Welcome to another Friday LinkSwarm! It’s been both super busy and super-hot here at BattleSwarm headquarters… <\/p>\n
Ah, the good ol\u2019 days of . . . April, or so, when conservative critics of the Democratic party could still count on being lectured to about the enduring moderation of Team Blue and chastised for paying so much attention to such figures as Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (a member of the Democratic Socialists of America) and Senator Bernie Sanders (a member of the Democratic Socialists of America) and claiming that these self-described socialists are the socialists they describe themselves as being, who want to \u201cabolish capitalism\u201d (the stated mission of the Democratic Socialists of America) and the traditional family to boot (\u201cdemocratizing the family to get rid of patriarchal relations,\u201d in the words of the Democratic Socialists of America), all of which, the usual media scolds tut-tutted, was unfair. \u201cThe Democratic party is the party of moderates,\u201d as Politico magazine editor Bill Scher argued.<\/p>\n
Somebody must have slipped some psilocybin into the Democrats\u2019 potato salad at this year\u2019s May Day picnic. Open borders? Check! Eviscerating the Bill of Rights? Absolutely, with one of those weird barbed Uncle Henry gut-hook knives! What else? I hope that whichever debate moderator finally presses this crew about the limits of late-term abortion is over 35, because Elizabeth Warren was pretty clearly ready to roll up her sleeves and perform an impromptu D&E right there underneath the Art Deco adornments and heavy brocade curtains of the Fox Theater in beautiful downtown Detroit.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
Speaking of the Democratic Socialists of America, Stephen Green looks in on those lunatics<\/a>. “No perfume in the quiet room, no misusing doors, no talking to cops, no talking to the press, always display your credentials, beware of right wing infiltrators.” Plus the usual lunacy about pronouns, and triggering, and singing “The Internationale.”\n Border control policies start working<\/a>:
\nMonthly apprehensions of migrants in Mexico have begun to slow down, indicating that its government\u2019s recent border crackdown is yielding results.<\/p>\n
Authorities in Mexico apprehended 18,758 migrants in July, according to preliminary data from Mexico\u2019s immigration agency, reported by The Wall Street Journal. While this number is more than double the amount detained in the same month last year, it is a decline from the record-setting 31,573 apprehensions in Mexico in June.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
“China Wants to Hit Back at Trump. Its Own Economy<\/a> Stands in the Way.”
\nChina\u2019s imports from the United States only a fraction of the trade going the other way, so it cannot match Washington tariff for tariff. Much of that trade consists of agriculture goods like soybeans, as well as specialized products like Boeing jetliners or the American-made chips for the smartphones China makes.<\/p>\n
There are several things China could do. It could call for a boycott of American goods or stop buying Boeing planes. It could devalue its currency, which would in effect partially nullify American tariffs. It could make life much harder for American business and executives in China, or it could exercise its power over key parts of the global supply chain, like its dominance over key manufacturing minerals called rare earths.<\/p>\n
Some investors on Friday signaled they expect at least one of those moves. China\u2019s currency, the renminbi, fell to its weakest point so far this year. Shares of rare earths companies rose, while Boeing\u2019s shares fell more than the broader market on Thursday.<\/p>\n
But each of these measures has drawbacks. Perhaps the biggest among them is that China\u2019s economy is growing at its slowest pace in 27 years. Many of the arrows Beijing has in its quiver could ricochet and hit its own factories and workers.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
Plus the perils of weakening the renminbi. Also: “As they consider their moves, Chinese officials will also try to parse Mr. Trump\u2019s negotiating strategy. Experts said his capricious style had flummoxed Beijing.”<\/p>\n
How the media pick and choose which parts of the El Paso shooter’s manifesto to hype<\/a>.\n More on the same subject<\/a>:
\nThe manifesto is insane. Part of it discussed commonly debated issues such as the environment and the economy in ways that are well within the boundaries of political conversation going on today \u2014 indeed, that might have come out of the New York Times or many other outlets. Other parts of it mixed in theories on immigration from far right circles in Europe and the U.S. Then it threw in beliefs on “race-mixing” straight from the fever swamps. And then it concluded that the solution is to murder Hispanic immigrants, going on to debate whether an AK-47 or an AR-15 would best do the job. By that point, Crusius had veered far from both reality and basic humanity.<\/p>\n
But the question is, was he inspired by President Trump? It is hard to make that case looking at the manifesto in its entirety.<\/p>\n
Crusius worried about many things, if the manifesto is any indication. He certainly worried about immigration, but also about automation. About job losses. About a universal basic income. Oil drilling. Urban sprawl. Watersheds. Plastic waste. Paper waste. A blue Texas. College debt. Recycling. Healthcare. Sustainability. And more. Large portions of the manifesto simply could not be more un-Trumpian.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
Dayton shooter was indeed a “Pro-Satan Leftist Who Supported Elizabeth Warren<\/a>.”\n How President Donald Trump changes the political calculus<\/a>.
\nThis is a colossal fraud, and it won\u2019t work. The public doesn\u2019t buy it; the candidates aren\u2019t talking about it; when Congress returns in September, Lindsey Graham\u2019s Senate Judiciary Committee will grill the authors of the politicization of the intelligence agencies, the FBI, and other parts of the Obama Justice Department as well as the propagators of the false Steele dossier and the fraudulent FISA warrant applications. Graham (R-S.C.), will get the publicity, and the bare-faced liars who chair the House Judiciary and Intelligence committees, Jerry Nadler (D-N.Y.) and Adam Schiff (D-Calif.), will be talking to themselves about their \u201csolid evidence\u201d of the president\u2019s crimes. Weissman and the lesser Democratic Torquemadas couldn\u2019t find them; Nadler and Schiff can\u2019t declare what their evidence is (because there is none).<\/p>\n
This is the last echo of this attempted rape of the Constitution and no one will be listening when the Congress returns in September. They will listen to the Graham committee\u2019s expos\u00e9s of the Democrats who acted corruptly, and they will notice the indictments when the special counsel, (John Durham, who unlike Mueller does have full retention of his faculties), starts bringing them down.<\/p>\n
The president deliberately has escalated the controversy by attempting to make the four extremist freshman Democratic congresswomen the real face of the Democrats, and by pointing out, in the case of Rep. Elijah Cummings (D-Md.), the inappropriateness of Cummings\u2019 assault on the integrity of the acting secretary of the Department of Homeland Security.<\/p>\n
The president undoubtedly knows that he is playing with fire assaulting the most holy of the taboos of political correctness so explicitly, though his grasp of the political arithmetic is almost certainly correct. I assume he can reassure his own followers and whatever independent voters may be left in this fierce partisan crossfire that he is not racist. In sober times, it would be clear that no case whatever exists that he is a racist. But these are not sober times and he has contributed something to their insobriety, though\u2014one must remember\u2014in reaction to immense provocations.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
Is the UK headed for a November 1st election the day after Brexit<\/a>? (Hat tip: Ed Driscoll at Instapundit<\/a>.)\n How Trump’s legal team of “nobodies” defeated Robert Mueller’s team of credentialed elites<\/a>.\n Liberals just come out and admit that yes, they do indeed want to seize the guns of law-abiding Americans<\/a>.\n More on “Red Flag” laws:
\n\nLast year, cops in MD serving a red flag removal order, killed a 61 year old man who got upset when they came for his guns. He was flagged because his sister called after they had a political disagreement. These \u201claws\u201d will continue to be abused like this. https:\/\/t.co\/rc09rEAuh0<\/a><\/p>\n
— \ud835\udcdc\ud835\udcd8\ud835\udcd0 (@miavendetta10) August 7, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n