Punditry and Persiflage

Punditry and Persiflage

Comments on the news and social media of the day.

Really, Price Controls?
August 15, 2024

Kamala's idea of controlling the inflation she helped create is the discredited practice of implementing price controls.

https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2024/08/15/kamala-harris-to-announce-soviet-style-price-controls-on-food-under-guise-of-gouging-ban/

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When Will Woke Universities Wake Up?
August 15, 2024

A federal district court on Tuesday ordered the University of California, Los Angeles, to stop allowing and assisting antisemitic agitators to ban Jews from large parts of UCLA’s campus.

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/so-abhorrent-federal-judge-rules-against-ucla-lawsuit-over-jew-exclusion-zone

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Google Put On Record What We All Knew
August 14, 2024

Fox Business: "Google admitted that autocomplete search results regarding the assassination attempt against former President Trump last month were prohibited by design and part of the company's policy for "hypothetical political violence against current figures."

https://www.foxbusiness.com/politics/google-execs-pressed-testify-after-admitting-trump-assassination-attempt-search-omissions-were-design

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Audience Insights From Trump's Spaces Convo on X
August 14, 2024

No wonder the mainstream media is panicking. IData from ?, 70% of the audience that watched Trump's Space with Elon Musk were between 25 - 34 years old, and almost half were women These are the demographics the media try to gatekeep and push a narrative.

https://x.com/XData/status/1823486620483416380<

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Kamala Harris hides from Elon Musk (and all press) because she has nothing to say
August 14, 2024

From New York Post, "Elon Musk chatted with Donald Trump for two hours on X Monday night, and Kamala Harris’ campaign went absolutely nuts, hurling insane rhetoric — including that Musk was somehow trying to “control our democracy” by  … having a conversation with one of the two major presidential candidates?

Trouble is, Musk extended an identical offer to Harris herself. "

https://nypost.com/2024/08/13/opinion/kamala-harris-hides-from-elon-musk-and-all-press-because-she-has-nothing-to-say/

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Brussels slaps down Thierry Breton over ‘harmful content’ letter to Elon Musk
August 14, 2024

From the Financial TImes: "Internal market commissioner’s warning to owner of social media site X was not approved. - Brussels has accused its internal market commissioner of going rogue by sending a letter to Elon Musk threatening punishment if content posted on social media site X was found to place EU citizens at risk of “serious harm”.

https://www.ft.com/content/09cf4713-7199-4e47-a373-ed5de61c2afa

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