Tuesday Links - 1 August

Lawrence Person of BattleSwarm Blog is up first with Quote of the Week. Mark Zuckerberg Has Been A Very Bad Robot Boy

Usually you have to be a politician to lose that much money [$21 billion]. I wonder if Reality Labs losses might be covering up losses in other divisions. Or if the money is getting siphoned off to somewhere else entirely…

The Other McCain - Mark Lamb for U.S. Senate: The Candidate the Left Fears the Most

Talk about a backhanded endorsement! Left-wing writer Matt Shuham has exactly one job at HuffPo, doing smear-jobs on Republicans, and if he’s attacking Lamb as “far right,” what more do you need to know?

Pirate's Cove - Justice Alito To Whiny Congressional Democrats: Stay In Your Lane

Look, the courts have their own code of ethics, but, if Congress is allowed to regulate SCOTUS, then they are no longer an independent branch of the federal government. There are checks and balances, there are ways to deal with serious criminal violations, but, the Court does not answer to Congress, especially partisan boobs attempting to create an issue where one doesn’t exist because the Court is very much Conservative leaning.

Red State - House Oversight GOP Torpedoes Jamie Raskin's Propaganda About Hunter Biden Case With Perfect Response

The Democrats get that it’s all coming out now, and people are paying attention — finally — so they’re doing their best to downplay it, twist it, or stop it.

Again from Pirate's Cove - Narrative Fail: Most Greek Wildfires Started By Arsonists

So, people were causing them, either intentionally or unintentionally. Obviously, the climate cultists are attempting to make this the fault of ‘climate change’ even with this knowledge, just like they attempted to make it all Your Fault before having any knowledge

Again from The Other McCain - Friday Evening News Dump: Biden ‘Speaks Out’ (But Not Really) About Cokehead Son’s Arkansas Love Child

But the most deceptive thing in the article is the headline: “President Biden Speaks Out.” He did not actually say a word. The White House issued a written statement with Biden’s name attached, while he was already in Delaware for the weekend. The whole point of doing it this way is so that Biden does not have to “speak out” about it — in other words, so he can avoid being asked any questions about it and, if some reporter does shout a question to him? “Asked and answered.”

Pixy Misa at Ambient Irony - Daily News Stuff 30 July 2023: Global Pomufication Edition

The actual story points out that of the Tesla customers who did sell their Model 3 and buy a different brand, 21.5% said it's because they're mindless Marxists angry that Twitter is no longer their own personal hugbox.

Wombat-socho - Rule 5 Sunday: Eri Yoshida

The 31-year-old “Knuckle Princess”, Japanese protege of former major league knuckleball pitcher Tim Wakefield, fought back from injuries that confined her to coaching to take another stab at pro baseball in the US.