their nuclear program and said he could not rule out a military confrontation.
Trump made the offer as he increased economic and military pressure on Iran, moving to cut off all Iranian oil exports this month while beefing up the U.S. Navy and Air Force presence in the Gulf. Acting U.S. Defense Secretary Patrick Shanahan approved a new deployment of Patriot missiles to the Middle East, a U.S. official told Reuters on Friday.
The U.S. aircraft carrier Abraham Lincoln, deployed as a warning to Iran, passed through Egypt's Suez Canal on Thursday and American B-52 bombers have also arrived at a U.S. base in Qatar, U.S. Central Command said.
"Can you look us in the eye and tell us why you think babies should be killed?" Matt Walsh addressing the rally he helped organize, in response to Brian Sims's harassment of pro-lifers at prayer, in front of a Philadelphia Planned Parenthood facility.



 

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