They just want the money

Washington Post editorial: "Mark Cuban bests Ro Khanna on wealth taxes - The congressman has a peculiar solution for taxing start-up founders."

Rep. Ro Khanna (D-California) supports his state’s billionaire tax proposal on the ballot in November. Texas businessman Mark Cuban had a question: What about founders of promising start-ups who are billionaires only on paper?

Khanna’s solution was revealing. Hint: It would create another tool for government control.

You would think that when faced with such a glaring flaw to your cash-grab scheme, you would at least pause to consider whether it's a good or workable idea in the first place.  But the Democrats want - they need - that sweet billionaire money so they need to dream up a new angle.  So the big brain idea is to allow paper billionaires to borrow against the government putting their future stock windfall up as collateral.  Sheer insanity.

Today’s advocates of wealth taxation have offered a series of bad explanations for how the foreseeable problems would be addressed. Khanna’s is only the latest. If your tax requires the government to start giving out special loans to pay itself, maybe it’s not a good tax in the first place.

Right now early polling is showing the billionaire tax would pass which doesn't surprise me because people love it when taxes are paid by "other people."  Especially those Richie Riches.

Big shift

PJ Media: "The Registration Bloodletting the DNC Doesn't Want You Reading About."

Stories like these make me wonder if it's really true that the Democrat Party was propped up on USAID money and illegal foreign donations through ActBlue.

Some people did some things

NY Post: "Ex-Mamdani campaign staffer makes outrageous claim about hateful NYC synagogue attack where attacker yelled ‘f–k the Jews’." 

WNBA in a box canyon

Bravo Blue: "Rules for Radicals? Whither the WNBA? - Sophie's choice -- Honesty and candor over cowardice"

The WNBA has graced us with the latest manifestation of far-left lunacy and penchant for self-destruction. For any who may not yet be in the know, in one fell swoop two former NBA players have shined a 1,000,000+ lumens spotlight on the conundrum that exposes the hypocrisy of the deranged leftists who pollute the WNBA. They accomplished this by following the left’s bible, Saul Alinski’s Rules for Radicals. Rule 4 provides: “Make the enemy live up to its own book of rules.”

The WNBA bigwigs recently had a meeting to answer the question "what is a woman?" and came out with an equivocal press statement saying they were still searching for an answer.  This was a dilatory tactic and they are currently hoping the whole issues just goes away.

Spoiler alert: it's not going away.  The reason why is that too many people are invested in the drama of the pretzel logic.  There's no way out: either you allow biological men into the WNBA or you don't.  Watching them squirm over that simple proposition is just too much fun.

I beg to differ

Washington Post: "The Jason Arday scandal isn’t as simple as DEI gone wrong - This isn’t the first time a university has dug in to protect an obviously flawed professor."

The author of this article starts with the premise that, since other universities protect their faculty, it's not really DEI at work in the Arday scandal.  Yeah, you go with that.  When universities put out glowing press releases about how they've hired the first Native American professor, you know DEI is at work.

Right, Liz Warren?

Haha Newsom

PJ Media: "The Dems' Great White Hope Just Got Humiliated in Michigan."

This dude is so unctuous and people are starting to notice.

Oh, I believe it

Townhall: "You Won't Believe What This Former SPLC Exec Was Just Arrested For." 

What a dumb stunt

Ace: ""Republicans for Talarico" Turns Out To Be, Get This, A Bunch of Lifelong Democrat Donors ("And Other Losers," Says the RNC)."

Surely they could have guessed that these women would be identified as Democrat stooges.  The whole video reeked of fake.

Same energy:

Deception is the plan

Hot Air: "Hasan Piker Says It Out Loud: DSA Practicing Taqiyya." 

This is the communist equivalent of Taqiyya, the Shia Muslim practice of lying to non-Muslims in order to gain dominance. 

Taqiyya is not an invention of "Islamophobes." It is a literal doctrine practiced by many Islamists. It is how the 9/11 hijackers hid in plain sight and how terrorist cells try to blend in. You can shave your beards, drink alcohol, go to strip clubs, and become a dissolute Westerner as long as you are willing to kill for Allah.

I confess I'd never heard of Taqiyya until now.

I hereby disavow my strongly-held beliefs

Red State: "New Dem Talking Point on the DSA Emerges, and Francesca Hong Just Demonstrated Why It Won't Work."

DSA candidates are going to spend the next three months making sure nobody knows their positions.

Highly related - Reason: "Don't Let AOC Retcon Her Starring Role in 'Woke 1'."  Green New Deal?  Never heard of it!

Oh boy, a task force

The ultimate corporate buck-passing strategy: "WNBA commissioner says league task force will discuss response to transgender debate."

Generation Snowflake

Pens & Poison: "How Columbia University Made Me a Conservative - The lesson I never expected to learn from an Ivy League education.  (Hat tip: Maggie's Farm)

Yet on Wednesday, November 9th, 2016, walking into an exam for my Abnormal Psychology lecture at Barnard, Columbia’s all-girls sister school, I was surprised to find that the morning’s most abnormal behavior patterns were not nestled in the exam questions but plastered on the faces of my classmates, many of whom burst into the classroom bawling, insisting that they were unable to sit for the exam because of the election results.

The professor acquiesced and moved the exam to the following week.

I was rightfully taken aback. What were these girls even crying over? No one had died. Barack Obama would still be president for the next several months. We would have a dullard for a president for the next four years, sure, but did these girls really think that they—members of the privileged elite whose parents were paying $80,000 per year for them to attend one of the best universities in the world—would be personally affected by the reign of Donald Trump?

What was more astonishing was that my classmates—girls who supposedly represented the apex of female empowerment—did not at all embody the feminist strength that my grandmother once taught me.

When victimhood is the coin of the realm, everybody wants to be oppressed.  This country is jam-packed with AWFLs who are traumatized by a ballroom.

Molon labe my turkey

Washington Post editorial on the Thanksgiving-hating candidate: "Wisconsin taxpayers will flee if Francesca Hong becomes governor - Her bad economic ideas matter more than bizarre social media posts."

JD = 48

Breitbart: "Trump tells donors he wants VP Vance to win in 2028: 'We need to elect JD.'"

I agree with Trump that a Vance-Rubio ticket would be "very unbeatable."  Both of these guys are excellent politicians and debaters. 

These people are so dumb

Twitchy: "Democracy Dimwit: DSA Co-Chair Cannot Explain What ‘Taxing the Hell Out of Millionaires’ Means."

I would say it's because - like Mayor Mamdani - they've never been challenged in their lives.  For example, look at Mamdani's ridiculous back-and-forth when asked if his new supermarkets will require an I.D.

Extra - NY Post: "Mamdani is ‘thin-skinned and hyper-sensitive’ in private despite unflappable social media image: political sources." 

Plot twist: it's a woman

PJ Media: "Talarico Confirms Inappropriate Relationship With Staffer."

It's his current girlfriend but the relationship started when she was a staffer in Talarico's office.  I've been reliably told that this kind of power dynamic is the definition of the #MeToo movement.

These courts are wack

Hot Air: "Awkward: DC Circuit Tells Trump Not to Knock Down East Wing of the White House."

The DC circuit gave standing to a private group that claimed the Trump ballroom would hurt their eyes and feelings.

Enemy of the people

PJ Media: "El-Sayed Drops the Mask."

When it comes to these Islamist candidates, I'm reminded of Turkey's President Erdogan who said democracy is like a streetcar: "You ride it until you arrive at your destination," he said. "Then you step off."