Posts Tagged ‘Richard Hammond’

LinkSwarm for November 25, 2022

Friday, November 25th, 2022

Greetings, and welcome to a Black Friday LinkSwarm! If you want to avoid any local shopping riots, there’s still my cold weather gift/prepper guide.

  • “Republican Kevin Kiley Wins CA House Race, Increasing GOP Majority to 220.”
  • Soros-backed Philadelphia District Attorney Larry Krasner impeached. Good.

    The Pennsylvania House of Representatives voted on Wednesday to impeach controversial Philadelphia District Attorney Larry Krasner (D-PA).

    Five lawmakers, including three Republicans and two Democrats with constituencies in Philadelphia, formed a committee to investigate Krasner earlier this year. Members of the lower chamber voted by a margin of 107 to 85 in favor of impeaching Krasner, enabling the Pennsylvania Senate to remove the official with a two-thirds majority.

  • Texas Democrats Blame Lackluster Midterm on 2021 Election Reform, Redistricting, and Poor Border Messaging.” Note that the word “policies” appears nowhere in the article…
  • The partisan index for Texas counties. Republican counties tended to get slightly more Republican while Democratic counties got slightly less Democratic.
  • 56% of Violent Crime Suspects Released in Dallas.”

    A study conducted by criminologist Michael Smith of the University of Texas at San Antonio shows that 56 percent of individuals charged with violent crimes or weapons law violations in Dallas are released on bail or their own recognizance. That figure includes about 75 percent of offenders charged with weapons law violations, about two-thirds of those arrested for aggravated assault, and 34 percent of those arrested for murder.

    Smith examined 464 arrests from 2021 and followed the cases through May 15 of this year. The dataset included all (109) arrests for murder, 25 percent (73) of arrests for robbery, 25 percent (154) of arrests for aggravated assault involving a family member, 10 percent (67) of arrests for aggravated assault not involving a family member, and 10 percent (61) of arrests for weapons law violations.

    Almost a quarter of those released were arrested again within the course of the study. The average length of time between release and the second arrest was 148 days.

    I don’t need to tell you that Dallas County District Attorney John Creuzot is backed by George Soros, do I?

  • New Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni to make welfare recipients work for a living.
  • The car market goes from sucking the moose to officially sucking the moose.
  • General Twitter amnesty starting next week. I hope I’m included…
  • Hollywood hates making anticommunist films. (Hat tip: Ace of Spades HQ.)
  • Disney: Chapek fired, Iger returns.
  • Related: “Disney’s woke crusade is costing it dearly.”

    Disney shares are down 40 per cent this year, and last week’s quarterly report makes for grim reading. Disney’s expenses and operating losses are skyrocketing. Even the hugely popular Disney+, which continues to gain in subscribers, made an operating loss of $1.47 billion – more than double its loss last year. An internal memo last week announced job cuts and a hiring freeze.

    Perhaps it is no coincidence that Disney’s troubles arrive in a year when the company has been distracted by politics. Indeed, it seems to have gone into overdrive to promote woke causes, both on screen and off.

    Most infamously, in March, Disney waded into a bruising political battle with Florida governor Ron DeSantis, over his Parental Rights in Education Act. The law, now enacted, bans ‘classroom instruction’ on issues of ‘sexual orientation or gender identity’ for Florida schoolkids under the age of 10. Although the law has the overwhelming support of parents, from across the political spectrum, it sparked fury in media circles. Critics were quick to dub it the ‘Don’t Say Gay’ law, arguing that it ‘marginalises LGBTQ+ people’.

    Disney was only too happy to join in the chorus of denunciation. The act ‘should never have passed’, said Disney in a statement. ‘Our goal as a company is for this law to be repealed by the legislature or struck down in the courts.’ Disney also pledged to donate $5million to organisations opposed to the law. But DeSantis hit back. He revoked a special tax status that Disney’s Florida theme parks had enjoyed since 1967.

    Disney’s growing reputation for championing woke causes is costing it more than just its tax exemptions. It is now clearly damaging its relationship with audiences. As recently as March 2021, Disney’s public-approval rating was 77 per cent. But a September poll finds approval for Disney has now fallen to only 51 per cent among all Americans. And it has fallen into negative territory among Republicans. As pollster Chris Wilson notes: ‘It is highly unusual for a family entertainment company to find itself outside the good graces of so many Americans.’

    (Hat tip: Real Clear Politics.)

  • Speaking of woke: NHL goes full tranny pander.
  • Leftwing journalists move to Mastadon, immediately start banning each other.
  • Greg Bear, RIP.
  • Some of the kit in Colin Furze’s new workshop is off the hook.
  • What Richard Hammond experienced when he was in a coma.
  • “Arizona Announces They Have Finished Counting And Calvin Coolidge Has Won Their 3 Electoral Votes.